Archive
-
Date
Aussie Levy raring to start with Knights
CHRIS Levy has admitted he has a hard act to follow - but he is determined to deliver the goods. York City Knights' new Australian scrum-half is set to take over the number seven shirt from departed record-breaking points-machine Danny Brough. And, on
-
Date
Way we were
Friday, November 12, 2004 100 years ago: "A Worker" wrote in regarding comments made about a "prominent citizen" who was anxious to build a large house and could not do so because the workmen in the building trade would not take lower wages, now that
-
Date
Dear Santa, you big fat fraud
SANTA needs a spin doctor. You would think that a fellow who dispenses presents and joy to millions of children would be universally loved. But he's beginning to get on the Diary's nerves. This week the flying philanthropist threw a most un-Santa like
-
Date
Preview: Mo Molam, Theatre Royal, November 15
What Mo Molam misses most about politics is talking to people - which is just what she will be doing in York on Monday, as she tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. MO Mowlam says she can't sing, can't dance, can't write, can't spell, but "something I can do is get
-
Date
Cleaners
YO1 Fossgate, York requires Cleaners 7-10am. 6 days. Apply Emma Sherbourne 01904 674824. Updated: 09:50 Friday, November 12, 2004
-
Date
Barratt quick on the draw to swamp Bay crew
Skelton were quickest out of the blocks in the top of the table division four duel and by half-time had carved out a 3-0 cushion at Bay Horse (Tadcaster). James Barratt's brace and an own goal gave them an advantage they never surrendered, despite Bay
-
Date
Joe's focus firmly on Cup
All Northern Counties East League eyes will be on the second round of the league cup this weekend with all five teams from the area facing division one opposition. Premier division Pickering Town are in action against mid-table Parkgate with recent signing
-
Date
'Pool play part in plan for park
PARK life will be the prime consideration for York Rugby Union Club when they entertain Hartlepool on Saturday. It's not simply a case of the York ranks enjoying home advantage at their Clifton Park stronghold. For besides trying to maximise their expected
-
Date
Smoking ban seems nearer
FOR at least four decades we have known smoking is bad for us. It causes cancer, heart disease, all manner of respiratory problems and shortens lives. But even after years of grim statistics today's bleak figure has the power to shock: nearly one-third
-
Date
Lapping it up!
The Best Western Monkbar Hotel claims to have secured the first free hotel broadband and wireless service in York. Free internet will be available from now on to all the hotel's business guests. Each customer will be given a password, which will provide
-
Date
£20m catering deal is sealed
IT'S full steam ahead for Milburns, which has won a ten-year £20 million total turnover contract, retaining the catering for York's National Railway Museum (NRM). The organisation, part of All Leisure, the specialist sport and leisure division of Compass
-
Date
Firms build for the future
A NEW flagship building in York is to host a seminar by North Yorkshire Construction Best Practice Group. Chris Langley, operations manager for York-based Yorkon Ltd, will speak on Modular Building In The Current Construction Marketplace, at the free
-
Date
No plans for missiles at base
THE Government has moved to quash claims that America may be allowed to site interceptor missiles at RAF Fylingdales. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram has written to North Yorkshire County Council leader John Weighell, following a plea from Coun Weighell
-
Date
Preview: Colour of Fire - The Junction, York November 29
COLOUR Of Fire release A Pearl Necklace For Her Majesty as their new single through Riverman Music on November 29. The second single to be lifted from their August debut album Pearl Necklace, this sleazy anthem with crunching guitars and trademark interchanging
-
Date
Robinson blow, but Davis targets return
York City have been hit by a major blow with striker Paul Robinson ruled out for a month. The forward returned to training last week from his hamstring injury only to break down shortly before the ill-fated visit of Forest Green. Now, new City boss Viv
-
Date
Drastic measures
Two initiatives have been announced today to ensure drinkers are aware that their favourite tipples are getting bigger and stronger. Health Reporter CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigates. WE all know that drinking and driving is not a good idea. Most of us
