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York rape: Man is arrested
POLICE have arrested a man after a woman was raped as she walked home after a night out in York. Detectives investigating the attack arrested a man on Monday night. He was questioned by police and later released on bail. The Press told on Monday how
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Earswick’s swim squad make point
NEW Earswick's 34-strong squad pipped hosts Bridlington to win the first Ridings League division one swimming gala of the season. Bridlington Amateur Swimming Club were the hosts and other swimming clubs competing were Whitby and South Hunsley.
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Skills on show at Easingwold
EASINGWOLD Golf Club have hosted a National Golf Skills Challenge "Get Into Golf" session for the first time. Youngsters aged between six and 17 put a variety of their skills to the test in the day-long session which was supported by the English Golf
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Ward chips in
HAYTON'S Jodie Ward proved her abilities on the senior national show jumping scene when she made the line-up at the 2007 Blue Chip Championships at Solihull in the West Midlands. Riders from across Britain spend all winter qualifying for the "Blue
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Top flight netballers
ELVINGTON Penguins have clinched the York and District Youth Netball League Birds' title despite a disappointing sixth-place finish in the final round of matches. Trailing the Penguins in the final table were second-placed Haxby Eagles while
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North Duffield in seven heaven
NORTH Duffield Primary School's footballers have had plenty to cheer. They are pictured celebrating after winning the Selby Schools Seven-a-Side Football League play offs. They battled it out against Hambleton and Saxton schools to see who would be
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It's repeat defeat for brave York
CITY of York's Hockey Club's Under-11 boys team suffered déjà vu in their quest for silverware. They were beaten in the final of the North Mini-Hockey Finals by Ben Rhydding - the same side which had defeated them in the Yorkshire finals. York finished
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Girls suffer similar fate
CITY of York Hockey Club's Under-13 girls emulated the boys U13s by finishing as runners-up in the North of England National Mini Championships at Durham University. In their opening pool match they fought back from 2-1 down against Yarm to win 3-2 with
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Eight is great as Clifton-with-Rawcliffe capture crown
Clifton-with-Rawcliffe have secured probably the easiest to predict League championship in York Primary Schools League B'. They have now won eight out of eight games, their most recent victories coming over Poppleton Ousebank and Robert Wilkinson, 4-
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Wigginton wonders
Wigginton proved themselves the dark horses in this year's Primary Schools Cup by reaching the semi-finals. They ousted visiting Tadcaster Riverside in a tight encounter 1-0 thanks to Ben Turner's strike. That puts Wigginton in with the current form
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U15s do York proud
YORK Schools' Under-15 squad ended their fantastic season in real style on Saturday by lifting the Yorkshire Cup by beating rivals Barnsley 4-1 at Pocklington. For many years York have failed at this most senior of age groups to compete with bigger local
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Trophy hunters
WILBERFOSS Mavericks hope to bounce back to complete a junior football double tomorrow. The Under-13s have already clinched promotion to the York British Sugar first division with their second successive promotion and will be looking to add more silverware
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Young Clifton Parkers make opposition pointess in premier rugby festivals
FIRST the club's Under-15s did it, now York RUFC's U11s have got in on the act. The young Clifton Parkers have swept to success in one of the Midlands premier rugby festivals. And like their older colleagues who scooped the U15 regional championship
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Skull skill silver
FOLLOWING a stiff selection procedure, seven crews and scullers from York City Rowing Club were chosen to represent Yorkshire at the Junior Inter Regional Regatta held at the National Watersports Centre, Nottingham. The York junior Under-16 double scull
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Acorn’s agony
YORK ACORN ARL Club's Under-10s played host to Whinmoor Warriors and went down 42-36 to a last-gasp try. It was a good effort by the young Blue and Golds considering they had seven under age players in their squad. Reece Arthur put in a powerful forward
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Become our young sports photographer of the year
