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Yorkshire hit by Somerset fightback at Taunton
AN unbeaten 78 from Somerset opener Arul Suppiah halted Yorkshire's march on day two of the County Championship clash at Taunton. The home side closed on 226-4 in reply to Yorkshire's first innings total of 405. * Don't miss The Press on Wednesday
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Jury in jockeys murder trial is sent home
THE jury in the trial of a man accused of killing two promising teenage jockeys by setting fire to a North Yorkshire block of flats has been sent home this afternoon after failing to reach a verdict. Peter William Brown, 37, faces two charges
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Fan's match report of York City's play-off final
Easingwold School pupil Spencer Brown gives his verdict on York City’s big day out at Wembley in the Blue Square Premier play-off final. YORK City’s dream of recapturing Football League status was cruelly washed away after a sobering and sodden
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Review: The Little Num Num Club, 41 Monkgate, York
YOU could have been mistaken for thinking that you were deep in America’s musical mid-West heartlands at last Saturday’s Little Num Num Club. Perhaps it was the fact that one of the artists was the genuine article from Nashville, Tennessee
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Yorkshire made key breakthroughs before tea at Taunton
Yorkshire have made two key breakthroughs with the ball during the afternoon session on day two of their LV= County Championship clash with Somerset. After finally being bowled out for 405, when David Wainwright found Ben Phillips at mid-on off Murali
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York City boss Martin Foyle announces retained list
MANAGER Martin Foyle has secured 11 members of his squad in the wake of York City's Blue Square Premier play-off campaign. James Meredith, David McGurk, Daniel Parslow, Michael Gash, Andy McWilliams, Alex Lawless, Neil Barrett, Michael Rankine, Richard
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Yorkshire stumble before lunch on day two at Taunton
LUNCH UPDATE: A disappointing batting performance from Yorkshire has seen Somerset hit back on the morning session of day two in the LV= County Championship. Hopes were high of the Tykes reaching 500 in their first-innings when they resumed on 296
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York City’s board back manager Martin Foyle's plans to strengthen squad
YORK City chairman Jason McGill has promised to back manager Martin Foyle in his plans to strengthen the squad for next season. Despite losing Sunday’s Blue Square Premier play-off final 3-1 to Oxford United, McGill believes the club’s Wembley
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Levi Mackin keen to stay at York City
OUT-OF-CONTRACT York City midfielder Levi Mackin is ready to agree new terms with the Bootham Crescent club. Mackin, 24, will hold discussions over his future with manager Martin Foyle today and, if he is offered a new deal, has signalled his intention
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Dance extravaganza to raise funds for St Leonard’s Hospice
A GROUP of budding performers will be showing off their moves in a dance extravaganza this week. It’s Dance Time, which includes dance styles ranging from tap to disco, as well as singing, will be performed by 125 children aged three to 18 years
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Sport Relief Mile at Tadcaster Grammar School raises £4,740
YEAR 8 and 9 students from Tadcaster Grammar School are pictured with a cheque for £4,740.18 which will be on its way to Sport Relief. This money was raised when they completed the Sport Relief Mile in fancy dress earlier in the year.
