Put rail safety before profits The Government is to backtrack over Railtrack. In the immediate aftermath of the Paddington train disaster Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott indicated that he was to strip Railtrack of its safety role. Back to reel life
Football: Dolan swoops for Dons' defender York City manager Terry Dolan today made another raid on the Premiership to bolster the Minstermen's climb away from the wrong end of the Division Three table. Football: Tommo ponders Boro move Former York City
For the first time more than a million people have visited the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate over a 12 month period, organisers report. The attendance by 1,000,508 visitors contributed to record sales figures of £902,782 - that is 26 per cent
It's day two of our fantastic competition to win a school trip to the Millennium Dome. We have two more questions for you to answer en route to the chance of a super overnight trip for your school, courtesy of McArthur Glen. The Evening Press has teamed
Are "glass barriers" preventing North Yorkshire employers from maximising recruitment potential by taking on disabled recruits? Business Press investigates. According to Government statistics, the level of unemployment is now down to 4.3 per cent - the
AT FULL STRETCH: Acomb's Paul Wright (number 26) watches on as his side's keeper, Bill Heywood, dives full length in an attempt to keep out a Chapeltown effort The odd goal in seven gave Northern Counties Premier League leaders Sheffield a victory over
No less than the Government has doffed its cap to a Thirsk firm it regards as simply the best. The Department of Trade and Industry's Competitiveness Minister Alan Johnson presented a giant replica of an award to GSM Graphic Arts Ltd, of Thirsk at a special
Peter Niven, out of action with a broken neck since a fall at Sedgefield in early December, can return to action on a winning note at Doncaster tomorrow. The Malton jockey teams-up with Pennys Pride in the Jack Snipe Mares' Only National Hunt Flat Race
Cinema's Nineties revival was entwined with the rise of the multiplexes, such as the Warner Village in York. It is good to see that this is now being followed by the regeneration of local picture houses. This week Pocklington Civic Arts Centre begins
Brace yourselves - the astonishing truth is that being a dedicated follower of fashion can make you healthier. It could also make the Wetherby promoter of a new kind of trendy-looking wristbrace for arthritis sufferers a lot wealthier. Since arthritis
The Government is to backtrack over Railtrack. In the immediate aftermath of the Paddington train disaster Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott indicated that he was to strip Railtrack of its safety role. Now we learn that the company is to retain this
Former York City player-manager Neil Thompson is to take a watching brief tonight as he mulls over a possible move to neighbours Scarborough. The former Ipswich Town and Barnsley left-back - who left City by mutual agreement on February 9 - has been invited
Businesses in Clifton Moor, fearing that they are becoming increasingly isolated, have called for urgent talks with councillors and transport chiefs from the City of York Council. They want assurances of better day-to-day communication than they have
York City manager Terry Dolan today made another raid on the Premiership to bolster the Minstermen's climb away from the wrong end of the Division Three table. Dolan has moved swiftly to land talented left-back Peter Hawkins from Wimbledon on a month's
Two brand new flavours will be launched next month as Yorvale real dairy ice cream company of Acaster Malbis near York, celebrates its tenth anniversary, but the details remain an industrial secret. All will be revealed by Ian and Lesley Buxton when they
HANG gliding champion, sailor and traveller, systems engineer Lance Bennett has been appointed the new business manager of the York Junior Chamber. He plans to develop new and foster existing sponsorship links with the junior chamber and give the chamber's
Consumers in Yorkshire and Humberside who may have been mis-sold a personal pension between 1988 and 1994 are being reminded by the Financial Services Authority (the FSA) that they have only until March 31 to get a form in to their pension company if
Thousands of miles separated two long-lost North Yorkshire brothers for 58 years until they were reunited by the click of a mouse. ABOVE: Bill Ward -Lengthy search BELOW: Stephen Ward: Pictured in the 1940s The last time Bill Ward, from Myton-on-Swale
Television comedian Alexei Sayle took time out to launch Marie Curie Cancer Care's Daffodil Appeal in York. Comedian and author Alexei Sayle helps to launch the Marie Curie Cancer Care Daffodil Appeal with Marie Curie nurse Lisa Stanley Also in town to
