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School road plan is axed
PROTESTERS are claiming a victory for "people power" after a York public school withdrew controversial plans for a new access road and all-weather pitch. Residents living in Westminster Road, off Clifton Green, launched a campaign against St Peter's School
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£175k key to open market
A NORTH Yorkshire firm which has accelerated the high-tech interactive television revolution was today celebrating a cash injection of £175,000. It seems that all the right financial buttons have been pushed for JDA Centrescreen Ltd, of Church Lane, Skelton
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Georgia's a heavenly gift for company
GEORGIA HORSLEY, otherwise known as MS York 2005, is preparing for a catalogue of success. The 19-year-old's image in Newsquest's YO1 Magazine attracted the attention of the boss of CEF Promotions, a Pickering-based business and corporate gifts company
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Expert planning maximum results
PLANNING For Life, the North Yorkshire financial planning business has appointed Diane Duncan as a para-planner. Diane brings 23 years' experience in developing financial planning software to the Helmsley-based firm. Director Jeremy Deedes said: "Diane's
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Woking choking
YORK City will visit a Woking side searching for their first Conference home win in nearly four months tomorrow. The Cards last tasted league success at Kingfield Road on October 1, beating Scarborough 4-0, and, since then, have only managed draws against
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Child abuse monk jailed for 2 years
A MONK who abused boys as young as eight while he was a master at a top public school was today starting a two-year jail sentence. Father Piers Henry Grant-Ferris, 72, had admitted 20 indecent assaults on 15 boys during the ten years in the 1960s and
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Selby council slammed over video costs
SELBY council bosses were today labelled "diabolical" over their attempts to win support for the controversial housing sell-off. Council leaders came under fire after it emerged many households had received multiple copies of the documents and a video
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Husband 'did not murder'
A FORMER University of York student who disappeared shortly before his wife and baby daughter were found murdered at their home in Massachusetts is not a suspect, according to British police. A statement from Nottinghamshire Police said: "Neil Entwistle
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Getting the right ecosystem balance
MANY modern stillwater fisheries seem happy to stuff their venues to the gills with small carp. It is refreshing, therefore, to find a fishery that bucks the trend. In 1996 Richard Smith decided to create a mixed coarse fishery and touring caravan park
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Parents give cautious welcome to £17.5m school plan
PARENTS today gave a mixed reaction to proposals for Manor School to move to a new £17.5 million facility. The Evening Press exclusively revealed yesterday that the school could move to a greenfield site currently earmarked for a Park&Ride site about
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Loan deals on cards
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is hoping to make two new additions to his squad before the transfer window closes on Tuesday. Any signings are likely to be loan arrangements with a midfielder and defender the most likely targets for McEwan. The Minstermen
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Bus chief backing 'Super Sunday' for fans
BUS company First York has backed the suggestion of staggered kick-offs on a potential York sport 'Super Sunday' by saying they could look into augmenting their free match-day service. Fans who support both York City and York City Knights are to miss
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Nestl chief's 'changes' memo
THE boss of York Nestl's 3,000 staff has finally broken his silence. In a staff memo - leaked to the Evening Press - the company's new managing director, Paul Grimwood, told the workforce to expect significant changes at the factory. It said that to achieve
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Grand Central to run trains from York to London
YORK rail passengers are set to benefit from new services to London - but city company GNER was left reeling today after chiefs said its bid for extra trains would be turned down. The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) said it was "minded to approve" an
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Post office plea
WHEN are we going to get our post office back? A while ago the post office in Eastholme Drive, York, closed and the officials stated in the Evening Press they were looking for a larger and more suitable premises. The mini supermarket in Eastholme Drive
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Get skating
I AGREE wholeheartedly with the letters explaining how York people would benefit from a full time ice-rink (January 21). I am involved with one of the mentioned inline roller hockey teams, Snaith. Both my children, aged 13 and seven, get a great deal
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Pie in the sky
I SMILED when I read Adele Brolly's plea for a permanent ice-rink in York (Letters, January 21). With our current Liberal Democrat council, York residents would have more chance of receiving an all-expenses paid trip to the moon. Look at the facts. The
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Veterans appeal
THE British Korean Veterans Association is trying to contact former members of HM Armed Forces who served in Korea/Japan from 1950 to 1953, and also those servicemen and women who served in these two places at a later date with the Peace Keeping Force
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Safety issues
ADMIRING the picture of the horse bus in Low Ousegate, York, circa 1900 (January 19), it makes one think how precarious some passengers on top must have felt travelling in style on uneven roads laced with tram lines. One can imagine in this day and age
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Ashman's swansong
TITLE-CHASING York RI will hope to continue their fantastic form with an eighth successive league win against lowly Castleford in Yorkshire Three tomorrow. RI recorded their seventh win on the bounce with a 22-14 victory over Moortown last week but there
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Ref's death is a 'sad loss'
A YORK football referee who died hours after taking charge of a match has been described as 'irreplaceable'. Malcolm Harrison, of Broadway, suffered a heart attack several hours after officiating at a York Sunday Afternoon League game. He was 56. Mr Harrison
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Parents give cautious welcome to £17.5m school plan
PARENTS today gave a mixed reaction to proposals for Manor School to move to a new £17.5 million facility. The Evening Press exclusively revealed yesterday that the school could move to a greenfield site currently earmarked for a Park&Ride site about
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Who let the dogs out?
