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Wheels of good fortune
YORK beer-lover Jim Thompson is swapping bar stool for bicycle saddle. Jim, chairman of the city branch of CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) is set to cycle from York to Scarborough to raise funds for a cause close to his family's heart. His brother Bob
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Work to bring extra water in for races annoys residents
DIGGING work on York's Knavesmire is making locals fed up of Royal Ascot already - and it's still months away. Douglas Mumford, 75, who lives in The Mount, in south York, said a "terrible mess" was being made of the Knavesmire ground during work to supply
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That's it, I'm off from Ascot city
I THANK the Evening Press for warning us of the norhern invasion for this year's Royal Northern Ascot (March 9). Along with the forecast traffic problems and inconvenience of closed roads, this has finally made me decide I shall definitely be elsewhere
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Sexy discretion
The debate in the letters pages about the expansion to the ground floor of the Private Shop in Bootham has been interesting. When I worked in the city centre I walked past this place every day for eight years. The three sex shops in York operate with
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Help businesses
IN response to the beauracratic parking issue (March 10), how would the City of York Council feel if all their employees were unable to park outside their place of work? And if all the council's customers were made to pay every time they stopped outside
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Shambolic Bank
HAVING lived in South Bank for more than 50 years, I always believed the Shambles were in the city centre. However, for three days last August they were transported to the South Bank area. I attended the Micklegate Ward committee meeting on February 28
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Way we were
Saturday, March 12, 2005 100 years ago: A 17-year-old labourer pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a girl at Newport, Howden, but admitted a common assault. The solicitor defending him said the prisoner had received a punishment already in that
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Midfielder Pearson set to leave City
YORK City will release Gary Pearson if the midfielder accepts a financial settlement over the remainder of his Minstermen contract. Pearson's current deal expires this summer but manager Billy McEwan believes it will be in the best interests of both the
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Red for under a fiver
In Tipping's Tipples, Mike Tipping finds a fine family of reds all for under a fiver. I can never resist dipping into the ramblings of other wine writers. Some I enjoy, others not so much. The writer in the magazine of the Sunday paper I buy is interesting
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Yorkshire's Great Houses, Behind The Scenes by Sir Thomas Ingilby (Dalesman Publishing, £19.99)
Sir Thomas Ingilby has written a book about Yorkshire's great houses. He knows the subject inside out. After all, he lives in one, reports CHARLES HUTCHINSON. TURN to Page 86 of Yorkshire's Great Houses, and Dr Gerald Rolph is pictured in the great hall
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College strike off
A STRIKE by York College lecturers has been called off after staff agreed to return to pay talks. Members of the university and college lecturers' union, NATFHE, had been due to hold industrial action on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of an ongoing dispute
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Go with gossip - 12/03/05
General Gossip can let his galloping prowess do the talking at Warwick tomorrow as he bids to defy top-weight in the Crudwell Cup Handicap Chase. The nine-year-old, trained by Richard Phillips, runs in this three miles and five furlongs event instead
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Knights boss backs more drugs tests
YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook has welcomed the increase in the number of drugs tests conducted by Rugby Football League bosses. The RFL, which already has one of the most rigorous doping control regimes in British sport, is to up the number of tests
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Heroic Jacko breaks a fall
IT was a good job Lee Jackson wasn't playing last week - at least it was for one aged supporter. Apparently, so an eye-witness says, an elderly fan was descending the Main Stand steps at the end of the game when she tripped. But before she hit the ground
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Scott back on Rhodes to success
LAST year's Collier Plant Hire/Evening Press Player of the Year runner-up, Scott Rhodes, made an immediate impact on this year's standings in his first game of the season. The fit-again stand-off was named the Knights' man of the match after coming off
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Back to front
LAST Saturday's 2-1 home defeat against Exeter bucked a trend in York City's matches this season as the team that scored the first goal went on to lose the game. Now, the Minstermen will be hoping to win a match in which they concede the first goal, which
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5 years jail for heroin dealer
THE mastermind of a drugs gang which tried to put heroin worth £11,500 on the streets has been jailed for more than five years. The plans of Wayne Anthony Oldfield and his accomplices were foiled when police raided a heroin-processing factory in Tadcaster
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D-Day for RAF
CRUNCH decisions are about to be made on the future of flight paths for trainee RAF pilots learning their craft in the skies above the Vale of York. Members of the ruling cabinet at Hambleton District Council Cabinet will meet on Tuesday to make a key
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Wilcockson ends Lowe's unbeaten run
SESSIONS star Mick Wilcockson has become the first player to beat Martin Lowe of Coneysthorpe in the York and District Table Tennis League first division this season. A tense first division battle was edged by Sessions 7-3 with the Wilcockson v Lowe clash
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Bottom sets record straight
York City reporter Dave Flett resumes our series on York City's famous 1954-55 FA Cup run with a rare interview with sixth round goal-scoring hero Arthur Bottom. ARTHUR Bottom has dispelled the popular myth that York City were robbed of a place in the
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Hooded thugs' hate campaign
HOODED youths casually stroll up to the car and hurl rocks through its window. The shocking images above were captured on video camera by Roger Hall, the local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator and Parkinson's disease sufferer, outside his home in Green
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Artist is let down
ON Monday I visited an exhibition of magnificent Romanian icons at York Minster, displayed for sale by the artist who painted them and the Romanian Orthodox priest who has accompanied him. I found these two gentlemen with their icons in semi-darkness
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Bar walls daffodils a blooming pleasure to see
KEITH Chapman reminded us not to damage York's magnificent annual daffodil display on the city wall embankments (Letters, March 8). I read in a local history book that the daffodil-planting tradition was begun by Backhouse nurseries. This early Victorian
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No ifs, and no butts... stop it!
