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Yorkshire Ambulance Service issues wintry weather warning
YORKSHIRE Ambulance Service has warned that it was already receiving extremely high volumes of calls before snow and ice arrived in many areas last night, ramping up the pressure by causing slips, falls and road accidents. Bosses urged people only
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Recipe for a leisurely breakfast over the New Year break
ANDREW PERN offers a recipe for a leisurely breakfast and a holiday-store cupboard standard. MY FIRST recipe this month would be great for a leisurely breakfast over the New Year break; and very special with a glass of fizz. It’s basically
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Late Turner – Painting Set Free... exhibition at Tate Britain gallery
First he saw the movie, then Mike Laycock travelled to London to see Mr Turner’s paintings. TIMOTHY Spall’s superb portrayal of J M W Turner in a new film about the last 30 years of the artist’s life has sparked renewed interest in one of Britain
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QUIZ: How well do you know York's pubs? - Try our 12 pictures
GAVIN AITCHISON plays ‘name that pub’ with an insider’s view of 12 pubs in York. CHRISTMAS greetings, one and all! This week’s Pints of View consists of our annual quiz, this time with a twist. Each of the 12 photographs shows a different York
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Gluten-free shortbread recipe
NEW YEAR isn't New Year without a plate of shortbread (and some whisky, Rabbie and black bun). Shortbread is something we all learn to make at school, but seldom make again. As the year draws to a close, now is the perfect opportunity to get baking
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Nøgne Ø, NO, Imperial Brown Ale – 7.5%, £5.60
A GROUP of Norwegians walk into the Trembling Madness, lured by the promise of local ales, and joke: "You won't have any Norwegian beers, will you?" They all laugh at how ludicrously expensive it would be to import, then sell their domestic products
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York City 1, Accrington Stanley 0
UNLESS Santa brought them Cliff Richard’s Greatest Yuletide Hits, there will be no unwanted records for York City supporters this Christmas. A Boxing Day display, full of fight, saw the current City side avoid taking a place in the Bootham Crescent
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Country walk at Sutton Bank
SUTTON Bank was frosty and the air was clear, so it was a good day for the ‘finest view in England’. Hood Hill cast a shadow on silver fields. The Pennines, beyond the plains, were white with snow. I headed along the Cleveland Way and every few
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Missing York man turns up safe and well - but woman remains missing: Update 3.20pm Saturday
A MISSING York man has turned up safe and well - but police continue to have concerns for a missing York woman. North Yorkshire Police said that Matthew Morton, 30, who had not been seen since leaving his York home last Saturday, causing concerns
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Brian Ellison hoping for hat-trick at Wetherby races
NORTH Yorkshire trainer Brian Ellison can enjoy a triple helping of Christmas cheer at Wetherby today by saddling three winners. Norton-based Ellison is fancied to score with The Grey Taylor, Seamour and Jac The Legend. The Grey Taylor is bidding
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Bubwith take all the points at Albion Vaults
BUBWITH White Swan soared to a maximum haul in the one top-flight game played in the York Sunday Morning Football League. Visitors Bubwith took the lead at fellow relegation-threatened rivals Albion Vaults in the first half through Leon Wood before
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Nathan Cartman strikes to lift Harrogate Railway’s spirits
TOP scorer Nathan Cartman salvaged a point for Harrogate Railway Athletic and halted them being upstaged by a former York City front-man. Railway entertained Spennymoor in a Boxing Day Evo-Stik League first division north duel. The first blood
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Leeds United stalled by McClean’s getaway
AN own goal from Liam Cooper and a belter from James McClean gave Wigan a 2-0 victory at Leeds in what was a real six-pointer at the bottom of the Sky Bet Championship. McClean was claiming the assist for the opening goal on 10 minutes, when his
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Deadline for Lendal Bridge fine refunds extended
DEADLINES for motorists to apply for refunds over the Lendal Bridge fines have been extended. City of York Council approved the extension on Monday, from December 31 to June 30, while council officers have been asked to explore a universal refund
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York City fans applaud Clarke Carlisle during Boxing Day fixture
A MINUTE'S applause rang out at two football grounds yesterday for hospital-bound former York City star Clarke Carlisle. York fans applauded as a sign of support for Clarke during the 22nd minute of their team's Boxing Day home match against Accrington
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Crowds gather at big hunt meetings
THE traditional Boxing Day hunt meetings took place yesterday, recreating a sight that has been seen across the county for centuries. Dozens of horses and riders turned out with the Middleton Hunt, who met at 11am to parade their hounds in both
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Police stop children as young as 10 years old
