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Drive slower to save the planet
Will getting motorists to drive more slowly on the motorway really help reduce global warming? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. A CRACKDOWN on speeding motorway drivers, more electricity generated by offshore wind turbines, and winter fuel payments for pensioners
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Lecturers plan strike over pay
LECTURERS at York College are set to strike tomorrow as part of a dispute over pay. The 125 lecturers and learning assistants at the college who are members of NATFHE - the University and College Lecturers' Union - have announced the strike as part of
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Second win for PR firm
QUEST Public Relations Ltd, of Harrogate, has been hailed as the Best Small Team for the second year running, at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations annual Yorkshire and Lincolnshire PRide awards. Now its founder, Sharon Cain, and her five-strong
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Builders lay foundations for £300k distribution centre
BUILDING work on a new £300,000 distribution centre for Wetherby Stone Products Ltd has been started by Severfield-Reeve Projects (SRP). Thirsk-based builders SRP has designed and obtained planning permission for the new 10,000 sq ft centre at Dalton
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New hotel posting
THE Grange Hotel in Bootham, York, has appointed Amie Postings as its new general manager. She succeeds Graham Usher who has left to take charge of a new hotel in Bradford. Amie is no stranger to The Grange having worked as deputy alongside Mr Usher for
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Commercial Property spotlight: Sexy shop sales
PRIME buildings in the heart of York's city shopping centre are up for sale at between £3.25 million and £3.5 million. British Land, which has assets of £17 billion, wants to offload an area between Coppergate and High Ousegate, as part of its policy
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Developing a taste for warmth
JAMES RILEY has joined York-based Brackenhill Design as new media developer. It follows four years working as a web developer producing Internet-based English language learning materials for The University of Vienna. He said: "After finishing my four-year
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Lesson must be learned
NO one was there for Sadie Milson when it mattered. The attentions of her mother, Fiona, were diverted at the crucial moments when Sadie discovered her lethal medicine. Social services did not put her on the At Risk Register, despite Fiona's battle with
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RIP: Common Sense
I feel sad this week. Maybe it is because the moon is fat, or maybe because things back here on earth are taking a turn for the worse. Almost daily we are beaten and buffeted by lunacy, much of it government or council-inspired. In some English towns
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Wagons roll on city spectacle
THE Mystery Plays to be staged on pageant-wagons next summer will be anything but "miniature". ("Playing It Again", November 10). This magnificent spectacle at stations throughout the city cannot include all the plays in the cycle, but nor by any means
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Get a life
HOW dare David Black suggest that disabled parking bays are moved as "far away as possible" from the front of all car parks, since the legal occupants of those spaces "don't even have to walk" (Letters, November 9). Is he ignorant enough to think that
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Think again
IT'S quite obvious that Mr Black has full mobility without a thought of what its like to be disabled. So many times I have been to the shops to find yet more inconsiderate drivers parked in disabled bays when they shouldn't be, causing great distress
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Try it yourself
DAVID Black, you have taken my breath away and my blood pressure has just gone through the roof. I and many more would like to know where all the empty spaces are. The times we try to find the appropriate parking spaces and they are full - and guess what
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Another side
I SEE you are encouraging more publicity for the tragedy that occurred nearly two years ago affecting the Wall family amongst many others ("Worthless", October 31). Yes people's sympathy must go out to them, it is heartbreaking to lose one's son or brother
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Attitude to veggies is hard to swallow
MY topic for discussion is the parlous state of restaurants in this city. I refer specifically to restaurants at the upper end of the market and the absent-minded way in which they fail to cater for vegetarians. It seems like a very common-sense business
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Serious doubts
IT seems that York council welcome the critical Audit Commission report into the proposed Derwenthorpe development at Osbaldwick (Must do better, November 4). But all the lights have not yet turned green for Councillor Galloway and his fellow Liberal
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View from bridge
ON Saturday I had to applaud the boys and girls in their uniforms collecting money and giving poppies to many that contributed in York city centre. I am sure the many veterans and the Royal British Legion will be grateful for their support, manning the
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Future of the Bonding Warehouse up in the air as tenants allegedly say... 'no' to £250k
THE tenants of a dilapidated York building allegedly turned down £250,000 to surrender the lease to the city council. City of York Council sources told the Evening Press Lionel Davis and Keith Carby refused the huge sum, offered provisionally, to give
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Smallwood dominates semis
LEEMAN's Toni Smallwood was queen of the board at York John Smith's Ladies Darts League semi-finals night with some superb scoring. Smallwood progressed to tonight's ladies individual final with a 2-0 win against Wenlock's Dawn Exton closing the first
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Misery for York
CITY of York Hockey Club's Northern Hockey League premier division season goes from bad to worse. They crashed 7-1 at Bowden II and have mustered just one point from their opening eight games. York were rocked by the absence of striker Ben Foster who
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Women in sex attack alert
WOMEN are being urged to be vigilant in the wake of an alleged sexual assault in a York graveyard. Police are still taking details from a 36-year-old woman who was attacked between 1am and 4am on Sunday in St Martin's Church graveyard, in Micklegate.
