A new survey paints a mixed picture for York tourism, with visitor numbers up, but spending down. Reporter Dan Jones looks at the results - and asks major players how the city can attract even more people. TYPICALLY bad British weather, tough competition
I PRODUCED a bottle of port at a bonfire party last year. It's surprising how well this fortified wine goes down on November 5. I guess it's the warming properties of the liquid, which helps to keep off the evening chill. Of the revellers who imbibed
LEG spinner Mark Bell turned on the style to keep York Cricket Club on course to retain the Yorkshire County ECB Premier League title. He took seven wickets in a comfortable 94-run victory over Yorkshire Academy at Headingley yesterday. Rivals Harrogate
SUPER seamers Nick Scaling and Mike Sinclair sped Sheriff Hutton Bridge to Lord's in devastating fashion. They shared nine wickets as the Hunters the estate agent York and District League side thrashed hosts Astwood Bank by nine wickets yesterday. After
IF it's true that the best teams are the ones that can get the win when they play badly, then York City Knights have got champions written all over them. But no matter how comfortable yesterday's 60-12 win looks on paper, the title is still two points
A NIGHT burglar arrested on a bus only hours after a raid was jailed for three-and-a-half years. Howard Shaw, prosecuting at York Crown Court, said Martyn Bell stole jewellery, cash, bank cards and other items from a house in Salisbury Road, off Leeman
TEN highway depots across North Yorkshire are to be sold by the county council. The depots have been deemed surplus to requirements and a report to the authority's executive proposes that four new sites should be developed instead. Those earmarked for
YORK City were the better side against Crawley Town on Saturday but manager Billy McEwan was not disheartened by the failure to take maximum points. He said: "It would have been nice to start with a win but we got a clean sheet and a point and controlled
SUPER seamers Nick Scaling and Mike Sinclair sped Sheriff Hutton Bridge to Lord's in devastating fashion. They shared nine wickets as the Hunters the estate agent York and District League side thrashed hosts Astwood Bank by nine wickets yesterday. After
FORMER Scarborough forward Dave Pounder has signed for York City on a short-term basis. Pounder, 25, has spent the summer training with the Minstermen after leaving Scarborough at the end of last season and, like Ryan Mallon and James Dudgeon, will be
RECORD-BREAKING try ace Peter Fox is keeping his feet on the ground as York City Knights move within two points of securing a place in National League One next season. The 20-year-old winger blasted his way into the record books yesterday after bagging
YORK'S Kirsty Taylor led from start to finish and clinched her first European Tour win in ten years at the Wales Ladies' Champion-ship yesterday. The 34-year-old opened with a Tour record 61 and started the final round four shots ahead. She suffered a
RECORD-BREAKING try ace Peter Fox is keeping his feet on the ground as York City Knights move within two points of securing a place in National League One next season. The 20-year-old winger blasted his way into the record books yesterday after bagging
KNIGHTS head coach Mick Cook will not be piling the pressure on his players ahead of next week's possible title-winner at Hunslet. Yesterday's 60-12 home win over London Skolars put the Knights just one step away from National League One with the knowledge
THE Diary would love to say it had been a close contest, but we'd be lying. As the Ebor races loom, it's fair to say there was a runaway winner in our Miss York photo caption competition. Many of you spotted that the young playboy, looking distinctly
With school holidays in full swing, and the astronomical price of fuel, one would think the usual terrible traffic congestion within York would be lessened. Not so. During the evening rush hour, the Hull Road out of York is nearly always at a complete
FOR the past year I seem to have been totally responsible for the cleaning of the lane beside my house. This means cutting down rank vegetation or sweeping up cat and dog mess. I bag this hoping the dustman will take it. When I asked the friendly road-sweeper
In response to John Nightingale (Letters, July 30), one of City of York Council's main aims is to reduce the amount of waste we produce. By reducing the frequency of the grey refuse bin collections, we will all be encouraged to manage our waste in a more
I read the Evening Press report headlined 'Direct flights to Big Apple' (July 29) about the possible York/New York link via Leeds Bradford Airport. In it Len Cruddas, chief executive of the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, is quoted as saying
I agree wholeheartedly with R Waite (Letters, August 11) that a compulsory national DNA database is, on the whole, a good idea. It would potentially help to prevent and solve a wide range of crimes, from Islamic terrorist atrocities to the wave of muggings
I AM concerned about the proposal to move the Arc Light Centre to the old Shipton Street School site. If this proposal is accepted I, like many other residents, fear my quality of life and the value of my property will be seriously affected. I have lived
