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Ben Purkiss leaves York City for Oxford United who beat City at Wembley in play-off
YORK City right-back Ben Purkiss has joined Football League new boys Oxford United. Purkiss has signed a two-year deal with the U’s, who beat the Minstermen 3-1 in last wekeend’s Blue Square Premier final. See The Press tomorrow Press for a full
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England to win World Cup
WELL that’s the calculation made by boffins after a game of number crunching. Quantitative analysts at JP Morgan used information such as FIFA ranking, historical results and its JP Morgan Team Strength Indicator to come up with a mathematical model
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Screening of Four Lions (15) and Q&A session with director Chris Morris, City Screen, York, May 22
ENIGMATIC satirist and debutant film director Chris Morris will take part in a question-and-answer session live via satellite after tomorrow evening’s screening of Four Lions (15) at City Screen, York. The Coney Street cinema is one of 15 nationwide
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Comedy at York Theatre Royal with Phil Nichol, Paul Kerensa and Jo Enright, May 24
YORK Theatre Royal hands over its main stage to three comedians on Monday for a night of comic relief after the political tensions of this month’s General Election. Forming their own coalition will be Phil Nichol, Paul Kerensa and Jo Enright,
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Counted, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, May 25 to 29
In a timely production that examines how the people of Yorkshire feel about their right to vote, documentary theatre company Look Left Look Right and Leeds University professor of drama Professor Stephen Bottoms present Counted at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
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Luke Graham pledges quick verdict on York City contract offer
FREE agent Luke Graham has promised to make a swift decision on his York City future. Centre-back Graham has been offered a new deal at Bootham Crescent but is considering his options due to commuting problems from his Northampton home. The 24-year-old
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The Dead Weather, Sea Of Cowards (Third Man Records/ Warner Bros) **
IT’S fair to say the CD cover for Sea Of Cowards gives a clue as to what lies within. Four masked human figures, depicting what appear to be a bird head, a guitar head, a wooden African art-head and, most tellingly, a faceless stag’s head, suggest the
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Mary J Blige, Stronger With Each Tear (Polydor) ***
WHOLE Lotta Love and Stairway To Heaven are among the most revered rock classics of all time. One has to be supremely confident and extraordinarily gifted to carry off material of such stature with any dignity. Yet Mary J Blige socks a punch like
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Natalie Merchant, Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch) ****; David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love (Todomundo/ Nonesuch) **
HERE are two collective projects from the Nonesuch label, one centred on one voice set to myriad musical styles, the other bringing myriad stellar voices to a clubby dance template. Seven years have passed since former 10,000 Maniacs lead singer
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Jeff Beck, Emotion and Commotion (Warner CD/DVD) *****
Jeff Beck clearly understands that there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. Confidently covering everything from Puccini and Eartha Kitt to the blistering rock of Hammerhead and the dirtiest blues known to man, this album covers more genres
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Hole, Nobody’s Daughter (Cherry Forever/Mercury) ***
Hole’s first album in 12 years, like frontwoman Courtney Love, is a fascinating, acidic, and inconsistent display of talent. The new line-up’s sound is still treble-heavy guitars and chainsaw-rasp vocals, which feel fresh and dated in almost equal
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Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Age Of Miracles (Rounder Records) ****
This is Mary Chapin Carpenter’s first album of new material for three years – and it is certainly worth the wait. Once again the themes of her beautiful songs, the fragility of life, the power of loneliness and the fleeting nature of happiness, are
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Gogol Bordello, Trans-Continental Hustle (Song Music) ***
GREAT fun can be had listening to this gipsy-punk outfit crash the gears on their border-hopping bus. The trouble is, once you get beyond the excellent starting off point of Pala Tute – which is a real rattling joy – all destinations seem too similar
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Knights chief Dave Woods looking to forge solid bond with fans
DAVE WOODS hopes tonight’s question and answer session at Huntington Stadium will bond players and fans – and make for a stronger York City Knights. The event, to be staged in Bar 13, starting at 7pm, was set up in the wake of Woods’ arrival as the Knights
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Auditions for Stage Experience show at Grand Opera House, York
QUEUES are likely to start forming outside the Grand Opera House stage door as early as 9am for Sunday’s open auditions for the York theatre’s annual Stage Experience show. Louise Denison’s two-week summer project will run from July 23 to August 7, culminating
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The Dub Pistols, Hub (Ziggy’s), Micklegate, York, May 28
The Dub Pistols will play a DJ set at Hub (Ziggy’s), in Micklegate, York, next Friday. Barry Ashworth and Jason O’Bryan, alias The Dub Pistols, have spent the best part of a decade at the forefront of beats culture. “From their early singles for Concrete
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Aynt Skynyrd, Grand Opera House, York, May 29
YORK band Aynt Skynyrd pay tribute to the Deep Southern rock of Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Grand Opera House, York, on May 29. While the band members may not be carbon copies of the originals, musically they serve up “Southern fried, smokey Bourbon, Florida-distilled
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Review: The Little Num Num Club, 41 Monkgate, York
YOU could have been forgiven for thinking you were deep in America at last Saturday’s Little Num Num Club. One of the artists was the genuine article from Nashville, Tennessee, while the other three, though all Yorkshire boys, fitted the bill just
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Blonde On Bob and Rory Motion, The Basement at City Screen, York, May 24
YORK tribute band Blonde On Bob and satirist Rory Motion celebrate Bob Dylan’s 69th birthday on Monday with an 8pm gig in The Basement at City Screen, York. Tickets for this annual gathering cost £8 on 0871 902 5726 or on the door.
