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Gregory steps down as SCY chairman
RICHARD Gregory OBE has stepped down as chair of Science City York (SCY). Mr Gregory, who won the Lifetime Achievement award at The Press Business Awards 2010 for his services to the city, held the position for seven years. Professor Brian
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New police HQ unlikely to be in York, says police commissioner
NORTH Yorkshire’s new police headquarters are unlikely to be in York, the police and crime commissioner has said. In a live webchat, Julia Mulligan - who was elected last November - discussed her draft Police and Crime Plan for 2013 to 2017, fielding
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Olympic bottle thrower sentenced
THE man who tried to disrupt the biggest event of the London Olympics has been sentenced to an eight-week community order. Ashley Gill-Webb, from South Milford, near Selby, used an old ticket to get into the Olympic Stadium on August 5 last year
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Volunteers search for North Yorkshire woman missing for a week
More than 70 volunteers have joined forces in the search for a North Yorkshire woman who has now been missing for a week. Barbara Colling, 68, of Helmsley,was last seen seen walking along the B1257 near Abbotts Hag at about 9.30am last Monday.
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York City punished for poor finishing - Mills
YORK City manager Gary Mills believes poor finishing is blighting his team’s League Two campaign. The Minstermen went down 4-1 at home to Morecambe on Saturday with Mills left reflecting on the failure of Paddy McLaughlin and Dan Parslow to take
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Thornton hails Knights’ spirit
GARY THORNTON bemoaned a game-changing nine-minute spell which brought about a 32-22 defeat in York City Knights’ Championship opener at Whitehaven – but he praised his team for the late salvo that earned a bonus point. The Knights were well in
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Memories of Coney Street
Have you ever lived or worked in Coney Street – and would you be willing to share your memories? If so, the York Archaeological Trust and oral historian Van Wilson would love to hear from you. Van is working on the latest book in her popular
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Energy levels up in alcohol-free month
Last month we spoke to Harry Baines as he set himself the challenge of a month without drink. RICHARD CATTON caught up with Harry again to find out how tough it was to stay on the wagon and whether he feels better after a January of nothing stronger
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York City 1, Morecambe 4
VISITING supporters at Bootham Crescent on Saturday celebrated their team’s 4-1 win with renditions of an old Morecambe and Wise favourite. York City, meanwhile, seemingly paid their own tribute to the 1970s comedy heavyweights with a slapstick
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Bluebirds take flight with another three points from Leeds United
IN a division of fine margins, Leeds United may rue their failure to finally end their hoodoo against runaway Championship leaders Cardiff. Despite a below-par display by the visitors, they escaped from Elland Road with a 1-0 win to restore their
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Total Sports United rise to second
TOTAL Sports United jumped up to second place in the division one table after beating Haxby United 4-1 in the York Minster Engineering Football League. Ben Brannigan scored twice in the first half to set up the win, with Will Wood and Dan Walton
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Washout woe for Pickering Town and Selby Town
WATERLOGGED pitches kept North Yorkshire duo Pickering Town and Selby Town sidelined in the Northern Counties East League. Premier division Pickering saw their clash with Staveley postponed at Mill Lane. The Pikes will now be hoping their North
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Wigginton Grasshoppers Holding on in title race
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers kept pace with premier division leaders Dunnington thanks to a 1-0 win over Terrington Glory in the York Minster Engineering Football League. Second-placed Wigginton inflicted Glory’s first away defeat in 16 games thanks
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Dutton double sends York Acorn FC 12 points clear
THE top-of-the-table clash in York Minster Engineering Football League division four went in favour of leaders York Acorn. Acorn opened up a 12-point lead with their 3-0 win over rivals Tadcaster Town. Leigh Dutton hit a brace for Acorn to
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Whitehaven 32, York City Knights 22
THIS dual-registration system is not universally liked in rugby league but at least York City Knights fans can argue that Tom Lineham, one such player on their books, is actually one of their own, having been propelled into the Super League picture
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Cheltenham Festival bid in the offing for Fentara
