When Nestl worker Janet Tenniswood walked through the doors of York's Wilberforce Home for the Blind, the reception she got was overwhelming. She was interested in volunteering as an unpaid helper working with the home's 21 blind and disabled residents
ONE of York's leading visitor attractions is to undergo a major £1 million expansion which will double its size and place it firmly on the tourist map. York Dungeon, Clifford Street's macabre museum, closes its doors next week for work to develop a new
A NORTH Yorkshire market town aims to put itself on the culinary map with a pie combining its most famous product and locally-reared beef. Members of the public are being asked to come up with the perfect recipe for Tadcaster Steak and Ale Pie. Brewers
IT SEEMS like an animal lover's dream. York postgraduate Alastair Ward will be spending the next three years studying the population of wild roe deer on the dramatic North York Moors. David Attenborough, eat your heart out. Alastair himself, though, admits
A STAFF nurse caught driving with a half-empty bottle of whisky in the car could not explain where it had come from, York magistrates heard. Caroline Bernadette Newby was more than twice over the limit when police spotted her driving on the A1079 at Kexby
SURGEONS have launched a shock campaign aimed at young people to highlight the horrors of facial injuries. As alarming figures reveal that York District Hospital has a higher than average rate of casualties suffering facial injuries, surgeons say young
WHEN a player pulls on the claret and blue shirt, whatever his ability, Burnley fans demand above all that he shows pride and passion in representing the club. Hence the animosity towards club captain Lee Howey, currently out injured, whose seemingly
DERBY duel duty is the next test for Selby Town's switch of emphasis in the confidence trick. The Robins entertain Pickering Town in the Northern Counties East League premier division tomorrow with more than just revenge on their minds. Early in the season
YORK City today turned down a major cash bid to lure skipper Tony Barras away from Bootham Crescent. Manager Alan Little said the club had rejected a six-figure offer, thought to be in the region of £200,000 to £300,000 for the centre-back, who is preparing
A CHARITY that helps homeless people to help themselves is a step nearer to setting up a base in York. The Emmaus movement, which is backed by former Beirut hostage Terry Waite, establishes communities for the homeless that offer not just a bed and food
A NORTH YORKSHIRE firefighter is to be presented with bravery awards following a plea from a young mother whose daughter died after a freak accident. Speaking exclusively to the Evening Press, Stephanie Greenwood, 22, said fireman Andrew Jakeman risked
NEW dog fouling laws have been approved in Ryedale despite claims they could endanger a 200-year-old hunting tradition. The joint Master of the Middleton Hunt, Frank Houghton-Brown, had written to Ryedale District Council expressing alarm at its proposals
SELBY area householders are facing a council tax hike of 14.3 per cent - four times the rate of inflation. The new year shocker will see the council tax bill for an average band-D home soar from £606 to £693. The controversial increase, which comes into
THE board of St Leonard's Hospice in York has announced the appointment of three new trustees. They are Bernadette Burbridge, a Radio York journalist and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England, Anne Ellison, who retired from Nestl Rowntree
A MAN found with a shotgun and ammunition under his bed was jailed for four years at Sheffield Crown Court when he appeared for sentence. Yusuf Abbass, 27, of North Lodge Avenue, Harrogate, was convicted by a jury at York Crown Court in December last
VILLAGERS left facing a long trek to pick up their pensions or stock up on groceries have been given new hope that their misery will soon be at an end. As revealed in the Evening Press, the Post Office warned it could be some time before its branch at
YORK town crier John Redpath has joined the ranks of jetsetters, film stars and aristocrats with an appearance in society magazine Hello! His full-page colour photograph appears in an issue with the likes of Bond girl Teri Hatcher, Russian count Andrei
A CALL has gone out to people in Pickering to raise cash for Ryedale's security cameras, following a drop in crime in the town centre. Ryedale councillor Linda Cowling has warned that if residents fail to respond, the crime-busting scheme could "fall
SAME points, same goal difference, same objective - some match. Anfield stages the collision of the day tomorrow when third hosts second, Liverpool entertain Blackburn Rovers. Two weeks ago they shared the target of striving for the lucrative runners-up
YORK'S strength of character will be tested to the full in the next four weeks as they battle to turn their backs on a run of five consecutive defeats. Their recent results have been in sharp contrast to the start of the season when five successive wins
GARNWIN, apparently laid out by Nicky Henderson for a specific crack at the Pertemps Great Yorkshire Chase, can lift the £30,000 showpiece race at Doncaster tomorrow. This eight-year-old, brought along steadily this season, has had only one preparatory
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club chief executive Chris Hassell has reported that there is an additional worry over whether overseas star Darren Lehmann will be available for next season. Hassell said at a meeting at Headingley yesterday of Yorkshire's Central
A NEW £40,000 unit for patients with irregular heartbeats which can cause strokes is to be set up at York District Hospital. Hospital managers say it should put an end to long waits in busy clinics, and allow hospital staff to manage treatment betterYork
A POWERFUL warning has gone out to parents to make sure they warn their children off sniffing solvents after an inquest heard seven-year-old York boy, Christopher Smith, died after deliberately inhaling 'special cement'. York coroner Donald Coverdale
AN INTERNATIONAL twist to York's premium rate telephone controversy was revealed today as the line remained open - two days after a watchdog promised to pull the plug. Unwary residents have continued spending up to £6 ringing the 0896 number organised
Veteran Scarborough playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn has won the £25,000 Playwright of the Year award with a work which features the 'F' word, his first in 52 plays. The offending word features just once in Things We Do For Love, which ran for more than
A KITCHEN-MAKER'S warehouse on an industrial estate outside York was today completely destroyed in a suspicious blaze. Scenes-of-crime police officers and fire investigators were today waiting for the all-clear from council engineers on whether they could
