ADZE Gallery complements the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham exhibition at York Art Gallery with a new show by fellow St Ives artist Sandra Blow. In Celebrating St Ives, Adze displays a vibrant series of limited-edition screenprints by an artist who has played
FOR his Illustration Of Life exhibition, Max Kandhola photographed his father in the final stages of terminal illness. On show at Impressions Gallery in York, his personal and honest images confront viewers with the intimate, painful reality of death.
HENRIETTA Knight, trainer of last month's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate, can complete an outstanding double with Chives in tomorrow's Martell Cognac Grand National. The 10-1 shot will be ridden by jockey-turned-trainer Richard Guest, who has two
ROOSTER Booster, brilliant winner of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham last month, can follow-up at Aintree tomorrow. Philip Hobbs' much-improved gelding steps up to two and a half miles in the £150,000 Martell Cognac Aintree Hurdle. Rooster Booster made
SINCE the sad demise of York Arts Centre, jazz fans have had to cast further afield for big name attractions. Jazz clubs flourish in Hull (20 years old this year), Scarborough (15 years), Wakefield (15 years), Leeds (20 years) and Boston Spa (12 years
AMERICAN autoharp player, songwriter and entertainer Bryan Bowers plays the Black Swan Folk Club on Thursday, April 10 in his York debut. "Bryan has seldom toured Britain in a 30-year career but he's highly regarded on both the folk and bluegrass scenes
THE chin and Chan show returns. Not content with taming the Wild West in the mock-Western Shanghai Noon, big-chinned American ladies' man Owen Wilson and Asian pocket dynamo Jackie Chan link up for more boisterous high jinks. One of those comedy odd couples
EVERY conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking. That is certainly a risk run by York Civic Trust's leaders. When they believe a new development diminishes this city, they do not mince their words
I FEEL I must write to you after reading about the Gibson family showing their support for the brave men and women of our armed forces (March 31). Last week, we received a letter from my brother, who is currently serving his country somewhere in the Gulf
YOUR reader GM Meehan is obviously right that "an unalterable truth is that under a regime such as that in Iraq, the York Against War campaign would not be allowed its say" (April 2). That is why I will wager that no more than half a dozen of the protesters
WE obviously need updated information about the war in Iraq, but do we really need such instant, detailed information and speculation from the army of journalists, special correspondents, cameramen and experts that have invaded Iraq? Is there a Kate Adie
LIKE R Waring (Letters March 27) I too was appalled by Colin Jeffrey's comments about the war with Iraq. How an Englishman can hope that Britain sustains a few more deaths among its armed services before their objective is complete is beyond me. As each
MOST veterans of the Second World War are now in their 80s. I served in the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment. We got too far in front seeking out the enemy, and came under shell fire from our own guns. We thought this would never happen, but it did. We took
DR Simon Ward, you claim that you have this right to free speech as this is a free country (Letters, March 27) but think of the people in Iraq who have no say whatsoever. Can you not see that one of the aims of this conflict is to give Iraq a democracy
I TAKE issue with David Ellis's suggestion that a vote against Labour on May 1 will not change the situation in Iraq (March 24). Massive public pressure on our elected representatives forced the biggest Parliamentary revolt in recent years, but failed
K BARNES clearly knows the Good Book. I take it that his comment about Ecclesiastes 11.1 refers to the attack on the Trade Centre on September 11 being in retribution for America's total insularity from world events and their grossly irresponsible over-use
THESE are difficult times for our country with many servicemen and women ordinarily based in North Yorkshire engaged in the conflict in Iraq. Here in North Yorkshire the war is as close to home as it is anywhere in the United Kingdom. We have the largest
I WAS saddened, but not surprised, to read of the bad behaviour in your report (April 2). I walk to work from the Barbican area to Clifton and back every day and see similar incidents on a regular basis. I see groups of youths and children throwing stones
I AM trying very hard to find an old friend of mine called Geoff Batley. Sadly I have lost his address and phone number. Can any readers help? He is 50 years old and used to drive a red Morgan car. I can be contacted by email - Penny@ninety8.freeserve.co.uk
CULTURE is the order of the day in a York bar, as a local competition goes national. The Slug and Lettuce bar is to be adorned with fine art by students of York St John College as part of a competition to find the most popular piece of student art in
ANNE Bass bombarded the board to score 100,100,120,125 in a splendid 20-darter as Cygnet 'A' annihilated second-placed Cue Ball in York John Smith's Ladies League division one. That put Cygnet on a high and Lynda Kennelly included three tons Lyn Thompson
MALTON and Norton take a break from their nerve-jangling Yorkshire Two promotion run-in tomorrow when they mount their charge for the Yorkshire Shield. Having already dispatched of York RI in the previous round, Pat Stephenson's free-scoring troops head
DELIVERY vehicles are struggling to get to grips with congestion charging in London, a new report reveals. The study, issued by the Freight Transport Association (FTA), provides a portent of things to come should road tolls ever be introduced in York.
