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Review: 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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'Dale and hearty triumph
AWAY-DAY joy plotted the way to the RJF Homes-Beckett Football League's Gordon Harrison Memorial Trophy final. Black Swan, Pickering, and Kirkdale Utd, both away semi-final winners, will meet in the showdown after Kirkdale beat hosts Union Rovers 5-1.
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Bold Robins
Selby Town produced a superb all-round team performance to hold Conference North side Harrogate Town to a 1-1 draw at Flaxley Road in the West Riding County Cup quarter-final. The Northern Counties East League premier division leaders started brightly
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City hit by loss of Hogg hand-out
YORK City have missed out on a £50,000 windfall after Chris Hogg's move to Hibernian from Ipswich Town. The former Minstermen defender needed to make just one senior appearance for Ipswich and the KitKat Crescent club would have received the payment as
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A towering plan to raise the roof
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the intriguing possibility of roofing Clifford's Tower. ENGLISH Heritage is considering putting a roof on Clifford's Tower. Experts from the heritage body have spent the past year carrying out a feasibility study, the Evening
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Sweet giant's KitKat slogan fight to be resolved in British courts
A DISPUTE over a request to trademark KitKat's Have A Break slogan will be finally resolved by the British courts. Nestl has used the phrase to support its KitKat chocolate bars with the slogan Have A Break ... Have A KitKat, which already is protected
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Out with the old and in with the new
INDEPENDENT property consultancy Lawrence, Hannah and Skelton has celebrated moving to larger premises by strengthening its team. Three new staff members have been appointed including Karl Tunman, an associate partner who has joined from W H Stephens
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Riccall enjoy Knights time
More children from the York area were exposed to the rugby league bug at the latest York City Knights Sportsmatch primary school competition last Thursday. Seven teams from five schools went head-to-head at Huntington School in their first taste of competitive
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Derby day joy for York
YORK City Schoolboys Under-12s footballers reached the semi-finals of the Michael Dale Trophy by beating Derby 4-1, which also counted for league points. York started well and went 1-0 up when a Dan Owers corner ended up in the net via a defender. Adam
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Lowe hits high notes
BOOMING Martin Lowe scaled the heights to beat top seed and defending champion Richard Moss in the men's final of the York Closed Table Tennis Championships. Both players decorated a five-set thriller with some of the best hitting seen in York for many
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Tribute to much-loved teacher
STAFF and pupils at a York school celebrated the life of a much-loved teacher and friend with a memorial service. Lesley Butterworth was 53 when she died from a rare blood disease on December 3 last year, having taught at Clifton Green Primary School
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Barbara only has one lung, but she's still not entitled to a disabled parking badge
A YORK pensioner with chronic breathing difficulties has slammed the council after she was refused a disability badge and granted no right of appeal. Eighteen months ago, Barbara Carder-Geddes, from Dringhouses, developed lung cancer and was admitted
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Historic church saved by £264k
ONE of York's most distinctive churches has been saved from decay by a landmark English Heritage grant. St Laurence's Church, in Lawrence Street, was today awarded £264,000 to save its internal roof structure, which is beset by dry rot and in danger of
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Solid exit suits Steve
DEPARTING chief executive Steve Ferres reckons he has succeeded in his aim to bring credibility back to professional rugby league in York. The bombshell was dropped yesterday that Ferres is to leave York City Knights after the first game of the 2005 season
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Anger over 'spy course'
TENANTS reacted with shock today to claims that York's biggest social housing trust is training its workers to "spy" on them. Tradesmen working for the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) are being asked to attend workshops teaching them how to "keep
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It's 'stay as we are' for Knights
YORK City Knights are unlikely to seek a new chief executive in the near future, chairman Roger Dixon today confirmed. Yesterday's bombshell announcement that Steve Ferres was to quit Huntington Stadium after the first game of the season has left fans
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Knockout blow raps reserves
CASH costs have KO'd York City's reserve team from playing in a competitive arena from next season, it was confirmed today. The club announced to the Evening Press that they have submitted their resignation to the Central League and will not be playing
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Help us out
I REFER to the letter headed "It's a disgrace" (January 31). Mr Hughes has obviously been following with interest the case in Monkton Road. It's a pity that other residents have not. As someone who has viewed the video on a number of occasions, I am unable
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Why would children want to do this?
