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Corries is a Personal Injury specialist Solicitors practice based in York. We currently require the following full-time members of staff to join our team:- Trainee Paralegals. We have vacancies in the areas of criminal injury, industrial disease and road

Friday, May 20, 2005 100 years ago Preparations were being made to celebrate the bicentenary of the York Blue Coat Boys' School. Subscriptions were being raised amongst past and present scholars for a photographic memorial and an oak tablet, to be presented

£12 - £14.5K TOCKWITH. Super company. Experience required. Call Cassy at HQ PERSONNEL on 01937 587710. Updated: 13:29 Friday, May 20, 2005

Receptionists and Secretaries required for various York positions. Excellent salaries paid. Contact David at HQ PERSONNEL on 01937 587710 Updated: 13:28 Friday, May 20, 2005

Site Manager for quality housing developments. Salary, bonus and car by negotiation. Send CV to -- David Rogers, ROGERS HOMES (Yorkshire) Ltd., Newton Lodge, Everingham, York YO42 4JD Updated: 13:26 Friday, May 20, 2005

Wiltshire Farm Foods the home meals service. Sales Office Administrator Full-time or 2 Part-time. Computer and customer literate. Student required for summer cover and some marketing admin. Small, busy and friendly office. Written applications please:

Mulberry Court Care Centre, Shipton Road, York YO30 5PD Full/Part Time Care Assistants required. NVQ desirable but not essential as in house training available. Contact: June Hill on 01904 671122 or mulberry@barchester.com Updated: 13:21 Friday, May 20

Chamber Person required 15 hours over 5 days, 18 years+. Holgate Hill Hotel Tel 01904 653786. Updated: 13:19 Friday, May 20, 2005

Required for this small but busy hotel. The required applicant should have some previous knowledge of the catering industry as the position does require someone with hands on experience. Please apply in writing enclosing an up to date CV to: Mr Timothy

Mon, Tues, Wed mornings. Term-time only £7.50 per hour. Please phone -01653 694043 for an application form. Deadline for applications: 9 June Updated: 12:16 Friday, May 20, 2005

Vacancy for Kitchen Porter (30 hrs per week - Possible Term Time Only if Required) For further details please contact Caroline Shaw on Tel: 01904 527401 Email:c.shaw@st-peters.york.sch.uk Updated: 12:14 Friday, May 20, 2005

Bullough Cleaning Services require an AREA SUPERVISOR for a prestigious portfolio of clients in the York area. The ideal applicant will be energetic and flexible in their approach to work. The role offers a competitive salary, company vehicle and excellent

Rijk Zwaan UK Ltd requires a part-time Receptionist for afternoons only. A knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential. To apply for the above position please send your CV with a covering letter to: Miss C Pease, Rijk Zwaan UK Ltd, Pocklington Industrial

The Gillygate Surgery require MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST 21 hpw + cover pay negotiable with experience. General duties in small friendly team in busy city centre practice. Closing date: Thursday 26.5.05 HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT 10hpw - pay negotiable with experience

Accounts/Sales Office positions. Situated in the centre of Pocklington, Wolf Laboratories is one of the fastest-growing companies in the East Riding. We are looking for accounts and sales office staff with both Senior and Junior positions available (full

Science Technician. Required from 11th July, 2005 to join an active and forward-thinking Science Department. 37 hrs term time + 3 weeks, Scale 3, £14,364 - £15,372.(pro rata) Some experience required. Training and induction programme offered. Further

Qualified electrician required. Own transport essential, immediate start. Tel: 07769 581361. Updated: 11:27 Friday, May 20, 2005

We are a highly successful, expanding and forward thinking organisation within the Kingspan Group Plc. Kingspan Metl - Con Limited are at the leading edge of the building industry throughout the UK and Europe producing advanced steel products. We are

Company: A permanent vacancy has arisen in the York office of a long established international company. The Role: Running the Help Desk. Providing IT support locally and over a WAN. Performing routine network administration. Skills / experience: PC Hardware

