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GREEN HAMMERTON

YORKPrice £895,000

Nicholas Alcock FNAEAKnaresborough

01423 864126

A magnificent six bedroom detached family home set amidst stunning gardens extending in all to around 0.24

Ha (0.6 acres). Enjoying breathtaking views over the Vale of York and situated within a highly sought after

and convenient semi-rural location.

Impressive reception hall; guest cloakroom; four reception rooms; stunning family kitchen; garden room. First

floor - master bedroom with dressing area and en-suite; guest bedroom with en-suite; four further bedrooms;

luxury house bathroom. Triple garage. EPC rating D.

SHAW BARN LANE

WETHERBY

Price £950,000

Paul Baxter BAWetherby

01937 586177

A stunning detached family home revealing imaginatively extended and remodelled accommodation of the

highest standard with southerly aspects across attractive and private rear gardens. Situated off a private lane

close to the centre of the thriving market town of Wetherby.

Impressive reception hall; elegant sitting room; family room; study; magnificent dining kitchen with bespoke

fittings; garden room;utility; four family bedrooms each with en-suite facilities. Excellent parking; double garage;

delightful landscaped gardens. EPC rating D.

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THERE ARE sports cars. There are supercars. And then there are hyper cars. Aston Martin is a past-master at the first two.Now here is its first hypercar, the Vulcan.OK, so it sounds like an

aircraft. And if reported prices of £1.8m are to be believed, it is a car only for the jet set.It is a 7.0l limited edition designed for track only and to make sure you don’t prang it, customers will be given expert

tuition. Aston Martin says it is the brand’s “most intense and exhilarating creation to date”.The Vulcan is born out of motorsport experience. Using the brand’s flair for design and engineering ingenuity,

the 800bhp, all-carbon fibre model promises extreme performance.If you have the funds, get in quickly. Only 24 will be made.Aston Martin’s CEO Dr Andy Palmer said: “Aston Martin

Vulcan is, by its very nature, a rare and thrilling supercar. Designed and engineered to deliver a genuinely bespoke driving experience that draws on our rich heritage, this car tailors its power and handling

to both the capabilities of the driver and the characteristics of the track.”If £1.8m is a little too much, Aston Martin promise that design cues from this model will filter down its range.

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COURT: Paedophile pop star Gary Glitter could die behind bars after being jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing girls.

The 70-year-old, real name Paul Gadd, was sentenced for one count of attempted rape, one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, and four counts of indecent assault.

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Gary Glitter jailed for sex attacks

DECISION: Price comparison sites should pay compensation to energy customers who have been misled into switching to deals that were not the cheapest on the market, MPs said.

The Energy and Climate Change Committee said some sites had used misleading language to “dupe” consumers into default options.

Full story: Page 11.

Customers ‘misled’ over energy prices

SECURITY: The Intelligence agencies may have made a “slip-up” in failing to impose tighter controls on Jihadi John owing to the number of suspects they have to cope with, the counter-terrorism laws watchdog said.

David Anderson QC said he was not surprised Mohammed Emwazi was not subject to tougher measures.

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agency ‘slip-ups’ over Jihadi John

MURDER: A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger renowned for speaking out against religious extremism has been hacked to death as he walked through the capital of Bangladesh with his wife.

The attack on Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born US citizen, occurred on a crowded pavement in Dhaka.

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Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Mr Spock in the

cult science fiction series Star Trek, has died aged 83.

Nimoy left a poignant last message for fans on his

Twitter account, including a reference to his famous

sign-off, “Live Long And Prosper”.

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Pacer trains ready to be phased out, but slowlyOUTDATED PACER trains will be phased out – but it will take five more years and comes against the will of one of Whitehall’s most senior civil servants.

The Transport Secretary has said any bidder for northern rail services will be required to scrap the commuter carriages as part of plans for 200 new trains.

A letter published on the Department’s website shows Permanent Secretary Philip Rutnam advised against the criterion, saying it would take £250m from the value of the contracts. Mr Rutnam said the move was not value for money, and hinted that it could prompt a Commons select committee inquiry.