AT about 11pm on Friday, January 21, a resident's car parked on Albemarle Road, opposite the cricket pavilion, had the upper part of both its doors forced away from the car body. This caused one of the door windows to shatter. A resident living nearby
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Wind facts
IT'S been interesting to observe the reactions of Evening Press readers to the recent applications to erect first a wind monitoring mast and then subsequently two 111 metre high turbines by the A19, between the parishes of Escrick, Riccall and Skipwith
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Club class
I AGREE with Bill Murphy - a great night was had by all at the Wildcats Rock'n'Roll night, but he goes on to say that other WMCs should do the same (Letters, January 27). Does he not know that the Crescent WMC in York has been doing this every four to
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If only I knew how to whistle
WHISTLING was famously made sexy when Nastassja Kinski, otherwise known as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, had a close encounter with a strawberry in a certain Roman Polanski film. To be fair, it was also given a bit of a boost by Lauren Bacall in To Have
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Caring... or snooping?
WE do not doubt that good intentions underlie the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust's "resident support" workshops. Yet a thin line separates neighbourliness and snooping. Judging by the angry reaction of New Earswick villagers tonight, the trust has crossed
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Vile low-life
IN our crime-ridden age, we become hardened to the daily reports of assaults and robberies. But some offences spark outrage and disbelief in equal measure. Five-year-old Lucy Branton is severely disabled by cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She can hardly
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College revels in FA goal
York College's highly rated football development centre has claimed membership of a new national elite by winning the much-coveted accolade of FA Charter Standard status. The college will receive its award at the England v Holland international at Villa
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Review: Kissing Married Women, Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, until February 19; Pocklington Arts Centre,
GORDON Steel's comic style is the gritcom: nitty gritty comedies from northern working-class stock. Love and loneliness, lust and trust, friends and family, life and death have been the meat in his curled-up sandwiches in Dead Fish, Studs and Albert Nobbs
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Nap hand Nestl nestle on top of a comfy cushion
Nestle Rowntree have crafted a three-point lead at the top of the Leeper Hare York and District Football League Reserve 'B' after they beat hosts Barmby Moor 5-0. Two goals from Luke Brownbridge in the first 18 minutes put Nestl in command but the game
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Butler does the deed
A NINE-GOAL thriller was the highlight of the York FA Saturday Junior Cup quarter-finals. Leeper Hare York and District League division three outfit Sheriff Hutton prevailed 6-3 against plucky Huntington Rovers from Reserve 'A'. Underdogs Huntington tore
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Way we were
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 100 years ago: A novel courtesy of the sea was paid to Filey the previous day by the Grimsby steam trawler Syrian, which put into the bay for shelter from the strong westerly gale. She had no sooner anchored under the lee of
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Knockout blow raps reserves
CASH costs have KO'd York City's reserve team from playing in a competitive arena from next season, it was confirmed today. The club announced to the Evening Press that they have submitted their resignation to the Central League and will not be playing
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Reid cuts it just fine
CHAMELEON Business Interiors of Howden, East Yorkshire, has completed a project to furnish Britain's first multi-purpose one-stop shop for health care in Newham, London. The new £4.9 million surgery is the very first LIFT - or Local Improvement Finance
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Sell-off averts company crisis
JARVIS today said it had "drawn a line" under its troubled financial situation after it completed the final pieces of a multi-million pound sell-off. The company, which has its rail headquarters based in York, announced it had sold its interests in tube
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The problem of sex
HOW to teach youngsters the facts of life has presented problems ever since those famous birds and bees were just a twinkle in someone's eye. Should it be left to parents, teachers, or both, to dispel myths about sex and give youngsters the grounding
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School's varsity hat-trick
A YORK school has congratulated former pupils on getting a hat-trick of places at Cambridge University. Sam Jackson, Alice Julian and James Freeman, past pupils at the Minster School, are Cambridge-bound after getting conditional offers to study at the
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York schools eye semi-final spots
