A MAJOR new sports stadium for York City and York City Knights could be built on the doomed Terry's chocolate factory site, council leaders have revealed. City of York Council officers will investigate the suitability of using part of the land, off Bishopthorpe
COUNCIL bosses are drawing up a blueprint for the redevelopment of the Terry's factory, following its closure next year. They say a single, comprehensive vision is needed, creating a distinctive campus or village style. They outline several possible uses
The fight to save Terry's is over. So what can we do to make sure other big multi-nationals don't cut and run in the same way; and how can York continue to compete in the global jobs market? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. SO now we know. Two hundred years of
CITY of York Council said today it wants more jobs to be created on the Terry's site than are currently employed there. Chief executive David Atkinson said today's news came as a "huge disappointment" for the city. "We are determined to provide every
Mike Laycock reflects on the Evening Press campaign to save Terry's following today's confirmation that the chocolate factory will close. IT was always going to be one of this paper's most difficult campaigns. When Kraft Foods said on April 19 that Terry's
OLDER workers facing redundancy from Terry's in York fear their pensions could be badly hit. One employee told the Evening Press that staff in their 50s - who had stuck loyally with the company for decades - were concerned they would suffer drastic reductions
A FORMER managing director of Terry's today backed our campaign to save the York company - saying he could not understand the commercial rationale for moving production abroad. Ian Johnston, who was managing director from 1963 to 1977, and then chairman
THE Evening Press campaign to save Terry's went nationwide today - as it emerged that company bosses are refusing even to reply to our open letter calling for a rethink on closure plans. Scores of delegates attending the GMB union's national conference
THE battle to save Terry's was today being taken to a union's national conference in Scarborough. Delegates were being urged to support the GMB's bid to keep production of top chocolates such as All Gold and Chocolate Orange in the York area. Two shop
Terry's chocolate factory is a famous York landmark. But what is it like inside? Chief Reporter Mike Laycock and photographer Paul Baker toured the huge - and often empty - complex. The vast and cavernous room stretched for hundreds of yards, perhaps
As more than 2,000 of you sign up for our campaign, American bosses blame York's high production costs for the loss of 316 chocolate industry jobs and generations of loyal service...and say 'No' to Terry's factory switch. HOPES that Terry's could still
EVERY reader who signs our petition - and there are already more than 2,000 of you - is helping to hold a corporate giant to account. Kraft Foods Inc employs more than 100,000 people world-world. Its profits are staggering. Faced with such vast scale,
IT is time the people of York and beyond dragged themselves into the real world with regard to the Terry's closure. The owners of the building are going to close the place and flog it for as much as they can get. They couldn't care less what people are
AFTER marrying into a family of past and present Terry's workers, I have lost count of the number of times I have heard the phrase "we have stopped making them". This has been going on since Kraft bought the company. Kraft have purposely stopped making
TOURISM bosses have welcomed suggestions that a chocolate visitor centre should be opened at Terry's if the factory closes down. Evening Press reader Elaine Morgan contacted the paper to say a Cadbury World-style centre on part of the site would be a
A LEADING Euro MP claimed today that the decision by Kraft Foods to close Terry's chocolate factory in York was another example of multinational companies thinking the UK was an "easy touch". Yorkshire and Humber MEP David Bowe said it was easier and
CONGRATULATIONS to the Evening Press and the GMB union for taking on Kraft Foods over its threat to close Terry's. Yet again a corporate giant tries to increase profit at the expense of workers, by moving jobs to countries where they can get away with
I WAS amused to read in your Save Terry's campaign that "the last surviving Terry" blames "people from abroad who take over without having a local interest". I take it his family sold the company in the first place, not caring or thinking about the possible
