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York City draw 1-1 with Billingham Synthonia
YORK City drew 1-1 with hosts Billingham Synthonia in their latest pre-season friendly. Billingham took the lead in the first half, but Matty Blair levelled for the Minstermen before the interval. * Don't miss The Press on Monday for full report
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Damian Ball to lead Halifax against York City Knights
FORMER York RL favourite Damian Ball will be in charge of Halifax when they take on York City Knights at The Shay on Sunday. Ball has agreed to take temporary charge after the shock departure of coach Matt Calland on Friday. * Don't miss The Press
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Alex Proyas’s The Crow, City Screen, York, July 25
THE DV8Fest of goth and alternative music in York concludes on Monday with an 8.45pm screening of Alex Proyas’s The Crow (18) at City Screen, York. This 1994 cult classic recreates the dark, expressionistic style of the underground comic of the same
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Savoy Family Cajun Band, The Band Room, July 25
The legendary Savoy Family Cajun Band play The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, near Kirkbymoorside, on Monday at 7.30pm. “They’re the greatest traditional Cajun band in the world and for years we’ve been after them to play here,” said promoter Nigel
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Players needed for new Sherburn U11 girls team
SHERBURN White Rose Junior Football Club are recruiting players for a new under-11s team for girls in school Years 4 and 5. The team’s first training session will be on Saturday, August 6 between 11am and 12.30pm at the club’s Finkle Hill ground in Sherburn-in-Elmet
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Woods’ huge act of faith in Knights
YORK City Knights have evidently backed their current squad to get them out of relegation peril ahead of tomorrow’s Championship trip to champions Halifax. Transfer deadline day passed yesterday without any new blood coming into Huntington Stadium, although
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Rising York stars sign Featherstone contracts
FOUR York youngsters have signed two-and-a-half-year professional contracts with Featherstone Rovers after shining in their youth set-up. York Acorn ARLC juniors Jordan Myers, Jack Byrnes and Joe Deighton, along with Heworth’s Jordan Potter, have been
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Hat-trick heroes do Yorkshire U16 rugby team proud
YORK Acorn ARLC youngster Tim Stubbs and Heworth’s Harry Deighton helped Yorkshire to win all three games in an under-16s rugby league festival in Sheffield. The pair were selected for the Rugby Football League’s regional player development centre after
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Steve Beck elected to Supporters Direct board
FORMER York City chairman Steve Beck has been elected on to the Supporters Direct board. Beck will serve for a three-year period on the national body, which deals with issues concerning football fans at all level. Riccall-based Beck said: “I’m delighted
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Selby lose out to Acomb despite Dan Toone hat-trick
An all-bowled hat-trick from Selby’s Dan Toone, who went on to record impressive figures of 4-7, was still not enough to see his team to victory as hosts Acomb ran out winners in the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company U11 League (HB). It was a game
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Heworth’s U11 claim cricket cup
BEATEN finalists a year ago, Heworth went one better to capture the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company under-11s Cup, writes Henry Cowen. Unbeaten so far this season, Heworth proved too much for a game and youthful Osbaldwick side in the final at Dunnington
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James Mackie the marvel for Bishopthorpe in U15 triumph
Bishopthorpe overcame Osbaldwick by 32 runs in zone ‘A’ of the Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire U15 league. The Bishopthorpe total of 100-6 was built around an unbeaten 40 not out from James Mackie. Osbaldwick could only muster 68 all out in reply
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Hosts New Earswick fly high at annual gala
THE under-10s stood tall for the host club at New Earswick All Blacks ARLC juniors’ annual gala at White Rose Avenue – with Sherburn Bears U9s also flying the flag for North Yorkshire. Despite poor weather conditions, hundreds of youngsters
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Harry Buckley stars for Ovington in quarter-finals
Ovington beat Bolton Percy In the last of the Hirepoint Plant & Tool U13 plate quarter-finals. Ovington put on 140-7 thanks to Harry Buckley (30 not out), Dan Hopwood (32no) and Dom Kitching (30no). Bolton Percy closed at 60 all out with Buckley capturing
