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Ebor meeting results
Thursday, August 18, 2005 1.20 VC Bet City of York Stakes (7 furlongs) 1 Arakhan 11-4 fav, 2 Quito 10-1, 3 Babodana 10-1. 11 ran. Distances: l, 1. Winning jockey - Kieren Fallon. Winning trainer - Sir Michael Stoute (Newmarket). 1.55 Jaguar Cars Lowther
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Cucu is nun but brave
La Cucaracha came with a telling late run to land the Group One VC Bet Nunthorpe Stakes at York. The Barry Hills-trained filly burst through down the centre of the track and just kept on to deny the fast-finishing The Tatling. Majestic Missile ran a blinder
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Conference market boom
NOW for the good news. After the gloom of reports of a downturn in leisure tourism spending in York, the city's conference market is booming. Since April the York Tourism Bureau conference desk has taken bookings for £400,000-worth of events, compared
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Reinstated York back in Trophy
YORK Cricket Club will contest this year's Black Sheep Trophy final despite being knocked out of the competition. The Clifton Park outfit have been re-instated into the tournament after 15-run semi-final conquerors Pudsey St Lawrence were found guilty
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Glass attacker jailed
AN ALCOHOLIC who claimed she was offended by a karaoke singer's T-shirt smashed a glass over his head and then thrust the jagged remains into his face. The blows left the victim, Simon Singleton, with a gaping head wound, cuts down to the bone, no feeling
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Crash driver 'killed himself'
A YOUNG man killed himself by driving his car at high speed into a stately home because he could not face going back to prison. Lawrence Koppert, 23, known to his friends as Loz, sneaked out in the early hours of Monday morning and drove his silver Peugeot
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Spectacle of colour and fashion as temperatures sizzle
SPECTACULAR hats, eye-catching dresses - they were all out in force at Ladies' Day on Knavesmire. Lady racegoers from across the country splashed out on some high glamour outfits, many by top designers, for the popular third day of the Ebor race meeting
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Kilometre 'cock-up'
A LEADING York councillor today labelled City of York Council's embarrassing mistake in putting up 30 wrong rights of way signs as the "kilometre cock-up". Labour councillor Brian Watson warned council chiefs to be more careful in future after the signs
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Practice makes perfect for vet
CELEBRITY VET Emma Milne, one of the stars of BBC television documentary Vets In Practice, is now permanently treating sick animals in York. Emma has taken over Willow Grove in Strensall Road, Earswick - a building which once belonged to William Sim,
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Old stars roll out for umpire Dickie
SOME of the biggest names in world cricket will be in action at Scarborough on Sunday. West Indian stars like Richie Richardson, Alvin Kallicharran Jimmy Adams, South African strokemaker Herschelle Gibbs, Kiwi all-rounder Chris Harris and Pakistan spinner
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Can you identify tagger?
