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Cheats blame the cheated.

Benefit cheats blame the cheated. As unclaimed benefits mount up in the treasury, the annual trawl among OAPs and others, who qualify on low incomes and have not claimed, is on again. It harvests enough work to keep the sizeable workforce and political

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Keeping kids interested in lessons

IN the wake of last week's inaugural Park Life swimming tips column, the main focus remains the frontcrawl stroke. At Splish Splosh we teach frontcrawl as the first stroke with the prime reason being that I tend to feel it is the most easiest stroke

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Nogan’s top tips

PREMIER Soccer School have joined forces with former York City and Wales striker Lee Nogan to give top tips to football youngsters. Nogan, who also played locally for Pickering Town and is manager of UniBond League premier division side Whitby Town

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Minster mites on ice

YORK City's junior and Centre of Excellence teams have had their fixtures wiped out by the weather this weekend. The Minstermen's Under-18s were due to entertain Rotherham at Wigginton Road this morning but the club's training ground is currently waterlogged

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Myers fires up Lumley

EMMA Myers inspired Lady Lumley's College's Under-13 girls' team to a creditable performance at a tournament hosted by Caedmon School in Whitby. Lumley's suffered from being a player short throughout the tournament but beat Malton 2-1 in their first

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Resuming tennis service

THE Ryedale and Whitby Mini Tennis competition gets under way today. Matches will also be played on Saturday, February 24 and March 17 between 3.30pm and 4.30pm at the Northern Ryedale Leisure Centre in Swainsea Lane, Pickering. The competition

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Sandal stamp out Malton

MALTON and Norton RUFC Under-12s exited the Yorkshire Cup in a 21-0 defeat to visitors Sandal. The home forwards eked out more possession with a dominant line-out, but the back division of the unbeaten Sandal ranks always carried a potent, points-pilfering

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Slain by Saracens

Heworth ARL Club's Under-16s lost 22-14 to Slaithwaite Saracens but could take heart from a spirited performance in which Sam Bradley, Tom Hirst and Josh Bolam played a key role. Heworth made an encouraging start but Saracens hit back to go eight points

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Taking a winter break

Heworth ARL Under-8s are among those young rugby league sides who are having their welcome winter break from match action. These young Villagers return to the playing pitch in March. Heworth U8s, back row, from left to right: Kevin Sturdy (coach), Paul

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York girls look good for finals

CITY of York Hockey Club's girls Under-12s' A' continued their progress towards the end of season Yorkshire finals. They put in another set of impressive displays in their latest Yorkshire Youth League matches at Doncaster. They opened with a 1-0 win

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York building for the future

YORK RUFC's future seems in safe hands after the club's juniors turned out in force to help the Clifton Parkers haul in a treasure trove of silverware. The Under-15s triumphed in the North Yorkshire Cup, while the U14s swept to success in the North

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York fall as rivals snatch late winner

A LATE goal saw York Schools Under-12 footballers bow out of the Michael Dale Trophy with a 2-1 defeat at Nottingham. Josh Stilgoe's run from his own half saw him weave past several before sliding a pass to Tom Reay, who netted. But sloppy tackling

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Wilkinson wary of big Clifton threat

ROBERT Wilkinson made a cracking start to the League B' season with good wins over Poppleton Ousebank and Hempland. They backed that up with a battling performance in the Primary Cup at English Martyrs but the bubble burst when Poppleton Ousebank gained

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Ryedale’s cup quest

FOOTBALLERS at Ryedale School have made it through to the North Yorkshire County Cup final for the first time in 25 years. The Under-14s beat Easingwold School 3-2 in the semi-final, thanks to a brace from Tim Sharples. The youngsters, who have already

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Heworth best of a raw deal

COMETH the hour, cometh the comeback - that's how Heworth managed to prevail over rivals Rawcliffe. The teams clashed in the York British Sugar League Under-15s division one clash and while Heworth eventually won 3-1, it was far from a stroll in the

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Pool-days are best days

THE recent flooding around York might have caused its fair share of chaos, but youngsters from St Peter's School made the best of it. The school's rugby pitches became rather waterlogged, but while one sport suffered, another was quick to take advantage

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McEwan snap up Pool’s winger

HARTLEPOOL midfielder Michael Maidens has been drafted straight into York City's squad for this afternoon's Conference clash at Kidderminster after completing a one-month loan deal. Maidens is right-footed but has played on either flank for Hartlepool

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City await Trophy outcome

YORK City should learn on Tuesday night whether they will need to postpone their home match with Tamworth scheduled for Saturday, February 3. The fixture will only go ahead should Tamworth lose their FA Trophy second round tie against Welling United.

