Many readers will know that in some areas it is getting more and more difficult to find dentists who offer treatment on the NHS. As a result more people are having to pay for private treatment. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recently carried out an
IT is a shame that the City of York Council feels the need to talk shop in secret. The fact that both the retail and tourist industries are said to be "in denial" about changing perceptions of York as a shopping centre suggests a degree of paranoia. Retail
While George Wilkinson is away, Mark Reid leads the first of two walks, here setting off in search of John O'Gaunt's Castle THE Washburn Valley is true Dales country, with stoutly-built stone barns and sinuous walls dividing up the fields of deep velvety
FOR perhaps a final fix of the purple heather this season we took ourselves off to Hawnby Moor. North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. Part of the territory looks fortified by turret-like
IT was tanking down on the North York Moors, stair rods. A lonely long-distance runner splashed past the car park on the edge of Wykeham Forest, everyone else was sensibly indoors, we tried to get our waterproofs on without a soaking. Then came some hanging
My busman's holiday, this time from Anglesey, with a view from the tent of Snowdonia tapering down to the Lleyn Peninsula, tepid showers and a deafening dawn chorus of Welsh jackdaws. We had come for the Newborough Warren Nature Reserve, one of our favourite
SERIAL seekers of wild floral shows, if you have done the daffs and the bluebells and have a taste for pink then head out now from York, for just one mile, and see the docks in bloom on Fulford Ings. A better bet than the 'retro-hippy' dandelions at this
A YOUNG York couple claim an office mix-up conspired to ruin their wedding day. Neil and Nicola Massam, of Acomb, say the biggest day of their lives was ruined by a booking blunder at the Elmbank Hotel, in York. When the newlyweds arrived at the hotel
YORK MP Hugh Bayley will tomorrow take part in a question time about the war in Iraq. The event has been organised by York Against The War, and will give people the chance to quiz opposers and backers of the conflict. Mr Bayley will be joined on the panel
OLD York has met New York in a gesture of friendship which was initiated by a response to a tragedy. The meeting in the "Big Apple" followed a letter written by the chairman of the York & District Family History Society, John Elliott, in the wake
A NEW cycle track near York, built through the determination of a villager, has been opened by TV presenter Harry Gration. The 2km track, which runs alongside the B1222 Naburn Lane, means Naburn residents can now cycle safely to the McArthur Glen designer
Cartoonist Sharon Nicol hopes her pen and ink friend, Tracey, will become a familiar face across York - as she stars in a set of her own postcards. The talented part-time illustrator has won a contract to sell "The Face of Trace" postcards at York-based
ROGUE fish that were set to wipe out the beetle and newt population of a York pond have been captured and re-homed. The two fish - a chub and a 9lb grass carp - were wreaking havoc in Hassacar Pond, in Dunnington, York, by eating the weed and resident
AS the Queen celebrates the 50th anniversary of her coronation, a Selby woman has been recalling her "moment of fame" in 1953 when she was chosen as Selby Youth Week Queen. Hazel O'Driscoll, 69, was just 19 when she was crowned on the James Street recreation
CONCERNED residents in an East Yorkshire village have united to reduce traffic speed outside their local school. Parents and residents have pledged to fight for a School Safety Zone outside St Martin's CE Primary School, Fangfoss, over fears that youngsters
A RACEGOER'S £3.50 taxi fare will cost him £150 after a dispute over fish-and-chips, a court decided. Steven Ovenden, prosecuting, told York magistrates that Mark Stephen Harris, 32, hired the taxi to take him home to Hull Road, York, after he spent last
YORK man Andy Plowman showed he had plenty of the Write Stuff - by scooping a job as a trainee reporter on the Evening Press. Andy, 21, battled it out with a number of other hopefuls in the Evening Press Write Stuff competition for a job on the paper.
