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
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
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Make or break, do or die, now or never - whichever way you slant it - 1998 is a crucial season for York Rugby League Club. Against the backdrop of a "first division rugby or the club folds" statement from the board, coach Dean Robinson has the task of
Novice exporters should make the countries of northern Europe like Holland, Denmark and Ireland their first choice, top exporter Iain Dale has advised York business bosses. Mr Dale, former chairman of Dale Electric, which sold massive generators world-wide
Health chiefs in York and North Yorkshire have pledged cancer patients who need to travel to Leeds for treatment will still get a top-quality service despite a hitch in plans for a new £60 million cancer unit in Leeds to replace Cookridge Hospital. The
A record Easter getaway was starting today as holidaymakers began jetting abroad to escape an icy snap at home. Travel agents in York said there were practically no foreign holidays left to sell, and Manchester Airport was predicting it would handle an
A York schoolgirl's dash for a bus almost ended in disaster when she was confronted by a loose bull. The hapless teenager was flung over a hedge by the beast - but she escaped with just a few bumps and bruises. Jennifer Train's terrifying ordeal began
A farming museum in York could close and ambitious plans for a centre dedicated to the engineer of the 'bouncing bomb' could go on hold under city council plans to slash rate relief, it was claimed today. The Yorkshire Museum of Farming at Murton, near
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
Coach Dean Robinson and his squad have been charged with surmounting a success-seeking seven to secure their future as a professional club. The second division was reduced to eight teams during the close season after Prescot Panthers folded, Carlisle
Dean Robinson - 39, head coach. Now in his second year as York coach, having led the side to seventh in the second division last season. Ex-Wakefield Trinity player who has coached the British Police side for the last three and a half years, leading successful
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
New Earswick Swimming Club are celebrating a first ever Yorkshire championship being won by one of their members. Victoria Clapham, 15, struck gold in the Under-16 section 100m backstroke at the Yorkshire Championships at Leeds International Pool. And
York Rugby League Club today refused to place their future in the hands of the Super League. Rugby Football League bosses have been accused of "selling out" to Super League clubs in the latest move in the game's power struggle. RFL chief executive Neil
Heavy rain in recent days has led to this year's Middleton point-to-point race meeting at Whitwell-on-the-Hill being abandoned. David Brotherton, the race secretary, said it had been hoped that about 100 horses would participate in the six races scheduled
Council planning chiefs faced a grilling over plans for a hostel in a residential street, at a meeting in the Groves, York. City landlord Geoff Laverack, who owns several properties in Eldon Street, in the Groves, has applied for planning permission to
Furious residents staged a showdown with councillors over plans to build 23 houses in the heart of a historic village near York. Locals at Copmanthorpe are up in arms over a scheme to develop land near the village green into 23 homes with parking for
