'CLOTHES," it has been said, "maketh man". Or as Shakespeare's Polonius more eloquently advised Laertes: "Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,/ But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;/For the apparel oft proclaims the man." A suitable philosophy
DRIVERS who take their vehicles across York's newest bridge are set to be blocked by new laws. City of York councillors will be asked to ban motor vehicles from New Walk, the riverside footpath from the Blue Bridge up to Fulford, and the Millennium Bridge
THE head gardener at Flamingo Land suffered head and leg injuries when he fell up to 15 feet from a theme park monorail. Colin Braham, 59, from Terrington, was today said to be in a stable condition at Scarborough General Hospital after undergoing extensive
MINISTERS have pledged to announce the winner of the drawn-out battle for the East Coast Mainline franchise within two weeks. Last week, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers insisted he was still weighing up the submissions from GNER and Virgin. Parliament
SIX new directors have been appointed by York-based Garbutt and Elliott, one of the North's leading independent chartered accountants and business advisers. The six, the largest number of senior appointments made in the company's 100-year history, will
THE biggest-ever Business Angels investment in Yorkshire - and one of the largest in the UK - was announced today. A £350,000 investment, arranged through Business Link North Yorkshire financial adviser, Graham Leake, is among three totalling £575,000
THERE'S nothing quite like dropping in for a business dinner - from a height of about 500 feet. Helicoptering your prospective financial backer to a meal to close a multi-million pound deal provides just the sort of high-flying panache needed as a backdrop
THE York Society of Chartered Accountants is calling on the Government to make it easier to reclaim maternity payouts. David Walker, York Society President, says the bureaucracy involved puts many small firms off and, according to a recent survey, only
NIDD Vale Group of Harrogate, one of Yorkshire's largest independent motor retailers which recently invested about £3 million in a new 100-car showroom on a 3.4 acre site in Harrogate, has announced a record turnover of more than £75million. The figure
ENTRIES for the Evening Press Business Awards 2001 have begun to arrive in a steady flow. Have you submitted yours? Doing so is a good, hard-headed business decision, because every entry is scrutinised for a profile story which will not only appear in
STEPHEN LEWIS drops in on a play scheme with a difference. ROUGH and tumble play with other children is an essential part of any toddler's development. It helps develop balance, motor skills, confidence and, perhaps most of all, the ability to get on
AS Executive Member for the Environment, I would like to respond to the letter from Dr K Davis (July 4). The consultant's report, commissioned by all nine local authorities involved in the waste strategy, points out that on the basis of proven technology
DR Campbell states that motorists should have an eye test regularly. I would point out that most do and all motorists are well aware of the requirement of holding a driving licence. The sight of the average motorist must be fairly good as most of us are
IT SHOULD have been a celebration of the county's best, with thousands of farmers gathering for the first day of the Great Yorkshire Show. Instead, leading business and farming figures converged on Harrogate today with a clarion call to beat the crisis
After another set of British sporting failures, CHRIS TITLEY asks if we can learn how to win again. IT was a thrilling match in an electric atmosphere. Before the men's singles final began, a lusty chorus of Waltzing Matilda turned Wimbledon Centre Court
A PUB landlord and his customers battled to save a York pensioner after he collapsed with a heart attack. The elderly man fell ill in the car park of the Stockton-on-the-Forest Inn, in Malton Road, York, last night. Manager Stephen Sharples, who is fully
THREE roads in the York area have been picked out as among the worst places for roadworks in the entire country this summer. The A19 at the Rawcliffe Bar roundabout, the A64 at Top Lane, Copmanthorpe, and the A63 Cliffe to Hemingbrough road, near Selby
YOUTH bowls is alive and thriving after bagging a second successive lift from York-based funeral directors J Rymer Funeral Services. The company, which is owned by SCI Funerals Limited, is to sponsor a bowls tournament for players under the age of 25
Easingwold are now firm favourites to win the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League first division championship. Two wins last week, one against nearest rivals Sheriff Hutton Bridge, has given Easingwold a four point advantage. Only two points points separate
THREE York College graduates were awarded memorial trophies for their outstanding achievements during a graduation ceremony which took place at the college. Kirsty Fisher, who undertook an HND course in Business and Finance, and Paul Coe, who completed
THE North Yorkshire Health Authority is to consider pumping more cash into dental practices, to entice them into taking on more new and unregistered patients. In line with a Government pledge on dental care, the authority is trying to improve access to
MINISTERS have been accused of being "impaled on the fence" over support for the controversial 'Son of Star Wars' project. In angry exchanges in the Commons, Tory Defence spokesman Iain Duncan Smith said it was time for the Government to come clean about
AN ALBINO wallaby from Flamingo Land Zoo was today undergoing pioneering surgery to remove cataracts from his eyes. The zoo, near Pickering, said Beanie's poor sight has left him bumping into other wallabies in his enclosure. So the nine-month old animal
TAXPAYERS are to foot a £21,000 bill for North Yorkshire county councillors to go online. They already have computers, printers and fax machines in their homes, paid for with public money. The extra £21,000 is to cover the cost of Internet connection
DARREN Gough and Craig White have a double incentive for going flat out for Yorkshire at Headingley tomorrow in the televised Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy fourth round match with Surrey. As well as wanting to take Yorkshire through to the quarter-finals
DARREN Gough has offered to take on the England captaincy until Nasser Hussain returns from injury but admits he does not expect to get asked. The England and Wales Cricket Board are considering who to turn to as a stand-in for Hussain for at least the