FENTARA could yet go to the Cheltenham Festival after the mare ran a huge race in the Grade 2 totepool.com Towton Novices’ Chase at Wetherby Racecourse. Tim Walford’s eight-year-old, trained in Sheriff Hutton, came to the last fence in the £30,500
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John Quinn’s Champion Hurdle hopeful tipped to score at Doncaster
John Quinn will be hoping for better luck at Doncaster today than he had at Musselburgh yesterday. The Norton trainer saddles his Champion Hurdle hope Countrywide Flame in the feature event on Town Moor, just 24 hours after Kashmir Peak parted
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York RUFC forced to share spoils in dramatic finale
YORK RUFC stretched their unbeaten run to ten league and cup games – but it should have been with a victory rather than a home draw against Yorkshire One promotion-chasers Huddersfield YMCA. The Clifton Parkers are the form side in the division
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Winlaton Vulcans bombed out by Selby RUFC surge
A 15-TRY romp put Selby RUFC in the frame for progress in the Senior Vase as they trounced visitors Winlaton Vulcans 97-3. The Swans, who travel to Blyth later this month for their second pool game, illustrated the gulf in class at level eight
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Creber blow leads to second-half blow-out for depleted Malton & Norton
A PATCHED up Malton & Norton RUFC side were blown away in the second half as they crashed 42-3 at Morley in North One East. The Ryedale side were missing six key first-teamers but they put up a good fighting first half performance to trail
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Wards the Florist still blooming after 110 years in York
A FOURTH generation family florist is celebrating its 110th anniversary. Wards the Florist, which is also one of the founder members of national flower delivery service Interflora, was set up in 1903 by William Ward, a market gardener from Cliffe
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Equity firms in bid to scoop up R&R Ice Cream company
ICE cream manufacturer R&R Ice Cream is considering buy-out proposals from private equity firms in a deal expected to be worth more than £750 million. The business, which employs about 450 staff at its headquarters at Leeming Bar, near Northallerton
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Funding advice at Money Talks in York
BUSINESSES are invited to discuss their future with City of York Council at two free events to be held at the Mansion House tomorrow. At a business breakfast, hosted by the council, 14 funding organisations, will advise business owners, finance
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Wolseley UK's Burden takeover gets green light
BUILDING services business Wolseley UK has received clearance from the Office of Fair Trading to acquire 22 Burdens branches. The Ripon-based business bought the branches for £30 million in early November before Burdens appointed administrators
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Optare wins £3.3m bus order
BUS manufacturer Optare has won a £3.3 million contract for Stagecoach Group plc. The Sherburn-in-Elmet-based business will supply Stagecoach with a mix of 33 Solo and Versa buses. Chris Wise, commercial director, said it was a repeat order
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Harrogate Theatre Studio Theatre, February 5-9
RICHARD Stone saw Townsend Productions’ production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in Nether Edge, Sheffield, last September. Now he is starring in the company’s second tour of Stephen Lowe’s two-hander. He has taken over from Fine Time
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Take good care – they’re our future
AS a nation our most precious commodity is surely our children. They represent the future of our place in the world as well as the future of our families, so small wonder then that the coalition’s new proposals on nursery care have provoked a storm
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Businesses in bid to boost East Riding economy
MORE than 120 businesses have taken part in an event aimed at boosting the East Yorkshire economy. The event at Bishop Burton College covered social media and apprenticeships as well as giving training providers the chance to talk about the programmes
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Review: Paloma Faith, York Barbican
PALOMA Faith has “tried to make this tour arty and theatrical”. “So that means there isn’t as much talking,” she says after the fourth song, her cabaret cover of INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart. The Hackney blues and soul diva had indeed not spoken
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Lord’s Bill will help safeguard NHS
WHILE readers may be aware of threats to the NHS posed by the Coalition Government, in particular the Health and Social Care Act 2012, they may not be aware that Lord Owen has registered in Parliament the National Health Service (Amended Duties and
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Priorities wrong
IN THE Press of January 28, we are informed that £350,000 is to be spent creating extra pitches at the existing travellers’ site at Osbaldwick – not bad for a place in the country and with somewhere to keep one’s horses. What criteria are required
