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Date Farming Focus by Richard Foster Farmers are being invited to enter a prestigious conservation award. Past winners of the Broadoak Farming Silver Lapwing Award include East Yorkshire farmers Richard Fuller, of Givendale Farm, near Pocklington, and John Smith, of Southburn and Eastburn
Date New office block well placed in York to attract high rents The only speculative office development being built in York will eventually have peak rental figures of £12.50 per square foot. That price tag for moving into the nearly 25,000sq ft Saviour House, St Saviourgate, once it is completed in October has not
Date York gears up for Prutour The biggest and liveliest sports spectacular in York for years will close part of the city to traffic on May Bank Holiday Monday. Organisers of the Prutour international cycling race are gearing up for possibly as many as 50,000 spectators flooding into
Date Little hits back York City manager Alan Little today hit back at flak from fans over the transfer of winger Paul Stephenson, writes Stuart Martel. The City boss revealed that Stephenson earned £50,000 a year at Bootham Crescent but his contract was up and the player wanted
Date Cash in reserve York City were today resisting the temptation to dive headlong into the transfer market after the sale of teenager Jonathan Greening to Premiership champions Manchester United. The Evening Press understands the Greening transfer netted City an initial
Date Bikers ready for return Thousands of motorcyclists look set to roar back into a Ryedale town that was boycotted by some bikers last summer following complaints from residents. About 6,000 people are expected to descend on Helmsley in June when the Motorcycle Action Group holds
Date Art gallery gets lotto cash for Old Master York's City Art Gallery has hit the lottery jackpot with a £202,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to help it buy a work by William Hogarth. And a historic barn is to become a centre of life in a village near York, thanks to a £171,500 grant from the fund
Date Big new road plan for York York Inner Ring Road's most frustrating detour will be eradicated under the £60 million scheme to extend the Coppergate Centre. The road's junction with Piccadilly is set for a major revamp, including the installation of traffic lights, to cope with extra
Date York on fast track to the sun Holidaymakers on their way to the sun will find their journeys a welcome 13 minutes shorter under ambitious multi-billion pound improvements announced by Railtrack today. And travellers to Yorkshire's East Coast may be encouraged to leave their cars at
Date Dip in profit for Treats Treats Group plc, the independent manufacturer of frozen confectionery which scooped up Richmond Ice Cream Company Ltd of Leeming Bar in January, has announced whittled pre-tax profits of £938,000 for the year ending last December. That compares with
Date Yorkshire Cricket - Tykes beaten Yorkshire lost the opening match of their South African tour by five runs to Eastern Province Academy in their 50 overs a side game Port Elizabeth. Chasing 203 to win after putting the Academy into bat first, Yorkshire fell short at 197-6. Michael Vaughan
Date Racing with Tom O'Ryan by Tom O'Ryan The 1998 Flat turf season kicks-off in traditional style at Doncaster tomorrow, and the advice to punters is to appreciate Depreciate in the Tote/49's Handicap, one of four races being shown live on Channel 4. Trained at Maunby, near Thirsk
Date Revival for post office in village Two best pals have brought new life to a closed post office and general store in Rufforth. Sheila Brown, 46 and Sue Greenbank, 45, are preparing to reopen the store next month. Ever since its closure in January, villagers have had to make a three-mile
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Date Supershares '98 Business editor Ron Godfrey 'snowed' in with entries to Supershare. With less than a week to go Supershare is hotting up into a wild, careering rollercoaster and you had better be on it! Paul Walton and Matthew Wilson, 17-year-old York Sixth Form College
Date May the force be with you Since she was 11, Aeron Cornell has known she wanted to be in the Royal Air Force. She does not know quite what sparked off this ambition. But seven years on it burns just as brightly. Aeron is well on the way to fulfilling this dream. And the air force
Date Hi-tech Net benefit for Heartbeat fans Heartbeat fans around the world can now keep up to date with all of the news from the fictional village of Aidensfield. Nicholas Rhea, author of the Constable books which inspired the TV series, has gone worldwide with the launch of Letter From Aidensfield
Date Haxby Road youngsters hold the front page Young journalists at Haxby Road School are celebrating the publication of their first newspaper. The Haxby Road School Primary Press has taken months of work by pupils at the York school. The 16-page paper is packed with news, interviews, recipes, quizzes
Date Labour puts 'shabby' Blackpool all at sea Northern pride lay wounded today after the Labour Party rejected Blackpool as a venue for its annual conference. Party bosses decided the Winter Gardens conference centre was too cramped, the hotels too shabby and the Lancashire town too far from London