YORK Youth Theatre's demands sound simple but are hard to meet. "We face the eternal problem of finding plays that are challenging, not patronising and have enough parts," says Youth Theatre director Sarah Brigham. "I looked at the NT Shell Connections
Doormen are on duty in Harrogate and not only outside the clubs reports Charles Hutchinson. ONCE upon a picture postcard, Parliament Street was the plushest of Harrogate streets, all haute couture, Turkish baths and elegance. The chic clothes and the
THE world's greatest sevens player stands between Selby RUFC and their continuing dreams of Twickenham tomorrow. Veteran fly-half Waisale Serevi heads a star-studded Staines line-up which locks horns with Selby in the quarter-finals of the Powergen Intermediate
ANY player giving less than 100 per cent will be shown the door by new York City manager Billy McEwan. The former Sheffield United, Rotherham and Darlington boss is ready to give every player a chance to prove their worth in the next two months but will
KITKAT Crescent is officially back in the hands of the supporters' after the final paperwork to transfer the ground was signed. City directors Jason McGill, Terry Doyle and Mike Shannon completed the last part of the £2.1million deal to reclaim the ground
Joining forces with a key client to paint a community workshop proved a master-stroke for Trident Communication's York office. The recent day-long Cares Challenge gave the Trident squad, pictured, the chance to work alongside client Yorkshire Water's
Employers in York are being warned that if they don't consider supplying employees with quality training provision in 2005, they may be faced with an imminent staff shortage. Research by Leeds Met Training has revealed that 36 per cent of York workers
TOURISM in York is enjoying a massive upsurge, new figures have revealed. European visitors are flocking back to the city and spending more on nights out, while researchers have found that 22 per cent of tourists who come to Yorkshire, also stay in York
More than 150 poultry producers across Yorkshire are flocking to York for crisis talks next week. They want to find ways to prevent recurrence of a near-disastrous slump in poultry prices that hit them last year. A combination of pressure from imports
Small and medium-sized businesses in York and North Yorkshire have until the end of next month to take advantage of discounts of up to 50 per cent for IT training at the University of York. Under the Graduate Asset Programme, managed by the university
Introducing... K T Tunstall, the part-Scottish, part-Chinese singer-songwriter, who plays Fibbers in York on Thursday. She calls herself K T rather than Kate - "well, it's got a bit more attitude than Kate, which just says farmer's daughter to me" - and
THE Yards are headlining The Asian Tsunami Appeal Charity Gig at Fibbers in York tomorrow. The day will be split into two, kicking off with an afternoon bill of RSJ at 2.30pm, Sixty6 at 3.15pm and Colour Of Fire at 4pm, followed by an evening shift of
IN a late change brought about by Vin Garbutt's illness, vocal harmony group Cockersdale will replace him on the launch night of the Black Swan Folk Club's spring season in York. Ironically, Cockersdale had to pull out of a Black Swan booking last year
ONE of Britain's leading art-rock electronica bands, Hood, are to play a free event on St Valentine's night at a suitably intimate North Yorkshire venue. Labelmates of Franz Ferdinand, the Leeds trio's concert at the Blues Bar in Harrogate on Monday is
SAXOPHONIST Rob Lavers sends disappointing news that his quartet gig advertised for February 19 at City Screen, York, has been cancelled. Since Rob's tour has been sponsored by the jazz arm of Arts Council England, Jazz Services, someone may be taking
YORK "telly addicts" have five years to embrace digital technology or risk looking at a blank screen. Media regulator Ofcom has recommended that analogue transmitters in the Yorkshire region are switched off in 2010, and in the Tyne Tees area a year later
MOPED-RIDING yobs face losing their prized machines, after a "get tough" pledge by police. Officers have warned that young riders are putting their lives in danger by racing around the streets of York, often without helmets or with illegal pillion passengers
BOSSES at one of York's most prestigious museums have pledged to keep their doors open despite the threat of industrial action. Worried parents have called the National Railway Museum to ask whether it will close during a one-day strike planned for the
A BOSS of a York rail firm today assured his staff their jobs were safe. David Marsden, director of Corus Railway Infrastructure Services, said his 300 staff in York would not see their futures under threat. Mr Marsden was reacting after the Evening Press
VOLUNTEER Arms remain top of York Sunday Morning Football League division one after a 5-2 win at Pocklington. Clamp (2), Bonarius, Wain and Jackson all scored for Volunteer, with Boneham and O'Connor netting for the home side. Marcia regained second spot
