EXACTLY four weeks ago, top York interior designers Peter and Joy Plaskitt asked for readers' help. Outside their shop in Monkgate stands a large plastic container. Or rather an ex-container. It used to contain something - a sapling planted there by City
Su Pollard hestitated for a moment, as she tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON, but how could she resist Annie? IN A Happy Medium, her spring show in York, Su Pollard tried to contact spirits in the role of a novice medium. Now she is knocking them back, playing
NO thank you, said a colleague, he would rather not review the acid comedy king of the moment, Jimmy Carr. Why not, I inquired. "He's got one of those 'punchable' faces," he said, walking off, with his own punchline newly stinging the solar plexus. Carr
NULLIFYING Redditch United's powerful front men will be the key aim of Harrogate Town tomorrow in Nationwide North. The strike pairing of Norman Sylla and Scott Rickards has been tormenting the Conference North defenders since signing for the Reds and
MATTY Muscroft hit five goals, Daniel Oxtoby four and Joe Ratcliffe a hat-trick as Gypsy Moth won 12-2 at Pocklington Rangers in the Where in York Trophy second round tie. Selby Olympia Reserves mercilessly exposed the frailties of their division five
YORK John Smith's Sunday Morning League division two leaders Shipton moved six points clear in the league with a 3-1 win at Boot & Slipper. Deramore Arms hit double figures against poor Turpin, Jackson netting five and Crangle three in a 10-1 win.
OLD-TIMER Keith Potter spurred CB United on to a 3-3 draw against Wigginton Grasshoppers in division two of the York and District Sunday Afternoon Football League. The 38-year-old's fast and furious pace set up a Dave Clayton brace after Jamie Metcalfe
YORK RUFC head to the North East on Saturday for what many believe could already be a title decider. It may still only be November but the trip to Percy Park will undoubtedly go a long way to deciding who finishes top dog in Powergen Durham and Northumberland
IT was the business. Last night we honoured York's modern merchant adventurers in a celebration of talent and drive. The winners of the Evening Press Business Awards demonstrated the strength and breadth of this region's entrepreneurs. Appropriately for
WHAT has Paul Barrett let himself in for? Today he effectively launched Busker Idol. In these audition-crazy times, we can imagine what will happen next. The York city centre manager will be holed up in his office for days as a queue of hopefuls snake
Josh Rouse... the Americana singer-songwriter on the move to Spain, via Pocklington Arts Josh, you have always moved around, living in Nebraska, Georgia, Kentucky, Clarksville in Tennessee, Arizona, Nashville. Now you're leaving the United States. Why
TUNISIA has a musical summit meeting with Norway in the unlikely setting of a Ryedale village on Tuesday, and there is not a spare seat to be had at The Shed. The Tunisian-born oud player, singer and composer Dhafer Youssef is linking up with Norwegian
International saxophone star Julian Arguelles brings his full octet to the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, tonight (19th) (7.30pm). This will be the octet's second year as the university's ensemble-in-residence and it features the cream
FORMER York City boss Chris Brass has spoken for the first time about the manner in which he was sacked by the football club. Brass was relieved of his duties on Sunday afternoon after being asked to attend a board meeting following the 3-1 home defeat
YORK City left-winger Bryan Stewart is expected to miss Saturday's trip to Woking because of a groin strain. Stewart has started the Minstermen's last nine games but caretaker boss Viv Busby also believes a rest from action will be beneficial and he will
YORK City striker Andy Bishop is expecting few tactical and coaching changes after the appointment of Viv Busby as caretaker boss. Joint top scorer Bishop revealed that Busby and his predecessor Chris Brass share many views about football. The 22-year-old
CHRIS TITLEY hears one father's story about the abuse of human rights in Guantanamo Bay as he prepares to bring his fight for justice to York. THE last time Azmat Begg spoke to his son Moazzam he was phoning from inside the boot of a car. Mr Begg will
AFTER the sun set prematurely on his licence to kill, Pierce Brosnan has swapped James Bond for diamond thief Max Burdett. His twinkling Irish eyes are drawn - and yours will be too - to the oft-exposed cleavage of Salma Hayek, his hot-to-trot partner
The winter double bill at Impressions Gallery in York, In From The Cold, focuses on countries associated with the big chill: the Baltic nations and Siberia. The legacy of the Cold War and the dismantling of the Soviet Union provide the context for two
Forest Gunner, winner of the Fox Hunters' Chase at Aintree in April, returns to the scene of his finest triumph tomorrow to fulfill another date with the Grand National course. Richard Ford's gelding is set to tackle the £50,000 betfair.com Grand Sefton
CONCERNED residents fear fresh plans to clear a heavily-polluted York gas works for redevelopment could once again put them at risk of being exposed to dangerous chemicals. Proposals submitted this week could see the unsightly industrial space transformed
YORK RUFC head to the North East on Saturday for what many believe could already be a title decider. It may still only be November but the trip to Percy Park will undoubtedly go a long way to deciding who finishes top dog in Powergen Durham and Northumberland
THE family of a football-mad 16-year-old York school boy found dead at his home have been left too distressed for words. Easingwold School student Oliver James Lea, who played football for New Earswick under-16s, was found hanging in the bedroom of his
