Yorkshire soap Emmerdale picks up a coveted gong at the British Soap Awards on TV tonight. But, despite its soaring ratings, it is too often overlooked at awards time. Stephen Lewis reports. IT'S all happening up in Emmerdale. Fourteen-year-old Debbie
IN response to your front page story headlined "Sick", what is justice coming to when a man who attempted rape on a nine month old baby while recording himself and distributed 25,000 images, had his sentence reduced because he pleaded guilty? He had no
PETER Taylor is right to unleash his vitriolic attack on the Press (Letters, May 9) after publishing such a clearly reckless comment as "an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but in my experience so does an air rifle in the top bedroom window". I too
AFTER a four-day stay in York Hospital I thank all staff on A&E, medical assessment and Ward 34. With the doctors, they made my stay as comfortable as possible due to their kind care and attention. Margaret Mason, Anthea Drive, Huntington, York. Updated
LET me quote my experience to prove the idiocy of Roger Green and PR Willey (Letters, April 30). Prior to April 2004 I used to travel into York three times a week, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Since street parking charges were imposed I have parked
MARTIN Burgess should be allowed to proceed with his redevelopment scheme for 34 Piccadilly (May 9). The planning officers' argument that it should be refused because it might prejudice a comprehensive master plan for the whole Castle-Piccadilly site
THERE should be viable alternatives to plans to build further nuclear power stations. Recent developments in solar panels have increased surface area by a factor of four, and if a market was created I believe we could see a doubling of capacity every
THE mere mention of the word exams is enough to bring most youngsters out in a cold sweat. In February we dropped in on students at Huntington School about to sit GCSEs and A Levels to find out how they were coping with their revision. Now it is three
FRESH from celebrating his victory in the General Election, Labour MP Hugh Bayley had to concede defeat at a York school. The winning candidate in the mock elections at All Saints School was Katherine Ekers, who stood as an independent, and is pictured
JOSEPH Rowntree School's netballers will get the chance to go for national glory this weekend. The school's Under-14s, U15s and U19s teams will compete in the national netball finals at Redbridge Sports Centre in Ilford, Essex, which were originally scheduled
FIVE members of this year's York and District schools' combined events girls' team will be Queen Margaret's pupils. The Escrick-based school's girls qualified to represent the district at the Inter-Areas competition later this month by clinching top-four
ENGLAND fast bowler Matthew Hoggard went into Yorkshire's Championship match against Leicestershire at Grace Road today needing just one more wicket to take his tally in first class cricket to 400 dismissals. The paceman has so far claimed 143 wickets
ANGRY householders have claimed the historic look of their community is being ruined by the removal of cobblestones. Residents living in The Mount were horrified to discover them being ripped up in the streets' parking area by council workers as part
A CAMPAIGN is gathering pace to urge York residents and landlords to turn their homes green and help the planet combat global warming. Mark Hill, a Green Party city councillor, successfully called on fellow housing scrutiny board members to focus on what
PROSECUTORS should be more active in ensuring that the punishment really does fit the crime, their national boss said when he visited York. The Director of Public Prosecutions, Ken MacDonald QC, was responding after the Evening Press posed questions about
WHAT a dress rehearsal for Royal Ascot at York! Racing returned to Knavesmire today as course chiefs geared up for the arrival of royalty and high-society by playing host to some of the country's best horses. York Racecourse hosts the annual May meeting
Heslington substitute Simon Gatenby was the hero after scoring the winner with the last kick of the game to secure the Leeper Hare York and District League Junior Cup just three days after taking the division two title. Simon Musgrave put Heslington into
IF the relocation of 110 civil service jobs from London to York is not worth three cheers, it certainly merits a hearty two. The move will undoubtedly boost the city's economy. Some of the London workers will move with their jobs, bringing enough spending
A YOUNG York vandal or shoplifter given an anti-social behaviour order has his name and picture published. Quite right. Shame is part of the punishment, and his neighbours need to recognise him to report any breaches of that ASBO. But a York 17-year-old
I GOT served in a shop the other day. I don't mean that some gum-chewing, gossiping Saturday girl bundled up my stuff, took my card and ran it through a machine without even looking at me. I mean I got properly looked after. A sales assistant, whose name
It was a big score-line at St Helens in the Challenge Cup on Friday but we have learned a lot from the experience. We spoke before about St Helens being a quality side and they showed that as they exposed some areas of our defence which don't get highlighted
Evening Press deputy news editor Andrew Hitchon recalls his fleeting days of fame as a child 'star' of Yorkshire's soap. IT DIDN'T exactly seem like stardom at the time, but I suppose I could claim to have a place in soap history. Back in 1972 we couldn't
WHICH planet do court of appeal judges come from? Lowlife David Lutz Ward took pictures of himself trying to rape a nine month old baby. He also ran one of the biggest child porn rings. So what do the appeal judges do? Reduce his sentence by four years
York has a long sorry history as a city of 'non festivals'. I don't wish to cover old ground, but point out that people still think about the plays and music concerts held in the Museum Gardens, the Clifford's Tower fireworks, the Viking boat burning
HOW can North Yorkshire Police justify axing its underwater search unit (UWSU) (May 5)? They are disbanding a highly skilled trained unit consisting of one sergeant and six constables who have undergone extensive training. When not deployed in diving
I TAKE my hat off to Mr Woolley and his plea to the people of York to be patient when traffic lights go wrong (Letters, May 8). In the good old days when the local bobby was on the beat they used to go to the traffic lights that were out and direct the
AS a matter of curiosity I would like to know if City of York Council receives more council tax by building blocks and blocks of flats rather than maybe two houses on some plots? If so, could this be the reason they happily hand out planning permission