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Hayseed Dixie, Pocklington Arts Centre, May 21
Appalachian hell raisers Hayseed Dixie play their hillbilly “rock-grass” covers of AC/DC and assorted metal bands at Pocklington tonight at 8pm. For tickets, phone 01759 301547.
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Juan Martin, National Centre for Early Music, York, May 23
ANDALUCIAN flamenco guitarist Juan Martin will lead his ensemble at the National Centre for Early Music, York, on Sunday at 7.30pm. For tickets, phone 01904 658338.
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Suzuki Jimny SZ4
BOTH on paper and in the metal, Suzuki’s Jimny comes across as something of a lightweight. Its compact dimensions, coupled with a 1.3-litre petrol engine, make it one of the smallest, least powerful 4x4 vehicles. But it is a genuine off-roader, with
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Jon Boden, Pocklington Arts Centre, May 22
BELLOWHEAD singer Jon Boden will be backed by The Remnant Kings when he plays his “deeply resonating folkapocalyptica” at Pocklington Arts Centre tomorrow at 8pm. Boden will weave the traditional instrumentation of concertina, banjo and fiddle
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Hyundai i30 Edition 1.6 CRDI
Hyundai’s i30 now has some extra style features that make it an even more attractive proposition. EVERY once in a while a car comes along that changes the perception of its maker. One such car is the i30, and its maker is Hyundai. Now you may have
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Law firm Burn & Co in £750k expansion move
A well-established York solicitors’ practice is both rebranding and relocating, with the prospect of taking on six more jobs this year. Burn & Co is leaving Lendal House in Lendal in July, after 30 years, to move into its £750,000 investment – a larger
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Articulture, York College, May 24 to June 17
Adult learners studying art courses at York College are exhibiting in the college gallery from Monday. The Articulture show features life drawing, leaded glass, ceramics, kiln-formed glass, painting and drawing by part-time students, many of them at
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Art news round-up with Amie Antoniak
NEVER has it been more exciting to be an artist in York. There is so much going on. For starters, I was lucky enough to attend the opening of Bar Lane Studios, the social enterprise and brainchild of illustrator Ben Clowes. I was blown away; finally
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Harrogate lawyer hoping to complete demanding triathlon for charities
HARROGATE lawyer Paul Berwin has set himself one of his toughest physical challenges yet in the hope of bringing his charity fundraising total to £50,000. Since competing in the London Triathlon in 2002 as a fundraising champion, when he raised £18,000
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Create10 showcase, York St John University and selected York venues, until May 28
THE York St John University campus comes alive today at the start of Create10, a week of performances, concerts, screenings and exhibitions. Graduates from the art, creative industries, dance, design, film and television and music and theatre
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Millegro, Sure On This Shining Night, York Theatre Royal, May 26
AFTER launching last November with a sold-out concert at St Olave’s Church, community choir Millegro now takes over York Theatre Royal for its second engagement. The 60-strong contemporary community choir was set up by Ewa Salecka, a Polish musician,
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Easingwold Art Exhibition, Galtres Centre, May 21 and 22
THE seventh Easingwold Art Exhibition will bring together more than 30 artists from the Yorkshire area, particularly Hambleton, at the Galtres Centre today and tomorrow. Susan Neale, Neil McBride, Mike Dobson, Ann Stockton and sculptor Michael Benn will
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Comeback story of jockey Charlotte Cundall
Charlotte Cundall, who rides out for Malton trainer Richard Fahey, recently celebrated her first winner under Rules when More Like It won at Wetherby. It’s been a long road back for the amateur rider who broke her back in a riding accident. She was among
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Pilot Theatre’s Platform Festival, May 2010
As part of the European project Platform 11+, Pilot Theatre is mounting a festival this week at York Theatre Royal’ Studio. Under the umbrella of Artistic Discoveries in European Schoolyards, the Theatre Royal company in residence is mounting three projects
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Winter, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, May 22