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Irwin Tools’ Ultimate Tradesman Challenge 2010 heads to York
ONE of the biggest, most thrilling trade competitions in the UK is coming to York next Tuesday. Plumbers, painters, bricklayers, carpenters and other tradesmen will compete for a chance to win an Aston Martin V8 Vantage in the Irwin Tools’ Ultimate Tradesman
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York’s St Andrew Society raises £1,700 for Guardian Angels children's unit
A LIFE-SAVING children’s unit at York Hospital has received a £1,700 donation from Scottish residents living in the city. Members of York’s St Andrew Society raised the money over the past year by organising activities such as a coffee morning, plant
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Scammell Interiors win customer service award
SCAMMELL Interiors, of Acomb Road, York, has won the customer service award for kitchens in the national kbbreview Industry Awards 2010. The judges were impressed by Scammell Interior’s “friendly, enthusiastic team”. The win justifies the philosophy
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Sawfish Software team win Credit Today Award
A SOFTWARE company in York whose product has helped people struggling with debt, has won a major award. Sawfish Software, of Middlethorpe Business Park, Bishopthorpe, has won a Credit Today Award last night for Debtflow, personal insolvency software
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Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden to share business secrets at York St John University
A SUCCESSFUL business team will share their secrets with an audience at York St John University next month. Harriet Vine and Rosie Wolfenden started their company, Tatty Devine, on a market stall in 1999, using their art college background to design
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Dunnington oust York to set the pace in IT Sports Mixed Doubles Tennis League
DUNNINGTON are the early pacesetters in division one of the IT Sports Mixed Doubles Tennis League. Dunnington, who eased past Castlegarth in their first game, inflicted defeat on reigning champions York with the new partnership of Karen Mitchell
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Huntington Football Club Ladies seeking players
HUNTINGTON Football Club Ladies have launched a summer recruitment drive. The club are keen to add players of all abilities to their open age squad for next season’s North Riding County League campaign. Anyone aged over 16 is being urged to attend training
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Bishopthorpe pair keep pace in division five of Men’s Tennis League
THE week’s top scorers in the Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League were Bishopthorpe pair Martin Eason and Sam Watson with 35 games. The duo lost the first game but hit back to dominate their division five clash with Sutton-on-Derwent 2 and guide
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York salvage draw in Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League
CHAMPIONS York were held to a 54-54 draw by Poppleton in division one of the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League. It needed Louise Lister and Wendy Stirke to salvage the draw with a 10-2 success late on. Castlegarth’s strong squad made it two
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Opening batsman Adam Lyth leads the way for Yorkshire at Taunton
Yorkshire opener Adam Lyth has spoken of his delight at surpassing his previous career-best as the Tykes dominated day one of their LV=County Championship fixture with Somerset. The 22-year-old plundered 15 boundaries in the Taunton sunshine, to eclipse
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York Cricket Club to face former England Test star Phil DeFreitas
FORMER England Test star Phil DeFreitas now stands between York Cricket Club and a place in round three of the ECB National Knockout. DeFreitas, who won 44 Test caps, is vice-captain of Nottinghamshire side Papplewick and Linby, who will play host to
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James Buck surges to county record in Yorkshire Athletics Championships
RYEDALE flier James Buck equalled the championship best performance at the Yorkshire Athletics Championships at Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium. The 17-year-old, the younger brother of Great Britain international 400-metre runner Richard, was giving away
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Marcus Johnson hits a record 234 in York & District Senior Cricket League
HUNTINGTON batsman Marcus Johnson wrote his name into the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League record books with a mammoth 234 against Cawood in division 5A. Johnson smashed 36 boundaries in his record-breaking effort, surpassing the previous
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Government fit for the future?
DAVID Cameron and Nick Clegg’s photo outside Number 10 reminded me of Star Trek’s Data, the android. So David Cameron’s name contains all the letters of android and Nick Clegg is, well, a Klingon. Resistance is futile! Len Smith, Winchester Avenue
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Frankie Dettori hoping to complete Goodwood double
Frankie Dettori may not have had much to celebrate at York last week, but the popular jockey can set the record straight at Goodwood tomorrow by completing a double in the two featured Listed races on the seven-race card. Dettori teams up with Wedding
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Summer season of Ladies Darts League gets off to a cracking start
THE summer season in the York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League got off to a cracking start as St Paul’s beat Seahorse 7-4 in a quality division two clash. A 78 checkout from Amanda Bevan secured Saints’ victory in the deciding pairs in tandem with captain
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Politicians failing to deliver
The biggest gaping hole in the results of the election is the inability of our politicians to deliver what we, the majority, see as essential to our national progress. The two biggest parties don’t want it because what they have has sustained them as
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Political party leaflets during General Election
The letter from Andrew Parkes (Labour betrayal, May15) surprised me, although it should not have done so. Did Mr Parkes expect the Labour candidate to visit every house in the constituency to deliver a leaflet? If Mr Parkes sits at home
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Lib Dems decision to join coalition
As a member of the Liberal Democrats, I want to respond to recent critics of our decision to join a coalition government. As a party, we have argued for many years for proportional representation which would invariably lead to coalition government
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Democratic duty to vote in election?
Coercion is so signal a characteristic of tyranny that it might almost be taken as a definition. Yet how often do we hear people of otherwise moderate views demanding that on some particular point there can be no possible discussion? Gavin Aitchison
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Dad-of-two injured after chasing burglar who entered his home
A FATHER-OF-TWO has told how he was attacked by a burglar after confronting him near his home. Barefoot and wearing pyjamas, Chris Miles set off in pursuit of the intruder after hearing his front door open as he lay awake in the early hours. When he
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Gordon Brown election 'myth'
Why is it people take issue with the fact that Gordon Brown was not elected as Prime Minister and refer to him as unelected? Gavin Aitchison perpetuates this “myth” in his column on May 14, when he says “the pantomime of Brown’s non-election”.
