A hygiene scare which saw rats in a kitchen highlighted the problems of providing 21st century psychiatric care in ageing Bootham Park Hospital. Now health chiefs want to build a new mental hospital. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. BOOTHAM Park was purpose-built
York City Schoolboys U13s and U14s are at home to Hull on Saturday at Copmanthorpe Recreation Club. U13s squad: Adam Thornton, Tom Young, Steven Jarman, Josh Waite, Will Pepper, Jon Kilmartin, Tom Richardson, Dan Owers, Pete Tasker, Callum Maloney, James
TWELVE lacrosse players from Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, have been called to arms by their county. The doughty dozen will represent Yorkshire in two county tournaments this term. Emma White, Tasha Barr, Venetia Phillips, Ann Gray and Phoebe Sutcliffe
AS a daily user of York's railway station I have taken a keen interest in the various alterations it has undergone in recent months and years. I fail to see the need for the additional handrails up the centres of the staircases to the footbridge. They
I WRITE in response to Philip Roe's letter 'Memorial due' (September 26). He may like to know there is a Bomber Command Memorial. It was unveiled five or ten years ago, on Plymouth Hoe where it overlooks the Sound. In a report or letter from a week or
There cannot be many of you around York now who have not heard about the Science City York initiative. It was set up seven years ago and launched in the Guildhall by Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury of Turville. Since then, its success has seen the creation
KATE Moss was wrong and stupid to get involved with drugs and I hope her apology is sincere. She should now ditch that waster of a boyfriend, Pete Doherty, concentrate on her two-year-old daughter and start working properly for Rimmel - the only fashion
A DRUG DEALER had £1,200 worth of heroin in the same flat as a young child, York Crown Court heard. Owen Christopher Barker, 37, tried to get rid of the drug by throwing it out of a window as officers raided his home, said Simon Batiste, prosecuting.
RAIL passengers were stranded for hours at York station after trains were stopped in their tracks. Police in Durham ordered all trains travelling on the busy East Coast Main Line to stop after a woman strayed near the track between Durham and Darlington
WIGGINTON'S Neil Cordell fulfilled his top seeding by storming to victory in the Yorkshire Under-17 Boys Squash Championships at Pontefract. The Joseph Rowntree School pupil dominated the tournament and only conceded nine points in taking the title. Comfortable
TRAVELLERS who set up camp in the centre of Selby have been given until lunchtime tomorrow to pack up and leave town, after the landowner took legal action to get rid of them. Selby police yesterday delivered a court order to the travellers, telling them
York anglers Geoff Crawford and Carl Loseby landed these 90lb-plus catfish while fishing in France. Taxi driver Crawford, 54, from Broadway, and his 34-year-old pal Loseby reeled in these giant fish at a lake near Troyes in the Champagne region. Although
THE 75-year-old mother of a woman with autism and severe learning difficulties is scouring the city to find a room where she can be cared for when her day care centre closes. Susan Jefferson, 49, cannot walk unaided and also suffers from epilepsy, physical
VISITORS weighed down by £92 million of spending money descended on York in droves last year. New figures show that nearly four million people came to the city - an increase of 75,000 on the previous year. However, the report by the First Stop York Tourism
NOTHING hurt Billy McEwan's professional pride more than Tamworth player-manager Mark Cooper's reported slur that York City were his side's easiest opponents last season. It is, therefore, a measure of the progress McEwan and his newly-assembled team
FIVE thousand readers have now signed up to the Evening Press Bin It! campaign. Since we launched our fight to keep weekly household waste only two weeks ago, readers have flooded our Walmgate office with petitions forms and clicked online to back our
THE day after the National Railway Museum failed to celebrate its 30th birthday, a reader complains it has failed to recognise one of its founders. John Scholes was the museum's first curator, appointed in 1973. But he stepped down due to ill health in
BILLY McEwan was pleased to see his tactical switch pay off during last night's 3-0 victory at Tamworth. The York City boss dispensed with the three-pronged strikeforce he had used in each of the opening ten Conference matches and replaced rested front
MORE than a third of young women said in a survey they had been sexually assaulted after getting drunk - and almost as many said they had had unprotected sex. Mike Laycock examines how hen night revellers in York are putting themselves - and others -
YORK City Knights have bolstered their pack for their first season in LHF National League One by signing two of Oldham's star players, Tere Glassie and Jonathon Wilson. The double move, following hot on the heels of Phil Hasty's arrival, makes it three