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Morfitt magic at big ‘B’ grade swimming gala
SAM MORFITT won two silver medals at the City of Leeds Swimming Club ‘B’ grade gala. The 14-year-old Tadcaster Swim Squad member, from Ulleskelf, took second place in the 100 metres freestyle and 100m backstroke, bagging two Yorkshire qualifying times
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York RI U16 girls team looking for new players
YORK RI Football Club’s under-16s girls team are on the lookout for new players. The squad trains at New Lane on Wednesdays at 6.30pm. The RI teams at U10s, U11s, U12s, U13s and U14s are also looking for new players. Anyone interested should phone
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Crisp Smith fires Dunnington into Cup final slot
Dunnington overcame Bishopthorpe by 16 runs to book their Presidents Cup final slot. Dunnington’s 110 all out was built around O Smith’s 51 not out, although he and his team-mates were shackled by M Riley (3-14) and E McGahon (2-17). Despite
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Alex Chalton underpins Sheriff Hutton Bridge in play-off match
Sheriff Hutton Bridge beat York A in a close Quality Solicitors Burn & Company U9 League third and fourth place play-off. Alex Chalton made 18 and Billy Burgess and Charlie Longbottom both scored 10. Josh Mould took 3-2 and Chalton shone again
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Tadcaster Magnets mesmerise play-off contenders Bishopthorpe
In zone ‘A’ of the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company U11 League (IB), Matthew Buckle made 19, Jack Barker 14 and Charlie Marr 13 as Tadcaster Magnets beat play-off rivals Bishopthorpe. Bowler Robert Hoather took 2-4 and Joshua Simpson 2-7. Heworth
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Great Yorkshire Show’s right royal flavour
RE Bill Cowling’s Yorkshire Show report on only 25 people less than a record. I feel the visit of Prince Charles and Camilla boosted Wednesday’s figures. They generously “walked” the crowds, shaking hands with all and sundry. My brother-in-law
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Animal neglect deserved a stiffer sentence
I HAVE read about the appalling animal neglect in Sheriff Hutton Park and am shocked at the revoltingly light sentence given to Pamela and Joseph Palmer. If Hilary Gilbertson thinks that a suspended sentence will “demonstrate the abhorrence of the
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Union Terrace car park: Where’s the evidence?
The Union Terrace coach park proposals have inevitably brought out a number of questions about this hasty venture. I would not consider it unreasonable to ask Labour councillors who asked for the detailed report that they are claiming justifies their
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Confusing for visitors
Please allow me to recount a true story. Last summer, while in the Tower Street area, I came across an elderly confused gentleman wandering the street and clearly lost. On questioning him, I learned that he was in York for the day, had come by coach
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Road repairs in budget
WHILE I cannot comment on Andrew Sheard’s views regarding the A19/A1237 intersection (Letters, July 1), I can inform him that Shipton Parish Council, together with County Coun Caroline Patmore, have been working very hard over at least the last two
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Recipe for BBQ chicken and coleslaw
DAVE STANFORD makes another dish that tastes better with added sunshine. Hopefully, the best of the British summer has still to be enjoyed and we won’t be putting away our barbies for a few weeks at least. This is another great dish
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Frankie Dettori gets a winning tune out of Sajjhaa
A GROUP race will be the target of Godolphin’s Sajjhaa after she ran out an impressive winner of the EBF ‘Authorized’ Lyric Fillies’ Stakes at York Racecourse last night. Jockey Frankie Dettori could ease down at the line after taking a commanding advantage
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All Teachers Great And Small by Andy Seed (Headline, priced £14.99)
Teacher Andy Seed has published a novel based on his time at the chalkface, reports Mike Laycock. ANDY Seed’s world changed on a boiling hot day last July, as he stood on a fire escape outside a school in Stockton-on-Tees. He had been working with
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Racing Through The Dark, The Fall And Rise Of David Millar, by David Millar (Orion Books £18.99)
The photo on the front shows it all – David Millar’s face half in shadow, half in light. He was the British hope in the Tour de France, until he was caught doping and banned for two years. Today, having been through a personal, financial and sporting
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Review: Roy Chubby Brown Grand Opera House, York