-
Date
You've got to trip a socket or two
THE show went on for performers at a York school play - despite a huge power cut plunging the auditorium into darkness. More than 3,300 homes were left without power between 9pm and 10.09pm last night in the Southlands area of York, following a fault
-
Date
Vaughan benefit cracker
England cricket captain Michael Vaughan announced details of his 2005 Yorkshire benefit at Headingley yesterday and revealed that one of the main attractions would be a Twenty-20 floodlit match on the Test ground between his own star-studded International
-
Date
No more tears
WHEN staff at a school heard the sounds of youngsters crying during a cookery class, they were naturally concerned. But when they rushed into the reception class at Pocklington's Montessori School, they learned it was not a spill or a burn that had the
-
Date
At the court of 'King Arthur'
FIREBRAND former miners' leader Arthur Scargill told a York audience last night that the closure of the Selby pit has shut the door on a source of wealth for the region. The honorary president of the National Union of Miners (NUM) was in the city to mark
-
Date
Marcia prove ten times able
Marcia blasted their way clear at the top of the John Smith Sunday Morning Football League first division with a 10-2 mauling of Blacksmiths Arms who are struggling to find their feet in the top sector. Mark Ford was the main contributor as he fired in
-
Date
Memorial bench thrown on fire
VANDALS have destroyed a memorial bench to a York man who starved to death because of an obsessive eating disorder. The parents of Jonathan Moir today said they were "appalled" after the bench was ripped from the ground and callously thrown on to a smouldering
-
Date
'Pool play part in plan for park
PARK life will be the prime consideration for York Rugby Union Club when they entertain Hartlepool on Saturday. It's not simply a case of the York ranks enjoying home advantage at their Clifton Park stronghold. For besides trying to maximise their expected
-
Date
Crash survivor is coming home
JORDAN bus crash survivor Graham Haslam is expected to return to York on Saturday after doctors in the Middle Eastern country give him the all clear. The retired Methodist minister and tour leader lost his wife, Margaret, 70, when their coach was involved
-
Date
Spotlight on a dying habit
SMOKING was blamed today for close on a third of deaths in York and North Yorkshire, and almost as many in East Yorkshire. The grim statistic emerged in a shocking new Government-commissioned study into the human cost of smoking. The Health Development
-
Date
Bricklayer
Experienced Bricklayer required for high quality hardwood conservatory bases. Top rates paid to right applicant. Aurora Conservatories, The Old Station, Naburn, York. Tel: 01904 631234. Updated: 09:38 Friday, November 12, 2004
-
Date
Dental Nurse
Experienced or Trainee dental nurse required for modern expanding dental practice. Contact York 422918. Updated: 09:35 Friday, November 12, 2004
-
Date
Care Home vacancies
Four Seasons Health Care. South Park Care Home. Gale Lane, York YO24 3HX. Assistant Cook required part time. RGN/RMN required part time. Care Assistants required full/part time Days/Nights. Laundry Assistant part time. Evening Domestic part time. Contact
-
Date
Waiter/ess
Permanent part or full time. Waiter/ess. Must be over 18. Good hourly wage plus tips. Includes weekends. Heworth Court Hotel 01904 425156. Updated: 09:23 Friday, November 12, 2004
-
Date
Office Administrator
Office Administrator required to assist part-time in a busy general office of an electronics firm. Requirements: numeracy, good organisational skills, flexible and mature personality, computer literacy, administration experience. Please apply in writing
-
Date
Sorters (various shifts)
Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Sorters (various shifts). Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement, York
-
Date
Preview: The Exalted Feminine, Adze Gallery, York until December 23
MOVE over lads' mags. Adze Gallery, in York, has an eye for the girls and a passion for the female form in The Exalted Feminine, a new exhibition of painting and printing. This selling show of erotic and nude paintings, drawings and etchings by four British
-
Date
No to people's parliament
ACCORDING to folklore born deep in the mists of time, the way household pets and wild animals behave can indicate impending good or bad luck. In the United States of America for instance, a black cat crossing the road is considered terribly bad luck.
