THIS terrifying arsenal of weaponry was handed into York Police Station in just one week. Incredibly, more than 30 lethal knives and swords have already been left anonymously part of a police amnesty to get the blades off our streets. Inspector Richard
A PENSIONER died after being run over by a lorry, in an horrific accident that brought the centre of York to a standstill. The terrible incident happened at about 9.40am, on Pavement, near The Golden Fleece pub. Police said the elderly woman, believed
GETTING out of bed is a lot less painful when your curtains open to a great view. Whether it's rolling hills, cows grazing in the fields, a glimpse of the village green or a cityscape view across the chimneys to York Minster, such scenes are to
SPARKLING blue seas and luxury hotels are never far from our minds when the sun begins to shine. But if you haven't got time to get away, plunge your thoughts into one of these. Craignair at East Heslerton is a three-bedroom detached bungalow
With a history of setting up sound businesses, Alex Browne is bound to become a big noise in the business world in York. Remember Alex? He scooped the Young Entrepreneur Of The Year title in the Press Business Awards in 2003. That was for the successful
WATER may be the elixir of life, but it can also be the cause of death. With that in mind Jo-Anne Travena has launched AquaJorvik Ltd in Copmanthorpe, which advises businesses on ways to minimise the risk of legionella bacteria in their water systems
MULBERRY Hall, the crystal and china specialist in York's Stonegate, has the stamp of "a thoroughly modern businessman, quietly building a successful business through old fashioned values". That is how Celia Maughan, assistant to Adam Sinclair, describes
WELCOM Software, of Harrogate, last year's winner of the Press' Progress Through People title has thrown down the gauntlet. The firm is defending its title, having continued to invest in the development of its 60 staff at The Exchange in Station Parade
NANNY knows best, but Caroline Lee, of York, knows even better. That is why Caroline has been nominated for the Women In Enterprise Award in The Press Business Awards 2006 and pitched her venture, the Caroline Lee Nanny Agency/Sunshine Day Nursery for
PAUL Cunniff quickly proved that there was more than one string to his violin bow. He used to run Acomb Traders, but the market for used electrical goods declined, with stiff competition from supermarkets and other large retailers. But his natural love
Short Skirt, an impressive winner of the Musidora Stakes at York last month, can clinch the Vodafone Oaks for Sir Michael Stoute at Epsom tomorrow. Michael Kinane again teams-up with this high-class filly who displayed a smart turn of finishing speed
IT was unlucky 13 for England captain Michael Vaughan on his Championship comeback for Yorkshire against Hampshire at Headingley yesterday. He was out for just one after facing 13 deliveries and little else went right for Yorkshire after Craig White
YORK City's Supporters' Trust board have urged members to exercise their vote with just three days left until the deadline for postal votes ahead of Tuesday's special general meeting. The Tempest Anderson Hall meeting will decide whether or not to accept
FORMER Hartlepool defender Darren Craddock has become York City boss Billy McEwan's first summer signing. Craddock, 21, impressed during a four-match loan spell at KitKat Crescent in January and February and his permanent arrival has been welcomed by
CRAIG Farrell has called for York City Knights fans to get behind the team and coach Mick Cook more than ever as they try to overcome probably the hardest period in the club's existence. Farrell joined the lengthy list on the long-term treatment table
VICTIMS of vandalism and antisocial behaviour are being urged to report every incident in a bid to secure more police support for their community. There were also calls for a dispersal order and security cameras, at a meeting of more than 40 residents
THE Government's controversial tax credit system has come under fresh attack, after new figures showed yet more multi-billion pound overpayments. York families caught up in the fiasco said the latest shocking statistics came as "no surprise". New figures
a terrifying drunk was allowed to cause mayhem in a shop because the police failed to turn up in time, a sub-postmaster has claimed. Paul Abbott, 50, who runs Micklegate Post Office, in York, said he dialled 999 four times to report the man, who was
HOME secretary John Reid is looking closely at our campaign for a change in the law over child abduction. Sara Payne's charity Phoenix Survivors revealed it was handing him a dossier of information about our case for a new offence of stranger kidnap.