THE Press is teaming up with one of York's major employers CPP, along with York City Knights, in the search for the Young Sports Photographer of the Year. The winner will receive a fabulous Canon IXUS digital camera worth £250 and a trophy and there
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Hot shot Johnson cracks it for Flag
NESTLé Flag's Christopher Johnson scored the winner to settle a five-goal York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup final against Derwent United. Johnson struck as extra-time was looming after outstripping the Derwent defence and cracking the ball past stranded
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Moxon hails marathon
Martyn Moxon, Yorkshire's director of cricket, praised Joe Sayers for his remarkable innings in yesterday's LV County Championship victory over Durham. He said: "I put it right up there with one of the best I have ever seen. It was absolutely outstanding
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Vaughan back in Phoenix line-up
ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan will make his first Yorkshire appearance since last June when he turns out for Phoenix against Scottish Saltires in the Friends Provident Trophy clash in Edinburgh tomorrow. Vaughan, who returned from England's disastrous
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Hoggard floors Durham
A stunning over from Matthew Hoggard, in which he grabbed three wickets in the space of five balls, sent Yorkshire charging towards a three-day victory by nine wickets in the LV Championship match against Durham at Headingley Carnegie yesterday. The
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Roar us on to glory
NEAL Bishop has urged the fans to be York City's 12th man when the Minstermen line up against Oxford United today. The 25-year-old midfielder is hoping a win against the Us will cap one of his best weeks in football - securing City a Conference play-off
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Hard graft has paid off for Neal – McEwan
YORK City boss Billy McEwan says Neal Bishop's call up to the England National Game XI is "excellent" for the club. But the Minstermen manager took a swipe at officials who have organised a second trip to Finland in June arguing that, if selected,
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Cook turns to Toby
HEAD coach Mick Cook has recalled Toby Williams in place of want-away prop Joe Helme as York City Knights go in search of revenge in Cumbria. The Knights, knocked out of the Northern Rail Cup by Barrow last week, meet up again with the Raiders at Craven
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Concentrate on ourselves is coach Cook’s message
KNIGHTS boss Mick Cook has told his team if they concentrate on their own game, there is no reason why their revenge mission cannot be successful. The Knights lost narrowly to in-form Barrow in the cup last weekend and travel to Cumbria for an immediate
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Starlet Toby ready for Knights’ Cumbrian raid
YOUNG prop Toby Williams steps into the breech at Barrow tomorrow insisting York City Knights can turn the tables on the high-flying Raiders. The big-spending Cumbrians knocked York out of the Northern Rail Cup six days ago with an 18-16 win at Huntington
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Ex-York loanee Thackeray set for Super League bow
FORMER York City Knights loanee Anthony Thackeray was in the reckoning for a starting berth for Hull in their Super League game at Wakefield tonight. Thackeray came to York on a season-long loan but was recalled by the Black and Whites before Easter
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Dying the dream
SOME fans may be urging York City Knights to splash the cash to get out of their current slump, but a glance across at a few rival National League clubs suggests prudence may pay off in the long run. Featherstone Rovers, so bold in the off-season with
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Devil’s advocate
TEMPTING fate can be a dangerous business but football fans, unlike managers, cannot always take each game as it comes. While the need for York City to take a point from this afternoon's home match with Oxford United has been the most-popular discussed
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It’s time to go, Mick
THE "Cook out" cries may not have been heard in the Main Stand at Huntington Stadium, but the feeling in the Popular Stand is he should go. Mick Cook's York City Knights' recruitment has been poor, and his win-loss record is abysmal. It would be sad
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Top class cover
I FELT I had to write to sing the praises of Terry Todd who reports in The Press on Mondays for the York Leeper Hare League. I know quite a few people who buy The Press for the excellent reports on all the divisions in the league. Dave Wilson,
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Park Life praise
