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  • Abbey fundraisers trial run

    TRUSTEES of a multi-million restoration appeal have proven that every penny counts in their fundraising drive. The Selby Abbey Restoration Appeal has recently received a boost from US donors - who added £100,000 to the £3.75 million which has been put

  • Fungal yearnings.

    Tonight, John Mitchell, weather man, said “it is real mushroom weather”. In my early teens, during the war, my friend and I would rise at 4 o’clock AM and walk from Fifth Avenue down Bad Bargain Lane at this time of year. Past farmer Herbert’s to the

  • Cold shoulder for cold callers

    BOGUS callers have been banished from three villages south of Selby, and residents have been given packs with information on checking callers are genuine. No cold calling zones have been set up in Whitley, Eggborough and Kellington, to protect residents

  • Sainsbury’s ‘to open in weeks’ in Pocklington

    A NEW supermarket will open its doors at the end of November - bringing to an end years of campaigning, uncertainty and Government investigations. Work is now under way to transform one of Pocklington's two Somerfield stores into a Sainsbury's. The

  • Tsunami appeal total reaches £84,000

    CIVIC leaders today confirmed the final total for York's tsunami appeal has swollen to £84,000. To the delight of campaigners, an extra £9,000 has poured into York Aid headquarters in the last few weeks. The Evening Press reported last month how

  • Tsunami victims stun newlyweds

    A YOUNG York couple who tied the knot in Sri Lanka - three months after the tsunami devastated the country - have told how they were made to feel like "royalty" by the people whose lives had been wrecked by the natural disaster. Amy Thornton, 21, and

  • Tsunami families still wait for news

    THE families of a young couple who have been missing since their Thai holiday resort was devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami are still waiting to hear if their bodies have been found. Sarah Bent, 19, and Robert Rowbottom, 21, were enjoying a holiday

  • Disaster appeal tops £75k

    A LAST-DITCH push by "phenomenal" fundraisers has tipped York's tsunami appeal over the £75,000 barrier. The bulging York Aid pot today received a final boost, with a tasty £3,000 donation from a city curry house chain. Bengal Brasserie handed over

  • Big turn-out for tsunami victim

    TSUNAMI victim Steve Magson would have been "so glad" his wife and daughter survived the disaster, his widow told mourners at a memorial service. Denise Magson said Steve's last thoughts would have been "for his family" as he was swept away by the

  • Promises boost tsunami appeal

    A PROMISE of vacuuming while wearing only boxer shorts and a male escort service were some of the cheeky lots auctioned at a Ryedale pub to raise more than £5,500 for survivors of the Asian tsunami. Organiser Richard Murray-Wells said the event at

  • Memorial for tsunami victim

    A MEMORIAL service is to be held for York tsunami victim Stephen Magson, it was revealed today. York Minster will be the venue for the service, which will be held on Friday, March 18, at 2.30pm, before a public reception is held in the Nunthorpe and

  • Tsunami appeal closes on £72K

    "THANK You" was the message today, as the York Aid tsunami appeal was wound up on the two-month anniversary of the disaster, having raised more than £72,000. The entire York community showed tremendous generosity after the Evening Press and City of

  • Tsunami fund tops £70,000

    MORE than £70,000 has been raised by the York Aid appeal for victims of the Asian tsunami. Almost £60,000 has already been paid to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to help relief and reconstruction efforts in the devastated areas. The record-breaking

  • Fountain of sewage fury

    RESIDENTS have been promised repairs will be carried out after a manhole cover blew off spewing a "fountain of sewage" down their street in York. Clifton ward councillor Ken King stepped in after The Press reported on Monday that a manhole cover blew

  • `I saw villages the size of Acomb just flattened'

    RAVAGED scenes of flattened villages passed by as a York graduate travelled from one tsunami-hit community to the next to offer aid. Globe-trotter Tim Wilson is one of York's first eye-witnesses of the relief effort to return from the Far East, where

  • Hair-raising idea

    YOUNGSTERS have been lining YorkAid coffers to help the victims of the Asian tsunami. They include pupils at Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary School who had a Mad Hair Day on the last day before the half-term break. They came in with their hair arranged

