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‘After 14 years my ME has been cured’
FOR 14 years Jenny Gilmore was so ill she spent most of her time in bed. She was suffering with ME - a chronic illness that left her feeling so exhausted she could not walk more than 50 yards without a wheelchair. Very few people ever recover from the
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Courts witness case guide DVD
A DVD has been launched in bid to reduce the number of court cases in North Yorkshire which stall because witnesses refuse to testify. Her Majesty's Courts Service has developed the interactive, multilingual and animated DVD to help witnesses and victims
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£250k revamp for Selby station
A £250,000 revamp of Selby railway station has been branded "excellent news" by local campaigners. Work will start in April to refurbish the waiting room and buffet area, which will be repainted and have new flooring, lighting and seating. Accessible
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The school which takes two-year-olds
A PRIMARY school in York is one of the first in the country to take two-year-olds in the nursery. Derwent Infant School in Tang Hall has been selected to be a pathfinder for eight "hard to reach" two-year-olds by the Government and Derwent Infants
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Drug mother avoids prison
A MOTHER-of-three who was being paid by a dealer to keep class A drugs in her house has avoided a jail sentence. Sarah Louise Brett, of Duchess Mews, York, had cocaine worth £1,500 and cannabis worth £275 stashed at her house when police raided it in
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Fatal crash driver named
A YOUNG driver who was killed when his car came off a main road near York and crashed into a tree has today been named. The 22-year-old victim of the horrific smash in the early hours of Thursday is 22-year-old John Ray Wigglesworth, who is from the
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Thief gives himself up after seeing face in The Press
THIS is the face of a man who has become the latest York criminal to be brought to justice thanks to The Press. Our Crime Gallery, which sees us publish CCTV images of suspected thieves caught on camera in the city and asks our readers to help police
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Lord Mayor's Walk, York - 071
Photograph by Julian Lister © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
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Thief found in school’s attic
A burglar who was found hiding in the loft of a school he intended to steal from has been spared jail, York magistrates heard. Vincent Lee Clarke broke into Tang Hall Primary School, in Sixth Avenue, York, with the intention of stealing copper and lead
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Data shared in anti-fraud blitz
THE data records of York residents are to be inspected for fraudulent activity in a bid to crack down on crime. City of York Council and the Audit Commission have joined forces in the anti-fraud inititiative. The council will provide databases of its
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No escaping road turmoil
TRAFFIC difficulties around York are nothing new. But the level of chaos experienced yesterday was something else. After a fatal accident closed the A64 between Tadcaster and Copmanthorpe for five hours, the morning rush-hour turned into a nightmare
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Bad time for rise
WHAT a case of bad timing. Members of City of York Council are set to award themselves a pay rise of 11 per cent, plus improved pensions rights. All this just as taxpayers are being asked how they would make savings amounting to £1 million. The merits
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Who do doctors actually serve?
I was amazed by the report entitled "Patients urged to support GPs" (The Press, January 15) It could have read: "GPs fight improved services for patients." This might have been more accurate. For years GPs have provided surgery opening hours which suited
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Free future tech forums
EVERYTHING you always wanted to know about phone and computer networks but were afraid to ask. That is the theme of a series of free seminars for businessmen and women being hosted by a North Yorkshire telecommunications company. Ryedale Telecommunications
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Sense of shame
After reducing opening hours last year, York Central Library then proceeded to close for almost a fortnight for so-called refurbishment. Then came the closing on five days for Christmas and New Year. For a long time now, the library has closed on
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Sense of pride
So Labour councillors Ruth Potter and Sandy Fraser don't like York Pride (Bother over bins, Letters, January 10). Well, that is not exactly a surprise. It is just a shame for them that in reality it has uplifted the cleanliness and appearance of the
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No sense at all?
