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Mother Hubbard's, 43 Westborough, Scarborough
AFTER an invigorating walk on Filey Brigg, we journeyed to Scarborough. Seeking an alternative to turkey, we remembered a suggestion from Foxwood readers. Fish and chips! The caf is on the first floor. There is no lift. The caf was busy when we arrived
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Worth a visit
Graeme Robertson recalls some of his favourite snacking outings of 2005. Despite an extended spring holiday, Ann and I managed to sample 42 Quick Eats last year. As usual we discovered some gems within easy travel of York. Sadly this year we encountered
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Fun times with French
Most parents want their child to learn a foreign language, but few primary schools teach them. Jo Haywood finds out how 'fun French clubs' are trying to fill the gap. CHILDREN fall over an average of 240 times before they take their first steps. Unlike
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A promising future
Gina Parkinson looks out over her neglected winter garden and thinks about what will come again. Happy New Year to all from In The Garden and here's to a successful gardening year for us all. My garden has been neglected for the past month while I have
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Eurocamp Monet
Mike Laycock and family carry on camping in Vendee, on France's beach-blessed Atlantic coast. As we drove through the campsite barrier, rain began to pour down from leaden skies. Which was a bit much when we had just travelled 488 miles in search of sun
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Resident wins rubbish prize
OLD rubbish proved to be a money-spinner for one York resident, who won a city council prize for his recycling efforts. Michael Gibbons, of Wharton Avenue, won £50 in the newly-launched scheme to encourage residents to use its recycling services. The
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Nathan the brave hurdles pain barrier
YORK City vice-captain Nathan Peat took painkillers in a desperate attempt to turn out for the club despite suffering a fractured leg. Peat actually played through the pain for the first team and set up a goal for Andy Bishop in the 4-0 FA Cup victory
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Barbican chief quits job
THE entertainments manager at York's Barbican Centre has quit, saying he has taken a new job because of continuing uncertainty over the complex's future. Dewi Lewis, who had held the post since 2000, remained at the Barbican after it closed down in 2004
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Jobs to go in shake-up
A CRIME-busting partnership whose work has won Home Office recognition is at risk of shedding jobs because of a funding crisis. Key posts are under threat at the Safer York Partnership, triggering high level accusations that the City of York Council is
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City pledge after 2005 'farce'
THERE will be no repeat of the controversial York fireworks display which left more than 10,000 people disappointed, council chiefs have confirmed. Leisure and heritage boss Coun Keith Orrell said the November 5 display - to mark the 400th anniversary
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New Year revolution as teams set pace
COURSE records tumbled at the York New Year Relay Races on Knavesmire. A new mark for the female team was set by the Nestl Rowntree AC trio of Emma Macalister-Hall, Dawn Gibbs and Lara Gibbs. They clocked 48 minutes 59 seconds, finishing fifth overall
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Dr John: He's so groovy
HE IS groovy. That was the description of the new Archbishop of York from one pupil at Tadcaster Grammar School. Dr John Sentamu popped into the school to meet Christian students during his first day of getting to know the York Diocese. He also had a
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Timely reward for Tomlinson
SELBY golfer Tommy Tomlinson has marked a sporting anniversary in great style. Thirty-three years to the day since he joined Selby Golf Club he was appointed captain and drove in to mark his year in office on New Year's Day to the accompaniment of a brass
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Fox unaffected by Lee rise, says Cook
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook reckons Peter Fox's situation at Leeds Rhinos has changed little, despite the winger missing out on a top 20 squad jersey. Leeds announced yesterday that Fox's fellow young gun, Lee Smith, had won the race for the number
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Rebuilt flats get same type of roof
A FIRE authority member has condemned the decision to replace the roof at the fire-wrecked Fulford Place flats with a similar design. Coun Ken King, who is one of City of York Council's representatives on North Yorkshire Fire Authority, said that while
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Nathan the brave hurdles pain barrier
YORK City vice-captain Nathan Peat took painkillers in a desperate attempt to turn out for the club despite suffering a fractured leg. Peat actually played through the pain for the first team and set up a goal for Andy Bishop in the 4-0 FA Cup victory
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Pig farmer jailed for swindle
Once a wealthy and respected farmer, Nigel Spilman Hawkins stripped his grandmother of all her money and cheated his sister out of her inheritance, a court heard. Hawking's fraud enabled him to go skiing in America with his wife and children, and travel
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Kirkbymoorside walk
George Wilkinson steps into the snowy valleys of Ryedale. Snow, snow, great joy, snow, more than enough in Ryedale to make it easier to fasten a pair of gaiters to the boots rather than a set of chains to the car wheels, and walk from somewhere easy rather
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Key kindness
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to thank the kind and honest person who handed in my car (and house) keys to the reception desk at Tesco during the run-up to Christmas. I fear that I must have left them in the rear door of my car and I can only
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Green habits
Happy New Year. My resolution this year is to change my habits just a little. We all need to take responsibility for our own actions towards the environment. We can lobby our politicians or get into big debates, but let's not forget to change our own
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Is there any alternative to the Lib Dems in York?