NORTH YORKSHIRE yoga teacher Amanda Latchmore stretched herself to raise money for victims of the devastating tsunami in Sri Lanka. Her 11-hour "yogathon" at the Friends' Meeting House, Queen Parade, Harrogate, last Sunday raised about £3,000. Amanda,
YOU might be forgiven for thinking you were dreaming if you thought you saw horses rising out of the River Ouse last night. But the scene, similar to a certain Irish beer advert, was no dream. The horses in question had eight legs and belonged to the
YORK City Knights have signed a young prop on loan from Doncaster Dragons to ease their current front-row shortage. Tom Buckingham, 20, had has first training session last night after signing a one-month deal at Huntington Stadium. He will get to know
A RECENT independently-conducted survey by the GMB union in Leeds and the surrounding villages and towns found areas with the highest youth spending also had fewer problems with crime and drug use. Areas with outreach and youth workers, as well as activities
I TOO thought Eddie Vee was the "loony" candidate for York until I read his brilliant letter (February 7). We have heard so much drivel recently about dealing with drinking and bad behaviour among the young, when a few stern words - while they are young
IN response to Mr Johnson's letter about gritting (February 8), the Met Office provides a dedicated daily winter forecast for York, based on data collected from weather stations in the north east and south west of the city. It is this forecast which City
ISN'T it great news to see Ellen McArthur beat the French and get the world record back again? More importantly she is safely back on dry land with her parents. Maybe her win will help our chance to clinch the bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. Dame Ellen
GOVERNMENT consultants are now working in the North to look for ways of making economies on our railways (Evening Press, February 3). My first reaction concerned the environment and that Tony Blair, who talks so much about global warming, should be willing
I HOPE nobody was fooled by the headline 'Flats plan is scaled down' (January 26). The new plans for development on the Connaught Court parkland, in Fulford, York, are almost a duplicate of the old ones. The overall number of houses and apartments is
IT is alarming that City of York Council officers are opposing the erection of two wind turbines at Escrick Park (February 5). Escrick Park is six miles south of the historic centre of York. When I travel south of York towards Doncaster the most striking
I congratulate the Fieldings at the Coach House Hotel in Marygate, York, for being completely smoke-free. It is time some other bars did the same. There are many pubs which are smoke-free when serving meals but the ashtrays go on the tables as soon as
IF you are wondering what the next Range Rover is going to look like, take a peek at the model planned for launch in the spring, and reckoned to be the most luxurious and most powerful model built. With it will be two new petrol engines, including a powerful
IF there is one car that stands out in the busy Hyundai showroom, it is the coup. Good-looking, vibrant colours and an overall cracking car that beats Toyota's Celica and even the Audi TT when it comes to sales figures. This country is, in fact, the biggest
JAGUAR has had many ground-breaking moments: The XK120 was a groundbreaker and the E-type and XJ6 saloon in the 1960s helped to change the face of motoring. These were events in automotive design history that have stood the test of time, and soon fans
CITROEN has developed a new van for the UK market, designed to provide a combination of load-carrying practicality with low cost operation, as well as high levels of driver comfort and safety. The Citroen C2 Enterprise is aimed at what is known as the
HOW do you create "emotional force" from colour, asks Heworth artist Elaine Brown. "It comes from inside you; art has to come from the heart." Elaine's responses to her heart's prompting are on show in her Captured Memories exhibition at Lucius Gallery
CAPTURED Memories, an exhibition of Colourfield paintings by Heworth artist Elaine Brown, goes on show at Lucius Gallery, Fossgate, York, from February 5 for at least a fortnight. This will be the second show inside three months for Elaine, a fine art
ONE catchphrase regularly trotted out by New Labour and their slavish advisors is "integrated transport policy". It makes transport ministers appear extremely knowledgeable while leaving most people furiously scratching their heads because, well, it makes
VOLUNTEER Arms remain top of York Sunday Morning Football League division one after a 5-2 win at Pocklington. Clamp (2), Bonarius, Wain and Jackson all scored for Volunteer, with Boneham and O'Connor netting for the home side. Marcia regained second spot
BISHOPTHORPE White Rose needed extra time before finally squeezing past Heworth in the third round of the York Mitchell Sports Football League Cup. Goals from Tom Sanderson, Dan Owers and James Baxter gave Bishops a 3-1 victory. Lewis Legeway was on target
