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Way we were
Monday, July 11, 2005 100 years ago At a meeting of the Electric Lighting Committee of York Corporation, the City Electrical Engineer presented his annual report. An additional 9,819 8-candle power lamps had been connected to the mains during the year
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More than words
A RETIRED teacher who has helped women from around the world to learn English could be named volunteer of the year. Nancy Spratt, 78, was nominated for our Community Pride awards scheme by her colleague Heather Woolley. Nancy, of Skelton, York, has co-ordinated
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City kids' Premiership trips
YOUNG football fans will be given the opportunity to visit the homes of Champions League winners Liverpool and Premiership giants Manchester United by the York City Football in the Community team this summer. Guided tours of Anfield and Old Trafford have
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An amazing job
I MUST publicly thank the three teachers who led the science trip to London ("Pupils In Scare", July 8). Our son, Matthew, who is a pupil at Fulford School, was on that trip and naturally we were very anxious when we heard the terrible news about the
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Not fine with me
HAS the judicial system gone mad? On reading the court lists in the Evening Press (July 6), when a cyclist is fine £150 for riding on the footpath and people involved with drugs are only asked to pay £50 court costs, where is the deterrent? Terry Smith
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Golden Ingram
Stamford Bridge's West Indian star Lorenzo Ingram became the fastest player to reach 1,000 runs in a season when he achieved the landmark in the 12th division one match of the campaign. Ingram started the day requiring 17 runs to achieve the landmark
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Plumb out of luck
I AM writing to vent my frustration at how you go about finding employment for doing a plumbing apprenticeship in York. I am 20 years old and am getting made redundant at my current job working for the Co-operative Insurance Society. Given the opportunity
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Appalling record
MAY I add to Mr Rooksby's article about the trains (Letters, July 5)? For the benefit of the readers who are not familiar with the name South East trains, it is basically the franchise that Connexe had, and, after such an appalling record on their part
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How about an award for morons?
FOLLOWING on the graffiti theme from the Diary (July 8), how about a competition entitled something like "Most moronic act of vandalism during York Pride 2005"? My contribution, on behalf of the Friends of Rawcliffe Meadows, who spend 50 per cent of their
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Licence to roam
IN response to Ms Spillard and Mr Lickley with regards to ID cards, anyone who mugs an old lady is obviously after one thing - her pension. To think they would be smart enough to go steal a car and raid your three bed semi is ridiculous. Even your current
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Start at home
MESSRS Blair and Brown are making much of wiping out Third World debt, which amounts to billions of pounds, in the name of compassion - albeit with some unattractive strings attached. If Blair and Brown can wipe off billions of pounds of debt, owed by
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Forget about 'human rights'
I HOPE the do-gooders and human rights brigade slept a little uneasy in their beds last Thursday night as undoubtedly their concern for the rights of the individual has contributed to people roaming our streets who are suspected of terrorism but, because
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Down to basics
WITH reference to your article "Cash Man Hunt" (July 4), why should our security services have to pinch, save, beg, borrow to raise funds for fighting our enemies, both internally and externally? In our quest as a community to live our lives without fear
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Danger to health
I WOULD like to add my support to Robin Tomlinson's words on the "hidden" news on waste disposal for the west wards of York (Letters, July 4). I was prompted to look more closely at the proposals and the statistics involved and this raised some questions
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Sales director move
MARK GIBSON has been appointed to GSPK Electronics, of Knaresborough, in a new directorship to head up, co-ordinate and strengthen increasing UK and global sales. Mr Gibson joins GSPK Electronics directly from Benchmark Electronics, after spending two
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York hit by Flack blow
YORK Cricket Club enjoyed a home Yorkshire ECB Premier League and Cup double with victories over Appleby Frodingham and Cleethorpes at the weekend. However, they received a serious blow when influential all-rounder Rob Flack collapsed in his delivery
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Help! I've said I'll do it
IF you think Kelly Holmes is the pinnacle of female athleticism, you obviously haven't seen me in my leggings. It is a rare sight indeed, but some, most notably my long suffering family, wish it were rarer. I refuse to exercise in public - and if you
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Swinton 16, Knights 32
It's not been a good week for Lions. The British rugby union squad were whitewashed 3-0 in New Zealand in an embarrassing Test performance, while several thousand miles away, their Swinton namesakes had their roar reduced to a whimper by the York City
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Honours even
LEADERS Fulford and close rivals Copmanthorpe both drew in their latest matches in division three of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League. Jenny Rowland and Dave Bradley clawed back the deficit for Fulford with a 10-2 at Sutton on Derwent after Sutton's
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Maze marks Guy Fawke's bid to blow up Parliament
THIS remarkable maze has been lovingly crafted from more than one-and-half million maize plants. It covers an area the size of 15 football pitches, but has remained a secret until this exclusive Evening Press bird's eye image. Heslington farmer Tom Pearcy
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Steady on peak traffic levels
YORK is on track to cut road congestion, council chiefs said today. New figures showed no rise in peak-hour traffic levels in the city since 1999. And the overall growth of traffic on the city's roads was three per cent - seven per cent less than the
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Robber is jailed
A ROBBER has been jailed for three years for a violent drink-fuelled midnight attack on a man walking home through Heworth. Helen Holmes, prosecuting, told York Crown Court that Michael Holman had just been to York Railway Station to see off a friend.
