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Double dose of laughs
EVERY pub has its comedian, but now a York hostelry has two. Jones Mott (not his real name) has been holding monthly stand-up nights at Certificate 18 in Gillygate since December. He regales drinkers with his own skewed observations before opening the
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Battle on for cash
YOUTH development bosses at York City are bracing themselves for their biggest battle yet - raising the £30,000 needed to fund the 'essential' Centre of Excellence. Reports initially suggested that £120,000 would be needed to maintain the club's Centre
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Knights earn this column's club of the week gong
IT was interesting to note who was chosen as Club of the Week in the rugby league publication League Express. The weekly trade paper picks a club, player, story and quote of the week as part of their page two comment, and for the former accolade they
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The Blackwell Ox Inn, Sutton-on-the-Forest, York
Maxine Gordon heads into the country for a posh Sunday lunch. IT'S hard to beat Sunday dinner - those tender slices of meat smothered in thick, salty gravy, a giant Yorkshire pudding, crisp roast potatoes and enough veg to fill you up until teatime on
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Heated debate
ONE of York's most distinctive riverside buildings, the Bonding Warehouse, is once again inundated by floodwater. Fortunately, this was a General Election stunt and no repeat of the deluge of 2000 that shut down the restaurant and pub, triggering an ongoing
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Education top of the agenda
EVERY child studying English, maths and science at school will be taught by a specialist teacher, under new proposals outlined by a North Yorkshire Liberal Democrat. The party's education spokesman, Phil Willis, standing in the Harrogate and Knaresborough
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Artist's brush with party politics
A NORTH Yorkshire painter is busy redrawing the art of political protest. Retired graphic design lecturer John Daffern, pictured, uses brush strokes to tackle complex campaign issues like terrorism, the future of public services and taxation. The 60-year-old's
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Sainsbury's drinks festival
In Tipping's Tipples, Mike Tipping's vote goes to Sainsbury's. No fashion conscious supermarket can be seen without an extra wine aisle at the moment. It seems the entire supermarket world is thrusting cut-price wine offers down our throats. Staff can
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Catching The Light by Karen Powell (Harbour, at £9.99)
Stephen Lewis meets a York woman whose first novel is also the first book from a new York-based publishing house. "I am a girl who loves to be alone," says Kate, the central character in new author Karen Powell's first novel. "Lottie, the silly creature
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White Truffle Yorkshire Pudding, Giorgio Alessio, (La Trifula Publishing, £12.95)
ALAN Ayckbourn, the playwright knight of Scarborough, has a recipe for the good life, not to be found in his darkly humorous dramas. "Have a job you love, a home you're happy in, a town you like living in and a first-rate restaurant just around the corner
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Why pay more?
IF City of York Council receives £20,000 a day from car parking charges and they borrowed £7 million, can someone explain why my Band B council tax has increased by £108 since the Lib Dems took over? Dennis Barton, Acorn Way, York. Updated: 10:41 Saturday
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No blame then
WHY is the city council always getting it in the neck over parking charges and parking fines? When the police-controlled traffic wardens were issuing tickets not a great deal was said, probably because there were only six wardens for the city so they
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Truly abysmal
THIRTY words without a single comma ('Abysmal sentence', Letters, April 27)? Now that's what I call an abysmal sentence! J E Muldowney, Second Avenue, Heworth, York. Updated: 10:40 Saturday, April 30, 2005
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Yorkshire opener responds to challenge with run spree
WITH Oxford University graduate Joe Sayers itching to get into Yorkshire's first team, Matthew Wood knew that he needed to find exceptional early season form to safeguard his own place from the left-hander. Wood has so far let neither himself nor the
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Phoenix bid for hat-trick
A BUMPER holiday crowd is expected at Headingley tomorrow when Yorkshire Phoenix take on Sussex Sharks with each side determined to keep their 100 per cent winning record intact in Division Two of the totesport League. Yorkshire stick with the same side
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Tsunami widow's fundraising bid
A FISHING boat could be on its way to a Thailand resort devastated by the Asian tsunami if York fundraisers can scale the heights on a sponsored walk on Monday. Denise Magson, of Holgate, whose husband, Steve, died at Phi Phi Island when he was swept
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Forty years of worship at 'born-again' York church
A PIONEERING York church where the congregation has mushroomed from eight to 800 is to celebrate the 40 years since it was "born again". Thousands of current and former members of St Michael-le-Belfry Church, in High Petergate, will gather on May 28 and
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Bodies of the Belsen dead were used as pillows by the living
FADED photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. Sixty years later, Jim Henderson's memories of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Hanover,
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Let's party
COLOURFUL costumes and street processions will be the order of the day at York Carnival 2005 tomorrow (May 1). The event will kick off with a colourful procession, incorporating costumes, music and dance starting in Dean's Park at 12.30pm and finishing
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North Yorks trials events under threat