NICKY Henry knows his Scarborough side are in desperate need of a win against Dagenham tomorrow. With only the derby wins over York City to their credit in the last 12 games, Henry knows his side cannot afford another slip up at home. "I am fed up of
PICKERING Town have started the rise out of the shadows into genuine Northern Counties East League title contenders after closing the gap on the top three. Skipper Alex Willgrass believes his team could just do it this time. The Pikes cruised past Goole
TADCASTER Albion assistant Neil Smallwood is waiting on news from two first-teamers ahead of their crucial NCEL division one top six clash with keen rivals Gedling Town. Greg Anderson and Mark Brady have both been suffering with flu but are expected to
IT is often said that town and gown, city and university, are indeed far away from each other, despite their proximity on the crow-flying map of York. Never mind the gap, the arts continue to build bridges, be it university musicians playing at the Black
Jeremy Hardy, the deadest of deadpan comics, is about as unstarry as they come, discovers Charles Hutchinson. JEREMY Hardy is celebrating 21 years in comedy. That said, celebration is not a word you would associate with this deadest of deadpan observers
STANDING alone in second place in Durham and Northumberland One, York RUFC will hope to continue totting up victories in a rearranged fixture at Hartlepool. But they will be taking nothing for granted against the Teessiders, who ended Percy Park's unbeaten
Friday, February 11, 2005 100 years ago: A domestic wrote in defending her job and registering her disgust at the unprovoked attack by "Quiet Observer", as part of the ongoing argument about the behaviour of factory girls. They were only allowed one night
OUT-GOING York City caretaker-manager Viv Busby was not happy about the way his departure was handled by board. The directors began the search for a prospective new manager after Busby offered his resignation following the 3-0 FA Trophy defeat at Burton
BILLY McEwan will have to secure Nationwide Conference safety with the current crop of York City players unless he can "wheel and deal" in the transfer market. City's managing director Jason McGill confirmed yesterday that the club's wage bill will remain
YORK City's new manager Billy McEwan will be seeking advice from his new backroom team before selecting his first side at Forest Green Rovers tomorrow (3pm). McEwan held his first training session yesterday and was putting the players through their paces
If street parties and fireworks on the Ouse greeted the royal wedding of Charles and Diana how, ask MAXINE GORDON and Rosslyn Snow, will York mark his marriage to Camilla? YORK woke to brilliant blue skies on Wednesday, July 29, 1981. It was a perfect
NOTALGIA isn't what it used to be. The Magic Roundabout was originally French, but essentially English once Emma's dad Eric Thompson put his voice to the stop-frame puppets who brought five minutes of smiles to weekday teatimes before stern men in grey
TOTAL Power Solutions (TPS), the successful overhead line railway engineering company based in York, has been bought out by the massive GrantRail Group of Doncaster. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will not affect any of TPS's 50 jobs - consisting of
AS the eyes of the world prepare to focus on York for Royal Ascot in June, York Tourism Bureau's Sarah Madden is to launch its 2005 Conference Guide on Tuesday. The setting will be the two-day annual Confex exhibition in London, where the Bureau will
Roman Ark, the apple of Norton trainer Malcolm Jefferson's eye, can hit the jackpot at Newbury tomorrow - before heading for next month's Cheltenham Festival. The classy seven-year-old lines-up for the £125,000 totesport Trophy Hurdle and is napped to
FORTY "bored" teenagers were getting a special half-term day out today - British Army style. Police patrolling South Bank, in York, said they were fed up with youngsters complaining they had nothing to do during school holidays. So they took down the
Plans to stop giving free bin bags to thousands of York homes look set to be ditched today. About 10,000 terraced house residents without a council wheeled bin receive a weekly black sack. Under plans to save nearly £30,000, City of York Council consulted
HUNTSMEN and women will rally across North Yorkshire in a mass display of defiance the day after hunting with dogs becomes illegal. Members of every hunt in the county plan to show their strength with Boxing Day-style meets at market places and busy rural
BOOTHAM Conservative Club 'A' team increased their lead in division one of York and District Table Tennis League with a 10-0 win over Groves WMC 'B'. Bootham appear to be unstoppable at this stage of the season as matches are beginning to run out. Second-placed
