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Link road hope at factory site
THE door has been left open for a new link road through the Nestle factory site - after councillors called for the idea to be included in a consultation. A blueprint for the future of the plant, published last week, included proposals for a short-cut
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3m use Park&Ride
MORE than three million passengers used York's Park&Ride service last year, figures released today have revealed. The milestone marks a bumper year for the buses, which carried more people than ever before, since their launch in 1991. Today, the service
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Website reveals rise in diabetes
A NEW website shows that the prevalence of diabetes in York and Selby has increased. The Diabetes Infobank, which has been launched by Diabetes UK, details the percentage of people with diabetes and gives information like how ethnicity affects the prevalence
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Stars brave Moors chill for 1960s TV wedding
THIS is the moment that barmaid Gina Ward finally marries PC Phil Bellamy in the popular TV series Heartbeat. Yorkshire Television is tight-lipped about what the crew and cast of the long-running story of 1960s country folk were filming in Goathland
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Thieves grab name plate from museum’s loco
THIEVES have stolen a brass nameplate from an historic locomotive while it was on display at York's National Railway Museum. The plate, which is oval-shaped and painted black, was taken from the Furness Railway 0-4-0 No 3, a steam locomotive built in
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Pervert’s sentence is increased
THE FATHER of a 12-year-old girl from York who was groomed for sex over the internet has spoken of his relief after her attacker has had his "unduly lenient" sentence upped. The Press told of his disgust last year after Adam Bennett, 23, of Uxbridge,
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Medics quiz PCT over cost-cutting moves
HEALTH bosses are preparing their response to another stinging attack from doctors in the multi-million pound cost cuts row. The North Yorkshire and York Local Medical Committee (LMC) has written again to North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (
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Region’s patients hit by ‘postcode lottery’
DOCTORS' surgeries just a few miles apart are now offering radically different NHS treatment - all because of cost cuts. Today The Press can reveal the "postcode lottery" that is dividing our region, which means next door neighbours could end up being
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Dream cottage off the village green
IF you like charm, character and beautiful surroundings, you might just have found your perfect property. This lovely cottage in Main Street, Askham Richard, is a four-bedroom house and modernised former chapel, with views of the village green. Built
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Country life
CITY living is convenient, chic and right at the heart of the action, but sometimes you just want to escape from it. If being a few miles out is more up your street, then one of these homes might be for you. First up, Your Move Anscombs has a lovely
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Arc Light homeless hostel plan gets the green light
THE controversial relocation of a homeless hostel in York will go ahead after getting the green light from councillors. An application to move the Arc Light centre to the Union Terrace car park was approved by members of City of York Council's planning
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Boltby, nr Thirsk
Photograph by Stuart Dalby © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
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Christmas is just around the corner
SO-CALLED experts the length and breadth of the land have been making good money by pointing out that certain days this month (such as "Blue Monday") might make people a bit miserable. This is, of course, mainly due to cold weather (funny that, in winter
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It ain’t necessarily so
LAST year, some 2,900 children were adopted in this country, and of that number four per cent are said to have been handled by Catholic adoption agencies. Such figures are worth keeping in mind when listening to the furious debate stirred up by the gay
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Scandal of NHS lottery
SO much for a "national" health service. An investigation by The Press today reveals that you could be denied NHS treatment that is freely available to your neighbour next door. This shocking postcode health lottery is all because of the massive debt
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Leave our cheap store deals alone
SO now the supermarkets are to be called on to end "irresponsible" drinks promotions in an attempt to curb binge drinking (CAMRA joins MPs' cheap booze fight, The Press, January 26). What on earth will we have next? A curb on food promotions because
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Gym membership can lose you pounds – sterling
Credit agreements buried in the small print could trip up thousands of people who rushed to join a gym as part of their new year's resolutions, warns Consumer Direct. While the new year is a peak time for joining gyms and getting fit, Consumer Direct
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Stop meddling
Home Secretary John Reid has written to judges and magistrates, urging them to keep all but the most violent offenders out of prison because of overcrowding. This is not a suggestion that will go down well with the public or crime victims. How are
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Foie gras farce
THE council's Labour Group has decided that one of the most pressing issues for the city is the consumption of foie gras (Let's outlaw cruel trade, The Press, January 23). York residents might be mistaken for believing that issues such as the NHS,
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Accurate image?
I READ Bill Hearld's column (Come and have a go, January 23) with interest. He offers, in response to abusive comments on the internet site, to let readers take his column space if they can do better. I can't see any takers coming forward to take up
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Soul success
THE Soul On Club annual charity soul night on Saturday, January 13, raised £2,600 for the Breast Cancer Care Unit at York Hospital. We would like to express our gratitude to the Royal York Hotel, which once again kindly sponsored the event, also
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Fines not the answer to mobile madness
SO here we go again - sting the motorist for larger fines (The Press, January 23). While I agree with the findings on the use of mobile phones, I find it remarkable that no press article or Government directive has suggested the correct solution to the
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Deeper holes
IF you don't admit to being wrong, and you are responsible for advancing essential commitments of your organisation, things get worse. People find new policy you have introduced difficult to believe in, understand and implement. You cannot change
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Critics ignored?
