GEORGE WILKINSON comes across landmarks from the lead-mining industry of the North Yorkshire Dales. WE took the tank road up to Reeth, the tanks were elsewhere. Reeth baked and basked in the sunshine. We plodded off over the meadows to Grinton where the
Colonel Cotton, still awaiting his first win of the season, can hit the jackpot at Ascot tomorrow. The gelding, trained by Neville Callaghan, goes for the £70,000 Hong Kong Jockey Club Sprint Showcase Handicap and is strongly fancied to come out ahead
YOUNGSTERS turned out in numbers at a junior golf clinic organised by Easingwold GC, writes Peter Martini. Former club captain Keith Knapton, now in charge of the junior section at the club, organised the session for youngsters who would otherwise have
Whatever the outcome of the first Test between England and South Africa, currently being played out at Edgbaston, the selectors were absolutely right to keep faith with Yorkshire captain Anthony McGrath and not yield to the temptation of recalling Graham
THOUSANDS of festival fans were expected at Knavesmire today and tomorrow for York's first two-day open air music event. AIR2003, organised by York Arts Forum and City of York Council, was due to take place at Bustardthorpe Field from 1.40pm. The event
A RETIRED British Rail worker is the new president of Selby Lions. Michael Meanwell, 65, of Camblesforth, takes over from David Jones, with a pledge to try to increase the club's membership. Father-of-two Mr Meanwell used to work as a personnel manager
THREE men conned their way into an elderly woman's home and ransacked her bedroom. The men called at a house in Shaw Drive, Kirkbymoorside, at 5.05pm on Thursday. They claimed to be removing a fallen tree and asked the woman to turn her water off. Two
A LORRY driver has been jailed after causing a man's death by dangerous driving. Julian Jones, 28, of Gwent, South Wales, was jailed for 18 months after pleading guilty at York Crown Court to causing the death by dangerous driving of Andrew Plummer last
A GROUP of youngsters are giving up their school holidays to give a York charity shop a make-over. They are spending four weeks stripping down the interior of the Multiple Sclerosis charity shop, in Melrosegate, Tang Hall. The project is part of the Millennium
ALE fans who enjoy a pint of Randy Monk or Wolds Delight have their fingers crossed that councillors will give an East Yorkshire brewery the go-ahead. Two years ago Geoff Cawthray, who owns the Goodmanham Arms, in Goodmanham, transformed a derelict barn
MINISTERS must act urgently to close the gaping "digital divide" between town and country - or jeopardise businesses and jobs in rural parts of North Yorkshire, according to a group of MPs. They say the Government should focus on introducing lightening-fast
A YORK man has been nominated for a prestigious Bodyshop award, the motor repair industry's equivalent of the Oscars. Andy Chappelow has been short-listed for the Panel Technician Of The Year award. Andy, an employee of crash repair chain Just Car Clinics
GERMAN Shepherd puppy Disney is one of the star attractions at the RSPCA York Open Day taking place in Holgate tomorrow. The annual event runs from 1pm to 5pm. The main event will be a show to find the Landing Lane centre's best dog, with the winner going
A LEADING academic has got behind our campaign to keep York's Mystery Plays alive. Dr Robert Mills, of Kings College, London, a specialist in medieval literature and culture, told of his disappointment after learning that the plays may not be performed
A TRAIL to commemorate East Yorkshire's very own Big Foot has received full funding - £5,500 from the Countryside Agency. Giant footprints are set to appear all over Market Weighton in memory of Britain's tallest man, who was dubbed Giant Bradley. William
THIEVES stole bank and credit cards from shop staff across North Yorkshire - then phoned their victims to find out their PIN numbers. In at least three incidents in Selby, Thornton-le-Dale and Malton over the past week shop staff discovered that their
ONE of York's best known football administrators Roy Ellwood has received his Football Association long service medal for 50 years. He is a vice-president of both the North Riding County FA and the York and District FA. Ellwood, 67, of Stockton Lane,
LAST-MINUTE replacement Andrew East produced a record-breaking performance for Great Britain. The York athlete has just returned from Germany with a personal best where he was a member of the GB and Northern Ireland Under-23s team which took part in a
Taekwando terrier Ryan Simms has won his second consecutive British Open Championships title - despite giving away four years on his rivals. The eight-year-old from Wistow, near Selby, who weighs in at just 20kilogrammes, was fighting at the Under-13s
