DARYHL Haslam, eight, Jordan Fletcher, six, Nicola Whitson, nine, and Sam Powell, five, were among youngsters at a York school who helped poverty-stricken children thousands of miles away by sending shoe boxes full of gifts. Pupils from Stockton-on-the-Forest
A YORK burglar has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after admitting a series of crimes in the area where he and others made residents' lives "intolerable". Paul Brown, 20, was one of six young men and youths made subject to an anti-social behaviour
A HAXBY woman was woken in the middle of the night by the sound of burglars in her home. Two men broke into the house at Netherwindings at 4am today. They stole bank cards and a wallet and fled in a white car when the woman shouted at them. Updated: 13
MEN claiming to be drainage workers persuaded a York woman to let them into her home before ransacking it. The men knocked on the woman's house in Doriam Drive, Huntington. One of the men went upstairs with the woman while the other searched the rooms
GEORGE WILKINSON heads to Fountains Abbey for a wander round a World Heritage Site. FOUNTAINS Abbey and the adjacent landscaped water gardens at Studley Royal are a World Heritage Site, fabulous and a real must. If you haven't visited them already then
IF you want your beer festival to be a guaranteed success, entrust it to a real ale-drinking, balloon-modelling turkey farmer. Simon Ackerley is that man. Together with his merry band of volunteers, he organises the Catton Beer Festival. This year's,
MOTORISTS have been ignoring the "No Vehicles" ban along Coppergate in particular but also Pavement, Piccadilly, Fossgate, St Andrewgate and Castlegate for years. Numerically, the daily traffic violations by motorists along these streets in staggering
IN reply to Jeremy Banyard's letter (November 13), the article in the Evening Press did not clearly reflect the full range of issues contained in the waste strategy report. The report asks members to consider a number of options which officers could develop
ONE of the basic requirements of the good journalist is a very large capacity for alcohol, especially at lunchtime. This fundamental principal is made manifest in Chris Titley's column (November 20). After a long tirade against the modern, oversized supermarket
THREE months ago someone kindly decorated the road and footpaths in Westfield Lane with pretty colours. Unfortunately, the weather and traffic has started to erase them and I wondered if we could have them brightened up for Christmas. Maybe we could even
ALLIGATOR greengrocers in Fishergate, York, has been selling local organic produce since before it became a lifestyle fad. Offering a range of wholefood goods including freshly-baked authentic Ukrainian bread, it has been supplying an impressive range
HOMELESS volunteers are building natural habitats in an effort to get their lives back on track. The residents of York's Peasholme Centre turned up at St Nicholas' Fields nature reserve, Tang Hall, to dedicate time to building a footpath. Volunteering
UNION bosses are to hold a meeting to "discuss all options", as a crippling rail strike threatens to drag on, with no prospect of a solution. Stan Herschel, York organiser at the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT), has written to striking conductors
ANOTHER York social club is struggling to stay afloat, it was revealed today. Jeff Mortimer, secretary of Poppleton Road Working Men's Club, which has about 700 members, said their situation was precarious and appealed to members for support. "We're going
NESTLE Rowntree workers have narrowly voted to accept the company's latest pay offer - averting the possibility of strike action. More than 1,400 trades union members at five Nestle confectionery factories across Britain - including the massive York complex
YORK city centre revellers were treated to the sight of a Green Goddess rushing to the scene of a suspected fire. The vehicle, despatched from Imphal Barracks, was called to Superdrug in Market Street last night after staff smelled smoke. Arriving under
NEW Earswick Swimming Club member Tony Shaw set a Ridings League Championship record at Scarborough. He set the record in the 15+ 100m individual medley with a time of 1min 04.56sec. Shaw also touched in first place in the 100m breaststroke and was second
A PRIMARY school teacher who wrote sexually explicit letters to a ten-year-old pupil has been jailed for nine months. Douglas Robert Charnick, 37, showered the girl with up to three presents a week and tried to be alone with her, Rupert Doswell, prosecuting
