A FARMING firm has been fined £2,500 after an employee cleaning an unguarded harvesting machine had skin ripped from his hand and forearm. Mark H Poskitt Ltd, of The Firs, Kellington, pleaded guilty at Selby Magistrates' Court to endangering Richard Watson
WARRING neighbours confronted each other in the street in a dispute involving a toilet, midnight photographs and a woman in a dressing gown. The peace of Haxby Road was shattered when the lid of a toilet cistern crashed through David Beckelley's downstairs
TRUE romance will bloom for 14 couples on St Valentine's Day, when they tie the knot at York Register Office. Staff at the Bootham venue are preparing for a record-breaking February 14, with 14 slots available for wedding couples. Last year, only 10 ceremonies
A DEVASTATING report has revealed that some of Britain's best known birds are now officially endangered. And in Yorkshire, overgrazing of farmland is a major cause. Lapwings, skylarks and tawny owls are among the 17 species of bird now on "high alert"
WHEELCHAIR users in Ryedale are being forced to use the road as a pavement because inconsiderate drivers are blocking their path, a councillor has warned. Norton councillor Margaret Taylor is urging North Yorkshire Highways to paint white lines on the
EIGHTY-SIX years after it went down, the Titanic has resurfaced - in York. An original scale model, crafted by hand from a rare copy of the blueprints, has been handed down through four generations of a York family. As the blockbuster movie Titanic, staring
A LONG-AWAITED scheme to revamp Easingwold town centre may be watered down because of a lack of cash. The final draft of a £300,000 project to enhance the main road through the market town, Long Street, will be discussed by locals next week. But the scheme
AS THE campaign to fight plans by the City of York Council to convert a York old people's home into flats moves up a gear, one of the elderly pensioners living at the complex has spoken out for the first time. Marjorie Walters, 75, one of 15 tenants in
FEWER police officers are getting out on the streets more, forcing down crime and keeping the public happy in North Yorkshire, according to a new national report. In East Yorkshire the force has welcomed their steadily increasing performance, even though
A PREMIUM rate telephone line that has sparked angry protests from hundreds of Evening Press readers was still running today - despite a pledge from a communications watchdog to close it down. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Press
NO one knows, at least for the time being, who has won the chairpersons' gong war in the Smith household. For some months now, Melanie Smith, 39, of Church Street, Copmanthorpe, has been flaunting her gong at her husband, David - her chain of office as
York kept top place in Yorkshire Ladies Indoor Bowling League with a 96-63 win over Hull, while New Earswick took maximum league points from beating Scarborough 95-75. York's two home rinks were dominant. Madge Zimnoch, Barbara Davison, Jeanette Coulson
HARROGATE development company Gregory Properties has invested more than £1 million establishing a new 3.5 acre business centre at Wetherby. The company, based off Otley Road, Harrogate, has already pre-sold two units totalling 70,000 sq ft on what will
YORKSHIRE hope to sharpen up their fielding this season by adopting a new baseball technique which they will start to practice shortly. Director of Coaching Martyn Moxon has arranged for the players to be given a demonstration of the baseball style at
A FATHER and son who launched the successful hair and beauty salon, Daniel James, of Grape Lane, York, have now formed their own separate company to market their services to leisure projects in Britain and abroad. Under the banner Daniel James Leisure
CHARLES Egerton and Josh Gifford, the trainers of the two horses involved in the doping scandal, have hit out following the decision of the Jockey Club Licensing Committee to suspend the licences of bailed jockeys Jamie Osborne, Leighton Aspell and Dean
A HARROGATE firm at the centre of the Virtual Pets fad that swept the nation last year is bracing itself to market millions of one-step-better new wave technology devices. Tiger Electronics UK, an American company with its distribution arm at Belvedere
A LAWYER should be present at Pickering Town Council meetings to stop them turning into a 'circus', according to the town's deputy mayor. The council last night debated a motion calling for its solicitor to be there "for the benefit of common sense and
A PARTNERSHIP set up to pioneer early years education in York is seeking an independent chairperson to lead the initiative. As revealed in the Evening Press, both City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council have pledged to meet the Government's
