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  • Mitts off Snowman Norman... he's ours

    CHRISTMAS can be a stressful time for everyone. But spare a thought for rocker-turned-publican Garry Barrett. He has been forced to mount a round-the-clock Yuletide vigil to protect his inflatable snowman. Garry and partner Penny Chaplin took over at

  • Tigers' ticket allocation sold

    A BUMPER crowd of more than 7,000 is expected at Bootham Crescent on Boxing Day for the all-ticket Christmas derby match against rivals Hull City. Tickets are going fast for the Nationwide Division Three tie and the full Hull allocation of 3,300 has already

  • FA rapped over grounds rule

    FOOTBALL Supporters Federation chairman Malcolm Clarke has expressed his despair at the English football authorities' continued failure to introduce a rule preventing other clubs from suffering the same fate as York City. Clarke believes football clubs

  • Fox hunts festive return

    YORK City midfielder Christian Fox's best present this Christmas would be a return to the Minstermen's starting line-up. Fox was an unused substitute at Torquay on Saturday as he returned to the first-team squad for the first time since September's 2-

  • Peter Pan

    Jason Isaacs tells Liz Howell about his latest villain role - Captain Hook in Peter Pan. IN recent years Jason Isaacs seems to have cornered the market in evil villains. His Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the American Revolution drama

  • York coffee bar to star in army recruitment advert

    A COFFEE bar in York is set to become a star of the small screen in an effort to boost army recruits. British filming company Academy Films chose city centre hotel Ramada Encore in Micklegate as the location for an advert for the Territorial Army. Crews

  • Expansion for parcel delivery enterprise

    A PARCEL delivery business has expanded into the York area, creating three new jobs. Husband-and-wife team Chris and Pat Young now has responsibility for delivering Interlink Express parcels to all addresses with a YO postcode. The expansion means there

  • Regional award for York salesman

    PHOTOCOPIER demonstrations have earned a York salesman a regional award. Gary Riley, 32, of Rawcliffe, scooped first prize at Canon's North and Midlands demonstration skills competition. Employed by Wallis Business Services for the last nine years as

  • Seven up

    Ahead of Saturday's farewell gig at the Barbican Centre, CHARLES HUTCHINSON gives a potted history of York's most famous band. Name: Shed Seven Otherwise known as: Shed 7 Named after: A York railway shed Formed: York, 1990 Personnel: Rick Witter, singer

  • Have a Deep Blues Christmas

    In the Deep Blues Club midwinter in York, a Christmas special is on the cards this year, after complaints over the lack of a festive show in December 2002. "Last year we opted out," admits co-promoter Tony Clarke. "It's a busy enough time of year without

  • Duped by the BBC's speedy news flash

    ON TUESDAY evening, I headed for the Westminster Arms pub. After no more than a sip or two, I glanced over at the giant screen in the corner. Only five minutes from the Commons, it is a favourite haunt of policy spin doctors and even MPs who can just

  • Same again at Claro Road

    DERBY duty beckons for Harrogate, who tackle North Yorkshire neighbours Wharfedale at Claro Road in a key National Two game (2.15pm ko). Harrogate coach Ralph Zoing has refused to panic after his second-placed team lost 27-7 at Moseley last week in a

  • Malton stock hits the heights

    ADAPTABLE Malton and Norton showed true grit at the Stocksbridge ground, which occupies probably the most inhospitable position in Yorkshire. Sat on top of the Pennines with a force nine gale blowing from one end to the other is hardly the best conditions

  • Give fans fare deal

    I READ your article on travelling on foot - or otherwise - to the proposed York City stadium at Huntington (December 15). I visited Hamburg last year and enjoyed watching the local football team play against Wolfburger - home of Volkswagen car - in an

  • How the city benefits from Park and Ride services

    IN response to Mr Usherwood's letter (December 15) let me set the record straight about the excellent value that the York Park and Ride service provides to the city, its residents, businesses and visitors. Unlike many Park and Ride operations nation-wide

