GAS and electricity giant npower today apologised to a York man after they threatened to send the bailiffs round to his house - to demand cash he had never owed them. Garry Smales fought with npower for more than 18 months over a gas bill of £28.11 that
DURING the first football crisis, fans downed a good few pints of York Brewery's Save City Ale in aid of the Minstermen. Now they can help cure the club's current financial hangover with a coffee or tea from the Eastside Caf. Co-owners Andy Abbott and
A SELBY village is hoping to ban skateboarding and rollerblading to prevent a serious accident. Cawood Parish Council is considering introducing a by-law to stop youths skating in the Foreshore area of the village. If they are successful it will be the
As a poll published today shows that less than half of Britons know how much a euro is worth, SALLY FLETCHER asked people on the streets of York whether they could do better AS THE euro debate rumbles on, the people of York said today they neither know
THE Archbishop of York has given his seal of approval to a guide, featuring his own home, which invites business visitors to have a "meeting with history" in the city. Tourism bosses hand delivered the first copy of the city's new conference guide to
THE handover of a ceremonial chain has made Peter Bean chairman of the Federation of Master Builders. He took over from outgoing chairman Eddie Ruddock at an event at the Beechwood Hotel in Shipton Road, York. Mr Ruddock, who owns Energytek Yorkshire
MEMBERS of a Yorkshire-based literary society have joined with Emmerdale star Christine Cox and York Theatre Royal actors to celebrate the work of JB Priestley. Christine, who played Emmerdale's man eater politician Glynis, is starring in the Priestley
THE names of York factory workers who fought in the First World War will not be forgotten at Nestl. York pensioner Joyce Wood feared planned building on the former factory dining block in Haxby Road would mean a memorial naming employees who died in the
OLDER people in an area of York are being asked for their views on facilities and activities for the over-50s. The Age Concern survey is an attempt to identify where the biggest gaps in provision for older people in the area are. A questionnaire is being
A CHILDHOOD dream of many youngsters is up for grabs for volunteers in York. The National Railway Museum is seeking volunteers to act as guards and help with the running of their trains. A team of more than 180 volunteers already help in a variety of
SELBY and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) is lending its support to the national suicide strategy. The strategy aims to reduce the number of people committing suicide by 20 per cent by 2010. Among its goals and objectives, the strategy aims to reduce risk
CONFUSION is reigning among North Yorkshire voters over the Government's proposals for a Yorkshire regional assembly, according to new research. A survey of voters and a postal survey of stakeholder groups, commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council
A BLADDER operation at York Hospital was a contributing factor in the death of an 87-year-old man, an inquest heard. James Kinder, of Church View, Sherburn-in-Elmet, underwent surgery to have a bladder stone removed on March 4, 2002. But the operation
Perch provided the only real entertainment for the 96 competitors in the penultimate leg of Acomb Tackle York Winter Angling League on a hard, frost-ravaged River Ouse below York on Sunday. League organiser Carl Pringle (Bar Six) won with only 2lb 14oz
MORE resources should be put into poorer-performing schools in York, according to a leading councillor. The Liberal Democrat opposition group leader on City of York Council, Coun Steve Galloway, has claimed parents face a "lottery" when choosing schools
Nestl Rowntree's senior men's team took another step closer to retaining the North Yorkshire/South Durham Cross-Country League with another win. Andy Hilton had a strong run to lead the team home in fifth place, one position ahead of Paul Goble, who ran
STRIKING conductors estimate their action has cost Arriva Trains Northern (ATN) more than £10 million and their own conductors about £3,000 each. The expense is set to spiral as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union members announce another series
THE link between medieval armour and the sort of protection used by skateboarders and cyclists is being made in an event at a York museum. The city's Castle Museum is opening its doors to the public to introduce the modern generation to some of its ancient
ACOMB 'A' took two more steps towards retaining their York Senior Indoor Cricket league title. They have won the crown six times in the last eight seasons and are on course for more success after victories over main challengers Sheriff Hutton Bridge and
A ROBBER aged 12 was today awaiting sentence for forcing an older child to hand over his £350 mountain bike in a York street. York Youth Court heard that the boy struck outside Jacksons in Burton Stone Lane at 8pm on August 29. The 13-year-old victim
Dringhouses are now ten points clear in the York Leeper Hare League Reserve 'A' division after a 7-2 win at home to Wigginton Grasshoppers. After first half goals from Wayne Carter and Craig Atkinson there was a welcome return from injury for John Lake
A GARDEN designed by a York student will be recreated at one of the world's biggest flower shows this summer. Sarah Ali Shaikh Lloyd will be travelling with a team from Askham Bryan College to the Hampton Court Flower Show in July to recreate a garden
Helmsley Community Primary School reached the finals of the north of England junior table tennis championships. The squad, Finn Needham, 11, and ten-year-olds Edward Famberly, Charlie Allott and Jack Moody, chalked up victories over sides from Durham