THE fifth and final race of the Sweatshop York and District Road Race League produced the fastest time of the series for the winner, Cameron Brooks. The Knavesmire Harrier clocked 32 minutes 58 seconds but was actually beaten to the line by guest runner
Acomb driver Mick Lord is pictured claiming victory with Infamous in the Novice Improver Intermediate race at York Harness raceway. The race had to be restarted after a first bend collision between GT and Jimmy Short, which left GT driver Pam Haythornthwaite
A MAN has appeared before York magistrates charged with carrying a mace and attempting to wound a policeman. John Paul Harris, 23, of Fossway, York, is alleged to have stolen the ornamental mace with a co-accused during a house raid in Horner Street,
A SUPPORTERS' pressure group fighting to keep York City at Bootham Crescent is turning up the heat on developers Persimmon Homes. The Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has launched a petition urging the company to withdraw its planning application to
TEMPORARY supermarket and post office facilities could be set up in a York village following a devastating fire that destroyed its main shop. Dunnington Village Hall could be transformed into a temporary shop following Tuesday night's blaze at the Costcutter
IN the quarter-finals of the Persimmon Homes Ideal Standard Williamson Cup Dunnington 'A' and Shipton were tied on 70 shots each after 21 ends. All four rinks took part in the extra end which Shipton won 8-2. The league's top two sides also met with Holgate
SCHOOL teacher Christine Shouksmith is seeking world domination. Shouksmith is preparing to take on the very best after being selected to represent Great Britain in the 2003 World Triathlete Championships, to be staged in New Zealand in December. In doing
DUNNINGTON won the final of the York and District Junior Cricket Association Under-15 President's Cup by beating Heworth by 14 runs. Despite losing prolific batsman Jack Bolam cheaply, Dunnington were able to set a daunting total of 137-5. Adam Iyer hit
HEWORTH were involved in a nail-biting tied division four game in the Howarth Pulleyn Hesleton York Vale Cricket League. They scored a reasonable 131-7 against Selby, whose Mel Neary and Geoff Knight got away to a solid start by putting on 68 runs. But
FALLOUT from the funding crisis which drove York City FC to the brink of extinction was today being discussed at top-level Treasury talks. City MP Hugh Bayley has been invited to meet Treasury Minister Dawn Primarolo to discuss how the Inland Revenue
RECORDS tumbled at Stamford Bridge yesterday as Yorkshire 2nds amassed a formidable first innings total of 534-5 wickets declared against Lancashire in the Second X1 Championship, writes Alan Barker. This was the highest score Yorkshire have achieved
PEOPLE taking part in an open day on the new plans for York Barbican were said to be "split 50/50" over what pool the centre should have. The main issue being debated since City of York Council's ruling Liberal Democrat group asked for the plans to be
A MAN and a woman had an amazing escape when their car left the A64 near York and hit a tree. The car, a white Peugeot, left the eastbound carriageway, outside The Buckles Inn, near Bilbrough. The man and woman in the car, who are not thought to be local
A violent breakfast time thunderstorm flooded Riverside today and held up Yorkshire's progress in their Championship match against Durham. Yorkshire were due to resume the third day on two without loss in their second innings with an overall lead of 123
SECRET talks will have to be held to discuss the drop in York shops' pulling power, a senior city council officer has said. Tony Bennett, the council's assistant director of economic development, was speaking to members of City of York Council's economic
Scarborough kicked-off their pre-season programme of friendlies with a ten-goal thriller at Selby Town. Russell Slade's Seasiders ran out 6-4 winners courtesy of two goals apiece from David Pounder and Keith Gilroy, a Gary Cohen strike and a goal from
TWO brothers showed racegoers the Full Monty on Knavesmire during John Smith's Cup day. As the near record-breaking crowd of 38,000 enjoyed York Racecourse's latest meeting, David George Boyle, 30 and Ian Charles Boyle, 21, stripped off to their birthday
YORK City chief Chris Brass is facing some hard choices but admits he couldn't be happier despite his managerial debut ending in defeat. A 5-0 beating by Sunderland at Bootham Crescent last night suggested a baptism of fire for the new player-boss in
VICTIMS of crime have been helping decide how teenage tearaways should be punished in a trailblazing scheme in York. More than 100 young offenders have been forced to face up to the impact of their crimes through the forward-thinking youth justice programme
