SCORES of York people were heading for London today to join a protest march against a war on Iraq. Three coach-loads left the Railway Workers' War Memorial, in Station Road, at 8am bound for a demonstration from Embankment to Hyde Park. Demonstrator Lesley
AN RAF base near Tadcaster is to stay open, saving many jobs. It may even take on an additional role in training air force engineers. The future of RAF Church Fenton had seemed uncertain after it was announced that the Yorkshire Universities Air Squadron
Richard Beerheadwards and Guzzling Greenwood trawl the city bars for frothy gossip AS PROMISED Bar Talk today brings you up to date with events in Morecambe when Golden Lion gaffer Stuart Weston took a motley crew of mates there for Lion regular Phil
NEWCASTLE United are the latest Premiership club to cast their eye over York City goalkeeper Russ Howarth. The Evening Press can reveal the City starlet trained with the Geordie giants earlier this week with United boss Sir Bobby Robson monitoring the
YORK City supremo John Batchelor has presented his plans to restructure football to his fellow chairmen. Batchelor was in attendance at a meeting of Football League chairmen from Division Two and Three clubs when the restructuring of football was up for
CENTRAL defenders Chris Brass and Chris Smith share pole position in the Evening Press player of the year rankings, writes Dave Stanford, Chief Sports Writer. A man of the match display by Brass at Cambridge United means the City skipper has moved level
ANOTHER member of the City team going for gold will be Yorkie, who runs in the fourth annual Mascot Grand National tomorrow (29th). The event, at Huntingdon Racecourse, is now one of the most eagerly awaited races in the sporting calendar - well, almost
DRAMA student Katie Booth went back to school for a TV reality game show and learned how to conquer her fear of spiders. The 21-year-old budding actress confronted a life-long fear of eight-legged insects as a "pupil" contestant in Trouble TV's Cruel
IMPHAL Tigers junior football team are on the march. The Army at Fulford have got the new Under-9 team up and running in the York Mitchell Mini League. They drew their first ever competitive game 3-3 with New Earswick after being 2-0 down. The youngsters
YORK Sunday football team CB United have found the net at last - thanks to the Evening Press. The newspaper ran a story saying how United had had their goal-nets stolen for the third time in three years. But manager Sid Smith said the netting was returned
HEWORTH ARLC have jumped clear at the top of the National Conference League division two table without even playing. The Villagers have leapfrogged previous leaders Castleford Panthers after Dewsbury Moor resigned from the league, with all their results
YORK Acorn Running Club came mightily close to equalling the club's best-ever performance at the Yorkshire Road Relay at Sheffield. They finished in ninth place, just one short of their record appearance in the event ten years ago. Andy Hilton clocked
A YORK pensioner has blasted "crazy" bus timetables which mean she has to travel seven miles on buses to reach Clifton Moor, only a mile from her village. Sheila Barlow, of Skelton, said she used to rely on First's buses between her home and Clifton Moor
NORTH Yorkshire sharp-shooter John Robinson celebrated a record-breaking achievement with success at the double in the international arena. Huby-based John Robinson set a new record by being selected for the England Clay Shooting team for a 14th consecutive
AN audacious bid has been made to bring the top of the world to Wigginton. The ambitious IT Sports Wigginton squash team are currently sounding out world champion Peter Nicol to come and join their Yorkshire Squash League premier division ranks. It is
COPPERGATE opponents have claimed part of Clifford's Tower for the people of York - and said the whole area could follow. Members of the Castle Area Campaign moved on to newly grassed-over land next to an information plinth. They argue that the site,
NEWCASTLE United are the latest Premiership club to cast their eye over York City goalkeeper Russ Howarth. The Evening Press can reveal the City starlet trained with the Geordie giants earlier this week with United boss Sir Bobby Robson monitoring the
A HOST of horses went on display near York today, but there wasn't a hoof or mane in sight. The York Road and Rail exhibition at The Yorkshire Museum of Farming, at Murton Park, features a display of mechanical horses - small vehicles which were used
Television celebrity Alan Titchmarsh finds fulfilment between the covers. JO HAYWOOD chatted to him in a York bookshop Alan Titchmarsh is a man of simple pleasures. He believes there is nothing that can't be cured by a couple of Weetabix and a sunny afternoon
FURTHER to the letters regarding the suggested donations on entry to the Minster (Letters, September 24), I agree with the American gentleman, the only difference being that he calls it a strong-arm approach with subtle pressure. As a frequent visitor
YORKSHIREMAN Sir George Cayley's part in the development of aeronautics (Letters, September 25) does indeed get public recognition in Dayton, Ohio where the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Oliver, had their cycle-manufacturing business and where they first
IT IS not very often that I ever agree with the Prince of Wales, but I was pleased to hear that he frequently writes to MPs. I agree that he should write and say what he thinks - after all this is supposed to be a "free" country. I agree with his views
THE Tadcaster branch of the Royal Air Force Association thanks Safeway's supermarket and everyone who helped with the Annual Wings Day Appeal held on September 13/14. The total amount raised was £1,306.60. Steve Helsdon, Howe Hill Close, Holgate, York
GIVE yourself a few deep breaths of moorland air and help charities at the same time. Phil Hopkinson is having a book signing in his shop, Aidensfield Stores, Goathland, on Tuesday at 4pm which will feature guest appearances of Heartbeat's Tricia Penrose
Janet Hewison enjoys lunch in one of York's oldest pubs IT may have been a Wednesday lunchtime in September, but Goodramgate was still full of tourists and charity-shop browsers, ambling along all over the place, as I fought my way through to The Golden
THERE is an old adage among some players - mainly the three-quarters - that the backs have brains while the forwards have the brawn. Now, I only know this adage as my days were spent in the relatively safe climes of the wing or at full-back - and before
