AS a proud Englishman, may I say congratulations to Tesco and Budgen's for using our pounds and ounces weights as many small shops do. Why should we be ruled by the un-elected bureaucrats of Brussels. If these stores are ever taken to court for their
YORK City defender Wayne Hall looks set to make his first appearance in a Minstermen shirt in almost six months tonight. The stalwart full-back is one of just three names confirmed by City chief Terry Dolan for the club's opening pre-season friendly against
FORMER York City kingpin John Sharples has plundered a sensational hat-trick... with bat rather than boot. The one-time City centre-back and skipper has hit three successive tons for Ovington Cricket Club in his first season back at the crease in more
SHOT STOPPER Alan Fettis has confirmed he is ready to commit himself to the York City cause. Speaking exclusively to the Evening Press, the Northern Ireland international goalkeeper said: "We will sit down on Monday and discuss things but as long as things
DARLINGTON striker Peter Duffield is expected to sign for York City within the next 24 hours. The Evening Press understands Duffield will put pen to paper on a two year contract imminently, following hot on the heels of Graham Potter's arrival at Bootham
YORK City - the only professional club in the country not to have signed up to the Kick It Out anti-racism campaign - are stepping up their involvement with ethnic minorities in the community. The club are dishing out 60 free places on a football coaching
NEW York City signing Graham Potter is not planning to stay around the Third Division for long. Instead, the former England Under-21 international wants to help the Minstermen win promotion. The 25-year-old, who as reported in later editions of yesterday's
JOHN Simpson, the former Huddersfield Town and York City left back, who later became City's physiotherapist, has died suddenly in Market Weighton. Mr Simpson, who was born in Hull in 1918, spent a lifetime in football, playing for Hull City Boys and then
LESSONS about the dangers of dabbling in drugs have been given by pupils to their classmates. Year 10 pupils at three York secondary schools prepared presentations for their fellow students after attending a residential weekend to get them started on
THE Government is pressing ahead with plans for farmers to claim subsidies via the Internet. But the Tories warned many farmers would struggle to cope with the technology and jobs would be lost at regional service centres. And the Ministry of Agriculture's
COMMUTERS waiting for trains at York Station had an unscheduled treat as they watched Only Fools and Horses star David Jason filming the final scene of a feature-length episode of his popular detective series, A Touch of Frost. The actor, famous for such
FORMER York City kingpin John Sharples has plundered a sensational hat-trick... with bat rather than boot. The one-time City centre-back and skipper has hit three successive tons for Ovington Cricket Club in his first season back at the crease in more
A heroin courier has been jailed for three years for operating a drugs run from Leeds to York. Police initially stopped Stephen Paul Crake, 20, for driving under the influence of the drug on Holgate Road, York, late on April 5, said Ian Gilmore, prosecuting
MATTHEW Hoggard, capped by England before Yorkshire, was finally awarded his county colours while taking three for 47 at Scarborough yesterday as Somerset were sent back for 182 on a green and lively pitch. There was every indication that Ryan Sidebottom
THE grounds of the Yorkshire Museum in York are being turned into the city's very own Jurassic Park for a new exhibition. Entitled Walking With Dinosaurs, it has been produced in conjunction with the BBC and features two of the original models used in
Former York City fans' favourite Andy McMillan would grab an opportunity to resurrect his love affair with Bootham Crescent. But despite being surprisingly shown the door by Scottish first division outfit Ayr United, McMillan admits a second stint with
Christian Fox has achieved one aim with a three year contract under his belt - now his eyes are set on promotion. The 19-year-old marked an impressive first full season as a professional with York City by being offered, and accepting, a new three year
York City defender Chris Fairclough will be granted a personal hearing after being charged with misconduct by the Football Association. An FA spokesman today confirmed Fairclough's request for a hearing before football's top brass had been approved although
York City boss Terry Dolan will spend the summer scouring for a striker. But the Minstermen manager indicated there will be no wholesale changes at Bootham Crescent before the start of next season. City brought the current campaign to typical finish at
Cheers. That's the toast hoisted aloft by defensive titan Chris Fairclough after lifting The Unique Pub Co/ Evening Press new player-of-the year award, writes Dave Stanford. The seasoned campaigner may have been absent for the majority of the second-half
