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13th April 07.
Rape near Crayke, North Yorkshire. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/George_079/PIC_0387.jpg The area is splashed with its colour. Gorse at the bottom of the bank at Ilton, between Masham and Healey. A beautiful quiet single track road in North
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Watch out... Gripper is back!
A PLAYGROUND villain of yesteryear has returned to the big screen to act in a film made by students in York. Mark Savage, who is known to a generation as the terrifying school bully Norman "Gripper" Stebson in BBC's Grange Hill, has starred in a short
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Dame Kelly Holmes' motivational visit
DOUBLE Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes was hoping some of her athletic talent would rub off on staff when she paid a visit to Norwich Union's offices in York. Dame Kelly knows the city well as she worked as a physical training instructor at Imphal
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Golden boy Mitchell a splash hit
YORK City Baths Club's Alistair Mitchell has claimed his first Yorkshire titles. The nine-year-old, from Whitwell-on-the-Hill, near Malton, stormed to victory in the 200 metres backstroke at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. He has also won the county 50m backstroke
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York quartet excel as they storm to title
THE 15/16 years boys' team from York City Baths Club defied the odds at the Yorkshire Age Group Team Championships. Despite lining up against much bigger clubs, Oliver Wilby, Chris Burns, Tom Jackson and Bradley Swainston stormed to victory in the medley
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Coach Craig delighted with York swimmers
The York City Baths Club boys' A' team followed up their gold and silver successes at the Yorkshire Team Sprints Gala in Sheffield by entering team and individual events at the British Championships and Junior European Time Trials, which were held at
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Twickers trip awaits
A TRIP to the home of English rugby awaits three of York RUFC's junior sides. Three of the Clifton Parkers' junior sides are Twickenham bound after excelling in the Gullivers Festival at Nottingham last weekend. The Under-9s, U10s and U11s all qualified
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Pocklington up
POCKLINGTON RUFC's Under-14s won the Challenge Cup at the two-day Welsh Festival in Aberystwyth, where they beat Sutton and Epsom 25-5. Tries by Luke Holam (3), Adam Collinson and a fine team try involving Joe Elliott and Colin Wealleans earned Pock
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Pock shine in 7s arena
POCKLINGTON Rugby Club's junior charity sevens in aid of Martin House Children's Hospice, produced plenty of keenly contested rugby, with the host club, Pocklington, winning two of the three tournaments. The event, again sponsored by Pocklington company
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Bishops' might sees off Wiggy
ANY team that harbours title dreams has to be able to bag goals from all quarters - and that talented trait is certainly high among the qualities of Bishopthorpe White Rose Under-14 footballers. Though currently relying on how other rivals fare, the
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Get on your bike
OVER the last 12 months, students from Manor School and Oaklands School in York have been testing their mountain bike skills in Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire. Under the watchful eye of qualified staff, the students can experience the thrills of the
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Seven up for the Drax Cup
SEVEN schools from York and the surrounding area will play in the Drax Cup 2007, the first-ever cricket competition in Yorkshire for children under nine. Round two matches in the North Area take place between Osbaldwick and Archbishop of York C of E
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Out of pot luck
YORK'S Stephen Gregson just missed out on a quarter-final place in the European Under-19 Snooker Championships. The 17-year-old from Sutton-on-the-Forest was a member of the five-strong English team and finished second in his group stages behind eventual
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Partners in sport
MORE than £1.5 billion is being invested in physical education and school sport in the five years leading up to 2008 through a government strategy entitled PE, School Sport and Club Links'. The overall objective is to increase the percentage of pupils
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David making the News
A 15-year-old bowls ace has beaten many other bowlers - some four or five times his age to win the North of England Short Mat Bowling Singles championship. David Newsome (pictured), a pupil of Barlby High School plays for North Duffield Bowls Club was
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Race against time
SPEEDSTER Nigel Moore won a race against time to take a top kart racing podium finish. The Long Marston teenager had a sparkling maiden outing on a six-speed Super ICC gearbox class kart. Racing at the first round of the BRDC Stars of Tomorrow in the
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Grand design for All Blacks
NEW Earswick All Blacks girls' rugby league section have received a double boost, writes Peter Martini. Firstly, the girls have secured sponsorship from Mitchell Landscape Designers. Secondly, they then received news that Under-14s player Mary Tiplady
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Tom is an England ace
NEW Earswick All Blacks junior Tom Stancliffe picked up international honours with aplomb this week. The Millthorpe School pupil (pictured) was named in the 20-man England Under-16s rugby league squad that took on France Cadets (U16s) in a two-match
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Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult, (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99.)
