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  • Don't get old, get active

    NOW I've heard it all. A protester sitting beneath a tree to save it from the chainsaws was asked if he was going to climb the tree to occupy it like Coronation Street's eco-warrior Emily Bishop. His limp reply was that he was 45 years old and could not

  • Prestige Ascot tickets sell out

    GRANDSTAND tickets for the prestige day at next year's Royal Ascot at York sold out in just over three hours. Tens of thousands of tickets for Gold Cup day on Thursday, June 16, next year, were snapped up when booking for the showpiece event opened yesterday

  • Bus firm boosts festive appeal

    TRANSPORT group First has called upon other York traders to join it in supporting the drive to illuminate the city this Christmas. The company has announced a pledge of £1,500 to the York Business Pride Christmas Lights Appeal, bringing the total figure

  • Boro bidding to rub out Vics

    SCARBOROUGH will be looking for their first back-to-back wins of the season when Northwich Victoria visit the McCain Stadium tonight (7.45pm) The Cheshire side have been docked ten points for going into administration and are rooted to the foot of the

  • All blacks' fire

    NEW Earswick All Blacks stayed in touch with the Pennine League division two leaders by hammering lowly Elland 'A' 46-0. All Blacks dominated their hosts, coping better in the torrid conditions to run in nine tries. Captain Jez Petch sent winger Shaun

  • Warriors bounce back

    SELBY Warriors welcomed back several players who missed last week's heavy defeat and put that episode behind them with a 26-0 win at Victoria Rangers 'A' to go top of Pennine League division five. Captain Carl Bardauskas scored an early opener, racing

  • City switched on for live TV clash

    YORK City boss Chris Brass is hoping his side can carry on scoring in front of the Sky cameras tonight. Brass waited 55 games before the Minstermen scored three goals in a single match under his tenure. But Saturday's 3-1 victory against Stevenage Borough

  • Disabled by York

    I HAD a disabled badge for my mother until her death in 1992 and even then was appalled at the lack of facilities for badge holders. Since then I have seen the facilities for able-bodied cyclists (who pay nothing to use the road) enlarged and improved

  • St Peter's path is a right of way and must stay open

    CITY of York Council will definitely lose any respect I have for it if that well-used path behind St Peter's School is closed. I thought public rights of way were set in stone for centuries at least. Why are they called public rights of way if councils

  • Follow leader - 05/10/04

    A 14-1 double at Windsor yesterday, when Kieren Fallon was serving a one-day ban, strengthened Frankie Dettori's lead over his arch-rival in the race for championship honours. Dettori, now on 171 winners for the season, leads Fallon by eight with thirty

  • Vote for safe play

    I URGE residents to vote for children's play ideas on the York Ward Committee ballots. The Fishergate schemes list has 15 ideas from families following consultations at Cemetery Road Play area and at the Millennium Bridge. Young people wanted outdoor

  • Giving their time

    SUPPOSEDLY in this caring society, where money, greed and prestige seem to be the order of the day, charitable institutions and the like take second place. May I remind the bureaucrats and their officials to spare a thought for those less fortunate in

  • Late strike steals victory from York

    NEW-LOOK City of York men's hockey team opened their Northern League premier division season with a 2-2 draw at Sheffield Hallam I. It was nearly maximum points for York but Hallam grabbed a late equaliser. Fielding several new young players, including

  • Protest on road study

    VILLAGE leaders are dismayed that a council study into the potential traffic impact of major developments in the south-east area of York will exclude a proposed 540-home scheme at Osbaldwick. Fulford, Heslington and Osbaldwick parish councils said today

  • Police hit back on crime claim

    NORTH Yorkshire Police hit back today, after figures from a national newspaper claimed the force had the country's largest rise in violent and sexual offences. The statistics, set out in a Sunday newspaper, said the force experienced a rise of 53 per

  • Plasterer jailed for 27 months after chase

    A YORK plasterer who risked many lives while driving a stolen Land Rover and caravan during a police motorway chase has been jailed for 27 months. David Michael O'Loughlin, 36, was taking the vehicles from York to Leicester when caravan owner Stephen

