Archive
-
Date
Slur on Huntington
I AM appalled at the article written by the so-called man on the late Saturday night omnibus on Monday, April 1. He referred to Huntington as "hostile Huntington" and this type of throw-away remark makes me angry and is an insult to all the good residents
-
Date
My tip on passports
I WRITE regarding the "Passport gloom" report in the Evening Press (April 6). As another Swedish woman married to a York man, I too find it outrageous that little Ella is denied British citizenship just because the couple were not married at the time
-
Date
Israel does not listen
I WAS shocked to read the Evening Press report on the frightening situation in the Middle East (April 10). You carried a large photograph of a wrecked bus and a body being removed on a stretcher and reported that "at least nine people were killed" by
-
Date
Mother courage
JACKIE Wilbor's story is a tale of survival, beating the odds, and ultimately courage. It's fitting then that the mum from Northallerton has just won an award in a national competition honouring brave parents. After years of trying for a baby and three
-
Date
Alcohol and teenagers should be the biggest worry
TEENAGERS are trouble. They always have been and they always will be. In the Fifties it was rock and roll and Elvis's gyrating pelvis (Percy Filth!), in the Sixties it was free love and marijuana (peace, man), in the Seventies it was punk and pills (God
-
Date
How am I staying awake? I'll sleep on that one, please
ARE you getting enough? I know I'm not. Get your minds out of the gutter please, I'm talking about sleep - or rather the lack of it. As the mum of an extremely active three-year-old (is there any other kind?) who doesn't stop running around and chattering
-
Date
Keep traffic on the move
AFTER an hour and a quarter, the winner of Saturday's London Marathon had run about 15 miles. In the same time yesterday, Jennifer Burdon from Wilberfoss travelled just eight: and she was in a car. However, her car was on the A64 at Grimston Bar, a length
-
Date
Gough heads Tykes' sick-list
Darren Gough's hopes of playing for Yorkshire when they begin their defence of the County Championship against strong rivals Surrey at Headingley next Wednesday have been dashed. And with Anthony McGrath almost certainly out of the reckoning and Craig
-
Date
Pupils stay late to boost exam chances
TEENAGERS across the region are being encouraged to try to boost their national test scores in a Government drive targeted at 14-year-olds. The days are long gone when the average pupil had to face only one set of national exams when they reached their
-
Date
Great Scott wants to be Minsterman
SCOTT Jones helped York City to put one over his permanent employees Bristol Rovers then revealed he would love to make his Bootham Crescent tenure permanent, writes Dave Stanford. Last night's comfortable 3-0 win over the Pirates maintained the Minstermen's
-
Date
International bliss
FORMER England and AC Milan striker Luther Blissett is on the verge of linking up with York City, the Evening Press can reveal. The Watford legend was a notable face in the directors' box at last night's final home game of the season as the Minstermen
-
Date
Eadley wins with Cyprio Lake carp
Pegs on Cyprio Lake dominated the 40 peg sell-out angling match at Carpvale as the bigger fish dominated for a second week running. Mark Eadley (Leeds) led from peg 7, where he fished feeder and corn tight to the snags for 15 carp and 48lb 4oz. The feeder
-
Date
Paul's big break bonus
PICKERING snooker professional Paul Davison earned himself a £250 bonus by making the joint highest break of the tournament as he reached the last eight in the UK Open Tour event at Stockport. Davison made a 139 break in the last frame of his 4-0 win
-
Date
Forward fire
A storming performance by York RI Under-15s' forwards laid the foundations for a comprehensive 28-5 win over visitors Old Leodensians. RI scored first with a Lloyd Carlton try, converted by Tom Dunmore, but Leos battered the RI line from several scrums
-
Date
'Gate open cup run in fine fashion
HARROGATE got their quest for a first Yorkshire Cup success for a decade off at the gallop with a 43-18 success over Huddersfield at Claro Road. For virtually the first time since back-to-back successes in the early 1990s the club chose to field a strong
-
Date
Trio in court over raid
THREE teenagers aged 14 to 17 have appeared in court charged with carrying out a shop raid with a gun. They are all accused of having an imitation firearm with them during a burglary on a Jackson supermarket in York on April 7. York Youth Court adjourned
-
Date
Malton club's packed roster
WOULD-BE motorsport enthusiasts are urged to rev on down to Malton on Saturday. That's when the Malton Motor Club's Open Day takes place from 10am to 2pm. The event will be held at S M Autocare in the Eastgate Car Park, and is aimed at getting people
-
Date
Thousands expected at Minster meetings
THOUSANDS of people are expected to fill York Minster for a series of inspirational talks and presentations. Christian charity One Voice has organised a series of ten evenings which will look at personal improvement and life issues. The Just 10 series
-
Date
Seven-star Earswick
In an exciting finish to the first ever season of girls' league football in York, New Earswick under 12s clinched the title in their last match. They started the day just behind Heworth on goal difference, but managed to put seven past Wigginton 'B'.