Thanks to Couns Galloway and Ann Reid for the creation of an additional multi-million pound bottleneck on the outer ring road. I refer to the newly-constructed roundabout at the Moor Lane/ Askham Lane junction on the ring road, which at 8.45am on
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Learning to think before you drink
What will it take to get the binge-drinking message home to teenagers? CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL finds out. IT takes a lot to shock a room full of teenagers - especially at the end of the school day. But in schools and colleges around Yorkshire an alcohol
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Journalist takes centre stage
JOURNALIST and broadcaster Liz Green has advised North Yorkshire businesswomen at an event for the Forward Ladies networking group in Harrogate this week. Ms Green spoke on Empowering Women, focusing on how to take centre stage and hold an audience
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Rush to grow biofuels will lead to disaster
People complain about the high price of petrol, but many of the costs of filling up at the petrol forecourt are hidden environmental and social costs. The situation is likely to become much worse, as the Government has recently decided that all petrol
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Theatre achieves Investors In People standard
YORK Theatre Royal has become the first Yorkshire theatre to be awarded the Investors In People standard. The theatre has achieved the national standard for improving business performance through its people; an award only given to those organisations
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Preview: Teddy Thompson, Fibbers, York, January 22
INTRODUCING...Singer and songwriter Teddy Thompson, as he takes the country road on his latest album, Upfront & Down Low. Born in 1976 to folk musician parents Richard and Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson did not listen to any music made after 1959 until
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Preview: Huge, Grand Opera House, York, January 26 and February 2
VERY few tickets remain for Huge's traditional double dose of winter blues-beating entertainment at the Grand Opera House, York, on January 26 and February 2. Formed in 1990, the York party band, featuring Big Ian Donaghy, first played the York theatre
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Cutting times
THIS should be the happiest time of the theatre year at York Theatre Royal; the pantomime season when Dame Berwick Kaler and co draw 48,000 babbies and bairns to Sinbad The Sailor. Yet chief executive Daniel Bates cannot rest on his laurels, at a time
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Sitting targets
I write in response to Adam McCartney's letter regarding the Archbishop of York (Challenges posed to church leaders, Soapbox, January 15). Mr McCartney's suggestion that the archbishop's visit to Rome is motivated by publicity is benignly uninformed
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Demon show lined up
MOVE over Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's new film of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. York Stage Musicals are to stage Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from February 5. "Sophisticated, macabre and
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Our best friends
I would like to thank DogFriendlyBritain.co.uk (Dogs welcome, Letters, January 8, and Room at the inn, Letters, January 14). It is a brilliant website, but, alas, there are not many entries for the York area. We noticed last week, that a pub in Bishopthorpe
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English Youth Theatre holds auditions for Sleeping Beauty
ENGLISH Youth Ballet is seeking 100 girls and boys aged between eight and 18, who live in York and the surrounding area, to stage a full-scale production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Grand Opera House, York, on June 6 and 7. The company, winner of
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Preview: John Taylor Trio, Requiem For A Dreamer, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, January 23
THE John Taylor Trio pays tribute to the late American author Kurt Vonnegut in Requiem For A Dreamer at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, on Wednesday at 7.30pm. The latest project for jazz pianist John Taylor, bass player Palle
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Estate agency makes historic move
AN estate agent with offices across York and East Yorkshire has moved to new premises. Established in 2005, Gray's & Co has set up office in Grade I listed Wealden Hall in Goodramgate, York. The business moved from their smaller premises in the city
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Preview: Suzy Martell, The Last Drop Inn, Colliergate, York, January 22
YORK blues singer Suzy Martell plays a home-city gig with guitarist Gary Boyle at The Last Drop Inn, in Colliergate, on Tuesday at 8.30pm. "Admission is free and it's always packed out when we're on, so be early to get a seat. It's just me and Gary
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Preview: The Academy of St Olave's concert, St Olave's Church, Marygate, York, January 19
THE Academy of St Olave's begins 2008 with a typical mixture of the well-known and much-loved, the unusual and new at in concert at St Olave's Church, Marygate, York, tomorrow at 8pm. Among the familiar are the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and
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Preview: Gretchen Peters, Pocklington Arts Centre, January 23
THE break-up record is one of rock and country music's great traditions. If Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is always held up as the zenith, then there is a new contender from the female perspective, Gretchen Peters' Burnt Toast & Offerings. Written
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York gets a top ten vote for culture
York is streets ahead of this year's European Capital of Culture when it comes to its blend of music, dance, theatre, film and literature, according to new research. In a study by local information website locallife.co.uk, York was ranked in the top
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Preview: Harrogate International Festival Sunday Series, Cairn Hotel, January 20 to April 6
THE 2008 Harrogate International Festival Sunday Series at the April 6 opens this weekend with the debut festival performance by the Modigliani String Quartet. On Sunday morning, these young French musicians play works by Haydn, Debussy and Beethoven
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Preview: Robots In Disguise, Fibbers, January 21
Robots In Disguise know how to catch the eye. The electro-pop London duo of Dee Plume and Sue Denim announced their arrival with the hedonistic single The Sex Has Made Me Stupid, and if you look closely at the skinny-mini shirts and ties in their publicity
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Preview: Linkin Park, Sheffield Arena, January 25
AMERICAN hard rockers Linkin Park make their Sheffield Arena debut next Friday when they bring their Minutes To Midnight Tour to the steel city. A very limited number of tickets are still available at £29.50 on 0114 256 5656.
