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Parents back merger plan
PARENTS have cautiously welcomed plans for a new state-of-the-art "super school" in west York. Lowfields School head teacher John Thompson and Oaklands School head teacher David Ellis hosted an information event for those whose children currently attend
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Pride of Jo Ro
RISING squash stars from Joseph Rowntree School did York proud in the national championships. They were beaten in the final by holders Wycliffe College in the Under-15 Boys' Championship at Leicester. It was a great effort by Jo Ro, who do not even have
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Great comeback by York kids
Determined York Under-11 Schoolboys' footballers came back from being 3-0 down to beat a City Football Development squad 6-3 in a warm-up for this weekend's North of England 7-a-side finals. Leading scorer Dan Wilson led a spirited York fightback as he
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League extension
THE York Primary Schools' football league season has been extended by two weeks to May 5 to give teams a chance of getting as many games played as possible. League 'A' is approaching fingernail-biting territory, with four teams in the running for the
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£1.8m selling point
NINE properties, together worth £1,824,000, went under the hammer at a York estate agent's spring auction. Hunters Property Group said more than 300 people attended the event in York, a record number, who snapped up more former businesses and retail units
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City trialists on show
TWO trialists will get their chance to impress Billy McEwan on Wednesday night as York City reserves take on Grimsby at KitKat Crescent (kick-off 7pm). Former Coventry City goalkeeper Jonathan Tuffey, thwarted from a Monday debut because of a waterlogged
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Oh, this column stinks
WHO'D be a teacher? You have to deal daily with a group of ill-behaved, illiterate dope fiends and try to get some education past the Teflon coating that shields their thick skulls from knowledge. And that's just the reception class. As the little darlings
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Lives on track
I UNDERSTAND that the relocation of Arc Light is bound to cause concerns but the aims and principles of Arc Light should be applauded. They are only trying to help homeless people get their lives back on track. Without these organisations, more people
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Stealth service
UNISON has been "reluctantly forced to vote for strike action because of the Government's intransigence" over pension rights according to Ben Drake, York Unison branch secretary (March 27). I have certain sympathy with Mr Drake's views but it is equally
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Don't spout so
JOYCE Pickard seems to think that having listening stations such as Menwith Hill shows how the United States are trying to dominate the world (March 25). Can I just state that if it were not for the so-called US bases, that Mrs Pickard would not be able
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Cheerful thanks
AFTER all the gloom and doom and complaints about tax, pollution, and congestion re traffic in York on your letters page, may I do just the reverse. I would like to thank Tony and Richard, from our local Londis shop, who turn out all weathers to deliver
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Police merger will be good for rural areas
YOUR editorial has every right to question the speed and manner of the proposed merger of police forces (March 21), but the merger still makes sense. Your rather over-the-top, emotive "R.I.P. for North Yorkshire Police" will have few mourners as it has
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Benefits of buses
EX Labour councillor Liz Edge has always prided herself in championing the disadvantaged, so I am surprised that she sets her face against bus use in a city where more than a quarter of residents do not own a car (Letters, March 23). Doesn't she think
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Less than super
MAY I suggest to Liz Edge that the reason she has not yet seen any explanation from the company or council of the advantages of the new "super bus" is that those worthies are still trying to determine any advantage. I believe I am correct in saying that
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I'm just stumped
I TOO took great interest in the tree that went missing in Eason View (Letters, March 18). All that is left is what appears to be a healthy stump. As Mr Kenyon says, could this have been removed due to a new bus stop and the near arrival of the FTR bus
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Angry farmers in pig blockade
SUPERMARKET shelves could start emptying this weekend because of a proposed depot blockade, angry farmers warned today. Pig farmers, furious at the sale of cheap pork from abroad where welfare standards are lower, say they are planning blockades of up
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Cycle path-etic!
ALL geared up but nowhere to go - is this York's craziest cycle lane? The barmy route leads riders slap bang into a wooden fence as they travel through the new Woodland Chase estate, off Water Lane, Clifton. A photograph of the route has attracted huge
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Ex-refs tutor backs McEwan
FORMER referee training instructor Eddie Benson has denounced the display of controversial official Shaun Procter-Green during York City's 4-2 defeat against Accrington Stanley on Saturday. City were on the receiving end of two puzzling Procter-Green
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Rams Rail cup test for Knights
YORK City Knights will entertain moneybags National League Two side Dewsbury in the next round of the Northern Rail Cup well aware the Rams will be coming with revenge in mind. The Knights were given a home game in last night's second round draw - only
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Ironsides call up big guns
TWO of rugby league's finest will lead York Ironsides into battle in this summer's York International 9s. Inaugurated in 2002 as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the York festival this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. LHF National League
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£380,000 paid at hospital car parks
YORK'S two NHS hospitals charged more than £380,000 for car parking in a year, new figures have revealed. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that the annual income in 2004/5 collected in parking fees from York Hospital and Bootham
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Taxi customers count cost of 'crazy delays'
TAXI customers at York Railway Station are forking out up to £3 before they even reach the road - because of controversial route changes. Drivers at the station rank today revealed the "crazy delays" caused by the new way out of the station round a one-way
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£3 to travel 100 yards
IN rush hour, taxi passengers are regularly paying £3 to travel 100 yards out of York Railway Station. At that rate of exchange, a mile-long journey would cost nearly £53. A trip to the McArthurGlen shopping centre would set you back £137, and the eight-mile
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Dead-end track
TALKING of innovative transport networks, we can only admire the Clifton cycle path. It is very important that cyclists have working brakes and, thanks to the lane which runs through the new Woodland Chase estate, they get the chance to test them. After