The opposition angered Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who said: “I would love to take any number of permanent secretaries on these trains. They are cattle trucks on wheels; there is nothing remotely pacey about them. No amount of number crunching civil servants could persuade me that somehow that was a legitimate state of affairs.”End of the line: Page 4.

Miliband promises to deliver £3,000 cut in tuition fees ‘even in a coalition government’ED MILIBAND has made a cut to university tuition fees a red line for any coalition negotiations that follow May’s General Election.

The Labour leader has been reluctant to discuss what would happen in the event of a hung par-liament, insisting he is focused on winning a majority.

But announcing his plan to cut tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 he was unequivocal about whether the policy would sur-vive talks with potential coalition partners.

Asked at the event in Leeds if this was a “cast iron guarantee”, he said: “Yes, yes, yes.”

The promise is designed to contrast Labour with the Liberal Democrats who pledged to phase out tuition fees before the last election but dropped the policy as part of the coalition discussions with the Conservatives.

Labour’s pitch for students and disillusioned Lib Dem voters was underlined by Mr Miliband in his speech at Leeds College of Music yesterday.

“Nick Clegg made his promise on tuition fees.

“He broke his promise on tui-tion fees.

“It has left a whole genera-tion doubting politics – doubting

anyone can be believed or trust-ed. Let me say to Britain’s young people: I made you a promise on tuition fees. I will keep my prom-ise.

“I don’t simply want to build your faith in Labour. I want to re-store your faith that change can be believed.”

Labour said it would pay for the cut with a reduction in pen-sion tax relief for higher earn-ers and reductions in the limits people can put into pensions and save tax-free.

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ED MILIBAND: The Labour leader has made the tuition fee cut ‘a cast iron guarantee’.

SOME OF the most important pieces of the region’s heritage are in danger of being lost forever un-less urgent action is taken to rescue them from their decaying states.

There are currently 99 buildings and structures, 98 places of wor-ship, 515 scheduled monuments and 13 parks and gardens in York-shire on English Heritage’s at-risk register, and many face the pros-pect of decaying beyond repair.

Today the desperate plight of the county’s most significant historic buildings, archaeologi-cal sites, beauty spots and testa-ments to its industrial heritage in need of conservation work is laid bare in a special report from The Yorkshire Post.

An ongoing squeeze in public spending means there are limit-ed funds to preserve them. This, coupled with the expensive costs of conservation, makes the chal-lenge even greater.

Over the next five weeks, our Give Our Past a Future series will highlight 10 priority sites and ex-amine the damage caused by dec-ades of neglect or decay – and find out what needs to be done to save them.

“Loss is inevitable: historic sites are part of the cultural fab-ric of our country that is forever experiencing decline, renewal, adaptation and the creation of tomorrow’s heritage,” said Rosie Ryder, spokeswoman for English Heritage’s at-risk team.

“In these difficult financial times, lack of funding or gener-ally escalating costs of a regen-eration project can become a problem to an owner, developer, community group and others.

“There is no automatic funding or tax relief for own-ers of historic sites or heritage at risk and the scale of the chal-lenge.”

The priority sites, compiled by English Heritage, hold the fabric of the region’s history.

Today’s report shines a light on the imminent threat to the landscape at North Yorkshire’s Plumpton Rocks, which is the subject of an early Turner paint-ing, along with the derelict state of Sheffield’s Eagle Works and Green Lane Works, key parts of the city’s industrial heritage.

Ms Ryder said: “We have identi-fied five themes that reflect York-shire’s most distinctive heritage at risk – the textile industry of the West Riding, metal trades of South Yorkshire, designed land-scapes of South Yorkshire, an-cient landscapes of the moors, wolds and wetlands and the in-dustrial legacy of the Dales.

“We want to find the right solution for these sites with the aim of getting them repaired so they can be removed from the register.”

Backed by Welcome to York-shire, Give Our Past a Future en-courages councils, charities, or-ganisations and members of the public to play a role in rescuing the region’s unique heritage and Continued on Page 6.

Battle on to save region’s heritage from ruin

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