POLICE were today trying to establish contact with a man who barricaded himself inside a flat in Scarborough after threatening to shoot officers. A police spokesman said a 32-year-old local man had shut himself up inside the flat in North Marine Road,
YORK City boss Terry Dolan is relishing an unusual chance to be ruthless ahead of the Minstermen's first trip to Kidderminster Harriers. With the midfield duo of Steve Agnew and Kevin Hulme available, Dolan admits he is spoilt for choice in the City engine
ALEX Mathie fired himself into the reckoning for a first team recall as York City drew 1-1 with Premiership outfit Middlesbrough in a behind-closed-doors friendly at the Premiership club's Rockliffe Park training complex. Mathie, who has not started a
IN the wake of the gross Farrelly Brothers and the goofing Adam Sandler comes the dimmest dumb American comedy of 2000, Ready To Rumble: celluloid waste dumped on Britain at the bin-end of the movie year. It cannot be easy trying to satirise wrestling
LEONARD Shelby would not remember a word of this review. Since the rape and murder of his wife, he has suffered from short-term memory loss, a rare disorder that renders him incapable of forming new memories and enables innovative film-maker Christopher
I LIVED on the Wain Homes estate in Barlby until November 4 when we were flooded out. My husband, one-year-old daughter and myself were alerted to the flooding by a police announcement outside our home at 11pm on November 3. At no point were we given
I was 60 on October 1 and was looking forward to winter fuel payments. I am told the qualifying date was September 24. Is this correct? Mrs S Hope, Bishopthorpe Road, York.
A YORK multiple sclerosis victim is off to New York in the New Year in a bid to beat her crippling pain, after receiving £500 from a pub. The Gimcrack, in Fulford Road, raised the money for Yasmin Heesom during a big fun day earlier this year. Customers
ROOKES United collected their first points of the season with a totally unexpected 2-1 win at title contenders Drax United in the first division of the York Sunday Afternoon League. All was going to form for second-placed Drax as Pete Cunnington gave
SELBY side T&L overwhelmed Marton-cum-Grafton 7-0 in their York City and District FA Saturday Junior Cup third round game. It was one of a batch of York FA cup games which were delayed a week because of the floods, but T&L were on top form with
POST Office Minister Alan Johnson today warned that the biggest danger facing the post office network was a lack of people entering the business. He is concerned that prospective sub-postmasters are shying away from opening a post office because the future
THE £60 million application to transform the area near Clifford's Tower into shops has won crucial backing from planning officers. But they say Land Securities' Coppergate Riverside proposals should first be referred to Secretary of State John Prescott
LEADING rugby league official Gerry Kershaw is on top of the world after being named as the video referee for the sport's most prestigious event. Kershaw, head of the sixth form at Easingwold School, will be keeping a watchful eye over tomorrow's World
ONE of the most extensive programmes of emergency flood defence work ever taken in the region has been launched - to stop a repeat of the recent devastation. The programme follows two weeks of intensive survey work by the Environment Agency to assess
LOAN ranger Chris Iwelumo is gunning to leave Kidderminster Harriers chief Jan Molby ruing what might have been. Molby and his goal-shy Harriers were known to be closing in on the striker earlier this month before Iwelumo committed himself to the Bootham
AN investigation was today under way into the cause of a fire which ripped through a York community centre. The blaze at Tang Hall Community Centre has left dozens of local groups, sports teams and clubs homeless for the foreseeable future. More than
The American Presidential elections have become more farcical than an episode of Fawlty Towers, and Internet pundits have attacked the subject with relish. Digital Media Manager HOWARD DAVIS rounds up the best sites. I've held off for two weeks now, but
The brilliant Barton is back. Tim Easterby's stable-star, the outstanding novice hurdler of two years ago, returns to action tomorrow after having missed all last season through injury. Newcastle's £37,000 Pertemps Fighting Fifth Hurdle is the target
NORTH Yorkshire police's policy of targeting known offenders continues to reap rewards. Today it was revealed that burglaries in York have dropped by nearly a third. Look beyond the statistics and the real value of this achievement emerges. People across
A FORMER Lord Mayor of York will be demoted to the humble office of Mayor of Clecklewyke next week when he treads the boards of Friargate Theatre, York. Councillor David Wilde, who has represented the Walmgate ward on the City of York Council for 20 years
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Jan Molby has completed a hectic week of transfer business with his third signing in four days. Molby yesterday sealed the capture of Frenchman Parfait Medou-Otye after contract talks had earlier stalled. Medou-Otye, dubbed
LOAN ranger Chris Iwelumo is gunning to leave Kidderminster Harriers chief Jan Molby ruing what might have been. Molby and his goal-shy Harriers were known to be closing in on the striker earlier this month before Iwelumo committed himself to the Bootham
