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  • Art appeal

    I am researching the life of the artist Featherstone Robson. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1880 and he died in Canada in 1936. He usually signed his work F Robson. I believe his brother Arnold Robson moved from the South Shields area to Altringham

  • Rough ride

    I have to admit to a wry smile when I read about the man who expected a discount at the National Rail Museum because he had a York card (Trains fee shock, Letters, September 25). We have a York postcode, a York telephone number, my wife works in York

  • Where is the magic?

    As Christmas approaches, I have been scouring the papers for a sign of that most traditional festive item - the great toy con. Yesterday I read that the Pokman is to be this year's 'must have'. Pokman is evidently short for pocket monster and I'm sure

  • Lions join race to help Nicola

    The fundraising appeal sparked off by Nicola Coates's race for a bone marrow donor has collected almost £8,000. And even more events are planned to give a further boost to the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust, with the Derwent Lions the latest organisation

  • Football: Pikes unleash hit-man

    Menacing teenage marksman Kevin Smith is set to make his Northern Counties East League debut for Pickering Town tomorrow at Louth United. After switching his allegiance from West Yorkshire League outfit Nestl-Rowntree Smith will form a lethal front-line

  • Rugby: McBride back to boost York

    York field a much changed side against Redcar following last week's disappointing North East One defeat at Old Crossleyans. Nathan McBride makes a welcome return to York's colours after three seasons contracted to Stirling County in Scotland. McBride,

  • Changed days

    Such is Enid Blyton's enduring appeal, most youngsters have a very fixed view of boarding school life. Unfortunately, it is firmly fixed in the 1930s when Blyton's pen was at its most active. But a glimpse behind the scenes at Harrogate Ladies College

  • New status is well deserved

    Staff and pupils at Archbishop Holgate's School and Burnholme Community College deserve the greatest credit for becoming affiliates of the Technology Colleges Trust. It has taken much hard work and determination to win this coveted status. Both schools

  • Football: Tommo turns to Agnew

    Exiled York City midfielder Steve Agnew is back. OUT AND IN: City midfielder Mark Atkins, whose season started brightly with an opening day winner against Swansea, has been told he can go at the end of his loan spell; while Steve Agnew, inset, has made

  • Conflict in gun accident trial

    Magistrates in Pickering have heard conflicting evidence about the tools used to clean a field gun in the case of cannon accident man Martin Bibbings. Bibbings's firm, the Trafalgar Gun Company, supplied cannon used in a Last Night Of The Proms event

  • Heavy metal fan 'tried to rape pen pal at knifepoint'

    A York man allegedly attempted to rape his pen pal at knife point when she refused his sexual advances, a jury has heard. The woman just wanted friendship with Christopher Kevin Bateman whom she first got to know through a contact column in a magazine

  • Flood chaos in Walmgate

    The scene in Walmgate this afternoon after a water main burst, turning the street into a virtual river Massive flooding today brought chaos to part of York city centre and severely disrupted production of your Evening Press. A watery nightmare in Walmgate

  • Top marks for sending pupils to local schools

    How refreshing that City of York Council is finally addressing the problem of school administration. There is no fairer system than children going to their local schools. Parents transporting their children to schools in other areas because their local

  • Press is praised in fight against fakes

    The Evening Press was today praised for exposing the growing problem of counterfeit goods in Britain. SPOT THE FAKE: The authentic Noe bag by Louis Vuitton is on the left, the fake is on the right Our in-depth article on how to spot counterfeit items,

  • Netball: Bright start for Haxby six-pack

    York & District Netball League began its 1999/2000 season with a record number of teams entering the league and a new fifth division being created to accommodate seven new teams. Haxby Netball Club, entering a sixth team for the first time in their

  • Athletics: Flying finish from Barnes

    Jerry Barnes York Acorn runner Jerry Barnes won the Falcon Flyer 26- mile off-road race near Scarborough in muddy, treacherous conditions. Barnes remained in a pack of six in the first hour to Biller Howe Dale, before gradually extending his lead to 19

  • Horse Racing: Sessay trainer to take trophy

    It is the final meeting of the season - and of the Millennium - on Knavesmire tomorrow, when North Yorkshire trainer David Nicholls can play take the major honours. The ace handler from Sessay saddles Pepperdine in the Coral Sprint Trophy and I strongly

  • Football: York pupil called up for England's clash at Bootham

    York-based teenage ace Andy Haskins is in with a shout of wearing England's three lions shirt at York City's ground. Canon Lee School pupil Haskins has been named in the England Under-15 squad for their Adidas Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland

  • Terms of endurement - College recalls days of Blyton

    Hair could only be washed once a week, there was no heating and lights had to be out by 7.30pm. BYGONE DAYS: Present pupils show the way things were. Elizabeth Wraight give her hair the permitted weekly wash, while Charlotte Drummond reads an Enid Blyton

  • Miss X tells court of threats against home

    A woman has claimed that blackmailing drug dealers made threats against her home and her job in their bid to force money out of her. When they took other action to get the £400 they claimed she owed them, she went to the police, although she knew she

  • Teachers celebrate school's bright future

    Pupils with computer technician Tom Muir at Burnholme community College Teachers and pupils at two York secondary schools were celebrating today after they were given the educational stamp of approval for their work in science and technology. Archbishop

  • Cancer mum issues plea from the heart

    A mother-of-two - stricken for the second time by cancer - has launched a fund-raising race against time in a bid to see her children grow up. Gail Hepworth with sons Tom, aged 11, and Jack, aged seven. Gail is trying to raise money for treatment which

  • Police help in prison hunt

    North Yorkshire Police were today taking part in the search for four prisoners who literally did a bunk from Lindholme Prison, near Doncaster, after making a ladder from their bed frames. The men escaped from the low- security category C jail after scaling

  • Give hospice our money

    Travellers in York are furious about being given a big National Lottery grant they say they don't want or need. Travellers spokesman Thomas Swales with residents of the James Street site in York today, who say they don't need a £180,000 grant from the