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  • Pannal pair beat the rest

    BEAT the panel used to be a popular television game. But no-one indeed could beat the Pannal in the north-east final of the Lombard Trophy. Played at Pannal GC in Harrogate the final was won by the host club pairing of assistant professional Richard Nutten

  • Foreign imports seek City chance

    FOREIGN powers are closing in on York City. And that could spark an international playing presence at Bootham Crescent before the year 2,000. That was the declaration of City manager Alan Little before today shepherding his home-grown charges into the

  • York medal-winning rowers seek backing

    WORLD championship rowing medallists Andrew Dangerfield and Gemma Bentham are striving to escape being dry-docked, writes Tony Kelly. The duo, both members of the thriving St Peter's School Rowing Club, returned from the world junior championships in

  • York tablets warning

    CHILDREN in York could be in danger because of incorrect labelling on paracetamol packets which were on sale at Tesco stores in the city. Half a million of the faulty packs - which give the wrong dosage instructions for children - have already been taken

  • Lorry hits garden

    A WAGON smashed through a fence and careered into a pretty North Yorkshire garden for the second time in five years. The driver escaped serious injury when a wooden fence post pierced the front windscreen and narrowly missed his face. His three-and-a-half-ton

  • Drink-driver six times over limit walks free

    A DRINK-driver who had enough alcohol in his system to kill most people today spoke of his relief at escaping the prison sentence he dreaded. David John Mackenzie, who insists he is not an alcoholic, says all he wants to do now is put his life back together

  • Fulford's youngsters await United States call

    FULFORD teenager Jason Eccles could be following in the fairway footsteps of British golf's new sensation Justin Rose. Eccles, 16, won the Fulford qualifying round of the Daily Telegraph/Center Parcs junior championship with a gross 82, eight strokes

  • Headingley dons mantle of happy hunting ground

    EVER since the Rt Hon Sir F S Jackson scored the first Test century at Headingley in 1905 - 144 not out for England against Australia - the ground has witnessed stirring deeds in some of the finest cricket battles ever staged - with the current clash

  • Checks on tenants' cash claims

    NEARLY 100 York tenants have had their benefits stopped as allegations of benefit fraud in the city are investigated. The claimants need to be reassessed to ensure that their claims are legitimate. They have been contacted by letter and have been invited

  • Shoplifter jailed for month

    A SHOPLIFTER was jailed for a month by Pickering magistrates after the chairman of the Bench said her record was "horrendous". Anne Marie Bhanvra, 39, of Earl Street, York, was given two concurrent one month sentences for stealing goods worth £16.98 from

  • Pig farmers in crisis talks

    ANGRY Yorkshire pig farmers claim they face financial ruin as caterers and some supermarkets opt to sell cheaper European meat. About 450 farmers attended a crisis meeting at Bishop Burton Agricultural College in East Yorkshire, at which the British Pig

  • Norton woman loses unfair dismissal case

    A WOMAN who claimed she was sacked from Malton Bacon Factory because she was pregnant has lost an industrial tribunal case. The tribunal panel decided unanimously to dismiss Ann Bryan's claims that she was unfairly dismissed and the victim of sexual discrimination

  • Vicar says witchcraft behind church raids

    A VICAR fears devil worshippers may be targeting churches in Ryedale in order to steal consecrated items for use in Black Masses. The Reverend Bill Ankers, who was collated as Vicar of Norton on July 1, spoke out after the discovery of an attempted break-in

  • Village abuse beast returns

    OUTRAGED parents have blasted a judge who let a paedophile with 40 years of convictions return to the North Yorkshire village where he was grooming boys for sex acts. Martin Humpleby, 62, walked free from Teesside Crown Court after he admitted attempted