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  • Volunteers needed

    First Steps To Freedom is a UK registered charity which has been offering help, advice and support to both sufferers and carers of stress/anxiety disorders such as phobias, panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder and those with borderline personality

  • Lottery grants are fair

    As the regional manager of the National Lottery Charities Board in Yorkshire I must respond to your comment on October 7 (End secret of Lottery grants) and the related story on St Leonard's Hospice. You claim that the whole system of awarding points is

  • From shoes to jam, students tackle life in the real world

    After three or more years of study, students are released into the real world. Dan Rutstein takes a look at the post-university life of a selection of York graduates Some people will never forget university; little things remind them of their happy times

  • Burglars get on bikes for a quick getaway

    The popular image of the burglar has him sneaking cat-like over roofs or dashing into the waiting getaway car - but in York the bicycle is becoming his favourite means of transport. This fortnight's crime map shows the locations of 19 burglaries which

  • Rugby League: Heworth given fright

    Heworth's hopes of an easy ride against Rochdale Mayfield never materialised as they were made to fight all the way by the National Conference first division basement club at Elm Park Way. Played on Friday night, the Villagers eventually triumphed 26-

  • Horse Racing: Golden chance for Biff to score

    Golden Biff, who finally got off the mark at Catterick last week, is napped to defy a penalty at Ayr tomorrow. The three-year-old, trained in Lanarkshire by Ian Semple, goes for the TDI Advertising Sprint Handicap and will again have the assistance of

  • Football: Looking up!

    Lift-Off was the cry from the three key players in York City's first win since the opening game of the Division Three campaign. HEADING IN: Barry Conlon gets on the end of Steve Agnew's cross, with Kevin Hulme, right, in support, to head City's equaliser

  • On target for £2 million

    It is just over a year since the Evening Press launched its campaign to help St Leonard's Hospice raise £2 million by the end of 2000. LET'S DANCE: Line dancing teachers Ted and Dora Harrison who raised £637 with their Ruby Wedding donation Since our

  • Bid to ease tension over travellers' grant

    Face-to-face meetings may be held in an effort to reduce tension over a controversial lottery grant for a York travellers' organisation. Residents at the James Street travellers' site in the city have said they would give the money to St Leonard's Hospice

  • Hundreds look at plans for £25m model village

    A scheme to build a £25m model village in York for the next century has captured the imagination of local people, according to the chairman of Tang Hall Residents' Association. Community development officer Jacquie Dale, left, and Roland Crooke, director

  • Widow vows to find the garage murderer

    Widow Jackie Leeming has vowed to fight until the day she dies to find her husband's killer. Jackie Leeming: "Some people think you are still guilty" Speaking to the Evening Press after the third anniversary of his brutal murder in the garage of their

  • Danger signal probe in York

    Railtrack said today that the onus was on drivers to ensure they did not pass through a blackspot signal at York station while it was on red. A train passes under Signal Y304 on the approach to York The comments have provoked anger from a York rail union

  • Fatal crash was cost of cutting back on safety

    Am I the only person to be reading and listening to the accounts of the latest rail disaster with increasing anger and amazement at the attempts to pin the blame on the wretched driver of one of the trains who was killed in the crash? Owing to under-investment

  • Student Demelza to make West End debut

    York College student Demelza Stafford, who is to make her West End debut singing in a Victorian Variety Evening Student Demelza Stafford will be heading for the bright lights of London at the end of this month when she appears on a West End stage. Demelza

  • Football: Pegged Pickering let good work go to waste

    Pickering Town threw away a two goal half-time lead at Louth United in the Northern Counties East League division one. The Pikes were forced to settle for a share of the spoils as boith sides finished the match with ten men. Headers from Tom Reid and

  • Good for motorists

    Rail passengers have little to smile about, but motorists do have a reason to celebrate today. The Consumers' Association is launching its own dealership in imported cars. Cars of the same make and model cost thousands of pounds less on the Continent

  • Time to sort rail priorities

    Greed and incompetence are emerging as major reasons for the Paddington rail disaster. Less than a week after the tragedy, we can be all but certain that the trains collided because one of the drivers went through a red light. But the root cause lies

  • Football: York City 2, Leyton Orient 1

    Contrary to belief, class and passing can thrive in the rush-hours of Division Three. SURROUNDED: City midfielder Kevin Hulme is enveloped by Leyton Orient defenders If evidence were ever needed one only need study the performance of Scott Jordan. A quick

  • So proud to finish in 25,000th position

    As I staggered across the finishing line, the man on the loudspeaker was announcing excitedly that more than 24,000 people had now finished the Great North Run. A few minutes later, as I queued for my runner's medal and tee-shirt, the figure changed to

  • Iron Age rubbish pits found by ring road

    Iron Age remains which could provide valuable information about York's early history have been uncovered by contractors working on the outer ring road. Improvement work on Wigginton Road roundabout was halted last week while specialists were called in

  • County police deny unreported crime claim

    North Yorkshire police today hit back at a new report which claims crime is running at much higher level than is being officially acknowledged. The survey was carried out by Experian, a private marketing company, also says people living in smaller towns

  • Army 'outpost needed in York'

    Leaked documents have indicated that the army's new divisional HQ at Edinburgh will need three "outposts" in northern England, including one in York. The documents show that about 30 posts will apparently be needed at York, with others at Catterick and