Banks should work for the people; not us for them. As our politicians fight for the power our votes provide, they make sure 'The Market' agree at every step and compete to be top of the class. They are on franchise from these people. There
OFFICERS investigating the disappearance of Claudia Lawrence are expected to continue their search of a field in Heslington tomorrow. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said nothing of interest had been found so far, but said conditions
THE family of a young woman found dead in North Yorkshire after taking the danger drug mephedrone have paid tribute to a “quiet, kind, caring girl with a great sense of humour”. Lois Waters, 24, was discovered dead in the early hours of Monday
UNDER-STRENGTH York City Knights reserves were beaten 74-16 at Featherstone Rovers. The Knights' 21-man squad was reduced to a travelling party of 15 by illness, injury and work commitments, and Kris Peacock and Danny Wilson were then delayed en route
LOOKING for a reason to vote Labour – try this for size. If Gordon Brown holds on to power, he’s promised to attend to the problem of peek-a-boo hospital gowns. The new gown, unveiled this month, has poppers down the side so it doesn’t gape at the
A NEW co-operative formed by disabled ex-employees of the ill-fated Remploy Ltd are appealing to industrial landlords in the city to give them a base for their new venture. The York Disabled Workers Co-operative believes there may be empty premises in
A SPECULATIVE industrial development in York has attracted its first tenant – and more are in the pipeline. Fastsigns, the signage industry franchise, has taken a ten-year lease at Hazel Court in the new £1.5 million Yorvale Business Park, off James
NORTH Yorkshire’s most senior police officer is being investigated by a watchdog after claims he helped one of his own relatives join the force. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has revealed today it is looking into allegations against
REDBLACK Software, the award-winning York-based company has launched CyBake Core, a new pay-as-you-go version of its CyBake business management software for bakers. The new offering, demonstrated for the first time at the Bakery Industry Exhibition
Surprise, surprise was the headline on the last property focus as we took a look at homes that had that little bit extra. And that affable chap Scott Anscomb was soon on the phone expressing surprise of his own – that we had overlooked a very smart property
The first hint of Spring and we’re all it… gardening that is. As the sun slips out so do the lawn-mowers, spades and forks and hedge trimmers and pruning shears and shotguns. Oops, did I say shotguns? Well, it is true in our case at least – it’s the
A TV-STYLE talent show came to Pocklington with 13 young acts battling it out to be named Pock Idol 2010. The performers from Pocklington Community Junior School won praise from a panel of judges for their dancing, comic routines, piano recitals and
FIRE fighters were called to the Carphone Warehouse store on Parliament Street this morning. Two units were dispatched after a call was received at 8.44am from a passer-by who reported smoke coming from the shop. A spokesman for North
With regard to the chaos being experienced by drivers trying to exit York Hospital onto Wigginton Road (Emergency stop, The Press, march 12), could a contraflow system have been temporarily implemented, with vehicles going around the back of the hospital
HATS off and three cheers to the National Health Service. The uncertainty of life was certainly rammed home to me this past fortnight. At 6pm I was at my local shop getting my lottery ticket, and at 7.10pm I was outside the operating theatre about
YORK City chairman Jason McGill has warned that the football club’s future is being threatened by continued hesitancy over the building of a new community stadium. In a hard-hitting statement, emailed to The Press, McGill has questioned City of York
I agree with F Montgomery (“I wish lights were off every morning”, Letters, March 20) when the traffic lights are out of order at Blossom Street/Micklegate the traffic flows much better. The Foss Islands junction must be the poorest design
I write in response to the letters published about the proposed Ryedale Gas Project (Village gas fears, Letters, March 18). About 300 local residents visited our exhibitions in Thornton-le-Dale and Allerston on March 5 and 6 to learn about our plans
CAPTAIN Richard Blakeway reckons York City Knights can only get better now that James Ratcliffe is back at the helm. Head coach Ratcliffe returns to training tonight at the end of his two-month suspension imposed by the Rugby Football League
New Earswick ARLC must win on Saturday and then keep their fingers crossed over the coming weeks to see what destiny awaits them. The All Blacks finish their Pennine League premier division campaign away to Crigglestone, while all the other teams have