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Preview: Paul Lamb and The Kingsnakes; Neil Dalton and The Blue Aces, The Deep Blues Club, York, January 22
THE Deep Blues Club, in York, starts the New Year on Tuesday evening with two acts from northern England, Paul Lamb and The Kingsnakes and Neil Dalton and The Blue Aces. Soulful blues harmonica exponent Lamb has been inducted into the British Blues
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Tom Fairs (1925-2007): Homage To Bonard, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, January 26 to April 20
THE first large-scale gallery show of landscape and still-life works by the late Tom Fairs, who died last year, opens next Saturday at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate. A devotee of French modern master Pierre Bonnard, Londoner Fairs painted continuously
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Illustrated talk on the history of buttons, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, January 22
DID you know that buttons have existed since at least Roman times, or that King Louis XIV of France spent more than £2 million on them during his lifetime? On Tuesday afternoon at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, comes the chance not only to learn
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Passed As Present, York Art Gallery, January 19 to April 13
PAST masters are paired with contemporary works by exciting modern artists in a new exhibition that opens at York Art Gallery tomorrow. Passed As Present combines rarely seen paintings from the gallery's collection with loans from the Lodeveans collection
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Bigger and bloodier
THE Jorvik Viking Festival promises to be "bigger and bloodier than ever before in five days of Viking madness" from February 13 to 17. Now in its 23rd year, this celebration of the Viking age in York will involve more than 100 arts, music, drama and
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Preview: Tony Law, he Other Side Comedy Club, City Screen, York, January 20
LAIDBACK Tony Law will be the antidote to this week's miserable weather when he plays The Other Side Comedy Club in the Basement Bar of City Screen, York, on Sunday evening. "Like a rolling ball of fun with bits flying out of it, Tony's infectious
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Preview: Black Comedy @ The Black Swan, York , January 22
AFTER a Christmas break, Black Comedy @ The Black Swan in York returns on Tuesday with a headline set by Dave Twentyman, a Mancunian who is rocketing towards comedy stardom. On the 8.45pm bill too is Bradford's Kate Fox, whose routines and poems are
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Jimmy Beadle
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Preview: Carnivale 69 Comedy, Durty Nelly's pub, High Street, Hull, January 20
CARNIVALE 69 Comedy at Durty Nelly's pub, in High Street, Hull, will be relaunched on Sunday with a headline set by Russell Kane, last summer's presenter of Big Brother's Big Mouth and host of BBC Radio 2's Out To Lunch. The 8pm event includes the
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Darren Kelly
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Anthony Lloyd
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Andy McWilliams
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Josh Mimms
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Preview: Ian Keable in Conjuring Up Comedy, The Gate, Goole Arts Centre, January 19
ACCOUNTANCY is not usually a profession associated with mirth, but one man is on a mission to break the stereotype. Ian Keable, Magical comedian and former accountant, appears at The Gate, Goole Arts Centre, tomorrow at 8pm in Conjuring Up Comedy,
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Nicky Wroe
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Preview: Jethro, Grand Opera House, York, January 20
TICKETS are selling fast for Cornish comic Jethro's latest bout of heavyweight belly-crunching character comedy at the Grand Opera House, York, on Sunday at 7.30pm. The irreverent, slightly politically-incorrect Jethro dishes out adult material of
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Preview: An Evening With Jethro Tull, Grand Opera House, York, May 11
Ian Anderson and co will celebrate their 40th anniversary on the An Evening With Jethro Tull Tour, visiting York on May 11 as part of a 29 date itinerary. Most of the performances will feature a special guest, who fans will recognise, as Anderson honours
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Chris Beardsley
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Lib Dems slam plans to cap fire service cash
CITY councillors are being urged to back the campaign against grant cuts for local fire services by pressing the Government for a better deal. Liberal Democrat councillors intend to propose a motion at full council on January 24, calling for Whitehall
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Young trio gatecrash top squad
FORMER York Acorn amateur Kyle Palmer has forced his way into York City Knights' first-choice line-up. Palmer, along with fellow youngsters David Leeke and Steve Grundy, has been called into the squad to take on Wakefield in Sunday's friendly, with
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Jazz notes
INTERESTING to see that the trailer for the new film version of Sex And The City uses cutting edge music - Peggy Lee's Fever, followed by loads of sassy, big band swing. Back to the future of the 1950s? Break out the vinyl, ye devotees of the hip.
