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Ryder Cup star steps out of bounds
The Diary has been on the loose, scouting around the stands and paddock at York Racecourse as racing returned to Knavesmire this week. LOST, Lee? Ryder Cup golfer Lee Westwood looks stumped after being captured by Press photographer Frank Dwyer. Westwood
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Betting on Mr Motson
PUNTERS were hanging on John Motson's every word during his commentary for the thrilling FA Cup final between Liverpool and West Ham. In particular, they were listening out for phrases like: "The magic of the Cup"; "Winner takes all" and "It's a little
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Shares boost still on track
ALL aboard the bonanza express! The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) will launch a share issue on Tuesday to prepare for its biggest expansion of services for more than 30 years. The extra money will allow steam trains to extend their 18-mile run
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Seasonal sneezing
Blue skies, warm days, freshly mown grass - these are signs summer is fast approaching. But LUCY STEPHENS finds this time of year also brings misery for sufferers of that annual fit of the sneezes, hay fever... RUNNY nose, streaming eyes at uncontrollable
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Store heralds 250th birthday
A MUSIC store founded in the year of Mozart's birth celebrates its 250th anniversary this year - and is busy looking to the future. Banks Music has already seen a change of key in 2006, with the handover of the family firm to a new company. Now manager
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Confidence up as prices rise for sixth month in a row
THE housing market in York is the liveliest it has been for two-and-a-half years, a leading city surveyor has claimed. Edward Waterson, of Carter Jonas, said following a "quieter" Easter, the York market "remains strong and is at its most lively since
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'Rats gnawing at bollard is a warning sign for us all'
RATS put one of York's rising bollards out of action for three weeks when they gnawed through its cables. Now a community leader is urging fellow residents to take more care when putting out rubbish in an attempt to discourage vermin from frequenting
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Finatics to rule
After the recent record-breaking exploits on many local fisheries this weekend should see a return to normality. With water temperatures now below the seasonal norm spawning activity will have been put on temporary hold so at least the fish will not be
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Cabbies fume over race 'traffic mayhem'
CAB drivers have hit out over "traffic mayhem" around York Racecourse. Judy Horwell, of York Taxi Association, said many cab drivers gave up and went home on the first day of racing after scenes of "traffic chaos" at the racecourse, and yesterday had
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Hulse raises pulse to be a Cardiff G-force
PROMOTION with Leeds United would mean more to striker Rob Hulse than seeing England win the World Cup. That's how badly the club's 14-goal top scorer wants Premiership football - and he is dreaming of doing a 'Steven Gerrard' in Sunday's Championship
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Hold on to your hats
IF you want to get ahead, get a hat. That saying was taken to heart by model Lizzie Towndrow, when she sported a show-stopping number during the highlight of May's meeting at York Racecourse. Lizzie's headgear, designed by York-based Elizabeth Parker,
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If you put one ice cube on a cold block and another ice cube on a warm block, which will melt first?
STEPHEN LEWIS visits York's new National Science Learning Centre to find out the answer. TWO small black squares sit on the bench top, looking like stylish coasters. One feels cold to the touch. The other feels warm, in that uncomfortable way a Styrofoam
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Shame on them
ONCE more we hear, with a depressing, monotonous regularity, from our Liberal overlords that it is we, the city's residents, who are wrong and they who are right over the ftr (Critics of ftr haven't tried it, May 17). What a shame that they have forgotten
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Rough justice
COUN Ann Reid is incandescent because people who do not use the ftr, or who do not live on its route, dare to complain about it. As she herself does not use this bus, may we have her assurance that she, too, will cease from commenting? By the way, I still
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Alternative tests
THERE are alternatives to animal testing that produce more accurate results which would benefit the health of people like Mr Reeson and his wife (Worth The Sacrifice, Letters, May 16). These more accurate alternatives, such as computer modelling and stem
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Medical myths
IT took hundreds of years for people to accept the world was round because they had been brought up to believe it was flat. The same is true with animal experiments. The public has been fed a sugar-coated version of how the fantastic developments in medicine
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McGurk teaser
YORK City's Press Player of the Year David McGurk has been offered a new one-year contract at Darlington. McGurk, who also scooped the Minstermen's players' player prize at the end of last season, has received interest from other Football League clubs
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Scorecards
May 13/14 Premier Division Acomb v Woodhouse Grange - result not received. Beverley Town (11pts) drew with Dunnington (12pts) - match abandoned (RSP after 1 overs and 2nd innings) Dunnington 249-9 (M H Khan 39, D Greenlay 123, J Bolan 41; B Sayer 4-79
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£500k injection into cakes
LEWIS & Cooper, the independent food and wine retailer in North Yorkshire, is investing £500,000 to expand its food production facilities. The investment is likely to add five jobs initially to the 100 employed by the firm. The 106-year-old firm in
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Clifton clan seek winning Abbey habit
York Cricket Club will steel themselves for a visit to Sheffield Collegiate tomorrow for what is traditionally always a difficult fixture. The Abbeydale Park-based club had a virtual monopoly on the Yorkshire League title in the nineties but have enjoyed
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Last pair stifle red rose