YORK City were the better side against Crawley Town on Saturday but manager Billy McEwan was not disheartened by the failure to take maximum points. He said: "It would have been nice to start with a win but we got a clean sheet and a point and controlled
Monday, August 15, 2005 100 years ago The inquest concerning the death of a man employed by the Blackpool Tower Company, who had been killed by lions, had taken place the previous evening. The unfortunate victim had entered the lions' den late on the
YORK City goalkeeper Chris Porter will travel to Southport tomorrow night still waiting to make his first save of the season. Porter was one of the few sportsmen less active than England and Australia's sheltering cricketers on Saturday as the Minstermen
CRAMMED into every nook and cranny of a 16-seat minibus, a York junior rugby team tried to become world record breakers... by packing 53 people inside. Somehow they managed to squeeze in 44 players, parents, bystanders - and one bemused Evening Press
With Japanese superstar Zenno Rob Roy locking horns with top Italian raider Electrocutionist, tomorrow's Juddmonte International Stakes fully lives up to its name as York's thrilling three-day Ebor Festival gets underway. A seven-strong field bid for
August 13/14 Premier Division Beverley Town (9) drew with Heworth (9) - Match abandoned (RSP after 8.1 overs). Heworth 29-0. Clifton Alliance (30) beat Malton & O Malton (0) by 10 wickets. Malton & O Malton 95 (S Linsley 29, J Postill 7-33), Clifton
CLIFTON Alliance took a major step towards winning their first title since 1999 when they beat relegation-haunted Malton and Old Malton by ten wickets. With nearest rivals Dunnington frustrated by the weather at Woodhouse Grange, Alliance doubled their
YORKSHIRE Phoenix almost snatched an amazing totesport National League division two victory at run-laden Taunton yesterday. Centuries from Somerset's new wonder boy Matt Wood and captain Ian Blackwell put Phoenix on the rack, but in a pulsating finish
CRAMMED into every nook and cranny of a 16-seat minibus, a York junior rugby team tried to become world record breakers... by packing 53 people inside. Somehow they managed to squeeze in 44 players, parents, bystanders - and one bemused Evening Press
A drunken thug has been jailed for two-and-a-half-years after repeatedly kicking and beating up a soldier after a boozy night. Robert Farrow had never been in trouble with the police before he got drunk on a Saturday night in York city centre and then
ONE of York's finest hotels says it must build an extension if it is to secure its long-term future. The Churchill Hotel has submitted a planning application to build a 26-bedroom extension and new dining room at its Bootham premises. The hotel says its
CITY centre residents at loggerheads with a local pub over opening hours are hoping people power will triumph. People living in Monkgate fear their "peace and sanity" will be threatened if the Tap And Spile is allowed to trade longer and hold al fresco
A YORK council worker is at the centre of a high-level authority investigation, the Evening Press can reveal. The probe into a member of staff at the Heworth Family Centre is the latest crisis to hit City of York Council's Community Services Department
POLICE cordoned off part of a York street after reports that a local woman had been involved in an incident on Saturday night - while hundreds of clubbers were gathered nearby. A detective said the 34-year-old local woman had allegedly been involved in
A MAN died today after his car crashed into an historic archway at the entrance to a top North Yorkshire stately home. The emergency services were called to the scene at about 6.36pm after a motorist found the crumpled car, with the body of the man still
MORE than 100 protesters have signed up to a petition calling on council chiefs to abandon part of its race day traffic master plan. The ban on right turns into St George's Place and Mount Vale Drive should not be repeated after next week's Ebor meeting
GETTING the applications in was the easy bit. Now City of York Council faces the real challenge: deciding which pubs can open later, and for how long. Many licensed premises are seeking permission to open into the small hours when Britain's drinking laws
ROOM for one more on top? The answer was no, unless you were a world class contortionist. New Earswick All Blacks managed to squeeze an astonishing 53 people into a 16-seat minibus in their attempt to set a new world record. It can't have been very comfortable
MANY barbaric and sexist practices have been perpetrated in the name of religion. However, to describe Islam as sexist on the basis of "stoning to death for adultery", (Letters, August 6, 2005), seems an odd example. There is no mention of stoning in
I AM hoping that your readers may be able to solve a mystery arising from the Second World War. It was brought to my attention recently by Larry Taylor, a veteran of Bomber Command during the Second World War and now a member of 102 (Ceylon) Squadron
FORMER Scarborough forward Dave Pounder has signed for York City on a short-term basis. Pounder, 25, has spent the summer training with the Minstermen after leaving Scarborough at the end of last season and, like Ryan Mallon and James Dudgeon, will be
