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Help with the scars of warfare
A NEW charity to help psychologically-scarred war veterans has been warmly welcomed by victims and relatives in the York area. Resolution, which aims to provide vital help to former servicemen suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), was
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Search on again for Miss York
HERE we go again. As York's own Miss England, Georgia Horsley, continues with her year in the national spotlight, young women were today urged to enter the next Miss York contest. Organiser Vivienne Lee says the 2008 final is set to be staged on Sunday
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Convicted funeral directors win right to appeal
TWO York funeral directors who caused "unimaginable grief" when they hid a baby's body in an elderly woman's coffin have succeeded in the first stage of a fight to get their sentences cut. Mark Eshelby, 48, and Graeme Skidmore, 45, colleagues at Co-operative
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Auschwitz journey for pupils
TEENAGERS from schools across York are going on an historic journey to a former Nazi concentration camp. Three York schools are taking part in the Holocaust Educational Trust's first regional visit from Yorkshire to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
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Holiday duo’s orphans hope
THE plight of orphans in Kenya touched the hearts of a York couple who were caught up in the violence in the country. Claire Gargan and Dylan Glasper, who live in Bootham and run the Millers Yard health and education centre, in Gillygate, found children
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School choirs on song
CHILDREN in York are ahead of the game when it comes to singing in school. Sing Up! - the Government's multi-million pound national singing strategy for primary schools - has come to York schools ahead of many other local authorities. City of York Council's
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River Ouse in flood - 021
Photograph by Ian M. Smith © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
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River Ouse in flood - 020
Photograph by Ian M. Smith © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
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Floods at Knavesmire - 019
Photograph by Andrew Boyes, Acomb © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
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Hopes fire station will stay in city
COUNCILLORS are optimistic York's central fire station can be saved after raising fears for its future with fire chiefs. Members of the city council's Labour group say they are concerned about how firefighters' ability to tackle emergencies in the centre
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£2.5m housing project at York site
DEVELOPERS are set to get the go-ahead to build houses on a York school playing field, after completing a £2.5 million deal with council officers. City of York Council has sold land at Osbaldwick Lane to Harron Homes (Yorkshire) Ltd, enabling the firm
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A great city for a home
THERE are plenty of reasons to live in York and these properties provide quite a few. First of all, Stephensons has a modern ground floor flat in The Courtyard, St Martins Lane. Priced at £154,950, this home boasts a 20ft living room, an open plan kitchen
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Do you know these men?
DO you recognise these three men? Police have issued CCTV pictures of three more suspected thieves in our first Crime Gallery of 2008. Crime Gallery, published exclusively in The Press each month, is the first collaboration of its kind between North
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City schools to get £9m boost
YORK schools will get an extra £489 per pupil over the next three years thanks to more Government cash. City of York Council will get an extra £9.6 million funding directed at personalised learning and tackling smaller pockets of deprivation. Despite
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Manor House is back to its best
RESTORING period homes to their former glory can take some time - but whoever buys Manor House will find it all done for them. Manor House, in Main Street, Bubwith, has been beautifully restored and sympathetically modernised with its Regency/early
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Care firm’s on the move
AN EXPANDING North Yorkshire care company will be the first business to move into Escrick Business Park this summer. Even as work continues to build the project for new offices and industrial units on the A19, Riccall Carers has bought a two-storey 1,300sq
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Shed Seven, The Singles Collection (Universal Music Catalogue) ****
FOR Shed Seven, absence has made the heart grow fonder. Reforming with original guitarist Paul Banks late last year to play a series of reunion gigs over the festive period, the response was massive. Such was the demand for tickets, extra dates
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Couple's final act
A DEVOTED couple who could not bear to live without each other took their own lives in a suicide pact - after reading a guide on how to kill themselves. James and Hilda Bedell, known as Ted and Nan, drank whisky before tying plastic bags around their
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Richmond Fontaine, $87 And A Guilty Conscience (Décor Records) ****; Peter Case, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (Yep Roc) ***
