Archive
-
Date
Don't become a victim of email scams
CITY of York Trading Standards has received a resurgence in the number of complaints about email scams, one of which, the Advance Fee Fraud, has been in operation for some time. The other one, Phishing, is a more recent occurrence. The fact that the Advance
-
Date
Park and Ride poser
I WONDER if the council planners have considered the possible deterioration in the Park and Ride service at Askham Bar that various pending development initiatives pose. The proposed reduction of car parking spaces at St George's Field will put more pressure
-
Date
Immigration spin
AS a member of the Labour Party, it is not surprising that Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing protects the policy of immigration (Letters, April 13). She does this, not by justifying it on economic grounds (as it is questionable if there are any), but by using
-
Date
Good luck to him
UPON reading your letters page on Monday April 12 I had to check that I was not in fact reading the Socialist Worker. I refer to the letter from P R Willey in which he launches an attack on the York student who is planning to rent out his penthouse to
-
Date
Stick in there
SOCIABILITY, personality, helpfulness, presentably dressed, the taxi clean and comfy. These things are what's important, not having to wear monkey suits ("Taxi drivers plan a 'clip-on protest", April 7). I'm with the cabbies all the way. Stick in there
-
Date
Moral high ground is elusive
NICHOLAS Hall's account of the battle for Deir Yassin (Letters, April 6) is not factually correct, although I appreciate that the York Palestine Solidarity Campaign is limited to presenting the state of Israel in as bad a light as possible while ignoring
-
Date
Horrified by minister's words
IT was the usual dry monotone voice which so horrified me. Our Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, when repeatedly pressed by John Humphrys on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme for a "yes" or "no", finally admitted that he was content with the American attacks
-
Date
Rally sound team roars into new premises
A creative audio production company which recreates the authentic, exciting sound of world rally car driving has discovered a vroom with a view in York. Media Mill, formed by ex-BBC Radio York broadcaster Jerry Ibbotson to provide specialist audio production
-
Date
Fans hail Hunters' sponsorship deal
Alastair Campbell, former press adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair and ardent Burnley supporter, today praised York-based Hunters estate agents. First Division Burnley yesterday announced a record six-figure sponsorship deal with Hunters, whose logo
-
Date
One final heave-ho
YORK Acorn boss Dave Kay reckons his side still have enough to play for to gee themselves up for the last game of their Arriva Trains Conference division two campaign. The Blue and Golds visit Waterhead with both teams encamped in the bottom half of the
-
Date
Lauren leads bullying fight
A TEN-year-old North Yorkshire girl is leading a battle to highlight the issue of bullying across more than 120 schools. Lauren Ramsey, a pupil at Brotherton and Byram Primary School won a county-wide competition, run by Selby and York Primary Care Trust
-
Date
New hope for A64 dualling upgrade
HOPES that a vital transport lifeline through North Yorkshire could receive a multi-million pound upgrade have been boosted by the Government. Transport Minister David Jamieson has written to local council chiefs to confirm that the Highways Agency study
-
Date
Internet scam snares more victims
MORE York and North Yorkshire web surfers have fallen victim to a worldwide computer scam. The Evening Press has been flooded with telephone calls and emails from readers who have been charged for premium rate phone calls they never made. Mother-of-three
-
Date
Locking doors is key to beating burglars
A SENIOR York detective responsible for cutting burglaries in the city is frustrated with residents who leave their homes wide open to criminals. Detective Sergeant Steve Taylor said his burglary squad, the only one of its kind in North Yorkshire, is
-
Date
Nine's divine for Uni ranks
UNIVERSITY Staff Ladies scored a comfortable 9-0 home win over St John's in division two of the York Badminton League. Sally Locker and Lynn Terry were the pick of the staff pairings taking three straight wins for a return of 90-18. Riverside played host
-
Date
Tyke leads White Rose wilt
Yorkshire had no answer to a record-breaking score by Leeds-born batsman Iain Sutcliffe in the one-day Roses friendly at Old Trafford yesterday, and they went down in front of a large crowd by the uncomfortable margin of 119 runs. There were extenuating
-
Date
George is a protected species
Goal hero Liam George is being wrapped in cotton wool this week to make sure he stays fit for York City's next battle in the war against relegation on Saturday. The fit-again striker scored 24 minutes into City's crucial clash against Bury in his first
-
Date
Knights Fever again
Coach Richard Agar will take his York City Knights into battle against Featherstone Rovers for the fourth time in a matter of weeks after the two were drawn again in the Arriva Trains Cup quarter-final play-offs last night. The two sides have already
-
Date
Fine idea to stop litter
