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Beer, with your name on it
BOOZING? It's a mug's game. Or at least it used to be a few years back. Regular drinkers at what was the basement bar beneath the Dean Court Hotel in Duncombe Place, York, were immortalised with their own tankard. Now these receptacles have been rediscovered
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Way we were
Saturday, May 21, 2005 100 years ago Henry Rawling, a labourer of Beedham's Court, Skeldergate, was brought before Dr Tempest Anderson and Mr George Potter-Kirby at the York Police Court, charged with creating a disturbance in a refreshment house in Skeldergate
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Promoting nous
SO the old argument of promotion/relegation versus a franchise-based system raises its ugly head again. It was revealed on Thursday that the Rugby Football League were to do away with automatic promotion and relegation between Super League and the National
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Allan lands Rhinos deal
HEWORTH ARLC product Danny Allan has taken another big step on the road to rugby league stardom. The 16-year-old Archbishop Holgate's School pupil has signed a two-year deal with Super League and World Club champions Leeds Rhinos. Allan began playing
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Tips for keeping rubbish in check
IT would be helpful to answer some of the questions and concerns raised by local residents in recent letters regarding plans to provide a green waste collection for 60,000 homes in the city. We are confident that households that separate their waste for
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Packaging pains
SANDRA Adamson's letter "Slash packaging" (May 13) hit the nail on the head. Packaging has been excessive for decades. Look at all the nonsense that comes with some new shirts: plastic and card combination to keep the collar from sagging, a large piece
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What about profits?
COUN Waller, it looks as if you are doing a fine job sorting out our rubbish problem, but would you answer a few questions on this letters page to keep us all informed? How much does it cost to buy the green plastic boxes most people have been given for
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Shed some light
MR Goodwin's letter (May 17) prompted me to write because several of my friends and I were discussing the new lights and no one had seen them in operation during the last race meeting, although we were assured that they had been tested until 7pm each
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Success of test
I CAN reassure Mr Goodwin (Letters, May 17) that the temporary traffic lights at the junction of Knavesmire Road and The Mount were tested during the race meeting. The aim was to ensure the technical equipment worked correctly, not to assess the impact
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Hey, isn't that Johnny 'Two Jowls'?
ARE you sure that's a photo of big Chief Alphonse Bird and our Queen ("Grandmother pow wows Indians" May 18) or was it deputy PM "Two Jowls" Prescott, eyeing up his pet musk-rat pelt on the Queen's hat and round her shoulders? Dale Minks, Ancress Walk
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Here's the point
IT seems to me that Ian Snedden is missing some points when he complains of the traffic congestion and destruction of archaeological links (May 18). Is he suggesting that the present traffic situation on the A19 is caused by the existing residents who
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Great work
I MUST take issue with regard to Mr Snedden's letter. I agree that City of York Council pays scant regard to the protests of we here in Fulford. Where I disagree most strongly is in his criticism of our ward councillor. I have had the privilege to work
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Let's act together to safeguard civil liberties
THE decision of Judge Roy Andersen to order that Lindis Percy be the first peaceful protester ever to be electronically tagged and placed under curfew is yet another blow against civil liberties in this country. It is a small consolation that Lindis,
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It's a Dunn deal
As Andrew Dunn returns in a second series of 55 Degrees North, the York-based actor tells Julian Cole what drew him to a career in drama. ANDREW Dunn just knew he wanted to be an actor. It was one of those things, instinct or whatever. Except that it
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Finding the plot
Gina Parkinson gets out of her own garden to meet children who are being introduced to gardening at a York allotment. WHEN I arrived at Low Moor Allotments, the children were all busy weeding and planting up their allocated patches of earth. The ten children