ON a last-minute British tour this week, Winter are playing London, Leighton Buzzard and… Low Mill. The Band Room’s favourite Swedes return there tomorrow, two days head of the release of a new album by Anna-Lena Winter and her Americana, country, folk
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Chartered accountants to offer advice on avoiding VAT pitfalls
A SPECIALIST VAT service is being launched by a York firm of chartered accountants and business advisers. The service is being started by HPH Chartered Accountants, Bootham, with the appointment of its first head of VAT services, Ian Spencer
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Natalie Clein, Resonances, Nunnington Hall, May 24
NATALIE Clein, winner of the 2005 Classical BRIT Award for Young British Performer, is playing two concerts in one night at Nunnington Hall on Monday, but that tells only part of the story. Her Resonances project is touring grand English houses
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Belt Up Theatre presents The Tartuffe, York Theatre Royal, May 25
For one night only, Belt Up Theatre bring The Tartuffe back to York Theatre Royal for the final performance of James Wilkes’s adaptation of Moliere’s French comedy. After two sell-out summers at the Edinburgh Fringe and runs in York and Cornwall and
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Alice, Castle Howard, May 23 to 31
CASTLE Howard’s grounds will be transformed into a magical looking glass world from Sunday by Park Lane Stage Company for an open-air promenade production of Alice. Final-year performance arts students at Leeds City College will present the Lewis Carroll
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Jus’ Like That!, A Night Out With Tommy Cooper, Grand Opera House, York, May 24
HOW big are your feet? Even among friends, that might seem a strange question to ask out of the blue, but it was to lead to Clive Mantle’s role as the late, great comedian Tommy Cooper in a marathon tour of Jus’ Like That! “An old mate of mine, Patrick
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Salisbury City booted out of Blue Square Premier football league
SALISBURY City have been booted out of the Blue Square Premier due to financial problems. The Wiltshire club are being demoted following a breach of league rules having failed to pay their creditors in full by the second Saturday in May after entering
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New Earswick ARLFC Ladies lose to to Stanningley despite 20-4 half-time lead
New Earswick ARLFC Ladies threw away a 20-4 half-time lead to lose 24-20 to Stanningley in their opening game of the National Conference Women’s East Division. New Earswick, looking to continue their good form at the end of the winter season, started
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Frankie Dettori set for five races at York Spring Meeting
FRANKIE DETTORI will be the star attraction at York Racecourse tomorrow. The charismatic Italian jockey is set for five rides as Knavesmire host their seven-race Spring Meeting – the highlight of which is the Listed Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup. More
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Bogey finish for Simon Dyson in BMW PGA Championship
SIMON Dyson’s return to the European Tour and his first round on English soil this year did not go well, though there was a little slice of North Yorkshire at the top of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. World number 68 Dyson finished two-over-par
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Jimmy Seal and Archbishop of York sign Stadium for York petition
FORMER York City striker Jimmy Seal and the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu have added their signatures to the Stadium for York petition. The prominent pair have added their names to more than a thousand others who have also pledged their support
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Nestlé Flag win Sunday Morning Football League Cup
Nestlé Flag have lifted the Ian’s Cars of Barlby York Sunday Morning Football League Cup. Flag, who had already won the first division title, sealed the double with a 3-1 win over Hounds. Flag were rewarded after only two minutes when Ash Hill powered
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Kartiers book their place in Senior Football League Cup final
SELBY side Kartiers struck third time lucky. After two successive defeats by Tadcaster Albion, Kartiers extracted revenge with a 2-0 win in the York Minster Engineering Senior Football League Cup semi-final. Louis Blackwell scored both Kartiers
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‘Slow-starting’ York Cricket Club promise to step it up
