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Missed opportunity for Simon Dyson in Madrid
YORK golfer Simon Dyson was derailed by a triple-bogey seven at the 15th hole of his third round at the Madrid Masters. Dyson was seemingly heading for a place in the top ten after being nine-under-par for the tournament with four third round
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Roses clash a washout at Headingley
RAIN wiped out the first day's play in the County Championship clash between Yorkshire and Lancashire at Headingley. * Don't miss The Press on Monday for a full report on Sunday's play, plus updates on thepress.co.uk
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Joe McLocklan fails to show up for York City Knights reserve clash
JOE McLOCKLAN is facing a York City Knights club fine after failing to turn up for the reserves' match away to Oldham today. The former Featherstone hooker, a big signing when he stepped down to the Championship One outfit, was recently told he could
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York Roman Festival 29-30 May 2010
York Roman Festival is mainly based at Gray's Court this year, behind York Minster, and which is well worth a look, especially the slave auction on Saturday night with Roman-style food and drink, gladatorial combat, and author Ben Kane who will be
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Jon Butler reviews Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel at the Grand Opera House, York
With the passage of time Steve Harley has lost a lot of his early seventies affectations – but none of his edge. Indeed his voice has held up well, very well in fact, and the new material from his latest album, Stranger Comes To Town, is strong
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Axe falls on McLocklan as coach steps up player cull
THE axe has continued to swing at York City Knights with Joe McLocklan – a star pre-season recruit – being told he can find another club. Head coach James Ratcliffe promised there would be big changes after last Sunday’s loss at Rochdale left the club
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Stewart impresses in tough season finale
CLIFTON amateur boxer Lee Stewart wrapped up his season with a gallant defeat. After his last win over Yorkshire champion Ben Peacock, coaches of the 19-year-old Stewart opted to move him up against a national champion, but that fight was called off
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Young Ed set for baptism of fire
YOUNGSTER Ed Smith is in line for his York City Knights debut tomorrow – in one of the toughest baptisms he could face. The troubled Knights, undergoing a player cull having fallen to seventh in Championship One, entertain a Blackpool team who are the
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Dual control to be navigated by rally star
FORMER double British Rally champion and 2009 Toyota Sprint Series champion Jonny Milner will have his work cut out when he defends two titles on consecutive days next month. Huggate-based Milner and co-driver Ian Windress will start the Severn Valley
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High into Sky for the Rocket
HARRY Matthews is hoping the Sky’s the limit. The Pocklington Rocket is scheduled to fight Ciaran Healy at the renowned Belfast Kings Hall on June 11 on a card which could see his bout shown on Sky TV’s Friday Fight Night. It will be a big night for
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Club back JR over players – but is he out of the Woods?
BIG decisions were needed at Huntington Stadium this week – and it would seem they’ve been made. York City Knights had to make major changes in the wake of their sixth defeat in 11 Championship One games, which left them on the very edges of the play-offs
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Embleton sits out reserves trip
MIKE EMBLETON will have to wait to make his bow back in York City Knights colours. As revealed by The Press, the York Acorn ARLC captain went for talks at Huntington Stadium on Thursday with a view to returning to the club he briefly represented in 2003
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Gibbs: I want a T20 ton
Herschelle Gibbs has set his sights on a maiden Twenty20 hundred while with Yorkshire. And the South African right- hander, who has been signed as the county’s Friends Provident Twenty20 specialist overseas player, admits he will have to change
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Simon scorches Spanish main
A SCINTILLATING finale powered York-born king of clubs Simon Dyson into a healthy position for this weekend’s climax to the Madrid Masters, writes Tony Kelly. Dyson followed his first round two-under-par 70 at the Real Sociedad Hipica Espanola country
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Danny’s joy reflected at Aughton base
LOUD cheers resonated through The Oaks Golf Club as “one of their own” soared to European Tour prominence. Danny Willett came mighty close to posting one of the greatest triumph of his career as he led the BMW PGA Championship – the European Tour’s marquee