Joiners/Installers Ventrolla, the UK's market leader in the renovation and upgrading of original sash windows requires additional Joiners/Installers to work within the York area. A company dedicated to quality, Ventrolla provide tailored services to customers

The Joseph Rowntree School, Haxby Road, New Earswick, York YO32 4BZ. Tel: 01904 768107 Fax: 0870 085 2600. e-mail: joseph.rowntree@york.gov.uk Website: www.josephrowntreeschool.co.uk 11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1290 on Roll A Technology College "Working

The Joseph Rowntree School, Haxby Road, New Earswick, York YO32 4BZ. Tel: 01904 768107 Fax: 0870 085 2600. e-mail: joseph.rowntree@york.gov.uk Website: www.josephrowntreeschool.co.uk 11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1290 on Roll. A Technology College "Working

Must be over 21. Smart and presentable with good knowledge of music. Driving licence useful. Interested? Call Mark Johnson (Alphasound) 01904 797304 Updated: 10:43 Friday, May 20, 2005

Qualified Accountant - We are looking to fill this new position with a candidate that would like new challenges and has good technical tax and VAT experience. For full details and an application form please contact: Steve Morrell, Morrell Middleton, 3

Secretary - Varied role supporting the heart of the practice - pleasant and friendly attitude and the ability to work under pressure essential. For full details and an application form please contact: Steve Morrell, Morrell Middleton, 3 Cayley Court,

DURING the last parliament, this Government banned hunting with dogs, ostensibly on the grounds of animal welfare. Hopefully, we will now see this concern extended to other animal welfare issues crying out for similarly robust action. Are buyers of non-organic

THIS is for the attention of the driver of a silver/grey S-registered Rover 600 who overtook me on the outer ring road at approximately 12.30pm, on Sunday, May 15. That is, of course, providing the driver can read. His total ignorance of the Highway Code

In response to Mr Furness's letter, "Council lacks Piccadilly vision" (May 16), the decision not to approve the application by Martin Burgess for the conversion of 34 Piccadilly to provide retail and 14 flats is far from a reflection of the council's

I HAVE always considered "parliamentary democracy" to be a contradiction in terms, so I am pleased so many of my fellow citizens decided to boycott the general election. Those who accept the validity of our "sneak past the post" system must accept the

I READ Dennis Martin's letter with great interest because he raises the spectre of noise nuisance from the Formula 1 cars, which use Elvington airfield for test purposes, "paling into insignificance if the current development proposals for the airfield

I RANG to book seats for Art at the Grand Opera House via the box office. I rang the number in the theatre's brochure three or four times and each time the message given was "the theatre is currently experiencing a high number of calls and to make your

I was appalled at the state in which York was left after the last race meeting. I walked my dog the morning after the races and had to step through broken bottles, chicken bones, wrappers and other rubbish. When I left for work, I was horrified to see

Notability can provide the Newmarket combination of trainer Michael Jarvis and jockey Philip Robinson with another sizeable payday at Haydock tomorrow. The three-year-old goes for the £95,000 totesport Silver Bowl and can triumph for those connected with

WOULD-BE entrepreneurs across York, North and East Yorkshire are being urged to tap into the current climate and turn their dreams into a business. Alex McWhirter, head of enterprise at Yorkshire Forward, said the time was ripe for anyone with a vision

BARGAIN hunters are about to have even more reason to indulge in retail therapy, as two high street stores set their sights on York's designer outlet. Women's-wear brand Coast has announced plans to launch an outlet store at McArthurGlen next month -

A NORTH Yorkshire company has secured a major deal which will see its water distributed nationally with train company GNER. Harrogate Spa Water is supplying bottled water for the East Coast mainline operator's Go Eat range of food and drink. The water

YORK Live 2005 promotes live musical entertainment in the city in a compact three-day event this week. The Best Of Bands for ten to 19-year-old musicians kicks off at 6.45pm this evening at the Grand Opera House, in an annual showcase that gives young

