HARROGATE-based Cartridge World has won a top business accolade from the British Franchise Association (BFA) for its £10 million green project which recycles and reduces plastic waste. The environmentally-friendly business won a highly-acclaimed Certificate
A MAJOR contract to provide job-related training for 30 adults with learning disabilities has been won by a North Yorkshire charity. The £53,953 contract has been awarded to Northallerton-based Chopsticks, which provides work activities and training for
A WHOLE new climate of co-operation has opened up between York's famous bioscience organisations and the U.S. That was the conclusion today of a team which last week flew to Washington to market York's burgeoning bioscience cluster at the massive BIO
THE disabled community is being asked to share its views on the future of York. An appeal has been made by the Disabled Persons' Advisory Group (DPAG) for members of the public with disabilities to come forward to take part in the consultation for the
THE York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir's summer concert will again be held at the Central Methodist Church in the city's St Saviourgate, in a repeat of last year's successful formula. The concert, on Saturday, at 7.30pm, will be entitled In Harmony, and
TABLETS stolen from a car in York are potentially harmful, police have warned. A handbag was stolen from a red Vauxhall Vectra, in Livingstone Street. It contained a pack of 24 Prozac anti-depressant tablets. The incident happened at about 4pm on Sunday
WORK is well under way to transform a former chocolate factory canteen into a new private hospital for York. Construction teams, led by the Shepherd Building Group, have moved on to the former Nestl canteen and shop site off Haxby Road, and are currently
THE site of a former York working men's club - branded an eyesore by local residents - could soon be redeveloped if plans to build 28 flats are given the go-ahead. Planning applications have been submitted to City of York Council to demolish the former
AUDIENCES will be seeing double next week when a new play, Double Act, comes to the Grand Opera House in York. Twins Megan and Madeleine Edwards, aged nine, of South Bank, York, and Samuel and Joshua Woodcock, eight, of Fangfoss, near Pocklington, posed
BACK by popular demand, the York Railway Institute Band will again play at the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust on Saturday. The Arboretum is a fine setting for a picnic concert for the whole family to enjoy the magnificent sounds of the band, as it plays
FOSTER carers are being sought in North Yorkshire to play a vital part in shaping the future of young people. Though the search is on throughout the county, it is being focused particularly on the Ryedale area, with a full range of foster carers needed
A SELBY swimming club locked in a battle with the council over training times has received a cash boost from the National Lottery. Members of Selby Tiger Sharks Swimming Club told the Evening Press yesterday that they would oppose moves by Selby District
PLANS to convert a York hotel into flats and houses look set to be given the go-ahead when they come before councillors this week. City of York Council officers have recommended approval for plans to convert The Ambassador Hotel, The Mount, into two town
A SELBY-based charity is hoping to start a dog-walking craze as it appeals for volunteers to exercise their furry life-savers this summer. Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, which has a training centre at Cliffe, are desperate for members of the public willing
The level crossing on York Road, Haxby, will be closed to traffic while essential track maintenance takes place between 11pm on Saturday, July 12, and 9am on Sunday, July 13. Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times. Meanwhile, the level crossing
New Earswick Eagles Junior Football Club, a York City feeder club, are hosting a training and trials evening tomorrow for their under-10s and under-11s teams for next season. The event will start at 6.30pm at the New Earswick Sports Club, White Rose Avenue
BECKETT Football League, which kicks-off its new season on September 13, are hoping to run a referees' course. All interested should contact league secretary Keith Sales on 01751 473348 or president Bob Pettitt on 01751 432054 for more information. Pettitt
FIREFIGHTERS spent three hours pumping water from a flooded house near Selby today. A crew from Selby were called to the house in Weeland Road, Kellingley, at 3am, when a pumping station failure combined with heavy rain cause a build-up of water. When
