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  • Another century for Rhodes

    Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner It will be exactly 100 years next Tuesday since Wilfred Rhodes, Yorkshire's greatest all-rounder, made his first class debut for the county against MCC at Lord's, writes David Warner. Rhodes took four for 24 to help bowl

  • Tykes in form to take Brownhats to the cleaners

    Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner The Battle of the Titans takes place at Headingley on Sunday between Yorkshire and Surrey in the AXA League - and the only generosity of spirit from the home team and their fans will be to wish Alec Stewart all the best

  • Bird sets sights on shaping Tykes

    Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner Umpire Dickie Bird could help shape the future of Yorkshire cricket after he is forced to hang up his white coat at the end of the season. The retirement age for first class umpires is 65 and Bird started to draw his

  • Little searching for experience

    Trend-bucking York City are to take an 'old' tack in the tilt to establish the club as a major Division Two force. Manager Alan Little has stepped up his player search, and top of his shopping pile is experience. And that flies in the face of lower League

  • The biggest and the best yet

    Western Samoan centre Fata Sini was today hailed the "biggest" signing in the history of York Rugby League Club. Chief executive Phil Elliott declared that the capture of the former rugby union international was the potential catalyst for a promotion-winning

  • I'm not aerial menace says James Bond stunt pilot

    James Bond stunt pilot Tony Smith has denied being an "aerial menace" to residents living near his North Yorkshire aerodrome. Mr Smith, who flew up cliff faces in the Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, says flight paths and operational hours at Breighton

  • £250,000 safety boost for A64 danger road

    by Andrew Hitchon, Adrian Royles and Mike Laycock Highways chiefs confirmed today they intend closing a lethal gap on the A64 between York and Tadcaster. And safety improvements costing £250,000 are to be carried out on the York-Scarborough section later

  • Emma well in running to get the Full Monty

    Racing from Tom O'Ryan Actor Steve Huison, one of the stars of the block-busting film The Full Monty, will be at Beverley tomorrow to carry out the official opening of the new £800,000 Weighing Room complex. Huison, who will cut the tape at 1.15pm, an

  • Consultation 'gave York parents no real choice'

    The City of York's Education Committee is currently reviewing the rules which determine which schools children, moving from junior to secondary schools, will attend in future. Few can envy the committee its difficult task, but the consultation process

  • Wartime friends are reunited 53 years on

    Two airmen who flew on bombing raids over Nazi Germany from a North Yorkshire airfield have been reunited after 53 years. George Pattison, of Romanby, near Northallerton, and Norman Macqueen, who lives in Australia, made contact through a Christmas card

  • Missing Kez found safe and well

    Keziah Russell, the teenager missing for more than a month, is safe and well according to reports received by her mother. The 15-year-old disappeared from her home in Lowther Street, York, on April 3, sparking a major police hunt. Now, relieved mum Janice

  • Berwick for mayor? Oh, yes, he could!

    Entrepreneur Richard Branson, flamboyant Lord Archer and left-winger Ken Livingstone were today named as possible frontrunners in the race to become London's new elected Mayor. But who would be the prime candidates for the job if York were to face a similar

  • 1,000 jobs in store for York

    A thousand jobs will be created in York in the next four months with the opening of a giant new shopping complex on the northern edge of the city. Developers are aiming to have the Monks Cross centre, boasting leading High Street fashion shops, open by