After attending last Tuesday's race meeting and enjoying looking at all the new styles of hats and outfits, I was so disappointed when I turned to the racing article where the only outfit published was a bright canary yellow Dynasty-style suit with matching
How annoying and disappointing that the Evening Press has been featuring the plight of Barry Horne and his hunger strike. While I do not want to comment on his animal rights opinions, I feel he should not be using up valuable hospital and police resources
Anthony McGrath played the biggest and best innings of his career at Headingley yesterday to give Yorkshire a great chance of turning an almost hopeless cause into a stunning victory over Middlesex. McGrath, who is back in the first team because of Richard
Kitchen sinks were abandoned and husbands were left holding the baby around North Yorkshire yesterday as more than 1,000 women gathered on York's Knavesmire for the Race for Life. It was a celebration of women by women. And the girlpower fun run is expected
The C-force is back with a bang, and with it York Wasps' hopes of a top five Premiership finish. Star Man Darren Callaghan goes over by the posts for one of his two tries After two weeks of relative anonymity, Mark Cain and Darren Callaghan turned on
England made a winning start to the Evening Press Cricket World Cup at the University of York. Sri Lanka's Sarah Knott hits one for six against England Represented by Knavesmire I, they beat Sri Lanka (St Aelred's) by 32 runs in a repeat of England's
Sizzling York Wasps' first shut-out in five years maintained their place among the Premiership's best following a week of hard work and soul searching. Their 46-0 demolition of Whitehaven Warriors yesterday was the first time the Wasps had nilled a side
More than 1,000 women danced together on York's Knavesmire yesterday as they warmed up for the Race For Life THEY'RE OFF: The start of the Race For Life at York Racecourse, with eventual winner Tracy Gorman leading the field Pictures by David Harrison
Concern over the behaviour of pupils celebrating their last day of school has prompted police to accompany them on their end-of-term trip. Last year the Evening Press reported on scenes of drunken revelry on the Ethel Ward playing fields, in Haxby, York
North Yorkshire's dwindling band of special constables will put its grievances to the force's top brass next month in the hope of averting a mass walk-out. Proposals due to be implemented in October would strip many specials of their rank, reducing the
The mountaineer son of a North Yorkshire businessman is missing presumed dead after becoming the youngest Briton to conquer Mount Everest. Michael Matthews, 22, disappeared when bad weather closed in as he made his descent from the mountain's south summit
Following an article on the Radio 4 Today programme on May 14 about school furniture, you may be interested to know that the new Park Grove School will have the ergonomic furniture that was described. The desks have sloping tops, which the Victorians
The York Branch of the Fire Brigade's Union applauds your excellent editorial (Evening Press, May 12) regarding the funding of the emergency services. The long-standing and flawed funding formula for the fire service, known as The Standard Spending Assessment
Shining Hour, who showed plenty of promise in defeat on her debut at Chester 12 days ago, can chalk-up her first success at Pontefract tomorrow. The two-year-old, trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam who sent out a winner at Ripon yesterday, goes for the EBF
Thousands of school pupils and university students are preparing to throw down their books and yell "school's out - forever". They think it's all over - all the studying, the exams, the learning. They could not be more misguided. Learning really is a
Along with thousands of other students across York, Dorothy Shaw is swotting away for her imminent GCSE exam. REVISING: Dorothy Shaw, of Dikelands, Haxby, with calculator and GCSE pack, who is backing Adult Learners' Week Picture: Paul Baker But unlike
Veterans of the Second World War reflected on past exploits when they gathered in Ryedale over the weekend. DEEP IN THOUGHT: A POW camp watchtower at Eden Camp is reflected in the sunglasses of Bernard Collier, who was attending an escapees' reunion and
I'm home to stay It was like a manic moment from You've Been Tango'd. There was our very own TV star cum eternal panto dame Berwick Kaler playing host to international rock superstar Suzi Quatro in York - and he refused to take her out to dinner until
The rollercoaster life of James Corrigan - once the wealthy darling of the showbiz world - has taken another extraordinary twist. LITTLE TREASURES: James Corrigan with his children, Marilyse, 15, and Wesley, 13 Picture: Garry Atkinson James, who founded
