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  • Rowntree dethroned by sharp-shooters Huntington

    Huntington scoop area crown to end Joseph's 13-year domination - Compiled by Peter Wilmott HUNTINGTON School Under-16 netball team have won the area round of the National School netball competition, breaking Joseph Rowntree's 13-year hold over the trophy

  • Hacker defaces council's site

    A COMPUTER hacker has put anti-USA messages on City of York Council's internet site. The authority was forced to close down the site after finding it had been hacked into and that obscenities had been scrawled on it. Internet security is being reviewed

  • Concert tribute to teacher

    SINGING and dancing staff and students took to the stage at Joseph Rowntree School in New Earswick to raise money in memory of much-loved teacher Ken Ather. Mr Ather, a teacher at the school for 19 years, died earlier this year after an 18-month fight

  • Hold the bus

    A POLICE team swooped on a coach carrying 35 workers following a tip-off that suspected illegal immigrants were working for a company in York. The major operation - involving more than 15 police as well as teams of Immigration and Benefits Agency officials

  • Notts County 2 York City 0 in the LDV Vans Trophy 16/10/01

    No bounty at County as City fall out of cup - 'GOALS change games' always seems one of the most trite of footballing cliches. But how apt it seemed last night as York City once again tumbled out of the much-maligned LDV Vans competition at the first time

  • Fighting back panic attacks

    PANIC is far easier to spread than anthrax, as this week's newspapers proved. "Anthrax panic spreads as top US senator is targeted" - The Guardian; "panic spread worldwide" - The Mirror; "anthrax panic spreads throughout the globe" - Daily Mail. Clever

  • Dithering over floods

    THE chronic underfunding of the flood defences is no shock to those of us who have followed this sorry saga closely ('Flood defence works bill may total £11m', October 11). Mr Blair and Mr Prescott promised much when they came with the TV cameras last

  • Friends mourn ex-chip shop owner

    A POPULAR former York chip shop owner has died aged 68 after suffering a series of strokes. Bert Chapman ran Lowther Street fish and shop for 22 years with his wife, Beryl, before retiring in the late 1980s. Beryl, who now lives in Rainsborough Way, Clifton

  • Arriva strike threat

    TRAIN operator Arriva is facing the nightmare of a Hallowe'en strike. The Transport and Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) met with Arriva Trains Northern yesterday seeking a 40 per cent pay increase for its ticket office, station and administrative staff

  • Euro 'would be a bitter pill'

    DIANE ELLIS, a member of the North Yorkshire Council of Business for Sterling, helps launch a new campaign in York opposing the single European currency. Posters have been distributed across the city, claiming it would cost an estimated £30 billion to

  • Top honour a step nearer for trio

    PLANS to bestow the freedom of the city on three well-known York figures have moved a step closer. Members of the City of York Council's Approvals Committee last night agreed that actress Dame Judi Dench, composer John Barry and the retired chairman of

  • Stonehenge home and dry with special turf

    YORK turf specialist Rolawn has gone the way of the druids. The firm has received an order to supply 325 square metres of washed turf for use in the grounds of the famous ancient monument at Stonehenge. Rolawn has already kitted out a number of football

  • Bridge leave it late

    IT took two goals in the second period of extra time for Leeper Hare York and District League premier division side Boroughbridge to beat division one opponents Post Office in the second round of City of York and District FA Saturday Senior Cup. Boroughbridge

  • Selby jobless boost

    UNEMPLOYMENT in Selby has dropped by more than 15 per cent in the last year, official figures reveal today. Christmas recruitment and an expanding enterprise park have provided a massive job boost to the Selby economy. The figure for those out of work

  • Aussie pair to sign for Wasps

    YORK Wasps are poised to sign two Australian props as their build-up towards the new Rugby League Premiership season gathers pace. Former Balmain Tigers star Chris St Clair, who now plays with St Gaudens Bears in the French Elite One division, and teenager

  • 'Sick' owners dump maltreated dog

    ANIMAL welfare officers are searching for the owner of a maltreated dog that was dumped outside the RSPCA home in York. It is hoped that an answering machine message left for the dog warden at the home in the early hours of yesterday morning will provide

  • Warden gets a parking ticket

    A PAINFUL role reversal was in store for Bob Ogier when he had to pay a visit to the dentist. For Bob, who spends his days putting tickets on wrongly-parked vehicles across a North Yorkshire district, found himself a victim of the yellow peril. A 25-minute

  • York infant school to get CCTV

    SECURITY cameras are to be installed at a York infant school which has been repeatedly targeted by vandals. Police were called out to Carr Infant School in Ostman Road, Acomb, four times over the summer holiday period after vandals broke into the premises

