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Acomb Library set for a £500k revamp
RESIDENTS are being asked to give their views on ambitious £500,000 plans to enhance a York library. City of York Council chiefs want to extend and refurbish Acomb Library, in Front Street, by adding three new classrooms and an area where refreshments
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Saris ‘not way to harmony’
THE Archbishop of York has launched an attack on the "saris, samosas and steel bands" approach to multiculturalism in Britain in a speech calling for a global fight against racism. Quoting from an article in the Times Educational Supplement, Dr John
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Council chiefs team up with top firms to clean up city
THE war on graffiti in York has been stepped up, after a number of utility firms joined forces with council chiefs. Several local companies have teamed up with City of York Council and agreed to remove offensive graffiti or fly-posting from their property
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Laysthorpe Lane, Nunnington
Temporary traffic lights between 06/02/07 and 07/02/07
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Sinnington Bridge, Sinnington A170
Temporary traffic lights between 06/02/2007 and 07/02/2007
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Superstore to be expanded
A LEADING supermarket has got the go-ahead for a major expansion of a York store. Bosses at Tesco at Clifton Moor have been granted planning permission to extend the shop and install a second floor inside the superstore. The development will increase
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County bucks the trend on police numbers
NORTH Yorkshire is bucking the trend with a record number of police officers, despite the number of bobbies falling across the UK. The number of police officers in England and Wales has fallen for the first time since March 2000, according to new figures
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New city hall cost rockets up £8.1m
THE estimated cost of York's new city hall has risen by £8 million in a year before a brick has even been laid. City of York Council's relocation to new headquarters at Hungate is set to cost £35.71 million - £4.54 million higher than the figure presented
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Penthouse with a Minster view
IF YOU have got an eye for style, this duplex penthouse could be right up your street. Occupying an enviable position in St Denys Court, this property lies within the city walls and offers a contemporary and stylish interior with high quality fixtures
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Time to invest in a property
WITH property prices set to soar over the coming months, why wait to invest your money? Stephensons kicks off our selection of investment properties with a Victorian dwelling in Stillingfleet. Mill House, The Gale, needs modernisation to realise its
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A question of NHS patience
SENIOR members of North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) were quizzed yesterday about the future of health services in the city and wider area. Around 70 people, both individuals and representatives of various organisations, were at the meeting
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Smoke bombers branded idiotic
FIREFIGHTERS have hit out at "irresponsible" timewasters who put smoke bombs through the letter boxes of two homes in York. Police are appealing for witnesses after smoke bombs were posted through the letterboxes of two houses. It is not yet known whether
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Justice lets down the victims
The justice system is failing rape victims, a new report claims. So how can conviction rates be increased? And what about the right of the defendant to a fair trial? MAXINE GORDON, STEPHEN LEWIS and CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL report. RAPE is a notoriously
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Josh’s big push for charity
FIFTY miles on a bike - and every one of them will raise more cash for our Guardian Angels appeal. This sporty teenager will be pedalling furiously to boost our campaign coffers when he takes on a 50-mile fundraising cycle ride this spring. Joshua Williams
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A sad 70th for Odeon cinema
TODAY, the Odeon cinema in Blossom Street, York, would have celebrated its 70th birthday of continuous cinema use - had it been allowed to. Sadly, since the Odeon company decided to turn its back by closing a much-loved art deco building on August 31
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Striker Elvins joins promotion drive
YORK City have signed striker Rob Elvins from Championship club West Brom in a one-month loan deal. The Minstermen swooped for the 6ft 2in target man last night in an attempt to bolster their strikeforce as the midnight deadline for permanent signings
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Pool shortfall
YOUR recent Diary On The Loose featured Coun Dave Merrett's heated exchange with the chair of the council's scrutiny committee, called to discuss the proposed replacement five-lane swimming pool at Oaklands School. In the officer's report to an executive
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It’s time we stopped bullying poor Jade