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Wiggy whitewash

AFTER a heavy defeat at the hands of champions-elect Chapel Allerton, IT Sports Wigginton got their Yorkshire Squash League premier division season back on track with a whitewash of Hallamshire. Wigginton got off to the best possible start when Ian

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Tommo’s switch

YORK driver James Thompson will rejoin Alfa Romeo for the 2007 World Touring Car Championship season. He raced with the Italian manufacturer in 2005 after making some guest appearances for them in the 2003 and 2004 European Touring Car Championship

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Same again for Heworth

THE first round of the newly-sponsored Rugby League Challenge Cup should hold no fears for Heworth next month. They have been drawn at home to Hull Isberg - the side they beat 30-18 at Elm Park Way in National Conference Two last Saturday. Division

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Foss turn up the heat

FOSSWAY B' kept the pressure on the top two in the York John Smith's Sunday Pool League with a 5-3 win at bottom club Burnholme. It was evenly poised at 3-3 until Danny Bhanvra and Mark Warrick won the last two frames for Fossway to record their seventh

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It’s a boot-iful gain

YORK City's sharpest shooter this season will be presented with the Keith Walwyn Memorial Boot thanks to supporter Andrew Wood. Goal-getters from every team representing the club are currently contesting the prize with the youngest schoolboy side through

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Heworth just edge out foes

HEWORTH consolidated their lead in the York Conservative Clubs' Slater Cup Snooker Pairs League by beating second-placed Bootham 5-2. However, it was close run as three of five black-ball results went their way. Bootham won the first and third frames

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Whyte dazzles as ‘A’-team excel

UNBEATEN Heworth A' started the second half of the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League season with a 6-1 defeat of their B' team. Steve Burdett started the rout when Brian Birch miscued on the final black and gifted him the game. Mark

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Nap hand success

ACOMB could not prevent Heworth from maintaining their advantage at the top of the York Conservative Clubs' Faber Shield Billiards League. Dave Birch won the first game for Heworth by 60 points but John Ashwell, (21 break) hit back to win by a six-point

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Top-notch champion tourney for Fulford

FULFORD Golf Club enters its second century hosting a prestigious championship. The English Blind Golf Association's British Blind Open will be staged at the Heslington-based course on August 7-8 when more than 50 of the world's top blind golfers will

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Easingwold rank and file salute Stuart

EASINGWOLD Golf Club has bade the fondest farewell to assistant professional Stuart Rank after he bagged a berth at one of the world's foremost clubs. Rank has been appointed as qualified assistant pro at the Stoke Park Club. Sited just a few miles outside

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Veterans show their class

OLDER members of Knavesmire Harriers strode out in the Yorkshire Veterans' Cross Country Championship in Rotherham. The main awards for Knavesmire went to M40-49 quartet of N Strange, B Atkinson, K Langhan and B Sciveley, who took the team bronze medal

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Records on the line in York Half Marathon

SCOTLAND Commonwealth Games runner Hayley Haining is bidding to recapture the Brass Monkey Half Marathon women's title in York tomorrow. The Kilbarchan AC star set the course record two years ago but didn't compete last year when Leeds-based Olympian

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Thinking ahead

IF you look closely enough, you can see Niall Barry's influence everywhere. From the youngsters wearing replica team shirts in the city centre, to a website visited by tens of thousands, to a clubhouse appeal which has already raised more than £500,000

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Fredo for Salford anyone?

TELEVISION footage of Sylvester Stallone waving an Everton scarf set the mind racing - and not just on the amount of crow-black hair the 60-year-old Rocky revivalist had atop his cranium. I mean, if the main-man among sequels - I've lost count what the

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Cold Kirby

IN 1941, Arthur Mee wrote that Cold Kirby was "as bleak as its name", but on our mid-winter day a tepid, long-legged westerly blew. Mee also called it an "out of the way spot", but these days the National Park Visitor Centre at Sutton Bank is just a

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The lost Alpine dash

THESE cars might be past their heyday now, but once they were at the top of their game. Jaguar XK120, Mini Coopers, and Sunbeam Talbots and others tore round hairpin mountain turns and raced through countryside as some of the best-loved rally cars of

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Growing green

THE hellebores planted in our front garden this time last year have responded with varying success to their first 12 months. Gorgeous plum-coloured Helleborus orientalis has remained small, retaining the original leaves without producing anything new

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Jack of all trades

When Jack Linley brought out his first book Teacher, Teacher two years ago, comparisons were made with James Herriot and Gervase Phinn. The gentle humour of Jack's fictionalised account of his first year as head of Huby primary school in the 1970s, and

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A Glimpse Of Heaven (Catholic Churches of England and Wales), by Christopher Martin (English Heritage, £25)

The problem with writing about Catholic churches is that their main stock of marvellous historic buildings were all forcibly commandeered by the Church of England more than 400 years ago. For the next two centuries, even planning to build a Catholic

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ZigZag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits Of Double Agent Eddie Chapman, by Nicholas Booth.