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Flights of fancy
Stephen Lewis reports on local author Mark Lamb's first novel. GRAHAM TAYLOR has really started something. When the former Vicar of Cloughton's self-published first magical fantasy, Shadowmancer, was snapped up by Faber to become an instant bestseller
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Sicily and Sorrento just got nearer - and cheaper
NEWMARKET Promotions has done it again with its latest Summer Sizzlers, slashing the prices of two of its most popular Italian destinations. The brochure price for Sicily would normally be £409 per person for eight days, but if you book for selected dates
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Help at hand in fight to beat the growing number of bicycle thefts
OPERATION Cobra will turn its teeth on bicycle thieves who plunder one bike every four hours from the streets of York next week. Police revealed today that bike theft is soaring with six cycles, some worth hundreds of pounds, snatched by thieves every
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Hopes pinned on 'people power'
PROTESTERS today hope "people power" will persuade councillors to throw out plans for a massive development in the south of York. Selby MP John Grogan, parish councillors and Fulford residents were holding a second protest beside the A19 today about planned
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Barmaid was a welfare cheat
A WOMAN who claimed almost £10,000 in benefits while earning up to £92 a week in a pub has been warned that she could face prison. York Magistrates' Court heard that Donna Marie Donnelly continued to claim Income Support despite working for almost two
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York hosts a weekend extravaganza of live music
WILD guerrilla musicians are set to invade the streets of York tomorrow as part of a weekend of action-packed live entertainment to mark York Live 2005. The musicians, who are all local, will pop up all over the city, in parks, and in the suburbs, to
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Woman is attacked on riverside
POLICE are appealing for the public's help after a woman was pulled into bushes and indecently assaulted while walking along a riverside in York. Officers said a man aged in his late 40s pounced on the woman near Clifton Bridge, as she walked alongside
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Allan lands Rhinos deal
HEWORTH ARLC product Danny Allan has taken another big step on the road to rugby league stardom. The 16-year-old Archbishop Holgate's School pupil has signed a two-year deal with Super League and World Club champions Leeds Rhinos. Allan began playing
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Flats residents hoping to get to bottom of devastating fire
STUNNED residents whose block of flats was ravaged by fire will be demanding answers at a meeting next week. Scott Randles, whose flat suffered extensive water damage in the devastating blaze, is putting up posters around the Fulford Place complex inviting
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Minds on the job
HEAD coach Mick Cook reckons the promotion-relegation rumpus in rugby league will not affect York City Knights' glory crusade. The Rugby Football League's decision to scrap automatic promotion and relegation to and from Super League, to take effect by
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Pub can stay open until 3am
A LARGE city centre pub has won the right to stay open until as late as 3am in the first case of its kind in York. The Postern Gate, in Piccadilly, successfully applied to change its operating conditions under the new Licensing Act 2003 despite warnings
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Bowl of cheer
HEAVENS opened and Evans reigned in the York Rose Bowl event hosted by York Golf Club. Rotherham GC's Matthew Evans was the only player in the top-notch field to break par in his two-round 139 total to cement a one-shot win over Northcliffe's Rob Hillas
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Hall is apple of Simon's Eye
HALL to play for is the motivational mission that has driven Simon Appleton back to his North Yorkshire roots. After spells as an assistant at both York GC and Malton and Norton, followed by his most recent employment as senior coaching pro at Otley,
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Troutsdale
George Wilkinson shelters from spring snow under the whispering trees during a walk in Troutsdale. SPRING snow is not the same as the winter stuff. It's not nice. So, for shelter, we headed for the trees on the western edge of the biggest forest hereabouts
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Bridge Inn, Walshford, near Wetherby.
