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What a cracker!
"Squeerr-ul. There's ow-nly one squeerr-ul..." The Highbury massive were in full voice on Wednesday. Never mind the whole getting one foot in the biggest European final thing - this was all about a tiny gatecrasher-cum-pitch invader, dressed in grey.
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Romanitas by Sophia McDougall (Orion paperback, £6.99)
The Roman Empire never fell, but survived to this day as a world-dominating superstate. That's the intriguing premise of the first of what will be a trilogy of novels. It is the year 2757 after the founding of Rome - what we know as 2004. The heir to
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Sir Alf by Leo McKinstry (HarperSport, £18.99)
ENGLAND'S most successful manager - the only man to give the country a World Cup success - is a much misunderstood figure. Intensely private, but ferocious and loyal in defence of his players, Alf Ramsey is finally placed in a historical context. This
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Jails should be tough on crime
REGARDING the recent discussions about prisons in the Evening Press, it is my belief that prisons should be harsher than they are now. A prison sentence should be a punishment, not retribution. Having been inside HM Forces jails (as prisoner escort only
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It does add up
I am writing in response to Michael Brooks' letter (Does It All Add Up?, April 14) where he asks how it can be that City of York Council has the lowest spend per head of population and yet only has the tenth-lowest council tax. The answer is that most
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Too much to pay
HOW can a garage justify charging a pensioner double for an MOT test? The repairs were done, the car was taken back for a recheck, only to be charged £44.15 again. It's really shameful that this can happen to a customer that's taken his car to the same
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Stop whinging
I WANT to ask a question of all those who object to the smoking ban in public places. If the relevant government body found out that there was a certain toxic substance in a food product on our supermarket shelves, would you complain that government officials
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McGurk rules supreme
DAVID McGurk cemented his position as the Evening Press Player of the Year with another man-of-the-match performance during the 2-0 defeat at the hands of Cambridge United on Good Friday. James Dudgeon picked up a couple of points in that game and as
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The Spice Club, 1-3 Monkgate, York
Peter Martini visits the new Indian restaurant from the Jinnah stable. "I DON'T care what it's like - you can never go wrong with a cuzzah." So decared an old friend while entering a grimy backstreet curry-house in darkest Manchester. This assertion came
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Bike tags produce immediate drop in crime
POLICE in York have pledged to hand out free electronic tagging devices to more cyclists after the scheme showed an immediate drop in the city's high rate of cycle crime. Last week, as part of the joint Safer York Partnership and North Yorkshire Police
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Restrictions put on number of Knavesmire events
LICENSING bosses have given York council a permanent right to hold events on Knavesmire - but have restricted the number that can be held in any one year. The licence for Knavesmire and Bustardthorpe means City of York Council no longer has to apply separately
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Why meeting expectations may be tough
MORE people will be able to address councillors at the crunch meeting on York's Arc Light Centre than during any previous debate, council leader Steve Galloway claimed today. He said up to 14 speakers will have a chance to express their views before the
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Handing out the honours
HEWORTH 'A' team received the Carlsberg UK Snooker League championship trophy from Jessica Feather, sales development manager, at York Conservative Clubs' snooker, billiards and dominoes presentations at Bootham club. She also presented the Faber Shield
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Dej vu as Tykes are denied by rain
YORKSHIRE endured another dreary day at Trent Bridge yesterday when heavy overnight and morning rain prevented any play on the third day of their Championship match with Nottinghamshire. The game has taken on a remarkably similar pattern to two years
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Bus info centre to close
THE sword will fall on York's bus information office next month as part of cost-saving plans, council chiefs have revealed. Staff at the travel centre in George Hudson Street will deal with travellers needing times or information for the last time on
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Cash interest in City - Grant
WHISTLEBLOWER Mike Grant says a group of people willing to lend money to York City have contacted him since he went public about the club's finances. Grant, who was suspended from the YC Trust Board as a result of leaking information to the Evening Press
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Emotions run high for mourners at triple death scene