WE love it, don't we, destroying someone who has the audacity to be successful, despite the worst upbringing possible. The rich and well-to-do hate Jade because she is so common and the common hate her because they are jealous and it means they have
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Auden’s no hero
I HAVE never been an admirer of the York-born poet W H Auden or of his poetry. Nevertheless, I read with interest Gavin Aitchison's excellent report on the forthcoming special public event to celebrate the centenary of the poet's birth (Martinis all
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Cycling mafia needs to join us in the real world
IT is ironic that your correspondent Paul Hepworth should rage against "the motoring lobby" when the spare parts needed to keep his bicycle on the road are delivered by lorry (Stand up to the motoring lobby, Readers' Letters, January 27). Councillors
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Fuelling change
ROBIN Rawson (Skipping the issue, Readers' Letters, January 26) is mostly right about trees being a temporary store of carbon. However, their leaves and fallen limbs, when rotted down, leave some of their carbon in the soil. Soils are an important
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Narrow-minded
I AM very sorry for Anne Wright's injury (Total ban needed, Readers' Letters, January 30) and wish her a speedy recovery, but hers is another narrow-minded view of disability. "Disabled people" could not "use the Shopmobility services in Piccadilly
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Cruel practice
COUN Paul Blanchard and City of York Council should be congratulated for contemplating a ban on foie gras in York restaurants, even though it is not legally possible to impose a ban (Let's outlaw cruel trade, January 23). At the very least, it has
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Schools worry
I HAVE just read with interest the article "City schools compete for £28m in cash" (The Press, January 24). I am very pleased for the schools which will eventually benefit from this money, but one thing greatly concerns me. I live just off Tadcaster
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Cash crisis needs action
Overspent at Christmas? Debts getting you down? City of York Trading Standards urges those people who feel their credit has turned into crisis to seek free confidential specialist money or budgeting advice before the problem gets out of hand. If
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Patient campaign
OUR campaign to ensure family doctors retain the right to decide on their patients' treatment has won its first supporters - and received its first knockback. The first members of the public signed our Let Your Doctor Decide petition yesterday.
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Red peril at Beeb
HERE'S a question to get things rolling: Is the BBC a left-wing plot aimed at undermining society? Occasionally, a letter will arrive at this and other newspapers making such a complaint. Often they are written in green ink, a colour chosen by those
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Duke flies into travel row
THE Diary has learned that York's very own Royal has come under fire, for allegedly spending thousands of taxpayers' money chartering a private jet. A national newspaper claims Prince Andrew chartered a jet to make a 400-mile trip back from Edinburgh
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Webster released by City
BYRON Webster has been released by York City at his own request. The 19-year-old midfielder figured in ten of Billy McEwan's first 14 matches in charge of the Minstermen at the end of the 2004-05 season after making his debut in December of that
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Chance for life change
A HOLIDAY company has been set up, aimed at people who want to break out from the monotony of their existence and change the way they live. Liz Betts, from Harome, near Helmsley, has established Life Changing Weekends, which will give people wanting
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‘Callous’ paedophile jailed for 16 years
HE MADE a girl's life a living hell throughout her childhood and early womanhood - now this paedophile may die behind bars. "Domineering", "callous" and "cruel" former soldier Gordon Welsh, 69, raped her repeatedly for nearly two decades, starting when
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Taxman has sights on van man
COMPANY van drivers could soon be hit by a huge increase in income tax. Businessman Stuart Wilson, of Vesper Drive, Acomb, is warning everyone who drives a van to check out their own situation - as he or she could soon be paying tax on £3,500, compared
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Little Man Tate, About What You Know (Yellow Van Records/V2) ****; Milburn, Well Well Well (Mercury) ****
SHEFFIELD newcomers Little Man Tate must be a happy bunch of campers, because their debut record, About What You Know, is a stunning triumph. Those who have admired Jon Windle and co for some time have had to wait patiently for this opening offering
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Eddi Reader, Peacetime (Rough Trade) ****
SCOTTISH singer Eddi Reader has followed her acclaimed Robert Burns album with a clarion call for peace in strife-torn times. She wrote Safe As Houses with her musical partner Boo Hewerdine in Yorkshire on the day suicide bombers caused mayhem in London
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York office developer goes for growth
