York needs new attractions In the week that City of York Council voted to close one museum, the prospect of another, very different, attraction is unveiled. Last night The York Story became a victim of the council's attempts to balance its budget. Today
Football: Opportunity knocks for Hawkins A hunger for action has turned York City's newest recruit Peter Hawkins into a happy Wimbledon wanderer, writes Dave Stanford. Rugby: Robinson to weed out under-achievers Tough-talking York Wasps coach Dean Robinson
Demonstrators fail to stop council cuts Angry council workers today heaped fresh condemnation on York's Labour-controlled council after it approved a controversial £4.7m cuts and tax package. Historians eye site for space theatre Proposals have emerged
Manor School pupil Simon Marks is looking sharp. SWORD SKILLS: Ace fencer Simon Marks has been picked for the Northern Ireland squad for the forthcoming Home Internationals The 15-year-old has been selected for Northern Ireland in the under-16s Fencing
Tough-talking York Wasps coach Dean Robinson is on the brink of wielding the axe to make an example of under-achieving players. Robinson's patience has finally run out after seeing his team pick up just one win from their opening seven Northern Ford Premiership
A hunger for action has turned York City's newest recruit Peter Hawkins into a happy Wimbledon wanderer, writes Dave Stanford. SETTLING IN: Defender Peter Webster, York City's loan signing from Wimbledon at Bootham Crescent Starved of first-team opportunities
Experts at York University have revealed that fewer than a third of heart attack victims are receiving the vital treatment they need to recover. The British Heart Foundation Rehabilitation Research Unit, directed by Professor Bob Lewin, said that only
One of the hard-working supporters of St Leonard's Hospice, in York, wants to say a big thank you to the shops, businesses and residents of Stamford Bridge. Maureen Pearson has recently handed in over £550 for our Hospice 2000 Appeal, raised locally from
Midwife Ruth Thompson says she feels like a new woman after losing almost seven stones. The new, slimline, Ruth Thompson, who has dieted from a size 22 to a size 14 Picture: Steven Bradshaw The super slimmer is almost half the size she used to be, and
York health chiefs were due to receive some good news on waiting lists today. The board of the York Health Trust was being told it will probably meet its basic in-patient target for the year - despite the problems caused by this winter's flu epidemic.
York's traffic wardens were today told their jobs will be abolished from October 8. Senior traffic warden, John Mackfall, said their work would be carried out by council wardens and regular police officers after City of York Council took control of on-street
Proposals have emerged for a "second Eye of York"- with a multi-million pound state-of-the-art planetarium at its centre. The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, former owner of the Museum Gardens, wants to incorporate them into a St Mary's Abbey Precinct
Angry council workers today heaped fresh condemnation on York's Labour-controlled council after it approved a controversial £4.7m cuts and tax package. CUT IT OUT: Protesters holding a variety placards gather outside the Guildhall before the meeting of
As a contribution to the debate on the Church of England's attitude to divorcees re-marrying in church I should like to relate a true story. Some time ago the daughter of a friend of mine (a spinster) wished to marry a divorcee, a man whose wife had left
Hasn't the penny dropped about Gerry Adams and his Sinn Fein involvement? From the start of the peace talks he and his compatriots have made it clear that they will never give up their weapons - and say 'no' to disarmament talks. He has always blamed
The police say they have had no complaints about parking or disturbances around what we shall now have to learn to call the Takeaway Gate to York (Extension Generates Kentucky Fried Friction, February 16). The residents themselves deal with very many
A York pensioner has received a royal reply to a letter she wrote praising the Queen Mother. Joan Merryweather, 77, wrote to the Evening Press and the Duke of York detailing her outrage at the comments of clergyman Dr John Roden, who claimed the Queen
The battle of the York University ladies teams saw the Staff team beat the Students 5-4 in ladies division two of York Badminton League. Sally Locker and Lynne Terry put in the match-winning display with three wins for 127-81, including a 15-8 15-17 15
Should you take an invitation to join the Monster Raving Loony Party as a compliment? Eddie Vee seems to have done. York's Elvis impersonator is considering the offer to become an official Loony after a recent television appearance raised his profile.Eddie
Legal Right a horse plagued by lameness, can prove his high-class status by taking the major honours at Wincanton tomorrow. The £25,000 Jim Ford Challenge Cup - one of the four televised races from the course in a Channel 4 double-header with Huntingdon
In the week that City of York Council voted to close one museum, the prospect of another, very different, attraction is unveiled. Last night The York Story became a victim of the council's attempts to balance its budget. Today a proposal to create a planetarium
A man who brandished a Gurkha knife at a group of stick-wielding men was trying to break up a disturbance, a court heard. Malcolm John McKenzie, aged 45, of Shannon House, Margaret Street, York, was arrested by police who were forced to seal off White
Where will all the extra KFC cars park? The police say they have had no complaints about parking or disturbances around what we shall now have to learn to call the Takeaway Gate to York (Extension Generates Kentucky Fried Friction, February 16). Disarming
Eddie Vee: "I might win a lot of votes" Elvis has been invited to take to the political stage as a loony. York-based impersonator Eddie Vee, also known as Graham Cambridge, from Wenham Road, Foxwood, has been urged to join the Official Monster Raving
