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Dyslexia is not a myth
There is no such thing as dyslexia, academics claim in a controversial new Channel 4 documentary tonight - children are just being diagnosed to save embarrassment at school. Nonsense, storm experts and parents in York. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. JOHN Rack
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Owner at odds with York Racecourse
A GROUP of racehorse owners are at odds with York Racecourse after their horse broke a leg and was put down on Knavesmire on Sunday. Style Princess, trained at Warthill by Declan Carroll and owned by London-based syndicate Murphy's Victoms, broke the
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Milestone for in-form McGrath
ANTHONY McGrath completed 1,000 first class runs for the first time in his career as Yorkshire took charge of the first day's play in their final home Championship match of the season against Worcestershire at Headingley on Wednesday. McGrath wasted little
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Knickers to the bags
PLASTIC bags, what a lot there are in the world - more bags than people, according to the finest guesswork this column can lay its hands on. The calculation goes something like this: if one person going into a supermarket can come away with, say, 20 bags
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£30,000 contract for transport company
A new North Yorkshire transportation, storage and fulfillment company has won a £30,000 contract. Greenline Logistic Solutions, which launched in June, will be setting up a northern showroom for London-based Gel Fireplaces at its offices in Harlow Carr
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Tapping into grants
Entrepreneurs in Ryedale will learn how to access grant funding through Business Link at the Worsley Arms, Hovingham, on Tuesday. The meeting, organised by Ryedale Business Club for sole traders, takes place at 6pm. The £6 fee for a buffet supper can
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Hope and hopeless
HERE'S a day for sporting hope - and desperation. First, the cricket. Here at least there is hope, rocketing hope, that England could regain the Ashes at the Oval. Many think this to have been the best Test series ever and the national mood has been buoyed
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Have-it-all kids miss out on love
YOUR 100 Years Ago panel for September 5 about three York girls charged with stealing two pairs of shoes, then trying to pawn them for a pittance, gives one food for thought. One then reflects on the 15-year old-youth appearing in the same paper in 2005
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Join the dance
Thank you for covering this year's York Traditional Dance Festival. I wish to thank City of York Council and our programme sponsor, The Golden Fleece, for their support and say that if anyone was inspired to take up traditional dancing ring me on 01904
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Time to say no to over-packaged food?
I have great sympathy with the many letters complaining about packaging of goods. Whenever possible we avoid buying products that have unnecessary packaging. Many other countries have had laws that control the level of packaging for many years. Indeed
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Stop the threats
WILL the council's Head of Waste Strategy, paid for by the taxpayer, or one of our councillors (ditto), stop threatening us with £100 rises in our council tax if we don't recycle? Once again the little man is getting penalised because of Government targets
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Foolish approach
WHETHER the new rubbish collections work or not, it is only the very foolish or immature who embark on major change without some sort of trial of the new system. We have had enough experience of large Government projects going haywire through lack of
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All Blacks sights on cup of good hope
Cup kings New Earswick All Blacks hit the silver trail on Saturday in the Tetley's Yorkshire Cup keen to revisit their giant-killing exploits of last season. The All Blacks became a real force to reckon with after forging an outstanding run in the GMB
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Police examine 'suspects' list
DETECTIVES are investigating several names passed to them by members of the public in the hunt for the York hoodie rapist. Detective Constable Craig Wilson said a number of names have been put forward following appeals for information about the shocking
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Getting to grips with gala high
THERE was a grimace in the greeting as New Earswick All Blacks Under-10 captain Ben Pulleyn and team-mates welcome Heworth's Michael Hinds ahead of NEAB annual gala and rugby league festival this weekend. Teams from across the region will go head-to-head
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We don't want to push patients through like cans in a supermarket
OVER a fifth of patients in York and Selby still cannot access their GP within the two- day target, new figures reveal. The Healthcare Commission found 27 per cent of patients in the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) area had to wait longer than
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York to get fixed speed camera?
