It seems York's parking charges are always going to be controversial. Having lived in the USA for some time, I believe a compromise could exist. Over here, businesses regularly "validate" parking tickets which allow customers the first one or two hours
Clive Booth's letter (August 18) about the Conservatives' plans for crime should they win the next General Election is just another sign of the damaging short-termism on which they base their judgements and policies while continually failing to address
DURING the past five years, whenever I see a protest about phone masts, I ask this same old question: do the phone mast protesters have mobile phones? So far I have not had a reply. Mobile phones need masts to work, and they have to be erected somewhere
WITH four Yorkshire ECB Premier League matches remaining, York Cricket Club rest nine points adrift of leaders Sheffield Collegiate with Harrogate and Doncaster only a point or two behind the Clifton Parkers, writes Chris Houseman. As eight points is
Struggling to come to terms with metrication? Can't visualise a pound of sprouts in kilograms, or work out how many centimetres in a foot? Never fear, John Hobson has come to the rescue. The Dringhouses pensioner laments the passing of our imperial system
Emma Patchett investigates the popularity of youth theatre in York. AT ONE time, all I wanted to do was act. I loved everything to do with the theatre, so one day, in a burst of enthusiasm, I signed up to my local youth theatre group. As soon as I walked
A REVOLUTIONARY half-train, half-coach travelling at up to 100mph and carrying both cars and passengers, could eventually link York directly with the Yorkshire Dales. A full prototype of The BladeRunner, brainchild of North Yorkshire designer Carl Henderson
TOP business people in York have a new way of currying favour with like-minded bosses. An exclusive Curry Company has been formed as a club for the prime entrepreneurs of the city who want to meet over a Madras or swap banter over a bhuna. Already 12
NEXT Friday night sees the return to Fibbers of York's prodigal son, Chris Helme. As a member of The Yards, he fronts their melodic Velvet Underground-meets-Buffalo Springfield indie-rock, but this is a rare chance to see him play in an acoustic solo
GREAT news is that York's newest restaurant will have two jazz nights, on Friday and Saturday. Anastasia's seafood restaurant, previously Partners in High Ousegate, will feature the talents of pianist Karl Mullen and others. York now has six nights of
ERIC Rowsby looked like a man who had taken his last breath. His heart had stopped beating and he appeared to have died. Thanks to the skill, vigilance and dedication of two paramedics, Eric is still alive and is recovering from his near-fatal ordeal.
CASH and glory are the incentives for lower level non-League clubs as they go into the extra preliminary round of the FA Cup this weekend. Goole and Tadcaster Albion will be flying the flag for the York area with some £500 up for grabs for those progressing
BOOKIES favourites Harrogate Town take on third-placed Hinckley United tomorrow in front of what could be a good home crowd at Wetherby Road. After Town's 5-1 thrashing of Gainsborough Trinity earlier this week, internet bookmakers Skybet have slashed
YORK City boss Chris Brass has been given a specific deadline by the club's board in which to turn around his team's fortunes on the pitch. Brass was told his time-scale for improvement at a board meeting yesterday and all four directors present at last
YORK City managing director Jason McGill has warned the Supporters' Trust that it will have to bail the club out financially if home crowds drop below 2,000. McGill realises that poor performances will lead to falling gates which, as well as necessitating
It's a big day at Beverley tomorrow with a £50,000 handicap and a new £30,000 Listed sprint, both televised live on Channel 4, which could also be focussing on trainer David Nicholls. The North Yorkshire handler, fresh from his Group 1 success at York
BUSY roads and rail track closures combined with fine weather look set to create chaos for travellers this Bank Holiday weekend. York motorists are being urged to set off early to avoid the crowds heading to the seaside. Denise Raven, an AA spokeswoman
A COUNCIL blunder over parking tickets has left York residents furious. Drivers in Nicholas Street, Herbert Street and Chaucer Street woke yesterday morning to find their cars, parked outside their homes, had received parking fines. City of York Council
They say good things often come in small packages. This miniature Elddis caravan, built in 1977 as the display model for its full-sized counterpart, is not just for decoration. In fact, it has everything you need for a trip on the roads. Fully fitted
AFTER two-and-a-half days of uncertainty and indecision, Yorkshire's Championship match against Glamorgan finally got started in mid-afternoon at Colwyn Bay yesterday with umpires and captains still insisting that conditions were not really fit for first-class
