IN AN age when obesity is on the rise and we're all under pressure to slim down, the diet industry has never been bigger. The Atkins diet is currently the weight loss program of choice. Thousands of slimmers are following the lead of Hollywood stars including
WHAT has the council done with the historical notice that hung for 40 years - until about five years ago - on the side of Micklegate Bar, overlooking the passage between the bar and the Citizen's Advice Bureau. It measured about 30 by 40 inches, was in
YORK City mainstay Lee Bullock is gunning for the perfect ten. With the new Division Three campaign just two days away, the 22-year-old midfielder admits he can't wait to get started. Aside from propelling City to promotion glory, Bullock admits he has
DUNDEE new-boy Tom Cowan is thrilled to be playing top-flight football in Scotland after fearing he could end up on the bottom rung of the ladder following his release from York City. The 33-year-old left-back has signed a one-year deal with the Dark
A DESPERATE plea has gone out to animal lovers to help house hundreds of homeless York cats. The city's cat shelter is snowed under with new arrivals, as summer is their busiest period, being similar to the post-Christmas boom in unwanted dogs. As a result
IN one week Bert Keech managed wins over the top two teams in the York area, beating Haxby Road in the league and then comprehensively defeating Holgate 100-41 in the Williamson Cup Final at Falconer Street. Paul Mooring's rink led the way winning by
EFFORTS to improve air quality in York are not radical enough to make a real difference, councillors have claimed. Proposals put forward include expanding Park&Ride in the city, introducing more bus and cycle lanes and encouraging car sharing. But
Division one pace-setters Norwich Union moved closer to another Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale Cricket title with a convincing six-wicket victory over Stockton and Hopgrove. Batting first, Stockton's batsmen got started but lost wickets at regular
A YORK University student died after a driver attempted a U-turn and forced the car in which she was travelling into the path of an oncoming lorry, an inquest heard. Rebecca Whitwell, 20, was killed in an accident on the A1237 between the Wigginton Road
THE hunt is now on to find new operators for debt-laden Drax Power Station, after its American owner walked away. As predicted by the Evening Press on Tuesday, AES Corporation has withdrawn from the site after banks and bondholders, who are owed £1.3
DEAD fish are to remain in the River Foss despite complaints from residents that the hot weather is making them smell. Residents in Strensall, York, have noticed a smell of rotting fish after thousands were killed by a slurry spill, which entered the
A NORTH Yorkshire man who pushed a police officer down a flight of stairs then half-strangled him was jailed for four years. PC Gareth Stoneman-Roberts thought he was going to die as Philip Dean Wilson, 25, pressed his thumbs into his neck, Recorder Paul
YORK RACES is to hold an additional Saturday of action next July. Knavesmire is to host racing on Saturday, July 24 - a fortnight after the traditional July meeting featuring the John Smith's Cup. York still has 15 days racing in 2004, having reduced
THE Acting Dean of York thanked God for Rod Hills' service to the community, during the former council leader's funeral at York Minster. Canon Glyn Webster also spoke of the "last difficult years" of Mr Hills' life, and of the humanity and honesty of
SNOW was falling in North Yorkshire today - despite the heatwave gripping the nation. Scarborough Sea Life Centre and Marine Sanctuary was the perfect place to chill out when it was transformed into a winter wonderland. Sanctuary manager Iain Hawkins
YORK City mainstay Lee Bullock is gunning for the perfect ten. With the new Division Three campaign just two days away, the 22-year-old midfielder admits he can't wait to get started. Aside from propelling City to promotion glory, Bullock admits he has
A FIRE at a York school is now believed to be arson, after CCTV images showed a man acting suspiciously on the site at the time of the blaze. The fire at All Saints' School, Mill Mount Lane, York, on Tuesday evening was first thought to have been started
ARSON attacks have soared by a staggering 32 per cent in York and North Yorkshire - the highest increase in the country. The man charged with combating the scourge in the county today predicted the situation was likely to get worse. Government figures
FARRELL. Navarro. Perkins. Three-quarters of the original Jane's Addiction line-up that spontaneously combusted in a drug-fuelled mess 13 years ago. Born screaming into a staid LA rock scene in the late 1980s, it's no surprise Jane's Addiction caught
Division one pace-setters Norwich Union moved closer to another Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale Cricket title with a convincing six-wicket victory over Stockton and Hopgrove. Batting first, Stockton's batsmen got started but lost wickets at regular
A FORMER Lord Mayor of York who helped run two successful seasons of Mystery Plays has offered to help ensure they are staged again in future. Keith Wood was vice-chairman of the York Festival Board in 1980, with responsibility for the Plays - staged
New Zealand captain Matthew Fleming played Yorkshire's greatest ever floodlit innings at Headingley last night to rush them to a sensational victory by seven wickets over Warwickshire Bears. The tall left-hander powered his way to a dazzling 139 not out