USING words such as "incredible" in the context of wartime spy stories can often lead to cliché country. However, it's pretty tempting in the case of Eddie Chapman. A brief précis of his tale goes like this. Chapman, ladies' man and safe-breaker,

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Someone Has Blundered: Calamities Of The British Army In The Victorian Age, Denis Judd, published in paperback by Phoenix, price £7.99.

WHEN this work originally appeared in 1973 it was probably seen as bursting the balloon of the Boy's Own image of invincible Victorian heroes defending the empire against hostile hordes. The 2007 paperback edition, of a book describing how a world

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What a ferry good idea

YOU might think there are only two ways of getting to Paris: catch a cheap flight or hop on a Eurostar. And then you stay in a city centre hotel. But there is, as a certain Prime Minister once argued, a third way, and I reckon it beats the other two

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A French vineyard run on most unusual lines

GERARD Gauby's wines are magical. I visited the man dubbed "the uncrowned king of the Roussillon" at his home and winery in Calce, which is a 20-minute drive from Perpignan, during a few days spent in the Languedoc-Rousillon last month. In the morning

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Puppy love perhaps – but it’s here to stay

I HAVE a new love. He is completely uninhibited about kissing me in public and makes a huge fuss of me whenever he sees me. People smile at us when we're out together and tell me how cute he is. We're quite an item: it's only been a week but I've got

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Not so soft

THIS is only the second time I have written to your paper, but the subject is something I feel quite strongly about. I am sick and tired of reading letters about soft and friendly dogs that wouldn't hurt a flea. Years ago I was an insurance agent

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No to link

THE proposal to provide a link road from Haxby Road to Wigginton Road through the Nestlé-Rowntree site, but not for cars, is typical planning rubbish (A blueprint for Nestlé, The Press, January 18). The route for pedestrians and cyclists already exists

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It’s on the cards

COUNCILLOR Vassie would do well to read the Identity Cards Act: his allegations about the National Identity scheme (Taking liberties with our rights, Letters, January 13) are completely incorrect. There are global moves to use biometric technology

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Take heat out of NHS crisis

EVERYONE knows there has been, and still is, a great deal of publicity and hand-wringing about cost-cutting in the NHS and, in particular, the primary care trust (PCT) for this area. I have a simple, but not total, solution. Just turn down the heating

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Cause and effect

MANY readers will have been consulted over the level of increase for the 2007/8 North Yorkshire Police budget. It is stated that a five per cent increase would still leave a gap of £3 million, and this would have to be covered by the use of reserves

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Tracing Monica

I AM trying to trace any family of Monica Dolan, who was born in Leeds around 1910. She lived in Liverpool with my father, Robert Dolan, until 1968. She had two sisters: Ella, who had a daughter, Maureen; and Teresa, who had two daughters, Jean

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Year of change

IN The Press, (Demolition job, January 16), there was an article about another supermarket planned for Acomb, with the demolition of the public library. Yes, we want a better library, and in the future Acomb will need another supermarket. It

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That first curry

READING the article by Francine Clee, (Culinary key to the heart, January 16), and her reference to her (OH) other half, I cannot fault him for his love of Indian food. I could also eat it every day myself, so much so that I have been making

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Make these vandals clear up their mess

THE battle to keep on top of graffiti, which after all is another word for criminal damage, is never-ending. The enormous expense to authorities in trying to eradicate the unsightly scrawls made by these morons at the taxpayers' expense is beyond comprehension

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January 20, 2007

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Archbishop of York is nominated in quest for top political figure

THE Archbishop of York has been named in a national awards search for the country's most inspiring political figure. Next month, Channel 4 is hosting The Political Awards 2007, the ninth annual ceremony which is held in association with the Hansard Society

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Holtby-based artist Sally Arnup sculpts anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce

THIS is the 15-year-old face of one of Yorkshire's most famous sons. The sculpture of slave trade abolitionist William Wilberforce as a schoolboy will sit in the grounds of Pocklington School, where he was once a pupil. It has been created by Holtby-based