  • Neil downs favourite

    Neil Caywood is the York Unique-Phoenix Darts League division one Individual Champion after defeating the hot favourite, Sun Inn's Chris Thompson. Caywood took the first leg in 23 darts after both players exchanged tons and wasted chances on the double

  • Prestige Ascot tickets sell out

    GRANDSTAND tickets for the prestige day at next year's Royal Ascot at York sold out in just over three hours. Tens of thousands of tickets for Gold Cup day on Thursday, June 16, next year, were snapped up when booking for the showpiece event opened yesterday

  • City facing £10m cash shortfall

    THE scale of the funding headache facing City of York Council emerged today as finance chiefs said the authority was facing a massive £10 million budget shortfall. Leader Steve Galloway said the council was focusing efforts on the Fair Grant for York

  • City switched on for live TV clash

    YORK City boss Chris Brass is hoping his side can carry on scoring in front of the Sky cameras tonight. Brass waited 55 games before the Minstermen scored three goals in a single match under his tenure. But Saturday's 3-1 victory against Stevenage Borough

  • How Lisa got a new lease

    JO HAYWOOD talks to a woman who says "get a life" but means it in a good way. LIFE coaching is not rocket science. It deals in simple concepts. But often it is the simple things in life that pass us by. Lisa Clifford, 34, of Howden, East Yorkshire, felt

  • I know this will make my day

    On the phone to my friend the other day, I heard a bit of a commotion in the background. When I enquired as to what was going on, she reported that her office was in turmoil. Four out of six members of staff were taking part in Take Your Dog to Work Day

  • It's Knights' final fever as tickets get snapped up

    YORK City Knights have been given more tickets for Sunday's National League Finals Day after selling out their initial allocation within two-and-a-half hours. The Knights were originally given 650 tickets for the triple-header showdown at Widnes, in which

  • Way we were

    Tuesday, October 5, 2004 100 years ago: A large number of friends of a York couple assembled at the Phoenix Inn, George Street, for the purpose of presenting them with a couch, which had been subscribed for by residents in the district on the occasion

  • Back to scene of the rhyme

    AS a treat for the kids, Mel Merry took them for a slap-up feed at Pizza Hut in York. These restaurant chains have their detractors but they know how to keep kids entertained. Soon the children were poring over the Dr Seuss Rhyme Time wordsearch that

  • Rosedale put on real show at Danby

    THE village show day caused Rosedale to switch their home clash with Duncombe Park to Danby but it did not stop the RJF Homes Beckett Football League team from moving up to third in the first division table. Rosedale, whose pitch was in a poor state after

  • It is time to say sorry

    QUITE rightly City of York Council is pursuing its debtors. The authority has a duty to citizens who always pay their council tax to track down those who fail to do so. That duty is even more urgent when the council is edging towards a financial precipice

  • Knights arise

    WHEN was the last time tickets for two very different York sporting events sold out within hours? We could have anticipated the rush for Royal Ascot. This is a one-off opportunity for the North to gatecrash high society's "season", and enjoy a top festival

  • Water tips on tap at city hotel

    Water is the new wine at top hotels and restaurants in New York, London and Paris and now the Best Western Monkbar Hotel in York has introduced a watersommelier, the H2O equivalent of a wine waiter, whose job it is to advise customers on the best water

  • New home and new board for building firm

    AS PART of its planned expansion programme, construction services group Parkland has restructured its board of directors and moved into prestigious new head offices near Selby. The new board comprises Brook Nolson as managing director; Steve Moorhouse

  • Wireless revolution on its way to York

    IAN PEARSON, of BT, maps the progress of new developments in technology in York. As a "futurist", he advises many industry sectors on the major threats and opportunities ahead. WIRELESS has now taken on a whole new meaning, covering mobile phones and

  • Sporting clash as go-ahead is given

    A spanking new sports ground on the north side of York at no cost to the council tax-payer. It must be good news. So why is the council opposed to it? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. FROM the road, the land doesn't look up to much. A patch of scrubby grassland

  • Who cares for ordinary people?

