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  • Breast care is best

    Regarding your article (February 27) 'Patiently caring for cancer sufferers'. I would like to say I have received excellent support from hospital staff ever since my diagnosis of breast cancer in January 1998.Particularly from the oncology and the breast

  • GM food fears

    I am alarmed to read York is pioneering testing on genetically modified foods (Evening Press, February 25). It is worrying to think that testing will be happening 'on our doorstep', certainly when the level of research is not in depth. It is frightening

  • Revenge derby victory keeps Acorn hopes up

    Battling York Acorn are refusing to go down without a fight. Floored: Acorn's Kenny Embleton brings down a New Earswick player during the rugby league derby clash at Thanet Road. Picture: Mike Tipping. Passing on: Acorn's Mick Calam about to unload the

  • Rally round school

    All involved with Fulford School will have experienced a mixture of emotions when they learned about the terrible blaze there. Pupils, parents and staff are bound to be shocked and saddened by the destruction of a large part of the craft, design and technology

  • Buzzing Wasps tame Cougars

    Forget Cougarmania - the time has come for Waspmania. Constant threat: Wasps' second row Chris Judge (left) Twisted ankle: Richard Goddard York Wasps once again came up with the goods to tame Keighley Cougars and serve another warning to their Northern

  • Padded pants for pensioners to be put on trial in York

    Padded pants to protect pensioners from breaking their hips are to be put on trial in York. Ruth Hildreth research coordinator at York District Hospital with a pair of padded pants Dr Ian Watt, professor of primary care at York University, is seeking

  • Press advert leads to the perfect day

    It started with a tiny ad in the Evening Press. But today, 15 months later, love-struck Steve Burn and Janine MacKenzie began their first full day of married life together. Steve Burn and Janine Mackenzie after their wedding at the Stakis Hotel, York.

  • Up in flames

    Stunned pupils and staff stared in horror as they arrived at a York school today in time to see fire crews putting out the last flames in a gutted wing. School struggle: Orange and yellow flames light up the night as a firefighter battles to control the

  • Flooded out

    Reporting team: Sam Greenhill, Janet Hewison, Phil Chapman, Adam Nichols and Adrian Royles The skies opened, the rains came and for hundreds of residents it was the start of watery nightmare. Air and water: This striking view of the Derwent valley taken

  • Fuming over FOREST

    I wondered when I would start to see FOREST's annual snipe at No Smoking Day - the UK's highly successful and popular programme to help people who want to stop smoking. As usual, FOREST misses the point. A million people willingly have a go at stopping

  • Spare thought for pupils in school-places row

    I was saddened to see the way you reported the row over school allocations (Evening Press, March 4). Parents must by now realise that while they can exercise their preference, there can never be a guarantee that their children will enter the school of

  • Chris Titley

    Have a fag and make my day It's No Smoking Day in 36 hours, and I for one will not be touching a cigarette from dawn until dusk. This is no great hardship, as I gave up tobacco two years ago. The only lethal toxins inhaled into these lungs nowadays are

  • Stalker can give Haigh great day

    Bill Haigh, who spent some 30 years as a trainer, has come out of retirement after a two years' absence and looks set to celebrate in style at Sedgefield tomorrow. Haigh, formerly based in Norton, has moved to a yard near Richmond and tomorrow he saddles

  • Malton are singing in the rain

    Rugby Union round-up Constant rain and waterlogged pitches did their best to wipe out the rugby union programme in the York area at the weekend. Malton & Norton were delighted with their 11-3 win over senior ranked Beverley at The Gannock. The first

  • Ronnie Burnett dies, aged 80

    Tributes from top cricketers who were part of Yorkshire's championship winning side of 30 years'ago poured in today following the death over the weekend of former captain, Ronnie Burnet, at the age of 80. Burnet, who lived at Pateley Bridge, was already

  • Sad City slide towards dark abyss

    Bristol Rovers 2, York City 0 The wheels are off and York City are careering down relegation row at juggernaut speed. High time: City's Richard Cresswell, centre, and Mark Tinkler go up for a high ball Losing ground: Mark Tinkler is given the slip by

  • Lift bone-head beef ban now

    It never rains but it pours. If our beleaguered farmers did not have enough man-made problems to cope with, they are now having to do battle with their oldest adversary, Mother Nature. Countless acres of farmland are today underwater in the floods that

  • Trapdoor beckons

    Red for relegation is flashing for York City as manager Alan Little pleaded for a united front. Marching season: City's Mark Tinkler, later to be sent off for disputing a decision with the referee, hammers the ball away from Bristol Rovers striker Jason

  • Man woke up to find pyjamas on fire

    An elderly York man was recovering in hospital today after waking up in the night to find his pyjamas on fire. Ex-army officer Ronald Burgess leapt out of his blazing bed and ran into the bathroom at his flat in Coxwold House, Lowther Street, The Groves

  • York Waterworks deal given go-ahead

    Yorkshire Water's takeover of York Waterworks is to go ahead after clearing its final hurdle this afternoon. The Government has decided not to refer the £33.8 million bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, despite an 11th hour call for a referral

  • Dick Turpin rides again

    Alfa mo, it's me, Romeo Percy, Percy, wherefore art thou, Percy? Obviously he's a Romeo trying to rescue his Juliet from the Asda supermarket shelf at Monks Cross. To explain: Former model Wendy Neale, now secretary to the Asda store manager, was a wow

  • 'Pack killed my pet cat'

    A distraught cat owner claims she watched in horror as her pet was savaged to death by dogs from the Middleton Hunt. An animal protection group has called upon fox-hunter Prince Charles to boycott the hunt which operates in the Malton and Wolds area,

  • What's at the top of your budget list?

    As Chancellor Gordon Brown dusted down his red briefcase this afternoon, and prepared for tomorrow's Budget, last-minute bets were being placed on what it might contain. But will you be among the winners, losers, or also-rans? Some pundits are predicting

  • Heroin dealer denies knife murder

    A York drug dealer went on trial today accused of murdering another dealer in a dispute over heroin. The jury at Leeds Crown Court heard that Jason Nicholas Wade, 27, repeatedly stabbed Wayne Nicholson, also known as Wayne Shaw and Clemens. One of the