ST PAUL'S CE Primary School has become the first in York to be given an Active Mark Award for promoting physical education. The award, which has been given to just over 100 schools nationally, recognises the school's ability to provide a good physical
MOBILE classrooms which resemble "prison camp structures" at Huntington School, York, are set to be replaced, head teacher Chris Bridge has revealed. In his speech to the annual awards ceremony at York University, Mr Bridge said he hoped the decrepit
YORK City Knights are flying high after finally tying up the signature of Alex Godfrey from Hull Kingston Rovers. But Godfrey is not the only new face, with the Knights completing a double coup by adding York Acorn forward Mick Embleton to the squad.
IT has come to the Government's attention that newspaper columnists are entirely unregulated. As the law stands, anyone can set up as an outspoken commentator on the issues of the day. They can then scatter around untested and potentially harmful opinions
IN response to your article on York's car parks during the St Nicholas Fayre weekend (December 2). Yes, city car parks were reasonably full, but there was spare capacity in the system. Factors were at play though: Saturday's weather was dreadful. The
I THANK all the wonderful, hardworking volunteers at St Sampson's Centre for their dedicated help during the years to all the charities who used the facilities each Monday to raise funds. The volunteers helped each charity by giving us the benefit of
BEARING in mind the number of public houses, restaurants, factories etc that developers keep looking at to build houses on, taking away city amenities and jobs, now is the time for City of York Council's planning department to publicly state that no planning
El Cordobes, undeservedly beaten at Huntingdon on his latest outing, bids for quick compensation at Market Rasen tomorrow, writes Tom O'Ryan The front-running gelding goes for the Oerlemans Foods Handicap Chase over two and three-quarter miles and is
FOUR North Yorkshire churchyards which provide a haven for plants and wildlife have won recognition through a new awards scheme. The Living Churchyards Awards 2002, organised by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and sponsored by npower, were presented by the
YORK'S Poppy Appeal, which faced extinction, after the loss of its headquarters looks set to celebrate a record-breaking year. The annual fundraising drive has so far collected £36,545 - an increase of more than £4,700 on this time last year. Appeal organisers
CAROL singers have been preparing for one of York's great pre-Christmas events - the annual series of Carols In Kirkgate concerts in the recreated Victorian street at the heart of the Castle Museum. The street has again been transformed to a time from
THE University Student Ladies scored a 5-4 away win over Clifton in ladies division one of the York and District Badminton League. Nicky Roe and Ros Ellis were the student match-winners with three straight victories for 90-34. The University Student Men's
York City Rowing Club had 12 crews and scullers gaining trophies in the small boats Head of the River Race, which was postponed a week because of the high water level on the River Ouse. The home successes were headed by the winning veteran quadruple scull
ELECTRICITY company National Grid set out to intimidate a North Yorkshire widow with a huge order for legal costs, a court has heard. Landowner Rosalind Craven, of Huby, near Easingwold, made the claim as she defended herself against National Grid's attempt
STEPHEN LEWIS joined the York and Ainsty South Hunt on the day Labour finally unveiled its proposals for banning foxhunting. THE convoy of mud-spattered four-by-fours has pulled in at the side of the B1224 near Rufforth. Standing in a muddy lay-by, a
Members of the cast of The Mount School's gang show A GANG show with a difference is ready to take the stage at a York school. Pupils from The Mount School, in Dalton Terrace, off Holgate Road, have been busy rehearsing a Caribbean gang show. It will
SUBSTITUTE Sam Thackray hit a hat-trick as bottom-of-the-table Amotherby and Swinton stunned second-placed Black Swan, Pickering, 6-2 for their first league win of the season in division one of RJF Homes Beckett League. Chris Hill put visitors Black Swan
PLANS to upgrade the East Coast Main Line face fresh doubts after a trains chief admitted that rail improvement schemes may be dropped. Richard Bowker, chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, has indicated that some long-promised improvements are to
NORTH Yorkshire's huntsmen gave mixed reactions today to the Government's plans to introduce fines of up to £5,000 for fox-hunting, along with possible jail sentences. Hunting without a licence will become an offence, with a penalty of up to £5,000, although
THE first phase of a system to combat traffic congestion in York was unveiled today. State-of-the-art messaging equipment, live traffic information at bus stops and traffic signals which can be altered to ease jams are now just around the corner. City
LOTTERY millionaires Colin and Jackie Darbyshire have spoken about the moment they watched their dream home go up in flames. The couple bought the detached house, in Butt Lane, Lumby, near Monk Fryston, after scooping more than £1.5 million on the National
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
A MOBILE phone mast is today being built on the doorsteps of furious York residents - after a major blunder by council planners. People living in the Shipton Road area of Rawcliffe had campaigned fiercely against the 12-metre (39ft) mast. They collected
THE list of industrial injuries is long. Miner's lung, maid's knee, call centre worker's ear (or what was described for the first time last year as "acoustic shock"). Now we must add another: barmaid's wrist. Pulling thousands of pints has taken its toll
THE Evening Press is offering a budding reporter the chance to step into the world of journalism. The Evening Press Write Stuff competition will give one lucky the winner the chance of a job as a reporter along with a nationally-recognised training package
