HARROGATE'S promotion hopes could have been all undone during one 40-minute spell as they leaked 30 points without reply to crash to a 43-7 defeat against Sedgley Park. Ralph Zoing's men, who had comfortably seen off the Park challenge 29-3 a month ago
RAY Adamson's 75th-minute penalty saw Selby snatch a last-gasp 25-23 victory over Dinnington in Yorkshire One. Things had started badly for the Sandhill Laners as Dean Lax slotted over a penalty and then converted Cooke's try to give the hosts a 10-0
THE final phase of work on the newly-opened road improvement scheme at Copmanthorpe will begin in the next few weeks, according to Highways Agency officials. Landscaping contractors have now been given the go-ahead to start a £112,000 replanting project
DO you recognise these two youngsters who brought a tuneful taste of Christmas to people in the Holgate Road and St Paul's areas of Holgate, York, last year. Evening Press reader A Kent, who took this picture, was impressed by the boys because "they knew
MORE than £600,000 of council cash went unspent in Harrogate in the last financial year, new figures show. But the underspend, which totalled £624,840, was put into Harrogate Borough Council's spending plans for the rest of this financial year. The council's
DAY-TRIPPERS and eager festive shoppers have helped York buck a slump in sales seen across the UK in the run-up to Christmas. Retailers and tourism chiefs said the city enjoyed a busy festive shopping spree with thousands of people flocking to shops and
THE parents of an eight-year-old boy who "came back from the dead" said today it was all down to the power of prayer. Rhys Murray was battling pneumonia and a collapsed lung, and as his condition deteriorated, doctors told his devastated parents, John
A BIOTECH venture helping drug companies combat serious viral infections today announced it has won £1 million for expansion and research. Replizyme, on the York Science Park, at Heslington, has already developed screens for use in the early-stage discovery
LESSONS should be learned from the costly way City of York Council enticed new investors to the York Carriageworks site. Official auditors say the council must learn from its failure to draw up an agreement over its £1.8 million investment in the Holgate
EIGHTEEN years ago Leeds United's players trudged off the pitch at Scunthorpe's Old Showground having been once again dumped out of the FA Cup by the underdogs. Glanford Park, the new home of Scunthorpe United was packed to the rafters in hope of another
NEW YEAR'S EVE celebrations were combined with two birthdays 70 years apart for one North Yorkshire family. Charlotte Scaife, of Boroughbridge, celebrated her 16th birthday on New Year's Eve along with her grandfather, Tom, of Poppleton, who reached the
YORK City Knights' preparations for the new season took a blow yesterday as their friendly against Oldham at Huntington Stadium was called off. The pitch was deemed unplayable after an 11am inspection found it to be frozen with little chance of it thawing
POLICE investigating a crash near Tadcaster, in which a North Yorkshire man died and two others were injured, are trying to trace motorists who were driving in the area at the time. Mark William Beal, 21, of Lumby, near South Milford, was pronounced dead
ARE you in the mood for love? Romantic couples are being urged to sign up for the Lord Mayor's Valentine Ball on Saturday, February 15, at York Racecourse. It will include a four-course banquet, followed by live music from Rocking Goosehorns and a disco
A £1 million television, radio and online advertising campaign was starting today to highlight the potential dangers of internet chatrooms. One of its aims is to encourage parents to make sure their children understand the implications of communicating
A POLITICAL leaflet claiming that the Liberal Democrats would sanction "skyscrapers for York" has been blasted as "scaremongering". Coun Steve Galloway, Lib Dem leader, said the Labour party leaflet depicting a future city full of tower blocks was "absurd
COUNCILLORS in York are being asked to back a £10 million boost for road and transport improvements. The money includes £7.88 million towards the council's five-year, £50 million Local Transport Plan to be spent on better public transport and congestion-cutting
PEOPLE eating at popular York restaurant Meltons Too can take their tastebuds on a trip round the world. The Walmgate restaurant today unveiled its Around The World In 80 Dishes promotion, which offers customers the finest of global grub. An addition
A NORTH YORKSHIRE clairvoyant is looking forward to 2003 after Customs officers dropped an £8 million drugs money laundering case against him and members of his family. For more than a year Nasim Mohammed, 39, known as "Mr Pundit" in Scarborough, and
AN Australian police operator accused of ignoring a report of a woman's scream the night York backpacker Caroline Stuttle was murdered has been sacked. Police minister Tony McGrady said the man was dismissed last Monday following an internal investigation
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after motorists blamed icy conditions for crashes on the A59 in York. Most seriously, a van crashed through a barrier and ended up on the York to Harrogate railway line near Poppleton. Network Rail today confirmed a
