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Town so wary of the wreckers of Droy
One of the toughest teams in Nationwide North visit Wetherby Road tomorrow in a bid to further ruin Harrogate Town's home record, writes Claire Hughes. Droylsden, currently two places behind Town in fifth, are the second best team in the division on the
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Police relax Boro all-ticket scheme
CARLISLE United visit Scarborough for a Nationwide Conference clash tomorrow which North Yorkshire Police have now decided need not be all ticket. Fans can pay on the day to see if the stuttering Cumbrians can take another step towards regaining their
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Royal Ascot unveils York extravaganza
ASCOT Racecourse has unveiled the order of running for Royal Ascot at York. The five-day Knavesmire spectatcular starts on Tuesday, June 14, with the Coventry Stakes at 2.30pm. There will be six races each day with 30 of the 36 races screened live by
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Clifton Parkers on a roll
YORK RUFC should keep up the pressure at the top of Durham and Northumberland One with an easy win at Ashington on Saturday. Fresh from their five-try mauling of promotion rivals Consett at Clifton Park last week, the South East Northumberland side should
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Selby's bread and butter task
AFTER a disheartening 28-16 loss to Ilkley, Selby will be hoping for much better things when they travel to Goole in Yorkshire One. It's a game Selby must win if they are not to get dragged down towards the league's bottom three. While the club's Intermediate
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Pearson may miss rest of campaign
YORK City may have to write off midfielder Gary Pearson for the rest of the season. The Minstermen enforcer is yet to have an operation to mend the tear in a shoulder, which has kept him out of action since early November. The earliest he will likely
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Bishop earns England call
YORK CITY striker Andy Bishop heads to Leigh RMI tomorrow on a high. The former Walsall man, who has scored in the last two games, has justified a second call-up to the England National Game squad. He is in the 32-man squad to face their Dutch counterparts
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Time to improve basement record
GETTING in the right frame of mind is crucial for York City in Saturday's Nationwide Conference clash with basement dwellers Leigh RMI. Both teams are under pressure to get three points and City caretaker manager Viv Busby will be praying his side goes
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Pets corner
Abbeyfields Veterinary Centre in Bishopthorpe Road, York offers some timely advice now spring is just around the corner. Spring, and a tomcat's fancy turns to thoughts of ... queen cats, fighting over territory and swaggering around the streets at night
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Tasty treats
Tempt your tastebuds with this delicious recipe perfect for filling rumbling tums on a chilly day! Spaghetti with chicken meatballs This recipe is normally made with beef but anyone wanting to eat less red meat will love this great alternative. The long
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Meet The Fockers Running time: 115 mins Certificate: 12A ***
YOU met the parents four years ago in the smutty, smart, smirking original. Now we meet the other parents, the Fockers of the title, and once more comedy is squeezed with grim determination and excruciating embarrassment from introductory encounters of
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Rent record for offices
A first tenant in new offices built speculatively in York is said to be paying a record rent. A sales office of Aberdeen-based Measurement Devices Ltd, which manufactures laser and quarrying equipment, has moved out of the Castle Howard estate and into
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Smiles better
A TOP North Yorkshire food brand has joined forces with Comic Relief to raise £500,000 for Red Nose Day 2005 on March 11. McCain, whose head office is based in Scarborough, is one of seven official partners helping the charity. The company has launched
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Preview: Jane McDonald, Harrogate International Centre, January 30; Grand Opera House, York, January
After the break-up of her marriage, Jane McDonald's found solace in the emotive ballads of women singers, reports CHARLES HUTCHINSON. JANE McDonald's rise was sudden and unexpected. The end of her marriage to her Danish manager, Henrik Brixen, 18 months
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Preview: Slow business
Introducing... whimsical Fife singer songwriter James Yorkston, who plays the first Must See gig of 2005 in York next week. James Yorkston is Scottish, 32, and writes blackly mischievous songs of acoustic grace and home truths. You may not have heard
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Knifeman's ruck at rugby club
AN unemployed man was tackled by three other men at a York rugby club, after he threatened them with a knife. Dean Alan Angell, of Cornlands Road, Acomb, was discovered with the Stanley knife by the steward of Acorn Rugby Club, in Thanet Road, Acomb,
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£330,000 lopped off city's grant
COUNCIL chiefs will be forced to look for further cuts after York's Government grant was slashed by more than £300,000. Guildhall leader Steve Galloway today said the Whitehall move was "very bad news" for the city. He had previously described the provisional
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Clifton Parkers on a roll
YORK RUFC should keep up the pressure at the top of Durham and Northumberland One with an easy win at Ashington on Saturday. Fresh from their five-try mauling of promotion rivals Consett at Clifton Park last week, the South East Northumberland side should
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Ground log 'D'-day vigil
Pickering Town have got their fingers crossed that a ground inspection will go in their favour to clear the administrative red tape from a promotion bid to the UniBond League. The club, who have previously suffered setbacks because of the location of
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Lock me away
THE man acquitted of murdering North Yorkshire man David Williamson has admitted making a threat to kill another person. James William Payling, 21, no fixed address, was yesterday remanded in custody for a psychiatric report to be prepared on him by a