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Citizens Advice Bureau is essential service for York
We continue to be baffled by Susan Wade Weeks’s assertion about the number of benefit inquiries made annually to York CAB (The Press, May 13). But we feel complimented and appreciative, too. All publicity for us is good publicity, they say; while
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Nestlé pledges greener future
A YORK confectionery giant has announced it is to stop buying palm oil from suppliers which are contributing to rainforest destruction. Nestlé says it will mark out and exclude companies “owning or managing high-risk plantations or farms linked to deforestation
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Cycling solution for pedestrian areas of York
If, as proposed, cyclists are allowed in the pedestrian areas of York, there is an obvious danger to all pedestrians not only to the visually-impaired or infirm. One of the main attractions for visitors and shoppers in York is that they can
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Tracing Brownless family
I AM researching my family history and would love to know where all the Brownless descendants are today. My grandfather, John Brownless (born 1872, approx), was one of 11 children. Their father, Thomas, farmed at Dromonby, Kirby in Cleveland. A farm
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Strong forward order book keeps Drax on track
POWER giant Drax has said it expects to increase profits this year despite challenging commodity markets because it has secured strong orders for the next few years. The company, based near Selby, said in an interim management statement published
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How can we afford 2018 World Cup?
Joy of joys! The World Cup coming to UK in 2018, hopefully through David Beckham. This country is trying to come out of recession, and also has the daunting prospect of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games, which we cannot afford, so how can the
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Councils to cut costs by sharing work
COUNCILS have launched a major drive to share more work with each other as the financial squeeze looks set to tighten. City of York Council has been holding intensive discussions with organisations such as North Yorkshire County Council and NSH York
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Pupils told they can go to same school as older siblings
FIVE children are overjoyed after discovering they can join their older brothers and sisters at a York primary school after all. The youngsters were originally told they could not go to Acomb Primary School because there were insufficient places, and
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York Minster bells to mark opening of Visit York Information Centre
THE bells of York Minster will be rung every hour next Thursday to celebrate the opening of the city’s new hi-tech Visit York Information Centre and shop. Characters from York Theatre Royal’s summer production of Wind In The Willows, will
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Travellers leave Yorkshire Air museum area after legal threat
A GROUP of travellers who faced legal action after “spoiling” an area next to one of York’s biggest museums have left the area. The Yorkshire Air museum had been concerned that the make-shift traveller’s camp, at the Airfield Business Park in Elvington
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Mild alliance of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
WELL, here we are, the best part of a week into our brave new world, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat axis is still with us and Big Ben has not collapsed into the Thames. If this has been a political revolution, it’s been a peculiarly British one,
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Police release images of jewellery stolen at Middlethorpe Hall
THESE are some of the items of jewellery taken by thieves in a raid on one of York’s most exclusive hotels. Police released the images as they continue their investigation in to the thefts from guests’ rooms at Middlethorpe Hall last week. The images
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York Opera hold auditions for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore
Autumn productions can cause problems for amateur companies that have to work around the unavailability of cast members when rehearsing during the summer-holiday months of July and August. Consequently, in order to utilise the time as best as they may
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Review: Jess Gardham, The Basement, City Screen, York
FOR a moment between songs, Jess Gardham sounds a little nervous. But when she starts playing those songs, you realise she doesn’t need to be. As soon as she plucks her guitar into life, she displays all the confidence of knowing she’s born to be
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Caving instructor recalls bid to rescue Joe Lister
A CAVING instructor broke down in tears as he told of his desperate fight to escape a flooded cave in North Yorkshire with a group of schoolchildren. Tony Boyle, 47, was giving evidence about the death of 14-year-old Joe Lister of Steeton,
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North Yorkshire woman turns her secret life as a prostitute into a novel
CLARE Gee has no time at all for writers such as Brooke Magnanti, better known as the blogger Belle de Jour. Books like Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl – dramatised for TV with Billie Piper playing Belle – try to make prostitution sound glamorous
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A real slice of life during British Sandwich Week
HOT on the heels of the General Election, we had something infinitely more exciting to get our teeth into. Last week was British Sandwich Week, the perfect time to celebrate this great English invention. It may seem an unlikely subject to fill a column
