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June 13
100 years ago When two horses attached to an Army Service wagon took fright and bolted from the Goods Yard in Leeman Road York, the plucky and prompt action of a clerk employed in the North-Eastern Railway offices deserved full acknowledgement. The
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Wednesday 13 June: Tea-break teaser
Welcome back to our picture quiz. Each day, we show you a picture of somewhere in York - all you have to do is answer the question. Good luck! This photograph of York Minster is taken from inside what building? Come back tomorrow
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Sculptures at Himalayan Gardens, Grewelthorpe
THIS weekend will be the last chance to see the sculptures and rare rhododendrons on show at Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park at Grewelthorpe, near Ripon. For the first time at this annual event, the 75 sculptures include bronzes and animal sculptures
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Open gardens at Skipwith Hall, near Selby
THE four-acre garden of Skipwith Hall, Skipwith, near Selby, is opening twice this summer in aid of the National Gardens Scheme, first on June 17 from 1pm to 5pm, then on August 29 from 11am to 4pm. This month the garden is filled with roses and
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Olympic hero at York secondary school
AN Olympic gold medalist visited a York school today to provide a sprinting masterclass for the next generation of athletes. Jason Gardener, who took gold in the 100 metre relay in the Athens Olympics in 2004, was at York High School in Acomb
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Trains delayed after vehicle hits bridge
RAIL services between York and Darlington were delayed this afternoon after a vehicle hit a bridge. The accident happened between Northallerton and Darlington at about 11.30am and affected East Coast, CrossCountry and First TransPennine Express
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Cyclist robbery bid underneath Scarborough Bridge
TWO masked men attempted to rob a cyclist near a York bridge, sparking a police plea for witnesses. The 30-year-old local man was cycling underneath Scarborough Bridge in the city at about 11pm last night when the men, both wearing hooded tops
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Gary Mills faces battle to bag Gateshead striker Jon Shaw
YORK City manager Gary Mills is “hopeful” that Blue Square Bet Premier hot-shot Jon Shaw will be plying his trade at Bootham Crescent next season. Shaw, who plundered 35 goals for Gateshead last season including a hat-trick against the Minstermen,
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Knights conquest to act as kick to rest of term
CHRIS THORMAN says York City Knights’ maiden Co-operative Championship victory has to be “just the start”. The player-boss led his charges to a 26-22 win over Swinton Lions at Huntington Stadium on Sunday – finally getting the Knights in the winners
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Jack Laugher happy at bagging Olympic diving place
NORTH Yorkshire’s Jack Laugher has confirmed his place in the Great Britain diving team for this year’s Olympics. The 17-year-old from Ripon underlined his rising status to seal his place at London 2012 in the men’s three metres springboard at the British
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FERA waits to see if it will be affected by cuts in the Civil Service
A GOVERNMENT agency which employs hundreds of scientists in York is waiting to find out how it will be affected by cuts in the Civil Service. The Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA), an executive agency of the Government’s Department
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1,500 people take part in York Cycle Challenge
EMPLOYEES of York businesses have cycled the equivalent of four times around the world in the York Cycle Challenge. More than 1,500 people took part in the challenge, cycling more than 100,000 miles in 16,500 journeys, and 132 of those got
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Businesses with royal connections
Jubilee fever won hearts and minds across the country this year, when the Queen celebrated 60 years in the throne, with visits including to York. But Julie Hayes, business editor, finds businesses in North and East Yorkshire are making things all
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Businesses invited to compete in the BizFit challenge
THE Press is pitting businesses against each other once more in its BizFit competition. Personal trainer Jason Diprose, who last year led six business teams on a personal and professional challenge to see which was the fittest, will once again get
