LOCAL businesses have thrown their weight behind our campaign to honour York's unsung heroes. The York Community Pride Awards, run by the Evening Press and City of York Council, were launched last week, and the campaign has been supported by local firms
TEENAGERS, we all know what they are like. Selfish, self-centred, boorish - too far up their own baggy jeans to give a thought about anyone else. Young people today are a menace and a nuisance, with their loud music, antisocial behaviour and general awful
CUT throat business, musical theatre. Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, is for the chop at the Grand Opera House, York, because Aussie soap star Jason Donovan has pulled out. The official statement from The Ambassador Theatre Group would
PAULINE HARDING is creating a cadenza of interest in the publishing world, in her final year of her music degree at the University of York. Violinist and pianist Pauline grew so frustrated at the lack of information available about careers in the music
PRESERVES that should appeal to waistline watchers will be formally launched by an Elvington couple this weekend. A new range of "no added sugar" chutneys made by Gill and Neil Maycock, of Bracken Hill Fine Foods, will be on display at this weekend's
MOTORISTS were today accused of putting children's lives at risk, by parking on the pavement outside their school and forcing them to walk in the road. People living near Acomb Primary School said they too are being put in danger, and they want council
PLAIN English champions have praised a York GP for her healthy heart leaflet for patients - because of its clear prose. Dr Nicola Gill, who works at the Jorvik Medical Practice, wrote the Keeping Your Heart Healthy leaflet to help patients at risk of
THE cause of the helicopter crash which killed a former York student and charity worker may not be known for weeks, investigators have announced. Vita Stott, 28, was killed last week when the Robinson R-44 she was flying crashed in mountains in Queensland
LICENSING bosses are planning a major revamp of York's taxi ranks in a bid to prevent late-night chaos. They are also asking York residents what they think about the present state of the ranks. City of York Council's licensing committee is carrying out
LOCAL government workers warned strike action could be on the way at a pensions protest rally. About a dozen workers ranging from teaching assistants to refuse collectors staged the rally in St Helen's Square in York yesterday. Possible action has been
YORK residents will have to dig deep, after city leaders agreed an inflation-busting 5.49 per cent council tax increase. City of York Council's budget, branded by leader Steve Galloway as the "most difficult" for many years, was approved by councillors
IT'S do or die for York Acorn's promotion hopes on Saturday when National Conference division one leaders West Hull visit Thanet Road. Coach Alfie Hill said: "They are top of the league and they are keen to get straight back into the premier division
YORK City striker Andy Bishop has been shortlisted for February's Nationwide Conference Player of the Month award. Bishop, 23, has shot to the top of the Conference goal charts after scoring in each of the Minstermen's four matches last month, culminating
NORTH Yorkshire one-lap sprinter Richard Buck is determined not to let injury get in the way of his chase for a Commonwealth Games medal. The 19-year-old Nestl Rowntree runner from Pickering flies Down Under tonight to start a month of preparation ahead
ALMOST 250 Nestl Rowntree workers in York are to lose their jobs, in a devastating blow to the city's biggest manufacturing employer. The company said today the changes were needed in a fiercely competitive confectionery market, against a backdrop of
IT'S do or die for York Acorn's promotion hopes on Saturday when National Conference division one leaders West Hull visit Thanet Road. Coach Alfie Hill said: "They are top of the league and they are keen to get straight back into the premier division
ON Monday, my husband and I were walking along Goodramgate. I tripped over and fell flat on my face. From nowhere came an abundance of volunteers to assist me to my feet. A lady and gentleman helped me up. Another lady with a child offered my husband
I PAID my irregular visit to the This Is York website from my home here in Northern Cyprus and was greeted by the photograph of Coun Ann Reid promoting what I took to be lower car park fees in Foss Islands car park announced in January. Apart from the
IT is good to see Hugh Bayley MP promoting cycling and its benefits. The energy consumed travelling by car, motorcycle and public transport is about 30, ten and 20 times respectively than used when travelling by bicycle. The health benefits of cycling
Are you bored with British board games? Then Rachael Clegg might have just the thing... IN an understated terrace in Nunnery Lane, York, is Neal Guppy's Enterprise Club, or "Guppy's" as it is better known. With no prominent sign or grand entrance the
There is a tough year ahead for local health services. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the difficult choices being made. HEALTH services in York and North Yorkshire face a year of brutal belt-tightening. The cash-strapped Selby and York Primary Care Trust will
