THE parents of freed charity worker Ian Stillman were today enjoying an emotional reunion with their son. Roy and Monica said they were looking forward to having a family Christmas together for the first time in seven years. Speaking for the first time
AS grandad of one of your KoolKids, I would like to say a big thank you to the Evening Press and the Theatre Royal for the wonderful evening Jamie had at the pantomime. It was a great boost to him (as I'm sure it was for all the children) to know that
MOORTOWN 3rd XV fly-half Steve Gray was £10 the richer after he helped Nestl Rowntree team manager Dave Matthewman end a barren run stretching more than 20 years. The kind-spirited Nestl players had put up the bounty for anyone who gave the scoring pass
ANGELS of the night - or to be exact, Angels of the Knights - are coming to York. The band of dancers will provide pre-match and half-time entertainment at home matches for the new National League club, York City Knights. The quartet, who have also provided
YORK City Knights' first-ever encounter will be against Oldham Roughyeds on Sunday, January 5. The friendly at Huntington Stadium (KO 2.30pm) comes a week before the Knights take on a Wakefield Trinity XIII before they kick off the season with a Buddies
KNIGHT rider Lee Jackson reckons York should aim high and go for promotion in their first season in the National League. The 33-year-old former Great Britain international is confident the Knights could have a good run in the Buddies National League Cup
IT was a classic rags to riches tale. No, not Andrew Lloyd Webber and AR Rahman's Bollywood blockbuster (though the plot does go something like that), but our whole sadly-brief weekend in London's lap of luxury - sampling a theatre break with a definite
TIM HART gained revenge for York when he beat Harrogate's Brian Pritchard in the amateur challenge match at the Barbican CueZone. Harrogate won the inaugural inter-town match at last year's UK Championship, but this time the honours stayed on home territory
THE future of the world's best woman snooker player could be in doubt, she admitted in York this week after playing through pain to retain her UK title. Kelly Fisher, the 24-year-old four-times world champion from Carlisle, was in so much pain on the
YORK CITY midfielder Lee Bullock collected a snooker cue for winning the man of the match award in the FA Cup game against Brentford last Saturday. Bullock scored the City goal and gave a solid display as the Minstermen just failed to overcome the Second
Ken Doherty bids to make it third time lucky tomorrow in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship final. He held off a spirited fightback by Drew Henry at York's Barbican Centre last night to win his semi-final 9-5 and earn a place in the final for the
PETER Ebdon is aiming to give himself a Christmas bonus by becoming only the sixth player to complete snooker's big double - world and UK champion in the same year. "It would be a fantastic Christmas if I can do it," he said after beating outsider Robert
DETHRONED champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is locking his cue away till next year after his shock exit from the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York. Far from living up to his nickname of 'The Rocket' he played more like a damp squib as he tamely surrendered
RONNIE O'Sullivan is at a loss as he seeks to stay on track in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York tonight. Although the defending champion beat Hong Kong's Marco Fu 9-7 last night at the Barbican Centre to reach the last eight, 'The Rocket
Yorkshire hopes of a white rose triumph in this year's UK Snooker Championship vanished as Leeds star Paul Hunter's sudden loss of form continued yesterday and he went out 9-4 to former world champion Ken Doherty, last year's UK beaten finalist. Trailing
THE best disabled snooker players in Britain duel for UK glory at the Barbican Centre on Wednesday morning. The four who featured in the finals of the Disability Sport England (DSE) Snooker Championship will give a repeat performance of those finals.