I SHOULD like to say how nice it is that every Saturday The Press publishes the Park Life supplement. It seems to cover all junior sport and must give encouragement to active children. As an old fogey, too old to play active sport, it is nice to
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Shift can move
TONY McCoy and Timmy Murphy, who have been riding most of the week at the Punchestown Festival in Ireland, are both in action at Wetherby tomorrow. The two top riders, each of whom have a loyal following, should keep their supporters happy by figuring
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Red, but with envy
BOOING and hissing at a World Cup winner? True confession time - yes, I'm guilty on all accounts. The target for such fear and loathing was none other than Alan Ball, the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup-winning team, who sadly died this week
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Club of the week: Selby Golf Club
FROM its small beginnings when it was formed in the chambers of the town's Barclays Bank on October 24, 1907, Selby Golf Club has gone from strength to strength. Now, celebrating its 100th birthday, the club has big plans to mark its century. Dinners
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Rain in Spain - but outlook brighter for Dyson
NORTH Yorkshire ace of clubs Simon Dyson was right in the frame in the rain-hit European Tour's Spanish Open in Madrid. Trying to play two rounds in one day after rain washed out much of Thursday's action, Dyson carded a bogey-free three-under 69 in
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In-form Gilham grabs another win
STAR cycle rider Kit Gilham took another road race win in the Pete Gannon Memorial race at Kippax, near Leeds. The Clifton CC ace was one of several members of the club in competitive action in a variety of events this week. Several competed in the
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After Bismarck
CHARLES Whiting was a teenage lad playing on the streets of York when news of one of the great British naval disasters of the Second World War came through. It was May 1941. The war was well into its second year. The arrival of a telegram had become
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Double launch night in York
IT looks like being one of the literary events of the year in York, eclipsed only by publication of the final adventures of a certain boy wizard, perhaps. Borders bookshop is expecting hundreds of people to turn up for the launch of Tricia Walker's debut
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In McEwan, On Chesil Beach (Jonathan Cape, £12.99)
IAN McEwan is a master of the short story, so it's no surprise that his new novella On Chesil Beach is a success. It may be only 166 pages long, but it's not short on the big themes of love, duty, responsibility and consequence. It's July 1962,
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Wall or nothing
THE wallflowers planted last autumn have survived the winter and come into flower this month. Bought in clumps with their roots wrapped in newspaper, the usual way with these spring bedders, they looked very sorry for themselves in October, but as the
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Melmerby Moor
MELMERBY Moor lies at about the 1,200 foot level, and is a slope of land a good 500 feet above the village of West Witton, in Wensleydale in the Dales. We had driven up from the valley to the moor and passed a few walkers doing it the hard way on the
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Money worries
ANYBODY old enough to remember 1971 will no doubt recall their favourite old coin. Whether it was the popular brass threepence, the weighty half a crown or the large, shiny penny, it will have bought you much more back then than the equivalent would
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Reds with which to toast York City
THIS week Tipping's Tipples starts with a toast to the Red Army, or York City as they are otherwise known. Today, City does battle against Oxford - win or draw, and York will be in the play-offs. And what more fitting toast than a glass of cabernet
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Train of thought
"I TRAVEL not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake." Robert Louis Stevenson said that, and I've always found it an endearing attitude. The rise of budget airlines over the past decade seems to have removed much of the charm from travelling
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Feather report from my night behind the mask
IT'S amazing what a woman can buy when she's hormonal and having a strop. Last Saturday, I bought a long red wig, a sequinned mask adorned with feathers, a bicycle (plus panniers) and a Strawberry Split, all in under an hour. Since most of that time
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Rural alchemy
THE Yorkshire Sculpture Park may be 30 years old, but it's a new discovery to me. We first visited earlier this year after another debut: a trip to Meadowhall, where we felt crushed by the colossus of consumerism. Do we really need that many shops?