YORK City Knights player-coach Chris Thorman did not rule out the possibility of his side going all the way to the Northern Rail Cup final after last night’s draw pitted them away to Keighley in the last eight. The Knights were second out of the hat
ALFIE HILL reckons his York Acorn ARLC side can throw off the shackles now and go all out for a play-off place – starting with a battle royal at high-flying Siddal. Victory at Wigan St Jude’s virtually made the Blue and Golds safe from relegation in
Yorkshire’s assistant coach Craig White has cited personal reasons for turning down the chance to replace Allan Donald as Warwickshire’s bowling coach earlier this winter. White also revealed that the opportunity to step up from his position as second
YORK City's postponed home match with AFC Wimbledon has been rearranged for Wednesday, April 7, kick-off 7.45pm. The game was called off on Saturday due to a waterlogged pitch at Bootham Crescent. * Don't miss The Press on Friday for a preview of
New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club went into their final Yorkshire Over-55s League division one game knowing they needed a big victory over Doncaster to escape relegation. But it wasn’t to be as they lost all but one rink. At home, Terry Shepherdson’s team
YORK Indoor Bowls Club were made to pay for their defeat in January against South Leeds as they lost the Yorkshire League title to Featherstone who picked up the maximum 18 points from their defeat of Thornaby. York were up against relegation-threatened
JONNY MILNER’S defence of his 2009 Toyota Sprint Series title got off to the best of starts following a convincing win at Rockingham. The East Yorkshire driver had kept the identity of his 2010 sprint car firmly under wraps and fans were not disappointed
YORK Railway Institute Cricket Club Under-13s are looking for new players. Boys or girls in Year 7 or Year 8 of any ability interested in joining the club should phone Matt on 07535 619132.
DO you want to help shape the future of sport and active leisure in York? Active York, who aim to enhance sport and leisure opportunities, are once again looking for five community representatives to join their executive board to champion issues affecting
York Phoenix Volleyball Club toppled fellow Premier League strugglers Barnsley Chiefs 3-0 at York College to lift themselves out of a relegation spot. With only one win all season Phoenix started well, their ranks boosted by new signing, Albert Severin
RUFFORTH and Cliffe third teams were elected to the IT Sports sponsored York and District Mixed Doubles Tennis League at the annual meeting. Civil Service dropped their third team so that 87 teams will compete in 11 divisions when the season opens on
I find it offensive that Visit Britain officials should allow Hugh Bayley publicity in British Tourism Week (MP’s warm welcome, The Press, March 16). I demand these faceless bureaucrats defend this unwarranted action. May I explain? I run a holiday cottage
It was somewhat galling to read in The Press on March 5 (South Bank residents to have say on 20 mph zones plan) the spurious claims of Green Party councillors of Fishergate Ward, when it was in fact, the efforts of Micklegate Ward’s three Labour councillors
KEVIN RYAN, who is aiming to make a flying start to the new turf season, which kicks off at Doncaster on Saturday, can put himself in the winning vein at Wolverhampton tomorrow evening by completing a treble. The Hambleton trainer is set to be strongly
WITH reference to “bobbies” not being on the beat, (Might beat bobby provide answers?, Letters, March 18), because they are burdened with paperwork, this illuminates the ever-increasing demands over recent years by Government and the legal system, that
AFTER Las Vegas, Miami and New York on television, tonight York enters the world of Crime Scene Investigation in the new theatre festival CSI:York. For the first time, youth theatre groups from York Theatre Royal, fellow York company Riding
POLICE investigating the disappearance of chef Claudia Lawrence have launched a fresh search of fields near the University of York, where she worked. Officers yesterday scoured an area known as The Outgang, in Heslington, a network of paths
ONCE upon a grumbling time, there were two columnists on The Yorkshire Evening Press. They sat at the right-hand corner of the commentators’ gallery to deliver their copy. One day, the editor decided it would be good to hire someone to raise
THE Broadway and West End smash hit Spamalot will play York for one week only this autumn at the Grand Opera House on the Monty Python musical’s first national tour. Tickets are newly on sale for the run from November 22 to 27, when evening performances
THE Cedar Court Grand Hotel opens next month, in the neo-Georgian premises built by the North Eastern Railway in 1906. This will be York’s first five-star hotel, which is good news for the city, and I hope to stay there myself if the right circumstances
