Traffic wardens in North Yorkshire are being issued with stab-proof vests as part of a drive to protect police across the force. The force decided to include the county's 27 wardens as well as regular front-line police officers when it ordered protective
Joseph Rowntree and Burnholme are to replay their Under-16 play-off semi-final after deciding not to resort to a penalty shoot-out following a 6-6 draw after extra-time. After the game finished 4-4 in normal time, in the first half of extra-time Joseph
Skipper Tony Barras is expected to take another step along the road to recovery by figuring in the starting line-up for York City reserves at home to Rochdale tonight (7pm). Barras began training on Monday after being sidelined for more than two weeks
In the week that new rates bills come into effect, business people in North Yorkshire are being urged: "Avoid the cowboy business rates advisers." The warning comes from Charles Partridge, rating spokesman for the Yorkshire branch of the Royal Institution
York Rugby League Club are fighting against an injury backlog ahead of their double headed start to the second division season. Coach Dean Robinson fears a lengthy list of casualties could turn into a crisis if the Wasps suffer more injury woe in Friday's
Wacky pub landlord Brian Eaton is definitely in the driving seat when it comes to bringing a smile to his punters' faces. For the former pig farmer not only has a collection of weird and wonderful cars but also more than 100 toy pigs. And the latest addition
A York mother has been waiting two years for the Child Support Agency to obtain maintenance for her daughter. Michelle Johnson still appears no nearer to receiving the money from her ex-husband, five months after agency chief executive Faith Boardman
The next Lord Mayor of York, already forgoing the splendour of the Mansion House for sixth months while it is renovated, faces another change to tradition. Mayor Making Day, in May, when the incumbent hands over the chains of office to his successor at
York is set to move into a golden age of employment after the dark days of the early 1990s. York Job Centre is bracing itself to meet the demands of retailers for hundreds of workers as huge retail parks open up at Monks Cross and Naburn later this year
An Iranian man with a delicate male problem offered to pay a York businessman for a cure - with a giant sack of nuts. But the hapless chap's love life stayed limp because European Union bosses have banned the exportation of pistachios from Iran. Lothario
Former York City striker Ian Kenneth Blackstone was today told to pay £3,500 compensation to the fellow professional footballer whose leg he broke during a match. Judge Linda Sutcliffe at York Crown Court also ordered the 34-year-old to do 120 hours'
Shepherd Engineering Services, the York-based building company, has received the prestigious 1997 safety award from the British Safety Council to add to its clutch of similar prestigious safety awards over the past two years. The firm, based at Mill Mount
Space age parking means getting two cars parked in the space of one. This astonishing innovation using a ramp-and-tilt system is being manufactured with the help of Malton company Ward Building Components Ltd. Designed and produced by Andy Speechley of
Racing by Tom O'Ryan Mungo Park, runner-up to Westcourt Magic at Newcastle last week, can go one better at Musselburgh tomorrow. This Lynda Ramsden-trained sprinter is not the easiest of horses to win with, but the Radio Forth FM Handicap will give him
It was a pleasure for HGV driver Simon Freeman to receive a traffic ticket from North Yorkshire Police. Chief Inspector David Short was presenting Simon with a far less punitive certificate - his award as North East Tanker Driver of the Year. Simon, 32
Selby, runners-up in last year's Pocklington Sevens, will be bidding to go one step further in the competition on Good Friday. The men from Sandhill Lane are late replacements for Goole in the 40th staging of the event. Although the rugby union authorities
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Education chiefs at the City of York Council have launched a city-wide recruitment drive to help fill a shortfall in school governors. The city needs about 90 new governors if local schools are to have their full complement of around 1,000 - meaning the
A Safeway store in York which plans to start goods deliveries on Sundays and late at night is on a collision course with local Christians who fear church services will be disturbed. The Acomb Christian Fellowship is objecting to Safeway's proposal, but
A York man was killed in a car smash on the B1224 York to Wetherby road. The force of the collision was so great that the engine of the 20-year-old's Peugeot 306 was thrown clear of his car, and flying debris damaged five other vehicles. The fatal accident
by Caroline Barratt, David Martin and Mike Laycock North and East Yorkshire were hit today by a wave of jobs gloom and anger. More than 150 workers facing redundancy at the doomed Dewhirst clothing factory at NORTON launched a bitter attack on the company