THE first permanent speed camera for York and North Yorkshire could still come to the city, after councillors decided to look more closely at one of its accident blackspots. More than 650 people signed a petition calling for speed cameras to be installed
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Dalby sounds rock 'n' roll
The finals of the York Amateur Bowling Association competitions provided five brilliant games which were all decided on the last end with a new name etched on to the singles trophy. Jim Dalby (Poppleton Road WMC) beat the 2001 champion Brian Gray (Shipton
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Milestone for in-form McGrath
ANTHONY McGrath completed 1,000 first class runs for the first time in his career as Yorkshire took charge of the first day's play in their final home Championship match of the season against Worcestershire at Headingley on Wednesday. McGrath wasted little
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Inquiries launched into leaks from contaminated site
ENVIRONMENT chiefs are investigating two separate chemical alerts in two days on a contaminated York site. A pipe containing contaminated groundwater burst on Sunday on the Heworth Green site, and other contaminated material was brought to the surface
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Owner at odds with York Racecourse
A GROUP of racehorse owners are at odds with York Racecourse after their horse broke a leg and was put down on Knavesmire on Sunday. Style Princess, trained at Warthill by Declan Carroll and owned by London-based syndicate Murphy's Victoms, broke the
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Council house reform backed
A new way of allocating council housing which favours York people has been given the green light. From April 1 next year City of York Council will move from its traditional points-based system to a "band approach" to make the system fairer. Applicants
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Miserable Lee
A FINE all-round performance from Duffield's Lee Wild went unrewarded as opponents Drax clinched the runners-up spot in the first division of the HPH York Vale Cricket League. Despite his 5-84 from 20 overs and a top score of 30 in a total of 105, Wild's
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Final over for Kelfield couple
Kelfield's final game of the season was also the end of a long innings with the club for Steve Schofield and his wife Katie. The Riccall couple are leaving England to start a new life in Montenegro running a holiday letting business. Steve, a miner at
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Minster misses the boat
THIS Sunday, at churches across Britain, congregations will be asked to dwell on the evil of racism. For the tenth Racial Justice Sunday, organisers are asking Christians to join together in reflecting on the importance of racial justice, and pray for
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City triple injury fear
YORK City are hoping wounded trio Clayton Donaldson, Mark Hotte and Nathan Peat all recover in time to make Saturday's trip to Forest Green Rovers. Donaldson (foot), Hotte (back) and Peat (calf) have all missed training this week, putting the likes of
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Way we were
Thursday, September 8, 2005 100 years ago It was a contest for voters by the three political agents, at the annual revision of the lists of names of persons of the city of York entitled to vote at Parliamentary and Municipal elections, in open court in
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Palace's coup - 08/09/05
KEVIN Ryan, heading for his best-ever season, can hit the heights at Doncaster tomorrow when Palace Episode bids for Group 2 glory in the Champagne Stakes. The Hambleton trainer, currently just a handful of winners away from 67 successes, a personal best
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Bowlers bounce back
for the second time in three years the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League won the Yorkshire Inter-League Knock-Out competition after a hard-fought 36-run victory over the Nidderdale League at Stamford Bridge. Having won the toss, the Nidderdale
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Lumb do the slaughter
The Hunters York Senior League Joe Lumb XI finished the season with a comprehensive 130-run win over the Aire/Wharfe League in the Jack Lee Trophy Final at Clifton Alliance CC. York were restricted by tight bowling, but skipper Stephen Sacks held the
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The Robards Report: Doing the knowledge
All businesses, and especially those at an early stage of development, need expert help and advice. They may not always see it this way, but the reality is that the successful development of a business is both a challenge in its own right and also has
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Designs on the future
A NEW company launched in York by two designers has received a big welcome from the city's business organisations and creative community. LazenbyBrown, a new graphics design company based at the Fishergate Centre, was the brainchild of Matthew Lazenby
