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Stories for 30 July 2005

York Leisure

Rosedale walk

GEORGE WILKINSON takes the Rosedale route.  more...

Ha! Ha! Bar and Canteen, New Street, York

I REMEMBER reviewing this venue when it opened five years ago - and being pretty tickled by the Ha! Ha! Bar.  more...

Monk Park Farm Visitor Centre, Bagby, Thirsk

Simon Ritchie and family enjoy a day out in the country.  more...

Sick As A Parrot, Liz Evans (Orion, £6.99)

Private eye Grace Smith is not having a good day. Her latest client - a penniless, pregnant 17-year-old - wants her to prove her mother is innocent of murder; the most chauvinistic cop in town is squatting in her spare room; and she has somehow been lumbered with a hysterical parrot that loves singing songs from the shows.  more...

Tersias by Graham Taylor (Faber, £9.99)

Stephen Lewis talks to former North Yorkshire vicar Graham Taylor about his third book, out next week.  more...

Hut stuff

Steve Nelson goes from the ridiculous to the sublime in a short family break in Northumberland.  more...

Mopheaded marvels

GINA PARKINSON extolls the colourful virtues of super bloomers - hydrangeas.  more...

The Stone House Tea Room, near Thruscross Reservoir, Nidderdale

SOME suggestions for snack surveys come in such vague forms that we fail to locate the venue.  more...

York News

Way we were

Saturday, July 30, 2005  more...

£3.75m bid for railway station

THE dream of reopening a railway station at Haxby finally looks set to become a reality.  more...

160 food factory employees' redundancy shock

MORE than 160 jobs were under threat today following the shock closure of Sundora Foods factory in Pocklington.  more...

Expert: `major safety fears'

A ROOFING expert has given a damning appraisal of "sandwich panel" roofing like that used in Fulford Place.  more...

Residents celebrate late victory

PEOPLE power has won the day after villagers forced a pub chain to drop its plan for a late-night licence - only two weeks after sinking a similar scheme.  more...

Civil war trek raises £40,000 for charity

WIGS crowned the heads of the costume-clad "Magnificent Seven" as they thundered on to an historic battlefield near York.  more...

Number's up for mobile crime

POLICE in North Yorkshire are to step up the fight against mobile phone crime from next week, in an effort to reduce the number of thefts and clamp down on fraudulent claims.  more...

Physio's tears over fraud

A PHYSIOTHERAPIST broke down in tears as York magistrates heard how she had fiddled the tax credit system for several months.  more...

Police cells to be reopened

CELLS at a North Yorkshire town's police station will be reopened to stop York officers acting as glorified "taxi drivers".   more...

No ifs, no butts

EIGHT smokers have been fined £50 in York for dropping cigarette butts in the street - but another 20 people have been given raffle tickets for putting their litter in bins.  more...

World in motion for Rotary

THESE Rotarians from York have scooped a prestigious international award.  more...

Something fishy

In Tipping's Tipples, Mike Tipping finds something fishy going on.  more...

It's all in the year

IN response to S Mortimer's letter, suggesting that Hillards was open in March 1966 (July 22).   more...

Potter's no rotter

IN response to the letter "I'm sick of Harry Rotter" (July 27) I really enjoy the Harry Potter books. My only regret is that they weren't around when I was a child.  more...

Believe in bio

I WRITE to reply to Stephen Reynolds's issues about the use of bio-diesel (July 26). Firstly his Ford manual may restrict the use of bio to five per cent mixtures but many modern diesel engines are more than happy to run on bio.   more...

Sing for Africa

THE New Generation Singing Club is a club that caters for children aged between nine and 16 years old who have an interest in music. We enable children to perform all types of music: karaoke, drums, piano, guitar.   more...

Family fun

I THANK members of the Friends of Clifton Backies and of the management committee for their contributions in publicising and making the fourth annual family fun day a huge success at the weekend.   more...

Rubbish value

WHILE I support York council's recycling efforts, I am concerned about the forthcoming arrangements for collection of garden waste. I understand that new collection arrangements will be introduced and household and garden waste will be collected on alternate weeks.  more...

Preserve facade

AS a Haxby resident I am very concerned about the proposed demolition of the memorial hall.   more...