QUESTIONS about the relocation of York's Peasholme Centre for the homeless will be raised when an open day is held next Thursday. City of York Council is inviting local residents, interested groups and individuals along to the organisation to meet staff
FOR the last ten years, Linda Bowes has been unable to move most of her body after she was struck down by a debilitating illness. She was diagnosed with dystonia, which causes sustained muscle spasms, leaving her in a wheelchair and unable to feed, dress
WILL the York firm which has accelerated the high-tech interactive television revolution press all the right buttons for the judges in The Press Business Awards 2006? JDA Centrescreen, of Church Lane, Skelton, which is at the cutting edge of the rapidly
FIRST details of a new high-tech product to make conferences more effective have been unveiled by the York communications consultancy The Morrice Partnership. Called Connected Conferences, the software allows everyone involved in a conference to link
HIGH-tech firm Mitrefinch is setting out to prove yet again its prowess in The Press Business Awards 2006. In 2004, as well as last year, the time and attendance specialist in Clifton Moor, York, scooped the technology title. Now its 90 employees hope
A SISTER act has found that the secret to business success is to be found on the buses. Elaine Davies and Diane Seymour run York vintage tour company Yorkshire Belles, having started doing tours of York in 1994, in their 1961 London Bus. Their father
TWO women who set up a North Yorkshire home care business employing 60 people and with nearly 200 clients have not always been taken seriously. Alison Farrant and Ann Wyatt co-founded Independent Home Living in Scarborough, which offers personal care
It's a Mixd marriage of sorts - and it's a good one. It happened when Phil Shackleton, 28, and Mike Danford, 38, got together to form Mixd, a digital design consultancy, in Northallerton. They had a lot in common. Both were graduates of York College
JUST two years ago, York's Woodlands MS Resource And Respite Care Centre scooped the Progress Through People title in the Press Business Awards. Now the 24 full-time, 50 part-time and 20 bank staff are rooting for centre manager, Paula Rawding - the
VICTIMS of a terrorist attack are discovered dead or dying on the London Underground. Emergency services fear that this is a man-made virus attack. It is crucial to know instantly which virus. So they bring out "the box", amazing new technology which
MAYBE it's just as well that lawyers objected to Chris and Emma Watkins' new hotel in York being dubbed The Black Cat the nickname of Sunderland AFC. After all, the name failed to bring the team any luck last season. But the hotel's new feline-like
IT expert Chris Wiggins noticed how Internet prices for DVDs dropped over time after their release. Chris, of York, began to wonder about the trend. At what point do they stop going down? When was the right time to buy? His experimental computer programme
KEEP your eye on the expanding balloon as it rises ever higher. The Balloon Tree Farm Shop and Cafe, at Gate Helmsley, won the New Business Of The Year title in 2004, then proved it was the one to watch last year when it scooped the overall title of
A FANCY international film star strolled into the Fancy Dance shop in Micklegate, York. Actress Emma Thompson's, actor husband Greg Wise who hails from York he was a former pupil of St Peter's School whooped and giggled with a female pal as she tried
WHEN Cads meet Femmes Fatales expect excitement. That is what happened to husband and wife, David and Valerie Smith, when his hairdressers, called Cads, combined with her salon, dubbed Femmes Fatale, in Fossgate, York. Now the businesses, which are
SELINA SCOTT chose to sock her new product to the public with the help of a North Yorkshire firm. The former Clothes Show presenter relied on 9xb, a two-year-old web development firm in Knaresborough to set up and manage her website to sell mohair socks
HAVING won the title of Large Business Of The Year in 2005, the CPP Group Plc, one of York's biggest employers, is now setting its sights on the Best Business And Education Link accolade in The Press Business Awards, 2006. The Holgate Park company has
ONE of North Yorkshire's most beautiful stately homes is going green. The Castle Howard estate covers 10,000 acres in an area of outstanding natural beauty in the shadow of the Howardian Hills and the estate's staff are proud of their unique environment
WOMEN who commission work from Jacey Lamerton's handmade handbags company, Alfie Sixpence, don't have to flip a coin and hope. Jacey, who works from her home in Kelfield, says: "With the bespoke bags, individual clients contact me to create a bag to
IT'S a big hotel brand, generating big business in a big way and it is entering the Large Business Of The Year category in The Press Business Awards 2006. It is Best Western, the York-based umbrella organisation for 300 hotels throughout England, Scotland
AFTER massive growth this year, Hunters, the York-based estate agency is poised to "write its name in the sky". That is one of the stated company strategies listed in its bid to become Growth Business Of The Year in The Press Business Awards 2006. If