EXTRA 'sweeps' to catch children truanting from school will take place throughout York and North Yorkshire over the next few weeks as part of a major crackdown. Regular sweeps, which involve children being questioned by a police officer and social worker
AT THE Lion Inn at Blakey, roadies were setting up sound equipment for outdoor midsummer music on the moors. Just down the road a few yards after Ralph Cross we drove into Westerdale and then to the lovely sheltered car park and picnic spot called Hob
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
ALTHOUGH the closure of Thrall is desperately sad, it creates a brilliant opportunity for a quantum leap forward in the drive to sustainability. This site has it all. Land space, partially built infra-structure, rail workshops. The lot. Yes it's going
DO the Liberal Democrats have any clearly thought-out policies? During a lively debate at the council meeting on the local plan, Coun Ann Reid opposing the land allocations for housing after 2011 said there are plenty of houses available for York residents
ST AGNES Fountain, above, return to Oak House, Pocklington Civic Arts Centre, this evening to present traditional Christmas roots and folk music. In the acoustic quartet, folk duo Chris While and Julie Matthews join up with BBC Radio Four Loose Ends guitarist
THE first in a series of York quizzes is taking place in the city this week, offering local residents the chance to test their local knowledge. The fundraising event, at 8pm tomorrow at the Royal Oak pub in Goodramgate, is being organised by Blue Bridge
CONDOMS will be handed out to students at York College as part of a scheme to reduce teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in young people. The college's two health promotion advisors, Kay Ford and Riitta Hanson, already run tutorials
FAMILY, friends and colleagues gathered to remember a York magistrate and University of York bursar who died suddenly. Kevin Nicholson, 51, died after suffering a heart attack while exercising with his wife, Carol, at a gym in York. A funeral service
DEDICATED pint-puller Samantha Croft is beginning to feel it after 16 years behind bars all over the north - she is suffering from repetitive strain injury. The York barmaid estimates that she has served tens of thousands of pints of beer during a pub
YORK travellers today claimed that outlawing the practice of tethering horses by roadsides could be harmful to their animals and could even lead to some being destroyed. The RSPCA is calling on the police, local authorities and MPs to back its campaign
The opening round of the popular York and District Winter League series drew 101 anglers to the River Ouse downstream of York, writes Darren Starkey. With the river carrying a foot of extra water and rising slowly it was odd skimmers that boosted the
A WOMAN who stabbed her abusive husband to death at their North Yorkshire home will have to wait until tomorrow to see if the Court of Appeal is to quash her conviction for murder. Three judges in London yesterday reserved their ruling in an appeal against
HARROGATE Railway midfielder Jimmy Gore is a nervous man - and not just because the biggest game of his career is just days away. If having to face the high-flying Robins from Bristol City wasn't bad enough, Gore faces an anxious wait as his wife Kate
MORE than 500 students from York joined forces today to campaign against student hardship as part of a national demonstration. Students from York St John College and the University of York travelled to London to march through the streets with a giant
THE spirit of Christmas has taken a battering at a village near Selby. It took pensioner Frank Mason almost eight weeks to assemble his eye-catching Christmas lights display - only for thieves to ruin it in minutes. Mr Mason, 71, turned his front garden
TEMPERATURES are set to plummet across North and East Yorkshire, as the UK is hit by a cold spell currently affecting Scandinavia. During the rest of the week temperatures are set to get progressively colder, hitting the 5C mark on Friday - just below
A SOCIAL worker has been given a court bill of nearly £900 after the RSPCA alerted dog wardens to the condition of her pet. Suzanne Danon, 51, declined to collect Dixie, her Lhaso Apso dog, when workers from the animal charity's Landing Lane HQ in York
IF WISHING on a star really does make dreams come true, then visitors to a North Yorkshire event could have an extremely happy Christmas. Scarborough Astronomical Society has teamed up with the Forestry Commission to organise a Stars With Santa event
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
PLANNERS were urged today to allow no more development in a York village until action is taken to cure traffic gridlock. Ryedale MP John Greenway says it is inconceivable there should be any more housing development in Huntington without work to improve
NAKED chefs are leaping on to the pages of a saucy calendar. Here they are in Fossgate, York, promoting the calendar - Raw Cooks - which features 11 naked chefs. All the pictures, produced in partnership with First Stop York, have been taken in the best
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
HEALTH and safety experts have launched an investigation into a gas leak which caused an entire North Yorkshire village to be evacuated. More than 60 people from Crambeck, near Malton, were moved out yesterday morning after highly-explosive propane gas
YORK City Knights are flying high after finally tying up the signature of Alex Godfrey from Hull Kingston Rovers. But Godfrey is not the only new face, with the Knights completing a double coup by adding York Acorn forward Mick Embleton to the squad.
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
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
RESIDENTS in the Shipton Road area of York are rightly furious. They conducted a spirited campaign against T-mobile's plan to install a phone mast on their doorstep - and won. Yet the 12-metre mast is going up anyway, courtesy of a legal loophole. It
Got a bookworm in the family? CHRIS TITLEY offers some reading recommendations that have Christmas cover-to-covered Fiction SOME of the book world's biggest hitters have new novels out for Christmas. For those who need a thrill to keep them from dozing
