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Ellingstring in the Dales
As we drove towards the Dales, the rain came down, it just got wetter and wetter until by Masham the wipers were in monsoon mode, plus the wind was up. At Ellingstring, as we writhed on our waterproofs, a local dog-walker came by. "Will it clear up?"
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Delrio's, 10 Blossom Street, York.
I'M still reeling from the shock of it all. It was all so sudden and will take me a while to get over. I've been in love with Delrio's, the Sardinian restaurant at the top of Micklegate in York, ever since my first visit back in 1998. As a venue, it was
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Way we were
Saturday, January 29, 2005 100 years ago: It was "stated definitely" that Tom Bowling, about whom the poem Tom Bowling or the Sailor's Epitaph was written, was a native of York, the son of Edward Bowling, ferryman at the Castlegate, or Skeldergate ferry
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Faux pas too far
In the crazy world of television, a simple string of words, often proclaimed in a flippant manner, can quite easily cost you your career and reputation. For those who have drifted into TV as a secondary career and have not been trained to avoid the pitfalls
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Selby Garden Centre, Osgodby, near Selby
A NUMBER of readers in Escrick have asked what we thought of the Garden Centre at Osgodby. This was the spur that set us to find out! The venue is easy to find. Located on the A63 about half a mile from the A19. The coffee shop is quite small with just
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Sid's cup story
IT is hard to imagine that any future FA Cup semi-finalist will ever suffer from coal dust on the lungs when they hang up their Adidas Predator boots. Margaret Thatcher's 1980s' crusade against England's collieries, of course, makes that an even remoter
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It's back to the future for Paul
VETERAN campaigner Paul Groves is relishing his switch from centre midfield to centre-half and hopes it will play a part in York City's road to recovery. The 38-year-old has stood out since making the change in the second match against Scarborough on
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Wham bamboo
Gina Parkinson finds that there is more to bamboo than sticks used as plant props. BAMBOO has been popular in gardens for years, but only as a dried-up stick used to support dahlias, sweet peas and the like. Now a huge variety of live bamboos are available
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Emperor: Field Of Swords by Conn Iggulden (HarperCollins, £12.99)
CONN IGGULDEN'S brilliant Emperor series marches on with our hero Julius Caesar conquering Spain and then tackling the tribes of Gaul. At the end of the second book, The Death Of Kings, Caesar and his "blood brother", Brutus, are busy defeating the Spartacus
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Dinosaur In Danger by Paul Geraghty (Red Fox paperback, £5.99)
A young dinosaur, Talon, is separated from her pack when a volcano erupts. She shelters from the burning forest in a stream, then goes in search of her family. But she's lost, and instead finds a rival pack, who try to drive her away. Slowly, through
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The Whispering Road by Livi Michael (Puffin paperback, £5.99)
Beautifully written Dickensian tale about abandoned brother and sister Joe and Annie. The pair go on the run to escape a life of toil and drudgery at the hands of a brutal farmer who uses them as virtual slave labour. They set out for the slums of Victorian
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State-of-the-arts
STUDENTS and staff at York St John College are celebrating after securing £4 million to provide arts facilities for the 21st century. The college has secured Government funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) over the next
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Old 'n' golden
What have Chelsea got in common with York City? Yes, you read it right. What do money-bags Premiership rich boy giants Chelsea have in common with the little old Minstermen. Give up? They are only the second team in ten years to have beaten Manchester
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NO-GO cars halt street cleaning
BAD citizenship is hampering attempts to keep York terraced streets tidy as many householders fail to move their cars for council cleaning. A progress report on the council's programme of gully, gutter, footpath and back lane cleaning in terraced streets
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State-of-the-arts
STUDENTS and staff at York St John College are celebrating after securing £4 million to provide arts facilities for the 21st century. The college has secured Government funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) over the next
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Sweet sorrow
PETER Benton walked out of Terry's for the final time after 18 years at the chocolate factory, saddened, but also looking forward to a new job - at another York confectionery firm. The 36-year-old Acomb man was one of 66 employees who lost their jobs
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Martial force-field
YORK Martial Arts Academy warmed up for tomorrow's English Kickboxing Championships in Derby with a handsome medal haul at the Wakefield Open. In the children's categories Lauren Smith and Joe Porter won gold. Silver went to Piers Laverick, Luke Burks
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Sunderland shines
ALICE Sunderland was York City Baths Club's only medaliist at the Scottish Short Course Championships in Glasgow. The 14-year-old took silver in the youth, 15 and under 50metres backstroke and almost added another medal but was edged into fourth place
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Art or heresy?
