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Team mates
THE new kid on the block is run by two familiar faces from York's cosmopolitan licensed trade. Willy Leech, silent partner in Kennedy's Bar, and Liam Fagan, owner of the Roman Bath, have joined together to create... Wil_Liam's. This utterly uncontrived
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Club right to switch Saints match
THERE has been a bit of hoo-hah from some fans this week on whether York City Knights were correct to agree to play the forthcoming Challenge Cup tie at St Helens on a Friday night. Some supporters have condemned the decision, saying it would make it
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Way we were
Saturday, April 9, 2005 100 years ago: A correspondent signing himself "A Professional Man" asked: "Can you tell me how it is that there does not appear to exist in York a place where a businessman can get a grilled chop or steak in the middle of the
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Mike recommends a red, white and ros
Whenever I'm introduced to someone as a wine writer there are two frequent reactions. Most commonly people say: "I don't know much about wine but I know what I like." That's fair enough but in this country we have such a huge range of wines to chose from
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Colour shock for Mary Mottram
Pulmonarias are great spring plants that offer value all summer, writes Gina Parkinson. MY pulmonarias have been lovely this year, clumps of frosted leaves and pink and lilac flowers throughout the garden hiding the dying foliage of snowdrops and mingling
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The Firm by Penny Junor (HarperCollins, £18.99)
What immaculate timing. With Prince Charles today finally getting to marry the woman he has loved for more than 30 years, HarperCollins chose this week to bring out Penny Junor's latest Royal biography. This time, however, it is the House of Windsor itself
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Be on Polyphon - 09/04/05
Graham Lee, who, this afternoon was aboard Amberleigh House in a bid to win the Grand National for a second straight year, returns to bread-and-butter fare tomorrow at Hexham's run-of-the-mill Sunday meeting. Lee, who enjoyed a ride to savour when winning
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Paris
I love Paris in the springtime... I love Paris in the fall, I love Paris in the winter, when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles, I love Paris ev'ry moment, Ev'ry moment of the year WHAT else can I say but echo the words of this song
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Tykes facing a test of strength
EVENING Press Yorkshire cricket writer DAVID WARNER surveys the summer ahead for the White Rose county... Yorkshire are as well prepared physically and mentally as they have ever been for the challenges which lie ahead but whether they have the all-round
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City sec shares his experience
FINDING rented accommodation for Eric Cantona, attempting to lure "nightmare" Leeds United signing Tomas Brolin back from Sweden and staging a Norwich City match two days after the Main Stand had burned down are just three problems new York City club
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Conflict over safety plans
A NEW crime-busting strategy to make York's streets safer was today criticised by senior councillors for lacking detail. Both the Liberal Democrat and Labour leaders questioned the draft Community Safety Plan, drawn up by Safer York Partnership. The eighth
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Sign up to give the gift of life
THE survival of many transplant patients often depends on heartbroken families making a difficult decision about organ donations during their hours of grief. The Evening Press yesterday highlighted the moving story of how one York organ donor, 38-year-old
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Mr & Mrs Mop
NEWLYWEDS Sharon and Alistair Wilk were swept away when they were given this unusual guard of honour. Colleagues of cleaning company area manager Sharon, 39, held their mops aloft to greet the pair as they emerged from their ceremony at York Register
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Police fears of more violence
A NEW multi-million pound nightclub in York will trigger a "massive" increase in drunken city centre violence, police warned today. The stark comments from York's licensing officer cast further doubt on the prospect of the Nexus bar getting the green
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Drunk teenager made sex jibes to York lesbian couple
Sexual insults to a gay couple proved costly for a teenager at York Magistrates Court when he was fined £100, with £50 costs. Steven Ovenden, prosecuting, said the two women had already had to put up with taunts about their sexual orientation before Richard