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It’s so vital to celebrate our successes
Business editor JULIE HAYES speaks to previous winners at The Press Business Awards about the additional benefits their victory brought them. IN DIFFICULT economic times it is important to highlight success stories, celebrating businesses which
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Made In York
A NEW networking group which has grown from a virtual LinkedIn group to 240 members that meet for a variety of events around York has entered The Press Business Awards 2012. John Lloyd-Hughes, who started the Made In York group in March, hopes it could
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Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens
VISITOR attraction Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens and Nurseries was shortlisted for the Think Green category in last year’s Press Business Awards. This year Vanessa Cook, owner of the gardens, hopes to take the award home in recognition of the family business
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Ye Olde Pie and Sausage Shoppe
YE Olde Pie and Sausage Shoppe is another winner from last year’s awards which hopes to retain its title as Family Business Of The Year. The business in Shambles, York, was opened by Rob and Julie Wilson in 2009, after Rob developed repetitive strain
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Yorkshire CCC: Gale fired up by t20 vision
Andrew Gale is desperate to win the Friends Life t20 with Yorkshire this summer. The county’s skipper is as disappointed as anyone at their performances in cricket’s shortest format down the years, which has included just two quarter-final appearances
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York Cricket Club suffer t20 knockout pain in bowl-out
DESPITE one of the most brutal innings from a home player ever seen at Clifton Park, York Cricket Club suffered knockout pain. Oliver Hairs smashed an astounding undefeated 150 from just 65 deliveries in York’s 130-run hammering of Harrogate in the
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Cricket: Senior Charity Cup semi-final dates
THE semi-finals of the Minster Engineering Senior Charity Cup are scheduled as follows: Wetherby v Clifton Alliance or Easingwold at Acomb Cricket Club on Monday, June 18; and Woodhouse Grange against trophy holders York at Osbaldwick CC on Thursday
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Woodhouse Grange beat Sheriff Hutton Bridge in Village Cup
Woodhouse Grange toppled Sheriff Hutton Bridge by eight wickets in the third round of the Yorkshire Tea National Village Cup. They will now travel to Walton or Staxton in the area final on Sunday, June 17. Sheriff Hutton Bridge batted first but
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Focusing on work of Business School
Preparing to shoot a video this month that will illustrate some of the ways in which businesses can work with us here at the Business School has focused my mind firmly on the topic of business-university collaboration. Since Richard Lambert’s review
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The skills for growth
A TRAINING company which has doubled in size six months after expanding to new premises has ambitious growth plans to create more jobs in Selby. The Skills Network moved to Abbey Court in November last year, and in January expanded into the upper floor
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Loft on high as Acorn counter to quell Vikings
YORK Acorn ARLFC ‘A’ repelled a Yorkshire League men’s group three invasion by Holderness Vikings. The key to the hosts’ 24-20 triumph was a whirlwind opening 20 minutes in which they surged 18-0 up. Karl Harton, Carl Loft and Adam Sellars, the
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Tennis: Poppleton's unbeaten run comes to an end
TWO matches survived the deluge in the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League division one as unbeaten Poppleton met title challengers Fulford. Sean Evans and Eleanor Bradshaw maintained their unbeaten record for Fulford to secure the points and move into
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Chase on at Beverley after Highland Warrior's decade with at least a win each year
The evergreen Highland Warrior, a professional racehorse if ever there was, heads to Beverley tomorrow with bright prospects of extending his remarkable annual winning record. Ever since he won his first race in 2002 when he was a three-year-old, Highland
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Darts: Frst win for Fulford Ladies Invitation newcomers
Newcomers Wigginton 2 eked out their first win in division six of the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League. They beat hosts Dunnington 68-40, a triumph started by a 9-3 success for Helen Brown and Vicky Miles. Mary Jordan and Pauline Wreglesworth