THE best is yet to come for York Cricket Club. The Clifton Parkers look to maintain their unbeaten start to the campaign at home against Harrogate in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier division tomorrow before starting their defence
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Jazz notes
NEXT Wednesday’s attraction at Pocklington Arts Centre, Joe Power, The Man Who Sees Dead People, could be of great interest to the jazz audience. Did Louis Armstrong really drop the word sheet to invent scat on Heebie Jeebies? Did Glen Miller fake
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Seventh heaven for York’s rising eventing ace Sarah Louise Dale
York’s Sarah Louise Dale was delighted to make the line up at the Mitsubishi Motors Grass Roots eventing championships, held for the first time at the Badminton Horse Trials venue in Gloucestershire. Riders had to qualify for the Championships through
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Yorkshire lose by six wickets against Somerset
Stand-in Yorkshire captain Jacques Rudolph has defended the total he set Somerset after seeing his team lose for the first time in 2010. The Tykes ended up going down by six wickets at Taunton after their opponents secured a second dramatic
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Tim Bell wins angling match at Langwith Lakes
Venue regular Tim Bell claimed the top spot at Langwith Lakes on Sunday. Angler Bell won from peg two on Bethany’s Lake, where pellet across to the island again proved the top method for carp to 3lb. At the whistle, he had 96lb 5oz to go on the scales
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St Paul’s remain unbeaten in John Smith’s Darts League
ST Paul’s remain the only unbeaten team in division one of the John Smith’s Darts League. Dave Mason (17 & 180), Martyn Turner (18), Paul Botterill (135 bull c/o for 18), Chris Thompson (16) and Paul Cropper (20) helped them to a 7-3 win at last year
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Richard Fahey's racehorse Johannes poised for second conquest at York Racecourse
Johannes, who came out on top at York last week, turns out again tomorrow on Knavesmire and is fancied to follow up in the featured speed test on the seven-race card. The £40,000 sportingbet.com Sprint Handicap is the target for the seven-year-old gelding
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Angler Roger Summerscales wins purse at Oaktree Leisure
Weights improved at and angler Roger Summerscales needed 74lb 12oz to claim the winner’s purse on Sunday. Drawn at peg two, Summer-scales worked with meat down the eight-metre line for a net dominated by carp to 6lbs. Carp of a similar stamp fell
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Thrilling climax to Spring Angling League
There was a thrilling – and unlucky – climax to the Spring Angling League at Raker Lakes. The event was won by Oliver Hewitt with a fine 122lb 14oz carp net from peg five. Offering pellet at 18 metres across to the far shelf, Hewitt netted fish to
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Positive effects of the World Cup
As well as hosting an Olympic Games “we cannot afford”, Yvonne Whitfield asks: “How can the 2018 World Cup be viable?” (How can we afford this sporting joy?, Letters, May 18). With the country suffering economic hardship and imminent cutbacks
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Wintery weather blamed for drop in Coney Street shoppers
THE harsh winter had a dramatic effect on city-centre trade with the number of shoppers down nearly ten per cent in York’s main shopping street. Figures released by City of York Council showed that during January, the number of people shopping
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Thanking heroes
May I congratulate Bernard Hallas on his adventure (Hero’s great escape, The Press, May 20). It’s great to know we still have men in England with a backbone. We all should thank Mr Hallas and others like him for saving Britain. The same can’t
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Stray relevance to the wider community of York
writes its own rules. Following the letter “Leave this stray in peace”, of April 27, which urged interested people to object to a licence for Monk Stray for events, I wrote to the council to object. In the reply beneath that letter a City of York Council
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Nothing new about confllict in Afghanistan
IN Beverley Minster there is a memorial plaque attributed to “non-commissioned officers and privates” dated 1880, who died in south Afghanistan. I was unaware of this historical event. Could someone enlighten me as to the outcome then? We are yet again
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Who are the Ancient Order of Stray Masters?
