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June 20
100 years ago The Mayoress of Scarborough had formally opened the new Peasholm Park which contained a fresh water lake four acres in area, and also the new bathing bungalows on the North Beach, whilst the Mayor had formally opened the completed nine
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Wednesday 20 June: Tea-time 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! Where in York can this ornate guttering be found? Come back tomorrow for the answer
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York City's Danny Pilkington moves to Kidderminster Harriers
YORK CITY winger Danny Pilkington has signed for Kidderminster Harriers. The 22-year-old, who made 20 appearances for the Minstermen after signing for the Bootham Crescent club following a successful trial last August, joined Harriers this
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Burglars strike again at York warehouse
A YORK furniture warehouse has been burgled for the second time in a week. An intruder wearing a balaclava is believed to have climbed through a hole in the roof of Dave Dee’s Banana Warehouse in Piccadilly, barricaded the front door and smashed
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York City Knights Under-18s aiming to maintain run tonight
YORK City Knights will be showing England’s Euro 2012 game in Bar 13 tonight while the club’s under-18s are taking on their Halifax counterparts at Huntington Stadium. The Knights have not been able to rearrange their game (8pm) to avoid a clash with
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Thieves steal cash from pub
THIEVES have stolen a large sum of cash from a pub in North Yorkshire. They forced a rear door at the White Swan in Church Street, Kirkbymoorside, early on Monday morning, then stole a cash box from the bar area before leaving via the door they had forced
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Darron Gee welcomes home start to new season
YORK City assistant manager Darron Gee has welcomed a home start to the new League Two season despite the club’s patchy form at Bootham Crescent last term. The Minstermen will play host to Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday, August 18 as they mark their return
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Simon Dyson on the rise after US Open
YORK’S swing commander Simon Dyson was returning to Europe after a superb return to the competitive circuit. Despite being absent from tournament play for more than three weeks after being ordered by doctors to rest a potentially serious pelvic injuury
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Thrilling prospect of return to League for York City
YORK City assistant manager Darron Gee is thrilled by the “new set of challenges” that await the Bootham Crescent club next season. After the Capital One Cup trip to Doncaster Rovers during the week starting August 13, the Minstermen will open their
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Leeds United chief up for Wolves task
Neil Warnock is aware his Leeds side face a testing start to the new npower Championship season, but is hoping rival clubs will also fear facing his men. The veteran boss has endured a frustrating summer so far, with his public rebuilding plans seemingly
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York Municipal Tennis Tournament maestros shine in Clifton Park
ELEANOR BRADSHAW and Phil Langley seized the solo honours in the revived City of York Municipal Tennis Tournament played at Clifton Park. Appearing in her first final, Bradshaw beat her Fulford Tennis Club team-mate and defending champion Jill Rounce
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Poppleton top of Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League
Poppleton top two divisions of the Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League after respective wins at York. In the top-flight, Poppleton 1 had two pairs unbeaten at York 1, with John Moore and Paul Cook scoring the maximum three points and a crucial 10-2 final
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New Earswick All Blacks' Jack Sinclair on high in Jamaica win
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC youngster Jack Sinclair helped the BARLA Great Britain Cougars beat Jamaica 56-28 to wrap up a 2-0 Test series triumph in the Caribbean. As reported by The Press, Sinclair sat out the opening Test but scored two tries
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Gary Ballance top scores for Yorkshire at Derby
YORKSHIRE clinched their second Friends Life t20 win on the spin by beating Derbyshire at the County Ground by 41 runs last night. Moin Ashraf played a crucial role in a slick defence of 151 with career best figures of 4-18 as the hosts finished
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Paul Hanagan’s Royal Ascot date gets Aljamaaheer boost
Paul Hanagan, with two Royal Ascot winners to his credit on behalf of Richard Fahey, his former long-time boss, can add to his tally tomorrow on behalf of his new guv’nor, Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum. Hanagan rides Aljamaaheer in the opening Jersey Stakes
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Sally Trousdale, Pick and Mix Marketing Solutions
A YOUNG business woman from York is riding high with her new marketing company. Pick and Mix Marketing Solutions, founded by 29-year-old Sally Trousdale, is the latest company hoping for success at The Press Business Awards 2012. Miss Trousdale, a former
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Making most of our green spaces
CONSTRUCTION firms will be warned they ignore the need for green space at their peril at a York conference this week. The Construction Industry Council Yorkshire and Humber and Royal Institute of British Architects will stage its annual conference at
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Mindset For Success Workshop
YORK Professionals will stage A Mindset For Success Workshop & Hog Roast on June 27 at York Medical Society, Stonegate. Business coach Lisa Clifford will run a “fun and interactive workshop”. For information, go to york-professionals.co.uk/events/
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Accolade for Dean Court Hotel
YORK’S Dean Court Hotel has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honours hospitality excellence, is given to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor. David Brooks
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Limo? Cycle instead
NO wonder York’s council tax is so high. We had a mayor a few years ago, can’t remember her name, but she rode a bicycle. Fab. And good on her, I say. Yet the new mayor has to go and buy himself a £60,000 limo. What was wrong with the old limo? It
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Hotel plan shows up housing policy
IT IS hardly surprising that proposals have been submitted to turn the present council offices into a hotel (The Press, June 15). It was either that or student accommodation; nothing else would stand a chance of success. There is a glut of
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Stadium too small
YORK City FC has done York proud. But the new stadium? I’m sorry but it’s a Mickey Mouse stadium fit only for a Mickey Mouse team. How can York succeed when it will be the second smallest stadium in the football league? Some 8,000 locals were prepared
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‘Jackie was just a wonderful wife and mother. She lived for her kids’
