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Woman escapes York flat fire
AN elderly woman escaped a fire at her York home today after flames broke out in her kitchen. Firefighters from York and Acomb fire stations were called to William Plows Avenue, in the Heslington Road area of the city, just before 12.30pm on Friday,
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Atrium and The Boy James, Belt Up Theatre
THESE two new plays from the York Theatre Royal company in residence made their debut at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe as part of Belt Up Theatre's bold project The House Above: ten devised works performed in different rooms of a purpose-built house
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Audi RS 3 Sportback
HIGH on a hill in Austria, within earshot of the occasional lonely goatherd, the sound of a dozen or more engines thrummed into life beneath the bonnets of shiny new Audi RS 3 cars. It was the sound of music to these ears. Audi had brought
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Review: Hidden Voices, ReStage, Holy Trinity Church, Goodramage, York
A DRAMATISATION of the past deserves a historic and atmospheric setting. For Hidden Voices, put on by the ReStage company, the ancient and beautiful Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, effortlessly provided that intensity for the production's
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Andrea Corr, Lifelines (Republic Of Music) **; Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Make A Scene (ebgbs) ***
Andrea Corr’s first album release in over four years should come with a public health warning sticker. Sadly, not for advising listeners to avoid it in fear of hyperventilating with excitement, but rather to dissuade motorists from falling asleep
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Tom Stade and Tony Law, Hyena Lounge, City Screen, York, June 26
AS an exclusive last-minute addition to the Hyena Lounge season of Edinburgh previews at City Screen, York, promoter Toby Clouston-Jones has secured a Canadian double bill of Tom Stade and Tony Law for Sunday night. “A year ago Tom Stade was a well-respected
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The Real People Theatre, Encounters, St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, York, June 25
York Unitarians will play host to The Real People Theatre in a forum theatre production for Refugee Action Week. From 2pm to 4pm tomorrow, the York women’s theatre company will present Encounters, a show about homelessness and refugees. Sue Lister
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Agnes Obel: Philharmonics (PIASR) ***Laki Mera: The Proximity Effect (Just Music) ****
FEMALE-LED glasgow band Laki Mera emerge with a really interesting album. The Beginning of the End is reminiscent of Portishead and vocalist Laura Donnelly shares the same ethereal, child like and haunting style of Beth Gibbons. Then again Onion
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Laura Cantrell, Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music, (Shoeshine Records/Spit And Polish) ****; Diana Jones, High Atmosphere (Proper Records) ****
LAURA Cantrell, the New York country singer with Nashville roots, has proved herself the queen of covers already on Trains And Boats And Planes, a mini-LP most notable for a heart-rending take on New Order’s Love Vigilantes. Now she devotes an entire
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Devon Sproule, The Unmarked Animals (Tin Angel Records) *****
A QUIETLY groundbreaking record from one of the most literate, musical performers on the circuit. Sproule, whose name reads like an anagram, has a poetic take on normal life, never overdone – for example a family trip to the beach becomes
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Emmy The Great, Virtue (Close Harbour) **
IT would be a cheap gag to say Sussex folkie Emmy The Great is Emmy The Not So Great but why avoid being cheap. Truth is, the great expectations born of 2009’s debut First Love do not bear fruit on this beige sequel. Virtue had begun as a series
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tUnE-yArDs, Whokill (4AD) **
IMAGINE, if you will, every member of a 12-piece orchestra and an electronic combo playing freestyle exercises at the same time, while a breathy female vocalist drops jazz-scat over the cacophony. Congratulations, you’ve just nailed My Country,
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Jazz notes
