I NEED your readers' help. I am researching the names of all the men from both world wars who appear on Tadcaster war memorial with the view of having a book of remembrance under the memorial plaque in the church. If anyone is a relative of these men,
MR Patterson of Copmanthorpe complained that cyclists do not contribute towards road improvement costs, but that some, nevertheless, use the roads in preference to the city's many cycle lanes (Letters, March 18). Many cyclists are also car owners, but
I THANK everyone who helped me to reach my target of £2,000 for Scope, (formerly the Spastics Society). I am particularly indebted to the Worksop company Wilkinson, for their gift of £500. I would like to also thank my two sisters and everyone at Terry's
RECENT utterances from the Prime Minister and senior members of the Government make clear that it is New Labour's intention to sign up to a single European currency with consequent loss of control of interest rates. Here we go again. Nigel Lawson's ill-fated
YORK must beat fellow relegation candidates Alnwick in the last league match of the season at Clifton Park tomorow if they are to avoid relegation to North East Division One next season. York must also win their two remaining away games at Vale of Lune
SCARBOROUGH welcome Rochdale to the McCain Stadium tonight (kick-off 7.30pm) with two new faces in their ranks after a transfer deadlineday of mixed fortunes. As reported in the Evening Press yesterday, basement club Boro have secured the services of
DRAMA is still hugely popular with young people, as the feature on this page explains. But the lack of stage and rehearsal venues is causing problems. Fund raising is already well underway to pay for the creation of a youth theatre. We wish the project
CARETAKER-BOSS Neil Thompson killed striker Neil Tolson's move to Rushden and Diamonds after Sheffield Wednesday's shock £1.5million swoop for top scorer Richard Cresswell. Just as City had no option but to accept the big-money bid for Cresswell, Thompson
STEADFAST York City boss Neil Thompson has hurled down the goals gauntlet to all the men in red, writes Tony Kelly. He insisted today that life goes on after Richard Cresswell and urged his new-look charges to strike out for glory in the ten-game battle
ELITE-BOUND Richard Cresswell broke free from his million-pound status to boost York City's survival fight. FAST MOVER: Richard Cresswell in training with the England Under 21 squad who play Poland at Southampton tonight The 19-goal marksman realised
A MAN died and another was seriously hurt as two accidents brought massive disruption to traffic in York today. The scene, above, after the driver of a BMW car was killed in a collision with a truck carrying beer on the York outer ring-road today. The
NORTH YORKSHIRE pig farmers braved driving rain to blockade a pigmeat processing plant in Scunthorpe. About 50 people travelled down to Lincolnshire in a specially-chartered bus to take part in yesterday's demonstration outside the gates of Key Country
Parents Sandra and Nick Morgan have a humble headache cure to thank for their baby boy, Finn. And their remarkable success shows how aspirin may hold the key to parenthood for hundreds of childless couples. After ten years of trying, Sandra and Nick,
TODAY we lay down a challenge to all our readers: help our Hospice Appeal reach £500,000 by May. We want to hit the magical half-million mark - a quarter of the way to our target - by May 10, the day the plans for the new-look hospice will be officially
I have been a participant, both casual and ardent, in general knowledge quiz competitions for over 15 years. Armed with this experience I have concluded there is a need to embrace all participants under one roof. I have decided to form the National Quiz
I'M Ardal O'Hanlon - you know me from Father Ted and I'm writing to your readers with a special appeal. Over the weekend of September 24-25 the charity Scope (formerly the Spastics Society) will be organising a fantastic team event called The Cork Challenge
FOLLOWING the article Pensioner Dogged by Path Pets Nuisance (Evening Press, March 19) I should like to comment on the points raised. The path cannot be used as a short cut to the new houses, as there is a seven foot fence right round the houses and the
LIFE in this area is changing fast. There are two new shops - much in the news recently - in Gillygate. A large drop-in centre is being built under the windows of this top floor flat. It had been my intention to visit the shops in order to see for myself
THE next time you walk down Butcher Terrace, York, towards the river you may notice the old blue hut that once stood there has gone. It was once the home of the British Sub Aqua Club and I remember the hard work and commitment involved in building it.
IT was sad to hear of the death of 'York showman' Ernest Johnson (Evening Press, March 19). I sang alongside Ernie five years ago in the choir at All Saints Church, Pavement, when he was a very young-looking 83 in those days. It is also sad to see church
HERE we go again! Western politicians under the auspices of Nato are dabbling in another sovereign state's affairs and involving the lives of innocent people as well as servicemen. The decision of Nato to bomb the Serbs (and everyone else who gets in
I AM a Yorkshireman born and bred and proud of it, but first and foremost I am an Englishman. I think the idea of a Yorkshire parliament is selfish inward-looking nonsense. The present government has fragmented Great Britain with its half-baked devolution
I AGREE with D Hughes (Evening Press, Saturday, March 20), the water charges are daylight robbery already. I live in a two bedroom flat, my bills for the coming year are sewerage from Yorkshire Water £129.90 and York Water £84.77. I queried this and was
I've had three significant women in my life - a brunette, a blonde and a red-head. All have been very influential unions. I suppose my first time doing it was the hardest - how to pace it; how to compliment her; how to look. You see, she'd got a head-start
NOMINATOR LAD, priced at 25-1 this morning with Ladbrokes, is taken to win the £50,000 Worthington Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster tomorrow. Indeed, the first major race of the new Flat turf campaign, which is always such a tricky one for punters, promises
THOSE much-maligned hobbyists, the trainspotters, will need to be at their observant best to see the new services at York Station. Because they will not be stopping. Spotters risk a crick in the neck trying to see a high tech tilting train flash by on
YORK has long proved a magnet for would-be world beaters, even before the area's giant onion bhaji barged its way into the Guinness Book of Records. Chefs at the Jinnah Restaurant just off the A64 between York and Malton have learned that the 6.9lb "snack
A PARISH clerk has resigned and apologised after a member of the public was branded a 'working class creep' in the middle of a parish council meeting. The resignation of Jane Ingham, who had been clerk to Stillington Parish Council for almost 18 years
A MOTORAIL service allowing motorists to ferry cars between Scotland and London will soon be flashing through York every night - without stopping. Transport secretary and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott will officially launch the new service in a
Never in his wildest dreams - during more than half a century of bringing the news to the people of York - can he have imagined such an honour. Les Richardson at Buckingham palace this afternoon But this afternoon, during a glittering ceremony at Buckingham
