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  • The quiet corner of York with a notorious past

    It has been a slum and a red light area, and was also for centuries home to a religious community known as the vicars choral. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the colourful history of Bedern. THE area of York known as Bedern has had its ups and downs.

  • Could York rescue dog win RSPCA’s Ruffs contest?

    LOVABLE dogs lacking the pedigree of expensive breeds will be placed under the spotlight in a new awards ceremony. The RSPCA’s Ruffs prioritises looks over welfare with its rival to Crufts, an upmarket dog show which celebrates top of the range

  • Pupils tidy up park and help wildlife in the process

    THOUGHTFUL schoolchildren have taken it upon themselves to clean up their local park and look after wildlife in the process. Year 6 pupils at Acomb Primary School decided to hang bird feeders and build small nests, put in bird baths and clear pathways

  • Irish dance academy expands into York

    AN IRISH dance academy is expanding to find York's budding Michael Flatleys. The O'Connor Academy of Irish Dance is opening new premises in the Orchard Park Community Centre, in Huntington, after owner Victoria Whincup decided to extend the school

  • More jobs at food firm as finance deal funds growth

    A WHOLEFOODS supplier on the outskirts of York is continuing to recruit alongside plans for another production line following more than 30 years of growth. Country Products, based in Tockwith, has seen turnover increase by 14 per cent, and staff

  • Family firms in Yorkshire enjoy increased profitability

    FAMILY businesses in Yorkshire are confident about the future, according to the results of a new survey by a firm of York accountants. The survey, carried out by Garbutt & Elliott in conjunction with global accountancy network Praxity, revealed

  • Cable cleat firm Ellis breaks into French market

    A NORTH Yorkshire cable cleat manufacturer has made its premier in France after winning an order for a project in Cannes. After securing its first order from France’s electricity transmission operator RTE, Rillington-based Ellis will be supplying

  • Science and comedy combine in new film series at City Screen

    UNIVERSITY scientists and film lovers will join forces later this month for a series of film and comedy nights about health, disability and scientific research. York’s Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2) and the Department of Theatre

  • London’s newsagents closes for the final time

    A NEWSAGENT and toy shop which had become part of the furniture in a York street for more than eight decades has closed its doors for good. London’s News and Toys in Hawthorne Grove, Heworth, first opened in East Parade in 1914 by Frederick London

  • Disney shop thief threw stolen DVDs into river

    A THIEF who stole DVDs from York's Disney shop then tried to escape justice by throwing them into a river has been jailed for 20 weeks. Allan John Neil Fawcett, 32, was on a community order for nine other thefts at the time and has a long record

  • Dickie Bird funds new balcony for Yorkshire cricketers

    YORKSHIRE president Dickie Bird is paying for a new players’ balcony at Headingley. The legendary former Test match umpire is providing funds for the balcony to be built in front of the dressing rooms in the Carnegie Pavilion at the famous ground

  • York Cares: Robots and tasting quality chocolate

    Another fun-packed fortnight with CU in the City York Children’s University CU in the City was back last month with a third series of exciting and interactive events. From the science of chocolate to the chemistry behind fireworks, we learnt all kinds

  • Enjoy an afternoon tea treat and help breast cancer group

    TREAT yourself to a posh afternoon tea and raise money for a new breast cancer charity in York. That's the tempting invite from Breast Friends York which set up last year to support women in the city with the disease. They have joined forces

  • Pupils tell archbishop about Fairtrade work

    LESSONS at a York school were interrupted by a familiar face keen to learn more about the work of its dedicated children. Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, visited Applefields School after pupils wrote to him about their Fairtrade work.

  • Poppy's operation appeal fund off to a generous start

    A FUNDRAISING appeal has been boosted to help a little girl from York get a life-changing operation. Poppy Wadsworth is eight-years-old and lives with a congenital birth condition called cloaca, which means several of her internal organs are not

  • Engineering firm builds funds for homeless charity

    A CHARITY supporting homeless men and women in York has received a cash boost totalling more than £2000 from a business in the city. Engineering solutions firm Tata Steel Projects has raised £2,200 for Arc Light as part of its annual work to support

  • Builder calls for changes to apprenticeship structure

    CONSTRUCTION apprentices aren't being equipped with sufficient skills according to a York builder who is calling for apprenticeships to be extended to five years. John Butler, 75, has spoken out following political pressure on apprenticeship creation

  • Tribute paid to York artist and adventurer, 71

    DOUGLAS Heald, a York artist, adventurer and animal welfare campaigner, has died after a short illness, aged 71. Mr Heald, who was educated at Shipton Street School and later York Art School, spent much of his youth roaming freely on the Clifton

  • Builder has a good point here

    WITH 740,000 young people aged 16 to 24 being unemployed, you might think apprenticeships were the perfect answer. But a York builder tells us that for small businesses like his, trainees aren't being equipped with sufficient skills. This is concerning

  • Solution needed for health service problems

    WE HAD hoped the enormous pressures on York Hospital seen over the New Year were easing. Today's report about a patient being woken in the middle of the night and moved onto a trolley to free up beds suggests not. Helen Thorne was woken at

  • Here’s a party we should all support

    I READ with increasing enthusiasm your centre-spread article of February 27 on the new movement devoted to the progression of this great county, in the form of Yorkshire First. Surely with a population larger than Scotland we need to have much

  • How about a festival for Saint George?