THOUSANDS of off-road motorsport events could be axed following new government rules on how land is used by farmers. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a new way of handing out the EU Single Payment subsidy to farmers
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He had all the qualities any mother would be proud of
CROWDS of tearful mourners turned up for the funeral of tragic car crash victim Stephen Broomhead. The congregation at St Stephen's Church, at Acomb, York, heard tributes paid to the 25-year-old, who died on Easter Sunday when the Audi A4 he was travelling
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The cleaning fanatic who paid to join the grime-fighting squad
SELF-confessed obsessive cleaner Kirsten Sutherland put her fears of dirt and grime aside to spend the day with York's rapid response unit - and raise more than £700 for The Lord Mayor's charities in the process. Kirsten, who works for Norwich Union in
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Support offered to Centre of Excellence
OFFERS of support have been flooding in since York City's Centre of Excellence cash shortfall was revealed. A sports kit retailer has stepped in with the offer of a full kit for one of the teams and City supporter Clive Booth has pledged to help generate
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Tsunami widow's fundraising bid
A FISHING boat could be on its way to a Thailand resort devastated by the Asian tsunami if York fundraisers can scale the heights on a sponsored walk on Monday. Denise Magson, of Holgate, whose husband, Steve, died at Phi Phi Island when he was swept
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Cleaner
Kwik Tan, York City Centre. Cleaner. Required to work, 2 hours per day Mon-Sat. Must be reliable and conscientious. £6 per hour. Telephone Joanne to arrange an interview on: 01904 639271. Updated: 16:42 Friday, April 29, 2005
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Full and Part Time Coach Drivers
K&J Logistics Limited. Require: Full and Part Time Coach Drivers (PCV Manual & Automatic) for various contract and private hire duties. £6.50 - £7.00 per hour plus annual bonus. Please tel: 01904 738000 for an interview. Updated: 16:41 Friday,
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Chemstry Technician
Archbishop Holgates School, Hull Road, York YO10 5ZA Tel: 01904 411341Chemistry Technician. To support a hardworking and committed Department. Strengths in Chemistry preparation and stock maintenance are essential, as are good people skills, flexiblity
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Hotel Vacancies
City Centre Hotel Group. Due to recent expansion we currently have vacancies for... HEAD CHEF, BREAKFAST COOK, EVENING COOK, RECEPTIONIST, BAR/WAITING STAFF, GENERAL ASSISTANTS/CHAMBERMAIDS. We offer excellent rates of pay and working conditions. Please
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Bar/Restaurant Supervisor
Riverside Farm require: Full Time Bar/Restaurant Supervisor Experience in supervising in a pub environment an advantage. Must be a team player, flexible and reliable. Must be able to provide good references. If you think you fit the bill, please phone
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Swainby walk
George Wilkinson can see for miles and miles. The first thing I noticed was that there are three pubs in Swainby not two as I've previously reported, but it was too early in the day for them. It was not too early for a boys' outing of walkers who were
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Andy and Sarah hope for a sweet, new life
AS one door closed, another one opened for Terry's workers Andy Moses and Sarah Young. The pair were among 105 workers to leave the chocolate factory for the last time yesterday, in the biggest swathe of redundancies. As he walked out of the factory gates
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Possible reprieve for released Donovan
RELEASED midfielder Kevin Donovan could still play for York City next season. Donovan was named on this week's released list by the Minstermen but manager Billy McEwan has pointed out that the decision was for financial reasons and the door has not been
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Support offered to Centre of Excellence
OFFERS of support have been flooding in since York City's Centre of Excellence cash shortfall was revealed. A sports kit retailer has stepped in with the offer of a full kit for one of the teams and City supporter Clive Booth has pledged to help generate
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Super Sully shows he is no April fool
THE startling form of Adam Sullivan has brought the young prop more top awards, including a York City Knights club first. The 22-year-old has been named the first LHF National League Two Player of the Month this season after some scintillating displays
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People power
YORK'S anti-Europe candidate has outlined his policies to empower voters. Richard Jackson said UKIP was the only party that put constituents before their party. "The whole idea is to empower the constituents to get back their country. As voter apathy
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A very modern act of betrayal
PICTURE the scene as David Beckham gets ready for a night on the town. He appears from his luxury en-suite bathroom, gold taps and all, and protests, "No Victoria, I ain't gonna wear your fong tonite." This is a figment of my imagination and I am quite
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Meet the family
Gina Parkinson introduces the Dicentra family of spring-flowering plants. Herbaceous spring flowers are coming into bloom in the mild showery weather we have had this month. Among them is the beautiful Dicentra spectabilis, the Bleeding Heart with its
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Lily in the pink - 30/04/05
York-based jockey Robert Winston has come in for the plum mount on Echelon, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, in tomorrow's £320,000 UltimatePoker.com 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. But his Classic bid could be foiled by a stablemate, ridden by top Irish jockey
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Christmas already...