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Wasting our money
WHAT a crazy world we live in. No money for life-saving medication, ever increasing pot holes, bins or indeed paying off the country’s trillions of debts, but plenty of money it seems for sheer luxuries like the new Piazza outside the Minster,
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Celebrating Hull Trains success
IT IS a shame that Mike Laycock (The Press, January 30) missed an opportunity to laud a further success in our area. First Hull Trains, serving passengers between Hull, Brough, Howden, Selby and through to London, achieved a rating of 95 per cent
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Forest of Galtres’ roots stretched far and wide
DEE BOYLE (Letters, January 31) might be interested to know that the Forest of Galtres used to cover a large area from Crayke in the north right down to Bootham Bar in York. Rawcliffe, where this year’s festival may take place, was deep within
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Caring councillors
WE are unhappy at the proposal by Selby District Council to increase council tax and also about the proposed green bin tax. As Conservative councillors and potential councillors for county council, we are not happy to say this, but the council
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Desperate immigration measure
I CANNOT believe that ministers are working on a secret plan to keep tens of thousand of Bugarians and Romanians from arriving in the UK next year. Their secret weapon is, wait for it, an advertising campaign to warn them that Britain is cold and
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Voting reform
A MOTION from Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams to lower the voting age to 16 has been backed by Parliament (The Press, January 26). He will now attempt to pass a bill on the issue, eight years after his last Private Member’s Bill lost by eight
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Green with anger
SOME people on this planet give me the colly-wobbles big time. Every single morning that dawns, just a mile away from me as the crow flies, I look into the sky and see I don’t know what belching into the sky from Drax Power Station. Now I have
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Driven to despair
DRIVING today is a competitive sport for many. They have to be in front, particularly of smaller cars and, if they can’t get there because of traffic conditions, they wait for a roundabout to overtake on an outside lane and cut in front into the junction
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Sensational claims on poverty
THE number of people in the UK being quoted in the media as being in poverty is up to 13 million. That is more than one fifth of the population. Looking at pictures of Hungate and York in general 100 years ago in our paper’s regular feature, apart
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February 4
100 years ago Another encroachment was about to be made on the City moats. The moat at the Queen Street Bridge had already been cut away to a very large extent and, according to a report of the Tramways Committee, recently adopted by the council
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Home found for mother of Lydia Bishop
THE mother of a girl who died at a York nursery has been saved from homelessness by a church group. Rebecca Dick, whose three-year-old daughter Lydia Bishop died in an accident on a slide at York College Nursery last September, has spoken of her
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Police chief pledges to tackle serial offenders
MORE must be done to crack down on serial offenders, North Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner has said. Julia Mulligan, who was elected last November, has also pledged to give victims more say in the type of community service that offenders
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Mobility scooter driver pulled into oncoming traffic on one way street
THIS picture shows the moment a mobility scooter driver pulled into oncoming traffic while going the wrong way down a busy one way street. Drivers were surprised when the scooter driver pulled around a lorry into oncoming traffic at the junction
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Burglar glad to get back to jail
A BURGLAR raided a house where a young family was sleeping, then told police who caught him: “I need to go back to prison.” Gary Paul Floyd, 33, broke into the house with Liam James Baker, 25, and they stole with two laptops, a mobile phone, credit
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Eastern promise at hotel's wedding fair
WEDDING preparations with an Asian flavour were the order of the day at a York hotel as it broke new ground in helping couples prepare to tie the knot. The Royal York Hotel staged its first Asian Wedding Fair yesterday, with its team of wedding
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Fly-tipping fire at Scarborough
FLY-TIPPERS are believed to have caused a fire on a patch of waste ground. The flames were seen on the site on Blueberry Way, near Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough, at about 8.20pm on Saturday.
