If you want to get ahead, get a hat. That was the marketing slogan of the British Hat Council in the 1930s. A time when no stylish man or woman would venture out in public without a hat. With the gradual decline of hat wearing, the slogan re-appeared
David Ashton's rather barking comments (Labour on the slide, September 30) really do leave one wondering about the Tory fiefdom that is North Yorkshire County Council. Just a few weeks ago, Coun Ashton was criticising his party leader, who implicitly
CHILDREN and parents helped staff at Robert Wilkinson Primary School in Strensall celebrate achieving an award for quality. The school has been awarded a quality mark by the Basic Skills Agency for teaching in literacy, numeracy and other basic skills
POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for a York pensioner who went missing from her home a week ago. Gladys Paylor, 71, was last seen in the north of the city last Monday and police have had no luck in tracing her. They have received numerous calls
UNREQUITED love turned a student into a stalker and brought terror and depression to the life of his victim, a court heard. When Leo McNeil fell for dancer Suzannah Welch, a fellow student at Harrogate College, he bombarded her with phone calls, letters
THE FIGHT for a York charity's future has been taken directly to prime minister Tony Blair. A desperate plea for the country's leader to save SNAPPY has been sent to 10 Downing Street by Sandra Shaw, from Skelton, whose 13-year-old son, Ashley, has cerebral
The Prince of Wales followed in the footsteps of Hollywood stars yesterday when he visited the Ryedale town of Pickering. Hundreds of spectators turned out to greet the Prince who arrived at Pickering's Railway Station riding in the driver's compartment
A leading fruit machine supplier has taken steps to reassure pub landlords over the illegal gambling scam revealed in last week's Evening Press. York Coin and Leisure, who supply machines to nearly 300 pubs in the area, have been swamped by calls from
Harrogate Town boss Mick Hennigan will be without the three players he signed last month for tonight's trip to Lincoln United - and whether they play again this season is in the balance. Andy Couzens, Barry Shuttleworth and Dylan Kerr registered to play
North Yorkshire trading standards officers uncovered a massive scam that fleeced tens of thousands of businesses countrywide, Leeds Crown court heard. They were working jointly with colleagues in Cheshire, Lancashire and Manchester in what is believed
A BLAZE ripped through an empty flat in York early today, destroying the roof and damaging the shop below. Three pumps, from York and Acomb, attended the fire, which wrecked a bedroom and damaged the roof of the building in Tang Hall Lane. There was some
THE elegant arch of York's new Millennium Bridge rises above the banks of the River Ouse. The structure, inspired by the simple design of a bicycle wheel, is now almost ready to be swung out over the water from its resting place near Rowntree Park, and
GERMAN striker Sini Savic could make his Scarborough debut tonight as Chester City visit the McCain Stadium. The 19-year-old, who has joined in a loan deal from First Division Barnsley, was registered just too late for Saturday's victory over Woking,
OXFORD United were today set to name a caretaker manager after former York City boss Denis Smith resigned. However, Smith, 52, is set to stay with the struggling Second Division side as an advisor. Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Bristol City saw the Us
YORK City boss Terry Dolan is tonight set to cast his eye over flying Dutchman Theodor Gunnissen. Winger Gunnissen, 23, has been named in the City reserve starting line-up to face Shrewsbury Town at Bootham Crescent (kick-off 7pm) after international
YORK City chief Terry Dolan today landed former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international Kieron Durkan on a month's loan from Macclesfield Town. The 26-year-old Chester-born right-sided player stated his career with Wrexham before moving to Stockport
YORKSHIRE Forward, the regional development agency will prove just how forward it is in a brand new campaign to market Yorkshire as the place to be for business. Over the next six months posters will declare "Yorkshire's got more balls", referring to
WITH one almighty bound ... a London travel firm, kangaroo in tow, has headed for York as its northern base - and stand by for rapid expansion offering 20 jobs to the city. Quest Travel, based at Kingston-upon-Thames, in Surrey, which specialises in worldwide
