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Council to think again on school bus cuts
EDUCATION bosses will look again at cuts to York school buses, after dozens of parents and staff attended a meeting this afternoon. Plans to withdraw free school buses from 123 pupils of faith schools in York had been drawn up by the authority
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Tributes after horse trainer dies at 24
TRIBUTES have been paid to an assistant horse trainer in North Yorkshire, who has died at the age of 24. Sean McGuinness, who was a graduate of the British Horseracing Authority, joined trainer John Quinn as a pupil assistant last March. He had
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Meeting to vote on chamber merger
THE next step is being staged in the proposed merger of the Leeds, York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce with its Bradford counterpart. Members are being invited to a Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on February 10 where they will be
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VIDEO: Vandals caught red-handed in York city-centre
VANDALS ran along a York street throwing bins and rubbish into the road - but were caught red-handed by police. CCTV footage of the group's short-lived spree has today been released. Three men are caught on the film deliberately knocking
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League One aim fires York City’s John McCombe
YORK City’s new signing John McCombe still wants to prove himself as a League One defender. The 28-year-old centre-back has spent the last seven seasons plying his trade in the Football League’s bottom tier despite being a member of promotion-winning
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York City signing's rearguard duty supplemented by eye for goals
DEFENSIVE sentinel John McCombe is confident he can make a double impact at York City. The new Minstermen recruit, who has 19 career goals to his name, including a brace for Mansfield last month during a 3-2 home defeat to Accrington, reckons he
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Simon Dyson in Abu Dhabi bid
YORK’S golf ace Simon Dyson makes his first 2014 bow in the European Tour tomorrow. Dyson plays alongside fellow Englishman Mark Foster and Scotsman Jamie McLeary in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
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Sheffield Eagles friendly completes Knights' pre-season jigsaw
YORK City Knights will meet Kingstone Press Championship champions Sheffield Eagles next month – in the final piece of their pre-season jigsaw. The fixture, to be played on Sunday, February 9 (3pm) will be a testimonial game for popular Sheffield
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Knights ace gets Gary Thornton’s full support
GARY THORNTON is praying that Sam Orange’s injury nightmare will soon be over so he can finally “show York City Knights fans what he can do”. Second-rower Orange, a product of York Acorn ARLC, signed for his home-town club a year ago from Castleford
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Sherburn Bears put on the style before brawl stops play
A SOLID derby display yielded a 40-10 win for Sherburn Bears at Wetherby Bulldogs in the Pennine League fifth division in a tie ended early after 68 minutes following a 26-man brawl. Taking control, it did not take long for the Bears to cross through
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York Sports Village football festival
EIGHT North Yorkshire schools will converge on the York Sports Village this Saturday hoping to keep their Wembley dreams alive. Pupils from Westfield, Hutton Rudby, Brackenfield, Stakesby, Richmond, Waterstreet, Hambleton, Gladstone Road and Robert
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Entries open for York Sunday Pool League
ENTRIES are now being taken for the new season of the York Sunday Pool League, which gets under way on Sunday, February 16. Teams must enter by Sunday, February 9 at the latest and pay a registration fee of £40. An unofficial registration night
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Snooker: Mountain topples Whyte in York Masters thriller
THREE of the first four matches in the opening week of the inaugural York Masters were settled by deciding frames. Four-time Scruton Cup winner Clive Whyte was edged out 3-2 by Glen Mountain in the first match of the tournament, which sees many
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Snooker: Debut victors set to prevail
AS the York Conservative Clubs’ knockout competitions reach the business end, new names are primed to adorn the roll of honour. Bob Smith is still on track for a hat-trick of Brian Jeffrey Memorial Trophy Over-50s wins, though he faces previous
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Snooker: First win in nine for Heworth ‘B’
Heworth ‘B’ posted their first York Conservative Clubs’ Carlsberg UK Snooker League win in nine attempts when defeating Fulford ‘B’ 5-2. Wayne Pullen, Steve Carroll, Brian Birch and Keith Watkinson sealed the win before Andy Hurley replied. Colin
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Collins was one of Leeds United’s top players – Gray
FORMER Leeds United ace and manager Eddie Gray has paid tribute to club legend Bobby Collins. One-time Leeds skipper, Collins, died on Monday after a battle with illness. He was aged 82. Said Gray: “In my opinion Bobby Collins was probably
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Lilly’s Legend should be in the frame at National Hunt Flat Race
Tim Walford, who is poised to stand down as a trainer at the end of the month and hand over the reins of his North Yorkshire establishment to his son and assistant, Mark, can saddle a winner at Newcastle this afternoon. The Sheriff Hutton handler
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Anthony McGrath back for Yorkshire in new mentoring role
Former captain Anthony McGrath is returning to Yorkshire in a new mentoring role to help develop current players and also prepare them for the difficult transition to normal life following retirement. The 38-year-old former all-rounder, who retired
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Parents’ anger at school bus cuts
MORE than 120 pupils face losing their free bus to school and enduring long diversions on public transport, under council plans to save £100,000 a year. Parents claim the City of York Council proposals to withdraw free discretionary transport for