-
Date
Rock-steady
MAZDA has launched an uprated range of its B-Series pick-up trucks. The B-Series 4x4 double cab Barracuda, available from October, carries a price tag of £16,000, and replaces the RAP Cab 4-Action and the Double Cab 4-Action and 4-Style models. Barracuda
-
Date
Swiv's seven
Alex Lloyd finds that Selby has all the best tunes this weekend. SELBY is the place to be this weekend with the launch of a new monthly dance night, R3tox. A mix of techno, progressive, house and breaks, R3tox makes its debut at Club Seven, in Ousegate
-
Date
Work together to prevent this development
LIKE Coun D'Agorne (Letters, November 6), I welcome Coun Aspden to the all-party campaign against the proposed Connaught Court Development, albeit late. I too would encourage residents to write to the council planning department to voice their objections
-
Date
Declining service
GREEN Express Railtours have run special trains for 16 years from the north of England and rely on the postal network to serve our passengers. Over the first 15 years, I always defended the service provided by the Post Office; weighing up the number of
-
Date
Unfair system
IN response to Anne Wilcox's question (Letters, October 30), the reason why the council can legally (although not fairly) harass Fiona Coleman over council tax is because most student houses are let on joint tenancy agreements. So all tenants are liable
-
Date
Fuming away
I APPRECIATE Mr Wilkinson's concern with the authorities' lack of action over the York litter problem (Letters, November 8). Perhaps the very falling of the autumn leaves may well annoy him. Litter is visible - consider instead the insidious, health damaging
-
Date
So much moaning
ARE we not as a nation becoming a load of moaners? Take the hunt lobby: "I will break the law and go to prison". What kind of message does this give to the young of today? Taking up valuable police time and our money, they are not the only group of workers
-
Date
Dancing days
I AGREE with Joan Roberts (Letters, November 4). I used to attend Mary Mac's School of Dancing on Bishopthorpe, York. They were good times and Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday night is also a favourite TV programme of mine. Besides Mary Mac's, a lot
-
Date
Generally polite
ALTHOUGH I am not a customer of any of the Park & Ride services, I was surprised to read David Walkden's complaints of mis-management. In general, the normal First bus services through Haxby are excellent, with courteous drivers (Letters, November
-
Date
Here's hoping for more
Jo-ann Hodgson reports on a musical high at the university. MONDAY night at York University witnessed a strange and rare sight, a near empty Vanburgh college bar. Not surprisingly, this wasn't due to the fact that everyone was busy working in the library
-
Date
Racing retreat
THE odds have been slashed on one of York's most historic homes opening its doors to Royal Ascot racegoers. Council chiefs looking at ways to make extra cash from the Mansion House, the city's plush civic property, are jumping on the Ascot bandwagon.
-
Date
Review: The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, York Theatre Royal, until November 27
AN old Morris Minor is sinking into the ground outside their windswept cottage in the Connemara hills. The picture of the Kennedys is fading on the kitchen wall. Old Mag Folan (Tessa Worsley) is sinking too, possessive and fearful of being alone on the
-
Date
Preview: Gary Wilmot, My Kind Of Music, Grand Opera House, York, November 14
ENTERTAINER Gary Wilmot had a gap in his diary. "I was chatting with my musical director and dear friend, Mike Alexander, and I said 'Look, I'm finishing in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and panto's coming up later, but I've got three months to fill. Shall
-
Date
Preview: Boothby Graffoe, Grand Opera House, York, November 13
Introducing... surreal comedian Boothby Graffoe, still in recovery from fleeing the Kings Of Comedy reality TV show. Kings Of Comedy? I've got to be honest, I didn't see it. "Good! Well done. You're not alone. If you missed it on C4 and E4, there were
-
Date
Preview: Mother Goose, Harrogate Theatre, November 26 to January 8
HARROGATE Theatre has a new dame for this season's pantomime. Adam Stafford takes on the title role in Mother Goose from November 26 to January 8, stepping in to the boots of gangling Scotsman Alan McMahon after six years. McMahon, who had built up a
-
Date
Kitchen Porter
YO1 Fossgate, York requires Kitchen Porter 20-24 hours. Apply Emma Sherbourne 01904 674824. Updated: 09:49 Friday, November 12, 2004
-
Date
Traffic Clerk
ANC North Yorkshire, York Road Distribution Centre, Flaxby, Knaresborough. Due to continued expansion ANC North Yorkshire has the following vacancy. Traffic Clerk required to organise distribution. For further information please contact Chris on 01423
-
Date
Marcia prove ten times able
Marcia blasted their way clear at the top of the John Smith Sunday Morning Football League first division with a 10-2 mauling of Blacksmiths Arms who are struggling to find their feet in the top sector. Mark Ford was the main contributor as he fired in