PACKING an emotional punch is the essence of Americana. Some might hear grown men moaning, but peek behind the pedal steel and there are life-affirming insights for those who care to listen. This mini-album and DVD is acutely observed, and mercifully
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Eliane Elias, Something For You, Eliane Elias Sings and Plays the Music of Bill Evans (Blue Note) ****
ELIANE is a glamorous, blonde, pianist/vocalist, so comparisons to Diana Krall are inevitable. Brazilian Eliane's two-fisted piano is a passionate alternative to Diana's studiedly economic approach. Her vocals share Diana's appealing cool, but in the
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Kim Novak, Luck & Accident, (Talitres Records) ***
Formed three years ago in tribute to the Hollywood starlet born in Chicago of Czech extraction, Kim Novak have similarly multinational roots. Jerémié, Ugo, Cyrill and Hairday (quite) are all French, but continue that rather modern English tradition
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The Magnetic Fields, Distortion (Nonesuch) ***; The Raveonettes, Lust, Lust, Lust (Fierce Panda) ***
"I DON'T know if anyone has done feedback piano before," says The Magnetic Fields' ever experimental front man Stephin Merritt, proudly introducing his arch ambition to "sound more like Jesus and Mary Chain than Jesus and Mary Chain". More specifically
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Dawn Landes, Fireproof (Fargo/Boyscout) ****
BY day Dawn Landes engineers albums for Ryan Adams, Hem and Philip Glass in New York studios; by night, her own songs are yet to breach the boundaries of Brooklyn's anti-folk scene. However, Fireproof, her debut release in Britain, should follow Cat
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Review: Teddy Thompson, Fibbers, York
THE ONLY living cowboy from Hampstead? Teddy Thompson is best known for his impeccable folk lineage, but is now forging a career that looks to country and western music for inspiration. Starting the set with some new songs, Thompson's material
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Sheepdog breeder enjoys success
TOP sheepdog breeder and handler John Bell started the new year as he ended the old by yet again achieving top price at Skipton Auction Mart's opening seasonal sale of working sheepdogs. John, of Howden, near Selby, who headed the prices at Skipton's
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Police right to protest
COACHLOADS of police officers from North Yorkshire joined yesterday's march in Whitehall. Disgruntled policemen and women from around the country took part in the mass protest, demanding fairer treatment over pay. While police pay is generally quite
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Fire death man’s assault arrest
A MAN found dead in a field near Selby had recently been arrested in connection with an investigation into indecent assaults on children. The badly burnt body of Harvey Graham Trigg, of Portholme Drive, Selby, was found in a field near Wistow Road at
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Welcome support
THOSE who fight on our behalf can suffer mental as well as physical injuries. It is widely recognised how debilitating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be. Two such cases are known to readers of this newspaper. Dave Benson, of Haxby, near
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What good is the Floodline?
Would Mark Tinnion, regional director of the Environment Agency's (EA) flood risk management, like to tell us how much the Floodline information system costs the taxpayer? If you call it you might hear something like: "The flood warning for riverside
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Wake-up call
Wake up York, wake up Fulford - why oh why didn't the public inquiry listen to the Green Party? Denise Craghill of the Green Party sat through every single day of the public inquiry into the building of houses in Fulford, trying to get York to see
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Mystery of tree
LIKE Sylvia Dunn (Tough choices in council cuts, Letters, January 15) and J Beck, I too would like to know what happened to the very expensive Christmas tree which graced Parliament Street during the Christmas 2006 season. Was it put in a new locality
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Making a splash
YORK'S infamous toilets are finally condemned (Plug pulled on "splash palace", The Press, January 16). The toilets built in Parliament Street and refurbished in 1992 are to close and be relocated to Silver Street, into yet another building, which has
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Let’s use them
THE proposed post office closures are bad news and will cause many people and businesses genuine hardship. Changing trends in consumerism have had a massive impact on numerous local facilities in the post-war period. Post offices have closed in droves
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Eco eyes shut
Thank God the council has opposed the plans to build 5,500 eco-homes at Clifton Moor; at least someone sees sense (Council opposes eco-town, The Press, January 22). It doesn't take a clever clogs to see that the A1237 is a joke already, without adding
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Huge cost of green building schemes
WITH reference to the article "Green revamp to cost £28.3 million" (The Press, January 17), about the Government offices at Kings Pool. I found the grinning face of the Minister, Hilary Benn, most offensive in the present economic climate, and the amount
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On yer bike.