YORK primary school children will be treated to a magical performance of Beauty And The Beast, thanks to students from York College. First-year national diploma performing arts students joined forces with makeup, theatre and design students for the production
POCKLINGTON residents are being urged to have their say about how road safety could be improved in the town. About £250,000 has been earmarked for major improvements to Pocklington town centre including the refurbishment of the town's bus station, new
RECENTLY released York City striker Alex Mathie has signed for Pickering Town in a bid to keep playing while looking to find a new club for next season. Mathie, who was one of four players to leave the Minstermen by mutual consent last Thursday, will
TWINS and triplets will be at the focus of a special event in York tomorrow. Health visitors from the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT), together with partner organisations will be on hand to provide information at a multiple birth information day
PEOPLE in York looking for cut-price holidays in the sun have been warned to watch out for bogus companies. Trading standards bosses at City of York Council are urging people to beware following reports of a series of phone calls to residents advising
Beleaguered holiday firm MyTravel, which operates the Going Places travel chain, today announced plans to axe 2,000 jobs from its workforce. But company bosses said the majority of cuts would be from the worldwide workforce of more than 25,000 staff and
A PUBLIC toilet in the heart of York that was labelled a "stench-ridden dumping ground" following an Evening Press survey of the city's conveniences, has been given a makeover. The Museum Garden toilets have been refurbished as part of a £45,000 scheme
TRADING standards officers believe they may have uncovered a major music CD counterfeiting operation on the outskirts of York. A house in a village to the north of the city was raided on Wednesday by North Yorkshire Trading Standards officers and the
DRAMATIC alterations to the front of York Railway Station have moved a step forward - despite concern and confusion over how the new transport scheme is going to work. Plans to improve bus stops, taxi ranks, pedestrian crossings and walkways and cycling
A YORK Territorial Army soldier has been airlifted back to Britain from Iraq after being injured in action. An Army spokeswoman said the soldier had been treated briefly in hospital before being discharged. She declined to name the soldier, saying it
BEAMING York pensioner Florence Strickland has celebrated her 100th birthday. Florence received a telegram from the Queen to mark the occasion. She was also visited at Fulford Nursing Home by the Lord Mayor of York, Coun David Horton. Florence moved to
THREE landmark York building projects have won prestigious awards. York's Millennium Bridge was among the constructions to scoop a prize at the national Civic Trust Awards. The National Centre For Early Music in Walmgate and Poplar Gardens, the ground-breaking
BRITAIN'S bookies are expecting a record-breaking Grand National betting bonanza tomorrow - but York firms are already cashing in. Bookmakers across the city have been feverishly taking cash for tomorrow's showpiece horse racing event, with many reporting
A NORTH Yorkshire cinema boss must wait at least another month before he is allowed to sell alcohol on the premises - because he must go on a licensing course. Jeremy Powell, who runs the Palace Cinema in Malton, applied to magistrates in Scarborough
ALMOST 400 exotic fish have been stolen from a York garden centre. Burglars raided Wyevale garden centre, in Northfield Lane, Upper Poppleton, and stole 388 fish, worth thousands of pounds, over two nights. The haul included 30 Koi Carp, worth £200 each
THE residents of York are being "cheated" out of their multi-million pound Barbican Centre investment, a leading Liberal Democrat councillor has claimed. Quentin Macdonald, shadow executive member for leisure and heritage, made the claim while launching
STAFF at a York library have employed a security guard to protect them from a gang of teenage yobs. Workers at Tang Hall library asked council chiefs for the measure after they were harassed by youths during the early evenings. Police have confirmed that
THE Jorvik Warrior Jamie Warters signalled his intentions to push on towards a shot at the British cruiserweight title last night with a comfortable points victory over Darren Ashton at Willerby Manor. Warters fight plans had been turned upside down just
THE Evening Press has had a great response from fans wanting to quiz members of the new board of York City Football Club. A selection from the on-line question and answer session with the club's new directors will be published in tomorrow's Evening Press
YORK City fans will be gnawing fingernails tomorrow even though Terry Dolan's promotion- chasing Minstermen will not be in action. This season's promotion race is wide open and with 12 teams in the mix for the three automatic places and four play-off
THE seating had been arranged on all four sides of a raised stage. Feel the adrenaline. The warning signs were up: strong language, smoke effects. More adrenaline. Excited, expectant faces, like that Turkey match on Wednesday. Yet more adrenaline. Sometimes
