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Peterborough move for Donaldson in limbo after transfer coup
ANY possible move by Peterborough United for York City striker Clayton Donaldson is in limbo. The Posh shattered the Conference transfer record to sign Stevenage winger George Boyd yesterday. The League Two promotion-chasers club forked out £260,000
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We’ll bounce back – McEwan
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is calling on his players to learn from their mistakes as they travel to Morecambe this afternoon. The Minstermen face their fellow play-off contenders on the back of Friday night's disappointing 1-0 home defeat against Woking
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Survival fillip for Boro
SCARBOROUGH boosted their hopes of Conference North survival with a 2-0 victory at Farsley Celtic on Saturday. The Seadogs were hoping for back-to-back victories today when they entertain Blyth Spartans, who beat them 2-0 on Boxing Day. Boro will go
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Kartiers sparkle in cup classic
Only one of the scheduled three Senior Cup ties survived the heavy rains with Kartiers reaching the semi-finals with a 4-2 home win over holders Wigginton Grasshoppers. Goals from Andy Richardson and James Barrett gave the Selby-based side a two-goal
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Rowntree enjoy life on the road
NESTLE Rowntree stretched their unbeaten away run in the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division to five games with a 3-1 win at Heslington. Lee Bunce opened the scoring in the fifth minute when the home 'keeper failed to hold a shot from
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Malton slide out of Shield
MALTON & Norton RUFC tumbled out of the Yorkshire Shield with a 10-3 defeat at North Ribblesdale. On a quagmire of a pitch the home side showed their intentions after five minutes. Malton were penalised in mid-field and a kick to the corner gave the
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Mackley leads Acorn try spree
THOMAS Mackley swept in for a hat-trick of tries as York Acorn ARL Club entered 2007 on a high. Mackley's treble was one of the highlights of Acorn's 40-8 demolition of Milford Marlins which pushed Alfie Hill's side up to sixth in National Conference
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Spanish trip to hone Yorkshire’s players
Yorkshire entered the New Year in a state of flux with a number of important posts yet to be filled but on a more positive note the club was able to announce that a 21-strong party of players and coaching staff will spend five days in La Manga in late
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Elliott joining United’s battle
STRUGGLING Leeds United looked set to make Sunderland defender Robbie Elliott their first signing when the transfer window opened at midnight. The two clubs have agreed a deal for the 33-year-old, who played a trial game for the Elland Road club in the
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Flow with the river
RED River Rebel can start the New Year like he ended the old one at Southwell tomorrow. The gelding, trained by John Norton, ran out a wide-margin winner on this course last week in the hands of Sheriff Hutton-based jockey Paul Mulrennan, who takes the
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Out with the old
AS York and North Yorkshire welcomes 2007, we look back at New Year celebrations from days gone by. Our first picture, taken outside the Minster at midnight on December 31, 1929, shows the Archbishop and the Dean welcoming in the new year, no doubt full
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Anna Cook’s volunteer work recognised by the Blairs
FOR 12 years, she has visited a blind woman every week to have a chat and help around the home. Now Anna Cook's work as a volunteer with York Blind And Partially Sighted Society has been recognised with an invitation to a reception at 10 Downing Street
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Jail for violent razor attacker
A MAN spent new year in jail after he cut his girlfriend's neck with a razor blade. Ronnie Johnston, 24, also pulled Karen Walker's garden gate off its hinges, attacked her front door and threatened to kill her in a night of violence in Bell Farm Avenue
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Charity chief in parting plea
TWO thirds of all new homes in York are now apartments - and more family homes with gardens are needed. That was the message from Lord Best as he retired after 18 years at the helm of the world-famous Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He was giving a passionate
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Foundation work aimed at beating poverty
LORD Best spoke of how the foundation's assets had increased sharply since the acquisition of Rowntree Mackintosh by Nestlé in 1988, following Joseph Rowntree's decision in 1904 to give it a substantial shareholding in the company. "It has been my job
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York parties like it’s 2007