CATHIE Rae was destined to be a jazz musician, even if the Scottish singer delayed her calling. Her father, Ronnie, is a professional jazz bass player; her mother, Margaret, taught music in schools and continues to teach piano and voice part time; brother

YORK'S National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) has a big jazz weekend tomorrow and Sunday. The Alonza Quartet is made up of past and present members of the University of York big band and they will be playing lively, melodic originals influenced by contemporary

Yorkshire went into today's top-of-the-table Championship clash with Durham at Riverside determined to exact revenge for last Sunday's totesport League defeat by 51 runs to the same opponents on the same ground. And although director of cricket David

BUSY York Cricket Club faces its fifth consecutive double-header weekend with fixtures against two South Yorkshire clubs. Success is breeding success for the unbeaten Yorkshire ECB Premier League champions who have made an excellent start to the season

GOLDEN oldies are gearing up for York's first over-50s festival. Forget Glastonbury, Edinburgh and Woodstock, mature residents will get the chance to witness belly-dancers, poetry performances, yoga, world music and innovative theatre during an arts extravaganza

BOSSES of a York firm have offered a £1,000 reward in an effort to catch a gang of burglars who made off with a plasma screen television. They were spurred on to offer the cash because of the "bare-faced" cheek of the men who forced open a door to their

SIMON Shepherd is breaking not one but two ducks in the latest tour of Art, Yasmina Reza's study of men, art and men's arts. "I've done the show before, three years ago with Philip Franks and Leigh Lawson in the West End and on a ten-week tour, and I

SISTER Josephine Kicks The Habit, a new musical based around the wit and wisdom of the late Jake Thackray, receives its world premiere next week at Helmsley Arts Centre. A short northern tour will follow, including the Theakstons Brewery, Masham, on June

Yorkshire went into today's top-of-the-table Championship clash with Durham at Riverside determined to exact revenge for last Sunday's totesport League defeat by 51 runs to the same opponents on the same ground. And although director of cricket David

A LEONARD can change his spots. York Theatre Royal has grown accustomed to David Leonard's pantomime villainy - a malevolent matinee idol burdened with the fruity voice of Donald Sinden - and his sleek comic skills will be on display once more in Noel

COMMUTERS stuck in rush-hour traffic in York today were warned by protesters that congestion would only get worse if planned housing schemes got the go-ahead. Residents staged a protest alongside the A19 in Fulford to put the message to motorists about

YOU know the code for a Roy Chubby Brown gig. If easily offended, please stay away, or rude words to the same effect. "As soon as I put on the hat and goggles my whole persona changes; I always feel that I can get away with anything," says the rotund

BUSY York Cricket Club faces its fifth consecutive double-header weekend with fixtures against two South Yorkshire clubs. Success is breeding success for the unbeaten Yorkshire ECB Premier League champions who have made an excellent start to the season

WHO could forget the image of York teenager Zara Sutton after an allergic reaction to a non-permanent hair dye left her face blotched and swollen? Zara is just one of the many people to have suffered an allergic reaction in their lives, ranging from pollen

York Museums Trust's vision for York St Mary's is to invite an artist to roduce a "site specific" new work in response to the medieval church building. Caroline Broadhead, Reader in Jewellery and Textiles at Middlesex University, has taken up the challenge

Looking for a new career? Are you a mature person others turn to with their problems? Have you ever thought how great it would be to be rewarded for your advice and guidance? We are looking for people like you to train as self employed Stress Managers

Newsquest (York) Ltd currently have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic team player to strengthen our commercial internet team. To apply you will have a solid knowledge of the web and will be seeking to build up commercial experience. You will understand

Accounts Assistant The YORKTEST Group are an independent laboratory based in York with an established reputation for high quality service and innovation in allergy and food intolerance testing. We currently require an Account Assistant to join our busy

Recruitment Line: 0845 6066352 RECRUITMENT ROADSHOW YES!! Then why not come down to our recruitment roadshow being held at Future Prospects, 24 Swinegate, York on 1st June 2005 between 10am and 4pm. Our friendly and approachable staff will be available

