Copmanthorpe snatched a point with a late penalty in their opening York Leeper Hare premier division game after coming back from a 3-1 deficit against visiting Huntington Rovers. Rovers' Paul Downes broke the deadlock with a looping first half header
WHEN the owner of one of Britain's most important stately homes, Lord Edward Manners, bought Monk Fryston Hall Hotel, he decided he wanted the best for his staff. Lord Edward, who owns Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, and is chairman of Rutland Hotels Ltd, launched
EMMERDALE star Clare King, who played Kim Tate in the TV soap, arrives in York on Thursday morning to toast in champagne the launch of Knavesmire Racing, a new licensed betting shop. The opening by Clare, who just lately has been featuring in the Bad
MOTOR retailer Nidd Vale Group's £62 million General Motors division in Harrogate and Wetherby is being de-merged in a management buy-out. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, has been led by Colin Hainstock, formerly managing director of the group's 150
ON behalf of the Morrell family and the York Conservation Trust, I should like to enter into the arena regarding the future of Burton Croft, the former home, for 57 years (1907-1963), of one of the greatest benefactors the city of York has ever seen.
NEW figures on football-related violence reveal the number of fans arrested at York City games last season more than doubled those of the previous year. But the total figure of 13 arrests still places the club way down the list in football's league table
WOMEN who get out their hats and posh frocks for Ladies Day during the Ebor Festival at York Racecourse, which started today, could come away with more than just a few envious glances. A brilliant cut diamond pendant, set in 18-carat white gold, is the
A NEW type of tenancy is set to be introduced in York's council homes in a bid to clamp down on antisocial behaviour. Tenants in authority homes in the city will be on "probation" for a year as chiefs bring in temporary contracts from September. The introductory
Irish Oaks runner-up L'Ancresse will bid to go one place better in the Aston Upthorpe Yorkshire Oaks at York on Wednesday. Aidan O'Brien's filly is one of an eight-strong line up for the Group One race which is headed by last year's winner Islington.
THREATENED bus strikes in York this week have been suspended after First bosses tabled a new offer to union chiefs. Action planned for Thursday and Saturday will now not take place after officials at the Transport & General Workers' Union (TGWU) agreed
PLAY-MAKER supreme Scott Rhodes is determined to give York City Knights a timely boost should they reach the National League Two play-offs. The stand-off, who was named the division's player of the month for July before being sidelined by a knee injury
Jane Sachedina was one of the first British women to have a child through egg donation. Thirteen years on, she says donors are needed more than ever. MAXINE GORDON reports. JANE Sachedina was only 18 when she lost all hope of ever having her own child
THE Evening Press campaign to keep the world-famous York Mystery Plays alive has won backing from the York Guilds' Wagon Plays Board. The Guilds performed Mystery Plays on the backs of pageant wagons in the city's streets in 2002, and are aiming to stage
When it comes to driving a hard bargain, they don't come much more useless than Yours Truly. So useless, in fact, that when we bought a new bathroom suite recently, I managed to bargain the price upwards rather than downwards. I did this by reminding
Friendly, caring, cheerful and thoughtful are just some of the words used to describe our second in-store superstar, Linda Richardson, who has been presented with a bouquet for outstanding customer service. Linda, a 44-year-old mum-of-three from Huntington
JO HAYWOOD meets two women with a mission to solve 'murders' of the cloth. While TV style gurus Trinny and Susannah scare the pants off their fashion victims, Yorkshire's answer to the dynamic duo go for a much softer option - they charm them off instead
Evening Press reader Julia Plowman won a day with a personal shopper who gave her a new, glamorous look. MAXINE GORDON reports "I've just turned 40, feel like I'm 20 and want to look 30 - help!" THAT was the plea from Julia Plowman, a part-time secretary
Not since Flint Jack in 1922-23 has any horse won the Ebor Handicap twice, but Hugs Dancer has an outstanding chance of bridging that gap and making his own little piece of racing history on Knavesmire tomorrow. Last year's popular hero of the Tote-sponsored
VENTURE into York after the shops have shut and before the nightlife picks up, and something strange happens.You enter the twilight zone. The city thronging with life an hour earlier has become a ghost town. A single ball of tumbleweed dances across a
TALKING of spotlights, the city will bask in the national one for the next three days. Only this morning, Luke Harvey, BBC Radio Five Live's resident racing pundit, was waxing lyrical from Knavesmire about York Racecourse being the most beautiful in Britain
