I WAS ashamed and incensed to read in the Press that the Skeldergate flats, all 145 of them, have now been given approval by a successful appeal against the original refusal by the council (Inspector rules in favour of flats to replace car park, December
THANK you for a very balanced piece on York Hospital in last Thursday's paper ('I've got nothing but praise for YDH', December 12). The NHS, and its component trusts, is a very complex organisation which is too often treated with superficiality, coverage
EVENING Press readers have been rallying round to bring a dose of Christmas cheer to hit-and-run victim Katie Scales. Since we launched our appeal to raise £1,000 to buy the 11-year-old All Saints' School pupil a computer, cheques and cash donations totalling
YORK City Football Club have been offered a glimmer of hope by ground owners Bootham Crescent Holdings (BHC) - but with stringent conditions attached. BCH's board of directors, along with Persimmon, have issued a statement inviting the football club to
YORK City's players have vowed to stick together and do all that they can to see the club to promotion. The players, who have been loaned money by the PFA to see them through to January 18 - the deadline set by the administrators for a new owner to come
Sleeve: Front cover is any old picture of the band; not very original. Reverse is another band portrait, in black and white. Sleeve notes: Steve Pafford gives excellent, in-depth view of Debbie Harry and the band. Content: All the major hits but the 19
Sleeve: Just a bland band pic, which at least proves you don't have to be beautiful to be in pop. Sleeve notes: Hmm, slapdash effort with no real revelations. Content: The moustachioed Rob and Co present an album which bristles with 18 tracks. Nothing
SHEEP farmers in York and North Yorkshire have labelled plans to introduce new sheep identification measures a "potential nightmare". Animals will have to carry two 14-digit ear tags by law, instead of only one, if European Commission plans are put into
MOVES to sell a prime York commercial location that is set for radical redevelopment have taken a step forward. Councillors have approved terms for the sale of the Foss Islands Road depot and have given officers authority to create a conditional agreement
WILL Fylingdales really help keep world peace? STEVE CARROLL looks at why the North Yorkshire radar base may be a symbol of false hope. AS THE cold war wound down, a radar station experienced its worst ever crisis. Tracked from the Polar ice cap, radar
A WOMAN accused of breaking another woman's jaw with a kick has claimed she was the victim of a nightclub assault. Giving evidence in her own defence, Laura Jane Smith alleged that stranger Leanne Coulson threw a drink over her at the Gallery, York, and
HOMEOWNERS in York have helped an African community by cashing in on the rocketing value of their homes. Members of the York Fanteakwa Community Link donated the equivalent of one day's price rise in the value of their property to people in Ghana, West
HAMBLETON help groups are celebrating a series of grants awarded in the latest community lottery windfall. Voluntary and charity groups around the county have been donated money to help them continue to offer their valuable services. Hambleton and Richmondshire
SCHOOL nurses in York and Selby are looking to revamp their image as they adapt to the changing needs of local school children. The role of the school health nurse team has changed dramatically and the York Health Services NHS Trust wants to raise awareness
BOOK readings in cemeteries must be relatively rare events, but a well-known author's appearance and reading at York Cemetery raised £1,000 for charity. Author Tracy Chevalier is a volunteer at Highgate Cemetery in London, and recently visited a reading
ONLY the snow is missing from this picturesque scene taken of Burythorpe parish church, near Malton, by Evening Press photographer Nigel Holland. The hill-top church begins its Christmas celebrations with a traditional service of Nine Lessons and Carols
THE Tadcaster branch of the Royal British Legion is celebrating after collecting nearly £5,000 in this year's Poppy Appeal. A total of £4,710 was collected in the Tadcaster area despite fears earlier this year that the branch might have to close due to
IN the latest bout of Yorkshire Chess Association League action, the York teams turned in an excellent display with all four teams winning. The slightly weakened 'A'-team played a strengthened Calderdale side, but still ran out 6-1 winners after another
THE Country Land and Business Association has labelled the Government's new strategy for sustainable farming as "extremely disappointing". The association, which represents more than 4,000 Yorkshire businesses, claims the strategy, which promotes nationwide
HEWORTH will travel to Cottingham Tigers on Saturday looking to fulfil a Yuletide wish by holding on to a promotion place. The Villagers lie second in National Conference League division two and, should they stay there come Christmas Day, it will not
'TIS the season to be jolly - and inevitably some of that jollity will be aided by alcohol. Nothing wrong with that - a Christmas drink is all part of the enjoyment. But a Christmas drunk is something else, especially behind the wheel of a car. Following
A PARTIALLY-sighted York pensioner says she is at breaking point after allegedly suffering years of torment from a gang of teenagers. Beryl Slater, of Acomb, claims the youths have thrown dog excrement at her windows, shouted abuse and broken into her
