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Kings of Castleford - just
POCKLINGTON edged back into second place in the Yorkshire Two table with a narrow 17-15 victory at Castleford. The visitors dominated, having loads of pressure, but they were unable to finish off dogged Castleford. And after leading throughout the game
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Selby Hills' slide
Despite dominating most of this Yorkshire League One fixture, Selby somehow contrived to lose 17-15 to Wheatley Hills and find themselves dangerously close to the relegation places. Leading 10-3 at half-time, and looking comfortable, Selby conceded a
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Time travellers
THIS week, we set off from Selby, take the Great North Road, then hop aboard the Wensleydale Railway on our way to a legendary Yorkshire battleground. All without leaving the armchair. That's the great thing about books. All the travelling is done in
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The dream ticket - 21/02/05
LIVERPOOL FC may have been going through an uneasy time on the footballing front, but Anfield Dream has excellent prospects of hitting the target at Lingfield tomorrow. The three-year-old, trained by John Jenkins, lines-up for the Bet Direct On ITV Interactive
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They're obsessed
IT is obvious that the police are so obsessed with persecuting the motorist that they do not always notice that a potential offender is not actually sitting in a car. It is a pity that they cannot utilise their time more constructively, ie chasing criminals
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Knights 34, Hawks 6
IF York City Knights coach Mick Cook suffered a debut to forget with last week's opening day hammering at Castleford, then he can look back with much more pride on his first game on his new home patch. His team battled away in horrid conditions to beat
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Law makes sense
I WRITE in support of Harry Punter (Letters, February 15). He points out something which does not apparently occur to many motorists, the good sense behind a law that makes it an offence to obstruct a yard of pavement to the hindrance of blind/partly
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Crazy place for a mast
I MUST agree with Ms R A Jones: the the junction of Melrosegate and Tang Hall Lane is a crazy place for a mobile phone mast (Letters, February 16). This is a highly populated residential area, when there may be problems with radiation from the antenna
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Bollard? Baloney
I DO hope people will object most strongly to the proposed erection of a mechanical bollard in Straylands Grove. Straylands Grove is not an overly busy road. It is public highway (not a rat run) and for at least 20 hours a day it is not overly busy. As
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A new question
REFERENCE the Straylands Grove bollards. Would City of York Council be prepared to rerun their consultation exercise, this time asking: "We propose installing the bollard, and in fairness to all only emergency and public transport vehicles will have access
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Brownfield first
COUN Cuthbertson wrote that his party is committed to maximising the development of brownfield sites in York (February 14). The Government issues planning policy guidance (PPG) on a variety of strategic subjects. The 13th PPG to be issued deals with land
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Developers eye ex-college site
MORE than 100 new flats and town houses could be built on a former York university site if planning councillors give its demolition the green light. Bellway Homes has put forward a scheme to redevelop the York St John College Croft Campus by converting
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Grant takes tally to 21 but Heworth lose
HEWORTH showed enough fighting spirit to launch a comeback at Ovenden but it wasn't enough as they lost 34-22. The game provided personal milestones for two Heworth players as Carl Potter took his goal tally for the season to 50 while prolific winger
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Gallery paintings are back to their glorious best
A 17th Century lady has a new gleam in her eye - thanks to some expert restoration work. Edward Bower's painting of Lady Elizabeth Drake, completed in 1646, is one of several works to have been scrubbed-up thanks to a £10,000 conservation project. Friends
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Dringhouses left pig-sick
Malton Bacon Factory inflicted the first Leeper Hare York and District League premier division home defeat of the season on leaders Dringhouses as they won 4-3. The Malton side raced into a three-goal lead in 17 minutes through Simon Collins, Dave Bradshaw
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Hunts throw effigy of Blair to the dogs
PROTESTING hunt supporters posed for pictures with their hands round the neck of an effigy of Tony Blair. A red-jacketed rider then shouted "throw him to the dogs" and the mannequin - adorned with the word "vermin" on its chest - was thrown into the sniffing
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City flops get shoot to thrill orders
BILLY McEwan has called on his strikers to shoot more and his midfielders to operate further forward as he seeks to improve York City's poor record in front of goal. Only relegation-threatened Farnborough and Leigh RMI have netted fewer times than City
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Law man returns
NEIL Law enjoyed a debut to remember for York City Knights and then declared: "I'm glad to be back". The powerful centre, who scored 11 tries in 12 games in his first spell at Huntington Stadium in 2003, crossed the whitewash twice yesterday as the Knights
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Snow brings road chaos
THE big freeze brought chaos as motorists battled through blizzard conditions in York. Prangs, minor collisions and skidding cars were a common sight with police reporting a number of "minor accidents" as the snowy conditions forced cars from the road
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Great idea to use the Ouse
A RIVER runs through it - but you could be forgiven for not noticing. York may be built along the banks of the River Ouse, but too often the city turns its back on the great river. Many people have long argued that more could be made of the Ouse, both
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Stephen Fretwell, Fibbers, York
THE singer-songwriter, then, both a product and chronicler of troubled times. The post-9/11 landscape has proven particularly fertile for earnest young men and women with acoustic guitars and an intimate knowledge of Bob Dylan's back catalogue, a brand
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Law man returns
NEIL Law enjoyed a debut to remember for York City Knights and then declared: "I'm glad to be back". The powerful centre, who scored 11 tries in 12 games in his first spell at Huntington Stadium in 2003, crossed the whitewash twice yesterday as the Knights
