WHAT is the Government thinking of? While we the people are reading and watching the sad news from Kosovo and our minds are taken up with the horror of it, Chancellor Gordon Brown goes behind our backs and sells off £2.5 billion of Britain's Gold Reserves
I AM puzzled by something which happened during the election last week. As far as I am aware, any MP can sit for only one constituency, a district or town councillor likewise. The same applies to county councillors. Why then, should it be that a parish
NOW that the Scots and Welsh have their own Parliament or Assembly isn't it time we English had our own? To this end I am proposing setting up The TEA Party (Treat Everyone Alike) getting rid of foreigners, such as the Scots, Welsh and Irish from our
SO the York City board has acted quickly for once and made the correct choice in appointing Neil Thompson as manager. But only time will tell if they have the desire and ambition to take the much-needed step of making money available to allow him to rebuild
THE END of a marriage is inevitably a painful, sad affair. When it happens between a high-profile couple it is always the subject of much public scrutiny and comment. Yesterday the Evening Press published one man's personal comments about the break-up
EASINGWOLD sidecar star Steve Webster and his passenger David James are in action tomorrow determined to get their Sidecar World Cup challenge back on track. They are at the rather remote Albacete circuit in central Spain for round three of the championship
UNDER pressure York Wasps are banking on home comforts to rediscover the winning habit when the Warriors of Whitehaven invade Huntington Stadium tomorrow. RETURN: Leigh Deakin It is the Wasps first home game for a month, during which time three away fixtures
A JAZZ club in the heart of York has gone on the market after magistrates were asked to revoke its licence. Inside the Cells jazz club, York The Cells, in Parliament Street, the only venue dedicated to jazz in the city, has gone on sale with a price tag
A DRINK-driver who led police on a 70mph New Year's Eve car chase through the centre of York with a woman and her two-year-old child in the passenger seat has been jailed for 15 months. Judge Arthur Myerson: "appalling driving" York Crown Court heard
IT MAY only be May, but there's already £9,000 in the kitty for this year's Christmas lights display in York. Outgoing Lord Mayor, Councillor Derek Smallwood has received a cheque for £2,500 from Railtrack towards this year's illuminations. And he says
JOBS at the Selby pit complex were today put under threat with the announcement that hundreds of RJB mineworkers will lose their jobs around the country. RJB officials met with mining unions this week and warned that 400 jobs would be axed in the next
A YORK drug user who is said to have made his neighbours' lives a misery has lost his appeal against being evicted from his council flat. Wayne Robinson's Walmgate neighbours say the news is, for them, the equivalent of winning the lottery. And a new
THE two kittens featured on the front page (Evening Press, May 11) are indeed fortunate, they managed to find the only litter bin on York station. The travelling public is not so fortunate. For many years there have been no litter bins on the station
I WAS a bit surprised that you devoted any space to the Leery Comments To Students story (Evening Press, May 11). Builders have always shouted and wolf-whistled at females - it's part of life and the students concerned are very lucky if this is all they
THE two Top Guns of the Auto Trader British Touring Car Championship are preparing for a head-on confrontation at Brands Hatch this weekend. Alex Deighton, of Green Hammerton, York, in action in a Vauxhall Vectra at Thruxton Honda's James Thompson, from
THE Wright stuff was emphatically displayed to determine the destiny of The York Golf Club's prestigious York Rose Bowl competition. Dean Wright (left) is pictured collecting his trophy from the York GC captain Harry H Everist Leeds Golf Club's Dean Wright