YORK City defender Wayne Hall looks set to make his first appearance in a Minstermen shirt in almost six months tonight. The stalwart full-back is one of just three names confirmed by City chief Terry Dolan for the club's opening pre-season friendly against
TRAINER Fulke Johnson Houghton and jockey John Reid, triumphant with 20-1 shot Sobriety in last Saturday's John Smith's Cup on Knavesmire, can continue their splendid form at Newbury tomorrow. The duo will be represented by Roo in the Tote Jackpot Showcase
STRAWBERRIES and raspberries are being left to rot in the fields because of the country's booming economy. Low unemployment across the country has led to a shortage of seasonal fruit pickers and the National Farmers' Union is being forced to appeal to
SELBY MP John Grogan is calling for Government assistance for smaller abattoirs amid fears that a slaughterhouse in his Selby constituency could be closed down. A task force set up by the Food Standards Agency to look at meat hygiene inspection charges
FARMERS and landowners in North and East Yorkshire are being offered more money to encourage diversification and the creation of new jobs in the countryside. The regional development agency in the county, Yorkshire Forward, has details of new grant aid
WITH neat synchronicity, the feasibility of a Malton to Pickering railway is confirmed on the day that the Government was announcing its multi-billion pound transport plan. The expansion of Ryedale's rail network is exactly the sort of scheme that deserves
THE millennial curse has struck again. This negative force has already condemned the Dome to infamy, put a spoke in the big wheel and caused London's bridge to wobble under the weight of hundreds of pedestrians. It is unlikely York's Millennium Bridge
ah english is a wondrous invention the language of shakespeare and dickens and the king james bible or at least it was until e-mail came along with its decapitating ways APOLOGIES. I seem to have been infected by the very literary bug I was about to address
THE design of the latest scheme to expand York's Coppergate Centre was today described as "architecturally inept" by York Civic Trust. Land Securities has put forward £60 million plans for shops, restaurants and a department store in the Copperside Riverside
POPPLETON Junior School teacher David Potter was recently cleared of allegations made against him following both police and local education authority investigations but has decided that he will not return to the school. Who can blame him? Following presumably
IN the last two weeks both the Government and the Opposition have made statements about the money spent by Local Education Authorities (LEAs). Though saying different things, they both imply that LEAs spend a lot on red tape at the expense of children
NESTL has invested £200 million in its York factory over the last decade and has no intention of writing off such an investment. York MP Hugh Bayley says that was the strongly reassuring message he received from the company's UK boss Peter Blackburn during
I RECENTLY filled in the council's consultation document about leisure facilities at the city's swimming baths. Just one question of my own. Did the 26,000 petitioners who were hoodwinked into supporting the retention of these loss-making establishments
Eating disorder man refused help. A YORK man who died of an eating disorder blamed an acne drug for causing the fear of doctors and medication which made him refuse treatment for his condition. An inquest heard ten doctors and five hospitals were unable
MIDFIELDER Marc Thompson and veteran defender Chris Fairclough are set to miss out on York City's opening two pre-season fixtures. Thompson has returned to training after picking up a calf strain but a cautious York manager Terry Dolan has ruled the youngster
City signing former England Under-21 international Potter. YORK City were this afternoon signing West Bromwich Albion's former England Under-21 international Graham Potter. The 25-year-old has agreed terms and was being put through a medical at Green
YORK City chief Terry Dolan has irons in the forward fire after missing out on ace marksmen Luke Beckett. The City boss has stepped up his hunt for new strikers after prime target Beckett pledged his allegiance to Division Three rivals Chesterfield -
YORK City's hopes of keeping hold of Northern Ireland international Alan Fettis have been boosted by the news that Burnley have pulled out of the race for his signature. But at the same time, Terry Dolan's reported bid to land ace marksmen Luke Beckett
A HESLINGTON grandad has won unanimous acclaim in his village after publishing his childhood memories. Donald Ward, 74, who has lived in Heslington for most of his life, decided that he would record bits and pieces about his childhood to amuse his two
A RARE orchid blooming in the middle of York's Tang Hall estate sparked a massive operation to save it from destruction. A fleet of trucks carried 50 tonnes of earth five miles across the city in an effort to save the plant as building work crushed its