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Hosts at crux of matter
Division one leaders Nestl Rowntree thumped Stamford Bridge 7-0 to extend a superb record at their Mille Crux base. Led by Danny Gray's four-goal haul, supplemented by strikes from Andy Kennedy, Danny Leach and Steve Blake, Rowntree's have now gone four
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Heslington made to toil hard to head title chase
There is no change at the top of Division Two as all the leading contenders prevailed. Leaders Heslington won 2-1 but struggled to overcome a lively Poppleton side that played the last half an hour with ten men. Heslington's leading scorer Simon Gatenby
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Visitors pegged back
Pickering Town slipped down to fifth in the Northern Counties East League premier division after dropping two points at Thackley. Liam Salt fired the visiting Pikes ahead with the knowledge that a win would keep their noses ahead of Harrogate Railway,
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'Forget the car, arrive at Royal Ascot by boat'
PUNTERS could be taking to the River Ouse if a York company's ambitious Ascot transport plans get off the ground. York Incoming think it can ferry up to 3,000 passengers a day to and from York Racecourse by boat when the horseracing festival comes to
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Good Kama dud York
DESPITE a hat-trick of tries from speed machine Rob Kama York Rugby Union Club stumbled to a 20-19 defeat at Durham and Northumberland League one hosts Ponteland. York led 19-7 five minutes into the second half after Kama's second treble in as many weeks
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Error-prone Malt
Malton and Norton's North Two East free-fall continued as they perished 45-20 at Horden. Within 14 minutes Malton trailed 14-0, largely due to their own mistakes. Wing Ian Cooke was inspired to get the visitgors back on track. Receiving the ball 40 metres
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RI blown off course
AN Arctic wind proved the decisive factor as hosts Stocksbridge took advantage of the elements to beat York RI 24-10 in Yorkshire Three. Stocksbridge won the toss and decided to play with the wind. Stand-off Martin Bye used his boot effectively to keep
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Pointing to hope
HARROGATE sank to a second successive National League Two defeat at 22-15 but the bonus point they secured at hosts Newbury may prove priceless come the end of the season. They took the game to Newbury and were ahead after just five minutes through centre
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Way we were
Monday, February 21, 2005 100 years ago: The Dean of York made "a most interesting statement" at the anniversary meeting of the York Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in relation to the important library at present housed in what remained
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City flops get shoot to thrill orders
BILLY McEwan has called on his strikers to shoot more and his midfielders to operate further forward as he seeks to improve York City's poor record in front of goal. Only relegation-threatened Farnborough and Leigh RMI have netted fewer times than City
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Grant takes tally to 21 but Heworth lose
HEWORTH showed enough fighting spirit to launch a comeback at Ovenden but it wasn't enough as they lost 34-22. The game provided personal milestones for two Heworth players as Carl Potter took his goal tally for the season to 50 while prolific winger
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For the love of Jessie
A charity which has brought music into the lives of sick and disabled children all over Britain is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Mike Laycock talks to the York mother and musician who founded Jessie's Fund - and sees how music is benefiting youngsters
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New offices on horizon
YET more speculatively developed offices in Clifton Moor, York, are about to come on to the market. This time developer Evans of Leeds, one of the biggest investors in the York commercial property market, is nearing completion of Horizon Court, a new
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Tutu to speak at Yorks convention
ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu is coming to North Yorkshire. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who helped to vanquish apartheid and shape the Rainbow Nation of South Africa, will visit Yorkshire International Business Convention at the Yorkshire Showground, in Harrogate
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Economic guru's last seminar
INVITATIONS have gone out to 600 business people in Harrogate and York to hear Jeremy Peat give his final economic seminar before his retirement as the Royal Bank of Scotland's chief economist. The event takes place at The Merchant Taylors Hall in Aldwark
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What a waste of police time
I READ with disbelief the front page report headlined "Fingered" (February 16). What is our city coming to when a little old lady can be mugged, a rapist can comb the streets looking for his next victim, a cyclist can ride on the pavement or the wrong
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Can this clown
WELL done the Evening Press for highlighting the case of madcap street entertainer David Honan (February 16). Now let me highlight what a total fool and menace this clown really is. This is the clown who hides in a wheelie bin in Stonegate, jumping out
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My solution
JULIAN Cole confuses the Royal Family, a comparatively recent invention, with the monarchy, which has been on the go for the best part of a millennium and a half (February 17). Apart from the reign of William III, consorts of monarchs have had no constitutional
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Rat-runner writes
I VISITED Monks Cross last week and noticed that, because of roadworks, there was a long tailback of traffic from Stockton Lane roundabout, so on the way back I cut through Straylands Grove to avoid the jam. Yes, I admit, I'm a ratrunner! If Mr Evely
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Double power
IF the wind turbines planned for Escrick are as big as some of our local power stations could they not have been built in the same areas ("Wind Power", February 11)? A local eyesore already exists so the aesthetic impact would be reduced (although I would
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Make your voice heard
THE planning application for the further development of Connaught Court, Fulford, has been submitted again by the developers, and its target date to go before the planning committee is April 8. Many in the local community are rightly still concerned about
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Why should they retire earlier?