THE Powegen cup draws have handed the area's remaining sides a host of away fixtures. In the Intermediate Cup, York's reward for their superb win over Scarborough is an even tougher draw, this time away to Driffield. Pocklington, who knocked out York
A YORK headteacher has blasted the "mealy-mouthed so-called experts" who denigrate the exam achievements of today's pupils. Stephen Smith, head of Fulford School, says society should instead acknowledge the success and efforts of teachers and their pupils
YORK City is now examining three potential locations to site a new stadium - all within the Green Belt. City director Ian McAndrew says developers have approached him to suggest two undisclosed sites around the city, which he is now looking at in addition
A TEENAGE girl who is bravely battling leukaemia has slammed the axing of a bus service between her village and York District Hospital, where she receives vital medical treatment. Katrina Allardyce and her mother, Mary, are among many residents protesting
GEORGE WILKINSON explores the most northern of the Yorkshire Dales Many thanks to Mark Reid for covering for me and doing the walk the last two weeks. I have been on my travels, to London (not for the march) and then to Arkengarthdale the most northern
Former Evening Press journalist DAVID WILES was so impressed with his trip to Sweden he has moved there It's probably a fair assumption to say that most of you reading this did not head, or even consider heading, north-east for your summer holidays this
VIEWING from the window of the National Trust caf we found the junction of Goodramgate and Monkgate remarkably busy. We were spotted by a journalist friend who works for a rival newspaper but he was discrete in his greeting! The site of this caf has historical
NORTHERN delight has sealed a searing summer for former Heworth Golf Club professional Neil Cheetham. The man who spent several years at Heworth has finished top of the Professional Golfers' Association north region Order of Merit. Cheetham's ascent was
North Yorkshire trainer Mark Johnston, on the mark at Ascot yesterday, can follow-up tomorrow by winning three races on the course with Systematic, Love You Always and Itemise. And the Middleham handler vows he will on duty in Berkshire, despite launching
Mike Laycock and his daughter, Gabrielle, visit a new toy museum in Ilkley IF you or your child like toys, a visit to Ilkley would well be in order this autumn. For a new museum has opened there containing one of the finest private collection of toys
GINA PARKINSON fills the gaps found in the autumn garden There are many scented flowers in the garden during spring and summer and even in winter when Daphne bholua and Viburnum x bodnantense fill the air with fragrance. Perfume for the autumn garden
THE cut-price season ticket offer announced in this column last week got tongues wagging almost as much as tills ringing. Never look a gift horse in the mouth they say, and watching City for a fiver next season when possibly - hopefully - the Minstermen
A PODIUM finish proved elusive but there was still plenty to cheer as the York City Racing Team crossed the finish line in the 2002 British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park. While York-born driver James Thompson lifted the title in the premier
STEPHEN LEWIS picks up a few tips on cooking delicious dim sum from York market stall maestro Steve Hudson BEHIND the counter of his stall at York market, Steve Hudson is holding forth to an enthralled audience. Steaming racks of plump Chinese dumplings
FAT FRIENDS actress Gaynor Faye is striding out for charity at a sponsored walk. The star of the ITV drama is backing the local leg of the national Stride For Life which raises money for Cancer Research. The 10 kilometres walk will go from Rawcliffe Bar
A BUSINESSMAN who once declared he had "taken on the council and won" may now stand for the authority he battled against. Paul Blanchard Jnr, 27, could stand in the Heworth constituency in the City of York Council elections next May after being chosen
A YORK headteacher has blasted the "mealy-mouthed so-called experts" who denigrate the exam achievements of today's pupils. Stephen Smith, head of Fulford School, says society should instead acknowledge the success and efforts of teachers and their pupils
HUNDREDS of cups of coffee were served at events across North Yorkshire as part of a nationwide campaign in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief. An estimated 1.5 million people across the UK took part in the World's Biggest Coffee Morning yesterday, with people
A RYEDALE family turning out in force for the Great North Run are looking for sponsorship of a very special kind. The team of five are taking part in a tribute to Alwyn Shackleton, from Sinnington, who died in January this year from a rare form of leukaemia
STRONG men - and women - will be getting the hump this weekend as the 27th annual Scarborough Coal Hump gets under way. Contestants from the York area will be welcomed once again to the charity event, which involves hauling a sack of coal along the three-and-a-half
RAIL passengers in York were given a service boost after a leading operator announced that nearly 50 new trains are to run to and from the historic city. Virgin Trains has revealed that 35 extra CrossCountry services will stop at York as part of a £1
YORK City supremo John Batchelor has presented his plans to restructure football to his fellow chairmen. Batchelor was in attendance at a meeting of Football League chairmen from Division Two and Three clubs when the restructuring of football was up for
ART student Sophie Macksall shows off her painting to TV weatherman Paul Hudson at an art exhibition staged at York's Foss Barrier. The barrier is a key part of flood defences in York which protected thousands of properties from inundation in November
Those who attended Wednesday night's meeting of the York Deanery Synod will be frustrated by your description of it as a "Church closures meeting" (Evening Press, September 26). In starting to consider the report of the Archbishop of York's Commission
ON November 23, 2002, English Heritage is running an activity which includes a Jarl's-eye view from Clifford's Tower of this ancient city of York. Perhaps we should all put our names down for the event as it may be our last chance to enjoy this magnificent