A TEENAGER from Holme-on-Spalding Moor has gained a scholarship to the prestigious Northern Ballet School, based in Manchester. Jennifer Pullon, 16, has attended Selby Dance Centre for the last five years, during which time she also won a place with the
SWIMMERS from York City Baths Club aim to make a big splash in the national championships. All ten (pictured left) have qualified for a series of high-profile events after great displays at county level. "We have prepared really well and are looking to
TWO Selby householders came face to face with burglars during a spate of sneak-in thefts. Just before 5pm on Thursday, the male owner of a house, in Armoury Road, Selby, was horrified to discover an intruder in one of the upstairs rooms. The sneak-in
AN EVENING entitled Movement In Squares No 2 takes a journey into the history of ambient music, samples and noise at the Blues Bar, Montepellier Hill, Harrogate, on Monday. Presented by the Charm team as part of the Harrogate International Festival Fringe
YORKSHIRE Phoenix must beat Kent Spitfires at Scarborough tomorrow if they are to avoid equalling the club's worst run of seven consecutive National League defeats which occurred in 1992 and again in 1999, writes David Warner. And Yorkshire's attempt
FIVE York women who helped to raise more than £1 million in sales at two York charity shops have received a big thank-you from Help the Aged. The fabulous five have given a total of 75 years' voluntary service to charity, working in Help the Aged's city
HARMONIOUS half-backs Scott Rhodes and Danny Brough were the big movers in the Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire player-of-the-season standings over the past two weeks. The deadly duo have both moved onto 13 points, level with captain Rich Hayes and just
A SELBY biker killed in a road crash had got engaged only two months ago, it was revealed today. Roger Prime, 36, of Camblesforth, proposed to his girlfriend, Tracy Marston, while on holiday in the West Indies, in May. Today, his heartbroken fiance spoke
MAN of the moment Richie Hayes reaches a notable landmark in his award-laden career tomorrow. As revealed by the Evening Press on Tuesday, the 33-year-old legend is to be rewarded with a testimonial match at the end of this season in recognition of his
TWO brothers who blew up phone boxes on the A64 near Malton have been jailed for a total of seven years. Stuart Layton, 23, and his brother, Geoffrey, 30, of Seacroft, Leeds, had travelled on the A64 towards Scarborough late at night last November 21.
A FULL house of 40 youngsters turned up to the first York City Knights Summer Roadshow of training sessions for kids. The session, run in partnership between the Knights and City of York Council and taken by Knights star Trevor Krause and RL development
YORK City Knights boss Paul Broadbent is unlikely to tamper too much with his team for tomorrow's crucial clash against Sheffield at Huntington Stadium. His side have won six from seven and, with no new injuries, he is likely to stick with the starting
STUART OGILVY, the assistant curator of natural sciences at the Yorkshire Museum, peers at an enlarged model of the ocean dweller, Actinophrys Sol, which forms part of a new exhibition by father-and-son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka. Entitled The Glass
AUSSIE ace Trevor Krause reckons York City Knights could yet head up the National League Two table and go into the play-offs as top dogs. The Knights gleaned only one point from their opening four league games but since then have won six in seven and
A MAN who died from head injuries suffered when he was hit by a vehicle in a York street may have already been lying in the road, says a shocked bystander. Stuart Smith, 29, of Doncaster, who was resting in his car in Lower Friargate at the time of the
YORK City Knights were handed another boost ahead of tomorrow's home clash with Sheffield when stand-off Scott Rhodes was named National League Two player of the month, writes Peter Martini. Rhodes, who gave one of the best displays seen at Huntington
NEW York City signing Mitch Ward has revealed how a chat with player-management duo Chris Brass and Lee Nogan was all that was needed to convince him to join the Bootham Crescent revolution. Former Everton, Sheffield United and Barnsley midfielder Ward
A YORK motorbike fan paid for doubting his wife's skills at the wheel when she rolled up the drive on a motorcycle after passing her test - without his knowledge. Peter Oldfield had to buy wife, Julie, a new bike after he poured scorn on her claim that
IN Monday's Evening Press, Chris Titley wrote an interesting feature on the history of TV detector vans. According to Chris's scrupulously researched article, these vehicles have grown more and more sophisticated over the years, and TV licence dodgers
