JO HAYWOOD speaks to a York mum who turned to a relatively unknown treatment for learning difficulties in a last ditch attempt to help her seven-year-old son ANDREW'S behaviour was always difficult to control and impossible to predict. He was dismissed
Q My asthma is getting worse and I really want to do something to get on top of it. Can you offer any advice? A With upper respiratory infections coming back onto the scene with the change in seasons now is a good time for asthmatics to think about doing
CITY of York Council is planning to recruit a personal assistant for Labour council leader Dave Merrett. The £20,000 cost of the post - together with a £5,000 bill for a team-building exercise to strengthen bonds between the council's top eight decision-makers
MATCHWINNER Lee Cook is hoping for more of the same after putting York City's season back on track. Cook marked his City debut with the game's solitary goal at Exeter City as the Minstermen secured only their second win away from home this season. After
NORMAN Johnston was brought up some distance away from the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). His childhood home was many miles and a stretch of water away from London; and although he lived in the north-east, as a Fermanagh kid, that was the
Pavement Gates can lead to victory at Catterick tomorrow. Mark Brisbourne's two-year-old goes for the Tote David Wood Fillies' Nursery with Adrian Nicholls in the saddle, and is napped to get back on the winning trail. Successful at Musselburgh three
DECISIONS about spending millions of pounds of York taxpayers' money are being made with inadequate public consultation, Liberal Democrats claimed today. Proposals to ask for city residents' views were criticised by York's Liberal Democrat leader, Steve
In the remaining Senior League Cup ties New Earswick produced a shock as they knocked out neighbours Huntington in a penalty shoot-out. Nick Fenton gave Huntington the lead following a 50th-minute goalmouth scramble. But Earswick equalised and took the
FEEDBACK on action zones designed to stop pollution spiralling past legal limits is being given to York residents. Updates on action to improve air quality in the city will be made at upcoming ward committees. They follow the setting up of special areas
SELBY Town's dismal start to the season in the Northern Counties East Premier Division continued when they crashed to a 5-1 defeat against Harrogate Railway at Flaxley Road. Selby started brightly and took the lead after five minutes when Peter Collier
PUPILS at Canon Lee School, in York, hope to have raised £1,000 during a day of citizenship-related fundraising. Up to 120 balloons were released as part of the event, which was organised by the school's Active Citizens In Schools (ACIS) group. Students
Dringhouses took over from Malton Bacon factory at the top of the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division after a 3-0 win at Osbaldwick. Gary Kitson crossed for Neil Ducey to score the first goal after half an hour. Colin Raynor made it
POTTERS, sculptors and painters who attended a York art school in the 1960s enjoyed had a chance to reminisce at a reunion over the weekend. Former members of the York Art School, who attended when the school was based in Exhibition Square, travelled
A WOMAN who overcame the horrors of the Selby rail crash is hoping to follow in the footsteps of a Pop Idol. Janine Edwards is crossing her fingers for stardom after starting at the prestigious Arts Educational School, in Chiswick. The 23-year-old, from
NORTH Yorkshire's Simon Dyson was back in the swing of things - and with borrowed clubs too. The Malton and Norton Golf Club ace posted a superb joint 26th place in the star-studded Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews, where Ireland's Padraig Harrington
THE Great North Run was given an enthusiastic thumbs-up from North and East Yorkshire runners who took part in the gruelling race. Despite aching limbs and sore feet the 13.1 mile race, which took place on Tyneside yesterday, was declared a "fantastic
MATCHWINNER Lee Cook is hoping for more of the same after putting York City's season back on track. Cook marked his City debut with the game's solitary goal at Exeter City as the Minstermen secured only their second win away from home this season. After
EVERYBODY knows what too many cooks are supposed to spoil. But without wanting to over-egg the pudding, another handful of Lee Cooks wouldn't go amiss for York City. City manager Terry Dolan had admitted his team had lost their spark in recent weeks and
GORDON Campbell Thomas complains that City of York Council has failed to consider the ecological impact of developments such as Coppergate II and argues that this council's support for the development is against residents' interests and their quality
"WHEN I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." So speaks Humpty Dumpty, and it is a philosophy of language which elements of the peace movement appear to have embraced with particular enthusiasm. When prefacing "nuclear
I AM working upon a book which I hope to eventually get published. The subject is The Normandy Veterans, and I am seeking personal accounts of D-day and the subsequent Normandy campaign from any surviving veterans. If you would be willing to help please
AS the Tories gather in Bournemouth, the party finds itself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The revelation of an affair in the 1980s between John Major and Edwina Currie has cast everything else in the shade - apart from imprisoned Tory grandee
PURELY by chance, Mark White and Paris Jefferson auditioned together for Terrence McNally's New York two-hander. Like Statham and Trueman, Toshack and Keegan, Bacharach and David, theirs was a natural partnership and York Theatre Royal artistic director
Q Whatever I do I never seem to be able to lose weight. Do you recommend medication for weight loss? A The key to the weight issue is exercise and I wish people could get away from the focus on weight and pay more attention to fitness and well-being.
