Yorkshire skipper David Byas today praised the fighting qualities of his team after they scored a double top at the weekend. Ten points from their rain affected drawn match with Derbyshire at Derby on Saturday gave them an eight point lead at the top
YORK Coronary Support Group thanks everyone who gave so generously to their collections at Sainsburys, Foss Bank on February 18 and 19 and Tesco, Askham Bar on April 8. The total amount raised was £707.78. Your support is very much appreciated. All proceeds
WILL Shipton Street School be closed? Is such a final step really necessary? In the 1980s my two young children attended this infant school and spent the early, very important and informative years of their lives there - happily! There was always a kind
A YORK pensioner fleeced of thousands in a timeshare scam today told of his delight that five businessmen face jail for the crime. John Davidson and his wife, Vera, were among up to 17,000 holidaymakers who lost money in the £30m swindle involving resorts
Woman victim of attack in own home A WOMAN was raped by an intruder who broke into her York home in broad daylight, police revealed today. Detectives believe the rape may have been an opportunist crime committed by a burglar who was disturbed after entering
IN previous centuries, Yorkshire folk fought wars to protect our homeland. Latterly, the Evening Press and others have run campaigns to demonstrate our fierce loyalty to the broad acres. Anyone who meets a Yorkshireman is soon aware of his pride in his
Yorkshire and England all-rounder Craig White, who collapsed in the street in his home town of Scarborough on Tuesday, will have a brain scan next week after continuing to rest over the next few days. White's illness means he is certain to miss Yorkshire's
Rating: 15 Duration: 97 minutes Reviewed: May 19 2000 When Winona Ryder jumped ship at the last minute, Sofia Coppola was pressed into service in The Godfather Part III. By keeping it in the family, in the Mafia tradition, Francis Ford Coppola did his
Rating: 15 Duration: 98 minutes Reviewed: May 19 2000 Matthew Perry is a miserable dentist with a phobia for operations, a toothache of a wife in Rosanna Arquette, and a new neighbour in his peaceful Montreal suburb in Bruce Willis, who has made a career
TURNING the town yellow is the latest colourful way to raise cash for our Hospice 2000 Appeal. One of York's most popular street performers - Mr Yellow - is giving his wholehearted support to this mellow initiative based on the colour of sunflowers, the
A York judge has warned that taking amphetamine can be worse than heroin because of its effect on the user's mind. Judge Jonathan Crabtree told addict Carolyn Ann Parker, 26, to get off the Class B drug to save herself and her three-year-old child. York
HOMECARERS have launched a campaign against plans to cut their wages that they said will damage help for the elderly. They claim City of York Council proposals, part of its Best Value programme, will leave staff underpaid and demoralised. Public service
PIG farmers in Yorkshire were blockading an Asda distribution centre early today in protest at the supermarket chain's "Roll Back" policy. The farmers, who have been losing money for two years, targeted a depot in Normanton, Wakefield, and blocked the
A TEAM of soldiers from York raced the sun in one of North Yorkshire's most gruelling races. The soldiers, who all serve with 2 Signal Regiment based at Imphal Barracks, canoed, cycled, swam and ran 182 miles around North Yorkshire to raise money for
Two young bowlers virtually new to coloured clothing cricket were chiefly responsible for Yorkshire Phoenix gaining a splendid victory over Gloucestershire Gladiators at Headingley yesterday. Phoenix won by 35 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system for
MAJOR construction work is to begin on a new roundabout designed to reduce accidents and relieve congestion on one of York's busiest junctions. The junction at Malton Road, Heworth Green, Stockton Lane and Heworth Road has been the scene of 17 road accidents
Yorkshire experienced their toughest day's cricket in the Championship so far this season but their depleted side were still happy to have Derbyshire on 285 for eight at the close. Three of the wickets fell to Paul Hutchison, who was drafted in at the
YORKSHIRE seamers Darren Gough and Craig White warmed up for next week's first Test against Zimbabwe by helping to fire out Hampshire for 101 at Headingley today after the visitors had won the toss. Gough claimed four for 23 and White three for 12 as
YORKSHIRE ran themselves out of the Benson and Hedges Cup at Headingley yesterday when they lost their quarter-final match against Surrey by seven runs with one ball remaining. SCOREBOARD Benson and Hedges Cup Quarter final Yorkshire v Surrey at Headingley
WING forward Jeremy Clutton was appointed York Rugby Union Club first team captain at the club's annual meeting. He will lead the team on the field when the first team kick-off next season in North Division Two East, a new division which is part of the
York's batsmen will be on their guard to make sure that Scarborough's massive Aussie opening bowler, Brad Wigney, does not get all his own way when the two local derby rivals meet in the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League at Clifton Park tomorrow (12noon
A TALENTED trio of young York footballers will be strutting their stuff for the county side having been picked for the Yorkshire Under-15s squad. Lowfield School pupil Michael Mackenzie, 14, Tadcaster Grammar's Graham Law, 15, and 15-year-old Martin Corr
Susan Osborn loved and worked for the National Health Service. But, in the final stages of her rare illness, she was on the receiving end of some terrible treatment, as Evening Press reporter Phillip Chapman exclusively reveals. FAILINGS of the NHS have
Three local cricketers have been called into the England squad for the Costcutter under-15 World Cricket Challenge. The trio - Sheriff Hutton's Nick Thornicroft, James Chervak of Harrogate and Fadmoor's Dan Broadbent - are among seven Yorkshire players
Mirfield-born Gary Ramsden will become one of the youngest fast bowlers every to turn out for Yorkshire if he is included in the team for tomorrow's PPP healthcare Championship match against Derbyshire at Derby. Ramsden celebrated his 17th birthday on