THEY were pals who played together in school - tragically they became friends who died together. Joel Corner and Daniel Wright were only 15 when they took an Audi A4 for a drive. It veered out of control on Stockton Lane, York, and smashed into an Evening
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Happy to be a 'style slob'
I AM not a Sudoku person. I don't have the patience for puzzles or the application to construct a phrase out of a pyramid of letters. You either like that kind of thing or you don't. This aversion was reinforced when the husband tried to distract me with
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Kelly playing it cool
DEWSBURY boss Andy Kelly says revenge will not come into the equation tomorrow. The Rams suffered double defeat to York last season, including a crushing 74-12 loss at Huntington Stadium, as the Knights beat them to the National League Two title. But
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Elston holds off new boy Wray's challenge
YORK City Knights fans will have to wait a while to see exciting new signing Jamaine Wray in action - but he will get in on the act tomorrow. The former Hunslet hooker will start the Northern Rail Cup second-round tie at home to Dewsbury on the bench,
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Chop Gate in Bilsdale
George Wilkinson goes in search of the Badger Stone, from Chop Gate in Bilsdale. Harry Mead put on his countryside historian hat recently when he wrote an article in which he complained that the Badger Stone at the head of Bransdale had disappeared off
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Moondust: In Search Of The Men Who Fell To Earth by Andrew Smith (Bloomsbury paperback, £8.99)
IN all the thousands of years of human history, only 12 men have ever known what it is like to walk upon the surface of the moon. When Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad died in a motorbike accident in 1999, only nine of them were left. Journalist Andrew
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Memoirs Of An Errant Youth by Bryan Marlowe (iUniverse paperback, $12.95 or £7.38)
No, not a staid account of lost youth by an elderly gent looking back on his long-lost younger days through rose-tinted specs. This is, instead, a comic novel by former regular Evening Press letter-writer and one-time columnist Bryan Marlowe. Archibald
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Council tax poser
I have to say that I am a little confused by the claims being made in the papers by City of York Council about the level of its council tax. The Liberal Democrats keep insisting that the council tax in York is lower than other major councils in the country
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There's a limit
IN ALL walks of life limits are set. We have speed limits, drinking limits for car drivers, limits on luggage-weight on aircraft and many more. If one is caught exceeding these limits there is no point in saying: "I was only 2mph over, or two units of
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Wrighty's wheelie good idea
IF ANY of your readers with children would like get involved in ChildLine's Pedal Push, they should register today. It's so easy to be a part of the action - children collect sponsorship money from friends and family, then cycle around a course at their
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The cap fits
NOBODY relishes the thought of the citizens of York having to pay for re-issuing council tax bills, but the responsibility for the problem lies with those who defied the authority of the elected Government in the first place. In other areas defiance of
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Tip oversight
I AM writing this after returning from the "new purpose-built (recycling) facility" at Hazel Court, York, where I witnessed an alarming oversight. As a regular user of the Foss Island Road refuse site (that I'm assuming was not "purpose built") I appreciated
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Let's get organised and dig for Britain
AS I watched TV programmes depicting global warming and millions dying of famine I was upset, not for myself but for coming generations, ie grandchildren. It struck me that politicians and scientists are starting at the wrong end. Get some trees and plants
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Making the cut
There is so much to do in the garden this month. The longer days and, hopefully, better weather should provide just the right environment to start tackling them. Pruning is one of the jobs that needs to be done, with many shrubs beginning to show the
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Cash interest in City - Grant
WHISTLEBLOWER Mike Grant says a group of people willing to lend money to York City have contacted him since he went public about the club's finances. Grant, who was suspended from the YC Trust Board as a result of leaking information to the Evening Press
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Lack of faith the final straw for 'Yorkie'
AN implied lack of trust from the York City Supporters' Trust board was the final straw for Steve Ovenden after months of frustration. After Mike Grant blew the whistle on possible Trust takeover negotiations with JM Packaging, a vote was taken on whether
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Aimson on target for City return
