WHAT'S happening with the Bo Ding Warehouse? Last week it was nominated in the Diary as one of York's worst eyesores. The empty and forlorn riverside building, known as the Bonding Warehouse before its N dropped off, is undeniably unloved. This prompted
A YORK firm has recruited its first female apprentice plumber. Building services company SES, which has its head office in York, has taken on Faye Mullins as an apprentice. Faye had applied to companies for more than a year-and-a-half in the hope of getting
TWO much-valued groups which have proved the therapeutic value of music have been nominated for York Community Pride awards. The Smile And A Song trio, who provide musical entertainment in elderly people's homes, have been put forward in the Charity Fundraiser
STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to the former York schoolboy who helped bring the loveable green ogre Shrek to life. THE problem with Shrek, says animator Anthony Hodgson, is that the loveable green ogre is such a funny shape. He is not trying to be fattist or anything
BEGGAR and thief Jeffrey Ward is in prison again. It is highly unlikely to be his last custodial sentence. Ward may not realise it, but he is a legal pioneer. In March he was sentenced to York's first anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) for begging. Forty-eight
THE remains of a Tudor mansion have been discovered under a York councillor's garden by archaeologists from Channel Four's Time Team. Coun Quentin Macdonald, of Church Lane, Nether Poppleton, who represents Rural West York, agreed to let the experts dig
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has renewed pressure on Ministers to shift hundreds of government jobs to the city. He urged Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett to transfer the civil servants as part of the Lyons Review. A Treasury-commissioned report by Sir Michael
It's welcome back to Catterick tomorrow when the North Yorkshire course will resume its 2004 campaign after closing down for three months in order that a new stable yard could be constucted. To celebrate the re-opening, racegoers will receive a voucher
A COMMUNITY leader has welcomed the jailing of an addict who rampaged through his neighbourhood in a desperate attempt to get money for drugs. Clifton councillor Ken King paid tribute to York Police for bringing Simon Watts to justice so swiftly after
THESE three York women have something very special to celebrate - and they want to share it. This summer, Christine Gallacher, Val Walton and Rose Ward, all members of Acorn ARLFC Rugby Club, will notch up five years of being cancer-free. To celebrate
A NORTH Yorkshire weight trainer with only six months' experience has been crowned as the United Kingdom's strongest woman. Gemma Taylor, 20, lifted, ran and pulled her way through a string of gruelling challenges to claim victory in Northern Ireland.
TANNED king of antiques David Dickinson made feathers fly in this picture on his return to York to film another episode of Bargain Hunt. The lively star was spotted at several locations across the city, including Cavendish Antiques, Shambles-based solicitors
THE family of a York paedophile's young victim said they hoped he "rots in hell" after he was given a five-year jail sentence for a string of assaults. Philip Nicholson, 42, organised a three-year reign of abuse against a 12-year-old girl to satisfy his
WHAT a sobbing mess. A nation of football fans in tears at England's shoddy exit from Euro 2004 in Portugal and the very England captain welling up under the pressure of life as one of Real Madrid's Los Galaticos. Not even old blubber-belcher Gazza himself
YORK City Ladies could play at Bootham Crescent next season following a meeting with Minstermen finance director Terry Doyle. And City's growing commitment towards ladies' football is also illustrated by the decision to host two under-19 internationals
YORK City player-boss Chris Brass has admitted his side face a 'tough start' to the Conference season. Highly-fancied Aldershot and Hereford United will both face the Minstermen during the first week of the new campaign with a midweek home game against
THE furore about the city's parking charges is going to rumble on. "What I cannot understand is why the 'tourist and visitor' tag has been brought into the equation. Being a roadsweeper, I get first hand knowledge of the amount of footfall in the city
HER Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary tables have just been published. The only real surprise is that North Yorkshire police didn't finish at the bottom, but close enough at 38 out of 43. This comes as no surprise to me having had dealings with the
I NOTE that David Murry-Fenwick (Yesterday Once More, June 21) observes of the year 1649 "we would become a republic for the first and only time." A bit pessimistic isn't he? William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, York. Updated: 10:04 Tuesday, June 29, 2004
DR Simon Ward's letter about cyclists errs on the flippant (June 25). I can assure him there is nothing nice about seeing an old woman hit by a cycle on the pavement as I have. I have also personally had three near misses with pavement-riding cyclists
ABOLISH the parish council (Evening Press, June 24)? You can not be serious! The Osbaldwick Parish Council represents a much-needed grass-roots level of democracy and represents more than good value for the small amount of taxation. Hand those powers
We had veggie burgers for tea last night. Not something we normally eat, but I had a few left over from a food test I had arranged at work. They were nice enough, and a couple of them were fairly good substitutes for the real thing (coated an inch-thick
JO HAYWOOD gets a sneak preview of what York's young - and not so young - fashion designers are sending down the college catwalk this summer. The phrase "like mother, like daughter" could have been coined with Charlotte and Linda Riding in mind. Both
Tuesday, June 29, 2004 100 years ago: A letter was printed from somebody signing themselves "one amongst it" regarding the drains in Back Street, Carnot Street and Roseberry Street in York. He hoped that his letter would prompt the sanitary inspector
It's time for a change - a new me. No longer do I have to put up with the bumbling mediocrity that is my life. I can't do much about the hairstyle, or the crevasses carved on my cheeks by that relentless fellow, Time. I cannot grow into a young, fit six-footer
A YORK-BASED toy and stationery distributor is planning a major expansion. J A Magson Ltd is expanding in York with a new 150,000 square foot warehouse and distribution centre. The firm is also to develop its business in Scotland after it bought the assets
A FLORIST in North Yorkshire has been praised for her employment of apprentices. The Topiary Tree, which has two shops, one in Finkle Street, Malton, and the other in Church Street, Helmsley, received a special commendation in the small employers' category
YORK City Knights stars have resolved to look forward to their promotion challenge rather than dwell on the misery of a semi-final defeat. The Knights were beaten in the Arriva Trains Cup last four at Hull KR on Sunday, but at the end of the game went
Dringhouses FC, last season's Leeper Hare York and District League premier division and reserve champions, resume pre-season training at their St Helens Road ground on Tuesday, July, starting at 6.30pm and each Tuesday and Thursday thereafter. New players
NESTL Rowntree is resisting pressure to slim down their products. In response to this month's health panic, known as the "obesity timebomb", rival Cadbury is considering cutting back its king-size bars. Nestl Rowntree, by contrast, is sticking with its
In a depleted round of fixtures, Acorn ARL maintained their unbeaten record in York Unique-Phoenix Darts League division two with a fine win at Holgate WMC. Mark Gale's brace of 16-darters, plus a maximum sealed Acorn's win, before Gaz Stewart got Holgate
YORK'S efforts to tackle homelessness could suffer another cut in Government funding - as the city's problems continue to grow. A City of York Council report has revealed that 460 people were accepted as homeless in 2003/04, compared to 409 the previous
Fulford are the new leaders of division six of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League after their win against Appleton Roebuck led by the unbeaten Daniel Bruce and Pam Mason, who were well supported by Paul Ruff and Sue Scott. Keith Pearson and Sandra Burley
YORK City Knights stars have resolved to look forward to their promotion challenge rather than dwell on the misery of a semi-final defeat. The Knights were beaten in the Arriva Trains Cup last four at Hull KR on Sunday, but at the end of the game went
A PERSISTENT beggar resorted to theft to fund his heroin habit after an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) had banned him from begging, a court heard. Jeffrey Ward, 28, who admitted stealing a Playstation 2 console worth £200 from Bootham Park Hospital
PETER Lorimer admits hard-up Leeds United can do no more to keep James Milner. With Newcastle ready to swoop for the 18-year-old striker, director Lorimer said: "We have gone as far as we can in terms of what we can offer James. "We've almost doubled
YORK City Ladies could play at Bootham Crescent next season following a meeting with Minstermen finance director Terry Doyle. And City's growing commitment towards ladies' football is also illustrated by the decision to host two under-19 internationals
More than three hundred civil service jobs are to be axed in York - less than two years after they were created. The York Pensions Centre at Monks Cross, which only opened in September, 2002, is closing as part of an efficiency drive within the Department
AN incinerator for rubbish should be built at James Street. The advantages would be huge. Things incinerated would be plastic packaging, modern nappies and pernicious weeds. Although we are putting more of these things in our wheelie bins they are not
IT has long been the practice on Alexandra Rose Day for the Royal Naval Association to support this worthy cause. Named after the Queen Consort of King Edward VII, it was her idea to form a Nursing Corps as part of the British Forces and, since her death
LABOUR MEP Richard Corbett gloats that the expected horde of East European immigrants to the UK from the new EU member states has not happened (Letters, June 17). Not yet - but far worse has taken place, 26,000 illegal immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania
A COUPLE of months ago I was walking in St Helen's Square on a warm sunny day, happily feeding the pigeons, who ate every crumb (so no litter there, then). Suddenly I heard a voice say, "don't feed those birds, they are vermin." I turned around and saw
Arthur Lee's Love have always been very much an underground band; critically adored, but largely ignored by the record-buying public. Recently, however, word has been spreading, sparked by the reissue of their masterpiece, 1967's Forever Changes, a record