AMY Thompson is in the last year of her drama degree at Hull University... and rehearsing for her York Theatre Royal debut in Nick Lane's version of Beauty And The Beast. "I'm only missing a couple of lectures," she says. "For my year there are no exams
THE Evening Press has had a great response from fans wanting to quiz members of the new board of York City Football Club. A selection from the on-line question and answer session with the club's new directors will be published in tomorrow's Evening Press
AMERICAN troops were said today to have seized Baghdad's airport after bitter overnight fighting. A US intelligence officer at the scene said that American ground forces had seized "probably 80 per cent" of the large airport site, but stressed that every
York filmmaker KEVIN CURRAN reveals the human side of the city's drug problem... IT'S 6 o'clock on Wednesday, March 26. I'm having a coffee and tackling a game of chess with my younger brother, Ronan. How I manage to win, I don't know. It's 11 days to
GLUM faces and raised hands signal the beginning of a postal strike that would see 210,000 workers walk out of sorting offices across the UK. Letters and parcels stacked up in deserted offices as households were starved of their daily delivery for almost
Motoring editor MALCOLM BAYLIS reports on the amazingly versatile Vauxhall Meriva WITH trim level names such as Life, Enjoy and Design, Vauxhall's latest compact people carrier, the five-seater Meriva, surely has to be on track for some sort of award.
Name: Lisa Stansfield; Occupation: Rochdale's other singer besides Gracie Fields Born: Rochdale, Lancashire, April 11, 1966 Lives in: Dublin Musical education: "One of the first things I remember is my mum doing the housework to the Supremes. When you
THOSE one million-selling pop punksters Wheatus play York on Saturday (5th) in Fibbers' gig of the weekend and indeed the year so far. Not surprisingly the excitable American men who brought you Teenage Dirtbag and a respectable cover of Erasure's A Little
RABBIT, rabbit. Loveable old London duo Chas And Dave play their pub anthems and talk about their musical career too in their Two For The Road Show at Oak House, Pocklington, this month. Chas Hodges and Dave Peacocks's acoustic gig on April 26 launches
THIS weekend there are some brilliant bands at Fibbers. On Friday (4th), Whole Lotta Led play Led Zeppelin covers in a two-hour show. Saturday (5th) sees the arrival of Wheatus, who topped the UK charts with Teenage Dirt Bag. They are really entertaining
LOOKING to cast an ageing American gambler, crook and hell raiser with a face slacker than a whore's drawers? First choice has to be Nick Nolte, who has been visited by more demons than Jesus in the desert wilderness. So the gnarled gargoyle lines up
WHEN the bloodshed is over, Tony Blair may have to pay a heavy domestic price for the war in Iraq. Foundation hospitals and student top-up fees. The idea of allowing elite universities to charge more than former polytechnics was never wildly popular among
THE Grand National is the toughest test for any jockey. No one can doubt the courage of those who line up at the start of the Aintree course tomorrow. In Tommy Elder's day it was tougher still. The fences were higher, the water jumps wider. And he managed
I HAVE been disturbed by the superior and patronising tone adopted by some of your correspondents to the involvement of young people in the anti-war movement - they do them an injustice. Young people today live in a shrinking world where contact between
THERE must be something radically wrong with the system of war when the Americans can't distinguish between a British or Iraqi tank in broad daylight. One dead, one injured. He said, "the pilot looked as though he was on a jolly", - some jolly. And now
SINCE Christmas the threat of war has resulted in steady increases in the price of petrol and diesel. Sadly, this is a threat that will inevitably continue. Fuel represents close to 40 per cent of the operating costs of running commercial vehicles - vital
I WAS shocked by the irony of the situation re the human shield Antionette McCormick and the unwelcome attentions of her guard on her journey from Baghdad to Jordan (April 1) I am sure that the young girls that were sent from their school every week to
EVERY day, ministers urge us to "support our troops". Why, then, have they just announced proposals to cut benefits to men and women injured while serving in the armed forces? Under the new plan, ex-service personnel will no longer be entitled to war
THE people of North Yorkshire should know that massive cutbacks proposed for the Post Office could prove to be the tip of the iceberg when the Government changes the way it pays benefits and pensions in May. Many claimants appear to be under the impression
THE three Rotary Clubs of York are organising free blood pressure checks across the city tomorrow to help reduce residents' risks of suffering a stroke. Rotary International says high blood pressure is the largest preventable cause of a stroke, and tackling
Lesbian, gay and bisexual people living in York have been given a stronger voice in the community with a new forum. The York lesbian, gay and bisexual resident's forum will meet four times a year to bring together representatives from the council, police