  • Amanda stretches the point

    NORTH YORKSHIRE yoga teacher Amanda Latchmore stretched herself to raise money for victims of the devastating tsunami in Sri Lanka. Her 11-hour "yogathon" at the Friends' Meeting House, Queen Parade, Harrogate, last Sunday raised about £3,000. Amanda

  • Cash heads for disaster areas

    YOUR cash is on its way to help communities devastated by the Asian tsunami, with the first donation from the York Aid appeal. A total of £62,795 has been raised since the Evening Press and City of York Council campaign to help tsunami stricken areas

  • Store does that bit extra for charity

    SUPERMARKET staff ditched their usual uniforms to boost the Red Cross tsunami appeal. Workers at Tesco Extra, at Clifton Moor, York, paid £2 each to dress down yesterday, to help push their fundraising for the charity past the £15,000 mark. Meanwhile

  • Oriental market

    CELEBRITY chef Jennie Cook is setting up shop at tomorrow's Oriental Market to raise money for tsunami victims in her native Malaysia. Jennie will be selling foodstuffs, Malaysian knick-knacks and artwork in the Coppergate Centre, York, which is hosting

  • Lions roar into action

    LIONS clubs in York and North Yorkshire are helping to raise £20,000 to build a village in tsunami-stricken Sri Lanka. The project is one of many being tackled by Lions District 105C, which covers clubs in Yorkshire and north Derbyshire. Members

  • Masses continue to fundraise

    IT IS exactly a month since the Asian tsunami disaster and the generosity shown by local people towards the victims shows no signs of diminishing. Individuals, schools and businesses across York and North Yorkshire are continuing to organise fundraising

  • Money rolling in

    HOMEMADE buns, a seven-ton truck and an overcrowded loft all helped bring in more money for relief efforts in Asia following the tsunami disaster. Children at St Lawrence's Primary School in York raised more than £200 for the York Aid appeal - which

  • Family set up fund in memory of tsunami victim

    HOPE is springing from tragedy, after the family of a York man believed killed by the Asian tsunami set up a fund to help other victims of the disaster. Steve Magson was watching his wife, Denise, and daughter, India, kayaking in the sea off Phi Phi

  • United front

    NIGHTSPOTS are set to boost the York Aid appeal for victims of the tsunami disaster by thousands, thanks to a united fundraising drive. Thirty city centre bars are selling tickets for the Asia Needs You prize draw, which was launched two weeks ago,

  • Pupils lead efforts

    FULFORD School staff and pupils have held a jam-packed week of fundraising activities in a bid to raise £5,000 for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. The fun has included a Miss Fulford cross-dressing contest, a disco and a Little Britain sketch

  • Digging deep to aid the victims

    ELDERLY residents of a York council sheltered housing scheme donated their Christmas presents to a fundraising day for the York Aid appeal. The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Janet Looker, opened the event at Lovell House, Dringhouses, which included cake

  • Appeal tops £50k mark

    MORE than £50,000 has been raised by the York Aid tsunami appeal. The Evening Press and City of York Council York Aid fund total now stands at £51,532.21, boosted by new donations from political parties, primary school children and private companies

  • Coining new aid efforts

    MAP-MAKING pupils from Sutton-on-the-Forest school, near Easingwold, raised more than £350 - in loose change. The children built outlines of the countries affected by the tsunami using coins from their pocket money and savings. And at the end of

  • Free trauma help groups

    INDEPENDENT hospital The Retreat is to host a series of open group meetings for people directly affected by the tsunami disaster. The charitable hospital in Heslington Road, York, is holding three open sessions, the first of which will be on Wednesday

  • Appeal rockin' on

    DONATIONS are continuing to stream in to the Evening Press and City of York Council York Aid appeal for victims of the Asian tsunami, which now stands at £49,290. A charity gig at rock pub Certificate 18, in Gillygate, raised about £500 for the Disasters

