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Getting on the ball for charity
THOUSANDS of pounds for charity - that was the impressive result of the fun at the Grand Opera House. The Deep End event was expected to have raised a total of more than £5,000 for different causes, and our Guardian Angels campaign has benefited to the
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Deflection denies York victory
YORK Under-12s Schools footballers will have another stab at earning a place in the Matthew Dale Cup semi-final after being held by a last minute goal at Spen Valley. The York side dominated the tie from the word go with attack after attack on the Spen
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John's skills thrill school kids
WORLD freestyle football champion John Farnworth gave children at Saxton primary School a sneak preview of what it's like to play the Brazilian way. The 20-year-old from Manchester showed off some of the drills and skills he has learnt playing futebol
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Basketball stars reaching new heights
LADY Lumley's School has set a new standard in the English National Schools Basketball Competition with both the Under-16 boys and girls teams through to the last eight in the country. The boys were made to work hard against Woodham School from Durham
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Rising costs of keeping warm
IN December, I received a notification from Staywarm Energy Supplier Powergen, who advised me that my combined energy supply to my home would increase by more than 31 per cent from February 2006. I have had increases in excess of 48 per cent in two years
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Waste strategy
THE most cost effective and environmentally sustainable way to keep down the cost of waste treatment is to minimise the waste in the first instance, and then to maximise recycling from the remaining refuse. In the rush to launch its campaign, the Green
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Ordeal by phone
AS a not very frequent but regular visitor to the Grand Opera House, York, I received an offer of a free ticket to a show if I bought one other. I decided to take up this offer. I rang the advertised number, which turned out to be Ticketmaster. After
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The Robards Report: Getting real
York is steadily gaining a reputation as a major player in the field of bioscience research and exploitation. But how real is this and how much is just marketing hype? More importantly, what does the future hold and can York maintain - even improve -
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Food and drink for skills squad
IMPROVE, the York-based food and drink sector skills council for the UK, has scooped a top accolade at an awards ceremony celebrating the best of the British food industry. Improve beat off strong competition to take the Best Training Initiative category
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Water firm taps into delivery market
A BOTTLED water firm, which points to claims of remedial powers for its product, has picked York to introduce a door-to-door home delivery service to the nation. If the experiment succeeds in the city then Willow Water, which has a production plant in
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York home builders are moving house
IT WAS a case of home builders moving house. Forty staff at York-based retirement builder McCarthy & Stone were today settling into their new Yorkshire and north eastern regional headquarters at Aspen House on the Northminster Business Park, Poppleton
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The damage done
I WISH members of the Save Our Barbican pressure group would stop pretending they represent York people. If it wasn't for them, we'd have a new pool already. Haven't they done enough damage? Rachel Williams, Heslington Road, York. Updated: 09:24 Wednesday
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Hidden gem
I WOULD like to express my delight at the success of Residents 1st for All Saints' Church, North Street. We had well over 500 people through our door, joining in guided tours or just looking round with our printed guide leaflet. They all marvelled at
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Skipper Hotte rallies his troops
YORK City captain Mark Hotte has called on his team-mates to put together a run of improved results - starting with Sunday's home match against Aldershot (1.30pm). The Minstermen are now nine points adrift of a Conference play-off spot but Hotte wants
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Ex-Royal Marine to sue over missing £86,000
A FORMER Royal Marine who served through the Second World War is threatening to take the Government to court if it does not hand over thousands of pounds in compensation. Solicitors acting for former Army Major Richard Leigh Perkins, 88, have set the
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Having a whale of a time
WHICH would be a better tourist attraction for York: the big wheel, or a big whale? Tourist chiefs plumped for the former. And they were quite right, according to one who knows. Viv Wellburn was there the last time a whale corpse was displayed for the
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Stay away, ban teen is warned
KEEP out of York or go to jail. That's what a district judge told a teenage lout who flouted an ASBO ban twice in five days. The city's magistrates barred Daniel Adrian Holmes from coming inside the city's outer ring road last spring to protect citizens
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Residents to face £50 rise in council tax
RESIDENTS in Selby district look set to face council tax rises of almost £50 in the coming year. Selby District Council voted last night to keep its share of the rise in line with inflation. But North Yorkshire County Council bosses are being recommended
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Patient scoops advice pay-out
SOCIAL services chiefs have been ordered to pay a York mental health patient £37,000 after her family were given "incomplete and inaccurate advice" about her future care. An investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman, Jerry White, has found City
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York to face GB great in battle of arch(bishop) rivals
Two archbishops and an Olympic gold medallist could be rubbing shoulders at a hockey match at Huntington School on Sunday. City of York Veterans hockey team have drawn Canterbury in the last 16 of the National Veterans Cup and they are praying that the
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The Deep End ...it's the business!
