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An Audience With Sir David Frost, Grand Opera House, York
OOH, he looks just like he does on the telly. Smart jacket and tie, a convivial welcome with that familiar hang-dog nod, and that smooth and relaxed manner is under way once more. Sir David Frost, anti-authoritarian satirist, political inquisitor and
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Rear-lette wheel of fortune
YORK City today revealed a new sponsorship deal believed to be the first of its kind in the Nationwide Coinference. From now until the end of the season City will sport the name of CasinoTimes.co.uk on the back of the team's shirts and also shorts. The
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How to turn round a troubled estate
STEPHEN LEWIS visits a York estate that has gone from crime hotspot to crime-free zone in only a year. A YEAR ago, residents of a crime-plagued York estate adopted a desperate, last-ditch strategy to deal with the young thugs who were making their lives
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Anti-theft device is cause for alarm
WATCH out shoplifters and handbag snatchers. A successful York inventor has devised a way of outwitting you. If trials being carried out from Monday on Andrew Gray's revolutionary Safe Or Sound (SOS) gadget are successful, it could be marketed worldwide
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A fruit & nut case
WELL, somebody's got to do it - and that lucky man is 33-year-old globetrotter James Brook. James has just been appointed raw materials buyer for Pocklington-based dried fruit and nut specialists Sundora Foods. That means taking regular business trips
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On root to £10,000 deal
Green-tech, the landscaping and forestry supplies company based at Nun Monkton, near York, has won a £10,000 contract to supply 15,000 tree shelters for a development, near Bath. Sytner United Autogroup has appointed Anglo Holt Construction to design
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Tourism oscars getting bigger
A GLITTERING awards ceremony highlighting the unsung stars of York's tourism world is moving to a bigger venue - because it is proving so popular. The Awards For Excellence, run by the York Hospitality Association, will this year be held at the city's
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Majority of residents are satisfied with council services
A NEW satisfaction survey has revealed that nearly 60 per cent of residents are happy with York council services. Guildhall leader Coun Steve Galloway said the fact 59 per cent of people quizzed were happy with the authority's performance showed they
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Nap-hand show graces York's national service
CITY of York held National League side Holcombe to a thrilling 5-5 draw before bowing out of the English Hockey Indoor League play-off tournament at Haslemere. Representing the North of England after Sheffield Hallam dropped out, York fought back from
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Alert over 'pay first' loan scam
LOAN sharks are trying to dupe residents out of thousands of pounds as part of an advanced fees scam. City of York Council trading standards officers are warning people to be on their guard against advertisements from companies offering fast loans regardless
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Past moor to the peak
NEW Earswick returned to the top of Pennine League division two as they hammered mid-table Emley Moor 68-4. Previous leaders Newsome Panthers lost 18-12 at home to Kippax Welfare - who, with games in hand, appear to be All Blacks' biggest title threat
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City yobs attack disabled girl, 5
POLICE today launched an urgent appeal after a "sickening" attack on a severely disabled girl. The young victim was pushed into the road as she sat helplessly in her wheelchair after her mother was pushed into a hedge in an attempted robbery. Officers
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Rear-lette wheel of fortune
YORK City today revealed a new sponsorship deal believed to be the first of its kind in the Nationwide Coinference. From now until the end of the season City will sport the name of CasinoTimes.co.uk on the back of the team's shirts and also shorts. The
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Jailed for rape after 20 years
A FORMER soldier was today starting a jail sentence for the brutal rape of a York woman more than 20 years ago - after he was traced using DNA techniques. Andrew William Rome, now 40, burst into the young woman's flat in Heworth on January 18, 1984, a
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Police patrols sort the yobs
IT beggars belief that the police are powerless to apprehend gangs of thugs causing mayhem in and around the 68 Centre ("Don't Go Outside", January 27). I am a retired police officer. Back in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, when the skinhead and teddy
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The wrong place
I'M not against the "Eye", in fact I would like to ride it, it's a great idea. But not in Tower Gardens, one of the few green spaces left in York. Trees are part of our heritage just as much as buildings. How many more must we lose for short-term greed
