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  • Fulford tees up a roll call of fame

    Fulford Golf Club has bagged some of the world's greatest players to link up with the club. Major winners such as Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle, Tony Jacklin and newly-appointed Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer have all agreed to accept membership of the Heslington-based

  • Come the Revolution

    A STIFF drink has provoked suitably stiff opposition in one of York's quieter quarters. The prospect of a vodka bar has upset residents and other businesses in Back Swinegate, who fear such as establishment could attract undesirable custom. While it is

  • Astra-nomical

    VAUXHALL's fifth generation Astra range, with a basket-load of technology new to the compact cars class, goes on sale here in the spring. Among its technological highlights are an adaptive suspension system with continuous damping control, adaptive forward

  • The Punto principle

    WITH 22 individual models, seven engines, six trim levels and three transmission types - you cannot say that Fiat is failing to offer plenty of choice in the new Punto range, which goes on sale tomorrow. Fiat has not enjoyed the best of times in recent

  • York aim to bounce back

    YORK Cricket Club will be seeking to preserve their seven-point lead at the head of the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB Premier League when they entertain lowly Appleby Frodingham on Saturday. They welcome back Marcus Wood from holiday and skipper Nigel Durham

  • Makes you wonder

    I WAS interested in Chris Tetley's former career, but (if you will pardon my French) what the hell does he know about running a railway? ('Ex-Army man takes charge of rail station', August 4). I am sure former British Rail regional managers will wonder

  • Spot the difference

    It is vitally important that those taking part in the consultation over York Barbican Centre realise the consequences of voting for a community pool as opposed to a county pool. The county design keeps a training pool, as at present. The community pool

  • Many happy returns

    After being very disappointed that the Tockwith Show had to be cancelled last year because of flooded fields I eagerly awaited this year's show. I spent a very enjoyable day at the showground looking at shirehorses, Shetland ponies, falconry displays,

  • Mind-bender

    I SEE pop superstar Justin Timberlake has been voted the world's sexiest man ('Justin is the sexiest' Evening Press, August 4) pipping 'Golden Balls' (Mr Posh Spice) into top spot! But can he 'bend it better than Beckham'? Dale Minks, Ancress Walk, York

  • Skipper slams City's critics

    CAPTAIN Darren Edmondson is determined to prove York City's doubters wrong when the new Division Three campaign gets underway at Carlisle United tomorrow. The Minstermen are being tipped for the drop by the bookies and pundits this season but new skipper

  • Brass keeps cards close to his chest

    YORK City player-boss Chris Brass was keeping coy as he prepared for his managerial baptism at Carlisle United. The City supremo reckons to have selected his first squad for Saturday's opening day clash at Brunton Park but was giving little away as to

  • Carlisle bulk up with experience

    CARLISLE United are expected to feature a hat-trick of new but old faces for the opening day visit of York City on Saturday. Thirtysomethings Paul Simpson, Chris Billy and Steve Livingstone have all arrived at Brunton Park over the summer. Former Rochdale

  • Cinema agrees to keep its sign

    THE famous 'Odeon' sign at York's last classic-style picture house is to stay, after a U-turn by cinema bosses. Owners of the Odeon, in Blossom Street, had applied to change the letters at the front of the building from 'Odeon' to 'Cinema', or to remove

  • Drivers get in a jam on the A64

    AN ACCIDENT, late-night shopping and the return of day-trippers from the coast combined to halt the flow of traffic on the A64 near York. Traffic was reduced to one lane in each direction when a motorhome overturned on the central reservation. The accident

  • Heroin addict thief took knives to court

    A HEROIN addicted thief who tried to take knives into York Magistrates Court has been jailed for 12 months. Matthew Harding, prosecuting, said that Philip James Nicholas had knives of three inches, four inches and five inches long in his possession when

  • Lottery probe at club is dropped

    AN INVESTIGATION into claims that thousands of pounds went missing in a York club's lottery scratch card game has been dropped, the Evening Press can reveal. York Police launched a probe in March into Fulfordgate Working Men's Club, in Heslington Lane

  • York aim to bounce back

    YORK Cricket Club will be seeking to preserve their seven-point lead at the head of the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB Premier League when they entertain lowly Appleby Frodingham on Saturday. They welcome back Marcus Wood from holiday and skipper Nigel Durham

  • Caf quarter fails to stop vodka revolution

    RESIDENTS, business owners, a clergyman and an 11-year-old boy have lost their battle to keep a vodka bar out of York's caf quarter. The city's magistrates yesterday granted Inventive Leisure PLC a licence to run a Revolution vodka bar in Back Swinegate

  • The moment when police siege ended

    THE centre of a North Yorkshire town was brought to a standstill when a man thought to be armed with a knife locked himself into a flat, leading to a stand-off with police lasting nearly three hours. The man was eventually dragged handcuffed from a block

  • Skipper slams City's critics

    CAPTAIN Darren Edmondson is determined to prove York City's doubters wrong when the new Division Three campaign gets underway at Carlisle United tomorrow. The Minstermen are being tipped for the drop by the bookies and pundits this season but new skipper

  • House where sex is for sale

    SEX is being sold by Oriental women in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac on the outskirts of York, the Evening Press can reveal. A brothel, involving a number of Far Eastern prostitutes, has been set up in a semi-detached house in Whitley Close, Clifton Moor

  • York college chief gets national role

    THE principal of York St John College is to begin a new role promoting the values of higher education in the UK. Professor Dianne Willcocks has been elected as the next chairman of The Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP), a position she will hold

  • FEVA pitch...