YORK City's goal hero Paul Aimson will be back in York next weekend for a double dose of Minstermen fun. The centre-forward etched his name into the record books after hitting goals in seven straight matches, scoring City's fastest ever goal and fighting
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Wray of hope
IF anyone had any fears about the immediate financial future of York City Knights, then they must have been considerably eased if not totally wiped by the news that came out of Huntington Stadium on Thursday. Not only did the recruitment of Jamaine Wray
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Swing clout sisterhood
BARELY has weak spring sunshine peeped through the showers and Malton and Norton Golf Club's women wonders are anticipating next winter. That long-range fore casting of focus is because the club's midweek marvels are already eyeing a hat-trick of East
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Royal salutations
"WICKED" was how one little girl described the thundering 21-gun Royal Salute in York as the city celebrated Her Majesty The Queen's 80th birthday. Gunners from 40 Regiment Royal Artillery fired the four 105mm light guns at noon yesterday from Museum
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Dej vu as Tykes are denied by rain
YORKSHIRE endured another dreary day at Trent Bridge yesterday when heavy overnight and morning rain prevented any play on the third day of their Championship match with Nottinghamshire. The game has taken on a remarkably similar pattern to two years
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Another leading fashion store heads to city but expresses concern over parking
A TOP fashion retailer is the latest to join York's shopping revolution. Bank, which has 32 stores in the UK selling top female fashion brands such as Ted Baker, Replay, Fornarina and Miss Sixty, has opened Clearing Bank, a temporary outlet shop, in York's
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'Danger' criminal locked up
AGED only 26, Christopher Stephen Bell has notched up a criminal record bearing at least 35 offences including violence, battery and threatening behaviour. His latest crimes have landed him with a three-year prison sentence for two offences of assault
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Roof caves in on York care home
A MENTAL health rehabilitation unit in York could shut its doors under proposals being discussed by cash-strapped health bosses. Red Roofs, a unit in Shipton Road, which houses people who have been referred from Bootham Park Hospital, could be closed
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Death of top York bowler
JIM Ashman, the most successful York bowler of modern times, has died at the age of 70. He was an international player for four seasons from 1977 to 1981 and was chosen to represent England in the Pairs event in the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton
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Bid to save late service
PLANS to scrap York's late-night Park&Ride service have been abandoned - at least for the time being. Bus operators First had intended ditching the service between Askham Bar and the city centre from next Monday, because it was proving costly and
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Elston holds off new boy Wray's challenge
YORK City Knights fans will have to wait a while to see exciting new signing Jamaine Wray in action - but he will get in on the act tomorrow. The former Hunslet hooker will start the Northern Rail Cup second-round tie at home to Dewsbury on the bench,
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Lay off McEwan
I'M absolutely livid that someone had the temerity to abuse Billy McEwan (Evening Press, April 18). As an exiled York City fan, I've tried my hardest to get to as many games as I can. Reading that Billy considered walking away makes me wonder what kind
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Well done, Billy
CONGRATULATIONS to York City and Billy McEwan for such a wonderful recovery this season following the disasters on and off the field in the past few years. They may have just missed out on a play-off place and had a bad day at the office against Halifax
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Blind loyalty
IT pains me to say it, after such an excellent season, but City were terrible against Halifax Town. What's more, Billy McEwan's bizarre team selection meant that we had no chance of beating Halifax anyway. Mark Hotte and Joe O'Neill should never, ever
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The spell of wines from Oz
I can't remember the last time I recommended a whole batch of Australian wines. I think it was most probably directly after Michael Vaughan and the boys gave the Australian cricketers a good thrashing in this green and pleasant land last summer. I am
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Smart Pete can pounce - 22/04/06
IT'S a blank Sunday for racing in Yorkshire, and indeed the north of the country, tomorrow but there is no rest for Norton trainer Malcolm Jefferson. He heads to Stratford with good prospects of adding to the reputation of According To Pete. Winner of
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Little Bettys, Stonegate, York
ANY thoughts that this caf might be a poor relation of the venue in St Helen's Square are soon dispelled. A quick glance at the menu reveals that both places provide identical fare. Having queued for ten minutes before being seated we were trapped. Very