NEW York 'A' piled on the pressure in the quest for more vital York White Rose Ladies Darts League division one points, but Golden Slipper stayed cool. Gillian-Rose Grimes put New York within a game of victory, but the Slipper's skipper, Catherine Gascoyne
MOTORISTS have been warned to keep away from Stamford Bridge after its bridge was damaged. A tractor with a trailer knocked into the East Yorkshire village's bridge at about 7.15am yesterday. About 20m of the bridge's parapet was broken. Coun Hilary Saynor
York kick-boxer Richard Cadden is back with a bang. The 26-year-old made a successful return to action after being out since February with a dislocated knee cap. Cadden, who fights out of the Bad Company gym in York Road, Leeds, was not expected to be
DESPITE Dunnington having the only rain-affected match in the whole league, they remain leaders of division one of the Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League by four points. Poppleton dropped back after losing to Wheldrake, whose Jamie Moore and David McDermott
WHELDRAKE start the second half of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League season in top spot in division three. Wins at Tollerton and Dunnington extended their unbeaten run to seven matches. Helen Roe and George Tattersall won 29 games in the 74-34 win at
NORTH Yorkshire police was under renewed fire today from people unhappy at their response to calls for help. The Evening Press reported yesterday how members of the public are being forced to hang on the telephone in order to have their reports of non-emergency
CHAMPIONS of a £1 billion science centre were travelling to London today for talks to win Government backing for the project. Representatives for the bid to bring the European Spallation Source (ESS) to Burn, near Selby, were due to discuss the issue
FIREBRAND Steven Kirby achieved Yorkshire's best match figures in 36 years at Taunton yesterday. He completed his own career-best return of 8-80 in the ten-wicket Championship triumph over Somerset. He finished the match with 12-128 and the last time
A 39-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before York Crown Court charged with murdering a baby. Kevin Raw, of Elm View, Pickering is accused of killing Kieran Brown, aged 13 months, of Birch Avenue, Malton. At a preliminary hearing yesterday, he was released on
A POLICE officer who chased a car thief despite having a broken arm was heading to London today to compete for the title of Britain's bravest bobby. Harrogate PC Mark Hill, 40, was joining 50 officers from across the country who were meeting the Home
DEFIANT North Yorkshire foxhunters were today carrying out a "dirty" protest against anti-hunt MPs - as they again vowed to flout any ban. Members of the Derwent Hunt and the Staintondale Hunt were this afternoon due to leave buckets of horse manure on
A MAN was today critically ill in hospital after being injured in a two-vehicle collision on the A19. A 55-year-old male from the Middlesbrough area was driving a blue Peugeot 405 estate along the A19 York to Easingwold road, about half a mile south of
FLOODS have hit York for the first time this year, with several roads under water. Water Lane and the Crichton Avenue roundabout in Clifton, Field Lane in Heslington, opposite Bede House, Southolme Drive junction with Shipton Road and Skeldergate were
AN AXEMAN has been jailed for 12 years for luring a York man into a dark wood and trying to kill him. Arthur Jamie McLauchlan, 23, slammed his weapon into Philip Holdsworth's head so fiercely the handle broke on the second blow, Leeds Crown Court heard
I HAVE nothing against looking at semi-naked pictures of David Beckham. In fact, given a choice I would look at them every hour on the hour until the power of my lustful gaze blurred the photographs beyond all recognition and turned this fine figure of
Ambitious plans for a year-long push to turn York into Britain's Energy City have come to an end. Adam Nichols finds out if it took off. TWELVE months ago the remnants of an ice Minster dripped in the August sunshine, the detail melted into a slushy heap
ENERGY efficient schools are going to the top of the class after taking part in a fuel-saving project. Joseph Rowntree School, St Aelred's Primary, Huntington Primary, Park Grove and Haxby Road Primary are in line for thousands of pounds of grant aid
GREEN-fingered David Gregory is turning to green power after signing up to PlanetYork. The manager of Upper Poppleton-based Ryland Horticulture Tree and Garden Services has vowed to convert his business Land Rover to low-emission liquid petroleum gas.
