THE Bootham School Under-13s Girls' tennis squad will go on to represent York at the regional finals after storming to the HSBC York Schools' Tennis League title. The squad, comprising Kate Empson, Rebecca Vines, Marianne Forrest and Sophie Bell-Syer,
A FORMER special constable who sold drugs in York was today jailed for six years. Detectives caught Philip Andrew Steele, 33, red-handed with more than £10,000 of Ecstasy and other drugs, York Crown Court heard. The court heard he had just handed 102
WE'RE there - and it's all thanks to you. Today we can announce that we have hit the amazing £2 million target in our Hospice 2000 Appeal, to provide improved care for more people. In less than a month, a staggering £65,000 has been raised in the Final
STAFF at York's Nestl factory have joined in the bid to help raise the final £22,000 for our Hospice 2000 appeal. Chocolate supply chain staff have raised £3,650 for St Leonard's Hospice - a charity they chose because it is close to many of their hearts
TWO things bother me about the Jill Dando court case. The first is a fear for future justice. After Barry George was convicted, the statements by Miss Dando's family and friends were refreshingly restrained and compassionate, certainly compared to the
Matthew Wood and Darren Lehmann were both seeking to continue their extraordinary batting form in top-of-the-table Yorkshire's match with bottom club Northamptonshire which began at Wantage Road today. The hard-fought draw between Lancashire and Surrey
P McPHAIL may wish to consider in his letter (Unsightly city walls, June 29) that the grass and now wild flowers growing around our city walls offer sanctuary and feeding opportunities for our rapidly-declining bird and insect population and also is historically
I THOROUGHLY agree with your reviewer Stephen Lewis on his visit to the Paul McKenna Hypnotic Show - it does leave you feeling 'grubby' from the experience (June 25). Unfortunately shows like this, using hypnotism for entertainment purposes, do not do
On US Independence Day, CHRIS TITLEY examines our ambivalent attitude to America. UNCLE Sam's been fraying a few North Yorkshire nerves of late. So much so that protesters gate-crashed his Independence Day party by remaining chained to the fixtures at
A York motor sports enthusiast and public figure has been commemorated after having a memorial trophy dedicated to him. Lawrence Ryan, known as Lol, became a popular character on the hillclimb circuit on which he competed in his Morgan sports car. Later
Despite suffering a heavy 48-4 defeat, a young York Wasps Academy team played very well against a Leigh side that tops the Academy League table, writes Dianne Hillaby. For the first 25 minutes of the match York were the better side, leading 4-0 through
DUNNINGTON beat Bishopthorpe to stay top of division one of the Fulford Ladies Invitation League. Injury struck struggling Bishopthorpe in the first rubber when Jane Parkin dislocated her ankle, conceding 31 games as Dunington ran out winners 78-30. Sue
CHAMPIONS Marcia lifted the York Univeristy Six-a-side Tournament title for a third time thanks to a late, late golden goal in the final against University 'A'. It was unlucky for the students as after 13 minutes of golden goal extra-time, and with both
A FATHER-OF-THREE from York who was seriously injured in the Great Heck rail crash has spoken for the first time of the disaster which ended his Territorial Army career. Giancarlo Spadone, 29, an independent financial advisor, is still recovering after
Matthew Wood and Darren Lehmann were both seeking to continue their extraordinary batting form in top-of-the-table Yorkshire's match with bottom club Northamptonshire which began at Wantage Road today. The hard-fought draw between Lancashire and Surrey
GIVE GNER the East Coast Main Line franchise, say two North Yorkshire MPs. Hugh Bayley and John Greenway have both urged Transport Secretary Stephen Byers to choose GNER over Virgin in the contest to run trains on the East Coast Main Line for the next
JOIN the smart set. Now's your chance to win one of York City's new Evening Press-sponsored strips. We have teamed up with the Minstermen to give readers the chance of winning one of three full strips. The strip was unveiled at Bootham Crescent today
RESIDENTS of a troubled estate in York are taking action to bring to justice young louts who terrorise the neighbourhood. Fed-up council tenants in St Stephen's Road and St Stephen's Square in Acomb, who say they have been plagued by nuisance youths,
Long-serving back row forward Mick Ramsden has revealed his intention to hang up his boots next year - but first wants to ensure he goes out on a high with his beloved York Wasps. Ramsden, who will be 30 in November, thought about calling it quits this
Long-serving back row forward Mick Ramsden has revealed his intention to hang up his boots next year - but first wants to ensure he goes out on a high with his beloved York Wasps. Ramsden, who will be 30 in November, thought about calling it quits this
WE had never undertaken such an ambitious campaign. The target of £2 million was 20 times bigger than any previous Evening Press fundraising appeal. But this was the Millennium campaign. It deserved something special, and the St Leonard's Hospice expansion
WHEN the reports first came in that a girl had gone missing on a school trip in France, parents everywhere will have experienced a shudder of fear. Eleven-year-old Bunmi Shagaya's disappearance in Dieppe is the stuff of nightmares. As the school year
BEING an ardent fan of Gary Cooper, from Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1935) to The Naked Edge (1961), when asked if I would like to review Jeffrey Meyers's biography of Gary Cooper, I gave a Cooperesque "yup" and nearly snatched the book from his hands.