THE only female referee on snooker's world ranking tournament circuit has been busy at the Barbican Centre this week. Michaela Tabb was an official on snooker's Main Tour last season and, as well as refereeing at Harrogate's Manhattan Club, she was on
THERE have been 26 century breaks in the PowerHouse UK Championship this week up to end of play on Thursday night. The top break in York so far is 138 by Mark Davis, but the highest break in the whole championship is 141 by Matthew Crouch in a qualifying
STEPHEN Hendry, the seven times world champion, eased his way into the third round of the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship, with a convincing 9-4 win over Welshman Dominic Dale last night. He came back from losing the first frame to lead 4-1 including
PEACE campaigners today warned that Prime Minister Tony Blair could give the go-ahead for a North Yorkshire military base to join the controversial Son of Star Wars missile defence system as early as next week. The warning came after the BBC claimed Ministry
EVERY penny counts! That's the simple message the York City Supporters' Trust has issued on the eve of a new fund-raising drive. With the Minstermen's future hanging in the balance, the Trust is continuing to work to safeguard the future of professional
A PROJECT to create a giant mosaic depicting scenes from community life in the Leeman Road area of York is nearing completion. People of all ages have attended a series of workshops at St Barnabas School to make the 15ft by 12ft artwork. The mosaic has
PARTY-TIME: Sixth-form student Oliver Putnam serves Christmas dinners to pensioners at Easingwold School. Students taking part in food technology A-level courses prepared the meal, which was served up in a specially-decorated classroom. Pupils helped
HEALTH staff have been given a boost through hundreds of thank-you letters and cards which have poured into York District Hospital this year. Staff at York Health Services NHS Trust received more than 540 messages of thanks and positive feedback in six
SANTA proved four wheels were better than nine reindeer when he took to his skateboard to visit an East Yorkshire school. The skateboarding Santa visited Pocklington Montessori School to hand out tenth anniversary gifts to pupils. The gifts were designed
PARISH councillors claim the council "misled" residents on a proposed nine-hectare Park & Ride site at Monks Cross. Officers are urging City of York Council's planning committee next Thursday to approve the scheme, subject to a number of conditions
EXCITED York youngsters got into the Christmas spirit when Santa Claus made a surprise appearance during a river cruise. The group - which included children from the Moonbeams cancer charity, York Women's Aid and SNAPPY - were given festive treats during
UP-AND-coming pop star Stacey Ace is looking to bring a Christmas smile to the faces of sick children in York - and has asked Evening Press readers to help. Stacey, 14, has been busy collecting soft toys and chocolate selection boxes to give out to patients
YORK education bosses say a £1.5 million budget shortfall could hit secondary and primary schools across the city. The shortfall, which represents about two per cent of the total annually spent on education, has come about because City of York Council
THE highly-rated Danny Smith caught the eye again as he led the All Saints Amateur Boxing Club challenge at the Huntington Working-Men's Club. The 15-year-old, still smarting from his defeat in the Yorkshire Championship where he was forced to fight the
WHEN a fun-loving York student heard that a survey had branded her university the country's dullest, she was determined to prove the judges wrong. And this weekend 20-year-old Rebecca Garratt is doing exactly that. Rebecca is through to the final ten
A YORK early music band are planning to break their personal record by performing three concerts in a single day. They may be short of puff by the end, but the York Waits may well be glad of the sit-down - they'll have spent the day before playing their
THIS is the heartbreaking picture of a family devastated by an horrific car crash in East Yorkshire. On the left, Chris Finney holds son Clayton, while on the right mum Yvonne Finney cradles baby Blair. But the family, from Burton Fleming, has now been
THE Knights will be staging their next fans' meeting on Monday in the Huntington Stadium bar, starting at 7.30pm - and new star signing Lee Jackson will be there to meet the supporters. It will be an open meeting for all fans, while supporters who have
A YORK school was temporarily transformed into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as part of a Harry Potter day. Children at Canon Lee School invited youngsters from Clifton Without Junior School to take part in Harry Potter activities yesterday
ANGELS of the night - or to be exact, Angels of the Knights - are coming to York. The band of dancers will provide pre-match and half-time entertainment at home matches for the new National League club, York City Knights. The quartet, who have also provided