I HAVE a recurring nightmare. I am walking through a park alone when I see a pit bull terrier in the path ahead of me. It is growling and bearing huge cartoon-like fangs. I try to make a run for it but, as is usual in dreams, my legs become frozen to
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Act of hospitality
BUSINESSES in York are taking to the stage. They are rallying behind York Theatre Royal's new corporate hospitality programme, Stage Partners, at a time when City of York Council is proposing to cut its youth theatre grant by half. Already five organisations
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'Crisis' warning for elderly health care
PRESSURE on services for older people is set to mount, as the number of dementia sufferers rises dramatically in York. Another 350 people aged over 85 are expected to have the illness by 2015 - up 36 per cent from 975 sufferers in 2005 to 1,325, and up
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Loan deals on cards
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is hoping to make two new additions to his squad before the transfer window closes on Tuesday. Any signings are likely to be loan arrangements with a midfielder and defender the most likely targets for McEwan. The Minstermen
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Bryan's in a stew
WINGER Bryan Stewart will be hoping for a recall to the York City squad having missed the last two matches for "disciplinary reasons." Stewart, 20, has not figured as a substitute in City's last two matches against Grays Athletic and Southport and also
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Ready to get to work on York's big scheme
ONE of York's biggest city centre redevelopment schemes should finally get under way this autumn, creating hundreds of jobs for the following six years. Work is expected to start on the first phase of a massive project to revitalise the semi-derelict
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School road plan is axed
PROTESTERS are claiming a victory for "people power" after a York public school withdrew controversial plans for a new access road and all-weather pitch. Residents living in Westminster Road, off Clifton Green, launched a campaign against St Peter's School
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Holocaust vigil
A SILENT few turned out to hold a candlelit vigil at Clifford's Tower to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The vigil was organised at the tower last night because of its role in one of York's darkest periods of history when about 150 Jews died there after
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Government scuppers dental shortage hopes
HOPES of tackling the chronic shortage of NHS dentists in North Yorkshire have been dashed after ministers announced that a much-needed new dental school would be founded in the south-west of England. The Government has revealed the 62-place school will
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City council plays a blinder
SHEER class! Hats off to our Guildhall superheroes for the dazzling way they have masterminded the Barbican Centre redevelopment. The last thing anyone in York wanted was for the Barbican to go on providing popular, cheap sports facilities and top entertainment
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Ashman's swansong
TITLE-CHASING York RI will hope to continue their fantastic form with an eighth successive league win against lowly Castleford in Yorkshire Three tomorrow. RI recorded their seventh win on the bounce with a 22-14 victory over Moortown last week but there
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The lost millions of Barbican revamp
LEISURE bosses have revealed details of the lost millions which led to the decision to scrap a replacement Barbican swimming pool. City of York Council said its original deal with Barbican Venture York Ltd would have netted it £9.5 million for the site
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Bryan's in a stew
WINGER Bryan Stewart will be hoping for a recall to the York City squad having missed the last two matches for "disciplinary reasons." Stewart, 20, has not figured as a substitute in City's last two matches against Grays Athletic and Southport and also
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Accidents due to bad driving
"THE only real solution is engineering", "bad weather was the main cause of accidents", "speeding was the main cause": three quotes from your article on the increase in accidents (January 21). Yet we now have better roads than we used to, the winter weather
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No Whitehall cuts
NEXT year City of York Council will receive £116.8 million from the Government in schools and general revenue grant. This is £8 million more than this year. Next year our NHS primary care trust will receive £307.1 million - £51 million more than this
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Hands off gardens
I READ with alarm the letter about the plans to alter Museum Gardens (January 13). Surely the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and other buildings in the gardens are listed and untouchable. The surroundings, especially the trees, must be listed too, as they were
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Not enough consultation about wheel
AS a resident of York's St Peter's Quarter, I don't have any great objections to the big wheel on the proposed Leeman Road site. What does get my back up is being subjected to another serving of fudge from our local council regarding yet another poorly
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How has this been allowed to happen?