We are currently recruiting for the key role of Assistant Manager in our York store. This is a role that would suit an individual with the drive and ambition to achieve high standards in one of the UK's leading outdoor stores. Essential qualifications

Dynamic negotiator required for busy Estate Agency based in Malton. Opportunity to enhance career in growing business. IT skills essential. Full or part-time position. Please apply in writing to:-- Christopher P Wilson, BSc MRICS Boulton & Cooper

MAJORITY shareholder John Guildford says York City Knights' will continue fighting on and off the pitch to achieve their Super League dream, despite the plans to eradicate promotion from National League. Rugby Football League chiefs yesterday announced

YORK'S secret stenciller has been busy. After the Diary revealed the mystery artist's black-and-white cat-flap motif adorning both a York telephone box and the boarded-up doors of the neglected Bo Ding Warehouse, a woman rang up to report a different

Part Time Receptionist 1pm - 5pm with full days on Race Days. Part-time Vacancy available for our busy hospitality office at York Racecourse. Apply in writing with CV to -- Matthew Barlow, Recruitment Manager, CGC Events, Supreme House, Lotherton Way,

Archbishop Holgate's School, Hull Road, York YO10 5ZA. Tel 01904 411341. Pastoral Liaison Officer to support a hardworking and committed pastoral team. Good people skills are essential, as are flexibility, accuracy and a team approach. 25-37 hpw. Term

Experienced Chef Required Full Time. Blacksmiths Arms Huntington. and Red Lion Merchantgate 5 1/2 day week including weekends. Full & Part-Time BAR Staff required at The Blacksmiths Arms Apply: Guy Wilkinson 07703 466133 Updated: 13:15 Friday, May

ADMIN OFFICER -- BUYING SUPPORT (Footwear). Continuing expansion at our Head Office created this exciting role. You will assist in providing administrative support to the buying team through the sampling, ordering and delivery. You will be computer literate

5 YEARS ON . . . . AND RACHEL'S STILL SMILING. Rachel's role as an Advertising Telesales Executive is not an easy one. Not only does she run her own territory of regular businesses, she is constantly expanding her territory with new clients. This means

F/T Baby Unit Supervisor. Minimum 3 years experience. Knowledge of Birth to Three Matters essential. F/T Nursery Nurse - Pre-school unit. NVQ Level 3 or equivalent. CV and covering letter to: Mrs Carol Gibson-Cass Tiddlywinks Private Day Nursery, Murton

required in the York area. Pay rates £6.40/£4.85 + site premiums. Uniform and training provided. Must be of smart conventional appearance with a checkable work history and aged 25+ Mature applicants welcomed. Details call Britsafe Security on: 0845 230

Fosters Jewellers require a full time assistant. We are an independent family business specialising in fine quality antique and modern jewellery, silver, clocks and watches. We are looking for an ambitious, self-motivated, hard-working person to join

AG Motor Engineers is a well established and busy garage who service, repair and MOT all makes of vehicle. Are you an experienced mechanic looking for a new challenge? Do you want to be responsible for the day to day running of a busy workshop? No weekend

Queen Margaret's School has the following vacancies within its maintenance team. Painter & Decorator Qualified to NVQ Level 2 or similar. Salary up to £16,800 subject to experience. Labourer - Ability to work with minimal supervision and clean driving

St Leonards Hospice (Reg Charity No: 509294). We require the following enthusiastic and motivated players able to work to high standards to join our dynamic team with excellent working conditions. Caretaking Assistant (37.5 hours per week) You will assist

UKI Direct, Trinity House, Market Place, Easingwold, York YO61 3AD Commercial Insurance Intermediary UKI Direct, Trinity House, Market Place, Easingwold, York YO61 3AD. Commercial Insurance Intermediary. Due to expansion UKI Direct is looking to recruit

The Joseph Rowntree School, Haxby Road, New Earswick, York YO32 4BZ. Tel: 01904 768107 Fax: 0870 085 2600 e-mail: joseph.rowntree@york.gov.uk Website: www.josephrowntreeschool.co.uk 11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1290 on Roll A Technology College "Working