MIKE Dawson woke up and turned on the radio at 8am. Less than an hour later he had spent £26,000 to win a song-writing master class with Bee Gees star Robin Gibb. Mike, a retired businessman and racehorse owner who lives near Pocklingon, was the highest
A THUG faces a total ban from the York estate he has terrorised for years after a jury convicted him of threatening police with a pickaxe. The entire police nightshift, complete with riot shields, was called up to storm the Chapelfields Road family home
YORK City left-winger Bryan Stewart is expected to miss Saturday's trip to Woking because of a groin strain. Stewart has started the Minstermen's last nine games but caretaker boss Viv Busby also believes a rest from action will be beneficial and he will
IT was top-flight business as usual at The Japanese Shop in York's Coppergate Walk today after the magic night before - and the smile of triumph was still firmly on the face of proprietor Jez Willard and his wife, Hiromi. The couple and their staff won
SINGING dogs, outdoor pianists and open air guitarists are to be put through their paces under new plans to make York buskers audition for their jobs. Only accomplished musicians and talented artists will be given permission to play as city centre bosses
IN response to recent letters about crime figures North Yorkshire Police can only record what is reported. In the last year we have dramatically improved our performance in call handling and crime recording and believe we are more efficient at handling
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DAVID Lyon's fine words butter no parsnips, as they say (Letters, November 15). The Israeli state, too, is better at talking peace than making it. All through the Oslo so-called peace process, after the Palestinian side had given the only thing it had
WHY, when it is obvious that funds for York's swimming pools are going to be insufficient, is time and money being spent on a complete redesign for the Yearsley facility? The pool does need major refurbishment but the present pool size and changing facilities
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I READ about the precipitate closure of Yearsley swimming pool - which originally purported to be because of faulty water conditioning and heating equipment, but now appears to be artificially compounded by the "rotting roof issue." (November 13). I then
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ON SATURDAY, November 13, at around 12.15pm, I was walking along Cloisters Walk to pass in front of what used to be the County Hospital building. Walking alongside me was a mother, father and two children. The young girl had in her hand a paper bag with
ST Leonard's Hospice is very grateful to everyone who helped to make its recent Autumn Fair such a great success. The event raised more than £3,000 towards our work of caring for local people who have a life-threatening illness. Such a magnificent sum
A NEW top of the range model has been added to Toyota's funky RAV4 line up with the arrival of the luxury equipped five-door XT5 on sale from next month. With the onset of winter, perhaps the most desirable feature of the new RAV4 XT5 is the comfort of
VOLVO can hold its head high having seen its models voted the best when it comes to whiplash prevention. Recent tests by the International Insurance Whiplash Prevention Group, saw many other manufacturer's car seats and head restraints criticised as being
YOU would expect the MG TF's brother to be faster, more rugged and handsome. And that's what the MG GT concept is. The company's design team has taken the popular TF and turned it into a modern-day expression of the beloved MGB GT from the trendy 1960s
Jo-ann Hodgson steps off campus for York's student nights. AS WE enter week six of the university term, there is not much campus-based activity worthy of a student's glad rags. The excitement of beginning of a new year at university has past as work deadlines
PACY Leeds Rhinos Academy winger Peter Fox is the latest to put pen to paper for the York City Knights and is confident of driving the team to National League Two glory. The lightning-quick York 20-year-old has signed for the season on loan from Leeds
Friday, November 19, 2004 100 years ago: The body was laid to rest of a resident of Fenwick Street, Bishopthorpe Road, York, who, it was claimed, was the oldest engine driver in the world. He was 80 years of age and drove his first engine for the North
WHAT will it take to make you wake up to the presence of a remarkable play at York Theatre Royal? Not the West End and Tony Awards, not the reviews in the Evening Press and beyond, so here is the last throw of the dice, dear reader, for The Beauty Queen
Introducing... Howard Marks, legendary former drug baron and now York resident. Howard Marks, Welsh mining village boy and Oxford nuclear physics student, was "the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time" (Daily Mirror). Using 43 aliases and 25 companies
JIM Collis's Tadcaster Albion will be looking to knock Garforth Town out of their Samba rhythm tomorrow in the Northern Counties East League division one match of the day. The Brewers make the short trip to the West Yorkshire side where they are set to
GOALS galore were the order of the day in the York John Smith's Sunday Morning League cup competitions. No fewer than 174 were scored in the 23 ties played at an average of 7.5 per tie. Last season's beaten Challenge Trophy finalists Derwent United needed
AFTER an enforced break Scarborough return to Nationwide Conference action tomorrow with a home game against Stevenage Borough, who are just a place above them. Like York City, Boro were without a game last weekend - the FA Cup first round date - but