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Save the trees
IT is unbelievable that after all the controversy over the destruction of the trees at Connaught Court and the tree at Fulford Cross, the council would even contemplate destroying more mature specimens just to make way for a monstrous wheel (January 26
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What a poor ally
Is GNER mad? Positively the last political "ally" you'd ever need if you were fighting to keep your rail franchise would be a backbench Labour MP. What kind of influence does York's MP wield when only 22 of the 93 constituencies that GNER passes through
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Doing without
I AM not surprised that there are those who admire usurpers, military dictators, tyrants and murderers (Constantinus was no worse than Stalin in that respect), but I have to point out that The Big Con's brief sojourn in York hardly merits a claim for
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Rabbit, rabbit
WHY the likes of your correspondent D Fillingham rush into print on a subject that they haven't got a clue on beggars belief ("Ban is simple to enforce", Letters, January 24). I would gamble all England to a hay seed that if D Fillingham tried a ride
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Justice at long last
WE have seen two sides to forensic science this week. The first is the fictionalised version which keeps millions of TV viewers gripped every week. CSI - short for Crime Scene Investigation - became the biggest show in the States by contrasting grisly
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Way we were
Tuesday, February 1, 2005 100 years ago: No columnist had commented until now on the dispute as to whether cattle should be sold by lump or weight in the York Cattle Market. York Butchers' Association's members had decided not to purchase cattle offered
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Mac's back to delight of Acorn
YORK Acorn ARLC will welcome one of the biggest names in rugby league to the Minster city on Sunday. The Blue and Golds are to stage an event at their Thanet Road base in respect of Leeds Rhinos' former Great Britain international prop Barrie McDermott
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Past moor to the peak
NEW Earswick returned to the top of Pennine League division two as they hammered mid-table Emley Moor 68-4. Previous leaders Newsome Panthers lost 18-12 at home to Kippax Welfare - who, with games in hand, appear to be All Blacks' biggest title threat
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High-tech firms in battle for £20,000
BRACE yourselves for the battle of the business plans. Eight high-tech firms from all over Yorkshire will compete at tomorrow's Venturefest event at York Racecourse for a prize of £20,000 worth of help. Already their bright ideas have been monitored by
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Eight line up for Venturefest
It's a tough lineup for the Venturefest business award, which will include a year's free accommodation at York Science Park, £3,000 in cash plus financial, legal and marketing help. Among the competitors will be: David Goodall of Paraytec, the University
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It's a bawl and shame game
SOMETHING for the weekend? Yes sir, if it means sports where dissent is not the norm and where physical collisions remain, in the main, sheer in their commitment, but eminently fair in their execution. High-profile rugby league and rugby union battles
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Other half measures
MY dearly-beloved, sweet, charming wife says I look tired and need a rest from the column. She says she's tired, too, of all the insults I fling at her in these pages. All I've ever said was that the poor woman wasn't very well blessed by nature so needed
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Prescott promises new approach to tackle Golden Triangle housing
RADICAL measures to help first-time homebuyers get on the property ladder have been flagged up by John Prescott. In a document setting out his five-year vision for Yorkshire and the Humber, the Deputy Prime Minister said: "The region is tackling the problem
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Climber's anger after public wall is given to private school
A CLIMBER is protesting after York Barbican Centre's climbing wall was given away to a public school following the centre's closure. Richard Hampton says the wall was originally paid for with public money from the Sports Council and Lottery Fund, but
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Jackpot duo spark 'lucky seat' rush
TWO pensioners have scooped big wins at a York bingo club - after sitting in the same "lucky seat". A 71-year-old widow from Whixley won almost £18,000 on the National Bingo Game at the Clifton Club. And a 77-year-old Knaresborough grandmother scooped
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Mac's back to delight of Acorn
YORK Acorn ARLC will welcome one of the biggest names in rugby league to the Minster city on Sunday. The Blue and Golds are to stage an event at their Thanet Road base in respect of Leeds Rhinos' former Great Britain international prop Barrie McDermott