Is parking the cause of all this cost-cutting? With regard to the cost cutting, job losses and closures of public baths by City of York Council, has anyone put two and two together and realised why they are having to save money? Eight letters from Evening
Bishop Stephen, of the St Anne's Monastic Church, joins protesters from the Unison union outside the Guildhall in York An impassioned plea for the future of a York museum was made as protesters gathered outside the city's Guildhall. Staff from the York
With regard to the cost cutting, job losses and closures of public baths by City of York Council, has anyone put two and two together and realised why they are having to save money? Could it be to do with the fact that in October they are planning to
Forty leisure staff sacked Shocked council workers today received formal redundancy notices from City of York Council as part of a major leisure services shake-up. Bishop leads York protest over plan to close museum An impassioned plea for the future
Moor traders plea for help Businesses in Clifton Moor, fearing that they are becoming increasingly isolated, have called for urgent talks with councillors and transport chiefs from the City of York Council. Brace yourself for a medical development in
Suddenly Colin and Sharon Marsh have become a two-hotel couple. The owners of the St Denys Hotel in St Denys Road, York, have bought the Blue Bridge Hotel, Fishergate, from retired hotelier Brian Long for an undisclosed sum but now intend to spend £100,000
Whether or not the relationships between business and banks in North Yorkshire is strained or synergy itself, one thing is clear: They want us. Otherwise why do they primp and preen and parade themselves before us as the most caring, generous, helpful
Business is picking up in a big way for a newly-established Selby company after Business Link North Yorkshire helped it to secure a £7,500 RECHAR grant. Among the many training programmes offered by Business Focus of The Maltings Commercial Centre, is
York City Baths Club star Robin Francis stormed to victory in the Speedo British Grand Prix in Leeds. He powered to 200m individual medley glory in two minutes 9.44 seconds over two seconds better than his closest rival. Francis, 17, had earlier finished
Stephen Lewis takes a look behind the scenes at CGU's latest merger move In the short term, uncertainty is bound to be the name of the game. The dust has scarcely settled, after all, on the 1998 merger of General Accident and Commercial Union. All the
ANDREW LAMBERT: May go straight back into York's line-up at Warrington Returning Australian Andrew Lambert could go straight back into the York Wasps team to face the might of Warrington Wolves on Sunday, writes Dianne Hillaby. The centre is due to return
DTZ Debenham Tie Leung is the new name in commercial property expertise in York. But satisfied customers can rest assured that it is only the name which has changed at the former DTZ Debenham Thorpe in Merchant Chambers in Fossgate. The "local expertise
No more pawing the ground for a new exhibition hall at the Harrogate International Centre. Now it's a case of clawing the ground. The first sods were turned by a digger in the Royal Hall's car park in Harrogate at the start of creating a new £2.6 million
Store wars look on the cards as Tesco and Asda square up in the fight to keep prices low. But are there savings galore in store for shoppers? Natalya Wilson visited three of the leading chains in York to find out ASDA this week celebrates the first anniversary
Former factory worker Nick Ward shows the menacing letters he has received A worker attacked with a hammer outside his place of work is continuing to receive menacing death threats from his assailant. Nick Ward, who escaped serious injury in the unprovoked
A man who suffered a campaign of intimidation from an obsessed ex-lover finally snapped and attacked him with a hammer, York Crown Court heard. Guy Thompson, 33, a senior project manager with a York-based construction company, saw red and attacked ex-lover
The new Pocklington Civic Arts Centre, Oak House, will host the British premiere of Dame Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon's latest film, The Last September, on Thursday. "To start our cinema programme with a premiere is a real coup," said Jim Nield, manager
York is not getting its fair share of Government cash, MP Hugh Bayley said today. Speaking before City of York Council's budget meeting tonight, he said unitary authorities face "hopeless" bias. Councillors will make some of the hardest decisions in the
Part of the letter sent to leisure services staff from the acting leisure services director Shocked council workers today received formal redundancy notices from City of York Council as part of a major leisure services shake-up. Union bosses reacted with