I AM sure most of us will be glad to see the end of the election and the return to normality. Among the many losers from this event will be immigrants. For the first time, a major party has made this a campaign issue. I fear that, in future elections,
THREE-MENDOUS Dunnington have completed a hat-trick of York Schools' Primary Football League titles. Tom Anderson - a year four pupil playing his first ever Dunnington game - settled a penalty shoot-out by converting the winning kick in a tense play-off
YORK Under-11 Schoolboy footballers lost for the first time this season at the worst possible time - in the Yorkshire Cup final to Hull. A win would have made it two trophies out of two with the possibility of two more to come. But two defensive errors
ALL Saints Under-19s came close to christening their new kit with a county cup triumph but finished a goal short against Harrogate-based Rossett School in a 4-3 loss. Rossett opened the scoring but All Saints enjoyed a spell in the ascendancy before Rossett
PUNTERS looking for a hot tip for the Vodafone Derby will have all eyes on York Races tomorrow. The second day of the May Festival on Knavesmire includes the Dante Stakes which provides an accurate guide to the big race at Epsom. Last year the Dante 1
Can Motivator prove himself to be Britain's great hope for next month's Derby? Tomorrow on Knavesmire, Michael Bell's unbeaten colt gets his chance to advertise his Epsom claims and follow a tried and tested route to Classic glory. Twelve months ago North
CONTRACTS to work on two of the hottest new video games this year - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were Rabbit, and Conflict: Global Terror - have been won by a North Yorkshire business. They are the latest successes for Outsource Media, of North
A NORTH Yorkshire company has become one of the first in the UK to offer a national collection service for the recycling of waste electrical equipment. The Electrical Recycling Company transports thousands of televisions and cathode ray tubes to its base
BANKRUPTCIES in Yorkshire are on the increase, as a "big black cloud of debt" hangs over Britain. A total of 1,132 people across the region were declared bankrupt during the first quarter of 2005 - up 49 per cent from 798 in the same period last year.
OWNERS of small businesses are being urged to make sure they benefit from a new relief scheme for business rates which came into effect last month. Chartered accountants say many people who run small firms are unaware they are now entitled to a 50 per
YORK was today set for a major economic boost, with the announcement of more than 100 new civil service jobs. The jobs are to be relocated to York from London as part of a drive to redistribute Government employees from south east England around the country
FOSTER carers in York will still receive 20 per cent less in allowances than the recommended national total - even if planned increases come in, a carer claimed today. They would get 40 per cent less than their counterparts in North Yorkshire. The Evening
THE teenager who caused these horrific injuries to Good Samaritan Adam Duxbury has been locked up and ordered to pay £2,000 in compensation. The 17-year-old thug from Heslington, York, was given a six-month detention and training order by magistrates
IT was a dinner date with a difference. When the Lord Mayor of York, Councillor Janet Looker, wanted to thank her official consort, she had to send out more than 30 invitations. Over the past 12 months friends, family members and colleagues have all acted
WHAT a dress rehearsal for Royal Ascot at York! Racing returned to Knavesmire today as course chiefs geared up for the arrival of royalty and high-society by playing host to some of the country's best horses. York Racecourse hosts the annual May meeting
Worshippers at a village church near York were today reassured that it would almost certainly remain open, despite fears about funding for repairs. The Evening Press recently reported the concerns of the assistant curate of Holy Trinity Church, in Elvington
COUNCIL bosses have given more details of how York residents would deal with proposed radical new changes to recycling. The Evening Press reported yesterday that 60,000 householders in the city could have their weekly rubbish collections dumped. City
Heslington substitute Simon Gatenby was the hero after scoring the winner with the last kick of the game to secure the Leeper Hare York and District League Junior Cup just three days after taking the division two title. Simon Musgrave put Heslington into
CLIFTON came out on top when the York Sunday Afternoon Football League's top scorers were pitched against its most miserly defence in the League Cup final. The College of Law had only conceded 17 league goals but found themselves 2-0 down inside the first
ENGLAND fast bowler Matthew Hoggard went into Yorkshire's Championship match against Leicestershire at Grace Road today needing just one more wicket to take his tally in first class cricket to 400 dismissals. The paceman has so far claimed 143 wickets
PUNTERS looking for a hot tip for the Vodafone Derby will have all eyes on York Races tomorrow. The second day of the May Festival on Knavesmire includes the Dante Stakes which provides an accurate guide to the big race at Epsom. Last year the Dante 1
A BUS full of passengers was brought to a halt in the city centre for 25 minutes - because of a row about a pushchair. Police officers even arrived at the scene as the dispute dragged on, after Wendy Saint first refused to collapse her daughter's buggy
Fans' favourite Simon Friend today returned to Australia for good after being KO'd as a York City Knight by an injury and career one-two. Friend, who turned 28 on Friday, landed in Britain in March after being talked back to the Minster city and has scored
CLIFTON came out on top when the York Sunday Afternoon Football League's top scorers were pitched against its most miserly defence in the League Cup final. The College of Law had only conceded 17 league goals but found themselves 2-0 down inside the first
Fans' favourite Simon Friend today returned to Australia for good after being KO'd as a York City Knight by an injury and career one-two. Friend, who turned 28 on Friday, landed in Britain in March after being talked back to the Minster city and has scored
BELL Farm - The Movie is back on. Or is it? In 1999 the Evening Press reported plans to film scenes for a major motion picture on the York estate. Not particularly glamorous scenes, admittedly. The movie, Addict, was to be based on the autobiography self-published