HARDY revellers braved biting 50mph winds as they partied in the streets to welcome in 2007. York's pubs and clubs were packed to the rafters and its streets thronged with partygoers as the city saw in the new year. But the driving winds did not chill
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Smoke signal
AS SURELY as summer follows spring, the annual Christmas blow-out is followed by a national tightening of belts and pledges of moderation. A sizeable chunk of the UK's 12.5 million smokers will try to quit the evil weed this January. And yet more will
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York tourist chiefs hope for American ‘invasion’ after Big Apple trip
THOUSANDS more big-spending Americans could be enticed to York following a successful visit to the Big Apple by city tourist chiefs. A delegation from the city - led by York Tourism Bureau's PR manager Kay Hyde - recently flew to New York to "sell the
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You owe it to your children
HERE is something to make all die-hard smokers stop and think. A poll of children has revealed that what they would most like their parents to give up for the New Year is. smoking. There are no two ways about it: cigarettes kill. Smoking wrecks
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Home ground
TIMES change. People once left home on their wedding day, and sought a house in which to build a family. Nowadays, fewer are tying the knot, and those that do leave it later. There is no denying the need for smaller, affordable homes, and in an urban
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Cash not talent is real X Factor
I AGREE with Mr Lawson that Ray and Leona should be congratulated for their efforts on The X Factor' (Compulsive Watch, December 28). I would also point out that this compulsive viewing' is not for all of us. The X Factor is promoted as an entertainment
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Time for change
WE all like an argument and live by the golden rule: "What's in it for me?". I think most people, apart from politicians, would prefer to be free from party politics. The reason we are mostly governed by party members is embodied in the
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Citizens’ choice
IN approximately 2009/10, Oaklands will have a better leisure centre, including a swimming pool of modest proportions, to share with the citizens of York, hopefully providing for swimming lessons (according to a head teacher). The University
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Wrong priorities
YET another photo of a beaming Steve Galloway in The Press as he leads York to the front of a new eco-friendly building, a development designed to reduce carbon emissions. It sounds an exciting project. Can I just ask the question; what about
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Platform panto
AS another year slips by, I wonder whether there is still time for you to accept two nominations for The Press 2006 Goofer Of The Year Award? Coincidentally, both my nominations involve York Station. The first is to whoever was behind the redesigned
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Lack of respect
WHAT kind of society do we aspire to be? Let me tell you. The kind that has no respect for our own culture and heritage. How sad that the piggy bank, with its lovely smiling face, is being banned by the high street banks because it "might offend
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Idiot driver
ON Thursday last week, I was in a car heading for Garrowby Hill when we met a line of traffic and an idiot came flying past, sending us on to the grass verge. I am partially-sighted and finished up badly shaken. Such drivers should be off the
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Pool concerns
I FEEL City of York Council had decided before consultation to close Edmund Wilson Pool and go along with the earlier actions of also shutting the Barbican. Both sites had the advantage of a good location. Both pools were allowed to fall in decline
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Grassroots action
LABOUR MP Hugh Bayley (Boxing clever, letters, December 28) attempts to rewrite history on the disappearing Fishergate post box. For the record, I have a file of correspondence on the issue including letters between myself, Postwatch and Royal
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‘Concrete rubbish’ wipes out history
REGARDING St Barnabas' School (Former school can be cleared, The Press, December 19). It's just a case of "another one bites the dust", yet another piece of our historical past demolished to be replaced by concrete rubbish. The time has passed since
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Barbican work to start soon
AFTER years of delays and confusion, work will finally start this year on a major refurbishment and development of York's Barbican Centre. Operator Absolute Leisure says it will be ready this month or early February to begin the multi-million pound project
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Only 20% doing enough exercise – survey
THE most comprehensive survey ever of sport in Yorkshire has revealed only 20 per cent of people questioned were doing the recommended level of moderate exercise. More than half of respondents had not taken part in any moderate exercise in the four weeks