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Disabled driver’s parking anger
A WOMAN with only one arm has been told she is not entitled to a disabled parking permit - because she is not disabled enough. Tracie Sampson, 42, was refused a blue badge for her car by City of York Council officers who said she did not meet strict
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Penguins to pppp...pick up a pullover
PENGUINS living half a world away are set to pick up pullovers made by patients at a York hospice - to help them keep warm. The jumpers, knitted by daycare patients at St Leonard's Hospice, in York, will be shipped to Australia to aid birds left stricken
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Cycle theft blackspot
BIKE thieves in York are cashing in on Britons' desire to go green, a new survey has revealed. York came fifth in a list compiled by Halifax Home Insurance, of the worst places for bike theft with Central London the thieves' favourite area last year,
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Battle to beat rubbish louts
COUNCIL chiefs in York are stepping up their controversial war on environmental crime, by bringing in tough, new front-line recruits. City of York Council is looking to draft in two special enforcement officers who will track down and punish offenders
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City rolls dice in Monopoly move
A NEW version of hit game Monopoly is being released and York is on track to be the new Mayfair - but might end up as Old Kent Road. Makers Parker are bringing out a version called UK Here & Now. But rather than deciding on the 22 locations by the cost
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Thugs attack York freight train driver
POLICE are appealing for information after thugs tried to rob a train driver in York. Officers from British Transport Police are investigating after the freight train driver was attacked in the early hours of the morning on Saturday, April 21, near the
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Sex attacker targeted sleeping teenager
A sex offender who twice attacked a sleeping girl has been locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric unit. First Natan Stefan Locke-Church, 23, sexually molested the 14-year-old girl as she lay sleeping with others on a pull-out sofa in a friend's house
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Bike-loving 33-year-old is found hanged
TRIBUTES have been paid to a York artist and engineer who has died. Tom Riley, 33, of Ogleforth, was a sculptor and engineer with a huge range of interests including bicycles, archaeology, and steam engines. He was found hanged on April 19. Tom's work
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Race For Life
FIVE years ago Sue Hone was told she was suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and it was incurable. Today, the mother-of-twois digging out her running shoes and getting ready to race for life alongside thousands of other women wanting to raise money
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Train firm gets own bobbies
A RAIL company with services to York is sponsoring its own bobbies. First TransPennine Express has paid to sponsor two Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) from the British Transport Police, to provide dedicated patrols and services to passengers
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Prayers for the police
POLICE chiefs from York and North Yorkshire attended a prayer breakfast hosted by city church leaders. The event at the Spurriergate Centre, York, was attended by more than 50 church leaders, and was arranged by One Voice York. The main speakers at
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Fire chief backs The Press campaign against joyriding
OUR campaign to prevent a repeat of one of York's worst road crash tragedies has won a massive boost. A film aimed at deterring youngsters from joyriding is set to be shown to every 15-year-old in York by a road safety group. It will form part of a
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Proud new crews are on parade
A NEW generation of firefighters are poised to begin work after attending a passing-out ceremony. In total, 17 firefighters attended yesterday's event in Easingwold, six of which will be based in North Yorkshire, with the remainder in Humberside.
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It’s piazza hut
ANOTHER taste of continental café culture could be coming to the heart of York with plans by Pizza Hut for al fresco dining in Parliament Street. The company has applied to City of York Council to vary the premises licence for its restaurant, to allow
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Upgrade is road to greater jams
Julian Sturdy, the Conservative Parliamentary spokesman for the new Outer York constituency, wrote (Dual concerns, Letters, April 25) to support dualling of the A1237. This road was designed and built by the Highways Agency, using North Yorkshire County
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Show of courage
Thank you so much for Bill Hearld's column "Showman Hitler" (The Press, April 24). I'm just sick to death of knee jerk reactions to things taken out of context. It's just this kind of overreaction that perpetuates intolerance. My father and
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Gun challenge
I WOULD like to add a few comments to Aled Jones' brief, but direct letter (Strict Laws Can Stop The Gun Massacres, The Press, April 21). Laws relating to offences where guns are involved have tightened considerably over the last few years in
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Ready for action
I can't understand all this fuss about Harry Windsor's lack of preparation and/or experience of the Iraq conflict. He's clearly spent months on "night manoeuvres" in a cunningly disguised MoD facility that goes by the name of Bouji's... Maxine
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Closure anger
I see Bill Hodson, director of adult social services at City of York Council, again appears to know everything, but has experience of nothing. How disgusting to say he realises change could be stressful, but it is the only way to improve services.
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Different dragon?
I READ the letter about St George (Here be Dragons, The Press, April 21). However, did the Romans sail to the Pacific to capture komodo dragons to fight in the Colosseum? I think the skeletons found could well have been Nile crocodiles which
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Giving credit
Many residents in Bishopthorpe rightly wish to minimise traffic through Bishopthorpe resulting from the Terry's factory site development. As local ward councillor, I have been pressing these issues with the council and the developers for many months
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Clean sweep
I am delighted to see the new "by hand" street sweeping service in Dunnington this week. This "barrow man" initiative by the City of York Council complements the excellent work done by the Britain In Bloom Committee and other residents in keeping
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Too prominent
The Press (Trainspotter a "peeping Tom", 21 April) gave two-thirds of page four, including name, address and large photo, reporting on a man headlined as a "peeping Tom". He was convicted, at the magistrates court, of voyeurism inside a cubicle
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Will parents pay for teens’ evening out?