WE all know that children can't wait to rip open their presents on Christmas Day. But one "baby" takes the task so seriously, his parents can't put the presents under the Christmas tree. He's not an eager little boy or girl, but a ten-month-old gibbon
HOMEBUYERS in Harrogate face forking out almost EIGHT times their annual income to get a foot on the housing ladder, it emerged today. Houses in York and Ryedale also cost more than SIX times the average income of local people. The new figures from property
THE activity of NHS surgeons across England was under scrutiny today after the number of procedures carried out by individual surgeons was analysed by scientists in York. The chief executive of York Health Services NHS Trust, Simon Pleydell, was among
YORK City's players have vowed to stick together and do all that they can to see the club to promotion. The players, who have been loaned money by the PFA to see them through to January 18 - the deadline set by the administrators for a new owner to come
AN investigation was under way today after two coupled trains split apart travelling past the village of Tollerton, near Easingwold. Passengers escaped unharmed after the automatic braking system brought the units, part of a single service, to a controlled
SUPPORTERS' pressure group, the Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has reacted with 'shock and disappointment' at the news that York City FC has only five weeks to secure its survival. However, the group has cautiously welcomed news that administrators
YORK City administrator Matthew Bowker has revealed he is confident that a buyer will come forward to save the club before the deadline of January 18. Bowker, a partner in Jacksons Jolliffe Cork, was appointed administrator in Leeds Combined Court yesterday
Sleeve: Pastoral depiction of childhood innocence and rural plenty. Sleeve notes: Impressive, with band members Maddy Prior, Bob Johnson and Peter Knight giving useful insights into each song. Content: Being the season of goodwill, let's excuse Steeleye
Sleeve: Palmer in profile smoking a cigarette looking reflective. Moody. Sleevenotes: Picture-packed and extensive by Scott Schinder of New York. They chart Batley-born Palmer's move to Scarborough at ten, through his time with The Alan Bown Set then
THE editorial in the Evening Press on December 17 asks, with regard to the use of Fylingdales in Son of Star Wars, "what benefit will there be to Britain in housing the system?" The US wants to sell to the UK the concept, erroneous in my opinion, that
A RECENT report that the humble sparrow has been placed on Britain's official 'Red List' of endangered birds, joining rarities such as the bittern, the white-tailed eagle and the stone curlew, is worrying to say the least, for all birds. Birds play a
YORK City Football Club have been offered a glimmer of hope by ground owners Bootham Crescent Holdings (BHC) - but with stringent conditions attached. BCH's board of directors, along with Persimmon, have issued a statement inviting the football club to
YORK City administrator Matthew Bowker has revealed he is confident that a buyer will come forward to save the club before the deadline of January 18. Bowker, a partner in Jacksons Jolliffe Cork, was appointed administrator in Leeds Combined Court yesterday
SUPPORTERS' pressure group, the Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has reacted with 'shock and disappointment' at the news that York City FC has only five weeks to secure its survival. However, the group has cautiously welcomed news that administrators
YORK City Knights have been handed a potential banana skin in their first-ever match in the TXU Energi Challenge Cup. The Knights visit amateur high-flyers Skirlaugh Bulls in the third round, a team who lie fourth in National Conference League, effectively
It's back to Ascot tomorrow for Baracouda as he bids to win the £60,000 Cantor Sport Long Walk Hurdle for the second successive year. The French raider, unbeaten in his last ten races, will start at short odds to extend his impressive sequence, despite
Sleeve: Surreal doodlings by Icelandic artist Gabriela Fridriksdottir. Sleeve notes: Booklet containing more of the same, with titles such as "The elliptic mouthed illusionist" and "The conquest of the polyconsoler". Which probably says as much about
WILL Fylingdales really help keep world peace? STEVE CARROLL looks at why the North Yorkshire radar base may be a symbol of false hope. AS THE cold war wound down, a radar station experienced its worst ever crisis. Tracked from the Polar ice cap, radar
Sleeve: Predictable picture of Lighthouse Family hit by the light of, and climbing the steps to... a lighthouse. Sleeve notes: Little on the band itself, but the song lyrics are here. Content: All the hits including Lifted, Ocean Drive, High and Lost
Sleeve: Cynical hat: bus-to-catch slapdash job by graphics department. Art critic hat: Victoria Sawdon's supremely economical yet chic image of mountain, verdant valley and exotic trees is the quintessence of International lifestyle. So New Order. Sleeve
THE kitchen seemed to her the most familiar place on earth. Certainly she had spent more time in here than just about anywhere. It was not much of a kitchen, at least by comparison with those she saw in the magazines that came with the newspapers her
A YORK pensioner was injured when a hit-and-run driver knocked him down outside a pub in the city. Ambulance crews were called to the Brown Cow pub in Hope Street after 82-year-old Frank Pierotti was struck by a white Ford Sierra Sapphire in the road.
