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June 23
100 years ago Mr KE Wedmore wrote: “Those who have read in your columns Mr Gulland's letter referring to the undesirable postcards displayed in some local shop windows may be interested in seeing how others are dealing with the situation as shown by
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Saturday 23 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! Where is this bridge? Come back tomorrow for the answer. Yesterday's answer:
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Serious crash on A19
THE A19 was blocked at Deighton following a serious multi-vehicle crash this afternoon. Police say the road is now clear again, but said they could not provide further detail.
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York CCTV coverage to be stepped up
MORE staff could be drafted in to monitor York’s CCTV network once the city’s new council headquarters are completed. The system was criticised in 2010 after a former member of staff in City of York Council’s CCTV control room claimed it was regularly
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Review: Suzanne Vega, The Close Up Tour Grand Opera House, York
NEW York folk-pop waif Suzanne Vega has never forgotten her previous York gig in 1996: her bass player was beaten up by a tourist who had climbed on to the wrong bus and in a separate incident Suzanne was confronted by a schizophrenic. Wednesday
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Bin cull sparks row in York
HUNDREDS of bins are being removed from York’s streets to save money – but the move has drawn criticism. The city council agreed in its February budget to reduce the number of public litter bins to save money emptying and maintaining them,
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New venue for Peasholm concert tonight
DUE to today's heavy rain and further poor weather expected, tonight's Spa Orchestra Peasholm Centenary concert has been moved to The Spa's Grand Hall. The concert, which starts at 8pm, will feature Bond themes and songs from the shows including My Fair
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God and the Devil meet up in York
GOT met the Devil in York today - but not even they could banish the teeming rain. Satan, aka actor Graeme Hawley, was convinced though that by the time he takes part in the York Mystery Plays in August, the sun will finally be streaming down. Graeme
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Review: The Taming Of The Shrew, Ripley Castle, near Harrogate
SERIOUSLY, are they really going to perform in this? It was not an unreasonable question, as the thunder roared and the rain pellets bounced off the train at Knaresborough station, only 45 minutes before Thursday’s 7.30pm performance was due to start
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HGV and two vehicles in A19 crash
Three vehicles, including a HGV containing a 29-ton load, were involved in a crash in North Yorkshire today. The incident occurred at about 11.40am on the A19 near Eggborough, and involved a Renault Clio, a Mercedes Sprinter van, and a HGV
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Funeral director resigns over collection cash mix-up
A FUNERAL director has resigned after failing to ensure that hundreds of pounds collected at a York funeral was handed over to the Salvation Army. Dignity Funeral Services has launched an investigation into the failure, which happened after
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Thorman remains focused on Knights job
CHRIS THORMAN stressed he remained focused on the job at hand with York City Knights – starting with tonight’s Co-operative Championship trip to Sheffield Eagles. The Press revealed yesterday the Knights’ 31-year-old player-coach, above, will hang up
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Win a car valet service from Autosheen
SUMMER sunshine can show your car’s imperfections, particularly those created by exposure to the great outdoors – the sun and pollutants can fade and dull your paintwork, while insects and birds can leave difficult-to-shift deposits. If
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Ken Dodd’s Happiness Show, Grand Opera House, York, June 23
KEN Dodd is absolutely discumknockerated – that’s Knotty Ash speak for “over the moon” – to be touring again with his Happiness Show at the age of 84. “I love slaving over hot audiences because they love a good laugh and I never get tired of entertaining
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Lightning strikes house in North Yorkshire village
UPDATE: 4.45pm - Firefighters in North Yorkshire said they responded to more than 25 flooding calls as a wave of heavy rain moved across the county. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said crews were sent to 14 locations,
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Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4
TWO years ago, the Peugeot 3008 entered the landscape with all guns blazing, scooping a car of the year award from a leading motoring magazine before it was barely off the low-loaders. It then settled down to family life as a smart and stylish
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Getting rid of the bad habits
Motoring Editor STEVE NELSON tries to kick some bad habits as he sets out on the next leg of his journey to becoming an advanced driver OLD habits die hard, they say. How true that is, when it comes to driving. Six sessions into my Skill
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Ross Noble, Mindblender, Grand Opera House, York, September 26 and 27; Hull City Hall September 28
NORTH Eastern master surrealist and king of improvisational comedy Ross Noble is marking his 21st anniversary in stand-up by mounting his first British show in two years. Mindblender will be on the road from late September to December, including the
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Dara O Briain, Craic Dealer, York Barbican, October 4
MOCK The Week host Dara O Briain will make his York Barbican debut on October 4 with his new stand-up show, Craic Dealer. The Irish comedian last played York in April 2010 when he brought his This Is The Show tour to the Grand Opera House.