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Councillors’ 11% pay rise
COUNCILLORS are set to give themselves an 11 per cent pay-rise and pension rights in a move that will cost York council tax payers tens of thousands of pounds extra a year. Proposals put forward by the four party leaders on City of York Council will
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Preview: Stewboss and Dead Rock West, Fibbers, York, January 23
TWO favourites of Bob Harris on his BBC Radio 2 show team up to play York on Wednesday, ahead of the simultaneous British release of the fellow Californians' albums. Stewboss's fifth record, Take Your Pretty Hands Off My Heart (Stewsongs Records),
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Weekend deluge threatens clubs
THE rain looks like being the winner, with several games involving North Yorkshire football clubs falling victim to flooding. A pitch inspection at noon today was scheduled to determine whether Pickering Town's epic FA Vase journey can continue, while
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Final hours of A64 death driver
A two-and-a-half hour gap holds the key to discovering how a young driver was killed in a horrific crash near York. Police were today trying to piece together the final moments of the 22-year-old who died when his car came off the A64 and hit a tree
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Nestlé close gap to top after second-half strikes
A FIVE-GOAL second-half salvo saw Nestlé Flag stay in touch with leaders Severus in division one of the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Football League. Flag were 1-0 down to hosts Derwent United at half-time but hit back through Chris Johnson,
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Challenge for duo
YORK Acorn ARLC, of the National Conference division one, were drawn away to Humberside league outfit Hull Wyke in the first round of the Challenge Cup. Division two side Heworth must visit division one club Wath Brow. Ties to be played on February
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Knights’ TV game is switched back
YORK City Knights will not be live on Sky after all. The Knights' National League Two game at Barrow was put back from the Easter Bank Holiday Monday to the Easter Tuesday so it could be televised by Sky Sports as part of their National League coverage
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Kennelly bags eight as Yearsley lead a goal fest
GOALS flooded the York Sunday Afternoon Football League with each of the three first division games averaging almost 13 goals while a 21-stun salute was detonated in the lone second division game. That sole outing in division two saw Yearsley Grove swamp
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Kicked out
HUNTINGTON WMC have been expelled from the York Sunday Afternoon League. Originally suspended by the North Riding County FA for non-payment of fines, Huntington WMC were kicked out after a vote by clubs who attended the league meeting on January
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Neil Leeds the way for Doncaster
FORMER Leeds United 'keeper Neil Sullivan reckons Doncaster can upset the Whites' title aspirations at Elland Road tomorrow. Ex-Scotland international Sullivan, now in his second season at the Keepmoat Stadium, returns to his old stomping ground for
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Torrential rain leaves anglers facing weekend washout
Most local rivers have been off limits for anglers after another week of torrential rain. The main casualty was the Acomb Tackle York and District Winter League, which suffered its second cancellation in succession. Prospects for this weekend appear
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RI edge Clif to get off mark
Railway Institute got their first win of the York John Smith's Darts League division one season as they beat Clifton B' 5-4. The victory included singles triumphs for Tony Robinson, Ken Moment and Steve Forth. All was level going into the last game
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Have your say
THE North Riding County Football Association is staging three consultation sessions on the future of the game at grassroots level. The have your say' gatherings are part of a nationwide scheme to draw up a National Game Strategy, an action plan which
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Martyn Woolford
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Phil Turnbull
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Onome Sodje
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Simon Rusk
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Mark Robinson
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Alex Rhodes
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Ben Purkiss
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Danny Parslow
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Manny Panther
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Ross Greenwood
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David McGurk
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Craig Farrell
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Jump starting history
IT has been more than 85 years since horse hooves last pounded the turf in competition at Sheriff Hutton - but that will all change tomorrow thanks to Mick Easterby. The veteran horse trainer has agreed to host the opening meeting of the Yorkshire Point-to-Point
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Tom Evans
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Stuart Elliott
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Darren Craddock
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Richard Brodie