SUPPORT is coming in for our campaign to save Terry's - from across the York community and much further afield. Scores of people have already signed our petition, which calls for the American-owned chocolate factory to remain in the York area. Former
A SENIOR Cabinet Minister has declared Terry's decision to close its historic factory as a "body blow" for York The Leader of the House of Commons, Peter Hain, told MPs: "It is a very serious situation with the job losses - it is a body blow." York MP
ONE-TIME York RL legend Brad Davis heads the list of candidates to succeed outgoing York City Knights coach Richard Agar. The Hull-bound Agar today hailed the Huntington Stadium job as a great opportunity for aspiring coaches as the rumour mill got to
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 100 years ago: Visitors to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's grounds now had the assistance of a plan, showing the position of the Roman, medieval and modern museum buildings. An enthusiastic member of the society came
IT'S tough going being a postie these days. Our postal paratroopers are stuck on the front line between the Royal Mail management and their victims - sorry, customers. Residents who once rewarded their postman or woman with a cheery smile are now more
Nestl Rowntree RUFC powered their way to a 43-14 victory at Baildon thirds, having led 17-7 at half-time. Trees' back row were unstoppable with No8 Jim Baldwin blasting over for four tries. Flankers Rob Sellars and new captain Dominic O'Sullivan also
FOR the first time, all the ghoul gurus of York are setting aside their business rivalries - and meeting in a spirit of friendship. The private ghostly get-together of guides and operators of ghost walks in the city will take place on Tuesday, October
HUANYIN (or welcome in Mandarin) to this group of college graduates from Beijing, China, who have moved to York to become their nation's managers of the future. Eight students, aged 20 and 21, flew this month from Pilot College in Beijing to study management
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARL Club ended Newsome Panthers' four-year unbeaten run with a 20-18 victory at White Rose Avenue. First blood in a tight Pennine League division two match went to All Blacks when Alan Pallister forced his way over from acting
YORK City skipper Steve Davis is struggling to recover from the hip injury that ruled him out of Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Crawley Town. The swelling on Davis' hip joint has still not subsided and the 35-year-old defender will be seeking medical advice
ERROR-PRONE York City defender Chris Clarke faces the axe again after his mistake led to the only goal of the game at Crawley Town on Saturday. Clarke, 23, was only recalled to the Minstermen's starting line-up in Sussex because of an injury to skipper
STRICT new government targets for waste management could see council tax bills soar for all York residents, as city leaders struggle to meet targets. New legislation is expected to tighten the way rubbish is handled and disposed of by local authorities
VISITORS to the York Festival of Food & Drink were set to be told a load of rot today. For vegetable peelings, fruit flesh and tea bags were on the menu, alongside dishes by world-renowned chefs, as City of York Council promoted a home composting
MAGISTRATES have set aside three days to consider a late-night licence application for York's Barbican Centre, after receiving more than 30 objections. Absolute Leisure, which will operate the centre following its privatisation by City of York Council
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARL Club ended Newsome Panthers' four-year unbeaten run with a 20-18 victory at White Rose Avenue. First blood in a tight Pennine League division two match went to All Blacks when Alan Pallister forced his way over from acting
TRUSTING a friend left two men facing jail for their part in a three-year £65,000 insurance fraud, a court heard. Gym receptionist Andrew Stephen Winterburn and factory employee Paul Anthony Ward put nearly 90 dodgy cheques through their bank accounts
CITY of York Hockey Club warmed up for the new season by taking part in the Yorkshire Champions Trophy - a competition for the top eight teams in the county. York are being coached this year by Gawaine Hogg, the ex-York Trojan and City of York player.
