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Greenway on the campaign trail
TORY Parliamentary candidate John Greenway took to the campaign trail in Ryedale, talking to farmers at Malton's cattle market, chatting with shop owners, and even kissing a baby. He said it was good to see the market thriving and so many local farmers
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Hague puts the tea in Tadcaster
FORMER Conservative leader William Hague visited Tadcaster to throw his weight behind the local Tory challenger. The one-time party leader made the 50-mile journey from his Richmond constituency to meet election hopeful Mark Menzies. Mr Hague said Mr
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York school to get facelift
THE 30-year-old rotting mobile classrooms which were branded "shocking and scandalous" by the head teacher at a York secondary school will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a massive £4.9 million new building project. We spoke to Chris Bridge, head
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Last-gasp Fulford anguish
Fulford School under-16s basketball team lost their 100 per cent win record at the last hurdle in the English Schools' Basketball Association national 'B' final at Nottingham. The team had played and won every single one of their 17 games away from home
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Mini-wizards of Oz prove six-shooters
FOOTBALLERS from St Oswald's Primary School, Fulford, were as solid as a rock as they won the Derwent Sports Association Six-a-Side competition. The youngsters don't have a pitch at the moment as the school is undergoing a move to new facilities and so
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Double identity
Stakes will be high for York under-11 Schoolboys when they face Sheffield next Tuesday in a double-header that will decide the league championship and one of the two Yorkshire Cup final places. The game will be one of the biggest tests of the high-flying
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Princess poised - 20/04/05
Malton trainer Richard Fahey, who had two winners at Beverley last week, returns to the Westwood course tomorrow with excellent prospects of adding to his scoresheet. Fahey saddles Boppys Princess in the Len Cowburn GRIY Retiremement Fillies' Handicap
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Chinese business delegation visit York
A TOP-FLIGHT Chinese delegation interested in North Yorkshire's modern rural businesses was being entertained in York today. The visit confirms the growing ties between the city and China and comes as a new report shows that Yorkshire businesses are more
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Lok-ing in to a great potential
AN entrepreneur with a licence to manufacture a revolutionary gadget designed to save industry billions of pounds is looking to set up business in York within the next two months. York-england.com, the inward investment organisation, is helping Ray Jinks
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Nigel's still making plans
Nigel Taylor, a chartered surveyor who has spent his entire working life in York, has expanded Taylor York Commercial, his long-established commercial property consultancy and agency. He has moved out of his small office at home in Bishopthorpe into city
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Jaya test for Tykes
Yorkshire found themselves up against a Somerset side strengthened by the late inclusion of Sri Lanka Test star Sanath Jayasuriya in their first home Championship match of the season at Headingley today. Jayasuriya only flew in from Sri Lanka yesterday
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Learn the lesson
I SUPPOSE I could say I owe my current job to the University of York. I worked there for seven years before having to move on to the University of Manchester due to lack of research funding. In light of the debate about York University's expansion plans
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The price is right
WE were very pleased that Graeme Robertson visited the new Hartleys cafe in York Art Gallery and enjoyed it (Quick Eats, April 16). But we wish to point out a price error. Perhaps Mr Robertson misread the board, but the most expensive drink is £1.75 rather
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Police frogmen axed 'to get more bobbies on beat'
NORTH Yorkshire Police's underwater search unit has been axed. Senior officers defended the decision to use frogmen from Northumbria Police, saying the switch would save tens of thousands of pounds. But former members of the county's Underwater Search
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'Wise' Pope lifts world
POPE Benedict XVI celebrated his first public Mass as the 265th leader of the Roman Catholic Church today, after one of the shortest conclaves in a century sent an unmistakable signal that the church - buffeted by 21st-century problems - is intent on
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Tykes' bid to buy own ground fails
YORKSHIRE CCC'S talks with their Headingley landlords over the purchase of the Test match ground have collapsed and the club will continue as tenants at their headquarters. Although no precise details about the breakdown have been given, I understand
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Farmer found blade two months later
A FARMER told today how he accidentally found Mark Hobson's knife while walking through his field - two months after the killer's dramatic arrest. In an amazing turn of events, father-of-two David Shedden discovered the weapon which Hobson took from the
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View from the air shows the new curvy track at York racecourse
THIS spectacular aerial view shows the result of a year of hard work - the new racing track at York Racecourse. The two-mile circuit will get its first test in a few weeks' time when racing resumes on Knavesmire. An extra three furlongs were grafted to
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Killer's teenage stab threat rage
MARK Hobson was sacked from his first job when he was just 16 after threatening to stab a workmate, the Evening Press can reveal today. Vince and Jean Flavell gave the multiple murderer a job at their former butcher's shop in Gowthorpe, Selby, when he
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Bush is such an insect