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Dreamboats and Petticoats, Grand Opera House, York, June 25 to June 30
FORGET all that cynicism about X Factor contestants being chewed up and spat out the moment they’re voted off. In 2008, 19-year-old Scott Bruton became the third contestant to leave the live show when his rendition of I Can’t Make You Love Me in a sing-off
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80’s Mania, Grand Opera House, York, June 22
WHAT is the new element in the 2012 version of 80’s Mania at the Grand Opera House, York, tonight at 7.30pm? “I am!” says legendary Top Of The Pops and BBC Radio One presenter Mike Read, who will be your Video Roadshow Host in a show that is in its
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Roy Hodgson accepts Capello comparisons
Roy Hodgson has admitted there is no escaping the comparisons between his management style and that of predecessor Fabio Capello in the build-up to England's Euro 2012 quarter-final with Italy. Although Capello was in Poland for the early part of the
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Ronaldo powers Portugal through
Cristiano Ronaldo's late header helped Portugal into the semi-finals of the European Championships with a hard-fought 1-0 win over the Czech Republic in Warsaw. The Real Madrid forward twice hit the woodwork and saw his side have a goal chalked out
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Joe Stilgoe, National Centre for Early Music, York, June 24
THE Sunday afternoon jazz series at the National Centre for Early Music continues with Joe Stilgoe, son of songwriter Richard Stilgoe. He is described as a serious musician having fun, and his singing, piano playing and sense of humour have made
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Will Young and Plan B Dalby Forest gigs sold out
NEXT week’s concerts by Will Young and Plan B at Dalby Forest have both sold out. Indeed the Forestry Commission says the open-air gigs by Young next Friday and Plan B’s Ben Drew next Saturday have been oversubscribed. A combined total of 10,000 music
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Jazz notes
EARLIER in the year, Jazz Notes was bowled over by a chance earful of the Strictly Come Dancing orchestra on TV. Whether or not you are a fan of the sequined twirlers, don’t miss the fabulous band directed by Dave Arch and the uncannily accurate vocalists
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Americana (Reprise) ***
“I’M deep inside myself, but I’ll get out somehow”, sang Neil Young on his classic 1975 album On The Beach and, yes, Young has been a little less introspective lately. Living With War, a most brutal and effective attack on Bush and Blair’s horror
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Puccini’s Messa da Gloria and Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri, York Minster, June 27
THE University of York Choir and Symphony Orchestra focus on two sacred works by composers much better known for their operatic work in Wednesday’s concert at York Minster. Puccini’s Messa da Gloria and Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri provide a festive
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Man charged over York stabbing
A MAN has been charged and remanded in custody following a stabbing in York. David Paul Newton, 27, has been charged with wounding with intent after a 30-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen at an address in Cambridge Street on Wednesday
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Smooth drive steers Simon Dyson towards top
YORK’S Simon Dyson engaged a higher gear to post a challenging score in the first round of the BMW International Open. The world golf ranked number 48 switched on the power on the inward nine at the Gut Larchendof course in Cologne to be within
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Reverend And The Makers, @reverend_makers (Cooking Vinyl) ****
Three years is a long time to take away but Reverend And The Makers are back with their quirkily entitled third album. The title is same as their Twitter moniker and lead singer Jon McClure says the songs are about “the little situations I see living
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David Bowie, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (RCA) *****
FIVE Years is the blistering opener on this ground-breaker – now it’s 40 years since the original was unleashed from the bewildering mind of David Bowie. Bizarrely for such an anniversary, there’s nothing new – no extra tracks, no unearthed versions
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Maximo Park, The National Health, (V2) *****
“ENGLAND is ill and it is not alone,” wails Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith as the Newcastle-based group’s fourth album gets into turbo-charged gear with the title track – a comment on the state of our recession-riddled nation. Don’t mistake The
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Usher, Looking 4 Myself (RCA Records) ***
YOU won’t be finding too many musings on the worldwide economic crisis or the state of things in Syria on the seventh album from R&B raunch-machine Usher. Song titles such as Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Scream and Lemme See tell you all you need to know
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The Enemy, Streets In The Sky, (Cooking Vinyl) **