Mike Laycock visits a former coaching inn with Byronic connections. More than 50,000 cars and lorries used to thunder past the Bridge Inn's front door each day. Situated right alongside the A1 dual carriageway at Walshford, near Wetherby, it was so noisy
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Straight answers
I AM writing to you to set the record straight regarding the plans for Germany Beck, partly to answer Ian Snedden's points. The council has not given the go-ahead for the development - the planning meeting takes place this Thursday at 2pm. It was also
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Saddened by crime
I WAS saddened by what has happened to the vulnerable old person who was robbed by a drug addict (May 14). I have raised some cash to buy some flowers and chocolates for the old lady to help her get over the terrifying experience that she was subjected
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Out of tune
I AGREE with Mike Usherwood about Radio York ("Listen up BBC", Letters, May 18). With the exception of Sandie Dunleavy, the other female presenters do a lot of erring and erming. Plus since the new changes were made, how many times do you tune in and
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Wines from Burgundy
Sometimes there is nothing like a good wine from Burgundy, red or white. Louis Jadot Puilly-Fuisse 2002 will cellar nicely, if you are lucky enough to have a wine cellar. It would make a fantastic accompaniment to your Christmas turkey, if you can wait
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New kids on the bloc
It's that time of year we've all been waiting for. Yes, the Eurovision Song Contest is back and live from Kiev. The epitome of all that is camp and kitsch will be on our television screens tonight and watched by millions across Europe. Some will have
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Tina's experience - 21/05/05
HARRY Hogarth, who trains near Stillington, has his horses in good form and can make his presence felt at Southwell tomorrow. Tina's Scallywag represents him in the opening Experience Nottinghamshire Handicap Chase and is fancied to supplement her recent
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Trout and about
MY daughter tossed a handful of food pellets into the water and it became a boiling, threshing mass of giant trout. "Stick your hand in there and they'll strip it down to the bone in seconds," I joked, presuming no one had slipped a few piranha in there
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Yorkshire back in the hunt
YORKSHIRE saved their best until last against Durham at Riverside yesterday when Richard Dawson and Deon Kruis earned a couple of batting points with a tenth wicket partnership of 75, writes David Warner. It took Yorkshire's total to 254 which was comparative
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First-class Ismail
Cleckheaton's Ismail Dawood set his sights on achieving two goals as he busily prepared himself for his first full season with his native Yorkshire. The first was to make sure he was in the side when the campaign began and the other was to hold on to
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City scrubs up for Ascot
A COLOURFUL welcome will greet racegoers arriving in York during Royal Ascot next month. More than 100 festival banners will line the city centre and the main approaches to York during the prestigious race meeting. However, only metres away from a recently
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City scrubs up for Ascot
A COLOURFUL welcome will greet racegoers arriving in York during Royal Ascot next month. More than 100 festival banners will line the city centre and the main approaches to York during the prestigious race meeting. However, only metres away from a recently
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By Georgia, she did it!
SHE'S 18, she's a student and she's absolutely gorgeous - meet the new MS York 2005. Georgia Horsley, from Norton, was crowned the new queen of the city at a glittering dinner and ceremony at York Racecourse last night. She was picked from among 20 glamorous
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Trader's shame over fireworks
TRADING standards chiefs have pledged to continue cracking down on the sale of restricted fireworks to young people. Liz Levett, who heads York's trading standards team, said fireworks were a major contributor to antisocial behaviour. She said undercover
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First-class Ismail
Cleckheaton's Ismail Dawood set his sights on achieving two goals as he busily prepared himself for his first full season with his native Yorkshire. The first was to make sure he was in the side when the campaign began and the other was to hold on to
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Battling Jo Ro
JOSEPH Rowntree's star netballers have returned to York after proving their worth among the best netball teams in the country at the National Schools' Netball Finals in Essex. Jo Ro, the only school in the country to have three teams in the finals, missed
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Natural talent
ST PETER'S School, York, pupil Jonathan Bairstow is placing no boundaries on his pursuit of honours in two sports. Jonathan's cricket and rugby union talent has caught the eyes of county selectors in both games but he is still undecided whether representing
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Captain triumphant
MALTON and Norton Golf Club captain Chris Atkinson made a superb start to the year writes Roger Marshall. The 13-handicapper teamed up with Tom Christie (nine) to record a score of 64 which, together with the 67 from club-mates E Fisher (seven) and M
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Minds on the job
HEAD coach Mick Cook reckons the promotion-relegation rumpus in rugby league will not affect York City Knights' glory crusade. The Rugby Football League's decision to scrap automatic promotion and relegation to and from Super League, to take effect by