TWO York schools were eyeing success in the Daily Mail Rugby Union tournaments today having seen their teams blast through to the last eight. St Peter's School have got their sights set on a national double, with both their U18s and their U15s having
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Bids flood in on ebay as Yorkie for the girls proves a massive hit
CRAZY collectors are gobbling up limited edition "pink" Yorkie bars for more than £30 each on ebay. The chocolate snacks were launched exclusively on the Isle Of Man last week, and local entrepreneurs were quick to put the first few up for the online
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Why this spot is lucky for some
IF good luck really comes in threes, it might be worth heading for the Clifton Bingo Club and grabbing a seat around this table - if you are lucky enough to find one of them empty. A 71-year-old woman from Whixley, sat there and ended up scooping an £18,000
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Phone firm put York city centre tower plan on hold
A PLAN to bring a 30-foot high mobile phone mast to the heart of York's historic centre has been withdrawn. But T-Mobile (UK) still wants to site a ten metre mast at the corner of High Ousegate and Parliament Street. The mast, close to the ancient All
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College revels in FA goal
York College's highly rated football development centre has claimed membership of a new national elite by winning the much-coveted accolade of FA Charter Standard status. The college will receive its award at the England v Holland international at Villa
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Tributes to RAF crash victims
A YORK man is one of the ten servicemen who died when an RAF Hercules aircraft crashed in Iraq. The RAF said Flight Sergeant Mark Gibson, 34, was born in the city. The RAF C-130 in which he was travelling crashed in the desert, 25 miles of north of Baghdad
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Worry that OAPs could be targeted by raiders
Elderly people could be targeted by burglars because they are less likely to fight back, said a pensioner who confronted armed raiders at his York home. Haulage boss Roy Handley, 71, said new guidelines that reinforce the right of householders to fight
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Mum's fury over yobs' attack on disabled daughter, 5
A DISTRAUGHT mother spoke out today over the "low-life scum" who deliberately pushed her severely-disabled daughter into a busy road - strapped inside her wheelchair. Defenceless Lucy Branton, who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, sat helpless as her specially-adapted
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Time to unmask planning bias
IT was the inevitable result that those opposed to the Derwenthorpe development were expecting. The council voted in favour ("Green Light For 'New Village' Bid", February 1). This was hardly surprising given that the council, which owns the site, stands
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Traffic fight
I WAS dismayed at the planning committee's readiness to take refuge behind the traffic figures put forward by Peter Evely, the council's head of network management, to justify their decision to approve outline planning permission for the proposed 540-
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Talking turkey
SHORTLY before Christmas I purchased from Tesco, Askham Bar, a frozen turkey. Weight 4.2kg, the cooking instructions printed on the wrapping stated two hours exactly. Having planned my Christmas dinner for 6pm the bird was put into the oven at the recommended
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Many thanks
ON behalf of us all at UNICEF, we would like to thank all your readers for their most generous response to UNICEF's Asia Tsunami Children's Emergency Appeal. These donations have enabled UNICEF to continue its vital life-saving work in all the tsunami-affected
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Sour grapes
I AM a mother of two young children. Like many other mums, I would rather walk into town than meet the sour-faced people who sit on the front seats of the bus (in seats which are clearly marked as being for use by those with pushchairs and wheelchairs
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Going to the zoo
I AGREE with your correspondent who thinks that Tang Hall is climbing the table of desirable residential areas (Property Press, January 13). The acid test of a district is to visit its centre at about 9.30pm and call into the local pub. There may be houses
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Distorted view
I WAS surprised to read the confused diatribe apparently aimed at the US education system in the Evening Press ("God help us", Letters, January 25). My wife, who is American, failed to recognise the system that educated her from the description. One thing
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It's 'stay as we are' for Knights
YORK City Knights are unlikely to seek a new chief executive in the near future, chairman Roger Dixon today confirmed. Yesterday's bombshell announcement that Steve Ferres was to quit Huntington Stadium after the first game of the season has left fans
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Lancashire's a bit of all white
THEY'RE finally realising that our way is the right way. After centuries of carping prompted by an understandable inferiority complex, Lancastrians are coming to accept that Yorkshire knows best. Not that they're making a song and clog dance of their