JODI Picoult is one of those writers who seems to be able to do it all. Her novels are page-turning best-sellers which are utterly un-put-downable. And yet they are so much more, too. With chilling coolness, she dissects the darkest recesses of the human
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Sophie And The Locust Curse by Stephen Davies (Advantage, £4.99)
SOPHIE is a very small girl who leads a very colourful life. Her absent-minded botanist father has brought her with him to live in the Sahara Desert, where he's studying local plants. There, she makes friends with Gidaado the Fourth: a very small boy
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Some April flowers
Looking into the garden as I write I can see that it is a delicate site, filled with miniature daffodils, clouds of spotted pulmonaria topped with blue, pale primroses and the beginnings of the perennials just starting to push up their shoots. Then I
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Rosedale Abbey
Rosedale Abbey was throbbing with a spring shot of sunshine; all go, cars, bikes, cycles and boots, pubs, café, caravans and the Moorsbus. And daffodils. The next valley west, that's Farndale, will have been an orgasmatron of wild lent lilies, the best
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Moon river
KIRKLEES can stake a decent claim to being the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. It is place of wind-swept moors and sheltered river valleys where solid, no-nonsense mills were built to produce acres of cloth; a hilly place where canals were cut and
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Flower power
Maxine Gordon reports on the campaign to make York blooming marvellous. TERRY Collins knows about winning. For nine years while he worked for the council in Darlington, the town won the prestigious Northumbria in Bloom competition. Newly arrived
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Tackling some wine myths
I am discovering that there are many exceptions that prove the rule in the world of wine. Here are three of them. 1. For a start, you can't get a decent bottle of Bordeaux for £10 can you? Actually yes you can and what's more this one's on offer, at
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Have a go at recycling the fun way
Ah, the smell of trampled grass and bacon butties in the morning. Boot-sale season is upon us again and half of York is up early and bagging bargains on Knavesmire, including the husband, who snuck out before I even woke up on Saturday. Why he bothers
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Punk it up
Thirty years ago punk rockers were offending a nation. Emma Keaveney-Roys looks back at the anarchy. PUNK legends The Damned will be bestriding the Fibbers stage tomorrow afternoon, bringing their own unique anarchic sound to York. The Damned were
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Martin confident new team will gel
SPEEDSTER Chris Martin is hoping to put the bite on his rivals in this season's Bennetts British Superbike competition. The motorcycle ace, from Shipthonthorpe, near Pocklington, is in a new team - Red Viper Racing - and has a new bike. He'll be in
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Easee peasee puddin’ ‘n’ pie.
EASEE peasee puddin' n' pie. In a week of Manchester United magnificence (how I hated keying in those three words), Liverpool ruthlessness and Chelsea resilience, plus England's rickety, jittery mediocrity to eke past Bangladesh in the Cricket World Cup
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Triple Bogie's on course
Seafield Bogie, a horse on the upgrade, can complete a hat-trick of wins at Market Rasen tomorrow. Trained by Tom George, the six-year-old has been targeted for the marketrasenraces.co.uk Handicap Chase and is fancied to defy a 7lb penalty, picked up
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Ex-City starlet backs Minstermen foe Collins
FORMER York City youth team defender Chris Hogg has offered his support for under-fire Hibernian manager John Collins ahead of tomorrow's Scottish Cup semi-final against Dunfermline. Collins upset Minstermen boss Billy McEwan with his conduct during
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York fall to county cream
TEENAGE chips and putts went the way of the fairer sex in a youth duel as part of Kirkbymoorside Golf Club's 100 years of Golf' centenary celebrations. The best of Yorkshire Girls team toppled the York Union Boys 9-3 in a match as glowing as the spring
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Aces high at Fulford
EXCEPTIONAL hands were dealt at Fulford Golf Club, which hosted one of the stage one heats of the PartyPoker.com qualifying school for the 2007 PGA EuroPro Tour. And there was a boost for Fulford - one of four venues hosting the event this week. Home
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Heworth stage major cup final
HEWORTH ARLC will host the final of rugby league's Skanska Cup on Wednesday night. The BARLA (British Amateur Rugby League Association) representative side, the holders, will meet the Army in a repeat of last year's final (kick off 7pm). The game
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Doughty dozen
TWELVE women will battle it out for the York Veterans' Ladies Squash Open Championship next week. Top seed Suzi Booth will have home advantage as all games will be played at Dunnington and Grimston Sports and Leisure Centre. The first round will get
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Tykes Khan can't be one-day leader
