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• Man shot in head in North Yorkshire car park with pellet gun

  02-03-2020 22:14 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A MAN was shot in the head in a car park in a North Yorkshire town by someone with an air rifle.
  
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• Brave woman clings onto handbag during attempted York street robbery

  02-03-2020 19:50 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A WOMAN bravely clung onto her bag after two men tried to rob her in the street at night.
  
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• Two-thirds of UK homes 'fail on energy efficiency targets'

  02-03-2020 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Evidence suggests improving housing is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions.
  
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• Concerns over York rough sleeper Nigel Cook

  02-03-2020 18:45 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  POLICE are concerned about a man who sleeps rough in York city centre - who has not been heard from for some time.
  
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• Residents and businesses get say on future of York city centre

  02-03-2020 18:34 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  RESIDENTS and businesses in York are being asked to have their say on the future of the city centre.
  
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• York ex-police worker jailed for indecent child images and voyeurism

  02-03-2020 17:16 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A FORMER police employee from York has been jailed for four years for possessing and distributing “depraved” indecent images of children.
  
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• York ex-police worker jailed for 'depraved' child images and voyeurism

  02-03-2020 17:16 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A FORMER police employee from York has been jailed for four years for possessing and distributing “depraved” indecent images of children.
  
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• Ex-police staff member jailed over thousands of indecent child images

  02-03-2020 17:16 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A FORMER police staff member has been jailed for possessing and distributing thousands of indecent images of children and voyeurism.
  
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• Town criers from across the world to descend on Helmsley

  02-03-2020 16:16 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  TOWN criers from far-flung lands including Australia and Bermuda will descend on a North Yorkshire town for a prestigious competition this summer.
  
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• Man, 22, from Tadcaster area dies after crash near Sherburn-in-Elmet - police appeal for witnesses

  02-03-2020 15:32 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A 22-YEAR-OLD man has died after a crash in North Yorkshire.
  
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• More Humberside Police officers to be equipped with Tasers

  02-03-2020 14:35 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  MORE Humberside Police officers are set to be trained and equipped with Tasers, it has been announced today.
  
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• York among five most active places in UK, according to report

  02-03-2020 13:29 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  YORK is among the top five most physically active places in England, according to a new report.
  
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• Plans to charge students over 16 for school buses in North Yorkshire

  02-03-2020 13:15 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  PARENTS across North Yorkshire with children who use home to school transport are being consulted on planned changes including charges.
  
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• LETTER: You were spot on over Milton, Maxine

  02-03-2020 13:07 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  The review by Maxine Gordon of Milton Jones at the York Barbican (Mission accomplished, February 25) was spot on. Having seen many comedy productions, the warm-up acts, usually featuring young comedians, can often be mediocre and not very funny, but Tom Houghton was the best I have seen. It is no wonder that he has his own touring show when he ends this current tour in a couple of months. Two very funny men, with completely different styles, but each with the common ethic of no swearing in their
  
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• LETTER: There’s no such thing as EU money

  02-03-2020 12:58 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  Congratulations on your news item regarding the new bridge under construction at Goathland station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (Just magic! Historic Goathland rail bridge renewed, February 26).
  
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• LETTER: How nice if Sam Smiths helped Taddie Albion

  02-03-2020 12:57 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  Does any reasonable business or domestic planning proposal in the Tadcaster area ever get passed?
  
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• LETTER: Whatever would the Queen think about 'her' wood being cut down?

  02-03-2020 12:54 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  As part of the duelling of the A1237 ring road (will it ever happen?) it is reported that City of York Council may have to destroy up to 700 trees, planted in 2012 to celebrate the Queens’ 60-year reign (Public to have a say on plan to fell Queen’s wood, February 28).
  
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• Poundland branch in York to be one of first to sell frozen food

  02-03-2020 12:52 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A BRANCH of Poundland is York is to become one of the first in the country to sell frozen food.
  
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• Fire service in North Yorkshire host event on International Women's Day

  02-03-2020 12:41 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  THE fire service in North Yorkshire is getting involved in International Women's Day.
  
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• LETTER: Thanks for supporting railway fundraiser

  02-03-2020 12:06 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  I am writing to thank everyone who supported the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s fundraising event at St Crux Church Hall on Saturday February 22, and especially those members who spent the day serving food and manning the stalls. We raised £650 which will be used to support the work of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
  
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• LETTER: It’s time we ditched ‘men’ for ‘persons’

  02-03-2020 12:02 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  Councillor Crawshaw (The difference between men and women, Letters, February 22) is quite right to complain that The Press should not describe his mother as a spokesman. ‘Spokesperson’ has been around for years. Time to modernise.
  
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• LETTER: Well-managed grouse moors help soak up rain

  02-03-2020 11:56 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  Rachael Maskell is correct, freak weather events cause rivers to rise and flood (We can’t just build higher flood walls’, The Press, February 25).
  