THE piece about BBC radio by Chris Titley struck a chord with me (July 23). I, too, am a life-long devotee of Radio 4. We have three radios in our house, all tuned in to that marvellous station. I feel I know the presenters personally and keep up to date
MAN of the moment Richie Hayes reaches a notable landmark in his award-laden career tomorrow. As revealed by the Evening Press on Tuesday, the 33-year-old legend is to be rewarded with a testimonial match at the end of this season in recognition of his
YORK City Knights boss Paul Broadbent is unlikely to tamper too much with his team for tomorrow's crucial clash against Sheffield at Huntington Stadium. His side have won six from seven and, with no new injuries, he is likely to stick with the starting
AUSSIE ace Trevor Krause reckons York City Knights could yet head up the National League Two table and go into the play-offs as top dogs. The Knights gleaned only one point from their opening four league games but since then have won six in seven and
It keeps flies at bay, sends us off to sleep and keeps us smelling sweet. MAXINE GORDON visits a Ryedale farm to explore the fascinating world of lavender. IT could all have been so very different for Nigel Goodwill. For a while, he flirted with opening
THE links between fans of the Knights and York City FC grew last week when members of the London and the South Branch of the York City Supporters' Club turned out to see the Knights' game at London Skolars. Spokesman Martin Morgan said: "During football's
There's no denying that it doesn't even have a bar - but that didn't stop those wags at CAMRA making the Jug and Bottle off-licence in Bubwith their pub of the summer season. The former abattoir and butcher's on the border of East and North Yorkshire
VISITING Castlehill hospitals to the west of Hull is not an activity we relish. However the chore could be eased in future by a snack spot we have discovered. The village of Skidby boasts the only complete example of an East Riding windmill still working
"Thud" went the pink bottom of the baboon on the bonnet as he hitched a ride on our car. We were in the baboon enclosure - our favourite attraction - at the North of England's only Safari Park at Knowsley, on Merseyside. Luckily for us, our car came out
And we were off. A small tug on the rope in my right hand, a rock of the hull underneath my feet and the gentle wind filled out the white sail above my head, sending the wooden boat skidding across the water somewhere in the direction of Holland. It had
The prospect of a new bed sends GINA PARKINSON in search of plants to fill the empty soil. OUR garden is undergoing change this summer and although it is still at the messy early stage, a new bed is beginning to emerge and new plants are being purchased
A LEADING academic has got behind our campaign to keep York's Mystery Plays alive. Dr Robert Mills, of Kings College, London, a specialist in medieval literature and culture, told of his disappointment after learning that the plays may not be performed
NEW York City signing Mitch Ward has revealed how a chat with player-management duo Chris Brass and Lee Nogan was all that was needed to convince him to join the Bootham Crescent revolution. Former Everton, Sheffield United and Barnsley midfielder Ward
PREPARING for a summer of fun and dancing are Charlotte Hardy (left), Christiane Eaves (right) and other girls at the Evelyn Witcombe School of Dance. This will be the fourth year that the school, based at Huntington, York, has put on the summer dance
A TEENAGE cross-dresser from North Yorkshire who broke into a woman's home and raped her has had his "manifestly excessive" jail term reduced by Appeal Court judges. On the night of the attack early last year, Ian Edward Cavanagh's terrified victim awoke
A NEW landlord has pledged to transform a York pub. Paul Harris, 35, is determined to create a family-friendly environment at The Acomb, in Kingsway West, Acomb. The father-of-five, who took over four months ago with his wife, Cheryl, said: "When I first
ARSONISTS are suspected of being behind a blaze which wrecked a disused York bungalow. A passer-by spotted smoke coming from the bungalow, in Almsford Road, Acomb, and called in firefighters. The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, but the inside
RAISING the awareness of teaching will top the agenda at a seminar taking place in York. Speakers will talk about various aspects of teaching at the seminar at Bishopthorpe Palace in October. The conference takes place in the light of a report published
A YORK woman has flown her sick young niece over from El Salvador for life-changing medical treatment after doctors in her home country were unable to help. Carmen Carvell, 47, who left the Central American country for York 20 years ago and now lives
