A NEW £3.5 million building is being constructed in York to take the overflow of the growing staff numbers at Agilisys. When the 25,000 sq ft project, known as Meridian 2, off Blossom Street is completed at the end of November, three of its five floors
COUNCILLORS and chief officers of local authorities all over Britain are queuing to visit a small super-hi-tech room in Heworth Green, York, to marvel at its mammoth multi-million pound implications for e-Government. The plasma screen and computer-filled
A North Yorkshire design and marketing agency is taking some credit for helping its client to win a £90 million contract to maintain major roads. Aspect Design & Marketing, of Harrogate, worked with construction consultants A-one on the bid to manage
STRESS is on the increase in North Yorkshire - and lawyers are advising employers: "You had better take it seriously." Of 242 bosses approached in the county this month, 84 per cent of them have noticed increased stress levels in their workforce over
HOW to tame your wild teenager was the topic of a weekend workshop. I had visions of a chap in jodhpurs and boots, wielding a whip and a chair at a snarling, spotty young berk. It conjured up this image of a sniper firing off a few rounds of tranquilliser
I WRITE in response to your request for suggestions for the future development for Coppergate. The recent television series Restoration, fronted by Griff Rhys Jones, on the need to restore some of the many old dilapidated and historic buildings throughout
I FULLY sympathise with the residents and drinkers of Pocklington over the change of their pub name to the Mucky Duck (September 16). The Exhibition Group has a history of changing pub names on its estate. The Anglers' Arms in Goodramgate became The Snickleway
BLACK Swan beat rivals Royal Oak 4-1 in their pride of Pickering clash in RJF Homes Beckett League division one. Oak are finding life tough at the top after running away with the second division championship last season. They have now dropped more points
THE cream of York's amateur footballers will start their preparations to win the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy from their Scarborough rivals this week. The Leeper Hare York and District League representative side play West Yorkshire outfit Red Triangle
SELBY Town have been handed a home draw in the first round proper of the FA Carlsberg Vase. The Robins, flying high in the Northern Counties East League premier division, will play either Newcastle Benfield Saints or Teesside outfit Thornaby on October
ACCOUNTS published today show York City were still losing more than £25,000 a week in the immediate aftermath of the fan take-over which saved the football club from oblivion. City insisted today its money worries had "significantly improved" since June
ARMED with £15 million, a giant property company is on the hunt to swallow up other housing development firms in North and East Yorkshire. The McInerney Group says it regards the region as "the next hotspot." as the number of first time buyers is set
YORK'S accident and emergency department has been given a clean bill of health after it was examined by cleanliness assessors. The department at York Hospital, Wigginton Road, was inspected by The Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT), which carries
A DRINK-DRIVER whose vehicle "clipped" a motorcyclist was hiding on a roof when the biker and police officers tracked him down. Craig Darren Batters, who was more than three times the legal alcohol limit at the time, was jailed for three months by York
A PARKING space in York's Castle car park was turfed over today by campaigners who want the area below Clifford's Tower to become public parkland. Bemused motorists - and a parking attendant - watched as York Green Party members bought a parking ticket
CITY of York Hockey Club's first team wound up their pre-season programme with a 2-1 defeat at home against Cannock II. Cannock led 1-0 at half-time and, although Richard Jenkins played well as York enjoyed territorial supremacy in the second half, Cannock
YORKSHIRE left-arm fast bowler, Ryan Sidebottom, has quit Yorkshire after being unable to resolve a disagreement with the club. His departure is expected to be officially announced at Headingley tomorrow when Yorkshire give details of their retained list
NEW York City Knights coach Richard Agar says he can't wait to start working with the Knights' highly-rated half-back combination. The 31-year-old, installed as Knights boss over the weekend, is himself a former play-maker, having starred at stand-off
ACCOUNTS published today show York City were still losing more than £25,000 a week in the immediate aftermath of the fan take-over which saved the football club from oblivion. City insisted today its money worries had "significantly improved" since June
YORK RUFC Under-14s added another piece of silverware to their collection when they lifted the East Yorkshire Ten title at Bridlington. Despite losing several players in the summer, the York group were able to take their 20th trophy from the last 21 events
NEW York City Knights coach Richard Agar says he can't wait to start working with the Knights' highly-rated half-back combination. The 31-year-old, installed as Knights boss over the weekend, is himself a former play-maker, having starred at stand-off
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARL Club's winning start to the Yorkshire League senior division season ended as they were beaten at home by Dewsbury Celtic 30-18. The visitors, coached by former Great Britain scrum-half Deryck Fox, now top the table with three
York pedestrians, cyclists and motorists are often at loggerheads. But PAUL OSBORNE believes we could learn from a European city which has travelled down a more peaceful road. SEVEN years ago, I took a party of York schoolchildren to visit Odense in Denmark
Jane Allnutt is bowing out of the baby business after 20 years. MAXINE GORDON reports. FEW prospects can be as daunting as becoming a parent. The awareness that life will never be the same again is tied to a complete lack of comprehension of quite how
JO HAYWOOD gets her elbows off the table and takes a lesson in tea time etiquette at Castle Howard. HEATHER Eisenhut is an American with a love of all things English. She studied our literature, she revels in our history and she adores walking her dog
ONE hundred years ago, York families were moving into New Earswick. It was a short but momentous journey. They left behind squalid city centre slums. Their new homes had three bedrooms, an oven, a garden and south-facing living rooms. New Earswick was