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Ice-cream and sausages sell fast in heat
SAUSAGES and iced lollies have been guzzled in huge quantities in York as sun-seekers take advantage of the sizzling heatwave. As temperatures have soared into the 80s so have the profits of ice-cream vans, butchers and garden centres. But the scorching
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Banding together
A MAN whose cousin died of cot death 11 years ago is selling charity wristbands to stop the devastating illness claiming other babies' lives. Baby Callum Lee, of York, stopped breathing at a mother and toddler group aged 17 weeks. He was resuscitated
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3,500 revellers fear at Barbican
PROTESTERS have clashed with a leisure company over its controversial bid for a late licence for York's Barbican Centre. Residents claimed yesterday that if a licence to sell alcohol until 2am was granted to prospective operators Absolute Leisure, up
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Dyson opener will be seen all round the world
NORTH Yorkshire's sultan of swing Simon Dyson will be smack in the gaze of the entire golfing globe in Thursday's Open championship. Dyson has been accorded the privilege of hitting the very first ball in the 134th Open Championship at St Andrews - the
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Get a (new) life!
Can't find a minute for yourself? Have you thought of hiring a 'life coach' or 'lifestyle manager'? Maxine Gordon finds out more. The life coach IF there was an Oscar for 'busiest mum' then surely Marie Steenson would be a contender. With four children
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Pub's bid to get 3.30am drinking
A BUSY York pub which applied to stay open as late as 5.30am faces a series of staunch objections when its application for extended hours is heard next week. Reflex, in George Hudson Street, has requested permission to sell drink until 2am on Sundays
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Dyson opener will be seen all round the world
NORTH Yorkshire's sultan of swing Simon Dyson will be smack in the gaze of the entire golfing globe in Thursday's Open championship. Dyson has been accorded the privilege of hitting the very first ball in the 134th Open Championship at St Andrews - the
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Open and shut
WHEN a pub asks to open until 5.30am, the prospect of York becoming a 24-hour city turns from long-discussed prospect to potential reality. That prompts thoughts of what sort of city we want to become. Most of us will welcome a more mature, Continental
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Watling's Hunslet loan move
YOUNG York City Knights prop Liam Watling has joined up with Hunslet Hawks Academy to get some game time. The youngster was signed at the end of the amateur season from York club Heworth but is yet to get a chance to show head coach Mick Cook what he
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Lavender... how useful is that?