HARDWORKING fundraisers will be ringing the changes as a £165,000 restoration project gets under way. Villagers at Middleton, near Pickering, face the giant task of improving St Andrew's Church, which dates back to Saxon times and is in need of urgent
PINKY Burton is vowing to win over the York boxing public by bringing title after title back to the city. The York-born light-heavyweight is hardly known in the area, having ventured between York and Scotland, the home of his mother, as a youngster. But
MAXINE GORDON revisits a new-look country pub to see if it still deserves culinary acclaim. Not many restaurants in these parts have won four-star praise from the Sunday Times's acerbic food critic AA Gill. Tables at the Rose And Crown at Sutton on the
WHILE Michael Vaughan, Darren Gough and Anthony McGrath may all be battling it out for England in the second Test at Lord's next week, another trio of Yorkshire players will be keeping the home flag flying, writes David Warner. They will be playing for
THE second Roman invasion was taking place in York today at the launch of the first Roman Festival in the city. The vibrant two-day festival aims to highlight the huge influence the Romans had, and left, on York - or Eboracum. During the festival Constantine
DUNNINGTON have opted to stick with a winning formula when they travel to Sandiacre Town in the quarter-final of the National Club Championship tomorrow. That means ex-West Indies Test aces Collis King and Alvin Kallicharan will attempt to lead Dunnington
YORK street entertainer Michael Todd was today a free man after more than three weeks in US military custody in Iraq. Mr Todd, 33, also known as Michael Mime, was picked up by US soldiers on July 4 after he was found trying to cross the border from Iraq
A HERO who risked his life to save a man trapped on a railway line later fell from grace when he set fire to his own home. David Hustwick, 64, of The Village, Old Earswick, was jailed for two years after pleading guilty to arson reckless of whether life
ARSONISTS are suspected of being behind a blaze which wrecked a disused York bungalow. A passer-by spotted smoke coming from the bungalow, in Almsford Road, Acomb, and called in firefighters. The fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes, but the inside
A MAN targeted two York seven-year-olds in a frightening campaign inspired by the Soham murders, a court heard. Michael Anderson, 40, followed the pair in his car and wrote letters to the schoolgirls declaring he wanted to sexually assault them. He was
THE recent behaviour of the York Labour group and York's Hugh Bayley MP beggars belief. They claim to be so passionately concerned about the future of swimming in our city and consulting the people. They made a political protest outside the Barbican centre
HOW predictable to see the Tony and Cherie Blair's travelling circus lurching from photocall to photocall in China (July 22). Despite the tragic suicide of the honourable Dr David Kelly - an episode in which the Government and its henchman may well be
AM I the only person who thinks there but for the grace of God go I and a lot of other people? I speak of Gary Hart ("A walk in the park for Gary Hart", Evening Press, July 21)? How many people drive while tired or exhausted after working all hours? Doctors
WHENEVER anyone declares "I am not a prude but", you can be sure they will go on and prove the complete opposite as did the mother from Leeman Road who was dismayed by the display of sex aids in Boots (July 24). Was she being ironic when she said they
A CORRESPONDENT wrote to the Evening Press about the removal of York paving and its replacement with Tarmac along with the removal of ornate lamp posts from many areas in York. Some companies make a living out of the resale of these kind of items as part
A FULL house of 40 youngsters turned up to the first York City Knights Summer Roadshow of training sessions for kids. The session, run in partnership between the Knights and City of York Council and taken by Knights star Trevor Krause and RL development
YORK City Knights were handed another boost ahead of tomorrow's home clash with Sheffield when stand-off Scott Rhodes was named National League Two player of the month, writes Peter Martini. Rhodes, who gave one of the best displays seen at Huntington
WHILE Michael Vaughan, Darren Gough and Anthony McGrath may all be battling it out for England in the second Test at Lord's next week, another trio of Yorkshire players will be keeping the home flag flying, writes David Warner. They will be playing for
YORKSHIRE Phoenix must beat Kent Spitfires at Scarborough tomorrow if they are to avoid equalling the club's worst run of seven consecutive National League defeats which occurred in 1992 and again in 1999, writes David Warner. And Yorkshire's attempt