Required for PCB fault finding and repair. The candidate must be capable of fault finding down to component level in "through board" and "surface mount" components. Types of board include analogue and digital circuitry. There is also a requirement to

Accounts Manager (Sales and Support). A new role to develop the company in its sales of Sage and Access Accounting accounts packages as well as develop current customers. Applicants must have accounting experience and/or accounting qualifications. A proven

Our new Head of Catering and new Head of Housekeeping currently have the following vacancies: HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANTS - MAIN SCHOOL 1 full time permanent position, 1 full time temporary position (3 months initially with a strong possibility of a permanent

Financial IQ Group, one of Yorkshire's leading financial adviser companies are seeking a full time administrator for general office duties. Applicants should ideally have previous financial services background. Applicants must have CLAIT, ECDL or RSA

I WANT to start a campaign in the city. I am sick of motorists using our road network as if it's their own private race track. Our road, Shirley Avenue, is particularly bad at rush hour times by drivers cutting from Boroughbridge Road to Beckfield Lane

WE hear so much bad news about dentists in this area, so it is great to have some good news about dentistry for a change (May 10). In York we have the Dentist Of The Year, Dr Andrea Ubhi. Mrs V Hird, Nunthorpe Crescent, York. Updated: 10:59 Friday, May

I congratulate York Pride Action for the excellent service they provide. I have called the helpline a number of times about fly-tipping etc and the problems have always been resolved. This is a very helpful and efficient service. Elizabeth Wilson, Longridge

I NOTE that access to York Crematorium will be severely restricted during the Ascot horseracing meeting (May 18). So, the hedonists are victorious, but this is in keeping with the degradation of peoples' morals. As Bob Dylan sang - don't trust leaders

THE York Branch of the Parachute Regimental Association had a street collection on Saturday, May 7 for its parent organisation and raised £2,570.31. My colleagues and I are grateful to the residents and visitors who contributed so generously on this VE

I thank the entire cancer care team at York Hospital. I have just been given the "all clear" six years after being diagnosed with breast cancer following a routine mammogram and I am sure that had it not been for the skill of the surgeons and nurses I

HOW satisfying that the "little man" with big principles can have his say, as shown at Sedgefield when Reg Keays told the nation what he thought of Tony Blair and his policies. How refreshing to see George Galloway getting his day in front of the whole

Tony Blair wants to restore respect and courtesy to our streets. STEPHEN LEWIS goes in search of some in York. IT WAS a colleague who got me started on my search for a little respect. She had noticed a little bent old woman waiting for a bus. When it

BOXING is not alone in being the graveyard of comebacks. George Lucas has at last completed his Star Wars saga, ending in the middle and in yet another disappointing, incomprehensible heap with Episode III, the sith, sorry sixth, journey into a sci-fi

Employers in York could be missing out on a workforce with valuable new skills as research reveals local employees feel they have no time to invest in their training. The warning comes in the run up to Adult Learners Week, which starts on Monday, as a

GLOBAL troubadour Rory McLeod is Thursday's special guest at the Black Swan Folk Club in York. This self-taught DIY musician accompanies his storytelling with a bizarre solo orchestra made up of spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djeme drums, harmonica

THE Other Side Comedy Club brings a smile to the York Live 2005 festival by presenting a musical comedy special in the Basement Bar of City Screen, York, on Sunday evening. Priorit Gauche and Mat & Faron will be introduced by a decidedly chuffed master

A CHIP SHOP owner is fuming over plans to allow hospital staff to use a neighbouring school playground as a temporary car park. Tony Potts, who runs Tony's Plaice, in Newborough Street, York, collected a 60-name petition against the proposal by York Hospital

HERITAGE projects in York have been given a welcome boost after being awarded thousands of pounds in cash grants. Members of the Tang Hall local history group will receive £7,000 to publish a book which will feature "photographic memories" of the area