CHRISTMAS always comes early for the Reader Travel department and this is because the festive brochures arrive long before the Easter bunny. Readers book our trips well in advance, so if you cannot think past your summer holiday, think again. Last year's
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Whitby's black art
Mike Laycock finds out about Whitby's past as a jet jewellery centre. IT GAVE us the phrase jet black. The jewellery became a symbol of Queen Victoria's mourning after her beloved Albert died. And it was made in scores of little workshops across Victorian
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At least get the lights to work
I AM amazed that given the enormous amounts of money made by York council from people who have the misfortune to have to use their car to get into the city, it doesn't have the sense, or decency, to make sure the traffic lights are working correctly.
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Sting the drivers
HAVING read the article about the amount of money being raised through car parking and associated charges (April 27) all I can say is "Well done City of York Council". By pursuing a policy of making it unattractive for people to bring their cars into
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Satisfied tenants
I SHOULD like to thank your paper for highlighting City of York Council's housing refurbishment programme ('Council home makeover offer', April 25). Readers may be interested to know that there has been a 22 per cent growth in the Tenants' Choice programme
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It's all change on the board
YORKSHIRE'S Management Board has split the club's members' committee into two separate groups - elected representatives and appointed ones. The new chairman of the elected group is Stephen Mann, from Ben Rhydding, who was only elected to the committee
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Battle to cut waiting lists
CANCER patients in the York and Selby area should soon have to wait no longer than two months to start treatment. York Hospital bosses are taking the lead in a national project to streamline cancer services and meet challenging waiting time targets by
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Title text drive is so gr8t 4 Carolyn
THE joy of text helped to underscore memorable national service for York golfer Carolyn Kirk. The five-handicapper, who lives barely a testing iron shot from York Golf Club, where she has been a member for many years, finished a rousing runner-up in the
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Andy and Sarah hope for a sweet, new life
AS one door closed, another one opened for Terry's workers Andy Moses and Sarah Young. The pair were among 105 workers to leave the chocolate factory for the last time yesterday, in the biggest swathe of redundancies. As he walked out of the factory gates
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Cadden sets sights on legend prize in war of Roses clash
TITLE glory of legendary nature is up for grabs tonight for York's Thai boxing star Richard Cadden. The 28-year-old Acomb-based ace is pitched against returning star Ashley Guishard, a man who was once tagged the best Thai boxer to have ever come out
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York diners barred in crme brule bust-up
FOR a pudding so sweet it left a bitter aftertaste. In a scene straight out of Hell's Kitchen, a group of diners were barred from a top York restaurant after a furious row with the chef...over a crme brule. The party of ten women were told by the owner
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Cain and disabled
MARK Cain has been ruled out for most of the season as a double injury blow rocks York City Knights' build-up to next Friday's big Powergen Challenge Cup tie at St Helens. Utility star Cain, who turns 29 on Tuesday, will need an operation to rectify the
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Review: Spirit Of The Horse - A New Dawn, York Racecourse
THIS show is an ambitious celebration of the special relationship between horse and human. It is a beautifully choreographed combination of human and equine dance set to upbeat music with a driving rhythm. The family show, staged in an impressive big
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Title text drive is so gr8t 4 Carolyn
THE joy of text helped to underscore memorable national service for York golfer Carolyn Kirk. The five-handicapper, who lives barely a testing iron shot from York Golf Club, where she has been a member for many years, finished a rousing runner-up in the
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Fulford to the rim of young Masters
YOUNG Masters were to the fore at Fulford GC, where nine juniors won their silver status. The budding Tigers of the future had all come through the Young Masters Golf programme starting from cadet and bronze status to gaining their silver certificates
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Accounts/Costing Clerk
Accounts/Costing Clerk. We require a full time person for our accounts office to become a key part of our team. You will have knowledge of sales ledger and be experienced in Excel spreadsheets. Please forward your CV to: Mrs A Longhurst, E Harper (York
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Mystery Plays launched
COSTUMED characters from the planned York Mystery Plays of 2006 gave a special preview at its official launch. The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Janet Looker, read out a proclamation at the gathering in Bedern Hall, Aldwark, which was attended by more than
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Cain and disabled
MARK Cain has been ruled out for most of the season as a double injury blow rocks York City Knights' build-up to next Friday's big Powergen Challenge Cup tie at St Helens. Utility star Cain, who turns 29 on Tuesday, will need an operation to rectify the