Trading Standards services are responsible for enforcing more than 80 Acts of Parliament. These include the Weights and Measures Act 1985, The Trade Descriptions Act 1968 the Consumer Credit Act 1974, and enforcement provisions under Part 8 of the Enterprise
A THIRSK Racecourse event which lifts the lid on how to win lucrative contracts from the public sector is expected to be a sell-out. People have been snapping up the 100 places available for the North Yorkshire County Council event, titled Selling to
A NEW Market Weighton Business And Skills Development Centre will open on Wednesday. Terry Hodgkinson, chairman of Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, along with members of East Riding of Yorkshire Council and members of the European Regional
PEOPLE saddled with debt in Yorkshire will be the first to be given access to a new national Debt Advice Helpline launched this week. The helpline has been created by a consortium of leading advice agencies, supported by the DTI, in response to the Government's
YORK City striker Andy Bishop has been shortlisted for February's Nationwide Conference Player of the Month award. Bishop, 23, has shot to the top of the Conference goal charts after scoring in each of the Minstermen's four matches last month, culminating
THE celebrity chef who helped found a successful North Yorkshire hotel has decided to up sticks and leave after nine years. John Benson-Smith and his wife, Alison, will be moving from the Hazlewood Castle Hotel, near Tadcaster. Mr Benson-Smith, a former
HEALTH jobs could be lost across York and Selby as part of an exercise to cut millions of pounds of debt - with York Hospital and GPs' surgeries possibly in the firing line. The grim warning came today from Penny Jones, the acting chief executive of Selby
Ryedale's Mark Walton made it a hat-trick of wins in the finals of the area national indoor bowls championships when his triples team beat Cliff Holmes' Hull side. They got off to a good start leading 9-1 after five ends before the Hull trio countered
A MAN wielding a knife climbed on to a shop roof and threatened to jump, bringing York city centre to a standstill. Police cordoned-off Coney Street and New Street for more than an hour after the man appeared above Starbucks coffee shop, and cut his own
PAUL Thomas continued his superb form by winning the first event of the 2006 North Yorkshire 8ball Pool Grand Prix. He beat Steve Bradley 7-4 in a scrappy final at The Acomb to make it ten wins from the last 11 tournaments he has entered. Thomas had topped
Nestl workers reacted with stunned disbelief today at the decision to slash 234 jobs. Staff had no idea the announcement was being made as they arrived at the factory this morning. A KitKat worker, who asked not to be named, said: "This is the start of
Thursday, March 2, 2006 100 years ago The second reading of the Education (Provision of Meals) Bill was moved in the House of Commons. Mr W T Wilson stated that it enabled the local education authority to provide food for underfed school children and
WHEN you reported that York may be without Christmas lighting this year because of a lack of cash, the response was swift from the directors of the Jinnah restaurant group. They donated £1,000 to start a lights fund (February 23). A second article described
I READ with interest the letter from Rita Harvey commenting that the Christmas lights are "sad" (February 24) - I couldn't agree more. It has been my primary aim to improve the brightness of the lights since I first joined the committee. The brightness
THE recent news relating to horse racing ("Races fix probe to 'last months' ", February 28) is only procedure so as to maintain the integrity of British horse racing. Integrity is the cornerstone on which its prosperity as an internationally-respected
HAVING just read about flooding in Millfield Lane and Avenue, in York, I have to agree with Mr Maloney 100 per cent (February 25). I have lived in both streets all my life, first in a house backing on to the beck and then living about four doors from
MY eldest daughter is at Leeds University. After a four-year course, she will leave and hopefully gain employment. When she is earning pots of money she will pay the Government back all the huge fees etc that she owes it for being so generous to her.
IT was interesting to note that York's MP wore a helmet while enjoying his day as a cycling postman (February 27). When the Post Office introduced its requirement for cycling staff to wear helmets, the Cyclists' Touring Club (CTC) asked Hugh to investigate
THESE are extraordinary and uncomfortable days at Nestl Rowntree. The highly personal, public attack on former boss Chris White is unprecedented. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chief executive of Nestl, threw off the firm's normal Swiss reserve to condemn Mr
ALEX Acomb implies that cyclists who, in his words "refuse to use the lanes set aside for them" are breaking the rules of the road (Letters, February 28). In fact, they are not. There are no rules obliging cyclists to use cycle lanes or any other cycle
AFTER every other aspect of York nightlife has been reformed and regulated, licensing bosses have turned their attention to taxis. The review is overdue. Taxi firms provide a crucial service for the city. But people have long complained about the inconvenience
