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           <title>New delay for York's stadium project</title>
           
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  YORK'S community stadium project has been hit by a fresh delay - and it will now almost certainly not be completed until the start of 2016.
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           <title>Minister gives further boost to hopes of saving the NRM</title>
           
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  Updated: CULTURE Minister Ed Vaizey has given a further massive boost to hopes of saving the National Railway Museum from possible closure.
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           <title>All staff laid off as the Hut Group buys York retailer Coggles</title>
           
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  ONLINE retailer, the Hut Group, has acquired the assets of York fashion retailer Coggles Limited.
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           <title>York is on brink of gridlock nightmare</title>
           
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  GRIDLOCK could cost York more than £80 million a year by 2031 if building thousands of homes is not matched by sweeping transport improvements, experts have warned.
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  NEW figures on accident rates prove a city-wide 20mph rule will not make York safer, opponents have claimed.
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  COUNCIL leader James Alexander last night defended York’s draft Local Plan in the face of hostility from more than 100 residents at a packed public meeting.
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  THREE alleged failed asylum seekers have been arrested after immigration officials raided a Chinese takeaway in York.
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  A YOUNG man who could have blinded a four-week-old baby when he shook him is today in jail awaiting sentence.
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  A STRIKING new entrance to the South Door of York Minster has been completed.
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  CHILDREN have dressed as superheroes and paraded round a York square after their nursery school was hailed as “outstanding” by Ofsted.
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  A SEX attacker who accosted a woman as she walked towards the University of York is still being hunted by police.
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  AN inspirational primary school teacher has been nominated for a Community Pride Award.
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           <title>Call for tougher action on street drinkers in York</title>
           
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  BUSINESSES and taxi drivers have called for tougher action on street drinkers after a fight in York.
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  YORK is to host the Liberal Democrats’ Spring Conference next year.
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           <title>Crowds enjoy weekend of Sixties nostalgia in Pickering</title>
           
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  THE sixties swung again as fans of the era turned out in colourful crowds to enjoy a weekend of nostalgia in Pickering.
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  THE proposed high-speed HS2 rail line – which is set to run through the outskirts of a North Yorkshire village – has come under fire from a think tank.
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           <title>Work to start at last on B1228 repairs</title>
           
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  WORK on a main road linking York and East Yorkshire will start next month after being delayed because of bad weather.
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           <title>Major work on Selby swing bridge 	is put back</title>
           
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  MAJOR repairs to the Selby swing bridge, which were due to take place this summer, have been put back to next year.
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           <title>Former York student plans to raise £2,000 by cycling from London to Istanbul</title>
           
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  AN epic 2,000-mile bike ride awaits 22-year-old former University of York student Louis Lunts.
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           <title>Guide to York's urban picnic locations launched</title>
           
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  SITES in York including a medieval graveyard, the city’s walls, the National Railway Museum and the York Wheel have been included in a new guide to urban picnic locations.
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           <title>Tourists cut York holiday short after street attack</title>
           
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  TWO tourists were attacked in the centre of York as they headed back to their hotel, prompting them to leave the city earlier than planned.
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  A MAN has suffered a head injury after being knocked unconscious in a city-centre attack in York.
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  THE campaign to save the National Railway Museum from risk of closure was stepped up a gear with nearly 100 people gathering for a banner-waving protest outside the York attraction.
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  RATHER than putting their feet up for Father’s Day, more than 260 York men took part in an all-male charity run at Rowntree Park to help fund research into prostate and male cancers at Yorkshire Cancer Research’s University of York laboratory.
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