THE latest stars on the St Peter's School production line have got off to a winning start in the Daily Mail Schools' Rugby Under-15s Cup. The school created a little piece of history last year when they went on to lift the coveted trophy at Twickenham
Do snake lovers lead a charmed life? JO HAYWOOD speaks to a York woman who just loves to surround herself with reptiles of all shapes and sizes. PRETTY Boy is surprisingly pretty. Slim, velvet smooth to the touch and quiet as a mouse. Sound like the perfect
IF Darren Gough's England career comes to a premature end then it could open the door to the Yorkshire captaincy. England captain Nasser Hussain today hinted that Gough may not play any part in the Ashes series. Gough has already been ruled out of the
ONE of the anti-apartheid heroes of the South African social revolution takes up a new role at York St John College. Professor David Maughan Brown, formerly acting vice-chancellor at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, becomes the college's director
LORD HASKINS, of Britain In Europe, will pit himself against Martin Vander Weyer of Business for Sterling in a euro debate and lunch at Le Meridien Hotel, York, on Monday. The debate, organised by the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and sponsored
CLIFTON Park will be the venue for what could be York's most important match of the season when the Yorkshire One table-toppers entertain second-placed Bridlington. Unbeaten leaders York have not faced Bridlington in the league for a number of years,
THE fall-out following Adam Crozier's departure from the Football Association leaves a very sour taste. Only last week, this column had a pop at Crozier for not wanting to get his hands dirty on a number of 'real' footballing issues. His much-lauded modernisation
BILL Woolley claims City of York Council is not anti-car but is anti-congestion ('Is York anti-car?', November 1). If so, why are there so many places around York where the council's traffic management policy appears to have been designed to create congestion
A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl was heartbroken when she lost a beloved toy on a visit to York. Ellie Davies has issued a plea to people in the city to help her be reunited with Eddie the Hedgehog, a soft toy she has had since she was six months old. Eddie is a Country
POLICE are hunting a hit- and-run driver after a 16-year-old boy was found lying in the middle of a road in Knaresborough. Bradford teenager Ibrar Ali was crossing Boroughbridge Road, near Piccadilly Motors, in Knaresborough, at 6.15pm last Friday when
A TOP North Yorkshire visitor attraction has a new face at the helm. Sue Dalton has taken over the reins as manager at the Thirsk-based World of James Herriot. She is keen to build on the success of the £1.4 million centre by bringing even more visitors
THE kitchens of York's award-winning Treasurer's House will remain open until Christmas following hundreds of requests from regular customers. For the first time since opening ten years ago, the tea room at the 17th-century National Trust-owned building
PETER King, one of Europe's most in-demand alto saxophone players, will be the main attraction at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green, York, tomorrow night as part of a northern mini tour. On Thursday, King will be holding jazz workshops at Manor CE School
A NORTH Yorkshire businessman must wait at least another month before councillors agree the future of his business. Coal merchant David Welford, from Wrelton, outside Pickering, hopes to relocate his livelihood to an agricultural site at Cliff Lane. But
AUSTRALIAN police have arrested the director of a collapsed North Yorkshire computer company over the alleged fraud of more than £1 million. Charles Forsyth, 43, was reportedly detained by Western Australian Police as he left church on Sunday, in Boyup
OPERATION Ratcatcher's traps are set to snap shut on criminals across York as the city's police gear up to act on tip-offs phoned in by residents. A steady flow of information has been received by Crimestoppers, which the four-month winter crime crackdown
TADCASTER Grammar School is bidding to become a business and enterprise college. If successful, the bid, designed to "foster tomorrow's entrepreneurs", will bring the school £850,000 of extra funding. Head teacher Geoff Mitchell said that college status
Poacher maintained a three-point York John Smith's Men's League division one lead by beating Osbaldwick 6-3. For the latter Craig Wedge included a 180 while Poacher's continued drive for the title was aided by a bull finish for 21 darts by Shaun Day.