  • Soldiers in fundraising mission

    MEMBERS of the Armed Forces have been dressing up and digging deep to raise cash for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. Soldiers and civilians based at Imphal Barracks, York, sported everything from Darth Vader costumes to colourful hats and wigs

  • Silence proves golden for Laura

    YORK youngsters have been dressing down to help tsunami victims. Staff and students at All Saints' School have raised £2,155.88 through events such as a home clothes day and bucket collections. Sixth former Laura Duggan raised £125 by doing a sponsored

  • Keep giving

    THREE weeks after the tsunami struck, the initial shock has subsided. But the scale of the devastation continues to astonish: at the weekend the death toll was revised upwards by several thousand. It will take many years and billions of pounds before

  • Praise for York Festival of Food & Drink

    IT sounds like something from the fictional world of Willie Wonka - but a mouthwatering, chocolate fountain came to York, as the city's Festival Of Food & Drink continued to attract bumper crowds. The fountain was demonstrated by staff from the Centre

  • York graduate dead

    A YORK graduate who helped revive a war-torn area of Sri Lanka died in the Asian tsunami disaster, it has emerged. Philip Nicholas, 53, who was at the University of York with current Chancellor and former BBC Director-General Greg Dyke in the early

  • Rockers rally to the cause to help needy

    PREPARATIONS are continuing for a huge fundraising gig at rock pub Certificate 18, in Gillygate, York, on Sunday to raise funds for the York Aid Appeal Bands from around the country are playing at the event, which kicks off at 3pm and costs £2 to attend

  • Travel ban extended

    SOME UK holiday companies will not be offering packages to the worst of the tsunami-hit areas until the beginning of April at the earliest, it was announced today. Most tour operators decided today to extend the ban on trips to coastal areas of Sri

  • Appeal tops £44,000

    WALKS, car washes and cake sales are just some of the ways people are raising cash for countries hit by the tsunami tragedy. Enthusiasm for helping the victims has failed to dim since the disaster took place almost three weeks ago and the Evening Press

  • Thanks, but we need more cash

    ON behalf of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) we thank your readers for their generous response to the Tsunami Earthquake Appeal. More than £100 million has now been donated by the British public, with nearly £5 million from Yorkshire, and the

  • Red cross hit by depot blaze

    BUSY Red Cross staff were devastated to find a fire had swept through their York offices - at the worst possible time. Volunteers have been working hard to raise vital funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) tsunami appeal, and to provide

  • Tribute from former school friend

    A FORMER school friend of York tsunami victim Stephen Magson has paid tribute to him from his home in Hawaii. Dr Ron Wagner-Wright, who is blind, learned of the tragedy after logging on to the Evening Press thisisyork website, which he is able to read

  • Soup-er savers

    PUPILS and staff at a York school are donating their dinner money to raise funds for the tsunami appeal. The children at Our Lady's RC School, in Acomb, will also make a sacrifice, such as not playing football or computer games for the day, in order

  • Appeal total nears £40,000

    YORK people have raised nearly £40,000 for those devastated by the Asian tsunami disaster. The York Aid appeal stands at £39,691 - with donations still coming in to help the hundreds of thousands of people trying to rebuild their lives in the wake

  • Tuesday, September 26, 2006

    A national Islamic organisation visited York to express its thanks for the help given by Yorkshire soldiers to transport aid to earthquake victims in Pakistan.

  • Publicity sparks charity warning

    A YORK charity boss fears the huge publicity for the tsunami disaster appeal could hit fundraising for other good causes. Penelope Worsley, of Heslington, who runs a trust to help poverty-stricken people in northern Thailand, said she was appalled

  • Tsunami escape family relive ordeal on TV show

    A NORTH Yorkshire family who survived the devastating Asian tsunami have retold their harrowing story live on national television. When the killer wave struck a tiny atoll in the Maldives, 15-year-old Emily Gibbons had to kick down a door to save her

  • Aid gathers pace as cash pours in

    The Evening Press has been inundated with phone calls from people organising fundraising events and businesses making donations to help the York Aid appeal and national tsunami disaster appeal. During the weekend, supplies of Harrogate Spa Water jetted

