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Way we were
Monday, May 9, 2005 100 years ago The York City Council met to consider a report from the Finance Committee and to set the General District Rate, the Borough Rate, and the Skeldergate Bridge Rate. The chairman of the Finance Committee, in introducing
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VE Day
In the last of our retrospectives to mark the 60th anniversary of VE Day, three readers give perspectives on the end of war from home and abroad. Ann Tiffany was born in Mansfield Street, York, and now lives in Canada... WE were on our way to bed when
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It's the wheel thing...
The humble bicycle has been voted the most significant technological innovation of the past two centuries - beating the computer, the internet and the combustion engine. But how do people in York, Britain's top cycling city, feel about pedal power? ROSSLYN
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It's the only way to clear up litter
BECAUSE I have a preference for seeing the streets in my area reasonably litter-free, and because of local authority neglect, I have had to assume responsibility for litter clearance. The area is an intensive thoroughfare between two schools. Consequently
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York mop up tasty double helping
YORK Cricket Club enjoyed a successful weekend with an Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League victory at Rotherham followed by a return to Clifton Park yesterday to vanquish Beverley in the Cockspur National KO Competition. What goes round comes
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Selfish smokers are the ones who ruin our pubs
DAVE Penn's letter is all too typical of the attitude of smokers who think it is fine to inflict their disgusting habit on others ('Leave smokers be', May 6). I hate smoky pubs, and I see no reason why smokers should be allowed to smoke in public places
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Plenty moor
I DON'T know how large Hob Moor is, perhaps 50 acres. M Singleton (Letters, May 4) seems unable to realise the reason that cows need to be turned out when grass is growing in spring and summer months and they add to the quality of grass and help keep
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Go on, volunteer
ARE you retired and bored? Then why not come and visit us at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington. We are a friendly crowd and could do with a few more stewards, no knowledge of aircraft is needed. You will meet some interesting people from all over
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Dangerous driver
THESE thoughts are addressed to the driver of the new, blue Audi A4 who nearly killed my son as he walked to school last Tuesday morning. I suppose I should thank you for swerving just in time as you jumped the red light at the pedestrian crossing at
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Alliance back in the 300 club
CLIFTON Alliance racked up the third-highest total in Hunters York and District Senior Cricket League premier division history as they beat fellow York side Osbaldwick by a massive 164 runs. The Shipton Road outfit have made a habit of hitting 300-plus
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Seaside lowers gamble for game firm
WINNER of the game is... Johnny's Entertainments and Amusements Ltd, which has acquired five Scarborough amusement arcades from Overplus Ltd. Exact details of the deal, brokered for Johnny's Entertainments and Amusements by Yorkshire law firm Cobbetts
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Tykes set to win despite great Wright
Yorkshire lined themselves up for victory over Northamptonshire at Headingley today, despite rain reducing play to just 23 deliveries yesterday after the action-packed morning session. Excellent bowling by the four seamers left Northants reeling on 115
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A pox on this lurgi
AND so the lurgi lingers on. Within seconds of the six-year-old's chicken pox scabs falling off en masse on to the rug, the two-year-old started sprouting suspicious boils. Okay, I thought, I can handle this. In fact, it's a good thing. Get the nasty,
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Stagnation fear
PLANS to turn a furniture store and car park in York's Piccadilly into 14 flats and a new shop look set to be thrown out. Planning officers say the scheme to refurbish and redevelop 34 Piccadilly - which currently houses Greens furniture shop and parking
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All White on the night at panto
SUMMER might be just round the corner, but preparations are already well under way for this year's panto at York's Grand Opera House. From December 15, 2005, to January 8, 2006, New Pantomime Productions returns to the Grand Opera House for the eighth
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'I will burn down your home'
A WOMAN only stopped attacking a love rival when her victim had an epileptic fit, a court heard. Later she phoned the other woman as she awaited treatment at York Hospital and threatened to burn down the house where she lived with her children if she
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Tykes set to win despite great Wright
Yorkshire lined themselves up for victory over Northamptonshire at Headingley today, despite rain reducing play to just 23 deliveries yesterday after the action-packed morning session. Excellent bowling by the four seamers left Northants reeling on 115
