Church leaders are discussing ending the discrimination that exists between the rights of married and unmarried couples. JO HAYWOOD examines whether living together is for better or for worse. INCREASING numbers of people are choosing to live together
WELCOME to York & District Citizens' Advice Bureau's monthly advice column. Each month we will attempt to answer questions on different subjects. This month it is a follow-on column from one published last March regarding care costs being paid by
YORK City's latest full debutant Sean Davies has named manager Chris Brass as the player he looks to for inspiration. Davies, 18, made his first City start alongside Brass in defence during Tuesday night's 4-1 defeat at Lincoln. The Middlesbrough-born
PREPARATIONS for the 2004 Science City York Festival Of Discovery have taken on greater urgency in the light of a new survey which suggests that future skills shortages could halt the city's science-based boom. The festival, due to be held at venues across
PREPARATIONS for the 2004 Science City York Festival Of Discovery have taken on greater urgency in the light of a new survey which suggests that future skills shortages could halt the city's science-based boom. The festival, due to be held at venues across
A Northallerton pig farming family who lost all their livestock during the foot and mouth crisis is back in the pink, after receiving help and advice from Business Link York and North Yorkshire. John and Pat Wheldon, who have fully restocked their 80-
Business Link York and North Yorkshire is urging entrepreneurs to have the edge over competition and trade via the internet. An E-Procurement Awareness Seminar takes place at The Forest & Vale Hotel, Pickering, next Thursday, between 8.30am and 10.30am
A SCHEME to donate cash to York City Football Club by networking businesses in the city has proved a success. The York City Business Network was launched in September last year by Pete Brandon, of WPS Media. The networkers meet at monthly lunches and
MANY a different Swan has risen from the Lake. Why, even that ever-joyous Russian, Stalin, insisted on a happy-ever-after ending. Northern Ballet Theatre artistic director David Nixon has not gone quite so far, retaining the patina of Petipa's original
YORK youngster Steve Perks is getting ready to mix it with some of the best amateur rugby league players Down Under. The 19-year-old New Earswick All Blacks player will be joining Western Australia club Fremantle Roosters in the latest collaboration between
SUPPORTERS of a regional assembly for Yorkshire might vote against it if York's city boundaries are put at risk, council leader Steve Galloway has warned. If Yorkshire and Humber residents vote for a regional assembly then the region's local government
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to put a 40ft phone mast outside a York church today welcomed news that telecommunications company O2 has withdrawn its application. The mobile phone firm decided to seek an alternative site for the 3G mast after 200 residents
YORK Hospital's first administrator has died, aged 86. Charles Brice, of Heworth, York, died on Monday in the hospital he helped establish. He had suffered a stroke in January. Mr Brice had been an influential figure in York's health service for more
POLICE bosses are looking for fresh volunteers to bolster the ranks of Special Constables, who serve communities in York and across North Yorkshire. The force has joined a national campaign to attract new recruits to the unpaid uniformed role after a
A NORTH Yorkshire woman who has never had a job in her life is at loggerheads with job centre chiefs who have stopped her unemployment benefits. Susan Moore, 34, of Park View, Burythorpe, has claimed Job Seeker's Allowance for 16 years. She insists she
LEAGUE pursuits take a back seat on Saturday with round two of the GMB Union National Cup taking centre stage. York Acorn will be hoping to make it a full house of wins against Victoria Rangers following Acorn 'A' team's triumph over Rangers 'A' earlier
YORK and District Indoor Bowls Club Ladies team moved into the semi-finals of the Vivienne Trophy after bowling over 2002 cup winners Lincoln 87-71. Playing at home, Joyce Gee, Doreen Rodgers, Carroll Pink and Pat Lofthouse got into their stride and pulled
Selby Town could have handed Ossett Albion the Northern Counties East League premier division title after losing last night's crucial league game at Ossett 3-2. The Robins went down to a disputed 79th minute penalty, missing out on a chance to reclaim
YORK City's latest full debutant Sean Davies has named manager Chris Brass as the player he looks to for inspiration. Davies, 18, made his first City start alongside Brass in defence during Tuesday night's 4-1 defeat at Lincoln. The Middlesbrough-born
NESTLE Rowntree boss Chris White has denied his company is in crisis. He says reports claiming he said so took his comments out of context. He has also defended the performance of Nestl's leading KitKat brand - but he criticised the company's sponsorship
YORK City Knights have turned to Super League to temporarily fill a void in their front row. The Knights today signed Australian youngster Ryan Benjefield from Hull FC to fill the gap left by retired prop forward Rich Hayes. The 21-year-old former Penrith