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Time to improve basement record
GETTING in the right frame of mind is crucial for York City in Saturday's Nationwide Conference clash with basement dwellers Leigh RMI. Both teams are under pressure to get three points and City caretaker manager Viv Busby will be praying his side goes
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Time called on pensioners' free beer
THE country's biggest brewer was today accused of "penny-pinching" after calling time on free beer for local pensioners. The retired workers at John Smith's in Tadcaster have been enjoying two pints of free ale, three days a week, for more than 20 years
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Magnificent seven
Embarking on the road to health and fitness, a collective 12 stone seems a lot of weight for these Shape Up entrants to shift. But all seven, from York, have individual reasons to strive for better health, and are determined to boost their confidence,
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General Maintenance assistant
General Maintenance assistant. If you think you could help our hard-working team keep our fleet of passenger boats and self-drive motor boats ship-shape, we would like to hear from you. Qualifications are not necessary but you will need to be able to
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Restaurant Supervisor
Thompson Fish Restaurant, Malton Road (A64), York. We need to fill the following posts; Full time restaurant supervisor. Must be responsible for organising other staff members and achieving high levels of customer service. 4 straight shifts per week,
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Three of a kind from Peugeot provides more sparkling choice for buyers
THREE special edition models of Peugeot's busy 307 range have been launched, and all offer a wide range of engine choices. Fans of the model already appreciate high levels of equipment, but the three special editions, X-Line, Sport and Quiksilver, each
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Closure of post office is disgrace
WE are writing to express our great disappointment at the decision of Post Offices Ltd to close the post office in the Bishopthorpe Road shopping area. We feel this decision is a disgrace which shows scant regard for the needs of the local community,
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Flawed decision
WITH the formal announcement of the joint city council/Joseph Rowntree Foundation 'Disasterthorpe' planning committee meeting on January 31 it appears that, free of charge, York residents will be able to enjoy an extension to the pantomime season. At
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Come clean
THERE has been much discussion regarding the planning merits of the Derwenthorpe proposal but as a council tax payer and therefore a shareholder of City of York PLC, I believe that I and other council tax payers should know what financial deal has been
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Stop wheelie bin blight
I ENTIRELY applaud City of York Council's intentions to recycle more garden waste and I know that they are under pressure from government to do so. However, having seen the article in the Evening Press (January 6), I am concerned at the proposal to purchase
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Right to reply
PLEASE may I have the right to reply to Martin Sheppard and Julia M Raven. I believe Mr Sheppard is under the misapprehension that we had a church service for my husband's funeral (Letters, January 17). Wrong, we went straight to the crematorium. As for
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Giving thanks
ON behalf of The Salvation Army, I thank the people of York and district for their generosity in responding to the Pass The Parcel appeal launched on Channel 4 television, also to everyone concerned at the Evening Press Appeal for Christmas goodies. The
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Can you help?
THE school for which I work is shortly to present My Fair Lady. We have hired the bulk of the costumes we need but had planned to make dresses for the principals. We have, however, hit a snag. I am unable to buy dress patterns which are in any way appropriate
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Poetry in motion
IT has been a long time since a York City fan exited Bootham Crescent (as it is still known) and uttered the words: "Sheer poetry". Arch rivals Scarborough FC, meanwhile, have been playing with far more rhythm, hence their loftier position in the Conference
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The wheel was a Brum do
SO what's this big wheel like then? For an answer the Diary turned to York ex-pat Annie Wright, a regular contributor to our letters page from her home in Brum. "I see York may be getting Birmingham's old ferris wheel," she writes. "It was so popular
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Preview: Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out!, Grand Opera House, York, February 3
Tony Robinson has gone from worst jobs to best, as he tells Charles Hutchinson. TONY Robinson has hatched another of his cunning plans. Once he would put up with Blackadder's jibes and jabs in his guise as stinking, turnip-chomping simpleton Baldrick;
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Preview: Be My Baby runs at Stagecoach Studio Theatre, February 2-5
STAGECOACH Youth Theatre York is to resurrect "the little gem of a play" that the company originally staged in 2000 in the first production outside London. "Since that show in the basement of the De Grey Rooms, Be My Baby has played at theatres and arts
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Ground log 'D'-day vigil
Pickering Town have got their fingers crossed that a ground inspection will go in their favour to clear the administrative red tape from a promotion bid to the UniBond League. The club, who have previously suffered setbacks because of the location of
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Ice-cool Hird melts Thomas's defence
A FLURRY of fixtures might have been frozen out, but the heat was turned up in the bottom reaches of the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League. The leading clubs in division five all dropped points, headed by front-runners Thomas's Hotel. They
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Rose wilt under attack from Reeves