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World mission
SPEEDSTER James Thompson begins his quest for new glory tomorrow in the opening race of the World Touring Car Championship. York's British Touring Car champion has defected to the new World version, effectively an extension of the European series, which
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Cueing up for double
HEWORTH 'A', who had already won the York Conservative clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League, finished the season on a high as they whitewashed Bootham 'B' 7-0. The winning team was Kevin Gall, Jason Milner, Richie Burdett, Dave Taylor, Clive Whyte, Steve
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Acorn 'n' seek
YORK Acorn women's rugby league team have been pipped in their first trophy tilt -- but hope to make amends in the league. Acorn met Ince Rosebridge in the Women's Challenge Cup Plate Final hoping to regain a trophy they won 13 years ago. However, they
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England duo revel in Tykes' prospects
Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard were back among their Yorkshire county colleagues at Headingley yesterday, both of them re-invigorated after their winter Test triumphs in South Africa. England captain Vaughan has just enjoyed his longest break from
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Identity crisis
AN "identity thief" embarked on a luxury lifestyle of drinking and gambling in York bars and hotels after swindling more than £40,000 using other people's financial details. While Joseph Constantine Ashby was living it up and amassing two Aladdin's caves
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Bigger campus boosts the city
I FEEL I should reply to Mrs G Evans's silly, and ill-informed, letter regarding the proposed university expansion (April 5). I have good reason to be thankful for the university for employment, after being made redundant twice elsewhere. To maintain
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Too much traffic
BECAUSE the university development is so extensive, its real impact on the east side of the city cannot be properly envisaged. Any thoughts on the traffic build up cannot have been considered at all seriously. Nearby roads are already working at full
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You got it wrong
IN response Mr Peter Pink's letter "Dress Code" (April 7), actor Tom Wisdom is, in fact, wearing his Sam Browne equipment properly in the Grand Opera House production of Journey's End, although badly adjusted. I refer Mr Pink to the List Of Changes Volume
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At least humps curb speedsters
WHEN speed hump legislation was enacted the Department of Transport issued some very loose design criteria to local authorities. These allowed considerable variation in the height and profile of the humps. I recall that after initial experience in York
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L'antica Locanda, Shambles, York
LET'S be honest. How many readers have taken the time to walk down Shambles in the past six months? Thought so, not many. Well here's your chance to spend a few pleasant hours there. The street best known for its bargain knitwear, personalised key fobs
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Knight joins the pace race
COACH Mick Cook will instil new pace into his York City Knights side in a bid to help kick-start their LHF National League Two campaign. Trialist Lee Lingard, the Sharlston amateur, will come onto the wing away to Keighley tomorrow as the Knights look
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Rosedale
IT was a bird day right from the start. We'd pulled the car up on the hills east of Rosedale and three yards the other side of the glass a cold wind quivered a lapwing's crest. We thought the verges here weren't as auto friendly as before - don't bring
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Acorn 'n' seek
YORK Acorn women's rugby league team have been pipped in their first trophy tilt -- but hope to make amends in the league. Acorn met Ince Rosebridge in the Women's Challenge Cup Plate Final hoping to regain a trophy they won 13 years ago. However, they
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The Sidings, Shipton by Beningbrough
THE advert said a three-course lunch for £6.50 was available from noon to 2.30pm on Tuesdays to Fridays. It was just midday when we arrived. The Sidings is in a former train carriage off the A19 and features a range of railway memorabilia. It used to
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Let's talk about it...
IS there anything we can't talk about any more? Any great last taboo? The big, definitive no-no? We live in a confessional age, bombarded by people's deepest secrets and darkest deeds. Adultery, bulimia, child-abuse, divorce... there's an entire alphabet
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What's the plot?
