YET again York is nowhere to be seen in the top 20 rankings of Britain's most vital urban shopping centres. If anything, the ancient English capital is falling behind as the latest Experian Retail Rankings puts the city 26th - two places worse than it
A North Yorkshire trainee accountant has passed his first three professional exams, putting him on course to become one of the youngest fully-qualified chartered accountants in the country. Jonathan Stokes, 20, a trainee with accountants and business
ST OLAVE'S School pupil Oliver Cohen has emulated his brother Nicholas by winning the Yorkshire Schools Boys' badminton Under-12s title. York RI player Oliver, ten, beat Scott Thompson 21-17 to lift a trophy that his 15-year-old sibling won three years
YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders. As revealed by the Press last week, the 19-year-old Scotland international had become unhappy with his first-team
STEPHEN LEWIS looks forward to an online chat with the creator of Harry Potter and other top authors during World Book Day. FORGET owls. JK Rowling will be finding a much better way of getting in touch with her fans on March 4. The Harry Potter creator
RACING officials today assured York residents they would not be left out in the cold when tickets for Royal Ascot in the city finally go on sale. Details are still to be finalised about how tickets will be allocate for the prestigious five-day meeting
THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent. All the goals came in the second half, with the final scoreline
THE world's tallest woman and shortest man have been in York - all for a scoop of ice-cream. Zainab Bibi, who stands at 7ft 2in and is from Pakistan, and 39-ins tall Ali Zaman, were at the Warner Village Vue cinema to publicise a giant new ice-cream scoop
ANIMAL rights activists have posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of several prominent North Yorkshire hunting supporters on the internet. The hate list includes the names of celebrities from the worlds of TV, music and film, as well as members
SMOKING could be banned in public places in York, North and East Yorkshire, to tackle some of the highest levels of health problems in the country. A major Department of Health study published today, shows that 10,000 people in Yorkshire die prematurely
The River Ure match record was smashed in an historic contest fished between Hutton Beck and Barn Island on Sunday. Steve Newns (KL Tackle) won the 76-peg open event with a staggering 125lb 12oz. Drawn to fish from above the famous Leathams run-off ,he
A YORK primary school has been given a massive funding boost to help staff and pupils celebrate 100 years of the school. Poppleton Road Primary School has successfully bid for £23,000 from the National Lottery heritage fund. Head teacher Sue Elland said
IT'S hardly the lap of luxury, but one man has made an extraordinary home for himself - in an isolated car park. Peter Frost has been sleeping in his Ford Escort at the Forestry Commission car park for the past 18 months. Mr Frost, 54, who is originally
THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent. All the goals came in the second half, with the final scoreline
SCORES of angry York church-goers, traders and residents took thair protest about parking charges to a meeting of city council leaders. But the ruling executive of City of York Council agreed to approve plans to introduce increased parking charges at
A YORK mother is appealing to the city's landlords to keep her 14-year-old daughter out of their pubs after she spent the night with four "squaddies". The exasperated mother, from Clifton, says she plans to go around York's pubs with her teenager's photograph
WELL done Mr Hale, I am sure that many of our youngsters would welcome the opportunity to work with our small businesses if only the bureaucracy were to be minimised (Letters, February 26). I would like to suggest that help can start even earlier in the
LIFE on the open road has its appeal. Life in a stationary Ford Escort is somehow not quite as romantic. Peter Frost must have come to know his namesake Jack intimately this winter. When the snow starts to fall, we can think of many better places to be
BACK To The Bars? Aren't teen rap pack Blazin' Squad too young for all but milk bars and Mars Bars? Here they were, the boys from the North London hood, all ten of them, nine MCs and, somewhere at the back, DJ Tommy B. There was Rocky B, and Melo-D, and
Kieren Fallon, who was in trouble at Lingfield yesterday, returns to the Surrey course tomorrow with bright prospects of completing a double on And Toto Too and my Nap selection Big Bad Burt. Yesterday it was more a case of Big Bad Kieren as punters heckled
YORK publican Craig Regan hadn't suffered much bad luck before. Granted, a woman did die during a festive dance at one of the pubs he had worked in previously, which "spoiled Christmas". And he is a Leeds United fan. Nothing chronic enough to suggest
CUB SCOUTS are in seventh heaven after a York firm and a local joiner rallied round to help them repair their much-vandalised hut. Last week the Evening Press reported how the Wheldrake pack faced a bill running into hundreds of pounds after hooligans
YORK City boss Chris Brass is calling on his players to reproduce the form that earned a 2-2 home draw against Oxford earlier this season. Goals by Richard Hope and Lee Nogan gave the Minstermen a point against the promotion-chasing Us and Brass is hoping
A visit to a North Yorkshire factory by the Duke of York on Friday will be tinged by both tragedy and triumph. Prince Andrew will be visiting the Thirsk headquarters of Multidrive, the only specialist vehicle manufacturer in Britain, only three weeks
