Yorkshire cooking isn't all about puddings and pies you know. There's rhubarb too. JO HAYWOOD reads up on regional recipes ANN Johnson knows her onions. And now, thanks to the generous nature of Yorkshire folk, she knows a lot about apple dumplings, pikelets
THE FAMILY of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is planning to fly to India as fears for his health worsen. Ian, 51, is spending his third year in jail after being convicted of cannabis possession - a charge he has always denied. Ian, whose parents live
HEART monitors bought in memory of a York schoolboy are slashing waiting times a year after his death. Jamie Bucknell, 14, died suddenly in school of a massive heart attack 12 months ago. Shortly after his death, his parents, Keith and Debbie, joined
York City Knights appear to be favourites to sign Hull Kingston Rovers second-row forward Dean Andrews. It is thought Rovers do not want to part with the 23-year-old utility player so it would be another coup for the Knights if he was to join former York
JONATHAN Greening is just one step away from becoming the first player to graduate from York City to full England honours. The Middlesbrough midfielder Jonathan Greening has been named in the England squad for a training get-together on November 18-20
MASSIVE equipment is being installed to bring extra colour and greater variety more quickly to you, the readers of the Evening Press. Part of the gable end of the headquarters of York & County Press in Walmgate, York, has been removed to allow a new
MOSS Harvey, fancied by many observers to emerge as one of the north's leading young chasers this season, heads to Kelso tomorrow in a bid to enhance his glowing reputation. The gelding, trained by Malcolm Jefferson, who sent out Mytimie to score at Carlisle
WITH reference to the medical experts at Boots chemist who are dispelling common old wives tales that getting your hair wet cannot bring on a cold (November 1). As a child brought up in Thixendale during the last war, hair was washed in a tin bath over
I CAN sympathise with J Dawson regarding the abuse of fireworks (November 8). However, it is pointless to expect the Government to change the existing legislation. Last year, I wrote to the Prime Minister, to the minister with responsibility for fireworks
YORK has many assets, both as a place to live and as a tourist centre. One of the best is the River Ouse and City of York Council should be looking at more ways to enhance this asset. Councillor Macdonald is wrong to want another bridge between Lendal
NO more the Dazzler then. Darren Gough, England's lone world-class strike bowler, has hobbled out of the Ashes series, the World Cup too next spring, and now faces the anguish of fading from top-class cricket for good. If indeed it is over and out for
THE chance to mould a city of the future is being offered to York's residents. The Without Walls partnership is urging anybody with an interest in the city to help formulate plans for how it should look in 20 years time. It could be that you want yourself
A MAN who grew up in council care in York says he feels like a "non-person" because files recording his childhood have been lost. Christopher Watson, 57, and his two brothers and sister, spent over a decade in the care of what was then the County Borough
A ROW looks set to break out over a North Yorkshire town's nightclub bus service - only days after the announcement of its start date. From the end of this month, an early morning shuttle service will collect Easingwold teenagers from the Clifton Moor
NESTLE Rowntree is to launch a new version of its children's favourite Smarties - as a chocolate bar. The six-chunk bar, packed full of mini Smarties, will be available from next month in both milk and white chocolate versions. The York-based company
PROUD parents can now stock up on nappies and register the birth of their little bundles of joy at the same time - thanks to Asda in York. The Monks Cross store, opened its doors this morning as the first supermarket register office in the country. Parents
York City Knights appear to be favourites to sign Hull Kingston Rovers second-row forward Dean Andrews. It is thought Rovers do not want to part with the 23-year-old utility player so it would be another coup for the Knights if he was to join former York
A MAN who dumped a badly-injured prostitute in a skip could strike again, police warned today. Carol Ives, 63, was found suffering hypothermia in a skip in Myton Street, Hull, at the weekend. She had suffered appalling injuries. Police are treating the
JONATHAN Greening is just one step away from becoming the first player to graduate from York City to full England honours. The Middlesbrough midfielder Jonathan Greening has been named in the England squad for a training get-together on November 18-20
A MAN died today after the car he was travelling in collided with a heavy goods vehicle. The car driver, who was released by firefighters, had serious injuries. The accident happened at 5.30am on the A1, near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire. Last night, drivers
Financial expert JAMES DALBY argues that a fall in York house prices is urgently needed YORK'S house price boom is coming to an end but it has gone on for so long there remains a danger that boom will turn to bust. From today's levels the standard three-bed
TONY Blair's words could not have been more sombre, nor his assessment of the world order more grim. His Mansion House speech left no doubt: Britain is an explicit terrorist target. New threats to our national interests land on the Prime Ministerial desk
PRESIDENT Bush should have been in Yorkshire this weekend. He was not, of course. Indeed, like most Americans, he is not supposed to like travel outside the USA very much. When he was first elected the joke went round that he had only been outside the
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
IN THE beginning there was the man's man; a testosterone-fuelled, beer-swilling machine who could bench-press his own bodyweight while simultaneously watching the match and ogling a page three lovely. Then came the ladies' man, who thought nothing of
WE knew it would end in tears. Young singer Charlotte Church has sacked her mother as her manager. The 16-year-old's mum, Maria, took over the management role three years ago, replacing the man credited with (or blamed for) making her a star, Jonathan
PERSIMMON Homes' plans to build on Bootham Crescent suffered another major blow today when Sport England revealed it had lodged a formal objection. Sport England said its opposition meant that if City of York Council was minded to approve the scheme for
SUPER Mac Jon McCarthy has pledged things can only get better for both him and York City. The wing-wizard received a hero's welcome on Saturday when he was a key factor in the Minstermen's thrilling 3-2 win over Leyton Orient. It was McCarthy's first
HUGH Fenwick, the 58-year-old civil engineer who began the hugely successful York-based Corus Rail Consultancy, announced today that he is to retire as its managing director at the end of the year. He is stepping down amid talks by steel giant Corus of
IF LIFE is a lottery then Sally Morton is a winner twice over. Sally is not only celebrating winning £11,300 of lottery funding for her newly-opened Walmgate Day Nursery in York, but is also eagerly awaiting the arrival of another child to join the growing
FOR all the debate that raged at a York hotel about the merits or perils of joining the euro, only six of the more than 200 business people and politicians attending owned up to having been swayed one way or the other. Lord Haskins, of the pro-euro Britain
THANK you, Evening Press, for the gorgeous school photographs 'Class of 2002' (November 5). Such happy, cheerful faces, eager and full of hope and enthusiasm for the future as they start their school life - unlike this little misery circa 1948. I wonder
YOUR feature on York's empty shops (November 5) is a timely reminder of the implications of the Coppergate proposals if they are taken forward in their present form. Mr de Barr, the spokesman for Land Securities, once again fails to address the issue.
