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Pomfret is just the Lad to do it - 14/07/05
It's Pontefract's 13th annual 'Red Shirt Night' tomorrow - a charity meeting to raise money for the Injured Jockeys' Holiday Fund - and Pomfret Lad deserves attention in the feature race. The £15,000 Antonia Deuters Handicap is the target for the seven-year-old
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Review: Abigail's Party, York Theatre Royal, until July 23.
RAISE a glass and a little top-up to the Theatre Royal's best repertory show of 2005... and 1977. The programme's pastiche of the infamous Jamie Reid cover for Never Mind The Bollocks (or Botox here) was a reminder that '77 was the year of the Sex Pistols
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Long live our own first lady
ALED Jones has obviously never been to Buckingham Palace and seen the thousands of tourists flocking to see the Changing of the Guard ceremony, hoping they may catch a glimpse of the Queen (Letters, July 8). She is Britain's first lady, not a term I like
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Wrong response
YOUR front page story told of a children's party with barbecue and bouncy castle and the sound of excited childish voices (July 11). What could give more pleasure and satisfaction for the future? Then it was raided by "a dozen policemen", Orwellian! How
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Forgotten village
I READ with interest the comments made regarding the Selby bypass (July 4). Having lived in Burn for 50 years, I have watched the traffic flow increase on the A19 through the village. Traffic has always been a problem through the village but what is Selby's
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Give him a chance
WE really need only to reiterate Christopher Lyon's letter ("Plumb out of luck", July 11). We have two sons. The elder son is 20 and tried for more than a year to find an apprenticeship. After many frustrating months and dozens of letters he eventually
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Spitfires did tow gliders during the war
IN the Evening Press last June there was correspondence from readers as to whether, and to what extent, Spitfires had towed military gliders during the Second World War. My e-mail to the editor did not reach its destination and I should be glad if you
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Tech firm's £187m deal
IN ONE of the biggest potential business deals ever seen for an unquoted York company, Agilisys has been appointed preferred bidder for a £187.5 million deal to bring computerised government to Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. It will mean the technology
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Bargain hunters
RETAIL sales and summer weather have helped entice reluctant shoppers into York's stores to hunt down seasonal bargains. But many customers have been spending their money wisely, plumping for one or two bargains when they might previously have filled
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Taste of life behind bars
A CROOKED second-hand car buyer got a taste of life behind bars when he used a bouncing cheque to con a motorist out of his Ford Granada, York Crown Court heard. Conman Stuart Nicholson needed transport and could not afford to pay for it, said Mark McKone
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New task force for youngsters
TEENAGE pregnancies and bullying will be among the issues tackled by York's new children's task force. The newly-launched Yor OK! Board plans to help reduce the conception rates among under-18 girls by 2008, as part of a number of ambitious targets. It
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Dossier of crime to back footpath battle
A DAMNING crime dossier is being used as backing for a York's school's bid to close a historic footpath running through its grounds. Recent crime figures for St Peter's School in Clifton show 26 incidents at the school from October last year to June this
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Hopes for NHS dental places
UP TO 8,500 new NHS dentist places could be created in York, if a plan due to go before councillors today gets the go-ahead. Dobson and Associates dental practice, at 107 Lawrence Street, wants to expand into the neighbouring property, a move which would
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Dyson clocks on
NORTH Yorkshire golf star Simon Dyson was in the glare of the media spotlight today after sharing the early lead in the 134th Open at St Andrews. The York-based pro hit the first shot of the entire championships and followed it up with the first eagle
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Family mourns talented son
THE stunned parents of a young man who was killed in an horrific head-on crash today paid tribute to the talented footballer and mechanic. Jonathan Ward, 18, died instantly when his van was in collision with a lorry on the A64 near The Highwayman Caf,
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Memories and hope run side by side in York's Race For Life
FOR Uncle Dave. For Penny Pepper. For Evelyn. For Auntie Dot. For my Mum. For my Dad. On their backs in small, simple messages were the reasons why they were taking part, as thousands of women turned Knavesmire into a sea of colour to run the York Race
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Trio get teeth into tackling Terriers tour
Three cities and five matches in three weeks is the challenge facing three up-and-coming rugby stars from Pocklington RUFC, writes Claire Hughes. Nick Bennett, Matt Davies and Nathan Priestley jetted out to South Africa this week as part of a 33-man Yorkshire
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Dyson clocks on
