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Janet Eldred
A message from the heart The Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks film You've Got Mail has got people talking about love on the Internet. I propose, however, that it's not just their romance that has engaged audiences. Mail holds delights for all of us and modern technology
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I'll drink to pub
I read with interest what the owners of the pub in Heworth, The Shoulder and Mutton, plan to do at Easter time and I think it is a novel idea to put up Crosses outside the pub and recreate the Garden of Gethsemene (Evening Press, March 27). I support
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Loo views
I am currently trying to make a documentary about public toilets in the region and am looking for people to contribute to it. If you have a view, story or opinion you think would be useful and you would like to share; or know of a particular toilet that
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Charitable concern
With daily begging letters from numerous sources, empty bags left for clothes and books, raffle tickets at the door (and wherever you may meet socially), cans or collecting boxes thrust at you on your shopping trips, TV appeals and the sponsorship of
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Mr Wright is so wrong over Kosovo and EU
I wonder just how your reader Mr Wright of Easingwold (Letters, March 25), with all his political jargon, might feel if he found himself sitting in one of those horse-drawn carts we have seen on television? Being driven from his home, leaving behind all
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Driven to distraction
An East Yorkshire woman who was looking forward to the road tax for her small car costing her £55 less this year thanks to the Chancellor's budget generosity got a nasty shock when she called at the Post Office. Fiona Wilson with her Ford Fiesta which
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York gets into gear for Britain in Bloom
York's famous daffodil display will be long gone by the time the judges of the Britain in Bloom competition come to the city in August. The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Derek Smallwood, with residents and some of those involved in the new garden project.
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Sportsmail: Heavy hearts at Bootham Crescent
Those of us who actually pay to watch York City have endured some football matches of terrible quality at home this season. Only four wins, and often there has seemed to be a lack of any spirit or effort among the players. Experienced players have looked
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Cities 'should work together'
York and Leeds should work together, utilising each other's strengths, says the president of York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. Maureen Loffill: we must exploit cluster possibilities Maureen Loffill, also a director of York's Inward Investment
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Boro face Norwegians
Division three basement club Scarborough have a prestige friendly tonight when they welcome Norwegian side Tromso to the McCain Stadium (7.15pm). Tromso are preparing for the start of their season next week and will also play Premiership bottom club Nottingham
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Changes for TECs welcomed
Speculation is mounting over the future of Business Links and Training & Enterprise Councils, fuelled by the Chancellor's decision to create the £100 million Small Business Service (SBS). The formation of the new service, which will deliver advice
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Pocklington hit their rivals for six
School sport compiled by Peter Wilmott Pocklington School are the county's indoor cricket kings. They have been crowned Yorkshire Cricket School/Nat West Under 16 Indoor Cricket champions at Headingley. They beat Hull CC by three wickets with three balls
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Eccles holds key to Scottish double
Key To The City, who remained in Scotland after winning at Hamilton on Monday, can notch another success at Musselburgh tomorrow before returning to his Lambourn base. The Paul Eccles-trained gelding goes for the Mayfield Selling Handicap, and is expected
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Nidd Vale back on acquisition trail
Nidd Vale Group, one of Yorkshire's largest privately-owned motor retailers, is back on the acquisition trail. This follows the sale of its 1.8-acre retail site at Pannal, near Harrogate, to Reg Vardy, for an undisclosed sum. Richard Jackson, the chairman
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Welcome move on rail deaths
The figures on rail suicides are shocking. More than 175 people kill themselves on the railways each year. On the East Coast Main Line alone, there have been 150 suicides since 1991. Behind these stark statistics lie stories of human devastation. It is
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Let's get it together!
EXCLUSIVE by Tony Kelly, Chief Sports Writer Grounds for sharing York City's Bootham Crescent are to be stepped up by York Rugby League Club. Offer: Jim Race The once-again thriving rugby club are adamant they would prosper even more with a link with
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Pioneering study into rail suicides
EXCLUSIVE by Maxine Gordon . One third of a million pounds is to be spent on a pioneering research programme to cut the rising number of suicides on the East Coast main line, which runs through York. A train speeds through York Railway Station, where
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Wetherby forensic lab criticised for poor security
The Forensic Science Service was urged today by MPs to step up security to stop thefts of vital evidence and drugs from its laboratories, including the one it runs at Wetherby. The Commons Public Accounts Committee said a National Audit Office report
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MP seeks floods inquiry as angry victims meet
Ryedale's MP today called for an urgent independent inquiry into the cause of the floods which devastated North and East Yorkshire and left hundreds homeless earlier this month. John Greenway said: "People here have no confidence in the Environment Agency
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Stay away, Lady T
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the television that interfering old megalomaniac indulges in a self-congratulatory ego trip with a man accused of torture and murder. Yes, Lady Thatcher is back. The news was grim enough without her sticking
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Innovative firms get awards
Six innovative York-based businesses have been successful in their applications for SMART awards from the DTI, after receiving vital support from Business Link North Yorkshire. Business Link North Yorkshire innovation and technology adviser Roger Benson
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Democracy denied
A firm is about to move into the former Samsung factory near Knaresborough. It has been given the right to build a 100,000 square foot extension to the site at Flaxby. Yet officials refuse to say which firm it is. Evening Press readers are already aware
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Tips of Iceberg help juniors
It was a titanic collision when an 'Iceberg' hoved into view at the Easter basketball camp at the Northern Ryedale Leisure Centre. Out of reach: Kingston Icebergs player Phil Gaughan towers over Stuart Dixon, 12. Picture: David Harrison Phil Gaughan,
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Dream comes true for two friends
A dream has come true for two Yorkshire women who have launched their own events company to fill what they see as a gap in the market. Angela Gault, left, and Sue Johansson serve up a new event company for the Yorkshire and Humber region outside Harrogate's
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Sini hit by four-game brawl ban
York Wasps will be without Iefata Sini for their two toughest games of the season so far after the winger was hit with a four-match ban. Ban: Sini Sini received the suspension and a £75 fine at a Rugby Football League disciplinary hearing yesterday for
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Minimum wage 'puts 8,000 jobs in danger'
Business newsline by Tony Seymour More than 8,000 jobs in the Yorkshire and Humber region are at risk over the next three years, because of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of £3.60 an hour, which comes into force on April 1. So warns a report from the
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Family venues put up prices
Fees for children may have been axed at the National Railway Museum (NRM), but no Easter free-for-all is planned for children at other York tourist attractions, which do not benefit from the same Government subsidies. As already reported in the Evening
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Residents in fight to stop new access road
Parents living in a former rat run are protesting against an access road they say will return them to the days when their children could not play out on the street. Residents opposed to a new access road off Millfield Avenue, York, confront Councillor
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Print firm's 'secret' plan green light
York printing giant RR Donnelley looks to have won the green light to relocate to the former Samsung factory site near Knaresborough. Harrogate borough councillors last night authorised planning officers to approve - subject to certain conditions - an
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Hunters' epic trek to help preserve rural life
The chairman of the Sinnington Hunt is to walk the length of Britain to help protect "the rural way of life". Major James Holt and his wife Mary are to set off from Land's End on April 12 and walk to John O'Groats to raise money for the Countryside Alliance
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School places protesters march on York council offices
Angry parents marched through the streets of York today in protest at secondary school places allocated to their children. The kids are united: Pupils and parents march to the education department offices in York today. Picture: Frank Dwyer About 100
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Horne back on hunger strike
EXCLUSIVE by Adam Nichols Animal rights bomber Barry Horne has begun to refuse food again - only three months after he called off a 68-day hunger strike. Flashback: Horne at the window of his hospital ward The Evening Press understands that Horne, serving
