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Season's best by rampant Earswick
NEW Earswick All Blacks put on their best 40 minutes' display of the season to beat Crigglestone 34-10 and go clear at the top of Pennine League division two. The All Blacks led only 14-0 at the break and, as they faced a gale-force wind in the second
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Why do we need one of these?
The Stonebow rising bollard has hardly covered itself in glory. Does York really need another one? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. The residents IT has to be said that at 10.30 on a sleepy Thursday morning, Woodlands Grove in Heworth doesn't seem much like a '
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Assets firm taken over
AN AWARD-WINNING York asset management firm has been taken over by a London stockbroker. The London York Group today announced that it has conditionally agreed to merge with publicly-quoted London stockbroker and fund manager Walker, Crips, Weddle, Beck
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Getting boxed in for safety
A SPECIAL safety awareness event has been held at a York college, to increase the awareness of safety problems in the house building industry. The event, at Askham Bryan College, was organised by the Health and Safety Executive which has worked hard with
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Festival pointer - 15/02/05
The Cheltenham Festival starts four weeks today and some fine-tuning will be made to hurdlers at Musselburgh tomorrow with the Gloucestershire meeting on their agenda. The Edinburgh racecourse stages the £20,000 Scottish Triumph Hurdle Trial, a stepping
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Keep expert eye on the ball
YORK City's board will be hoping it will be third time lucky with new manager Billy McEwan. He has followed Chris Brass and Viv Busby in the KitKat Crescent hotseat as the Minstermen bid to ease further away from the Nationwide Conference relegation zone
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They deserve to be happy
I WAS pleased to hear of the marriage plans of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles. As far as I am concerned, these are long delayed and I very much hope they will be very happy together. I cannot understand the church having reservations about
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Stand aside
I WISH Prince Charles and Camilla would get married quietly, not at the taxpayers' expense, and then just abdicate. No more fuss and pomp is necessary. David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York. Updated: 10:35 Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Not a fairground
WHAT a ghastly idea! There is an increasing tendency to turn city centres into playgrounds. London's sole memorial to the Millennium is the London Eye, a colossal blemish on the skyline. There is, of course, nothing intrinsically wrong about fairground
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Out of proportion
MUCH as I would like to visit the London Eye, I think the position of a big wheel in the small riverside garden in front of the Tower Street houses is totally out of proportion and inappropriate in this historic area. Mrs P Johns, Sandy Lane, Stockton-on-the-Forest
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Low on power
Making electricity from the wind is a beautiful and elegant feat of ingenuity. However, people seem to be unaware that huge wind turbines produce rather piddling amounts of power. Each of the turbines proposed for Escrick will generate, when it is windy
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Not in favour
Let's put the record straight. There have been plenty of letters objecting to the rising bollard proposed for Straylands Grove and some have blamed residents for requesting it. The facts are these: The survey conducted by the council last October apparently
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Age? Never mind, it's all in your head
I READ the article on 'New Disco Queens' (Evening Press, February 8) and had a smile at the remark by Vanessa Gossage about being 40 but still feeling as if she was in her 20s. My husband's grandmother, who died in the 1970s aged 93, once said no matter
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Nightmare families may be sent back to the classroom
POOR parents will be sent back to the classroom in a last-ditch bid to save their families from eviction. York council tenants whose out-of-control offspring torment neighbours will benefit from a £25,000 cash boost. Enforcement officers have pledged
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'First weekend' breaks record
RECORD-BREAKING numbers of residents enjoyed the red carpet treatment at York's tourist attractions during the 2005 Residents' First Weekend. Official figures reveal that thousands of locals flocked to the city's tourist attractions on January 29 and
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Going green tops agenda
CITY OF YORK Council has launched a major review of its energy use - amid dire warnings about the damage greenhouse gasses will wreak on the planet. The Guildhall assessment comes after a council motion was passed pledging the authority to a greener future
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Point made in error
CITY of York men's hockey team endured a disappointing draw against Rotherham in a North League premier division game they could and should have won. Injuries and unavailability stripped York down to the bare 11 and the fact they were under-strength was