A WRITING scheme for young people has seen a top novelist entertain the people of York. American author Jean Hegland is the first incumbent of an annual writer-in-residence programme at York St John College, with the author marking her visit by hosting
LAST week's revelation that 6,000 British ducks face slaughter because they are mating with the Spanish white-headed duck has ruffled feathers with anglers throughout the country. They are now demanding action by the Department for the Environment, Food
A CALL has gone out to artists interested in working with the community in York - it's time to get connected. They are being urged to take advantage of a new scheme called Loose Connections, which offers a programme of workshops and "networking opportunities
TWO wins, including one against nearest rivals Strensall 'A', have seen York RI 'A' finish the Focus Fireplaces York and District Table Tennis League season in third place in division one. Doug Bartle and Vic Smith both scored three wins for RI in the
VOLUNTEER moved to the top of York John Smith's Sunday Morning League division one with a 8-2 win over Acomb WMC, though they didn't have it all their own way. Kidds twice equalised for Acomb before and after the break but then they crumbled as Bartlett
WIGGINTON Under-11s stormed to the Harrogate and District Junior Squash League by winning all ten matches. The trio of Jack Unsworth, Sam Burton and Will Bailey are also well up the Yorkshire rankings at their age level, being placed third, fourth and
THE horrors of war are the subject of an exhibition taking place at York Art Gallery. The War and Peace exhibition includes a collection of works showing images of war throughout the ages. The horrors of the First World War are captured by official war
CITY OF YORK education bosses are getting all steamed up in a row over hot cross buns. They are demanding an apology from a national newspaper after it claimed the council had banned the seasonal buns for fear of upsetting Muslims and other non-Christians
STAFF at a York supermarket have swapped trolleys for trainers as they gear up for this year's Race For Life in the city. Staff from the Tesco store at Askham Bar are already in training for the event, hoping to build on the great work done last year
A BENEFIT fraudster who admitted swindling City of York Council out of more than £2,000 has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service. York magistrates heard that Stuart Hawkins Dale, 40, of Byland Avenue, York, had denied that he was related to
VISITORS to a 15th century York attraction have been baffled by its latest addition - a medieval commode. Barley Hall, has installed the "stool of ease" in the Great Chamber, as part of a project to recreate the medieval home of York alderman and goldsmith
PICKERING Town boss Steve Brown has targeted two more wins to ensure his side's safety in the premier division of the Northern Counties East League. The Pikes have built up a seemingly comfortable nine-point cushion between themselves and the relegation
JIM has fixed it for a North Yorkshire chippie - by presenting it with a double whammy of awards. Sir Jimmy Savile, a regular customer of brother-and-sister chip shop team David Almond and Andrea Sunley, delighted the pair when he handed them the sought-after
A NORTH YORKSHIRE stable lad was today starting a four-year jail term for a revenge arson attack on a former neighbour. Stephen Shaun Peirson, 44, wanted to punish Wayne Jervis because he believed him to be responsible for an attack on his friend "Lester
YOUNG people from York schools aired their views on the war at a young people's Question Time in the city today. The event was chaired by television presenter David Dimbleby and took place at the Guildhall. The war in Iraq was at the top of the agenda
THE oldest living jockey to have ridden in the Grand National told of his disappointment today at being forced to miss tomorrow's big race. Tommy Elder, 93, from Easingwold, does not have a car and found all the coach parties to Aintree fully booked up
MALTON and Norton take a break from their nerve-jangling Yorkshire Two promotion run-in tomorrow when they mount their charge for the Yorkshire Shield. Having already dispatched of York RI in the previous round, Pat Stephenson's free-scoring troops head
KATE Atkinson recalls the heavy artillery being rolled in to review her first stage play, Abandonment, at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival. "The festival is an extraordinary fulcrum for reviews," says the York-raised writer, who now lives in the Scottish capital
YORK City fans will be gnawing fingernails tomorrow even though Terry Dolan's promotion- chasing Minstermen will not be in action. This season's promotion race is wide open and with 12 teams in the mix for the three automatic places and four play-off
STAFF at a York supermarket have swapped trolleys for trainers as they gear up for this year's Race For Life in the city. Staff from the Tesco store at Askham Bar are already in training for the event, hoping to build on the great work done last year
A YORK Territorial Army soldier has been airlifted back to Britain from Iraq after being injured in action. An Army spokeswoman said the soldier had been treated briefly in hospital before being discharged. She declined to name the soldier, saying it