ON the night that put the business into show business, the big winner from The Deep End at the Grand Opera House was charity. Not only did the programme proceeds from the York business community's pop talent contest go to the Evening Press's Guardian
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Region enjoys bream bonanza
ANGLING records tumbled across the region at the weekend as chub went on a feeding frenzy. New match records were broken on the Tees and Swale as nets over 80lb were recorded on both rivers while catches of 40lb were needed to make the top six on the
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Big Knight out
YORK City Knights fans have the chance to meet their heroes tonight when the club stage an open day at the Next Generation sports centre on Hull Road. Supporters will have the chance to have their photographs taken with the players, as well as the LHF
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Healy given all-clear
LEEDS United's promotion hopes have been given a lift by news that striker David Healy's foot injury is not as bad as first feared. The Northern Ireland international had a scan on the foot after being accidentally trodden on by QPR defender Danny Shittu
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Funding blow hits city bottleneck scheme
A MAJOR bottleneck could be frustrating motorists for years to come because of a multi-million pound funding cut. The news came as councillors claimed they had been "short-changed again", after the Government cut £6.5 million from York's ambitious transport
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Girl stabbed in city attack
A 15-year-old-girl has been seriously injured in a frenzied knife attack in York. Armed police were called to a house in the early hours of today after reports of a stabbing. Two adults, a man and a woman, were also injured. Neighbours said they were
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Dressing like a Dingle
I've always wanted to dress like a star - and now it looks as though, without knowing it, I've been doing it all along. Trouble is, while my style icons may have been Kate Moss and Stella McCartney, it turns out my shopping habits have left me more likely
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Way we were
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 100 years ago Dwellers along the coastline were only too well aware of the great inroads that were being made by the sea, and we had the uncomfortable, but nevertheless accurate, assertion of Mr E Romney Matthews, of Bridlington
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Transport cash misery
THE Government has bottled it on York's bottlenecks. Having praised the city council transport plans, judging them among the best in the country, ministers promptly hacked off £6.5 million-worth of proposed improvements. The desperately-needed scheme
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Suits really rock
THEY were thrown in at The Deep End - and made a terrific splash. Who could have known so much rock'n'roll talent was hidden inside the sober suits of businessmen and women across the region? Our thanks and admiration go to all the participants. It takes
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York's Sing and Sign babies in National Charity's Campaign
Chatterbox Challenge 2006 is going to be the biggest yet! Charity ICAN's 'Make Chatter Matter Week' (6-12 February) raises awareness across the UK about the one in ten children with a communication disability. This year's events will see something exciting
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The news hounds
Editors looking for talented journalists of the future need look no further than one York primary school where youngsters have been busy writing newspaper stories to deadline with the Evening Press. Education reporter Haydn Lewis met pupils who have had
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The Deep End ... it's the business!
