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Welcome to the KitKat Club
FIRST Nestl Rowntree took drab old Christmas and turned it into a magical family festival. Having coughed up thousands for York's festive lights, the company could have taken crass commercial advantage. Instead, inspired by the story of the three wise
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Way we were
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 100 years ago: The Corporation authorities were complimented upon the expeditious manner in which the principal thoroughfares of York were cleared of snow. The task was no light one, but the streets in the heart of the city
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Chocs away
YORK City's football ground is to be renamed KitKat Crescent under a new £100,000 rescue deal with Nestl Rowntree, the Evening Press can reveal today. The historic Bootham Crescent name will be changed immediately, for at least the duration of the two-year
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York firm draws up theme park proposal
A York cycling promotion company is at the forefront of a scheme to set up a £33 million cycling "theme park". The Company of Cyclists, at Acaster Malbis, has teamed up with a consortium of architects and consultants to draw up a draught plan for a world-first
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Business chief will trek to Everest base camp for charity
A NEW Year's resolution by a property investment firm is set to benefit a cancer charities. The Helmsley Group, the Pocklington-based property group which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, will attempt to raise £25,000 for Marie Curie Cancer during
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Food firms gather at the racecourse
MORE than 200 Yorkshire food companies will converge on York Racecourse on February 22 for a "meet the buyer" event. It is an attempt to put more Yorkshire produce on national grocer shelves, menus, trains and aeroplanes across Britain and beyond. Organised
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Blown away
STEPHEN LEWIS rounds up children's books published for the New Year. Under sevens Cleopatra Silverwing by Adria Meserve (Red Fox paperback, £5.99) Cleopatra Silverwing is a butterfly who loves to do flying stunts. One day a storm approaches. Her parents
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Doubts on autism centre
PLANS to build a new £200,000 autism resource centre at a York school have received a mixed response from parents. City of York Council has committed funding to build an Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Enhanced Resource Centre extending part of Fulford
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Daring venture - 19/01/05
Cardinal Venture, who has been a good servant to his North Yorkshire owner Tony Fawcett, can win the richest all-weather track race of the week at Southwell tomorrow. The seven-year-old, trained at Hambleton by Kevin Ryan, goes for the £20,000 Littlewoods
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Appeal tops £50k mark
MORE than £50,000 has been raised by the York Aid tsunami appeal. The Evening Press and City of York Council York Aid fund total now stands at £51,532.21, boosted by new donations from political parties, primary school children and private companies.
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Bridegroom gets goodwill messages from the stars
TEACHER Ivor Leonard became a blushing bridegroom when his new wife read out goodwill messages with a difference during their wedding reception. Ivor, who lives in Clifton, was shocked to discover his bride, Sarah, a teacher in Leeds, had written off
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Get it sorted
LEEDS skipper Paul Butler has set United a target of 60 points to stave off the threat of relegation. Butler, 32, knows that if cash-crippled Leeds go into administration they will be docked ten league points. As the Championship table stands at the moment
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The sad life of a mother who turned to murder
Reporter Megi Rychlikova looks at possible reasons why a young mother and bride-to-be killed the father of her son. CAROLINE Mawhood's road to self-destruction and the murder of the man she loved began when she was a child. Her life to date has been a
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Sadness at City switch
CLUB historian Dave Batters insisted that "Bootham Crescent will always be Bootham Crescent" after learning that York City's 73-year-old home is to be renamed KitKat Crescent. Batters admitted sadness at the name change but was also pleased that his former
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Chocs away
YORK City's football ground is to be renamed KitKat Crescent under a new £100,000 rescue deal with Nestl Rowntree, the Evening Press can reveal today. The historic Bootham Crescent name will be changed immediately, for at least the duration of the two-year
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Sweet break for York FC
IF anyone needed a break, it was York City. For four years the club has been battered from pillar to goalpost. City endure thanks to a remarkable set of fans. At first they appeared to be alone in their fight to salvage the club, save for the support
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Fans set for Video Knight
York City Knights Supporters' Club will hold their first Video Night of 2005 tomorrow in the Huntington Stadium Bar, kick off 7.30pm. They plan to show the recent pre-season victory over Leeds on the big screen. Admission costs £2 for non-members and
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York: home of good business
HAVING lived in a number of different areas within Britain because of my armed forces background, it is obvious how lucky we in York are to be living in such a beautiful city. As a businessman, it's wonderful to see the new initiatives and businesses
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Talking rubbish
