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Drax to carry on burning petcoke
DRAX power station has been given the go-ahead to start commercial burning of a controversial fuel after two years of tests showed "no detectable impact" on the environment. But district councillors, sceptical about the long-term effects of burning petcoke
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Speed-dating launched for green-minded singles
SINGLE people in York are to have the chance to find romance - and save the planet at the same time. An environmental charity is using the city to introduce the world to eco-dating, a new form of match-making. The organisers are BTCV, the largest practical
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Green Santa wants your gifts
A YORK hospice is lending its support to a campaign aimed at improving the quality of goods donated to charity shops in the city. Monday will see City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council launching their Choose2Reuse campaign in Parliament
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Paying your way.
The number of people in debt and the amounts they owe are hard for our generation to understand. In our youth, most of our mothers managed the family budget which was replenished each Friday by the wage earner; as long as he was in work. She had no bank
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Are you eligible for a warm house grant?
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has backed a campaign aimed at keeping homes warm by making a house call to a constituent who has benefited from it. Audrey Walker is now able to fight off the winter chill after having a new central heating system installed under
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Green light for 19 new houses
DEVELOPERS have been given the go-ahead for a £4.4 million housing development in York. Cala Homes (Yorkshire) has won detailed planning permission from City of York Council, to build on the site of the former Lidgett Grove School in Wheatlands Grove
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Solicitors not to take on criminal legal aid clients
GOVERNMENT cutbacks are forcing a major York solicitors' firm to abandon publicly-funded criminal work. Harrowells has represented defendants in thousands of cases for at least 30 years, with charges ranging from murder to petty vandalism. But now it
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Getting a chance to 'meet' the ancestors
PEOPLE wanting to find out more about how to trace their family tree are being invited to a series of workshops later this month. Members of City of York Council's libraries are now able to track down their ancestors by using library computers to access
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Arson warning
FIRE chiefs are urging businesses to arm themselves against would-be arsonists as two teenagers start jail sentences for a £2 million blaze. Martin Green and Matthew Kneafsey, both aged 17, started Selby's worst fire in 25 years by setting light to cardboard
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Cracking down on rogue weapon traders
ROGUE gun traders will be targeted by trading standards bosses, if councillors agree to give them new enforcement powers. Selling replica firearms became an offence in October, and City of York Councillors are now being asked to take steps to enforce
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Walkers wanted to lead strolls
PEOPLE who want to help promote the healthy benefits of walking in York are being invited to put their best foot forward. City of York Council's sport and leisure department is looking for volunteers to lead groups of people on a series of strolls around