A DRIVER who killed his teenage passenger in a horrific head-on crash was today starting a one-year jail sentence. But the sentence handed down to Christopher Fithian-Franks, who was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving, did nothing to console
Darren Lehmann made further progress towards becoming the first batsman in the country to reach 1,000 first class runs this season when Yorkshire resumed on 144 for three against Somerset at Scarborough today. Yorkshire began the second day only 38 runs
YORK City Supporters Club are closing in on their first milestone in the quest for a 1,500-strong membership. Ray Wynn, secretary of the organisation, revealed the club is confident the 100-barrier has already been passed during the opening phase of recruitment
WORK has started in earnest on York's Millennium Bridge - but the opening has been delayed by another month. In March the Evening Press reported that the 250-ton structure was to be launched across the River Ouse and placed on its foundations in August
REINSTATING the Malton to Pickering railway line is possible - at a cost of £19 million, a new report has revealed. The three-month feasibility study has confirmed that much of the original railway route, which was closed in the 1960s, still exists, although
Bradford City have reportedly tabled a £2million bid for Manchester United's former York City starlet Jonathan Greening. After the Bantam's recently won their fight against relegation manager Paul Jewell is said to be looking towards youth for next season
Forward thinking Terry Dolan received a massive boost today with teenage starlets Christian Fox and Lee Bullock pledging their allegiances to the Minstermen. The midfield duo, who still had a year to run on their current deals at Bootham Crescent, have
BATTLING Simon Dyson made a promising start to his first Open championship by going round the Old Course at St Andrews in par 72. That has given him a good chance of making the cut after the compeletion of the second round tomorrow. Two great drives over
THESE days we are not only bombarded by junk mail. Junk faxes, junk e-mail and even junk compact discs arrive in our homes, unsolicited and unwanted. Michael McCulloch, of Coda Avenue, Bishopthorpe, was so fed up with receiving CD Roms offering access
CHRIS TITLEY goes on patrol with the men who know where you live and what you're watching... LAST Thursday at 12.43pm a household in Heslington Lane, York, was tuned in to Call My Bluff. How do I know? Because I was watching it with them. Had the resident
THE European Commission is a cumbersome centralised bureaucracy which to a large extent has failed to deliver what the people want. It is hugely expensive to operate, it is autocratic to the point of arrogance in its attitude to any form of democratic
DRIFFIELD Forward on July 13 were 205 sheep including one ewe; 177 pigs including 21 sows. Sheep: spring lambs, standard to £33.50/head or 88p/kg (81.7p), med to £37.20 91p (86.2p), heavy to £39.80 or 83p; others, ewes to £4.50 per head. Pigs: gilts to
NORTH Yorkshire's farmers must change their methods to survive the crisis affecting their industry, rural business experts have said. The warning comes just days before a hard-hitting Channel 4 documentary called Dying Breed hits television screens, highlighting
THE Millennium Great Yorkshire Show has been another huge success, according to director Christopher Hall. Speaking after thousands braved poor weather forecasts to attend the north's biggest celebration of farming and country life, he said the 50th show
FARMERS were told that Britain's strong pound is largely out of the Government's control. Countryside Minister Elliot Morley told farmers at this year's Great Yorkshire Show that the economy's strength was due to "global" forces. He said: "There is no
SELBY farmer Frank Howie now owns one of the Great Yorkshires Show's arable contest trophies after being named winner for the third year. His remarkable achievements earned him special permission not to return the prize at the end of the year. He has
A PRESTIGIOUS timber award has been given to the Castle Howard Estate. Great Yorkshire show judges chose the Ryedale estate as winner of the John Boddy Timber Disc competition in the forestry section of the event. Castle Howard's head forester Stuart
THE recent outbreaks of pig diseases, porcine dermatis nephropathy syndrome (PDNS) and post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in the UK are raising concerns. As yet knowledge about disease transmission is limited and the best advice for concerned
A FARM near Pocklington has won an award for its responsible use of fertilisers. Warter Priory Farms, scooped the northern region Nitram Award and is now a candidate for the year 2000 national title. The arable and beef farm, of more than 10,000 acres
CEREAL growers should be aiming for maximum quality, advises HGCA, after issuing an estimate of record wheat plantings across Britain. Based on the 2000 Planting Survey, total wheat acreage in Great Britain is 2.1m hectares, up 14pc from last year. HGCA