Q I can't get any help for the pains in my feet which have been getting worse over the years. It's like terrible toothache right under the ball of my foot after a day on my feet. Can you help? A The feet are the commonest parts of the body to get arthritis
THE promoter of York's first major dance event in a decade vowed he would do it again - despite the poor turnout. Fears over noise and traffic were unfounded, with close neighbours saying they could barely hear the sound of the music at last night's event
TWO people were lucky to escape with their lives when their car became trapped beneath the blades of a combine harvester in a dramatic road accident. The two were in a Renault Clio which was being driven around a bend on the B1222 between Cawood and Sherburn-in-Elmet
MORE shocking evidence came to light today about the worsening problem of drugs and associated crime in York. And the spectre of rough sleeping and homelessness reared its head once more. The Evening Press has learned that addicts are using a city centre
IT is a sign of the time of year that tomorrow's domestic fare is made up of three National Hunt meetings - with the best of the Flat action taking place across the Channel. Taking pride of place on Longchamp's televised programme is the Prix de L'Arc
A £3 MILLION drama complex has been opened at Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, by Lord Harewood. The building, which includes a separate chapel and theatre, has taken just over a year to build. It was funded by contributions from parents, pupils and
CHILDREN up and down the UK can enjoy the comfort of a hand-crafted quilt, thanks to the efforts of some caring York craftswomen. The Clementhorpe-based White Rose Quilters recently spent a session making quilts specially for Project Linus UK. Named after
Wigginton Grasshoppers became the first team to take a point off Reserve A champions Dringhouses as they held them to a 0-0 draw. Second-placed Malton Bacon Factory went down 3-2 at home to Dunnington despite holding a 1-0 lead at half-time, thanks to
A TOP North Yorkshire racehorse trainer today denied any wrongdoing after a television investigation into a "no-lose" betting system. Norton trainer Jimmy FitzGerald, who has trained in Ryedale for almost 30 years, denied playing any part in the scandal
GAYNOR Faye, star of TV's Fat Friends, took a Stride For Life through York in aid of cancer research. Gaynor, who donned a bright pink wig, was joined by her family and more than 160 people for the 10km walk along the River Ouse and through the city centre
MONKS Cross Shopping Park closed for more than two hours today because of a power cut. The power cut at around 2.30pm meant the all of the 32 shops along with four restaurants had to close. A spokeswoman for Northern Electric said the power went off just
SIR Richard Branson helped launch a new tourism drive when he visited York today. The Virgin boss combined the introduction of a 78-strong fleet of new trains with support for a major new short-break tourism campaign in the city. The "Stay, just a little
Evening Press reporter ZOE WALKER joins the disappointingly small crowd at York's first rave in years THEY came, they saw, they blew their whistles at Sunday Secrets. But unless you were there it's unlikely that you even noticed. The event at Ryedale
YORK is an exceptional city, few others in Britain possess such a wealth of history which is so accessible. Justifiably it has a well-deserved place in the affections of its many visitors. It is a source of pride to most of us who are fortunate enough
SUNDAY Secrets it was called and the name proved unfortunately apt. Estimates vary but whatever the final figure, the audience at Ryedale Stadium definitely did not amount to the projected 900 'ravers'. It seems this particular secret was kept too well
NORTH Yorkshire's Simon Dyson was back in the swing of things - and with borrowed clubs too. The Malton and Norton Golf Club ace posted a superb joint 26th place in the star-studded Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews, where Ireland's Padraig Harrington
WHAT'S that expression, "Lies, damn lies and statistics"? It came as no surprise at all to me to learn that a million answers on the latest census had been made up. Isn't most market research? I know when, as a student, I worked for a leading agency,