As more and more people are encouraged to inhabit this small island (and the world too} and the rising waters of a warmer world reduce the areas suitable for our ever more sophisticated life styles and need to travel, does the bike need to make a big
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Gillian Cruddas to lead new tourism body
A NEW tourism body being launched to showcase York as a must-see leisure and business destination has named its new chief executive. Gillian Cruddas, who has headed York Tourism Bureau for 12 years has accepted the new role with Visit York, which is
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Litany of litter
I WAS horrified to see this rubbish strewn over the pavement at Micklegate Bar around 10am on a Saturday morning as all the shoppers walked into town. The previous night there had been a stack of bin bags left out by the occupiers of the adjacent flats
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Sweet wrecker
When reading the item published in the Yorkshire In Brief section in The Press on January 14, under the heading "Sweet way to beat ice", I was reminded of something my late brother Mark told me back in the 1950s. He had been working as a bricklayer
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Knights fan set to face flak on Rhinos patrol
LOCAL boy Danny Allan has extra incentive to play well against home-town club York City Knights on Sunday - mainly to avoid stick from his mates. The 18-year-old Headingley starlet will be in the Leeds Rhinos line-up for the pre-season friendly at Huntington
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Not so champion
As a secular activist, I am appalled that Northamptonshire Borough Council has introduced a so-called "faith champion", and I will campaign vigorously to ensure that City of York Council never has one. Nationwide surveys indicate that more people are
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The end for splash palace
The "splash palace" in Parliament Street, York, will soon be pulled down. So what should be put in its place? CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigates. WHO would have thought that one building could have caused such bother for 15 years? The "splash palace"
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A City family affair for Ben and Howard
TRIALIST forward Ben Wilkinson impressed on his debut for York City Reserves with two goals in a 2-1 victory over Sheffield United's second string. Wilkinson, the son of former Leeds United boss Howard, is on the books of Hull City, but the Tigers
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They were court in the act, M'lud
THE Diary’s attention has been drawn to a book called Disorder In The American Courts. It contains examples of what people have actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had to stay calm while these
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Tawdry tales of a tarnished trio
HERE are three female icons, none particularly to my taste, but there's no escaping them. One has been gone these long years, another is dead only in the controversial title of a new play, and the third, who inhabits the flashbulb-lit end of the popular
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Hoodoo irks Judge
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC are hoping a more expansive game and the return of key men will see them end an unwanted hoodoo at Drighlington. The York side have never won at the West Yorkshire club but they got back to winning ways last week, 14-6 at
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4,000 have say on council cuts
THOUSANDS of people have taken the chance to help decide which of York's council services should be cut to plug a £1 million cash gap. The consultation exercise is being carried out by City of York Council - which is facing a massive funding shortfall
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'We’ll be in the mix'
SELBY Warriors ARLC boss Pete Gudgeon has backed his team to avoid relegation from Pennine League division three despite their recent woes. The Warriors have only one league win to their credit this term and sit at the bottom of the table, four points
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Acorn to try again
YORK Acorn will try again to play their ACE Europe Insurance BARLA National Cup second round tie at fellow National Conference division one side Widnes St Marie's on Saturday following last week's postponement. Heworth have no game in division two
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Fresh Show of intent from ambitious United
THE recruitment drive at Elland Road shows no sign of slowing down as Leeds United landed striker Enoch Showunmi from Bristol City. The 25-year-old Nigerian international scored 13 goals in 44 games for the Ashton Gate side, playing a key role in their
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Record-breaking season
THE IT Sports York & District Mixed Doubles Tennis League will have a record number of teams competing in the 2008 season, starting in May. The inclusion of Rufforth III, Stamford Bridge II and Next Generation III brings the number of teams to 88 across
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Botterill hits the max to reach open final
