CHARLES HUTCHINSON talks to the York-bound Swedish star BRITT Ekland is in the mood for correction. From screen goddess of the Sixties to turning 60 this October, Britt's journey has taken her from Swedish toothpaste commercials, through Bond babe to
AND All The Children Cried is the first play by social worker Judith Jones and journalist Beatrix Campbell, and its theme is sex and violence and child murder with the case study of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley at its core. Annie Castledine directs this
THE people of York joined the Duke of York in the city's own tribute to the Queen Mother. Nearly four years after he viewed the Minster's restored Great West Door, the Duke of York walked through it to attend a memorial service to his grandmother, who
THE Theatre Royal is charging £7.50 early booking for the panto. This is wrong. For immediate bookings you have to pay £7.50 to become a 'star' and then buy tickets for three shows to become a 'superstar' at a further £7.50 a ticket. If you don't buy
THERE is one aspect not covered in the letter from City of York Council's head of financial services, Mr Wiles (April 1). It is necessary for at least half of the local authority members on the police authority to vote in favour of the police precept.
IT is disappointing to see that those organising the traffic flow through local roadworks have forgotten how useful it was to have two distinct lanes on the westbound carriageway, one designated A64 only and the other for the York slip. The idea came
I THANK readers who responded to the article about my bid to run my first London Marathon. I ran for the Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) Association which raises cash to promote research into this brutal neuro-degenerative disease. Comedian Dudley
YORK'S latest tourist attraction, the rising bollard on Stonebow, is out of action because the council has no one to monitor it. A thought occurs. If someone is employed to watch it all day, why not do away with the bollard and ask the monitor to sit
YORK City chief Terry Dolan faces a selection poser ahead of tomorrow's final game of the season at promotion-seeking Scunthorpe United. After Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Bristol Rovers, the City boss must have been tempted to stick with the same team
THE one issue guaranteed to bring out the worst in a politician is British membership of the euro. Bitter internal feuding in John Major's Conservative Government made him a virtual lame duck Prime Minister. Knives were planted in backs and a more unified
The annual Evening Six-a-side Summer Football League at York University will kick-off in the middle of next month. The six-week competition is played in midweek on synthetic pitches. Teams play one 40-minute match a week (cost £10 per week). The top sides
A YORK charity that helps adults with learning difficulties may have its funds wiped out after failing to sell a single ticket for a fundraising event. Vision Of Life charity worker Martin Taylor said he was beginning to panic as the celebrity memorabilia
CHAMPIONS-ELECT Harrogate Town go to Witton Albion tomorrow seeking the single point they need to guarantee the UniBond League division one title. Town go into the game in buoyant mood after lifting the West Riding County FA Cup with a 4-0 thumping of
ARMY bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after a Second World War hand grenade was discovered in the back garden of a house in North Yorkshire. Police were called to the house in Windsor Lane, Knaresborough, at about 7pm last night
VICTORY - and nothing less - will be the spur for York RI to wrap up their league campaign with a roar at Leos. Customary end-of-season calculations may yet have to be delved into, but RI head for tomorrow's clash at Leos acutely aware that a maximum
York City Baths Club swimmers returned with five gold, five silver and one bronze from the top quality Rotherham Metro open at Sheffield's Ponds Forge pool. Alice Sunderland ended her swims as an 11-year-old with a collection of four gold and two silvers
RYEDALE councillors have rejected plans to improve the A64 for falling way short of the mark - unless dual carriageway is adopted along the York to Scarborough stretch. In a report to the district council's policy and resources committee meeting last
VISA difficulties have left a goodwill mission to take a fire engine from North Yorkshire to Kabul floundering. The 5,000-mile trek from Harrogate to the war-ravaged capital of Afghanistan has been put on hold while urgent negotiations take place. A last-minute
A YORK company is helping to heal the wounds of war-torn Afghanistan with state-of-the-art communications equipment. A team of three technicians from Saville Audio Visual transported a vital translation system to the country's capital, Kabul, via Pakistan
Yorkshire breathed a sigh of relief after they were able to include Chris Silverwood in their side for tomorrow's three-day match against Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence which marks the start of the county club's new season. Spectators
