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Stories for 28 April 2007

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York rape: Man is arrested

POLICE have arrested a man after a woman was raped as she walked home after a night out in York.   more...

Swan charity in funding appeal

A SWAN charity may have to close its doors unless it can urgently find volunteers to help with fundraising.   more...

Rugby player, 19, punched man to ground

A RUGBY League player must pay £350 compensation to the drunken man he felled with a single blow in Selby town centre.   more...

RAF veterans roll back years in visit to base

THEY get together once a month to recall those halcyon days when "proper" planes had propellers.   more...

Race against time to carry out centre revamp

A LEISURE firm could face a race against time in its plans to carry out a multi-million pound revamp of York's Barbican Centre by the autumn.   more...

Snow patrol

A TEENAGER has completed a mammoth cross-country ski challenge to change lives in Africa.   more...

Festival performers are real Live wires

THIS year's York Live music festival promises to bring an action-packed programme to the city, organisers said today.   more...

York research expert to lead hunt for new treatments

A TOP University of York scientist has joined forces with a leading charity to help find a cure for deafness.   more...

Judge issues warning to York dealer

A DRUG dealer caught red-handed with Ecstasy worth up to £805 in his pocket has been told to get ready for jail.   more...

It’s piazza hut

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Proud new crews are on parade

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Fire chief backs The Press campaign against joyriding

OUR campaign to prevent a repeat of one of York's worst road crash tragedies has won a massive boost.   more...

Train firm gets own bobbies

A RAIL company with services to York is sponsoring its own bobbies.   more...

Prayers for the police

POLICE chiefs from York and North Yorkshire attended a prayer breakfast hosted by city church leaders.   more...

Race For Life

FIVE years ago Sue Hone was told she was suffering from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and it was incurable.   more...

Bike-loving 33-year-old is found hanged

TRIBUTES have been paid to a York artist and engineer who has died.   more...

Sex attacker targeted sleeping teenager

A sex offender who twice attacked a sleeping girl has been locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric unit.   more...

Thugs attack York freight train driver

POLICE are appealing for information after thugs tried to rob a train driver in York.   more...

City rolls dice in Monopoly move

A NEW version of hit game Monopoly is being released and York is on track to be the new Mayfair - but might end up as Old Kent Road.   more...

Battle to beat rubbish louts

COUNCIL chiefs in York are stepping up their controversial war on environmental crime, by bringing in tough, new front-line recruits.   more...

Cycle theft blackspot

BIKE thieves in York are cashing in on Britons' desire to go green, a new survey has revealed.   more...

Penguins to pppp...pick up a pullover

PENGUINS living half a world away are set to pick up pullovers made by patients at a York hospice - to help them keep warm.   more...

Disabled driver’s parking anger

A WOMAN with only one arm has been told she is not entitled to a disabled parking permit - because she is not disabled enough.   more...

Feather report from my night behind the mask

IT'S amazing what a woman can buy when she's hormonal and having a strop.   more...

Reds with which to toast York City

THIS week Tipping's Tipples starts with a toast to the Red Army, or York City as they are otherwise known.   more...

York Press Sport

Dying the dream

SOME fans may be urging York City Knights to splash the cash to get out of their current slump, but a glance across at a few rival National League clubs suggests prudence may pay off in the long run.   more...

Ex-York loanee Thackeray set for Super League bow

FORMER York City Knights loanee Anthony Thackeray was in the reckoning for a starting berth for Hull in their Super League game at Wakefield tonight.   more...

Starlet Toby ready for Knights’ Cumbrian raid

YOUNG prop Toby Williams steps into the breech at Barrow tomorrow insisting York City Knights can turn the tables on the high-flying Raiders.   more...

Concentrate on ourselves is coach Cook’s message

KNIGHTS boss Mick Cook has told his team if they concentrate on their own game, there is no reason why their revenge mission cannot be successful.   more...

Cook turns to Toby

HEAD coach Mick Cook has recalled Toby Williams in place of want-away prop Joe Helme as York City Knights go in search of revenge in Cumbria.   more...

Hard graft has paid off for Neal – McEwan

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Roar us on to glory

NEAL Bishop has urged the fans to be York City's 12th man when the Minstermen line up against Oxford United today.   more...

Hoggard floors Durham

A stunning over from Matthew Hoggard, in which he grabbed three wickets in the space of five balls, sent Yorkshire charging towards a three-day victory by nine wickets in the LV Championship match against Durham at Headingley Carnegie yesterday.   more...

Vaughan back in Phoenix line-up

ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan will make his first Yorkshire appearance since last June when he turns out for Phoenix against Scottish Saltires in the Friends Provident Trophy clash in Edinburgh tomorrow.   more...

Moxon hails marathon

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Hot shot Johnson cracks it for Flag

NESTLé Flag's Christopher Johnson scored the winner to settle a five-goal York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup final against Derwent United.   more...

In-form Gilham grabs another win

STAR cycle rider Kit Gilham took another road race win in the Pete Gannon Memorial race at Kippax, near Leeds.   more...

Rain in Spain - but outlook brighter for Dyson

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Club of the week: Selby Golf Club

FROM its small beginnings when it was formed in the chambers of the town's Barclays Bank on October 24, 1907, Selby Golf Club has gone from strength to strength.   more...

Shift can move

TONY McCoy and Timmy Murphy, who have been riding most of the week at the Punchestown Festival in Ireland, are both in action at Wetherby tomorrow.   more...

Top class cover

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Park Life praise

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It’s time to go, Mick

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Devil’s advocate

TEMPTING fate can be a dangerous business but football fans, unlike managers, cannot always take each game as it comes.   more...

  
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