A YORK man is coming to terms with the sudden death of his wife from a brain haemorrhage – only three years after the death of their son at the age of only 21. Shaun Metcalfe, of Healey Grove, off Malton Road, said the loss of his wife, Jackie, 48, had
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Nothing new here
COUN Simpson-Laing again repeats herself (Letters, June 16). She uses old news in mentioning the 19 council houses in Clifton started last year and says again that the council is working closely with developers to kick-start stalled developments (The
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Don’t extradite
The BBC and the rest of the press ignored the demonstration held outside Downing Street to protest at the extradition of UK citizens Babar Ahmad, Richard O’Dwyer, Syed Tahla Ahsan and Gary McKinnon to the USA. Between them these four examples
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Rotten manners all round
THE tennis tournament at Queens Club showed how we as a nation have descended to the depths in personal discipline issues. A player who assaults a line judge is quite rightly disqualified and his opponent awarded the match by default. Does the crowd
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Support meeting date
THE next meeting of the York Haematology Support Group is due to be held at Heworth Golf Club, Muncastergate, at 7pm on Thursday. A guest speaker from Macmillan Cancer Support will be attending. All welcome. We look forward to meeting you there.
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It was not our event
I WOULD like to clarify some points in Coun Ann Reid’s letter of June 14 regarding the York800 celebrations. The Winter Wonderland was not a council event but was run by a private company on land hired from the council. It did not come under
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My bus lane worries
AFTER attending an Acomb ward committee meeting on June 13 about the new bus lane to be constructed between Plantation Drive to Princess Drive, I urge local people to take action now. The lane is part of the £22 million Park&Ride scheme at Poppleton
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Anger grows at £3k-a-week cost of interim council chief
ANGER is growing about the estimated £3,000-a-week cost to City of York Council of appointing a new interim director of city and environment services. Independent councillor Mark Warters has written to chief executive Kersten England to request a full
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Nuclear way ahead
A £1 billion contract to refurbish the Rolls-Royce plant in Derby to build reactors for the next generation of nuclear submarines has been announced by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond. The deal is part of plans to replace the Vangard fleet, which
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It was an honour
AFTER visiting the rehabilitation centre for injured troops at Catterick, we are delighted that more than 600 motorcyclists participated and supported the Ride of Honour recently, from Squires Café, in Sherburn-in-Elmet to Marne Barracks at Catterick
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Social work worry
FROM March 14 to 30 this year, 1,000 social workers took part in an online survey with the following results: 85 per cent of workers experienced notable cuts in services in the last year; 78 per cent have noticed cuts or unfilled vacancies; the use
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Get back on track
IN reference to Chris Mangham’s letter of May 24, I must agree that David Cameron is leading his government to defeat at the next General Election. But the fact remains, whoever won the last election, they were in a no-win situation. As the message
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At least I do the recycling
Recently I wrote in this column about feeling immature, not a true grown-up. This week I read with interest a survey on this very subject, concluding that most of us don’t feel grown up until we are at least 26, have a mortgage and can change a light
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We will still need boots on ground
IT’S defence cuts time again and rumours are rife that one of the Yorkshire Regiment’s regular battalions may be in danger. Former general Lord Dannatt has warned cutting the Army’s personnel to 82,000 will mean Britain will not be able to
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100 jobs go at bakery
MORE than 100 staff at a North Yorkshire bakery have lost their jobs. The employees at Scarborough-based Bakery Products Ltd have been made redundant after administrators were unable to find a buyer for the company which acquired part of Woodhead the
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View to a future in prints
The North Yorkshire coast has inspired many an artist. Matt Clark meets one of the latest JESSICA Hogarth looks out from her bedroom window onto a view that would soften the hardest of hearts. In front of her is Ravenscar, in all its lofty, crumbly
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Biker, 63, seriously injured in crash
A MOTORCYCLIST suffered serious injuries in an accident in East Yorkshire. The 63-year-old biker was riding his Triumph motorcycle on the B1248 towards Beverley when he collided with a VW Golf at Kilnwick Crossroads. The biker suffered internal
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Vandals on car wrecking rampage
POLICE in Ryedale are appealing for information after vandals smashed two cars parked on the A170. Both cars were damaged between 7pm on Saturday and 1am on Sunday. Vandals used a rock to smash all the windows and damage the bonnet of a red Citroen
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York smokers cost the NHS £54.9 million
SMOKING in York costs the city an estimated £54.9 million a year, new figures have claimed. According to NHS North Yorkshire and York, that is the total cost linked to the 35,200 smokers in York, covering everything from medical care to picking up cigarette
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Homes plea for abandoned cats
A CAT and her kitten were dumped outside an East Yorkshire vet’s surgery. Owen Davies of the Vermuyden Vet Surgery, in Goole, found the pair in a crisp box on Saturday morning with a note which said: “Please help me. I need a home.” Nicknamed Salt and
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Award for ambulance service volunteer
AN ambulance service volunteer from a village near York has been recognised for the hundreds of lives he has helped save in his community. Tam Stalker, 67, from Wilberfoss, said he was “gobsmacked” after receiving the Community First Responder Appreciation
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LIVE: Olympic Torch in York
>>> Picture gallery from today's torch relay 7.20pm - So the torch is ready to spend the night in York and its bearers can put their feet up after a day they will never forget. But the party isn't over yet, as the thousands of people who
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Parish council's ‘village green’ Park&Ride plan anger
A PARISH council is to object over plans to build part of a new Park&Ride site in York on land which was made a village green 45 years ago. The creation of the 600-space car park at Poppleton will play a major role in City of York Council’s
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Views of York...