    I SEE by the announcement in The Press that York is to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. While I have no objection to that , why we aren’t we celebrating St George’s Day with a festival too? After all he is our patron saint, not St Patrick. Mrs

  • Savings to be made if you just ask

    NICK Emmerson (Letters, March 2) certainly has a great saving on his energy bill by going through the scheme in conjunction with City of York Council. We signed up to see what our savings would be as our fixed rate time expired on February 28 and

  • Missing out of some extra retail therapy

    WE are getting a Boyes store in Acomb, which I believe is a good idea; can we also have a wet fish shop, a shoe shop, a Smiths or Waterstones book shop, another fruit and vegetable shop (for competition purposes). Oh and a Marks and Spencer outlet

  • Exemption from tax doesn’t make sense

    ANOTHER conundrum about students is why privately owned houses let out solely to students is exempt from any council tax. It makes no sense whatsoever. There is no reason why landlords of these properties should not pay council tax as they

  • A Britain without the NHS is unthinkable

    I CAN’T bear to think of the UK without the NHS. When my son was aged three, he contracted a rare illness. It took three months to diagnose it, and then lots of consultations, treatment and so forth. The NHS staff were fantastic. I am concerned

  • Let road users drive the changes

    HAVING seen the proposed cost of a congestion commission, it occurred to me that most people who travel in and out of York would have a view on congestion so why not ask them? Most people would be able to identify the locations they see as the

  • Taxpayers deserve to get value for money

    CITY of York Council is trying to make it legal for waste-management contracts to go the council-owned Yorwaste without getting tenders from other waste companies (The Press, February 27 ). Surely the council has a duty to get the best value for

  • Rubbish bins near Coney Street church are an eyesore

    I WAS delighted to read details in The Press of February 26 about Sir Ron Cooke’s report, Sustaining The City Beautiful. However, there is nothing very beautiful in the daily view of emptied large rubbish bins from local shops and bars next to

  • German view over Dresden raids

    I THOUGHT the column by Julian Cole “Divided over Dresden” was excellent (The Press, February 26). There has been much correspondence relating to Dresden and all responding to Mr Westmorland’s letter of February 20, which was written, as another

  • Raid was wrong but pilots did their duty

    PEOPLE started arguing about the Dresden raid almost before the last Lancaster limped home, and the flak is flying yet (Julian Cole’s column, February 26). I align myself with the “bleeding hearts”, insofar as I think the bombs might have been

  • Meeting of patient support group

    THE next meeting of the York Haematology Support Group for patients, families, carers and friends dealing with blood cancers will be tomorrowon Thursday at 7pm at Huntington Working Men’s Club. The guest speakers will be the haematology clinical

  • Criticism of Claudia police unwarranted

    IT WAS reported in The Press of February 28 that the detective in charge of the search for Claudia Lawrence has been criticised in a national newspaper for searching the alleyway behind her home six years after her disappearance. Surely it is never

  • Let’s have some balance over unions

    YOUR correspondent of February 28 has a very one-sided view of trade unions. This is surely as blinkered as saying all corporations and business leaders are entirely worthy. There are no doubt praiseworthy characteristics and lamentable faults

  • Opportunities for our young musicians

    THE council’s Saturday Music Centre has for the moment transferred to Millthorpe School from Canon Lee School. However, from Saturday, April 18, York Music Forum will open at Canon Lee School, offering a range of bands and choirs, and will be run

  • March 4

    100 years ago A detailed letter written by Lance-Corporal G Heckingbottom, of the 8th Railway Company, Royal Engineers, about his activities said: “There is a canal running through Cuinchy to La Bassee, and the German shells smashed the sluice-gates

  • Businessman ‘tried to poach customers’, court told

    AN engineer’s bid to poach customers from a rival company could have led to voluntary organisations and a small business paying twice for fire safety checks, York magistrates heard. Stuart Barrie Wilkes, 75, sold his fire extinguisher business

  • Former Morrisons chief jailed for insider trading

    A FORMER Morrisons supermarket boss who made more than £79,000 from insider trading has been jailed for one year, a City watchdog has said. Paul Coyle, former group treasurer and head of tax at the Bradfordbased firm, committed a “serious breach

  • Work begins on Allerton incinerator

    BUILDERS are now on the site of a controversial massive waste incinerator plant west of York after years of wrangling. Work has begun at the Allerton Waste Recovery Plant (AWRP), at Allerton Park near Knaresborough, after years of environmental

  • Alleged rapist ‘looked like he had won lottery’

    A WOMAN told York Crown Court that a man looked like he had “just won the lottery” the day after he had raped her. The young woman said John Kevin O’Neil, who had been a friend, was the happiest she had ever seen him following the alleged attack

  • Arson investigation launched after fire at Acomb flat

    AN ARSON investigation has been launched after a ground floor flat was set on fire in York. An elderly man managed to flee the burning house unharmed when the blaze broke out in the two-storey building in Front Street, Acomb, at 6.45pm on Monday

  • Tykes opening role on cards for Andrew Hodd

    ANDREW HODD has been earmarked as a potential opener for the first few games of the LV= County Championship this summer should Yorkshire’s top order be hit by early season international call-ups. Regular openers Adam Lyth and Alex Lees spent the

  • Billiards: Title joy for Acomb as Gary Rogers hits ton

    ACOMB were crowned York Conservative Clubs’ Faber Shield Billiards League champions with two games left to play as they beat Bootham 5-1. That proved to be a championship clincher, as rivals Fulford lost 4-2 to Heworth. Acomb’s victory over

  • Racing tips: Birkett Rocks up for a family affair

    SHELLEY BIRKETT, who moved from Newmarket to North Yorkshire earlier this week to join Nawton trainer David O’Meara, makes a return journey south today to team up with one of her favourite horses. Sabre Rock, trained by her mother Julia Fielden