City Of York Council has been consulting on its proposed new policy for admitting children to secondary schools. Its intention is that, apart from two church schools which admit on a denominational basis, the remaining nine secondaries will be allocated
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Just when workmen thought it was safe to continue excavations at St Olave's School yet more Roman skeletons have been found - and archaeologists think they may be on the road to discovering the Roman route out of York. ROMAN BONES: One of the Roman skeletons
A team of intrepid Evening Press Great North Runners has boosted our Hospice 2000 Appeal by almost £700. Anne Wood, Richard Johns, Frank Dwyer, Steve Bradshaw, Terry Ruane and Stephen Lewis all completed the run in under three hours on Sunday, in aid
ACE SKIERS: Four of Easingwold School's successful skiers (from the left): Ian Stirk, Harry Quartermain, Josh Watts and Fred Quartermain. Harry Quatermain, Stirk and Watts were in the open team who won the English Schools' downhill racing championship
Soon there will be no reason to leave our armchairs. The latest computerised advance lets us order a pizza through our televisions. No longer will the TV addict have to interrupt the football coverage to dial the takeaway or talk to a real human being
We carried the report in Saturday's Evening Press under the headline, 'Sex attack on city nurse'. A 37-year-old woman had been assaulted early on Friday morning in the centre of York. It was a depressing crime report, all the more so for its grim familiarity
KEYBOARD WIZARD: Rebecca Cook, aged six, demonstrates the painting software programme Splosh, which is available to children who use the computer suite at Poppleton Road Primary School in York. Parents and governors were invited into a York primary school
For couch potatoes in York, a city pizza parlour has introduced what could be the ultimate in TV dinners. Dan Blower, manager of Domino's Pizza, in York, where an interactive delivery service has been launched If you are too engrossed in the football
Finding an ideal home within the North York Moors remains an expensive dream for many. House prices in the National Park have actually fallen slightly over the past year, but remain more than double the Yorkshire average, a house prices survey has revealed
A mother today criticised a York bus company after her daughter was left stranded at the side of the road three times in one week. Rebecca Holdaway, 12, and other Manor School pupils who are fed up of the late arrival of their school bus And Gillian Richardson
A woman of 95 whose hospital bed was her "home" has been offered a nursing home place after her anguished son contacted the Evening Press. Michael Durrant with his 95-year-old mother, Louise-May, who was made homeless while receiving hospital treatment
Tomorrow Park Grove School is holding a Thanksgiving Service in the Minster to commemorate the opening of the new school building. I would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to everyone who has supported us since the fire. Everyone
To the person who attacked my daughter last Friday morning, I would like to say the following. Perhaps you did not stop to think about any details concerning your victim's life-style and her profession. But now, following the report in the Evening Press
That's just the way crime figures York is experiencing a crime wave. A wave of crime statistics, that is. Let me recap. On Monday, marketing company Experian announced that York's burglary rate was 8.74 per cent. That came as news to the police, who were
Joseph Rowntree School won the York round of the National Schools' Under-16 Netball Championship played at Joseph Rowntree School, retaining the trophy for the 12th consecutive year. TWELFTH TRIUMPH: Joseph Rowntree School Under-16 netball team, winners
Heworth takes centre stage in the The Independent Student Rugby League World Cup tonight when South Africa and Russia go head to head for a place in the World Bowl final. It is only the second time the two sides have ever met in the competition and South
Batchworth Belle, runner-up to Superior Premium in a 21-runner handicap race at Ascot last Saturday, is fancied to win at Newmarket tomorrow. Eric Wheeler's sprinter, who scored over the same course and distance in July, tackles the Phantom House Rated
York City fans are to be asked for their input as the Bootham Crescent boardroom bid to build bridges with the terraces. IN THE HOT SEAT: Sophie McGill celebrates her appointment as York City's first public relations executive Questionnaires will drop
A York jury has unanimously acquitted a 28-year-old man of attempted rape. But Christopher Kevin Bateman of Hemlock Avenue, Huntington, did not walk free from court after the verdict because he was still serving a prison sentence for an indecent assault
Several of York's council-run youth clubs could be axed so the money can be targeted on "more effective" youth services, the Evening Press can reveal today. Council leader Rod Hills says the money available for young people in York is being spread too
David York The York businessman, hospitalised after being attacked by five youths with a pit bull terrier, today spoke of his ordeal. But David York, 39, of Hunter's Close, Haxby, said he was glad it was him, and not a pensioner, who was beaten. Mr York
The mother of a nurse who was sexually assaulted in York city centre asked the attacker today: "How will you feel when you need hospital treatment?" E-fit of the wanted man The mother, challenging the attacker through the Evening Press letters column,