IT has just dawned on me that a huge monstrosity has been given the go ahead to be put near the National Railway Museum in York. I for one cannot understand how this has been allowed to happen. We are lucky, in York, to have a city full of jewels and
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Why did court show mercy to killer dog?
AFTER reading Muzzle Order On Killer Dog (January 24), how I wonder about the leniency of York magistrates. Why is it that a "killer dog" gets nothing but a new muzzle? Is this a new outlook in York that all dogs are safe and an attack is just out of
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Invites sent out
I WOULD like to respond to Jill Edwards of Kexby Parish Council (Letters, January 18). The meeting at Pocklington Arts Centre concerning safety and flow on the A1079 was called for by parish and town councils in the East Riding. This was a preliminary
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No incinerator
DAVE Taylor asks if readers have seen a consultation document about waste management (Letters, January 23). I live in Selby and have seen one from North Yorkshire County Council (who are to be partners of City of York Council). This wonderful document
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Way we were
Friday, January 27, 2006 100 years ago At the Eastern Ainsty Petty Sessions held at York Castle, a York drayman named William H Witty of 35 Newbury Street, was summoned for having been asleep in charge of two horses and a dray, at Acomb. PC Fry said that
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Don't shoot messenger
PAUL Grimwood is indulging in the age-old blood sport of shooting the messenger. As this city's principal messenger for 123 years, we have become hardened to a recurring barrage of gunfire, often discharged by those who find our revelations too close
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Kick in the teeth
THE concerted campaign to establish a Hull-York dental school has come to naught. Ministers were not convinced of the case for a northern centre, despite the success of the new medical school, and have opted to establish one in the south-west only. Labour
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Hospital ready to head into future
Former BBC boss Greg Dyke is in York today to open the hospital's new £4.3 million head and neck unit. STEPHEN LEWIS took a look around inside. ANDREW Grace is like a child with a new toy - in the best possible sense. York Hospital's clinical director
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In with a shout - 27/01/06
Town Crier can drown out his rivals at Cheltenham tomorrow by scoring a notable Yorkshire victory in the £110,000 Victor Chandler Handicap Chase. Trained near Bingley by Sue Smith and her husband Harvey, the classy gelding has always threatened to win
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Bus chief backing 'Super Sunday' for fans
BUS company First York has backed the suggestion of staggered kick-offs on a potential York sport 'Super Sunday' by saying they could look into augmenting their free match-day service. Fans who support both York City and York City Knights are to miss
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Goalden Brown
HEATH Brown's late goal secured a 2-1 victory for the York Leeper Hare League representative side against their Leeds Red Triangle counterparts. Old Malton's Brown converted a low Dave Bradshaw cross to clinch victory in the 88th minute at Tadcaster Albion
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Town's tough stance
HARROGATE Town boss Neil Aspin insists there can be no let-up as they prepare to visit Moor Green in Conference North. The Wetherby Roaders have hosted title challengers Nuneaton Borough and Northwich in consecutive matches, beating Boro 2-0 but losing
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Selby sights stay sharp on going up
SELBY Town still have an eye on promotion - despite being a massive 18 points behind the Northern Counties East League leaders. That is according to assistant-manager Gary Cygan, who is hoping that three teams will be allowed promotion to the UniBond
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Goalscoring goalkeepers
REGULAR Melbourne 'keeper Adam Thomas traded in his gloves for goals at Clifton but it counted for little as his nine-man team went down 10-4 inthe York Sunday Afternoon league division one. Melbourne kicked off with just ten men and had another dismissed
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Unbeaten Hounds in pole position
THE race for the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one title is hotting up. The leadership has changed hands yet again as Marcia suffered a shock 2-1 defeat against lowly Nestl Flag which saw them knocked off the top of the table