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Darts: Simon Whitlock backing Terry Temple
TWO-TIME World Championship finalist Simon Whitlock is backing Whitwell-on-the-Hill’s Terry Temple to become one of darts’ top 32 players. World number six Whitlock admitted he was given an anxious time by Temple before defeating the North Yorkshireman
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Darts: Rose blossoms in time for Acomb’s oche comeback
Rose Gray closed 93 in the pairs with Kate Rankeillor as Acomb ‘A’ recovered from a 2-0 deficit after mother and daughter Karen and Sam Stewart gave visitors Castle Howard Ox ‘B’ a good start in their York John Smith’s Ladies League division two match
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Hodgson encouraged by battling draw
England boss Roy Hodgson insisted his side remained a work in progress after a battling 1-1 Euro 2012 draw with France in Donetsk. Joleon Lescott put the Three Lions ahead with a header from point-blank range after half an hour but Manchester City
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Shevchenko brace sends Ukraine top of Group D
Two high-quality second-half goals from Andriy Shevchenko gave hosts Ukraine a triumphant start to Euro 2012 as they claimed a 2-1 victory over Sweden in Kiev. Sweden opened the scoring through Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the 53rd minute, but their lead
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City of York Athletics Club ace Richard Buck shines in Moscow
CITY of York Athletics Club ace Richard Buck is heading for the Olympic trials with another sub-46 second 400 metres under his belt. The 25-year-old clocked 45.96 seconds at the Moscow Challenge in the Russian capital, hot on the heels of his new outdoor
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Latest business appointments
Latest business appointments in York. Phil Robinson, Langleys PHIL Robinson, a private client associate at Langleys Solicitors in York, has qualified as a Notary Public. Phil, 35, has a portfolio of residential property clients
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Charity boss to travel 125 miles in 24 hours in a mobility scooter
A CHAIRMAN of a Yorkshire charity is tackling a 24-hour journey on a mobility scooter later this month to highlight the everyday challenges facing people with disabilities. Martyn Weller, of Acomb, in York, will be travelling from Disability
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Dales’ rent policy could be relaxed
RESTRICTIONS designed to limit the number of second-home-owners in the Yorkshire Dales National Park could be loosened because of the mortgage drought. The park introduced a policy in 2005 which meant new houses could only be sold or rented to
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Ann Scott, managing director of S Harrison Group
Ann Scott is a numbers woman. An accountant thrust into the public domain when she was appointed managing director, Ann is noted for her straightforwardness. It is she who will bring up the elephant in a room and stop an idea in its tracks before
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Reduced Shakespeare Company present The Complete World Of Sports (Abridged), York Theatre Royal, June 13 to 16
WHEN we Brits invent games, we give them to the rest of the world, whose gratitude is to promptly show us how to really play them. When the Americans invent games, they keep the complicated/ridiculous things to themselves and call them the World Series
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No way to treat hero
Anger and disgust were my emotions on reading of Freddie Johnson’s problem over attending the opening ceremony of the Bomber Command Memorial (The Press, June 9). He is aged 91 and completed 92 missions, yet the faceless ones have decided he cannot
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Oh, such memories
I GREW up on Blossom Street, which had a Wrights pork pie shop near the junction with Holgate Road. I worked in Goodramgate in the office at Savilles chemist. We enjoyed many a pork pie and sausage roll, meat and sausages and bacon. Their pies
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Go the whole hug
I FELT sad reading Helen Mead’s comment in her column of June 5 that not many of us go about hugging all and sundry, and that it’s not expected or wanted. To not want to respond to your children is quite different. Hugs are a simple but effective
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Look at the bikes
INTERESTING to see pictures of the naked cycle ride through York. I don’t know what the health and safety people thought of the state of undress, but at least the bikes seem to be kept in good nick! KA Roworth, Reighton Avenue, York.