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Merger plan for two city schools
PARENTS are set to be given their say on ambitious plans which could see a York school sold to make way for a new one. City of York Council is considering merging Carr Infant and Junior Schools, in Acomb, by creating one large primary school, which would
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Des Res
IN his prime, a nation held him in awe as he sailed over fences and galloped to victory in some of the greatest steeplechases. These days, Desert Orchid leads a more sedate life in retirement. But Britain's favourite horse still draws in the crowds when
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Cook confident York will bounce right back
YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook reckoned his side can heed the lessons they learned at St Helens when they tackle Gateshead in National League Two on Sunday. The Knights lost 62-0 to Powergen Challenge Cup trophy-holders St Helens at Knowlsey Road but
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Time to face it, it's a dying habit
IT'S deadly, it's disgusting - and its days in North Yorkshire are numbered. Today, health experts in York, Selby and Easingwold are joining forces with the Evening Press to launch a pioneering campaign to stamp out smoking in public places. The Yes to
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Debt to freedom
SIXTY years ago, people celebrated the end of a terrible war. And they pledged never to forget the sacrifices made to achieve Victory In Europe Day. Six decades later, we are keeping that promise. The anniversary brought hundreds of people together, from
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Stubbing it out
From October 1, health centres and hospitals run by Selby and York Primary Care Trust will be no-smoking zones. Chief Executive, Jeremy Clough explains the new policy to Mike Laycock. NOT so long ago, smokers in hospital could go to an area of their ward
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We're winners
Nigel Knapton and Andrea Duffield, of Crab Mill Lane, Easingwold, decided to give up after getting married last year. Nigel, 36, who has smoked since he was about 18, said their joint decision was at least partly because of concerns about the dangers
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Why you should send fags packing
Here are some interesting facts to help you to decide to stop smoking. After 20 minutes: Blood pressure and pulse rate return to normal. Circulation improves in hands and feet, making them warmer. After eight hours: nicotine and carbon monoxide levels
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Pressing for a change
THE Evening Press is taking a lead in stubbing out smoking in the workplace. A staff smoking room at the paper's Walmgate offices is being closed this month in a bid to encourage employees to cut down or quit. Liz Page, Managing Director of Newsquest
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Cook confident York will bounce right back
YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook reckoned his side can heed the lessons they learned at St Helens when they tackle Gateshead in National League Two on Sunday. The Knights lost 62-0 to Powergen Challenge Cup trophy-holders St Helens at Knowlsey Road but
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Maximum high for Dunn
DUNNINGTON II are the only division five side with a 100 per cent record after brushing aside the challenge posed by Londesbrough Park with clinical efficiency. Thirteen-year-old Robert Chipps orchestrated Londesbrough's downfall with a 3-9 spell which
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Two out of two for Foss and Folkton
FOLKTON and Flixton and Wilberfoss are joint leaders of division three after both recorded their second victory of the season. Flixton travelled to Clifton Alliance where the home side's batsmen prospered with Paul Walton making 60 and Mick Knowles 31
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Johnny good
SIX tries by York Acorn superstar Johnny Waldron made it a final day of the season to remember as the newly-promoted first team signed off with a 60-16 thrashing of Crosfields. The young flier, who already has BARLA Great Britain under-21 caps to his
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Not so funny
CONGRATULATIONS to the Evening Press on a crassly insensitive bit of double standard reporting worthy of Private Eye's "Street of Shame" column. In the week when a teacher has been released from jail, but still found guilty of firing an air rifle at a
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Cowboy clampers
HURRAH, at long last a crackdown on rogue clampers. Tthese society misfits operate like ships in the night, only to be seen at cough-up time. But how are we to distinguish a rogue cowboy clamper from a genuine jobs-worthy? Ken Holmes, South Duffield Road
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Time for Delite - 09/05/05
Peters Delite, runner-up in his last two starts, can make it third-time-lucky at Yarmouth tomorrow. The three-year-old, trained at Malton by the in-form Richard Fahey, goes for the Custom Kitchens Classified Stakes and will be ridden by stable-jockey
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We need to sleep
IN his letter of reply to Mr Dickinson (May 5) Mr Haswell seems to have misunderstood the purpose of our late licensing petition. The wording is "No late licensing against the wishes of local residents" - not no late licensing in residential areas. Local
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Why didn't he buy an estate car to sleep in?