Tonight is big band night in Wakefield and Leeds, with the Ripon Grammar School Big Band at Wakefield Jazz (01924 253202) and Colin Byrne’s Leeds Jazz Orchestra at Heart (formerly Headingley Primary School). The Ripon School Band is directed by famed
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City Screen Tuesday Special: Love’s Kitchen (15), June 28
LOOK out for an inspirational piece of advice from fiery chef Gordon Ramsay in Love’s Kitchen (15), the Tuesday Special at City Screen, York. Ramsay pops up in James Hacking’s tale of Rob Haley (Dougray Scott) a talented London chef and restaurateur
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Marcus Brigstocke joins cast of The Railway Children
Thanks a lot Spamalot! Marcus Brigstocke so enjoyed strutting the stage on tour as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Spamalot that the comedian, broadcaster, writer and actor decided he wanted to do more theatre work. Now, York Theatre Royal
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Darren Hayman, The Basement at City Screen, York, June 25
MORRISSEY may be the big fish in York this weekend, but another witty observer of English life is in town too tomorrow night: former Hefner leader Darren Hayman. At the invitation of York promoter Please Please You Presents, Hayman will be performing
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Bar Lane Studios’ graduate artist interns exhibition, until July 2
Bar Lane Studios’ graduate artist interns will unveil an exhibition to commemorate their year in residence at the York creative hub this evening at 6pm. The group, comprising five artists and a theatre company, were the first set of York St John University
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Monty Python’s Spamalot, Grand Opera House, York, February 20 to 25 2012
AND now for something not completely different: Monty Python’s Spamalot will return to the Grand Opera House, York, for a second run from February 20 to 25 2012. Tickets go on sale from 10am today. Eric Idle and John DuPrez’s joyously silly musical
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York Shakespeare Project presents Much Ado About Nothing, Rowntree Park, June 29 to July 3; July 6 to 9
PAUL Taylor-Mills is making his York Shakespeare Project debut at the helm of Much Ado About Nothing, a production he is setting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War in rural Yorkshire in 1945. This, however, tells only a smidgeon
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Ian Anderson, Grand Opera House, York, September 20
After 43 years of leading Jethro Tull to 54 countries and selling 60 million albums worldwide, Ian Anderson is to embark on a 13-date acoustic tour that will arrive at the Grand Opera House, York, on September 20. “I’ve always wanted to go out in the
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Deacon Blue, Grand Opera House, York, June 24
DEACON Blue have the taste for it again. “This time around we haven’t played for 18 months, but we’re doing a lot of shows this summer – and we’ve been working on a new album that hopefully will come out next year,” says Ricky Ross, leader of the Glaswegian
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York City sign Portuguese midfielder
MIDFIELDER Adriano Moke has become the latest addition to the York City ranks. The 21-year-old Portuguese player signed for the Minstermen today after spending last season at the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain. He has previously had spells
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Man's jaw broken in North Yorkshire attack
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an assault which left a young Scarborough man with a broken jaw. The 18-year-old was punched in the face by an unknown man on Queen’s Terrace at around 2am on Saturday, June 11 after attending a party in the area
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Review: York University Choir and Symphony Orchestra; York Minster
Our senior university’s end-of-year fling in York Minster has gradually become a much-anticipated occasion, and Wednesday evening was no exception. A huge, largely partisan attendance greeted Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
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Beeswing pub regulars undertake Three Peaks Challenge for charity
REGULARS at a York pub will scale the heights to raise money for Help for Heroes. The team of 15 from the Beeswing pub in Hull Road, York, will undertake Yorkshire’s Three Peaks Challenge, climbing Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough on Saturday.