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Ironsides call up big guns
TWO of rugby league's finest will lead York Ironsides into battle in this summer's York International 9s. Inaugurated in 2002 as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee, the York festival this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. LHF National League
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Strikers outraged by pension switch
More than a million council workers went on strike yesterday to defend their right to retire at 60. STEPHEN LEWIS toured the picket lines in York to find out what was at the root of the dispute. UNION leaders are calling it the biggest single day of action
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Rams Rail cup test for Knights
YORK City Knights will entertain moneybags National League Two side Dewsbury in the next round of the Northern Rail Cup well aware the Rams will be coming with revenge in mind. The Knights were given a home game in last night's second round draw - only
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Bucking the trend
The number of students applying to go to universities has fallen nationally, due partly to Government tinkering with the way places are funded. Education reporter Haydn Lewis dropped in at York College to see if students there have been put off. HEADLINE
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St Aelred's netball hotshots
ST AELRED'S School has emerged as an unbeatable force on the netball courts with two teams shooting to success last week. The mixed team starring five girls and three boys had the first taste after conquering their Oaklands Sports Partnership family members
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York's wartime Millionaires
MANY a York family made a million out of wartime austerity, the Diary can reveal. We featured the Millionaire board game, made by the William Sessions Ebor Press printing works, in the Diary last week. Now we have more details about the game's origins
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The Robards Report: York's key to prosperity
York is increasingly admired for its growing success in forming and nurturing new knowledge-based businesses. It can be argued that the very key to the city's continuing economic prosperity hangs on its ability to develop and sustain successful, high
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Conference call for city
DOZENS of delegates from big name companies, with the spending power to boost York's economy by millions of pounds a year, are descending on the city on Thursday. Forty venues from hotels and visitor attractions to academic centres have thrown their weight
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Dropping in for some thrills and skills...
VITAL skills to help people get on in life were the focus of a day-long drop-in event in York attracting more than 300 delegates. Experts involved in working with adults who have literacy, numeracy and language skill needs gathered for the fourth annual
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Ex-refs tutor backs McEwan
FORMER referee training instructor Eddie Benson has denounced the display of controversial official Shaun Procter-Green during York City's 4-2 defeat against Accrington Stanley on Saturday. City were on the receiving end of two puzzling Procter-Green
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Arc is there to help any of us
TO all the residents of York, young or old: do you not have a skeleton in your family? Every person in Arc Light is someone's son, brother, cousin, father, mother, sister etc. Live and let live because there but for the grace of God go you. The people
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Patronising Blair is just the worst PM we've ever had
SO Tony Blair was patronising and insensitive when Evening Press reporter Mike Laycock asked him questions about York's unemployment (March 20). What surprises me is Mike Laycock's surprise in expecting anything different from Blair. He has never been
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Poor incentive?
I AM interested in Canon Lee School's incentive scheme for raising attainment with Year 9 pupils (March 7). I am convinced that competition and co-operation are valuable lessons for pupils and the scheme embodies both. However, I am not convinced that
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Magazine will name and shame pub troublemakers
A ROGUES' gallery of people who have been banned from York's pubs is to be sent out to licensed premises in the city. The Coppers' Tale magazine will "name and shame" people banned from pubs and clubs by the courts. The magazine was previously published
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First look at new restaurant plan and entrance for riverside gardens
A stunning riverside restaurant could soon give a continental culture feel to York's Museum Gardens. A brasserie and new entrance to the gardens, one of the city's most popular tourist destinations, will come before council chiefs in the coming months
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Selby village shocked by sex attack
A VILLAGE near Selby was in shock today after a schoolgirl was allegedly raped in a broad daylight attack. The alleged assault on the 13-year-old girl took place between 9am and 10am on Saturday, in Escrick. Police are investigating the report that the
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Whistleblowers making the grade
A TRIO of York College pupils will be assisting former World Cup final official Mark Warren at an international match on Monday. Football League referee Warren, who was a linesman during the 1998 World Cup final between France and Brazil, will have 18
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Petition protest over Arc Light
PROTESTERS against one of the proposed new sites for the Arc Light Centre are to step up their campaign by petitioning locals. City of York Council is currently consulting on a shortlist of four possible new homes for Arc Light: Union Terrace, Marygate
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Parents back school merger plan
PARENTS have cautiously welcomed plans for a new state-of-the-art "super school" in west York. Lowfields School head teacher John Thompson and Oaklands School head teacher David Ellis hosted an information event for those whose children currently attend
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City trialists on show
TWO trialists will get their chance to impress Billy McEwan on Wednesday night as York City reserves take on Grimsby at KitKat Crescent (kick-off 7pm). Former Coventry City goalkeeper Jonathan Tuffey, thwarted from a Monday debut because of a waterlogged
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'We'll strike again' - union
UNION bosses may walk back out on the picket lines if a Government threat to cap City of York Council's budget means more job losses. Heather McKenzie, York Unison chief, said the union was determined to defend the jobs of its members after council leader
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Way we were
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 100 years ago After acting as postmaster of Helmsley for thirty years, Mr Robert Wilson, aged 73 years, who was enjoying the best of health, had resigned that office, and was succeeded by his daughter. During his thirty years
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Doyle can do it - 29/03/06
James Doyle, the leading apprentice jockey on the all-weather tracks this winter, can play a starring role at Lingfield tomorrow. The talented 5lb claimer teams up with Sands of Barra in £10,000 lingfield-racecourse.co.uk Handicap. Trained by Neville