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Darren's decider
Selby Town again needed extra time in the FA Vase but this time they scraped out a 3-2 win over Midland Alliance Westfields in the 110th minute. Roy Jordan put the Hereford-based side in front on 39 minutes but Adam Wash equalised and Ian Twitchen put
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Getting the words right
Dyslexia is no longer seen as a hindrance when it comes to educating young sufferers, but there is still a good deal of ignorance surrounding the condition. Education reporter Haydn Lewis spoke to Evening Press graphic designer Elaine Brown and youngsters
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In Joe's memory
The untimely death of Joe Lister cast a shadow over schools' football last week as shocked former team-mates and coaches paid tribute to the talented sportsman in the best way they knew - by playing the sport he loved. Games and tournaments fell silent
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Pocklington aim to shine as North stars
Pocklington School's under-14 hockey team truly are a force to be reckoned with and will be hoping to show that strength when they tackle the rest of the best at the north of England finals, writes Claire Hughes. The team, who have already blazed through
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Brad's the way for U11s
York Under-11 schoolboys entertain Bradford at York Sixth-Form College on Saturday, meeting at 9.45am for a 10.30am kick off. U11s squad: James Hall, Harry McMillan, Sean Evans, Patrick Evans, Dean Wilson, Liam Jackson, Josh Poulter, Elliot Frodsham,
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Indian lift for Tykes
Yorkshire County Cricket Club returned home today from a highly successful nine-day visit to the World Cricket Academy in Mumbai. "All of the players have benefited from studying different techniques and playing in conditions they have not experienced
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Surveyors secure contract for major development
A MAJOR contract to be employers' agent and planning supervisor on a multi-million pound development at Monks Cross North, York, has been won by chartered surveyors and property consultants Lightly & Lightly. The contract - to manage and supervise
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Success at the double
YORKON, the York-based subsidiary of Portakabin, has won a major industry award for the third time running, recognising its pioneering work in off-site construction and its ongoing commitment to design and innovation. In front of 700 industry professionals
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Life on skid row
BY the weekend, we can confidently predict scenes of chaos. Folk will emerge into the cold evening air clearly unsteady on their feet. Some will slump slowly to the ground, shouting and screaming. Others will veer wildly into one another. There will be
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Life in fast lane on Park & Ride
I AM a fan of Park & Ride. It's cheaper than car parks, if only one person is travelling, and I don't have to worry how long I stay in York city centre. However, recently I have been concerned about the driving of the Park & Ride buses. They go
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12-hour days
I HAVE read with interest the Government's long overdue proposals to increase the state retirement age. I also noted with some annoyance a young woman's recent comments on "today's youth having to keep growing numbers of pensioners". As a pensioner I
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Jazz enthusiasts are not stuck in the past
RON Burnett castigates professed jazz fans for not attending concerts by the latest touring groups (Jazz Notes, November 18). He goes on to describe them as jazz archaeologists, riffling among the dead in second-hand record shops, nostalgic for the music
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Bin war
I WOULD like to set the record straight. Labour councillors are not anti-recycling, they are anti-Liberal Democrat. Labour believe the Liberal Democrats should have stuck to their manifesto pledge and introduced a pilot scheme for expanding recycling
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Rough ride
ON Monday, November 14, my son and I visited York for a day out, mainly to do some shopping and take photographs of the interior of York Minster. On arrival at York railway station my son and I got into a taxi and I asked the driver to take us to the
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No to possibility of job cuts at York factory
THE man from Del Monte says NO - we are not selling off the company's York factory. Peter Miller, managing director of Del Monte UK, has visited the plant at Skelton to scotch rumours that it might be sold. He told the Evening Press he had held a series
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Warden microchips 1,000th pooch
THIS little puppy needn't worry about getting lost, after she became the 1,000th dog to be microchipped for free by Selby District Council. Dog warden Bill Parker hit the milestone when he visited Tallulah at her home in Oak Drive, Thorpe Willoughby.
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We're teed off by mobile mast!
