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Way we were
Monday, May 16, 2005 100 years ago A somewhat novel contest was to take place at Tadcaster. The Parish Council had eight applicants for the vacant position of bellman, and the question was to be decided in a practical way. Together with the members of
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Hot flushes
Mike Tipping flushes up red before and after a wine-tasting in a York community centre. I make a habit of embarrassing myself. I dislocated my right kneecap after a disco dancing accident, when I was 18. I had slipped on beer spilled on the dancefloor
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King is back
ROBERT BEAUMONT, an expert on George Hudson hails two reassessments of the Railway King. THESE are stirring times for George Hudson, York's much-maligned Railway King. The National Railway Museum has unearthed a fascinating document which proves, once
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'If you can soldier in the jungle, you can soldier anywhere. Everything in this place wants a piece
Soldiers from York have been tested to their limits in one of the toughest settings in the world. ANDREW HITCHON joined them in the jungle. THE light seeped gradually through the trees as morning slowly came to the jungle. Never quiet, it was at least
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Not another one
THE report 'York gets tough on takeaways" by Lucy Stephens (May 10) was very interesting. As a resident of Danebury Drive I was recently notified by York council of a submission for planning permission to convert vacant premises into a pizza takeaway-delivery
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We don't want to be an outpost of Silverstone
THANK you for the Wolf's World cartoon about Elvington (May 9). It contained a lot more of local residents' real feelings about the airfield than glowing articles about the bravery of daredevil stunt pilots or drivers of 140 mph Formula One cars. The
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Up in Arms...
YOUR review of the Blacksmith's Arms at Westow (Life & Times, May 7) was so one-sided I must add some missing detail to balance things. Far from being a "...sleepy, stuffy tavern" with "...stained beer mats, pork scratchings and dusty dead flower
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Let's be honest
I AM not political but I often sit listening to the untruths spoken by those who are, be they politicians or the people who support the different parties, and shake my head in disbelief. It amazes me how they can obfuscate or even lie and believe people
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Charity bag theft
A FEW days ago a charity bag from the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was left at my home. I filled it and left it at the front of the house. It was collected by two people driving a large white van. To my dismay two hours later the Air Ambulance van arrived,
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Use your head
The letter from D Cousins about his/her fall down the stairs of the Parliament Street toilets (May 6) was very interesting. I have considerable sympathy for this person's injuries having suffered a fall downstairs myself. However, I feel this is a case
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Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Senior Cricket League results
May 14-15 Premier Division Beverley Town (30 points) beat Sheriff Hutton Bridge (7) by 6 wickets: Sheriff Hutton Bridge 211-5 (S D Crowder 38, I R Clish 31, P A Crowder 70), Beverley Town 212-4 (R Davey 30, I Gillian 42, A Burton 54no, P Parnaby 27no)
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Double helping - 16/05/05
THE modern trend of staging wall-to-wall racing in Britain from May to August sees Redcar and Beverley going head-to-head tomorrow afternoon. This bizarre clash is further highlighted by both courses staging their feature races over a similar distance
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Smith piles on extra agony
Runs flowed like vintage wine at Driffield in division one as York II made 230-7 with Andrew Kay (64), Jason English (52) and Tom Bartram (64) leading the way. English, with 3-36 and Alex Boyle (4-76) then combined to reduce the home side to 117-7. But
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Opening act is sheer 'Wold gold
Newly-promoted Easingwold were one of three division three sides to romp home by ten wickets after dismissing Acomb for 128. Paul Hemmingway, with 54 and Andy Sturdy (34) appeared to have laid the foundation for a big home total with an opening stand
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'Trees toppled in Sew and so display
Goole's position at the top of division two is shared with Sewerby, who had a convincing eight-wicket win which knocked Rowntrees off the top of the rankings and slotted them into sixth place. Rowntrees gave a debut to Sri Lankan Yohan Alazhapperuma,
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York firm using 3D imagery to spot wanted criminals
A TRAILBLAZING technology firm in York is helping to keep America safe from another 9/11 outrage. Cybula Ltd on York Science Park has invented a 3-D facial biometric system - in-the-round digital images which can be picked out in only two seconds from
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Solving disputes
A FREE legal briefing on shareholder disputes is planned by York solicitors firm Denison Till next month. The two-hour briefing, at the Belmont function room at Betty's in St Helen's Square, York, starts at noon on June 30. It is aimed at those who advise
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Review: The York Guildhall Orchestra, York Minster, Saturday
The 25th anniversary celebration began with a new work by Roger Nichols, Xanthos Overture. Although the composer cited Turkey and the Mediterranean as inspirational sources, it was the enjoyable echoes of Janacek which dominated the musical discourse.