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Leaning to limo
I AM all in favour of the purchase of a new limo at a cost in the region of £60,000 to York residents. This is a big improvement on the huge amounts wasted on the rejected, proposed, council HQ in Hungate. A great city like York and its Lord Mayor
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It’s a hand up, not a hand-out
MARK STEAD’S excellent article describing the anguish Tracy Cross is experiencing as this Government finally pulls the plug on Remploy indeed highlights this callous coalition now in charge (The Press, June 5). I knew Tracy well as we worked together
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18 due in court on drugs conspiracy charges
EIGHTEEN people have been charged with conspiracy to supply drugs, following a huge police investigation in York and North Yorkshire. Police say they seized more than £200,000 of drugs and a large amount of cash, during a six-month investigation
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Republicans wide of the mark again
IT’S INCREDIBLE how wide of the mark Republicans such as your correspondent Colin S Jeffrey are with their remarks about The Queen and the Royal family (Letters, June 8). One of the more hackneyed phrases they is “She has never done a proper job”. Obviously
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Power questions
MY letter of June 8 originally provided a link to the website the German daily, Der Spiegel, where the ‘Eurocent’ has finally dropped. So what are the consequences as nuclear generation disappears from Germany’s power mix with planned increasing
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‘Populist’ slant
WITH regard to your article about the Labour cabinet “keeping councillors in the dark” (The Press, June 8), I wonder if Coun Carol Runciman would care to enlighten the readership of The Press about the entirely populist decisions her party are making
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Hearts in mind
ANYONE who found themselves in the White Horse pub in Bootham on May 19 would no doubt have been surprised to find dozens of Heart of Midlothian FC fans, a long way from home but absolutely jubilant as their team won the Scottish Cup. Six years
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In the mood for good food
MAXINE GORDON meets the woman determined to change our mood with food. THE menu sounds intriguing. There are salads to improve your skin; a take-out lunch to boost energy levels and fresh juices to pick you up. Adele Carnell is a woman on a mission
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Web poison that spoils it for us all
ONE of the attractions of being a pioneer is the opportunity to reach a new frontier before “they” come in and impose rules and regulations, a place where you and your fellow pioneers can enjoy the freedom to set your own standards – until some
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War hero can go to memorial ceremony in London after all
The decorated war hero denied a place at the unveiling of a war memorial will be going to the ceremony after all. There was international outrage after The Press revealed that former rear gunner Freddie Johnson DFC, 91, had been refused a ticket
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Woman injured in A64 crash with school bus
Updated: A WOMAN had to be cut free from the wreckage after a car, a lorry and a bus carrying schoolchildren crashed near York. The accident happened shortly before noon yesterday, about half a mile east of the Hopgrove roundabout on the A64
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Lucky escape for van driver
THE driver of this wrecked van has told how he incredibly survived with just cuts, grazes and bruising when it crashed near York. James Whittaker, 22, said the roof of the Vauxhall Vivaro was sliced off after it left the A64, went down an embankment
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Let’s bring it all back
When I was a teenager I’d walk down to the garage just outside our village and sit with my friend who had a part-time job manning the petrol pumps. Every time a car pulled in, up she jumped and ran out to fill it up. It was easier then, not having to
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Driving centre is fined over noise
THE owner of a vehicle sport and testing centre near York faces a £5,734 court bill for repeatedly breaking noise limits on its activities. Residents living near Tockwith Multi-Drive Activity Centre’s base at Tockwith Airfield complained to Harrogate
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Review: Josh Widdicombe and Danny McLoughlin, The Basement, City Screen, York
An Edinburgh preview can be an irksome evening; still developing material, comedians constantly interrupt the show to consult notes, seek feedback and apologise for just how ropey the gig is becoming. It cannot help to have an obnoxious front
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Spate of burglaries hits York homes
Police arrested two men in the early hours of yesterday, following a burglary in York Road, Haxby. The arrested men were a 23-year-old from Easingwold and a 26-year-old from York. The burglary was one of five reported in the north of York overnight
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Selby blitz on theft of ‘cats’
POLICE in Selby have launched a new operation to stem a rise in the theft of catalytic converters. Operation BYTE – being run by the Selby District Community Safety Partnership and North Yorkshire Police – will allow drivers to have their converters
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Review: Dry Ice, York Theatre Royal, Saturday
TakeOver Festival has come to a close with a succession of intimate one or two-handers in its studio space. The final show of the festival was Dry Ice, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer and was directed by Friends star David
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Petrol burns mum back home
A MOTHER-OF-TWO who suffered severe burns when pouring petrol from a jerry can in her kitchen has now been released from hospital. Diane Hill has spent more than two months receiving treatment at the specialist burns unit at Pinderfields Hospital,
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Exhaust system stolen from disabled woman's vehicle
A WHEELCHAIR-bound York woman has spoken how she has lost her “lifeline” after heartless thieves stripped thousands of pounds worth of parts from her specially-adapted van. Kathryn Wynne-Thomas, 42, said the entire exhaust system had been stolen from
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Nominations sought for the best community projects
COMMUNITY projects which help to improve the lives of York residents will be recognised at The Press Community Pride Awards. Nominations are being sought for the best community project category of the awards to celebrate the city’s unsung heroes.
