FALLIBILITY among foes preserved Scarborough's Division Three standing after they tumbled at Rochdale to their heaviest defeat of the season. The Seasiders shipped four goals for the first time this campaign but held on to fifth place as the same pointless
ONE of York Rugby Union Club first team's consistent features in this disappointing season has been their very inconsistency.From an impressive start when they topped the league - there have been great displays - punctuated by thoroughly indifferent performances
THE first silverware of the local amateur rugby league season fell to York Acorn 'A' as they defeated Selby Warriors 22-0 in the York and District Accident Cup final. The Blue and Golds second string lifted the trophy to emulate their senior side, who
NO-ONE would think an iceberg could sneak up on anything. But it's getting perilously frosty around York City. The air is beginning to chill and if minds and hearts do not stay alert then an almighty impact is on the horizon. If that collision does occur
Thousands of volunteers will be cleaning up North Yorkshire this month as part of the Tidy Britain Group's National Spring Clean. As they pick up litter and smarten up the county, other volunteers will be passing through on a marathon eco-friendly relay
A SCHEME to build a new sports pavilion and three floodlit all-weather pitches in a Ryedale village looks set to be approved by planners. Heslerton Sports Club also proposes to create a new vehicular access and car park area at the existing sports field
MOTHER-and-son lottery winners Kay and Andy Kirby are rejecting a luxury lifestyle to set up an open-all-hours family shop in York. The lucky twosome have sunk their share of a £2.1 million syndicate win into the new business in Acomb. And they are now
AFTER Good Friday's deluge you would have thought things could only get better. In fact, they only got wetter. April showers gave way to snowstorms and Easter turned from a washout to a white-out. And still the ever-faithful British holidaymaker headed
VILLAGERS who clubbed together to pay for a permanent memorial to York car accident victim Dean Kneeshaw were today thanked for their generosity by his girlfriend Vicky Ryan. Villagers in Stillington, where 26-year-old Dean and Vicky spent much of their
RESIDENTS as old as 100 were carried from a North Yorkshire nursing home today as fire took hold on the top floor. Nurse John Williams, 35, raced against time to carry his charges, aged between 90 and 100, down three flights of stairs to safety before
VILLAGERS in North Yorkshire, who have got together to improve their area or save local services, are invited to compete for a countryside award scheme. The Village Venture scheme, organised by the independent Yorkshire Rural Community Council, is being
MULTI-MILLION pound sewage treatment schemes are being drawn up for four picturesque fishing and holiday villages on the North Yorkshire coast. Yorkshire Water says that although it does not have to complete the work at Robin Hood's Bay, Staithes, Runswick
YORK student Rebecca Craze took her dancing exams in her stride. The 16-year-old came out top of the class in a series of exams at the Susanne Naylor Dance School at Riccall, near Selby. Rebecca, who has been dancing since the age of 10, scored 1,980
TOP opera singers are to take part in a special York charity concert organised by a woman in memory of her sister. Joy Stromberg, whose sister Jacque Major died of cancer in 1994, hopes to raise thousands of pounds for York Against Cancer through the
A NORTH Yorkshire village has banned ball games on three of its housing estates following complaints from residents.Parish councillors at Barlby and Osgodby, near Selby, voted to kick balls into touch on a trial basis in The Charters, Acorn Close and
Boroughbridge emerged 2-1 winners from their top of the table clash against Huntington Rovers. Windy conditions made controlled play difficult, but Rovers were first to attack, forcing home side goalkeeper Andy Hogg to dive full length to make a save.
A RETIRED car dealer from York is to take to the driving seat as the new vicar of Norton. The Reverend Bill Ankers retired three years ago from Haws Garage in Lowther Street, York. By then the 55-year-old had already become an unpaid deacon - making him
YORK'S social services chiefs have branded a decision by a private nursing home to give its residents only a month to find new homes "scandalous." All 20 residents of Riverside Lodge Nursing Home have been told to leave the family-run home in Bishopthorpe
THE controversial Archdeacon of York has denied speculation that he is about to quit his post in frustration at the liberalisation of the Church of England. The Venerable George Austin wrote in an article in a Sunday newspaper yesterday that he had thought
