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Sully's super show sends him soaring
ADAM Sullivan has seen his lead at the top of the Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire Player of the Year standings soar ahead of the Knights' clash with the Eagles tomorrow. The March Player of the Month put in an awesome performance against Keighley last
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Painting by numbers kit for Crescent
MINSTERMEN fans are being asked to dig out their paint brushes to give KitKat Crescent a close-season makeover. A lack of maintenance at both the home ground and the Wigginton Road training complex has taken its toll, prompting plans for a co-ordinated
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Way we were
Saturday, April 16, 2005 100 years ago: A correspondent signing himself "Scent" wrote, after he had noticed that the Health Committee held a meeting regarding the pollution of the Ouse, that he hoped some immediate steps would be taken to prevent this
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Red hot chillies
Mike Tipping puts some Chilean wines to the test. Errazuriz...sounds like a character from a Dickens novel, or an alien in Dr Who, or even a cult film from David Lynch. It is in fact a Chilean wine producer, with something of a reputation to uphold. I've
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My Highland fling
Sarah Hyde lives like royalty on a luxury weekend break at a Scottish mansion. THE Robinson Valentine dresses and Philip Treacy hats are packed in their boxes and the old faithful wellies and waxed jackets have been shrugged back on. Yes, Charles and
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A.D. 500: A Journey Through The Dark Isles Of Britain, by Simon Young (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.9
STEPHEN LEWIS loves a book about the city's darkest age. York in the year AD 500 wasn't a very nice place. It was a post-apocalyptic nightmare, in fact - the city ruined and abandoned, the land around occupied by encampments of blood-daubed, superstitious
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Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of The Book That Defined The World by Henry Hitchin
HOW words have changed. Back in 1755, when Dr Samuel Johnson wrote the first Dictionary Of The English Language, a fireman wasn't a heroic person in a funny hat, but someone who was prone to sudden passions. A recipe had nothing to do with preparing food
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Fruit to ripen - 16/04/05
Tom Fruit, who opened his account over fences at Sedgefield recently, travels to Cumbria tomorrow in a bid to complete a quick double for his trainer Tim Easterby. The gelding was hardly winning out of turn on his latest start, having run well in defeat
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Madeira
If your idea of a perfect holiday includes good food, lots of walking and beautiful flowers then Madeira is for you. This sub-tropical island, situated in the Atlantic off the west coast of Africa, is just north of the Canaries and temperatures remain
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Family matters
Richard Foster enjoys an historic day out at Ripley Castle. The Ingilby family has owned Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, since 1308 and still lives there. Sir Thomas Ingilby, the current head of the family, admits to being the "slightly shell-shocked custodian
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Zizzi, 2 Lendal, York
Will York's new Italian restaurant Zizzi be top? Maxine Gordon finds out. DR ATKINS promoted the diet revolution of the 21st century, urging us to swap carbs for protein. But it's clear that York isn't listening. The city's newest restaurant, Zizzi, has
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Ace Jaques the bookies favourite
YORKSHIRE Phoenix open their totesport League programme against Surrey Lions at The Oval on Sunday with their Australian left-hander Phil Jaques the bookies' favourite to finish the season top of the Sky Sport Sixes League. The New South Wales left-hander
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Ousing filth
PERHAPS one of the dirtiest places in the whole of York is now the river which runs through the middle of it. The River Ouse is lined with plastic filth to an astonishing degree. Bottles, swollen bin-liners, and used fast-food containers rock gently in
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Emperor's clothes
LORD Best, director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes that the York planning committee voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Derwenthorpe development (April 12). Urging us to admire his new housing scheme, Lord Best reminds me of the emperor who
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Fighting for land
AS with Derwenthorpe itself, Lord Best's letter (April 12) gets almost everything wrong. I mentioned neither crested newts nor water voles among wildlife that Rowntree's bulldozers will kill (Column, March 31), although certainly they too will sustain
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My suspicions are reinforced
I HAVE watched with mild amusement the public bickering in the Evening Press between the factions over the proposed Derwenthorpe development at Osbaldwick. Lib Dem leader Coun Steve Galloway's strong continued public protest at Osbaldwick Parish Council's
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Attacker deserved longer sentence
FROM Judge Paul Hoffman's comments 'Attack shame of campus official', April 14), it would appear he would have preferred not to jail Osvaldo Jose Fuentes-Atton for his attack on a student in a York nightclub. Judge Hoffman's thinking seems to be that,
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Telephone wheeze
I WAS down at the very bottom of my garden snatching some time between the showers to tend my runner beans. The phone rang so I dashed inside. A refined woman told me her firm had just brought a new model out. It was excellent, a leader in its field,
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In the picture