-
Date
Festival's Moulin huge tilt
THEY might be coming to York as potential enemies, but French rugby league club FC Lezignan-Corbieres XIII will have a lot in common with their hosts. Nicknamed "the Wild Boars", the French first division side are one of two French teams who will feature
-
Date
Break-dancer
WEDDING guests witnessed a Cossack catastrophe when Boney M wannabe Matt Graham broke a leg dancing to the band's famous Ra Ra Rasputin song. The PE teacher is now in plaster for eight weeks after fracturing his fibula while going down a storm during
-
Date
Council denies it will go broke over clerk affair
COUNCIL chiefs at Pocklington today moved to reassure townspeople that the authority was not going bankrupt. Richard Wood, town clerk, has scoffed at suggestions that Pocklington Town Council may have to fold after losing the Martin Layton employment
-
Date
Great Scott wants to be Minsterman
SCOTT Jones helped York City to put one over his permanent employees Bristol Rovers then revealed he would love to make his Bootham Crescent tenure permanent, writes Dave Stanford. Last night's comfortable 3-0 win over the Pirates maintained the Minstermen's
-
Date
City chief Grant's Lee big wish
LEE Grant was back to reality and school today after becoming one of the youngest players ever to play for York City. Grant, 16, was back behind the books at Huntington School first thing this morning, just hours after coming off the bench and making
-
Date
Figures show unemployment slightly down
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen slightly in North Yorkshire, new figures revealed today. In York, the number of claimants dropped from 2,077 in February to 2,054 last month, equivalent to two per cent of the workforce. Numbers fell in Ryedale from 465 to 431
-
Date
Archbishop courts success
BASKETBALLERS from Archbishop Holgate's School in York are celebrating a double coronation that's seen them crowned kings of the court. The school's year nine and year eight basketball teams have both lifted their respective York and Selby District titles
-
Date
Contractors 'caused A64 cones chaos'
HIGHWAYS bosses today blamed a new bout of A64 chaos on contractors who extended lane closures - only minutes before the morning rush hour. Tailbacks and long delays confronted frustrated motorists because workers closed off part of the A64 before they
-
Date
American chillogy
Simon Ritchie looks at three American-based crime novels guaranteed to thrill you GOOD crime novels are like buses, you wait ages for one to come along and then you get three at once. 2nd Chance by James Patterson with Andrew Gross, City of Bones by Michael
-
Date
Spin Cycle by Nick Duerden, (Hodder & Stoughton, Price £6.99)
A HABIT of failure unites Spin Cycle's three stars in an international rush towards destruction and renewal. Friends Flox and Danny share an inability for success. First Flox fails, then Danny follows uncontrollably. While his friends' failure in love
-
Date
Cemetery ban on Jamie's headstone
A HEARTBROKEN couple who lost their son to a heart attack today claimed two designs they chose for the teenager's headstone were rejected by a York parish council. The parents of fourteen-year-old Jamie Bucknell, who died last November, have described
-
Date
Stick your Park & Ride, I'm back in my car
WHEN I began to commute to work in York a year ago I decided to park my car at Askham Bar and use Park & Ride. I was impressed by the simple and sensible concept of the system. Leave your car on the outskirts and travel in by cheap public transport
-
Date
Livid Liver birds
THE YORKIE bar is being marketed as chocolate for men only, so where better to promote it than in the macho Merseyside metropolis? Liverpool, last bastion of the unreconstructed male, would surely bite. Alas, what Nestl Rowntree bosses had failed to realise
-
Date
I'll tell you who to tax
BY the time you read this, you will know how much Prudence has pinched for his purse. Everyone knew Gordon Brown was putting up taxes in today's Budget, what we didn't know was how, and by how much. This tax hike was very necessary, of course, to pay
-
Date
City chief Grant's Lee big wish
LEE Grant was back to reality and school today after becoming one of the youngest players ever to play for York City. Grant, 16, was back behind the books at Huntington School first thing this morning, just hours after coming off the bench and making
-
Date
Oliver turns up after 8 months
A PET cat which went missing from his owners' house in August, last year, has been found. Oliver, an eight-year-old black and white cat, disappeared from Almsford Road, York, last August. His owners Dave Keenleyside and Maureen May, searched high and
-
Date
Festival fillip
YORK Rugby Union Club's youth ranks were to the fore as they racked up festival double honours. The renowned Preston Grasshoppers club staged their annual mini-rugby festival - the biggest in its history - for invited teams from Lancashire, Cheshire and
-
Date
Relief as U.S. visitors appear in York again