YORK City Knights' first-ever encounter will be against Oldham Roughyeds on Sunday, January 5. The friendly at Huntington Stadium (KO 2.30pm) comes a week before the Knights take on a Wakefield Trinity XIII before they kick off the season with a Buddies
A NORTH Yorkshire mechanic was jailed for nine months after an 80mph car chase that put a boy's life at risk and ended with him ramming a police vehicle. David Bradshaw, prosecuting at York Crown Court, said that Simon Robert Richard Maving, 31, drove
A WOMAN with learning difficulties was left scared and shivering for more than four hours outside a York church because a special needs bus failed to pick her up. Helen Harrison, 27, was waiting outside Southlands Methodist Church for a community bus
DON'T tell the bookies, but it's a sure bet that visitors to an historic area of York this weekend will be treated to a white Christmas. But the snow falling on Fern Dunn, from Oscars, isn't exactly natural - it comes from a machine specially bought for
KNIGHT rider Lee Jackson reckons York should aim high and go for promotion in their first season in the National League. The 33-year-old former Great Britain international is confident the Knights could have a good run in the Buddies National League Cup
MISSING university student Victoria Stephenson has been found safe and well in Dublin, police said today. Vicky, a first-year student at Manchester Metropolitan University, went missing on Tuesday after going to interview homeless people for her degree
UNDER-AGE drinking in York is to be targeted after an undercover operation revealed a number of shops were selling alcohol to children. North Yorkshire Police and City of York Council's trading standards department are now set to launch a new crackdown
YORKSHIRE snooker hero Paul Hunter is brimming with confidence after a superb performance in his opening match in the PowerHouse UK Championship in York. He thrashed Surrey's David Gray 9-1 to power through to the last 16 and a crowd-pulling duel with
York City witnessed shots of a different kind yesterday as they went to the UK Snooker Championship at the Barbican. With their FA Cup second round tie against Brentford just days away, boss Terry Dolan has opted for the top snooker event to build team
SNOOKER star John Parrott was back home on Merseyside today still trying to come to terms with the 'frightening' way he was knocked out of the PowerHouse UK Championship in York. The 1991 World and UK champion was beaten 9-5 by world No 70 Adrian Gunnell
DREW Henry's golden chance of a 147 maximum break was floored by a knuckleduster as the second day's play in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship produced more upsets in last night's marathon session. The world No 22, from Rutherglen, Scotland, was
YORK is on the brink of completing a major sports treble as the world's top snooker stars head to the city for the start tomorrow of the PowerHouse UK Championship. When the deal to bring the second biggest tournament in world snooker to York's Barbican
FEARLESS - that's how snooker maestro Ronnie 'The Rocket' O'Sullivan feels as he prepares to defend the coveted UK crown in York. And the World No 1, who was in the city yesterday to pave the way for the start of the big event on Sunday, fired a warning
YES, I believe that Christmas is far too commercial nowadays (Debate, December 10). It is ridiculous for cards and decorations to be appearing in October, as they were this year. Also, the media, especially television and the Internet, are full of gift
IS the consumption of beer so important that it should cause an accident and a traffic hold-up that stretched from Micklegate to Askham Bar? I could not believe it when I encountered a traffic queue of such gigantic proportions whilst cycling to work
I FEEL desperately sorry for the farmer's widow who has lost her case against the erection of pylons on her land (December 11). However, I feel constrained to warn her and others against wasting their money in court actions since individual rights count
PLAN B it had to be, because the dales' moors were erased by cloud. So we dropped down into Lofthouse, donned our waterproofs and set off for five safe miles, almost every step the Nidderdale Way. We met other walkers: this is a pleasant and popular walk
IT'S the smallest room of most pubs but a place everyone inevitably visits and one which is often overlooked by landlords and staff. But the workers at the Postern Gate pub have been rewarded for taking pride in their toilets to new heights. The Wetherspoon's
THIS knight in armour is the latest recruit to the York City Knights outfit - but the name of the conscript depends on you. The Knights are asking Evening Press readers to suggest names for the cartoon mascot, which will adorn some Knights' merchandise
WATCH out on television next spring for a piece of snooker wizardry from the young pro' who has been running the show at the Barbican CueZone during the UK Championship. Del Smith will be appearing in the next series of BBC television drama Murphy's Law