SNOOKER'S cramped schedule came under attack from a former world and UK champion just before he left York's Barbican Centre last night after being knocked out of the Travis Perkins UK Championship. John Higgins, beaten 9-7 by 22-year-old Welshman Ricky
IT was top-flight business as usual at The Japanese Shop in York's Coppergate Walk today after the magic night before - and the smile of triumph was still firmly on the face of proprietor Jez Willard and his wife, Hiromi. The couple and their staff won
HOW our heroes are, if not fallen, then come to difficult times. John Martyn, the golden and wayward experimental folk singer of the Seventies, hobbles on stage with a large stick, having lost part of a leg. He is more than a little overweight and makes
NORMALLY you can't shut him up, but Steve Earle holds back for nine downbeat political songs. Hillbilly beard and belly gone, work-shirt sleeves rolled up, he is an "urgent American" as he called himself on 2002's Jerusalem. The title of the Texan protest
Squeeze front man Glenn Tilbrook leads his latest band, The Fluffers, at Pocklington Arts Centre on Thursday evening (25th). His November and December tour coincides with the release of the book Squeeze: Song By Song, written by Jim Drury in collaboration
ALMOST a third of homes at the massive new development in York's Hungate should be affordable - and everything possible should be done to discourage car ownership. These are two of the key conclusions of a draft planning brief for the semi-derelict site
TWO York charities are celebrating an early Christmas windfall after scooping cash from the owners of the Evening Press. SNAPPY (Special Needs Activity and Play Provision in York) and Accessible Arts have won almost £10,000 from a half-million dollar
A HISTORIC tower which was once a key part of York's defences is to be turned into a magnificent city centre home for one lucky buyer. Lendal Tower, a Grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, will be transformed into a luxurious two-bedroom
THE owners of a Chinese take-away in York, which inspectors branded "filthy" and a risk to public health, have been fined £5,000. Oriental Express Trade Ltd, which formerly ran the Oriental Express Chinese take-away on Gillygate, was brought before York
SNOOKER'S cramped schedule came under attack from a former world and UK champion just before he left York's Barbican Centre last night after being knocked out of the Travis Perkins UK Championship. John Higgins, beaten 9-7 by 22-year-old Welshman Ricky
PACY Leeds Rhinos Academy winger Peter Fox is the latest to put pen to paper for the York City Knights and is confident of driving the team to National League Two glory. The lightning-quick York 20-year-old has signed for the season on loan from Leeds
FORMER York City boss Chris Brass has spoken for the first time about the manner in which he was sacked by the football club. Brass was relieved of his duties on Sunday afternoon after being asked to attend a board meeting following the 3-1 home defeat
I AM writing in response to George Moore's recent suggestion for an "information hotline" to help the police to address situations of crime and anti-social behaviour in our communities (Letters, November 17). Such a facility has been available since the
LAST week I won the easiest £10 I have ever made. I bet a colleague that I could walk from YO1 down Fossgate and Walmgate to my office at 127 Lawrence Street quicker than he could drive in his car. I won my bet by five minutes thanks to the 'York City
THE Arab nation is more than a collection of countries. One of the focus points which unites them is Israel. This is why peace in Palestine is important. In Iraq, Arab nationalism, as well as Iraqi nationalism, fuels the resistance against the coalition
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THE story about the heating problem at Yearsley Swimming Pool made me smile (November 13). When I was a youngster living in Rose Street I used to go to the baths (as they were known) with my pals almost daily. There was no roof in those days and the water
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FURTHER to Marguerite Chapman's letter regarding her post (November 12). If it is any consolation, she is most definitely not alone when it comes to receiving her - or anybody else's - post at some late hour of the day. Here in Sheffield we're having
I WAS interested to hear about the number of affordable homes built during the first year of the Liberal Democratic administration announced by Coun Sunderland (November 12). However, I was not surprised that Coun Sunderland didn't inform readers that
PATIENCE will be rewarded in February when Mitsubishi introduces the all-new Colt three-door range. From launch, the new model will be available with a choice of engines from the nippy 1.1-litre petrol through to the torquey and frugal 1.5-litre direct
TONY Blair quit smoking shortly before his wedding day. His bride, Cherie, apparently told the soon-to-be-PM that before he could take her hand in marriage he had to relinquish his grasp on the Benson & Hedges. In the seven years since he moved into
TREKKING from Thailand to the Vietnamese border, taking in Cambodia and Laos, the mountains, jungle and valleys of the region have been combed in order to find the most rigorous tests for the competitors in the opening stages of the 2006 Land Rover G4
ALIVE with technology is how Citroen launched its new C4 range of hatchbacks and coup this week. Motoring journalists were greeted by a Dalek-like robot at the press unveiling, one that continually confessed its love for the car, as well as highlighting
Alex Lloyd admires the refurbishment of a regular York night-spot. THE gloves are off in the battle for best night-spot in York with the reopening this weekend of a refurbished Casa. Or rather, The Capital, as it has also picked up a new name in the tradition