YORK City skipper Steve Davis is struggling to recover from the hip injury that ruled him out of Saturday's 1-0 defeat at Crawley Town. The swelling on Davis' hip joint has still not subsided and the 35-year-old defender will be seeking medical advice
A NORTH Yorkshire businessman who is sick of speeding drivers racing past his home has taken the law into his own hands - and created his own working speed camera. Ray Allott, of Knaresborough, was so fed up of traffic racing along Forest Moor Road, between
I THANK the person who wrote in endorsing my views that children live by what they learn (September 8). However, from their comments on today's children being worse than previous generations, I assume they were not old enough to remember the Mods and
I SYMPATHISE with the predicament of Robert Neilson, the York market trader thrown into a stinking prison cell in Thailand on drugs charges before being cleared by police (September 10). But I do wonder whether such adverse conditions might deter a few
REMEMBER the Iraqi information minister and his infamous "there are no Americans in Baghdad" speech as the tanks rolled in behind him live on TV? Well, Nigel Ingram of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation obviously went to the same school of media relations
WE often read in the Evening Press that City of York Council is short of money, but is the council getting full value for the contracts they already pay for on our behalf? I am a very poorly senior citizen and, as with other pensioners who live alone,
BEING a football fan, I was incensed at the England players' stance after the 2-1 win over Poland in last week's World Cup qualifier. The so-called silence was their way of getting back at the media. What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have
Does Alien life exist? The question that has been asked for centuries is again on people's lips as it emerged that astronomers manning a giant telescope in Puerto Rico had recorded, on three separate occasions, signals that came across in an unnatural
YOUR report 'Gardens tribute to lupins pioneer' (Thursday, September 2) reminded me there is another, just as famous, floral son of York. Namely, George Yeld, (1845-1938), an Oxford graduate who won the Newdigate Prize for English Verse and later dedicated
FOR months now we have had North Yorkshire news instead of Calendar. Phil Willis, MP for Harrogate District has taken action on behalf of his constituents, but protocol prevents him from taking up the cause further for North Yorkshire viewers under the
I REFER to the article, 'Cloud cuckoo land of bin bags,' (September, 9). It is clear to me Coun David Horton does not live in a terrace property of York, and therefore does not know how much of a problem early disposal of bin bags in a back lane can cause
THE rising bollard has always been a failure ('Great barrier grief', September 10) because there is an easy way round it. Go up St Saviour's Place and along St Saviourgate to come out at the end of Colliergate and you're in the "restricted zone". Yvonne
ALL hope has gone; Terry's will close. Soon the factory will become another icon of York's past, part of the tourist trail, a nostalgic reminder of a time when the city used to make things. Terry's will live on in name only. For 200 years that name stood
THE battle to save Terry's for York is over. Parent company Kraft Foods today confirmed it was pressing ahead with the closure of the famous chocolate factory and transfer of production abroad, with the loss of 316 jobs. The announcement came after the
A HERO of the campaign to save Terry's suffered a heart attack within hours of taking it to a union's national conference, it emerged today. Vic Botterill, chief shop steward at the York chocolate factory, took to the rostrum at the GMB's conference in
HUNDREDS of Nestl Rowntree workers are backing the campaign to save York's other chocolate factory. More than 300 Nestl employees have signed the Evening Press petition calling for Terry's to remain in the York area. Their support takes the total number
HUNDREDS of people are continuing to sign up each day to our petition to save Terry's, with the number of signatures now flying past the 3,000 mark. Accompanying comments from some readers continue to display a deep anger with American parent company
MANAGEMENT from Terry's have come face-to-face with union leaders to explain their decision to close the site. Commercially-sensitive information was offered to representatives from the GMB and Amicus unions to explain why the decision to close the site
THE campaign to save Terry's has won backing from... the Terrys. Peter Terry and eight other members of the Terry family have signed up to our petition, which calls for the famous chocolate factory to remain in the York area. Mr Terry, 85, of Brandsby
LIKE countless others, I was shocked to hear of the planned closure of Terry's and can, from a rather unique standpoint, empathise with the people of York and, particularly, the firm's employees past and present. While I was never employed by Terry's,