IT’S make-or-break for The Enemy. After the travesty of sophomore record Music For The People, an ego-inflated collection that couldn’t have been further away from its title, the Coventry lads return with reputations on the line. Are they restored
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Roberta Flack, Let It Be Roberta (Sony/429 Records) **
EVERYBODY needs good neighbours. And so it seems that Roberta Flack’s nextdoor neighbours in the 1970s were Mr & Mrs Lennon. The remaining former residents of NYC’s Dakota Building are still bessie mates apparently and this project of Roberta Flack
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York City transfer target Jon Shaw signs for Luton Town
Updated: YORK City transfer target Jon Shaw has signed for beaten Blue Square Bet Premier play-off finalists Luton Town. Shaw held talks with City manager Gary Mills earlier this month but has opted to stay in non-League football at the same level he
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets (Capitol/EMI) ****
Just as Bob Seger was perfecting his distinctive brand of blue-collar American rock, along came Bruce Springsteen and, with those unforgettable power chords which launched the epic Born To Run, seized Seger’s crown. Since then, Springsteen has conquered
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Nicklas in as Knights boss backs good response
THE players will not be adversely affected by Chris Thorman’s impending switch to Huddersfield and will give their all to lift York City Knights up the Championship standings. That was the view of player-coach Thorman himself as he quickly got back
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Joe Walsh, Analog Man (Decca) ***
IT’S been 20 years since the sometime Eagle brought out a solo album. At 64, he still has this or that to say, even if the title track is basically a grumpy-old-man outing, although cheerily done and with some good and nasty guitar playing. Funk
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A1(M) Eastern Gateway, The Gallery at Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, until July 8
IMAGINE a new motorway to be constructed across the North York Moors, linking Thirsk with Whitby? Wolds artist Ian Mitchell considers this possible scenario in his teasing exhibition, A1(M) Eastern Gateway, in The Gallery at Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole
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Jane McAdam Freud, Flesh & Stone, New School House Gallery, York, until August 25
IN the last weeks of Lucian Freud’s life, his daughter Jane made sketches of the artist on his death bed. For the past year, since those intimate sessions last July, she has been creating a new body of sculptural work that boldly confronts
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Aggies FC heading to England thanks to York company
THEY raised $60,000 in a bid to realise their dream of playing football in England and, thanks to a York-based company, it has come true for a team of young American players. Aggies FC, an under-13s outfit based in Utah, are in the Minster city on a
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Poppleton Juniors FC sporting dinner
Poppleton Juniors FC stage a sporting dinner on Saturday, June 30, at Manor School, York, and tickets are selling fast. The main guest speaker is ex-Manchester United and Northern Ireland legend Norman Whiteside, above, and there will be a turn by comedian
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Jonny Bairstow savours first England appearance at Headingley
Jonny Bairstow hopes to take another notable step in his cricketing career today by making his first appearance for England on his home ground at Headingley. The York-based Yorkshire wicketkeeper-batsman is in the reckoning to play in today’s third and
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Deer do reaps US rewards
IN the old days they would have called this a plot. Buy a horse, train him to win a nice race over the pond and then cash in on the sale. It didn’t turn out quite as easy as that for York owner Andrew Bonarius, and his city-based Wildcard Racing syndicate
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Defending champions York Cricket Club marooned in rain trance
YORK Cricket Club are desperate for the rain to stop. The Clifton Parkers were foiled last weekend by the inclement conditions and there is a similarly gloomy outlook as the Shipton Road outfit prepare to take on leaders Harrogate in the Solly Sports
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North Yorkshire aces pit wits against Oz phenomenon Black Caviar
Three North Yorkshire trainers are aiming to spoil the biggest Australian party Royal Ascot has ever seen tomorrow. Kevin Ryan, David Barron and Mark Johnston will all saddle runners against the brilliant Black Caviar, Australia’s greatest-ever standard
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Close The Coalhouse Door, York Theatre Royal, June 26 to 30
CHRIS Connel has left behind one coal-mining play to star in another. After the massive high of taking The Pitmen Painters to the National Theatre, the West End and Broadway, the Newcastle actor is on tour in a revival of Alan Plater’s Close The Coalhouse
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Ampleforth hosts National Road Race championships
North Yorkshire is gearing up to host the National Road Race cycling championships on Sunday, writes Alex Reid. Among the competitors will be elite road racers, including several Olympic hopefuls, competing for the coveted striped jersey.