INSTILLING pride in York's bus services is the top priority of First's new managing director Jonathan May. Outlining his vision for transport in the city, the 26-year-old boss at First's James Street depot unveiled plans to make York the envy of Europe
Britain's newest species of plant has been found next to a railway station car park in York, it was revealed today. The York groundsel was discovered on waste ground several years ago, but the findings have only just been published. Only five similar
Staff at supermarket giant Asda were today preparing to pocket bonuses of up to £300 each as part of the U.S.-owned retailer's benefits scheme. The payouts, totalling £13.7 million, will be made on Friday after the company achieved a ten per cent rise
NORTH Yorkshire County Council chiefs were today expected to approve an inflation-busting 11.5 per cent rise in council tax. The proposed hike in the county council precept will mean an extra £84 a year on a Band D property from the current level of £733
CASH-STRAPPED York City have still to bank the £30,000 payment stumped up by Sky for screening last Saturday's home game with Hartlepool United. With the Minstermen teetering on the brink of extinction, the administrator working to safeguard the club
A NORTH Yorkshire man died suddenly just after seeing his boating business dream come true, his devastated family said today. Dougie Banks, from Easingwold, had put a lot of blood, sweat and tears, as well as his life savings, into transforming a piece
AS the person who called for the vote at the recent Hungate Open Planning Forum meeting, I wish to know why Mr Crowe believes the meeting was "hijacked by friends of the developers" (Letters, February 11). At the start of the meeting chair Alison Sinclair
I HOPE "moaning minnies" columnists Helen Mead and Bill Hearld don't "run off together", as Pamela Egan suggests (February 14). They are far too valuable! Helen's constant reminder of her alluring bedroom antics and the contents of her knicker-drawers
FORMER Ampleforth College pupil Guy Easterby has kept his place in the Ireland squad to travel to Rome to face Italy in their second RBS Six Nations game this weekend. The 31-year-old came off the bench for the final few minutes of the win over Scotland
JO HAYWOOD has a personal reason to discover why the Yorkshire Ripper case involved so many police bungles Buses didn't venture on to the Cross Green Industrial Estate in Leeds in the 1970s and, with a sadistic serial killer on the loose, walking was
IMPRESSIONS Gallery's artistic remit for 2003 is to look at identity in a series of exhibitions that address psychological tensions and landscape both political and personal. So here comes Ten Thousand Li, a new perspective on - to quote its subtitle
GENEROUS caf owners are trying to help buy some extra time for cash-strapped York City FC with a special "cash boost for a brew" deal. Every time a customer buys a cup of tea or coffee from the Eastside Caf, in Tang Hall, York, owner Andy Abbott will
FANS' group the Friends of Bootham Crescent today threw their weight behind the Supporters' Trust's bid to buy York City. "We now all know that as things stand the Supporters' Trust have tabled the only bid for the football club,' said FoBC spokesperson
THE catchment areas for two of York biggest schools are set to change - if council plans are given the go ahead. The areas for Huntington School and Joseph Rowntree School could be altered under plans to be discussed by City of York Council's executive
IT must have been fun to be the Nevilles or Rio Ferdinand at Manchester United's training ground on Monday. These players have magic in their feet, but at the heading end... well, let's just say they are unlikely to be selected for England's Most Gorgeous
Hopes are high that jump-racing will resume tomorrow after two blank days and the disappointment of today's Doncaster meeting failing to pass a course inspection this morning after falling foul of frost. Officials at Warwick are very hopeful of racing
THE Arriva Trains Northern dispute makes the fire strike look like a master class in industrial relations. More than a year after the first walkout by train conductors, there is no settlement in sight. On the contrary, the dispute has escalated and the
It's all change on York's buses as Jonathan May, right, First's young managing director, settles into the driving seat. STEVE CARROLL finds out where the company is going.. JONATHAN May has a tough pedigree. "I am young," York's youngest transport boss
A LONG-standing club for professional men and women has chosen a new chairman for the coming year. Bernard Rowan, retiring chairman of Haxby and Wigginton Probus Club, handed the chain of office to incoming chairman, Mr J. Philip Walkden, at a business
NEW flats in Walmgate have been given the thumbs-up by York residents. The Evening Press spoke to shoppers in Walmgate to discover their thoughts on the design, architecture and position of the new development, built on a site where Channel 4's Time Team
GENEROUS caf owners are trying to help buy some extra time for cash-strapped York City FC with a special "cash boost for a brew" deal. Every time a customer buys a cup of tea or coffee from the Eastside Caf, in Tang Hall, York, owner Andy Abbott will
A STORE detective from Barnitts, in York, caught a shoplifter while strolling down Colliergate, York magistrates heard. The security officer was near Ark clothing shop just along the road from the hardware store when he spotted Lorraine Debra Cumberland
A FARMER'S daughter is helping her family diversify - by selling and hiring hats. With farmers looking for alternative sources of income because of falling prices, Claire Haigh decided that millinery was the way ahead. With the help of her mother, Katrina