AFTER more than 40 years in the business, crude comic Roy Chubby Brown can still pack them in. York’s Grand Opera House was virtually full on Thursday night when the North Yorkshire-based entertainer rolled into town on the latest leg of his UK
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Alfred the great
GAVIN AITCHISON takes a tip from an author of yesteryear... and is glad he did. FOUR of us went to Lastingham – three in body and one in spirit. Ian and Gill drove; I walked from Pickering; and the inimitable Alfred J Brown came along in my rucksack
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Midnight Sun - abv 5.6%; £2.25/50cl
Bruce Williams’s beers have had a fairly peripatetic existence over the last quarter century or so. Starting at Bruce’s homebrew shop in Partick, they moved first to Taynult, then Alloa, then Strathaven, then finally back to Alloa in 2004. Bruce
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Sauvignon picks
In this week’s Tipping’s Tipples, MIKE TIPPING picks some sauvignon that packs a punch on the flavour front. Sauvignon can be so, so-so. Conversely, it can be totally over the top on the flavour front. I associate, perhaps unfairly, the over-the-top
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The beauty of astrantia
GINA PARKINSON feels a touch sentimental as talks up the astrantia. The astrantia is an attractive family of cottage garden plants providing long-lasting interest from as early as April and well into July. Then, as the flowers turn to
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York golf clubs in marathon fund-raising events
SOME people just cannot get enough of playing golf – as was proved by an ace brace of marathon fund-raising events. Over at Forest of Galtres Golf Club, eight players competed in 72 holes in the one day in an event for Macmillan Cancer Research in
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Mick Nixon takes stage six dart final
MICK Nixon whitewashed fellow Minsterman John Quantock in the stage six final of The Streamline Taxis York Open Darts Championship. Throwing one 15 and four 18-dart legs, Nixon clinched victory in the latest competition, held in association with Red
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The ‘squeaky bum’ scenario
NOT that I ever like writing anything about Sir Alex Ferguson given my allegiance to Manchester City, but the Scot did come up with a comment which has become a widespread sound-bite at the end of seasons when there’s all to play for – “squeaky bum time
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Knights reserves’ late pain as one-pointer gives Halifax victory
YORK City Knights reserves suffered a late sucker punch last night as they lost 17-16 to Halifax at Huntington Stadium. The lead fluctuated in a first half which ended 16-16, and the only point of the second period came from a drop goal in the dying
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Pioneer of York refereeing mourned by officials
WARM tributes have been paid to York refereeing stalwart Chris Dale who has died aged 63. Dale, of Bishopthorpe, was chairman of the North Riding County FA Referees Committee and was hailed for the “excellent work” he had undertaken for
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Yorkshire skipper Andrew Gale rallies troops for major Roses rescue mission
Yorkshire skipper Andrew Gale has promised to attack Lancashire as he and his lower order colleagues look to pull off a shock LV= County Championship win at Headingley today. The White Rose county, chasing a gettable 284 for victory in the final four
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Poppleton Junior FC complex opens
The new £500,000 sports complex at Poppleton Junior Football Club was officially opened yesterday. The new facilities, part-funded by a £225,000 Football Foundation grant and £150,000 from the Football Association, include a new four-changing
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Busy weekend for Sessay Cricket Club
Sessay Cricket Club face a busy weekend with two important matches either side of a 224-mile journey. First up today is Clifton Alliance in the York & District Senior Cricket League premier division, seeking to continue their recent good form in order
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Shambles shine on national Boccia stage
A York boccia team claimed fourth place in the National Pan Disability Boccia League Finals at Nottingham Trent University. The team, named The Shambles, represented First York Boccia at the event having qualified by winning their Yorkshire boccia league
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Superb finish to summer league for York Knavesmire Harriers
RUNNERS from York Knavesmire Harriers turned in a superb finish to the York & District Summer League. Second-claim athlete Will New finished third in the men’s open category, John Oliver was second in the M50 section, Mike McGrath won the M60 and
