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  • Disasters in perspective

    With all the bad news we are getting these days, it's easy to overlook some of the minor disasters that are happening around us all the time. Of course, to those upon whom such mishaps befall, they may not be considered as minor, and can be as upsetting

  • Disabled sex case man, 59, jailed

    A disabled sex offender who abused young girls over a five-year period was jailed for three-and-a-half years today after a judge said he was "at risk of repeat offending." Wheelchair-bound Archibold Walker, 59, of Farndale close, Usher, Haxby, near York

  • Zoo pigs on Tigers' menu

    Drastic times could mean drastic measures at Flamingo Land theme park, near Pickering, after it was revealed some of the zoo's animals may end up as dinner for other beasts. Shortages of meat supplies caused by the foot and mouth epidemic mean food for

  • Threat to green belt around York 'alarming'

    THE York Natural Environment Trust views with increasing alarm the conduct of York's Green Belt Review. Having failed to set firm green belt in its Local Plan, City of York Council was ordered by the Local Plan Inquiry Inspector to go away and do so.

  • Mail and morale

    I WAS delighted, as was Royal Mail, to read Emma Harrison's article 'Those 20 letters made their destination on time' (March 27). It might be more interesting, however, to look into the reason why Royal Mail is having problems delivering the mail. Could

  • Room for gloom as hotel figures put York bottom

    HOTELS in York had the worst occupancy rates in the UK last year and at the same time had the steepest rise in tariffs, according a survey published today. The Andersen Hotel Industry Benchmark Survey 2000 found that bed occupancy in York over the year

  • Safety? It's in the bag

    IT should be a soft landing if any builder accidentally falls while working on Shepherd Construction's latest house building project in Fishergate, York. The York-based firm is among the first to use the Airmatt system, modular low-pressure bags quickly

  • Let's do lunch...

    WELL-known Clifton Moor solicitor Jane Sachedina has bought the North and West Yorkshire Business Network. Jane, who is chairman of the Clifton Moor Business Association, has taken over the franchise - which offers moveable feast of gatherings at regularly

  • Develop your people skills

    HOW to develop inter-personal skills will be the subject of a training event organised by the York branch of the Business and Professional Women's Association at the Bishop's Hotel, York on Saturday, April 28, and May 19. Both morning events, titled Fruitful

  • Eager Acomb coast to revenge

    Acomb Ladies avenged the 3-0 Yorkshire Women's League division one defeat they suffered at the hands of Scarborough at the start of the season by beating the seasiders' 4-2. Second-placed Scarborough opened the scoring after five minutes, but Acomb refused

  • Ladies look to Broom for help

    Battling City of York Ladies are looking towards a 'Broom' to sweep away fears of the drop. A weekend double of games brought defeat and a victory to leave them needing one point from their final game at Chester-le-Street club Broom to guarantee North

  • Police rider hurt in accident

    A policeman from Malton was taken to hospital with a broken collarbone and a broken wrist after coming off his police motorcycle. Traffic constable Ian Jefferson came off his motorbike on Whitby Road, near Pickering Infants School yesterday at 3.20pm.

  • Lyth spirit is big incentive to Boro

    Scarborough player-manager Neil Thompson looks likely to select himself for tonight's trip to Kingstonian in the wake of teenager Ashley Lyth's dream £100,000 move to Premiership Leicester City. Enthused Thompson: "Ashley's move is great for the club

  • College adopts disability symbol

    Askham Bryan College, near York, has underlined its commitment to the employment of disabled people by adopting the Employment Service's Disability Symbol. The college, which offers a wide range of courses for agricultural and associated industries, also

  • Ale and hearty support from Laura

    Where's her beard and woolly jumper? Young Laura Craft broke the mould of your typical real ale drinker when she signed up as the Campaign for Real Ale's 60,000th member. The 20-year-old student teacher, who is studying at the College of Ripon & York

  • Selby kick-off knockout mission

    Selby, quarter-finalists for the last two years, tackle Bridlington in the first round of rugby union's Yorkshire Cup at Sandhill Lane tonight (6pm). With left winger Chris Crompton likely to be out for the rest of the season with a shoulder injury, either

  • Tye bye for Yorkshire

    The heroics of Helen Walker and Lynn Metcalfe could not save Yorkshire from a 116-98 defeat by Berkshire in the final of the Atherley Trophy, the English Women's inter-county bowls championships, at Tye Green, Essex. York stars Walker and Metcalfe were

