A York woman's passion for dance has given her a double "lifeline" following an horrific accident. Line dancing instructor Jane Wilson was told by doctors she was "a millimetre" from losing the use of her legs after she suffered a spinal fracture and
One good example of what to expect is Rosie Pressland and her amazing Pocklington Montessori School. Her categories are Small Business of the Year, the Progress Through People Award and, unsurprisingly, Business Personality of the Year In nine years,
THEY are queuing up to enter our Evening Press Business Awards 2000. Firms throughout North and East Yorkshire, large, medium and small, from Plcs to start-ups have been latching on to our most glamorous benchmark of business excellence in the 10 years
WHEN two young Glaswegian girls open a bright yellow caf in the middle of York, you know it has to be something special. And Victor J's on Finkle Street retains a unique position among York's myriad pubs and restaurants. The two young owners, Jennifer
SITTING in his local, supping a pint of Old Peculier, you would never guess that the morris-dancer cum folk festival organiser in front of you was at the helm of a multi-million pound cutting edge business. Offering Internet access to a village pub has
Asda prides itself on its low prices - for fashions as well as food. But what about the quality? We ask a York family of four to road test the new autumn styles from its George fashion label. ONE hundred pounds goes an awful long way at George at Asda
Few men know more about moisturisers than John Gustafson. MAXINE GORDON catches up with the colourful TV cosmetics expert ahead of his flying visit to York next week. WHEN John Gustafson recommends a new beauty product, it's worth taking notice. The cosmetics
J ROGERS' amusing letter, showing our farm stall complete with the 'Locally grown sausages' sign gave us much pleasure (September 23). We can, however, save gardening writer Gina Parkinson any trouble in answering the query. Anyone visiting our stall
MANY years ago when I was young my mother used to say: "I'll give you a medal when the treacle tin is empty". I should like to announce two new Olympic events - Passing The Buck and The Hot Potato. It takes much practice, a great deal of skill... and
THE RSPCA today blasted as "disgraceful" advertising hoardings claiming it is behind animal cruelty. Posters have appeared outside Circus King big tops in Yorkshire alleging the RSPCA "gave police three dogs to kick and torture to death". Despite police
Gossiping girlfriends will be bowled over by the latest in toilet technology at a Harrogate showbar. Applause, a £1 million showbar and restaurant due to open next week, is the first bar in North Yorkshire to feature the unusual "twobicles". Joint owner
Selby rugby union club's under-13s turned the tables on their Pocklington counterparts to dominate their clash and run home winners by 43-19. Pocklington have won this fixture more often than not in the recent past, but Selby made the transition to playing
Promising snooker star Lee Gregson has won his first competition - at the age of six. The Stockton on the Forest youngster, pictured left, lifted the junior doubles tournament held at the Manhattan Snooker Club, while playing alongside his 11-year-old
Joiner Phil Mead has built himself an academic reputation by becoming the first York College student to gain a first-class honours degree in building. The 32-year-old Huby man's learning curve actually started with the college when he left school with
A hastily arranged fixture saw Heworth rugby league club's Under-14s travel to Sheffield to play Eckington Eagles and record a resounding 52-16 victory. A solid defence, with Marcus Allan, Mathew Derry, Craig Griffiths and Joe Hodgson all prominent, subdued
YORK Acorn 'A' rugby league club picked up their first Yorkshire League division four point of the season with a creditable 20-20 home draw against Castleford Panthers 'A'. Winger Paul Sawyer raced in for a hat-trick of tries, two of which were from long
A bus operator is abandoning a town link service in Malton because of the rising cost of fuel. Yorkshire Coastliner Ltd (YCL) says revenue is insufficient to cover increasing costs, and running the number 93 Townlink Service is no longer economically
WHAT a last-minute deluge! Now that the deadline has passed, judges in our tenth annual Evening Press Business Awards have a lot of reading to do. They have the unenviable task of finding the best among of scores of entries in a bumper year when regional
IF exporting is a tough enterprise right now, then few come tougher than Roland Hudson. Since he and his wife Evelyn started Interpower International Ltd at New Road, Kirkbymoorside in 1984, designing and manufacturing generators, their products have
City of York defied the odds to reach the second round of the English HA National Cup. They faced Sheffield, last term's Northern Premiership champions and the club who had knocked City out of this season's Yorkshire Cup, and came away with a hard earned
STEPHEN LEWIS wanders into the kitchen but declines to take sides in the great TV cookery debate. THE oven gloves are off. TV's prim and proper Delia Smith, reigning schoolmistress of celebrity chefs, has turned against some of her more unbuttoned rivals
BRITAIN is a divided nation, split between old and young, rich and poor, North and South, the haves and have-nots. Now another social inequality can be added to that list: the mobile and the immobile. While Government ministers glide around the country