A YORK man has been appointed chairman of the building surveying division of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) Yorkshire branch. Stephen Macey, aged 31, from Copmanthorpe, is an associate director at Chesterton's Leeds office, where
A NEW financial advisory partnership and an established York insurance broker are today settling into their new "marriage home". The newly-formed Grosvenor Financial Consultants and BA Insurance Services Group which took root in Walmgate, have now moved
Bowling bags, belts and beige are big trends for autumn. MAXINE GORDON reveals the coolest looks for the chilly season. HERE'S some news to warm your heart as the temperature drops: autumn fashions have rarely been so hot. Fun, funky and feminine... that's
YORK'S notorious blackspot railway signal is to have an advance warning system installed to prevent accidents, it was announced today. Signal Y304, just outside York Station, was identified on a national list of rail safety 'flashpoints' in the wake of
THE residents of the Copmanthorpe ward have received the latest diatribe to emanate from the Liberal Democrats, and it is with some sense of sorrow that I feel a response is necessary to some of the comments. The Conservative Group did abstain on the
CONCERN was expressed in a letter from A M Walton (Letters, September 14) that the WRVS service to patients and visitors would be lost when the main entrance at York District Hospital was re-developed. I can assure your readers that this excellent and
FURTHER to my letter published on Saturday, I was pleased to see the lights and cones dismantled on Saturday, and I thought how marvellous, the power of the press. On Sunday afternoon, however, as Richard Wilson would say "I don't believe it", they were
A FORMAL civic celebration was taking place today over a £23 million buy-out of a high-tech York firm. California-based Accent Semi-Conductor Technologies, has acquired the semi-conductor measurements division of Bio-Rad, which employs 90 people at its
ARCHAEOLOGISTS investigating York's Viking past have discovered exciting new evidence which shows our ancient ancestors had their heads in the clouds. Dr Richard Hall, of York Archaeological Trust, who directed the original Coppergate dig 20 years ago
THE mother of two girls suffering the emotional scars of being indecently assaulted has spoken of her relief that their abuser's appeal against his jail sentence was dismissed. Steve Hartas, 31, of Thornton, near Pocklington, was sentenced at Hull Crown
York Groves upset top of the table Earlsheaton with a superb 29-14 success in rugby league's Yorkshire League division five. Scrum-half John Thompson opened the scoring for the Terriers with a penalty before Martin Simpson broke through to touch down.
City of York Ladies Hockey Club failed to baptise their new name with a win in the season's opening North League game as they disappointingly slipped 5-1 at home to Leyland. The former York Ladies side, who merged with the City of York club this summer
CITY of York found that measuring league form against their cup exploits is a worthless occupation. After beating last season's Northern Counties premier division champions Sheffield in the National HA Cup last weekend, they fancied their chances of opening
A year on from the Paddington rail disaster, Stephen Lewis asks regional Railtrack chief Nicholas Pollard what, if anything, has been learned from the tragedy. At 8am on October 5 last year commuters on the 6.03am Cheltenham to Paddington train would
Thirsk trainer David Barron and Sheriff Hutton jockey Kevin Darley, who joined forces to land the major race at Redcar last Saturday, can make another successful strike further from home tomorrow. The North Yorkshire duo are represented at Lingfield by
Brian Turner has put his life in a book - along with some of the recipes he's gathered over the years. CHARLES HUTCHINSON tucks in. BRIAN Turner, the Yorkshireman chef with the London restaurant and a regular supply of television work, has a new book
MOST rail passengers felt uneasy as they climbed aboard their first train after the Paddington disaster. They found the sheer scale of the horror impossible to forget. Anxiety grew after it was revealed that the likely cause of the crash - a train passing
As York's Millennium Bridge across the River Ouse takes a visible shape, we can now begin to realise just what this celebration structure will mean to the city. Only now can residents appreciate the vision of the bridge's architects and designers when