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Cashing in on green policies
A conference to help small and medium-sized businesses reap the benefits by thriving in an environmentally-sustainable city will be held near York next month. Details of how businesses can enhance their profits by meeting the challenges of trading in
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Banking on health
HEALTH insurer Medicash, has appointed Roni Gordon as its new area sales manager for York. He will promote and sell Medicash's new healthcare cash plans, Medicash Reward and Medicash First, to businesses in the area "that wish to give employees the tools
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Ease petrol tax, Gordon
OH no - here we go again. As queues build up at the petrol pumps, memories are revived of the shortages of 2000, when fuel protestors brought traffic to a standstill and blockaded oil refineries. Now direct action is being urged again, with a fuel protest
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My dental plan
DURING the last few months there have been several references to the shortage of National Health Service dentists in the York area. Last week there was a report on the deplorable state of children's teeth in many parts of the country. School children
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Oil and the planet
I HAVE no doubt Andy D'Agorne is sincere when he says we must end "our dependence on oil" but I wonder if he is falling into the usual trap of classing oil as virtually a luxury item used solely for the manufacture of petrol to power cars? Crude oil has
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Open the access
IN your report 'Boulder bother' (September 3), it was stated that Nether Poppleton Parish Council had blocked the bridlepath to the river with two large rocks because "locals" had complained that cars parking there were "spoiling the attractive area".
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No green-fingers
IN response to the debate on waste disposal, it is obvious to me that the council officials involved may be experts on waste disposal but know nothing about gardening. In my garden I have more than 1000 bedding plants, three lawns, a conifer hedge and
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Typically arrogant
I WAS disgusted by the letter from Kristy Walton (August 28) who, in typically arrogant City of York Council fashion (remember the car parking disgrace) did not acknowledge any of the concerns previously expressed in your pages. It is flawed logic for
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The future will be a little late
YORK'S new superbus is set to hit city streets three months late - after the company behind its development admitted it was trying to overcome some teething troubles. First expects to debut its FTR vehicle in March, once it has resolved issues with the
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Heworth aim for revival
Shell-shocked Heworth are looking to dust themselves off and start again in National Conference Two following their opening day 66-4 thumping at Widnes St Maries. The Villagers host Huddersfield Sharks on Saturday looking to capitalise on the memory of
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School mourns popular teacher
A POPULAR former teacher, who gave more than 31 years service to a York primary school, has lost his battle against cancer. Jeff Barrett, 65, from Acomb, York, joined Carr Junior School, in Ostman Road, as a teacher in the early 1970s. He went on to become
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Lamb of God
FOR most men of the cloth, watching over their flock is an essential part of church life. But rural rector, the Rev Richard Rowling likes nothing more than to tuck into his! Mr Rowling, who is the Archbishop of York's advisor on rural issues, was in York
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Miserable Lee
A FINE all-round performance from Duffield's Lee Wild went unrewarded as opponents Drax clinched the runners-up spot in the first division of the HPH York Vale Cricket League. Despite his 5-84 from 20 overs and a top score of 30 in a total of 105, Wild's
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Green light for sugar-coating
COUNCILLORS have given a warm welcome to an ingenious solution to a chilly problem. They're hoping the sweet smell of success will fill the air come December, thanks to a new sugar-coated grit for de-icing the city's roads. At a council meeting yesterday
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City triple injury fear
YORK City are hoping wounded trio Clayton Donaldson, Mark Hotte and Nathan Peat all recover in time to make Saturday's trip to Forest Green Rovers. Donaldson (foot), Hotte (back) and Peat (calf) have all missed training this week, putting the likes of
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Con couple stole from trusting OAP
A SCHEMING care worker and his wife fleeced a pensioner out of nearly £8,000 worth of her savings. Home help Malcolm Cooper, 53, won the trust of Evelyn Bell before persuading her to sign over bank dealings to him. The conman was jailed for 12 months