I WAS mystified to read in the article Oaklands pool rubber-stamped (The Press, January 10) that the committee chairperson, Madeleine Kirk, said the council received no complaints from the public about the consultation. My letter, published in The
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Impractical ban
BANNING cars from York city centre is totally impractical. Shops need deliveries, commercial, service and emergency vehicles need access. Why should disabled people not park in footstreets if they abide by the speed limit and park with consideration
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Hospital trials machine that our appeal could buy
OUR Guardian Angels appeal is coming on in leaps and bounds - and today we can reveal a glimpse of how some of the money will be spent. Staff at York Hospital children's ward are this week trialling a new baby breathing machine, of the type they plan
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Brothers buy out agency MD
A PARTNERSHIP which saw the ultra-rapid rise of a new York-based estate agency has ended in "a difference of opinion" after 19 months. Brothers Colin and Michael Cain, who sold half of their stake in Otisdale to the firm's former managing director, Reuben
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Building on success for brickmaker’s best year
York Handmade Brick Company, based at Alne, near Easingwold, has announced another record year. York Handmade, one of the top independent brickmakers in the north of England, had a turnover of almost £2.4 million last year - an increase of seven per
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Sorry: We're full
What justice can victims expect when magistrates and judges are told not to send criminals to jail because the prisons are full? STEPHEN LEWIS and CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL report Home Secretary John Reid has written to police and magistrates urging them
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Cops went under cover to smash commercial drugs ring in York
POLICE smashed a commercial drug ring in an undercover operation, a court heard. Simon Waley, prosecuting at Leeds Crown Court, said Liverpudlian Darren Michael Brunston took a £40-a-night room at the Wold View Hotel in York between January 26 and February
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The Good, The Bad & The Queen (Honest Jon’s/Parlophone) ***
DAMON Albarn likes to blur the margins, slinking away from the pin-up stardom of Blur for the music to be the thing. His first moon-lit flit, Gorillaz, hid behind Japanese cartoons; then he buried his involvement in the world music collaboration with
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The View, Hats Off To The Buskers (1965 Records) ***
STILL in their infancy last August, Dundonians The View received a rapturous welcome at a sold-out Fibbers in York. Now they are being referred to as 2007's next big thing in some quarters. Is the hype justified? Well, these likely lads churn out some
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The Frames, The Cost (Anti) ****
Independent Irish outfit The Frames have been around a bit - The Cost is their eighth studio album - without really threatening the consciousness. In fact, rarely has their haunting style crossed the Irish Sea. But this time, they have produced
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The Cooper Temple Clause, Make This Your Own (Sequel) **
THE decision by the Cooper Temple's former bassist Didz Hammond to jump ship to Carl Barat's new band Dirty Pretty Things was an inspired one. Perhaps he knew that the indie scene's former great white hopes and "band to be seen with" had run
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Snoop Dogg, The Blue Carpet Treatment (Geffen Records) ***; Various, Eminem Presents the Re-up (Shady/Interscope Records) H; Jay-Z, Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella Records/Universal Music) ****
BEFORE hip-hop was absorbed into the mainstream, the chart life of a typical rapper was short. Today, all the major record houses maintain their prized hip-hop assets, even as many have aged beyond the audience that consumes their creations.
