Process Combustion is the first firm to move into new premises on extra land released last year on the Hornbeam Business Park, Harrogate. There is now room to take on 20 more people over the next two years. The £4 million turnover manufacturer of bespoke
Mantra for better yield with barley An average 29 per cent yield increase across 21 varieties on winter barley has been achieved by using the strobilurin fungicide Mantra at one of the largest replicated trails sited near York. The fungicide was applied
by Tom O'Ryan Malton trainer Brian Rothwell, who does so well with his small string, can be among the winners at Haydock tomorrow. Rothwell, who is based at Colin Tinkler's Musley Bank yard, saddles Jacobina in the Lincoln Mild Cigars Handicap and Kevin
Rising former York Rugby League Club star Damian Ball may be poised for a dream Super League move. A trio of top flight clubs - headed by reigning champions Bradford Bulls - are understood to be tracking the 23-year-old's progress. Ball has impressed
York City were today waiting to hear if they had been successful in their bid to sign Airdrie winger Gordon Connelly. The Diamonds board met last night to discuss City's offer which is believed to fall short of the Scottish First Division club's £100,000
Tyke on the mike Tony Loffill is the new voice of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The Heslington cricket enthusiast's voice is the one all Yorkshire supporters now hear over the public address system at Headingley and Scarborough and he will be action
Councils may soon be allowed to introduce road-pricing to help deter car use. Regional chartered surveyors' leader Tony Lightly explains how the measure may harm the economic well-being of cities like York. York is one of the most beautiful cities in
A group of aboriginal artists stopped off in York on their way to visit Whitby, the home port of Captain James Cook. They travelled to York by train from London and then switched to a minibus to transport them through Ryedale and across the North York
York's hopes of a merry Christmas today won a triple boost. The Lord Mayor, determined to light up the city centre with its best-ever display of illuminations, received a £1,500 donation from York rail freight wagon manufacturers Thrall Europa. Traders
North Yorkshire police have strongly defended their refusal to publish reports into the handling of the Harrogate sexual discrimination scandal. Assistant Chief Constable Paul Kernaghan says the reports by Nottinghamshire Chief Constable Colin Bailey
A York florist is planning a massive flower festival for the city's Millennium celebrations. Robert Hale, proprietor of Faunus The Florist in Walmgate hopes to call a public meeting next month to set up an organising committee. Mr Hale, a former market
Patients on NHS waiting lists could be operated on at a private hospital in York to meet tough Government targets on waiting lists. But it emerged today the move could cost the taxpayer, as the operations might be more expensive than those carried out
Shocked councillors have ordered the demolition of a development dubbed a "shanty town" in the heart of York. Planners who viewed the site from a nearby house after a complaint from a tenant found accommodation packed into a rear garden covered in sheets
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Just as it made its bid to become the Evening Press Business Venture of the Year, a Stillington building firm has earned a top Government award for energy efficiency for one of its housing developments in York. Harvest Homes (Yorkshire) Ltd, based at
Andrew Wood, a former British Rail manager at York, is more than an ideas man. He knows how to inspire other people to come up with brainwaves. More even than that, he helps them to convert those ideas into money-saving, cash-earning reality. It is more
Flower power of the 1990s is in the safe hands of Robert Hale, owner of Faunus in Walmgate, York, the man for whom business is growth and growth is business. Ever since his flower shop was shortlisted in last year's Evening Press business competition
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Football intelligence officers will be mingling in the crowd at the Headingley Test match tomorrow to weed out any known soccer hooligans who may be bent on causing trouble during the big showdown between England and South Africa, writes David Warner.
If you are interested in any of the following contracts, contact the Business Link Information Centre at Business Link North Yorkshire Ltd, Arabesque House, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO3 9GZ, Tel: 01904 686000. France-Roanne: All aboard! The
Headingley has been the setting for a few Test milestones in its time and until the last ten years or so was one of the few grounds where England could count on a better than even chance of victory. Of late however there has been a disturbing trend. Defeats
Darren Gough is razor-sharp for the fifth and final Test starting at Headingley tomorrow, having just honed his skills to a fine edge with a match winning five for 36 in Yorkshire's game at Worcester - his most outstanding analysis for two years. The
Furious market traders in York have hit out at City of York Council claiming they gave preferential treatment to French traders who set up a continental market in Parliament Street. Traders from York's Newgate Market say they themselves are never allowed
Some of York's biggest tourist attractions could be shut down by strike action during the key August Bank Holiday, a union leader warned today. Staff from the Castle Museum, Yorkshire Museum, York Story and City Art Gallery are set to hold a strike ballot
