I love my bike. OK, perhaps I love football more, but my bike - well, it's the one relaxation I really try and keep. I'm especially keen on summer bike rides which end outside a pub when the sun sets. Ahhhh, now there is one southern luxury I have to
Memories of abandoned Romanian babies and desperate mothers with nowhere to turn are likely to stay with York social worker Sally Bourton for the rest her life. Sally Bourton, foreground, with Romanian visitors, from left, Anna-Maria Dogaru, Oatu Adriana
Major Bell, winner of the Great Yorkshire Chase at Doncaster just over a month ago, returns to Town Moor tomorrow with an excellent chance of picking up another sizeable prize. The £20,000 Pertemps Grimthorpe Handicap Chase, is the target for Alistair
Minster mite James Turley stands red-alert primed for York City's long haul to Bristol Rovers. James Turley The teenage scoring scourge of the intermediates team, who have powered to the last 16 of the FA Youth Cup, will be drafted into the senior squad
A York family has been ordered to tear down a teenager's recreation room after neighbours complained about its size. The structure that has got the neighbours talking The room, added to the top of a garage and workshop being built in the garden of a house
A devastated York girl was today coming to terms with being told she is the ONLY pupil at her school who will be separated from her friends by being sent to a different secondary school. Lynne Lumley and her daughter Kelly, aged 11, of Grange Street,
A tribute to ABB coach workers is to be sited at the newly-regenerated Holgate Park site, in York. The City of York Council has added £30,000 to £80,000 of private cash to pay for the £110,000 public art project which will commemorate the coach workers
A six-foot python was on the loose today somewhere in York after deciding to leave the comfort of his cage to sample the delights of the city. The slippery character, called Clark, made the bid for freedom from his home on Park Crescent, while his owner
I have followed with interest the story of the Tarmac plant that may well be imposed on the village of Hessay. This example of a profit-related imposition on a minority is an all too common occurrence. I was involved in a similar campaign some time ago
I agree with Charles Hutchinson's review of The Exorcism by Rowntree Players (Evening Press, February 26), on several points: The poor attendance... on reading the review I doubt if many more would have been encouraged to see their remaining productions
In the Evening Press Jonson Cox of Yorkshire Water promises the people of York cheaper water following the take-over of the York Waterworks Company (February 26). I find this promise very difficult to believe considering Yorkshire Water's track record
Surrounded by paintings, her three-year-old son, Ben, on her knee, artist Miranda Legard's life looks to an outsider exactly what it should be. Artist Miranda Legard and her son Ben, aged three. Main picture: Garry Atkinson The unseen reality is that
One to watch by Dave Stanford Jason Roberts is a Rover with some considerable pedigree. A nephew of the former England and West Bromwich Albion striker Cyrille Regis, it is hardly surprising the 21-year-old is making a name for himself in the division
In news as well as comedy, timing is everything. Trevor McDonald will still be in the ITN hotseat on Monday; Big Ben's bongs will still herald the bulletin; even his famous 'And finally' will remain. But not at 10pm. After tonight, News at Ten becomes
New Scarbrough boss Colin Addison is closing in on striker Andy Saville despite his first home game in charge being washed out. Scarborough-based Football League referee Bill Burns called off tomorrow's clash with Plymouth after a morning inspection of
In television terms, it is Antiques Roadshow meets Crimewatch UK. North Yorkshire police are displaying an Aladdin's cave of stolen property with the aim of matching item with owner. When the doors open later this month, police officers, insurance experts
York's second biggest employer and the UK's largest insurer will be at the forefront of the new era of English cricket, writes Dave Stanford. Orange order: Leeds and Bradford airport employee Mark Clingo, dressed in Victorian cricket garb, joins Yorkshire
A police hero who chased and captured a gunman who had already blasted a man with a sawn-off shotgun is to receive a top award for bravery. North Yorkshire man Stephen Bentley, a constable with Greater Manchester Police for the last five years, kept up
Scores of seaside landladies got together to tuck into a traditional British breakfast. Landlady Val Lee and Ready Steady Cook chef Patrick Anthony promote the Great British Breakfast at Scarborough to highlight the British Meat Quality Standard. Picture
Nestl UK is to sponsor the York Millennium Mystery Plays education programme to the tune of £50,000. Scarcroft School pupils, top to bottom, Kaha Dobbinson, Miriam Burr and Calum Beattie at today's launch. Picture by Garry Atkinson The sponsorship deal
The leader of City of York Council, Coun Rod Hills, has accused North Yorkshire Police Authority of wasting a million pounds of taxpayers' money on sexual discrimination and harassment compensation claims. Coun Hills was accused of using his speech at
Crime victims robbed of treasured keepsakes and costly antiques could be reunited with their treasures through a new venture between a leading York employer and the North Yorkshire police. Specialist investigator Michael Frost, left, and Supt Jim Kilmartin
