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Scientific finds

8:50am Saturday 13th March 2010

STEPHEN LEWIS follows the trail of York’s secret past to mark the city’s science and technology festival.

Everything equals four

8:20am Saturday 13th March 2010

MAXINE GORDON meets the mum behind the no-fuss cookbook taking the world by storm.

The role of a PCSO in York

9:42am Friday 12th March 2010

Today PCSOs and police officers will graduate together for the first time. MATT CLARK spent a day with student officers to find out how the role of the PCSO has come of age.

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Funding challenges facing higher education

10:01am Thursday 11th March 2010

As students prepare for their A-levels later this year, STEPHEN LEWIS talks to York College principal Alison Birkinshaw about the funding challenges facing higher education.

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Birds of prey at York Falconry, Askham Bryan College

9:25am Thursday 11th March 2010

THERE is an almost unearthly grace and beauty about Banjo the Barn Owl as he swoops down to alight on his trainer’s gauntleted hand.

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Lesson in getting fit for life

10:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

STEPHEN LEWIS joins an exercise and diet session at a York sports centre that aims to get children and their parents eating and exercising better

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Meet Loose Women star and Yorkshire diva, Jane McDonald

9:18am Tuesday 9th March 2010

FASHION has finally caught up with Jane McDonald. The big, glossy, hair, the plunging dresses, the perfect manicure – it’s all so very Cheryl Cole.

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Stuart Maconie interview ahead of the DJ’s book signing in York

6:59am Saturday 6th March 2010

Stuart Maconie is many things, MATT CLARK discovers ahead of the DJ’s book signing in York next week.

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Former teenage mothers talk about parents, sex education and peer pressure

9:17am Monday 8th March 2010

In 2001, health chiefs set a target to reduce teenage pregnancies in York by 50 per cent by the end of 2010. The latest available figures show the conception rate is still higher than when the goal was set. NICOLA FIFIELD meets two young mums to hear their solutions.

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Lights, camera, smile

7:02am Saturday 6th March 2010

MAXINE GORDON visits a York boutique offering glamour worthy of Oscars night.

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Conscience versus duty in the British armed forces

9:08am Friday 5th March 2010

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, from York, was due to be sentenced at Colchester Military Court today for going absent without leave. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the tension between duty and conscience for soldiers who no longer believe in what they are being asked to do.

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