  • Interworks event takes firm hold

    Amateur rugby league in York has been given a much needed shot in the arm with this year's Interworks competition set to attract its biggest entry in years. The once hugely popular event has declined in numbers over the years, with an all-time low of

  • Karate blitz is major hit

    Champion tuition was delivered in fine style at York's Budokan Karate Club at the Clifton Moor Community Centre. A total of 60 students from York, Leeds, Manchester and Kendal were put through their paces by sixth dan Bob Rhodes, the senior Karate Union

  • Racist thugs attack students' home

    Racist teenagers broke up a fence and hurled stones at the home of Chinese students, the city's crown court heard. Youths and girls from west York yelled racial insults in two separate incidents outside a Chapelfields house, said Nigel Wray, prosecuting

  • Inside the criminal mind

    STEPHEN LEWIS meets the criminal psychologist heading a new centre at York University which aims to find the best way of stopping criminals offending. CYNTHIA McDougall has a confession to make. The criminal psychologist, one-time head of psychology with

  • Darren aims for recall

    York City defender Darren Edmondson completed his first 90 minutes of 2001 and immediately set his sights on a first team recall. The 29-year-old has been out of the picture since damaging knee ligaments before Christmas last year. But after featuring

  • Ex-driving tutor's 120mph blast in BMW

    A former driving instructor led police on a 17-minute chase at up to 120mph in a powerful BMW sports car, a court heard. Neil Carmichael, 43, mounted kerbs, drove on the wrong side of the road and went the wrong way around a roundabout. When he was finally

  • Brewery to sell own-label spirits

    Yorkshire's oldest brewery has unveiled plans for its own label spirits. Sam Smiths has sent a memorandum to all its pub managers, saying it plans to do away with brand-name spirits, including whisky, gin and vodka. In their place will be shorts produced

  • Cheers to our pubs

    ONLY last Saturday, the Evening Press was extolling the virtues of North Yorkshire country pubs, saying we were blessed with more than our share of the best. We are biased, of course. So it is nice to have independent confirmation that North Yorkshire

  • Darren aims for recall

    York City defender Darren Edmondson completed his first 90 minutes of 2001 and immediately set his sights on a first team recall. The 29-year-old has been out of the picture since damaging knee ligaments before Christmas last year. But after featuring

  • Flying Lyric can give trainer repeat success

    Newmarket trainer Sean Woods is aiming to prove that lightning can strike in the same place twice when Ripon stage their first meeting of the year tomorrow. Woods, successful 12 months ago in the Galphay Classified Stakes with Going Global, can provide

  • Ex-Wasps player 'attacked bouncer'

    A bouncer suffered fractured face bones when former York Wasps player and fellow doorman Lea Tichener attacked him in a restaurant, a court heard. Dominic M'Benga said he had barred the 29-year-old rugby player from Merlin's and McMillan's several weeks

  • How we can help

    THE out-of-control foot and mouth epidemic that is spreading ever closer to York started at one farm in Heddon-on-the-Wall. The infection was then passed on to other animals at the market in Cumbria and then due to current practices was distributed throughout

  • Service omission

    I JOINED many of my rail industry colleagues in York Minster, at the Memorial Service for victims of the Great Heck train crash. Prayers were said for the dead, bereaved, injured, emergency services and Heck residents. Curiously there was no mention of

  • Wait Until Dark, Grand Opera House, York, until Saturday.

    THIS is a strange night at the theatre, and not only because Frazer Hines - the former Emmerdale ladies' man Joe Sugden - is playing a knife-wielding baddie in a leather jacket. Wait Until Dark will be best remembered for the 1967 film version,

  • Sex changes

    Family planning today is as much about preventing disease as unwanted pregnancy, reports MAXINE GORDON SEX and our attitudes to it have undergone a seismic shift since the early Sixties. Back then, abortion was illegal and women had to be married to use

  • Firm could clean up over electric waste

    A DOOMSDAY law which will soon make it unlawful to dump televisions and other electrical goods in landfill sites because of the poisons lurking in cathode tubes, has opened a door of opportunity for a York business. A pioneering study into the feasibility

  • Where are all the enterprising spirits?