LITTER is symbolic of our selfish age. If LS Lowry returned to paint York scenes today, his stick men and women would be ankle deep in burger boxes, cola cans and sweet wrappers. We could blame all manner of social trends for the mess. Our frenetic lifestyles
-
Date
Keep 'em out
YORK police deserve our thanks for stemming the tide of house break-ins. The hard work of North Yorkshire's only burglary squad is clearly paying off. It means fewer householders have had to experience the shock and anxiety of having their homes invaded
-
Date
Steadfast fans did us loud and proud
Coming back from being a goal down on Tuesday night was tough - but it was made much easier knowing we had the fantastic support of the fans behind us. It was really positive and the influence of the fans was really instrumental in that. They were tremendous
-
Date
N*E*R*D, Fly Or Die (Virgin) *** Cypress Hill, Till Death Do Us Part (Columbia) ***
NOT content with being multi-millionaire backroom boys, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka supremely successful production and songwriting team The Neptunes, step out of the shadows as N*E*R*D. Fly Or Die, their second album, sees the dynamic duo dump
-
Date
Speedway, Save Yourself (Innocent Records) ***
Perky and upbeat, Speedway's debut album is lipgloss rock at its most inoffensive. The youthful angst-filled lyrics and bubbly tunes would not be out of place in the soundtrack of an American teen flick. Sitting on the fence between musical genres, this
-
Date
David Bryne, Grown Backwards (Nonesuch) ****
THE former Talking Heads front man produces his best solo album yet. The edgy, frenetic music of his past is gone, along too with the subsequent wanderings around world music. Instead, Byrne writes surprisingly tuneful songs, such as the opener Glass,
-
Date
David Byrne, Lead Us Not Into Temptation (Thrill Jockey Records) ****
THIS is the soundtrack for Young Adam, David McKenzie's film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, which is based on the gritty novel by Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi. David Byrne, who returned to the country of his birth to compose the score
-
Date
Usher, Confessions (BMG) ***
EFFORTLESSLY dodging the difficult second album curse with smash hit 8701, Usher Raymond's luck has caught up with him on Confessions. Those expecting more of the subsonic beats of number one single Yeah will be sorely disappointed by the lack of further
-
Date
Thirsk could have a Magic first day - 15/04/04
Magic Glade, a winner at Musselburgh last Sunday, can complete a quick double tomorrow as Thirsk racecourse opens its doors for the first time this season. The Hambleton Classified Stakes is the target for the five-year-old, trained by Connor Dore, and
-
Date
Way we were
Thursday, April 15, 2004 100 years ago: Gangs were engaged on the North-Eastern Railway at Selby in making a new junction on the Leeds and Selby line, near Wistow Junction, in or-der to connect the Selby and Wistow and Cawood light railway with the main
-
Date
Store in York to get big update
A MULTI-MILLION pound redevelopment of a city centre supermarket is set to get the green light. Sainsbury wants to replace its existing store at Foss Bank with a larger, two-storey building. The development proposal could form part of a massive expansion
-
Date
Seeking air raid memories
I'M a native-born "Yorkie", currently living in Arizona. On a visit two years ago, I noticed that the air raid shelters on Albemarle Road had been demolished. This led me to wonder about the York Air Raid, of April 1942. Do any of your readers have memories
-
Date
Cost overruns hit Jarvis key division
Support services group Jarvis, which has its railheadquarters in York, today said annual profits at a key division had been wiped out by cost overruns on a number of contracts. The group, which is currently at the centre of the inquiry into the Potters
-
Date
Companies issue profit warnings
PROFIT warnings issued by listed companies have more than doubled during the first three months of 2004 in Yorkshire and the north-east, with the retail sector accounting for a third of the total number of "warners", according to the latest report from
-
Date
Don't blame bullying on Maggie
I'm not a big fan of Mrs Thatcher. I'll blame the Iron Lady for just about everything, from the shambolic state of our railroads to the demise of school milk and the war with Iraq (she must have had a hand in it somewhere). But school bullying? Even I
-
Date
Knights Fever again
Coach Richard Agar will take his York City Knights into battle against Featherstone Rovers for the fourth time in a matter of weeks after the two were drawn again in the Arriva Trains Cup quarter-final play-offs last night. The two sides have already
-
Date
Back on patrol
THE boom in rugby league in the region has continued with the reforming of the North Yorkshire Police RL team. The side folded in the 1990s but has been resurrected by British Police RL team tourist Nick Smart following his transfer to York from West
-
Date
Acorn's mighty six-pack
Six of York's best female rugby league players have been called up by Yorkshire. The York Acorn sextet of Yvette Shepherd, Natasha Armitage, Jenny Garwood, Kate Rollinson, Donna Parker and Lou Potter were all picked for the regional squad after impressing
-
Date
Johnny's Wal of fame
YORK Acorn ace Johnny Waldron has spoken of his delight after being selected for BARLA Great Britain Under-21s. The speedster, who plays scrum-half or winger, was given the nod after impressing for Yorkshire in the amateur county matches late last year
