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  • Wonderful Wasps

    Because I have been slow in writing to thank York Wasps, I now have a say a double thanks. Firstly I would like to say thank you on behalf of my sons and other young people from the Project. Our visit to see York Wasps play against Hull KR was a great

  • Polar medal now in regimental museum

    Memories of a remarkable hero of Polar exploration are being kept safe for posterity at a York museum. Captain Alan Henshall, curator of the Royal Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum, in Tower Street, York, with two medals given to the late Capt Lawrence

  • York gets Ability Net centre

    A new advice and technology centre for disabled people has been opened at the College of Ripon and York by York MP Hugh Bayley. York MP Hugh Bayley, right, launches the Ability Net centre at Ripon and York College, Lord Mayor's Walk, York, as centre manager

  • Tournament aids hospital

    A special netball tournament has raised cash to buy life-saving equipment for York District Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU). A Graseby Infusion Pump, which is used to automatically inject vital fluids such as medication into ICU patients at pre-programmed

  • Cricket: Bears mauled by slick Phoenix

    Yorkshire Phoenix made sure of staying in the top flight of the CGU National League next year by signing off with a splendid 28 runs victory over Warwickshire Bears at Headingley yesterday. Had Phoenix lost, they would have to wait to see how other results

  • Rugby Union: Miserable start for York

    York made a disappointing start to their North East Division One season by losing 44-0 at Halifax. MAKING A GRAB: A Pocklington player tries to break free of grabbing Selby hands during their Thwaites Northern Division North East Division Two match on

  • Motor Racing: Thompson fury after Sprint controversy

    York driver James Thompson was fuming at Oulton Park - despite having driven his best race of the season. He had trounced the two Nissan drivers, who have dominated the Auto Trader British Touring Car Championship. But his comprehensive victory in the

  • Taxis lead the way

    Smoking is already banned in cinemas, theatres, many restaurants and places of work. It is prohibited on aircraft, trains and buses. Pilots and drivers are included in the ban. So it is a natural progression that smoking should outlawed finally for taxi

  • Flood victims deserve action

    The devastating floods that hit North Yorkshire six months ago were an Act of God: a natural disaster for which nobody was to blame. About 200 properties around Norton, Malton, Old Malton and Stamford Bridge were damaged and many families suddenly found

  • Football: Firepower search

    York City boss Neil Thompson was today stepping up his bid to bring more firepower to Bootham Crescent after watching his shot-shy side fight out a goalless draw with Peterborough. HEAD OVER HEELS: Peterborough goalkeeper Mark Tyler spins through the

  • Council's ozone health warning

    Ozone monitoring in York allowed sufferers of respiratory problems to be warned quickly of risks after the city recorded high levels, councillors will be told this week. Asthmatics were told to avoid strenuous exercise and carry inhalers as an August

  • Up and down day for charity

    Daredevil fundraisers defied fear to ride Britain's biggest roller coasters - 29 times. Phillippa Chapman and Anna Pietrowski, centre, representing Macmillan Cancer Relief, with the roller coasting team from the south of England in front of Flamingo Land's

  • Dick Turpin rides again

    At the rising of a sunflower Size is everything when you have 50p riding on the height of a sunflower. Cathy Golding, of Huntington Road, York, bet her six-year-old grand niece Sophie 50p that her sunflower seeds would grow taller. Sophie, of Barlby,

  • Praise for firefighters after city house inferno

    Firefighters won praise today after saving properties next to a York house that was gutted by fire. Evening Press reader David Leon captured these pictures of the flaming roof of the house (above), and firefighters battling the blaze, right, at the home

  • Another poor result... and fans show Craig red card

    Chairman Douglas Craig was given the red card treatment by protesting York City fans during the half-time interval in the Minstermen's goalless draw with Peterborough on Saturday. Fans in the David Longhurst Stand give the red card to chairman Douglas

  • The wreckage of a teenage life

    This is the wreckage left by a devastating crash which claimed the life of a North Yorkshire teenager The wrecked car in which a Selby girl died Claire Smith, 17, a process worker, of Westbourne Terrace, Selby, was one of three people who died in a weekend

  • Dad finds his girl

    A worried father found his missing 15-year-old daughter after travelling to Ireland to join a police search. Emma Harrison, 15, from Bugthorpe, near Pocklington, was discovered safe and well in Dublin after police in the Irish capital received reports

  • Still in Shambles

    I have followed with great interest the letters regarding babies born in the Shambles. I am a member of the Shepherd who family lived at No.9 Shambles, and had three sisters born there in 1939, 1940 and 1943. We lived in Shambles from 1936 to 1946. My

  • Lift service

    In response to your story (Evening Press, September 8) about problems with the lift at Marjorie Waite Court, I must strongly deny the statement which I understand was made by a spokesperson for the lift company OTIS - that the lift has ever been a danger

  • Lack of bus station in York is a disgrace for York

    We are constantly being told by politicians to use public services and transport more. York is a major tourist centre and attraction for foreign visitors, and yet our great city still does not have a proper bus station. Our city has several empty sites

  • Bid to get freight off A64 and on to railway

    A scheme to take lorries off a notorious stretch of the A64 and on to rail has taken two major steps forward. A study into the expense of taking freight off the road and on to the York and Scarborough railway line is due to start, while sites in York

  • Rugby League: Heworth turn on the power

    Heworth put last week's loss behind them as they gave East Leeds their first taste of defeat of the season - despite playing three quarters of the match with 12 men. The hard-fought 25-14 win moved Heworth up to third place in the National Conference

  • Horse Racing: Williamson's treble chance

    Norman Williamson, a big hit with punters wherever he rides, travels to Sedgefield tomorrow with bright prospects of a lucrative afternoon. The top-class Irish jockey can open his winning account aboard Empire Park in the Winter Wheat Novices' Hurdle.

  • Sidecar Racing: Wonderful Webster takes seventh World title

    It was seventh heaven for Easingwold sidecar superstar Steve Webster and passenger David James at Hockenheim in Germany when they won the last round of the FIM Sidecar World Cup Championships series to retain the title for a third successive year. The

  • Football: York City 0, Peterborough 0

    The misfiring Minstermen were left longing for a goal to raise their spirits after another Bootham Crescent blank. SO CLOSE: The nearest City came to breaking the deadlock was when Barry Conlon lashed this fre-kick against an upright. Debut man Kevin

  • Papergirl, 68, retires

    The woman who has brought the news to the people of Everingham, near Pocklington, for more than 18 years has finally hung up her newspaper bag. Evening Press deliverer Nancy Broadley, 68, decided to officially call it a day after rheumatism made the round

  • Green Arrow on target in N Yorkshire

    An icon of steam brought the golden age of the railway back to North Yorkshire's tracks as the Green Arrow travelled through North Yorkshire. STEAMING: The Green Arrow steams out of York on the Scarborough line at Wigginton The engine, built in 1936 and

  • Taxi drivers face cab smoking ban

    Cabbies will be banned from smoking in their cars under a planned shake-up for rules for taxi drivers in York. And all cabs would have to have rear seat belts under the proposals for governing the city's private hire and hackney carriage drivers. The