SIMON Reeves scored a hat-trick as Brooklyn beat Bishopthorpe White Rose 4-1 in one of the few York Mitchell Sports Football League games to beat the frost. Ben Wainwright netted Brooklyn's other goal with James Edmond replying for White Rose. In the
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Way we were
Friday, January 28, 2005 100 years ago: At Harrogate Police Court a motor car driver was charged with furiously driving a motor car to the danger of the public in Station Parade. A magistrate said he saw the car pass him at a great speed, heading towards
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When comic Dan faced up to Tony
CHRIS TITLEY talks to a man who is putting York's binge drinkers in front of Tony Blair and the nation. DAN Atkinson has vowed not to go for a weekend night out in York again. Unhappily he is not the first to do so. Many older residents regard the night-time
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Shop 'til we drop
York women spend an average £88,156 on clothes in a shopping lifetime, apparently. From the age of 14, York women splash out an average of £113 a month on shoes, clothes and accessories - whereas women in Leeds spend £122 a month, according to a new survey
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Household tips
It's Easter, so here are our top tips for dealing with chocolate crises - and I don't mean not having enough of it: Scrape excess melted or ground-in chocolate from upholstery using a blunt knife then treat the stain with a proprietary stain remover before
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Veg out
A survey of 11-18-year-olds in the North East is bad news for government health and fitness campaigners: two fifths of boys eat chips and a quarter of boys eat a burger every day. And on top of that, a quarter of children say they eat green vegetables
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Nothing ventured
A SCIENCE champion and a legendary inventor will both crown Yorkshire's most innovative young entrepreneurs in York. Johnny Ball, the TV science and mathematics personality, will join Trevor Baylis, celebrated inventor of the wind-up radio, to make their
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Review: Dana and Susan Robinson, Black Swan Folk Club, York
THIS husband-and-wife team give the old time music of America a fresh sheen with their exuberant playing of fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin, along with their close harmony singing. Old time music evolved when the Celtic fiddle, with its beautiful melodies
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Preview: Battle of the Bands 2005
THE Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands 2005 starts on February 8, showcasing some of the hottest new talent in York. The winners will walk away with £1,000 and free recording time at Studio 7, the York-based recording studio. The second and third-placed
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Preview: Fibbers Outdoors, Parliament Street, Saturday, January 29
FIBBERS steps outside for an afternoon, swapping its subterranean Stonebow home for the open air of Parliament Street tomorrow. "Every year, City of York Council runs a stage in Parliament Square and every year, the alternative/rock acts seem to be overlooked
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Preview: Jazz notes
SAXOPHONIST Tommy Smith is one of a number of distinguished Brits lucky enough to get into the prestigious Berklee School of Music, USA. What singles him out from most is the fairytale story of how he was funded - by his neighbours and other residents
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Barbra Streisand, The Essential Barbra Streisand (Columbia) *****
Reissued to coincide with Streisand's movie Meet The Fockers, The Essential Collection should prove a shrewd choice of gift for either St Valentine's Day or Mother's Day or simply for you. This compilation first reached the number one spot in March 2002
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Meet the York writer who's become Scarborough FC's first poet-in-residence
SUSAN ROOME has never played football and has not watched the team play - but from tomorrow the York writer is Scarborough Football Club's poet-in-residence. Writing under the pseudonym of Vesuvia - the name with which she answers her phone at her home
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Monk who befriended drug addict
A MONK who was beaten up in his own home by a rampaging drug addict said today he has "totally forgiven" his attacker. Bishop Stephen, of St Anne's Orthodox Chapel in York, nursed Simon Watts through his addiction for three years - but his kindness was
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Mother-of-two 'honoured' by selection to be Lord Mayor
YORK'S next Lord Mayor will be city councillor Janet Greenwood. Janet hands the chains of office over to Janet in May - when standing Labour mayor Janet Looker makes way for her Liberal Democrat successor. Coun Greenwood, a mother-of-two, whose nomination
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Crown Court is on the move again
YORK Crown Court will be on its travels again on Monday, following the arson attack on its normal home earlier this year. Since the arsonists struck, York judges have been sitting at Leeds Crown Court, apart from a quickly-arranged emergency sitting held
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Moss faces big threat
A PLAYER new to York this season could be the big threat to 18-year-old Richard Moss winning the men's singles title for the fourth year in a row at York and District Table Tennis Association's Closed Championships this weekend. Martin Lowe, unbeaten
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York vigil for holocaust
VICTIMS of the Holocaust were remembered in an emotional candlelit vigil at the site of one of the most terrible events in York's history. Students, trade unionists, travellers, Jewish people and anti-fascist campaigners were among those who gathered
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Royal Ascot unveils York extravaganza
ASCOT Racecourse has unveiled the order of running for Royal Ascot at York. The five-day Knavesmire spectatcular starts on Tuesday, June 14, with the Coventry Stakes at 2.30pm. There will be six races each day with 30 of the 36 races screened live by
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Sex pest is jailed
A SEX PEST who assaulted a student as she slept at a friend's home following a party has been jailed for the second time for a sexual offence. A jury convicted Robert Michael Gray, 26, of the sexual assault on the student, aged 20, in September 2004.