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Jen Hay nominated for charity fundraiser Community Pride award
AN “IRREPLACEABLE” volunteer who has played a pivotal role in bringing an historic York landmark back to life has been nominated for one of our Community Pride awards. Jen Hay, events manager for Holgate Windmill Preservation Society (HWPS), is the first
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New York Explore Library Learning Centre to be unveiled
RESIDENTS in York are about to get their first look at the city’s transformed “world-class” main library. The array of facilities at the new York Explore Library Learning Centre, in Museum Street, will be unveiled next Monday, following the opening of
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Woman ordered to repay £2,500 after benefit fraud
A YORK resident who fraudulently claimed nearly £2,500 of benefits has been ordered to repay the money. Sonia Short, 33, of Granville Terrace, was also given a 12-month conditional discharge by York magistrates. She was charged with failing to notify
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Selby man cleared of raping student
A FURNITURE maker has cleared his name after he was accused of forcing his way into a woman’s home late at night and raping her. Michael Robinson, 36, was arrested last November after the 21-year-old woman went to police, claiming that a strange
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Decision due on Selby travellers’ site
A TRAVELLERS’ site built near Selby could be closed down if a retrospective planning application is not approved by councillors. The application, submitted last week on behalf of the travellers, seeks a change of use from a café and truck stop in South
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Radio York to get big revamp
A MASSIVE refurbishment of BBC Radio York’s headquarters will be launched next month, taking the station fully into the digital age. The project, set to take almost a year to complete, will mean some staff having to work temporarily in Leeds, although
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New York magistrates sworn in
YORK’S newest magistrates have got the seal of approval from the Queen’s legal representative in North Yorkshire and the city’s top judge. Both the High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, Richard Compton, and the Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, witnessed
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Selby shop owner calls on councillors to ‘think of town businesses’
A SELBY shop owner has urged councillors to think of struggling businesses when they meet today to rubber stamp a freeze on parking charges in the town. Sue Chappelow, co-owner of furniture store Everatts of Selby, said she would “welcome with open arms
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Academic compares cult TV series The Wire with work of Charles Dickens
A YORK academic whose latest course studies a cult American television show has compared the series with the work of Charles Dickens. Final-year sociology students at the University of York can elect to study a module on critically-acclaimed series The
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University of York chief’s £135k expenses
THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of York has claimed almost £135,000 in expenses in the last three years. Figures received after a Freedom Of Information request by a student at the university, showed that the Vice-Chancellor’s office had spent
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York Disabled Workers Co-operative officially opened
A NEW charity, which helps disabled people to lead more independent lives through employment, has been officially launched in York. York Disabled Workers Co-operative, whose workforce is made up of disabled people, specialises in the production of garden
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MP Julian Sturdy in pledge to save York's green belt
NEWLY-elected Tory MP Julian Sturdy has called for a “long, hard look” at York’s controversial Derwenthorpe development, following the European Commission’s recent decision not to block the model village. He also says he has written to City of York Council
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Ice-cream firm wins deal to supply cruise liners
A York ice-cream manufacturer is celebrating after extending its contract to supply Saga cruise liners. Yorvale, York’s only dairy ice cream maker, has been awarded a contract to supply all three cruise liners with an extended range of its premium ice
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Beeswing pub in Hull Road to reopen on May 26
YORK pub entrepreneur Pete Pendlebury is to work his magic on the Beeswing pub on Hull Road, York. Mr Pendlebury relaunched The Junction in Leeman Road earlier this month and also runs The Windmill and The Bay Horse, both in Blossom Street, and the Cock
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New director for University of York research team
A MAJOR new research department at the University of York has appointed a director. Professor Sue Hartley is now the professor in environmental research and founding director of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI). The new department
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Yellow ribbons at St Leonard’s Hospice to mark memories of loved ones
Supporters of St Leonard’s Hospice, in York, are being invited to “tie a yellow ribbon” to a special tree in the grounds of the hospice to mark the memory of their loved ones and friends. Throughout June, the hospice will be offering the chance
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Former Lady Mayoress of York, Ena Archer, dies aged 87
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Lady Mayoress of York who served in the Army as a plane spotter during the Second World War. Ena Archer died at the age of 87 on May 7, only two months after the death of her husband, Jack, who was well-known in York