  • I never said that

    IF I had said the loss of Norwich Union jobs would benefit York - as Frank Ormston claims (Letters, December 13) - I should understand why there was concern in York. But I didn't. According to Parliament's official record, I said: "I regret the loss of

  • Bikers make tracks

    I MUST respond to your article 'Move to keep motorbikes off historic tracks' (December 12). The so-called historic tracks are, in fact, unmade roads that have the same rights of way as other roads in this country. Therefore, motorcyclists have every right

  • Powergen Challenge Cup

    Third round draw... Sharlston (A) v Dewsbury Rams London Skolars v Rochdale Mayfield (A) Hull KR v UTC (F) Swinton Lions v East Hull (A) Featherstone Rovers v Castleford Lock Lane (A) Barrow Raiders v Pia (F) Hunslet Hawks v Featherstone Lions (A Thatto

  • £28.6m county roads bonanza

    NORTH YORKSHIRE highways chiefs have been handed £28.6 million by the Government to repair roads and improve transport next year. The Department for Transport announced its annual budgets for local authorities yesterday. North Yorkshire County Council's

  • Rail firm's plan hits buffers

    A TRAIN operator's plans to create a new service linking York with major northern cities has met with opposition from rail bosses. York-based Grand Central Railway hopes to run four daily train services between York, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Manchester

  • Postman spared jail for stealing

    A FORMER York postman has escaped jail after bringing "utter shame" on himself and his family by trying to steal cash from birthday cards. Young father Martin James Harper, 21, also took a music CD from a parcel ordered by a York resident. City magistrates

  • Councillors agree to double parking fees

    YORK council chiefs are pushing ahead with controversial increases in residents' parking charges, which have been branded a new "tax" by opponents. City of York Council's ruling executive last night voted to double Respark charges from March 28. Labour

  • Probe steps up

    YORK detectives were continuing to work with West Yorkshire Police officers in Leeds today as they try to trace a man who may hold vital clues to a double murder inquiry. Police have visited several addresses in the Meanwood area of the city as they search

  • Fox hunts festive return

    YORK City midfielder Christian Fox's best present this Christmas would be a return to the Minstermen's starting line-up. Fox was an unused substitute at Torquay on Saturday as he returned to the first-team squad for the first time since September's 2-

  • Addict jailed for killing OAP

    A DRUG ADDICT who killed a York pensioner during a daylight street robbery was today jailed for six-and-a-half years. Four public-spirited office workers who chased and caught the attacker, 22-year-old Wayne Kenneth Cooper, are to get a £300 award each

  • Steve is a real all-year Santa

    CHRIS TITLEY joins the charity fund boss who gives out presents all year round. HE doesn't look much like Father Christmas. Steve Robinson has a Santa twinkle in his eye, certainly, but he is slim, prefers sober business suits to a fur-lined red number

  • Vaults leap-frog Albion in knockout stunner

    SHOCK exits thundered through the third round of the John Smith's Bitter Cup. Leading the giant-killing way were division six outfit Albion Vaults who toppled division two visitors Acomb SC 4-1. Lee Ward gave Albion the lead by scoring from the penalty

  • Town's no Alf measure

    Harrogate Town take a breather from the UniBond League with a first round President's Cup tie at Alfreton Town. Manager John Reed said: "We have only lost once in the last 12 games in the league and this week we get a break from it. "We have got as good

  • Robins best is Lyon's prize

    SELBY Town will have to be on their game tomorrow to overcome mid-table Glapwell in the Northern Counties East League premier division. Manager Bob Lyon will have a virtually complete squad to pick from for the Robins' match with both Russell Barley and

  • Such shabby treatment

    WENDY Barker and Tracey Cunningham are children's champions. They should be cherished and supported by York youth services. Instead the council has treated the women shabbily. The pair set up Molys Kitchen because, in Wendy's words at the time, "we had

  • Glass, York Art Gallery, from November 8 to January 18

    NEW work by the cream of British contemporary glass artists goes on show at York Art Gallery from next week. The eight artists were all short-listed for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, the most prestigious award in the applied and decorative arts in Britain