ANGRY residents claim they were not properly consulted about a mobile phone mast put up yards from their homes. People living in and around Fifth Avenue in Tang Hall, York, were dismayed when a mobile phone mast went up on the corner of Melrosegate and
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York family's floral tradition
IF you are about to have a baby, and are struggling to agree on a name, why not take a leaf out of the Leafs book? The Leaf family, who lived in York in Victorian times, decided to fully embrace their horticultural theme and name their children after
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Way we were
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 100 years ago A great crowd filled the York Market for the Martinmas Fair. Round and round the muddy thoroughfare they walked, pushing and jostling each other, drinking in the noisy attractions of the travelling showmen. Steam
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Have you heard (tongue in cheek)?
Allegedly, due to all the festivals that have been happening throughout the year, the City Council have decided to organise a Christmas party to celebrate their success. With it being a Christmas party the Council has decided to hold it in February as
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Who was Billie No-Mates?
On walking down Coney Street, Monday lunchtime, I passed Woolworths and spotted a young man carrying a large piece of cardboard with the words "I need some friends" (or close to that, as I only glanced really quickly). My thoughts were: one - why? what
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Problem railings
Bus drivers have no end of problems with railings. At the junction of Haleys Terrace and Huntington Road the Number 5 buses have trouble turning left onto Huntington Road, not just because of the railings, but because of the awkwardly-placed traffic island
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Ghoul's night out for 3am girls
On Saturday night (15th October), me and my friend, Jenna Lock, decided to have a bit of a girly night out. We were in Nexus and stayed till close. Being young, we thought that it was too early to go home. We decided to go for a walk. Stupid idea, I suppose
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A lesson in how to be English
Are we really embarrassed to be English, as Archbishop of York John Sentamu suggests? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. THE new Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has urged us to stop beating ourselves up about being English and learn to be proud of who we are
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Silver to shine - 23/11/05
FORMER invalid Silver Knight can reward the patience of his connections by winning the feature race at Carlisle tomorrow. The Tim Easterby-trained gelding goes for the £12,000 Ashleybank Investments Handicap Chase with David O'Meara in the saddle, and
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All for one festival
A move to put the 'all' back into football kicked off today when York's two special schools combined for a disability football festival at Burnholme Community College. Applefields and Hob Moor Oaks have joined forces with Copmanthorpe Football Club and
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A competitive spirit can bolster business
"IT'S NOT worth all the fuss and bother!" How often have we heard bosses in small companies say something like that when an enthusiastic employee has suggested that they might enter for some competition or other? Not that there's any shortage of choice
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Research company's capital gains
A RESEARCH agency in York agency has teamed up with a top national firm to win a major research contract designed to help London's deprived neighbourhoods. York-based QA Research and SQW beat off fierce competition to secure the right to conduct an evaluation
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Secret chocolate box
How can they do this to me? Not only have Kraft outraged the good people of York with their decision to pull Terry's out of its birthplace city - they've decided to axe a landmark treat of my childhood while they're at it. Terry's Neapolitans. Just the
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For whom the bell tolls
TONIGHT at 11pm, publicans across Britain will ring out the old and ring in the new. The toll of a thousand bar bells will signal last orders for an old way of life. For the best part of a century, that clanging sound signalled the abrupt end of an English
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Making sense
MAY I congratulate Bill Hearld for his column "RIP: Common Sense" (November 15). Good on you, Bill, for saying what I am sure many are thinking, especially the older ones among us. Yes Bill, I certainly remember the days of common sense. I will be making
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Problem solved
I MAY have solved the Government's retirement finances problem. Raise the retirement age for all, men and women, to age 71 now, and increase this age annually by one year, ie next April, 72, and so on. The financial saving would be huge as, over time,
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What a shame
IN REPLY to Naomi Angove (Letters, November 18), while the new twin bin system has inevitably taken some getting used to, the fact that thousands of tonnes of rubbish are now being composted instead of landfilled is something to celebrate. It is a real
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Parting shot
SO it's farewell then to Jeremy Banyard, the scourge of City of York Council and our beloved chief constable (Letters, November 17). I wonder if the good citizens of Ripon are ready for him. His parting shot is to say that none of our councils have a