WOW, I thought. A band named after the mighty Joe Corrigan, the legendary six foot four-and-a-half guardian of Manchester City's nets in the 1970s. As icons go, a good one to latch on to. Shame it turns out the band's named after its lead singer, Martin
THE Sleepy Jackson, from Perth, Australia, opened their account earlier this year with a mini-album, a sketchy, scratchy lo-fi sampler of eight songs. It's Jo And Danny, from a barn retreat in Brecon, Wales, did the same in 2000, when releasing their
IN view of the recent incidents leading to the closure of the A64 and the subsequent traffic gridlock caused, would it not make sense to have a contingency plan to ease traffic flow in and around York? The plan could be to temporarily waive the access-only
YOU report on the proposal by Barratt Homes to demolish Burton Croft, the Morrell family home, and replace it with desirable "bijou" apartments, (July 8). The fact that council officers were prepared to recommend approval of yet another act of cultural
OUR daughter and son-in-law were married at the Parsonage Country House Hotel at Escrick in June and everything was excellent. People are always quick to criticise but not to praise, so here is credit where it is due. Thank you to everyone at the Parsonage
DIVISION three leaders Burton Salmon wracked up the runs against Woodhouse Grange. Steve Warner scored 100no in Salmon's 238-3. Only a quick fire 39no from Gareth Harvey and a steady 32no from Doug Bartle gained any respect in Grange's 116-7. Second-placed
ACOMB piled up the runs against bottom club Westow in the York Vale Evening League. The York side amassed 154-4 and Westow made 85-6 in reply. Acomb are in second spot behind Ovington, who beat Stockton & Hopgrove by nine wickets. Stockton struggled
A violent breakfast time thunderstorm flooded Riverside today and held up Yorkshire's progress in their Championship match against Durham. Yorkshire were due to resume the third day on two without loss in their second innings with an overall lead of 123
THIS is the first live recording Miles made and this release restores 13 tracks omitted from the 1961 originals. Thus, it represents all the music played over two nights, in chronological order, by this historically important band in a live club setting
THEY have sat on those shelves for goodness knows how many years. Added to from time to time, as advertising promises caught the eye - canned chemical killers at our beck and call. Our personal Weapons Of Mass Destruction, waiting to be unleashed on the
TOP Irish jockey Johnny Murtagh is the star riding attraction at tomorrow's charity evening fixture at Pontefract. This is the annual 'Red Shirt Night', largely organised by former trainer Jack Berry to support the Injured Jockeys' Fund Tenerife Holiday
ACCORDING to the raw statistics, crime is going up. According to the Home Office, which "adjusts" these figures, crime is going down. Either way, one thing is certain. There is too much of it. Crime is rife in British society. Fortunately, North Yorkshire
When we got to Broxa Forest on the North York Moors it was typically wet, gloomy and misty winter weather, so no views from the bench. So we slipped straight into a larch wood and then soon found a nice sunken track through Silpho Moor with beech and
VICTORIA ELLIS takes in the medieval ruins along the Magna Via from Helmsley We drive north out of the centre of Helmsley, not as usual on the busy Bilsdale road, but on a more ancient parallel highway. It is the Magna Via, first recorded in 1145. We
We are back in 'Heartbeat Country', TV land Goathland, on the beaten track, but with a hill or two to make the heart beat faster and plenty of fun. I joined the unchained army of amblers (just got a car park place) and set off down an abandoned railway
Victoria Ellis takes in the views on a walk along the coast from Scarborough. The car park took a bit of finding, being curiously unsigned, but when I pulled up it would have been worth the drive just to sit there and enjoy the views of Scarborough Castle
IN the summer of 2001, Roxy Music played their first gig in 18 years. The place was Dublin and the fans went wild. Just as they did 30 or so years ago when Bryan Ferry, (vocals/piano/ harmonica), Phil Manzanera (guitars), Andy Mackay (sax/oboe) and Paul
THE Prime Minister's wife is in need of a make-over, apparently. New lipstick may come into it somewhere, although I'm not an expert. Strangely enough, the PR man tipped for the job once stepped in to give this fine old city a boost. York was in a damp
PEDAL power is to fuel a kerbside collection scheme for recyclable waste at a new housing development in York. Residents at Olympian Court, off Hull Road, will benefit from a collection scheme for bottles, cans, paper and green waste as soon as they move