A DISTRAUGHT former York man has told police how a masked man brandishing a gun told him: “We’ve got your wife.” The robber then demanded cash and made off with a substantial amount of money in a holdall from a village post office at Melsonby
PETER Egan and Phil Franks first forged their detective-and-doctor double act as Holmes and Watson in The Hound Of The Baskervilles four years ago. Now they reunite under the direction of Robin Herford once more, this time in a production with
SOME of York’s iconic landmarks will be plunged into darkness as the city shows its support for the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour. From 8.30pm to 9.30pm on Saturday lighting on a section of the city walls, York Minster and the Mansion House
AN air quality management area is to be set up in York. Residents and councillors in Fulford say exhaust fumes from vehicles mean air pollution in Main Street is now above the Government’s minimum standard. Consequently, City of York Council is required
THE man killed in a car accident near Forest of Galtres Golf Club has been named. Mark James Waring, of Sutton-on-the-Forest, was killed when his Renault Megane left Moorlands Lane, between Skelton and Wigginton, at 3pm on Monday. The 54-year-old had
A BUILDING company from East Yorkshire has been prosecuted after a worker was run over by a digger and seriously injured. Brothers Bryan Christopher Kendra and Michael Antony Kendra of L & S Kendra & Sons in Melbourne were each fined £9,000 and each
STAFF from the Ministry of Defence in York staged a Budget Day strike. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) walked out yesterday for the third time in a month, as part of a continuing dispute over changes to redundancy payments.
A WOMAN was rescued by firefighters from a first floor window after a blaze in a basement flat filled the building with smoke. Firefighters were called to the three-storey property at St Mary’s, off Bootham, York, at 9.25am yesterday.
VETERAN Labour politician Tony Benn was the guest speaker at the latest Ebor Lecture. Organised by York St John University and held at the Minster, Mr Benn spoke on the subject The Moral Choice In Politics. Speaking to The Press before the event, Mr
CAKE and candles are being broken out to mark a York anniversary today – even though the “birthday girl” is thousands of miles away. The celebrations are taking place off the Falkland Islands, where HMS York is carrying out “deterrent duties” in the
A NORTH Yorkshire man will dust off his running shoes to raise money for a national charity that is close to his heart. Jeff Robertson, of Hambleton, near Selby, will run the Virgin London Marathon on April 25 for Coeliac UK, and hopes to raise £1,500
A MOTHER who was given a second chance thanks to the Organ Donor Register has named her son after the little boy whose kidneys ensured she could live a normal life. Rachel Richardson, of Park Road in Barlow, near Selby, underwent one of the first double
A man in the grip of mental illness burgled his parents’ home and tried to sell their possessions, a court was told. York Crown Court heard that Thomas James Shepherdson conducted a £30,000 raid on the family home in the Bishopthorpe area of York. He
Business editor RON GODFREY finds out what the Budget means for the average person in York. SMALL businesses are celebrating after promises of a much-needed rates cut, but have been warned: “It may not be as good as it looks.” Traders
TWO new cycle lanes could be trialled in the centre of York – despite warnings they may be “worse than useless”. The city’s transport bosses are set to approve the testing of metre-wide routes for cyclists along Museum Street and across Lendal Bridge
New Cycling City York branding has been added to the boundary signs on approach roads to the city, to highlight the fact that York is nationally recognised as a city that champions cycling. As well as raising awareness of the fact that York is one of
LAURA CONNOR finds out how to use the York Passport to pick up a range of great discounts. BEFORE setting off on my trip round York to see what bargains I could pick up with my York Passport, I dropped in to quirky delicatessen The Hairy Fig
AN international hi-tech company is creating new jobs as it doubles its turnover to £40 million. Perry Slingsby Systems, in Kirkbymoorside, has been given the green light to build a new extension at its premises on the Ings Lane industrial estate. The
A COUPLE are celebrating 60 years of wedded bliss today. Raymond and Elsie Lamb, of Richmond Street, in Layerthorpe, York, met in 1948, in Doncaster, where they were both from originally. They married two years later and in 1955 moved
ROADWORKS which have shut one of York’s busiest streets are on schedule to finish before the busy Easter weekend. Gillygate has been closed since February 22 to allow Northern Gas Networks to replace 260 metres of old metal gas mains with plastic pipes