A SELF-CONFESSED pagan is displaying a piece of sculpture at York Minster which features her own blood. But York St John College fine art student Susan Kruse's work, a depiction of the pagan Goddess Bridget and the Christian St Bridget, has been backed
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Store does that bit extra for charity
SUPERMARKET staff ditched their usual uniforms to boost the Red Cross tsunami appeal. Workers at Tesco Extra, at Clifton Moor, York, paid £2 each to dress down yesterday, to help push their fundraising for the charity past the £15,000 mark. Meanwhile,
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It's back to the future for Paul
VETERAN campaigner Paul Groves is relishing his switch from centre midfield to centre-half and hopes it will play a part in York City's road to recovery. The 38-year-old has stood out since making the change in the second match against Scarborough on
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Long odds on York progressing in NR Cup
YORK City Knights kick off their season on Sunday, February 13 with a massive Northern Rail Cup fixture away to favourites Castleford. The Tigers, relegated from Super League last term, are quoted 11-4 to win the cup by bet365.com, ahead of Whitehaven
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Half measures
YORK City Knights are facing an early season props worry with one banned and another looking at a potentially lengthy injury lay-off. David Bates has been suspended for three months for a drugs infringement and seasoned pro Craig Forsyth is waiting for
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A liking for Vikings
Rachel Lacy tests her mettle as a Viking before the 20th Jorvik festival gets underway next week. VIKINGS are perceived as warriors infamous for raping and pillaging their way around foreign shore lines before going home to eat, drink and do nothing much
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Big wheel is so wrong for York
POOR Tower Gardens. Not only does it have to put up with regular flooding, invasion by geese and being covered with new tarmac routes for cycles and pedestrians, now it is to host York's answer to the London Eye. I am pleased to note that one councillor
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We're too historic
WITH all of the campaigns over signs, lampposts and CCTV blocking the view of the Minster, and the Coppergate scandal, I cannot believe that the thought would have ever crossed anyone's mind to install a 54-metre wheel. It may very well work in Birmingham
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Blight on the sky
I CAN understand this type of structure down at the Knavesmire but surely not within the Eye of York. It would be a blight on the skyline for many. This is a conservation area where regulations even govern buildings' lighting to ensure it reaches certain
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Shining example
Last Thursday (January 20), common sense prevailed at a planning committee as the decision was taken to quash plans to demolish two fine houses and a bungalow, and for them to be replaced by two blocks of flats at a Tadcaster Road site opposite the delightful
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Good old Fawkesy
LEONARD Clarke shows a keen grasp of history (Letters, January 25). Guy Fawkes was indeed executed for plotting against leaders who disregarded the will and welfare of the people, namely the witch-burner James I and his slimy ministers. For me, St Peter's
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On a tightrope
ANYBODY who has followed the fortunes of York City over the last few years would know precisely why the sponsorship deal with Nestl Rowntree is such a good one. Any true supporters of City will know that the club is walking a financial tightrope. For
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Bowled over
I AM glad that York City Football Club's ground has changed its name. KitKat Crescent, being meaningless, should not mislead. Presumably activities there will be supported by the KitKat Klub. Will Sally Bowles be adopted as president or mascot? But can
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Top promotion
I WOULD like to congratulate Knavesmire Harriers Running Club on their excellent promotion of the Brass Monkey Half Marathon. From its humble beginnings a good few years back it has developed into a first rate event outlasting several races which were
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Half measures
YORK City Knights are facing an early season props worry with one banned and another looking at a potentially lengthy injury lay-off. David Bates has been suspended for three months for a drugs infringement and seasoned pro Craig Forsyth is waiting for
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Knights player banned, fined
A YORK City Knights player has been banned following a failed drugs test. David Bates has been found guilty of breaching the Rugby Football League's doping control regulations and suspended for three months. The banned substance ephedrine was found in
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Preview: An Audience With Sir David Frost, Grand Opera House, York
Sir David Frost has interviewed them all, from Nixon to Clinton, Noel Coward to Nelson Mandela, reports Charles Hutchinson. Now he wants to hear questions from an audience in York. SIR David Frost will be having his usual audience with politicians, movers
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On the Black Sheep trail
FANCY a walk on the mild side? Like to pace your pints or saunter between sups? Well here's your chance to get fitter with Black Sheep Bitter (enough already - Ed). Harrogate hiker Mark Reid has published a new and revised version of his popular walking
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Plenty to please
Just for a change, I'd love to sample a real stinker of a wine, one that I could slate to high heaven. Alas I have no recent memory of a wine that was any less than drinkable. Until I come across a vinegar red with hints of sticking plasters or acid-bath
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Frost retort
Sir David Frost has interviewed them all, from Nixon to Clinton, Noel Coward to Nelson Mandela, reports Charles Hutchinson. Now he wants to hear questions from an audience in York. SIR David Frost will be having his usual audience with politicians, movers
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Slick by Daniel Price (Piatkus, £10.99)
Scott Singer is a devious PR genius - the kind who can lure a bunch of environmentally-conscious women students to a remote Pacific island and persuade them to strip off for the cameras in the belief that they are protesting about the threat posed by
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Good News Bad News by David Wolstencroft (Hodder & Stoughton, £10)