THE latest qualifiers for the final of the Clifton Hotel Open Darts Knockout are Paul Cooper, Paul Botterill, Mark Hartley and Rich Corner. Botterill hit three 180s as he cruised through his qualifying group on a night of high- quality darts at the
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Early start for York ace Dyson
NORTH Yorkshire ace of clubs Simon Dyson was aiming to make a quick impact in the Qatar Masters as the European Golf Tour shuttles across the Middle East today. Dyson, who resumed his campaign for a place in the world's top 50, dropped to 70th spot
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It’s Ov to work for champs
DOUBLE winners Hemingbrough will start the defence of the HPH Cricket Cup with a trip to Ovington. The York Vale League champions hit the road to Little Knavesmire in the first round on May 24. The draws for the league's various cup competitions threw
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Bats at ready for title drive
The York and District Closed Table Tennis Championships take place at the Railway Institute this weekend and although entries are slightly down on previous years, they look certain to be well contested. Martin Lowe is the clear favourite to retain the
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York’s Yetton fall
York Indoor Bowls Club's Yetton Trophy campaign came to an end when they lost 78-72 to Cumbria in the zone final with both teams making the most of home advantage. At Thanet Road, Melanie Brooke's rink scored 13 unanswered shots over the last five ends
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Police march in London over ‘unfair’ pay deal
SEVENTY-FIVE North Yorkshire Police officers joined more than 22,000 of their colleagues from across the UK for a protest over pay. The off-duty officers took part in a two-hour march through the heart of Westminster, organised by the Police Federation
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Dynamic duo Butler and Turner team up again
Hayley Turner has a fantastic strike-rate when teaming up with Gerard Butler and the duo combine again tomorrow with Baharah in the Captain Croc Makes Pontin's Rock Conditions Stakes at Wolverhampton. Turner booted home 36 per cent of her rides for Butler
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Bringing home the bacon for Eggborough stalwarts
A SEASON of successes was celebrated at the Eggborough Bowling Club presentation dinner. Held at the village sports and social club, Selby Ladies League president Mary Dickinson handed out the awards. Prize-winners were: ladies singles - winner Violet
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Teenager lands joint union and league deal
TEENAGE rugby starlet George Elliott has the qualities to go all the way to the top. That's the opinion of York rugby league legend Richie Hayes, who coached the 16-year-old at junior club New Earswick All Blacks ARLC. Elliott has the chance to hit
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Back where they belong
POLICE have reunited theft victims with their stolen property - with help from The Press. We told earlier this month how police found an "Aladdin's cave" of stolen goods when they raided a house in York. Officers appealed for the owners of the property
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Trains may run 365 days a year
THE prospect of trains running over the Christmas period next year has been welcomed by a North Yorkshire MP. John Grogan, who represents Selby district and Fulford, was speaking after the chief executive of Network Rail, Iain Coucher, revealed plans
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Stroke collection
THE Stroke Association will hold a collection at York City's home match with Aldershot on Saturday. While the Minstermen will be facing the Blue Square Premier leaders at KitKat Crescent, the Stroke Association takes on the third-biggest killer in
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High alert as floods submerge city heart
RESCUE workers were scrambled into torrid flood waters following reports that a man had "disappeared" into the River Ouse. Firefighters combed an area of the river near Skeldergate Bridge in York using their search and rescue boat after they were alerted
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Eagles remains on a high
Zoe Eagles' amazing season continued with a Champion of Champions national singles 21-8 victory over England international Carol McLean. Trailing 6-5, Eagles had seven winning ends out of nine to triumph and set up a duel against Cumbria's Sheila Devlin
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Art show off due to floods
EXTREME weather conditions have forced a North Yorkshire museum to postpone its new exhibition - due to a fear of soggy cigarettes. Young curators at Malton School were only one week away from the opening day of their first exhibition in the Gallery
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Blitz on taxis in Selby
LICENSING chiefs are hailing surprise checks on taxis in Selby district a success. Two vehicles were taken off the road following the checks, which were carried out as part of Operation Helical 2, on Friday night. The enforcement checks were carried
