I'm not given to violent outbursts, but I reckon child sex abusers should be nailed to a gantry by the left testicle and left to dangle. I'm going to tell you a story. It's a true and shocking story. It's the story of a young couple I once knew, a happy
The Red Shirt Brigade, who were out in force to welcome a winner at Ripon on Saturday, will be hoping to do the same at Bath tomorrow. The owners' group, run by Pete Murphy, enjoyed a memorable success at Ripon with Red Galaxy, who followed up her debut
I AM not a Yorkie, I'm a Londoner, but I fully support the Evening Press's Eat Local campaign. I am slowly weaning myself off my old supermarket habit to shop locally. I have, however, noticed a bizarre anomaly. When I shop in local independents, mostly
Having just spent a thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking evening at York Theatre Royal watching Kate Atkinson's excellent play, Abandonment, I cannot let Margaret Lawson's letter (April 26) pass without comment. The play explored every nuance of
I APPLAUD the Council Ward Committee's "Pink Badger" bus service, between Badger Hill and Piccadilly, York ('York mini-bus is in the pink' Evening Press, April 23, ). But is a return of the Pink Badger (costing £2.05) to include an anti-tetanus jab -
SOMETHING this big was never going to pass without controversy. And so it is that the proposed 700-home development on York's outskirts has had a troubled history. Many residents in Fulford have in the past been antagonistic towards the planned Persimmon
THOMAS the Tank Engine would have been fair puffed out. The cherub-faced locomotive wouldn't have had a moment's peace if he had been working for GNER. Since winning the East Coast Main Line franchise seven years ago, the York-based company has transported
A North Yorkshire business will celebrate its ten-year anniversary and the quadrupling of its premises at the Eat Local Banquet. Jurg Bleiker, the owner of Bleiker's Smokehouse in Pateley Bridge, is to provide one of the courses for the Evening Press
Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups are aiming to take overall control of the hung authority in Ryedale, which currently has 11 Tories, six Independents, five Liberal Democrats and one Labour. Boundary changes mean the number of seats on
PUPILS from a North Yorkshire School were left with jelly on their faces in the name of charity. Students from Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, took part in a contest to eat as much jelly as possible in 30 seconds. It was part of a fundraising drive
DOCTORS from York and across Yorkshire are to meet this week to discuss neonatal services in the region, which are set to undergo a radical overhaul. It will be the first meeting of the Yorkshire Neonatal Network since the publication of a Government
LANDOWNERS and farmers planning to object to draft maps showing proposed public access to open countryside in the North York Moors National Park, Hambleton, Ryedale and Scarborough districts are booking private surgery sessions with one of the country's
LABOUR MP Hugh Bayley has written to York students to reassure them he is opposed to controversial "top-up" fees. As revealed in the Evening Press, Mr Bayley has joined a growing band of Labour MPs against plans for elite universities to charge students
Health organisations in York are set to benefit from a summer charity ball to be held in July. Money raised at a ball in the New Ebor Suite, York Racecourse, will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Relief and the Cardio-myopathy Association as part of a local
A YORK couple have written to the Prime Minister to complain over the way holiday companies raise prices during school breaks. Jean and Brian Gallantree, from Acomb, have told Mr Blair it is appalling he has not done something about holiday companies
A GIANT mouse has taken to the streets to raise awareness for charity. Miles the Mouse has travelled all over North and East Yorkshire to raise money and awareness for the Macmillan Miles Challenge, which supports cancer care. Malton, Scarborough, Filey
A ROW has broken out between a North Yorkshire trader and a town's police chief over allegations that officers failed to respond to his calls. Adrian Flinton, of AC Commercials, in Malton, has criticised the police, claiming they did not respond to him
VALE of York MP Anne McIntosh today claimed crime was costing a typical business in North Yorkshire an estimated £2,000 a year. She said an Institute of Directors survey indicated that two-thirds of businesses had suffered from crime in the last year
ONE hundred million passengers have travelled with GNER since the company began running high-speed rail services on the East Coast Main Line. The York-based company, which celebrated its seventh birthday yesterday, estimates that passengers have travelled