BARRY Barry Noble and Chris Thompson, arguably York's best darts players of this era, featured in the two major tournaments to come to the region this week. It's a tremendous bonus for the York area to have the British Darts Organisation choose Bridlington
Gloucester wing James Simpson-Daniel will make his Test debut when England tackle Tri-Nations champions New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Stockton gains a rapid reward for some superb Premiership displays and is the solitary
ANGRY lecturers at colleges in York and North Yorkshire went on the picket line today for a national strike, affecting hundreds of students across the region. At York College, striking staff picketed the campus, which was largely empty of students today
City of York Ladies I suffered a second successive 1-0 defeat in the North League, this time to Whitley Bay. York had the edge early on but midway through the first half Bay forced 'keeper Dawn Hopkins to make several saves before she was given no chance
DISJOINTED City of York recovered from conceding a goal after just 12 seconds to draw 2-2 at home to Oxton in the Northern Hockey League premier division. Chris Dutton, back from injury after three weeks out, did get York's noses in front but they had
THE row between Paul Shepherd and the board of the York-based Shepherd Group, the family firm which once he led, today erupted into the open with written explanations to employees. As reported in later editions yesterday, Mr Shepherd, 57, has taken out
JON Parkin is the latest York City player to be ruled out of the FA Cup first round clash with Swansea City later this month. Parkin will be suspended for the game on November 16 after picking up his fifth booking of the season at Hartlepool last Friday
IF Darren Gough's England career comes to a premature end then it could open the door to the Yorkshire captaincy. England captain Nasser Hussain today hinted that Gough may not play any part in the Ashes series. Gough has already been ruled out of the
RECENTLY, you could have bought a flu jab at Asda. Now the Yorkshire supermarket plans to offer spiritual healing as well. The store at Monks Cross in York is advertising for a store chaplain. He or she would offer a friendly shoulder as you shopped.
THEY say it ain't over until the fat lady sings, but we all knew it was pretty much over when the fat bloke in the shiny satin karate pyjamas belted out the chords of Abba's Waterloo. The wedding party had started about 36 hours earlier with bucketfuls
YORK City Knights RL Club are likely to be handed arguably the toughest pool in the group stages of the Buddies National League Cup. The season gets underway with the Buddies Cup, which will see the 20 National League teams split into four regional groups
POCKLINGTON Coachworks today confirmed a contract which is likely to make it the leading trailer-maker in world motorcycle racing. The Osbaldwick firm, whose last-word-in-luxury trailers are already coveted by the top car racing teams in Formula 1, has
WOW! What a sarnie - and what service from Eric Mair, proprietor of Mair's Delicatessen in Heworth Village, York. Both were good enough to warrant a nomination by Helen Walbey for a national Wow! customer service award, which she presented to Eric at
BIG businesses in York are rallying as never before to help the city's small ventures to become safer, injury-free places in which to work. Practical suggestions and offers to cut down on drastic injury figures have poured in as a result of the City of
Gloucester wing James Simpson-Daniel will make his Test debut when England tackle Tri-Nations champions New Zealand at Twickenham on Saturday. The 20-year-old from Stockton gains a rapid reward for some superb Premiership displays and is the solitary
Malton-based jockey Paul Hanagan, who will be crowned Britain's champion apprentice when the Flat turf season ends at Doncaster on Saturday, can play a starring role at Musselburgh tomorrow. Hanagan teams-up with Clarinch Claymore in the feature race,
AN "AMNESTY" has been announced for North Yorkshire people who have kept walking aids they no longer need. Physiotherapy and occupational therapy staff at Hambleton and Richmondshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) are pleading with patients to return the items
OPPONENTS of York's Coppergate Riverside scheme have fly-postered scores of empty shops across the city centre. The posters claim that 150 shops were already standing shut in the centre of York. They suggest that if Land Securities' £60 million re-development
PUPILS from Tadcaster East Primary School are to learn all about the water cycle on a trip to Yorkshire Water's Loftsome Bridge education centre, near Selby, on Thursday. They will also learn about the water treatment process and how water is distributed