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Dyna-no for Yorkshire
Yorkshire Phoenix fluffed the chance of going top of Division Two of the totesport League when they were comfortably beaten by the new leaders Durham Dynamos at Riverside yesterday. The defeat by 51 runs was their first of the season and it brought to
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Thunder 16, Knights 24
YORK City Knights might have fallen to defeat in a game like this earlier in the season. They didn't play particularly well, turning over too much cheap possession and failing to build constant pressure or continuity in attack. But while they lost itty-bitty
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Drug dealers 'risk time behind bars'
by Evening Press reporters newsdesk@ycp.co.uk A JUDGE warned that those involved in drug-dealing risk time behind bars as he sent down two people caught bringing heroin and cocaine into York from Liverpool. York Crown Court heard that police captured
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No spending spree
FRESH back from their holiday in sunny Scarborough, York's newest millionaires have still got their feet firmly on the ground. Lottery winners Diane and Kevin Downing, from Acomb, revealed that to date they have spent a meagre £1,772 of the mammoth £4
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York park and pride
HOME was where the art was for York Cricket Club as they completed a double delight with a league triumph and a conquest of Fenners in the Yorkshire Champions Trophy. York's tenure at the top of the Yorkshire ECB Premier League was indebted to the batting
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Dyna-no for Yorkshire
Yorkshire Phoenix fluffed the chance of going top of Division Two of the totesport League when they were comfortably beaten by the new leaders Durham Dynamos at Riverside yesterday. The defeat by 51 runs was their first of the season and it brought to
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Teacher leads field in global yacht race
MORE than 6,000 miles away from home, an intrepid York geography teacher is leading the field in a gruelling round-the-world yacht race. Goldie Raley, of Escrick, set off on the ten-month voyage on board the 72ft racing yacht BP Explorer in October. Now
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Fox fire thrills Knights leader
YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook has hailed winger Peter Fox for "coming up trumps" just when his side needed a bit of magic. The Knights had been pegged back to 16-16 away to Gateshead Thunder yesterday when, midway through the second half, Fox cut
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Acorn sunk by the Navy
YORK Acorn ARLC, fielding a side made up of first-teamers, second-teamers and under-18s, lost 34-10 to the Royal Navy and Marines side on a club fundraising day at Thanet Road. Acorn boss Dave Kay, who is to quit as coach of the promoted first team after
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Council lacks Piccadilly vision
City of York Council's lack of vision and imagination comes to the fore yet again with its reluctance to develop Piccadilly for the future benefit of the city ('Stagnation fear',May 9). In being unduly hesitant to accept the planning application - on
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No big loss
MR Barnes from Tadcaster is obviously a little hot under the collar about myself and Mr Green daring to speak out in favour of parking charges etc (Letters, May 11). He even goes as far as to proclaim that we are foolish, imbeciles, insane and lunatics
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So, how much?
THE Evening Press of May 9 quotes Mr Zanzottera of City of York's sustainable travel team as saying the council spends £500,000 a year on cycling facilities. So I should like to know how much the council spends on facilities for the disabled, especially
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... and I am too
I TAKE great exception to the opening remarks about the Blacksmiths Arms, Westow (Eating Out, May 7). Before the "upgrading" this friendly, welcoming pub was neither sleepy or stuffy, nor were there stained beer mats and dusty flower arrangements. In
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Why we organised the Bavarian Festival
M GRAINGER raised questions about the recent Bavarian Festival in Parliament Street ('Bavarian folly,' Letters, May 3). The festival organisers approached York to showcase the event here, the first they had organised in this country. Representatives from
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Bad hair days
I MUST complain about mobile hairdressers in York. I have used the services of three different ones in the last six months and I am totally fed up. They come to your house, use your towels, have no hair spray or shampoo. They do not finish your hair properly
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Choking in our air-polluted city
I LIVE in a city with one of the worst air pollution records in the country. To walk on Holgate Road, Blossom Street, Gillygate or Bootham at certain times of the day is literally breathtaking. The filth discharged from traffic in these areas of the town
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Academic raps campus scheme
AN ACADEMIC has blasted his own university's "selfish and unimaginative" plans to almost double in size. Biology lecturer Dr Richard Firn has added his voice to the growing clamour against the plans to expand York University at Heslington East. He said
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Batsmen to the fore in alliance of massive premier stroke-play