England today announced their squad for the first Test against Zimbabwe at Lord's next Thursday and just over a week ago Michael Vaughan was an odds-on certainty to be in it. But now he knows that when play begins the most he will be doing is monitoring
Take it from me, it won't be too long before England are sitting up and taking notice of Matthew Hoggard if he continues to bowl for Yorkshire as he has done in the first few weeks of the season. I've always believed that of Yorkshire's pack of young
AS a regular visitor to York I have noticed how unclean the city centre streets are becoming. We should not have to put up with dodging dog dirt, chewing gum, urine and vomit from the night before. Tourists will get the impression that York is not a city
YOUR feature (May 20) on our cycle try-out show at Knavesmire this coming weekend has caused some confusion - through no fault of your own. We are a York-based cycle publishing company, putting on this international cycling festival for the first time
Chris Titley must have a strange sense of values if he finds the photograph in the Evening Press (May 24) of a qualified instructor teaching youngsters how to use a shotgun safely on inanimate targets "far more shocking" than a picture of an African child
THE construction worker who was seriously injured when he fell 30 feet through a York DIY store roof has been named as 20-year-old Simon Pickering, who comes from Burythorpe, near Malton. Simon was first taken to York District Hospital after being found
Mpumelelo 'Pommie' Mbangwa sent Zimbabwe's confidence soaring sky high at Headingley yesterday by turning in the best bowling performance by a touring side against Yorkshire for 65 years. The 23-year-old paceman destroyed Yorkshire's batting in two lethal
Yorkshire, who are becoming known as "Byas's Babes" because of the youthfulness of some of their recent players, blood two more youngsters in the four-day match against Zimbabwe which starts at Headingley tomorrow. Reserve wicketkeeper, Simon Guy, 21,
JACK Straw is right to place the victims of crime "at the heart" of the justice system. For too long they have been left stranded as the judicial juggernaut they set in motion lumbered off without them. The victim's involvement should not end after they
Erin Brockovich may not be the sexiest title of the year, but then again 'Julia Roberts is Erin Brockovich', as the poster shouts. Roberts suffered a long fallow period with such duds as Pret-a-Porter and Mary Reilly, becoming too reliant (like Matt Damon
Rating: 18 Duration: 116 minutes Reviewed: April 28 2000 At the finale, a door opens of its own volition to suggest there may yet be a fourth slice of this cult American teen terror series. Yet Wes Craven should firmly slam shut that door: the Scream
Gladiator (15), 150 minutes Ridley Scott once said he considered it remarkable that people would "give you ten million dollars to go and get your rocks off". Judging by such lacklustre Nineties' films as White Squall and the Demi Moore dud GI Jane, it
YORK could look to Canterbury for inspiration in a proposed £60 million redevelopment of the city centre. The architects behind the "Coppergate Riverside" scheme to transform the Castle-Piccadilly area of the city is also responsible for the £100 million
A VILLAGE on the outskirts of York is divided over a pig farmer's plans to build homes on green belt land. Chris England, whose family has run a pig-breeding business at Holtby for 27 years, claims the state of the pig farming industry is so poor it is
SCHOOLGIRL Bella Heesom rushes forward to send hundreds of balloons flying in a fundraising drive to send her mother for complementary therapy in New York. Bella, a pupil at The Mount School in York, and the other members of her form, 10X, collected sponsorship
Darren Lehmann led the batting extravaganza of the left-handers at Derby on Saturday as Yorkshire stretched their lead at the top of division one of the County Championship table to eight points. Although the rain-ruined match ended in an inevitable draw
FREQUENT heavy showers merged into longer periods of rain to hold up Yorkshire in their attempt to get back on terms with Derbyshire at the County ground today. The weather turned nasty about an hour before the scheduled start and although the square
DAVID Byas and Victor Craven put down a solid foundation for new Championship leaders Yorkshire against Derbyshire today but then the roof caved in as four wickets crashed for the addition of four runs. SCOREBOARD PPP healthcare County Championship Division
An Australian and a Scotsman led the way for Yorkshire today with a century stand on the second day of the County Championship match against Hampshire at Headingley. Aussie Darren Lehmann and Scot Gavin Hamilton took the bowling apart in a sparkling seventh
MATCH action returns to the banks of the Pocklington Canal on Sunday with the first CIU match since the end of last season. Competitors will be hoping to latch into the same shoal of slabs that decided the Canal Championships on the same venue a fortnight
YORK City are now enrolling new members for the City Reds junior group. The cost of joining the group, who enjoy numerous special events and get to meet the City's stars, is £5 and forms are available from the club shop. The club are to launch their new
YORK racing driver James Thompson will have a bonus as he bids to catch up some lost ground in the Auto Trader British Touring Car Championship on Monday. Thompson is some way behind the leading pack in the championship battle going into the ninth and
MPUMELELO 'Pommie' Mbangwa sent Zimbabwe's confidence soaring sky high at Headingley yesterday by turning in the best bowling performance by a touring side against Yorkshire for 65 years. The 23-year-old paceman destroyed Yorkshire's batting in two lethal
York Wasps Rugby League Club were to-day trying to come up with a contingency plan to avert a winding up threat by the Inland Revenue. The Inland Revenue claim the club owe them £77,000 and have issued a winding up petition. The hearing is due to take
As the new Sex Pistols documentary opens at York's City Screen, Stephen Lewis recalls the glories that were punk. 'DID you ever see Penetration?" asks a sober-suited Terry Ruane excitedly, his eyes lighting up at the memory. "It was at the Assembly Rooms