If left to itself, any perfect market will provide whatever that particular market needs. As supply increases the price will fall and any profit the supplier has been making will be reduced. A market exactly in balance will supply the amount that is needed
MALTON Laser Ltd, the North Yorkshire laser engineering specialist, has now completed making components for 5,000 new, state-of-the-art ice cream dispensing machines for Richmond Ice Cream Ltd, the UK's largest ice cream manufacturer. Malton Laser cut
NOW it's Costcutters, the all-action movie! The York headquarters of the Costcutter supermarket chain came to the rescue of hungry and thirsty film-makers on the mean streets of Manchester when their catering budget ran out. An emergency call to the Costcutters
YORK-BASED rail operator GNER has turned to one of the city's top law firms to help with an intensifying crackdown on fare-dodgers. Langleys Solicitors has been appointed by the rail company to provide a legal consultancy service. The practice will advise
IN response to Yorkatt (August 16) and the endless news stories, I believe media studies is not an easy A Level. Why do journalists automatically assume that just because a subject is modern it is easy? I am doing four A levels, one of which is maths,
PERHAPS the closest approach for decades of the planet Mars is the culprit behind the American blackouts? Based on actual events, the opening scene of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was an interstate electrical shut-down caused by alien space machines
YORK City Football Club today urged its supporters to act responsibly in the wake of a fans' protest against under-fire developers Persimmon Homes. Pressure group the Friends of Bootham Crescent have stepped up their campaign against the York developers
NEW figures on football-related violence reveal the number of fans arrested at York City games last season more than doubled those of the previous year. But the total figure of 13 arrests still places the club way down the list in football's league table
York have regained the division one title of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League with a victory over last year's champions Poppleton. York boasted two new partnerships - Margaret Whitehead teaming up with Gareth Adams to top score, with Wendy Stirke and
PLANS for North Yorkshire County Council to "swallow up" local district councils are set to be sent for Government approval. A document supporting a "single unitary authority for the county" is being drawn up by the council, and it is expected that it
A TEAM-building exercise among colleagues in York has raised more than £450 for Macmillan Cancer Relief's York Appeal. Tim Snowden and three of his workmates from the Field Investigation Division at Imphal Barracks in Fulford Road put on their walking
THE Evening Press campaign to keep the world-famous York Mystery Plays alive has won backing from the York Guilds' Wagon Plays Board. The Guilds performed Mystery Plays on the backs of pageant wagons in the city's streets in 2002, and are aiming to stage
A BIKER who was seriously hurt in a motorcycle crash in York has been named as 38-year-old Shaun Gordon Smith. Mr Smith was critically-ill today at Leeds General Infirmary today after he was involved in a collision with a silver Subaru, near the junction
WHILE many 18-year-olds have been celebrating their A-level results, one York College student is happy to just to be alive. Laura Rafferty, of Melbourne Street, Fishergate, York, came close to death when she was struck down by the deadly meningitis B
YORK City Football Club today urged its supporters to act responsibly in the wake of a fans' protest against under-fire developers Persimmon Homes. Pressure group the Friends of Bootham Crescent have stepped up their campaign against the York developers
PLAY-MAKER supreme Scott Rhodes is determined to give York City Knights a timely boost should they reach the National League Two play-offs. The stand-off, who was named the division's player of the month for July before being sidelined by a knee injury
YORK City boss Chris Brass today moved to strengthen his fire-power by bringing in Tranmere Rovers' striker Paul Robinson. Robinson will make his first appearance in a City shirt tomorrow, when the Minstermen's reserves kick-off their second-string campaign
YORK at night could be transformed into a city of light under plans to keep tourists thronging the streets after teatime. A £2 million investment package is being proposed for York's heritage and historical attractions. A key element will be the introduction
HEADINGLEY, here we come. That's the battle-cry ringing loud and proud out of the England cricket dressing-room after their Trent Bridge thriller squared the npower Test series with South Africa. Less than three days after that enthralling 70-run victory
