Runner Bean can keep one step ahead of his rivals at Huntingdon tomorrow. The Richard Lee-trained nine-year-old goes for the Flahive Brickwork Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Chase and is fancied to gain his third course success of the year. Runner Bean
THESE are the faces of the two men found bludgeoned to death in a York bedsit. York Police released the images today as the distraught families of father-of-three Kevin Mulgrew, 38, and Daniel Wall, 27, spoke of their anguish. The two York families backed
THE Yorkshire Dales tourism industry was today celebrating a cash windfall of more than £700,000, destined to strengthen its future marketing and product development over the next three years. Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, has agreed
STAFF training has earned a North Yorkshire business an absolutely fabulous national award. Actress Joanna Lumley, star of the BBC comedy Absolutely Fabulous, presented Escrick Park Estate with a National Training Award, at a prestigious gala dinner at
BERWICK Kaler's silver jubilee as the Theatre Royal dame is not the only significant theatre anniversary in York this pantomime season. Eileen Lavender is celebrating her fiftieth year, and the evergreen director's golden anniversary production opened
CHILDREN from four west York primary schools battled it out at the first ever Lowfield Family Mixed Five-A-Side football tournament. Six teams of boys and girls took part in the inaugural event organised by Lowfield School with the help of Oaklands Sports
COUNCIL chiefs in York are to be asked to give the thumbs up to a cash injection to rebuild a play area gutted by fire. Emergency funding of £6,000 is set to be approved to help clean up Bell Farm adventure playground, which was set alight last month
INJURY-RAVAGED York Groves took revenge on Bailiff Bridge with an 18-12 Pennine League division five victory, having lost to them the previous week. Many of the Groves players upped their game, notably Neil Martyn and stand-in full back Paul Watson who
POLICE say there is still no trace of a York civil servant who went mysteriously vanished almost four weeks ago. Peter Critchlow, 25, was last seen in the Heworth Green area at 3.30am on Saturday, November 17, after a night out with friends at The Old
YORK City wing-back Steve Downes will make his playing comeback in this afternoon's reserve clash with Newcastle United at Bootham Crescent (2pm). Downes has been sidelined with injury since his last first-team appearance during the 2-1 LDV Vans Trophy
TIME is running out for York City Knights RL fans to get their hands on cut-price season tickets for the new season. More than 300 have already snapped up the discounted tickets - more than a quarter of last season's average gate - and other fans wanting
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today declared he was not afraid to risk unpopularity by admitting Norwich Union could save money and ultimately grow stronger by switching jobs to India. He was due to raise the decision by Aviva, Norwich Union's parent company, to
I WISH York Market could be brought back to its rightful place in Parliament Street, where it was so popular and colourful. Why it was ever moved to its present location, at the back of Marks&Spencer and other shops on Parliament Street, I shall never
MR Wellburn's letter about the consultation over the future of secondary education in the West Side of York (December 8) implies that the local education authority is not responding to alternative proposals for solving the problem of declining pupil numbers
AS much as I enjoy seeing the Christmas lights - and these have improved over recent years - do we really need to see our beautiful covered Minster in garish colours andsnowflakes projected all over it? This wonderful building needs no enhancement, least
MONTHS of hard work came to fruition for children at a North Yorkshire school when they performed Cinderella to parents and grandparents. More than 70 children from Alne Primary School took part in a first performance. Work on the production started in
STUDENTS from Canon Lee and Lakeside Primary School teamed up for a Harry Potter day. The event was the fifth one to take place at Canon Lee, and included a dance, art and music performance and spell making. Year Seven students from Canon Lee worked alongside
YORK employers are helping 60 students with their health and social care GCSE. Moss Pharmacy, Heworth Green Nursery, Boots and Grove House are just a few of the businesses who will be helping students from Canon Lee, Milthorpe and Burnholme schools. The
YORK'S Joseph Rowntree School has been commended by inspectors, but told there is still room for improvement. Fifteen Ofsted inspectors visited the school and observed 200 lessons back in October, and published a 60-page report earlier this month. The
A LEADING figure linking the worlds of business and education used lyrics by controversial rap star Eminem to spur on school leavers during a York presentation night. Music-minded Paul Murphy, chief executive of North Yorkshire Business and Education
What better than a book for Christmas? STEPHEN LEWIS browses through a some festive offerings, Evening Press reviewers nominate their reads of the year and Hannah Stephenson predicts what will top the Christmas 'pops'. IF you are already suffering withdrawal
It's not easy being a prison dad - especially with Christmas looming. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. CHANCES are that if there is anyone you're going to feel sorry for this Christmas, it won't be one of the inmates at Her Majesty's Prison Wolds. Or any other
I PAID my way through university, Hugh Bayley has insisted to the Diary. Hugh's sudden backing for the introduction of variable student top-up fees is bound to cause a stir. Especially as he stated he was against the proposal four times in the Evening
FORMER York City defender Chris Hogg could be on the verge of joining Third Division rivals Boston United on a permanent basis. Ex-England Schools captain has been told he can leave Ipswich Town on a free transfer and that makes the Pilgrims favourites
YORK City wing-back Steve Downes will make his playing comeback in this afternoon's reserve clash with Newcastle United at Bootham Crescent (2pm). Downes has been sidelined with injury since his last first-team appearance during the 2-1 LDV Vans Trophy