Debut spy novel from the creator of TV series Spooks. A secret agent is trained to try to think of every possible outcome and eventuality. Who could have guessed that a bureaucratic error would send two men to the same 'cover' job, working in a shabby
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Sunderland shines
ALICE Sunderland was York City Baths Club's only medaliist at the Scottish Short Course Championships in Glasgow. The 14-year-old took silver in the youth, 15 and under 50metres backstroke and almost added another medal but was edged into fourth place
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Slimmers lose fire engine in fat
YORK'S slimmers shed more than 14,000 pounds last year - the equivalent of a fire engine of fat. Slimming World class members successfully lost more than 1,000 stone, or 6.3 metric tonnes, in weight during 2004, much to the delight of the city's 11 consultants
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Whisky switch proves costly
SIX shots of scotch cost a York publican almost £4,000 - after he was convicted of selling customers a cheaper brand spirit from a Bells Whisky bottle. Michael Edwin Johnson, 55, licensee of The Magnet in Osbaldwick Lane, was convicted under the Food
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Pupils get their hands on history
YOUNGSTERS at a York primary school have been getting their hands on history. Pupils at St Oswald's Primary School in Fulford have been lucky enough to see some of the archaeological finds thrown up as the foundations for a new school building are being
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Knights player banned, fined
A YORK City Knights player has been banned following a failed drugs test. David Bates has been found guilty of breaching the Rugby Football League's doping control regulations and suspended for three months. The banned substance ephedrine was found in
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Parties await Barbican D-day
THE High Court is expected to decide next month on a legal challenge to the proposed redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre. The Save Our Barbican (SOB) campaign is seeking a judicial review of City of York Council's decision to grant planning permission
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Grisly crime dossier in our post
"THIS email is received just before the carbon copy killer strikes. So far every victim has received an identical email to this." That chilling message told Dave Marsh he was being stalked by a serial killer. Dave, 58, and his partner, Val, opened a bundle
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Danger on the 17:56
A DRUG addict endangered the lives of all the passengers on a York to London express by breaking into its cabs and tampering with the controls, a court heard. Michael Hendry Coxon, 33, caused mayhem on the East Coast Main Line by forcing the 5.56pm GNER
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Master Cass is a Cass master
CASS the family could be the new game at Fulford Golf Club, whose members are revelling in an historic chip off the old block. Just over a dozen years after Richard Cass swung into one-hole folklore at the Heslington-based club, his seven-year-old son
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Kids go free
Don't you just love those three little phrase 'kids go free'? Book through Reader Travel and you can have free child places on selected Disneyland Resort Paris trips and also to Lapland. Gold Crest holidays is offering a magical break to Disneyland Resort
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Lower the tone
RE the proposed "York Eye" (January 26). In your words it "would dwarf nearby Clifford's Tower and be almost as high as York Minster". In my words "it would certainly lower the tone of York." Mrs V J Fawthrop, Bramble Dene, Woodthorpe, York. Updated:
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Yes to Hungate
SITTING here in Goa, India, my mind frequently travels back to York, my beloved home for nearly 20 years. I am in constant touch not only with my family and friends, but with what happens in the city via the Evening Press's website, www.thisisyork.co.uk
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Identity crisis
WHY does Hugh Bayley, in his defence of ID cards, give special mention to the "billions" of pounds of benefit fraud that the cards will help cut (January 21)? Even David Blunkett, while defending the cards in 2002, did not find this argument worth pursuing
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Not balanced
IN a letter received by Osbaldwick Parish Council from Peter Evely, head of network management at City of York Council, he is wrong in assuming that the parish council wished to discuss with him the Traffic Management Act 2004. What we said at the executive
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Working together
I WAS very interested to read your article "Beyond The Call Of Duty" but surprised by the reaction of the North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce (January 10). Surely, calling for a day when employers recognise the worth of their employees, and show their
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Sign of the times
WE had some visitors from Warwickshire last week to play badminton here. As they all snaked past the Odeon with the county's name on their backs, I inquired where their destination was. They said they had a big competition at the Railway Institute gymnasium
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Ground deal good for City
COME on Mr Ransome and Mr Lickley, let's not get the hankies and floral tributes out just yet, please (Evening Press, Saturday, January 22). Okay, have a laugh. Yes, that's good, KitKat Crescent rules bar none, dark (choc) humour, fine. But really, what's
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Needs must
ERIC Ransome's comments, (Evening Press, January 22), about the York City sponsorship arrangement with Nestl Rowntree are annoying. I find it unbelievable that he can have ever been a supporter of the club. His views reminded me of the days of the Corinthian
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Long odds on York progressing in NR Cup
YORK City Knights kick off their season on Sunday, February 13 with a massive Northern Rail Cup fixture away to favourites Castleford. The Tigers, relegated from Super League last term, are quoted 11-4 to win the cup by bet365.com, ahead of Whitehaven
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Delrio's, 10 Blossom Street, York.
I'M still reeling from the shock of it all. It was all so sudden and will take me a while to get over. I've been in love with Delrio's, the Sardinian restaurant at the top of Micklegate in York, ever since my first visit back in 1998. As a venue, it was