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Men in court over North Yorkshire cannabis farm
TWO man have appeared in court after police discovered a cannabis farm in a large North Yorkshire house. Nhu-Ban Dinh, 43, and Duc Ta Quang, 23, appeared in York Magistrates’ Court charged with cannabis production and using electricity without
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Businesses showcase their services at lifestyle event
LIFESTYLE businesses from across York showcased their skills and services to more than 1,500 people during a two-day exhibition in the city. Independent retailers joined forces to stage the York Lifestyle 2013 event at Dean’s Garden Centre on Saturday
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Barmby Moor farm could become a wedding venue
COUPLES could get married on an East Yorkshire farm if new proposals get the go ahead. Plans have been submitted to East Riding of Yorkshire Council for farm buildings at Barmbyfield House, on Keldspring Lane in Barmby Moor, to be converted into
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Beverley road to remain closed
A ROAD in Beverley is to remain closed until at least the middle of the week after a sewer collapsed. As reported in The Press, Keldgate was sealed off on January 22 because the sewer problem had led to a wall becoming unstable. It is believed
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Wanted York man arrested
A YORK man has appeared in court following a police search. Kyle Illingworth, 22, of Cornlands Road in Acomb was arrested in Gale Lane at about 10.45pm on Friday. He appeared at York Magistrates’ Court today charged with assault, seven counts
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MP Andrew Jones is all heart
A NORTH Yorkshire MP will don a pin-badge to support a heart charity in the House of Commons this week. Andrew Jones, MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, is backing the British Heart Foundation during National Heart Month, which runs throughout
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Ryedale council expected to pay planning wrangle legal costs from emergency coffers
COUNCIL bosses in Ryedale say they will probably have to dip into emergency reserves to pay any bills caused by the controversy over a Malton development. Ryedale District Council rejected the Fitzwilliam Malton Estate’s proposals for a supermarket
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Pan catches fire in Bridlington flat
FIREFIGHTERS forced their way into a flat in East Yorkshire after a pan caught fire. The fire in Stepney Grove, Bridlington, started shortly after 3am on Saturday and cause minor damage. Humberside Fire & Rescue Service said the owner of
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Housing development plan raises concerns
A HUGE housing development on farmland in a Selby village could be given the green light this week. Planners at Selby District Council have said proposals by Linden Homes North for 149 homes in Thorpe Willoughby should be approved, despite a string
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Pub manager molested woman
A PUB manager who used his position to molest a young woman has been given a suspended prison sentence. Shaun Firth, 34, “manipulated the situation” to be alone with the woman in the pub after closing time then pushed her against a wall and kissed
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Sex pest sent back to jail
A SEX offender defied a court order aimed at protecting children by giving an ice lolly and a drink to a young girl, York Crown Court heard. Richard Mason, 43, formerly of Norton, was jailed in 2009 for four years for three sex offences against
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Record-breaking bunting goes on show in York's city centre
A RECORD-BREAKING line of bunting has gone on show in York. Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust made history by linking 15,632 pieces stretching for more than 2.3 miles as the finale to the year-long What’s Your Goal? drive, designed
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Budding artists take York Art Gallery by storm
THOUSANDS joined in the fun as York Art Gallery held a huge open day ahead of its £8 million refurbishment. The gallery drew the crowds and the crowds drew on the gallery as visitors young and old sketched and painted their own pictures, doodles
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Air Cadets celebrate anniversary of the group's formation
SCORES of Air Cadets marched through Selby yesterday to celebrate the anniversary of the formation of the group. About 150 cadets aged between 13 and 20, from 4 Sector, gathered at Selby Abbey to mark 72 years of the Central and East Yorkshire
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Club for overweight children
A HOLIDAY club for children with weight problems is being launched in North Yorkshire. The MoreLife club, which is free, will run for the first time at Hambleton Leisure Centre in Northallerton during the February half-term. It is designed
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Residents to have say on York's Local Heritage List
YORK residents are set to have their say on the landmarks they want to see protected. City of York Council is preparing to open up the debate about which buildings, monuments, spaces and views should be included on the city’s Local Heritage List