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£50 million boost for children with special needs
A MULTI-MILLION pound vision for the future of education for children with special needs and behavioural difficulties has been approved by North Yorkshire County Council. A full meeting of the council voted in favour of the shake-up following a public
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Retiring GP Dr Sarah Bottom, of the Jorvik Medical Practice hits out over 'dogma'
A GP has marked her retirement after 29 years at York's "best" practice by thanking her patients - and criticising the pressures caused by "misguided political dogma". Dr Sarah Bottom, of the Jorvik Medical Practice, said it was her open and robust
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Newspaper uses law to unearth disturbing figures
PARKING tickets, noise pollution, attacks on teachers and crime in your area - 2006 has been a year of investigations for The Press. We have made frequent use of the Freedom Of Information Act to obtain data and documents previously hidden from public
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Berwick minds his B&Qs with Suzi Q
WHAT does a former wild woman of rock do to see in the New Year? Snort cocaine off the torso of a male stripper, perhaps? Or get high on cocktails and crash her Cadillac into a swimming pool? Neither. She comes up to York to take in the panto. Suzi
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Starting at the bottom
HAPPY New Year! Was that turkey big enough in the end? Ours was so huge we had the equivalent of a small flock left over. But that was okay because it meant the two enormous pork pies, the 15 slices of ham, the vol-au-vents, the mini sausages, the numerous
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York mum Julie Acaster hit by tax credit woes
A MOTHER-of-two intends to seek legal advice after being told she owes thousands of pounds in overpaid tax credits. The news comes in the wake of a catalogue of blunders by HM Revenue And Customs (HMRC) which have plagued Julie Acaster since 2003.
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Janet Soo-Chung and Mike Proctor interview
LUCY spoke to Janet Soo-Chung, chief executive of North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Mike Proctor, director of nursing at York hospital. The Press: What are the PCT/hospital's objectives for 2007? J S-C: "The most basic of our corporate
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Shop raises bags of cash
STAFF and patients at Malton Hospital's stroke and rehabilitation unit received a boost when a band of fundraisers from Pickering Co-op presented it with £3,350. Ward manager Sue Bryan said she was delighted. "Such a large amount of money will make a
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Swans nursed back to health
MORE than 100 swans have had to be nursed back to health in a rescue hospital near York in only six months. Volunteers at the Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital in Brandsby said they worked "around the clock" to treat all the birds that had come into their
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Charity shop quids in after bumper draw
A Pickering charity shop raised funds with its annual Christmas draw. Staff at the Multiple Sclerosis shop in Smiddy Hill celebrated after their festive competition raised a bumper £351 - more than ever before. General assistant Neil Hudson put the
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Hopes fading in Burn bypass bid
VILLAGERS have been left disappointed following crunch talks on a vital bypass. Members of Burn Parish Council have been told regional development agency Yorkshire Forward will meet more than 35 per cent of the costs of a proposed £7.6 million bypass
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LHL completes big project at convent
SURVEYORS from a top architects' practice in York were today celebrating completion of major conservation work at one of their city's most revered groups of heritage buildings. LHL Group managed the project at The Bar Convent in Blossom Street which,
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Double New Year joy at Portakabin
EMPLOYEES at York-based Portakabin now have two reasons to celebrate. First came the good news, reported in The Press last Wednesday, that about 220 production workers in Huntington have come off their four-day week to a full working week to meet a big
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‘Sickie’ season reaches a climax
THE "sickie season" is about to reach its climax tomorrow. Over Christmas and New Year aftermath last year, 66 million days were lost across public services alone, costing tax payers more than £3 billion. Nearly 14 per cent - or 9 million - were considered
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Ousted Maynews set for grand reopening
A LONG-serving newsagent, which was forced to close in the heart of York, is to reopen - less than 100 yards away. It will be the start of a new era for Maynews, which recently shut in Parliament Street after more than 30 years - to the annoyance of