Alex Lloyd runs down the bars and clubs for the Bank Holiday weekend. THE weather may be gloomy but rest assured, there is an array of events in York's bars and clubs to keep you in a sunny mood this Bank Holiday weekend. City Screen's Basement Bar, off
AS York City were 2-0 down to Hereford on Saturday two so-called fans in the David Longhurst Stand and chanted abuse at goalkeeper Paul Crichton and abused him with various hand gestures. I felt this totally wrong. He didn't have a chance with the first
York City were outclassed, outplayed and out-and-out pathetic against Hereford United. It was terrible to see, again, a complete lack of effort from too many players. Apparently Chris Brass has switched on his video recorder and found the problems to
The closure of our local post office is bad news. The loss of this useful service to local people will be enormous. The nearest post office to Plantation Drive will now be a mile away, which is a real hardship to regular customers. Many are pensioners
Why do people think that when the races are on it is a "good money making" time for taxi drivers? I can assure you that, because of the amount of traffic on the roads, the drivers get to pick up far fewer fares. It will be even worse next year for Ascot
Mr and Mrs Denton are heroes for suggesting they would like a skateboard area opposite their house in New Lane, Holgate (Letters, August 19). Maybe they would also like the basketball area which was built on the Acomb Road side of Westbank Park by the
YORK City Knights ace Jim Elston has been named the LHF Healthplan National League Two Player of the Month for August in the latest edition of Rugby League World magazine. Elston becomes the second Knights player this season to win a monthly award as
PARTNERS in real life, Andrew Dunn and Andrina Carroll will play husband and wife Phil and Sandra in the mining-community drama Brassed Off at York Theatre Royal next month. The York-based couple, together with their son Elliott, will star in artistic
Vin Diesel shares a few deep-voiced words with Liz Howell about The Chronicles Of Riddick, and reveals his passion for York's own Judi Dench. PITCH Black hardly set the box office alight when it hit the big screens four years ago. But the overwhelming
FEW musicians truly justify the label 'legendary', but then few musicians have made such an impression on alternative rock as Stephen Patrick Morrissey, who plays second on the bill at the Carling Leeds Festival on Sunday. His band The Smiths were the
Introducing... The Open, the latest sound of Liverpool. The Open formed at art college in Liverpool in 2002, with members from Walsall and Birkenhead. The NME picked them for its Hot List for 2004, and last month Loog Records released their debut album
HERE'S the pattern: the results are released to acclaim and relief, then the inquest begins. How important it is to praise students for their great successes. Much hard work by young people and their teachers has helped record numbers of pupils to receive
HARROGATE Railway are hoping to re-start their season tomorrow and banish the memory of their first desolate performance against Mickelover Sports. Optimistic Rail had gone into the clash expecting a win but ended up being left in the blocks after a below-par
FORMER Scarborough skipper Jimmy Kelly misses out on a return to the McCain Stadium with Morecambe tomorrow. He has an ankle injury which will rule him out for a month and his absence has not helped the Shrimpers find their early season form. They have
Tough new laws which will make it an offence for shops, pubs and other organisations to discriminate against disabled people come into force in October. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. FOR you and me the little step up into the Woodlands charity shop in York's
C'EST fantastique! Eight of the country's best French GCSE results were achieved by pupils from the York area. Four of the successful students attend All Saints' RC School in York - appropriately enough a Language College. Jessica Davies, of St Paul's
YORK City boss Chris Brass knows he cannot afford "two or three performances in a row" like Saturday's dismal 3-0 home defeat against Hereford. The Minstermen's player-manager admitted that the club's current league position of 16th will need to improve
A REJUVENATED Dave Merris could have forced his way back into Chris Brass' starting line-up for tomorrow's away match against in-form Gravesend & Northfleet. Brass believes Merris is currently showing the same form that he displayed at the beginning
Friday, August 27, 2004 100 years ago: People in Monkgate might have been pardoned for thinking, despite the sultry night, that there had been a snowstorm - providing that they had "mercifully" been deprived of the sense of smell. I n front of the hospital
Thursday, August 26, 2004 100 years ago: After a story about Captain Mosey using an ammonia bath for a jelly-fish sting, columnist TT wrote more on Scarborough Chief Inspector of Boating and Bathing, as he was deemed worthy of being brought to the publics