  • TV chef relives lucky escape from tsunami

    YORK'S Malaysian-born TV chef and tourism champion Jennie Cook spoke today of her relief at narrowly avoiding the Asian tsunami disaster after a hotel she planned to visit in the country was fully-booked. Jennie and her grown-up son, Adam, had flown

  • Please visit again

    HAVING lived and worked in Phuket, Thailand, for a year and having visited six weeks ago, I watched in horror as the tsunami hit. But unlike most of the rest of the world, my panic was for the foreigners (such as us), living in Phuket. People who have

  • £13,000 for appeal

    RED Cross volunteers collecting for the Asian tsunami appeal raised more than £13,650 across York and North Yorkshire this weekend. Bucket collections at Tesco supermarkets at Clifton Moor and Strensall, in York, and Thirsk, Scarborough and Northallerton

  • Donations top £30,000 mark

    DONATIONS to the York Aid appeal have topped the £30,000 mark as people across the city continue their fundraising efforts with gusto. Red Cross collectors, assisted by a number of local councillors, were due to be out in force in York city centre

  • Grand gift by Diocese

    YORK church leaders are sending £100,000 to help aid efforts in the countries hit by the tsunami disaster. The Diocese of York, the Church of England organisation stretching from the Tees to the Humber and from the east coast to the A1, is making the

  • £65,000 donation

    DUNNINGTON-based supermarket group Costcutter has donated £65,000-worth of aid to the national tsunami appeal. The company, which has more than 85 stores across the country, is sending desperately-needed products such as baby milk, food rice and toiletries

  • Holiday man's flight relief

    A YORK man holidaying in stricken Thailand today told of his relief as it emerged a fully-booked plane may have saved his life. Stephen Bailey planned to catch an earlier flight from Bangkok to paradise beach resort Phuket on the day of the Asian underwater

  • So what's faith got to do with it?

    How do you reconcile the dreadful suffering and loss of life caused by the tsunami in South East Asia with the idea of a loving God? STEPHEN LEWIS reports on a matter of faith and doubt. EVEN our very highest church leaders have been led by the

  • Earthquake relief group thanks Army for support

    A NATIONAL Islamic organisation visited York to express its thanks for the help given by Yorkshire soldiers to transport aid to earthquake victims in Pakistan. Jehanger Malik, the national fundraising manager of the Islamic Relief organisation, and north

  • Drive to nip skunk farms in the bud

    CRIMINALS running illegal cannabis factories in York and North Yorkshire face being arrested, having their businesses closed and their assets frozen. The warning follows the launch yesterday of a major police crackdown which aims to disrupt hundreds

  • Steven Michael Pearson of York convicted of drugs offences

    A CONVICTED robber who claimed he took up to 25 ecstasy tablets a night has been jailed for pedalling bogus dance drug pills. Steven Michael Pearson had difficulty holding back the tears as he was led down to the cells at York Crown Court after a jury

  • Conference duo toil for on-road joy

    York's two National Conference sides were both struck down with the away-day blues to continue a miserable start to the season. Both York Acorn and Heworth lost by 36-plus margins with Acorn's division one defeat at Widnes St Maries tipping the scales

  • Wonder of Withers

    It says a lot when a prop forward can score his second hat-trick of the season and be overlooked for the man-of-the-match award and this time it came in a 48-0 York Groves win. Rob Latham's hat-trick had a big part to play in the Pennine League division

  • Heworth rout Pirates’ crew

    HEWORTH A' proved far too strong for a brave but inexperienced Scarborough Pirates to win 88-6 in the Yorkshire League 3 encounter at Elmpark Way. After a quiet opening, tries came at regular intervals and, in all, 11 touchdowns were recorded. Centre

  • Jones fires 22-stun salute for Earswick

    New Earswick All Blacks have gone from being Pennine League new boys to the ones to beat after maintaining their 100 per cent start to the season in a 44-32 defeat of previously unbeaten Elland. Outstanding scrum-half Ben Jones led the way with an eye-opening