DO YOU know the criminal hand behind these graffiti attacks? If you do, you could scoop up to £1,000 in the next stage of the York Police "turn in a tagger" campaign. The successful drive, backed by the Evening Press, has already brought several paint-wielding
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Blackwell fury over Eirik's injury
LEEDS United manager Kevin Blackwell is furious that midfielder Eirik Bakke has picked up an injury playing for Norway in a meaningless friendly against Switzerland. And he is calling on countries to show common sense when arranging friendly matches in
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Practice for Pocklington
POCKLINGTON RUFC enjoyed a highly satisfactory run out when they played their first practice match of the season against Goole at Percy Road. Pocklington gave 26 players a go, and won two and drew one of the four half-hour periods, finishing with a cumulative
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Mansaram and Peat fined by McEwan
DARREN Mansaram and Nathan Peat will be sweating on their starting places for York City's Conference clash at Grays Athletic tomorrow after being fined for indiscipline. Both players incurred the wrath of manager Billy McEwan after receiving yellow cards
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'It is horrific to think my daughter died just for the sake of not having a seat belt'
ONLY £80 could have saved the life of an Army officer who died in a helicopter crash in Sierra Leone, her father said today. Retired chartered engineer and Army veteran Major Robert Raine, of Usher Lane, Haxby, said he was "disgusted" that military personnel
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Non-Leaguers all ready for the big kick-off
FORGET the big-money goings-on in the Premiership - grassroots football is back with a bang tomorrow. Newly-promoted Goole, still bubbling after the joy of sealing the Northern Counties East league premier division title last year, take their first bow
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Knights keeping in focus
MICK Cook has kept all talk of the title to a minimum at training, demanding his York City Knights side instead deal with the immediate job at hand. The Knights visit Hunslet Hawks on Sunday knowing victory would see them promoted with two games to spare
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Fast foodie burns rubber
NO wonder heartthrob TV chef James Martin left North Yorkshire behind - too many speed humps. The Ready Steady Cook star hails from Malton and his dad, Ian, was event manager at Castle Howard for 27 years, launching the proms which will take place again
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Try researching
IF our city council took the trouble to research what is required by its residents when preaching about waste recycling it would be far more successful. We have a black bin for waste, a green bin for bottles etc and a bag for papers. A recent leaflet
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Bins will overflow
IN their Your City publication of July 2005 City of York Council considered that 21 per cent of our waste was kitchen and garden rubbish, and we have been told that only garden waste should be put in our new "green bin". Let's assume that ten per cent
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Let's dance...
AS a frequent visitor to York we should like to enjoy sequence dancing in the city but have been unable to find any venues. We would be most grateful if anybody could telephone us with information on 0114 2350139. Keith and Pat Neale, Pingle Avenue, Sheffield
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Why pick August?
CITY of York Council and homesless centre Arc Light are either extremely bad promoters or are wilfully withholding information from York residents and owners of city properties. Posting leaflets through the doors of houses on Newborough Street is no guarantee
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Half the story
ROGER Westmoreland's anti-American rhetoric tells only half the story, and that half is distorted (Letters, August 9). After being dragged into the first European war of the 20th century by the German navy sinking the Laconia and another hundred neutral
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Bizarre logic
THE logic of David Hunter's second letter about the future of Haxby Memorial Hall (August 17) is even more bizarre than his first. The protest group was formed because the trustees went public twice and have practically ignored the option the community
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Sun trap to attract a bigger core of City fans
YORK City's need to attract a new generation of younger supporters has been cited as a major reason for the scheduling of Sunday fixtures in the 2005/2006 calendar. The Minstermen have Sabbath home dates against Aldershot Town (February 12) and Kidderminster
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Way we were
Saturday, August 20, 2005 100 years ago For all the privileges of life in cities and towns we were, according to figures quoted by Sir James Crichton-Browne in his presidential address to the Sanitary Inspectors' Association, paying a penalty which could
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Way we were
Friday, August 19, 2005 100 years ago Few, it was assumed, would deny that smoking among the young was an evil, which was unhappily spreading very rapidly. The Scottish Anti-Tobacco Society had, to gain information, undertaken to investigate the practices
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Are women really on top?
