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Woods keen to agree new Knights deal
DAVE WOODS says he is happy at York City Knights – and wants to agree new terms quickly so the club can focus on player recruitment. As reported by The Press, the club have opened talks with the Aussie to extend his stay at Huntington Stadium, regardless
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Officials told: Get to the point
COUNCIL officers in York are being asked to make their reports easier to read and keep them shorter in a bid to cut costs. The guidance is being issued among key staff at City of York Council because the authority says councillors and the public do not
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Young mum tells of cancer battle
A YOUNG woman diagnosed with cancer soon after giving birth is organising a family event to celebrate being five years clear of the illness. Colleen Bishop, 26, of Acomb, York, first noticed the symptoms of Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 19 when she
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Claudia's dad takes fight to Downing Street
THE father of York chef Claudia Lawrence has presented the Prime Minister with a report aimed at providing new rights for the families of missing people. Peter Lawrence gave evidence at a Parliamentary inquiry last month which was set up after calls
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New D-Day set in car-park row
A NEW decision day has been set for controversial proposals to sell a York car park. City of York Council’s Liberal Democrat group has used little-known rules to call an extraordinary meeting of the authority to debate the ruling Labour
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Wolds Produce Ltd
IT’S a case of profits-U-like for potato marketing Wolds Produce Ltd of Pocklington. What began in 2004 as a partnership between managing director Simon Tootell and Wolds farmer Simon Foster on the back of a £5,000 grant from Growing Roots, the Yorkshire
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Peter Gibson - Coles Solicitors
WE all have moments of madness, but not everyone knows how to profit by them. Peter Gibson does. In one of those mad moments almost five years ago he took ownership of a sole practitioner law firm in Northallerton. Today, against all
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Dragonfly Acoustics Ltd
IF Dragonfly Acoustics Ltd was now to measure the silence from the prophets of doom who once noisily warned the business about starting in the teeth of a recession, it would be off the scale. The acoustics and environmental consultancy launched three
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Platt and Farmeary inspire Ladies Darts League leaders Cueball ‘B’
CUEBALL ‘B’ moved into pole position in division one of the York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League with a 7-2 win over visitors Ox ‘A’. Tina Platt closed 96 and captain Tracey Farmeary checked out on 56 for a 24-dart leg for the snooker club side. Tracey
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Darts ace Rich Corner in Winmau Masters spotlight
YORK’S Rich Corner has qualified for the final stages of the prestigious Winmau Masters at Hull City Hall. Corner clinched his place in the ESPN-televised stages of the BDO competition with a victory in Blackpool’s Northern Area qualifier. The Masters
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Nominations received for Volunteer Of The Year award
A CHARITY worker, a residents’ association member, and a Brownie leader are among the nominations for Volunteer Of The Year at the 2011 Community Pride Awards. This is the eighth year The Press has run the awards, which recognise the efforts of local
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Thugs jailed for drunken attacks
TWO louts have been jailed for drink-fuelled violence that left one man with a broken cheekbone and saw another kicked as he lay on the ground. When Craig Steven Fox, 27, saw Ross Gorrill being chased along Clifford Street in the early hours of February