YORK woman Judith Wildwood, who went missing from the city two nights ago, has been found safe and well in Cumbria. Police in Cumbria traced Ms Wildwood, 45, last night after they were contacted by a member of the public following appeals for information
A GYM presented a York family centre with more than 120 toys. Living Well, at Poppleton, York, ran a special Join For A Toy scheme, under which new members could donate a toy instead of paying the usual membership fee. Heworth Family Centre manager Sue
THE Government was today under attack for an £80,000 shortfall in cash to tackle the "fridge mountain" fiasco in North Yorkshire. Last month, ministers announced a £362,434 emergency grant to pay for the storage of fridges dumped because of new Euro-rules
LIGHT-FINGERED drinkers have dampened Christmas spirits at a busy York pub - by stealing part of the "beer" Nativity scene. Creative staff at the Rook and Gaskill, in Lawrence Street, said they "feel robbed" by the loss of one of the three kings from
BIKER Gregory Smith died when his 1,000cc Yamaha ploughed at high speed into a horse which crossed his path in strong sun on a North Yorkshire road, an inquest was told. British Horse Society instructor Caroline Lawson-Tancred and her husband Rupert had
MORE than 1,100 would-be doctors have applied to become the first students at the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) when it opens next year. Former police officers, intensive care nurses and A-level students are among those to apply for the 130 available
CHRISTMAS spirit came to St Leonard's Hospice in the form of a £1,000 donation from a York-based recruitment firm. Opus Appointments decided that, instead of sending Christmas cards to its clients this year, it would donate the money it would have spent
A NEW service has been launched by Selby and York Primary Care Trust to deal with concerns and problems faced by patients and carers. Two new members of staff have been appointed to form a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) team based at the trust
A CHANGE of command has taken place at a North Yorkshire air base. Group Captain Ken Cornfield, left, has handed over command at RAF Linton-on-Ouse to Group Captain David Harrison, right. Group Captain Cornfield has left the unit on retirement from the
York kept up their 100 per cent record in the Hebden Trophy when they won three rinks and picked up 16 points in their 80-62 victory against North Cave. Away from home, Brian Thomas, Alwyn Redhead, Tony Bryan and Ken Hutson had a great start as they scored
SCHOOL children throughout York are set to benefit from more than £8,000 worth of lottery funding. Clifton Green Primary School has been awarded £4,230 from the Awards For All scheme to fund a football development programme. The programme will provide
THE York Ladies surprisingly went out of the Vivienne Trophy at the first hurdle to Doncaster. After being 62-57 ahead on aggregate with three ends to play they went down 72-67. It was a huge disappointment after the team reached the quarter-finals over
SELBY Warriors have labelled the move to Sandhill Lane a huge success following a good first half of their Yorkshire League season, writes Peter Martini. As reported by the Evening Press, the club moved in with their rugby union neighbours in the summer
TOUGH new legislation to protect people from deadly asbestos dust will come at a cost to the owners of thousands of properties across York and North Yorkshire. The bill to City of York Council for surveying its non-housing premises alone will come to
HOW cheering to learn that more than 1,100 would-be doctors have applied to join the new Hull York Medical School when it opens next year. The NHS needs a constant supply of good staff and these keen new entrants will end up in our hospitals and surgeries
ROAD watchdogs expected the Christmas rush to start today as millions of motorists began the festive getaway. Experts at the AA predicted more than 18 million cars would take to the road at some point over the Christmas break. While dozens of sets of
ALTHOUGH Rowntree won 6-3 at home to University Staff Club in ladies division one of York Badminton League the best performance in the match was by two members of the Staff Club team. Sally Locker and Lynne Terry scored all three of the Staff Club's wins
TRAFFIC officers policing the roads of York and Selby launched their Christmas crackdown on drink-driving today with one simple message - "Just don't do it". Following a shocking rise in the number of people caught over the limit while at the wheel, members
CITY of York was awarded almost £700,000 today for improved school buildings and better access for disabled pupils. The city council will receive £353,000 from a £512 million fund for building projects to create more pupil places. It has also been allocated
YORK City Knights have been handed a potential banana skin in their first-ever match in the TXU Energi Challenge Cup. The Knights visit amateur high-flyers Skirlaugh Bulls in the third round, a team who lie fourth in National Conference League, effectively
POLICE are warning car owners in the Selby district to be careful about where they leave their car keys. Prestige cars including Audis, BMWs and Volvos have been stolen in the area in the last few months. Selby Community Safety Officer PC Wayne Leach
Sleeve: Psychedelic band image in combat colours and pink hair. Sleeve notes: How Pulp Saved My Life hymn of praise to Sheffield's finest since Human League by hip Yorkshire writer Harland Miller; harshly-lit portraits by photographer Willie Seldon. All
Sleeve: Young Edwyn with quiff on the front, even younger Edwyn playing by the sea on the back. Sleeve notes: Too many photo montages; brief personnel and writer credits; all his album sleeve pictures but no think-piece from caustic Collins. Content:
