England might be a nation of shopkeepers, but now shops are more likely to sell aromatherapy oils and yoga mats than fruit and veg. JO HAYWOOD takes a stroll down the New Age high street. BUTCHERS and bakers are disappearing fast, but the number of candlestick
THE month of August still may be a busy time for those thinking of getting married. York is one of the country's most popular places for couples tying the knot, whatever the date. But even the smallest affair takes a lot of time and money to organise,
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THERE is a certain irony in Lloyd Massingham of Rock-Ola music accusing me of intimidation, not by writing to me personally but by sending a letter at me through the Press ('Anger at letter to advertisers', August 2). I wrote to him along with all the
AS someone who pays around £700 a year in road tax and insurance and who was recently hit by an uninsured vehicle in Middlesbrough, I congratulate the police in removing 20 untaxed cars from the streets of York - especially the one driven by the moron
I WAS impressed when I read of Asda's generous gesture in letting customers guess the value of their shopping after a power cut hit their check-outs (August 2). Less impressive was the response of the customers, many of whom apparently phoned their friends
WHAT is it about the dreaded word "selection" that scares the living daylight out of some Labour politicians, including those who ensure their own children attend selective schools? If the word "selection" is supposedly outlawed by the present Government
I WAS one of the people quoted in the article by Haydn Lewis 'There's no YTV on our Sky TV' (July 30). Are there any other people in York and the surrounding areas who, like me, are very angry at ITV for changing our regional viewing through Sky digital
SO Nigel Ingram and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have been transformed into deities that can improve on nature by providing the wildlife of "Derwenthorpe" with a habitat superior to that which it now enjoys (Letters July 27). Perhaps they can do the
SO the USA has gone on a heightened security alert after receiving information from their intelligence agencies that al Qaida intend to cause more chaos by attacking American financial institutions. Would these be the same "intelligence" agencies that
WE have, unusually, missed a few car boot sales raising money for Cot Death Research during the last few weeks of holidays and other commitments. We do have a member of our regular team on long-term sick at the moment but Jean and I are carrying on as
AS A topic for midday discussion, the findings of an opinion poll were exercising callers to a Radio 4 phone-in on Tuesday. A headline in a national newspaper set the worry ball rolling by exclaiming: "Ninety per cent of whites have few or no black friends
NATURALLY, as a waste management company Yorwaste Ltd is single-mindedly dedicated to the environment. It is hardly surprising that the 125-employee company, based in Northallerton, is pitching to become the Evening Press Environmental Business of the
It's cool to be smart at a summer school for gifted youngsters in York. STEPHEN LEWIS and RICHARD FOSTER report. OLIVER Stannard would make a great teacher. Get him on to the subject of why the sky is blue during the day and red in the evening, and there's
TWO little words put the final seal on a package of measures that keep the 94 staff at Woodlands MS Resource & Respite Care Centre, York, happy, dedicated and loathe to leave. They are: "Thank you." The 24 full-time, 50 part-time, and 20 bank staff
YORK City boss Chris Brass has admitted that the cancellation of tomorrow night's friendly against Newcastle United could effect the futures of the four trialists at Bootham Crescent. Goalkeeper Paul Crichton, midfielder Gerry Harrison and strikers Jonny
A BUBBLY North Yorkshire teenager who cheated death twice has qualified to take part in the World Transplant Games next summer - for the second year running. Hannah Swift, 17, of Scarborough Road, Helmsley, who survived a heart transplant when she was
A HARD-HITTING report into the York floods crisis of 2000 has drawn up a list of proposals aimed at curbing the impact of another deluge. The final report of the city's Floods Scrutiny Panel contains 20 recommendations to protect York from the River Ouse
PARENTS of York pupils could soon be asked to give formal written permission for their child's photograph to be taken in school. Education bosses have drawn up guidelines for senior teachers regarding the filming and photographing of their students in
A YORK man's ambitious plan to raffle his home off to first time buyers today lies in tatters after the council told him the sell-off was illegal. Mick Waddington came up with the novel idea of selling his house in Penyghent Avenue, Burnholme, to help
REJUVENATED York City Knights have reported a clean bill of health with just one training session to go before they take on National League Two whipping boys Gateshead Thunder. Skipper Lee Jackson will be back in action after recovering from the dead
YORK City financial director Terry Doyle has estimated that the cancellation of Friday night's friendly against Newcastle United will cost the club more than £10,000 in lost revenue. Doyle believes the match would have attracted a crowd of 2,500 and with
CALL it bravery, call it stupidity, but letting a dozen angst-ridden American indie-punk gunslingers loose on The Smiths' back catalogue is certainly an ambitious exercise. Proclaimed by many as our greatest band, the Morrissey/Marr partnership left a