A CONSUMER boycott of Terry's chocolates may be gathering pace in protest at the decision to close the York factory. Several people have told the Evening Press they will not be buying any more Terry's confectionery, and urged others to do the same. A
MORE than 1,000 people have already backed our campaign to save Terry's - just over a week after the shock news broke that the chocolate factory is set to close. Signatures are continuing to come in for our petition, which calls for a Terry's chocolate
DESPITE living on the South Coast I am shocked to read Terry's chocolate firm is dumping York and its workforce and skipping out to Poland or thereabouts. How disloyal can a company get? I am all for British goods and local produce and have always bought
HOW perceptive of Colin S Jeffrey to know the closure of Terry's of York will not devastate people's lives (April 23). My wife was very upset and in tears having been in a job where, for 17 years, she is very happy. I ask Mr Jeffrey if he is on a very
THEY will no longer be made in York if Terry's closes down next year - but York Fruits will continue to keep their traditional name. Terry's American owners Kraft say the fruit flavour jellies' brand name is a trademark, and so they can continue being
In the wake of its decision to close down Terry's chocolate factory, Mike Laycock examines the structure of the US food giant Kraft. IT is only when you look at the Kraft website that you realize just how small and relatively insignificant Terry's is
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has held talks with Terry's boss John Pollock and union leaders about plans to close the chocolate factory next year. The MP said after yesterday's meeting at the factory in Bishopthorpe Road that Mr Pollock had explained why Kraft
I'm writing this quickly because time is running out for the male of the species. Scientists say men are heading for extinction within 10 million years, or maybe it's just around the corner in about 100,000 years, according to a boffins' convention in
YORK council leader Steve Galloway has sought to quash rumours that Terry's chocolate factory will easily fall into the hands of residential property developers. Coun Galloway said he wanted to put out the message that the council would "vigorously" resist
EQUIPPED with the "in-flight magazine" (alias the theatre programme) and instructed by golden-booted hostesses in the Polarity Reversal Procedure, the audience is ready for take-off. Captain Tempest (Dan Hield), intergalactic traveller, pipe smoker of
IN Brassed Off, this month's repertory production at York Theatre Royal, mines are closing and mining communities are breaking down on the Yorkshire coal field in 1994. Richard Cameron's lyrical, intense tragicomedy The Glee Club also combines a Yorkshire
A UNION leader today declared his support for the Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York. GMB organiser John Kirk said: "The GMB is prepared to support any campaign that hopefully will keep Terry's in York and provide employment for its staff.
THE shock has subsided. York now has a choice: we can meekly accept Terry's closure with a shrug and a sigh, or we can fight back. In a world seemingly governed by giant multinational conglomerates, it is easy to presume that nothing we do will make a
The Evening Press is campaigning to save Terry's and more than 300 jobs. Mike Laycock looks back at a remarkably similar campaign fought in the 1990s to save more than 300 jobs at York firm RR Donnelley. The coincidence is extraordinary. In 1996, the
THE Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York is winning heavyweight backing. City of York Council's executive has thrown its full weight behind efforts to persuade American owner Kraft Foods to reconsider its decision to close the chocolate factory
THE American owners of Terry's were urged today to think again about their decision to close the York chocolate factory. Union leader John Kirk said he wanted to put forward a survival plan to Kraft Foods to keep Terry's in the York area. The GMB organiser
The last surviving Terry who managed the York chocolate factory returned to the Bishopthorpe Road site today and declared: "This is a tragic moment - for the more than 300 who work here, for past employees, for years of history." Peter Terry, aged 85,
THE Terry's chocolate factory site could be worth more than £50 million, if property-hungry developers get their way. A mad scramble is predicted for the 33-acre site, which straddles Bishopthorpe Road, and is one of the city's prime locations overlooking
FOR one former Terry's worker, the news the historic York factory was to shut hit especially hard. Pensioner Beattie Rippon, 82, of Acomb, gave 36 years of her life to the factory, until she retired in 1978. Her duties were to keep an eye on the chocolate
MANY Terry's workers have been at the factory since they left school. Reporter Richard Edwards asked them their thoughts on a black day for York. Paul Illingworth, of Dringhouses, York, has worked at Terry's for 16 years. He said: "I'm not surprised.
