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Exclusive: 40,000 lights set to go out across our streets
MORE than 40,000 street lights are set to be switched off at night in Yorkshire plunging parts of the county into darkness as cash-strapped councils look to save money.
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Cafe’s 75 years of being the cream of the crop
IT WAS a business venture that was never guaranteed to succeed.
Sheffield man is charged with murdering mother
THE family of a 32-year-old man charged with murdering his mother have spoken of their pain.
Teenage florist ready for chance to tackle Chelsea
WHILE most girls her age are currently hitting the books in desperate last-minute revision, one teenager from Barnsley is preparing for the show of a lifetime next week, as she heads to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to show off a fabulous floral creation.
Video: Leeds legend Allan Clarke reunited with crash victim he helped save 30 years ago video
LEEDS United supporter Richard Sharp remembers nothing of his first meeting with club legend Allan Clarke. He was in a coma at the time.
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Luton Town 1-2 York City: Chambers and Blair send Minstermen back into the Football League
York City have ended their eight-year exile from the Football League by winning the Blue Square Bet Premier League play-off final at Wembley.
Yorkshire’s momentum checked by rain and Hampshire
Yorkshire’s rain-hit LV= County Championship Second Division match against Hampshire at Headingley ended in the predictably dull draw which had seemed inevitable after the first 90 minutes of the final day were lost to light drizzle.
Munich hero Drogba says Chelsea’s European title was destiny
Champions League matchwinner Didier Drogba believes it was destiny that Chelsea should finally scoop the prize in Munich last night.
Matthew bids for British Open hat-trick
SHEFFIELD’S Nick Matthew bids for a third British Open title on Sunday knowing he will have to overcome the game’s form player to make history.
The age of the batsman sees records continuing to tumble
BY far the most remarkable aspect of Yorkshire’s victory against Gloucestershire last week was the relative ease with which it was achieved.
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Video: Leeds legend Allan Clarke reunited with crash victim he helped save 30 years ago video
LEEDS United supporter Richard Sharp remembers nothing of his first meeting with club legend Allan Clarke. He was in a coma at the time.
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Toast to success for firm’s grand designs
A PACKAGING design and production company, based in Yorkshire, is seeing its revenues boosted by the luxury drinks market, thanks to business wins with the likes of French champagne house Taittinger.
£1.6m contract for tanker firm brings promise of new jobs
a TANKER manufacturer in North Yorkshire has won a £1.6m order – the biggest single contract in the firm’s 10-year history.
Great Xscape as hotdog firm expands
gourmet hotdog company Primo’s is opening a second branch in Yorkshire.
Rain dampens shoppers’ enthusiasm for high street
SHOPPER numbers across the North and Yorkshire region over a three-month period are down on last year, its performance worse than the UK average, but ranking among the areas with the lowest declines, a report revealed today.
Executives ‘crave pay certainty more than bonuses’
Incentives have become so complex and volatile that they no longer motivate the executives at which they are aimed, according to new research, which questioned the effectiveness of deferred bonuses.
Lifestyle
Writer in search of literary gold from a TV hit
David Hewson has turned the hit TV series The Killing into a novel. Nick Ahad spoke to him.
Four wheels and a driving ambition inspire exhibition
As part of the Cultural Olympiad in the run-up to London 2012, Stephanie Southall looks at an exhibition wheeling its way to North Yorkshire.
Curtain up on a season of new work
A new writing season aims to find the best new talent in Yorkshire. Arts Correspondent Nick Ahad talks to the people behind the scenes.
Review: The Raid (15)
A frantic, cacophonous blood-soaked action thriller boasting more bullets than D-Day, The Raid is the kinetic Indonesian flick that has got Hollywood so hot and bothered that a remake is already in the works.
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Country Week: Will UK’s farming minister get his way in Europe?
THE European Commission has been urged to create further concessions to its plans to ‘green-up’ the Common Agricultural Policy. Listen to informed debate, in our weekly programme for Yorkshire’s country communities.
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Video: Move over Lord Sugar, Margaret’s a top apprentice at 50 video
A MOTHER-of-three from Yorkshire was last night named one of the top apprentices working in the NHS – taking the title at the age of 50.
Archive video: A Yorkshire we’ve almost forgotten unlocks memories of the past video
Jenny Stead’s face lights up as she recalls her childhood in Yorkshire in the years following the war.
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Video: Boxing clever with Bradford’s female fighters video
A growing number of women are going to boxing classes. Chris Bond visits one award-winning academy in Bradford to find out why.
Video: How they found a hidden treasure beneath the church emulsion video
IT could have been lost forever, after being painted over with white emulsion in the 1960s.
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Monday 21 May 2012
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