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Big Beverley bonus beckons for Frankie and Mark
Frankie Dettori, who travelled to Beverley in midweek to complete a double for Mark Johnston, teams up again with the North Yorkshire trainer tomorrow at his local Newmarket course and the pair again boast winning claims. Monterosso will be ridden by
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Adil Rashid spinning back to top form
Adil Rashid has revealed he is getting his confidence back with Yorkshire after a frustrating 18 months of travelling here, there and everywhere with the England squad without playing. Rashid may have perfected the art of mixing and carrying sports
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Trio thrown in at deep end
A TRIO of York throwers are aiming to launch their 2010 athletics campaigns at the CAU Inter Counties meeting in Bedford this weekend. City of York Athletics Club throwing coach Paul Wilson has high hopes for club members Les Richards, Paul Allsopp
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Chop Gate
Chop Gate has one of the nicer car parks, at the village hall, free and useful and with house martins. The valley river runs by the car park and the valley side rises steeply and we climbed out of Bilsdale using a path worn deep with time, in the heat
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(Double) top double acts
THE crossover between sport and showbiz has always been infected with an ascloseasthis fever ever since rookie sling-shot ace David felled Goliath and then promptly got himself an agent by the name of Maximus Acropotamus. Both activities have drawn nearer
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And a lot believed them.
Bearing the brunt of public service spending cuts. YorkPress 29th May. It creates desperate demand for the 'market' to fill and reap easy profits of their own chosen size. Like they did with all the other national assets. You know, railways, electricity
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The Perky Peacock, Lendal Bridge, York
YORK is full of unusual buildings, some used conventionally, others in a quirky way. The old Toll Booth adjacent to the south side of Lendal Bridge is one such building. This café accessed from the tow path under the bridge is approached up a flight
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Insect-friendly plants
The parched garden eagerly sucked up the rain we had last Wednesday evening. It was beginning to look very dry and the lawn and moisture lovers like hydrangeas in particular were sorely in need of a good soaking. Last summer I visited the beautiful
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Taking right turning to village pubs
I EMBARKED on something of a wild goose chase a few weeks ago and ended, by delightful accident, at a cracking pub I’d never before encountered. It was a Monday evening and I had gone in search of a decent pub meal. Alas, what with it being
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Scholars praised after fine campaign
YORK City Knights Under-16s ended their scholarship mini-season on a losing note but it was nevertheless a fine campaign for the youngsters. The Knights lost 48-16 to their counterparts from Super League club Huddersfield, to end their term with three
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Hat-trick man Nogan leads the way as All Blacks cruise to cup final triumph
New Earswick All Blacks ARLC Under-13s cruised to a 58-0 victory over York Acorn in the annual York Area Cup final. The game was a curtain-raiser for the open age York & District Accident Cup final between Selby Warriors and the All Blacks at Heworth
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Scarr’s a star for ’Brough
A HALF-CENTURY from Rob Scarr steered Hemingbrough to victory over Selby in Zone ‘A’ of the York & District Junior Cricket Association Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire Under-15s League. Scarr retired on 50 and B Lister made 29 as Brough totalled 118-8, despite
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Keeping up with O’Brien
IRELAND and Northamptonshire wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien spent a day at York’s St Olave’s School taking net and match sessions with 11 and 12-year-old pupils. The cricketer worked with the boys that are going on tour to Kenya in October and conducted
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Browne blitz boosts Bridge
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge batsmen made hay against York ‘B’ as they rattled up 340 in the York & District Junior Cricket Association Burn & Company Solicitors Under-9s League. Joe Browne top-scored with 41 in the Zone ‘A’ clash, with further runs coming
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A festival of fun
MORE than 200 youngsters showed off their talent at a Festival Of Sport in York. Pupils from six primary schools took part in taster sessions at Dunnington Sports Club, playing bowls, tennis, football, squash and cricket. Dunnington Primary School