GREAT work, Batman. Kapow! Deploying nothing more than your bat-ladder, you exposed feeble security at Buckingham Palace. Zap! With one blow you knocked a great hole through the police commissioner's credibility. Oh, and you also made a protest about
BILL Foggitt was a North Yorkshire folk hero. While Michael Fish relies on a gamut of satellite and computer technology to predict the weather, Bill would make his own forecasts based on seaweed and hedgerows. His knowledge of old country ways made him
YORK City Ladies FC are on the lookout for a new manager after Steve Thornton decided to leave the club. The City squad lifted the North Riding County Cup under his leadership last season. His last match in charge was a 2-1 defeat at Barnsley which featured
They have been dubbed the "plastic police". As a national row erupts over the use of police community support officers, we ask... Is this policing on the cheap? Yes ...says Mark Botham, joint branch board chairman, Police Federation for York and North
ARCHITECTS always boast that their work makes a difference to the environment, but few can lay greater claim to working for the common good than Phil Bixby, sole proprietor of Constructive Individuals. Phil, who operates his practice from home in Holgate
Francis Norton, who booted home his 50th winner of the season at Musselburgh yesterday, has good prospects of adding to his tally at Beverley tomorrow. Splodger Mac, trained at Norton by the likewise in-form Neville Bycroft, goes for the Mac And Leni
A GROUND-BREAKING trial aimed at tackling "crisis" levels of absenteeism among York council employees has met with a frosty reception from staff. A City of York Council union official said the majority of Guildhall employees involved were against having
THIS is NOT the formula for a winning business: No capital, no office, no clients. But that is what faced young designers Ashley McGovern and Paul Cowen who, in 1992, were still in their early 20s when they set up PictureDrum Publishing in a spare room
A DILAPIDATED landmark York building could house a state-of-the-art "youth hub" aimed at embracing young people within the community. Civic leaders have suggested that the Bonding Warehouse, in Skeldergate, could be redeveloped as a one-shop-stop venue
A NEW York Unique-Phoenix Darts League record was set when Sun beat Shepherd SC in the semi-final of the PDL Trophy. A total of 58 tons-plus scores were posted in the titanic encounter. After losing the team game, Sun hit back through Kev Walton-Dave
A Good Samaritan told how he chased an attacker thought to have mugged two elderly women in the space of 20 minutes. Graham Pittaway was cycling along Grosvenor Terrace, near Bootham, when he witnessed the first attack, which left a 78-year-old woman
NORTH Yorkshire's legendary amateur weather forecaster, Bill Foggitt, has died aged 91. His quirky predictions were based on observations of plants and wildlife around Thirsk, and supported by climate records kept by his family for 200 years. Bill's weather-sage
ONE-TIME York RL legend Brad Davis heads the list of candidates to succeed outgoing York City Knights coach Richard Agar. The Hull-bound Agar today hailed the Huntington Stadium job as a great opportunity for aspiring coaches as the rumour mill got to
DETECTIVES revealed today that they may try to extradite fugitive York landlord Robbie Howse from Ireland. Senior York police officers say the eight years that have passed since Howse stole thousands of pounds from The Punch Bowl in Stonegate are no barrier
SOAPBOXES are in danger of splintering into thousands of shards after a weekend of wobble-vision across the Premiership. But all the hot-air served was to point up the hyper-inflation football elite's smug self-importance and, at the same time, demonstrate
WHERE has society gone wrong ('No respect', September 11)? It was sad to read that elderly widow Mary Speed was robbed in the street by a young girl. I have looked many times in the bible for an answer to why the youth of today have gone astray. Where
JO HAYWOOD looks at a new service that aims to reunite York parents with their estranged children. DAD left home two years ago. He's got a bit of a drink problem and used to hit mum when he'd had too much. He knows his marriage is over, but he misses
REGULARLY I hear people proclaim themselves to be a "huge fan" of someone or something. This puzzles me. I feel obesity is a condition I would be reluctant to boast about. Perhaps my perspective has become deflated. Ron Willis, Priory Street, York. Updated
THE well-considered comments by the chief executive of the York Conservation Trust (August 25) raises many questions about the appropriateness of the planning system and the competence of many of those involved in the decision-making process at local