THE only roses to bloom at Headingley yesterday were red ones until the last wicket pair of Jason Gillespie and Deon Kruis gave Yorkshire an unexpected chance of avoiding the follow-on in their Championship tussle with Lancashire. Yorkshire had slumped
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Woman 'hurt by ftr doors'
A NEW problem has emerged for York's "superbus" - its doors keep shutting on people. At least one woman says she has been trapped inside the electronic doors of an ftr due to glitches in the operating system. Rachel Lacy, 33, was trying to get off a FTR
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Police appeal for tractor driver to come forward after 'domestic incident'
POLICE appealed today for a tractor driver who may have witnessed an incident on a Yorkshire country road to come forward. Detective Constable Angela Martindale, of Scarborough CID, said she was investigating a "domestic-related incident", which happened
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Press foils 'phishing' scam
CUSTOMERS of the world's biggest building society were today urged to beware, after The Press discovered the Nationwide had fallen victim to "phishing". Computer hackers sent emails to people purporting to come from "Nationwide Bank Online", and asking
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Fresh twist in credit chaos
A NEW twist in the saga of liver transplant man Norman Power has exposed the chaos at the heart of the tax credits system. It came as Mr Power's MP, John Grogan, revealed that tax credit problems had now replaced the Child Support Agency and housing difficulties
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Last pair stifle red rose
THE only roses to bloom at Headingley yesterday were red ones until the last wicket pair of Jason Gillespie and Deon Kruis gave Yorkshire an unexpected chance of avoiding the follow-on in their Championship tussle with Lancashire. Yorkshire had slumped
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McGurk teaser
YORK City's Press Player of the Year David McGurk has been offered a new one-year contract at Darlington. McGurk, who also scooped the Minstermen's players' player prize at the end of last season, has received interest from other Football League clubs
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Knights' 'Spice' crack
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook is facing major new problems in the outside backs after Rob Spicer broke a bone in his right hand. The in-form centre will be ruled out for anything between six weeks and three months after suffering the injury against
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Where will it all end?
"WE are now rationing the health service." That was the reaction of senior York GP Dr Brian McGregor to documents obtained by The Press which sets out proposed curbs on a range of NHS treatments, including hip operations and vasectomies. Dr McGregor said
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NHS is a sick patient
EARLIER this week, it was varicose veins and bunions. Today, we reveal the list of conditions you may no longer be able to get treated on the NHS has grown shockingly longer. In future, you will have to be virtually housebound before you can get your
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Staying power
WHEN Banks first opened its doors 250 years ago, one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. Today, the York music store has demonstrated that it still has its finger on the musical pulse. It has finally got round to opening a rock department in the basement
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Making a splash as a 52-year-old
AM I the only 50-year-old who didn't know whether to feel amused, patronised or just plain insulted by your article, Still Nifty At Fifty (May 11)? The corollary to that headline is that it is quite amazing that anybody who is 50 or older can actually
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Seing red over ftr
THE poor reviews of the ftr clearly must have made Coun Ann Reid see red; given her fetish for "green signals", this must have caused her great distress. So she announced that only people who had used the ftr were really entitled to review it. I suppose
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Stop carping
IS there no end to the barrel-scraping by the critics of ftr to find the maximum number of objections to its introduction? For example: "Don't like the colour." This is the route colour and aways has been. "Difficulty leaving Tea Room Square" There has
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Lost toy plea
I WANT to appeal to anyone who found a pink cloth elephant in Gale Lane, Acomb, York, between 315pm and 4pm Wednesday, May 17, to please get in touch if you have it, as I have a very upset four-year-old who wants her Ellie back. Mrs J Neary, 87 Ridgeway
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Bill blunders
SADLY it comes as no shock that Powergen has recently finally remembered to bill 20,000 consumers. After all, the firm, in its own words, has termed its billing service "appalling" and has told Energywatch it will resolve this by the end of the year.
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Time to consider the case for cycle helmets
NEW research has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ March 25, 2006) titled "Do enforced bicycle helmet laws improve public health? No clear evidence from countries that have enforced the wearing of helmets".) The study examined the effects
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Knights' 'Spice' crack
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook is facing major new problems in the outside backs after Rob Spicer broke a bone in his right hand. The in-form centre will be ruled out for anything between six weeks and three months after suffering the injury against
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Yesterday's York results
1.45 (Totesport.com Handicap): 1 Trinculo 16-1, 2 Orientor 5-1, 3 Enchantment 20-1. Winning jockey: A Nicholls. Winning trainer: David Nicholls (Thirsk). Distances: 3/4l, 1/2l. 11 ran. 2.15 (Totepool Middleton Stakes): 1 Strawberry Dale 8-1, 2 Mango Mischief
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On Lin to win - 19/05/06
Robert Winston deserts his York base this evening heading for Hamilton where he has bright prospects of landing the feature race on the card. The £35,000 Icon Holdings Glasgow Stakes, a Listed race, previously run on Knavesmire, has attracted a mere four
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If you put one ice cube on a cold block and another ice cube on a warm block, which will melt first?
STEPHEN LEWIS visits York's new National Science Learning Centre to find out the answer. TWO small black squares sit on the bench top, looking like stylish coasters. One feels cold to the touch. The other feels warm, in that uncomfortable way