-
Date
King's reign over
ROY KING has hung up his boots after 12 years of 100-mile round trips from South Yorkshire to referee in the York area. Sixty-nine-year-old KIng first started officiating in the York Leeper Hare Football League in 1992 in a game featuring White Horse,
-
Date
Kartiers take closer order
KARTIERS moved to within one point of Dringhouses at the top of Reserve 'A' of the Leeper Hare York and District Football League with a 2-1 win over Bishopthorpe. Goals from Wayne Coulthard and Glen Littlewood were enough to take the points before Bishopthorpe
-
Date
Pastures new
STEPHEN LEWIS visits an East Riding farm which may represent the future of the English countryside. THE sun beats down on Flamborough Head, warming away the sea mist drifting over the cliff tops. To one side, grassland slopes away into the East Riding
-
Date
Talks under way for suburb station plan
HOPES for a new £1.7 million rail station in a York suburb are back on track, after council chiefs opened talks with a building firm over the project. Transport officers are involved in detailed discussions with a private construction company working
-
Date
Families' delight as bulldozers move in
THE nightmare is finally over for residents on a troubled York estate. Householders in Tedder Road, Acomb, have endured months of misery as they waited to move into their dream homes. They have suffered persistent problems with young vandals, and had
-
Date
Museum in hunt for hidden gems
THE National Railway Museum in York is hunting for old toy trains and railway timetables. The museum is holding two valuation weekends, during which people can bring along their railway memorabilia for free valuation. With the recent boom in collecting
-
Date
Paving the way for a cleaner city
York is preparing for a purge on litter louts. LUCY STEPHENS took to the streets with the city's litter-busters. IT happens fast, but Karen and Iain's reactions are quick. A boy appears not to notice dropping a scrunched-up piece of paper on the ground
-
Date
Second motorcyclist killed in a week
ANOTHER motorcyclist has been killed on a North Yorkshire road, the second in the space of a week. The biker was involved in a head-on collision with a van near Selby. The van driver, Damien Rushbrooke, 24, was taken to Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield
-
Date
Nurse struck off for script mix-up
A YORK nurse who gave a drug addict somebody else's methadone prescription has been struck off the nursing register, after a disciplinary panel ruled he was a risk to the public. Paul Damien Dunn, known as Damien, ran a team providing medical services
-
Date
Johnny's Wal of fame
YORK Acorn ace Johnny Waldron has spoken of his delight after being selected for BARLA Great Britain Under-21s. The speedster, who plays scrum-half or winger, was given the nod after impressing for Yorkshire in the amateur county matches late last year
-
Date
Ex-JP chief denies sex abuse
A RETIRED North Yorkshire magistrate has been accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a young girl. A jury at York Crown Court heard allegations that 79-year-old Barry Sampson, a former chairman of the Tadcaster and Selby benches, forced the girl to perform
-
Date
City looks to flower power
A NEW scheme to beautify city centre businesses has been launched to make York residents proud of their surroundings. York Business Pride has ploughed £5,000 into subsidising a hanging basket initiative, which will help the city's York In Bloom efforts
-
Date
George is a protected species
Goal hero Liam George is being wrapped in cotton wool this week to make sure he stays fit for York City's next battle in the war against relegation on Saturday. The fit-again striker scored 24 minutes into City's crucial clash against Bury in his first
-
Date
Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Volume 6: Live 1964: Concert At Philharmonic Hall (Columbia) **** Lou
Once upon a time Bob Dylan and Lou Reed were revered as iconic figures, visionary cheerleaders for the American nightmare. Now they are best known for mutilating their classic back catalogues in front of an ever-dwindling fan base. The sheer horror of
-
Date
Preston School Of Industry, Monsoon (Domino) ****
FIRSTLY an apology, dear readers. This beauteous, beguiling album has sat on the subs' bench awaiting a review call-up since early February, and how remiss it was to fail to alert you to the spring in its step until now. That said, any season is right
-
Date
Jane Birkin, Rendez-Vous (EMI Records) **
The difference between the French and English has never been more obvious than on this offering from Jane Birkin, the woman best known for gasping her way through Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus). Nine of the album's 14 tracks are sung in French and they are
-
Date
Tyke leads White Rose wilt
Yorkshire had no answer to a record-breaking score by Leeds-born batsman Iain Sutcliffe in the one-day Roses friendly at Old Trafford yesterday, and they went down in front of a large crowd by the uncomfortable margin of 119 runs. There were extenuating
-
Date
Y-Fronts to the fore in the name of York
WHAT is the name for a native of York? We know those who hail from our subsidiary, New York, are called New Yorkers. But on its own a yorker is nothing more than a delivery in cricket which pitches under the bat. And who wants to be known as underballs