Flashy Wings, whose latest success was on Knavesmire last month, can round off her first season by making it five wins from six starts in the feature race at Newmarket tomorrow. The £170,000 Skybet Cheveley Park Stakes is the target for Mick Channon's
YORK'S Under-11 schools' football team went seven up against their hapless Scarborough counterparts. They got off to a flying start after a mistake by the Scarborough goalkeeper enabled Elliot Frodsham to poke the ball home from close range. Another '
AN OPERA singer with her sights set on the big stage is taking time out from her hectic training schedule to entertain finalists at this year's York Community Pride Awards. Demelza Stafford will be a familiar face to shoppers and visitors to York after
WHAT a wonderful week we have just had in York at the Festival Of Food And Drink. Autumn always seems a natural time to turn one's attention to the fruits and produce of the land - and the sea, of course - and what a feast for eyes and tastebuds it has
WE were privileged to see how local politics work in York at a planning meeting last week. The item we were interested in was an application for a number of houses to be built on a sports field at Derwent Junior School. At the start of the discussion
THE Malton Road approach to York was so beautiful in the spring with hundreds of bright yellow daffodils at either side, making it almost a pleasure to be stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the roundabout at the junction with Heworth Green. Driving
I WAS on a break in York with friends, one of whom has had a rough 18 months because of one thing and another. Unfortunately, while having a coffee in Shambles we were caught off guard for seconds and my friend's handbag was stolen. If anybody finds a
IT is quite clear that the proposed collection of household rubbish on a fortnightly basis is a political decision firmly based on York council's apparent cash-strapped status. The health of the community should be a prime consideration and duty of any
I AGREE with John Kelly's letter (September 23). Many wartime airfield sites have taken the initiative and installed memorials to those who served and died while at that particular airfield. Phil Atkinson's reference to the stigma of area bombing may
YORK College has appointed Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd to develop its new £60 million campus. Building work is under way at the college's Sim Balk Lane site, on the south western gateway to the city. The building project is one of the biggest of its
POLICE believe a sharp fall in burglaries is in the offing. They can feel it in their water. Smartwater "is a forensic miracle", in the words of Chief Superintendent Tim Madgwick. A liquid with a unique chemical code, it is applied to a window or door
A MOTHER has spoken of her horror at discovering a squalid riverside drug den next to a popular York footpath. Katie Rix, 28, of Aldborough Way, off Leeman Road, York, was shocked to find scores of filthy syringes along with other drug paraphernalia,
A PUPIL stabbed in the head during an attack in a school lunch break is back in his classes. The 14-year-old boy, a pupil at Millthorpe School, York, was stabbed outside the Cygnet pub in Dove Street last Thursday. York police described the incident as
A SINGLE mum falsely claimed £21,000 in benefits when she failed to tell the authorities that her partner had moved in. Mother-of-three Lisa James cheated thousands of pounds out of the state in income support, housing and council tax benefits over a
FIVE thousand readers have now signed up to the Evening Press Bin It! campaign. Since we launched our fight to keep weekly household waste only two weeks ago, readers have flooded our Walmgate office with petitions forms and clicked online to back our
Dean Smith demonstrated his undoubted class when he topped the WJC Noakes Cup on an out-of-sorts River Ouse below York. Despite securing the bulk of his numerous Matchman of the Year points on the many commercial carp fisheries that now dot the North
YORK City Knights have bolstered their pack for their first season in LHF National League One by signing two of Oldham's star players, Tere Glassie and Jonathon Wilson. The double move, following hot on the heels of Phil Hasty's arrival, makes it three
HE is a key figure at City of York Council in charge of one of its top departments. He has been suspended from duty. But today the Evening Press can reveal authority bosses have decided the public cannot know what his fate may be. As chiefs met behind
TWO-GOAL hero Clayton Donaldson believes his choice of pre-match music helped York City get back to winning ways at Tamworth last night. The Minstermen triumphed 3-0 at the Lamb Ground thanks to Donaldson's brace and a Mark Convery goal after the 21-year-old
Selby Town's climb up the Northern Counties East League premier division table was halted when they lost 3-1 to Harrogate Railway at Flaxley Road. The Robins took the lead after 20 minutes when Matthew Wain knocked in the rebound after Ian Twitchen's
