THE story of Terry's chocolate factory - and its imminent demise - is being told this Friday in a theatrical production at a York school. Up to 30 drama and history students at Manor School have produced Bittersweet with assistance from Riding Lights
SELBY, humiliated by Yorkshire Three side West Leeds in the Yorkshire Shield last week, will try to restore some pride when they travel to Keighley in Yorkshire One. Full back Chris McDonald, winger Rich Topping and Martin Protheroe are all back for Selby
IN response to Stuart Marshall's concerns for a Memorial Arch for the victims of the asbestos related deaths at York Carriageworks (March 7), I also lost my father to mesothelioma caused when he worked there. My father died in 1989 at 57. He was told
CAN any of your readers help me to get in touch with a friend whose address I have misplaced? We have been friends for more than 20 years and I am upset to have lost touch. Her name is Linda Yeomans, formerly Graham, her husband is John and she has a
I thank the hunt supporters who "held-up" the Whitby to Pickering train at the weekend. I say to them: Thank you for showing us what a base idiocy we are dealing with. You have shown you are not worth listening to, or dealing with in a reasonable manner
DOUGLAS Unwin is wrong to claim compulsory EU human rights legislation is responsible for the Government's present problems with its new terrorism bill (Letters, March 9). The Human Rights Act of 1998 was voluntarily passed by our parliament to bring
Friday, March 11, 2005 100 years ago: It was expected to be of interest to York people to learn that Her Majesty the Queen had graciously accepted, through Sir Frederick Milner, a bottle of Eau A Bruler, or Russian perfume, as made by Mr Kendall, chemist
THINK of a teacher who changed your life for the better. Christophe Barratier was carted off to private school by his mother after his parents separated and his days were lonely and desperate until the redemptive power of music saved him. The promptings
NORTH Yorkshire Fire Authority has vowed to address the amount of time businesses in the county have to wait for fire safety certificates. The promise follows the release of government figures showing North Yorkshire to have had a relatively poor record
FIVE of the best young fiddle players from the Scottish highlands and islands catch fire at the National Centre for Early Music, York, on Tuesday. Catriona Macdonald, from the Shetland Isles, Aidan O'Rourke, from the Isle of Seil, and their fellow fiddlers
YORK saxophonist Jools Slater tells me there is now live jazz every night in the city, thanks to the arrival of his new jazz session on Tuesday night (15th) at The Phoenix, George Street. Alongside Jools on saxophone and flute will be fellow saxophonist
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club's officials can expect a grilling on several issues at the club's annual meeting at Headingley on Saturday. Exactly a year ago, members were led to believe that Yorkshire would soon have bought the cricket ground from their
IRRESPONSIBLE owners and legal loopholes are behind dumped and burned out vehicles - not just criminals who want to destroy evidence. That's according to fire expert Mick Brighton, who is responsible for cutting the impact of arson on residents in North
A VILLAGE website which was "invaded" by porn images is back online - with a pledge that it will stay clean this time. Copmanthorpe Parish Council's internet message board was at the centre of a storm of publicity last month, after the Evening Press revealed
MARCIA showed their desire for the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one title with a 7-3 victory over reigning champions Severus SC aided by a hat-trick from former Leeds United player Mark Ford. David Allison weighed in with
When you stick your tongue out, you could be telling someone the story of your health. The technique of diagnosing illness through the tongue is central to Chinese medicine, which has evolved over thousands of years. RICHARD Blackwell, below, principal
How absurd is that? Harry Hill is horsing around again on stage. His new show has proved so popular it has already spawned a return to York, reports Charles Hutchinson. Harry Hill is horsing around again in his new touring show, Hooves. "Who'd have thought
Renault's new Laguna Sport GT goes on sale next week with prices starting at £15,775, a £200 saving compared with the previous model. THE word "new" appears throughout the specification of the latest Laguna from Renault. New exterior styling; new dashboard
MARCIA showed their desire for the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one title with a 7-3 victory over reigning champions Severus SC aided by a hat-trick from former Leeds United player Mark Ford. David Allison weighed in with
WANDERERS put one hand on the York John Smith's Sunday Morning League division five title with a 9-4 win over Thomas's Hotel. A terrific opening saw Daniel Coulson and Matt Hartas give Wanderers a two-goal lead. An own goal allowed Thomas's into the game
HARROGATE Town boss Neil Aspin is looking to avoid a repeat of the performance at Nuneaton when they travel to Kettering Town on Saturday in a huge Nationwide North play-off six-pointer. The caretaker manager is expecting to pick from the same squad that
There is a busy summer season ahead at York Theatre Royal with something for everyone as CHARLES HUTCHINSON finds out. YORK Theatre Royal's pantomime stars are coming out to play. First, dame Berwick Kaler takes up an invitation to perform his first Theatre
Just A Quickie with... John Barber, Leeds puppet maker, designer, animator and actor, whose grotesque creations are stalking Macbeth at York Theatre Royal. How did your involvement in Macbeth come about? "It must be about a year ago that artistic director