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• LETTER: We’re paying more for a poorer postal service

  02-03-2020 11:52 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  On the day when Royal Mail announced large increases in the cost of First- and Second-Class postage a talk with my local postman informed me that my mail will shortly be delivered later than at present.
  
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• LETTER: Will other council staff expect big payouts?

  02-03-2020 11:49 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  Ex-councillor Quentin Macdonald claims that the £400k settlement to Mary Weastell will have been calculated in accordance with her employment contract so that makes it alright and will everyone shut up (Council boss’s payout comes from reserve fund, Letters, February 27).
  
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• York Rescue Boat joins search for missing Brian Gordon Warriss, 81, from Aldwark near York

  02-03-2020 11:20 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  YORK Rescue Boat has joined North Yorkshire Police in the search for a missing 81-year-old man from a village near York.
  
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• York Rescue Boat called out to 'incident' by police

  02-03-2020 11:20 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  YORK Rescue Boat has been called out by North Yorkshire Police to help with an incident.
  
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• York Rescue Boat called out in search for missing man

  02-03-2020 11:20 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  YORK Rescue Boat has been called out by North Yorkshire Police to help with the search for a missing 81-year-old man from a village near York.
  
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• COLUMN: Yorkshire should aim to become a smoke-free county

  02-03-2020 11:11 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  STANDING downwind of a smoker outside the railway station the other night, I caught a lung full of tobacco smoke.
  
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• Chance encounter leads to First York bus drivers tying the knot

  02-03-2020 10:54 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A CHANCE encounter two years ago ended in a love match for a pair of York bus drivers who tied the knot at the weekend.
  
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• Search continuing for 81-year-old man missing from village near York

  02-03-2020 10:40 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  POLICE are today continuing their search for a missing 81-year-old man from a village near York.
  
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• Woman airlifted to hospital after being seriously hurt in Ryedale crash

  02-03-2020 10:10 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A WOMAN has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a crash in Ryedale this morning (Monday).
  
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• Road closed in Ryedale after crash

  02-03-2020 10:10 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A CRASH has closed a road in Ryedale this morning (Monday).
  
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• Emily’s 100th birthday celebrations

  02-03-2020 10:01 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A WOMAN, born in Fulford, celebrated reaching her 100th birthday with her family and friends earlier this month.
  
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• Truck and car crash in North Yorkshire

  02-03-2020 09:30 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A TRUCK and a car crashed in North Yorkshire this morning (Monday).
  
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• Water levels in flood-hit parts of East Yorkshire 'remain stable'

  02-03-2020 09:15 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  WATER levels in flood-hit areas of East Yorkshire have remained stable, it was confirmed last night.
  
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• Water levels in flood-hit East Yorkshire town continue to slowly fall

  02-03-2020 09:15 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  WATER levels in the flood-hit town of Snaith in East Yorkshire have continued to slowly reduce but are still high in the nearby village of East Cowick.
  
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• North Yorkshire Police search for missing man, 81

  02-03-2020 08:00 via thenorthernecho.co.uk
  
  AN extensive search was last night underway after an 81-year-old man went missing.
  
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• Why Holgate Bridge had to be raised by a foot in the 1980s

  02-03-2020 06:42 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  THE 'iron bridge' at Holgate is either an engineering marvel of interlaced metal girders, or - if you happen to be stuck in traffic there - a blasted nuisance.
  
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• York's Ice House in 1977 - and other photos from our archive

  02-03-2020 06:01 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  IF you've ever walked the city walls from Monk Bar down to Jewbury and Peasholme Green you'll have noticed, looking down from the walls beside St Maurice's Road, an odd red-brick construction that looks a bit like a giant clay beehive, or else an old kiln used for baking bricks.
  
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• York woman shaves her head for charity

  02-03-2020 06:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A YORK woman has shaved her head to fundraise £400 which was split evenly between three different charities.
  
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• York Restaurant Week begins today

  02-03-2020 06:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  YORK Restaurant Week starts today - and residents have the opportunity to try dishes at top venues for as little as £5.
  
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• Man armed himself with a pickaxe during row at wake

  02-03-2020 06:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A MAN waved a pickaxe to stop mourners getting into his garden after matters got out of hand at a wake, York Crown Court heard.
  
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• Council tax to rise 3.99 per cent - as spending plans approved

  02-03-2020 06:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  COUNCIL tax will rise 3.99 per cent for York residents - after the Liberal Democrat and Green Party-led local authority's budget was given the go-ahead.
  
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• Council may create funeral hardship fund - to help grieving families

  02-03-2020 06:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  A FUNERAL hardship fund - to help families struggling to pay for the burial or cremation of a loved one - could be launched by City of York Council.
  
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• Number of York children getting first school choice down on 2019

  02-03-2020 05:50 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  MORE than 1,700 children in York have been given their first choice of secondary school.
  
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• Huge stretch of York's Shipton Road may close for three-day festival

  02-03-2020 05:00 via yorkpress.co.uk
  
  SHIPTON Road in York could be shut between the outer ring road and Water Lane for a huge three-day festival this summer.
  
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