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 100 years ago: When a man see a fish that he hasn't seen before, he calls it a devil fish, according to TT, after a York man was reported to have been severely stung whilst bathing at Scarborough, and in various newspapers the
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 100 years ago: Against a man who pleaded guilty to theft at Selby no previous conviction could be proved, but the Superintendent of Police went, it struck TT, rather out of his way to inform the Bench that the man appeared to
Monday, August 23, 2004 100 years ago: That otters exist in the Foss was sufficiently well known, but one had now made an appearance in the Ouse. It was seen about 10 o'clock one night, when it was very calm and still after the heat of the day, and whilst
AFTER two-and-a-half days of uncertainty and indecision, Yorkshire's Championship match against Glamorgan finally got started in mid-afternoon at Colwyn Bay yesterday with umpires and captains still insisting that conditions were not really fit for first-class
ALL-POSTAL ballots should never again be forced on voters in York and North Yorkshire, an election watchdog said today. Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford appeared to effectively rule out all-postal ballots in future, saying he was "relaxed" about
COUNCILLORS today expressed regret that a decision was made to bulldoze a famous York property - when they were away from the city on holiday. Green Party member Coun Andy D'Agorne was unaware controversial plans to knock down Burton Croft were being
A 21-year-old York man suffered head injuries after he was thrown 25 feet in a collision with a 7.5 tonne van. Jonathan Barker, of Tang Hall, was rushed to York Hospital after the accident at a pedestrian crossing on Foss Islands Road at 3.15pm yesterday
OPPONENTS of new and higher parking charges in York have pledged to wage a war of words against council chiefs. At a meeting chaired by Brian Anderson of York TUC at The Priory Centre, Priory Street, York, last night, it was decided to start a campaign
The end of the school holidays is almost upon us and the coming week will be the last change for many of our younger anglers to take advantage of the seasonal sojourn. The wash-out that was August has seen most local rivers out of sorts but for the most
C'EST fantastique! Eight of the country's best French GCSE results were achieved by pupils from the York area. Four of the successful students attend All Saints' RC School in York - appropriately enough a Language College. Jessica Davies, of St Paul's
TONY Cooper hit a 180 for 16 darts in York John Smith's Men's League division one as Sun 'A' beat second placed Clifton 'A' 6-3. Chris Thompson gamed in 17 and teamed up with Cooper for a 26-dart pairs with Cooper yet again hitting 180 - his eighth of
ACOMB athlete Pete Mathieson has ended a ten-year bid to qualify for the prestigious Hawaii Ironman Triathlon World Championship. And the White Rose Triathlon Club secretary and coach realised his decade-long dream by just seven seconds. That was the
COUNCIL leaders are to meet with senior Post Office staff to discuss plans to axe seven branches in York. City of York Council's ruling executive will meet David Mellows-Facer, Post Office head of area, on Monday, September 20. This will be followed by
PLANS to create a new York College have taken a major step forward, after city planners backed a scheme to transform an existing campus into a major housing development. City of York councillors approved outline proposals to transform the college's Tadcaster
YORK City boss Chris Brass has been given a specific deadline by the club's board in which to turn around his team's fortunes on the pitch. Brass was told his time-scale for improvement at a board meeting yesterday and all four directors present at last
A PENSIONER brought back from the dead by a quick-thinking York ambulance crew was today hailed a "walking miracle". North Yorkshire grandfather-of-four Eric Rowsby may have been dead for up to three minutes before he was resuscitated. Eric collapsed
WATCHING incredulously as a distraught Paula Radcliffe crashed out of the Olympics marathon on Sunday, it was difficult not to reflect on the pitiful state of British athletics. Despite the injection of millions of pounds of Lottery money over the past
I HAVE been told at least on a couple of occasions, the most recent being in the matchday programme, that the current York City squad is much stronger than last seasons. I beg to differ on several points. The goalkeeping department is very dodgy, City
Year after year, the results of GCSE and A Level exams are vilified. Why? The students put a great deal of time and effort into their studies, often at the expense of any social life. These students are expected to work and absorb information from about
WITH the casting vote of Lib Dem councillor Richard Moore, Burton Croft, the former home of JB Morell, has been condemned to destruction by the "demolition developers". We have already lost the Ashcroft Hotel and The Vicarage in Lawrence Street with Laurens