A MAN suffered an electric shock in York today when an explosion in a workshop brought down cables on him. The incident occurred just before 8.30am at the former ABB site in Holgate Road. The injured man was one of 10 contractors working on decontaminating
A DISGRACED North Yorkshire doctor is set to be appointed by the General Medical Council to investigate incompetent colleagues. And it was also revealed today that obstetrician Dr Richard Neale was given a £100,000 severance pay-off when he left Friarage
A FIREFIGHTER performed a super-human feat of strength and bravery to rescue a young girl from the bottom of a water-filled quarry, an inquest heard today. Selby fireman Andrew Jakeman, 32, plunged into the murky waters of the so-called Blue Lagoon at
A YORK church is to be opened as a temporary shelter for the homeless from the beginning of February. The pioneering scheme at St Martin-cum-Gregory, Micklegate, will run for a month but could continue into March if there is sufficient demand and enough
A NORTH Yorkshire family's anguished wait for an inquest into the death of their son is almost at an end. The inquiry into the death of student Daniel Cooke suffered from a series of setbacks because the City of York Council could not provide a suitable
A NORTH Yorkshire pensioner at the centre of an asbestosis compensation wrangle has died before his bitter dispute could be resolved. War veteran Ted Bradley, 75, of Hawthorne Lane, Pickering, survived action at El Alamein and the D-Day landings only
A DOZEN drinkers fought in a Western saloon-style brawl that spilled out of a crowded York pub into the street, magistrates heard. Edward's Bar, off George Hudson Street, erupted when Ashton Leslie Ogden was evicted after he argued with his ex-girlfriend
YORK Trojans got their act together against Ramgharia in division two of the Northern Premier Hockey League to run out 4-0 winners. Ramgharia began strongly and dictated terms for the first ten minutes but Trojans rode it well and then began to match
A LEARNING employee is a flexible employee. That is the principle that underpins the Harrogate College of Further Education's Key Club scheme, now starting its second year. Covance, the development services company, is one of more than 300 Harrogate firms
THIRD division Black Swan, in their first season in the league, provided the giant-killing act of the day when they reached the semi-final of the York Sunday Afternoon League's John Close Cup at the expense of first division York Police. The policemen
SESSIONS 'A' have got their eyes firmly set on retaining the Focus Fireplaces York and District Table Tennis League division one championship. Any chance the chasing pack had of closing the gap at the top vanished when, at the halfway stage of the fixtures
CLOSED circuit television surveillance at Clifton Moor, an idea that withered in a blast of apathy last year, is firmly back on the agenda. Urgent discussions have taken place between the Clifton Moor Business Association, the police and the City of York
by Tom O'Ryan CATTLY Hang, an impressive winner at Wetherby on his latest start, can follow up at Doncaster tomorrow. This in-form eight-year-old, trained in Lincolnshire by Jim Leigh, goes for the Doncaster Sponsorship Club Handicap Chase and will again
SHEILA Ware, of York, is the British furniture industry's Sales Person of the Year - and now she is putting her prize - £2,000 worth of travel vouchers - towards a Caribbean cruise. Her talents for selling kitchens hand over first at MFI in Osbaldwick
LOOSE forward Damian Ball today started his Dewsbury Rams career with one eye on the elite. The former York Rugby League Club player began training with his new team-mates confident the first division club can reach for the Super League in 1998. The 22
WHERE there's a will there's a way of raising funds for York's St Leonard's Hospice, according to the Peter Pan of pop. Bachelor Boy Sir Cliff Richard is backing a month long special promotion titled Willing to Help St Leonard's. During February, 14 local
A PAIR of York teenagers who died when their high-powered car ploughed into a wall created their own deadly recipe for disaster. When Christopher Loft, 17, climbed behind the wheel of best friend Sean Smith's Vauxhall Astra, he could not have suspected
CONTROVERSIAL train operator Regional Railways North East has suffered a stinging attack at the hands of an independent watchdog. The Railway Development Society insists RRNE is to blame for virtually all the regional network punctuality problems and
RAILTRACK was today standing by to rescue the £5 billion Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link. The link's builder, London and Continental, has run into funding difficulties and has been refused any more Government money. "We are examining the business
