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Meet York's politest posties
PLEASE spare a moment to think of our postmen and women. Christmas for them is less a time of peace and goodwill, and more about badly wrapped parcels which disintegrate on contact, cards with barely legible addresses and endless rounds in biting winds
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Can you spot the difference?
COUNCILLOR Hall advances an irrefutable argument to prove that the latest Your City circular about the level of council tax is not a referendum (Letters, December 28). He says it isn't. This confirmation is, in a way, rather a pity, since a referendum
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It's just too much
CITY of York Council has suggested three options for an increase in council tax for 2005. The problem is that since I retired, the percentage increase in my state pension and company pension does not begin to compare with the increase in rates. My rate
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Housing pride
THANK you for the thoughtful comment column in the Evening Press regarding housing issues in York (December 23). Labour does indeed have an excellent record for providing council housing services. Labour is still proud of its Tenant's Choice modernisation
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Time to abolish the TV licence
AT long last we have someone in our midst, namely Maxine Gordon, who is prepared to beat the gong about BBC TV licences. Ms Gordon's article "Free us from repeat fees" (December 9) quite clearly states what the majority of people think, that paying a
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Yes, cat owners are selfish
OH dear! I certainly seem to have ruffled Miss Hartley's feathers by having the temerity to object to other peoples' cats slaughtering the wildlife and defecating all over my garden (December 21). Her own cats must live in a little pussy paradise. They
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ID cards no use
PAUL Blanchard fails to put across any valid argument for the introduction of ID cards (Letters, December 30), which is not surprising as I have yet to hear one politician put across an acceptable case for the introduction of such a scheme. The main argument
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Hopping mad
IF while driving I am stopped by the police and they notice I have no water in my windscreen washer, or my headlights or number plates are obscured by mud, and they give me a fixed penalty of £30, then I've asked for it. But to ask me to stand on one
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Thanks for helping
I WOULD like to thank the kind people who came to my aid when I fell while crossing the road on Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate on Friday, December 18. They were wonderful. Gwen Huffington, Clifton Moor, York. Updated: 08:47 Monday, January 03, 2005
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Ringing in all the years
EVERY New Year prompts a sense of optimism. But 60 years ago, Britain had extra cause for hope. After more than five years of war and deprivation, peace was in sight. That was reflected in the New Year messages carried in the Evening Press as 1944 became
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City shake-up
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby was asking the board today if he can bring in two new players this week. Busby wants to strengthen his squad and, despite financial considerations, the Minstermen's directors could be receptive with yesterday's 2-0 home
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Sweet taste of success at York factory as campaign nears end
It's a sweet New Year for British Sugar in York, where the annual campaign is reaching its furious and successful climax. The campaign, named after Napoleon Boneaparte's bid to vanquish the Russians before the onslaught of winter, is that annual 22-week
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Chief's big scalp - 03/01/05
WELL Chief, denied the opportunity to bid for the Castleford Chase last week when the second day of Wetherby's Christmas meeting fell victim to frost, can clinch the race at the second try this afternoon. The £50,000 race, sponsored by Harrogate-based
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No alternative to roadworks
A HIGHWAYS boss says there was no alternative to emergency roadworks, starting tomorrow in York, which are set to cause major disruption for motorists. Stuart Partington, City of York council's highways and street operations engineer, said the work in
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Smith's double fires up Harrogate
HARROGATE Town were anything but a Sunday football team as they professionally turned round a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win to get the New Year off to a cracking start at Bradford Park Avenue yesterday. Two second half goals from Marc Smith steered Town
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Ring in the new
THOUSANDS of York revellers danced and sang in the streets to greet the New Year. Cheers rang out, champagne corks popped and fireworks whizzed through the air as the Minster bells heralded the arrival of 2005. Pubs, clubs and restaurants across the city
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York tourists missing
Fears were growing today for three York tourists who were holidaying in Thailand when the Asian earthquake struck. Father-of-three Stephen Magson, 54, remains missing in Phuket. His wife Denise and daughter India, who both survived the disaster, have
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Trophy goes on parade
FORMER club-mates turned foes Peter Fox and Marcus Bai were set to go head- to-head today as York City Knights take on Super League champions Leeds Rhinos. Fox, a former York Acorn ARLC junior who signed for the Knights after shining for the Rhinos' Academy
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Arson probe at crown court
ARSONISTS have destroyed part of York's historic crown court, throwing the criminal justice service into chaos. Firefighters fought for more than two hours to save the Grade I listed building at the Eye of York, after the entrance hall and reception area
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Ten years of agony
A YORK mum whose baby's organs were retained without permission ten years ago is still waiting for compensation - because lawyers are haggling over money. Fiona Chilton's premature daughter Emma's brain was removed during a post mortem at York Hospital
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York City 0, Scarborough 2