THE world's greatest sevens player stands between Selby RUFC and their continuing dreams of Twickenham tomorrow. Veteran fly-half Waisale Serevi heads a star-studded Staines line-up which locks horns with Selby in the quarter-finals of the Powergen Intermediate
A YORK volunteer is jetting to Sri Lanka to rebuild a school which was washed away in the tsunami disaster. Paul Thomas, 38, is taking two weeks off from his job at Norwich Union to help lay the foundations for a new five-roomed schoolhouse in the village
FOR half a century Herbert Golton devoted his life to Rowntrees unaware that the work he was doing for his employers was killing him. Today his family - who have concerns for their own health - are considering legal action after a coroner finally concluded
ANY player giving less than 100 per cent will be shown the door by new York City manager Billy McEwan. The former Sheffield United, Rotherham and Darlington boss is ready to give every player a chance to prove their worth in the next two months but will
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build two wind turbines south of York have been backed by city councillors against the advice of officers. At a meeting yesterday, City of York councillors gave their full support to Powergen's plans to site the two 364ft turbines
R S SCRUTON'S letter about Walmgate Bar (January 31) was constructive and may be workable in practice, but I cannot agree with the suggestions made. As a city we should be making a stand in certain cases and recognising the very special quality of certain
RECORD-BREAKING round-the-world yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur has set a new level of international competition and put her name alongside our seagoing greats. She is a small British woman from an ordinary inland background but her grit and determination
I cannot give advice to Julian Cole ('Oh for a good sleep...' February 3) but his column inspires me to tell you about Auntie May, who couldn't sleep at night. During the Second World War my mother went out to work, so my lovely godmother and Auntie May
IN answer to Mrs P A Wade ('Smoke-free pubs will lose money', February 4), it seems that everywhere smoking has been banned in pubs, they haven't lost money. Some landlords have said takings have gone up because more people come to enjoy a smoke-free
I AM happy to tell Mr Higgins (Letters, February 4) nearly £100,000 has been allocated in the Liberal Democrat budget proposals for the coming financial year to resurface Eastholme Drive, Rawcliffe. Coun Irene Waudby, Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton Without
FOR most of us, checking labels is a thing we do before we throw out food that has been festering in the kitchen, long past its sell-by-date. Checking the label on a calorie-laden chocolate bar could be a waste of time, when we know it is packed with
MITSUBISHI is rolling out new models as if there is no tomorrow. A new Colt and Shogun are here, and later this month there will be a new Lancer line-up. Now in its ninth generation, the Lancer signifies Mitsubishi's return to the larger family saloon
YOU might be forgiven for thinking you were dreaming if you thought you saw horses rising out of the River Ouse last night. But the scene, similar to a certain Irish beer advert, was no dream. The horses in question had eight legs and belonged to the
ADRIAN Spendlow has the beard and the mane of wild hair to pass for a Norse warrior. Have you any Scandinavian roots, Adrian? "Only as much as we all have in York," says our fair city's performance poet. "But Viking history is something I've always been
Alex Lloyd comes over all excited at the prospect of two new alternative club nights. I THINK I may faint with excitement. After years without a sniff of guitar riff on a weekend, York is getting not one, but two dedicated alternative club nights. After
NEWS comes in all forms, often heart-breaking sometimes heart-warming. So it is with the story of Lucy Branton, the five-year-old disabled girl whose wheelchair was pushed into a busy York road by a teenage thug. When the Press reported what happened
A COUPLE no longer in the first flush announce their intention to marry - and certain parts of society go royally crazy. Others stand by and wonder at all the fuss. Prince Charles has led a privileged and pampered life, yet he has had to face his own
YORK City Knights have signed a young prop on loan from Doncaster Dragons to ease their current front-row shortage. Tom Buckingham, 20, had has first training session last night after signing a one-month deal at Huntington Stadium. He will get to know
IT was just like the old days for the Venerable George Austin, retired Archdeacon of York. Always an outspoken upholder of traditional Church teachings, Mr Austin was constantly sought out for his views on issues such as ordaining women priests. Yesterday
PROLIFIC goalscorer Neale Holmes hit a 30-minute hat-trick for York John Smith's Sunday Morning League division four leaders Skelton to destroy visitors Wilberfoss 5-1. Andy Grainger added a fourth before Wilberfoss pulled one back in the first half through