AS a man of the land, former Easingwold beef farmer David Campbell knows how to work with nature. That, coupled to his entrepreneurial spirit, has led him to runaway success. Now he has a chance to prove that, in deed as well as on paper, his credentials
HE is the man who brought sin, sin, sin, dec, sin to the streets of York. That is the Latin marching cry of Keith Mulhearn, of Roamin' Tours of York, as he leads his legions of schoolchildren around the city. His "left, left, left, right, left" marshals
TWO women who set up a North Yorkshire home care business employing 60 people and with nearly 200 clients have not always been taken seriously. Alison Farrant and Ann Wyatt co-founded Independent Home Living in Scarborough, which offers personal care
IT was a case of fighting wire with WiRE. When Sarah Manby's dog accessory business went to the wire, it was saved by WiRE Women in Rural Business. Sarah's venture, Mango Mutt, based at her home in Wayside Avenue, Harrogate, and inspired by Murphy,
GREAT things bloom out of tough times, particularly when you follow your dreams. Single mother Jo Purdy, of Scarborough, discovered this when she was unemployed and decided to change from her old career as a social worker and take a foundation degree
FOR Denise Howard, her new venture, Smilesallround, did exactly what it said on the tin. In its first three months, the estate agency in Fossgate, York, took more than 50 new instructions, with 13 sales going through. No wonder Denise and her staff,
WHEN it comes to exciting a whole new generation in Selby about the making of glass, St-Gobain has proved its class. That was endorsed in 2004 when Saint-Gobain Glass UK in Eggborough won the Best Business and Education Link title in our Press Business
SOME people follow, but others lead - and graphic designer Gavin Lewis, of York, led where others dared not follow. He was the only one of 40 graduates from a graphic design course at Teesside who had the confidence, bravery and faith in his own work
A LAD who left school at 16 to pursue a career in the building industry is now, at 39, in charge of his own rapidly-expanding joinery firm in York with a turnover of more than £800,000. What is more, Andrew Harris, managing director and founder of Direct
JANE Tyler and her RedBlack Software company of York are on a roll. You could even say a hot roll. So much so, that her name has been put forward as a potential Business Personality Of The Year in The Press Business Awards 2006 - and her company is pitching
EVER since she moved into a studio in a courtyard at Low Dalby Forest, Pickering, Rachel Gretton has been viewing the future through a glass brightly. Her business, Rachel Gretton Glass, has increased its client portfolio of commissions for her unusual
A TWO-year-old training provider in York has landed a blockbuster Government contract worth more than £3 million. i2i, based at the Innovation Centre at York Science Park, revealed today that it had beaten about 200 other tenderers for the three-year
ASHLEY Cooper does not just think green "but black, blue, red and yellow too", he said. As the owner of Cartridge World shop at Clifton Green, York, he is explaining why he is pitching for the Think Green Business Of The Year title in The Press Business
YOU have to carefully till children's minds to make fascination with vegetables grow. And Stockbridge Technology Centre, near Cawood, has been producing a bumper crop of kids with healthy appetites for both knowledge and food just lately. All the more
STANDARDS of employees for small engineering businesses in Ryedale are rapidly rising, thanks to a Malton training organisation. Derwent Training Association (DTA) offers out-of-school vocational programmes for 14 to 16-year-olds. The effect on engineering
SOMETHING was wrong. After nine years of successfully completing major projects, AVQ, the audio visual specialists at The Bull Commercial Centre in Stockton-on-the-Forest, was simply treading water. How could this be? Projects had included designing
FOR the best part of 20 years, Alice Adams enjoyed a successful career as a legal linguist. It carried her into high-pressure situations around the globe, but gave her little insight into the workings of the business world. So when Alice's partner threw
WHEN the Toucan is in full flight, it brings a lot of colour into the lives of York schoolchildren. Toucan Archive Storage on the Elvington industrial estate has set about proving to schools paper recycling can be fun and at the same time bring their
IT'S a case of safety first, second and always for a firm on the Millfield Industrial Estate, Wheldrake, which is pitching for the Small Business Of The Year title in our 2006 Press Business Awards. Voyager Safety Management Ltd began with two safety
RUTH Thompson may have had her unfair share of tragedy, but her company, Horseshoe Weddings And Events Ltd, has brought her a few dollops of luck too thanks to Posh and Becks. David and Victoria Beckham both gave the Nether Poppleton businesswoman their
THE culture of Aesthetica is filtering down to children in York. A pupil's version of Aesthetica Magazine, the quarterly York-based art and culture publication, is already wowing the nation. Called Little A Magazine, it is being run in conjunction with
