JOHN Atkin is right, (Letters, October 5), there are cyclists who flout the Highway Code by jumping red-lights, cutting across pavements and pelican crossings, cycling the wrong way along one-way streets, through pedestrian zones, etc. But his comment
NEIL Hart completed a marvellous double by following up a recent individual title win with victory in the York Inntrepreneur League championship. Hart's quarter-final win included 16 darts against Andy Scott, and the Crystal Palace player then emerged
AN independent school is closing in on national hockey success. The Under-18s hockey team of Queen Margaret's School have won through to the county round of the British Aerospace National Schools Knock-Out. Wins against Huntington and Joseph Rowntree
YORK judo ace Rob Thomas has landed a gilt-edged German invitation to tackle a Berlin maul. Thomas, whose emphatic victory in the Welsh Open reinstated him as number one heavyweight in Britain, could soon be on his way to the former East German capital
INL Shamrocks lifted the Sam Smith's Trophy at the York CIU race walking presentations. The team, represented by Dick Cole, Mick Hodgson, Bert Angus, Rob Gilroy and Dave Long, collected the most points in the nine races throughout the season. Hodgson
A REPLICA medieval village at Murton, near York was saved from total destruction by a quick-thinking museum worker after arsonists struck early today. Simon Day, 26, and Helen Bowstead-Stallybrass, 21, both from Gloucestershire, were staying overnight
A POLICE chief today claimed a major breakthrough in the fight against York's growing heroin epidemic after drugs baron John Kane was jailed for nine years. Det Chief Insp John Lacy said: "This man is an evil drug dealer who has preyed on vulnerable people
AMID all the trouble and arguing over nurses pay, I feel we, the public, are forgetting the real issue which is the unparalleled care and commitment of British nurses. I am a sixth-form student and have recently spent four months working on voluntary
NO doubt many will take advantage of, and appreciate, the free travel offered to pensioners (Pensioners Get Free Days on the Buses, Evening Press, September 26). But what about those men aged 60 to 65, the majority of whom are not working and are effectively
EDUCATION, Education, Education or should it be Evacuation, Evacuation, Evacuation? Yet again, another nail is hammered into the coffin of Queen Anne School. Is it just me or has a hidden agenda been at work instigated by our own Labour Council? Since
The hunt is on to find former members of the York-based Yorkshire Farmers football team. Eddie Gill, who skippered the Sunday League side, which was formed in the 1960s, is organising a reunion of old players at the Clarence Gardens Hotel in Haxby Road
ONLY weeks into the National Year of Reading, we are all being chivvied to put our heads in a book. So the announcement that a giant bookstore is to open in the heart of York could not have been better timed. An American-based chain, Borders, intends
ALAN Shearer's days at Newcastle United looked numbered. The hero of the Toon Army is being chased by Italian giants Juventus, who are reported to be on the verge of a massive £18m bid. The Italian champions believe their offer will be enough to persuade
MOTORCYCLISTS from across North Yorkshire were protesting today against what they claim are misleading and inaccurate road signs which could lead to accidents. Members of the York branch of the Motorcycle Action Group donned their leathers to ride in
AN ANIMAL exporter has been fined for transporting animals on a trip of up to 16 hours without a break. F Machin and Sons, of Brandsby, near Easingwold, deliberately broke the law on trips to the south of France and would not have been granted an export
A BUILDER and his son cheated York council tax payers out of thousands of pounds by "calculated" and "repeated" fraud involving forged invoices, York Crown Court heard. But his wife's illness saved Ralph Moss from going to jail for nine months. His son
A MASSIVE new bookshop superstore, described as "a cultural community centre", is to open in York, creating 70 jobs. And the arrival of the 25,000 square foot Borders store, which comes with a caf area, could spark a books war in the city centre. Borders
A MOTHER-OF-TWO has died after almost a decade on life support equipment. The family of Jane Birdsall, from Strensall, spoke today of their sadness but also relief that she had passed away after "ten years of hell." Jane survived a horrific road accident
FIRE chiefs warned today that a York chip pan blaze could have killed six people - and urged people to get smoke alarms fitted. The blaze severely damaged the kitchen of a house in Rowntree Avenue, Kingsway North, and took firefighters half an hour to
