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Top of the tots winners revealed in Press competition
11:50am Sunday 20th July 2008
THE winners of our Top Of The Tots competition to discover who is the bonniest of them all have been revealed, after more than 4,000 readers voted for their favourite tot. The voting was very close this year – but we can now unveil your top tots for 2008. Kian Ellis, of New Earswick, York, won the 0-18 month category.
Comments (0)School’s out for head teachers
10:50am Sunday 20th July 2008
HE HAS been the head teacher at one of York’s largest secondary schools for more than a decade, but now he is signing off.
Watchdog puts bite on council
9:50am Sunday 20th July 2008
COUNCIL chiefs in York have been criticised by an official watchdog for taking too long to deal with complaints.
Compensation fight for asbestos victims
8:30am Sunday 20th July 2008
CAMPAIGNERS from York are backing a rearguard battle to block controversial plans which could prevent asbestos victims suing employers for damages.
Fun at the prom
7:30am Sunday 20th July 2008
THE end of term was one big party for these pupils at Applefields Special School in York.
Dean Dawson's inquest opens
6:30am Sunday 20th July 2008
AN inquest into the death of a young York father killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident in Wakefield has been opened.
More Challenor victims in touch
7:50pm Saturday 19th July 2008
MORE investors have come forward to tell how the collapse of a York property business has left them thousands of pounds out of pocket.
Bus fares to go up
11:00am Saturday 19th July 2008
Rising fuel prices forces First to increase Park&Ride fees by 15%
A64 crossroads blackspot plea
10:30am Saturday 19th July 2008
MAJOR improvements are needed on an accident blackspot near York, local politicians have claimed.
Scott's butchers closes after 130 years
10:20am Saturday 19th July 2008
ONE of York’s oldest butchers has closed its doors for the final time, citing council red-tape and corporate customers’ debts for the decision.
Sky’s the limit
10:20am Saturday 19th July 2008
Ex-RAF man to do first parachute jump at the age of 73.
School’s sweet success
10:21am Saturday 19th July 2008
TEENAGERS at a York secondary school have been involved producing a show in only five days to make the end of term.
Lorry sheds vegetables on road
10:10am Saturday 19th July 2008
This picture taken by The Press reader Robert Wainwright shows a road near the village of Hovingham, after a lorry shed some of its load of vegetable waste.
Dinner not served
10:10am Saturday 19th July 2008
Lord Mayor in row after he snubs event to support strikers.
Offices close as estate agents feel the pinch
10:10am Saturday 19th July 2008
JOBS are being axed and offices closed as estate agents in York feel the pinch of the housing slump.
Helen stunning despite final disappointment
9:57am Saturday 19th July 2008
MISS York looked stunning on the stage in a gorgeous blue gown – and did her city proud.
Tributes to retired police chief inspector Sidney Smith
7:50pm Friday 18th July 2008
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Selby police chief inspector who has died, aged 85.
‘Highly organised’ gang blamed for plates theft
11:40am Friday 18th July 2008
Steel plates worth thousands of pounds have been stolen from a business park near York - the latest in a growing tally of scrap metal crimes.
UK News
Pensioners missing out on benefits
Updated 1:12pm Sunday 20th July 2008
Over half of British pensioners are struggling to live on a low income and are missing out on thousands in pension credits, statistics have revealed.
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Low Row in the Yorkshire Dales
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FOR the first time ever, my mobile phone stopped working. Just like that. The feelings of loss, isolation and, I’ll be brutally honest, panic were instant – and just as quickly replaced by the total shame of such dependency.
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Let’s nail those snails
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Sam Houston’s, Clifford Street, York
Maxine Gordon pulls on her Stetson for a visit to York’s new Tex-Mex restaurant.
Sledmere House
RICHARD FOSTER learns about an expert on the Middle East during a visit to a stately home in East Yorkshire.
Knights are Co-operative
A POSSE of Knights went to Haxby yesterday to open the new-look Co-op on Ryedale Court.
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