CHILDREN as young as 10-years-old have been stopped and searched by police officers in the last three years. More than 1,300 youngsters in York were spoken to in connection with a number of crimes throughout the county between 2012, 2013 and 2014
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Living Wage for Yorkshire Water staff
YORKSHIRE Water and parent company Kelda has received formal Living Wage Foundation accreditation. All eligible employees of the utility company including third-party contractors and suppliers will now be paid a minimum hourly wage of £7.85, rather
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Ward closes to new admissions as norovirus hits York Hospital
THE winter vomiting bug norovirus has hit York Hospital with one ward closed to new admissions and bosses asking people to avoid visiting the hospital if they catch the virus. Ward 37 - the elderly patient’s ward - was closed on Christmas Eve,
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Teams pull together for traditional tug-of-war in Knaresborough
HUNDREDS of onlookers lined a bridge and riverbanks in Knaresborough to watch a traditional Boxing Day tug-of-war across the Nidd. The annual event at Low Bridge involved male and female teams from the Half Moon Inn and Mother Shipton Inn competing
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Graduate jobs programme in Hambleton
GRADUATES in North Yorkshire will be helped into work with a new partnership between Hambleton District Council and Teesside University to create a graduate internship programme in the new year. One of the key aims of the council’s newly adopted
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York Theatre Royal 'to be sold for £1'
YORK Theatre Royal is to be sold to the city's Conservation Trust for just £1, to safeguard the historic building into the future. City council papers released on Christmas Eve show that a deal is on the table for the local authority to sell the
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York among the UK's top swimming cities
PEOPLE in York swim more regularly than anywhere else in Yorkshire, and are among the top swimming cities nationwide according to a new league table published today by Diabetes UK. According to the league table, based on Sport England data, 10.2
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Cancer survivors to ride in charity race at York Racecourse
TWO cancer survivors will take part in a charity race at York Racecourse next year to show their gratitude for the help they received from Macmillan Cancer Support. Kirstie Hargreave and Michelle Hayward, who both beat the illness, are among 12
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Retailers fighting back against shoplifting gangs in York
RETAILERS in York are joining forces to tackle crime as shoplifting figures for the city rise in 2014. Following an increase in shoplifting and pickpocketing, York Business Against Crime (YBAC) is calling on shop keepers to join the organisation
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East Riding council scoop top public service awards
EAST Riding of Yorkshire Council has scooped two awards in the prestigious Association of Public Service Excellence (Apse) Network Performance Awards for 2014. The authority’s East Riding Leisure Beverley has won the Best Performing Leisure Centre
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Vacancies for swimming in Pocklington
FRANCIS Scaife Leisure Centre in Pocklington now has vacancies for children’s swimming lessons. Places are available for beginners through to improvers, starting in early January. Pre-school lessons for parent and toddler places are also now
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Can you help find Howie?
THE owner of a cat rescued from a war zone at a cost of almost £2,000 remains hopeful of his safe return. As The Press reported last month, Howie the cat was brought by soldier Captain Alan Barker home to Green Hammerton in February when his tour
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A family story drawn from the Christmas truce
My father was Harry Buttress of Osbaldwick. He grew up living at number 4 East Parade, York. His father, Samuel, did not survive the First World War and the letters he wrote home were all the family had left of him, so were very precious. Samuel
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Have the Greens gone into hiding?
WITH winter being very elusive this year so far and no robins to be seen at all, I am wondering why the Green Party is not visible or represented at all on programmes like BBC News and all the politics programmes? Is it because UKIP struggles are
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Important facts of live-saving
HAVING read reports in your paper and hearing others on BBC Radio York, I feel that I must endorse some of the recent life-saving facts that have come out. Firstly, that the lifebelts along the River Foss are being restored to working order and
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Why talk to the ‘left-wing’ Tory?
OVER the past two weekends on their current affairs political programme, the BBC have trotted out Kenneth Clarke as the Tory spokesman. Picking the most left-wing, pro EU, out-of-touch Conservative MP there is again shows the editorial bias that
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Working together is way to crack this
CHRISTMAS is a time for giving, but for some it is also a time for taking and while it is easy to feel sorry for shoplifters who fall foul of the law because of poverty, or because of mental health difficulties, it’s less easy to sympathise with professional