PREMIER division batsmen in the Hunters York and District Senior Cricket League produced a banquet of runs which saw 11 of the 12 sides earn maximum batting points by reaching the 200-run mark. Their combined efforts produced a record 2,662 runs in the
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Visitor attractions head for York
The first national conference for marketing visitor attractions will be held in York on Tuesday. David Leon, managing director of York-based Partners Leisure Ltd, will chair the one-day event, organised by Martin Evans, of The Tourism Business, with support
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Marvel McGrath's history lesson
Anthony McGrath was the driving force behind Yorkshire's historic win at Grace Road on Saturday when they recorded their biggest ever fourth innings score to beat Leicestershire by six wickets and make it three consecutive Championship victories, writes
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York park and pride
HOME was where the art was for York Cricket Club as they completed a double delight with a league triumph and a conquest of Fenners in the Yorkshire Champions Trophy. York's tenure at the top of the Yorkshire ECB Premier League was indebted to the batting
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Calm down, it's an ad
WHEN the Teletubbies first arrived on our TV screens there was uproar. Complaints flooded in to the BBC and heated debates raged in the national press. We were not remotely concerned that our hefty licence fee had been spent on creating a lush valley
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Academic raps campus scheme
AN ACADEMIC has blasted his own university's "selfish and unimaginative" plans to almost double in size. Biology lecturer Dr Richard Firn has added his voice to the growing clamour against the plans to expand York University at Heslington East. He said
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Firestarter is sent to prison
A HOMELESS man sleeping rough in a listed York building fled when a fire he started to keep warm spread, causing £500,000 worth of damage. Ronald Lee Briggs panicked and ran off without raising the alarm, fearing he would be arrested because he was wanted
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Pub hours row
PLANS to keep one of York's biggest pubs open into the early hours have resulted in a flood of protest letters to licensing chiefs. More than 20 people living near Wetherspoon's Postern Gate pub in Piccadilly have written to City of York Council, raising
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Quest to find best newspaper seller
IS your newspaper seller top of the shops? Do you buy your Evening Press from the same place day in day out come wind, rain or shine? If you think your local outlet is the best news seller in York, plus North and East Yorkshire, now is your chance to
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'If they say I can't go on holiday, I'll spray paint everywhere. I'll even spray paint this building
DEFIANT graffiti vandal Daniel Farmeary has threatened to spray paint a York court building if magistrates prevent him going on a skateboarding holiday to America. Farmeary, 18, made the threat on the steps of the magistrates court building only minutes
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Biker is killed and three badly hurt in crashes
TWO motorbike crashes over the weekend left one victim dead and three more seriously injured. A rider, who was riding a Honda, was killed after a collision with a car at Masham Bank yesterday. Police said the crash occurred as a red Citroen AX was turning
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Job offer for Citroen man
HOMELESS Richard Miner, who lives in a battered Citroen AX car, said today he soon hoped to have a proper roof over his head after being offered a job. The Evening Press reported the 39-year-old kept all his worldly possessions on the back seat, shaved
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Acorn sunk by the Navy
YORK Acorn ARLC, fielding a side made up of first-teamers, second-teamers and under-18s, lost 34-10 to the Royal Navy and Marines side on a club fundraising day at Thanet Road. Acorn boss Dave Kay, who is to quit as coach of the promoted first team after
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Leeds dip in gates
Leeds United's average home league crowd last season dipped below 30,000 for the first time in 12 years. And they finished in their lowest league position since 1986. Demotion from the Premiership hit the club hard as revenue from many sources dipped
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Second leader
POOLS winner Viv Nicholson famously said she was going to spend, spend, spend. Diane and Kevin Downing are a little more circumspect. They are going to spend. A bit. The Acomb couple celebrated their £4 million Lottery win with a week in Scarborough,
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Fox fire thrills Knights leader
YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook has hailed winger Peter Fox for "coming up trumps" just when his side needed a bit of magic. The Knights had been pegged back to 16-16 away to Gateshead Thunder yesterday when, midway through the second half, Fox cut
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Funny, how time drips away
AN enjoyable new book has found its way onto the Diary desk. Entitled B*ll*cks To Alton Towers (only without the asterisks) it is a guide to "uncommonly British days out". Naturally we checked out the local attractions recommended by the guide's gurus