Has the pendulum swung too far in the battle of the sexes? Michael Buerk thinks so. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the latest twist in the sex wars. MICHAEL Buerk has performed an about-turn on his much-publicised tirade against women. But what did you expect
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Repeat Bullet - 19/08/05
Who says lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice? Not Malton jockey Tom Eaves and Scottish trainer Ian Semple, who have bright prospects of winning the Beverley Bullet for the second year running with Chookie Heiton tomorrow. This £30,000 Listed
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Tykes labour
YORKSHIRE paid a high price in the Roses match at Old Trafford yesterday for the absence of fast bowler Chris Silverwood who could not take the field because of a hamstring strain. Deon Kruis stunned Lancashire at the start of the third day by grabbing
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Mad Hatter celebrates new direction
IT BECAME curiouser and curiouser, as MAD clues were dropped all over the York Moat House Hotel in North Street. Mysteriously, playing cards began to emerge in strange places; somehow a tray of tarts appeared before the hotel's conference employees; and
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Doubt hangs over future of economy
CHARLES BEAN, executive director of the Bank of England, declared business leaders are uncertain about the future direction of economy in Yorkshire, after a meeting at The Grange Hotel, York. Mr Bean, who is a member of the bank's all-powerful Monetary
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Gluten for punishment
A LIFE without pasta, fresh bread and chocolate cake might seem too miserable to imagine. So how would you cope if you became one of the thousands of people who suffer from coeliac disease? Coeliacs have a life-long intolerance to gluten - the protein
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Retired York postie
POSTIE of the people Keith Jameson has kept on delivering for housebound pensioners - despite hanging up his letters bag six months ago. The 63-year-old, from Key Way, Fulford, York, gets up at 7am every Sunday to take newspapers to more than a dozen
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Blueprint due for terry's site
A BLUEPRINT for the future of the Terry's site will be published this autumn, with councillors still determined that fresh jobs must be created to compensate for the hundreds lost. The draft development brief is being produced as it emerged that the chocolate
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Non-Leaguers all ready for the big kick-off
FORGET the big-money goings-on in the Premiership - grassroots football is back with a bang tomorrow. Newly-promoted Goole, still bubbling after the joy of sealing the Northern Counties East league premier division title last year, take their first bow
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Registration day
YORK RUFC youth section will be holding their registration day on Sunday, September 4 at Clifton Park between 10am and noon. Youngsters are welcome to try the game for up to four weeks before committing to membership. Membership is open from the age of
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Knights keeping in focus
MICK Cook has kept all talk of the title to a minimum at training, demanding his York City Knights side instead deal with the immediate job at hand. The Knights visit Hunslet Hawks on Sunday knowing victory would see them promoted with two games to spare
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$28m fraud trial
JUDGES in Spain have ruled that an alleged "criminal mastermind" from York should be extradited to the United States to stand trial for a multi-million dollar fraud. Graham Gill, 73, from Bishopthorpe, is charged with earning $28 million from a massive
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Waste plan is not well thought out
I DO not think the council's plan to reduce the frequency of domestic waste collection is a very well thought out idea. The grey bins emptied once a fortnight will inevitably contain scraps of meat and other food which will create an increased health
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Unfit to raise kids
I HAVE just finished reading a further report about the children who have been removed from their home because their parents are deemed to be "not intelligent enough" to raise them. This has to be wrong. Every article I have read about these people says
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Write to Prescott
I SHOULD like to supply the address of the office of Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to everyone who is opposed to the Arc Light Centre relocation. I suggest everyone writes directly to him, because it seems to me the "partnership" between the centre
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Ban the blarers
IS there any enforcement action that can be taken by police or local authorities, against music blaring from motor vehicles? My office overlooks York's inner ring road, and we must frequently contend with the thump thump of overworked bass from vehicles
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Disabled are not all well catered for
HERE we go again. I feel as if I'm banging my head against a brick wall sometimes. Heather Johnson, of City of York Council's equality team, helpfully advises us of the Disabled Go website (August 16). I'm lucky enough to have internet access, although
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Hat's the way in hit-man duel
MIDWEEK hat-trick heroes Joe O'Neill and John Martin will, once more, be hoping to fire their respective sides to victory when York City travel to Grays Athletic tomorrow. Midfielder Martin was Grays' treble hero in a 6-1 victory over Gravesend and Northfleet
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Mansaram and Peat fined by McEwan
DARREN Mansaram and Nathan Peat will be sweating on their starting places for York City's Conference clash at Grays Athletic tomorrow after being fined for indiscipline. Both players incurred the wrath of manager Billy McEwan after receiving yellow cards