HOW many different things can you do with lavender? Yep, we're putting you on the spot, but what do you reckon: ten? A dozen maybe? Not even close. Michael Omerson can demonstrate 101 things to do with lavender. Consider minds boggled. Michael is the
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Reserves start at Sincil Bank
YORK City's first reserve home game next season will be against Scunthorpe United on Wednesday, August 24, kick-off 7pm. Seven days earlier, Billy McEwan's men will open their Pontin's League campaign at Lincoln City. Here is the full fixture list although
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Way we were
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 100 years ago Alderman Widdowfield, in his characteristic manner, made some forcible comments on the modern motorist. In his observation the awful truth was that practically every man, woman and child in these unhappy isles went
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How to engineer an interest
DAVID Howard has a passion for demonstrating things. Give him a gadget and he can't help picking it up, playing with it, then explaining to you how it works. Almost as soon as photographer Paul Baker and I walk into his office at York University, he is
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"Stressed? No... it was the way we had been trained. You were fighting for your country"
JUNE Scott was delighted to be asked to join the national celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of war's end. But the invitation also delivered a problem. Where were her medals? Mrs Scott, 79, was due to attend the Commemoration Show planned for Horse
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Wizard Winston - 12/07/05
YORK-based Robert Winston, who rode four winners at Ayr yesterday to stay hot on the heels of jockeys' title race leader Jamie Spencer, can maintain his momentum at Catterick tomorrow. Winston won on Pacific Pride, Whinhill House, Zendaro and Sovereignty
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Richard rockets towards GB team
PROMISING Nestl Rowntree sprinter Richard Buck broke through the Under-23 European Championships qualification barrier to announce a resounding 'pick me' call to the selectors. The 18-year-old from Pickering opted to run at the English Schools' Championship
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Scorecards
July 9-10 Premier Division Acomb (3 points) lost to Woodhouse Grange (30) by 171 runs. Woodhouse Grange 235-6 (N G Hadfield 109, S R Dwyer 62, A Sykes 3-43), Acomb 64 (T Quinn 3-19, R Burdett 3-10, A Bilton 2-15). Clifton Alliance (30) beat Sheriff Hutton
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Scorecards
July 9-10 Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League York v Appleby Frodingham York: Sheedy st Coy b Taylor 113, Bartram c C Taylor b ver Meuden 22, Mason b C Taylor 85, Kay not out 20, Flack c Uddin b J Taylor 31, Wood not out 1. Extras 25; Total 297
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Little big win so hard for Easi
LITTLE was more than enough to signal a sensational finale to the Hunters the estate agent York and District Senior League premier division game at Easingwold. The hosts and reigning champions defeated title-chasing rivals Dunnington by one wicket after
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I'm sick of Bob's lectures
IN the early Eighties, I saw one of the best pop concerts ever - the Boomtown Rats at York University. Bob Geldof was superb, he had a rant between songs about this and that but being a young teenager at the time I had no idea what he was going on about
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They did so much
WE have just celebrated the anniversary of the end of the Second World War and remembered those remaining and those lost who confronted and defeated the forces of evil which would have crushed us. Members of the civil services on the home front rightly
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Truth on the farm
I WRITE in reply to Mrs Sylvia Dunn's letter regarding the high costs incurred when shopping at farm shops closely surrounding York (July 4). I wholeheartedly agree with the points she is making over the high costs associated with these shops. The problem
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Join our campaign to make Micklegate great
WE welcome the supportive comments of Liberal Democrat Councillor David Livesley on improvements in Micklegate (July 5). We do, however, remind him that it was the on-street car parking charges, coupled with the swingeing increases in council car park
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Grim premonition
I HAD a grim premonition when I wrote my last letter ("Less dithering"), which appeared in Wednesday's Press regarding an Armada on English soil. However, I still feel the real problem behind terrorism is poverty. Poverty through religion; poverty through
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Mystery helper
WITH reference to the report in the Evening Press about a car accident (July 4), I would like to trace the kind woman who attended the injured passenger on the road between Strensall and Sheriff Hutton on July 2. The injured woman was Beth Dale, who will
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On the buttons
I write regarding the letter Crafty thoughts (July 1). One shop Gillian Sowray overlooked is Duttons For Buttons in Coppergate. This unique shop, with its mediaeval room on the top floor, does not aspire to the craft selections of the other shops. But
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The York I love seems to have lost its soul
IS York losing its soul? I "found" York in 1954 when I brought a coach full of young people, plus an Australian exchange domestic science teacher, to see the second Mystery Plays after the war (not Judi Dench's, I think hers was the third or fourth).