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Mister puts Fizz into celebration for Wainwright
It's a long haul from the Kennythorpe yard of John Wainwright to Lingfield in Surrey, but the Ryedale-based trainer can make his journey worthwhile tomorrow by hitting the bullseye with Mister Fizzbomb. The five-year-old lines up for the Sharen Blaqueire
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Struggling Clifton Parkers target vital league points
ANOTHER long bus trip awaits York RUFC in North 2 East as they travel to Northumberland to take on Morpeth needing to pick up two precious points. The Clifton Parkers, fresh from a week off, face a Morpeth outfit comfortably in mid-table with six wins
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Ruling wait for post office fate
ANXIOUS residents and sub-postmasters will have to wait until next month to find out whether their post office has been saved. Across York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire, 50 branches are facing the axe. The six-week consultation period into the
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Review: Purcell & Blow; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
This month York, next month New York. Despite the demands of a burgeoning career, Iestyn Davies stepped into the breach on Wednesday and carried all before him. This is a voice that is going to make waves for a long time to come. The odds were not
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Paul Brayson
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Office morale at 'all-time low'
MORALE at York's Land Registry Office is at an "all-time low" and local solicitors have said its impending closure will be "detrimental" to businesses. The Press reported last May that the office would close by 2010 with the loss of 127 jobs. But it
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Busker death ‘not foul play’
POLICE investigating the death of tragic York busker Kingsley Hoffman have ruled out suspicious circumstances. Mr Hoffman was found dead in the River Foss near Heworth Bridge in the city centre, opposite the Brigadier Gerard pub, on New Year's Day.
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Brewer ignores ‘looming crisis’
PUBS may be in crisis in York, but at least this one has a bright future - despite appearances to the contrary. The Waggon and Horses in Lawrence Street has been closed and boarded up for several weeks. It appeared to have been finished as a pub, especially
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Rusk eyes City debut
COLIN Walker says York City new boy Simon Rusk will come into the reckoning for the first time as the Minstermen look to extend their ten-match unbeaten run at Altrincham in the Blue Square Premier. Injury to Craig Farrell and doubts over skipper Manny
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Green revamp’s £28m bill anger
AN MP has pledged to investigate the "staggering" £28.3 million bill to the taxpayer for the eco-friendly refurbishment of a Government office complex in York. Ryedale Tory MP John Greenway said he would table a Parliamentary Question about the cost
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Sports centre plan voted down at stormy meeting
THE 33-year wait for a sports centre in Malton and Norton will go on after plans for a £3.6 million scheme were controversially thrown out last night. Amid stormy scenes at a Ryedale District Council meeting, proposals which would have seen a new leisure
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Store card security
SINCE the 7/7 London tube bombings, security around Government buildings has been tighter than a Yorkshireman's grip on his wallet. A ring of steel surrounds the Palace of Westminster and neighbouring Whitehall; gun-wielding police wearing stab-vests
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Where did all the dosh go?
IT'S a great pub quiz question. Which member of Wee Gordie Broon's Cabinet once stood trial for bank robbery? The answer, not surprisingly in light of recent events, is the Right Honourable Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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Name choice is simply a breeze
MEET Windy Miller and Turby, two of Selby district's newest - and tallest - residents. These giant wind turbines have been given these highly appropriate names following a competition run by Yorkshire Water for local schoolchildren. The structures,
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Drug addict thief jailed
A DRUG addict shoplifter who stole alcohol from a string of stores across York has been jailed for eight months. Kevin Andrew Jackson, 25, of Peterhill Drive, Clifton, admitted four thefts in Acomb and Dunnington before York magistrates and asked for
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Post office campaigners face nail-biting wait
ANXIOUS residents and sub postmasters will have to wait until next month to find out whether their post office has been saved. Across York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire, 50 branches are facing the axe. The six-week consultation period into the
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His royal highness takes to the sky
Prince William today described the thrill of flying solo for the first time as he got to grips with an intensive RAF course. The young royal took to the air by himself yesterday after his instructor said he was ready - much to the surprise of the Prince
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Businesses braced for office closure
MORALE at York's Land Registry Office is at an all time low and local solicitors have said its impending closure will be "detrimental" to businesses. The Press reported last May that the office would close by 2010 with the loss of 127 jobs. But it