  • Win Knot for the squeamish

    Selby Rugby Union Club continued their 100 per cent start to the Yorkshire 2 campaign with a hard fought 22-12 win over local rivals Knottingley in the first meeting since the inauguration of the leagues in 1987. The home side pressurised from the

  • Pace undoes Rowntree

    Nestl Rowntree had no answer to the extra pace of Selby's third team and consequently lost their North Yorkshire Merit League Fixture 29-6. 'Trees started brightly with early pressure producing a John Atkin penalty. But Selby hit back with four tries

  • Farrell’s got the taste again

    YORK City striker Craig Farrell has admitted that it was a "massive relief" to end his 11-game wait for a goal. Farrell had failed to scored in ten previous outings for the Minstermen - 15 if you include pre-season friendlies - before he netted the first

  • Carver sharpens up his act

    Caretaker-manager John Carver believes Leeds United can make up lost ground and still figure in the promotion race. United slumped to 23rd place in the Championship before Kevin Blackwell's sacking last week but Saturday's 3-2 win against Birmingham

  • Cressie’s KitKat tilt

    EX-YORK City marksman Richard Cresswell could make an emotional return to his first club. The Leeds United striker, who has been battling against a knee injury which has halted him playing this term for the Championship club, is back in training and

  • And along came a hail Ryder

    WHAT a fantastic time it was to be European on Sunday. Like most of the country - and probably Continent - I watched the final day of the Ryder Cup and it made great viewing. I think it was written in the stars for Darren Clarke so soon after the

  • Knight heads south

    York City Knights half-back Paul Thorman has been signed up by London Skolars after moving to the capital. Thorman, who turns 24 on Thursday, received the official top scorer award at the club's recent presentation ceremony after kicking 32 goals and

  • Coach Cuffe faces tough task

    CITY of York will require a big improvement on their pre-season form when they kick off their Northern Hockey League first division campaign this weekend. The Clifton Park side warmed up for their curtain-raiser against Cheshire team Deeside Ramblers

  • Battling bid

    THE City of York Under-16 B' team travelled to Harrogate Hockey Club for their Yorkshire Youth League matches with the core of an U14 side. They started off against Sheffield who were the strongest side in the tournament and lost 3-0. Next up, they

  • Maximum marvels

    City of York Hockey Club Under-16 A' girls opened their Yorkshire Youth League season with maximum points from their first session. They hammered Brigg 5-0 with a dominant display in their first game and destroyed Leeds with an 8-0 win in their second

  • Minster front-runners

    With wins coming from both Mark Hartley and Chris Thompson respectively, the first two finalists in the Minster Law Individual Darts League are already assured. The third and fourth places, however, are tighter due to Keith Turner who is sitting

  • Tracey on ball to win

    CUEBALL'S Tracey Farmeary gamed in 18, including a 112 closure, as the York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one front-runners were 6-3 victors at Tramways, whose Carole Layne opened with 23. Farmeary also scored 120 and threw three tons.

  • Set-piece flop for ladies

    City of York Ladies got off to a poor start in their North League campaign, losing 5-2 at home to Sheffield, whose main threat was from penalty corners. In a flurry of early goals, York went 4-1 down in the first quarter, despite the encouragement of

  • Tears match the roar emotion

    THERE was hardly a dry eye in the clubhouse as Europe retained the Ryder Cup with an emphatic victory over America at the K Club over the weekend. Emotions ran even higher than normal during the great sporting contest because of the sad death of Darren

  • Sunny leather

    The Leather Wedge, who was narrowly denied at Redcar last week, can go one better at Newcastle's bumper eight-race programme tomorrow. Trained in County Durham by Bob Johnson, who is best known for his jumping exploits, The Leather Wedge goes for the

  • Property worth £3.37m to be auctioned

    MORE than £3.37 million-worth of property and land, mostly in York and North Yorkshire goes under the hammer on Thursday. John Waterhouse, of Hunters property group of York, will be wielding the gavel on 14 lots, from 6pm, at The Gimcrack Suite

  • Lawyers called on for Panama deal

    CONSTRUCTION law experts at Denison Till, the York commercial lawyers firm, have been given an instruction to draw up contracts for the building of a new crane rail system in Panama. The firm at Stamford House, Piccadilly, one of relatively few to have

  • Weight and see

    LAST month, we offered readers the chance to win a competition to help them beat the battle of the bulge. The prize was a six-week weight-loss programme worth £300 with York therapist Lisa Clifford, who uses hypnosis on her clients. After reading through

  • Are we just too scared?

