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  • School's wreath honour for hero

    Youngsters from a York secondary school, retracing the steps of Allied soldiers killed in the First World War, today laid a wreath where a great-uncle of a member of staff fell in action - exactly 80 years ago to the day. It is the fourth year in which

  • Racing with Tom O'Ryan

    by Tom O'Ryan Norton jockey Lindsay Charnock, riding for his old boss Denys Smith, can provide the veteran Bishop Auckland trainer with a major success at Doncaster tomorrow by landing the £50,000 Worthington Lincoln Handicap on Duraid. Smith who won

  • Harder tasks ahead for Wasps

    by Stuart MartelThe test is yet to come for York Rugby League Club's summit seekers. So maintained coach Dean Robinson despite the Wasps' registering a rare away win over Doncaster Dragons. The Wasps boss saw his side beat the Dragons 30-16 at Belle Vue

  • Cometh the hour... cometh the man

    Sure-shot 'Marco Goalo' has been cited as 'Marco Coalo' to set alight York City's run-in to the season. Striker Marco Gabbiadini returns to the City attack for the visit of Blackpool tomorrow charged with igniting the reds' touch paper. Gabbiadini has

  • Supershare '98

    Business editor Ron Godfrey, 'snowed' under with entries to Supershare '98 Our new winner of the daily £50 prize for the Supershare leader admits to a kind of "insider dealing." In a twinkle-eyed confession, Graham Winship says that he deliberately did

  • Wharton yearns for York fight

    Go west warrior Henry Wharton has his sights trained on another big fight-night in his home city of York. As Wharton prepared to wow America on his professional debut in front of the world's biggest boxing audience he looked ahead to again starring in

  • Pylons to straddle Vale of York

    Giant electricity pylons will be erected through the Vale of York despite a seven-year campaign against the scheme. But today dismayed protesters vowed to fight on for a judicial inquiry. The £200 million plan will see pylons, the size of Nelson's Column