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The Songs Of The Radio Ballads (Gott Discs) ****
THE 2006 Radio Ballads, first broadcast on BBC Radio 2, were inspired by the Radio Ballads made by folk singer Ewan MacColl and BBC producer Charles Parker in the 1950s and 1960s. The originals were masterpieces of radio, weaving together song and speech
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The Noisettes, What’s The Time Mr Wolf? (Mercury Records) **
Forget the 'ettes', The Noisettes are just plain old noise. Their debut album is fun at first: a new wave indie guitar deluge, pounding drums and energetic, screeching, bluesy vocals from Shingai. The problem is the lack of variation; track after
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City admit charge in wake of Woking bust-up
YORK City are to admit a charge of failing to control their players following the mass brawl during the 1-0 defeat against Woking at KitKat Crescent last month. The FA has confirmed it has started disciplinary procedures against both clubs in the wake
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Iron unlikely to up Clayton offer
SCUNTHORPE United boss Nigel Adkins says he won't pay "stupid money" to prize leading Conference striker Clayton Donaldson away from York City. Adkins is the latest manager to have a bid rejected at KitKat Crescent, with Peterborough and Accrington
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Club faces FA rap
York City have been charged under the FA's rule E', which regards conduct. Paragraph 20 (a) of that rule states that each affiliated association, competition and club shall be responsible for: Ensuring that its directors, players, officials, employees
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Peters and Hall shine for high-flying Kestrels
Leaders Eggborough Kestrels saw off Selby Working Men's Club 7-3 in Selby Fasprint Table Tennis League division one. John Peters and Phil Hall were undefeated, while Selby captain Roger Ellis and Geoff Harrop saved the whitewash with a single set each
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RL duo wary of cup tasks
HEWORTH and York Acorn ARLC are both wary of potential banana skins as they enter the GMB Union National Cup at the second round stage on Saturday. The two National Conference League clubs face opposition from supposedly inferior leagues, but difficult
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Win would be All Blacks’ perfect hangover cure
New Earswick All Blacks have the chance to make up ground on the top two in the Pennine League premier division - but they might have to overcome sore heads to do so. Leaders Sharlston and second-placed Drighlington are both in National Cup action, and
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Rhodes closes in on fitness as Big Joe returns
YORK City Knights are hoping to throw Scott Rhodes into the mix tomorrow night to go face-to-face with his old mucker Danny Brough. Rhodes and Brough, both Scotland internationals, formed arguably the Knights' best-ever half-back partnership when they
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Cain race night
Knights Supporters' Club will hold a Mark Cain Testimonial Race Night on March 9 at the Hospital Social Club. The first race is 8pm. Tickets cost £2 and are available from Supporters' Club committee members at the Knights' friendly against Cas tomorrow
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Brough to bolster Tiger cubs at Knights
YORK City Knights are hoping the return of crowd favourite Danny Brough to Huntington Stadium will be a big draw for supporters tomorrow night. The Knights take on Castleford in a pre-season friendly but the Tigers are set to bring a team of youngsters
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Residents count the cost of vandalism
"THEY could have killed me." Those were the words of a terrified victim, whose home was set alight by arsonists as he slept. Philip Nicholson, of Alcuin Avenue, York, woke at about 6am on Tuesday to see firefighters putting out a blaze in his wheelie
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Dyson fit to stick his neck out in Qatar
SIMON Dyson has shaken off a troublesome neck injury to continue his European Tour charge in the $2 million Qatar Masters, which starts today. The North Yorkshire golfer has spent the last few days having extensive treatment after trapping a nerve in
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England’s Eagles flies high
YORK teenager Zoe Eagles played her part as England retained the Acle Trophy in the Ladies Under-25s British Isles bowls tournament in Arbroath, writes Peter Martini. England demolished Wales 106-56, Ireland 127-46 and Scotland 101-54 to easily top
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York dishing up plate progress
YORK moved into the last 16 of the Yetton Plate with a surprisingly one-sided 120-47 victory over Blackpool Borough. Helen Walker's rink set the tone for the match, winning the first nine ends in Lancashire to lead 20-0. She only lost four ends in total
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Fury over gay issue
A York author has described the stance of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches on gay couples adopting children as "disgraceful". The comment, by Jenny Roberts, came after the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, signed a letter to Prime Minister
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Our daughter has learned her lesson on reality TV show
PICTURED here is an innocent teenager with her life ahead of her, unaware that in two years' time she would be plastered over the front pages of tabloids and described as a "voice of hate". Lucy Buchanan, now 18, was photographed as a member of the York
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York MP to highlight housing shortage on television
THE housing crisis facing York will be under the spotlight this week, when the city's MP appears on a TV chat show. Hugh Bayley, will be a guest on this Sunday's episode of The Politics Show, on BBC1. He will discuss how people in York are struggling
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Waging war on false alarms
FIREFIGHTERS are cracking down on false alarms, which account for almost 13 unwanted call outs every day across North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service received 3,437 calls due to false alarms between April 1 and December 31 last year
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Tributes to gentleman Jim
HE was known to his friends and customers as "gentleman Jim" and clocked up 75 years in the same gents clothing store. Tributes were paid today to the life of Jim Boyes, of Acomb, York, who has died, aged 93. The pensioner hit the headlines a few years
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'Council left us in the cold'
A YOUNG mother was left shivering over winter after the council took more than four months to repair her faulty boiler and gas fire. Melanie Small, 24, of Fifth Avenue, York, moved into her council house about six months ago, with her eight-month-old
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Pilot to benefit cancer patients
BOWEL cancer patients in York and Selby are benefiting from a pilot scheme to improve the co-ordination of care, health chiefs say. The Government- funded Integrated Cancer Care Programme is being run by York Hospital and North Yorkshire and York Primary
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Late-night drinking laws report: crime down, nuisance up
CHANGES to York's drinking laws have seen crime plummet and noise nuisance soar, according to a report to go before councillors next week. City of York Council has carried out a study to assess the impact of the introduction of new licensing
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Crackdown on crime in Selby
POLICE are set to report on a crackdown on crime, antisocial behaviour and underage drinking in a number of Selby villages. Police, Selby District Council officers and parish councillors will meet with members of the public at a Joint Action Group