I HAVE been given a pencil sketch by the artist Adrian Clay. It is called Shambles York. I should be very grateful if any of your readers could pass on information about the picture or, more generally, about the artist. My e-mail is spannerwigley@yahoo.co.uk
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Diners served bogus alcohol
THE owner of an Indian restaurant denied trying to con customers after consumer watchdogs discovered he was selling bogus gin disguised as a market leader, York magistrates heard. Tessa Clarke, prosecuting for York trading standards, said City of York
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Move to close York path fails
THE fight to save a well-used York footpath may not be over - even after councillors threw out plans to close it. City of York Council's east area planning and transport sub-committee abandoned a proposed order to close a footpath running through St Peter's
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Champions Holgate finish off in style
HOLGATE WMC 'B' wrapped up the York and District Table Tennis League division two title in style with a 9-1 win over Bootham CC 'B'. Ed Wardman and John Flintoft were unbeaten for Holgate who could push some of the top teams next season. Nestl Rowntree
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Allders staff face fresh fears over their jobs
DISTRAUGHT staff at Allders in York said today they feared for their futures, after hearing their store was to close and reopen as a Topshop. All 27 workers at the Piccadilly store were told that it will shut on June 3 to undergo an extensive refit. They
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Cash loss strikes City
YORK City are on course to record a financial loss after their first season in the Nationwide Conference. Although gates are well above the break-even figure of 2,000, a drop of income in other areas will push the struggling club into the red. Prior to
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Nick's well to the fore
TOP-CLASS tour players could be driving towards Selby Golf Club as professional Nick Ludwell brings a touch of the Continent to the Mill Lane course. Ludwell, himself a former European Tour player, is to launch his first pro-am tournament - the first
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Topping the cash pool
FINES are fine by the members of the ladies' section of York Golf Club. For their 'punishment' imposed whenever winging a ball into the pond at the Strensall club's seventh hole has helped to swell the total cash raised for Macmillan Cancer Relief to
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Short putts: Final tag bagged
Jonathan Baggeley had a nett 62 to win Allerthorpe Park's Lombard Trophy qualifier and the right to play with PGA professional James Calam in the regional final at Dunham Forest on May 25. Qualifiers then go on to the grand final at San Lorenzo, Portugal
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Netball girls deserve cash
I READ the Evening Press TKO column 'British sports facing an identity crisis' a few weeks ago and agree with every word that was written. Joseph Rowntree School have a talented group of netball players and an equally talented and dedicated coach. To
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Cook shuffles half-backs as Knights tackle Sheffield
CAPTAIN Chris Levy returns to duty tomorrow as York City Knights boss Mick Cook again alters his half-back combination. Levy will form a pairing at six and seven alongside Paul Thorman as Cook turns to a mixture of Aussie guile and Geordie skill for the
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Knights launch innovative scheme
ATTENTION all needy clubs, societies and charities - York City Knights are set to launch a new, innovative cashback scheme which could be to your benefit. The novel idea is designed to not only help to boost the Knights' already impressive attendances
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Cash loss strikes City
YORK City are on course to record a financial loss after their first season in the Nationwide Conference. Although gates are well above the break-even figure of 2,000, a drop of income in other areas will push the struggling club into the red. Prior to
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It's business as usual for McEwan
YORK City manager Billy McEwan was hoping to move on from a difficult week with a win over Dagenham and Redbridge at KitKat Crescent this afternoon. Tuesday night's 6-0 hammering at Carlisle United left fans under a cloud of uncertainty with speculation
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York Art Gallery, Exhibition Square, York
I DECIDED to visit the refurbished York Art Gallery but first decided to try its new caf. You cannot miss this new venture - each of the three double doors opens straight on to the caf area. This proved something of an inconvenience and I suspect in the
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Why our roots go deep
THE sensitive and highly emotive issue of immigration has been reignited this week with the conviction of illegal immigrant Kamel Bourgass for his role in an attempted plot to terrorise Britain with ricin and cyanide. The Islamic extremist, originally
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Best of friends
Gina Parkinson does a spot of match making in her spring garden. Among the forget-me-nots and euphorbias and general burgeoning spring growth in the garden grows one of my favourite early plants, Brunnera macrophylla 'Dawson's White'. A herbaceous perennial
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Review: Nanci Griffith And The Blue Moon Orchestra, Grand Opera House, York
LOOKING as fragile as a butterfly, petite singer Nanci Griffith fluttered on to a York stage last night and won the hearts and minds of her audience with her American charm. Acoustic guitar in hand, Griffith enhanced her reputation as "the queen of folkabilly
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Drink to George
IT'S time we drank a toast to England's patron saint, says York landlord Shaun Collinge - and so he's provided 13 beers for us to do just that. Shaun is a patriotic fellow, and he believes the English should celebrate their national day with something
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Chester minute...
