PAUL KIRKWOOD gets lost and cross as he follows the York Millennium Cycle Route Spring is here allegedly, the Millennium Bridge is open and the bridleways are closed. So where should you go for a leisurely half-day bike ride or a day's walk if you prefer
GEORGE WILKINSON enjoys a pleasant ramble in Harrogate. Harrogate, not exactly the countryside, foot and mouth Hobson's choice, but very pleasant, especially with the blue sky and sunshine of our instant summer. We started on the western outskirts of
MAXINE GORDON unlocks the hidden charms of the 'secret kingdom' - north Northumberland. SHIMMERING on the horizon, just visible through the early-morning silvery haze coming off the North Sea, is Holy Island. This most peculiar of peninsulas appears like
Fountains Abbey has partially re-opened to visitors. Mike Laycock joined some of the first to return to the leading North Yorkshire tourist attraction... IT WAS shut for more than two months after foot and mouth disease struck Britain. And how visitors
Mike Laycock visits an extraordinary art exhibition which truly breaks the mould They are convent-educated, second-generation British Indian twins who live in Merseyside and share a great artistic talent. And so it is that they have leapt the huge cultural
ANOTHER day, another dust-up on the election trail. But this time it was not John Prescott at the centre of the fracas -- it was The Wombles. They had swapped Wimbledon for Dover to watch Tory leader William Hague make a controversial speech on asylum
A unique York shop is celebrating its coming-of-age. CHRIS TITLEY gatecrashed the party... CYCLING has changed enormously over the past 21 years. In 1980, a cyclist had to choose between a dropped-handlebar racer or a three-gear town bike. Today the range
SPACE-AGE students from the University of York have won through to the final of a futuristic inter-continental competition. The European Space Agency-sponsored contest invited students from across Europe to make proposals for experiments under weightless
IF YOU want a safe, friendly journey where the bus pulls up with the door frame exactly in line with the bus stop, then this is your man - Graham Watson, Regional Bus Driver of the Year. The 32-year-old Essex-born First York driver beat off nearly 70
TRAIN travellers may need to adjust their journey plans from tomorrow, as GNER's new summer timetable is brought in to operation. It will provide 119 services a day, improve journey times and bring to an end the recent succession of temporary timetables
MALTON and Norton international Emma Duggleby is to defend her English Ladies Amateur Golf Championship at West Sussex, Fulborough from next Tuesday. She won the title at Hunstanton last year, beating Rebecca Hudson (Wheatley), a Yorkshire and England
A FALSE fire alarm came just in time for a York man last night when firefighters gave him first-aid after he was seriously assaulted on a city centre street. Firecrews were attending a call at flats in the lower end of Micklegate just after midnight when
A BROTHER and sister from York are pointing the way on the international fencing arena. Simon and Felicity Marks, who are pupils at Manor School, both represented Northern Ireland in a home nations tournament in the emerald isle. Competing in the Under
A JAPANESE woman living in York felt like she was back in earthquake-hit Tokyo when work on a nearby building site sent tremors through her home and made her garden collapse. Keiko Croft was horrified when part of the garden, which she and husband Paul
Tyneside will be on tenterhooks tomorrow when York Wasps and rejuvinated Gateshead Thunder go head-to-head in the biggest game of both clubs' season. If York win at the Thunderdome, Gateshead will remain bottom of the NFP and face a huge task to avoid
A DEVASTATED family spoke today of their grief following the death of their "Milky Bar Kid". Craig Archer died, aged 21, in York District Hospital, on May 13, after being admitted with colitis. Today, his dad, Keith, mum, Maureen, and fiance, Linsey O'Brien
FORMER York City winger Jon McCarthy has broken his right leg for the third time in two years. The one-time Minstermen favourite and Port Vale player collided with Preston keeper David Lucas during Birmingham's midweek Division One play-off defeat. The
YORK City's player of the season Alan Fettis has been put on international red alert by Northern Ireland. The City number one's outstanding form has been recognised by international boss Sammy McIlroy, who has put Fettis on stand-by for two World Cup
THE student vote has been targeted by York's Tory candidate. Michael McIntyre has launched a door-to-door leafleting campaign aimed at students. He visited the College of Ripon and St John, urging youngsters to vote in the city to show opposition to Labour's
Tyneside will be on tenterhooks tomorrow when York Wasps and rejuvinated Gateshead Thunder go head-to-head in the biggest game of both clubs' season. If York win at the Thunderdome, Gateshead will remain bottom of the NFP and face a huge task to avoid
MR Smith once again demonstrates the poverty of political thought among the Vale of York Tories, harping on about Tony Blair's appearance at the Women's Institute last year and at the St Saviour's and St Olave's School this year (Letters, May 16). Before
YORK City's player of the season Alan Fettis has been put on international red alert by Northern Ireland. The City number one's outstanding form has been recognised by international boss Sammy McIlroy, who has put Fettis on stand-by for two World Cup
EDDIE Ho loves his girlfriend Ann Handing so much he gave up his busy, busy life serving tasty Chinese dishes to sell dresses. He looked totally unstressed when I dropped into Ovation in York's Goodram-gate, just near Monk Bar, the other day after being