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I'm 77, I can't get about and BT has failed to fix my phone
A DISABLED pensioner cut off from the world because of fallen phone lines says she is disgusted with BT for failing to fix the problem. Jenny Tatton, 77, who lives on her own in a village south of York, says she has to rely on friends and family to make
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Green light for 'new village' bid
OPPONENTS of the controversial Derwenthorpe scheme have vowed to push for a public inquiry, after York city councillors backed the proposed "new village". Protesters from Osbaldwick, Tang Hall and Meadlands, who lobbied councillors before yesterday's
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Bus drivers in 13pc pay claim
BUS drivers in York want a 13 per cent pay rise if the city is to avoid a new bout of strike action this year, the Evening Press has learned. The increase - which is four times the rate of inflation - would take the salary of a FirstGroup driver from
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Ferres quits Knights
STEVE Ferres is to sensationally quit as chief executive of York City Knights. The man who did much to lift York rugby league up by its bootstraps will leave Huntington Stadium after the opening Northern Rail Cup game of the 2005 season, away to Castleford
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It all adds up
Can a Japanese teaching method help English children to do maths? JO HAYWOOD adds up the pros and cons of Kumon (without using a calculator) IF it takes one child studying for ten minutes a day six months to learn how to do quadratic equations, how long
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Help! I'm trapped by homework
ONE was bad enough - but two. I don't know how I'm going to get through Friday evening without medicinal help of some sort. My youngest daughter came home from school last Friday with her first homework. I foresaw problems as soon as she told me she had
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Is this a joke?
I WAS quite shocked to see pictures of the proposed observation wheel. I wondered at first if it were a joke. Is the council seriously thinking of putting such an enormous eyesore so close to Clifford's Tower and the river walk? We have such a beautiful
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Hanging around
AS much as I want to see the "York Eye" in Tower Gardens, I hope the relevant parties haven't overlooked anything. I was under the impression that the freemen of the city were allowed to graze sheep and hang their washing out in the city's open spaces
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Predictable moan
COUNCILLOR Galloway predictably accuses the Evening Press of being irresponsible for informing its readers that the CCTV system was in a deplorable state (January 26). He also quoted several statistics to show how the system had helped reduce crime in
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Somewhere to go
AS a regular user of GNER's East Coast Main Line to London from York, I was delighted to see that Gillian Cruddas, chief executive of York Tourism Bureau, was extolling the virtues of GNER as being "different from some other companies in the fact that
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'Idiots' reunited
THE Diary piece about my fellow letter-writer PR Willey was a thought-provoking reminder to all of us who contribute to these pages. The debates on this page do sometimes become a little vitriolic, and I have disagreed vehemently in the past with Mr Willey
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Time for silence
IT seems that last week's Holocaust Remembrance Day was in some ways misnamed. In a world where we had a three-minute silence to observe the tragic events of the Asian Tsunami, a natural disaster which unfortunately we couldn't prevent from happening,
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Like, duh!
RE the crime survey supposedly showing one in four teenage boys are regular offenders (January 27), I can't be the only one to notice that this survey seems to be based on asking the teenagers themselves. So surely all it really tells us is that one in
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That's lucky
MAYBE Lady Luck parked her posterior upon it. Perhaps the Flutter Fairy sprinkled some magic dust over it. Whatever the reason, the same seat in the Clifton Club has delivered two bingo jackpot winners in two days. Manager Mick Lacy predicted a rush to
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Ferres quits Knights
STEVE Ferres is to sensationally quit as chief executive of York City Knights. The man who did much to lift York rugby league up by its bootstraps will leave Huntington Stadium after the opening Northern Rail Cup game of the 2005 season, away to Castleford
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Here at last, with bells on
IF you're out this week and hear York Minster chime the quarter hour, spare a thought for the difficult birth of these bells. Five years ago tomorrow, Prince Andrew came to York to launch a £250,000 appeal to buy the six-bell clock chime, commemorating