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Fourth place for Thirsk & Sowerby runner Steve Holloway
The Ripon Runners’ League Handicap signalled the end of the Harrogate League season and Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers runner Steve Holloway finished fourth. Fran Jeffery was second Harrier home in seventh and Alan Wikeley was 14th. Ian Codling was 15th
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Apprentice jockey Sean Levey leads Toby Tyler to O’Meara one-two
APPRENTICE Sean Levey is quickly becoming a master at York Racecourse. The 3lb claimer claimed his third winner in just a handful of runs on Knavesmire when steering Ingleby Exceed (5-1 jt-fav) to victory in the Future Cleaning Services Apprentice
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Pomfret Stakes is a golden opportunity for Roger Charlton ace
The nine-day Yorkshire Racing Summer Festival, highlighted by the Group 2 Sky Bet York Stakes on Knavesmire today, comes to a climax at Pontefract tomorrow with a seven-race card. The Ponte meeting is showpieced by the £30,000 Pomfret Stakes, also backed
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Stamp of the killjoys
MOST of us who thrill to sport, who are enthralled by sport, who are absorbed by sport, would no doubt endorse a quote from Earl Warren, former chief justice of the supreme court of America. More associated with, or rather tainted by, heading the
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Attacker, 26, sexually assaulted elderly victim
A YOUNG man who sexually assaulted a 74-year-old woman in the doorway of her home has been jailed for four years. Stephen William Hawes approached the woman outside her home in the Micklegate area of York, pushed her into the doorway and on to the ground
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Blondie goes atomic at York Racecourse
HUGE crowds flocked to York Racecourse last night as pop legend Deborah Harry rolled back the years. Thousands gathered for the course’s annual Music Showcase festival, which continues today. The Blondie star, resplendent in a black-and-red
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Woman ‘throttled’ and put under bed
A FORMER Ryedale man “throttled” a woman to death, covered her head in cling film and plastic bags and put her under his bed, a court heard. Aaron O’Brien, 22, is charged with the murder of Magdalena Januszeska, whose body was found at a house Copenhagen
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John and little Owen are up for Pride awards
A MAN who donated part of his liver to save the life of his baby grandson has been nominated for a York Community Pride Award. Last year, Naburn toddler Owen Targett, now 20 months old, was seriously ill with the potentially fatal rare liver
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Man on sunglasses theft charge
A 28-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing £110-worth of sunglasses from a York shop. The man was arrested after officers were called to Homesense, at Foss Islands Retail Park, on Thursday afternoon. Staff at the store
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Heart of University of York’s new campus is unveiled
THE £20 million heart of the University of York’s new campus was formally opened last night. The Ron Cooke Hub, a catalyst for new businesses and research, had its official opening with a lecture by Sir Alan Langlands, chief executive of the Higher
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Result in beer war of the roses
Updated: TWO North Yorkshire breweries have been heavily criticised and left out of pocket after a High Court judge declared their war of the roses a “score draw”. Mr Justice Arnold said the two “proud” and “entrenched” breweries, Samuel Smith
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New looks from old
York goes back in time tomorrow with a vintage street fair. MAXINE GORDON and photographer FIONA BIANCHI capture the spirit. FEW places conjure up the 1940s like the Belmont Room in Bettys in York. One of the city’s best-kept secrets, the elegant
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Fears for future of city-centre fish restaurant if car park is sold
A WELL-KNOWN York fish and-chip restaurant says it faces closure if plans to sell off a nearby car and coach park go ahead. The owners of Wackers, in Gillygate, said about 60 per cent of their trade came from the Union Terrace park and they would
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Big York employer ‘may cut 20 jobs’
ONE of York’s biggest employers is consulting with staff over plans to cut jobs. CPP employs just under 1,000 people at its credit card and identity protection business in Holgate Park. A company spokesman said because it was in the
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Face of shop raid suspect caught on CCTV