SELBY District Council's 41 members claimed more than £40,000 in expenses for the three months ending September 30. The payments comprised special responsibility and basic allowances, but do not include mileage claims. Top claimant was council leader
NOBEL prize winner Sir John Sulston is to give a public lecture at the University of York this month on the human genome project. The geneticist shares this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and will be collecting his award in Stockholm a
ALMOST 13,000 children across York are to be given special, reflective stickers in a new council road safety campaign. The campaign was launched at St Wilfrid's RC Primary School as children returned to school after the half-term holidays. Every nursery
A NEW service to provide advice and guidance to young people in North Yorkshire has secured £145,000 in funding. The Connexions Service for York and North Yorkshire aims to improve a range of services in the area to help teenagers, from 13 upwards, fulfil
A MAJOR resurfacing project is starting in the centre of York this Sunday. City of York Council is to start the work on the carriageway at Monkgate/Lord Mayor's Walk on Sunday, and will continue on two further Sundays, November 17 and 24. The contractor
COLLEAGUES have paid tribute to a former Malton store manager who has died aged just 29. Andrew Hansell, who worked at Boyes in Malton until he transferred to Scarborough, was described as the life and soul of the party by former colleagues who had worked
KING of skiffle Lonnie Donegan died after collapsing just hours before he was due to take the stage in York. The 71-year-old star, who had suffered a series of heart attacks and had been complaining of back trouble, died in Peterborough on Sunday, midway
TEMPTATION is all around you in the supermarket aisles. Just ask any shopper on a diet. Even after you have spurned the siren call of the sticky bun, and survived the moral minefield of the organic/cheap vegetable displays, there's that smug little urge
PROTESTERS say they are determined to fight Ministry of Defence (MoD) efforts to get rid of an historic section of bridleway. Part of the Robin Hood's Bay Salt Road - which is well over 200 years old - reaches from the A169 Pickering to Whitby road to
LAST orders have finally been called for the 11pm closure of pubs in busy tourist destinations such as York. Labour promised to introduce 24-hour drinking in town centre bars and restaurants during last year's General Election campaign. But the Government
Acomb Men walloped unbeaten Yorkshire League division one leaders Chapeltown I 3-0 in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup. The Tangerines capitalised on a slow Chapeltown start and after ten minutes were two up through Stuart Baxter and David Richardson
THREE men hurled racist abuse at staff who refused to serve them at a York Indian restaurant, York Crown Court heard. Staff at The Garden of India refused to serve Tang Hall brothers Andrew and Mark Gibson and their friend Daniel Haigh, because they were
A LORRY driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge. The picture, right, taken by Evening Press reader Val Stancer, reveals the aftermath of the smash. The accident, which happened
YORK City Knights RL Club are likely to be handed arguably the toughest pool in the group stages of the Buddies National League Cup. The season gets underway with the Buddies Cup, which will see the 20 National League teams split into four regional groups
A ROBBER who used a fake gun to terrify a shop assistant, sparking an armed police hunt, has been jailed for six years. Firearms officers scoured the area around the Spar shop in Heworth Road, Heworth, York, after Frederick Joseph Harbinson, 24, escaped
MISCHIEF Night brought scores of incidents across North Yorkshire last night. Police handled reports of 113 incidents of youths hurling eggs and fireworks. Firefighters were also stretched, attending 35 rubbish fires and firework-related incidents up
IT WAS the Sunday when strong winds and storms lashed the UK - October 27. At about lunchtime, nine-year-old Abigail Brayshaw and her sister Bethany, six, were playing upstairs in the bedroom of their home in Spalding Avenue, York. They should have been
YORK City goalkeeper Russ Howarth today finally sealed a move away from Bootham Crescent by joining Second Division Tranmere Rovers. The wantaway keeper has moved for an undisclosed five-figure fee after signing a two and a half-year deal. The transfer
UNLIKE trick or treat, Mischief Night is a long-standing British tradition. According to one reading of history, last night was its 250th anniversary: the custom of noisily carousing through the streets to ward off evil spirits switched from Hallowe'en
FARMERS are being continuously urged to diversify. This is for the obvious reason that the activities they normally undertake, namely growing either animals or plants, are losing money at the moment. Some years ago, a more than usually shrewd individual