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Family and friends say farewell to York teenager Lewis Thornton
FAMILY and friends gathered to pay tribute at the funeral of York teenager Lewis Thornton, who died this week. Lewis, 19, had brain cancer as a child and again as a teenager, and died last week, after suffering from secondary pneumonia since December
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Two found dead in boat
Two people have been found dead in a boat in Whitby. Officers were called 9.55am today to a boat moored in Whitby harbour after concern was raised for the safety of the occupants. On arrival they found the bodies of two fishermen who had been
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North Yorkshire student shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars
A WOULD-BE astronaut from North Yorkshire is aiming to fly to Mars – on a one-way trip. Gillian Finnerty, 21, from Tholthorpe, near Easingwold, is one of more than 265,000 people from around the world who originally applied to go on the Mars One
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Beningbrough Hall holds drop-in information session to find volunteers
BENINGBROUGH Hall, the National Trust property near York, was today holding a drop-in information session in its quest to find more volunteers. The stately home, last year’s Visit York Visitor Attraction of the Year, needs volunteers to act in
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MPs to discuss York Hospital’s plans to replace antenatal lessons with 'virtual classes'
HEALTH Minister Daniel Poulter is to meet a York MP to discuss York Hospital’s plans to replace traditional classes for mums-to-be with virtual classes. Drop-in antenatal classes, which prepare expectant mums for giving birth, are attended by about
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East Yorkshire MP’s idea for 999 treatment
AN East Yorkshire MP says more patients should be treated in the back of ambulances rather than taken to hospital. Conservative backbencher Andrew Percy, MP for Goole, said the approach would benefit people requiring emergency treatment in hospital
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Only £650 paid in rural grants, claims MP
A GOVERNMENT grant designed to help bridge a funding gap that means people in the countryside miss out has paid some rural councils only £650, a North Yorkshire MP has claimed. Anne McIntosh, who is reportedly fighting for her political future
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Council approves plans for Giraffe restaurant
THE owners of “world-food” restaurant chain Giraffe have cleared the final planning hurdles for their new outlet at a £90 million shopping park in York. The chain will have its first restaurant in the city at the Vangarde development at Monks Cross
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York Walls guides needed
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help run guided walks around York’s city walls later this month. Friends of York Walls will run the event on Residents Weekend - Saturday, January 25, and Sunday, January 26 - when Fishergate Tower and Red Tower, in Foss
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New youth club gets off to a flyer
A NEW North Yorkshire youth club has been taken by surprise with a rush of members only three weeks after opening. The Monk Fryston Junior Youth Club was launched in December and more than 25 young people have already enrolled for a range of activities
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Recovery buzz begins to build
THERE has been a lot of buzz amongst politicians and economists recently about the UK economy finally being on the up. Many ordinary families, however, have yet to feel the benefit. Instead, for too many the reality is still that times are tough
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Help still needed
BRITAIN’S economy may be turning the corner, but the benefits are not felt by everyone. Indeed there seem to be some stubborn pockets of deprivation as ever, despite the 2010 Child Poverty Act promising to eradicate child poverty in Britain by 2020
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Internet gambling is the real concern
IT WAS good to see Hugh Bayley pushing for a ban on the highly addictive fixed betting terminals. He describes such machines as the “crack cocaine of gambling” (The Press, January 8). There is even a more serious form of gambling. Internet gambling
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Selby High School student set for finals of National Science and Engineering Competition
A TALENTED North Yorkshire teenager is gearing up for the finals of a prestigious science and engineering competition after creating a child’s traditional rocking horse. Amelia Marson, 16, was a pupil at Selby High School when she designed and
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What might have been
Thirty years on since the miners’ strike of 1984, recollection suggests that had the previous NUM leader Joe Gormley been in charge: A. No strike would have been called; B. Neither would he have subjected his members and their families to the
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PCSO to host drop-in session in Huntington
PCSO Marie Hampshire will be holding a drop-in session for residents to air their concerns at the Community Centre, in Strensall Road, Huntington, next Wednesday, from 11am to noon, and at Orchard Park Community Centre the following day from 1.45pm
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Letters on... letters
HAVING informed my wife on New Year’s Day that I was having a gap year from writing letters to The Press, I now feel compelled to break my resolution. I thank Graeme Robertson for his annual review of readers’ letters in The Press over many years
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Think of the route
I DO not want to object to the Yorkshire Marathon as I think it is a great day out for many runners and their supporters. But my heart goes out to the people of Osbaldwick, who for the best part of four hours were cut off from leaving their homes
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Consider fostering
BARNARDO’S is this week running its sixth annual Fostering & Adoption Week. As the UK’s leading children’s charity, we are campaigning on the urgent need for more foster carers across the UK, with 750 more carers needed across Yorkshire.