TRAGEDY struck on a paradise island when one of York's best-known music teachers died in a swimming accident while her husband stood helplessly by. Irene Stanley, 67, was on holiday with her husband, Dick - a former senior partner at Harrowell Shaftoe

THE two Janets stripped off their cloaks and swapped them in front of dozens of onlookers as they played out the starring roles of an ancient York ceremony. The retiring Lord Mayor of York, Coun Janet Looker and her successor, Coun Janet Greenwood, took

A YOUNG girl was confronted by a cyclist who indecently assaulted her and made lewd remarks in a "nasty" incident in York. Police said the 11-year-old was "shocked, but physically unhurt" by the attack on the cycle track off Pottery Lane, Heworth. A spokesman

PARK View lake near Sand Hutton could be closed to anglers if litter problems continue. One veteran angler removed eight bags of litter from the venue recently and other fly-tipping included several unopened tins of food and a broken bed-chair. The nature

ANGELA Clerkin and Amanda Daniels could not be separated when the Edinburgh Fringe Report was selecting the Best Actress in a Social Drama at last summer's festival. Instead the actresses in Adam Canavan's two-hander, Third Finger, Left Hand, received

CHRIS Thompson (pictured below) hit a fantastic 15 darts in York John Smith's Men's Darts League division one as Sun 'A' beat Poacher 5-4. Jon O'Mara also hit a 20 and then partnered Rod Thompson for 26 in Sun's narrow win. Pete Turnbull hit a 180 for

THE leader of City of York Council said today that everyone there had been left "devastated" by the tragic death of one of its workers. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Press, the council employee was killed when the sit-on mower he

MAJORITY shareholder John Guildford says York City Knights' will continue fighting on and off the pitch to achieve their Super League dream, despite the plans to eradicate promotion from National League. Rugby Football League chiefs yesterday announced

A MAN who strangled a visitor to his flat using a specialist grip knew what the consequences of his actions could be, a judge said, jailing him for four years. Martial arts enthusiast Peter Robert Charles Aird, 36, gripped Carl Michael Shaw's throat with

A 50-STRONG party from Pocklington RUFC are in the Barcelona region where they face RC Sitges today and Sant Cugat tomorrow. Pock warmed up for their tour by winning the York University Secretary's Cup Seven-a-side competition. Pocklington had to come

Clean Power is Toyota's challenge to the upper diesel market. It has to be a winner, writes Motoring Editor Malcolm Baylis. LET's face it: when it comes to providing high-powered diesel cars, Toyota is definitely not the car in front. It is not that Toyota

STEVE NELSON finds the SEAT Cupra R an exhilirating ride. Some cars are are just plain sexy. They were created to make you go weak at the knees, to pin you to your seat, to put the thrill back into driving. Trouble is, most of them are way out of the

THIS year marks the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. York, the home city of celebrated protagonist Guy Fawkes, will be to the fore in the 1605 commemorations, and next week Clifford's Tower will launch a series of summertime events dedicated to

Old Orleans is now recruiting staff for all aspects of its business. We require: Bar Staff - Restaurant Staff - Kitchen Staff - Head Chef. Experience not essential. For further information call in for an application form: 9-11 Low Ousegate, York YO1 1QX

Perry's Coaches, Malton. School Contract PCV Drivers required. Please telephone for a job application form. Tel: 01653 690500 Riccal Drive, York Road Malton YO17 6YE. Updated: 10:06 Friday, May 20, 2005

Manufacturers of chilled and frozen food are recruiting for the following permanent positions: Production Operatives. Meat cooking and Production Line. Up to £7.11/hour. Fitters Mate: Required to work permanent nights. Dismantling and re-assembling machinery

SPORT is all about competition, but the Rugby Football League has forgotten that basic principle. It wants to turn the Super League into a closed shop: no promotion, no relegation. This is the sort of anti-competitive rule which would be kicked into touch

A PLACE in history for Tony Blair was guaranteed after he led a jubilant Labour Party to a third successive term in Government. That much is indisputable. He helped turn the cumbersome ocean liner that was 1980s Labour, laden down by negative associations