NORTH Yorkshire golf star Simon Dyson was in the glare of the media spotlight today after sharing the early lead in the 134th Open at St Andrews. The York-based pro hit the first shot of the entire championships and followed it up with the first eagle
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Lee has a 'field day to inflict Union blues
LEE Wild had a superb all round day for North Duffield against Norwich Union in the HPH Vale League first division. First, Wild hit 106 from his side's 183-5 total. Then, he completed a daring display by taking 5-58 from the Union score of 150. John Patrick
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Thor point looms for York
York City Knight Neil Thorman could be pitched headlong against his own club when Gateshead visit next week after no exclusion clause was put in his loan deal. The 21-year-old hooker or half-back temporarily rejoined his former club for a month last week
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Temperatures rise as record crowd hopes soar too
SCORCHING sunshine could draw record numbers to the Great Yorkshire Show as a second day of heat took hold of the Harrogate grounds. From the moment the gates opened, visitors soaked up the sun while eating bacon sandwiches and watching the livestock
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Robin Gibb with the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt Orchestra - Live (Eagle CD and DVD) **
Back in 2003, two of the most dynamic and influential musical forces of our time decided to collaborate on what should have become one of the most successful albums of all time. The project was never completed. The featured vocalist, Michael Jackson,
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Suited & Booted, Essential Mod & Ska (V2) ****
HERE'S a pleasingly bonkers idea, a 40-track compilation linked with the loosest of threads. The mod and ska theme embraces anyone and everyone from Madness (One Step Beyond, House Of Fun) to The Specials (A Message To You Rudy, Too Much Too Young), with
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Motley Crue, Red, White And Crue (Universal Records) *
FEW bands can have taken as many drugs, drunk as much booze or indulged in as much sex as outrageous 80s glam-rockers Motley Crue, the undisputed kings of rock-star excess. Sadly, their songs are nearly as bad as their poodle haircuts and it is insulting
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This Is Reggae Music, The Golden Era 1960-1975 (Trojan/Sanctuary) ****
THIS box set does exactly what it says on the brightly-coloured tin. Ninety tracks on four CDs tell the full story of 15 peerless years of Jamaican music from mento and ska, through rocksteady to reggae and the birth of roots and dub. Well served by music
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Minotaur Shock, Maritime (4AD) ***
REMEMBER the Klangers? Those loveable pink aliens who spoke in a language that sounded suspiciously like a swanee whistle? The opening of Minotaur Shock's second album combines the Klangers Go Hunting with a Wildlife On One special, one with a curious
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'Why should we be dictated to? The freedom to manage our own health has been taken away'
HEALTH conscious vitamin users in York have been left angry and confused after the European Court of Justice backed controversial new laws tightening controls on the sale of supplements. Under the Food Supplements Directive, due to come into effect in
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Way we were
Thursday, July 14, 2005 100 years ago The neat and efficient appearance of the city sewage works on the riverside attracted favourable notice. Mr Creer, the City Surveyor, was complimented on the successes of his admirably constructed and efficient method
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Paddy Green was so impressed with the old Dakota that he bought one
FOR years pilot Paddy Green has been obsessed with a Second World War plane used during D-Day - now finally he is reaching for the sky in one. Fresh from a morning flight over the D-day beaches in France, the 57-year-old is still taking great delight
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School exclusions
Since September, pupils have been excluded from York schools more than 1,000 times. What happens to them? STEPHEN LEWIS visits York's Pupil Support Centre to find out. THE face on the computer screen looks a bit like one of the Orcs from Lord Of The Rings
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Older citizens left out in cold
OLDER Citizens Advocacy of York (OCAY) submitted a bid for funding to the council this year, along with the York Credit Union and the Older People's Assembly. These bids were considered by the executive leader and advisory panel on March 22. OCAY was
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Missing reason
IT is interesting that Coun Reid is so pleased that traffic levels in York are reducing, and that she puts it down to "so many people leaving the car at home and moving on to buses and Park&Ride" (July 12). May I suggest that she has omitted one significant
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Idea fit for the bin
HOW did City of York Council dream up the idea of rewarding people who do as they should and put litter where it belongs - in a bin ("A Rubbish Idea", July 11)? Once again, like the fining of louts who drop chewing gum, how on earth do they to monitor
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Memories, please
I WONDER if any of your readers have any memories of the building on Falsgrave Crescent, York, which started life in 1905 as the Burton Stone Lane Adult School? In later years it became the Bootham School Lads' Club, and then after the Second World War
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Freedom of choice