  • Wise move to do the Overstrand - 19/12/03

    Overstrand, who did this column such a good turn when providing a 9-1 winning nap at Sandown two weeks ago, is again burdened as the star selection tomorrow as he bids to complete a notable double at Ascot. The Mary Reveley-trained gelding goes for the

  • Wood out for six weeks

    LEIGH Wood could be sidelined until February after having a shoulder operation yesterday. The Selby-born 20-year-old will be out for four to six weeks and City boss Chris Brass said: "It's a blow for him because he has done well this season and hopefully

  • Skills boost for York workforce

    ADULTS living in York have higher qualifications than the average across York and North Yorkshire. Almost one-in-four are qualified to NVQ level four or above, compared to an average of just over one-in-five elsewhere in the area. They are also less likely

  • Company's technology designed to give a helping hand

    A WORLD class engineering company in North Yorkshire has earned praise for its part in trying to bring a smile to the face of tragic Ali Abbas, the Baghdad boy who was terribly injured by a US rocket in the Iraq war. Claro Precision Engineering, of Knaresborough

  • Rail firm recruits Santa's helpers

    SEEK out Santa's little helpers to put you on the right track. More staff are being recruited by York-based railway service GNER to lend a helping hand to thousands of extra passengers who will be travelling over the Christmas and New Year holiday. At

  • Restaurant chain's recipe for success

    A YORK-based chain of Bangladeshi restaurants has earned a top award from an East Yorkshire town. The Bengal Brasserie group which has restaurants in Goodramgate, York, and in York Business Park, Poppleton, has won Restaurant Of The Year for its latest

  • Wizard of Ozzy

    The battle is on for this year's Christmas number one. David Martin separates the crackers from the turkeys. IT'S all Slade's fault, of course. All those years (no, centuries surely) of exposure to Noddy and the boys has made us inextricably link Christmas

  • Dose of Suzy

    YORK country singer Suzy Martell has released her new single, A Dose Of You, a record that marks her move into the blues. "I'm just back from Nashville. Very jet lagged, but it was a brilliant trip," she says. "I got the single launched and it's doing

  • Artisan, National Centre For Early Music, December 22

    TAKE a large spoonful of glorious vocal harmony, place on a well-lit York stage and apply a dollop of original, intelligent songs of the season. Then add traditional English Christmas songs and carols, stir in a dash of humour and a pinch of pantomime

  • Jazz notes...

    The one remaining jazz club event is on Saturday (20th), the Jazz at the Crown Christmas Party with the Yorkshire Post Jazz Band. Please note that Jazz at the Crown has moved and the new venue will be the Trustees Hall on Boston Spa High Street. Organisers

  • Coming up...

    LAMBCHOP, Kurt Wagner's experimental Nashville collective, are to play York Barbican Centre on March 27 in one of only seven dates on next year's British tour. Part alternative country band, part rustic soul revue, part American roots chamber orchestra

  • Harrogate flier wings in for York

    YORK are looking for an early Christmas present with a win over Stockton which would allow them to leap over their opponents and out of the North East Two relegation zone. The Clifton Parkers will have a new face on the wing in Dave Moss-Brundle who joins

  • Busy Pock spoiled for choice at York RI

    POCKLINGTON travel to York RI for a crucial Yorkshire Three derby tomorrow. With attendance at training and competition for first team shirts both high, Pock have decided to name 40 players and will make a late decision on the line-ups for the 1st XV

  • Congratulations from a flight hero to Wrights

    FROM the beginning of manned flight there has been a very special relationship between America and Britain in matters of aeronautics. This is what Wilbur Wright said about pioneer of flight Sir George Cayley (1773-1857): "The father of aviation: about

  • Why I object to flats

    YOUR report about attempted over-development with flats of the former Wray's Brick Yard, now called Birch Park Industrial Estate, had Ian McAndrew of Harrison's stating "the sooner the area is developed the better for local residents" (December 16). As

  • Building for success

    PERHAPS I could end the suspicions raised in the letter from LC Butler of Meadlands (December 15) about the new development north of Osbaldwick. This concerns the process of choosing the planners and architects. The choice was made in January 2000, not