THERE are many things for which history might remember George W Bush, but a towering intellect is not likely to be among them. So it is perhaps fitting that the leader of the free world has been immortalised as a species of beetle. Reports from America
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Police lose frogmmen
THE dissolving of North Yorkshire Police's underwater search unit inevitably diminishes the force's expertise. These are highly-trained professionals who have played a key role in many investigations. They can find evidence in zero visibility, from stolen
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Promises galore
THEY have done the easy bit, by getting their papers in on time and paying the £500 deposit. Now the General Election candidates face the little matter of persuading us to part with our vote on their behalf. In York at least, there is more than the usual
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Happy Lee for Pikes
Pickering Town consolidated their Northern Counties East League premier division fifth place with a 1-0 win over Armthorpe Welfare. Lee Pallender got the decisive goal for the Pikes to leave them five points clear of sixth-placed Liversedge with three
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Here is something deadly dull
WHILE yearning to believe them, the Diary has always had one problem with ghost stories. The spooks are monotonously interesting. They are supposed to be the souls of ordinary mortals, yet every sighting is of a beheaded highwayman, or a parlour maid
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City players facing mass clear-out
YORK City players contracted beyond the end of this season could still be dumped on the transfer list this summer. Minstermen boss Billy McEwan will make decisions on the KitKat Crescent futures of City's out-of-contract players after Saturday's final
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Storey time
HAPPY Wanderers legend Sid Storey will be addressing York City fans half an hour later than originally planned at York City Social Club on Thursday. York Minstermen's An Evening with Sid Storey will now kick off at 8pm after the York City v Halifax reserve
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Way we were
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 100 years ago Should the weather prove fine on Good Friday afternoon the citizens of York would have the opportunity of enjoying a musical treat in the St George's Fields, where the City Prize Band would render a programme of
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Rail protest in York
A NATIONAL march against rail privatisation came to York today. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union's protest reached the city on the fifth leg of a two-week, 14 city demonstration from Glasgow- to-London to put the case for rail re-nationalisation
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Battle over Iraq
WAR will take centre stage in the General Election campaign when candidates battling it out for the York seat have their say on Iraq. The lobby group York Against the War has invited Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Green politicians to outline
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Council tax vow
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy spelled out his party's plans to scrap the Council Tax today, claiming the move would save a typical family £450 a year. Mr Kennedy said the Lib Dems would introduce a local income tax instead, administered by the
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A touch of class at Badger Hill
STAFF and pupils at a York primary school are celebrating after getting two new classrooms. The new rooms at Badger Hill Primary are both equipped with whiteboards, and will be used to teach Years Five and Six, and replace a temporary block. Acting head
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Heworth Primary School gets a new head teacher
YOUNGSTERS at Heworth Primary School started back after Easter with a new head teacher. David Brown has spent 12 years in teaching at primary schools in York, and said he relished the new challenge. He qualified as a teacher in 1993 and had his first
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Bray guns stun rivals
BRAYTON Junior School have won the right to represent Selby at the North Yorkshire Youth Games after winning the 2005 NViT Selby Tag Rugby League festival. The York City Knights-organised event saw 21 schools battle it out at Selby Rugby Union Club in
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Preview: No Yard feelings
After a long saga, The Yards have finally released their new album, writes CHARLES HUTCHINSON. ALL the hard yards in training should reap benefit in performance, or so the principle goes. Hopefully it will apply to York's highest profile band since the
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Tykes' bid to buy own ground fails
YORKSHIRE CCC'S talks with their Headingley landlords over the purchase of the Test match ground have collapsed and the club will continue as tenants at their headquarters. Although no precise details about the breakdown have been given, I understand
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Index staff jobs rescue
WORKERS at Index stores in York and Scarborough were today celebrating the news that their jobs are safe. About 40 employees have been told that their branches of the stricken catalogue business, at Piccadilly in York, and at Brunswick Pavilion in Scarborough
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Lighten up and don't stifle York
I WISH Gillian Cruddas, along with the rest of York's bureaucrats, would liven up a bit. Her comments in the press concerning the proposed "sexy dancing clubs" in York left me spitting (April 14). Far from objecting to the sexist exploitation of these
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Wheels of steel
AS a user of Dial and Ride for many years I am now having to travel on only two days each week instead of three. Some of the passengers won't be travelling at all because they have changed supermarket trips to mornings instead of afternoons. I know there
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Back to basics
REGARDING the revamp of police cells costing £400,000 under codes of practice, one can't help thinking of political correctness (April 15). What about codes of practice for the victims; the aged and infirmed, what about their rights and support needs?
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Soapbox...
