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  • City's season runs out of steam

    UNFULFILLED promise. York City's 1997-98 season can be likened to that surge-sag feeling endured when a rush to the developer's shop to get first 'sight' of holiday photographs reveals...disenchantment. All looked shiny, spot-on, slick when the moment

  • Railway trees in line for axe

    TREE lovers look set to lose their battle to save an avenue of limes alongside the York-Scarborough railway line. York councillors are being advised to approve a Railtrack plan to fell the trees. The rail company says a number of the trees are in a dangerous

  • The girl always Dame for a laugh

    DAME Judi Dench may be the nation's best-loved actress, but she admitted today to being a tearaway during her school years in York. The York-born actress, who attended The Mount School, Britain's only all-girls' independent Quaker school, said: "They

  • Save the Corncrake

    THE RAREST breeding bird in England has returned to the Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, in East Yorkshire. And now a last-ditch attempt is under way to save the species from extinction. The corncrake was once common throughout the country

  • County views a new era of care

    A new era for people with learning difficulties in North Yorkshire is being ushered in. Members of the county council's social services committee will debate a new policy and strategy paper when they meet next Thursday . They aim to develop services which

  • Shares bid to blow fuse in pylons plan

    CAMPAIGNERS fighting a scheme to put a 50-mile stretch of giant pylons through North Yorkshire have been urged to buy shares in the National Grid so they can lobby shareholders. Speaking at a packed public meeting in Thirsk, Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh

  • Your vote counts in £70,000 project

    CITY centre residents are being asked to decide how to spend £70,000 to improve their area. York Regeneration Partnership - the group set up to redevelop the former ABB site on Holgate Road wants people to vote on which community projects to spend the

  • 40 York arrests as temperatures rise

    DRUNKEN violence and drink driving have cast a dark shadow over York's first glimpse of summer. Scores of revellers took to the streets to enjoy blue skies and warm weather. But as temperatures rose in the city, so did the number of arrests. In the last

  • Hotel worker fled to sun with cash

    A SENIOR hotel staff member was today beginning a nine-month prison sentence after fleeing to the sun with stolen cash. Herve Christian Di-Guisto made one-sided photocopies of £9,500 in banknotes, stuffed them in the hotel's bank bag - and fled with the