POLICE are hunting a man who was captured on CCTV moments before allegedly robbing a Pocklington convenience store with a gun. The man, who was wearing a hat and sunglasses, is said to have walked into the Co-operative store in Market Street
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Boss tied up in York off-licence robbery
TWO robbers broke into a York off-licence and tied up its owner while threatening him at knifepoint. The pair struck at the store in Monkton Road, in the Bell Farm area, as Hasan Komer was closing the security shutters at about 10.50pm on Wednesday
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Survivor’s memories of Lockington train crash horror
A SURVIVOR of a devastating train crash 25 years ago has spoken of a “dreadful day” she will never forget. Former York schoolgirl Christine Quinn was on a train which collided with a van on a level crossing at Lockington in East Yorkshire on July 26
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Selby crime operation success
A MAN has been arrested and six vehicles have been seized so far as part of a summer-long multi-agency operation led by police in Selby. Operation Birch, which was launched on June 21, is run by North Yorkshire Police with the Environment Agency and
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Selby metal thefts: three arrested
THREE men have been arrested following a series of metal thefts in the Selby area. They were charged following the attempted theft of scrap metal from a factory in Selby on Thursday, after police were called to Olympia Mills, the former BOCM Pauls
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Robbery chase men facing ‘long jail terms’
ARMED men who robbed security staff then led police on an 80-mile chase before crashing in York have been told they will receive lengthy prison sentences. The gang, two of whom were said to be carrying axes, struck at 3pm on July 14, as two Securicor
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New addition to York’s cat trail
CURIOSITY certainly has not killed the cats in York, as a new white feline has been placed with 17 others on show on the city’s cat trail. The new addition, which was created by Jonathan Newdick, was commissioned by The Cat Gallery shop and is located
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Council chiefs set to support York 20mph zone plans
PLANS to extend York’s 20mph zones look set to win support from council chiefs next week. City of York Council is expected to agree to extend the areas covered by 20mph speed limits to the south-west of the city centre and to approve using Murton as
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Tangmere loco is back on track
THE classic Tangmere is hitting the tracks once again to let passengers experience an exciting piece of history. The 34067 Tangmere is an un-rebuilt Battle of Britain Class Pacific 4-6-2 locomotive, which was built in 1947 in Brighton for use on southern
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Adrian Hodges bows out of York Minster role
A LONG-SERVING York Minster employee is to retire next month, after 30 years’ service. Adrian Hodges, buildings and services manager for the works department, joined the Minster team in the 1970s, then after a period of working elsewhere, returned
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Osteoarthritis pain information available at Coppergate
TODAY is the final day residents of York can take advantage of free expert advice on dealing with osteoarthritis. The mobile Osteoarthritis Pain Information Point will be in the Coppergate Shopping Centre from 9am to 5.30pm. Nurses from Arthritis Care
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Scouts set off for Sweden
TEENAGERS from Brayton, Kellington and Thorpe Willoughby will join 40,000 scouts from 150 countries at the Jamboree in Sweden next week. Zach Smith, 17, (6th Selby Brayton), Danny Humphrey-Shepherd, 15, (14th Selby St Francis Thorpe Willoughby), and
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Rail revival backed by Harrogate civic leader
DON Mackenzie, leader of Harrogate Borough Council, has urged councillors to get behind a £150 million plan to rejuvenate the railway line between Leeds and York. The proposal would see trains from the London Underground brought up to Yorkshire to
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Teddy time at Wilberfoss playgroup
A PLAYGROUP near York has a teddy bear as its first-ever mascot – and it will appropriately be making its first guest appearance at a teddy bear’s picnic tomorrow. The Wilberfoss and District Playgroup and Toddler Group’s fundraising event
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Investigation on school’s exams
PARENTS with children at a York primary school under investigation for the way its SATS tests were run are still waiting to know how their children did in the exams. Earlier this month The Press reported how investigators from the examinations monitoring