THE 138 by Mark Davis in his first round match remains the highest break made in York since the PowerHouse UK Championship started at the Barbican on December 1. The highest break in the past week up to the start of yesterday's semi-final is 137 by Stephen
ACADEMICALLY Kings Manor may be the hub of York city centre, but certainly not geographically. Tucked in the corner of Exhibition Square, the Refectory is not the place you would stumble across by accident. This venue is accessed up a flight of stone
A YORKSHIREMAN will be centre stage in tomorrow's PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship final at York's Barbican Centre. Stuart Bennett, from Barnsley, is the referee for the climax of the second biggest tournament in world snooker. It is the biggest honour
DEFENDING champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is biting mad as he starts his second match in this year's PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York tonight. Despite beating rank outsider Adrian Gunnell 9-2 in his first match at the Barbican Centre, O'Sullivan
TWO York brothers will be appearing on television with their snooker hero during the BBC's coverage of the PowerHouse UK Championship. Steven and Lee Gregson, from Stockton on the Forest, spent two hours at the Cueball Club in James Street, getting coaching
THE garden is lean for flowers in December but there are still a few plants that will bloom at this time of year. We have perennial wallflower, fuchsias, lobelia, dahlia and sedum still blooming - the sedum looking particularly good with deep reddish
DOCTORS who are desperate to move from their "woefully inadequate" village surgery into a purpose-built building on green belt land outside York have been told to go back to the drawing board. City of York councillors deferred a decision on an application
A TOTAL of five schools in York had test results upgraded after they were sent back. English SATS exams - tests given to 14-year-old school pupils - were sent back from Fulford School, Huntington School, All Saints' RC School, Archbishop Holgate CE School
FIVE former landlords and landladies plus hundreds of regulars packed into the Beagle pub, in York, to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Founding landlord Barry "Beagle" Stickney served John Smith's bitter to a group of regulars at the Foxwood pub at the
A PUBLIC inquiry into boundary changes for East Yorkshire is to be held next year. The Boundary Commission for England is looking to rewrite the boundaries of East Riding of Yorkshire. The inquiry will be conducted by the Assistant Commissioner, Mr James
BUSINESS people are being targeted to fill vacant school governor roles in York. A continuous turnover of governors means there are always vacancies, and assistant director of education at the City of York Council, Jenny Vickers, says business people
It may be home to Santa Claus but there is much more to Lapland than that, including romance and a 50-year friendship. STEPHEN LEWIS reports... TWO thousand miles is a long way to go to have your marriage proposal turned down. Peter Webster admits that
A YORK charity's festive fundraising efforts have got off to a "roaring start" thanks to an event at a city department store. Brown's, in Davygate, raised £734.10 with a tombola during a customer privilege evening, and then the store rounded up the total
PROTESTERS hoping to block plans to extend a controversial landfill site near York look set to lose their fight. Members of Residents Against Lunacy Landfill in York (RALLY) have collected a 77-signature petition objecting to an extension of the Harewood
A CLOSE relative of a wandering Native American Indian has come home to a York shop. Last March the Indian statue above Cat Gallery, in Low Petergate, vanished, believed stolen. It was an historic York landmark, put in place in the eighteenth century
HUNDREDS of bloods sports supporters from North and East Yorkshire are expected to converge on London on Monday. They are planning to join a demonstration, organised by the Countryside Alliance, timed to coincide with the reading of the second half of
A BENEFITS cheat escaped jail after York Crown Court heard that four children were dependant on her. Pauline Morgan, 41, cheated the taxpayer out of £34,578 over five-and-a-half years by claiming that she was separated from her husband David, looking
A HOSPITAL chef who broke a pubgoer's cheekbone when he pushed the wrong man in a York city centre street has been jailed for 12 months. Staff at Flairs pub, in Tanner Row, told police that Paul Anthony Simpkins, 32, was "ranting and raving" in their
THE parents of freed charity worker Ian Stillman were today enjoying an emotional reunion with their son. Roy and Monica said they were looking forward to having a family Christmas together for the first time in seven years. Speaking for the first time
New Earswick Swimming Club's Daniel Richards, 11, won gold in the 50m freestyle at the Barnsley Graded Meet. His 11-year-old clubmate, Jenny Welsh, won the butterfly event. Ten trophies were won by the New Earswick squad in the 15 and over age group.