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Jason Plato eyes ‘home’ success at Croft Circuit
The British Touring Car Champion-ship makes its annual return to the Croft Circuit this weekend with two-time champion Jason Plato seeking home comforts, writes Alex Reid. The Geordie, with 69 race wins to his name, is a BTCC legend but has suffered
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City Screen gets ready for Wagner
CITY Screen, York, is going big on Wagner in June and July. The season began two nights ago with Wagner’s Dream, a documentary account of how the New York Metropolitan Opera has created its production of Richard Wagner’s operatic marathon,
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Martial arts: New sponsorship deal for Wes Nunns
SCALING new heights is York martial arts warrior Wes Nunns. He celebrated seizing his second British title with a new sponsorship deal with York scaffolding firm SAY Scaffolding. Nunns’ second true-Brit success was achieved at the Cage
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DV8Fest returns after a gap year
YORK’S annual summer festival of alternative music returns next weekend. Last year, Gary Numan headlined the DV8Fest. This year, it will be acts such as Terrorvision, The Psychedelic Furs, EMF, Utah Saints, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and The
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Angling: Bleak is a bonus for ace Sturdy
A BLEAK result was savoured by John Sturdy, who triumphed in Shepherd Angling Club’s first match of the new river season. The river Ouse at Acaster Malbis was swollen with extra water and the weather did not help with very strong winds and heavy rain
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Top award for Veronica Wilkinson
A DIRECTOR of a York-based company is celebrating after picking up an award from the Chartered Insurance Institute. Veronica Wilkinson, director and company secretary of Charles Wilkinson Financial Planning Ltd, was presented with an exceptional service
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PartyClub, The Duchess, York, June 26
Introducing...rising York band PartyClub, already being aired on BBC Radio 1. BEING in a band at university is an age-old cliché, with students and their mates playing at house parties or dingy basement venues. However, some student bands manage to
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Newly launched brand aims to attract business events to York
CONFERENCE venues in York have hailed a new campaign by tourism chiefs aimed at boosting their bookings. Organisers of Visit York 4 Meetings say its stronger and more coherent marketing campaign will stimulate business in a city with the most diverse
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Shops site to put Leeds in retail league table top three
A HUGE shopping development planned for Leeds could see the city climb above Manchester in the UK retail league table, say developers. The Trinity Leeds scheme is attracting big-name stores, according to the chief executive of Land Securities, the company
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Ayckbourn Shorts, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, June 22 and 23
SEEING one play by Scarborough’s own Sir Alan Ayckbourn in an evening is a treat. Seeing six in one night… some might say that’s a bit of an indulgence. That’s exactly what theatre-goers in York are being offered over the next two nights, however. And
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Under starter’s orders for community stadium development
WORK on the first phase of a stadium and superstore development on the edge of York is set to start this autumn – if no last-ditch attempt is made to block it. The Government confirmed this week it will not call in proposals for a new 6,000
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Dandy Dick, Grand Opera House, York, August 13 to 18
PATRICIA Hodge has done plenty in a distinguished, Olivier Award-winning career on stage and screen but never performed in York. She will rectify that when the first revival since 1987 of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s 19th century horse-racing
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Two arrested after man, 30, is stabbed
A 30-YEAR-OLD man is in hospital after being stabbed several times in the abdomen. A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said two men, aged 25 and 27, from York, had been arrested in connection with the stabbing in Cambridge Street, off Holgate
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Terry’s factory site sale sparks ‘positive’ interest
HOPES have been raised that one of York’s biggest developments could be on the verge of revival after a string of firms handed in bids to take on the project. Most of the former Terry’s chocolate factory site – earmarked for a £165 million
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Lorry driver hid stolen whisky behind hedge
A LORRY driver who hid 180 bottles of whisky behind a hedge in a layby instead of delivering them to The Netherlands has received a suspended prison sentence. Mark Varley initially claimed the Hanky Bannister Scotch blended whisky, worth more than
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Industrial action by GPs appears to have limited impact in York
DOCTORS’ surgeries in York were largely unaffected by yesterday’s national day of industrial action. British Medical Association (BMA) members carried out their threatened one-day action, though GP surgeries in York said they had done all they could
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Story-telling Festival at Museum Gardens
UNIVERSITY of York students dressed in costume will be entertaining visitors to Museum Gardens this weekend with a story-telling festival. The festival, organised in partnership with the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens, is part of the university’s Summer
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Body found in parked car identified
A man whose body was found in a parked car in North Yorkshire has been named by police as Aaron William Deacon, from Worcester. The 22-year-old apprentice farrier, who worked for a contractor and had worked at Richard Fahey’s yard in Malton, was found
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26 arrested after football violence
A 15-year-old boy from Selby was one of 26 people arrested in connection with a massive disorder which caused 61 trains to be delayed and seven to be cancelled. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is the youngest of the group of men from
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Why are we stuck behind the times?