SO the public service unions are up in arms because their privileged pension scheme is to be brought into line with those of us in manufacturing (February 19). These are the manufacturing companies where wealth and money is first created to allow everybody
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Kate's not my mate
KATE and I used to be just like that (I'm crossing my fingers, which is not a good idea when you are tpyiing - sorry, typing). We were pals, chums, mates and the bosomiest of bosom buddies. But it's all over now. The friendship is dead. I...sniff...don't
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Pitch row grass to be sold for charity
THE controversial Millennium Stadium pitch which was laid by a North Yorkshire firm and slammed for the way it deteriorated during an international rugby match is being sold off for charity. The owners of the Cardiff stadium have brought in Dutch grass
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Depot revised to ease worries
CHANGES have been made to a scheme for an all-night train washing depot in York, in an effort to appease worried residents. The company behind the Leeman Road plans has cut the size of the workshop on the site by nearly a third. This maintenance base
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Louts jailed for train violence
A FAMILY of drunken louts have been sent to jail for train hooliganism and fighting police on the platform of York Railway Station. The Cartwright family were so aggressive towards conductor Mark Tucker that he had to take refuge in the train's cab, against
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Nabbed by her phone stupidity
MOBILE phone bosses tracked down a would-be insurance cheat in York - when the young woman continued using the handset she claimed to have lost. Justine Fifi Speight, 20, told her insurers that she had lost her £200 Samsung E800 mobile phone in December
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Chance for grants again
IT'S that time of year again - when Evening Press readers have a chance to share in a half-million-dollar bonanza. The cash is available to worthy causes around the UK in areas served by the Evening Press's UK parent company, Newsquest. Twice a year the
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'Forget the car, arrive at Royal Ascot by boat'
PUNTERS could be taking to the River Ouse if a York company's ambitious Ascot transport plans get off the ground. York Incoming think it can ferry up to 3,000 passengers a day to and from York Racecourse by boat when the horseracing festival comes to
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Good Kama dud York
DESPITE a hat-trick of tries from speed machine Rob Kama York Rugby Union Club stumbled to a 20-19 defeat at Durham and Northumberland League one hosts Ponteland. York led 19-7 five minutes into the second half after Kama's second treble in as many weeks
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York City 0, Woking 2
SATURDAY marked the golden anniversary of the day when the cockerels of Tottenham Hotspur had their wings clipped by York City's famous Happy Wanderers team. However, exactly 50 years on from that momentous occasion, another Cockerill - Woking boss Glenn
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True grit needed
HEAVY snow carpeted the region today, lending a picture-book aspect to town and country. Yet snow brings its problems too, especially for motorists. Despite this snowy spell having been accurately forecast, the roads in York were treacherous this morning
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Dringhouses left pig-sick
Malton Bacon Factory inflicted the first Leeper Hare York and District League premier division home defeat of the season on leaders Dringhouses as they won 4-3. The Malton side raced into a three-goal lead in 17 minutes through Simon Collins, Dave Bradshaw
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Snore draw in top spat
HONOURS were ground out to nought in the top division three duel as fourth-placed Tadcaster and second-placed Hemingbrough shared a 0-0 draw. In a contrasting clash, leaders Sheriff Hutton fell behind to an early goal from bottom-placed Wheldrake but
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Boro's age of discontent
SCARBOROUGH'S dismal away form continued with their fifth successive defeat by a single-goal margin and again it was one of their former strikers who did the damage. Stevenage front-man Darryn Stamp produced an exquisite header three minutes into the
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The award for best bloomer...
GOOD grief, Godfrey's up for a gong! More astonishing still, Yorkshire MEP Godfrey Bloom stands to win an award for promoting... women's rights. Not bad for a man who whipped up a media froth last year by saying he represented "Yorkshire women who always
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Mitch Benn, Liam Mullone and Howard Spencer Mosley - Other Side Comedy Club, York City Screen
HOW apt that as the curtain fell on another York Viking Festival, a musical marauder with Scandinavian links sailed into the city with four chords and a barrel of laughs. He may not have been as visually stunning as a dragon boat or a flashing blade,
