HAVING no access to the Internet, I wish to appeal through the Evening Press for a spontaneous blockade of cigarette factories. With fags taxed at their present level I am left with no other choice but to persuade my children that there is no such thing
I MUST thank the canoeist who spotted my cat under Clifton Bridge and also the firemen who went on to rescue the poor thing. Amazingly, my cat had disappeared some six weeks earlier and we had all but given up hope of seeing him again. For a 12-year-old
YORK'S Millennium Bridge is expected to be placed over the River Ouse within the next few weeks. Work has been stepped up to include Saturdays and Sundays, with builders announcing the long awaited river crossing will be put in place in the first two
A PIANO teacher who was repeatedly stabbed and slashed by one of her pupils in her North Yorkshire home has said she forgives her attacker. Christina Thomson-Jones, who was scarred for life and left needing about 50 stitches in the frenzied attack, told
ExCITEMENT is once again building in the great drinking city of York as another watering hole is set to open this weekend. Kennedy's caf-bar joins the growing list of exciting, young and trendy bars that is earning the city the moniker 'the Notting Hill
It wowed viewers when it was first shown in Britain and it has since won acclaim - and lucrative orders for the BBC - from all over the world. It was known as the TV natural history series that brought dinosaurs back to life, and even put Speilberg's
THE Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, threw open the doors of his home, as Bishopthorpe Palace hosted its first ball. Among the guests at last night's event were Donald and Wendy Woods, who are visiting the city as part of the Learning City York project
STILLINGTON have gained promotion to division one of the IT Sports York and District Mixed Doubles Tennis League for the first time in their history after finishing runners-up to Wigginton. Stillington won ten and lost four of their fixtures to finish
PUPILS at Easingwold School were urged to reach for the stars by their new head teacher Carey Chidwick. Mrs Chidwick, who started at Easingwold at the beginning of term, was speaking at the school's annual prizegiving ceremony, which was also attended
YORK powerhouse Rob Dixon has been invited to compete in a variety of major muscleman events next year following his performances in the World's and Britain's Strongest Man competitions. The 36-year-old from Haxby has been handed a top ten world ranking
PETROL deliveries were today being made to North Yorkshire filling stations - but many pumps still remain dry. Beleaguered motorists were again queuing to fill up at garages in York as deliveries gradually made their way to the city, but police urged
Yorkshire's season ends today but the talking over the proposed £10m redevelopment of Headingley goes on and will reach a climax on Wednesday at the club's extraordinary general meeting which has been called to gain final approval for the scheme. Although
A TOP North Yorkshire police officer reinstated after being forced to quit his job has vowed to clear his name. Speaking after the Home Secretary overturned Chief Constable David Kenworthy's decision to make him resign from the force, former Detective
YORK City will not be stepping up their interest in Reading full-back Neville Stamp - for the time being at least. The teenage left-back has featured in City's last two reserve matches having spent the last couple of weeks training with the Minstermen
THE attention of the nation has been pulled every which way this week. First it was the petrol crisis, as hauliers and farmers blockaded oil refineries and disrupted our daily lives. The shortages brought out the worst in people as tempers flared on some
WHENEVER I am in York I always make a point of being outside the west front of the Minster to hear Great Peter ring out at noon as it has done (apart from the war years etc) since September 1927. It has always been a delight to see visitors to York turn
AFTER gasping for breath in the sweltering heat of California's Death Valley a month or so ago Janet Goodrick is back in York gasping for petrol. From Badwater, California, to Drypumps, North Yorkshire, and Janet still can't believe how cheap petrol is
ExCITEMENT is once again building in the great drinking city of York as another watering hole is set to open this weekend. Kennedy's caf-bar joins the growing list of exciting, young and trendy bars that is earning the city the moniker 'the Notting Hill
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
YORK Union of Golf Clubs finished bottom of the Yorkshire Inter-District Union League following their 23-13 defeat by Teesside at Pike Hills. They lost six of their seven matches, with their only point coming from a halved match against Halifax-Huddersfield
YORK trading watchdogs have now received more than 100 complaints about holiday firm Global Vacations. And the angry customers say they have paid out more than £150,000 to the Manchester-based business, which ceased operating in August. The Evening Press
THERE seems to be a widening gulf between people in service industries who are genuinely nice and friendly, and those sporting forced grins on the orders of their American bosses. Anyone who has been in Gap in York recently will know what I mean. They
