The enmity between cat-lovers and cat-haters is too serious to be made the subject of an amusing courtroom drama called "Put the boot into puss" (May 30). I admire Francine Clee's erudition which is an attempt to sideline the real problems. Cats are territorial
BANK Holidays are bound to disrupt refuse collection schedules. But was City of York Council right in May to arrange for rubbish to be picked up the day before the normal one? In my area many people forgot the revised date and, instead, put their rubbish
YORK City Football Club today appointed 27-year-old club captain Chris Brass as their new manager. Brass, who becomes the youngest manager in the Football League for 50 years, will be assisted by 34-year-old team-mate and former Welsh international Lee
THE verdict on York's £60 million Coppergate Riverside scheme is set to be announced in the next four weeks. It emerged today that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott will not make the big decision, because York is too close to his Hull constituency.
THE Wilberforce Trust in York is celebrating after receiving a £5,000 grant from the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales. The trust provides supported housing, training and rehabilitation services, as well as access to educational and leisure
AN ACTION team formed to bring the 21st century to Easingwold is already proving a winner. About 30 people have formed the action group to campaign for internet broadband services to be brought to the 01347 dialling code area. They have now been donated
"YOU were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..." the Human League once sang. Now, York drama lovers can get a taste of life in a cocktail bar, in the debut performance by a new theatre group, at the Basement Bar at City Screen, in Coney Street. City
A crimewave swept through a tranquil rural village in a night of lawlessness. Thieves broke into four properties in Coxwold, including the historic St Michael's Church and the village hall. Several more break-ins were attempted in the village, which is
CHRISTINE and Neil Hamilton are marking their 20th wedding anniversary in York this evening by joining students from the University of York Wine Society. Christine - the self-confessed "Great British Battleaxe" - is a former resident of Goodricke College
HOUSEBOAT owner John Hunt said he has been "driven to depression" by the prospect of losing his dream home in a hearing at York County Court today. Mr Hunt's 57ft, 50-ton boat, Waterlily, has been moored near Skeldergate Bridge, York, since 1998, after
A PRISON officer was plagued with chilling hate mail after a North Yorkshire inmate got hold of her home address. As well as using Emma Potter's details to send her terrifyingly graphic threats, Antonia Cooper, 21, spread the classified information around
A BRAVE neighbour who rescued a 16-year-old girl from a burning building was today hailed a hero by Selby firefighters. Arthur Nugent, 58, helped Sarah Conway escape from the first floor window of a semi-detached house in Pinewood Drive, Camblesforth,
CHARITY workers in a North Yorkshire town are pleading with customers to bear with them - because their shop ceiling has fallen down. Staff at St Catherine's Hospice shop, in Wheelgate, Malton, were horrified to discover the wreckage when they arrived
EIGHT more people were arrested in Scarborough today as part of Operation Dream, a crackdown on hard drugs dealing in the town. The three raids today take the number arrested under the operation to 23 in two days. All eight arrested today were in custody
THE second York match at Laybourne Lakes proved promising with half of the 44-entry on Marley Lake recording double-figure catches. Bob Keay (Bramley Nomads) led from peg 53 on the end of the island. Alternating pellet and maggot, he had a 6lb carp, plus
A distraught family whose treasured miniature sausage dog has gone missing are offering a mouth-watering reward - a year's supply of pizza. The Foxley family, who live at Whitwell-on-the-Hill, have been searching high and low for two-year-old Claude,
A LAST-DITCH bid to save a York sheltered housing unit from closure failed last night as councillors moved to ease the city's bed-blocking crisis. The first executive meeting of the new Liberal Democrat-controlled city council left 19 residents of Clarendon
SHHH! was the message from councils around North Yorkshire today on National Noise Awareness Day. Noise nuisance was targeted in a campaign to raise awareness of its full impact. City of York Council held training sessions on how to solve noise nuisance
HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds of extra road and footpath repair spending has been approved by senior York councillors. A total of £340,000 will be released from contingency funds to cover the costs, with £240,000 going on increased highway maintenance
PRIOR to today's announcement, Bury's Andy Preece was the youngest serving manager in Division Three. Now aged 36, the Shakers' player coach was just 32 when he took charge at Gigg Lane. The next youngest manager after Brass is Fulham's Chris Coleman,
THE fight to save the national treasure-trove of priceless books in York Minster library has been taken to Westminster. City MP Hugh Bayley has asked Church Commissioner Stuart Bell, the Church of England's representative in the Commons, to intervene
BRASS will be the only manager under the age of 30 operating in the Football League or Premiership. At 27, he is almost half the age of Terry Dolan, the man he replaces in the Bootham Crescent hot-seat. Dolan will be 53 later this month. Newcastle United
Background to the new City manager... Chris Brass: Position: midfield/sweeperBorn: July 24, 1975, EasingtonOther Clubs: Burnley, Torquay (loan), Halifax Town (loan), York City Chris Brass joined York in March 2001 from Burnley with a reputation for having
THE appointment today of Chris Brass as York City player-manager is as daring and bold as it is surprising. Brass has been a magnificent leader of the Minstermen on the pitch, but lacks any sort of managerial experience. Furthermore, the traditional player-manager
THE verdict on York's £60 million Coppergate Riverside scheme is set to be announced in the next four weeks. It emerged today that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott will not make the big decision, because York is too close to his Hull constituency.
A NORTH Yorkshire schoolboy had a nightmare end to the holidays - when he was sent home to the WRONG airport. Norton College pupil Billy Bown, 12, was returning from a half-term treat to visit his grandfather in Hampshire. But while mum Claire Marshall
NEW York City boss Chris Brass is under no illusions about the job ahead following his appointment at Bootham Crescent. The 27-year-old was initially approached to take over from Terry Dolan on Saturday morning and after a weekend's soul-searching and
TWO teenagers aged 15 and 17 were today behind bars awaiting separate trials for allegedly holding up people in York streets with weapons. They were among four boys charged with knife or broken bottle robberies to come before York Youth Court on the same
THE appointment of Chris Brass as player manager today rewrites the record books. At 27, Brass is the youngest managerial appointment in more than 50 years. Carlisle United hold the record after appointing Ivor Broadis as player-manager in 1946, when
BRASS will be the only manager under the age of 30 operating in the Football League or Premiership. At 27, he is almost half the age of Terry Dolan, the man he replaces in the Bootham Crescent hot-seat. Dolan will be 53 later this month. Newcastle United
YORK City Football Club today appointed 27-year-old club captain Chris Brass as their new manager. Brass, who becomes the youngest manager in the Football League for 50 years, will be assisted by 34-year-old team-mate and former Welsh international Lee
JOYCE Carol Oates' books are like buses. You wait for ages for one to come along and then three turn up at once. In the last few months this best-selling Princeton professor has produced a trio of cracking good reads. The first two, I'll Take You There
HULL KR half-back Jimmy Walker has held preliminary talks with York City Knights about a move to Huntington Stadium - but he's been told no starting berth would be guaranteed. Walker has not been able to hold down a regular spot at New Craven Park and
A SINGLE mum from York has been awarded for her achievements in education. Julie Goddard, a mature student at York St John College, has been given a regional adult learners' award as part of Adult Learners' Week. Julie, who has two children, is studying
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to the minnows taking on the US military over its Star Wars project. Talk about David and Goliath. On one side you have the might of the US military and on the other, a clapped-out campervan, driven by two blokes named Neil and Sam
I was disgusted to hear the new York City 'club-saving' board couldn't even be bothered to tell the eight released players their fate. Now to top it all they go and sack the best manager the club has had for several years. The board said that by dismissing
