I TAKE exception to your comments about Karen Warwick as a 'Neighbour from hell' (March 25). As often is the case with single mums bringing up children, it's more of a case of a neighbour in hell. Karen Warwick is no different to every caring parent in
MIKE Newsome asks to see the evidence (Letters, March 26) for my explanation of the presentation of the council tax rise on our bills. New readers should note that the like-for-like rise in council tax of 8.53 per cent had to be shown as a rise of 2.93
THANKS for featuring our community fund success (March 26). The report will raise our profile throughout Ryedale, particularly in more isolated areas. However, we wish to point out that the counsellors working for Ryedale Counselling Service are all paid
THE report about the York planning committee having to be cancelled is not surprising (March 26). I only found out about the planning committee of February 26 through your pages, despite having registered objections on behalf of two organisations to a
THE reply to Andrea Hill ('Don't sell weapons to Libya, Tony', Letters, March 27) is that British weapons have been sold to other countries and used in senseless violence. Saddam Hussein was sold huge amounts of weapons from America and Britain to fund
YORK City Knights coach Richard Agar reckons tonight's history-making excursion to Bootham Crescent has come just at the right time. The Knights face Gateshead Thunder (ko 8pm) in a rearranged Arriva Trains Cup group game which has had to be switched
THERE is always talk about picking up players both mentally and physically for your next game after a big occasion but, despite the disappointment of losing 50-12 to Huddersfield in Sunday's Challenge Cup quarter-final, I think my job, in that respect
YORK Schools netball season has ended with a flourish after a string of finals. Joseph Rowntree School won the Under-15 'A' tournament winning all their games in the nine-team round robin tournament. They beat All Saints 7-4, Archbishop Holgate's 14-2
North Yorkshire champions Lakeside Primary School were presented with a pennant by a Manchester United official after representing the county in the North of England County Six-a-side Football Championships. The event took place at United's Ayrshire Road
Napoleonic war hero Captain Richard Sharpe has survived all the French can throw at him to make it into his 20th novel. STEPHEN LEWIS asks author Bernard Cornwell how he does it. TALK about career changes. Bernard Cornwell was a top-flight TV news journalist
YORKSHIRE author Joanne Harris leads her fans a merry dance with this book. Jigs & Reels is not about France or food. It's not even a novel. Instead it is a collection of short stories written over the best part of a decade. This is not what the legion
A TOTAL of 65 affordable homes at a new York development have been funded thanks to a multi-million pound grant from a Government-funded housing body. The Housing Corporation has put up an allocation of £3.2 million to help build the homes for rent and
NORTHFIELD School, in Acomb, York, which will close this year, is to hold an open day on Saturday, May 22, to celebrate its history and achievements. The history of the school can be traced back to 1913, when it was based in Castlegate and 1920, when
Councils in London and Derby are tearing up speed humps to get the traffic moving again. Last week a TV poll found that nearly nine out of ten viewers wanted rid. So how can the city improve roads? Scrap the humps, says Liz Edge ABOUT ten years ago, a
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has waded into the controversy over the future of the city's Barbican Centre. He attacked proposals to replace the existing swimming pool with a smaller community pool, claiming a larger eight-lane county pool would have put the city
PICKERING Town gave their Northern Counties East League premier division title ambitions a big boost last night thanks to an Alex Willgrass double blast. He netted on six and 45 minutes to earn the Pikes a 2-1 home win against table-topping Ossett Albion
THE star of a top York show has been forced to pull out after injuring his knee. Andrew Derbyshire, 21, of Burnley, who shot to fame as a contestant in TV's Pop Idol, was starring in the lead role in a touring production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor
YORKSHIRE are seeking advice from five of their greatest players as the club consider their response to proposals contained in the England and Wales Cricket Board's Domestic Structure Review aimed at moving the game forward. Bob Appleyard, Fred Trueman