    I CERTAINLY agree with David Bryant about York's 'average' wage. Maybe he should take the advice of councillor Ann Reid (yes, she of the parking charges) and move to Sheffield. It is worth remembering that Ann made this outrageous comment before the LibDems

  • In a funny frame

    IN January 2005 a photograph exhibition - Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance - will open at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, featuring photographs which have been preserved, framed, stored or printed in unusual ways - for

  • Won't come again

    I HAVE not been to York in the evening since a pizza and a visit to the Grand Opera House with my family introduced me with a bump to the new evening parking charges. Barring the mandatory Christmas pilgrimage to visit the shrine of St Berwick at the

  • Flying high into old age is so admirable

    I NOTED with admiration the story about Muriel Pierotti, who is embarking on a glider flight to mark each year she exceeds her 80th birthday and raise sponsorship into the bargain. I hope she has many happy years of flying. My father-in-law has been set

  • Unfair to blame British sugar for asthma in York

    HERE we are again with the usual round of moans and groans about British Sugar (Letters, October 1). While I sympathise with anyone who suffers from asthma, my wife being one of them, I very much doubt that steam with a hint of molasses causes any problems

  • Arrogant hunters

    I HAVE never seen so much arrogance as that shown by the hunting fraternity. "We will break the law" they say, and now they will target local MPs, private individuals in their own homes (Hounded, October 1). Maybe the miners and steelworkers should have

  • No comparison

    COMPARISONS between hunting and the violent miners strike are simplistic and somewhat absurd. Labour supporters seem unhelpfully obsessed with the strike which ended about 20 years ago (Letters, September 28). The Labour Party has tried to ban hunting

  • How is this legal?

    SO Tony Blair disputes UN secretary General Kofi Annan's claim that the war in Iraq was illegal. Blair alleges that containment wasn't working and yet even he is forced to acknowledge that there were no weapons of mass destruction. Isn't the absence of

  • Silverstone wheels come off

    IT has been an accident waiting to happen. Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has been on collision course with the British Racing Drivers' Club over the future of Silverstone for years. Now Ecclestone has scrubbed the British Grand Prix from next

  • Barbican pool delay warning

    THE scheme to replace York's Barbican Baths could be delayed by legal action, leisure chiefs are warning. City of York Council, which closed the old Barbican pool to make way for redevelopment of the leisure centre, intends building a new community pool

  • Cyclists to get more space on the roads

    MOVES to give cyclists new rights of way at the expense of motorists have been welcomed by a York cycling group. The York-branch of the CTC said plans to redesign urban road lay-outs to give cyclists more space took a step further the work the city had

  • Bus firm boosts festive appeal

    TRANSPORT group First has called upon other York traders to join it in supporting the drive to illuminate the city this Christmas. The company has announced a pledge of £1,500 to the York Business Pride Christmas Lights Appeal, bringing the total figure

  • Golly green giant!

    A YORK man's radical change of image could leave his pals saying: "Golly gosh - have you seen Golly?" For Golly Thorn turned more than a few heads when he stepped out of a city hairdressing salon. Golly, of Tedder Road, Acomb, had just had his usually

  • All blacks' fire

    NEW Earswick All Blacks stayed in touch with the Pennine League division two leaders by hammering lowly Elland 'A' 46-0. All Blacks dominated their hosts, coping better in the torrid conditions to run in nine tries. Captain Jez Petch sent winger Shaun

  • It's Knights' final fever as tickets get snapped up

    YORK City Knights have been given more tickets for Sunday's National League Finals Day after selling out their initial allocation within two-and-a-half hours. The Knights were originally given 650 tickets for the triple-header showdown at Widnes, in which

  • Two walk free over professor's death

    TWO maintenance men have been given suspended jail sentences for the death of a York academic who was killed on a walkway at an Italian railway station. Professor Sally Baldwin, 62, was killed in October last year when she fell through a gap and was dragged

  • Hundreds in tax blunder

    YORK council bosses apologised today after 700 households were sent tax demands by mistake. Frustrated and angry residents jammed City of York Council switchboards after receiving reminder letters saying they were behind with their council tax payments