ON the night that put the business into show business, the big winner from The Deep End at the Grand Opera House was charity. Not only did the programme proceeds from the York business community's pop talent contest go to the Evening Press's Guardian
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HMS York sailors donate £500 to Guardian Angels appeal
SAILORS from HMS York have given a £500 boost to the Evening Press Guardian Angels appeal during a visit to the city. The money was raised during the ship's deployment in the Far East last year through quiz nights and hair cuts on board, said Chief Petty
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Cold comfort
DAVID Lloyd-Williams's plea "Don't axe our buses" (February 2) raises another issue. It prompts the question, on a bitterly cold morning, what use will the free bus travel be - to be issued in April for all over-60s living in the rural and urban areas
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Yorkshire CCC bodies to build rapport
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club's management board is to set up a direct line with the members' committee in an attempt to forge stronger links between the two bodies. Stephen Mann, the committee's chairman, described his group's meeting this week as "very
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First for Louisa
Louisa Watson has been appointed as Johnson of Whixley's first-ever amenity telesales manager. She joins the UK's biggest nursery for the amenity sector having gained experienced in nursery sales and marketing roles with a landscape supplies business.
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Bat recovers after being rescued from light fitting
YOUR readers may like to know that the bat we recovered from a classroom light at Park Grove Primary School, York, which you featured recently (January 19) has now fully recovered. Jack, as the class concerned christened him, recovered quickly and was
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Rising sea levels will be catastrophic for UK
THE Horizon TV programme about flooding in New Orleans gave an insight into what will happen in Britain. Due to rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice caps and increased building on green belt and greenfield sites causing excessive run-off and
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Death with dignity
I ENTIRELY agree with Martyn Callaghan about the excellence of care and environment offered by St Leonard's Hospice, York (February 4). I was one of the team of speakers who went round telling people about our dream to create a hospice in York long before
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Avoid blame
I MAY be accused of jumping the gun but, knowing of the recent cock-ups City of York Council has made, I am writing to ask who will take the blame if not enough adequate facilities are provided for disabled swimmers in the new pool proposals? I remember
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No need for spin
PUBLICATION of yet another National Health Service (NHS) White Paper, plus a report on a Sure Start scheme for pensioners, prompts me to make a plea to Government. Do not impose new NHS reforms "across the board", but seek partnership with local councils
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City assessing cost of repairing surface
YORK City are waiting to find out the cost of repairing their damaged pitch. Local specialists Inturf have carried out an inspection on the corner of the ground at the Grosvenor Road end which has had to be covered in sand to avoid match postponements
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City leads the way in efficiency
"I'LL take pleasure in telling local authorities in the south-east that we're way ahead of them." These were the words of York councillor Christian Vassie, before speaking to the Delivering The Climate For Change conference at the Royal Society in London
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Mum's frustration as children are charged to get teeth checked
A MOTHER has expressed her frustration after discovering her two young daughters might not be able to get their teeth checked on the NHS from April 1. Annmarie Lock, her husband, Andy, and daughters, Amie, ten, and Emma, eight, have been treated at Acorn
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'One coroner can't cover a large geographic area'
BEREAVED families in York and North Yorkshire could be forced to travel vast distances for inquests if changes to the coroners' system take place, the county's coroners have claimed. The Evening Press revealed yesterday that there was criticism of Government
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Production line at Nestl could run for only nine weeks
A MAJOR production line at Nestl Rowntree could run for only nine weeks this year, it emerged today. The company said some of the work normally carried out on the KitKat3 moulding and packaging line could switch to the KitKat4 line. A spokeswoman said
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City assessing cost of repairing surface
YORK City are waiting to find out the cost of repairing their damaged pitch. Local specialists Inturf have carried out an inspection on the corner of the ground at the Grosvenor Road end which has had to be covered in sand to avoid match postponements
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So who should get the drugs that save lives?
As a Swindon woman is told she will have to wait before learning whether she can get the potentially life-saving cancer drug herceptin on the NHS, there is better news for York's Nicola Allford. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the latest health care lottery
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Big Knight out
YORK City Knights fans have the chance to meet their heroes tonight when the club stage an open day at the Next Generation sports centre on Hull Road. Supporters will have the chance to have their photographs taken with the players, as well as the LHF