ALL flying kicks and hair flicks, Charlie's Angels was a kitsch Seventies' TV classic with an impact way beyond its 'artistic merits'. Those angel delights teased boys with fantasy foxy sleuths and brought the first flash of girl power with its supergirl
WEIRDER even thant Memento is Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, a gay stalker comedy on the theme of obsession. Very straight Chuck (Chris Weitz) and bent Buck (scriptwriter Mike White) were childhood best pals in 1973, since when smooth Chuck has climbed
I strongly object to Stephen Lewis's comments (Back To Our Routes, November 21), for the following reasons: u We seem to be blamed for his long wait in New Lane. Our Y28 bus was on time, and it is not our fault that he arrived early for it. u First York
I AM hoping to encourage friendly and hospitable people in and around York to join an existing group of volunteer families who, from time to time during the year, invite international students into their homes for a weekend. These students can be from
I AM not surprised that the standard of TV chefs' hygiene is being called into question. If you were at a catering college or top hotel you would have to adhere to very strict rules of cleanliness. It is hypocritical of TV chefs to convey this kind of
THE waiting is over. Today, the PlayStation 2 is launched in the UK, and it's not just games fans up and down the country who are on tenterhooks as Sony's new machine is unveiled. For the PlayStation 2 offers far more than its predecessor. The PS2 is
POTATO growers across North and East Yorkshire are set to lose thousands of pounds because the floods have left their fields water-logged and unworkable. The growers are still harvesting their crop, months later than usual, and farmers say the situation
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers boss Jan Molby has completed a hectic week of transfer business with his third signing in four days. Molby yesterday sealed the capture of Frenchman Parfait Medou-Otye after contract talks had earlier stalled. Medou-Otye, dubbed
Changes are on the horizon for children's pre-school education and care in York with the introduction of a new admissions system for primary schools. Janet Hewison reports. PARENTS wanting to sort out care for their youngest children when they go back
High-flying Pickering Town face another test of their credentials when they entertain second-placed Parkgate in division one of the Northern Counties East League. The Pikes - whose FA Carlsberg Vase clash at Marske United has been rearranged for Monday
FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue of a York slimmers' group as they struggled to decide who should win the sexiest slimmer crown. Dringhouses and St Chad's Church Slimming World groups from St Chad's Church, Campleshon Road, York, and Dringhouses Church
RYEDALE residents have been warned to be on their guard against one of the many nasty calling cards left by the floods - rats. A number of residents have recently reported seeing the vermin, and not in their usual haunts such as farmyards or rubbish dumps
SCARBOROUGH caretaker manager Neil Thompson goes head-to-head with his predecessor tomorrow in what could be Boro's toughest test of an already troublesome season. Former boss Colin Addison returns to the McCain Stadium for the first time since leaving
A SELBY man accused of child porn offences has been bailed by a magistrates court to reappear in court in three weeks time. Martin Shergold, 50, faces three charges of making indecent photographs of children at Selby in July and August of this year, contrary
York Wasps will unveil their new kit at a launch night next week. The style of the new strip has been kept a closely guarded secret since it was revealed they would be changing from the shirts worn during the last two seasons. Players and sponsors will
POLICE in York today hailed a "phenomenal" drop in house burglaries across the city, but called on city residents to play their part in driving crime down further still. Figures released today show the number of house break-ins fell by nearly a third
YORK driver Simon Redhead produced a fine run in today's opening stage of the Network Q Rally to move up the field in dramatic fashion. He had struggled to 91st place overnight after clocking two minutes 48.3 seconds in yesterday's 1.5 mile Cardiff super
YORK was bathed in a blaze of Yuletide light as the Coppergate Centre Christmas lights were switched on in zany fashion. The city's princes of pantomime Berwick Kaler and Martin Barrass, both in full panto get-up, joined Lord Mayor of York Shan Braund
YORK City boss Terry Dolan is relishing an unusual chance to be ruthless ahead of the Minstermen's first trip to Kidderminster Harriers. With the midfield duo of Steve Agnew and Kevin Hulme available, Dolan admits he is spoilt for choice in the City engine
Who or what is York Tomorrow? CHRIS TITLEY finds out. JUST as it seemed there could be no further plot twists to the Coppergate Riverside story, up popped York Tomorrow. Don't slap a shopping centre on to the Castle car park site, this mysterious group
THE new threat to Britain's post offices is a recruitment crisis, Alan Johnson warned today. The post offices minister should realise that the Government shares the blame for this problem. Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post
York Wasps will unveil their new kit at a launch night next week. The style of the new strip has been kept a closely guarded secret since it was revealed they would be changing from the shirts worn during the last two seasons. Players and sponsors will