STROLLING across the 'Village Green', The Kinks were looking back to an olde England, a faded Albion later encapsulated by The Jam's All Mod Cons and Blur's Modern Life Is Rubbish... and John Major's Warm Beer Speech. Letting loose his Diamond Dogs, David
AS the hit single Listen To The Music put it, "What the people need is a way to make 'em smile." And there is much on this compilation to raise a smile, especially if you stick to the early years. That 1972 single still sounds great today, as too do Jesus
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We have a newly refurbished office in Tadcaster and require a Marketing Support assistant. We are a large Civil Engineering Company who employ 2,000 staff nationwide with over 130 staff working from the Tadcaster Office. Your role will be to assist the
Business Link York and North Yorkshire is a dynamic organisation providing advice and support to local businesses. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a high calibre person to join our IT Team. IT Support Officer £20k per annum. The IT Team is responsible
REJUVENATED York City Knights have reported a clean bill of health with just one training session to go before they take on National League Two whipping boys Gateshead Thunder. Skipper Lee Jackson will be back in action after recovering from the dead
BOSSES of a York restaurant group say they are struggling to recruit new staff because of crippling parking charges. Sharon Killin, operations manager with Russells Restaurants, in Stonegate and Coppergate, said they had noticed an "adverse effect", particularly
INTERESTING plans are proposed for Monks Cross as outlined in your paper ('More land opened up for new offices', August 2). I examined the picture with great interest, looking in vain for the large numbers of cars parked on both sides of the road outside
THERE is a certain irony in Lloyd Massingham of Rock-Ola music accusing me of intimidation, not by writing to me personally but by sending a letter at me through the Press ('Anger at letter to advertisers', August 2). I wrote to him along with all the
IT was good to see your interview with Portuguese fado singer Mariza. I have been a fan of hers for years. I was also amused that on the same day the Government announced it would be introducing a £51 million website called Transport Direct, which tells
OUR thanks to Ron Willis, of Priory Street, York, for sending a copy of his guide 101 Places & Things To Avoid... If You Want To Forget York. It first went on sale, he tells the Diary, in the mid-Seventies. Designed to amuse it "prompted some editorial
It's official - Yorkshire cheese is better than its continental competition according to judges at the much-acclaimed Nantwich International Cheese Show 2004 held in Cheshire. Shepherds Purse, of Thirsk has scooped the coveted Rosenburg trophy for best
A NEW era in international rugby league will kick off at New Earswick All Blacks next week when the West Indies play their first ever 13-a-side match. The Windies, fresh from their debut York 9s win in June, are launching their Rugby League Yorkshire
IT NEVER rains but it pours. That's what people are likely to be feeling today as they face paying even higher water bills. It's worth remembering all that rain, especially in York. Having to pay higher and higher water rates can seem tough in a city
HANNAH Swift may be only 17 but she certainly knows how to live. The Helmsley teenager is to take part in the World Transplant Games next summer for the second year running, after qualifying this week at the British Transplant Games. This is quite an
A York firm which helps other businesses run smoothly today announced that it is heading for record profits. Ben Johnson Office Solutions, the office supplies and equipment retailer based in Stirling Park, Clifton Moor, declared £1.1 million sales in
YORK City financial director Terry Doyle has estimated that the cancellation of Friday night's friendly against Newcastle United will cost the club more than £10,000 in lost revenue. Doyle believes the match would have attracted a crowd of 2,500 and with
Pieter Brueghel, who last month provided his North Yorkshire owner with his first-winner at York after more than 40 years of trying, heads to Haydock tomorrow evening with every chance of adding to his scoresheet. Trained near Easingwold by David Nicholls
THE York family of a woman who was found hanged only hours after being jailed are planning to join a protest outside the prison where she died. Heartbroken relatives of Rebecca Louise Turner will travel to Low Newton, Durham, tomorrow for the demonstration
A YORK man has been fined after buying his new bride a puppy from a beggar. Ian Cullen, 29, of Allan Close, Tang Hall, was ordered to pay £50 after pleading guilty to receiving the black-and-tan cross between June 13 and 30. Rosemary Ainslie, prosecuting
A 20-YEAR-OLD man who died after crashing his car in to a tree was speeding at the time, an inquest has heard. York coroner's court heard how Simon Mark Lowery, of Dennison Road, Pocklington, was on his way home from work at York Mailing Ltd at Elvington
HOLGATE are on course to win the three major York Bowling Association club titles this season. The Williamson Cup winners have a 25 point lead at the top of division one and are in the quarter finals of the county club knockout for the Marshal Shield.