York Wasps Academy hooker Robbie Dolan's decision to play for his home town club has continued a family tradition dating back 75 years. It all started with his great grandfather, Billy Dolan, who played for the Wasps during their Challenge Cup final year
Restoring Gateforth Hall to its Georgian grandeur is a family affair, discovers MAXINE GORDON WHEN the Smiths decided to move house, they knew exactly what they were looking for. Like most families, they wanted enough space so they wouldn't feel like
CHOCKS away, chaps: here comes the Bombardier. We at Bar Talk agree that the flag of St George-branded ale is a winner. And readers of Bar Talk may become winners too, if they enter our giant competition with six gallons of the Charles Wells brewed ale
Micklegate in York is legendary as a mecca for drinkers and fun seekers. But DAVID MARTIN discovers it is also a bit of a hot spot for curry lovers Maybe it's because Micklegate is a street associated with being hell-bent on intoxication rather than with
THE memoirs of a man who began working on an aircraft company's secret projects more than 60 years ago are the newest additions to the collection of a museum near York. The Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, was presented with the written memoirs of
HIS music has graced films featuring a great many doctors - Dr No and Dr Holly Goodhead among them - and now composer John Barry is to become a doctor himself, here in his home city. Mr Barry, who composed music for 12 of the 19 James Bond movies, as
NICK HALLISSEY investigates how aerial photography is helping put together a new picture of Britain. FROM high above the surface of the Vale of York, archaeologists have uncovered some of history's hidden treasures. Airborne archaeologists working on
RESIDENTS are calling for a clampdown on vandals who have been plaguing their York street and making their lives a misery. The Evening Press highlighted this week how people living in Grosvenor Terrace, Clifton, have been suffering a catalogue of attacks
SELBY Olympia Under-13s have completed a gleaming cross-territory double. One season ago the side were celebrating championship conquest in the Charles Rice League in their Selby homeland. They then quit that set-up to join the British Sugar York Minor
A SURPRISE dose of drama was added to an anti-crime conference in York when a fleeing shoplifter burst through the doors pursued by a store detective. Delegates at the annual Retailers Against Crime in York (RACY) conference, at the Hilton Hotel, in Tower
A SAM Harrison brace proved decisive as Fulford won the Ryedale Junior League Under 11s Cup - in what could be their last game under the banner of Fulford Junior FC. The club, who run sides from under sevens to under 17s, look set to fold due to a lack
COPMANTHORPE lifted the York Leeper Hare Football League Junior Cup after beating Stillington in a penalty shoot-out. Neither team was able to score in extra-time after the game finished 1-1 at the end of normal time, forcing the match into a shoot-out
YORK Union Golf Clubs have six Fulford players in the team for the opening Yorkshire inter-union match of the season against Bradford at Northcliffe, Shipley tomorrow. James Eason and 19-year-old Iain Simpson will both be making their debuts in a team
HEWORTH Under 12s produced a magnificent defensive display to defeat a much bigger Lock Lane team 16-8 to lift the Yorkshire Junior ARL Continuation Cup at Post Office Road, Featherstone, writes Dianne Hillaby. Heworth were penned in their own 20-metre
AFTER John Prescott hit an egg-throwing protester, two other political heavyweights are set to get sparring. Elvis impersonator Eddie Vee plans to go head-to-head with friendly rival Dave Wolf, York's Roy Orbison fanatic, at an election fundraising event
TWO York teenagers who admitted endangering lives by abandoning a car on a busy commuter line near York - just three days before the Selby train crash - are today behind bars awaiting sentence. A judge warned Paul Robert Barker and Michael Philip Morrissey
YORK City are heading a 14-club crusade to have Chesterfield kicked out of the Football League. City chairman Douglas Craig confirmed to the Evening Press that he and 13 of his counterparts have called for an extraordinary meeting of the League to expel
A CHALLENGE to explain the cost in jobs of a "£20 billion tax cut" has been made by North Yorkshire election candidates. Labour contenders David Ellis, for Ryedale, and Lawrie Quinn, in Scarborough and Whitby, have asked their Tory opponents to say how
THE fracas involving the Deputy Prime Minister has made headline news (May 17). I think he was absolutely right to land the demonstrator a left-hander. Okay, perhaps with the position he holds he should learn a little self-control. But come on, how many
RA Starks ('£1 million? Peanuts!', Letters, May 15) is wrong to suggest that City of York Council views the amount outstanding in rent arrears as peanuts. We never said anything of the sort. The fact is that we work hard to recover outstanding arrears
I CAN understand that a few people may have been shocked by Mel C's language during the sell-out concert at the York Barbican Centre ('Anger as Reds fan Mel C turns the air blue at concert', May 17). But when Melanie performs in her own right as a solo
CHRIS Titley bemoans the loss of his vote (May 16) on the grounds that in his neighbourhood the Tories will win no matter how he casts his vote. Welcome to the real world! Millions of other Labour voters have discovered the same thing having voted for
I WAS not in the least surprised to read the headline 'Road Rage Cabbie Attacked Milkman' (May 12). As a regular cyclist, I am constantly confronted by impatient taxi drivers trying to edge me off the road so that they can speed past to collect their