York College student Adam Lee will be hoping for better luck than last year when he competes at the English Schools Athletics Championships in Exeter this week. Lee, 17, from Selby, suffered injury on his first throw in last year's event and will want
Shop workers got an unexpected chance to sunbathe this afternoon when a power blackout hit city centre shops. Customers were shepherded out of stores including Gap, River Island and Littlewoods when electricity failed just before noon in Davygate, Coney
FOUR Greenpeace activists were today clinging to masts high above RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, as protests against Son of Star Wars continued into American Independence Day. A lone protester called Ricko, who stayed on the American spy base overnight
POLICE and tax officials watched stunned as a white van man smashed up his vehicle on a York street rather than hand it over to road tax enforcers. Staff from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) were amazed when the furious driver snatched
WE'RE there - and it's all thanks to you. Today we can announce that we have hit the amazing £2 million target in our Hospice 2000 Appeal, to provide improved care for more people. In less than a month, a staggering £65,000 has been raised in the Final
HAVEN'T we been here before? There is the same Roger Glossop set, the one with the lemons in the mini-model supermarket trolley; the same cast names; same playwright; same director and same use of a capital letter midWay through the play's tiTle. Ah,
CITY of York Council is one of eight in North Yorkshire keen to 'talk rubbish' by polling local residents on a potential waste management plan (June 20). Among options set out in its leaflet is waste incineration. Respondents are not asked, however, if
Soldiers from York have returned from a spell in Jamaica - but this was no holiday, as Evening Press reporter TONY TIERNEY discovered when some of them told him about their experiences. DREAMS of downing ice-cold lagers on the sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica
Harold Box will again be in charge at Heworth next season as the Villagers look to bounce straight back into the first division of the National Conference League. Box was unable to prevent Heworth's relegation to division two in his first year in charge
A TRAINING centre set up to make Ryedale youngsters more employable has moved into its new premises and is getting set for a grand official opening. Derwent Training Association has moved to a new purpose-built building on the York Road Industrial estate
A YORK boy aged 13 has become one of the youngest people in the country to go on the sex offenders' register. He is today awaiting sentence for indecently assaulting a babysitter at the family home. The girl victim was 13, York Youth Court heard. The
MORE than 100 runners completed the hardest race in the York and District Road Race League Tuesday evening series, the fearsome Bishop Wilton 10km circuit. Paul Gobel, of York Acorn, was first home, followed by Knavemire's Jon Pavis and Alan Beavers,
YORK show-jumper Joanne Andrews will be competing in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at this month's Royal International Horse Show - one of the world's leading women-only titles - after qualifying in Scotland. The qualifier at the Carluke Show attracted a
CHILDREN from schools across Yorkshire will be learning more about the countryside at a special day-long event to be based at the Great Yorkshire Showground, near Harrogate. The day takes place next Tuesday, and children from 15 Yorkshire schools will
A unique, sterling silver, miniature version of record-breaking locomotive Mallard was presented to York's National Railway Museum. The '0' gauge version of the world's fastest steam locomotive was handed over on the anniversary - July 3 - of its world
IT'S hard getting used to all this new-fangled technology, particularly when you're a refugee from the Middle Ages. But Richard III - actually museum manager Mike Bennett - was willing to try out the latest in high-tech tourism. Over 30 of York's tourism
THE University of York today unveiled plans to build a new £3.3m shopping and commercial centre as part of an £80m development on its site. Campus dwellers have welcomed the proposals for a supermarket, hairdresser, music store, pharmacy and travel agent
PARENTS in a York suburb say they are worried that the rising number of secondary age pupils in the city will leave their children without places at their local church school. Many pupils leaving Upper Poppleton Junior School have traditionally attended
AN amateur flyer had an amazing escape when his microlight aircraft hit a power cable and plunged into a field. The 36-year-old Rotherham man fell 40ft after hitting the cable coming into land at Rufforth Airfield, near York. The man, an experienced pilot
JOIN the smart set. Now's your chance to win one of York City's new Evening Press-sponsored strips. We have teamed up with the Minstermen to give readers the chance of winning one of three full strips. The strip was unveiled at Bootham Crescent today
THE greatest speaker of Shakespeare's prose and poetry the world has ever known trembled with guilt and shame as he said: "I'm so terribly sorry" to the policeman arresting him for homosexual soliciting at a gents' lavatory in Chelsea. That was on the
AUTHORS John Plimmer and Bob Long are unlikely literary bedfellows. The pair grew up together. They were members of street gangs during the late Fifties and Sixties, had similar backgrounds and lived in neighbouring districts. But when they left school
Secret Conquest, who bolted home at Doncaster last Saturday evening, can complete a quick double at Haydock tomorrow. Trained near Scorton by David Barker, whose horses are in sparkling form, the four-year-old goes for the Haydock Park Annual Badgeholders