Nestl Rowntree bosses are investigating an incident in which thousands of Aero wrappers are understood to have had a rude message printed on them. According to a source, the words "S**t bar" appeared where a Best Before date and code would normally be
A NEW hospital could be built in York by 2020, the Evening Press can reveal today. But health chiefs say it will not hinder the £30 million-worth of ongoing improvement projects at the city's existing main NHS hospital. Jim Easton, chief executive of
A NEW era in health care was launched today as plans to replace York Hospital were announced. It is a bold vision, and one to be applauded. Both medical technology and York have moved on immeasurably since the District Hospital opened its doors in 1976
YORKSHIRE are seeking advice from five of their greatest players as the club consider their response to proposals contained in the England and Wales Cricket Board's Domestic Structure Review aimed at moving the game forward. Bob Appleyard, Fred Trueman
"I've been thinking," says my Other Half. This is seldom a good sign, given that the words usually come before one or more of the following uplifting suggestions: a) Let's get fit through cycling/climbing/abseiling down waterfalls b) Let's move to Whitby
Tom Greenall may have failed in his bid to ride in Saturday's Grand National, but the teenage amateur can still have an Aintree experience to savour tomorrow on the first day of the famous meeting. Greenall, who is attached to Mick Easterby's Sheriff
THE Lord Mayor, the Chief Constable and all manner of York dignitaries lined up to honour John Lacy at his retirement bashes this week and last. But a particular place in the former top cop's heart was reserved for a less highbrow guest - his very first
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 100 years ago: The Vicar of Thirsk, in the last edition of his parish magazine, announced some hidden treasure with these words: "Over £500 is to be found buried in strictly private ground in the neighbourhood of Thirsk in about
Excitement is building up as the representative of 1.4 billion people pays homage to York with a visit. Why does the Chinese ambassador want to visit England's ancient northern capital now? RON GODFREY speculates. THE visit by Chinese ambassador, His
Oo la la! It's not surprising that the staff of Harrogate-based Cicada are particularly chirpy just lately. The public relations firm celebrated achieving the Investors In People standard by jetting to Paris for a surprise overnight stay. It is the culmination
A NATIONAL company stands ready to step in and recruit some of the staff working for a Scarborough-based sign company, which is being wound up. Forge The Signmakers, which had contracts with Castrol Oil and BP petrol stations, is being wound up, after
SPARKED by the ideology of socialism, a young man made a journey to Barcelona to be a part of the realisation of a Marxist ideal. The year was 1936, the young man was journalist, soldier of truth and visionary writer George Orwell, and his fly-on-the-wall
ROSEMARY Curtis's interesting interview with York's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project manager, Damon Copperthwaite, about three York primary schools to be built by the Sewell Group, answered many questions but raised new ones (March 24). Mr Copperthwaite
SIXTY years ago, on the night of March 30-31, 1944, RAF's Bomber Command suffered its heaviest loss of the war attacking Nuremburg. Although there had been higher losses in percentage terms (once at least as high as 100 per cent), in numerical terms on
YOU report the proposal to use St George's Field as a coach park (March 26). There has been much debate about the number of car parking spaces being lost under this proposal, but has any thought been given to the aesthetics of permanently using St George's
ON March 24 while walking home from work I fell heavily outside the fire station in Clifford Street, York. Several kind people immediately stopped and offered help and support, including one kind soul who even offered to walk along the riverbank and find
NEW Earswick All Blacks Under-14s reached the final of the Yorkshire Continuation Cup, defeating Kippax by 42-8. All Blacks only led by six after a close first half but pulled away in the second half, aided by the strong running of Brian Wright, Jack
YORK City Knights skipper Lee Jackson has stressed the need for professionalism ahead of tonight's Bootham Crescent battle. Gateshead Thunder, hammered 56-24 at the Thunderdome in the first meeting between the two sides, have proved to be one of the weaker
Thursdays have been earmarked for the York schools' cricket league and cup matches. Most schools have a teacher for both league teams so, in theory, both teams can play on the same evening - one at home and one away. Teachers should contact colleagues
