Wednesday, October 13, 2004 100 years ago: A columnist was warning that at this season of the year a recognised form of "looting" was rampant. The youngsters raided the backyards of houses, appropriating the "besoms" or brooms usually kept there, and
YORK has been voted the nation's favourite British city in a new national poll. The city's cobbled streets, city walls and historic charm won it pride of place in the Daily Telegraph Travel Awards, knocking London off its six-year top spot. York also
EVEN the programme cover is the stuff of humour. Lip Service, "the nation's favourite literary lunatics", use a cut-out of a cute moggy mugshot on the front and a feline needlepoint pattern on the back with colour options, including hovel grey and sick
WE'VE long known it, and now the rest of the country is catching on. York is Britain's best city. Our pride is tinged with extra Northern satisfaction as York dethroned London to take top spot in the Daily Telegraph Travel Awards. This is a tribute to
CONGRATULATIONS to John Brigham. Today he took delivery of a brand new smart forfour car, the prize in our competition to launch the compact Evening Press. Many readers will be disappointed their name wasn't drawn out. But we are sure they will agree
BUSINESS leaders in Yorkshire today confirmed that there is a direct link between the use of broadband internet and profits. In a new report carried out by the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Broadband provider, Nildram, 84 per cent of company directors
MOOR Lane Construction, the York-based industrial and commercial builders, is backing Yorkshire-born star Bill Nelson, of Be-Bop Deluxe, fame by sponsoring the transport for his forthcoming tour. Guitarist Bill Nelson and The Lost Satellites - a seven-piece
STEPHEN LEWIS is smitten by a book of silly facts. THEY must be putting something in the water at local schools. How else to explain a book by a former deputy head about how to pick out a dinosaur in a bus queue? The answer, judging by the cover of Andy
RODDY Doyle is a wonderful writer. If there's a funnier novel than The Van, part of his cracking Commitments trilogy, I've not read it. So it was with eager anticipation that I took home The Meanwhile Adventures. This is Doyle's third children's novel
JACK got far better value out of this book. Roald Dahl was one of our greatest storytellers. Jack, like millions of children before him, has devoured The Witches, The Twits - the whole Dahl back catalogue. So this provided a welcome chance to renew fictional
JUDE, Martine, Dixie and Rochelle, four sisters otherwise known as the Diamond Girls, are waiting for a new member of their family to arrive. But first they have to move house to Planet Estate, where instead of finding the dream home they were looking
THE Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) is a registered charity which established its first home in 1850 and now provides a comprehensive range of services to older freemasons and their female dependants. Connaught Court in Fulford was opened
IT is heartening that York council's assistant director of planning confirmed new trees must be planted in the same place as the felled ones at Connaught Court, Fulford (Letters, October 7). Will the council also insist that a 15-metre radius circle is
MY wife and I have lived close to St Peter's School for 30 years and during recent times have seen sensible improvements made to fences and lighting for better security. Where risk to students at any school increases, then measures need to be taken to
HUGH Bayley is absolutely right to criticise the new flood maps (October 8). I checked the area where I live, mindful of the Environment Agency's boast that individual post-coded areas could be identified. What rubbish! Having typed in my postcode, I
CHRIS TITLEY meets a man with a radical plan for York's roads. HE doesn't look like a revolutionary. Dressed in a smart suit, white hair and beard neatly trimmed, Jonathan Tyler could happily pass for a company director. Only the sparkle behind the spectacles
Haydn Lewis, our education reporter, presents his weekly report on local education issues. Pupils' music to accompany films MUSIC students from three York secondary schools will be gathering to share their work at the National Centre for Early Music.
THE writing won't be on the wall for long at schools in the York area if two Dads have their way. Robert Caines and his business partner Colin White started out life as parents concerned about the problem of school graffiti - and now they have set up
A BUSINESS leader is backing calls for a large new department store in York city centre, saying it would fill a "glaringly obvious" gap. Len Cruddas, chief executive of York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, was giving his initial reaction to a
A DRUG dealer snared in a dramatic police sting operation has been jailed for more than five years. Mark Anthony Mattocks, 30, offered to sell heroin to an undercover police officer in York. The plain clothes officer was on the streets as part of a drive
THE troubled scheme for a "new village" on the outskirts of York has hit another serious obstacle. With a decision on the future of the proposed Derwenthorpe development expected soon from City of York Council planners, the Environment Agency has decided
CONTROVERSIAL charges to visit York Minster will rise by 50p in the New Year. The 11.1 per cent price increase will mean tourists forking out £5 from January 4 to tour the historic cathedral, while concessionary charges for over-60s and students will
PLAYERS on the fringes of the York City first team are suffering because of a lack of reserve games. Monday's scheduled match would have been the first game in five weeks for the second string but injury-ridden Halifax Town asked for the game to be postponed
PAULINE Brigham relies on her wheelchair after undergoing a heart transplant and being diagnosed with two chronic illnesses. But thanks to her husband, John - who is the winner of our Evening Press win-a-car competition - Mrs Brigham could finally be
YORK City Knights chief executive Steve Ferres is anticipating a turnover of "about eight to ten" players over the off-season. Ferres will wait until incoming head coach Mick Cook's commitments as Leeds Rhinos head coach are over - the Rhinos, of course
DID you know that tomorrow marks the 938th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings? Neither did we before opening a letter from Margaret Birch. Nine hundred and 38 years. Doesn't time fly. The milestone prompts a plea from Margaret, of Fenwick's Lane, Fulford