SEVERAL media commentators have remarked that the Coronation in 1953 allowed the population to express hope for a better future after a terrible world war. As an excited and ignorant young schoolboy I was in The Mall with my father who was on leave from
THE Government's electricity regulator, Ofgen, believes that millions of people are paying too much for their electricity. The reality is that most people are paying too little. The typical electricity bill does not include the cost of the damage caused
DAIRY farmers who supply the Co-op shops must be rubbing their hands at the recent 12 per cent inflation-busting price increase posted during the past few days. Many shoppers may not have noticed, but about a week ago the plastic milk bottles on the Co-op
TO mark the 50th anniversary of her crowning, the Queen desperately needed a gesture to prove that the monarchy is still relevant. Then she hit on a brilliant idea. "I know, Philip!" she exclaimed, nearly tripping over the two footmen engaged in a passionate
THE unhappy experience of Billy Bown raises questions about the air industry's commitment to customer service and passenger safety. Twelve-year-old Billy, from Ryedale, was flying on his own for the first time. His family were certain he was mature enough
LESS than a day into his new job, and Chris Brass has already achieved more than David Beckham, George Best and Kevin Keegan. None of them was appointed player-manager at the tender age of 27. If the job offer by the new York City board was audacious,
EASINGWOLD School pupils Beth Peaker and Oliver Beckerlegge are set for a dream trip to South Africa as part of the UKPA national Under-16s polocrosse side. The duo, members of the York and Ainsty South Pony Club and the Pennine Polocrosse Club, will
PUPILS from a York school have used their artistic talents to provide some welcome relief for people with multiple sclerosis. The physiotherapy department of Woodlands Respite Care Centre, in Thief Lane, York, which provides short-term respite care for
RYEDALE MP John Greenway has called for an investigation into the controversial closure of Osbaldwick Post Office. Residents reacted with fury at the recent announcement by Post Office Ltd that the branch would be shut on July 5, along with others at
A YORK record label has launched a drive to find the best of the region's musical talent. Recently-formed Jam Factory Records, a label administrated and financed by four York musicians, has plans to nurture fresh, young musical talent, in a bid to promote
POLICE were called to a Selby school when a child brought in a live bullet which he had found in his garden. The year-five pupil unearthed the intact bullet while digging in his garden, much to the surprise of his teacher at Longmans Hill County Primary
A YORK respite centre which cares for people with multiple sclerosis was welcoming the new Lord Mayor of York today as he launched his charities of the year. Councillor Chas Hall has chosen the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Sight Savers International
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge have a clear lead at the top of Pilmoor Evening League's first division after beating Thirsk. Nick Scaling made 33, but they lost wickets regularly to Mark Wainwright (3-11) and S Holmes (2-23) as Bridge totalled 105-9. Dean Bramley
SERIAL drink-driver John Sharp, guilty of what a court called a deplorable level of reckless behaviour, escaped a jail sentence yesterday that would have devastated his health and that of his wife. Sharp, 48, of Crawford Close, Tockwith, near York, who
THOUSANDS of bees sent shoppers and tourists running for cover when they descended on York city centre. The potentially-dangerous swarm was first sighted in Duncombe Place yesterday afternoon before it settled outside the Tandoori Night Indian restaurant
A York boy aged 15 has been remanded in custody for two weeks, accused of burgling a house in his own street. The teenager also faces theft allegations, including one committed near to his home in Tang Hall, and charges of harassment, possessing drugs
SIX months after being knocked down in a hit-and-run incident which shocked York, schoolgirl Katie Scales has fully recovered from her injuries. Katie, 12, from Haxby, crossed the pelican crossing in Blossom Street today, on her way to and from All Saints
HULL KR half-back Jimmy Walker has held preliminary talks with York City Knights about a move to Huntington Stadium - but he's been told no starting berth would be guaranteed. Walker has not been able to hold down a regular spot at New Craven Park and
