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Home found for hundreds of plastic bottle caps

Dorothy Savage, left, and Sheila Markwick with some of the plastic milk bottle tops which they collected for charity

10:46am Tuesday 9th June 2009

A HUGE collection of plastic milk bottle tops, which threatened to spill over into the homes of two York women, has finally been taken away.

Ken Smith of Wheldrake receives apology from broadband supplier Tiscali

Normandy veteran Ken Smith, of Wheldrake, who is in dispute with his broadband supplier

11:05am Tuesday 26th May 2009

A NORMANDY veteran who was wrongly threatened with legal action by a broadband supplier has hailed the power of The Press after receiving a fulsome apology.

York woman ‘barred from buses’

Helen Barrow, who uses buses to get to voluntary jobs in York. Picture: David Harrison

3:10pm Friday 3rd April 2009

A WHEELCHAIR user says she is being stopped from travelling on buses in York because drivers are refusing to use the ramps on the grounds of health and safety.

Terrified widow’s electricity victory

Beryl Sadler, of Bishophill, with the flowers she recieved by way of an apology from E-on over her electricity bills

3:47pm Wednesday 14th January 2009

A FRAIL widow who claimed she was being “terrorised” by an energy giant has had hundreds of pounds cut from her electricity bill after The Press intervened.

New appliance for York freezer row mum

3:44pm Tuesday 13th January 2009

THE woman who was advised to wrap her new fridge-freezer in a duvet because the weather was too cold has now been given a replacement freezer.

Couple’s boiler delight after two weeks in the cold

Kevin Middleton celebrates the return of hot water to his home at Dunnington

3:47pm Tuesday 13th January 2009

HOT water has finally returned to a Dunnington couple’s council home this week following repairs which took more than two weeks to complete.

Pinocchio is back with no strings attached!

PC Hazel Simms returns Pinocchio to his owner Alan Hall. The garden ornament was stolen from Bootham Square, York

1:31pm Tuesday 6th January 2009

A PAINTED pottery Pinocchio has been reunited with its owner, thanks to The Press.

Children get somewhere to hang their Christmas stockings after mix-up over bunks order

11:11am Saturday 27th December 2008

TWO young sisters finally got somewhere to hang their stockings after they had faced the prospect of an uncomfortable Christmas without beds.

York Strictly fan gets camera back

Bill MacPherson with his returned camera

7:37am Friday 26th December 2008

IT was the Christmas present he didn’t think he’d receive.

York stores can sell crackers to kids

9:50am Thursday 18th December 2008

SHOPS which ban children from buying Christmas crackers have been told to pull the other one by health and safety chiefs.


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