HAVING just more or less completed the fabulous York Science & Innovation Grand Tour 2012, I note we pride ourselves in this fair city of having had living among us mere “common mortals” the likes of genius Henry Hindley, 18th-century clockmaker
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Minister marked down
Irrespective of the quality of Michael Gove’s latest idea, its timing is abysmal. Throughout the county and country, teenagers have been working damned hard with their schools to achieve the best qualifications they can. They’ve sat exams, agonised
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The whole truth?
HOW many current and former politicians, spin doctors and News International executives have had their fingers crossed when they took an oath on the Bible to tell the whole truth at the Leveson inquiry? Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington.
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Pain can only increase
DESPITE the outcome of last weekend’s Greek general election, the serious problems with the euro and the EU will continue. The 100 billion euro bailout to the Spanish banks will not achieve very much and will most certainly not solve the financial
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Art & Music exhibition, York Art Gallery, until December 31
THE relationship between art and music is being celebrated at a new exhibition in York Art Gallery. Works by LS Lowry, Walter Sickert and Andy Warhol have been brought together for the Art & Music exhibition, which will showcase more than 40 works from
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Man fired rifle after argument
TERRIFIED eyewitnesses watched as a man pulled an air rifle out of a bag and pointed it at another man’s chest during an argument in a York street. Tristan Adrian Cross then fired the gun into the sky after the second man fled in panic. Cross was
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Making most of space
THE last couple of days of summer weather has enabled the true benefit to be enjoyed of the newly available space uncovered in Parliament Street. Where? It is the area previously occupied by the defunct “splash palace”. The pristine open space
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Great at public events
CITY of York Council’s sports and active leisure team along with partners and clubs from around the city came together with the Olympic organisers to put on a marvellous event at Knavesmire for the arrival of the torch on Tuesday afternoon. I was
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Mount School pupils staging a charity concert
PUPILS at The Mount School in York are staging a concert in aid of St Leonard’s Hospice. The concert has been organised in recognition of the care provided by the hospice for a parent at the school who died last year. Year 8 student Ruby Haswell,
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York artist Sophie Foster celebrates International Day Of Slowness
YORK artist Sophie Foster has been creating art at a snail’s pace for a prestigious exhibition in Sunderland to celebrate the International Day Of Slowness on Thursday (June 21). Her practice involves “choosing and editing natural processes
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Clocking on the bright Shift
The global digital revolution continues to gather pace – and if you don't want to be left behind, an all-day conference at the Theatre Royal next month could be for you. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on Shift Happens. MODERN communications are amazing. Fifty
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Health service changes in focus
A MEETING will be held in Selby to enable people to have their say on health services in the area. The meeting will provide background about the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which will take over from NHS North Yorkshire and York
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York school team to run York 10K in memory of headteacher
A HEADTEACHER is continuing to inspire children and staff at a York school – a year after she died from cancer. Carol Weston continued to work at Knavesmire Primary School when she was fit enough during her six-month fight against cancer. She
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In the sporting pressure cooker
AMID all the excitement of the Olympic torch passing through our area earlier this week, the photo on the right kept coming to my mind. It shows a totally drained athlete on the verge of tears sitting on the track after running in an Olympic
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York MP in affordable housing row
A YORK MP has claimed affordable home-building in the city and across Yorkshire has “collapsed” after Government figures showed work did not start on any new properties last year. Official statistics from the Homes and Communities Agency said construction
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Call for local watchdogs to check councillors’ conduct
People are needed to help Ryedale District Council deal with complaints against councillors alleging misconduct. All local authorities have to appoint at least one independent person to help consider allegations that councillors have behaved inappropriately
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No prosecutions over stray horses
NO ONE has been prosecuted by council chiefs over the past decade for allowing horses to stray on to York roads. However, City of York Council said seven horses were seized from the roadside by the authority in 2010 on animal welfare grounds
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This job has a ring to it
Weddings are a way of life for Robert Livesey. STEPHEN LEWIS met the man who marries. ROBERT Livesey reckons he has married about 10,000 women over the past 30 years or so. He’s married about the same number of men. Little wonder they call