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Too many already
WE HAVE recently been informed by some newspapers that a man called Raymond Hull, who has 22 children by different mothers, avoided prison after telling the judge he needed to be at home to look after is latest baby. He was initially jailed for
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Cool the rhetoric
NOTICED a wave of Romanians and Bulgarians surging through the streets? No, neither have I. We need to put this fever of anxiety about immigrants behind us. Our housing shortage, for example, has little to do with foreigners and much to do with
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Tipping points...
ON A recent trip to the James Street ‘recycling centre’, I removed a perfectly good sledge from the skip. I was promptly approached by a site attendant, who threw the sledge back into the skip. I was told I could not remove things because of health
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Land Rover plates stolen
THIEVES stole the licence plates from a Land Rover Defender parked in a driveway of a house in Hensall. Anyone with information should police on 101.
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I’m buzzing too
I was interested to read about the problems experienced by the couple in Clay Place (Couple sound off over strange buzzing noise, The Press, January 11). For several years I have had problems with low-pitched noises disturbing my sleep. It seemed
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Will ‘Plebgate’ affair never end?
IT STILL amazes me that something that lasted for about three minutes in 2012 is still headline news and looks like dragging on for another 12 months. Was it really so bad that a Cabinet Minister (Andrew Mitchell) might have called one or more police
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Mum in fresh appeal over Lizzie Gilmour’s death
THE heartbroken mother of a teenager who died in mysterious circumstances 14 years ago has issued a fresh appeal for information. Lizzie Gilmour, of St Stephen’s Road, in Acomb, York, who was 15 at the time, was found on a dark and isolated stretch
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January 15
100 years ago The proposal to establish a horticultural institute in York had created a good deal of discussion and interest. The Minster City had been practically fixed on as complying with the requirements of the Department of Horticulture,
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Police seeking meat theft suspect
THIS man is wanted by police after meat was stolen from a North Yorkshire shop. Several items were taken from the Co-Operative store in Newlands Park Drive in Scarborough, including three pork joints, six gammon joints, five steaks and two pork
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Living wage rate boost for council’s casual workers
CLEANERS and other casual workers at York’s council are to be paid the “living wage” rate earlier than expected. The move, increasing the wages of 120 staff in a range of jobs at City of York Council to £7.45 an hour, will be rubber-stamped by
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Council teams shortlisted for awards
TWO teams from East Riding of Yorkshire Council have been shortlisted for awards recognising their work in public health and efficiency. The teams are up for the prizes in the Local Government Chronicle Awards, and the winners will be announced
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Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Cheng and Pam Chowhan, Tale Of Two Cellos, Harrogate International Festival Spring Sunday series, January 26
CELLIST Julian Lloyd Webber will remain forever grateful for Harrogate’s role in his fledgling career as he prepares to travel north to open Harrogate International Festival’s 21st Spring Sunday Series on January 26. “Harrogate was one of the first
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Palm oil knowledge exchange
BIOLOGISTS from the University Of York have set up a new international partnership. The knowledge exchange network will help inform international policy on the production of palm oil in South East Asia, and is funded by the British Foreign and
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Prayer lunches for Christian Unity
Churches Together are holding a series of prayer lunches for the Week Of Prayer for Christian Unity, from noon to 1pm, beginning on Tuesday at New Earswick Methodist Church. They will then take place on Wednesday, January 22, at St Paulinus Church
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£5k jewellery theft at Askham Bar
THIEVES have stolen jewellery worth about £5,000 from a house in York. The theft happened from a house in Ashfield Court, in Askham Bar, between Sunday, January 5, and Thursday, January 9. Items stolen included a gold ring set with an opal
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Green-bin charges start next month in Richmondshire
GREEN-bin collection charges will come into force in a North Yorkshire district next month, with the local council hoping the move will save £190,000 a year. Richmondshire District Council said most people had supported the charges for garden waste
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Malton to host thrilling curtain-raiser to the Tour de France
A TEAM of cycling enthusiasts are aiming to build on the enthusisam for the Tour de France with a town centre race through Malton, two weeks before Yorkshire hosts the Grande Depart. Northern Ride, in the town’s Saville Street, is organising the
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Images from York Photographic Society
A Great Grey Owl swoops for a vole in the snowfields of Finland, in the magnificent image here by the York Photographic Society’s Neville Turton. The owls spend the winter in Finland hunting voles – sitting in trees and listening for the sound
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York businessman prepares Homeserve insurance firm for £34.5m fine
A YORK businessman is preparing his international insurance firm for a hit of £34.5 million as it is penalised over a mis-selling scandal. The fine, set to be imposed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is more than £30 million above what
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Harry Gration to open new computer suite at Selby High School
A NEW £560,000 computer technology centre is set to be opened at a North Yorkshire secondary school by BBC Presenter Harry Gration. Called the Hemingway Suite, the centre at Selby High School was named after the school’s long-serving ICT manager