  • Help the children

    WE often read of the problems facing our children and young people today including abuse, bullying, bereavement, family breakdown, exam stress and truanting. Do readers realise that this month they have a chance to make a difference? The Government is

  • Minster chief in tourism appeal for city

    A YORK Minster manager has called for everyone in the city to work together to attract more tourists in 2004. Visitor services manager Steve Hemming says that, following the introduction of admission charges, the cathedral now finds itself in an extremely

  • Hard French test for Knights

    YORK City Knights hope it won't be a case of deja vu after being paired yet again with Villeneuve in the Powergen Challenge Cup. Last night's third round draw sees the French champions visit the Minster city for, amazingly, the third time in four years

  • Praise for officers who tackled digger man

    A POLICE chief has praised officers' bravery in tackling a driver who rammed three police vehicles with an 18-ton digger. They put their lives on the line to protect each other and members of the public, said Chief Superintendent John Lacy. He spoke after

  • Time to party

    Alex Lloyd dips her dancing shoes into the party season. WITH such a vast array of events on offer in York's pubs and clubs over Christmas and New Year, partygoers are left with the headache of choosing where to go before they've even hit the mulled wine

  • Vandals attack Toni's festive lights

    A SICK prankster has punctured a brain-damaged teenager's Christmas treat by wrecking her giant, illuminated, inflatable snowman. The ten-foot inflatable snowman was put up in 18-year-old Toni Wilson's garden in Main Street, Bishopthorpe, York, earlier

  • Sleightholme to call it quits

    NORTH Yorkshire's Jon Sleightholme is retiring from rugby union on December 31. The Northampton winger, who first experienced the sport as a junior with Malton and Norton RUFC, made it all the way to the top, being first capped by England in 1996 against

  • Leaders Sessions pulling away from the rest

    SESSIONS increased their lead in division one of the Integrated Utility Services York and District Table Tennis League with an 8-2 win over Strensall 'A', Mick Wilcockson and Chris Nicholls each winning three for Sessions. Groves WMC 'B' climb the table

  • Signs of old age 'offensive'

    A YORK doctor has claimed road signs depicting pensioners and disabled people are offensive. Dr Richard Gale, a specialist registrar in ophthalmology at York District Hospital, has co-written the article in the British Medical Journal criticising the

  • FA rapped over grounds rule

    FOOTBALL Supporters Federation chairman Malcolm Clarke has expressed his despair at the English football authorities' continued failure to introduce a rule preventing other clubs from suffering the same fate as York City. Clarke believes football clubs

  • Hard French test for Knights

    YORK City Knights hope it won't be a case of deja vu after being paired yet again with Villeneuve in the Powergen Challenge Cup. Last night's third round draw sees the French champions visit the Minster city for, amazingly, the third time in four years

  • Club leaders quit after yobs attack

    VOLUNTEERS who run a York youth club have quit after they were suspended over an incident in which they were attacked by teenage thugs. Club leaders Wendy Barker and Tracey Cunningham say they were forced to remove a youth from the Moor Lane Centre in

  • Leaflet bid to tame youth

    CRIMEFIGHTERS today called on an entire York community to help them bring the full weight of the law down on a teenage tearaway - if he breaks a court order. Tang Hall residents will this weekend be sent a leaflet detailing the nuisance behaviour of Robin

  • Musical York

    Robbie Dale looks at what York's music scene has to offer students. SO HERE we are, the end of term. It may be darker and colder than it was in Freshers' Week some ten or so weeks ago, but hopefully the fancy Christmas lights and promise of a home-cooked

  • Saville fix it for top

    Saville AV took advantage of a blank week for Clifton to take over at the top of the York Sunday Afternoon League. Saville fired two goals past still-pointless Clifton Rangers without reply. Division one challengers College of Law mauled hosts Woodthorpe

  • Good look sign

    STILL with excessive political correctness, a York doctor is claiming that a road sign demeans old people. Dr Richard Gale says the sign implies that bent backs and walking sticks are part of advancing age. While bowing to Dr Gale's superior medical knowledge