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Taxing matter
I WOULD like to bring up the remarks made by Coun Steve Galloway regarding council tax increases (November 3). Surely Coun Galloway knows that under this tin pot left-wing Government (hiding under New Labour), council tax increases were kept down because
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Royal Mail should employ more staff
I RECEIVED a card from Royal Mail as they could not deliver a parcel while I was out. Birch Park Delivery Office now appears to close at 2pm, or noon on Saturdays. I rang Royal Mail's customer service. After listening repeatedly to their recording asking
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York big thumbs up to idea of balloon
THE plans to take tourists and residents 400 feet into the sky above York in a balloon have been strongly backed by Evening Press readers. They say hot air balloonist Per Lindstrand's proposal is a "fantastic and fabulous" idea, which they would enjoy
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Now we'll listen
IT brought in a new waste collection scheme without consulting residents. But now City of York Council has decided it is time to ask taxpayers for their views on the future of waste management. The authority is part of the York and North Yorkshire Waste
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Police bring in on-the-spot fines as York braces itself for late-night licensing
POLICE today announced their toughest-ever coordinated crackdown on binge-drinking disorder, as York's pubs and clubs prepare for the launch of late night licences. North Yorkshire Police will for the first time issue on-the-spot fines for offences such
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Gang rape: five arrests
FIVE men have been arrested in connection with the vicious graveyard gang rape of a deaf woman, who cannot speak, following a search of two properties in York. The raids took place at 7am this morning in Leeman Road in the city, and the suspects who are
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Residents' plea over flats fate
WORRIED residents at a block of flats which has been threatened with demolition for more than a year have urged housing chiefs to settle their futures. Tenants who live at Poppleton Gate House, in Millgates, Acomb, say they still do not know whether they
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Catherine Zeta-Jones' dress on sale in York
ROSE in her mouth, a sword held aloft - Georgia Horsley showed us a bit of Zorro's magic when she modelled a dress once worn by Catherine Zeta-Jones. The raven-haired film star wore the dress in 1998 blockbuster The Legend Of Zorro - the film that catapulted
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New archbishop sets out views on multiculturalism
THE new Archbishop of York today urged the English to reclaim their national identity. Dr John Sentamu - launching a powerful attack on multiculturalism- claimed that too many people were embarrassed about being English. He called for English people to
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Darren's decider
Selby Town again needed extra time in the FA Vase but this time they scraped out a 3-2 win over Midland Alliance Westfields in the 110th minute. Roy Jordan put the Hereford-based side in front on 39 minutes but Adam Wash equalised and Ian Twitchen put
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Icy blast braved
With match action restricted to local stillwaters it was a surprise that any contests went ahead following the icy blanket that had engulfed the area during the course of the week. With York Amalgamation wisely taking the decision to move the Animals
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York hosts Ouse class to plunder river booty
York City Rowing Club finished tops as 18 crews and scullers gained trophies while three of their boats finished in the top ten of races in the York Small Boats Head meeting on the River Ouse. Overall, YCRC had 14 wins in the sculling discipline and four
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Late goal burst burns off foes
A GAME billed by many as the "Derry and Hyde" rematch produced a "Jeykll and Hyde" performance from Leeds United. Bad blood still existed between Shaun Derry and Burnley midfielder Micah Hyde going into last night's Elland Road clash after the two players
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Panther back in the Pink
EMMANUEL Panther is expecting to give York City fans an early Christmas present by returning to first-team action before the start of the festive season. The former Partick Thistle midfielder has been sidelined for the last five matches since damaging
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York council may put gritting operation into private hands
FIRST they tried to sugar coat the problem. Now council bosses in York may sell off their responsibilities to grit icy roads and paths in the city to a contractor. City of York Council has tendered its highway maintenance services to outside firms in
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Panther back in the Pink
EMMANUEL Panther is expecting to give York City fans an early Christmas present by returning to first-team action before the start of the festive season. The former Partick Thistle midfielder has been sidelined for the last five matches since damaging
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Now we'll listen
IT brought in a new waste collection scheme without consulting residents. But now City of York Council has decided it is time to ask taxpayers for their views on the future of waste management. The authority is part of the York and North Yorkshire Waste
