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Scotts butchers closes after 130 years

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Scotts butchers closes after 130 years From York Press

Scotts The Butchers

ONE of York’s oldest butchers has closed its doors for the final time, citing council red-tape and corporate customers’ debts for the decision.

Scott’s Butchers has been at its Low Petergate home for 130 years.

What sad news. This was The Place to buy good meat and pies. To my mind no one matched Scotts, but I have to confess I rarely bought anything there. I guess I contributed to its demise – in a very small way. It looks as though bad debts and poor access were largely to blame for the closure of the business.

Online ads to overtake TV in UK

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Online ads to overtake TV

The internet will overtake TV as the biggest advertising platform in the UK this year with total ad spend of around £3.56bn, according to a report by Enders Analysis.

But does this mean it’s more effective? I think I would still rather have 30 seconds on peak time TV than the equivalent cost on t’internet. I confess I have no idea if I know what that would mean in web exposure, but TV still feels like you’re in lots of living rooms where it matters more than being on the “lean forwards” screen..

 

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

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Firefox Download Day logoSpread Firefox | Download Day 2008
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy. We’re not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

OK so I’m a confirmed Safari user but Firefox is my backup and it’s one in the eye for MS Explorer which I despise. The idea of pledging to do nothing except download the new version of Firefox is novel – but over 68,000 people in the UK have pledged. That’s more than 0.1% of the population. Kind of awesome ……

York Youth Mysteries

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MySpace.com – York Youth Mysteries – www.myspace.com/yorkyouthmysteries

York Youth Mysteries posterYork Youth Mysteries – A day of free performance in and around the streets of York City Centre. 21st June 2008!

 

Riding Lights Youth Theatre is performing one of the plays. It’ll be a fascinating day. Just what will our young people make of the traditional bible stories?

Find out in the streets of York on June 21st, 11am – 5pm

Speed up, life’s too short

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | Speed up, life’s too short
Just as dieting makes you fat, time management courses make you inefficient.

An insight from Lucy Kellaway – a columnist in The FT – I have been known to take issue with her in the past. But this time I think she may be on to something – maybe.