YORK Housing Association has cleaned up its transport act by taking on a new Liquid Petroleum Gas-powered van. The vehicle will be used by property maintenance worker Tony Easton who tours the group's 500 properties across York. It combines with the company's
THE PARENTS of jailed deaf charity campaigner Ian Stillman are to hold a question-and-answer session for York residents who helped free him. Roy and Monica Stillman, who live in Tadcaster Road, York, will speak at St Edward the Confessor church, in Dringhouses
THE parents of freed charity worker Ian Stillman were today enjoying an emotional reunion with their son. Roy and Monica said they were looking forward to having a family Christmas together for the first time in seven years. Speaking for the first time
THE family of a disabled charity worker freed from the hell of an Indian jail can now celebrate Christmas together for the first time in seven years. As Ian Stillman, 52, stepped from his cell in India's Himalayan foothills and hugged his wife, Sue, and
Charity worker Ian Stillman is a free man today.ADAM NICHOLS reviews the case experts said was a serious miscarriage of justice THIS is the email I've been longing to write. So said Ian Stillman's sister, Elspeth Dugdale, as she sent the message "Ian
FOREIGN Secretary Jack Straw has told the family of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman he wants to see him freed from an Indian jail. In the first meeting with his relatives since Ian was jailed three years ago, Mr Straw said all parties wanted to see an
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman is being visited in prison by a Delhi diabetes expert, amid fears that freezing conditions could kill him. Ian, 52, whose parents live in Tadcaster Road, York, and who had a leg amputated after a road accident, is serving
MORE than 150 supporters of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman gathered outside the Indian High Commission in London to protest about his imprisonment. Campaigner David Buxton, of Christian Deaf Link, organised the protest which took place yesterday. Ian
INDIAN press reports claiming deaf charity worker Ian Stillman has been refused a presidential pardon are the latest part in a campaign against him, his family said today. Ian's brother-in-law Jerry Dugdale said the British Foreign Office had told him
INDIA'S representative in Britain has come under fresh pressure to allow charity worker Ian Stillman to remain in the country if he is freed from jail. MP Sandra Gidley managed to lobby High Commissioner Ronen Sen at a Friends of India reception at the
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman's plight is set to worsen after officials announced he will be moved to what his family calls a "Midnight Express-type of prison". The 52-year-old, whose parents live in Tadcaster Road, York, is expected to be transferred
I READ with interest about the new recycle bins destroyed at Safeway (June 25). We have been given plastic boxes and collection bags with a note saying place outside by 7am on day of collection. I didn't retire to have to get up by 7am to put out bins
SOME of us waited 70 years for a bus station to be provided at Tadcaster. What have we achieved by 2003 after all our patience and tolerance? Spartan conditions! "Like it or lump it", that's what we have got. It would not be too fanciful to suggest that
FIREBRAND Steven Kirby achieved Yorkshire's best match figures in 36 years at Taunton yesterday. He completed his own career-best return of 8-80 in the ten-wicket Championship triumph over Somerset. He finished the match with 12-128 and the last time
NO MATTER what I've said about women in the past, I reckon we don't give them credit where it's due. Make no mistake about it, behind every successful man there is a determined woman, planning, scheming and organising. While men have just mastered the
FERGAL Lynch, who was in hot water with the stewards at Doncaster on Sunday, can have better fortune at Catterick tomorrow. The North Yorkshire jockey teams up with Strensall in the Go Racing In Yorkshire Handicap over five furlongs and is napped to win
THE first photograph is flush with lush colour, bluest skies and a verdant forest pathway. The second depicts a brook, the water silken, the sun going down peacefully, the frame once more in plain wood. These are postcard scenes you might see in a tourist
IN ten words, Sally Rowlinson sums up a serious problem facing the North Yorkshire constabulary: "The police should be there to help and they weren't." Mrs Rowlinson said a group of children were "causing chaos" in Tang Hall and even climbed on to her