I WRITE with reference to the Ancient Order of Stray Masters and developments on Monk Stray. In recent correspondence with City of York Council over the licensing of Monk Stray for live entertainment events at which alcohol will be sold, and again
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No disappointments
Will the newly developed anti-disappointment pill be available over the counter or will it require an NHS prescription? It has been developed in partnership by the Euro96 and FrancoZola pharmaceutical groups and might be essential for any watchers
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BA strike a ‘disgrace’
What with all the many problems caused by the Icelandic volcanic activity and the stoppages in air travel, how on earth can cabin crews for BA even consider continuing with their destructive plans to go on strike? Have they no consciences
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Bankers are still laughing
POLITICS is taking the form of some weird surrealist painting, what with David Cameron in Number 10 and Nick Clegg-up on the front bench. I keep pinching myself and thinking if I blink five times and hold my breath or click my heels together a la Dorothy
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Caroline Seymour elected as North Yorkshire County Council chairman
NORTH Yorkshire County Council has elected Councillor Caroline Seymour as its new chairman. The 63-year-old who represents the Stokesley division on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Party was unanimously elected as the authority’s civic head at its annual
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Sherburn-in-Elmet poker player wins trip to Las Vegas
POKER is on the cards for a player who proved he is an ace in the hole by gaining entry into a game in Las Vegas. Andrew Tomkinson, 40, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, who works at Kingspan Insulations in Selby, entered a poker tournament at his local pub the
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Civilians do a great job for the police
I refer to “More civilians join the force” (The Press, May 17) and the assertions from the North Yorkshire Police Federation representative that this is a retrograde step and something which is in need of an urgent review. However, I would ask the federation
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Review: How The Other Half Loves, Rowntree Players, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York
YOU may have caught Alan Ayckbourn’s 40th anniversary revival of How The Other Half Loves at the Stephen Joseph Theatre last summer. If not, you can still see Jan Bee Brown’s furniture from that Scarborough production, now dusted down for further stage
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Bryony Aveyard charity ball raises £8,000
THE last big fundraising event for a charity set up in memory of 11-year-old Bryony Aveyard raised nearly £8,000. Bryony died of a brain haemorrhage in October 2008 and since then her parents, Rob and Kath, of Burnholme, have embarked on a
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Prizes up for grabs if you spot Mallard cut-outs
SHARP-EYED members of the public are advised to be on the lookout for one of York’s most famous residents this weekend, before it leaves the city. Next month, Mallard takes up residence at the National Railway Museum’s sister museum in County
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Explore Library Learning Centre opens in York
IT’S time to dig out those library books. You know, the ones you borrowed from York Central Library last autumn, just before it closed for a £540,000 revamp. The good news is that you won’t be fined for returning them – not, at least, if you get them
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‘Loyal’ H Samuels store manager stole £4k takings
THE former manager of a York city centre jewellers has been ordered to complete 100 hours’ unpaid community work after stealing £4,080 from the store to pay his debts. York Crown Court heard Alan Griffiths stole the money from the Market Street branch
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University of York retains top 10 rating
THE University of York has been ranked in the top ten universities in the country. York comes tenth in 115 universities in a league table compiled by the Complete University Guide and published in the Independent newspaper, meaning that according to
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Crackdown on University of York campus crime
POLICE are targeting the University of York campus in a fresh initiative to cut cycle crime and thefts. Officers have reduced crime on the site by nearly a half in the last six years, but police are keen to crack down further. The local safer neighbourhood
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Landmark premises on Coney Street up for rent
A COFFEE shop in York has refused to comment on its future at a York city centre landmark site after the premises were put up to let. The 1,498sq ft ground floor and basement of the premises on the corner of Coney Street and New Street, currently
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Micklegate Bar Museum to reopen after renovation programme
SINCE 1389, kings and queens visiting York have arrived through Micklegate Bar after seeking permission from the Lord Mayor to enter the city. It’s also been a prison and home to a number of unfortunates, including the heads of traitors which were
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Tributes paid to tyre business founder Derek Moss
DEREK Moss, who helped found the Moss Tyres empire, has died on the eve of his 80th birthday. Mr Moss, from Garrow Hill, Heslington, York, who leaves a widow Pat, had been suffering from cancer for five months. The former Fulford Junior School and Manor
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70th anniversary of the Battle Of Britain marked with flypast
SECOND World War aircraft took to the skies above North Yorkshire as part of celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle Of Britain. RAF Linton-on-Ouse played host to about 80 guests, including many veterans, who gathered to watch a flypast
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Decision to scrap Home Information Packs backed by estate agents
ESTATE agents have welcomed the scrapping of home information packs (HIPs), saying the decision will provide a major boost to the housing market in York and North and East Yorkshire. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles suspended HIPs yesterday, pending