ONLY yesterday, the Evening Press was extolling the health benefits of dance in our new Impressions section. For one York line dancer that article must have rung especially true: her passion for the art saved her from paralysis. Without the muscle strength
'Let the train take the strain', advised British Rail's 1970 advertisement. Unfortunately, like British Rail, the slogan is no longer used. Now it's the passengers' patience and purses that are strained. A case in point: a pensioner friend wanted to attend
A design company may have to close after 27 years in business because of the mess squatters leave on its doorstep. Used nappies and human excrement are among the rubbish left on the site of Design Services at Seafire Close, Clifton Moor. Malcolm Harrison
THERE'S gelt in gifts of gadgets and gismos and if you want to find out exactly how much ask David Tysall of Response Marketing, of York. He can shower you 250 calculators at a time so your sums can't go too wrong. For that matter he can throw in a host
CYCLE shops - even in York, the cycling city - have had to pedal hard to survive the steep economic slopes in the bad times and pressure from huge competition in the good times. Some sturdy independents like the 96-year-old Russells Cycles at Toft Green
FOR top designers, fine fragrances are an important complement to their fashion collections. Most of us can but dream of wearing some exquisite creation hot off the catwalk. Let's face it: the closest we'll get to wearing Cerruti or Chanel is a dab of
STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to former athlete, dancer and Radio 4 journalist Yasmin Heesom about life with MS. WHO ever said life was fair? In the sitting room of her comfortable home in Fulford, Yasmin Heesom is watching the Olympics. Aboriginal athlete Cathy
THE more I hear about the 'Doomed Dome' the more I am reminded of George Orwell's political satire, Animal Farm. For while the 'pigs' became fat, enjoyed life in the Farmhouse and changed the laws to suit themselves, the other animals had less, worked
TO answer T B Woodward (Letters, September 22), farmers are not the only ones using low-taxed fuel. Every machine that works totally "off road" can do so and, more importantly, heating oil is tax free. If all fuel has to be taxed at the same rate, bills
GEORGE WILKINSON steps into autumn with a walk out Dalby Forest way. THE barmy blockades are over but they have certainly concentrated the mind on perhaps the main environmental issue of our time. As I encourage people to drive hither and thither, I had
LORD Stones Caf is discreet, buried in the ground on the edge of the Cleveland Hills; busy though. Mountain bikers stretched and loosened up in their Lycra, leather-clad motorcyclists psyched up for their blast through Bilsdale, heavy-duty walkers marched
Neighbours and workers who pulled together to rescue a vandal-hit community won praise from councillors today. The plaudits for law-abiding people and community staff in the Etty Avenue area of Tang Hall came as City of York Council approved a £70,000
Animal rights campaigners angered at "cruel" slaughterhouse practices were today protesting in York. Activists are accusing the slaughter industry of causing unnecessary suffering to many pigs, sheep, cattle and poultry by failing to stun animals properly
A football fan who defied police advice to keep out of York City's ground has been banned from soccer matches for three years. An officer spotted that Mark Stephen Walker, aged 45, was drunk as he and 11 others approached Bootham Crescent ten minutes
A vision of Viking York as a major European city is to be stamped all over the soon-to-be transformed Jorvik Centre. Archaeologists who worked to unearth the Coppergate site have been frustrated to learn that many visitors to the existing attraction leave
Plans to reinstate the railway link between Malton and Pickering were today given cautious support by the North York Moors National Park Authority. But members say they are concerned that the £19 million project could sap cash from the successful Moors
There's no holding the holdersFAVOURITES Louise Lister and Wendy Stirke retained the IT Sports Fulford Ladies Invitation League doubles tournament at Fulford. The York tennis club pairing won their group, beating all the other five couple, then beat group
AN illegal scam is netting gamblers in York thousands of pounds a year from pub fruit machines, the Evening Press can exclusively reveal today. Some cheats are earning up to £25,000 a year from the machines. They are using a 'refill key' to ensure they
NO one in the construction industry was surprised in the least when Sir Michael Latham dropped in on the Harrison Construction team the other day as it worked on the site of York's new, prestigious £4 million Piccadilly hotel development. Sir Michael
IF EVER there was a tip for the top it's Dennis Vallins' new venture which is destined to reach peaks of which few are capable. Mr Vallins, 44, of The Croft, Tollerton Road, Huby, near Easingwold, enters the new business category as a high access rope
WHEN the Evening Press announced the launch last April of expatshopping.com with the headline, It Ain't Half Dotcom, it sparked national - and international - headlines. It was great news for the 13.5 million Britons living abroad, most of whom yearn
YORK City goalkeeper Russ Howarth is at the forefront of young England's charge to the European Championships. The teenage starlet has been named in the England under-18 squad to take part in a preliminary mini-tournament in Acona, eastern Italy, between