STEPHEN LEWIS looks back in time to a day that changed the world - and ahead to a celebration of 200 years of trains. THE Penydarren could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be called beautiful. Black, squat and lumbering, she looks like an up-ended
SHOPLIFTING affects everyone, forcing up the costs of goods as shops pass on the bill for extra security. As with other crimes which blight modern life, shoplifting often has a link to drugs. This leader column yesterday looked at police efforts to tackle
THE new interpretation of the offside ruling has caused much controversy and, unfortunately, we were on the receiving end against Mansfield Town on Saturday. I think it's something that needs to be put in black and white now because there are too many
THE people at Yorkboat must have a heart attack about this time each year. Getting to work in the morning, as you do every morning, only this time you see a great burning boat hurtling down the river while crowds cheer its demise. The first reaction has
HOW fortunate that Chris Titley has drawn our attention to the valuable contribution made by JB Morrell to the debate on the future of our city ('Blueprint for a better city', February 16). Developers are so anxious to demolish Morrell's former home in
I WAS shocked to read about the violent attack on Nurse Jackie Jeffery at York Health Centre in Monkgate (February 13, Evening Press). I had to attend York Hospital recently for running repairs to my throat which has done considerable mileage in choirs
I SHOULD like to ask David Potter (Letters, February 16) a few questions about the position of York City in the Third Division last season compared with where they are now. The answer is, Mr Potter, York City finished two points short of a play-off place
It annoys me to hear of people who complain about noise pollution caused by Tucano aeroplanes (Letters, February 17). They are not massively loud. I'm sure that if they wished to they could fly all night every night. The fact they don't can only mean
ART house pop has never really been in vogue, but fresh from the success of their 2001 VerseBridgeChorus LP, Kinobe are back with a record to rival Air for eclectic domination. Wide Open is Kinobe's "difficult second album" after the huge Slip Into Something
THIS is, apparently, the fifth solo release from Hoekstra, a charmingly low-key singer-songwriter who peddles an individual form of avant-garde Americana. Waiting has been released by Fundamental, a new West Yorkshire label set up by Tony K, formerly
MICHELE McManus warmed the nation's hearts as the heavyweight Glaswegian gal who saw off 20,000 hopefuls to be crowned the second Pop Idol and prove it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. On the back of this success, first single All This Time reached
Mindy Smith left Knoxville for Nashville in 1998 to serve her song-writing apprenticeship. After five years of graft she got her break as the one unknown name on last year's Dolly Parton tribute album, Just Because I'm A Woman. Her slow-twisting, pleading
THERE was life to Candi Staton before Young Hearts Run Free, that most exhilarating of 1976 disco anthems. Old hearts will run freer for this re-introduction to the sweetest of Candi grooves from 1968 to 1974. Damon Albarn's time team at his Honest Jons
Folk singer Bob Fox has come up with a canny selection of songs old and new. His version of Dance To Your Daddy, the theme tune of the hit TV series When The Boat Comes In, proves simplicity is a virtue. Fox tugs at the heart-strings with thoughtful covers
THE abandonment of York City's move to Huntington Stadium cost the club £60,000. Finance director Terry Doyle has today revealed the sum, which is based on the abortive development. City were committed to architect fees, planning application costs and
YORK City boss Chris Brass has conceded that his side currently lack that little bit extra to become Division Three promotion contenders. Brass, speaking after last night's 4-1 home drubbing against play-off hopefuls Lincoln, made no excuses for the defeat
I'M puzzled about Americans and sex. Population statistics suggest sex happens in the US. Yet the merest bit of titillation can leave the country in crisis. The singer Janet Jackson accidentally exposes one breast during the Super Bowl half-time show
LEAGUE pursuits take a back seat on Saturday with round two of the GMB Union National Cup taking centre stage. York Acorn will be hoping to make it a full house of wins against Victoria Rangers following Acorn 'A' team's triumph over Rangers 'A' earlier
YORK City Knights have turned to Super League to temporarily fill a void in their front row. The Knights today signed Australian youngster Ryan Benjefield from Hull FC to fill the gap left by retired prop forward Rich Hayes. The 21-year-old former Penrith
YORK rail museum staff will be following in the footsteps of the first railway pioneers this week by recreating the day the steam locomotive was born. Two hundred years after the Penydarren first hit the tracks, workers at the National Railway Museum
DETECTIVES are awaiting the results of further tests after a post-mortem examination failed to explain the death of a woman found in a garage in a village near York. North Yorkshire Police say the examination yesterday afternoon proved "inconclusive".