A KNOCKOUT fundraising event will take place in York next month to raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan York Appeal. Macmillan Cancer Relief is asking people to join forces with their friends and colleagues and form a team for this year's It's
A MOTHER and daughter are celebrating a hat-trick of wins in a Best Window Display contest. Angela Mullaney, 56, and Cath Evans, 31, who run The Clothes Line shop, in Tadcaster, decided the best way to win the judges over was to give peace a chance. The
A YOUNG York couple claim an office mix-up conspired to ruin their wedding day. Neil and Nicola Massam, of Acomb, say the biggest day of their lives was ruined by a booking blunder at the Elmbank Hotel, in York. When the newlyweds arrived at the hotel
A SELBY man was caught for a drink-driving offence when he walked into a police station to discuss another matter and a constable smelled alcohol on his breath. Ian Land, 59, turned up at York Police Station, in Fulford, for a prior appointment to discuss
MALTON School pupils who devised a congestion-busting travel plan have been rewarded for their ideas - and offered a chance to pitch their plan against other travel schemes across the country. Emily Moffat, 12, Daniel Cohen, 12, and Daniel Pratt, 11,
AN adventurous snake found slinking around a North Yorkshire town is now waiting to be reunited with its owner. Northallerton police were notified when the escapee was spotted near a group of children, and it was placed in a bin for safekeeping. The 5ft
Police are trying to trace thieves who stole £10,500-worth of computer games from a high street store in Goole. Three men broke into Woolworth's in Boothferry Road via a rear door and loaded the PlayStation2 games from shelves into pre-arranged blue boxes
A driver was seriously injured after his car crashed into a tree near Bridlington. The man was taken to Scarborough Hospital with multiple critical injuries after the accident, which happened on the A165. Roads were closed and drivers urged to avoid the
ALMOST half of the residents in York and North Yorkshire believe that their police force is performing well, according to Home Office figures released today. British Crime Survey figures show that 49 per cent of people in the area believe that the performance
AT the halfway stage in the York and District Summer Snooker Handicap League division one, sponsored by the Cueball Club, Ebor are in number one spot on 17 points with a 3-1 win in week five over Cueball Club and a 4-0 win over Yorks Finest in week seven
HARROGATE'S Maureen Stakes and Sue Nightingale won a dramatic Anne Patrick Two-Wood pairs final played at the Bert Keech Club. They headed the contingent of eight winning pairs, who arrived at the club for the quarter-finals, semis and final of the competition
A HARD-working York College student has a head-start at university after winning a special prize in memory of murdered backpacker Caroline Stuttle. Caroline, of Huntington, York, died, aged 19, in April last year, while travelling round Australia. After
NORTH Yorkshire men are contesting six of the seven events in the Yorkshire County Bowling Association finals at Nafferton on Sunday. Peter Jackson is striving for his third junior singles title and if Malcolm Harrison and son Mark win the pairs, they
YORK City chief Chris Brass is facing some hard choices but admits he couldn't be happier despite his managerial debut ending in defeat. A 5-0 beating by Sunderland at Bootham Crescent last night suggested a baptism of fire for the new player-boss in
ON trial shot-stopper Steve Croudson is keeping his fingers crossed that justice will prevail. The former Grimsby Town goalkeeper featured for almost 80 minutes last night as City were beaten 5-0 by Sunderland in their opening pre-season friendly. Croudson
YORK City's youth team kicked off their pre-season friendly programme today with the carrot of first team football firmly in view. City's young guns were taking on Wakefield College at the club's Wigginton training ground (kick-off 2pm) with player-manager
ACOMB piled up the runs against bottom club Westow in the York Vale Evening League. The York side amassed 154-4 and Westow made 85-6 in reply. Acomb are in second spot behind Ovington, who beat Stockton & Hopgrove by nine wickets. Stockton struggled
DIVISION three leaders Burton Salmon wracked up the runs against Woodhouse Grange. Steve Warner scored 100no in Salmon's 238-3. Only a quick fire 39no from Gareth Harvey and a steady 32no from Doug Bartle gained any respect in Grange's 116-7. Second-placed
A SUPPORTERS' pressure group fighting to keep York City at Bootham Crescent is turning up the heat on developers Persimmon Homes. The Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has launched a petition urging the company to withdraw its planning application to