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Yorkshire Bach Choir, Bach’s Lutheran Mass in G, St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, June 25
THE Yorkshire Bach Choir will end its 32nd season tomorrow with a performance of Bach’s Lutheran Mass in G. One of his four smaller-scale Latin masses, setting the words of the Kyrie and Gloria, it will be performed alongside two great cantatas. “Cantata
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Huge concert at Barbican raises £7,000 for charity
MORE than £7,000 raised at York Barbican’s pre-opening charity concert by party band Huge has been handed over to worthy causes. The 90-minute concert on May 10 was a sell-out, raising £5,446 from booking fees and ticket income. Another £1,740 was
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William Etty exhibition opens in York
York Art Gallery is hosting the biggest exhibition on William Etty in more than half a century. The exhibition, titled William Etty: Art and Controversy, includes more than 100 of Etty’s painting and sketches of nudes, some of which have been loaned
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Ancient guilds of York in spotlight
THE ANCIENT guilds of York are to talk about their heritage and future at an event for businesses in York. Graham Millar, the new master of the Merchant Taylors, will be joined by other guild chiefs, including the Master of the Guild of Scriveners
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Premier way for women to meet up
A NEW club for York businesswomen will be launched next month. The Women’s Business Clubs, the organisation for UK women entrepreneurs, today announced the formation of a new Premier Club in the area. The York Premier Club will have its first meeting
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Aviva sells RAC for £1bn
AVIVA, the parent company of York-based Aviva Life and Pensions, is to sell RAC to The Carlyle Group for £1 billion. The price of the second- largest UK roadside assistance provider represents 17 times the RAC’s 2010 net earnings. Announcing the sale
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Patience a virtue
WHAT’S next? Your correspondent A Bainbridge has the gall to suggest that farmers and their tractors use the A64 at certain times of the day just to suit the likes of him. I was always led to believe that patience was one of life’s virtues. It
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Capital suggestion
MANY folk in York believe that the new leader of the council, James Alexander, hopes, as soon as possible, to use his position to become an MP – preferably in a London seat. Many also think that Dr John Sentamu would much prefer to be in Canterbury
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Wake up, Channel 4
HAYLEY Taylor, TV’s so called Fairy Jobmother, is as relevant to the country’s unemployed as a blush on the cheek of a dead man. With mild bullying, Hayley has become famous on the back of the nation’s unemployed. In the age of the “feisty” public
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The Sweet History Of York an obvious attraction for city
I wish Continuum every success with The Sweet History Of York but I find it quite ironic that Nestlé should say: “The city is perfect for such an attraction with its strong heritage as The Chocolate City”. Indeed it is and was back in 1988 when plans
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Car park is essential
REFERENCE your headline and associated article Car park sell-off move (The Press, June 18). Astounding, ridiculous, dubious – just three words out of many I could use to describe what appears more and more like a foregone conclusion between York
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Where are they going?
How could anyone doubt the learned head of York’s Labour Council, Coun James Alexander, when he gives reassurance to the businesses of Gillygate that they will not see a drop in trade when the coach and car park is sold off to York St John University
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Only short-term gain
Coun Alexander and his Labour Group should strongly reconsider proposing to sell off the Union Terrace car park to York St John University for small short-term gain compared to the irrevocable damage to the local Gillygate economy. This is yet another
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A boost for careers
The York Apprenticeship Challenge (The Press, June 15) is a great campaign. Doing an apprenticeship is the best way for the young people of York to get a skill and qualification in their chosen profession. Well done to The Press for backing this
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A paradise lost in New Earswick
HERE in New Earswick we have a very pleasant country footpath known as Jon’s Walk. It includes part of the River Foss bank and the old York-Hull disused railway track passing through woodland and terminating in an ancient meadow, full of interesting
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St Leonard’s Hospice night walk a hit
St Leonard’s Hospice supporters turned out in force between midnight on Saturday, June 18 and dawn on Sunday to take part in the Hospice’s fourth annual Midnight Walk. Despite the drizzle, almost 550 people – a record – followed the six-mile route