HAVING flicked through the record-books again in search of grim statistics, Tuesday night's appalling 6-0 defeat at Carlisle United equalled York City's second-heaviest league defeat in the post-Second World War years. In fact, just one team in the last
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Merris marked for top spot
DAVE Merris seems certain to be crowned the Evening Press Player of the Year after a man-of-the-match performance during Tuesday's dismal drubbing at Carlisle United. Despite an awful own goal, Merris was still our top player with few other candidates
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Dump the humps
PERHAPS Steve Bell (Letters, April 9) would like to come and live on Field Lane, Badger Hill, then he would change his mind about the expansion of the University of York. I agree with Wendy Pycade (Letters, April 4) that if they plan on bringing more
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Joy of Ascot
HOW very sad that there have been so many letters sent to you by York residents bemoaning the fact that Ascot will take place on Knavesmire in June. "We don't want our road closed; traffic problems will be chaotic; cycles will have problems; residents
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Faith restored
I THANK Mrs H Scott who returned a much-loved wallet and its contents to me after it had been stolen from my handbag, and also to Darren Lovelace who found and handed in my passport. I do not have addresses for these people but my faith in human nature
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Shopkeeper's 'life in tatters' after firing cannons
A FORMER North Yorkshire giftshop owner who fired his cannons at a seaside resort to welcome historic ships said that a conviction for breaching his firearms certificate had devastated his life. Peter Budd, admitted three breaches of his certificate at
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Police blitz on drink spikers
"DON'T leave your drink unattended." That was the resounding message from North Yorkshire Police, as "Alcotops" were distributed free to pubs and clubs in York city centre. Alcotops are plastic caps which are designed to cover the open bottle to prevent
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'I was given a few weeks to live. That was ten weeks ago. It's been something of an unbelievable re
A YOUNG musician, whose desperate search for a stem cell donor touched people's hearts throughout York, has made a remarkable recovery from the brink of death. Jamie Glover was told in February that may only have a few weeks to live, and at one stage
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26 miles of pain and glory
RUNNERS can often have odd racing habits. It is well-known that Paula Radcliffe bathes in ice after a gruelling race. So perhaps it should not be a surprise that one Osbaldwick runner prepared for Sunday's London Marathon by training with a dog. Phillip
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Council house repairs shock
COUNCIL workers were so shocked by this photograph that they brought forward vital repair work on the property. Danni and Peter Mason were getting increasingly desperate as their City of York Council-owned house in Tang Hall Lane cracked up around them
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Nick's well to the fore
TOP-CLASS tour players could be driving towards Selby Golf Club as professional Nick Ludwell brings a touch of the Continent to the Mill Lane course. Ludwell, himself a former European Tour player, is to launch his first pro-am tournament - the first
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Takeaway sex attacker jailed
A political refugee has been jailed for sexually attacking an au pair on her way home from a night out. A jury at York Crown Court found Kurdish activist Ali Kiran guilty of sexual assault on a 20-year-old woman to whom he had offered a lift. The court
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Ace Jaques the bookies favourite
YORKSHIRE Phoenix open their totesport League programme against Surrey Lions at The Oval on Sunday with their Australian left-hander Phil Jaques the bookies' favourite to finish the season top of the Sky Sport Sixes League. The New South Wales left-hander
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Cook shuffles half-backs as Knights tackle Sheffield
CAPTAIN Chris Levy returns to duty tomorrow as York City Knights boss Mick Cook again alters his half-back combination. Levy will form a pairing at six and seven alongside Paul Thorman as Cook turns to a mixture of Aussie guile and Geordie skill for the
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Two killed in horror smash
TWO people were killed today in a head-on crash on York's busy outer ring road. The driver and passenger of a red Peugeot 106 died when their vehicle was in collision with a white street cleaning tanker. The front half of the car ended up under the wheels
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City picket lines
WHAT a wonderful warm friendly place Kit Kat Crescent has become now York City is owned by its supporters. For the last home game against Gravesend I was greeted with the club's traditional welcome - the collecting bucket. This time it was to 'Save The
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Midland memories
IT was always a bad decision to axe York City's reserve team, so well done to all who have helped the club save the side. I first visited the Crescent in the mid-1950s to see a Midland League encounter against Frickley Colliery in which Bobby Bainbridge
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Stadium a dream
WHAT a difference a day makes. Twenty-four hours earlier Billy McEwan tells the York City faithful he is going to take City up and put 6,000 bums on seats at KitKat Crescent. I did chuckle to myself when I read the article in the Evening Press. Now it
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Praise for Peter
I AM a big fan of the York City Knights and wish to praise Evening Press York City Knights reporter Peter Martini. What a fantastic report he gives us. He is always spot on in what he writes every time. I can't wait to read the Press on a Monday to find
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Rosedale Abbey
George Wilkinson heads off over the North York Moors, first climbing and then followed by an easy descent. We boarded the Moorsbus at Cropton, leaving the village buzzing with a group of 30 or more ramblers off to do a local circuit. The bus whisked us