YORKSHIRE handed out first team caps to left-handed batsman Michael Lumb and pace bowler Steve Kirby in a surprise ceremony during the interval of their floodlit National League match with Warwickshire Bears at Headingley last night. Lumb, 23, the son
ANY reader who has been to buy any electrical goods recently will no doubt have been offered an extended warranty or guarantee. The question is - do you really need them? We take for granted the fact that most goods or services are usually offered with
Ramblees Holly, the pride and joy of his Ryedale owner Stuart Wood, can register his third Sedgefield success tomorrow. The five-year-old goes for the Bliss Handicap Hurdle with top young rider Marcus Foley again in the saddle. Lambourn-based Foley took
ARSON can have far greater consequences than the malicious lighting of one fire. As recent events in the south of France have shown, in dry conditions a blaze can spread with devastating and tragic results. North Yorkshire is never going to be as dry
IT might almost be a romantic story: man serving prison sentence absconds to be at the birth of his child. Sadly for David Roberts, of York, his unscheduled departure from an open prison near Wetherby does not have a rosy ending. True, his partner did
Ex-Murder Inc star Ashanti's self-penned second album is packed with slick summer-time R&B tunes. Catchy beats and funky intros flow through tracks such as Rock Wit U (Awww Baby), Breakup 2 Makup and I Know, while more laid-back and soulful vibes,
THIS superfluous compilation is subtitled "The Greatest Hits Of All" - as opposed, presumably, to the George Benson Anthology that Warner put out two years ago. That one introduced the singer/ guitarist as the man who "broke down the walls between jazz
One of the all time great American musical families, The Osmonds, are celebrated on this double CD. Crazy Horses, probably their best track, opens the band album, followed by hits such as Goin' Home, Let Me In and Love Me For A Reason. Pop, rock and soul
FOLLOWING in the style of certain national tabloids, this week's column is on pages 8, 8, 8, 8 and, er, 8. Pedants may argue that all of those digits are the same, but I didn't get where I am today by listening to pedants. The numbers collected at the
K. Chapman of Harrogate pontificated (Letters, August 5) about York's alleged former anti-car and anti-shopping policies, and blamed the late Rod Hills for these so-called evils. Perhaps we should, experimentally, remove York's traffic restrictions for
Having read the debate on speed humps between Coun Ann Reid and former police accident investigator Mike Natt ('Does city need speed humps?', August 5) I agree with the latter and sympathise with the former. Something should be done to curb the behaviour
CYCLISTS do seem to be above laws and regulations. I was in town with my five-year-old daughter during the pedestrianisation period at around 11.30am. Apart from the number of cars (without city centre badges) and lorries (who shouldn't be there at this
A FORMER Lord Mayor of York who helped run two successful seasons of Mystery Plays has offered to help ensure they are staged again in future. Keith Wood was vice-chairman of the York Festival Board in 1980, with responsibility for the Plays - staged
New Zealand captain Matthew Fleming played Yorkshire's greatest ever floodlit innings at Headingley last night to rush them to a sensational victory by seven wickets over Warwickshire Bears. The tall left-hander powered his way to a dazzling 139 not out
MALTON Motor Club will host the first running of the MEM Rolltek Malton Forest Rally on Sunday, December 14. With 45 stage miles on offer in the classic North Yorkshire stages of Cropton and Gale Rigg, along with three spectator-special stages at the
EFFORTS to improve air quality in York are not radical enough to make a real difference, councillors have claimed. Proposals put forward include expanding Park&Ride in the city, introducing more bus and cycle lanes and encouraging car sharing. But
ISRAELI soldiers have arrested a York student protesting against the occupation of Palestine. Ed Lewis, 20, a politics student at the University of York, was among more than 40 people detained while attempting to block the demolition of a home near the
THIS is the most personal piece of John Cooper's 40-year commitment to theatre, and sometimes, as with children, you can be too close to see the faults. "We're finding it a very exciting challenge," he said, introducing last night's first preview performance
JOHN Power, the much-maligned former Cast frontman, returns with a record drawing heavily on his previous recording life with The La's. Happening For Love has a stripped-down, raw sound. Gone are the poppy, synthetic noises that pock-marked Cast's three
JOE Pernice and his Scud Mountain Boys were once the unsung forefathers of sparse Alt.country; now the Pernice Brothers cannot even be classified under Americana. Instead their third album echoes the graceful melancholia of New Order and mellow moodiness
IT'S been an incredible 18 months or so for The Coral. Where the band stand now seems a million miles away from being the unknowns who annoyed a couple of hundred potential York fans with their repeated Fibbers no-shows. Last year's self-titled debut
Author Keith Henson tells STEPHEN LEWIS about York's dark and grisly past. Keith Henson insists he is not ghoulish, he simply has a healthy interest in the darker aspects of York's history. And they don't come much darker than the Pinkney murders which