MIKE Bentley's Saturday Soundoff said: "No Hawkers, No Salesmen, No Gipsies, No Welsh" (April 16). Why Welsh? Why not Irish, Asians, Scots? I am Welsh, what is wrong with being Welsh, do you know any Welsh people? It happens all the time, Welsh people
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Murky debate
ONCE again the cannabis debate rears its head, and once again the same old rhetoric is trotted out in defence of prohibition and the fear culture (Letters, April 14). I would urge correspondents to do a little research before wading in with what amounts
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Miracle medicine
I AM a medicinal cannabis user. I suffer from multiple sclerosis. The recent reports in the media are very one sided, as usual. People with a pre-disposition to mental illness will not be helped by the use of caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and/or any other
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Watch out
ON Saturday, April 2, I parked my car in the Bootham Row car park. I obtained a ticket timed at 7.22pm, put it in the car at 7.24pm and did not return until approximately 10.30pm to find a penalty notice had been issued at 7.26pm, two minutes later. Are
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Plenty of options
YOUR news story 'Resident Baffled By Parking Policy' (April 14) states that the unfortunate citizen "has to flag down a taxi and cough up £5.50 even before he can use his vehicle. After that he still has to work out a way of getting home from Acomb after
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Still against
BILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent on an illegal war and occupation in Iraq. It is estimated that over 100,000 Iraqi lives have been lost as a result. British lives are lost. Millions have protested both here and worldwide. Protest
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Index staff jobs rescue
WORKERS at Index stores in York and Scarborough were today celebrating the news that their jobs are safe. About 40 employees have been told that their branches of the stricken catalogue business, at Piccadilly in York, and at Brunswick Pavilion in Scarborough
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City chief champions memorial
CALLS for a memorial to victims of York's asbestos timebomb have won crucial backing from council leader Steve Galloway. He said he would "provide whatever support is necessary" to create a monument to the scores of former York Carriageworks employees
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York Bavarian rubbish anger
Organisers of York's first Bavarian Festival were today told to clean up their act after they left the city centre littered with rubbish when the event closed. The warning came on the same day as the City of York Council launched its "spring clean" to
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Could this be the most confusing address in York?
Some residents certainly think that 15 Main Street, Fulford, is a main contender for this dubious accolade - because its front door opens on to Heslington Lane. It is causing a headache for Harry and Elsie Wilson who live at 15 Heslington Lane - the real
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Clothes clue in raider search
DETECTIVES said today a masked man who raided a York off-licence with a meat cleaver could work as a domestic repair man or in a similar occupation. A shocked staff member at Wine Cellar, in Hull Road, was confronted by a man wearing a blue boiler suit
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Spring is in the flair for Souter
The 44-field in the latest York Tackle-sponsored Spring League saw Jason Souter shoot to the top of the league with another brilliant display of silver fish angling. Carp are limited to a nominal 2lb score in the series which refreshingly sees the focus
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Carer jailed for indecent assault
THE former head of a county youth offending team has been jailed for eight months after pleading guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl. Peter Foulsham, 48, assaulted the teenager, who was fostered with him, in Edinburgh. Foulsham, formerly of
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'House party all teed up
TWO emphatic victories have put Dringhouses within 90 minutes of capturing the Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve 'A' crown. If Dringhouses despatch visiting Huntington Rovers tonight then they will have won the 'A'-title for the sixth successive
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Jaya test for Tykes
Yorkshire found themselves up against a Somerset side strengthened by the late inclusion of Sri Lanka Test star Sanath Jayasuriya in their first home Championship match of the season at Headingley today. Jayasuriya only flew in from Sri Lanka yesterday
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Canvey Island 4, York City 0
OUT-OF-FAVOUR forward Paul Robinson may as well pack his KitKat Crescent bags now because any striker who cannot get in the current misfiring York City team clearly has a bleak future at the club. His namesake Paul D Robinson also appears to be on borrowed
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City players facing mass clear-out
YORK City players contracted beyond the end of this season could still be dumped on the transfer list this summer. Minstermen boss Billy McEwan will make decisions on the KitKat Crescent futures of City's out-of-contract players after Saturday's final
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'House party all teed up
TWO emphatic victories have put Dringhouses within 90 minutes of capturing the Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve 'A' crown. If Dringhouses despatch visiting Huntington Rovers tonight then they will have won the 'A'-title for the sixth successive
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Pride and joy
BRAVE youngster Louis Connell has been named as the first contender in our Community Pride awards - for his battle against cancer. The seven-year-old, from Newland Park Drive in York, has been nominated in our Child of the Year category by his proud aunt
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Refs tackle the big issues
New rules have been announced this week about how Super League referees deal with dissent and certain tackles. They are looking to clamp down on grapple tackles, high tackles and dissent, and referees will also call dominant tackles for the first time