THE famous Terry's factory buildings have been saved as a key York landmark for the 21st century. The Government has listed five older buildings, including the distinctive clock tower and offices, effectively protecting them from demolition after the
YORK RUFC face another make-or-break week in Durham and Northumberland One when they take on promotion rivals Durham City on Saturday. A victory for the Clifton Parkers could set the seal on second place and an end-of-season promotion play-off, but it
POCKLINGTON, whose Yorkshire Two promotion dreams lie in tatters after last week's defeat against Bradford Salem, will look to get back on track when they travel to old rivals Ripon. Hooker Dave Birch is out having not recovered from the facial injury
HAVING totally failed to solve the appalling traffic problems created by its acquisition of the former Queen Anne's School, St Peter's is about to submit a planning application to extend Westminster Road by building a new access road into the Queen Anne's
COLIN Clarke's comments about the BBC, its financing and the problems caused (Letters, March 8), may be correct, but that is the way it is done. It may be eccentric and typically British but it works, so that's okay by me. Bernard Lyne, Usher Park Road
IN response to your news analysis report 'Lights out to keep moving' (March 8), I have never understood the need for roundabouts with traffic lights. I presume roundabouts were designed originally to aid traffic flow on their own and, in most cases, they
LUCY Stephens' review of It's A Madhouse by the Joseph Rowntree Players (March 4) nearly stopped us going. Friday's performance was different from her stagnant review. The slow speed she complained about was the artistry of the script painting in the
THANK goodness I ignored Lucy Stephens review of It's A Madhouse performed by Rowntree Players last week at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre. I can't comment on Thursday's performance, to which she referred, but Saturday's was one of the best pieces of drama
AS a student nurse in the late Seventies I worked on psychiatric wards similar to those depicted in the play, and the quality of the acting was an excellent portrayal of the characters and also the institutionalised care given at the time the play was
YOUR report 'Grieving mum's jail term anger', (March 7), beggars belief. It is an outrage. How dare the appeal judges insult the memory of Kirstie Buckle's little boy, Blake, and reduce the killer driver Justin Martin's sentence? Justin Martin should
STUART Wilson stated that regular drivers passing the Buckles Inn on the A64 eastbound may well now be speeding up because there are no de-restriction signs in connection with the roadworks (Letters, March 3). He says they have been moved about 500 metres
I WANT to encourage all your readers who are planning to give to Comic Relief today to use the Gift Aid scheme - a great way of increasing the value of your donation, without it costing you a penny more. If you pay tax in the UK, making a donation using
MONDAY'S Evening Press showed a picture of a gang of lawbreakers trespassing on a railway line trying to stop a moving train ('Ambushed', March 7. It is just as well the driver was able to avoid the death of an innocent horse, and possible damage to a
YOUR report 'Ambushed' has ambushed the rail industry's work to counter trespass on the railway. Contrary to the remarks of the North Yorkshire Police spokesperson the hunt supporters and apparently your photographer were in breach of the law because
Thousands of people up and down the country are doing weird and wacky things today to raise money for Comic Relief. Much of the money will be going to local causes. STEPHEN LEWIS and MAXINE GORDON find out how it is spent. Prince Andrew's visit to Haxby
ACTION man Will Smith turns lover man in the slickest of slick Hollywood romantic comedies. He is the Hitch of the title, New York date doctor Alex Hitchens, whose job is to hitch up men with the improbable girl of their dreams, while facing inevitable
THESE days we make do with Carrie Bradshaw's lip-gloss platitudes in Sex And The City. In 1948 Professor Alfred Kinsey famously "dropped the atom bomb" with the publication of his book Sexual Behaviour In The Human Male. Just as Kinsey broke boundaries
WES Anderson specialises in misfits. Even his films don't fit in, swimming against the Hollywood tide with their refusal to conform. After the self-possessed, outsider student in Rushmore and the dysfunctional high-society family in The Royal Tenenbaums
LECTURERS formed picket lines outside York College in a bitter dispute over pay. But York College management said despite the one-day strike it was "business as usual" for students. Staff say they are paid thousands of pounds less than school teachers
A CLAIM that Glasgow is the best place in Britain to do business has so enraged business leaders in York that the issuer of the report has now partly backed down. York was honoured with that title two years ago in a Dun and Bradstreet survey, yet the
GROWTH in pension and life insurance products came more from international subsidiaries of Aviva than its York-based Norwich Union Life operation. Aviva plc, the world's fifth largest insurer and parent company of Norwich Union Life, reported profits
WATCH out, Beadle's about in York next Thursday. Television personality Jeremy Beadle, of You've Been Framed fame, will be the guest of the Bank of Scotland at a business charity quiz night at the Hilton Hotel, in Tower Street, York. As patron of Reach
Far Pavilions, who spent most of last season on the sidelines with injury, makes the long journey from North Yorkshire tomorrow and can enjoy a major pay-day in the big race at Sandown. Trained at Melsonby near Richmond by Alan Swinbank, the gelding lines