THE spoils of this Yorkshire One table-top encounter fell to Bridlington, who beat York 18-7 at Dukes Meadows. It was a close match played in deteriorating conditions as rain and sleet compounded the hazard of an already heavy surface on Bridlington's
HARROGATE'S promotion hopes could have been all undone during one 40-minute spell as they leaked 30 points without reply to crash to a 43-7 defeat against Sedgley Park. Ralph Zoing's men, who had comfortably seen off the Park challenge 29-3 a month ago
'You may not realise it, but your words are far more powerful than you could imagine and it is only by thinking before you speak that you will stop yourself from becoming embroiled in yet another bitter battle of words." I don't know why I read my horoscope
I WAS interested to read of Douglas Craig's assertion that Bootham Crescent Holdings plc (BCH) is run democratically (December 31). I am now eagerly awaiting Mr Craig's proposals for a ballot of all BCH shareholders on the future of Bootham Crescent,
SHOCKED members of a York social club have banned residents from a nearby probation hostel after discovering one of them was jailed for child sex offences. The Evening Press can reveal that paedophile George Ormond regularly frequented Poppleton Road
THE new base for donating blood in central York is just round the corner from York Hospital. The National Blood Service has stopped using the De Grey Rooms, off Exhibition Square, and will now welcome old and new donors at Clarence Club, in Clarence Street
SWIMMERS are being encouraged to perfect their strokes for the 2003 Butlins swimathon, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief, from March 17-23 at hundreds of pools around the country. To take part phone 0845 3670036 for more information. Updated: 12:01 Monday
GREAT Ouseburn will hold its Spring Festival on Sunday, April 27, with a flower festival in the church, games for children at the village school and a Guess The Bizarre Farm Implement competition." There will also be a children's farmyard, live music
Whether you enjoy running, cycling, weight training or aerobics, it's not easy to motivate yourself to keep that New Year's resolution and exercise regularly. To help keep you fit and healthy throughout the New Year, the Evening Press has joined forces
Thieves broke into a house in Wetherby Road, York, and stole items, including a video recorder, a white cordless telephone and answer machine and a silver and blue Goodmans CD clock radio. A DVD player and cash were stolen in a burglary at a house in
WE welcome the police and council investigations into the weekend's traffic accidents. Motorists will be watching closely to see if they prompt a change to City of York Council's road gritting policy. Bill Woolley today defended that policy and blamed
THE report headlined "Rail revival hope to cut East Yorks congestion" (December 10) said the potential for reopening the York-Pocklington-Market Weighton-Beverley-Hull railway line is to be examined. It was a disgrace the line was closed in 1965. This
HELEN Mead's column (Evening Press, December 30) set me thinking about New Year resolutions. No one wants to be more different than I do. Above all, I should like to be sophisticated and 'cool'. Impossible for more than two minutes and, even then, people
HAVE we Brits become selfish and apathetic? Who would have believed, just a few years ago, that a proud island nation would stand by and allow its political elite to collaborate with the European Union to destroy our fishing industry and with it part
THE Grim Reaper, a lion, a former York City legend and a host of die-hard Minstermen fans took to the city streets on Saturday in a bid to collect objections to the planning application to build houses on Bootham Crescent. With no City game because of
FANS' group the Friends of Bootham Crescent has warmly welcomed the news that the City of York Council may consider making a Compulsory Purchase Order on York City's Bootham Crescent home. It was revealed in the Evening Press that council chiefs were
THE number of people caught drink-driving in North Yorkshire over the Christmas period has risen since last year. During North Yorkshire Police's Christmas crackdown, which ran across the county from December 18 until January 2, 56 people either failed
A HEAVY police presence surrounded RAF Fylingdales today for the visit of Defence Secretary Geoffrey Hoon. The base is key to the American missile defence scheme dubbed Son of Star Wars. The project has met with fierce protests from peace campaigners,
A VILLAGE near Selby was in mourning today after a young man died on his way home from a New Year party. The body of Robert Winn, 26, was found yesterday in a field - just a 15-minute walk from his home at Fairburn. Police were today awaiting the results
Hambleton trainer Kevin Ryan, who is currently on holiday in Florida, can still make his mark at Lingfield tomorrow. With a good team holding the fort in his absence, headed by his assistant, former top northern jockey Mark Birch, Ryan can get his name
THE first Yesterday Once More of the New Year seems a good moment to dip into the postbag. We have more faces for you to identify and more memories prompted by previous articles. First we take to the river bank. The wonderfully evocative photograph of
AN APPEAL to raise £15,000 to restore a 150-year-old clock in an East Yorkshire town has been given a boost of more than £6,000. The campaign to raise the funds to give Pocklington town clock a facelift was launched in August last year. The timepiece