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'We could have done more to help'
CHILD protection bosses have admitted they could have done more to help innocent Sadie Milson, who swallowed a fatal overdose of her mother's heroin substitute methadone. An investigation has found that 19-month-old Sadie's "needs, safety and well-being
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Town boss seeks vale of cheers
HARROGATE Town boss Neil Aspin is hoping to mastermind an FA Cup giant-killing tonight akin to the time he helped Port Vale dump out holders Everton in 1996. Aspin and his Vale team-mates, including former York City favourite Jon McCarthy, defeated a
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Funny folk flock to Royal show
WHERE do comedians go when they need a laugh? To York Theatre Royal. Top comics Paul Merton and Jimmy Carr were spotted at the theatre over the weekend, in the audience rather than on stage. Both had come to see the world premiere of Ray Galton and John
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Yellow peril is banished at last
MOTORISTS can once again park on city centre streets in the evening - marking the final victory in the Evening Press's Stop The Highway Robbery campaign. Yellow lines banning evening parking in nine York streets, including Fossgate, Duncombe Place, Goodramgate
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Way we were
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 100 years ago The season, which contrary to the general opinion was good at Whitby, being over, attention was now being paid to local matters. The bridge was the burning question, and it was now known, despite an elaborate pretence
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Acorn hearings afoot
THE hearings regarding the two abandoned matches involving York Acorn ARLC will be held tomorrow. Acorn's National Conference League division one game away to Castleford Lock Lane last month was stopped after 67 minutes due to a brawl, and their subsequent
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Single decker bus accident
Single decker bus accident at junction of Station Road and end of Leeman Road. Bus hit railing as it was turning right. Fire brigade in attendance to wash away diesel spillage. Police attended to control traffic at busy crossroads. Not known if any passengers
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Budding Bard writes again
My York News' resident poet William Watts has taken up his pen again, this time to help a family member who is feeling down. William's first poem was written to his Step-Mum, Dawn. His second was accompanied with a brief letter, and was written to his
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No truth to Danny rumours
CHALLENGE Cup hero Danny Brough is set to agree new terms with Hull this week and end rumours of a return to part-time rugby and perhaps York City Knights. Brough, who won the Cup for Hull with a late goal in the final against Leeds Rhinos, has been in
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Harry's chance - 15/11/05
Stillington trainer Harry Hogarth can notch his biggest success tomorrow in the feature race at Hexham. He saddles Capybara in the £20,000 Peter Fletcher Associates Northumberland National Handicap Chase and this recent course winner looks tailor-made
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Ground control bid for Tykes
Yorkshire County Cricket Club could know by tomorrow if Leeds City Council are prepared to stump up a multi-million pounds loan in order that they can then complete negotiations with their landlords to buy Headingley cricket ground. The council's executive
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Roon soon to be at the top
TWO weeks ago when George Best was at death's door the penultimate TKO column ventured the Irishman as the best footballer the world had produced. So that set me thinking, who would be my top five players to have hailed from these great British Isles.
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Health check firm hailed
NUTRATECH Ltd, the York company which has developed a way for people to use their mobile phones to fight the flab, has been declared the Most Innovative Business of the Year by Startup Awards 2005. The firm's ground-breaking lifestyle application, Nutracheck
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Barratt branch staff take show home accolade
BARRATT in York has won the National Sales Arena of the Year title for its show complex of four new show homes at The Crayke in Bridlington. The Crayke beat off competition from more than 400 Barratt sales arenas throughout the UK to win the accolade.
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Roon soon to be at the top
TWO weeks ago when George Best was at death's door the penultimate TKO column ventured the Irishman as the best footballer the world had produced. So that set me thinking, who would be my top five players to have hailed from these great British Isles.
