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  • The 31-year-old, who has not been named, was detained under the Mental Health Act by police officers in North Yorkshire at 2.50pm on Thursday, after a member of the public flagged them down in Bootham, York, and expressed concerns at her behaviour.

    Death of woman in police custody investigated 2011

  • The 31-year-old, who has not been named, was detained under the Mental Health Act by police officers in North Yorkshire at 2.50pm on Thursday, after a member of the public flagged them down in Bootham, York, and expressed concerns at her behaviour.

    Death of woman in police custody investigated 2011

  • I would urge anybody who was on Bootham on Thursday afternoon and saw a woman behaving strangely, or being detained by police, to contact us to help inform our investigation.

    Death of woman in police custody investigated 2011

  • I would urge anybody who was on Bootham on Thursday afternoon and saw a woman behaving strangely, or being detained by police, to contact us to help inform our investigation.

    Death of woman in police custody investigated 2011

  • The section of the walls between Bootham Bar and Monk Bar may have to be closed for two or three days during the work for safety reasons.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • It's close to the King's Manor and the city centre itself, accessed through Bootham Bar, and yet a sometimes peaceful escape from the tourist madness of the centre of town.

    Castle Carolingian 2007

  • The section of the walls between Bootham Bar and Monk Bar may have to be closed for two or three days during the work for safety reasons.

    Restoration work begins on the medieval walls of the city of York 2007

  • The civic party and musicians processed through the city centre, passing late-night shoppers, to Monk Bar, past the West Front of the Minster and on to Bootham Bar before their final stop at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor's residence, to be greeted with hot, seasonal refreshments.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • The civic party and musicians processed through the city centre, passing late-night shoppers, to Monk Bar, past the West Front of the Minster and on to Bootham Bar before their final stop at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor's residence, to be greeted with hot, seasonal refreshments.

    Festive flashback to the Middle Ages 2006

  • Marples Public School Slang 31 Oik, hoik: very widely used and of some age; at Cheltenham (1897) it meant simply a working man, but at Christ's Hospital (1885) it implied someone who spoke Cockney, and at Bootham (1925) someone who spoke with a Yorkshire accent.

    languagehat.com: OIK. 2004

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