WILL a total ban on smoking give us clean air? I don't think so! ("Yes! To Clean Air" Supplement, July 11). On Sunday we remembered those great men and women who fought for our freedom against the dictator Hitler. He wanted everyone to like his way. And
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Crime against humanity
THE names of London's victims bring home the tragedy. Shahera Akther Islam, Miriam Hyman, Mike Matsushita, Karolina Gluck, Monika Suchocka, Jamie Gordon, James Mayes, Phillip Russell, Christian Small... so the list rolls on. Atrocities come at us in waves
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Family firm supplies jam for G8 summit
NOW that the G8 conference in Gleneagles is over, a North Yorkshire father-and-daughter company is waiting for French President Jacques Chirac to eat his words over criticisms of British food. Farmhouse Preserves, of Harrogate, says that Mr Chirac may
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Jaques can't quite tame Lions
A SPARKLING 98 from Australian Phil Jaques could not prevent Yorkshire Phoenix from losing by three runs to bottom-of-the-table Surrey Lions in the floodlit totesport League match at Headingley last night. It was a great effort by Yorkshire, who needed
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Walking to work raises £1,000
SAINSBURY'S worker Andrew Pair raised £1,000 for charity through a week-long sponsored walk. Andrew took part in Macmillan Cancer Relief's "Macmile" Challenge, which involved people being sponsored to do a mile of anything. He walked from his Huntington
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'Barons' behind council in York
A RADICAL overhaul of City of York Council is on the cards after the top level of the organisation was branded a "collection of baronies". Criticism of how senior officers operated came in a mixed review of the authority, carried out by a team of senior
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Report on docs to go public
A LONG-AWAITED report into the way the NHS handled complaints against two disgraced North Yorkshire psychiatrists is set to be published next Monday. Its publication - which is still subject to Parliamentary approval - comes only weeks after one of the
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Insurance staff urge daredevils to join leap off high-rise
JUMP off one of the tallest buildings in York for the sake of the kids. But make sure that you have an abseil rope with you at the same time! Forty staff members at Norwich Union, York, plan to abseil off the 100ft-high roof of their six-storey building
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Hulse injured in tour defeat
STRIKER Rob Hulse damaged ankle ligaments as Leeds United lost 1-0 to Haugesund in a pre-season friendly in Norway last night. Hulse was hurt in a two-footed tackle during the first half and United were assessing the full extent of the injury today. Manager
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Greece is the whirl to Phil
YORK triathlete Philip Graves is on his way to Europe after being crowned national champion and winning the European trial in the space of a week. The 16-year-old raced to victory in the National Youth Triathlon Championships at Llanelli after overtaking
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Switchback
A MOUTH-WATERING derby clash with Selby awaits York RUFC after the club was moved back into the Yorkshire rugby union fold. The Clifton Parkers have learned from the RFU that they will play the upcoming season in Yorkshire One - bringing to an end their
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Thor point looms for York
York City Knight Neil Thorman could be pitched headlong against his own club when Gateshead visit next week after no exclusion clause was put in his loan deal. The 21-year-old hooker or half-back temporarily rejoined his former club for a month last week
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Switchback
A MOUTH-WATERING derby clash with Selby awaits York RUFC after the club was moved back into the Yorkshire rugby union fold. The Clifton Parkers have learned from the RFU that they will play the upcoming season in Yorkshire One - bringing to an end their
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Thinking young
CITY leaders would be the first to admit their teenage years are long behind them. While councillors have a broad understanding of the issues that matter to our younger citizens, they would never claim to know what it means to grow up in 21st century
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Verve Remixed Vol 3 (Verve) ****
THE third instalment of the remix series which pairs pioneering DJs with some epoch-making jazz musicians promises to be just as successful as its two brothers. The choice of the Postal Service remix of Nina Simone's Little Girl Blue as the opener is
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The Costello Show, King Of America (Edsel) *****
The Costello Show was Elvis (the porky Liverpudlian, not the peanut-buttered American) without The Attractions for the first time since his debut. Costello took his love of American music to new heights on this 1986 set, recorded in part with Presley
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Karaoke Ken sings a century
SINGALONG superstar Kentaro Saito completes a memorable double today. He graduates with a philosophy, politics and economics degree at York University, shortly after achieving his dream of crooning 100 different tunes on the karaoke. After he was crowned
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City pass Rovers test
BILLY McEwan ran the rule over several trialists in a behind-closed doors match against Doncaster Rovers at the South Yorkshire side's Cantley Park training ground yesterday. City, who fielded two different teams for both halves, won 3-2 and McEwan will