DUNNINGTON have been crowned champions of the inaugural York Tennis Club Play-rite Invitation Tennis League. They finished six points ahead of their nearest rivals, York II and York I, in the ten-team league which was played under lights at Clifton Park
FORGET chocolate eggs and the Easter Bunny, it's reindeer that are all the rage in Pocklington. The town's Chamber of Trade has already organised a Christmas extravaganza to attract visitors to Pocklington. The special guests to the Christmas Festival
THE Junior Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament for the Peter Terry Trophy is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Several well-known names from the York tennis scene are engraved on the trophy and the organisers are hoping to attract a record entry
TEENAGER James Pauw had an excellent York and District Badminton League debut as York RI whitewashed Shepherds in men's division one. Partnering his father, Richard, the 14-year-old put in the best Institute display by taking all three in straight sets
ESCRICK driver Olly Marshall battled his way to fifth place in the Pirelli National Rally which was held in conjunction with the Gateshead-based international event. The 22-year-old went into a ditch in thick fog on the opening day and later got caught
ANGRY parents claim a York nursery school's new admissions policy is "totally unfair". Dozens of people who want their children to go to St Paul's Nursery, in Holgate, have been left disappointed because it is heavily oversubscribed. As a result, City
NEEDY families left without cash because of the tax credits fiasco said today an apology by a Treasury Minister just is not good enough. Dawn Primarolo, the Paymaster General, admitted in a statement to MPs last night that many people had not received
CITY of York Hockey Club's Under-15 girls' team held their nerve to reach the final of the English Hockey Association plate competition. They beat Chelmsford 3-2 in a penalty-flick shoot-out after the game finished 1-1 and will now play Leicester Fyffe
AN EAST Yorkshire school reopened today following a suspected arson attack. Woldgate School, in Pocklington, was forced to close for Easter a week early after a fire wrecked the school's art and technology building on April 5. Today the school's 1,300
A GOAL in extra time saw Duncombe Park shock RJF Homes Beckett League division one champions Kirkbymoorside Reserves by beating them in the Victory Cup Final at Kirkbymoorside. The Moorsiders, who had the better of the first half, took the lead after
CONCERN is mounting over the fitness of Australian batsman Matthew Elliott, who has been ruled out of Yorkshire's Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl tomorrow. He has yet to make his first appearance of the season because of knee trouble
A YORK doorman charged with murder has been granted bail. Paul Maurice Garner, 59, of Chaloners Road, Woodthorpe, was released from custody yesterday after a hearing in chambers in the courthouse before the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman
A CONVICTED murderer who walked out of a jail near York was still on the run today. Claire McDermott, 28, fled from Askham Grange Prison earlier this month. A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said she was thought to be in the Midlands area, from where
A 30-YEAR-OLD man charged in Australia with the murder of York backpacker Caroline Stuttle today asked a court for more time to review police evidence before entering a plea in the case. Ian Douglas Previte declined to enter a plea during the hearing
RUGBY league in York has received a massive boost with the launch of a £100,000 development scheme. York City Knights are heading up the community-based initiative, which will make top-class coaching available to all primary school children in and around
DEVELOPERS planning to build 700 homes on York's outskirts are set to fund new sports facilities for local residents and schoolchildren. The sports centre would be built on Fulford School playing fields - next to Germany Beck, where Persimmon Homes is
THERE may not have been too much of the football pundit about TS Elliott, but the poet sure knew enough about the game's most miserable 30 days. Elliott famously decried April as the 'cruellest month'. How those words have jabbed the most jagged of knives
RUGBY league in York has received a massive boost with the launch of a £100,000 development scheme. York City Knights are heading up the community-based initiative, which will make top-class coaching available to all primary school children in and around
Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups are aiming to take overall control of the hung authority in Ryedale, which currently has 11 Tories, six Independents, five Liberal Democrats and one Labour. Boundary changes mean the number of seats on
Only two days of campaigning are left before York's crucial city council election. In the latest of a series of articles, Political Reporter Richard Edwards questions the leaders of the four largest parties, this time on York's congestion problems Gridlock