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Season's best by rampant Earswick
NEW Earswick All Blacks put on their best 40 minutes' display of the season to beat Crigglestone 34-10 and go clear at the top of Pennine League division two. The All Blacks led only 14-0 at the break and, as they faced a gale-force wind in the second
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'I saw villages the size of Acomb just flattened'
RAVAGED scenes of flattened villages passed by as a York graduate travelled from one tsunami-hit community to the next to offer aid. Globe-trotter Tim Wilson is one of York's first eye-witnesses of the relief effort to return from the Far East, where
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Yorkshire CC's £500,000 loss
YORKSHIRE'S failure to buy their Headingley headquarters last year was a major reason why the club suffered a deficit of more than £500,000 in 2004, members will hear at the March 12 annual meeting. But chairman Robin Smith will also tell them that talks
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Knights battle to get Law on their side
YORK City Knights are close to bringing fans' favourite Neil Law back to Huntington Stadium. No deal has yet been completed for the Sheffield-born 30-year-old but the Evening Press understands that the parties involved are deep in talks. The Press suggested
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Cactus is the rose for me
BY ALL accounts, I should have received a cactus in yesterday's postbag. Not a red rose, which is the flower most likely to be sent to women on Valentine's Day, but a prickly cactus. That, apparently, is the perfect choice for couples who have been together
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Knights battle to get Law on their side
YORK City Knights are close to bringing fans' favourite Neil Law back to Huntington Stadium. No deal has yet been completed for the Sheffield-born 30-year-old but the Evening Press understands that the parties involved are deep in talks. The Press suggested
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Meet Mr Ascot
MEET the man charged with bringing Royal Ascot to York and "catapulting" the city on to an international stage. Shane Chalmers has been appointed as project manager to ensure the five-day festival runs as smoothly as possible. In preparation for the event
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Nogan vows to carry on playing
LEE Nogan hopes to continue playing - until at least the end of the season. Speaking for the first time since his departure as York City's player-coach, the 35-year-old former Welsh international said he is not quite ready to hang up his boots just yet
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Farmers move into rural market
INDIVIDUAL farmers across Yorkshire and Humberside are moving back into the rural market. The latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) rural land survey showed that 60 per cent of all sales of farmland are now made to individual farmers
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Feta wars attack
A EURO MP today hit out at the British Government for failing to back a Yorkshire "feta" cheese maker. The EU court was today meeting in Luxembourg to decide whether manufacturers outside Greece can call their cheese feta. The cheese will have to be renamed
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Top beer awards go to Malton
SUDDABY'S LTD, the Malton-based and privately owned hospitality and brewing services company, has captured major awards in the 2005 SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers Association) Northern Beer Competition held at Stockport. Against tough competition
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The Black Velvets, Black Night Crash, Fibbers, York
ROCK journalists pride themselves on being able to approach any given story from the lamest possible angle, and I would be laughed out of the Rock Journalist Working Men's Club (like a regular Working Men's Club, only with guys arguing over which Fall
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Yorkshire CC's £500,000 loss
YORKSHIRE'S failure to buy their Headingley headquarters last year was a major reason why the club suffered a deficit of more than £500,000 in 2004, members will hear at the March 12 annual meeting. But chairman Robin Smith will also tell them that talks
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Against the giants
I write to express my surprise, as well as disappointment, that City of York councillors have elected to support Powergen's application to erect two giant turbines on the Escrick Park Estate at Hollicarrs by the A19 near Riccall (Councillors back turbines
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Objections raised
ANNE Rylatt (Letters, February 12) asks, "What is consultation worth if it only canvasses those who can be expected to vote yes?" Brian Coates (Letters, February 10) makes a similar point. Since the so-called consultation, which resulted in 69.9 per cent
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Costly diversion
I WAS interested to read in your article "Rat-run plan row" (February 9) that the price to use the proposed intelligent bollard for residents living in the Straylands Grove Estate would be £20 every three years. This amount to transform their estate into
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Double standards