AUSTRALIAN full-back Ben Sorbello has become the latest player forced to leave York Wasps, following the closure of the World Rugby League offices in York. The 32-year-old is now set to return Down Under on Monday, just five months after arriving in York
THE sister of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is to lead a special church service calling for his release. Alison Phelps, who lives in Leeds, will speak about her brother and the campaign to free him at St Edward the Confessor's church in Dringhouses
PARENT power has saved a North Yorkshire school from having to close its doors at lunch times. Dinner hours for youngsters at Alne Primary School, near Easingwold, will continue after parents stepped in to cover the shifts of dinner ladies. Last month
YORK'S controversial rising bollard, designed to reduce city centre traffic in York, has been out of action for a week - giving motorists free rein to flout the law. Over the past month there have been intermittent mechanical problems with the bollard
CLASSIC trials at Thirsk and Newbury and the Scottish Grand National at Ayr collectively provide armchair punters with an enthralling triple-header tomorrow. The £23,000 Stanley Racing Thirsk Classic Trial is contested by fillies as well as colts and
THE York City Supporters' Trust is urging fellow fans 'to stand-up if you love City'. Time is running out for those supporters wishing to stand for election to the board of the Trust. Nominations must be submitted by next Friday, April 26. Invitations
INTERNATIONAL saver Russ Howarth is pledging to show nerves of steel tomorrow to dent the promotion hopes of the Iron. With number one Alan Fettis ruled out after damaging knee ligaments in Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Bristol Rovers, Howarth will end
THEY may be 50 years old, but some of the decorations going up at Castle Howard this summer are as bright and patriotic as ever. Original bunting and flags which festooned the streets of Malton during the Coronation in 1952 have been found in an attic
Tim Firth is always happy to return to Scarborough, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON TIM Firth loves Scarborough. Next week, the Cheshire playwright and Cambridge graduate is premiering a play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, the home of comedy laureate Sir
THE future of the site around historic Clifford's Tower in York remains clouded in uncertainty, with a public inquiry into a £60 million redevelopment scheme due to resume next month. Objectors are fiercely opposing the Coppergate Riverside proposals
IN a week when the nation has mourned the loss of everyone's favourite grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the Evening Press looks back on a happier time spent by the Royal Family in York. On June 8, 1961, the full splendour and tradition
THE funeral of Caroline Stuttle, the York backpacker who was murdered in Australia, will be held next Tuesday. The service will be held at All Saints' Church, Huntington. An inquest into her death was opening in the City today. Nineteen-year-old Caroline
FRESH hope was given this afternoon to the grieving family caught in a row with a York parish council over the design of their son's gravestone. The chairman of Strensall Parish Council, Phillip Thorpe, has pledged to look again at the decision to turn
A YORK asthma sufferer fears the scrapping of a subsidised council cleaning service could leave her unable to live in her own home. She is one of 400 residents who have been told by letter that they are to lose the service from the end of July because
THE sister of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is to lead a special church service calling for his release. Alison Phelps, who lives in Leeds, will speak about her brother and the campaign to free him at St Edward the Confessor's church in Dringhouses
I VISITED Guildhall to sign the book of condolence for the Queen Mother. First I had to find it because the sign was on the floor under the table. The book itself was not very nice, the table wobbled when one rested hand on it to write and the flowers
LAST month York residents received their council tax bills, complete with two glossy booklets explaining the inflation-busting increase. One of these reported that City of York Council "has been able to maintain high levels of expenditure on frontline
Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS test drives Citroen's new family friend which really lets the sun shine in CITROEN'S latest C3 range which goes on sale in a couple of weeks has to be one of the most family-friendly cars available. It is dominated by curves
Yorkshire breathed a sigh of relief after they were able to include Chris Silverwood in their side for tomorrow's three-day match against Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence which marks the start of the county club's new season. Spectators
YORK City manager Terry Dolan has this afternoon wielded the axe on five of the nine players who will be out of contract at Bootham Crescent. Marc Thompson had already been told his contract would not be renewed but the midfielder has now been joined