WE believe Councillor Watson is scraping the bottom of the bin-bag trying to make a political point (January 13). We have lived in the centre of York for the last six years and have never received a free bin-bag. During this time we have had Labour and
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Vulnerable will pay for projects
LIKE the Lib Dem social services executive member Coun Sue Galloway, I too welcome the increased spending on many additional projects and initiatives in the council's social services which are to be available to York residents. But Coun Galloway fails
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Sadness at City switch
CLUB historian Dave Batters insisted that "Bootham Crescent will always be Bootham Crescent" after learning that York City's 73-year-old home is to be renamed KitKat Crescent. Batters admitted sadness at the name change but was also pleased that his former
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Have a break from tradition
On the day York City and Nestl Rowntree signed a far-reaching partnership deal, CHRIS TITLEY and MATTHEW WOODCOCK look at the history of Bootham Crescent, and how similar arrangements have worked at other grounds around the country. THE name Bootham Crescent
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Warehouse workers gain NVQ certificates
Six Yorkcraft employees have completed NVQs in warehousing and distribution, delivered at York Training Centre. The achievement of Mark Sands, Gordon Overall, Alan Foster, Gary Moffat, Kevin Taylor and Simon Thompson is all the more impressive because
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Richard gets ready for action
QA Research, the York-based research and marketing agency, has appointed a business development manager. He is Richard Bryan, a graduate of Leeds Metropolitan University who earned a First in Tourism Management before joining Questions Answered - later
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Government minister visits York school
A GOVERNMENT minister visited a York school as part of an effort to promote enterprise and trade skills in the area. John Healey, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, met staff and students at the Archbishop of York CE Junior School, in Bishopthorpe, where
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York charge to last four
SEEMINGLY unbeatable York City Schools Under-11 footballers added Leeds to their list of conquests as they booked a place in the semi-final of the Green'Un Cup. York were quick out of the traps and put Leeds under pressure which paid off when Charlie
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Yorkshire put onus on owners
Yorkshire despatched the row over the sale of Headingley cricket ground back into their landlord's court. They insisted that although they still wanted negotiations to continue they had to regard them has having come to an end because they had been ended
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Cameras in spotlight
YORK'S CCTV nightmare will come before council chiefs next week when a leading figure attacks the Evening Press over its coverage of the crisis. A motion at next week's full council meeting will ask council leader Steve Galloway whether our story, about
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Bar scheme may be abandoned
THE scheme which stops traffic travelling through Walmgate Bar could be abandoned, council chiefs have revealed. Councillors will be given an option to dump the experimental traffic order which has stopped vehicles traveling through the 12th Century monument
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Motorist blacks out after car flips over
A 56-YEAR-OLD man was rescued by firefighters after his car flipped onto its roof following a three-vehicle smash on a York road. The accident happened just after 3.30pm yesterday on the B1363 between Wigginton and Clifton Moor. Fire crews worked for
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Heartbroken husband took own life at home
A YORK-BASED civil engineer who never got over his wife's shocking death eventually killed himself, an inquest heard. John Midgley, who was 60, was found hanging at his home, in Mill Lane, Hemingbrough, on December 7. Before moving to Hemingbrough, Mr
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Authority 'salting away' millions in reserves
THE North Yorkshire Police Authority was accused today of salting away millions in its reserves as external auditors highlighted "significant weaknesses" in its financial management and accounting procedures. Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Phil Willis
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Police probe mystery death
RELATIVES of a woman found dead in her North Yorkshire flat today spoke of their grief, as detectives sought to unravel the mystery of her death. Police have been carrying out house-to-house inquiries, and are awaiting the results of forensic tests as
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Yorkshire put onus on owners
Yorkshire despatched the row over the sale of Headingley cricket ground back into their landlord's court. They insisted that although they still wanted negotiations to continue they had to regard them has having come to an end because they had been ended
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Aspin returns to take command at Town
Neil Aspin has been handed the managerial reins at Harrogate Town for the rest of the season. The former Darlington, Leeds United and Hartlepool defender was assistant manager in the 2003-04 season before Mark Atkins took over but has now gone one better
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Jailed for life
A York couple's lives were shattered forever when - in a "moment of madness"- blind-drunk Caroline Mawhood stabbed fianc Simon Gilchrist to death with a kitchen knife. A jury at Leeds Crown Court took only two hours yesterday to unanimously find the mother-of-two
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Appeal tops £50k mark
MORE than £50,000 has been raised by the York Aid tsunami appeal. The Evening Press and City of York Council York Aid fund total now stands at £51,532.21, boosted by new donations from political parties, primary school children and private companies.