A NORTH Yorkshire golf club is to reap the benefits of free environmental management advice this summer. Ecologists will advise greenkeeping staff and club officials at the Ampleforth College club on ways to encourage wildlife. Suggestions include putting
CILLA Black showed admirable showbiz chutzpah by handing in her notice as Blind Date hostess live on air. Only beloved late husband Bobby, contacted through a psychic, knew she was to drop the bombshell, and his discretion was assured. Cilla's departure
A WATCHDOG body today slammed facilities for mentally ill prisoners at Full Sutton jail - but praised new "performance related pay" for inmates. Unveiling its latest annual report, the top-security prison's Board of Visitors (BoV) said the jail's small
COUNCILLORS in York are being asked to back a £10 million boost for road and transport improvements. The money includes £7.88 million towards the council's five-year, £50 million Local Transport Plan to be spent on better public transport and congestion-cutting
FLOOD waters were still high between the villages of Sutton-on-Derwent and Melbourne with motorists only just managing to get across Hagg Bridge on the Pocklington canal. However, water levels were not expected to get any higher after the heavy rainfall
THE spoils of this Yorkshire One table-top encounter fell to Bridlington, who beat York 18-7 at Dukes Meadows. It was a close match played in deteriorating conditions as rain and sleet compounded the hazard of an already heavy surface on Bridlington's
Thanks to a super-human effort by a dedicated gang, led by skipper Chris Creber, the snow was cleared from the lines sufficiently for Malton and Norton's clash against visiting Leodiensians to ahead. And all the endeavours were worthwhile as the hosts
SELBY Warriors' Yorkshire League division two clash at home to bottom club White Hart and Graziers was one of the few amateur matches to go ahead on Saturday - but Selby will wish it hadn't. The Warriors lost 18-16 at home to the Wakefield outfit, giving
MORE than 100 dogs in York are looking for a new home after desperate pet owners across the city called on the RSPCA over the festive period. Staff at the RSPCA home in Landing Lane, York, said the Christmas and New Year period was "horrendous" after
All York Mitchell Sports Football League ties in the League Cup first round were postponed by the weekend's big freeze. Clubs are reminded that all these ties must be played - weather permitting - by Sunday, January 12. Unless notified otherwise, referees
Only ten Leeper Hare York and District League games survived the weather, headed by the lone premier division duel in which Andy Green scored his fourth goal in four games to set Pocklington on their way to a 3-1 home win over neighbours Dunnington. Neil
AN EVENTUAL 4-1 toppling of Burton Albion was far less convincing than the scoreline suggested for hosts Scarborough. Burton had been reduced to nine men for more than the last half hour - defender Stuart Reddington sent off for receiving two cautions
FANS' group the Friends of Bootham Crescent has warmly welcomed the news that the City of York Council may consider making a Compulsory Purchase Order on York City's Bootham Crescent home. It was revealed in the Evening Press that council chiefs were
DON'T panic, and certainly don't tell Captain Mainwaring, but a well-known comedy priest was guest of honour in a York bookshop. Frank Williams, who played the tetchy vicar in the BBC long-running series Dad's Army was at SPCK in Goodramgate to sign copies
THE Grim Reaper, a lion, a former York City legend and a host of die-hard Minstermen fans took to the city streets on Saturday in a bid to collect objections to the planning application to build houses on Bootham Crescent. With no City game because of
VISITORS to York are facing a rise in city centre parking charges of 20p an hour But the cost to residents holding discount badges will remain unchanged under the latest proposals from transport bosses at City of York Council. Residents currently enjoy
PHONE watchdogs are investigating a company which urges York people to text local women for sex. An advertisement placed in a men's lifestyle magazine targets men in a number of cities including York, encouraging them to "text women in YOUR town for sex
Thanks to a super-human effort by a dedicated gang, led by skipper Chris Creber, the snow was cleared from the lines sufficiently for Malton and Norton's clash against visiting Leodiensians to ahead. And all the endeavours were worthwhile as the hosts
RAY Adamson's 75th-minute penalty saw Selby snatch a last-gasp 25-23 victory over Dinnington in Yorkshire One. Things had started badly for the Sandhill Laners as Dean Lax slotted over a penalty and then converted Cooke's try to give the hosts a 10-0
YORK will be hoping there is no repeat of the ugly scenes that marred their Yorkshire One clash with Bridlington earlier in the season. York were toppled 20-7 at Clifton Park, but the game will be better remembered for a touch-line brawl, while flanker
YORK City Knights' preparations for the new season took a blow yesterday as their friendly against Oldham at Huntington Stadium was called off. The pitch was deemed unplayable after an 11am inspection found it to be frozen with little chance of it thawing