Younis Khan's last job before leaving home to join up with Yorkshire later today was to inform the Pakistan Cricket Board that he had rejected the offer to captain his country. Younis said he was still under "immense strain" following the death of Bob
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Seven up for super Heworth
HEWORTH A' notched up their seventh consecutive league and cup double in the York Conservative Clubs' snooker competitions by defeating Bootham A' in the Team Cup final. They emerged 4-3 victors at Acomb but only after a spirited fightback by Bootham
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Mark tops for going fourth
ALONG with being a Leeds United season-ticket holder or a Scarborough board member, undertaking fourth official duties at KitKat Crescent must rank as one football's most thankless tasks. Repeatedly shepherding manic City boss Billy McEwan back into
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Proof of worth
IF proof were needed of the merits of having an academy set-up, then it was amply provided at Huntington Stadium this week. York City Knights first-team boss Mick Cook was able to use Thursday night's game - the academy's first home match of the season
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Roadworks back in place at Holgate Bridge
ROADWORKS misery returns tonight for motorists in York as major repairs to a railway bridge enter their second phase. The £1 million scheme to refurbish Holgate Bridge was halted before the Easter holidays to avoid disrupting extra tourist traffic, but
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Shamed hospital consultant will not face criminal prosecution
A DISGRACED North Yorkshire gynaecologist who was struck off after botching operations will not face any criminal charges. Richard Neale, who worked as a consultant at Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, from 1985 to 1995, was struck off by the GMC in
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Nightclub open after take-away for bailiffs
BAILIFFS moved in at a popular Selby nightspot - but the owners say it will still be open for business tonight. Furniture, booze and lighting equipment was carried out of Disco Inferno, in Water Lane, in the middle of the afternoon. One onlooker, who
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A&E will deny patients a bed
SEVEN emergency patients a day could be turned away from York Hospital's casualty department from as early as next month. The shocking figure has emerged as the hospital prepares to axe nearly 100 beds, blaming a cut in income of £4 million from the
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Lib Dem supports anti-joyriding campaign
OUR Live Now, Drive Later campaign has been backed by Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg. He praised the initiative, which aims to stop underage youngsters getting behind the wheel of a car by producing a hard-hitting video for schools in out
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Lib Dem calls for more bobbies on the beat
A TOP Liberal Democrat MP has called for more visible policing in York. Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg visited Acomb to meet residents and help collect signatures for the Lib Dem councillors' petition calling for the re-opening of the local police
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Flats pair held after drugs raid
There were dramatic scenes yesterday as police arrested two people during a drugs raid at a York flat. Officers with sniffer dogs targeted the flat at Westmoreland House in Cambridge Street, off Holgate Road. The two people arrested were suspected of
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Kurdish family threatened with deportation
A CAMPAIGN to save a Kurdish family living in York from deportation has stepped up a gear. The renewed efforts to allow Makbule Yaman, 36, and her husband, Hasan, 41, to remain in the country come as they face a crucial interview next week. They will
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Car vandals return to plague city street
A WAVE of vandalism has hit a troubled York street that is only yards from the city's police station. Officers were called to Wenlock Terrace, off Fulford Road, late on Thursday night after five vehicles were damaged in a spree of car-crime. Three
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Flats plan thrown out
PROPOSALS to demolish a York car hire business and build new flats and a shop have been thrown out after planners received 222 letters of objection. The proposal by businessman Robert Pulleyn to build 14 flats and a retail unit on the site of Budget
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Review: Yorchestra; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
You hardly expect a children's orchestra to be allowed to give a world premiere. But Yorchestra, York's holiday orchestra, which attracts players from all over the county and beyond, achieved that honour in splendid style. This was no ordinary piece
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Sabotage attempt on Spirit Of The Horse show
ANIMAL rights activists could be behind an attempt to sabotage a show featuring performing horses, organisers fear. Spirit Of The Horse is described as a theatre show which features attractions including Mongolian stunt riders, Spanish dancing horses
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All road users must play safe
MIKE Usherwood, 61 years of driving does not necessarily mean you are a good driver. In fact, from your blinkered view of cyclists, your general observational skills may be lacking (Meldrew moment, Letters, April 11). Dr Ward (Scant respect, Letters