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Payouts to start as High Court approves CPP plan
YORK credit card insurer CPP is to begin paying millions of pounds to customers as a compensation scheme is given High Court approval. Last week customers of the Holgate-based firm voted in favour of a redress scheme, which sets out to pay compensation
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Fondue cafe opens in York
IT’S a popular feature in the ski resorts in the Alps and was a must-have at parties in the 70s – now fondue has been brought to the streets of York. Retro Fondue is the latest venture of Mark Myers, who has opened what is believed to be York’s
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New start-ups in York reach record numbers
A RECORD number of businesses were started in York in the third quarter of 2013 as confidence in the city’s economy remains high. According to newly-published research, York broke its own record for the number of new companies set up in the third
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Proactis Holdings widens field with EGS takeover
SOFTWARE provider Proactis Holdings has acquired a London-based counterpart in a £2.9 million deal. The Wetherby-based business, which specialises in spend control software, has taken over EGS Group in move aimed at enlarging the group to be the
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Campaign is launched to bring back evening buses
A YORK MP and councillor have joined forces to campaign for the reintroduction of evening buses serving Hopgrove and the Stockton-on-the-Forest. The last two evening Yorkshire Coastliner services were withdrawn from the village winter timetable
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Archbishop of York’s Youth Trust reopens grant programme
THE Archbishop of York’s Youth Trust has reopened its grant programme. The trust has dished out more than £70,000 to 20 youth-focused organisations across the north of England since it was set up in 2009 by Dr John Sentamu. Many of these projects
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Diggers move in on former Walmgate car park
A CONTROVERSIAL York city-centre car park has closed and bulldozers have moved in, prior to construction of a new hotel. Car Parking Management (CPM) Ltd opened the 45-space pay and display car park on the site of the former Infinity motorcycle
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York Breakdance youngsters prepare for dance competition
YORK youngsters are getting down to rehearsals ready for a dance competition next month. Members of York Breakdance are preparing for their fourth annual Savour the Flavour event which aims to put the city on the hip-hop and youth map. Last
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Volunteer police officers take to the streets to show commitment to community
A POLICE team took to the streets of York as part of “special” operations to highlight their work in the community. The operations, which included the execution of warrants and roadside inspection of vehicles, had been fully organised by the Special
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Arts world mourns for lost talent
YORK’S arts world is mourning the loss of one of its best-known figures, whose skills helped everybody from actors to businessmen and teachers overcome their public-speaking nerves. Writer, theatre director and voice specialist Susan Stern, who
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US-style eatery to open at new Monks Cross shopping park
A RETRO American-style restaurant is the latest retailer to take on a unit at the Vangarde Shopping Park being built at Monks Cross, York. Ed’s Easy Diner has signed up, leaving only one unit left to let. It adds to brands already lined up for
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Generous readers thanked for 'saving Christmas'
THE Press and its generous readers have been thanked for saving Christmas for some of York’s most vulnerable people. The York Women’s Aid Refuge and Salvation Army have both written to the newspaper to express their gratitude for our Toys &
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Positive feedback for Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
HARROGATE and District NHS Foundation Trust has been given positive feedback after an inspection. England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has published his first report on the quality of care provided by Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
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Accused suffered heart attack
A MAN due to appear in court in connection with 12 incidents of sexual abuse has suffered a heart attack. Christopher Jones, of Railway Street, Malton, was due to appear at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court last Thursday, but a doctor’s note dated
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Out-of-hours GP services survey
NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is inviting local patients and members of the public to share their views and experiences of local GP out-of-hours services. The feedback will be used to help shape decisions about the the service
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Childcare training courses in York
NEW training opportunities will be made available to volunteers working with children and young people in York. City of York Council’s Safeguarding Children Board will host a series of courses for childcare professionals and volunteers, with online
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York College beauty students have a brush with success
THE winners of this year’s annual York College Hair and Beauty Awards have been revealed after a fiercely fought compeition at the Racecourse. Around 250 full and part-time students took part in the competition, n categories as diverse as 1950s-style
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Call for council tax rise to pay for more police officers
THE Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire has proposed an increase to the force’s share of council tax which will pay for 24 new officers. Julia Mulligan recommended an increase in the precept by 1.99 per cent, the equivalent of eight
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Former rugby players to get their boots on for charity fundraiser
VETERAN rugby players are being urged to get their boots on again as a charity match in North Yorkshire becomes an annual event – with organisers hoping it will go on to become a national phenomenon. Last year’s inaugural Get Your Boots On match