Wrong option

MOST residents in Haxby will agree with Barbara Taylor's letter objecting to the proposed plans for the replacement of the memorial hall (July 26).  more...

What a state?

HAVING read a great deal of comment, much of it incorrect and ill-informed, about the future of the Haxby Memorial Hall, especially by those who are adamant that it remain in its present form, I wonder if they have actually taken the time to look at the current state of it? You don't have to be a surveyor to see it is well past its "use by date."   more...

Celebrate glory of Yorkshire

MONDAY is Yorkshire Day, a day when all true Yorkshiremen and women celebrate our unique county.   more...

York Readertravel

On board for bargains

More terrific deals this week as tour operators try to entice holidaymakers to book.  more...

York Sport

Trust chairman quits

RICHARD Snowball has stepped down as the chairman of York City's Supporters' Trust.  more...

City boss McEwan snaps up trialists

YORK City have signed trialist trio Nathan Peat, Joe O'Neill and Ashley Winn.  more...

Lighten up

I WAS at last Saturday's York City friendly with Hartlepool and witnessed the stupid outburst by the person in the Main Stand and also Billy McEwan's retort.  more...

Revenge `not in the equation'

YORK City Knights coach Mick Cook and his Dewsbury counterpart both reckon the extraordinary last meeting between the sides will have no bearing on tomorrow's clash of the titans.  more...

Lee back for big crunch battle

FORMER Great Britain hooker Lee Jackson returns to the York City Knights line-up for the top-of-the-table tussle on Sunday, with boss Mick Cook saying his decision-making could prove vital.  more...

Short putts...

Forest fervour: FOREST of Galtres GC beat Forest Park 4-2 in the first Andrew Wain Memorial Trophy event at Forest Park.  more...

Range increases practice options for Pike players

KILLING two birdies with one blow could be the motto applied to Pike Hills Golf Club's latest improvement.  more...

Lee back for big crunch battle

FORMER Great Britain hooker Lee Jackson returns to the York City Knights line-up for the top-of-the-table tussle on Sunday, with boss Mick Cook saying his decision-making could prove vital.  more...

City boss McEwan snaps up trialists

YORK City have signed trialist trio Nathan Peat, Joe O'Neill and Ashley Winn.  more...

Big guns return

ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard return for Yorkshire Phoenix against Kent Spitfires at Headingley on Sunday.  more...

Busy Betty shines

YORK bowler Betty Richardson has tested the skills of the organisers of the 38th York Open Bowls Tournament to the full.  more...

Olympic scratch card gets lift off

NEW Olympic hopeful Richard Buck shows how the public can help clear the London 2012 funding hurdle under the watchful eye of two former medallists.  more...

Lumb may face long haul back

MICHAEL Lumb has just peeled off a string of stylish half-centuries in limited overs cricket, yet it is still turning out to be a season to forget for the Yorkshire left-hander.  more...

Jaques filling his boots

PHIL Jaques' epic 219 against Derbyshire was his fifth double century in 14 three-figure scores since making his debut for New South Wales.  more...

Big guns return

ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard return for Yorkshire Phoenix against Kent Spitfires at Headingley on Sunday.  more...

Go for Emperor - 30/07/05

Welsh Emperor, at his best in the mud, can take advantage of the recent rain by winning the feature race at Chester tomorrow.   more...

Rally cry might backfire on 'Pool

BLACKPOOL Panthers director of rugby Dave Rowland might not have done his club any favours, I fear, with comments he apparently made this week about the lack of support from the seaside town.  more...

Deano backs the Knights

DEAN Thomas has backed York City Knights to come out on top in tomorrow's battle royal at Dewsbury and go on to win LHF National League Two.  more...

York Whatson

William Heath Robinson, Nunnington Hall, Nunnington, near Helmsley, until August 29

Charles Hutchinson checks out the art of gadget guru William Heath Robinson.  more...

Review: York Dune Jazz festival: A Tribute To Billie Holiday, York Theatre Royal

Holiday is an iconic star of the jazz scene with a dramatic biography including much heartbreak.  more...

Review: Harrogate International Festival, Juan de Marcos's Afro Cuban All Stars, Harrogate Internati

BAND leader, Buena Vista Social Club luminary and Cuban music curator Juan de Marcos Gonzales Cardenas calls his new Afro Cuban All Stars album Step Forward.  more...

  
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