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All road users must play safe
IT seems my appeal for common sense regarding the relationship between cycling traffic violations and other crimes (The public enemy, letters, April 6) fell on deaf ears. Not only that, but I seem to have provoked even more hysterical fantasising. Mike
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Shameful sight
IN the Second World War, Odette Churchill had her fingernails pulled out by the Nazis because she refused to talk. Violette Szabo was tortured and executed because she also wouldn't tell her captors anything. Now we have the shameful sight of Faye Turney
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Shameful sight
IRANIANS are celebrated for their sense of humour, and we should be grateful to them for bringing a touch of comedy to a situation where tragedy and daily reports of horror and despair are the norm. Their subtle performance of The Pirates Of Teheran
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Shameful sight
I KNOW I am not alone in being absolutely disgusted by the decision by a misguided Ministry of Defence (MoD) to allow the 15 sailors and marines to profit financially by their ordeal. When I think of people like Terry Waite, imprisoned and tortured
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Preserving paths
IN response to Mr Moore's letter (Pavement politics, April 12) about resurfacing footpaths it might be useful to explain what work is to be carried out in his area. A proportion of the highways budget is spent on preventative maintenance, and these
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Done roamin’
I DO hope that all those who usually have a go at the European Union, parliament, etc, will along with me welcome the fact that mobile phone companies are to have their "roaming" charges capped by the powers of Brussels. I am sure that we have all been
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Peril for cyclists
YORK Pride (highways sector) seems to have run out of energy, for it did promise more than 18 months ago to review problems for cyclists in the city. Small-wheeled (folding bicycles), the key to pollution and traffic reduction, are at particular risk
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Justice not done
I FULLY agree with Alec Acomb (Criminals scoffing, The Press, April 11) that the people referred to (This jewellery is rubbish and people are being ripped off The Press, April 7) should be prosecuted. After all, what they are alleged to have done represents
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Bin policy causes a great big stink
TO anyone who cares to listen, my grey wheelie bin stinks. After this week of unseasonably warm weather, waste products, including two chicken carcases, have been in the bin for eight days. Anyone coming within two metres of the closed bin can get a
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Tom back in business
YOUNG Tom Dunmore will return to the York City Knights line-up for the first time in over a year tomorrow after the back line was hit by yet more injuries. The 20-year-old former York Acorn ARLC junior has been promoted from the academy after winger
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Derelict sports club devastated by fire
THICK smoke and flames could be seen pouring from a derelict former sports club as firefighters battled to control a blaze there. The alarm was raised at 2pm yesterday that the former Civil Service Sports Club in Boroughbridge Road, York, was on fire
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Race night in aid of Guardian Angels appeal
THE family and friends of a young woman who died aged only 20 are again backing our Guardian Angels appeal. Natalie Strickson, of Haxby, died suddenly in November 2005. She had suffered from a rare heart condition all her life. Her friends and family
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New electronic signs to cut speeding are installed across city
NEW signs telling drivers to slow down if they are speeding have been installed in the York area.The vehicle-activated signs flash a warning to drivers if they approach them faster than the legal speed limit. The first phase of the initiative saw 11
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George Cayley letter presented to Museum
AN original 158-year-old letter from the man described as the "father of aviation" has been presented to the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington. Engineer George Cayley, who was born in 1773, is credited with designing the first aircraft. He built a glider
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Council backs Let Your Doctor Decide campaign
COUNCIL chiefs in York have backed The Press campaign to scrap a judge and jury panel vetting patients for treatment. Councillors backed our campaign following a motion by Holgate Lib Dem councillor Martin Bartlett. We launched our Let Your Doctor
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Green summit for business
SELBY businesses are being urged to get involved in a high profile regional summit on climate change. The conference is being organised by regional development agency Yorkshire Forward, and Business In The Community, an organisation which promotes positive
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Villagers raising £60,000 in phone mast row as talks ‘stall’
VILLAGE campaigners say they have stumped up enough cash to remove an offending phone mast - but have reached a stalemate in talks with the operator. Residents in Sheriff Hutton, between York and Malton, have protested fiercely against a 15-metre Orange