DRIVERS who take their vehicles across York's newest bridge are set to be blocked by new laws. City of York councillors will be asked to ban motor vehicles from New Walk, the riverside footpath from the Blue Bridge up to Fulford, and the Millennium Bridge
THIS should have been one of the best days of the year. The opening of the Great Yorkshire Show is eagerly anticipated by farmers, exhibitors and the thousands of visitors who never miss this spectacle. It is an event that revels in regional tradition
THANK heavens for small mercies. Yorkshire Water has assured us that a hosepipe ban is not on the horizon. Customers, still haunted by memories of the mid-Nineties droughts, had begun to fret at the prospect. Considering that we have just endured the
YORK City assistant manager Adie Shaw today insisted the Minstermen will not be rushed into the transfer market as the exit door continues to revolve at Bootham Crescent. As revealed in yesterday's Evening Press, midfielder Craig Skinner has departed
Meshaheer, the unluckiest loser at Royal Ascot last month, can reap rich compensation at Newmarket tomorrow. The David Loder-trained juvenile bids for the £40,000 TNT July Stakes and is confidently selected to come out on top. An impressive winner at
MINISTERS have pledged to announce the winner of the drawn-out battle for the East Coast Mainline franchise within two weeks. Last week, Transport Secretary Stephen Byers insisted he was still weighing up the submissions from GNER and Virgin. Parliament
IT SHOULD have been a celebration of the county's best, with thousands of farmers gathering for the first day of the Great Yorkshire Show. Instead, leading business and farming figures converged on Harrogate today with a clarion call to beat the crisis
THE FAMILY of a York motorcyclist killed in a crash on a country road today remembered a man whose life was a "whirlwind." Peter Orange, 23, of Rosedale Avenue, Acomb, lived a life packed with sport and excitement. "He lived his life in a whirlwind, did
HOPES of a modest recovery in the engineering industry across Yorkshire seem to be fizzling out, according to the latest business trends survey conducted by the region's Engineering Employers' Federation. After some optimism earlier this year, many companies
A NORTH Yorkshire company which makes multi-purpose highway maintenance equipment has landed a £1.2 million contract. Econ Engineering, of Boroughbridge Road, Ripon, has received an order from business support services company, Amey for 39 Econ salt spreaders
SHIRLEY works on the tills at Tesco. She would like to eat salmon en croute but her husband has vetoed the idea because he thinks it looks too dry, or "too claggy" as he colourfully put it. Her neighbour's children have a paddling pool of Olympic proportions
DARREN Gough and Craig White have a double incentive for going flat out for Yorkshire at Headingley tomorrow in the televised Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy fourth round match with Surrey. As well as wanting to take Yorkshire through to the quarter-finals
IT appears the right balance has been achieved for the Castle scheme by Regan Miller Associates, aided by Martin Burgess and Eric Jackson. The artist's impression of the Castle Quarter (July 6) must please those who voted for open space and sensitivity
WITH regards to the letter about missing buses (July 3), the lady was quite correct, but the bus company will not accept it. I was virtually told in a reply from the bus company that I had made it up. I wrote twice to the depot, the first time I got a
GOVERNMENT should intervene now to prevent the total collapse of manufacturing in Yorkshire, a regional trade union leader pleaded today. The call for help came from John Kirk, North Yorkshire regional organiser of the GMB Union, as the toll of lost manufacturing
DEADLY accuracy was displayed by Dawn Exton to enable Cygnet to soar to a fine triumph over Ox in the John Smith's Ladies League first divsion. She closed on 134 using treble 20, treble 14 then double 16 to give Cygnet a 4-2 advantage en route to an eventual
TWO cyclists are calling for urgent safety improvements at a busy York junction after being knocked off their bikes in similar accidents. Trina Warriner and Ed Johnson were both cycling out of town along Fulford Road when they were struck by vehicles
CIVIL Service moved top of the Fulford Ladies Invitation League third division on games difference when they beat Poppleton 64-44 and New Earswick 73-35. Wendy Catchpole and Jackie Ritchie, one of the league's most consistent pairs, won 30 games in the
PUPILS at a York special school were delighted to welcome sailors and a brass band for a morning of entertainment. The pupils of the Galtres School, York, enjoyed a performance from the brass quintet of the Queen's Division Normandy Band and also received
Two unbeaten records disappeared in the Tyke Petroleum Men's League and Poppleton were involved in both. Their firsts lost to Dunnington in the return division one match, Dunnington scoring 21 of the last 36 games to win by two. John and Alex Moore scored
Dunnington seconds have taken the lead in division three of the IT Sports York Mixed Tennis League after their wins against Civil Service and Bishopthorpe. Dunnington won 62-46 at Service with Kevin Todd and Judy McHenry top scorers and then entertained
THE KNIVES are out at York's Fairfax House with the opening of an exhibition of cutlery dating back 5,000 years. The tour charts the use of forks, spoons, knifes and other eating tools in use as early as the Stone Age. Opening on September 1 and running
FULFORD Tennis Club is hoping to unearth a new Tim Henman this weekend. The club is hosting Play Tennis 2001, Britain's biggest free tennis campaign. The Play Tennis initiative has been launched by the Lawn Tennis Association and anyone who fancies having
GANTON Golf Club's Gary Brown has taken the next step towards playing in the Open at Lytham St Anne's later this month by coming through the regional qualifying tournament at Alwoodley Golf Club. Brown fired a level-par 71 to be among nine qualifiers
JOHN Prescott and Jack Straw have been keeping up the pressure on the Indian Government to release jailed North Yorkshire arms dealer Peter Bleach. Both the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have raised Bleach's case with the Indian Prime Minister's
YORK City assistant manager Adie Shaw today insisted the Minstermen will not be rushed into the transfer market as the exit door continues to revolve at Bootham Crescent. As revealed in yesterday's Evening Press, midfielder Craig Skinner has departed