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Childcare idea
It is hard enough getting a job without a child involved – making a job worthwhile, knowing that your child is being looked after while you are away. Would it make sense for the council to help by requiring blocks of flats for single mothers with
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Let’s bin this litter
I have just returned from a 13-day holiday cruise of the Baltic Sea visiting parts of Norway, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Germany, Sweden and Russia and the most striking difference between these countries and Britain is the lack of litter. The first
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A case of ‘Premier planking’
The latest craze of “planking”, as recently reported in The Press, has quite rightly been condemned as highly dangerous. This activity requires the participant to lie prone and face down in a variety of unusual and risky places such as railway lines
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Review: Das Rheingold, Opera North, Leeds Town Hall
For the newcomer, Wagner’s Ring is a tough nut to crack: for the opera company, there is the colossal expense; for the opera-goer, there are mystiques to fathom. So Opera North faces a dilemma: long stretches of concert performance might lack
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Everyone has a breaking point
IT IS easy to solve crime by locking criminals up and throwing away the keys. No criminals, no crime. Forget about the wasteheap of human beings rotting in prison. They’re not really human, they’re scum. Let them suffer as they made their victims suffer
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York City sign Premier League prospect Michael Potts
Updated: FORMER Blackburn Rovers midfielder Michael Potts has turned down overtures from France to join York City. Potts, 19, has been unveiled as City manager Gary Mills’ latest summer signing having been released by the Premier League club
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The Dutchman in charge of York's Museum Gardens
STANDING in the middle of the fernery at the Museum Gardens is what looks for all the world like an exotic tropical tree – something from the upper reaches of the Amazon, perhaps. It’s nothing of the sort. This is just a humble yew tree – one that has
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Simon Dyson seeking a turbo-charge in BMW International Open
SIMON Dyson will have to display skilful manoeuvring techniques if he is to advance past the midway point of the BMW International Open, writes Tony Kelly. The York-born golfer toiled to make any inroads on the first day of the European Tour event
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York Cricket Club in crunch tie against Cleethorpes
YORK Cricket Club are playing catch-up ahead of a crunch Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier division clash against Cleethorpes tomorrow. Last weekend’s rained off league game at Hull YPI means the Clifton Parkers have fallen four points behind
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Ascot death of avid sportsman John Mohan
John Mohan, a talented and popular York sportsman, has died of a heart attack at Royal Ascot, aged 61. Mohan regularly attended the race meeting with a group of close friends, but died suddenly at the course last Friday. The son of Edie and Gerard
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Mitre lead York John Smith’s Men’s Darts League
MITRE stretched their lead in division one of the York John Smith’s Men’s Darts League with an 8-2 victory over second-placed Shepherds. Rich Corner fired two 17-dart legs and two 180s, Chris Quantock hit a maximum and a 19-darter, Steve Atkin completed
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Bob Farrington reinforces push for Northern Formula 400 Championship glory
BOB FARRINGTON’S assault on the Northern Formula 400 Championship was strengthened following victory in a rain-affected race at Cadwell Park. The 57-year-old motorcyclist, of Rawcliffe, near Selby, arrived leading the championship by seven points but
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Gary Ballance fights for place in Yorkshire’s first team
In-form Gary Ballance is relishing the fight for a regular place in Yorkshire’s first team. The Zimbabwe born 21-year-old has slotted into the middle order well in both County Championship and Twenty20 cricket during the last five weeks. He has
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Bid to revive York Municipal Tennis Tournament
PLANS are afoot to revive the York Municipal Tennis Tournament. The competition was first played in the 1920s and became the major tennis event in the city, but it was last held in 2007 before being cancelled due to dwindling numbers of entries. Bob
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Brian Bircumshaw plays marathon round at Forest Park Golf Club
“I’M a golf pro and I wouldn’t fancy playing four rounds on one day.” So said Mark Winterburn, the professional at Forest Park Golf Club after watching club member Brian Bircumshaw – a grandfather of seven – complete the 72-hole feat on the day he
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Chok Dee Thai Boxing Club in York launches website