HAVING read the article on the street drinkers of York, I was disgusted to read they spent their benefits on drink and are given a bed and food at night (November 1). They are very fortunate to be able to receive benefit in the first place. Throughout
BT's refusal to supply broadband services to the villages around York is harming business and contributing directly to traffic congestion and pollution in the York area. Effective monopolies such as BT must not be allowed to ignore the responsibilities
I AM one of the "scabs" Neil Sterio refers to and would like to comment on what he has written (October 30). He suggests that we think we "can opt in and out whenever we want to and to hell with the consequences". This may be the case for some, but for
I AM deeply disturbed by the recent reporting through the national media on the changing situation within the Israeli government. Settlers are paid in order to set up homes in occupied territories in Gaza Strip and the West Bank. They are given houses
WITH reference to your story: 'Car computer sends driver to "wrong" York' (November 9). My computer keeps crashing... Should I wear a seat-belt? Annie Wright, Aston Science Park, Love Lane, Birmingham. Updated: 11:43 Tuesday, November 12, 2002
I AM afraid Mrs Morton has got her priorities wrong (Letters, November 4). Dog dirt must be removed from the pavement immediately, a cyclist could skid on a lump of it and fall off. This must never be allowed to happen. Mike Usherwood, Mendip Close, Huntington
MORE than 170 golfers helped to raise £5,000 for charity by taking part in an annual competition at the Pike Hills club, near Copmanthorpe, York. The Candlelighters charity, which raises money for the leukaemia unit at St James's Hospital, in Leeds, was
ONE year on from his tragic death, the family of teenage heart attack victim Jamie Bucknell have today paid a special tribute to him. Dozens of helium balloons, carrying the message "I Love You," were released at Jamie's grave, in Strensall and Towthorpe
THESE comedy cops proved an arresting sight when they stopped off in York to promote the latest American box office hit, Supertroopers. The "laugh-out-loud comedy", which is released on Friday, follows five Vermont State Troopers who bend the law for
A THIRSK manufacturing firm is set to quadruple in size to meet demand for its range of award-winning heavy-duty trucks. About 60 jobs will be created at all terrain vehicle design specialists Multidrive following approval to build a second factory on
POLICE bail has been extended for retired York psychiatrist Michael Haslam, pending further inquiries into allegations of sexual assault. The former Clifton Hospital consultant, from Crayke, near Easingwold, was arrested and questioned in September, reportedly
FEAR of fireworks is being tackled by a York councillor urging new restrictions on their sale. Liberal Democrat Councillor Andrew Waller will today ask City of York Council to back him in asking for the changes. They include: Giving councils power to
EXTRA pairs of hands have been brought into play to ensure a North Yorkshire historic hall is safely "put to bed" for the winter. Volunteers are this week taking part in the seasonal clean-up and packing-up of contents at Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley
THE FAMILY of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is planning to fly to India as fears for his health worsen. Ian, 51, is spending his third year in jail after being convicted of cannabis possession - a charge he has always denied. Ian, whose parents live
A CHARITY shop manager is going on a fact-finding mission to discover what happens to cash raised in our region. Dee Benson has worked for Oxfam for almost 14 years, and is manager at the Pickering and Scarborough stores. She will be travelling to Sri
THE partner of a missing Ryedale man who has not been home for six weeks is appealing for help in tracing him. Sherburn man Ian Turner was reported missing on October 2 by his partner, John Good. Since then Mr Good has not heard from Mr Turner, 45, and
A BOGUS caller used an elaborate act to steal cash from an elderly woman's home in York. The woman noticed the man measuring the windows outside her home in Ebor Street, Clementhorpe, with a tape measure at about 12.30pm yesterday. He told her he was
A NORTH Yorkshire military policeman whose lifelong ambition was to join the police has been killed in a road accident outside his Army barracks. Nick Woodward, 22, of Costa Way, Pickering, had been in the Royal Military Police for two years. His mother
JAMIE Bucknell was a bright, lively, loving young man. His sudden death from a heart attack, aged 14, shattered his family and saddened a city. Yet something remarkable and positive has emerged from that tragedy. Jamie's parents found the strength to