ISLE is a 13-year-old half-Jewish girl who is sent out of Germany by her parents on the eve of the Second World War to live with her uncle Willy in Morocco. Nicolai is a young teen in Hamburg, a reluctant member of the Hitler Youth, who struggles to make
SCIENTISTS of the future are set to get to grips with creepy crawlies at a York festival. Badger Hill Primary School students Luke Tattersall and Lydia Beech are pictured here learning about microbes with, centre left, Heather Mason, from Science City
PRIMARY school children from across York were discussing major issues affecting them at a conference taking place in the city today. More than 200 children who sit on school councils throughout York were meeting and talking about common issues, from problems
YOUNGSTERS at a York school are being trained in how to save lives with a £2,000 funding boost. Manor School has been given £2,300 worth of funding from the charity Heartstart to provide the training. Students will be trained in all aspects of life-saving
A FLOOD campaigner today backed a new digital map which promises to "revolutionise" insurance assessments in high-risk areas. Di Keal said Norwich Union's multimillion-pound project - which the company claims is the largest and most accurate ever produced
TEENAGERS travelled to York from all over the country to see London pop sensation Blazin' Squad perform - but it still wasn't the frenzied affair some had expected. Up to 40 people who had won tickets for the special charity gig at Fibbers last night
YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders. As revealed by the Press last week, the 19-year-old Scotland international had become unhappy with his first-team
LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare. The versatile 20-year-old had a shoulder operation over Christmas to remove a bone growth, which physio Jeff Miller feared could have been
Gas cartridge airguns have been designated lethal weapons, and their owners have been given until May 1 to hand them in or apply for a firearms licence. We ask: Are our gun laws fair? Yes... says PC Geoff Jackson, firearms licensing officer with North
A SINGLE mum has lost half her income after a computer error "deleted" her two-year-old son. Tracy Brind, of Poplar Street, off Poppleton Road, York, was shocked when she arrived at the bank on Friday to find her £40 weekly child tax credit had not been
I MAKE no apology for being classed as one of Mr Cordock's "hardcore of intelligent self-appointed spokespeople" (Letters, February 25) who regularly voice their concerns over what many see as inappropriate over-development in York. A ring road would
MY teenage son is a member of a rifle and pistol club and over the years has become more skilled at target shooting, winning medals and cups. He could go far, represent his country and so forth, or he could just enjoy the weekly meetings at the club -
I HOPE Elliot Morley is happy spending millions of pounds to increase the wild bird population ("Rise in Yorkshire bird populations", February 28). The Government does not want to pay farmers to ensure there is enough food as "it can always be imported
NESTLE workers have the prospect of losing their jobs because of losing sales (February 19). In my opinion it's not the workers fault - it's the ingredients that go into the chocolates. They do not have taste like they used to. They have never tasted
AS a resident of Heworth ward, I would like to place on record my gratitude to Coun Paul Blanchard for his efficiency in handling a recent problem I brought to him. I don't think councillors get credit for the day-to-day work they do and it feels good
I THINK people are missing the point with regard to the clowns and jugglers that are appearing daily at a prison near you ("Send in the clowns", February 25). Admission to these shows are at Her Majesty's Pleasure so they shouldn't be scoffed at; has
I WOULD suggest that Coun Galloway checks his facts before commenting again on the prospect of linking Selby with York in a possible reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire (Green vote for merger, February 14). Coun Galloway erroneously
THIS letter is to all leaders of Christian churches, in and around York. I believe the Lord is saying, it's time to pull down barriers. It's time to put aside all our differences and intolerance for one another and become what we are supposed to be, the
I THINK a word of praise and congratulations must go to the team of students from Fulford School who organised a post-war dinner dance in aid of St Leonard's Hospice at Elvington Air Museum. Also to Pocklington school swing band, who played some excellent
STUBBORN Yorkshire folk refuse to stub out their cigarettes. Despite 50 years of evidence that smoking kills, a substantial number remain addicted to tobacco. Every year, 10,000 people die of smoking-related illnesses in Yorkshire. Many more suffer health
THE latest issue of the Collins Gem English Dictionary has just landed on my desk; not lobbed there by an irate colleague, you understand, but sent through the post by its publishers in the hope that I might write about it. It's a volume that takes me
PUPILS at a York school have written hard-hitting letters to the Odeon's owners to persuade them to keep it open. The letters - which were composed during Year Three and Four English lessons at Naburn Primary School - all include drawings of life at the
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today called on planners to come to a compromise with the owners of York Odeon in order to secure its long-term future. Mr Bayley spoke out after meeting the chain's regional manager, Ian McDonald, together with Coun Keith Orrell,
LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare. The versatile 20-year-old had a shoulder operation over Christmas to remove a bone growth, which physio Jeff Miller feared could have been