I was very pleased to read in The Press on Thursday that an event will be held for teenagers at Toffs in York (Nightspot holds teen club event). There are not enough events like this. It went on to say how similar events used to take place at Ikon &
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York research expert to lead hunt for new treatments
A TOP University of York scientist has joined forces with a leading charity to help find a cure for deafness. Deafness Research UK has appointed Professor Quentin Summerfield to be its new chief research adviser and help the charity in its mission to
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Festival performers are real Live wires
THIS year's York Live music festival promises to bring an action-packed programme to the city, organisers said today. The event is taking place between Friday, May 25, and Monday, May 28, across the city. Kirsty Halliday, the festival organiser, said
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School gets its own grass playing area at last
Youngsters at a York primary school are finding out that the grass is definitely greener on the other side of the fence. It's taken £15,000 and years of campaigning, but the prayers of parents and pupils at Scarcroft Primary School have been answered
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Push for better bike service
WANT to catch a train? On your bike! York's MP Hugh Bayley met local cyclists at the city's railway station to support calls for greater transport integration. He is supporting the Keep Cycling On Track campaign, being run by the Cyclists Touring Club
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Meetings mix-up 'failing young'
YOUNG people in York are being failed by council bosses, it was claimed today. Coun David Scott, the Young People's Champion at City of York Council, slammed authority chiefs for cancelling the last two scheduled meetings of the Young People's Working
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Post votes a big hit in Selby
MORE Selby residents than ever are expected to vote by post. More than 9,000 postal votes have been registered this year, compared with about 2,000 at the last comparable elections in 2003. This follows new legislation enabling anyone who wants a postal
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Alterations to opening for offices
THE offices of Ryedale District Council will remain open on Thursday and Friday, despite the elections. All services will be available on May 3, with Ryedale House open as usual from 8.30am to 5pm. The Kirkbymoorside area office will be closed. Ryedale
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Keeping it local
LOCAL councils are more important than the Government for residents, according to a new survey. More than half of UK citizens believe local government has more of an impact on their day-to-day lives than 10 Downing Street, said the research by ntl:
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Snow patrol
A TEENAGER has completed a mammoth cross-country ski challenge to change lives in Africa. Chris Bowles, a 15-year-old from Wheldrake, skied across a 50-kilometre section of the famous Hardanger Plateau in Norway to raise funds for international charity
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John Tams and Barry Coope, Pockington Arts Centre
PASSIONATE folk singer John Tams is a natural-born storyteller. This bard of the working class is inspired by the vernacular and Britain's industrial heritage peopled by characters who took an immense pride in making things. "We don't make things
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Review: Spirit Of Broadway; Grand Opera House, York
If you went to this David King production and enjoyed it, read no further. I would not want to spoil your memories. If you stayed away, you did yourself a favour. This was a low-budget evening with all the signs of having been thrown together to
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Race against time to carry out centre revamp
A LEISURE firm could face a race against time in its plans to carry out a multi-million pound revamp of York's Barbican Centre by the autumn. A planning application by Absolute Leisure failed to get on the agenda of City of York Council's planning committee
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RAF veterans roll back years in visit to base
THEY get together once a month to recall those halcyon days when "proper" planes had propellers. Members of Scarborough's historical aircraft club rolled back the years as they spent time at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York, to learn more about the original
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Rugby player, 19, punched man to ground
A RUGBY League player must pay £350 compensation to the drunken man he felled with a single blow in Selby town centre. Michael Stuart Emmett, 19, was one of two people who attacked victim David Cavill who was so drunk his friends had to help him walk
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Swan charity in funding appeal
A SWAN charity may have to close its doors unless it can urgently find volunteers to help with fundraising. The Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital, at Brandsby, is desperate for funding to help secure future work. Dan Sidley, co-founder of the hospital,