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Duo in the zone
OVINGTON and Acomb ‘A’ are blazing a trail at the top of Zone ‘A’ in the York & District Junior Cricket Association Burn & Company Solicitors Under-11s League. Ovington ‘A’ (328) bagged their third win in three games against Bolton Percy (248). Matty
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Treasures from the Orient
JOURNEY To The West is the title of one of the four great classics of Chinese literature. Published in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, it tells the story of a Chinese monk who is sent by his emperor to travel the silk road west to India to bring
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Stray questions
Some of the recent letters to The Press receive a comment from council spokespersons. Yet it is somewhat suspicious that no comment is made when there was an appeal from P Lock asking who the Stray Masters are, and so the historic deal over York’s ancient
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Sporting ironies
I APPRECIATE constructive criticism, especially from someone as intelligent and well read as Heather Causnett, but, dare I suggest the lady doesn’t do irony (such a manly game, Letters, May 26). Let me say, first up, I love football. My letter
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Twisting the knife
To say my flabber was well and truly gasted would be the understatement of the year, when I read the highly critical letter from Dee Quinn (Human rights, May 27) responding to my letter of May 24. I would imagine she is a trainee politician, judging
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Review: Example, The Duchess, York
Fulham-born Elliot Gleave is not your typical example of a British rap artist. He doesn’t have an East London accent, walk with a mock limp, kiss his teeth when talking or address others as “blad”. Gleave, alias Example, walks without affectation
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Taxing issue of fuel price hikes
The price of fuel is at an all-time high of about 120p per litre at the pump. Before VAT (now 17.5 per cent), the price would be 99p and before fuel duty of 70.3p, the price would be 28.7p. This is not much up on 28.4p from 2007, when we saw the
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Sport ‘promises’
I write in response to the article on the uncertainty of the York community stadium project (The Press, May 27). Perhaps one should not be so over trusting of our Liberal Democrat politicians in York, but I am obviously wrong to presume they were
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Hitler’s error saved my father
It is exactly 70 years since my late father, Don Quarrie, was on the beaches at Dunkirk. He was a 23-year-old captain in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and like thousands of other Allied servicemen, he had been forced back to Dunkirk by the encircling
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Asbestos ‘led to death' of ex-Beningbrough Hall boss Ann Beaufoy
A FORMER administrator at a National Trust property near York died as a result of exposure to asbestos, an inquest heard. Ann Beaufoy, 67, was joint administrator of Beningbrough Hall with her husband, Mike, in the mid-1980s, after moving to Yorkshire
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Haxby Road and Haley’s Terrace to be closed for resurfacing
MOTORISTS and residents face a month of road closures on a major route in and out of York. City of York Council workers will start resurfacing Haxby Road and Haley’s Terrace on Tuesday. From Tuesday until June 11, Haxby Road will be closed between
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Assault victim dies in hospital
A MAN who was allegedly assaulted in Whitby has died in hospital. William Mark Rimmington, 43, of Leeds, was injured in an incident at the Broadings Farm campsite sometime between May 14 and 15. He died on Wednesday in Scarborough Hospital. He had
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Burglar Lee Dennis Yeomans, who attacked victim is locked up
THE bravery of a householder who tried to carry out a citizen’s arrest has put a burglar behind bars for more than six years. Lee Dennis Yeomans’ brutal bid for freedom left father-of-two Chris Miles bleeding from a painful groin injury, York Crown Court
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Phil Willis, the former MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, has been given a peerage in the Dissolution Honours List
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott, ex-Tory leader Michael Howard and former Northern Ireland first minister Ian Paisley are also among more than 50 senior figures elevated to the House of Lords. Children’s television presenter Floella Benjamin
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Milkybars are on us
