RESIDENTS were cock-a-hoop today after winning a long-running battle to have a mobile phone mast sited away from their York homes. A compromise deal between phone giant O2 and Heslington Lane residents has been given the green light by City of York Council
COMPETITORS in this weekend's British Superbike meeting have teamed up with North Yorkshire Police in an effort to cut the number of deaths on the county's roads. Racers at Croft Circuit, near Darlington, used the racetrack to demonstrate some of the
CIVIC leaders at Tadcaster have welcomed news of Selby MP John Grogan's involvement in a bitter row over plans to sell the district's council houses to a housing association. Yesterday's Evening Press revealed Mr Grogan's plans to write to the district's
THE UK Snooker Champion-ship is definitely returning to York this year. World Snooker have announced the championship will be staged at the Barbican Centre from November 15-28, the last event to take place there before the venue is redeveloped. This will
YORK orienteer Matt Speake will be part of a rejuvenated British squad which travels to Vasteras in Sweden next month for the World Orienteering Champion-ships. The hopes of British orienteering fans were lost in the woods last July after a dismal set
A YORK politician has found himself "up for sale" on the internet. Paul Blanchard, Labour councillor for Heworth and a candidate for Ryedale in the next General Election, was amazed to find he was being auctioned off to the highest bidder on sales website
FORMER York City goal hero Marco Gabbiadini believes new Bootham Crescent signing Paul Robinson can help fire the Minstermen to success this season. Gabbiadini and Robinson were striking partners at Hartlepool last season and the ex-Sunderland and Derby
THE journalist snatched from his Iraq hotel room by masked gunmen is a University of York graduate, the Evening Press can reveal. James Brandon, 23, was today recovering from his 24-hour ordeal after renegade fighters handed him back to radical cleric
A BIG cat has again been spotted in the North Yorkshire countryside. Gallery owner Annie Wright saw what she thought was a lynx in a field as she drove through Stonegrave on her way to work in Helmsley yesterday morning. Mrs Wright, a 47-year-old cat
EVER thought that you have been at a different game to our York City reporter Dave Flett? Well, the Evening Press and York jewellers Preston and Duckworth are inviting supporters to choose their own man of the match at City games this season, which may
A HUNT supporter from North Yorkshire has been cleared of driving his car into a slushy puddle to drench two animal rights campaigners and a child with icy water as they protested at a famous New Year meet in the county. Colin Pickering, 63, of Prospect
THIS is the big one. That was the verdict of York City Knights star Darren Callaghan ahead of tomorrow's (Sunday) crucial trip to Swinton Lions. The Knights visit Park Lane knowing a victory is vital to maintain their push for the LHF Healthplan National
CITY of York Council today highlighted its commitment to helping secure better defences for Elvington. Bill Woolley, the council's acting director of environment and development services, said the authority funded a feasibility study into a solution for
SQUATTERS have occupied another empty landmark York building in a campaign to draw attention to wasted space in the city. Up to a dozen members of the York Peace Collective have made their home in the historic Bonding Warehouse, which occupies a prime