DOUBLE standards and hypocrisy seem to prevail within the City of York Council traffic & planning departments. How is it that council officers can recommend closing a road (Straylands Grove rising bollard) to through traffic, then virtually in the
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Too many drivers block the pavement
THE photograph in the Evening Press of Neil Robertson's car parked on the pavement is misleading (February 10). The measurement shown to the yellow lines are irrelevant. What is important is the distance of the rear of the car from the kerbstone. The
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Snobs and knockers
I REALLY don't know which I hate more... snobbery or inverse snobbery. Whether you live in a turreted castle or a two-up, two-down council house, you are a snob about something. That's a fact. It could be clothes, with all those designer labels; it could
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York 'once-in-a-lifetime' find
Archaeologists believe a Roman stone coffin which was uncovered today could hold burial secrets from almost 2,000 years ago. The gypsum burial site at Mill Mount, near Scarcroft Road, could contain some of the best preserved remains found for 60 years
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'I saw villages the size of Acomb just flattened'
RAVAGED scenes of flattened villages passed by as a York graduate travelled from one tsunami-hit community to the next to offer aid. Globe-trotter Tim Wilson is one of York's first eye-witnesses of the relief effort to return from the Far East, where
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Fire staff jobs fury
PLANS to cut fire staff in six North Yorkshire brigades - including Selby, Tadcaster and Malton - are likely to go ahead. A meeting of the North Yorkshire Fire Authority in Easingwold yesterday was considering the service's five-year policy statement,
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Delays likely as A64 work enters new phase
MOTORISTS are facing major delays on the A64 near York as contraflows are introduced for the first time during the Bilbrough Top flyover project. Highways Agency chiefs say the single-lane contraflows, set to operate for four weekends in succession, will
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Bhs hands Allders staff jobs lifeline
JOBS at one of York's troubled Allders stores appeared to have been saved today after the shop was bought by rival retailer Bhs. The Picadilly branch, which employs 43 staff, was one of ten outlets bought by Bhs, put up for sale by Kroll after Allders
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York set for cash bonanza if UK wins 2012 Olympic bid
OLYMPIC teams could bring hundreds of millions of pounds to York and North Yorkshire if London wins its bid to host the 2012 games. Tourism chiefs believe the region could enjoy the success seen by the Gold Coast during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games,
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Nogan vows to carry on playing
LEE Nogan hopes to continue playing - until at least the end of the season. Speaking for the first time since his departure as York City's player-coach, the 35-year-old former Welsh international said he is not quite ready to hang up his boots just yet
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Mums slam baby organs compensation 'insult'
A GRIEVING York mother today hit out after it emerged she could receive as little as £500 compensation over the baby organs scandal. Fiona Chilton, of Clifton, said money was not important but the cash row "cheapened the memory" of her dead child. Another
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Still a joking matter?
Mothers-in-law have long been the butt of bad jokes, but are they now becoming bad news for marriage? JO HAYWOOD reports. "I bought my mother-in-law a chair for Christmas, but she won't plug it in... I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months.
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Dialling up a problem
FIRE brigade that plans to send a van to a house blaze. A police force whose response to crime calls was judged poor by nearly half of those questioned in a survey. Out-of-hours doctors going into administration. And now an ambulance service which will
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Ascot challenge
SHANE Chalmers is a brave man. To take charge of Royal Ascot in York with the first race under starter's orders in four months' time is not a task for the faint hearted. It is his role to ensure York rises to the challenge, by staging an ambitious programme
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Healthy state of the Union
UNION Rovers have reached the semi-finals of the East Riding CFA Qualifying Country Cup for a second successive season after a 2-0 victory over Rose and Crown. Chris Wilkinson and Paul Holder were the marksmen as the RJF Homes Beckett League outfit made
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Top two in NCEL clash at Selby
FIRST plays second tonight in a crucial Northern Counties East League premier division derby at Flaxley Road. Leaders Selby Town host local rivals Goole with the top of the table bragging rights at stake. Selby are currently top with 53 points, while
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Let's skitter back in time
FORGET your Grand Theft Autos or your Donkey Kongs. For thrills and excitement, you can't beat Skitter Scatter or Queenie Queenie. Playground games beat the computer variety hands down, according to Barbara Pettitt. Barbara, who lives in the Walmgate