SOARING insurance premiums could force businesses in York and North Yorkshire to close. Almost ten per cent of manufacturing companies and more than eight per cent of other businesses in Yorkshire have been refused employers' and public liability insurance
AWARD-WINNING e-commerce venture UK Juicers of Acaster Malbis has designed its own lifesaving juice press. Directors Nick Ledger and his uncle, Paul Hellawell, were today preparing to send their Hercules Hydraulic Press to a UK support group of the US
SCRAPPING audits for small businesses could leave firms vulnerable to fraud, a professional body has warned. The Government has decided to raise the audit exemption threshold for small companies from £1 million to £5.6 million. This will mean far fewer
Charity moves to bigger things. A CHARITY which provides training for the disabled has moved into a new North Yorkshire premises. Paperworks Ltd, which provides work experience for people with a range of learning and physical disabilities, has moved into
BOOTHAM Schools's judo players really got to grips with their North Yorkshire rivals. They were joint winners of the county championships in York with Leyburn School and won a total of six medals. Leading the way was Derek Lam, who was named 'man of the
Chief Constable Della Cannings will face the public over the increasing cost of running North Yorkshire Police at a series of meetings across the county. The county's most senior police officer is spearheading a drive for more cash to fund reform and
A GOLDEN anniversary is being celebrated by a York gardener, who has spent half-a-century tending the green spaces of a city suburb. Supervisor gardener Vic Atkins is now retiring after spending 50 years working with the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
A FAMILY'S dream holiday to see in the New Year in the Far East has been saved - thanks to the Evening Press. Father-of-three David Rhodes, of Dringhouses, York, was left devastated after his family was faced with being stranded in a Hong Kong airport
What better than a book for Christmas? STEPHEN LEWIS browses through a some festive offerings, Evening Press reviewers nominate their reads of the year and Hannah Stephenson predicts what will top the Christmas 'pops'. IF you are already suffering withdrawal
CHARITY worker Ian Stillman - who was freed from an Indian jail a year ago this week - is writing his life story. Ian's father, Roy, who lives in Dringhouses, York, said Ian had been working on his memoirs for some time and it might be another six months
TIME is running out for York City Knights RL fans to get their hands on cut-price season tickets for the new season. More than 300 have already snapped up the discounted tickets - more than a quarter of last season's average gate - and other fans wanting
BOSSES at a "garish" York pub are waiting to hear if its bright new decor will be banished, or if a ruling by council planners will be thrown out so the vivid colours can stay. When the former Falcon pub in Micklegate was refurbished and renamed Rumours
A LEADING York councillor today called for a major crackdown on retailers who sell alcohol to under-18s. Councillor Andrew Waller, City of York Council's executive member for environment and sustainability, said trading standards officers should have
LEEDS United are in talks with four rival parties interested in buying the cash-strapped club. And chief executive Trevor Birch says the players have a vital part to play if a deal is to be pushed through. Birch described the next six weeks as "the most
FORMER York City coach Adie Shaw has returned to North Yorkshire with his new charges after shipping them 5,000 miles from the Caribbean. The St Vincent and Grenadines squad touched down in sub-zero temperatures on Monday for a two-week games and training
THIS is the man police believe could hold the key to the grisly murder of two men, whose battered bodies were found in a York bedsit. Detectives today took the unusual step of naming 42-year-old Paul Marshall and urged the public not to approach him.
SO Leader of the House Peter Hain thinks the job losses at the Norwich Union (December 5) are a good thing for India, does he? As an employee of Norwich Union, who is now worrying that my job is on the line this Christmas, despite my managers' pleas to
INTERESTING choices were made in Jo Haywood's rummage through Santa's sack (December 6) and I echo her words on The French Kitchen by Joanne Harris and Fran Warde. I was fortunate to receive a token recently, so was able to splash out on this terrific
AS a very occasional reader of the Evening Press, I had missed any advance publicity about the paper's new look. It was a great surprise to buy a copy by chance and find the Evening Press is now lively and informative. Rather than feeling let down by
I WAS sorry to hear about the possible closure of the Odeon Cinema in York. I was even more sorry to hear the suggestions to build flats on the site. It would be a shame to see the cinema close. But if it must I, like many others, should like to see another
THE good people of Selby are to be offered no alternative if the proposed single-tier government comes to fruition. Selby was part of the old West Riding, the northern boundary being the River Ouse. In many respects those parishes which lie to the north
PRIME Minister Blair wants the British public to join with him in The Big Conversation. I should much prefer Tony Blair to take notice of the words from one of the hits from Elvis Presley; namely a little less conversation, a bit more action... please
TANG Hall School could be knocked down and rebuilt on an allotment site across the road if proposals are given the go-ahead. The local education authority, City of York Council, has come up with the plans, which would see the 70-year old building bulldozed
College chief to step down - THE first-ever female principal of Northallerton College has announced that she is standing down from her position next summer after nearly seven years in the job. Jennifer Slater, an experienced and well respected educator
CHILDREN can buy alcohol in York with distressing ease. The all-too-familiar sight of teenagers swigging from cans or bottles is evidence of that. Now we have official confirmation. This year, York Trading Standards officers have carried out test buying
INTERNATIONAL footballers are a mollycoddled lot. This sporting jet set know only mansions, five-star hotels and luxurious health spas. But it is not quite like that for the St Vincent and Grenadines squad. They have been flown from the balmy sunshine