I CANNOT for the life of me understand why homeless Richard Miner, above, says he has to bed down behind the steering wheel of his Citroen ZX (Vroom With A View, May 3). He could get a good night's kip by shuffling across to the passenger seat or in the
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Well run festival
Correspondent M M Grainger raised questions about the recent Bavarian festival in Parliament Street (May 3). The festival organisers approached York to showcase the event here - it was the first they had organised in the country and several other towns
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Summer's heralds
T SINGLETON writes that spreading muck is spoiling Hob Moor (Letters, May 4). Hob Moor is a 90-acre site, most of it being ancient stray. Cattle have grazed on Hob Moor, probably for thousands of years, and certainly long before "dog walkers, joggers
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It's up to wards
YOUR correspondent Phill Thomas can be reassured (Letters, May 3). Ward committees will continue to decide how much of their budget they wish to devote to additional security patrols in their areas. Some will opt for police community support officers
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Exercising enterprise
DREAMS of launching your own venture could become a reality in York next week. The Enterprise Show comes to the Museum Gardens this weekend, when organisers hope to attract more than the record 724 would-be entrepreneurs who converged on a giant marquee
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Stagnation fear
PLANS to turn a furniture store and car park in York's Piccadilly into 14 flats and a new shop look set to be thrown out. Planning officers say the scheme to refurbish and redevelop 34 Piccadilly - which currently houses Greens furniture shop and parking
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Group makes stand to improve city's waterways
BOATERS using the Ouse in York could see a raft of changes under a new campaign to spruce up the river. The Inland Waterways Association (IWA), which campaigns for the preservation and upkeep of waterways in England and Wales, has set up a new steering
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Ice-cream probe clears factory
ENVIRONMENTAL health chiefs who launched a probe after a York woman discovered a piece of glass in a tub of ice-cream have drawn a blank. They said the factory where the ice-cream was made had a number of robust systems in place to prevent glass contamination
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Swinging sixtieth
HUNDREDS of people stepped back in time this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Many donned 1940s-style attaire for VE day evening parties - in scenes that were a throwback to when thousands of joyful British
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Council considers making city parks more 'vibrant and eventful'
THEATRE, small pop concerts and summer fetes could all be on the bill at a selection of York parks if city councillors give the go-ahead to a new scheme. Clifton Backies, Glen Gardens and Rowntree Park are among eight venues that could play host to a
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Seconds clout thrills Webster
Two wins from three races at the 2005 World Sidecar Championship opener at Brands Hatch put North Yorkshire's Steve Webster and Paul Woodhead's Team Castrol outfit into second place in the points table to Kent's Tim and Tristan Reeves. Webster's hopes
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Johnny good
SIX tries by York Acorn superstar Johnny Waldron made it a final day of the season to remember as the newly-promoted first team signed off with a 60-16 thrashing of Crosfields. The young flier, who already has BARLA Great Britain under-21 caps to his
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Leeds land Hulse
STRIKER Rob Hulse was today turning his loan spell at Leeds United into a permanent transfer from West Brom. Hulse, 25, has been on loan at Elland Road for three months and has scored six goals in 13 appearances. He has long been keen to make the move
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Stub it out at work
MOST smokers want to quit. They are plagued by two questions: why did I start, and why can't I stop? The second question is easier to answer than the first. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine, according to the Royal College of Physicians. That
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Why do I need a no-smoking policy?
Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 toxic chemicals, more than 40 of which cause cancer. Smoking is the single greatest preventable risk to health and is responsible for more than 120,000 deaths in Britain each year. No wonder 70% of smokers say they want to
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We're happy to get fresh
Businesses and organisations across the area told Mike Laycock they are backing the Yes Clean Air campaign. Customers have been banned from smoking at the Michael Andrew Salon in York's Coppergate Centre for the past ten years. But owners Ali and Andrew
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Quitters? No!
Pensioner Patricia Scott had smoked for half a century but was getting increasingly fed up of her smoker's cough. "From the time I woke up, it was cough, cough, cough," said Patricia, 67, of Acomb Wood Close, Woodthorpe. She wanted to give up, but the
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What your customers want
A recent survey has revealed strong North Yorkshire backing for smoke-free enclosed public places. It also shows many people would be more likely to choose a venue for a night out if it became smoke-free. The survey of 859 people across North Yorkshire
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Take a big deep breath
Today could be the first day of a smoke-free existence. By backing the Yes To Clean Air Campaign, you could live, work and breathe smoke-free air, in an environment protected from the dangers of second-hand smoke. Yes To Clean Air, launched today by Selby
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Promoted Stamford set pace
WEST Indian Lorenzo Ingram from Clifton Alliance has galvanised Stamford Bridge who find themselves heading the Hunters Estate Agents York and District Senior Cricket League first division pack after beating Driffield II by four wickets. Old East Yorkshire
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So how's this for revenge?
NOW get out of that. One of York's much-loved parking attendants returned to her van to find it had become the meat in a car sandwich. Quite why she had parked on double yellow lines is unclear. Perhaps it was a momentary aberration. Or perhaps she thought
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May7-8
Premier Division Acomb (6pts) lost to Heworth (30pts) by 4 wkts: Heworth 167-6 (C de Grandhomme 45, D A Simpson 28, A D Tute 3-41), Acomb 166-7 (F R Sykes 80no, S Nicholls 34, C Pitts 4-38, R J Bowling 3-69). Dunnington (27pts) drew with Malton &