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Cycling challenge to aid people with sight problems
Supporters of a charity which helps people with sight problems are being urged to get on their bikes and raise vital funds. York Blind And Partially Sighted Society is staging a sportathon with Energise from June 25 to 29, and is hoping to recruit
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Best of York's buskers win street music awards
THE best of York’s buskers have been rewarded for keeping residents and visitors entertained. Buskival – a two-day celebration of street performance over the Diamond Jubilee weekend – saw acts perform in various locations, with those who
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Charity opens community gyms in York
IT WAS founded by former boxer and approved school housemaster Jack Raine to champion children’s welfare and sporting opportunities. Now, after changing its name from Off the Hook to the Jack Raine Community Foundation, a York charity has moved into
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Alert over electric cigarette hazard
RESIDENTS in East Yorkshire are being warned about unsafe electronic cigarettes after they were found on sale at a Sunday market. The eHealth - Cigarette is currently subject to a European Safety Recall because the brand’s charger unit could give users
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MPs to consider dog welfare moves
WAYS of cracking down on irresponsible dog owners are to come under the spotlight of a House of Commons group chaired by a North Yorkshire MP. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, of which Thirsk and Malton MP Anne McIntosh is chair, is
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Clash over new plans for Malton war memorial
PLANS to transform a war memorial could be approved next week despite objections from an organisation which protects monuments to the fallen. Malton and Norton Rotary Club has drawn up proposals to open up the area around the memorial in Malton
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Neil Buchanan exhibition, The Acorn Gallery, Market Place, Pocklington
THE Acorn Gallery, in Pocklington, is exhibiting the debut collection of fine art painted by Neil Buchanan, the creator, artist, producer and presenter behind the BAFTA award-winning television show Art Attack. Called Neil Buchanan’s Hope
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Hospital’s cancer support is praised
A SUPPORT centre at York Hospital for people with cancer has been recognised by a national charity for the quality of its services. The Cancer Care Centre at Wigginton Road has been awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark (MQEM). Audrey
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Husband and wife team help to give the gift of sight
PEOPLE in some of the poorest countries in the world have been given the gift of sight from a husband and wife team from York. Colin and Ruth Perrott, both 59, of Bishopthorpe, have helped to send a quarter-of-a-million pairs of glasses over the past
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York teachers put forward for Community Pride awards
FOUR of York’s top teachers have been nominated for a Community Pride award. The quartet from Copmanthorpe, Dringhouses, Huntington and Clifton have been nominated as Teacher Of The Year in The Press Community Pride awards to celebrate the city’s unsung
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City of York Council services up to standard
A CRACKDOWN on rogue traders and counterfeit goods saved consumers in York £347,247 last year. The success of City of York Council’s trading standards team was revealed in a report on how key council services in the city are performing and
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Record recycling rates after trial
RECYCLING rates in East Yorkshire have hit record levels after fortnightly bin collections were tested out in the region. Areas taking part in the trial recycled an average of 67 per cent of their waste last month, the highest figure since records
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Potash MD named
THE man chosen to lead a major potash mining project in North Yorkshire has been named as Alan Watling, former CEO of African Minerals Limited. Mr Watling is to take up the position of managing director the York Potash Project, a proposed state-or-the-art
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Volunteers invited to drop-in sessions
DROP-IN sessions for anyone interested in volunteering to help individuals, organisations or the environment have been organised by Selby District Volunteer Centre. More than 200 people have registered with the centre since its launch in 2011.
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Teacher Andy Seed to launch new book at Malton bookstore
A RYEDALE author whose first book – All Teachers Great and Small – was a big success will launch its sequel next month at a Malton bookstore. All Teachers Wise And Wonderful is another James Herriot-style humorous recollection of life in the the Dales
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Fun day at Homestead Park
STORY telling and a magician helped make a fun day for youngsters go with a swing. The event, staged by the Clifton and Burton Early Years Partnership, was held at Homestead Park, Clifton, featured a range of activities and games for children from
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Steve Cram visits St Leonard’s Hospice
Steve Cram the former Olympic athlete and 1,500m and 2,000m world record holder presented a work of art, inspired by the Paralympics, to help fundraising at St Leonard’s Hospice. His visit to York, as ambassador for Yorkshire Bank, also included