CONCERN is mounting over the fitness of Australian batsman Matthew Elliott, who has been ruled out of Yorkshire's Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl tomorrow. He has yet to make his first appearance of the season because of knee trouble
Y OU may often have wondered, as you drive through Ampleforth on the way to Helmsley or a day out on the North York Moors, just what goes on behind the closed doors of the magnificent Abbey and the prestigious Catholic school attached to it. Now is your
Maths and Christianity are usually short on laughs. But York teacher Dave Godfrey is trying to change all that with silliness. MATTHEW WOODCOCK reports. 'IT'S time to go - boing, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing......." Laughing, sweat-soaked children
Though perhaps not the ideal use of the building, I applaud the conversion of the disgusting wreck that was the the White Swan Hotel in York's Piccadilly, into a living building once again. I think the owners have a cheek trying to evict the "peace hotel
LAST year you printed my letter "I was treated like a VIP" in praise of York Hospital. Since then I have revisited Ward 27 four times for more eye treatment. Again, I should I would like to take this opportunity to express my most sincere thanks. In my
I WAS amused to read Martin Lacy's wine features, "Riesling stars, (Weekender, April 26). What is wine coming to when the descriptive words "aroma and taste of petrol" flows from Martin's pen like four star? Every other Riesling seemed to have petrol
BEACON, the Clifton Moor-based organisation which is the largest purchasing consortium for the UK hospitality industry, has launched its flagship publication - the Source Directory for 2003. The annual publication features 150 nominated suppliers covering
A PIONEERING project, which could result in high-speed broadband becoming available in many more small communities in North and East Yorkshire region has been announced by BT. BT says that its ADSL Exchange Activate scheme, which has been successfully
A WARNING has gone out from the Yorkshire engineering industry to the Government: "Your plans for new laws to safeguard workers in firms involved in takeovers and mergers could backfire on you." Ian Hughes, director of the Yorkshire and Humberside Engineering
BRITISH business is now well placed to pick up the "spoils of war" from the conflict in Iraq, according to a North Yorkshire-based Government adviser. Iain Dale, of Low Marishes, near Malton, had warned before the second Gulf War that UK entrepreneurs
THE University of York and York St John College have called on local companies to employ more of their graduates to stem the brain drain to the south-east. The institutions have united with the region's other universities and higher education colleges
SMALL businesses in York and North Yorkshire will be able to get advice from property experts by logging on to the internet. A new online commercial property guide was launched yesterday to help businesses understand property legislation. The website,
POCKLINGTON-BASED corporate software provider VMS has signed up with Yorkshire County Cricket to streamline part of the club's backroom "team". VMS, one of the county's fastest-growing software and support providers to small and medium-sized enterprises
Dr Oliver Beckerlegge, a retired Methodist minister, published an anthology of poetical epitaphs from York graveyards and was said to own York's oldest Bible. Born in Sheffield, he studied at the university to gain a degree and PhD. During his 30s, he
A North Yorkshire business will celebrate its ten-year anniversary and the quadrupling of its premises at the Eat Local Banquet. Jurg Bleiker, the owner of Bleiker's Smokehouse in Pateley Bridge, is to provide one of the courses for the Evening Press
Rehearsals under director Richard Wood are in the home straight for Easingwold Players' spring production of Arthur Miller's turbulent American drama The Crucible. Running at the Galtres Centre, Easingwold, tomorrow until Saturday, Miller's play re-tells
A RECORD number of visitors enjoyed this year's Harrogate Spring Flower Show. April showers were not enough to keep the visitors away, with almost 2,000 more attending this year than the previous record set last year. Almost 60,000 visitors from all over
HOMELESSNESS services in a North Yorkshire area are being reviewed by users. They are being asked to complete a questionnaire to find their views for the survey of the homelessness service offered in Hambleton. Housing staff are would like to hear from
HUNDREDS of books have been donated to Martin House Hospice, at Boston Spa near Wetherby, which cares for seriously ill children and young people. Yorkshire Water, and its sister company, Loop, made the literary donation as part of its regular Community