Taking on an allotment is not for the faint of heart - or those who fret about their nails. First-time plotters Charlotte Percival and Haydn Lewis chart their stumbling progress. Charlotte UNTIL now, the only thing I've ever grown successfully is my nails
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Comic timing
Stephen Lewis introduces our newest reviewer - teenage comic fan Ollie Holliday. MEET Ollie Holliday, the Evening Press's latest book reviewer. Or should that be comic reviewer. The 15-year-old Oaklands School pupil took us to task for never featuring
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A North Yorkshire author is the model for a new manga comic
EVIL is about to take on a new look. Retired North Yorkshire vicar Graham Taylor's bestseller Shadowmancer is to be turned into a series of 'manga' comic books. And Graham himself is to be the model for 'supervillain' Obadiah Demurral - the book's evil
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The Ultras, Eoin McNamee (Faber and Faber, £7.99)
Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. And lives don't come much stranger than that of Special Forces operative Captain Robert Nairac. Novelist Eoin McNamee has taken the real-life story of this English soldier, who immersed himself in the shadowy margins
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Deeply ugly
CHRIS TITLEY and family make for Hull to laugh at some deeply unattractive residents. "STARS!" said two-year-old Mia, pointing to the twinkly ceiling lights. She had a point. Entering The Deep is a little like venturing into outer space. It's dark (many
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England duo revel in Tykes' prospects
Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard were back among their Yorkshire county colleagues at Headingley yesterday, both of them re-invigorated after their winter Test triumphs in South Africa. England captain Vaughan has just enjoyed his longest break from
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Marathon effort boosts medical research
A GROUP of York long distance runners provided a £40,000 cash injection for a medical charity. The money was raised through sponsorship for covering the half marathon Great North Run course last year. The Paddington and Great North Runners, who have raised
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Odeon set for £1m overhaul
ODEON chiefs are considering a major revamp of the York cinema, the Evening Press can reveal today. York MP Hugh Bayley said regional managers had told him they intended presenting proposals to modernise the Blossom Street picture house to company bosses
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Misery when thieves get personal
IT'S one of the fastest growing crimes in the country. Hundreds of thousands has been spent on TV adverts in a bid to alert people to its seriousness - because you can become a victim without evening knowing it. Government agencies say identity theft
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Knight joins the pace race
COACH Mick Cook will instil new pace into his York City Knights side in a bid to help kick-start their LHF National League Two campaign. Trialist Lee Lingard, the Sharlston amateur, will come onto the wing away to Keighley tomorrow as the Knights look
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Michelle on mend after crash
THE parents of the teenage girl caught up in this horrific crash said today it was a miracle she was still alive. Michelle Wheatley, 18, was put on a life-support machine in intensive care after the accident last week. She suffered a fractured skull,
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Parking tips
I AM sorry Mr Butterwick (Letters, April 6) chose to park in one of only three car parks where charges have increased. Had he gone a short way down Piccadilly to Castle Mills, for example, he would only pay £3.90 for three hours, a decrease of 13 per
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We want Justice
THE Trade Justice coalition is calling on the British Government to work for policy changes on trade in the European Union. The present "free trade" system is being managed in the interest of the rich. Poor countries need cash, so they borrow from the
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Too much bias
MAXINE Gordon's article on the Royal wedding ('Should Charles and Camilla get our blesssing?' April 7 is very biased as it states nothing about Princess Diana's conduct. She had several lovers and was killed in the company of one. Nothing was said about
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Bus token woe
ISSUING bus passes in lieu of the normal travel tokens is going to affect many senior citizens and will, no doubt, cause some difficulties to those citizens who find it extremely difficult to walk to the nearest bus stop. No consideration appears to have
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Who to believe?
I read with interest the continuing debate about hairdresser cum-charity fundraiser Terry Smith's motives for courting publicity. On the one hand, Bob Ward (Letters, April 4) alleges Terry's aim was free publicity at the expense of his customers' generosity
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You could help
WHILE I appreciate Mr B Ward is entitled to his opinion (Letters, April 4), I respectfully point out that since my initial picture and report in the Evening Press, donations for children's toys have increased. Perhaps, rather than criticising me, Mr Ward
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Hew and spry defence
HEWORTH Golf Club duo Chris Ledger and Paul Kelly resisted a home guard battering ram to retain the York Union of Golf Clubs' Sharpe Trophy. The venue for the first Union event to move to a full-length circuit from the shorter winter courses was staged
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Odeon set for £1m overhaul
ODEON chiefs are considering a major revamp of the York cinema, the Evening Press can reveal today. York MP Hugh Bayley said regional managers had told him they intended presenting proposals to modernise the Blossom Street picture house to company bosses