HIGH-FLYING and high-tech – that’s the Chok Dee Thai Boxing Club in York, writes Tony Kelly. Run by former world Thai boxing champion Richard Cadden, the club has meshed burgeoning success with the establishment of its own website. At a cost of £4,000
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North Yorkshire jockey Strong in name and stronger in action
COMPARED to the challenges Luke Strong has already faced in his life, riding half a ton of racehorse at speeds of 40mph must seem quite straightforward. The 24-year-old, who works for Sheriff Hutton trainer Tim Walford, would never admit to that but
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Richard Fahey takes time over Barefoot Lady
RICHARD FAHEY is in no rush to make future plans for Barefoot Lady after she turned in another fine performance to finish third in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. The three-year-old flew home to land the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket on her
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Tim Easterby can get off to a right Flyer
Deauville Flyer can provide Tim Easterby with a Derby success at Newcastle tomorrow. The able stayer runs in the £150,000 John Smith’s Northumberland Plate, better known as the ‘Pitmens’ Derby’, and Norton jockey Tom Eaves takes the mount. A beaten
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Beverley Knight, York Barbican, November 18
SOUL queen Beverley Knight will back up next month’s release of her seventh studio album, Soul UK, with an 11-date autumn tour. The 38-year-old singer from Wolverhampton will play York Barbican on Friday, November 18, a bigger venue than for her
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Healthy field for new coarse fishing season
The first Sunday open of the new coarse fishing season drew a healthy field of 72 to waters on the Ouse upstream of York. But disappointingly, the vast majority were travelling rods from outside the York area. It was one of these that took the crown
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Erasure, Dalby Forest, June 25
ON Sunday night, the ever theatrical Andy Bell will be continuing his conversion from Popstar To Operastar under the ITV1 spotlight. Tomorrow, however, finds him in more familiar pop-star mode deep in the North Yorkshire woodland, pouring gold dust
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York Lokomotive's switch
YORK Lokomotive ARLC’s game against Barnsley Broncos tomorrow in the RL Conference Yorkshire Premier (East) division has been switched to the New Lane ground in York, kick-off 2.30pm.
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Cowboy builder told to hand over assets or spend more time in prison
A COWBOY builder who conned customers out of almost £55,000 has been ordered by the courts to hand over assets worth £140,000. Darryl Glynn, 46, started work on houses in York and Selby, then refused to complete the job unless he was paid more
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Protesters say York stadium plans could damage city centre
A PROTEST has been staged against plans for a new Marks & Spencer store and community stadium on the edge of York. The 120,000sq ft store would create about 200 new jobs and form part of a Monks Cross development including a new home for York City
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Andy Fullalove’s White Light Still And Moving exhibition, According To McGee, Tower Street, York, until July 9
HE has a name to remember and his art is making an impact too. “Yes, the name is real,” says Andy Fullalove, the Lancashire-born artist who has progressed from group show five years ago to double bill last year to solo exhibition from today at According
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Labour ‘to reverse £1m council cuts’
YORK’S council leaders are to unveil an emergency budget they say will reverse almost £1 million of cuts. The Labour group which now controls City of York Council has pledged to restore funding for short breaks for disabled children, youth
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Pupils pay tribute to classmate Bradley Brough
THE parents of an 11-year-old boy who died during heart surgery have opened a garden in his memory at their son’s school. Kevin and Sharon Brough cut the ribbon yesterday at an emotional afternoon in front of Bradley’s teachers, family and
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Two injured in collision near Knaresborough
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a collision near Knaresborough which left two men in a serious condition in hospital. Two men in their mid-twenties were riding on a Yamaha R6 motorcycle when they were involved with a collision with a car on
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Tears as body of North Yorkshire soldier brought home
The families of two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, including one from North Yorkshire, came together to see their loved ones repatriated to the UK. The bodies of Craftsman Andrew Found, from Whitby, who was in the Royal Electrical
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Classroom porn teacher banned
A TEACHER who viewed pornographic websites at work and put the images on a class projector in front of young pupils has been banned from teaching. Andrew Milewski, now 29, was working as a teacher at Wetherby High School when he searched the internet
