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Parting shot
FORMER caretaker boss Viv Busby has accused York City's board of "going behind his back" in their search for a new manager. Busby claims the club held interviews for the position without his knowledge despite originally telling him that they would like
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Screen test for City
YORK City's Yorkshire derby at Halifax Town next month has been switched to a Monday to accommodate the Sky TV cameras. The away match, originally scheduled for March 12, has now been moved to Monday, March 14 at 7.45pm and will go out live on Sky meaning
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The perfect wines for a school reunion
How tastes change. Last weekend I attended a school reunion. Not the usual kind where a hundred or so people gather, to rediscover the reasons for not having seen each other for 20 years. No, this was a more intimate wine and dine for around a dozen guests
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What a riot it is at IKEA
EVERYONE loves a bargain. That wonderful rush of adrenaline as you approach the cash till, mixed with trepidation and fear that the beaming shop assistant will inform you there's been some error and the price isn't as good as you thought. But when the
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Wyevale Garden Centre, Poppleton, York
WAS it Sunday lunch or a hint of spring that brought so many people to this venue? As far as we were concerned it was a working lunch! This is a self-service venue within the covered area of the garden centre. Wheelchair access is easy and there are plenty
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"London Luxury Hotel of the Year"
Lisa Cook finds a small oasis of luxury in the midst of the hustle and bustle of London's West End. Most of us only ever feel the call to the capital for two things - shopping and entertainment. Getting there is easy enough; GNER to King's Cross by train
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Why Anna is a wild one
STEPHEN LEWIS meets a globe-trotting animal lover who is York's answer to Lara Croft. EXOTIC animals don't scare Anna Evely. She picks up corn snakes and blue-tongued skinks as though they are favourite pets, has ridden elephants, taken close-up photos
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The deadly lure
THERE may still be ten months of 2005 to go, but publishers Headline are convinced that Honeymoon, the latest James Patterson novel, deserves the branding "Worldwide Thriller Of The Year". They may well be right. Interior decorator Nora Sinclair is intelligent
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York Hospital loses its waiting lists bonus
YORK hospital has missed out on a £100,000 government bonus after failing to hit targets to end long waits in casualty departments. The acute trust treated 96.4 per cent of patients within four hours of arrival at accident and emergency, said the Department
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21 suspended by top school
A TOP North Yorkshire public school has suspended 21 pupils and called in police following a drugs crackdown. Ampleforth College, near Helmsley, sent the pupils home for three days this week for taking cannabis. A spokesman for the school - whose former
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A queen to me
The news that Charles and Camilla are to marry surprised me. I have absolutely nothing against them exchanging their vows. However, if the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall receives the throne and the title King of England then, technically, Camilla
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Church's role
THE announcement that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are to marry raises the question of the role of the Church of England as the established church in the 21st century. It is generally accepted that Britain is now a secular society; all the
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Calling riflemen
FELLOW riflemen: In 1944 I, along with many young men, was called to Fulford Barracks in York, or as it was then called 15 PTC (Primary Training Centre). Many of those, including myself, had waited to be airmen with the RAFVR, but, when the call came
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Unearthing our precious history
Archaeologists from the Malton-based MAP Consultancy company and developers Sewell are to be congratulated for the time and trouble they took to provide public access to the site of the new St Oswald's School. Your excellent photograph, right, ('Pupils
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Open the vote
WHAT is consultation worth if it only canvasses those who can be expected to vote "yes"? I refer to the proposed bollard at Straylands Grove. With only a 70 per cent vote in favour for such an approach, a proper, fair consultation, collecting votes from
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'Snail mail' fails
COUNCIL officers are usually quite prompt in responding to my queries. When they are not, I am patient. I have learned that replies to letters are like kisses: if they are not given freely, they're not worth having. However, recent experience convinces
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Budget poll attracts 'abuse' from public
ONE-in-five residents who took part in York council's budget poll used it to slam the authority But council chiefs today vowed to continue with the controversial idea despite the criticism. Details requested under the Freedom Of Information Act, showed
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Rumours of greed
IS there any truth in the rumour that the greedy residents of the privately-owned end of Fifth Avenue are going to hold out for £66,000 each (February 9), then wait until Derwenthorpe is fully developed before declaring the street a "rat-run" and having
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Wembley takes bold shape as Venue of Legends
SVEN - boy, have you got it wrong, completely, totally, utterly wrong. Reports that the England national coach wants next year's FA Cup final to be unceremoniously ditched from its traditional Saturday kick-off to the previous Wednesday, have rightly
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Empty Knights post in demand
YORK City Knights have received eight applications for the role of chief executive at Huntington Stadium - even though the job isn't up for grabs. And the Evening Press understands that, although no names have been divulged, at least three of those applicants
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Parting shot
FORMER caretaker boss Viv Busby has accused York City's board of "going behind his back" in their search for a new manager. Busby claims the club held interviews for the position without his knowledge despite originally telling him that they would like
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Puckering up for charity
MARIE Curie Cancer Care and Fenwick of York have teamed up in search of the perfect pout. Shoppers at the Coppergate store were given the opportunity to land a lipstick smacker on a sheet of blotting paper for the chance to win a prize. The entries are
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Alnwick Garden
As the song goes: "How many kinds of sweet flowers grow in an English country garden?" I don't know the answer, but I can tell you that there are already more than 65,000 individual plants in phase one of Alnwick Garden, making it one of the largest European
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Steve bows out at top
STEVE Ferres is hoping for the perfect send-off at Castleford tomorrow - by enjoying a first in his rugby league life. The departing York City Knights chief executive, who hails from Cas, has never beaten his home-town club as a player, coach or chief
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Wyevale Garden Centre, Poppleton, York
WAS it Sunday lunch or a hint of spring that brought so many people to this venue? As far as we were concerned it was a working lunch! This is a self-service venue within the covered area of the garden centre. Wheelchair access is easy and there are plenty
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Fairfax Arms, Gilling East.