Congratulations to Whitby and Ryedale NHS Trust for its introduction of a complete and total ban on smoking on No Smoking Day (March 9). The trust knows, as we all do, that smoking is a weapon of mass destruction. Cigarettes kill people and it's not just
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Yorkshire majority
PETER Gray accuses me of giving misleading information about the percentage of residents in Connaught Court, York, who come from the Yorkshire area (Letters, March 9). The planning support statement which accompanies the revised planning application for
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Bottom sets record straight
York City reporter Dave Flett resumes our series on York City's famous 1954-55 FA Cup run with a rare interview with sixth round goal-scoring hero Arthur Bottom. ARTHUR Bottom has dispelled the popular myth that York City were robbed of a place in the
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The Coffee Shop, York Hospital, Wigginton Road, York
FOR some time I have been meaning to visit this refurbished venue. Thankfully there has been no medical need to visit the hospital so completing a shift there for a local charity presented just the opportunity I was seeking. The coffee shop is located
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Oh go on, let's be polite
MEN always say if you want to know what a girl is going to be like in years to come, look at her mother. As I head closer to my thirties, I am becoming aware that, bit by bit, I am in fact turning into my mum. All those things she would say and do, which
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Time to cut back
GINA PARKINSON says it's time to get outside and start pruning those shrubs. IT IS time to get out and start pruning. Dogwoods grown for their coloured stems can be cut hard back to an outward facing bud around 5cm above old wood. Don't worry that this
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The Field Marshal's Revenge: The Breakdown Of A Special Relationship by Charles Whiting (Spellmount,
Stephen Lewis talks to Charles Whiting about our 'special relationship' with the USA. THE 'special relationship' which saw Britain dragged kicking and screaming into an American war against Iraq had its origins in a much bigger conflict. It was forged
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Once A Warrior King, Memories Of An Officer In Vietnam by David Donovan (Cassell, £8.99)
David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta in April 1969, raw, idealistic and fresh from Special Warfare School. He was in charge of an isolated four-man team sent to a remote rural area to co-operate with village chiefs and local Vietnamese militia against
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War books
Andrew Hitchon reviews four new books about war. Armageddon: The Battle For Germany 1944-45 by Max Hastings (MacMillan, £25) THE grim journey towards the end of the Second World War in Europe, whose 60th anniversary will be celebrated this year, takes
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Review: University Chamber Choir & Baroque Ensemble; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
TWO or three Bach settings of the Passion used to be standard Lenten fare around York not so long ago. This year there is only one. So for that alone the university, and its music department in particular, deserves three cheers. The St Matthew Passion
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Dunning returns to old school thinking
YORK City midfielder Darren Dunning went back to school this week to hold a training session with Minstermen team-mate Lee Grant at Malton Comprehensive. The two players visited Dunning's former school after City supporter James Staff approached communications
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Loanee tops player poll
ON-LOAN Doncaster defender Jon Maloney has moved up to joint third in the Evening Press Player of the Year standings. Maloney, who has only been at KitKat Crescent nine weeks, is also the current leader of the Preston and Duckworth Jewellers and Evening
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Tui's, Yorkersgate, Malton
The bustling market town of Malton has a new restaurant. Victoria Young checks it out. Malton has always been a good place for a bite to eat. There are numerous cafs, pubs, Italian and Mexican restaurants, a trendy bistro and numerous take-aways. But
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Dancing the lights fantastic
THE streets of York came alive when celebrity scientist Adam Hart-Davis launched a light-hearted temporary artwork. Dancing In The Streets is an interactive light display controlled by the movements of passers-by and is the third creative installation
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Stylist's love rival revenge