WHAT will the Big Apple make of the Fat Rascal? How will Manhattan islanders, used to ordering "cracked pepper pastrami with extra Swiss, hold the mayo, on rye with a skinny latte" respond to Yorkshire pud and a pint? These are the intriguing questions
A YORK theatre has received the Government's prestigious disability symbol for its commitment to helping people with disabilities. York Theatre Royal has been given permission by the Department for Work and Pensions to use the symbol on all its documents
YORKSHIRE Water's customer service has been ranked among the best in world. The company, which took over York Water Works in April 2000, has won a prestigious international award for the way it manages its relationship with customers, beating off stiff
A YORK city centre street will be closed to pedestrians and traffic while a tower crane is erected. Blake Street will close just after midnight on Sunday, July 13, and will reopen 24 hours later, according to a notice by City of York Council. During this
PUPILS at a York school devised their own healthy eating menu - and then had a chance to eat the resulting meal. North Yorkshire County Caterers, who are responsible for dinners at most schools in York, sponsored the menu competition for children at St
IF you go down to a village near Tadcaster next weekend you could be in for a big surprise ... In villagers' gardens at Barkston Ash will be more than 20 scarecrows, disguised as nursery rhyme characters. They have all enrolled for the village jamboree
A PROJECT to investigate a prehistoric settlement near Tadcaster is to receive a grant worth a total of £22,000. The Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) grant is being made to the Boston Spa and District Community Archaeological Group, towards its work on
A NORTH Yorkshire childminder has won a prestigious award - highlighting her commitment to the job. Jane Fisher, of Boroughbridge, was named Childminder of the Year at the Kids' Clubs Network Excellence in Childcare Awards 2003. She was presented with
NURSERY children in Malton know their helpers are top of the class with a new accreditation scheme. Staff at Housemartins Nursery have been working hard towards an early years partnership quality kite mark - which shows they know their stuff. Marsha Turnbull
A BONSAI tree that was cultivated by a supporter of St Leonard's Hospice in York is now set to raise vital funds for the charity. The 30-year-old tree was donated by its owner's widow after his death last year and will now be raffled as part of the Riccall
VANDALS who struck twice at a St Leonard's Hospice shop in Acomb, York, have been slammed for wasting money that could be spent on patient care. Repair of the windows at the furniture shop in York Road, Acomb, is costing the hospice hundreds of pounds
Protesters raised up a giant pair of scales in the city as they lobbied for trade justice. As part of a national campaign, the York Trade Justice Group assembled at the Eye of York on Saturday with a giant pair of scales to symbolise the way international
A LORRY driver was arrested and a string of lorries and taxis were taken off the road in a series of roadside swoops in North Yorkshire. Taxis in Northallerton and newspaper delivery lorries in Scarborough underwent tough road checks to make sure of their
POLICE are cracking down on drink-drivers this summer. Humberside Police have launched a county-wide campaign to reduce road collisions and casualties. National figures have revealed nearly one in seven of all road deaths involve drivers over the legal
A TASTE of Yorkshire is winging its way over to the Big Apple this week. A select group of some of Yorkshire's finest food and drink companies is visiting the New York Fancy Food Show to celebrate the best of Yorkshire food. The seven companies will be
THE disabled community is being asked to share its views on the future of York. An appeal has been made by the Disabled Persons' Advisory Group (DPAG) for members of the public with disabilities to come forward to take part in the consultation for the
A PAIR of games gurus came face to face at a Wetherby toy shop today. Countdown host Richard Whiteley joined forces with former Waddington's games chairman, Victor Watson, to celebrate the expansion of the traditional toy shop in the town. John and Kathleen
CONSULTATIONS over the future of the Barbican pool may not be thorough and open, according to City of York Labour group. A new blueprint for the Barbican was unveiled last month and could see £1.4 million being used to refurbish the Yearsley and Edmund