GIVE skaters a chance. That is the verdict of Bev Davis, whose grandchildren use the controversial new skate ramp in the Sidings play facility, situated behind the new Holgate Park housing complex in Poppleton Road, York. It opened last month after a
York and District Badminton League are assisting with the promotion of badminton for young people in the York area. The session is at the Mount School in York next Wednesday for about a dozen youngsters who already represent Yorkshire and have to travel
A WOMAN who bit a shop worker as he tried to stop her attacking his fellow employee has already spent a month in custody and must now pay her victim £75 compensation, a court heard. Simon Smith ordered Julie Louise Coxon, 25, out of a clothing store in
YORK'S historic police headquarters is being transformed into the hub of a new approach to crime-fighting in the city as part of a major shake-up. Clifford Street police station, which was once the city's main police base and subsequently the office of
THE final of the York John Smith's Ladies League individual competition tonight at Clarence WMC should be a cracker. Tracey Farmeary (Cue Ball) makes another title bid after an exciting 2-1 semi-final win over Michelle Britton (Palace). Farmeary pocketed
Wildlife lovers are asking for more care to protect hedgehogs across the county as they come out of hibernation. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society asks that people dispose of litter safely and propose the provision of food and water in gardens
Marie Curie Cancer Care has places remaining for the Great North Run this year. Individual registrations for the event in September has now closed, but the charity still has a few Gold Bond places for runners who pledge to raise a minimum of £300 for
INNOVATIVE pupils at a Vale of York primary school awarded their new head teacher "top marks" in their own opinion poll. The new head of Stillington Primary School, Sarah Atkinson, who started yesterday, was subjected to the scrutiny of her future pupils
A NORTH YORKSHIRE police officer who admitted incest with his long-lost half-sister has walked free from court. PC Anthony Smedley, 46, of Nares Street, Scarborough, was given a conditional discharge for 18 months after admitting having sex with his half-sister
VETERAN peace campaigner Lindis Percy accused the Crown Prosecution Service and the police of conspiracy during a court hearing yesterday in which two charges against her were dropped. Mrs Percy, a 61-year-old grandmother, faced allegations of contravening
CAT owners in a York village are too scared to let their pets out following the deaths of six pets in recent weeks. The deaths, in Stone Riggs, Stockton-on-the-Forest, which include one confirmed poisoning, have left residents calling for immediate action
A YORK IT company has finally clinched a £270 million deal that could generate extra jobs in the city and North Yorkshire and transform local government services for 750,000 people. Agilisys, based in Jarvis House, has been formally approved by the Government
FORMER professional Brendan Carlyle will coach the Ironsides in this year's York International Nines Rugby League tournament. Heworth player coach Carlyle, who skippered the invitational squad that reached the semi-finals of last year's inaugural tournament
THE doors of York Racecourse's splendid £20 million Ebor Stand opened for the first time today. The Evening Press was shown round the landmark development, only weeks before it opens to the public for next month's May meeting. The stand, funded partly
YORK City Knights have beaten off several National League Division One clubs to secure the signature of former Wakefield Trinity top try-scorer Neil Law. The 28-year-old three-quarter has been playing rugby union for Otley in the National League One but
Well, that was fun. I really, really must remember to do that more often. If you ask me, four years is just too long to wait between bouts of mind-blowingly, knicker-explodingly awful pain. As I write this, I am sitting serenely on the sofa, new babe
YORK City Knights have beaten off several National League Division One clubs to secure the signature of former Wakefield Trinity top try-scorer Neil Law. The 28-year-old three-quarter has been playing rugby union for Otley in the National League One but
THE Green Party has called for urgent action to improve school crossings in York. Andy D'Agorne, Green Party candidate for Fishergate in this week's election, said that although there was a programme of safety measures outside York schools there were
So Asda are going to put country of origin labels on some of their products. At last. The farming industry, and particularly the pig industry, has been lobbying for this for years. It's remarkable how, once the supermarkets decide they want to do what
Get ready for summer with the Evening Press's shopping night at Fenwick in York. MAXINE GORDON reports SUMMER is on its way and with it the promise of sun, sea and shopping. There's nothing like sunshine to make you feel like splashing out on a new wardrobe