Gervase Phinn has built a remarkable new life from his years as a school inspector. The Yorkshire writer spins a few anecdotes with Charles Hutchinson. THE flyleaf for Gervase Phinn's fourth autobiographical novel begins cheerily: "In Up And Down In The
WE start near the end, with our hero Matthew Viss throwing himself off a nine-storey block. As he falls, he recounts the year leading up to his decision to end it all. After walking out on his wife and child because he felt he was a disappointment to
PICKERING Town gave their Northern Counties East League premier division title ambitions a big boost last night thanks to an Alex Willgrass double blast. He netted on six and 45 minutes to earn the Pikes a 2-1 home win against table-topping Ossett Albion
A REBEL North Yorkshire MP accused the Government of using "smoke and mirror" tactics in a desperate bid to avoid defeat in tonight's crunch vote on student top-up fees. Selby MP John Grogan hit out after Education Secretary Charles Clarke claimed Labour
A YORK school has been named as a centre for training new teachers in a scheme worth £160,000. Oaklands School, in Acomb, will get the cash over four years, after being given the Training School status by the Government. The school is one of seven in
A LOST work of art has been discovered at a North Yorkshire school. John Hart, bursar at Harrogate Ladies College, identified the sculptured panel as being a work of art by sculptor Frances Darlington. The panel, in the college's library, was presented
YORK students will get off to a flying start when they swap the classroom for the cockpit and cabin of a real aeroplane. The Handley Page Herald aircraft has been given to York College by the Yorkshire Air Museum. The aeroplane, which is kept at the Elvington-based
TOURISM bosses in York and North Yorkshire have expressed concern about a possible major shake-up of their industry. Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, wants to introduce a new structure to improve the region's £4 billion-a-year tourism
A NORTH YORKSHIRE seaside town was gearing up for a visit from the Duke of Edinburgh today. The Duke, who is the honorary president of the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, will greet the replica of Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour as it docks in the harbour
A MAJOR debate on drinking should be held in York in the run-up to pubs being allowed to pull pints around the clock, city council leader Steve Galloway has said. He has urged groups, including landlords, pub-goers, the police, teetotallers and people
Anglers across the York match-fishing scene will be saddened by the tragic death of Ben Coulson from injuries he suffered in a hit-and-run accident. His talents earned him a call-up to the England Under-21 squad at the age of 15. After sweeping the junior
MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of part of a human leg found on a bank of the River Ouse at Skelton village, near Howden. Humberside Police said the body part consists of a lower left shin which goes into a black 'ADOR' training shoe. The remains may
JASON McGill has become the new managing director of York City in a revision of the club board's structure. The new role will see McGill become responsible for the effective overall management of the football club, including business strategies and negotiations
YORK City Knights coach Richard Agar reckons tonight's history-making excursion to Bootham Crescent has come just at the right time. The Knights face Gateshead Thunder (ko 8pm) in a rearranged Arriva Trains Cup group game which has had to be switched
BUBBLE, bubble, Rowntree trouble. An in-factory graffiti artist has apparently managed to add an extra word or two to thousands of Aero wrappers. This is not the sort of Easter message Nestl Rowntree would wish to send to its customers before the national
JASON McGill has become the new managing director of York City in a revision of the club board's structure. The new role will see McGill become responsible for the effective overall management of the football club, including business strategies and negotiations
MACCLESFIELD Town will move above York City and leave the Minstermen in the Division Three relegation zone with a victory at Bootham Crescent on Sunday. Second-bottom Macclesfield earned a 0-0 home draw against play-off chasing Lincoln last night to move
THE chief executive of Odeon Cinemas left the company on the day after we delivered your Save York Odeon campaign message, it was confirmed today. The cinema chain has confirmed Ian Pluthero left the company on Friday, March 12, and said it had not yet