STAND aside all you claret-swigging, red-faced colonels in plus-fours. Your favourite, venison, is now becoming a must on many family dinner tables. At the heart of this social revolution, shaking off the once-tweedy image of this lean meat, is Holme
STONE Soup, the York communications agency operating, as they describe it "in print, online and in person", made a worrying discovery after a year of research. Namely, they found teachers were having difficulty delivering the relatively new subject of
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular councillor, who served his community in the Selby district for more than 40 years. Coun Maurice Patrick died on Sunday, aged 72, at his home in Skipwith, after an 18-month battle against cancer. The farmer was first
IT'S been in the pipeline for nearly 18 months. Now York's plan to bring a car club to the city is finally to become a reality with a scheme up-and-running by the summer. As the latest step in City of York Council's drive to cut congestion and pollution
STAFF were left "devastated" after thieves coolly walked off from a music shop with several large instruments worth thousands of pounds. Two cellos and two expensive electric guitars have gone missing from Banks Music Ltd, in Lendal, York, since last
WARD committees which have seen their budgets slashed as part of a drive to cut back on York council spending have been given hope by the authority's leader. Coun Steve Galloway said the authority hoped it could restore some ward committee-funded improvements
Red frogs don't fear fire. So much is obvious now that the Redfrog Laundry is having to recover from its second blaze in a year on the Pocklington Industrial Estate. If resistance and hurdle-hopping has anything to do with it, then judges will seriously
WE may not be quite in the grip of a knife epidemic bringing terror to our streets, as some national newspapers would have you believe. But three fatal stabbings in two weeks is enough to raise serious concerns about our knife culture. On Tuesday,
John Reid, the new Home Secretary, is a busy man. He somehow has to sort out the shambles that is the Home Office. But while he does that, he mustn't forget his main priority: ensuring our streets are safe. The news he is taking seriously our campaign
FANTASTIC! I am responding to the article about 200 civil servants moving to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) offices in Layerthorpe, York (The Press, May 30). At york-england.com, the inward investment agency for York
AS A former member of the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT), I can understand Mr Towner (Health concerns, Readers' Letters, May 23) is a little out of touch with events surrounding that organisation. However, he really should check with his Labour
IT is pretty obvious that Mick Snowden (Simple solution, Readers' Letters, May 29), has a love affair with France. Good job Mick was born a human being, because if he had been born a snail, or a frog, or a slow racehorse, he would have found himself
I READ with interest stroke victim Dennis Allison's praise for NHS Direct in the Press (Stroke victim's NHS cuts plea, May 24). If only I had rung them when I realised my husband was having a stroke last year, instead of ringing my GP's surgery. That
FIVE for four', five for four', five for four', was printed on product bags and tickets all over our Tesco store today. It was also emblazoned across the ample bosoms of our favourite Tesco ladies as the latest marketing message designed to move
I AM a disabled passenger who uses bus services. I got on a Number 4 ftr bus, which broke down going to Rougier Street. When I did arrive there, I got on the Number 9 silver line bus as I had an appointment at Monkgate. Because the bus did not stop
I SEE the ftr controversy rumbles on with more complaints being reported (Press May 27) of late buses (sorry, ftrs) or two arriving at the same time, which I have witnessed myself on two occasions so far. But don't hold your breath waiting for Peter
I REALISED today that I am a dinosaur, probably a sad dinosaur, although I was actually quite happy. As the sun was shining (well, it was when I set off), I decided to go out to Monks Cross and the York Designer Outlet on one of my infrequent jaunts
IN response to the article Kevin aims for the Commons' (The Press, May 26). I worked with Kevin Hollinrake, of Hunters Estate Agents, when he first set off in estate agency many years ago. I have since worked for him at Hunters before I retired. This
M WARTERS complains about bus pollution (We shouldn't be wasting money on the ftr bus fiasco, Readers' Letters, May 24). Older buses used to be fairly bad, but newer buses have Euro 3 or 4 engines and are very clean. The Streetcar is powered by
SO, how do 13-year-olds obtain cannabis? (Cannabis probe at York school, The Press, May 29). The criminal supply of cannabis, supported by this Government, offers no protection for the young and the vulnerable; dealers don't ask for proof of age and,
Volunteers throughout the country are today being celebrated for their dedication. As National Volunteers' Week begins, CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL joins a York charity where volunteers make a difference to thousands. SMARTLY dressed in a suit and tie, Walter