Algian Lucci Capone, of Melbourne Street, York, was found dead at his home following a heart attack on November 13 this year, and not as stated in Thursday's Evening Press. We apologise for the error. Updated: 12:08 Saturday, December 14, 2002
Sheriff Hutton Bridge won both their games in the latest round of matches to challenge the leadership of the York and District Indoor Cricket League first division. They beat title hopefuls Rowntrees 'A' and bottom-of-the-table Thirsk, against whom Peter
WIGGINTON Squash Club have landed a plum third round clash in the National Club Championship against keen rivals Pontefract. After being given a walkover by Wensleydale in the first round, an under-strength Wigginton beat Teesside-based Nunthorpe 4-1
THE future of the world's best woman snooker player could be in doubt, she admitted in York this week after playing through pain to retain her UK title. Kelly Fisher, the 24-year-old four-times world champion from Carlisle, was in so much pain on the
POLICE hunting the hit-and-run Punto driver who knocked down York schoolgirl Katie Scales are set to extend their search for the car into West Yorkshire. Black Fiat Punto owners as far away as Leeds could soon face being quizzed by North Yorkshire Police
YORK CITY midfielder Lee Bullock collected a snooker cue for winning the man of the match award in the FA Cup game against Brentford last Saturday. Bullock scored the City goal and gave a solid display as the Minstermen just failed to overcome the Second
PEACE campaigners today warned that Prime Minister Tony Blair could give the go-ahead for a North Yorkshire military base to join the controversial Son of Star Wars missile defence system as early as next week. The warning came after the BBC claimed Ministry
Ken Doherty bids to make it third time lucky tomorrow in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship final. He held off a spirited fightback by Drew Henry at York's Barbican Centre last night to win his semi-final 9-5 and earn a place in the final for the
THIS knight in armour is the latest recruit to the York City Knights outfit - but the name of the conscript depends on you. The Knights are asking Evening Press readers to suggest names for the cartoon mascot, which will adorn some Knights' merchandise
STEVE Davis, 9-2 victor yesterday against Paul Wykes at the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York, will be playing for an unusual private stake against his former practice partner Mark King in their second round match on Thursday - a jacket. Davis
A PLAYER competing in the final stages of a world ranking event for the first time scored the biggest win of his career when the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship began in York yesterday. The first round battle between two Thailanders saw world No 114
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
TWO North Yorkshire Radio journalists based in York have decided to jazz up the Sunday morning God slot. Out goes "hymn of the week" and in comes... jokes and laughter. "We wanted to try to make the show less like a Sunday sermon and more like a colour
MOORTOWN 3rd XV fly-half Steve Gray was £10 the richer after he helped Nestl Rowntree team manager Dave Matthewman end a barren run stretching more than 20 years. The kind-spirited Nestl players had put up the bounty for anyone who gave the scoring pass
BABBIES In The Wood is another orchard of ripe laughs from comic institution Berwick Kaler. Horsing around in Sherbet Forest and Rottingham in his 24th year, the dame, writer and co-director has a new title to his name: Dr Kaler, courtesy of the University
IT was a simple enough request. Could she have a description of the 'fillays' of trout stuffed with crabmeat April asked, in her finest US twang. The gruff Yorkshire waiter seemed more concerned with correcting her pronunciation. "Fill-eTs" he replied