MORE than 200 jobs are to go at North Yorkshire's frontline fighter base, as cutbacks in the Armed Forces begin to bite. A total of 215 service and 20 civilian posts will be lost at RAF Leeming over the next three years, it was revealed today. Many of
NORTH Yorkshire Police chiefs have welcomed plans to raise the minimum age of buying knives and replica firearms. Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to ban under-18s from purchasing potentially dangerous knives and lifelike toy guns if Labour wins
DNA swab kits will soon be given to staff at Northern Rail to help them get saliva samples from abusive customers who spit on them. The company, which runs services through York and the North-East of England, said it plans to introduce the kits to help
THE London Broncos were thrown a Super League lifeline last week when the other clubs agreed to let them carry on despite changing companies behind the scenes because of financial problems. They have worked very hard to develop the game down in London
THE coarse fish season on York-area rivers concludes on Monday, which means that this weekend is the last chance to tackle running waters before June 16. There are no matches booked on York waters and many rivers are running at a decent level and colour
POLICE spent 12 hours talking a man down from a York hospital roof. The tense stand-off began at 6.10pm yesterday when a man, who was in his 30s and not local, climbed on to the roof of Bootham Park Hospital. Police said the man had gone to the hospital
YORK RUFC face another make-or-break week in Durham and Northumberland One when they take on promotion rivals Durham City on Saturday. A victory for the Clifton Parkers could set the seal on second place and an end-of-season promotion play-off, but it
MORE than 200 jobs are to go at North Yorkshire's frontline fighter base, as cutbacks in the Armed Forces begin to bite. A total of 215 service and 20 civilian posts will be lost at RAF Leeming over the next three years, it was revealed today. Many of
THE whole country was having a laugh for charity today - and one brave rail employee was getting into the spirit of things by going bald. Father-of-four Nigel Cross, 53, was being ceremonially shorn in the York Station Travel Centre by hairdresser Andrew
GOAL difference could be the only thing to separate the top five come the end of the Northern Counties East League premier division season with the runners and riders simply too close to call. With only a handful of games left, the fight is on for the
IT speared an ambulance and has suffered problem after problem. York's first "intelligent" bollard in Stonebow has even been exposed as a "flop" by the Evening Press. But it emerged today that council chiefs are paving the way for a second bollard - right
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club's officials can expect a grilling on several issues at the club's annual meeting at Headingley on Saturday. Exactly a year ago, members were led to believe that Yorkshire would soon have bought the cricket ground from their
A MOTHER who waited more than four years for an inquest into the death of her daughter in York today branded the hearing "a whitewash." Sheila Barry was speaking out after York Coroner Donald Coverdale ruled that her daughter, ME sufferer Carli Barry,
THE title, you will note, is Snow White, and not Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs of Disneyland. Hi ho, hi ho, and off to Hollywood the "Magnificent Seven Dwarfs" have gone, in writer-director Nicholas Lane's inspired reinvention. The bearded seven have
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Motoring Editor Malcolm Baylis was offered the chance to drive a new car back from the Geneva Motor Show. Nine hundred miles later he is still enthusing over the drive in a car designed for city driving. WHEN the offer to drive a new car back from the
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FUSION Of Nature brings together the semi-abstract northern landscapes of Peter Hicks and the nature-based sculpture of Margaret Lovell at Minster Fine Art Gallery, York, from next weekend (March 19). Hicks lives and works in the Esk Valley, high on the
FASHION, as glossy magazine writers will inform you, can be a terrible minefield, darling. A garment feted one moment as the essence of haute couture is, the next, mocked as ill-advised bordering on disastrous. Crushed velvet flares, for instance. What
COULD Carli Barry have been saved? Why did the police search fail to find her? Have lessons been learned from her death? For four long years, Sheila and Geoff Barry have waited for the answers. But at the inquest yesterday, they were not even able to
Alex Lloyd looks forward to the monthly outing of The Little Num Num Club. QUANTITY and quality are both on offer when The Little Num Num Club makes its (mostly) monthly outing tomorrow night. A packed line-up, featuring some of the brightest talents
GOAL difference could be the only thing to separate the top five come the end of the Northern Counties East League premier division season with the runners and riders simply too close to call. With only a handful of games left, the fight is on for the
SELBY WMC Reserves installed themselves as favourites for the Where in York Trophy with a comprehensive 9-1 quarter-final victory at Barlby Athletic. Craig Anderson, Dave Evans and Chris Pearson all scored twice with Ryan Chadwick, Danny Wadsworth and
DRACULA Spectacula doesn't scare the young cast of Stagecoach Youth Theatre York. "We don't need the usual good luck charms associated with protection against the vampire's gothic gloom because there's been so much fun and laughter in the four-month rehearsal
HOBNOBBING, we were. Our nobs had never been so hobbed, as York's own Frankie Howerd might have observed. At the launch of Sir Thomas Ingilby's new book, Yorkshire's Great Houses (Dalesman, £19.99), the Diary mingled with the likes of fiery Fred Trueman