-
Date
Bishops' Broadbent bags brace
THERE'S no stopping class and two more goals for veteran Broadbent helped Bishopthorpe to a 5-0 win over Real Way Station to keep them top of division three. Fulford kept the pressure on with a 5-1 win at The Five Lions with Jonathan Sutton scoring twice
-
Date
Clayton-tastic
On-loan Harrogate Town hitman Clayton Donaldson has been named as the Nationwide North player of the month after getting 34 per cent of the website vote. A delighted John Reed praised the accolade as good for both the player and the club after becoming
-
Date
Chris comeback on hold as Malt face test
SOMETHING has got to give in the North Two East showdown tomorrow between Wes-toe and Malton and Norton. Both teams have the same points tally from promising starts to the campaign with Westoe just shading second spot in the division by virtue of points
-
Date
Crying off
THEY look like they are preparing to become the youngest boys ever to swim the channel. In fact, the goggle-eyed trio in our photograph are simply readying themselves for cookery class. Tricky business, dicing an onion. Even hard-hearted restaurant chefs
-
Date
Watts a lot of heroes
LEGENDARY York player Basil Watts will be lauded tomorrow as one of the British heroes who won the first-ever rugby World Cup - exactly half a century after the feat was achieved. It will be 50 years to the day that Great Britain triumphed in the final
-
Date
Scientists in funding plea
SCIENTISTS at York University, who have developed a revolutionary tool for examining the nature of matter, are calling for just £250,000 to move from prototype to production. Already the innovative technology which could shake up the 25.4 billion dollar
-
Date
Preview: Alistair Griffin, Grand Opera House, York, November 16
Just A Quickie with... Alistair Griffin, former York busker, Fame Academy runner-up and 2004 chart star from Castleton, Whitby, who plays the Grand Opera House, York, on Tuesday. You have just finished touring Germany with The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, who
-
Date
Preview: Getting the blues in Pocklington
Pocklington Arts Centre and the European Blues Association are linking up for the annual Acoustic Blues Weekend of workshops, jams and performances later this month. Running from November 26 to 28, the programme opens with Friday classes from 1pm to 5pm
-
Date
Preview: John Martyn, Grand Opera House, York, Thursday, November 18
Name: John Martyn, Occupation: Folk rock veteran, incurable romantic, innovative guitarist and singer with distinctive slur and growl. Five-decade career spanning folk, blues, jazz, reggae, trip-hop and funk Where, when and why in York next week: Grand
-
Date
Preview: Jazz notes
Guitarist John Etheridge concludes his Northern tour tonight at Wakefield Jazz. He will be joined by tenor saxophonist Ed Jones. Ben Crosland and Dave Tyas complete the dynamic quartet, more details from 01977 680542. The Shire Hall in Howden is the place
-
Date
Preview: Coming up
WIZZ Jones brings his battered old guitar cases to York for the seventh time on Thursday in an early highlight of the Winter Warmers season at the Black Swan Folk Club. This pioneer of the British acoustic guitar scene in the 1960s turned 65 this year
-
Date
Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, Running time: 107 mins Certificate: 15 **
RENEE Zellweger has porked up again, stuffed-shirt Colin Firth and handsome cad Hugh Grant are back, and so are the jokes about big bums and dodgy Christmas jumpers, and Bridget's three comic stooges. The only surprise is the choice of director, the formerly
-
Date
Review: Ladies In Lavender, Running time: 104 mins Certificate: PG ****
AS chance would have it, Charles Dance came across William J Locke's short story Ladies In Lavender in a book being used to dress the set of a film he was making in Prague. Dance set about adapting the story of symbiotic spinster sisters in a Cornish
-
Date
Review: Coffee And Cigarettes. Running time: 96 mins Certificate: 15 ***
COFFEE And Cigarettes is a film about coffee and cigarettes, shot in black and white, black for coffee, white for cigarettes. Chances are, in this ban-happy world, the pleasures of caffeine and nicotine will become forbidden sins (Coffee And Cigarettes
-
Date
No more tears
WHEN staff at a school heard the sounds of youngsters crying during a cookery class, they were naturally concerned. But when they rushed into the reception class at Pocklington's Montessori School, they learned it was not a spill or a burn that had the
-
Date
Double mission - 12/11/04
Bingley trainer Sue Smith and her husband Harvey, the former top show-jumper, never afraid to take on the big guns when the occasion demands it, stage a double-assault at Cheltenham tomorrow. Better Days runs in the £100,000 Paddy Power Gold Cup, while
-
Date
Essex for starters