THE green light has been given for a new phase of office development at Monks Cross North business park. Property development syndicate the Monks Cross Partnership has released these artist's impressions of a 35,000sq ft speculative development of up
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Deal was best for Clayton - Sprott
CLAYTON Donaldson's agent, Andy Sprott, says suggestions he deliberately found the player a deal in Scotland so York City would not receive any compensation were "not the case". Speaking to The Press, Sprott insisted that by brokering Donaldson's pre-contract
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The Hold Steady, Boys And Girls In America (Full Time Hobby/Vagrant) ****; The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (Rough Trade) ****
HAIL the return of literate American rock on a pair of albums cooked up from books. The Hold Steady's sophomore release - and their first in Britain - takes its title from a line in Jack Kerouac's beat novel On The Road that "boys and girls in America
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Klaxons, Myths Of The Near Future (Polydor) ****
KICK out that filthy bass and let those sirens shriek: the Klaxons have arrived. The new rave label appears to be a misnomer at first listen. Of course, there are the eponymous klaxons and jittering vocal samples on the excellent Atlantis To Interzone
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Just Jack, Overtones (Mercury Records) ***
WITH this album's second single, Starz In Their Eyes, reaching number two in the charts, Just Jack seems sure to be catapulted to commercial success. Along with Writer's Block, that single is one of the unmistakable high-points of Overtones, Jack Allsopp's
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Kristin Hersh, Learn To Sing Like A Star (4AD) ****
WHERE would you be without personal misfortune? Recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and a smaller, no less dramatic household flood, Hersh has composed her strongest set of songs yet in her consistently interesting solo career. Playing
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Centre publishes local business directory
VOLUNTEERS at a community centre near Selby have been celebrating after getting funding to publish a local business directory. Staff at the Regen Centre, in Riccall, have created the directory to let people in Riccall and surrounding villages know about
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Don't go Della.
Della retires in May leaving a healthy bank balance behind and a less than ailing one ahead in a force which has grown in numbers on the street and is seen to be tackling more of the problems people face. She seems to have taken the force forward with
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Francis Jackson, Sacred Choral Works (Delphian DCD34035) ****
Since his retirement as organist and master of choristers at York Minster in 1982, Jackson has hardly had his feet up. Here is the proof, a disc almost entirely made up of works written over the past 20 years, confirming him as doyen of our church
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Flo blow for Leeds
LEEDS United manager Dennis Wise has revealed striker Tore Andre Flo has fractured a foot and could be out for up to eight weeks. The former Norway international answered Wise's SOS in early January by signing for Leeds and agreeing to spearhead their
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No offence meant to City board
I BELIEVE my comments about the transfer of York City's Clayton Donaldson (The Press, Tuesday, January 30) have been taken out of context. As a result I know people have been upset by them. I have personally known all the members of our (City) board
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Dyson looks for Classic recovery
SIMON Dyson will hope to put a disappointing start to the European Tour season behind him when he lines up in the glittering field for the Dubai Desert Classic tomorrow. The North Yorkshire golf ace missed the cut in last week's Qatar Masters and
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Scots to invade Stamford Bridge
STAMFORD Bridge Cricket Club are getting ready to welcome the Tartan Army this summer. Scotland are to play Yorkshire at the Low Catton Road ground in a 2nd XI Championship three-day game starting on June 5. The Scots, who have former Yorkshire
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Ospreys flying back into contention
Eggborough Ospreys are making a challenge for one of the top two spots in Selby Fasprint Table Tennis League division one following their efforts to reduce their back-log of fixtures. They are now sitting second with a game in hand over leaders Eggborough
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Eight-point edge
HEWORTH A' increased their lead in the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League to eight points by thrashing close challengers Fulford A' 6-1 - despite a rare defeat for in-form Kevin Gall. Their winners were Mark Winskill, Tony Tennyson
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New challenge
THE rugby league road to Wembley begins on Saturday - with amateur York clubs York Acorn and Heworth eager to avoid a second successive knockout blow. Both sides slipped on banana skins last weekend as they crashed out of the amateur game's top knockout
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Police chief quits riddle