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North Yorkshire Police make £6.2m savings
CASH-STRAPPED police in North Yorkshire have saved £6.2 million to balance their books as they battle the Government spending squeeze. Police chiefs needed to shave £2.232 million off their budget and also earmarked the need to save a further £4 million
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Jailbird Pete Doherty will play at York Barbican
ORGANISERS are confident singer Pete Doherty will be able to perform at York Barbican in September – despite being jailed in May for six months. The Libertines singer was handed the sentence at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court after he pleaded guilty
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Mum jailed for fleeing UK with child
A MOTHER who secretly took her daughter from North Yorkshire to the USA to keep her away from her father has been jailed. The girl, then 12, was kept out of school for a year to prevent the authorities finding out where the pair were, York Crown Court
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North Yorkshire hotels celebrate century of Michelin Guide listings
FOUR hotels from North Yorkshire are celebrating after keeping their listings in the Michelin Guide, 100 years after their first entry. The Black Swan in Helmsley, the Boar’s Head in Ripley, the White Swan in Pickering and the Crown Spa in Scarborough
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BBC TV programme highlights Yorkshire's hidden art
TELEVISION celebrity Linda Barker stops off in North Yorkshire in a new BBC arts programme to be aired this weekend. Linda goes in search of some intriguing stories behind Yorkshire’s hidden paintings in the one-off programme. In Hidden Paintings Of
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Developers appeal over Ryedale gas plant
Developers aiming to build a controversial gas plant in North Yorkshire have lodged an appeal. North Yorkshire County Council failed to make a decision on the proposed facility on the edge of the North York Moors National Park last year, and developer
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Drink-drivers blitzed by police
A driver has been banned from the roads for 18 months after being caught by York police when almost twice over the legal limit. Kenneth Cooper, of Fulford, was arrested on June 7 after a member of the public contacted police to report that he had been
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Inquest opens into North Yorkshire village death
A YOUNG man whose body was found in a North Yorkshire village has been named. George Mark Lloyd Thomas, 26, from Oswaldkirk, was found near the ford at Harome, near Helmsley, following reports by a member of the public of a sudden death. Police
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Ryedale credit company agent stole £15,000
A RYEDALE credit company agent pocketed her clients’ deposits and cheated her employers out of more than £15,000 to help pay her own debts, York Crown Court heard. Linda Malig, 56, sold loans to clients in their homes and collected their repayments
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Trust breaks new ground with homes in New Earswick
A NEW housing development in York has been opened by the chairman of the Government’s Homes and Communities Agency. Robert Napier formally opened the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust’s new Dormary Close development in New Earswick, which includes independent
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TV programme shows evidence of Roman human sacrifice in Ryedale
EVIDENCE that human sacrifice may have been practised in North Yorkshire in Roman times is to be shown as part of BBC2’s History Cold Case series next week. The secrets of several human skeletons found in the Ryedale Windypits on the southern
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Charity night for bikers at Dean’s Garden Centre raises £1,500
A GARDEN centre’s charity night for bikers has raised more than £1,500 for a mental health charity. About 200 motorcyclists from all over Yorkshire and Lincolnshire converged on Dean’s Garden Centre, at Stockton-on-the-Forest near York, and its sister
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York boutique hostel expands
A BOUTIQUE hostel in York is expanding after beating its targets in less than a year. The Fort Boutique Hostel, on Little Stonegate, York, was set up last year by Karen Waugh, owner of Kennedys Bar next door. The Fort, whose five unique rooms were
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Man seriously hurt in car accident
A 63-YEAR-OLD man has been injured in a collision near Harrogate. The A658 was closed between the Kestral roundabout and the Buttersyke roundabout for aboutfour hours on Tuesday following the single-vehicle crash at 2.20pm. The man, who is from
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Masterchef finalist cooking to raise funds for charity
THE York nurse who reached the finals of the BBC’s Masterchef competition will be demonstrating her skills at a fundraising night in the city next week. Sara Danesin Medio, who narrowly missed out on being crowned Masterchef 2011, will be cooking