HIGH growth business sectors in York and North Yorkshire can now call on support from three specialist Business Link advisers. Martin Walsh, Bill Powrie and Roger Benson, of Business Link York and North Yorkshire, have been appointed as the first-ever
A YORK-based e-learning and website design firm, has just won a contract with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to build a marketing skills analysis system called Marketing Doctor. The system will enable clients of CIM to give their marketing
THINK you're cool? Then read on, because only the coolest people are fans of The Departure. Last night, a sea of asymmetric haircuts and ill-fitting suit jackets greeted the Northampton quintet's return to Fibbers. Support came from Clor, a group who
STEPHEN LEWIS rounds up recent children's fiction. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, retold by Hiawyn Oram and illustrated by Tudor Humphries (Collins, £10.99) For younger children This is one of the great children's stories. It has enthralled generations
I WOULD like to welcome the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation about attitudes to old age ("Report challenges stereotype of 'grumpy' elderly", October 11). I too am increasingly concerned at the way older people's issues are talked about. The ageing
DR Greaves (Letters, October 5) should not believe Labour spin, certainly not that put out when Labour knew they were going to lose control of the council. I have never said people should move to Sheffield. With one son working in the tourism industry
ELIZABETH Earle says that Derwenthorpe was "already cut-and-dried long before the residents and their local representatives were consulted" (Letters, October 8). Both this and her statement that "the way in which the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing
ST PETER'S has operated the former Queen Anne school for the past three years - the length of time, they say, that "incidents" have occurred on public footpaths through their land. During this period, I have witnessed many more than 45 "incidents" happen
REGARDING St Peter's School's application to abolish a public right of way through its property, I feel this should be resisted vigorously. Public rights of way are ours and are part of York's heritage. Why should yobs, thieves and vandals, who amount
THE letter from David Waring (October 8) raised some interesting points. Gurkhas with 15 years service qualify for a pension which is probably enough to keep them in reasonable comfort in Nepal; those who did not qualify for a pension because they did
PLAYERS on the fringes of the York City first team are suffering because of a lack of reserve games. Monday's scheduled match would have been the first game in five weeks for the second string but injury-ridden Halifax Town asked for the game to be postponed
THE launch of the York Primary School Athletics Programme was held this week. After a successful pilot scheme run last year by Neil Gulliver, the area's development officer for athletics, the Oaklands Sports Partnership is running a series of training
A YORK head teacher claims that while Britain may not lead the world in winning gold medals, it has no equal when it comes to knocking success. Fulford School head Steve Smith was delivering a stinging rebuke for "people who ought to know better", who
FORMER Yorkshire fast bowler Steve Kirby yesterday signed a three-year contract with Gloucestershire, a switch forecast exclusively in yesterday's Evening Press. "I see this move as a big challenge and I am really looking forward to getting involved in
A BUSINESS leader is backing calls for a large new department store in York city centre, saying it would fill a "glaringly obvious" gap. Len Cruddas, chief executive of York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, was giving his initial reaction to a
CITY of York Council looks set to press ahead with relocating up to a thousand staff - based in offices across the city centre - into one purpose-built site. In a separate development, the authority is planning to sell the historic De Grey Rooms, in St
YORK has been voted the nation's favourite British city in a new national poll. The city's cobbled streets, city walls and historic charm won it pride of place in the Daily Telegraph Travel Awards, knocking London off its six-year top spot. York also
THE future of York's only independent cinema, City Screen, could be in doubt if it loses a legal battle worth more than £1 million. Bradford-based Totty Construction Group Ltd is suing the arthouse cinema for damages in a dispute over work on the former
YORK'S council leader has moved to reassure residents concerned about service cuts, as the authority looks to bridge a £10 million budget gap. Speaking at a City of York Council executive meeting, Councillor Steve Galloway vowed to meet the biggest financial
YORK Squash Club first team are playing out of Next Generation instead of their previous Clifton Park headquarters for their fixtures in the premier division of Yorkshire Squash League this season. The team which has been renamed York Next Generation,
ROACH were to the fore again on the Ouse below York for Sunday's 56-peg John Smith's Hospital Angling Cup. South Bank rod Paul Burton (Anglers World Holidays) found himself pegged in the current hot-spot, the Donkey Woods sand, and made no mistake with
FORMER Yorkshire fast bowler Steve Kirby yesterday signed a three-year contract with Gloucestershire, a switch forecast exclusively in yesterday's Evening Press. "I see this move as a big challenge and I am really looking forward to getting involved in
YORK City Knights chief executive Steve Ferres is anticipating a turnover of "about eight to ten" players over the off-season. Ferres will wait until incoming head coach Mick Cook's commitments as Leeds Rhinos head coach are over - the Rhinos, of course
SICK hooligan drivers are using their vehicles to batter sheep to death in York. Up to six animals have suffered a brutal death on Strensall Common in the past six weeks. Police believe youths have been driving on to the 1,400-acre green space at night
THIS week's column is proving painful for me to write. Writer's block is not the problem - at least, no more than usual. No, it's just difficult to get at your computer keyboard when you have a large and miserable tom cat on your lap, claws digging remorselessly
Kevin Darley, who rode a double at Ayr yesterday, heads in the opposite direction tomorrow in search of winners and is likely to be rewarded on the opening day of the Newmarket meeting. The Sheriff Hutton jockey renews his association with Paradise Isle