    LAST Monday it was my colleague's turn. Now it's mine. Last week my workmate's young daughter headed off into the big wide world for the first time without her family. She went for a week to a school activity centre, one of those places where kids enjoy

  • Mum left daughter to suffer

    A MOTHER who let her scalded child suffer agony rather than take her to hospital has lost her family and gained a criminal record, a court heard. Hot water from a kettle poured over the five-year-old girl's foot when she was at home in Tang Hall. Sheffield

  • Car driver killed in rail tragedy at Copmanthorpe, York

    "THERE was a bang and the train started swaying. I thought it was going to roll over and thought that was going to be it." Those were the words of one terrified passenger on the ill-fated 14.25 Plymouth to Edinburgh express which partially derailed after

  • Review: Cerys Matthews, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale

    THE Band Room emanates the most unpredictable magic. For Cerys Matthews, once the erratic pop queen of Catatonia now blossoming anew in rural Nashville motherhood, Saturday was the start of her autumn tour. It was a warm-up not mentioned on her website

  • Janet Rowntree's opinion of Nestle job loses

    "I THINK Joseph Rowntree would have been completely devastated. He cared so much about people." That was the scathing verdict on Nestls decision to axe 645 jobs in York - from a member of the Rowntree family. Janet Rowntree also spoke of her fears that

  • Disabled to get a greater voice

    DISABLED people in York are to be given a unique opportunity to influence decisions in the city. A new Disabled People's Forum is being set up by City of York Council, to help curb discrimination and promote equality. A leading disability campaigner

  • Magic models

    MODELS and entertainers flocked to an agency open day to show off their talent to a famous scout. Debbie McGee, who is best known as the glamorous assistant to her husband, magician Paul Daniels, was in York searching for talent for her new model agency

  • Witness plea after A64 death crash

    Police are appealing for witnesses to a four-vehicle collision on the A64 in which an elderly woman sustained fatal injuries. The accident happened at 12.50pm on Thursday, September 21, on the A64 Scarborough to York road, near Staxton. North

  • Thug’s appeal is rejected

    A BRUTE who burned his pregnant girlfriend with a cigarette lighter failed in an Appeal Court bid to win a cut in his sentence. Stephen Gary Smith, of East Mount Road, Holgate, York, was jailed for 12 months at York Crown Court in July after he pleaded

  • Pensioner killed after car collides with tree

    A PENSIONER died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a tree near Selby. The 77-year-old man was a back seat passenger in a silver Skoda Felicia which collided with a tree on the A63 South Milford to Leeds road, at about 6.10pm on Sunday.

  • Masses flock to community festival

    MORE than a thousand people flocked to a festival celebrating local produce - and helped raise more cash for our Guardian Angels campaign. The Galtres Festival, which was held at Sutton Park, near York, on Saturday, raised more than £5,000 for several

  • Charity duo get crafty at show

    TWO of York's charity fundraisers came together to open a popular craft and food fair. Miss York contestant Abbey Linfoot, who was named Miss Charity after raising £1,200 for our Guardian Angels Appeal, and Greek Orthodox Bishop Stephen, the leader of

  • Appeal boost

    THE fundraising drive to save York Minster's Great East Window has been boosted by a £1,000 donation. Members of the Minster Old Choristers' Association made the donation to the £23 million appeal at their annual reunion. The group's chairman, Michael

  • Unqualified failure

    FOR many employers, it's one of the first things they look for. But alarming new statistics have revealed that nearly a quarter of York people have no formal qualifications. The figures, which are contained in a draft report, show that more than 33,000

  • Golf yobs smash school windows

    GOLFING yobs celebrated Europe's emphatic Ryder Cup victory by smashing balls through the windows of a York school. Just as the Ryder Cup team was breaking out bottles of champagne at the K Club, a gang of youths was breaking glass at Manor School, in