RYEDALE MP John Greenway has demanded to know what health chiefs have in store for maternity services at Malton Hospital. Stepping into the debate over possible changes to maternity provision at the hospital, Mr Greenway has written to Alison Guy, chief
AS York City unveiled their new dream team, ousted assistant manager Adie Shaw said the platform for success was in place. Shaw told the Evening Press that the graft laid down over the last three years by former manager Terry Dolan and himself would be
BRASS is no stranger to the record books. His senior debut for City lasted just six minutes, when he replaced Barry Jones for the dying embers of the Minstermen's 0-0 stalemate with Lincoln on March 17, 2001. But in that time Brass managed to secure a
THE sight, sound and smell of the countryside has come to a York house. These cute lambs - Dec and Cat -- have been lovingly reared in the front garden of a house in Tudor Road, Acomb. Angela Casling, who owns the lambs, persuaded her daughter, Donna
THE appointment of Chris Brass as player manager today rewrites the record books. At 27, Brass is the youngest managerial appointment in more than 50 years. Carlisle United hold the record after appointing Ivor Broadis as player-manager in 1946, when
AN EAST Yorkshire village is in mourning after its former parish council chairman died on the way to Blackpool to watch his granddaughters dance. Robbie Preston, 76, of Sunnyside, Seaton Ross, was on his way to Blackpool to watch his three granddaughters
NEW York City boss Chris Brass is under no illusions about the job ahead following his appointment at Bootham Crescent. The 27-year-old was initially approached to take over from Terry Dolan on Saturday morning and after a weekend's soul-searching and
THE appointment today of Chris Brass as York City player-manager is as daring and bold as it is surprising. Brass has been a magnificent leader of the Minstermen on the pitch, but lacks any sort of managerial experience. Furthermore, the traditional player-manager
Background to the new City manager... Chris Brass: Position: midfield/sweeperBorn: July 24, 1975, EasingtonOther Clubs: Burnley, Torquay (loan), Halifax Town (loan), York City Chris Brass joined York in March 2001 from Burnley with a reputation for having
PRIOR to today's announcement, Bury's Andy Preece was the youngest serving manager in Division Three. Now aged 36, the Shakers' player coach was just 32 when he took charge at Gigg Lane. The next youngest manager after Brass is Fulham's Chris Coleman,
BRASS is no stranger to the record books. His senior debut for City lasted just six minutes, when he replaced Barry Jones for the dying embers of the Minstermen's 0-0 stalemate with Lincoln on March 17, 2001. But in that time Brass managed to secure a
STEPHEN LEWIS meets the North Yorkshire vicar who is being hailed as the next JK Rowling. THE Vicar of Cloughton is not what you would expect. His debut novel, Shadowmancer, is a dark children's fantasy about an evil priest bent on overthrowing God. Read
ACOMB Primary School, York, has been recognised for its commitment to staff after being given an Investors In People Standard. The director of education at the City of York Council, Patrick Scott, visited the school to present the award. Head teacher
AN innovative new project designed to improve youngsters' communication skills has been launched in York. The I CAN TALK! training pack aims to help professionals working with young children to increase their understanding of speech and language, which
A YOUNG musician is following in the footsteps of some of the country's top musicians after achieving a place at a prestigious music school. Amie Owen, 15, from Escrick, near York, has gained a place at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, which was
TEACHERS from two York schools have been nominated for prestigious teaching awards which will be announced at a ceremony next week. Joseph Rowntree teacher Paul Offord and Burnholme Community College teacher Christina Wright will join more than 30 others
ROBERT Beaumont's letter (Evening Press, Monday, June 2), reads like a page out of Alice in Wonderland. His vitriolic comments don't appear to have been based on any facts. He writes that Terry Dolan 'nearly took York City out of the League in his first
I HOPE the York City board will choose a manager who believes in having wing men in the team, as it seemed Terry Dolan didn't. It was always down the middle which is all right if one is fighting relegation, playing so as not to lose, but when City were