PRESSURE from students has led the University of York to review its ethical investments policy. A group of students from the People And Planet, Amnesty International and FreeSoc societies organised a day to protest against the university's investment
RANDOM drug testing is not needed at York secondary schools, according to a head teacher in the city. Manor School head Brian Crosby said he would not welcome a national programme of random drugs testing, as there was no real need at York schools. His
IT was never entirely going to be a case of jam tomorrow when it came to task of selling doughnuts in the University of York's The Apprentice-style competition. Only half of the 40 doughnuts issued to each of the ten teams of four entrepreneurial students
Hapless motorist Stuart Minting was thankful, after his car broke down on York's Skeldergate Bridge, that the car calamity had struck on one of England's most historic river crossings. The RAC the 4th emergency service had offered reassurance, saying
Thursday, June 1, 2006 100 years ago Since money prizes were offered to owners of tram and omnibus tickets bearing certain numbers many children had placed their lives in jeopardy in attempting to collect tickets, and at least one fatal accident had
PLANNING chiefs, according to a story in this newspaper, have "given the green light" to a development on the former York Gasworks site. This prompts me to wonder if they ever give any other sort of light. No one who has kept half an eye open in York
BUSINESS confidence in Yorkshire is at its highest for more than a year, according to new research. The good news came from the latest Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) UK Business Confidence Monitor. The Monitor, backed
EVEN as the steelwork goes up on a huge multi-million pound speculative development for seven new industrial units on York Business Park, property agents are fielding serious inquiries. The response to the 30,500sq ft Nether Poppleton scheme by Evans
Using a card to buy goods or services? Do you know the relevant features of each type of card and how to decide which is the best for you? Members of City of York Trading Standards offer the following advice: Charge Cards not a credit card, as you
HOW apt that Yorkstage Musicals should pick Jekyll & Hyde for their first venture. Two creations of separate character, Shipton Theatre Company and Rowntree Musical Theatre, are occupying one body with immediate effect, and it must be hoped that, unlike
YOU will have never seen so much Ben Sherman and so many checked shirts in your life. An Ocean Colour Scene set is no longer just a gig, it's a cultural trip back in time to a world of Mods and Northern Soul. Thankfully, the band is comfortable
IT'S too easy to dismiss this band as background music for the Pizza Express/Ikea generation, or a third-class Air. Granted, second album When It Falls was an almost seamless continuation of their debut, Simple Things, but since that was near perfect
THINK of Feeder and the instantly recognisable sound of classic Just The Way I'm Feeling comes flooding to mind. But this premier trio is far more than just a one-tune outfit, and The Singles is the brilliant proof. Bringing together the best tracks
Liverpool cult survivors Shack stage something of a comeback, rescued from limbo by Noel Gallagher and seemingly free from the drugs that have made Michael and John Head's live performances so erratic over the years. On record, they are always a cut
Roddy Frame was only 16 when he formed the legendary Aztec Camera, prompting suggestions that he might be Scotland's answer to American prodigy Jackson Browne. Now, 23 years later, the comparison still holds. Frame's third solo album, Western Skies
YORKSHIREMAN Jake Thackray was a singer-songwriter in the French tradition, a "chansonnier" whose songs were, nevertheless, idiosyncratically English. After graduating from Durham University, Jake spent four years in France as a teacher where the songs
This terrifying arsenal of weaponry was handed into York Police Station in the first week of an amnesty. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
THEIR March tour had to be curtailed through singer Stephen Fleming falling ill; the album release date was put back too, but nothing can stand in the way of Cosmic Rough Riders sounding like their music has been around for ever. Their idyll remains
TWO of Americana's cornerstones, Grandaddy and Lambchop, both have a sprawling membership but each is essentially a one-man band. Kurt Wagner, leader and songwriter of Lambchop, used to fund his Nashville collective with a day job as a floor sander
A TRULY Wild show propelled North Duffield's advance to second place in the HPH York Vale Cricket League first division. The North ranks bagged a comfortable eight-wicket win at Westow led by Lee Wild. Westow totalled 120-9, Mark Earle's 41 anchoring
HPH Cup holders North Duffield could not translate their high-flying start to the league campaign into making a solid defence of their trophy. They were brought down to earth by second division opposition Ben Johnson in the first round. A solid 42