    FEVA, the Knaresborough Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts, begins its ten-day run today. Opened at midday by Town Crier Nancy Buckle, the annual festival combines theatre, comedy, music, film, poetry, walks, street entertainment, dining events

  • I always wanted to be a woman

    Trans-sexuals and cross-dressers from all over the world gather in Harrogate this weekend for an International Trans-Gender Conference. Former man Janett Scott, right, tells STEPHEN LEWIS about learning to live with her feminine side. JANETT Scott has

  • Somnus is wide awake for GB tilt - 08/08/03

    The jockeys will grab most of the headlines at Ascot tomorrow when the cream of Britain and Ireland will lock horns with a team from the Rest of the World, but trainer Tim Easterby is hoping that Somnus also plays a starring role at the fully-televised

  • Sunny gloom

    WATCHING the harvest being brought in is one of the finest rural sights. It has been a common one this week as farmers across North Yorkshire have been busy gathering their crops while the sun shines. You may have thought that this would be a cause for

  • Life is a cabriolet

    WHEN Volkswagen launched the new Beetle soft top earlier this year, it offered magazines not usually associated with motoring the chance to use the car for fashion shoots and the like. The invitation was readily accepted. It gave VW a showing in places

  • Good Bye, Lenin! (15, 121 minutes)

    ANOTHER barrier comes tumbling down, as that old chestnut about the Germans never making a funny comedy has to be consigned to the history book. The year is 1989, and the Berlin Wall is about to fall when dedicated Communist mother Christiane (Katrin

  • What A Girl Wants (PG, 105 minutes)

    AH, London, city of open-top buses, rhyming slang, red telephone boxes by the Cutty Sark, stately homes with huge grounds and a policeman on the gate, market stalls on the South Bank, and young, clean-cut musicians just waiting to be discovered at nice

  • Angst of the weatherman

    IN a doctor's surgery somewhere in the heart of downtown Metropolis sits Weatherman, the super-hero for the 21st century. He is not a happy little meteorologist. Doctor: So, what seems to be the trouble? Are you suffering a bit in this heatwave you've

  • Sunny gloom

    WATCHING the harvest being brought in is one of the finest rural sights. It has been a common one this week as farmers across North Yorkshire have been busy gathering their crops while the sun shines. You may have thought that this would be a cause for

  • Don't confuse New Labour with the old one

    ONE important word was missing from the 'yes/no' views in your feature on Tony Blair being the longest serving Labour leader and his record as such ('Has Labour shed its principles?' July 31). That word was: 'new'. In 1997 Mr Blair made it clear his was

  • End of an era as hospital tea bar closes

    VOLUNTEERS were today working their last shift on the WRVS tea bar at York Hospital as the charity prepares to open a new caf and shops on the site. From Monday morning the new facilities in the entrance of the hospital - created as part of a major redevelopment

  • York college chief gets national role

    THE principal of York St John College is to begin a new role promoting the values of higher education in the UK. Professor Dianne Willcocks has been elected as the next chairman of The Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP), a position she will hold

  • Brothers fought over sword

    TWO blood-covered Selby brothers fought over a sword as people on a night out in York city centre watched, magistrates heard. Eyewitnesses to the struggle between Anthony David Blackburn, 27, and his younger brother, Mark Andrew Blackburn, 24, deluged

  • Harvesting starts early for county farmers

    FARMERS across North Yorkshire are busy gathering their harvest while the sun shines. Glasses are being raised to the current heatwave, as it means harvest time has begun slightly earlier. Among the farm workers welcoming the weather was Paul Wainwright

  • Noble's effort proves all in vain

    BARRY Noble notched 180 for 17 darts, followed by 180 for 18, for Slipper in their York Unique-Phoenix League division one encounter with Clifton. Noble's effort against Martyn Turner (21) levelled the scores at 2-2. However, Graham Sanderson (22 and

  • Heat boosts tourist trade

    A BUMPER weekend for tourism is in store for York, as spare hotel rooms run scarce and the sun is set to sizzle. Gillian Cruddas, chief executive of York Tourism Bureau, said tourist information centres had reported a rush of bookings this week. She said

  • Booming sport - that's 'offishal'

    ANGLING is becoming more popular - and that's official. According to a recent report by the Environment Agency, the sales of rod licences for the first half of the year were 22 per cent higher than for the equivalent period last year. The news could be

  • Fulford tees up a roll call of fame

    Fulford Golf Club has bagged some of the world's greatest players to link up with the club. Major winners such as Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle, Tony Jacklin and newly-appointed Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer have all agreed to accept membership of the Heslington-based

  • Brass keeps cards close to his chest

    YORK City player-boss Chris Brass was keeping coy as he prepared for his managerial baptism at Carlisle United. The City supremo reckons to have selected his first squad for Saturday's opening day clash at Brunton Park but was giving little away as to

  • Six lined up for Studio

    A NEW play about the prison meeting of Sam, a 25-year-old black man on Death Row, and Barbara, a white British woman old enough to be his mother, will receive its premiere in York as part of the new Studio season at York Theatre Royal. Sara Clifford's

  • CD release for ska punks Duck Sick

    DUCK Sick, the York ska punks with the circus showmanship, are releasing a six-track CD. Available from band members and at gigs for £6, On Air assembles six of the best tracks from Duck Sick's burst of song-writing activity at the end of 2002. After

  • He's the bossa

    JULIAN Lloyd Webber will be answering questions, not least his own, when he presents the world premiere performance of his new Bossa Nova band tomorrow at York Racecourse. "There are a few unknowns about this show," says the cellist, who is more associated