York City's Football in the Community team are running a series of football fun-weeks, including tours of Premiership grounds, this summer. Open to boys and girls aged five to 16 years and staged at Askham Bryan College, course one, from July 21 to 25
HUGE changes within the York-based Shepherd Group, were announced today. Patrick Shepherd, the deputy group chairman, now takes over the chairmanship of the £400 million-turnover construction and engineering division. That is the post once held by his
HEWORTH beat Sheriff Hutton in division four of the Fulford Ladies' Invitation League to go four points clear of second-placed Wheldrake, who lost to Pocklington 52-56. Christel Hetherton and Ruth Hill won their last rubber 8-4 to help Pocklington to
A RAINBOW of colour was released into the York sky at the start of a £25,000 fundraising campaign to ensure the safety of young people across North Yorkshire. A video is to be produced by Caroline's Rainbow Foundation - a charity launched after the tragic
SCHOOL inspectors in York and North Yorkshire will be sympathetic to those hit by the funding crisis, according to the Chief Inspector of Schools, David Bell. Mr Bell was addressing North Yorkshire head teachers at the North Yorkshire LEA Secondary Heads
THOUSANDS of householders should continue to get insurance flood cover after a computer model calculated that York has a one-in-80 to one-in-90 chance of another disaster like November 2000. The Environment Agency is also to consider fighting flooding
Tim Henman has won through to the quarter finals at Wimbledon after a nervy win over last year's beaten finalist, David Nalbandian. The British number one, who has carried the nation's tennis expectations in reaching the final eight at SW19 on seven occassions
HORSE-DRAWN carriage operators in York say they will boycott a three- month trial of horse "nappies" due to start today. Ray Smith and Peter Fitch, said today they would not fit the dung catchers to their horses, as they are "dangerous" and a "health
A YORK law firm today announced that it was creating 70 new jobs in the city after landing a contract worth more than £4 million with a major insurance group. Corries Solicitors, which has a reputation in the personal injuries compensation sector, has
YORK City have pulled off another major pre-season coup with Leeds United set to visit Bootham Crescent for a friendly. Leeds are promising to bring a squad made up largely of first teamers for the game on Wednesday, July 23, kick-off 7.45pm. The visit
YORK City have pulled off another major pre-season coup with Leeds United set to visit Bootham Crescent for a friendly. Leeds are promising to bring a squad made up largely of first teamers for the game on Wednesday, July 23, kick-off 7.45pm. The visit
MORE than five thousand homes and businesses signed up to Planet York, the year-long push to make York the UK's most energy-efficient city, leading organisers to declare the campaign "a real success." Now complete, the aim of Planet York was to make York
THE Evening Press is bringing good news to the environment with green deliveries. The company, one of the partners in the PlanetYork project aimed at making the city the UK's most energy-efficient, has added a green delivery vehicle to its fleet. The
MODEL Alison Richards left male passers-by hot and flustered when she delivered an energy-o-gram to a York store. Clad only in her underwear, Alison launched PlanetYork's Turn Down The Heat campaign in Brown's department store, Davygate. The year-long
Have you taken the pledge? Here are some of the pledges people have made to the PlanetYork campaign. Park Grove School, Park Grove - reduce energy consumption and teach pupils about efficiency Haxby Road Primary School, Haxby Road - set up systems to
ENERGY-minded staff and students are attempting to make the University of York the UK's most energy-efficient. In the latest drive to clinch the title, the university has joined forces with the Stockholm Environment Institute to launch an internet site
YORK businesses are being urged to take the environmental destiny of the planet into their own hands by tackling energy waste head-on - and saving money at the same time Laura Collins, campaign manager for PlanetYork - a year-long drive to make York the
FREED deaf charity campaigner Ian Stillman has written to his supporters in York and across the UK to thank them for their continued backing. More than five months after being released from an Indian prison, Ian, whose parents live in Tadcaster Road,