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Postal closure anger
A POSTAL service watchdog has added its voice to the chorus of criticism that followed a decision to close a seventh York Post Office. Postwatch Northern England said it would be pressing the Government to establish a better way of resolving disputes
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Oriental market
CELEBRITY chef Jennie Cook is setting up shop at tomorrow's Oriental Market to raise money for tsunami victims in her native Malaysia. Jennie will be selling foodstuffs, Malaysian knick-knacks and artwork in the Coppergate Centre, York, which is hosting
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Make that cuppa count
TV celeb Lorraine Kelly is backing a nationwide Coffee Break event to fight meningitis, an illness that kills more children under five in the UK than any other infectious disease. The Meningitis Trust's eleventh annual Coffee Break will be held from March
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Clerical Assistant
Clerical Assistant required to work in our busy voucher scanning department. The position will involve varied duties. Must be computer literate and hold a full driving licence. 42 hours over 6 days. £231pw. Apply in writing to Grays Newsagents. 6 James
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Seasonal Boat Crew
Seasonal Boat Crew. Starting March to June, ending September to November. If you are hardworking, friendly and flexible please call 01904 623752 for a job information pack, stating which position you are interested in, alternatively email: info@yorkboat.co.uk
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Assistant Building Surveyor
Assistant Building Surveyor required for busy medium sized civil engineering and surfacing contractor. Reporting to both commercial and contracts managers. Duties will include pricework, programming, ordering materials and creating sub-contractor packages
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Accent on value
Look around before buying a new car and you can save money. Manufacturers are keen to sell and there are some bargains to be had, writes Malcolm Baylis, motoring editor. JANUARY's car price-slashing war is likely to go on for a few more months. So desperate
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A-Class act
Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS finds there is good seating, improved high drive position and a much better ride and drive experience in the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class. WHEN the A-Class was brought to the UK market in 1997 its looks were less than attractive
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Espace gets back in trim
The Renault Espace range of people carriers has celebrated 20 years on the road with revised models and a new version. Motoring editor MALCOLM BAYLIS wishes the old favourite a happy birthday. RENAULT can never be accused of resting on its laurels. Twenty
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Commons counts the hours
AN Army, it is said, marches on its stomach. And maybe hearty lunches were the real reason behind Britain's battalion of MPs voting this week on the contentious issue of what time they should turn up to work and what time they are allowed home. A two-year
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Time to speak out
THE founders of the original Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust must be turning in their graves - my reaction to the article which stated that a walking tour of York, in celebration of the Rowntree legacy, has been devised (January 22). Derwenthrope is
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What a show
ON January 20, I attended a York Open Planning Forum meeting about the revised Development Brief for Hungate, hosted by Alison Sinclair. Alison's performance made Kilroy Silk look like a school-boy. After blatant nitpicking at council members representing
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Our brief
I AM sorry Mr Simpson was astonished at the way the Open Planning Forum on the Hungate draft planning brief was conducted last Thursday (Letters, January 25). I am the woman who chaired the meeting, and perhaps I could explain why the draft brief was
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Who's the winner?
IT seems that despite months of campaigning, elderly pensioners have failed to get the council to respond sympathetically to their needs ("Changes in buses brings misery to pensioners", January 25). This has caused discomfort and distress, particularly
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Make mums walk
SO BJ Rye thinks it's fun to be injured by a buggy which has not been paid for (Letters, January 19). The buggies take up more room than a passenger who has paid the necessary fare. I travel by bus every day. If there was a convenient bus which did not
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Fun for a fiver
Alex Lloyd reports on a tsunami fund-raising event at Toffs in York this weekend. FIVES Saves Lives is the message on Sunday when York's finest talents unite for a fund-raising festival of music. For just a fiver, you can help victims of the tsunami tragedy
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Calling time on pint perk
AS an example of corporate crassness, it is hard to beat. Brewing giant Scottish & Newcastle's bean counters have been investigating the perks they offer to retired employees. They quickly discovered that these varied around the country. This ought