VITAL criminal conviction details are not being logged on time by North Yorkshire Police, evidence to the Soham murder inquiry has revealed. The force did not enter a single court result into the Police National Computer (PNC) within seven days in December
TWO of York's top councillors were today set for a showdown with local government minister Nick Raynsford over the city's proposed 9.3 per cent council tax rise. City of York is one of the eleven UK authorities summoned to meet Mr Raynsford about the
Yorkshire may try to sign a fast bowler before the start of the new season if one should become available. Director of cricket, David Byas, admitted that Yorkshire's bowling resources could be thin on the ground this summer if Test calls and injuries
YORK MP Hugh Bayley wants Government action to tackle a shortage of school lollipop men and women. Mr Bayley claims ploughing extra cash into recruitment could actually save money. The alternative is to fit a pedestrian crossing outside schools costing
THE "top ten" serial shoplifters in York have been exposed by police and banned from more than 200 stores across the city. The Evening Press can today reveal some of the people behind a wave of petty crime that is sometimes fuelled by drug and alcohol
STEAM powered this country into the modern age and put York on the map, thanks to the far-reaching benefits of the railways. While steam locomotives have declined to become a merely a popular tourist attraction, the effects of the world's first working
Yorkshire may try to sign a fast bowler before the start of the new season if one should become available. Director of cricket, David Byas, admitted that Yorkshire's bowling resources could be thin on the ground this summer if Test calls and injuries
I CAN only assume from the media's portrayal of Tony Blair and the Labour Government that they either have a very short memory or are wilfully ignoring reality. It is clearly the trend to attack the Prime Minister and the Government on every possible
COUNCILLOR Steve Galloway is quoted as saying the forthcoming council tax hike represents a no-cuts budget ('Council tax rise is 9.33 per cent in York', February 9). But how can he cut something which scarcely exists? Council services were drastically
I congratulate Scarborough for their new NHS dentist's surgery. ('Clinic fills gap in service', February 16). In the early Nineties I was told in no uncertain terms that my NHS treatment was not wanted, unless I went private or joined an insurance scheme
NORTH Yorkshire's Chief Constable, Della Cannings, has said the public is misusing the 999 emergency telephone line. At 3.25 in the morning of Sunday, February 15 I needed to contact the police on an urgent, but non-emergency matter. I rang Fulford Road
Enough of the fudging about what to do about the geese problem in Rowntree Park. Pricking eggs, planting shrubs and giving dogs a mad half hour chasing them is all very well, but why not turn this health hazard - which is what they are without natural
Headline in the Evening Press on February 17: '200 buyers for every house below £125,000'. It looks as if it's going to be awfully crowded in there. Annie Wright, Aston Science Park, Love Lane, Birmingham. Updated: 10:47 Thursday, February 19, 2004
We were interested in your article about the floods ('Anger over media floods coverage', February 5). We agree that the media continues to over-react to a situation that regularly happens and cannot be changed. My husband and I spent our honeymoon in
IAN ANDERSON, the indefatigable showman who put the trill of the flute into rock riffs, is still going strong after clocking up 36 years with his band Jethro Tull. The accomplished musician thrilled a capacity audience at York's Barbican Centre last night
SHE is a figure whose notoriety looms larger than her music. So it's strange that this is actually the first solo album by Courtney Love - having finally disbanded Hole, the primal grunge-rock outfit she first came to fame fronting. Love's much-publicised
THE moment Finn Andrews opens his mouth you know this album is going to be special. Not that you will understand a word the talented 20-year-old is singing through his distinctive, drawling rasp. Largely produced by Suede's guitar virtuoso, Bernard Butler
The veteran punks have returned with their 15th studio album and probably produced their best record for nearly 20 years. Produced by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy, the men in black have gone back to their original sound. Jean-Jacques Burnel has lost none
Guitar legends who risk God-like status and tread the precarious path of the solo artist have had a torrid time lately. What with Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler failing to reach the far-flung heights of former glories, John Squire's second solo release
Hambleton trainer Kevin Ryan can take Wolverhampton's sand track by storm tomorrow by winning the first three races. Ryan, who has had his horses in good form throughout the winter, kicks-off with Up Tempo in the first division of the Press Interactive
THE people at Yorkboat must have a heart attack about this time each year. Getting to work in the morning, as you do every morning, only this time you see a great burning boat hurtling down the river while crowds cheer its demise. The first reaction has