AMERICAN tourists have started to come back to York. The number of United States visitors to the city dropped dramatically after the September 11 terrorist attacks. They traditionally make up 50 per cent of the total number of visitors to York. But Kay
-
Date
Knockout pointer to next term
YORK will have one eye on next season as they head to Goole tonight in the Yorkshire Cup. After a disappointing 2001-02 campaign - which has seen the club lose its unofficial tag as the top team in the area to Selby - York are to use the cup as a way
-
Date
Campaign to cut speed limit on A19
DRIVERS on one of the main routes into York could be forced to slow down if a councillor's new campaign is a success. Skelton councillor Mark Waudby says residents in his ward "frequently" complain about problems getting on to the A19 Shipton Road, where
-
Date
Another success for super mum
SUPER mum Tracey Simpson-Laing has just graduated from the Open University after combining her studies with the birth of her first child, a part-time job, work as a city councillor and standing for Parliament. Tracey, 35, of Carnot Street, York, has been
-
Date
Court axe man jailed over knife attack
A MAN who tried to carry an axe into York Magistrates Court has been jailed for nine months. James Joseph Monaghan, 56, was facing charges of injuring a shopkeeper's face with a knife, and carrying a knife in public, when he entered the building in Clifford
-
Date
Gough heads Tykes' sick-list
Darren Gough's hopes of playing for Yorkshire when they begin their defence of the County Championship against strong rivals Surrey at Headingley next Wednesday have been dashed. And with Anthony McGrath almost certainly out of the reckoning and Craig
-
Date
Contractors 'caused A64 cones chaos'
HIGHWAYS bosses today blamed a new bout of A64 chaos on contractors who extended lane closures - only minutes before the morning rush hour. Tailbacks and long delays confronted frustrated motorists because workers closed off part of the A64 before they
-
Date
Exercise devices step in right direction
IF YOU want to get ahead get a "ped". That's the message from a new project to reduce congestion and improve the health of York children. The idea is for school pupils to use "pedometers" to collect data on the amount of walking they do and the number
-
Date
Yorkie bar run out of town by scouse grouse
Nestl marketing staff handing out free Yorkie bars in Liverpool to promote its new "men only" image found themselves in sticky situation. They were banned from the city's streets after a council worker made an official complaint about sexism. When it
-
Date
Minister's anger at pits cash plea
THE odds on the Selby coalfield closing early next year shortened today when Energy Minister Brian Wilson rebuked UK Coal for asking for more state aid. Mr Wilson reacted angrily to calls for the company to be handed a £100 million "closure aid" package
-
Date
King should prove he has Classic race class
King Of Happiness, a horse with a huge reputation, puts his prowess on the line at Newmarket tomorrow as he bids to confirm his place in next month's Sagitta 2,000 Guineas. Sir Michael Stoute's exciting colt runs in the Macau Jockey Club Craven Stakes
-
Date
International bliss
FORMER England and AC Milan striker Luther Blissett is on the verge of linking up with York City, the Evening Press can reveal. The Watford legend was a notable face in the directors' box at last night's final home game of the season as the Minstermen
-
Date
Another three weeks of jams on A64
MOTORISTS are facing another three weeks of congestion and delays on the A64 near York. The Highways Agency has warned that the dual carriageway will be restricted to a single lane in each direction until Friday, May 3. A spokeswoman said the restrictions
-
Date
Three Weeks In Paris by Barbara Taylor Bradford (HarperCollins, £16.99)
IT goes right against the grain to knock a fellow Tyke - not to mention a fellow Leeds lass - but sometimes needs must. When we were about 12, my pals and I devoured Barbara Taylor Bradford's novels about gung-ho gals who made their fortune and got their
-
Date
Home is where the heart... and work is
This is National Work At Home Week and STEPHEN LEWIS weighs up the pros and cons of working from home PHIL Bixby doesn't have far to travel to get to work. Just a few steps - down to the basement of his home in Holgate Road, York. The architect is one
-
Date
York City 3, Bristol Rovers 0
YORK City saved if not the best then certainly their biggest till last. The Minstermen departed Bootham Crescent for this season with a stroll down Easy Street and a comfortable 3-0 win over struggling Bristol Rovers. The result was City's biggest home
-
Date
Caroline's body being flown back
THE body of murdered backpacker Caroline Stuttle is to arrive back in York tomorrow. The York coroner will open and adjourn an inquest when the body is returned and then immediately release it to Caroline's family for the funeral. He said: "We will then
