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Stories for 3 March 2004

York Business

It all adds up for Jonathan

A North Yorkshire trainee accountant has passed his first three professional exams, putting him on course to become one of the youngest fully-qualified chartered accountants in the country.  more...

Duke to visit factory after founder's death

A visit to a North Yorkshire factory by the Duke of York on Friday will be tinged by both tragedy and triumph.  more...

York shops flop in retail rankings

YET again York is nowhere to be seen in the top 20 rankings of Britain's most vital urban shopping centres.  more...

York Education

Heartstart gives pupils head start in life-saving

YOUNGSTERS at a York school are being trained in how to save lives with a £2,000 funding boost.  more...

Major talking shop for schools

PRIMARY school children from across York were discussing major issues affecting them at a conference taking place in the city today.  more...

Children look to catch the science bug

SCIENTISTS of the future are set to get to grips with creepy crawlies at a York festival.  more...

Century school's Lottery jackpot

A YORK primary school has been given a massive funding boost to help staff and pupils celebrate 100 years of the school.  more...

York Leisure

The Children's War, Monique Charlesworth (Fourth Estate, £12.99)

ISLE is a 13-year-old half-Jewish girl who is sent out of Germany by her parents on the eve of the Second World War to live with her uncle Willy in Morocco.  more...

Rowling goes online

STEPHEN LEWIS looks forward to an online chat with the creator of Harry Potter and other top authors during World Book Day.  more...

York News

Spreading the word about Craig's bad run

YORK publican Craig Regan hadn't suffered much bad luck before.   more...

MP urges compromise to keep Odeon open

YORK MP Hugh Bayley today called on planners to come to a compromise with the owners of York Odeon in order to secure its long-term future.  more...

Please keep our Odeon open...

PUPILS at a York school have written hard-hitting letters to the Odeon's owners to persuade them to keep it open.  more...

There must be a word for it

THE latest issue of the Collins Gem English Dictionary has just landed on my desk; not lobbed there by an irate colleague, you understand, but sent through the post by its publishers in the hope that I might write about it.  more...

Park and pride

LIFE on the open road has its appeal. Life in a stationary Ford Escort is somehow not quite as romantic.  more...

Smoke-free row drags on

STUBBORN Yorkshire folk refuse to stub out their cigarettes. Despite 50 years of evidence that smoking kills, a substantial number remain addicted to tobacco.  more...

What great teens

I THINK a word of praise and congratulations must go to the team of students from Fulford School who organised a post-war dinner dance in aid of St Leonard's Hospice at Elvington Air Museum.   more...

Training

WELL done Mr Hale, I am sure that many of our youngsters would welcome the opportunity to work with our small businesses if only the bureaucracy were to be minimised (Letters, February 26).  more...

Spread the word

THIS letter is to all leaders of Christian churches, in and around York. I believe the Lord is saying, it's time to pull down barriers. It's time to put aside all our differences and intolerance for one another and become what we are supposed to be, the body of Christ.  more...

Making the link

I WOULD suggest that Coun Galloway checks his facts before commenting again on the prospect of linking Selby with York in a possible reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire (Green vote for merger, February 14).  more...

Such tricky skills

I THINK people are missing the point with regard to the clowns and jugglers that are appearing daily at a prison near you ("Send in the clowns", February 25).  more...

Give councillors credit when it is due

AS a resident of Heworth ward, I would like to place on record my gratitude to Coun Paul Blanchard for his efficiency in handling a recent problem I brought to him. I don't think councillors get credit for the day-to-day work they do and it feels good knowing they are there to help.  more...

Lost the taste

NESTLE workers have the prospect of losing their jobs because of losing sales (February 19).  more...

Feather bedded

I HOPE Elliot Morley is happy spending millions of pounds to increase the wild bird population ("Rise in Yorkshire bird populations", February 28).   more...

Unfair to shooting

MY teenage son is a member of a rifle and pistol club and over the years has become more skilled at target shooting, winning medals and cups.  more...

Speaking up for York

I MAKE no apology for being classed as one of Mr Cordock's "hardcore of intelligent self-appointed spokespeople" (Letters, February 25) who regularly voice their concerns over what many see as inappropriate over-development in York.  more...

Tax office says Harry does not exist

A SINGLE mum has lost half her income after a computer error "deleted" her two-year-old son.  more...

Are our gun laws fair?

Gas cartridge airguns have been designated lethal weapons, and their owners have been given until May 1 to hand them in or apply for a firearms licence. We ask: Are our gun laws fair?  more...

Mother: `Ban my girl from the pubs'

A YORK mother is appealing to the city's landlords to keep her 14-year-old daughter out of their pubs after she spent the night with four "squaddies".  more...

Blazin' Squad saddled by text hitch

TEENAGERS travelled to York from all over the country to see London pop sensation Blazin' Squad perform - but it still wasn't the frenzied affair some had expected.  more...

Digital map to help on flood insurance

A FLOOD campaigner today backed a new digital map which promises to "revolutionise" insurance assessments in high-risk areas.  more...

Parking protest goes to leaders

SCORES of angry York church-goers, traders and residents took thair protest about parking charges to a meeting of city council leaders.  more...

He may be homeless, but the police wouldn't be without him

IT'S hardly the lap of luxury, but one man has made an extraordinary home for himself - in an isolated car park.  more...

Report may lead to call for cigs ban

SMOKING could be banned in public places in York, North and East Yorkshire, to tackle some of the highest levels of health problems in the country.  more...

Activitists target hunt supporters

ANIMAL rights activists have posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of several prominent North Yorkshire hunting supporters on the internet.  more...

In short, your ice cream will last longer

THE world's tallest woman and shortest man have been in York - all for a scoop of ice-cream.  more...

York Ascot tickets pledge

RACING officials today assured York residents they would not be left out in the cold when tickets for Royal Ascot in the city finally go on sale.  more...

Hut repairs joy for village cubs

CUB SCOUTS are in seventh heaven after a York firm and a local joiner rallied round to help them repair their much-vandalised hut.  more...

York Sport

Champ's chance to bounce back - 03/03/04

Kieren Fallon, who was in trouble at Lingfield yesterday, returns to the Surrey course tomorrow with bright prospects of completing a double on And Toto Too and my Nap selection Big Bad Burt.  more...

Touch Wood

LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare.  more...

Touch Wood

LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare.  more...

Reid moves to Raiders

YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders.  more...

York slide to defeat

THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent.  more...

Record match haul from the Ure

The River Ure match record was smashed in an historic contest fished between Hutton Beck and Barn Island on Sunday.   more...

York slide to defeat

THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent.  more...

Reid moves to Raiders

YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders.  more...

York's `bad' boys really come good

ST OLAVE'S School pupil Oliver Cohen has emulated his brother Nicholas by winning the Yorkshire Schools Boys' badminton Under-12s title.  more...

Brass wants repeat display

YORK City boss Chris Brass is calling on his players to reproduce the form that earned a 2-2 home draw against Oxford earlier this season.  more...

York Whatson

Blazin' Squad, Passport: Back To The Bars, Fibbers, York

BACK To The Bars? Aren't teen rap pack Blazin' Squad too young for all but milk bars and Mars Bars?  more...

  
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