This view of the Minster from the city walls is as popular today as it was in the time of the painter John White Abbot – though it has changed considerably, not least as a result of the arrival of the railways. Abbot’s 1791 watercolour may not itself
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Helicopters inspect overhead lines
FARMERS and landowners in North Yorkshire have been warned to expect low-level helicopter patrols inspecting overhead power lines later this month. Each year, the electricity distributor inspects about half its high voltage overhead network, checking
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Volunteers needed for National Park
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help the North York Moors National Park Authority to help answer questions from the public about the attractions, wildlife and heritage of the North York Moors and so help people get the most out of their visits. Volunteers
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Households get behind England in Euro 2012
ENGLAND fans in York have gone flag crazy to support the national football team at Euro 2012. These two houses in Acomb have been bedecked in flags and banners, as as a sign of support for Roy Hodgson’s men currently going for glory in Poland and Ukraine
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How York study gave writer an open-minded ‘bombshell’
Wild Swans author Jung Chang will be in York on Thursday to talk about her life and work as part of the Festival of Ideas. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. JUNG Chang will never forget her first time in Britain. It was 1978, a couple of years after the death
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Roy Hodgson unconcerned by expectation
Roy Hodgson welcomes the growing anticipation of Euro 2012 success. After leaving for Poland and Ukraine amid such low expectations, England's opening two performances have triggered far more optimism, although a point from their meeting with co-hosts
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Italy book quarter-final berth
Antonio Cassano and Mario Balotelli fired Italy into the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 after a tense 2-0 victory over the Republic of Ireland. The AC Milan striker headed home from Andrea Pirlo's 35th-minute corner before substitute Balotelli added a
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Navas sends Spain through to Euro 2012 quarter-finals
Substitute Jesus Navas scored a late goal to send Spain through to the Euro 2012 quarter-finals as Group C winners but only after a mighty scare as they beat Slaven Bilic's unfortunate Croatia 1-0. Mario Mandzukic and Ivan Rakitic both had earlier
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York architectural award winners unveiled
The ten winners of the York Design Awards 2012 were announced at a ceremony at the Yorkshire Museum, with the projects including a restored well, a swimming pool and an historic ceiling. Four judges, headed by leading architect Robert Adam, viewed
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Sweet success for Chocolate attraction
YORK’S newest visitor attraction, Chocolate – York’s Sweet Story, has already won a tourism award. The attraction in Kings Square, which opened on March 31 and tells the story of chocolate in York, has received the Group Travel Organiser Editors’ Award
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Cigarette case sale thriller
A CIGARETTE case presented to the man who solved the mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance in North Yorkshire is to be sold at auction. Bob Leeming, who was a saxophonist at a Harrogate hotel in 1926, received the engraved case after alerting
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Vigilance urged after Selby break-ins
POLICE in Selby are urging residents to be vigilant after a spate of burglaries over the weekend. Officers are investigating a burglary and an attempted burglary in Burton Salmon and a further burglary in Hazlewood between Saturday and Sunday.
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Countryside show at Askham Bryan College
HUNDREDS of visitors enjoyed attractions ranging from tractor rides to butchery demonstrations when a countryside show was staged at a college near York. Askham Bryan College threw open its doors on Sunday, with attractions including a dog show, sheep
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Event aims to get more pupils riding to school
MORE THAN 200 children are to take part in an event that aims to encourage more kids to cycle to school. The Big Cycle Ride, on June 21, will see pupils from Year Six at Beverley school cycle to Beverley Leisure complex where there will be activities
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Ryedale aims to boost low wages
A BID to boost low wages in Ryedale will focus on building on the success of hi-tech industry. A three-year action plan, run by Ryedale District Council, includes promoting the area’s racing and shooting sector and reviving hopes for a technology