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Blighted by bins
CITY of York Council has ordered 60,000 green wheelie bins for garden waste at a cost of £1 million. This, despite the very seasonal nature of garden waste which tenders a bin redundant for nine months of the year; despite the bins not being useable for
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Cheeky Morrisons
I POPPED into St Leonard's the other day to ask about that cheeky notice put up by Mr Morrison outside his shop in Acomb. He wants us in and out of the adjacent public car park in two hours flat: or else. I was delighted to discover, en passant, that
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Commercial Property spotlight: Made in York
YORKON, the York-based off-site construction specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, has been appointed sole modular supplier for Tesco Express for the second consecutive year. Since forming the partnership in 2001, Yorkon has manufactured buildings worth
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Skills for success
Has your business had a training check? DAVID HARBOURNE, executive director of the Learning and Skills Council York and North Yorkshire, tells you how to go about it. ENSURING that businesses have access to top class skills development and training is
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Review: Hayseed Dixie, Fibbers
IN TRUE carousing fashion, hillbilly band Hayseed Dixie played up to their hard living image. The band are best known for their bluegrass covers of heavy metal material, which they intersperse with bad jokes, innuendo, their own songs and roaring traditional
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Review: University of York Baroque Ensemble, National Centre for Early Music
For the University of York Baroque Ensemble's concert, featuring arias from Handel's operas, soprano Lynne Dawson was joined by Yvonne Seymour and York postgraduate Marina Theodoropoulou. Three for the price of one, very contemporary. It also set up a
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Dawson to lead Tykes
MAN-of-the moment Richard Dawson will lead Yorkshire in Wednesday's floodlit totesport League game against Surrey Lions at Headingley. He takes over from the injured Craig White after steering Yorkshire to a three-wicket County Championship victory over
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Tykes near to pass muster at Worcester
Yorkshire ended an exciting day of fluctuating fortunes at Worcester yesterday with the only certainty being that one of the two rivals was set to chalk up a Championship victory early in today's resumption. When play drew to a close among lengthening
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Eyes on prize-fighting pride
WHISPER it softly through a gum-shield, but British boxing is primed to be back on the up, up, uppercut. And the ring-craft renaissance is largely due to an east Lancashire hit-spot. The noble art has gone to ground rather than just hitting the canvas
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A first for knowledge
IT'S so darn difficult these days to be first - and it's getting harder all the time. I don't mean first in a track race, or first in the queue at the great Boxing Day sale, but to be the first man or woman on earth to do something really mindboggling
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Asbestos bags cleared at last
DUMPED asbestos waste has finally been removed from a country lane near York - thanks to "the power of the Press." Specialist contractors collected the six bags of waste from the verge in Plainville Lane, Wigginton, late last Friday. The Evening Press
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Kerr leads Cygnet charge
ROZ Kerr shot out 120 shanghai on the 20s as Cygnet 'C' ran out 6-3 victors against Clifton 'A' in their York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one match. Wenlock's Michelle Britton was in awesome form, closing on a two-dart 90 and 20 against
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Watling's Hunslet loan move
YOUNG York City Knights prop Liam Watling has joined up with Hunslet Hawks Academy to get some game time. The youngster was signed at the end of the amateur season from York club Heworth but is yet to get a chance to show head coach Mick Cook what he
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Reserves start at Sincil Bank
YORK City's first reserve home game next season will be against Scunthorpe United on Wednesday, August 24, kick-off 7pm. Seven days earlier, Billy McEwan's men will open their Pontin's League campaign at Lincoln City. Here is the full fixture list although
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Police braced for race crime
RACE workers are on "high alert" for any increases in hate crimes following the London bombing atrocities. They fear that minority communities in York and North Yorkshire may suffer a backlash from the terrible terrorist events of last week. Rita Sanderson
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Don't fall for a fake
JO HAYWOOD finds out how to tell fake fashion from the real deal. WE'VE had fake boobs, fake tans and fake orgasms. Now we've got fake fashion. Gone are the days of Del Boy-style fly-pitchers. Counterfeit couture is a £306 billion global industry, boosted
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I'm haunted by my e-mail
I KNOW it's one of the fastest, easiest forms of communication, but tell me, does anyone feel 100 per cent comfortable with e-mail? And if not, why do they insist on using it for anything and everything? Strife caused by e-mail messages is becoming a
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Stan, the rag-and-bone man
STANDING over 6ft tall, and smoking a cigarette with "a yard of ash hanging off", Stan Deere was not a man easily ignored - especially if you lived in The Groves, York, some years ago. For Stan conducted his business not so much door-to-door as gate-to-gate
