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Simon Dyson runs out of gas in golf's Shell Houston Open
SIMON Dyson endured a difficult third round in the Shell Houston Open as he carded a six-over par round of 78 at Redstone Golf Club. The York ace, who posted rounds of 73 and 71 on the opening two days, started on the back nine on Saturday.
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York City seven points clear of chasing pack in Blue Square Premier
THE play-off chasing pack edged one point closer to fifth-placed York City in the Blue Square Premier. With the Minstermen not in action on Saturday, AFC Wimbledon moved into sixth with a 3-1 win at Histon and Kettering drew 0-0 with relegated Grays
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Knights 72, Gateshead 14
THE best way to answer critics is to win the next match, and an even better way is to win big. And that’s exactly what York City Knights did yesterday. They were slammed for their defeat at Doncaster five days earlier, not least for their lack of defensive
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Foyle’s lore to run rule over rivals
YORK City manager Martin Foyle is compiling dossiers on his club’s possible play-off opponents with three weeks of the Blue Square Premier campaign left to run. Foyle watched Rushden and Diamonds’ home match with Crawley Town last night and will also
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Ajmal’s so keen to learn
Ajmal Shahzad says he has still got plenty of learning to do despite being fast-tracked into England’s World Twenty20 squad. This time last year the 24-year-old bowler was preparing for a summer of trying to cement his place in Yorkshire’s first team
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Holgate block out Coneysthorpe title tilt
Coneysthorpe ‘A’ dropped three points to Holgate ‘B’ as they lost ground at the top of division one of the NEDL York and District Table Tennis League. Martin Lowe and Ashley Hodgson were unbeaten. Paul Robertson and Richard Crowther saw Railway
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Professional sport in York facing oblivion
MIXED messages from City of York Council over the past week have done little to increase optimism concerning the building of a new sports stadium for the community. What is clear, however, is that the Minster city is falling further behind in its provision
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All Trooned up
TUNES of glory at Troon are summoning Emma Brown to hit the high road and the heights. North Yorkshire’s most successful women’s amateur golfer opens her competitive year next month with the Scottish Open at the lauded links circuit of Troon, which is
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Lee-ding light still shining
LEE WATERMAN’S first full season in the semi-professional arena is continuing to prove a personal success. York City Knights’ form as a whole might have stuttered in March but 22-year-old Waterman has remained on the boil enough to win the Press Player
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Good flier day for Knights
JAMES RATCLIFFE praised the much-improved work ethic in his York City Knights team as they returned to winning ways in devastating fashion – with points-machine Lee Waterman equalling a club record to boot. The Knights bounced back from their disappointment
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Display of daring and pluck from bold Dyson
ROCK-STEADY play got Simon Dyson back into the likely reckoning of making the cut for the Shell Houston Open ahead of next week’s Masters. Dyson was in deficit after the first round at the Redstone Golf Club in Humble, Texas, after firing a one-over
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Duo are well on course
An historic golfing tradition will be revived at Scarthingwell golf course in Tadcaster tomorrow. Accompanied by glasses of bucks fizz and a crowd expected to top more than 70 people, the traditional captain’s drive-in will witness Scarthingwell’s new
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Capello’s Roo-lief
IF Fabio Capello does not dye his hair then he might soon have to as each passing week, nay each passing game, yields nerve-shredding injury worries for the national football coach in advance of this summer’s World Cup. With left-back Ashley Cole still
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Gateway Café, Acomb
ENTERPRISE is worth encouraging. An evangelical church community has developed a disused school as a place of worship with an adjacent café and bookshop. The café is open from Tuesday to Saturday. There is level access from the street with room for wheelchairs
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Yabba-dabba I do
FLINTSTONE fever swept Devon as a British couple tied the knot dressed up as the first couple of Bedrock. The groom Ed Robinson, a 34-year-old fireman, wore Fred’s orange and black furs and a black wig, while the bride, Gayle Watson, 29, wore a
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Hanagan has it Hall to aim for
Paul Hanagan, who has leapt into an early lead in the jockeys’ championship in the opening week of the Flat turf season, can maintain his flying start at Scotland’s first fixture of the campaign tomorrow. The Malton jockey journeys to Musselburgh and
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Where life is a local affair
THEY sit unassumingly just around the corner or at the end of the road. We may drive past them on our way to work without noticing them. We may know their names but we maybe haven’t really got to know them. We heard a few bad stories from a friend of
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Open for Easter
THE rain and sunshine at the end of March has really perked up the garden, with early spring flowers bulking up and beginning to fill the garden. Pulmonarias are looking especially good in our garden at the moment, the first having opened a week or
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Middlesmoor
1. From the car park at Middlesmoor (just above the village beyond the pub), head down the road towards the village for 50 metres then turn left along a track then immediately left through a small gate that leads out on to a field (waymarker).