TRADITIONALISTS reading our feature on page 13 may think it impertinent that an American should deign to teach us how to take tea. Our empire was built on a strong cuppa, after all. Yet it crumbled like shortcake long ago. Now the nation that gave the
Trainer Barry Hills, far and away the leading handler at Chester, can enhance his reputation at the famous Roodee course tomorrow. Hills saddles Mutawaffer in the EBF Conditions Stakes and the two-year-old is fancied to beat his two rivals. The mount
Julie Maughan has been appointed as the new director of human resources at York St John College, starting next month. She succeeds Julie McClelland, who has left York St John College to join the University of Huddersfield as director of human resources
A NEW £500,000 scheme is under way to transform disused wartime munitions buildings in North Yorkshire into modern premises for small and start-up businesses. It involves creating more than 18,500 sq ft of new business space by refurbishing three former
A York businessman, race horse owner and commercial property landlord has bought the Bootham Bar Hotel, High Petergate, York off an asking price of £525,000. He is Steve Hull, who sold Online Computer Services, the software company in Shipton Road to
A BIG consultation programme with businesses to avoid disruption from a £10 million building project in Harrogate is working, say the contractors. Totty Construction says that work to redevelop the seven-storey Harrogate House landmark in the Montpelier
FAMILY-run Smith Brothers, the interior design and home improvement specialist is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the opening of a new extension at its showrooms in Osbaldwick Link Road, York, on Friday. The extra space means that a £500,000 three-year
LAME excuse number nine: beware the demon drink. It forced one teenager to burgle the same newsagent on three separate occasions at a cost of almost £7,000 - a sobering thought (September 17). Thankfully, the shop owner is sleeping soundly knowing the
EXACTLY when City of York Council decided to shoot Newgate Market in the foot no one seems to know. Somewhere along the line during a meeting a voice said: "Let's undermine Newgate Market by having special events in Parliament Street" and off they went
By the time that you read this, the 2003 Nidderdale Show at Pateley Bridge, run by the Nidderdale Agricultural Society, will have been and gone. I am writing before the show. Traditionally, it is the last of the season. Normally by now the weather has
A DEVELOPER hopes to begin the revival of rundown Piccadilly in York with a scheme to build 14 flats. The move comes only weeks after the decision to turn down the controversial Coppergate Riverside scheme, which involved new shops along Piccadilly. Andrew
WHO'RE ya gonna call? York Busters! Staff from the Hilton Hotel, York, have pooled their talents to form a team ready to bring a smile to the faces of all who need to get a job done. Anthony Worrall, general manager of the 130-bedroom four star hotel
TURF grower Rolawn of Elvington has announced three key staff appointments as part of its strategy to increase its share of the UK turf and topsoil market. They are John Carter, Paul Harborne and Jonathan Hill, all three keen golfers. Mr Carter, 41, has
WARD Building Components of Sherburn near Malton has promoted Ken Bielby to business development manager for its cladding products division. Mr Bielby originally joined Ward more than 15 years ago. He spent ten years in the Ward technical department,
EVERYBODY is allowed a bad day at the office, so it is probably best for York City Knights that they write this game off as just that. A lacklustre display saw them 16-0 down with barely 11 minutes on the clock and they never looked capable of recovering
CABBIES may be notorious for their chatter, but a North Yorkshire taxi firm is about to become famous for its politeness. The nation's first Courteous Cabby Award has gone to Des and Paula Peirson of Appleby's Taxi service in Pickering, who are thriving
AN EXPECTANT mother fears she may be homeless when her baby is born in three weeks. Keeley Williams and fiance Martin Worth will have to move out of their home - a static caravan - in two weeks, with nowhere else to go. The couple were promised a home
OFFICE workers at Monks Cross who are hoping to wet their whistle after work are going to be waiting for a long time - as a bar or restaurant is not planned for the site for over 18 months. Hundreds of Norwich Union workers have already started work in
A DEVELOPER hopes to begin the revival of rundown Piccadilly in York with a scheme to build 14 flats. The move comes only weeks after the decision to turn down the controversial Coppergate Riverside scheme, which involved new shops along Piccadilly. Andrew
RECORD-breaker Aaron Lennon is standing by for his first Leeds United start in tomorrow night's Carling Cup tie against Swindon. Leeds-born Lennon was just 16 years and 129 days old when he made his Premiership debut as a substitute at Tottenham a month
FOURTEEN households have turned down offers of thousands of pounds to allow their quiet York cul-de-sac to become a major access road into a new model village. Now the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - the organisation behind the 540-home New Osbaldwick
THE mystery surrounding a York family's disappearance deepened today when it was revealed that a ten-year-old girl had been left behind. Georgie May Allen, whose elder sister, mother and stepfather have all disappeared, was left at the family home in
A YORK teenager had bought a motorcycle only hours before he died on it in a road acident. Seventeen-year-old Sami Safder had decided to give up road-biking after a minor accident earlier this year. But the apprentice electrical engineer, of New Lane,
THE day shouldn't begin before 7am. It just shouldn't. It's wrong. At 7.01am, I can just about open my eyes without the use of a car jack, but at 6.59am nothing less than a stick of dynamite in each ear will do it. I readily admit that I am not a morning
AFTER years being jettisoned by England as a player, Glenn Hoddle's dismissal as national coach perhaps did not come as a major surprise. Hoddle, unarguably the most gifted player of his generation, was repeatedly rejected by England managers during a
YORKSHIRE left-arm fast bowler, Ryan Sidebottom, has quit Yorkshire after being unable to resolve a disagreement with the club. His departure is expected to be officially announced at Headingley tomorrow when Yorkshire give details of their retained list