WETHERBY athlete Philip Stubley took gold in the largest indoor rowing championship in history. Stubley, 63 won Men's 60-64 lightweight category at the AXA PPP healthcare British Indoor Rowing Championship at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena. Stubley's
THE families of people who lost their lives in the Potters Bar rail crash are to take legal action against a York rail company. Solicitors acting for family members of five of the seven people killed in May's devastating rail crash have confirmed they
YORK City Knights are to play their rearranged trial match at Huntington Stadium on Tuesday. The Knights wannabes will take on the Yorkshire Universities represen-tative side which won the national student championship this year. The student squad features
POPPLETON Panthers narrowly lost their opening match of the new campaign, going down 6-4 to the Gryffindors of Ripon Tennis Club. Poppleton lost all four of the opening singles matches. Jessica Watson lost her match against Felix Adams in three sets,
CHILDREN from a York school were today enjoying Christmas fun at their school fair. The Advent Christmas Fair last year raised £6,000 for the York Steiner School at Danesmead. There were stalls full of crafts, some of which were made by the children and
YORK City Knights are to play their rearranged trial match at Huntington Stadium on Tuesday. The Knights wannabes will take on the Yorkshire Universities represen-tative side which won the national student championship this year. The student squad features
LISTEN up guys! If you want to make "hey!" while the Christmas fun shines get along to Temptation in York's Grape (formerly "Grope") Lane on Wednesday evening and again on December 4. The Gentlemen's Evenings are tailored to change lusty men's wayward
THE chairman of the Rugby Football Union Management Board Graeme Cattermole is set to descend on the area as part of his ten-month tour of England. Cattermole embarked on the epic cross-country tour last season as well, and after the success of this first
HOSPICE staff and volunteers will be getting into the festive spirit by holding a Christmas coffee morning in York. Mince pies and cakes will be served at St Leonard's Hospice, in Tadcaster Road, opposite Tesco, during the fun event next week. Relatives
TWO men who helped maintain and cultivate plants at a massive cannabis factory on a disused airfield have had their sentences cut at the Appeal Court in London. John Kelly, 40, and Andrew Markham, 39, had the respective roles of gardener and carpenter
PLANS are afoot to build a new super stadium to house both York City and York City Knights, the Evening Press can reveal today. The proposals - being put together by York firm Guildford Construction, which sponsors the Knights - would mean City moving
ANN was meeting a friend for a snack and invited me to join them. The choice of venue was hers and it did not fail to please. After all, Bullivant is billed as a member of the Tea Council Guild of Tea Shops. What, I wonder, are the qualifications for
BAR EST looks like it was built straight out of an IKEA catalogue, but appearances can often be deceptive. And so it proved when I ventured into Premier Lodge's trendy lunch eaterie. At first the vision of garish colours and a room full of MDF was hardly
It's back to Aintree tomorrow for last season's Grand National winner Bindaree, but a follow-up over the same unique obstacles in the Tote Becher Chase may be asking too much. Having shown little in a hurdle race at Wetherby on his reappearance, top-weight
DANIELLE Donohue (November 14) is making a common mistake in thinking that in York, above all places, we should let off fireworks. Celebrating November 5 was, and still is, a way of showing delight at the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, and of symbolically
WHAT a marvellous picture of farmer Simon Bradley (see story called Sacks Appeal.) An old chap told me about Wilja potatoes when I mentioned in a supermarket about potatoes being all water. When I saw Mr Bradley's I got a large sack - never looking back
WHAT a marvellous picture of farmer Simon Bradley (see story called Sacks Appeal.) An old chap told me about Wilja potatoes when I mentioned in a supermarket about potatoes being all water. When I saw Mr Bradley's I got a large sack - never looking back
Don't despair - we may be firmly stuck in damp old autumn but trees and shrubs can give subtle displays of colour, advises GINA PARKINSON WHEN autumn is over and the pavements are slippery with rotting leaves, the days are short and the weather damp and
THE question asked more than any other this week amid all the goings-on at Bootham Crescent has been: "Can the Supporters' Trust really run York City?" "Why ever not?" has to be the answer. It is a massive misconception, bordering on the patronising,