FAIR-HAIRED cowboys of all shapes and sizes have been filmed in York, as part of a new advert for Nestlé Milkybar. Members of the public were asked to sing the classic jingle for a film crew while wearing the Milkybar Kid’s trademark blonde wig, glasses
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Selby cigarette smuggler Andrew William Watson jailed for 12 months
A MONEY-LAUNDERER who is battling cancer has been jailed after more than 80,000 black market cigarettes and thousands of pounds in criminal cash were discovered at his Selby home. Neighbours called in police when they saw a door at Andrew William Watson
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Laughs are a racing certainty
The Tadcaster-based Riley Smith Theatre Group is under starter’s orders for its next production. Ladies’ Day, by Amanda Whittington, is the story of when Royal Ascot came to York in 2005. Produced by Jean Tomlinson, the group is busy in rehearsal
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Kevin McGregor tells of moment his car hit two women on A64
A MOTORIST has told a jury of the moment his car hit two women on the A64 near Tadcaster. Computer company director Kevin McGregor told the court he saw a Mercedes in the “unusual” position of stationary on the left-hand lane of the eastbound carriageway
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Scrutiny chiefs revealed at local authority
THE chairs and vice-chairs of the committees that keep an eye on the activities of City of York Council executive and regulatory committees have been chosen. They were voted into their positions at the council’s annual meeting. Coun John Galvin (Conservative
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Helen Lawal to hand over her Miss York crown
FORMER Miss York Helen Lawal will hand over her crown to a new beauty queen this weekend, but she will soon leave the city for a new role in medicine. Helen, 24, recently completed her medical degree at Hull York Medical School, and is moving to Leeds
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Miss York finalist to tell cancer story
THE Miss York finalist who developed skin cancer after years of tanning is set to appear on national TV to tell her story. Dental student Amy Hills says she will head by train to London straight after competing in the Miss York final tomorrow
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Executive backed amid council shake up
THE Liberal Democratic City of York Council Executive has been officially voted back into office for the council year 2010/2011 with some changes of responsibilities. Coun Ann Reid takes over council housing and Coun Andrew Waller takes
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Singers from York Opera getting in tune for 5k charity run
These singers from York Opera are taking part in R U Taking The P – the 5K run in aid of prostate and male cancers to be held in Rowntree Park, York. The singing six will actually be strolling round belting out a few tunes from Ruddigore.
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Brave troops in 876-mile cycle trek from Land’s End to John O Groats
A BOMB disposal expert has told of the moment he and his colleagues were badly injured when an Improvised Explosive Device blew up in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal James Marsh, speaking during a visit to Stamford Bridge, said his face was “shredded,” his
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Girls in the riding seat after cycling project
More than 140 York schoolgirls are pedal ready and raring to go after a three-month Beauty And The Bike project came to an end. Girls from English Martyrs’ Primary School were the last of 14 groups from primary and secondary schools across the city
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The Gallery nightclub in York is ‘here to stay’
THE boss of one of York’s oldest and biggest nightclubs has sought to quash rumours it is set to close, declaring: “We are here to stay.” Chris Bateman, acting manager of The Gallery in Clifford Street, said that far from preparing to close down, the
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Waiting for Hitler... at Scarborough
BANK Holiday visitors to Scarborough Castle will be taken on a nostalgic return journey back to wartime Britain. English Heritage says visitors can mingle with Allied soldiers and come face to face with the Nazi foe, amid authentic period displays of
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Tory MP Anne McIntosh plans to ‘knuckle down’ to some hard work
THE UK’S newest MP says she is looking forward to “knuckling down to some hard work” after triumphing in North Yorkshire’s delayed General Election poll. Anne McIntosh, who represented the old Vale of York constituency in Westminster before boundary
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Valentine Nkoyo wins award for fighting for her education
Valentine Nkoyo, 26, from York, has fought all her life for schooling, but through sheer determination she is now at York St John University studying Business Studies. Her devotion and commitment to learning has been recognised and she has won a Regional