YORKSHIRE begin their season next year on April 13 when they visit Chelmsford to take on Essex in the Frizzell County Championship. Although Essex will prove tough opponents as Yorkshire start their push for promotion, Craig White and his team will take
-
Date
Mums protest at crche changes
MOTHERS are protesting after a York swimming pool's much-loved crche staff were replaced by employees from the closed Barbican Centre. The mothers say their children loved attending the crche at Edmund Wilson Baths, while they went for a swim or a workout
-
Date
You've got to trip a socket or two
THE show went on for performers at a York school play - despite a huge power cut plunging the auditorium into darkness. More than 3,300 homes were left without power between 9pm and 10.09pm last night in the Southlands area of York, following a fault
-
Date
Watts a lot of heroes
LEGENDARY York player Basil Watts will be lauded tomorrow as one of the British heroes who won the first-ever rugby World Cup - exactly half a century after the feat was achieved. It will be 50 years to the day that Great Britain triumphed in the final
-
Date
Tributes to fatal car crash victim
MEMBERS of a grieving family say they have been overwhelmed by the flowers, bouquets and messages of condolence sent by Ryedale well-wishers following the loss of a beautiful young woman. The Walkers say they have been inundated by kindness after the
-
Date
Essex for starters
YORKSHIRE begin their season next year on April 13 when they visit Chelmsford to take on Essex in the Frizzell County Championship. Although Essex will prove tough opponents as Yorkshire start their push for promotion, Craig White and his team will take
-
Date
Stabbing woman is sent to prison
A JUDGE has jailed a York woman for stabbing her ex-partner and told her to seek counselling and therapy. Judge Jacqueline Davies said it was a miracle that Mark Ashworth was not seriously injured when Naomi Margaret Beavers, 25, stuck a knife into his
-
Date
Robinson blow, but Davis targets return
York City have been hit by a major blow with striker Paul Robinson ruled out for a month. The forward returned to training last week from his hamstring injury only to break down shortly before the ill-fated visit of Forest Green. Now, new City boss Viv
-
Date
Aussie Levy raring to start with Knights
CHRIS Levy has admitted he has a hard act to follow - but he is determined to deliver the goods. York City Knights' new Australian scrum-half is set to take over the number seven shirt from departed record-breaking points-machine Danny Brough. And, on
-
Date
Drivers
ANC North Yorkshire, York Road Distribution Centre, Flaxby, Knaresborough. Due to continued expansion ANC North Yorkshire has the following vacancies. Multi-Drop Driver required for the collection and delivery of parcels. Owner Drivers required for multi-drop
-
Date
Delivery Staff (6am-finish)
Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Delivery Staff (6am-finish). Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement,
-
Date
Warehouse Pickers and Packers
Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Warehouse Pickers and Packers. Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement
-
Date
Chrysler's latest PT is a winner
SINCE its launch four years ago, Chrysler's PT Cruiser has attracted many friends with its unique American hot-rod styling. Next year many more could be persuaded to join the club, because the range of PT cruisers (or Personal Transportation as the prefix
-
Date
Our post is all over the place
WHAT has happened to our postal delivery service? Here in Huntington we get posts delivered at varying times of day, one day it was 5.30pm! In the past two weeks, I have received no fewer than five letters wrongly delivered to my address, despite them
-
Date
Bored - why don't they do something positive instead?
WHENEVER I read reports of acts of mindless vandalism by young yobs, there is always a comment by some moron telling us that the little darlings are bored. If they are bored, why aren't they constructive instead of destructive? Why don't they clean the
-
Date
Bring the dogs
ONCE again the hunting season is upon us (November 8). So if like me you are aroused by butchering foxes, join me in the big hunt. As you all know, these pests have been hunting our farm animals. As they are the only mammals on this planet that kill animals
-
Date
Ignored again
I READ with dismay your article "Sixth Park & Ride site to be chosen" (November 3). Once again the council's officers appear to be determined to ignore the views of those most affected. The people of Poppleton, at the ward consultation meeting in
-
Date
Seeking Dijon
TOYING with the idea of visiting Dijon, I seemed to remember that there was once something called "The Dijon Exchange" whereby York's young adults (they were still referred to as children in those benighted days) were packed off to France to apologise
-
Date
The ticket trap
FOR the past three weeks I have used the castle car park on an evening. The ticket machines will not accept resident user so I've had to pay full price, ("Just the ticket", Letters November 9). I reported this fact, and also how dark it is near these