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Coining new aid efforts
MAP-MAKING pupils from Sutton-on-the-Forest school, near Easingwold, raised more than £350 - in loose change. The children built outlines of the countries affected by the tsunami using coins from their pocket money and savings. And at the end of the day
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Parking woes
RECENTLY we were going to a performance at City Screen which started shortly after 6pm. I arrived at the Union Terrace car park shortly before six, naively intending to take advantage of the £2 evening parking, to find the ticket only covered parking
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Message is: no massage
I AM lying face down on what looks alarmingly like an operating table, in a room that reminds me of my doctor's waiting room, and I'm wearing fewer clothes than is strictly comfortable for a control freak such as myself. In comes a no-nonsense woman wearing
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Knights' bright future
ALBEIT a friendly, the way the York City Knights played against Doncaster on Sunday certainly bodes well for the forthcoming season. Yet another bumper crowd were treated to a great show of skill from a newly assembled York side, and to go in at half
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Who needs it?
GRAMMAR ain't what it used to be. Kids used to know the lot: transitive verbs, past participles, co-ordinating conjunctions... Back in them days, they learned the precise construction of everything from Dickens to the plays what Shakespeare wrote. Today
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Bright side of life
MOST readers' letters so far this year have been gripes and moans, be it car park charges, planning decisions, bad driving, cyclists, buses et al. Please "Ed", can't we have a day that looks on the bright side of life? To get you started, here is what
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Splash the cash
SO the council is hoping to stop the provision of free bin bags to homes without wheelie bins to save a massive £28,000 a year (January 13). What can £28,000 buy? A middle of the range executive car (the city council may have several of these) Less then
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Passing on blame
THE Lib Dems have really excelled themselves this time ('Terraced homes hit by bin tax,' January 13). I have noticed the Lib Dem council always finds someone else to blame for its unpopular decisions - but when it comes to justifying the withdrawal of
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Re-open the line
THERE has been much discussion about the re-opening of the old railway line which used to connect York and Pocklington. I fully support the idea. My partner has been commuting to Pocklington for some time. In recent years she tells me enormous tailbacks
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Parking woes
RECENTLY we were going to a performance at City Screen which started shortly after 6pm. I arrived at the Union Terrace car park shortly before six, naively intending to take advantage of the £2 evening parking, to find the ticket only covered parking
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Junction hazard
I HAVE recently become aware of a potential hazard to motorists at the junction of Burdyke Avenue and Water Lane. Occasionally, vehicles approaching the junction wanting to turn right into Burdyke flash waiting vehicles to exit ahead of them to give them
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It's part of the fun
AS a pensioner and regular bus-user, what a pleasure it is to see so many young mums and dads with their children and pushchairs using the buses. Because I have a problem with my balance, I often have an amusing struggle to get past the buggies. My walking
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All drinkers should carry a licence to sup
I AGREE with your leader column on licensing reform ('Coping with late drinking, January 14), and specifically that the present system isn't succeeding in bringing "yob culture" under control. Five years ago when I first moved to York, my friends and