I have only one question about the fireworks: why on Earth did all those people go to the Minster area to see them? Common sense should have told them that unless the fireworks went off from the buildings round that area, they were never going to be seen
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Saturday knight
CAN I through your letters column reiterate the words of Dr David Hill, of the World Innovation Foundation Charity (Letters, January 3). We are all disgusted that the great Bruce Forsyth did not receive a knighthood in the recent New Year's Honours List
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Smelly public toilets in York are a disgrace
I had cause to visit the gents' public toilets in Parliament Street, York, twice over the festive period. The first time was on Sunday, December 18, 2005. In spite of a large presence of council employees, the urinals were blocked and almost overflowing
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Panto fun for all the family
Now back at work, and Christmas an almost distant memory, there are still 3 fun-packed exciting Panto days left! Myself and a group of other mothers have spent almost all of our Christmas break chaperoning, dressing and looking after two groups of wonderful
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Fox unaffected by Lee rise, says Cook
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook reckons Peter Fox's situation at Leeds Rhinos has changed little, despite the winger missing out on a top 20 squad jersey. Leeds announced yesterday that Fox's fellow young gun, Lee Smith, had won the race for the number
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Passion for riesling
In Tipping's Tipples this week, Mike Tipping reveals a passion for riesling. I received a questionnaire from my niece this week. It was part of a school project, I hope. If not, she has some strange hobbies! In one of the sections, I was asked to name
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City hero of Man U humiliation pushes work ethic for Burton
THERE will be worldwide reverberations should Burton Albion shock Manchester United in the FA Cup third round tomorrow. A defeat would be the most unexpected result for the Red Devils since Alex Ferguson's men were humbled 3-0 by York City at Old Trafford
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Timely reward for Tomlinson
SELBY golfer Tommy Tomlinson has marked a sporting anniversary in great style. Thirty-three years to the day since he joined Selby Golf Club he was appointed captain and drove in to mark his year in office on New Year's Day to the accompaniment of a brass
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York's battle of the booze
CHILDREN as young as 13 are being treated for alcohol problems in York, where increasingly more women are also battling against the lure of the bottle. The sobering revelation comes as new figures highlight a massive rise in the number of Britons drinking
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Greens rubbish incinerator bid
GREEN activists are launching a campaign against what they say are plans to build an incinerator for the city. The protesters say City of York Council wants to create a waste to energy plant which would involve burning rubbish and releasing dangerous
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Shop worker's trapdoor fall
A WORKER could have been killed when she plunged nearly seven feet through a trapdoor in a city centre shop, a court heard. Loretta Finch could not see the hole before her feet as she walked towards the window display of Cornish Pasty Bakery in Colliergate
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Racecourse rides to the rescue
YORK Racecourse has emerged as an unlikely saviour for one city council department as it struggles with budget problems. As leisure and heritage chiefs at City of York Council unveiled their budget plans for the next financial year, they revealed the
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Teen believers
Just the thought of combining the temperamental teenage forces of 22 13-year-old girls with a competitive atmosphere sends parents and teachers scurrying for sanctuary. They know it'll all end in tears. But not at York City Ladies Under-14s. Formed in
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A rotten start to 2006
This being the start of a new year, I ought to be making resolutions. I haven't, though my husband seems to think there are a number of things I could do differently/better. Sensibly, when challenged, he refrained from listing them. 'Just carry on being
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January sales
Ah, January. The month of the sales. Everything must go. All stock half-price. Whatever you want better than half-price. Take me - I'm free (practically). You couldn't miss it if you were blindfolded, spun round 15 times and then stuck on a flying carpet
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The Masons Arms, Fishergate, York
Maxine Gordon takes our monthly dine-for-£15 challenge to a traditional pub on York's inner ring road. PUB grub ain't what it used to be. Long gone are the days when the landlord served up pork scratchings or a meat pie with a pint. Today, many pubs are
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Way we were
Saturday, January 7, 2006 100 years ago The finger print system of identification played a very useful part in a case heard at the Salford Police Court, when Albert Harvey, twenty-three, and Harry Leonard Jeffries, twenty-two, were charged with stealing
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Save OAP hot meals service
I read your article "Threat to OAP hot meals service" (January 4) with great dismay. My friend, who is one of the WRVS volunteers delivering the hot meals, often tells me of these older members of our society who are trying to remain independent. She
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Snowball gang
THE two have-a-go heroes who caught a heroin addict mugger deserve all our praise (Two caught robber, January 4). But what sort of society is it when it would appear to be "safer" to chase and detain a robber than to remonstrate with a group of teenage
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No reply
It would seem obvious from the remarks made by John Ainsley and Jon Whitaker, of Norwich Union, (How York helped fuel Indian boom, January 5) that they have not had any personal experience of calling India. I have. In early November 2005, on behalf of
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Let there be light
As a cyclist, I was heartened to read in The Evening Press that the police were to crack down on cyclists riding without lights - yes, that old chestnut again! Similarly, as a motorist, I was pleased to hear comments asking for action on car drivers still
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Captain's death
I WRITE in the hope that you may be able to help in my research into a family member killed in the Second World War. Charles Titterton, aged 29, was killed on Saturday, July 15, 1944, fighting for the 179th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery in the battle
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Special gifts
CARECENT wish to express thanks for Christmas gifts. Although operating all year, the gifts at Christmas are very special to those who receive them. It is more than the gift, it is an acknowledgement of worthiness and that somebody really does think and