    A DRAMATIC drop in new business ventures has hit Yorkshire, according to the latest start and closure figures published by Barclays today. The county had the worst record in Britain for the year 2000 in spite of a national rally in the numbers of start

  • Top award

    JOANNA Andrew, senior biomedical scientist in the medical laboratories at York District hospital has been honoured with the coveted President's Award at annual dinner of the North Yorkshire branch of the Institute of Management. John Pratt, branch president

  • Law firm hailed

    SOLICITORS Denison Till, of York, today received the Investors in People standard, at a ceremony at its offices in Stamford House, Piccadilly. Avril Jenkins, of Business Link North Yorkshire, this afternoon handed over the IIP plaque to Tony Rich, senior

  • Run for your life

    The Race For Life gives women the chance to raise money to beat cancer. It's also a grand day out, reports MAXINE GORDON LITTLE Connie Johnson is looking forward to her big day at York Knavesmire. The five-year-old from Fulford is taking part in the Race

  • I was a pioneer as a tweenie

    Charlie's Angels, licorice torpedoes and boys were the most important things in my life when I was ten, closely followed by make-up, clothes, music and more boys. I would strut around in my cherry red Angels catsuit - forgive me, this was the Seventies

  • Title within grasp

    York Acorn Under-16s are just one win away from the Yorkshire Youth/West Riding first division title. They produced a magnificent team performance to defeat their main rivals Hunslet Warriors 23-11 in the penultimate game of the season. It was a match

  • Dringhouses take big stride

    Reigning Leeper Hare Reserve 'A' champions Dringhouses took a huge stride to retaining their crown with a 3-1 downing of Dunnington. With five games in hand over their nearest rivals the victors' goals were shared between Ellis, Barker and Hudson with

  • Four-star treatment for station moggy

    When Jan Ford found a missing moggy on a garage forecourt, she was amazed to find it might have travelled hundreds of miles to get there. The black cat, which turned up at the Jet filling station, in Lawrence Street, York, late on Friday night, was sporting

  • Northern champions chase crown

    Youngsters at City of York Hockey Club have been crowned champions of North of England. The Under 11 girls will now play in the national finals to be held at Cannock on May 20 after their regional triumph. Goakeeper Nicky Shepherdson kept a clean sheet

  • York spent £700,000 in floods crisis

    York City Council spent more than £700,000 trying to combat last autumn's great floods. A Parliamentary written answer has revealed the size of the compensation claim made by finance bosses. Countryside Minister Elliot Morley said the costs had been incurred

  • 'Dig deep' for flood defences

    Councillors from across Yorkshire are being warned that they must dig deep in their pockets next year to fund vital flood defences. The Environment Agency says a "substantial" increase in the local authority levy is needed for new and improved defences

  • Caroline in full flow at trials

    York's Caroline Jones has battled her way through to the Amateur Rowing Association's National Junior Rowing and Sculling Spring Trials. Despite the serious disruption to her training schedule because of prolonged flooding of the River Ouse in recent

  • Taxing time during office shake-up

    Three organisations have snapped up offices on the new £4 million high-tech Station Park development in York - triggering a wave of commercial property "musical chairs" throughout the city. As many as 40 people working for the Inland Revenue are now in

  • Virgin steams in with cheap tickets

    Rail travellers from York can enjoy bargain basement prices on a second major route as passengers flock to buy cheap trips to London. Virgin has slashed the price of some tickets on routes including the CrossCountry service from York to Birmingham, Bristol

  • Country pubs toast awards success

    Country pubs in North Yorkshire have come out top in the latest national Which? Guide. And the county's success in seeing more rosette winners than any other in the country has been put down to good food. The cream of the crop, which earned the "double

  • It's a Matt-hair of fact at new Jorvik

    No, you're not seeing things. This really is Blue Peter dog Mabel and her master, presenter Matt Baker. Matt and Mabel were among the VIPs permitted an early glimpse inside the new-look Jorvik Viking Centre following its £5m refit. Both are immortalised

  • 26 bikers caught in police purge

    Police caught a succession of speeding bikers - one even doing a "wheelie" on a busy main road - on the first day of a major clampdown. Now motorists who endanger the lives of pedestrians and cyclists by flouting speed limits across North Yorkshire over

  • Tye bye for Yorkshire

    The heroics of Helen Walker and Lynn Metcalfe could not save Yorkshire from a 116-98 defeat by Berkshire in the final of the Atherley Trophy, the English Women's inter-county bowls championships, at Tye Green, Essex. York stars Walker and Metcalfe were

  • Delay was the right decision

    FIRST came the good news: the Prime Minister had listened to reason and postponed the local elections for a month. Then came the awful realisation. His announcement effectively kicks off the longest General Election campaign in recent times. With Tony