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Deadly dozen medals for City swimmers
YORK City Baths Club swimmers bagged 12 medals and 19 other top ten finishes in the second gala of the Yorkshire County Long Course Championship series in Leeds. A team of 20 swimmers, aged between nine and 14, challenged the best of the rest for county
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Millthorpe aces just champion
HOSTS Millthorpe School have been crowned York and Selby under-15s netball champions. The York school triumphed over ten other schools to win the ‘A’ team competition, while St Peter’s won the ‘B’ team trophy. In the ‘A’ event, Millthorpe opened up
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A high five for Hall U9s
Terrington Hall School’s Under-9s netball team celebrated tournament success when the school hosted its U9 High Fives event. The team, which has lost only one match during the season, took the trophy having won all five matches and with only
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Easter courses for football fun
YORK City in the Community will be running fun camps at five different venues during the Easter holidays. The courses will be held at Clifton Moor’s PlayFootball venue, Energise Sports Centre in Acomb, Selby Abbey Leisure Centre, Sherburn White Rose
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Taking its toll
York Acorn ARLC Under-18s went into their final game of the season under-prepared after arriving only minutes before kick off at Doncaster Toll Bar – and suffered a 28-12 defeat. Toll Bar led 12-0 at half-time before Acorn hit back with a Josh Mortimer
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Ace Adam seals Earswick spoils
NEW Earswick won the battle of the basement in the York FA Under-19s League division one, beating Fulford 3-1. Second from bottom New Earswick took the lead through Ben Hodgson, but Fulford equalised just before half-time. Earswick regained the upper
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Saint’s day tops world
NEWCOMERS St Paul’s School are on top of the world after they won the principal prize in the Tregelles World Cup football tournament hosted by York’s Mount Junior School. A total of 16 teams of boys and girls in Years 3 and 4 took part and each represented
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Tonika’s trip
TEN-YEAR-OLD Tonika Greaves was the winner of our Young Sports Writer of the Year competition, backed by CPP and York City. The New Earswick youngster won a laptop and a VIP trip to the Minstermen’s game against Tamworth at Bootham Crescent. Tonika
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City youngbloods fall to Spireites to dent title push
YORK City juniors’ Football League Youth Alliance North East Conference title hopes were dealt a huge blow after they suffered a 2-1 defeat to close rivals Chesterfield. The Minstermites went ahead on 25 minutes when left-winger Jed Vale, pictured, whose
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York Under-17s triumph to soar on to cloud nine
York FA under-17s’ representative squad beat their Scarborough counterparts 3-0 to retain the Tony Aveyard Trophy and win it for the ninth year in a row. In difficult windy conditions, the visitors were first to threaten with a shot from distance which
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Winning ways for York boys
BOTH City of York Hockey Club under-10s’ boys’ teams excelled in the latest round of youth matches. The ‘A’-team shrugged off an opening match loss by winning the other four matches they played, while the ‘B’-team posted five wins and a draw from their
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A friendship across borders
AUTHOR and journalist Bee Rowlatt, who grew up in York, will be returning to the city to promote her new book Talking About Jane Austen In Baghdad. The factual book charts the unlikely friendship that sprung up between Bee and an Iraqi woman, May Witwit
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Andy Henwood's long wait for a kidney donor
A FORMER soldier who spends 12 hours every week on dialysis as he waits for a life-changing kidney transplant has backed our campaign to get more people to donate organs. Andy Henwood has already been on the waiting list for 18 months, but until a matching
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Review: Dad’s Army, Grand Opera House, York
Following the success of its first sell-out adaptation, the Lost Episodes, the latest UK tour of Dad’s Army Marches On was always going to attract a legion of faithful fans. And fans certainly won’t be let down by the show’s characteristic display of
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Wines to buy with a lottery win
HAVE you ever thought how much you would be prepared to spend on a bottle of wine? Even if you had won the lottery and price was not your first consideration, I doubt you would fork out what one collector in Asia paid last month. The wine in question
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It’s open season in Scarborough
A BANK of green fold-down seats – 6,500 of them – stretches steeply up the side of a natural slope. Sit at the top and look down, and there’s a great view out over a natural amphitheatre to the stage at the bottom. Today, admittedly, it still looks
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Moorland Energy submit plans for Ryedale gas drilling plant
PLANS have been submitted for a controversial gas drilling station in Ryedale. The application, by Moorland Energy, is for a gas processing facility in a field off Hurrell Lane, near Thornton-le-Dale. The company also wants permission to lay pipelines
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Teenager held over air gun shooting in York
A TEENAGER has been arrested after a woman was shot with an air gun in York. The 15-year-old has been bailed over the incident, which happened on March 21. As previously reported in The Press, the victim, a 52-year-old local woman, was walking along
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Jarvis employee betrayed and plunged into a nightmare world
ONLY eight months short of celebrating 30 years working for the railways, Phil Dobson heard that it was the end of the line. He was among the bewildered group who had gathered outside Meridian House, the York headquarters of Jarvis PLC, to learn that
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Visit York competition for youngsters
VISIT York has asked schoolchildren to compete to have their work displayed at its new tourism information centre, which opens this spring. More than 100 schools have been asked to draw, sketch or paint their favourite thing to do or day out in Yorkshire