ELAINE Feinstein, the poet, novelist, biographer and translator, will read from her works at the Riverlines evening in the Basement Bar of City Screen, York, tomorrow. The Russian-Jewish writer's latest Collected Poems doubles as an uncensored biography
NOMINATIONS are still open for the Federation of Disability Sports npower Active Awards which honour the achievements of disabled people across Yorkshire. The deadline is on Monday and winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony at Leeds
A SPECIAL invitation has gone out to all engaged couples in York. Family Matters York (FMY) is offering them a free meal at Pizza Express, in Museum Street, on Monday, March 3, at 7.30pm, in conjunction with National Marriage Week. Each couple will also
A LARGER-than-life paramedic is leaving the ambulance service after nearly 40 years of service - but not for the first time. John Cox, of Barmby Moor, first took a career break from life-saving in 1965 - to become a globe-trotting heavyweight wrestler
North Yorkshire Police have warned householders to beware of house alarm-selling conmen who target the elderly, vulnerable and disabled. Officers have received a number of complaints in recent weeks about companies selling security alarm systems at vastly-inflated
THE catchment areas for two of York biggest schools are set to change - if council plans are given the go ahead. The areas for Huntington School and Joseph Rowntree School could be altered under plans to be discussed by City of York Council's executive
Helen Smith has an unusual incentive to lose weight - she has to be slim enough to do a wing walk. The madcap idea is all about raising cash for her local church, Trinity Methodist, in Norton, which was devastated by fire last February. Helen, of Mill
TWO fire-damaged York stores remain closed today as staff worked to replace damaged stock. A substantial blaze broke out in Outfit, at Monks Cross Shopping Park, yesterday in a rear storeroom. Managers at neighbouring fashion clothes store Next said the
THE North Yorkshire members of the Great Britain indoor rowing team had ideal final preparations for the World Championships in Boston, United States, next weekend. John Brooks, of Pocklington, and Malcolm Fawcett, of Green Hammerton, were both winners
CARE homes in York and North Yorkshire have been thrown a lifeline after the Government caved in on tough new standards that threatened to send them to the wall. Ministers have bowed to pressure by weakening a series of expensive regulations after protests
Huntington School were beaten by 2-0 by Thirsk School in the Coca-Cola Under-13s North Yorkshire County Cup. Thirsk School will now go on to play in the second stage of the football tournament where all County Cup champions will compete in a knockout
NORTON'S Mayor has criticised the decision to spend thousands of pounds on traffic calming in the town. Coun Keith Mennell told councillors that speeding motorists were to blame for the need to invest £162,000 in traffic calming measures. If drivers observed
A TOP-LEVEL meeting has been held between racehorse trainers, police, councillors, and highway officials following concerns about safety of horses and motorists in Norton. "Horse crossing" signs could be provided in the town in a bid to resolve the situation
FORMER Ampleforth College pupil Guy Easterby has kept his place in the Ireland squad to travel to Rome to face Italy in their second RBS Six Nations game this weekend. The 31-year-old came off the bench for the final few minutes of the win over Scotland
Supporters planning to watch City's derby duel with Darlington at Feethams on Tuesday, March 4, are being advised to buy their tickets in advance. The ticket office at Bootham Crescent has taken delivery of 1,500 standing tickets for the South Terrace
FANS' group the Friends of Bootham Crescent today threw their weight behind the Supporters' Trust's bid to buy York City. "We now all know that as things stand the Supporters' Trust have tabled the only bid for the football club,' said FoBC spokesperson
SUPERMARKET giant Sainsbury's has dumped plans to build housing at its city centre site in York, choosing instead to radically expand the business. The retail chain has submitted new proposals to replace the 20-year-old Foss Bank store with a 8,605 square
KATHRYN Cordell is putting any plans to conquer the senior squash circuit on hold, despite her success in the York Open Championships. The 16-year-old starlet secured her place in the record books as she became the youngest-ever winner of the ladies'
NORTH Yorkshire Police's record for preventing burglaries and catching criminals was today damned by new Government performance tables. The Home Office has published a new system which compares police forces only with "similar" ones. The figures published
I HAVE never had a change of heart so swiftly as I did over the question of Iraq. I had wished I were younger to have joined the York march last Saturday. But before Sunday was out I did a mental U-turn. On reading a report in a Sunday newspaper I was
LAST November's York Festival Of Remembrance raised £7,000 which has been sent to the headquarters of the Poppy Appeal. This has become a major event in the York Calendar, and once again had a full house. On behalf of the committee I thank Brian Coates
AUTHOR Margaret Bacon, who was educated at the Mount School, York, has written the first volume of a new family saga that bears comparison with the best of Rosamunde Pilcher and Elizabeth Jane Howard. In the first decade of the 20th century, life at Northrop
CASH-STRAPPED York City have still to bank the £30,000 payment stumped up by Sky for screening last Saturday's home game with Hartlepool United. With the Minstermen teetering on the brink of extinction, the administrator working to safeguard the club