FALLOUT from the funding crisis which drove York City FC to the brink of extinction was today being discussed at top-level Treasury talks. City MP Hugh Bayley has been invited to meet Treasury Minister Dawn Primarolo to discuss how the Inland Revenue
INVESTIGATIONS continued today into the death of a 17-year-old North Yorkshire schoolboy who plunged into a fast-flowing river while trekking with classmates in the Italian Alps. The body of Alex Foulkes was discovered by rescue workers yesterday in the
A NORTH Yorkshire landlady says she wants to thank the pub regulars who rallied round her after an horrific car crash. Janet Parkinson, who runs The Jolly Farmer Inn, at Leavening, near Norton, with husband, John, and daughter, Jackie, spent two weeks
A NORTH Yorkshire school hoping to become a centre for performing arts has been backed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Ian Carmichael. The playwright and actor have pledged to put on performances at Ryedale School, Nawton, near Helmsley, to raise cash towards
EAST Yorkshire's Chris Smith made a modest start to the Open today after going out as one of the first threesomes at the Royal St George's course in Sandwich. Smith, who pre-qualified for the 132nd Open at the Littlestone course just two days ago, was
Hi-Ho Silver! Performing horse Silver horses around and really gets into the spirit of things at the Spirit Of The Horse Equestrian Theatre at York Racecourse. Cowboy Texas Ollie lost his bottle of Coke to the comedy performing horse at the touring equestrian
SUPPORTERS' pressure group the Friends of Bootham Crescent have called a public meeting to debate the current crisis over York City's planned move to Huntington Stadium. Fans of the football, rugby and athletics clubs, and residents close to Bootham Crescent
A VAN driver who was in a crash which killed his neighbour has pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention. Douglas Malcolm Idell, 58, of Springfield Garth, Norton, pulled on to the A169 Malton to Pickering Road near Kirby Misperton on December
YORK City's youth team kicked off their pre-season friendly programme today with the carrot of first team football firmly in view. City's young guns were taking on Wakefield College at the club's Wigginton training ground (kick-off 2pm) with player-manager
ON trial shot-stopper Steve Croudson is keeping his fingers crossed that justice will prevail. The former Grimsby Town goalkeeper featured for almost 80 minutes last night as City were beaten 5-0 by Sunderland in their opening pre-season friendly. Croudson
THE Central Science Laboratory (CSL) near York revealed today that it has lost more than a million pounds during a tough trading year. But chief executive Professor Mike Roberts said he was confident of the future, following investment in new specialist
A WOMAN was killed and five other people injured in an accident on the A1079 at Market Weighton today. Two children were taken by ambulance to Hull Royal Infirmary suffering serious injuries along with three other people. It is believed a silver Ford
ARSON experts say a horrifying and twisted prank in which older youths tried to set two young children on fire after wrapping them in wallpaper could be a copycat incident. The victims, a brother and sister aged six and four, were grabbed by three teenagers
THE latest rough-edged American band to be garlanded with ludicrous amounts of hype, Kings Of Leon are a band of brothers (and a cousin) from the Deep South. They come complete with a suitably Southern Gothic biography about growing up in poverty-stricken
I READ Paul Hepworth's rambling letter ("Thatcher took us off track", July 12) about "piggies in the middle", tie bars and sock shops, but he's lost the plot. James Watt is the person to blame. Stick to cycling Paul and if you fall off you can always
COULD a small contest (no prize I'm afraid) be launched on the letters page? On Saturday my daughter and I waited an hour on Merchantgate for a First York number ten bus which is supposed to run every 20 minutes. Is this a record or can one of your readers
HEWORTH were involved in a nail-biting tied division four game in the Howarth Pulleyn Hesleton York Vale Cricket League. They scored a reasonable 131-7 against Selby, whose Mel Neary and Geoff Knight got away to a solid start by putting on 68 runs. But
STEPHEN LEWIS goes on patrol with York's new 'back-up bobbies'. DEEP inside the old Clifford Street police station beneath York Magistrates Court, the morning briefing is taking place. Seated around the conference table are four young men and women in
RECORDS tumbled at Stamford Bridge yesterday as Yorkshire 2nds amassed a formidable first innings total of 534-5 wickets declared against Lancashire in the Second X1 Championship, writes Alan Barker. This was the highest score Yorkshire have achieved