  • Golf ball yobs

    EUROPE'S victory over the United States in the Ryder Cup was thrilling. It represented the very best of sporting pride and endeavour. Sadly, the way a group of mindless York yobs chose to celebrate represented just the opposite. As the Ryder Cup heroes

  • Still have a lot to learn

    IT is a shocking statistic: almost a quarter of York's citizens have no formal qualifications. According to new research, no fewer than 33,000 people aged 16 to 74 have failed to gain any academic success. City education campaigner Nick Seaton has

  • Too many people

    WHILE I would not go as far as Heather Causnett in compulsorily castrating young men in an attempt to prevent teenage pregnancies (End the handouts, Letters, September 22), her letter highlights an important point: over-population is detrimental to

  • Urgent need for city relief road

    THE reduction of economic activity at Nestl Rowntree is regrettable, but there is one very good thing which could come out of the break-up of the factory site. A desperately needed link road could be incorporated to connect Wigginton Road with Haxby

  • Degraded politics

    WHILE green issues are obviously important for our future, these have to be balanced with other more immediate demands, such as that of education. It would appear that in the case of Wheldrake Primary School, children's educational needs are of secondary

  • Planning danger

    CHANGES to building regulations over recent years make it a legal requirement that any new or replacement boiler or glazing must be highly energy efficient, and in new builds or extensions wall cavities and roof voids must be fully insulated (the required

  • Sheep-like MPs

    HOW useless most of our MPs are. We elected them to make the nation kinder to people, to protect the environment, and work for world peace. They sit there, sheep-like, as they are told of Mr Blair's wonderful achievements. In fact, to use two examples

  • The law’s an ass

    THE Advisory Council On The Misuse Of Drugs concluded there had been no significant increase in strength of cannabis in the past ten years. A similar report by the EU also concluded that cannabis today was no stronger than 30 years ago. In view of

  • Keep on running

    WHEN all else fails, and when commercial transport services are unable to meet the needs of the community and its many isolated villages and hamlets due to costs, they have to turn their backs on providing such. Community transport schemes show

  • Hammond tribute

    YORK and the nation breathes a mighty sigh of relief at the news that Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is on the mend after being seriously injured when his 300mph jet-powered dragster veered off the runway, flipped over several times and crashed

  • What a waste

    IT seems a pity that Liberal Democrats are so desperate to attack the Green Party on the waste issue, when we both promote the case for a long-term policy of "zero waste" (Letters - Coun Vassie, September 15, and Coun Waller, September 19). If

  • Bad end

    RECENT events in York remind me of a quote from King Lear: "O gods! Who is it can say I am at the worst? I am worse than ever I was And worse may be yet: The worst is not So long as we can say this is the worst'." King Lear is about dispossession

  • Many thanks

    JUST a letter of thanks to the person who found my keys on the number 11 bus travelling towards Bishopthorpe on September 15 and handed them into the lost property office in James Street, York. You did not leave your name and address so I am unable

  • Powerful attraction of Knavesmire

    AFTER seeing thousands of motor homes converge on Knavesmire, York, in the past few days, I was left feeling puzzled. I thought the idea of owning one was to be able to get away from the crowds. Does Knavesmire hold a mystical power that draws them

  • Remember, remember, fiasco November

    NOVEMBER 5 is only a few weeks away, and City of York Council's latest Your Ward newsletter offers helpful guidelines for anyone taking part in celebrations. The council offers six key points of advice for anyone having a bonfire, with helpful suggestions

  • Times are a-changin’

    I just cannot bear my own company. Friends and colleagues might say it's because I'm so bloody boring. Talking to myself is no good because I always know what I'm going to say next. So whenever I'm alone, I have to keep busy. Sunday was a good example

  • Wanted: more lollipop folk

    A DRIVE to recruit more lollipop men and women in York is proving a success - but hundreds of children in neighbouring areas still face treacherous walks to school on their own. Only a handful of vacancies for crossing patrols remain in the City of York