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Iron Mike axed
IRON Mike against Eric Bloodaxe. What a contest. It would have made the rumble in the jungle look like afternoon tea at the garden centre. Thoughts of this time-travelling fight are conjured up by news that the Jorvik Viking Centre is unable to accommodate
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Up the garden path
York potter Andrea Cundell sells her wares all over the country, but makes them in her garden shed. Maxine Gordon pays a visit. ABOVE the door to Andrea Cundell's workshop is a small sign: "Genius at work". That small gold rectangle tells us a lot about
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Hark the herald
HARK, what joyous news is this the city's herald brings. My grey wheelie bin overfloweth to the tune of reduced collections. But be still my beating heart... where layeth my new bottle box? Where hideth my blue paper bag? Methinks they must be in some
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City centre sex attack in graveyard
A "HOODIE" sex attacker is being hunted by police after seriously assaulting a woman in a York graveyard. Officers were today searching the area around St Martin's Church, in Micklegate, after reports that a 36-year-old York woman was assaulted early
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Is this fair?
IN the October Osbaldwick Parish Council's Newsletter headed Derwenthorpe Public Inquiry, residents are informed that "a provisional budget for the inquiry has been allocated, and we are currently engaging appropriate professional advisers". However,
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Ask around
MS M Kendall's letter (November 1) attacking the Barbican protestors has rightly drawn a critical response (Letters, November 7). I too would like to take issue with her when she tries to imply that the holding up of Galloway's dome, the drinking den
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Make York Sparkle appeal falls short of £57,000 target
THE clock is ticking to the switch on of York's Christmas lights - and organisers still need £6,000. York's Christmas lights will go on this Friday, but the appeal to Make York Sparkle is still short of its £57,000 target. Because of financial constraints
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Anxious wait for asbestos victims
THE right to compensation of many York asbestos victims was hanging in the balance this week after a test case went to the Court of Appeal. Insurers Norwich Union and Zurich were challenging the right to damages of people suffering from pleural plaques
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Tyson's York tour dealt a blow as Jorvik Centre says no to ex-champ
IT would have been the ultimate battle. In the red corner, former heavyweight champion of the world "Iron" Mike Tyson against, in the blue corner, fearsome Viking legend Erik Bloodaxe. But Jorvik Viking Centre chiefs have revealed that the attraction
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New bus driver in crash mishap
THIS was the scene after a new bus driver accidentally crashed into railings while driving through busy York traffic. Firefighters mopped up 60 litres of diesel which spilled on to the road after the accident at about 5.55pm on Saturday. Lewis Outing,
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Villagers renew calls for safety work at deadly crossroads
ANXIOUS villagers have renewed a long-running campaign for safety restrictions at a notorious accident blackspot near Selby. Residents want traffic lights installed, or alternative measures taken, to increase safety at the infamous Chapel Haddlesey crossroads
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It's D-day for under fire Reid
DEMANDS are expected to be made today for the resignation of York transport boss Ann Reid following a controversial green light wedding party stunt. Labour leader, Coun Dave Merrett, has tabled a motion of no confidence, calling on the executive member
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Rail passengers in York may face tougher security checks in blitz on terror
PLANS to introduce airport-style security at railway stations were welcomed across the city. York station was surrounded by armed police when transport systems were on terror alert following the London bombings in July. Now the Government has announced
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No truth to Danny rumours
CHALLENGE Cup hero Danny Brough is set to agree new terms with Hull this week and end rumours of a return to part-time rugby and perhaps York City Knights. Brough, who won the Cup for Hull with a late goal in the final against Leeds Rhinos, has been in
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Ground control bid for Tykes
Yorkshire County Cricket Club could know by tomorrow if Leeds City Council are prepared to stump up a multi-million pounds loan in order that they can then complete negotiations with their landlords to buy Headingley cricket ground. The council's executive
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Wellies are dangerous
Now they tell me. After a nightmarish afternoon when I became stuck fast while walking through mud, and tumbled forward into the thick of it, I now discover that wellies are dangerous. My very first pair of adult boots, bought since we acquired our very
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Pally ho for in-form New Earswick
NEW Earswick ARLC maintained their 100 per cent winning start to Pennine League division one by thrashing Victoria Rangers 46-6. It was a fine nine-try display by the York side, who included six teenagers in the starting line-up and will be able to add
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Villagers' double joy
HEWORTH ARLC 'A' team completed a notable quick-fire double over East Leeds 'A' with a fine 22-18 away win in Yorkshire League division three. The Villagers' second string had defeated East Leeds at Elmpark Way last week and a superb second-half performance
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Holmes sweet Holmes
Tom Holmes was the star man as New Earswick U12s produced their best victory of the season against top-of-the-table Cherwell Chiefs. Holmes got all of All Blacks' points with three tries and one goal, while the defence also stood out in a fantastic team