NORTH Yorkshire's controversial chief constable has announced her retirement - five months before her contract runs out. Questions were today being asked as to why Chief Constable Della Cannings is leaving the helm early. She will not get to see out
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Bowls of steel
YORK'S Ladies held their nerve again in indoor bowls' Vivienne Trophy to go from 38-37 down at the half-way stage to beat Leicester 87-63 and reach the quarter-finals. York's away rinks did well with Pat Bracken's rink not being overawed by a 7-1 deficit
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All Blacks’ chance to bounce back
New Earswick All Blacks have the perfect opportunity to bounce back to winning form as they entertain Siddal A' on Saturday. All Blacks' Pennine League premier division title hopes took a whack last week as they lost to Queensbury but Siddal, bottom
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Record-breaking Buck
GREAT Britain athlete Richard Buck clocked the third best 400-metre time in the country this year when he struck gold at the Northern Senior Indoor Championships at Sheffield. The Nestlé Rowntree runner won his heat before taking the title with a time
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York into double rink finals
York reached the Yorkshire Double Rinks Bowls Cham-pionship finals after a hard-fought game against Ryedale. David Stroughair's rink had an impressive victory at Norton against Iain Boyle's team, winning six of the last eight ends to go from 11-7 down
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Changes afoot for 2007 York International 9s
THE York International 9s rugby league festival will revert to a one-day bonanza this year - and the standard could yet rise again. The inaugural tournament in 2002 was a one-day event, but ever since has been held over a weekend, to incorporate an increase
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Heworth in control
Heworth held on to their four-point lead at the top of the York Conservative Clubs' Slater Cup Snooker Pairs League by recording a comfortable 5-2 win against Acomb. Second-placed Bootham won 5-2 at Fulford after coming back from 2-0 down with the
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Hopeful cinema supporters toast Odeon's 70th anniversary
SEVENTY years ago today York's Odeon cinema enjoyed a glittering opening ceremony in what was billed as "the event of 1937" in the city. But as cinema enthusiasts gather to mark the milestone with a glass of champagne, uncertainty is still hanging over
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New home for scout group
A YORK scout group has announced it is to build a new home with facilities for archery, badminton and a climbing wall. In the Scout movement's centenary year, Ebor Scouts will see its old building at Snowball Plantation, in Stockton-on-the-Forest, demolished
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Civil servants strike on cuts
THOUSANDS of civil servants across York and North Yorkshire took part in a one-day strike, disrupting everything from Job Centres and barracks to courts and forests. Picket lines were mounted outside several buildings in York yesterday, including Imphal
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The Vikings are coming to York
YORK is preparing to be taken over by Vikings - for the 22nd year in a row. The annual Jorvik Viking Festival will be bringing history to life for five days this month, and more details have emerged of some of the spectacular events planned. About 40,000
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Teenage duo hailed
THESE talented teenagers are the pride of their village. Seventeen-year -old Mhairi Dunn and 15-year-old Tom Quinn have scooped awards for their contribution to life in south York during 2006. They were presented with Bishopthorpe Millennium Youth Awards
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Support for A1079 upgrade
A PETITION calling for the upgrading of the A1079 between York and Hull has been presented to the Government, after receiving more than 400 signatures. The document, launched by MPs representing the East Riding of Yorkshire, calls for a formal response
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‘Tyre failure was a key element in the crash which destroyed our much-pampered car’
TYRE failure was a "key element" in the high-speed crash near York which nearly claimed the life of TV presenter Richard Hammond the jet car's owner said. Primetime Landspeed Engineering said it could not comment in advance of a Health & Safety Executive
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Owner claims bagging rights
MORE than 100,000 tonnes of plastic bags are thrown away every year in the UK, taking up to 500 years to break down in landfill sites. That shocking statistic has inspired one York shop owner to take action, and so the whole of February at The Good Food
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Celebration of architect
THE architect behind some of York and North Yorkshire's finest schools and civic buildings is being celebrated by a new exhibition. The Borthwick Institute, at the University of York, is marking the work of local architect Walter Brierley, who practised
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Booze ban call in damage fury
RESIDENTS have called for a ban on booze in their village after a spate of vandalism and antisocial behaviour. In December, The Press reported on a number of incidents in Hemingbrough, near Selby, including damage to a bench on the green at Water Lane