  • Doorstep sneak thief grabs bag

    A 79-YEAR-OLD woman was left distraught after a youth stole her handbag while she fetched him a glass of water. The woman, from Oaktree Grove, New Earswick, has been too upset to provide police with details of the boy. He knocked on her door between 5.30pm

  • Grin and bare it

    YORK City's mounting injuries worries took another damaging turn for the worse last night as the Minstermen crashed out of the LDV Vans Trophy at the first hurdle. Young defender John Fielding limped from the field ten minutes from time in the 2-0 defeat

  • Tourism industry 'needs single voice'

    TOURISM Minister Kim Howells today told a Yorkshire conference that tourism needed its own "Ben Gill" to speak for it with a single voice. In a hard-hitting, unscripted speech to a Yorkshire tourist event, he demanded higher standards in an industry in

  • Let's oppose the extremists and bigots

    WELL done for your editorial standing up to the racist bullies of the British National Party (October 15). A number of leading BNP members have convictions for violence and many are even suspected to have links to far-right terrorist groups. And of course

  • Council's own goal

    IT is very sad that Peter Powell, chair of Nether Poppleton Parish Council, appears to be suffering from memory loss, (Letters, October 3). I should like to set the record straight. I was a Nether Poppleton parish councillor at the time the Poppleton

  • Double-dating

    YOUR article about the York baronet's silver stated: "Sir Thomas died at his home in York on March 1, 1681 or 1682" (October 5). This would have been 1681 because in those times the year started on March 25. Therefore, to avoid mistakes, from January

  • Tracks in turmoil

    A YEAR ago today the railway industry was plunged into chaos by a crash that cost four lives and shook the network to its core. Within days it emerged that a broken rail was responsible for the derailment of the London-Leeds GNER service. But beyond the

  • Get railways back on track

    ONE year on from the Hatfield rail crash and Britain's railways remain in a parlous condition. In the months following the crash, in which four people were killed, emergency safety work to upgrade track led to such severe problems that all too often passengers

  • Solution's clear to flood defence fears

    A FLOOD-hit pub landlord who feared defence plans for a neighbouring beck would plunge his premises into darkness has been enlightened. Peter Fisher feared Environment Agency bosses planned to build a wall right outside his pub, blocking out the light

  • Leaving home was hard to bear...

    THE story of young evacuees who were sent to stay with families throughout Yorkshire during the Second World War is being told through music and dance. Stagecoach Youth Theatre York and PACT (Parents and Children Together) are putting on a musical documentary

  • Wibsey shines but favourites flop

    The second round of the Yorkshire Winter League saw 70 anglers enjoying the Indian summer on the improving River Calder around Mirfield. There were a few surprises in the team contest, Wibsey Angling taking the day and with it a share of the lead after

  • Pickering's run comes to end

    PICKERING Town's amazing undefeated run in the Northern Counties East League came to an end last night. The Pikes had gone 21 league games unbeaten, 16 at the end of last season as they won promotion from division one and five in this season's premier

  • Stillington's saviour

    WITH only ten minutes of their York FA Saturday Junior Cup second round tie remaining Stillington were 4-0 up at home to LNER Builders, who suddenly hit back with three goals and then it took a penalty save by Stillington 'keeper Mark Fairley to give

  • Kid's stuff for Karl

    Hat-trick hero Karl Kidd got the winner five minutes from time for Haxby Town in their 6-5 win at home to Tockwith in the second round of York FA Saturday Reserve Cup. Kidd flicked the ball into the net to complete his hat-trick. Haxby's other goals came

  • Derwent body is town OAP

    THE body of a man pulled from the River Derwent last week has been identified as Malton pensioner Kenneth Perrin. The 71-year-old had been missing for more than a week when his body was found last Thursday in the River Derwent between Eden Camp and Old

  • Commons rail franchise probe

    A POWERFUL committee of MPs was today due to launch an investigation into the way rail franchises - including that for the East Coast Main Line - were awarded. Officials from the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions have been called

  • City slump as Magpies steal glory

    GOALS change games always seems one of the most trite of footballing cliches. But how apt it seemed last night as York City once again tumbled out of the much-maligned LDV Vans competition at the first time of asking. For the first 50 minutes the Minstermen

  • Smart sprinter is on course to do it again

    Dancing Mystery, a winner at Newmarket 12 months ago, can gain a repeat victory tomorrow. Eric Wheeler's smart sprinter again goes for the £15,000 Pearl & Coutts Rated Handicap and I expect him to achieve back-to-back wins in this five-furlongs dash

  • Just a minute, Betty

    Yorkshire's Betty Boothroyd, the most famous Speaker in modern Parliamentary history, has written her memoirs. CHRIS TITLEY caught her eye at question time... BLIMEY. Now I know what it's like to be an MP. Just like Tony Blair, Dennis Skinner and the