A SECOND York swimming pool has shut during the school summer holidays, leaving the city with only two remaining pools. The Waterworld pool, at Monks Cross, was closed yesterday after a workman carrying out maintenance work accidentally dropped a motor
DIVISION one leaders Askham Bryan YPO came unstuck against Drax in the HPH York Vale Cricket league. They crashed by 24 runs after Drax, batting first, recovered from 32-3 when James Brook (29) joined Kevin Thomas (98) at the crease to take the final
DRIVERS faced severe motorway delays after a fuel tanker crashed through a central reservation, overturned and deposited oil across the road. Both the east and westbound carriages of the M62 between junction 34 and 35 near Selby were closed for about
A NEW era in international rugby league will kick off at New Earswick All Blacks next week when the West Indies play their first ever 13-a-side match. The Windies, fresh from their debut York 9s win in June, are launching their Rugby League Yorkshire
A CORONER has warned mothers about the dangers of sleeping with their babies after the death of an eight-week-old York boy. An inquest yesterday into the death of Joel Spencer Nicholas heard how he was put to bed beside his mother, Alison Peace, on the
DIVISION one leaders Askham Bryan YPO came unstuck against Drax in the HPH York Vale Cricket league. They crashed by 24 runs after Drax, batting first, recovered from 32-3 when James Brook (29) joined Kevin Thomas (98) at the crease to take the final
PROTESTERS hired a 50ft "cherry picker" to show planners how a controversial flats scheme would "ruin" a classic gateway into York. The huge machine was driven on to the pavement in The Mount and extended to the full height of the planned four-storey
HOUSEHOLD water bills in Yorkshire are set to soar from next April - and there are warnings that some people might struggle to pay. Over the next five years Yorkshire Water invoices could leap on average by £36 to £279 before inflation. Of that, as much
THE Supremes may not have been the first girl group to top the US pop charts in the rock'n'roll era, but they certainly made the biggest splash. Long after contenders such as The Crystals, The Shirelles and Little Eva had left the top 40, The Supremes
IT is almost impossible to think of Eva Cassidy, who died in 1996 aged just 33, without contemplating what might have been. A posthumous screening of her performing Somewhere Over The Rainbow on TOTP2 turned her 1998 album Songbird into a bestseller,
The Eighties are the new Seventies. They were my decade, so it's disappointing not to see the best of Eighties music reflected in this 40-track double CD. Like all decades, there are songs which are best forgotten, so it's inexcusable that they have popped
THAT a band chooses to name itself after cantankerous Late Review critic Tom Paulin gives you a fair indication of the bookish, eccentric pop on offer. Lancashire's Tompaulin sit firmly in the indie outsider tradition of Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker and the
THIS double album contains 13 tracks by Deep Purple (including, naturally, Smoke On The Water), seven by Rainbow, four by both Whitesnake (sadly including the newer version of Here I Go Again) and Gillan (where's No Laughing In Heaven?), three by Dio
TAKE the Ferry down the river of your memories. Three CDs, 45 tracks, each one the same version as on the original album, and let the time roll by as the years come flooding back. Virginia Plain, Do The Strand, The 'In' Crowd, Let's Stick Together, Avalon
DANCING clicks with Mimika Cooney. South African-born Mimika who lives in Rainsborough Way, York, has danced all her life and now, as a recently-trained photographer she's regularly capturing its spirit in image rather than her own movement. She is hoping
Painter required for painting components for generator sets, wages in accordance with experience. Please apply in writing enclosing a CV: Interpower International Ltd, New Road, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6YA. Updated: 10:33 Thursday, August 05, 2004
Fitter/Welder required with experience to manufacture generator sets, wages in accordance with experience and qualifications. Please apply in writing enclosing a CV: Interpower International Ltd, New Road, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6YA. Updated: 10:31 Thursday
DRAX won the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton Cup at Pocklington by beating Tollerton Outlaws in a repeat of last year's Mitchell Cup. Rich Ounsley smashed 24 and Ian Goulden hit 41 as Drax were bowled out for 166. Tony Raper and Paul Raper each took 3-48 for
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Sheriff Hutton batsman James Faith scored his maiden century in a comprehensive victory over Selby in division five. His 115no, coupled with Toby Nichol Lean's 71, saw Sheriff Hutton amass 210-5. Mike Thorpe scored 58 for Selby before
ACOMB'S Ben Wallace inspired his team to 186-9 against Pocklington in division four. His 72 runs were interrupted by a back injury but it was too much for Pock who found little against a miserly Acomb attack and closed on 126-8. Neil Lamour hit 55 in
WHAT is it about African bands and the Harrogate International Festival? Two years ago, the arrival of the sunshine music of Senegal's Orchestra Baobab had been greeted with storms, forcing a last-minute change of venue from the venerable, vulnerable