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Clean-up operation starts after floods
FLOOD waters have generally subsided following days of flooding due to torrential rain across North Yorkshire. Over the weekend, eight homes in Badger Hill, in York, were flooded as well as half a dozen in Flaxton and a further six in Stockton-on-the-Forest
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End-of-year exhibition at York College
A SHOWCASE of art, design and crafts is about to be unveiled as York College students put on an end-of-year celebratory exhibition. The annual York College Creative Show will include a diverse range of fine art, design, craft and media work
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Views of York - Life on the river
HENRY Barlow Carter painted this view a number of times, writes Peter Brown in his catalogue to the Views Of York exhibition at Fairfax House, where this painting is on loan from a private collection. An earlier version of the view, dating from 1840
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Railfest event proves a smash
THE National Railway Museum has announced record visitor figures for its Railfest extravaganza. More than 60,000 visitors visited the Leeman Road site over the nine days it was open to see the largest-ever gathering of record- breaking locomotives.
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Laser business to create 50 jobs in expansion
Updated: LASER measurement technology manufacturer and distributor, Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL), is to employ more than 50 new staff after expanding. The business, which currently employs 63 people, said it hoped to employ 120 people by 2014
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Brewery caters for coeliac sufferers
AN award-winning North Yorkshire brewery that caters for those who can’t digest barley is holding an open day tomorrow. Wold Top Brewery, of Hunmanby, will provide gluten-free cake, a half-pint of gluten-free beer and a guide that includes the garden
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Tesco collection ‘pod’ idea ditched
A SUPERMARKET chain has withdrawn its plans to install a “pod” for online shoppers in the car park of one of its York stores. Tesco had applied for the system to be set up at its Tadcaster Road branch, which would allow customers who order goods online
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Car park banner idea rejected by planners
THE owners of a car park in the centre of York have seen their plans for a multi-coloured banner at the site turned down. Q Park Ltd had applied for permission to display a white, black, blue and red PVC sign at the Shambles multi-storey car park in
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Chapel to ‘collect St Saviourgate memories’
PEOPLE are being asked to share their memories of the St Saviourgate area of York as Unitarians compile a history of their chapel and nearby buildings in the area. “Collecting days” are being organised at the Unitarian chapel in St Saviourgate
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York woman’s brush with fame in US reality TV show
A YORK woman has taken on a starring role in the hit American reality TV show My Big Red Neck Vacation. Wendy Metcalfe, 51, of Dringhouses, took on the role of housekeeper and maid in the show, which saw a family of 14 from Louisiana travel to Broughton
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Hundreds cancel their membership at Selby gym
HUNDREDS of people have frozen or cancelled their membership of a Selby leisure centre which was ravaged by fire earlier this year. The huge blaze which tore through Abbey Leisure Centre in February caused damage running into hundreds of thousands of
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Golden day for couple helps bring in £700
A COUPLE from York raised more than £700 for a multiple sclerosis charity when they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last week. Brenda and Michael Beaumont, of Huntington, held a party at New Earswick Bowls Club on Friday, and more than
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Scarborough traders oppose town hall move
SCARBOROUGH traders have formally objected to plans to move up to 340 town hall staff to new out-of-town offices. The town’s Chamber Of Trade is opposing plans by Scarborough Borough Council to relocate services from its existing headquarters to