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Selby burger man Tony Crombie’s pitch battle
A BURGER van man is being forced from his pitch in Selby town centre because council officers say food grease from the business will ruin the newly- upgraded area. Four hundred people have signed a petition calling for Tony Crombie to continue selling
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Hat’s off to Easter in Haxby
SOME of Haxby’s oldest residents showed the town’s younger inhabitants how to make Easter a colourful affair as they took part in a series of “eggstra” special events. Staff at Birchlands Care Home, in Moor Lane, arranged a host of Easter-linked activities
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Industrial action ballot at Nestlé in York
NESTLE workers in York and throughout the UK are being balloted on industrial action in an escalating row over a 2010 pay freeze. Members of the Unite, GMB and Usdaw unions are now taking part in a nationwide postal “straw poll” asking them to consider
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Thefts row York priest Father Tim Jones raps ‘vitriol’
A PRIEST who provoked worldwide controversy when he advised the desperate and needy to shoplift says it is not surprising some atheists feel hatred towards his faith given the behaviour of some Christians. Father Tim Jones told his congregation during
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Coo for York as Pigeon Detectives frontman Matt Bowman buys Montey’s Bar in York
ONE of York’s favourite live music venues has been bought by a Yorkshire-born rock’n’roll star. The owner of Montey’s bar chain have confirmed their Micklegate property has been purchased by a consortium headed by Matt Bowman, lead singer with Leeds
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‘Put brakes on York road tolls’
COUNCILLORS are to be asked to put a red light in the way of congestion charging in York. A motion before City of York Council’s full meeting next week calls for the authority to agree that it will not introduce any measures forcing drivers to pay to
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Joshua James Hollingsworth jailed for York city-centre sex attack
A SECURITY officer who turned a young woman’s city centre stroll into a terrifying sexual ordeal has been jailed. Joshua James Hollingsworth, 34, pursued the 19-year-old victim for 40 minutes, repeatedly touching her, blocking her path, and running after
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Museum Gardens in York get a flavour of Alps
More than 300 alpine plants have been planted in the rockery of York’s Museum Gardens to give a splash of colour to the area this summer. The rockery, near the Marygate entrance, was originally created by students of Askham Bryan College in 1980. The
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Seed lessons for budding gardeners in York
CHILDREN can learn about planting seeds at workshops at Poppleton Garden Centre, near York, next weekend. The centre on Northfield Lane, Upper Poppleton, is offering youngsters the chance to create “cress heads” and pot a marrow or bean seed which they
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Busiest weekend of the year for county churches
This weekend is the busiest of the year for churches across North Yorkshire as they mark the biggest feast of the Christian calendar. Early today at York Minister, there was an Easter Eve service at 7am and matins at 7.30am. Baptisms, organised by St
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Community cash boost for York and North Yorkshire
YORK and North Yorkshire residents who wish to improve their community can apply for up to £20,000 from a national charity to make their plans a reality. Mental health charity Mind is offering the funds to people who wish to run a community project,
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Protest signs anger at former Peasholme Green homeless centre in York
AN ANGRY architect has placed protest signs outside a former homeless centre which is scheduled for demolition – asking people to call York’s political leader if they are looking for rubble. Matthew Laverack – a critic of the decision to close the Peaseholme
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Night market idea is ‘stupid’
I HAVE read the article The Press regarding City of York Council’s idea of helping our market traders to make a living in this present climate (Night move for market, March 29). What a stupid idea. Who does their shopping in the market at night? York
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Not so monstrous
Another car driver wishes to have the “bendy” buses removed (Monsters must go, Letters, March 27). Presumably that includes the “bendy” Park&Ride buses, which have been populating the streets longer than the so-called other “monsters”? Each of
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It’s all a bit fishy
Just like Godfrey Bloom (They’re not joking, Letters, April 1) and I’m sure many readers, I was rather taken aback at the report in the morning tabloids of the shopkeeper who was fined £1,000 for selling a goldfish to a 14-year old. However, it
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Posting complaint
A FEW weeks ago, I visited the post office in Lendal and queued for more than half an hour to be served. There were ten positions along the counter, with two being used for foreign money and one for paying bills. That wouldn’t have been so bad
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Take it easy, Ken
I WAS greatly relieved to see The Press had not permanently “lost” the humorous, witty epistles of scribe and one-time jockey, Ken Holmes, to the rigours of hospitalisation. Fortunately, Ken rode the race of his life and came in first, over second
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Big thanks to careful contractors
I would like to say a big “thank-you” to the Costain contractors who have been working on Shipton Road area since the week beginning October 5 and continuing for the next 26 weeks. They have worked non-stop through the awful winter weather, being very
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New west side station repoens in Acomb
A POLICE station in York has reopened its doors to the public after being shut for seven years. The new public-facing counter opened yesterday and will enable local residents to contact their Safer Neighbourhood officers and report crime and incidents
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Battle for Yorkshire Rural Awards
A VINEYARD, goats, a water mill and an alcoholic-drinks family business centred around hedgerows are among projects that have won through to the finals of this year’s Yorkshire Rural Awards. Several North and East Yorkshire organisations are hoping to