IF YOU want to find out more about trees and woodland, then an event tomorrow could be ideal for you. Tree enthusiasts can hone their identification skills with a leading expert at York Cemetery tomorrow. Tree enthusiast Derek Austin will lead members
CHILDREN from a York school were today enjoying Christmas fun at their school fair. The Advent Christmas Fair last year raised £6,000 for the York Steiner School at Danesmead. There were stalls full of crafts, some of which were made by the children and
YORK'S MP Hugh Bayley has been busy plotting. But the Government has nothing to worry about - he's only working out the best route home. Mr Bayley was at All Saints' RC School to help promote a free maps initiative run by the Ordnance Survey. Year 7 pupils
ARTS projects in York and North Yorkshire have gained £26,000 worth of new grants to help artists get more creative - in the way they find their audiences. The money, provided by Yorkshire Arts, is part of an initiative aimed at broadening public arts
PEOPLE aged over 65 are being reminded it's not too late to beat the flu. Free flu jabs are still being offered to pensioners throughout the district even though October was advertised as the best month to get vaccinated. Despite more than 60 per cent
THE Kids from Fame will be brought back to life when York dancers pay tribute to the leg-warm-wearing 1980s icons at this weekend's school dance festival. Dancers from All Saints' School will also be honouring Madonna and Abba during the two-day festival
DARYHL Haslam, eight, Jordan Fletcher, six, Nicola Whitson, nine, and Sam Powell, five, were among youngsters at a York school who helped poverty-stricken children thousands of miles away by sending shoe boxes full of gifts. Pupils from Stockton-on-the-Forest
A NORTH Yorkshire doctor who died while he was scuba diving with his son in Egypt had complained his wet suit was too tight around the neck only minutes earlier, an inquest heard. Michael Oakley, aged 54, of Lands Lane, Knaresborough, who had worked at
EARS were ringing with the sound of medieval music-making, when children from York's Minster School tried their hands at crum horns, racketts, harps and other strange-sounding instruments. The children, who also had a go at singing traditional music,
A DISTANT siren was the first warning that a Green Goddess was slowly heading their way - the only one the crew of Green Watch, at York's Clifford Street Fire Station, have so far seen in action. Conversation halted on the picket line as the strikers
HOSPICE staff and volunteers will be getting into the festive spirit by holding a Christmas coffee morning in York. Mince pies and cakes will be served at St Leonard's Hospice, in Tadcaster Road, opposite Tesco, during the fun event next week. Relatives
IF YOU want to find out more about trees and woodland, then an event tomorrow could be ideal for you. Tree enthusiasts can hone their identification skills with a leading expert at York Cemetery tomorrow. Tree enthusiast Derek Austin will lead members
GOLDEN days at IT Sports Wigginton Squash Club have netted a silver lining with a unique award for Yorkshire. Shortly after hammering closest rivals Harrogate 4-1 to go 19 points clear at the top of the Yorkshire Premier League the club discovered they
YORK'S biggest single sports event will has been given a massive boost this year. The UK Snooker Championship, being staged at the Barbican Centre and starting on December 1, now has a sponsor. Electrical giants PowerHouse, the UK's largest independent
PLANS are afoot to build a new super stadium to house both York City and York City Knights, the Evening Press can reveal. The proposals on the table - being put together by York firm Guildford Construction, which sponsors the Knights - would mean City
A BRAVE teenager was so determined that "the show must go on" that she postponed important surgery to take the lead in a pantomime. Nursery worker Sian Davies, 18, of Windsor Drive, Wigginton, will play the principal male - Peter Pumpkin-eater - in the
YORK City coach Luther Blissett is poised to head to Scandinavia to look at potential loan signings. As reported in last night's Evening Press, Blissett will be working on a number of commercial aspects that will take him away from the training ground
THE best things come to those who wait, so the old saying goes. And as I stood in a queue in Marzano for the third time, I hoped the adage was true. For to eat in Marzano, you need the patience of a saint. Lovingly constructed from the shell of the old