CHARITY worker Ian Stillman is aiming to restart his work with the deaf in England. Ian, himself disabled and profoundly deaf, was released from an Indian jail in December after thousands campaigned for his freedom. He had to leave behind a foundation
IAN STILLMAN was alone in his freezing cell in India's Himalayan foothills. The only Englishman in the prison, his disability ensured complete isolation. He had no idea of the number of supporters who were pressing hard on his behalf thousands of miles
SOMEWHERE out there, there is an eternal optimist who thinks the sun will always shine. There has to be, otherwise how else do you explain the fact that Wimbledon is held for a fortnight outdoors? Two weeks of dry weather in Britain come around as often
IAN Stillman today hugged the family he has been separated from for two years - and thanked Evening Press readers for demanding his freedom. The seriously ill and profoundly deaf charity worker flew home to Britain after his dramatic release from an Indian
JUBILANT MPs today paid tribute to the family of freed charity worker Ian Stillman and "all those around the world" who campaigned for his release. Four MPs, including York's Hugh Bayley, have tabled a House of Commons motion to celebrate his release
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman's plight will be explained directly to Britain's Home Secretary tomorrow. His family has secured its first face-to-face meeting with Jack Straw in Whitehall. They are hoping to push forward Ian's case, which they feel
THE FAMILY of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is planning to fly to India as fears for his health worsen. Ian, 51, is spending his third year in jail after being convicted of cannabis possession - a charge he has always denied. Ian, whose parents live
INDIA'S representative in Britain has met the family of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman. His parents Roy and Monica, who live in Tadcaster Road, York, joined with the rest of their family to speak with Indian High Commissioner Ronen Sen. They
SCHOOL inspectors in York and North Yorkshire will be sympathetic to those hit by the funding crisis, according to the Chief Inspector of Schools, David Bell. Mr Bell was addressing North Yorkshire head teachers at the North Yorkshire LEA Secondary Heads
PUPILS at a York school devised their own healthy eating menu - and then had a chance to eat the resulting meal. North Yorkshire County Caterers, who are responsible for dinners at most schools in York, sponsored the menu competition for children at St
THREE of the horse-drawn carriage owners are claiming they won't introduce "nappies" to their horses even after the licensing committee has recommended that they do so (June 28). What a ludicrous claim that it would take up to 12 months for a horse to
WHY was it a body called the York Minster Mystery Plays Board which told us there won't be any York Mystery Plays next year? Does this board need to exist? The year 2000 Mystery Plays in the Minster were wonderful, but I thought that at the time it was
CONGRATULATIONS to P Smith for being the first to spot the Shakespeare's birthplace picture on one of our buses (Letters, June 28). Please call us and we'll send you a free ticket. Another free ticket is waiting for the first person to spot the other
JULIAN Cole has a remarkable ability to offend people who have Christian beliefs (June 26). Mind you, he is clever enough to restrict his Bible-bashing to Christianity, with never a word of criticism or derision for other religions; what's he scared of
I HOPE that Concorde does not end her days as a museum piece at Elvington, or anywhere else in the world (June 24). The beauty, grace and power of Concorde is to be seen at take-off and in flight and heard in the roar of her engines. To try to mothball
Care homes for the elderly have come in for bad publicity recently. STEPHEN LEWIS visits one where things are done differently OUTSIDE in the back garden, Hewie and Jewie are having a squabble, pecking at each-other. It's the time of year, explains Denise
IT IS not very often that the evening television news opens with a feature about farming. Not very often, that is, unless a crisis such as Foot and Mouth or BSE is ravaging the industry. The fact, therefore, that a technical alteration of the Common Agricultural
Bringing up baby is demanding enough, but how do parents manage with twins or triplets? MAXINE GORDON speaks to two mums with first-hand knowledge SARA Waddington uses a colour code to help tell apart her 22-month-old identical triplet sons. "Ross wears