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Blackspot safety row

LANDOWNERS and councillors met Selby MP John Grogan to discuss safety measures at a notorious A64 accident blackspot after a woman was killed crossing the road. Ladislav Hosova, 43, was hit by a motorcycle and several cars and vans as she tried to cross

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£700,000 equal pay row

A ROW has broken out between York council chiefs and union bosses after the cost of settling equal pay claims rose by £700,000. City of York Council now expects to spend £2.3 million in compensating staff who have been under-paid in the past - up from

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THE best pint of bitter in the North comes from York

THE best pint of bitter in the North comes from York - that's the verdict of a panel of expert brewers. York Brewery's Guzzler was voted the gold-medal winner in the bitter category of the North Beer Competition, held by the Society of Independent Brewers

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Mum’s tax credit hell

A SINGLE-MUM owed thousands of pounds by the working tax credit system has been forced out of her home. Julie Richardson, 33, now of Acomb, York, has been waiting for her working tax credit to be calculated since September. She believes she is owed thousands

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Callum Stewart gets into the groove at Abbey Road

York saxophonist Callum Stewart was outside London's famous Abbey Road studios after being talent-spotted in a national music contest. Callum Stewart, 11, was one of 20 chosen in the national Groove Search contest launched by the London-based Philharmonia

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McDonalds, in Blake Street wants to stay open until 2am

WHAT the good burghers of York would think is anyone's guess. A city centre fast food restaurant has applied to City of York Council to be allowed to open until 5am on Fridays and Saturdays, serving burgers, fries and shakes until the early hours. McDonalds

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Lucky escape for OAPs as storms strike

FRAIL pensioners feared for their safety after a roof blew off a neighbouring house during the wild storms that battered York. Alice Coundon, 72, of St Anne's Court, was in the kitchen of her council bungalow when she heard a loud crash. "I could see

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Stephen Reynolds of New Earswick bit finger of his partner

A MAN who bit his partner's finger - despite her having no digits on her other hand - has avoided jail. Stephen Barry Reynolds, 43, of Lime Tree Avenue, New Earswick, gripped Tracey Hewitt's index finger between his teeth, forcing her to bite him on

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East coast line decision looms

APPLICANTS to run the East Coast rail franchise through York will find out in three weeks whether they have made it on to the shortlist. Companies hoping to take over the running of services from York to London and Edinburgh will learn on February 9

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'We’re winning the war against vandals' council says

COUNCIL chiefs in York are getting an average of more than 40 calls a month about graffiti problems, but claim they are winning the war with the vandals. Graffiti hotspots are being targeted by City of York Council staff in a month-long Neighbourhood

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Plans surgery attracts 100

MORE than 100 local residents have attended a planning surgery about the redevelopment of the former Terry's chocolate factory site. Now developer Grantside is set to host one more such event on Tuesday, from 3.30pm. The surgeries, which are held in

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Architect raps car ban policy

PLANNERS would deliver a "kick in the teeth" to the people of York if they failed to allow cars to use a proposed link road between two grid-locked streets, according to a city architect. As reported in The Press, City of York Council officers have suggested

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Criminal justice chief’s fact-finding visit

THE chief executive of the Office For Criminal Justice Reform, Ursula Brennan, has been meeting staff at York's Victim Care Unit, at Clifton Moor. The unit, which is run by Victim Support, is one of the first of its kind in the country and has benefited

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TV psychologist Dr Tanya Byron hails care unit

AN UPGRADED care unit for youngsters in York with serious mental health problems will be opened by clinical psychologist and TV broadcaster Tanya Byron. Dr Byron, a former University of York student, has already welcomed the new facility, which will

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Jailed ex-ambulance chief Trevor Molton ordered to pay back thousands

FRAUD investigators have welcomed the news that a former ambulance chief currently serving three years in prison for fraud will have to pay back more than £140,000 to the National Health Service (NHS). Trevor Molton, 51, of Middleton, near Pickering,

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Carolyn Charlesworth convicted of assaulting woman in Selby pub toilet

A mother of two young children must control herself or face separation from her children, a judge said. Carolyn Louise Charlesworth, 26, gave Alison Horner a black eye as fighting erupted between women in a pub toilet, York Crown Court heard. Geraldine

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Clive Manyou trial: Jury convicts - 6 years for rape

HE was an actor who trod the boards at the National Youth Theatre and a singer who performed in a popular York soul band. But Clive Manyou's performance in the witness box at York Crown Court failed to convince a jury of his innocence. Today