Dan Jones sets his culinary compass for Gilling East. AS romantic meals go, this could have been a recipe for disaster. About half an hour into our journey to the Fairfax Arms, a cautionary check of the map reveals a potential headache. We're heading
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Rievaulx to Old Byland
George Wilkinson enjoys the 'cult of the English Picturesque' in a walk from Rievaulx to Old Byland. Rievaulx Abbey -'its surrounding hills and glades came to embody the cult of the English Picturesque' writes Simon Jenkins in his new bestselling guide
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Shooting ahead
Look carefully and there is much going on in the February garden, as Gina Parkinson discovers. THE garden seems quiet in February. But take a careful look and much will be revealed at soil level, as shoots push through and the first early flowers begin
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Saturday, Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape, £17.99)
IF a week is a long time in politics, in literature, a lot can happen in a day. Saturday, February 15, 2003 is the setting for Ian McEwan's new novel, the day of the anti-Iraq war march in London, the largest gathering of people for a demonstration. McEwan
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Treble-chasing Faasel tops Tony's big chances - 12/02/05
FAASEL, unbeaten in two starts, turns out again at soggy Ayr tomorrow in a bid to complete a hat-trick of wins and also to gain vital racecourse experience ahead of a possible big-race assignment at Cheltenham next month. Nicky Richards' charge, formerly
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Survival the top priority
BILLY McEwan's first instruction is to preserve York City's Conference status. The club's managing director Jason McGill believes the club's new manager can make that possible at the earliest opportunity by improving organisation, tactics, coaching and
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Going potty for air ambulance
YOUNG farmers sporting a giant teapot have poured more than £1,100 into Yorkshire Air Ambulance funds. To celebrate the air ambulance's fourth birthday, Yorkshire Young Farmers took a mobile tea party around Yorkshire with a 5ft teapot, a giant teacup
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Please send me your nursery tales
I AM an amateur writer researching the famous James Backhouse Nursery of York. I am interested to hear from anyone who has stories to tell about the nursery or the men who worked there. I am particularly interested in the 1880 period when gardeners were
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Centuries-old rubbish gives a fascinating glimpse of way we lived
IT'S dirty work...but somebody's got to do it. Archaeologist Andrew Jones believes centuries-old human and animal excrement can help unlock the secrets of how our ancestors lived more than 1,000 years ago. Where there's muck there may well be brass. But
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Wheel bad idea
IT IS obvious from the letters to your newspaper that the proposal to erect a large wheel in Tower Gardens is not acceptable. According to my count so far 17 are against and only two are for the idea. This letter will make it 18 against. The site is not
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Golden Browns
A PAIR of young ambulance volunteers who met in York more than half-a-century ago were today celebrating 50 golden years together. Sheila and Derek Brown, of Orchard Way, York, met in 1952 when both were working as volunteers for the St John Ambulance
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Trial stars in Rosedale test
THE first northern national motorcyle trial of the year will be held tomorrow at Rosedale, near Pickering. An all-star entry list that includes some of the top names on the British trials scene tackles the Colonial Trial which goes back to 1926 when York
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Viking longboats sail into York
VIKING warriors in longboats creaked down the River Ouse today to claim the City of York. As part of the twentieth Jorvik Viking Festival, the Viking boats sailed in front of huge crowds on King's Staith before the Viking warriors marched from the Museum
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Slap in the face
ONCE again the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution has shown its "benevolence" does not extend to the people of York. The only slightly revised plans which the RMBI has submitted for the development of its site at Connaught Court in Fulford still do
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Buck on the up
YORK-BASED Nestl Rowntree AC runner Richard Buck is second in the recently-published UK National rankings. In his first season in the Under-20 age category last year, the 400 metres runner's best time was 47 seconds flat. In the U17 category, an excellent
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Council u-turn on free bin bags
YORK'S council tax today moved a step closer to going up by nearly five per cent - as the leader hailed the achievement of bridging an estimated £17 million budget gap. There was good news for people living in terraced homes as the authority scrapped
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Teen troopers
AN ARMY of "bored" teenagers blew away the half-term blues with an action-packed day at Strensall barracks. Youngsters from the South Bank area of York had a taste of life in uniform, tackling assault courses, shooting and paint balling with British Army
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We Are The People, York Castle Museum, until July 31; The Way We Were, until December 31.
Charles Hutchinson discovers how every postcard tells a story. ARTIST Tom Phillips has created an alternative National Portrait Gallery in postcard form. Instead of the grandees and the famous, he turns the focus on the rest of the British nation in the
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Viking longboats sail into York
VIKING warriors in longboats creaked down the River Ouse today to claim the City of York. As part of the twentieth Jorvik Viking Festival, the Viking boats sailed in front of huge crowds on King's Staith before the Viking warriors marched from the Museum
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Centuries-old rubbish gives a fascinating glimpse of way we lived
IT'S dirty work...but somebody's got to do it. Archaeologist Andrew Jones believes centuries-old human and animal excrement can help unlock the secrets of how our ancestors lived more than 1,000 years ago. Where there's muck there may well be brass. But
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Rumble in The Jungle
TOMORROW'S York City Knights' Northern Rail Cup opener against Castleford Tigers provides new coach Mick Cook with the hardest of baptisms. He said: "They're probably the team nobody wanted. They were in Super League last year and are full-time. But we're
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Empty Knights post in demand
YORK City Knights have received eight applications for the role of chief executive at Huntington Stadium - even though the job isn't up for grabs. And the Evening Press understands that, although no names have been divulged, at least three of those applicants