EBENEZER Scrooge would have been hard pressed to have had a more miserable Christmas than York City this Yuletide. Yesterday's cruel derby day defeat against North Yorkshire rivals Scarborough - sealed with two late goals and coming just seven days after
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City bus firm donates fares
YORK's open-top tour bus company has donated a day's takings to the tsunami appeal. Top Line Travel gave up all £283 in fares on December 27 to the growing fund. Meanwhile, a collection for the victims of the Asian disaster raised £826 at the New Year's
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Smith's double fires up Harrogate
HARROGATE Town were anything but a Sunday football team as they professionally turned round a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win to get the New Year off to a cracking start at Bradford Park Avenue yesterday. Two second half goals from Marc Smith steered Town
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Way we were
Monday, January 3, 2005 100 years ago: The recent wolf hunt prompted a reference to Colonel Thornton, a famous Yorkshire sportsman, who once proposed establishing a wolf hunt in the county. In August 1804 the papers contained the extract: "Colonel Thornton
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They never listen
REGARDING the City of York Council's recent proposal to construct a relief road between Lawrence Street and Layerthorpe at an estimated cost of £3 million (December 29), I really do wonder what motivation they work on. Is it arrogance, ignorance or just
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Year in writing
PRIOR to 2004 my only claim to fame for letter writing was being the last 20th century Evening Press reader to have a letter published. This year, what started as a challenge from my son in law as to who would have the most letters printed, turned into
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Holier and holier
MISS C M Ritchie states "they shelter behind their 'rights'," when "decent honourable morally superior individuals oppose them" ("Sikhs were right", Letters December 27). Decent, honourable, morally superior individuals? Is that what they call narrow-minded
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Wave of misery
As the grim death toll nears 140,000, STEVE CARROLL looks at what is being done - and what can be done - by local people to aid the victims of the Asian tsunami. TRAVELLING at more than 500mph - faster than a jet plane - the huge waves which crashed into
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Education chiefs ranked the best
SCHOOLS in York have given their Local Education Authority (LEA) a truly positive New Year message - you are the best. In a survey of schools carried out by the Audit Commission, York LEA was shown to be performing well and, for the second year running
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I'm spooked by our house
"THEY'RE here!" It was said in a playful, almost sing-songy voice, but the underlying menace was clearly detectable all the same. For anyone who has seen the film Poltergeist, the vision of your youngest child pointing at a snowy TV screen and uttering
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Drink-driver is sent to prison
A MAN who was caught drink-driving only five months after being convicted for a similar offence has been sent to prison. York Magistrates' Court was told that disqualified driver Stuart James Reid, 25, of Rose Tree Grove, New Earswick, York, was stopped
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Shop's ram-raid misery
A NEWSAGENT targeted by ram-raiders twice in the space of two weeks has described the crimes as a shocking start to the New Year. Julie Thirsk, manager of Maynews, in Stamford Bridge, was awoken at about 3.40am on New Year's Eve after ram-raiders triggered
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'He was a perfect son'
THE distraught family of a teenage car crash victim today paid tribute to a "perfect son and brother". Jamie Carlton, 19, was killed when his blue Rover MG left the road and ended up on its roof in a ploughed field near Selby. A soldier in the Royal Logistic
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Hectic hospital copes with rush
HEALTH chiefs today moved to assure residents York Hospital was coping - despite a surge of emergency patients during a hectic Christmas week. The pledge came after it emerged that there were 111 emergency admissions on December 29. This followed an influx
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Skipper Butler off as Leeds splutter
INCONSISTENT Leeds United missed a great chance to catch the coat-tails of the play-off hopefuls as they slithered to a 2-0 defeat against Crewe at rain-lashed Elland Road. Goals from in-form Dean Ashton and Mark Rivers extended Alexandra's unbeaten run
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City shake-up
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby was asking the board today if he can bring in two new players this week. Busby wants to strengthen his squad and, despite financial considerations, the Minstermen's directors could be receptive with yesterday's 2-0 home
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York tourists missing
Fears were growing today for three York tourists who were holidaying in Thailand when the Asian earthquake struck. Father-of-three Stephen Magson, 54, remains missing in Phuket. His wife Denise and daughter India, who both survived the disaster, have
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Wave of misery
As the grim death toll nears 140,000, STEVE CARROLL looks at what is being done - and what can be done - by local people to aid the victims of the Asian tsunami. TRAVELLING at more than 500mph - faster than a jet plane - the huge waves which crashed into
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Trophy goes on parade
FORMER club-mates turned foes Peter Fox and Marcus Bai were set to go head- to-head today as York City Knights take on Super League champions Leeds Rhinos. Fox, a former York Acorn ARLC junior who signed for the Knights after shining for the Rhinos' Academy
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Sort out this awful mess
SOMETIMES the legal process can seem to lack heart or logic. How else is it possible to explain a system which allows solicitors to hang on to money paid out by the National Health Service in compensation for the unauthorised removal of organs from dead
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Happy New Year
NEW Year's Eve is always a mixture of the boisterous and the emotional. This year, as every year, revellers massed round York Minster to see out the old year and cheer in the new. York is lucky to have the gothic beauty of the Minister at all times -