THE York City Supporters' Trust is urging fellow fans 'to stand-up if you love City'. Time is running out for those supporters wishing to stand for election to the board of the Trust. Nominations must be submitted by next Friday, April 26. Invitations
A PLEDGE from new chairman John Batchelor that two representatives of the York City Supporters' Trust will be appointed directors of the club has been put on hold. The appointments will not be made until after the 'transitional period', which has seen
INTERNATIONAL saver Russ Howarth is pledging to show nerves of steel tomorrow to dent the promotion hopes of the Iron. With number one Alan Fettis ruled out after damaging knee ligaments in Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Bristol Rovers, Howarth will end
KENTMERE House Gallery's memorial exhibition of paintings by Jack Hellewell, 1920-2000, is on show until April 25. Ann Petherick, owner of the gallery in Scarcroft Hill, York, says: "Jack is one of my favourite painters, and we have several examples of
AUSTRALIAN full-back Ben Sorbello has become the latest player forced to leave York Wasps, following the closure of the World Rugby League offices in York. The 32-year-old is now set to return Down Under on Monday, just five months after arriving in York
YORK Wasps fans are confident of forming an acceptable business plan quickly enough to resurrect the club - despite being given only two weeks by the Rugby Football League. The Wasps supporters' trust working party are to sit down this weekend to draw
FRIENDS, parents and residents in Easingwold are being urged to support an appeal to improve the North Yorkshire town's primary school. Work is already under way to build new classrooms, toilet accommodation and staff facilities at a cost of £256,000.
SEVERUS WMC were crowned champions of the John Smith's Sunday League for the first time in their history after two victories in the week, writes Garry Carter. Paul Jones scored twice as a 5-2 victory over New Earswick on Thursday left them requiring just
The death of a man who was found hanging at his home in York is not being treated as suspicious, police said today. The body of Roderick Guy Neal, 42, was discovered at his flat in High Petergate early yesterday. An inquest into his death was expected
TWO police officers have won a judge's commendation for catching the thieves responsible for a three-year crime spree against motorists in York and Knaresborough. PC Phil Anson, of the road policing group in Tadcaster, spent 18 months on the trail of
PAPER people were created by young sculptors at Lowfield School, in Acomb, as part of an artist-in-residence day. Sculptor Philip Cox visited the school to spend the day working with GCSE art students from Years Ten and 11. Philip is the creator of "paper
WINNERS and players sampled a silverware tonic at the Hunters the estate agent York and District Indoor Cricket League presentation ceremony at York Brewery. Rowntrees 'A' team player Paul Horner received the most votes gaining a total of 32 points to
CLIVE Whyte won the York Conservative Clubs' Scruton Cup snooker competition for the third time when he defeated his Heworth team colleague Jason Milner 3-1 in the final at Heworth club. Milner began confidently in the first frame, with positive potting
THE opportunity to give their lives an "MOT" drew thousands of people to York Minster for the launch of a series of evangelical meetings based on the Ten Commandments. The Just 10 series aims, in weekly sessions, to offer personal improvement through
YORK St John College Rowing Club commemorate their 150th anniversary this weekend. The club has organised a regatta on the River Ouse and a formal evening event with guest speaker Simon Dennis, gold medallist from the coxless eight Sydney Olympics in
A JURY was today expected to decide if a York husband and father-of-three raped an overnight visitor in his house. Yesterday David Glen Atkin, 42, alleged he was shocked when police woke him in his bed and arrested him. He claimed that his main priority
SELBY councillors have welcomed the creation of more than 300 manufacturing jobs in neighbouring Goole. One of the world's largest glassmakers, Guardian Industries Corp, is to build a £115 million factory in the town. The 120 hectares of land in Rawcliffe
A PLEDGE from new chairman John Batchelor that two representatives of the York City Supporters' Trust will be appointed directors of the club has been put on hold. The appointments will not be made until after the 'transitional period', which has seen
YORK City chief Terry Dolan faces a selection poser ahead of tomorrow's final game of the season at promotion-seeking Scunthorpe United. After Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Bristol Rovers, the City boss must have been tempted to stick with the same team
YORK City manager Terry Dolan has this afternoon wielded the axe on five of the nine players who will be out of contract at Bootham Crescent. Marc Thompson had already been told his contract would not be renewed but the midfielder has now been joined