A HAIRDRESSER who kicked a woman in the head as she lay on the ground in York has narrowly escaped jail for her drink-fuelled violence. Carly Jane Holland wanted Natasha McWilliams to " hurt as much as she did" when she saw her partner kissing the victim
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Petts powers to four more county titles
YORK'S Hannah Petts continued to dominate her age group as she collected four more golds in the second gala in the Yorkshire Age Group Championships at Leeds. The 13-year-old York City Baths Club talent stormed to gold in the the 200m and 400m Individual
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Like mother... like daughter
HUGE hair, heaps of make-up and spotty dresses were all the rage when 17-year-old Lorna Wilson became a runner-up in the Miss York competition. Now, 21 years on, the mother-of-three is reluctant to even let people see pictures of the "fashion calamity
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Yellow lines appear on village street... then disappear less than 48 hours later
NOW you see 'em, now you don't! Residents were staggered when yellow lines were painted in a village near York - and then removed less than 48 hours later. The 100 yards of lines were painted last Sunday on both sides of the main street near the primary
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Midfielder Pearson set to leave City
YORK City will release Gary Pearson if the midfielder accepts a financial settlement over the remainder of his Minstermen contract. Pearson's current deal expires this summer but manager Billy McEwan believes it will be in the best interests of both the
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Work to bring extra water in for races annoys residents
DIGGING work on York's Knavesmire is making locals fed up of Royal Ascot already - and it's still months away. Douglas Mumford, 75, who lives in The Mount, in south York, said a "terrible mess" was being made of the Knavesmire ground during work to supply
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Welcome to 'Ell
YOU never know what will happen. That was the message from Elland coach Junaid Malik ahead of his side's visit to Huntington Stadium for Sunday's Powergen Challenge Cup tie against York City Knights. The Halifax amateurs, who gave up home advantage after
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Bonus shock for Nestl workers
WORKERS at York's Nestl Rowntree factory expressed shock today after discovering they would not receive a cash bonus. Staff at the Wigginton Road plant - who have previously received up to £600 through the factory's performance-related scheme - claimed
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Digger driver's miracle escape
A DIGGER driver working at the bottom of a 35ft deep hole had a miracle escape when a 20-tonne excavator came crashing down towards him. He watched in horror as the giant machine hurtled downwards, turned upside down - and then stopped in its tracks just
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Preview: An Audience With John Sergeant, Grand Opera House, York, March 17
Former political broadcaster John Sergeant tells Charles Hutchinson about his dreams of being a comic. THIS is John Sergeant, former BBC correspondent and ITN political editor, on a theatre stage, on tour in Great Britain. "I was asked if I would do it
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Junior captain Eastoe steps up
KILNWICK Percy Golf Club's junior captain Lee Eastoe has become the Pocklington-based club's tenth junior member to pursue a career in golf over the last decade. Eastoe is to take up assistant professional status having realised his flair for teaching
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Flying from Leeds-Bradford
FLIGHTS from Leeds-Bradford Airport are so convenient and Reader Travel has some terrific deals for later in the year. We have trips to Venice, Lake Garda, or Venice, Verona and Lake Garda. Such has been the demand for these holidays with Newmarket Promotions
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Rhodes a sub as Lee returns
COACH Mick Cook has stressed his Knights side cannot take Elland lightly on Sunday. The amateurs visit Huntington Stadium for a Powergen Challenge Cup tie and Cook said: "There are too many scalps taken every year to take these games lightly. We'll be
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Welcome to 'Ell
YOU never know what will happen. That was the message from Elland coach Junaid Malik ahead of his side's visit to Huntington Stadium for Sunday's Powergen Challenge Cup tie against York City Knights. The Halifax amateurs, who gave up home advantage after
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Sutton Bank walk
George Wilkinson sets out from Sutton Bank for a simple snow walk. SUTTON Bank was the start for a simple snow walk that begins high and stays high. The National Park's centre was slumbering. There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas
