NORTH Yorkshire's Ambulance Trust is celebrating coming top of the table in a survey of similar rural area trusts. The trust came first in a value-for-money league table in a District Audit report, compiled for the Audit Commission. Trust Finance Director
HUMBERSIDE Police Authority strengthened its sound financial position during the 1996-7 financial year, according to the chairwoman of its audit and general purposes committee. Frances Bovill was speaking after the publication of the Audit Commission's
WITH average house prices rising in nine out of 10 property types researched, the housing market in North Yorkshire performed strongly over the last quarter and throughout the year, according to Northern Rock's Houseprice survey. In the three months to
HIGHWAYS officials came under fire today for dashing villagers' hopes of relief from heavy lorries. North Yorkshire County Council officers did a survey at Settrington, near Malton, in September on heavy vehicles using Back Lane and Chapel Road. It followed
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BOSSES at Slingsby Aviation are making crucial changes to their bid to win a contract from the Government to build RAF training planes. Managing director Jeff Bevan said the Kirkbymoorside-based company, which produces the Slingsby Firefly, was currently
THE site of a proposed new glass factory near Selby is sitting on top of the area's biggest source of drinking water, it emerged today. And Environment Agency pollution inspectors have already expressed concerns about the risk of contamination posed by
COMMUNITY groups and sports clubs in York have been warned to expect tougher competition for grant aid after leisure services chiefs voted to press ahead with budget-saving plans. The warning came from protesters who attended last night's meeting to discuss
SURPRISES were the order of the day when York and District Table Tennis Association Closed Championships reached their climax last weekend at York RI gymnasium. When men's singles number one seed Chris Nicholls pulled out because of a swollen knee it
EXPERIENCED hooker Neil Lineham finds himself in an unaccustomed position in the back row as York bid to end a losing run of seven games when they tackle Blaydon at Clifton Park tomorrow. Blaydon, second in North Two, would provide a stern test for York
TWO years ago former York City ace Jon McCarthy starred in the Port Vale ranks that set up a potential FA Cup shock for Premiership Leeds United. A goal-less draw in the fifth round encounter at Elland Road took McCarthy and the rest of the Valiants back
RADICAL alternatives to car travel to stop York becoming gridlocked will be the subject of a public debate evening being organised by green transport campaigners. The open evening, which will be free and open to all, will be aimed at telling people more
THE North Yorkshire policeman shot by Paul Magee complained today that no one has ever consulted him about the terrorist's bid for repatriation to Ireland. Sandy Kelly, who survived being shot four times on the A64, near Tadcaster, said he has only heard
TWO of York's memorials to the war dead have been listed in a national "dossier of shame" presented to the Government in a mission to protect such monuments from falling into rack and ruin. And today, the City of York Council revealed to the Evening Press
A £6 MILLION new schools package for North Yorkshire has been put on hold by Department of Education chiefs. The DoE yesterday approved the building of just nine new primary schools in the coming year - but Barlby Hill Top and Brotherton, near Selby,
IT'S a case not of singing in the rain but of gathering in the rain for environment-conscious Harrogate folk. Householders in the borough are being urged to collect rainwater and use it rather than hosepipes for their gardens in a bid to preserve water
BREWER Craig Witty has proved all those long hours pulling dark Yorkshire pints have paid off. Starbeck-based Daleside Brewery, which Craig runs with his dad Bill, has won a prestigious Champion Strong Ale award for its old favourite, Monkey Wrench. The
YORK is in danger of turning into a Disney-style medieval theme park in the Millennium. That's the stark warning from university historian Simon Ditchfield, who says we need to reassess York's history and guard against giving preference to some aspects
ACOMB retained the Costcutter York and District Senior Indoor Six-a-Side Cricket League Championship when they beat one of their challengers for the title, Rowntree 'A', by 30 runs in their penultimate fixture. Rowntree, who have seemed likely runners-up
AN Italian-sounding Canadian with Germanic goal-grabbing tendencies playing his trade in Devon? Sounds like a brain-teaser. Actually, the solution is none other than Plymouth Argyle's Carlo Corazzin and he will occupy, if not the little grey cells, then
FROM the cream of British football to the home of cream teas is the vault made by York City whizz-kid Jonathan Greening, writes Tony Kelly. The 19-year-old youngster today re-joined his Minstermen team-mates bound for the trek to Devon against Plymouth
THE High Court jury hearing the libel action by North Yorkshire racehorse trainers Lynda and Jack Ramsden and jockey Kieren Fallon over an allegation of cheating has been told it would be a sad day if The Sporting Life could not comment on what it considered
after car crash by Stephen Lewis and Pete Richardson A MOTORIST said today he was "lucky to be alive" after his car spun out of control at an accident blackspot near Stamford Bridge, where a mother and her 10-year-old daughter died this week. Bill Wolford
PUPILS have joined nurses as the latest group to fall victim to a flu bug sweeping the county. Schools across North Yorkshire are reporting a higher than average level of absenteeism through flu-type illnesses. And at Alne Primary School, near Easingwold
YORK film star Mark Addy, still stripping at cinemas across the county in Oscar-nominated The Full Monty, is gearing up to bare his acting talents to Hollywood. The 33-year-old stocky star is said to have landed his first major Hollywood part, playing
A HOTEL chambermaid was today starting a three-year jail sentence for selling heroin on the streets of York. Police caught Sara Collier red-handed in bed with £570 worth of the drug only two weeks after she was bailed for possessing heroin. Sentencing
A KEY access road into York from the A64 is to close for re-surfacing, causing knock-on traffic chaos elsewhere in the city. The slip-road leading from the dual carriageway to Tadcaster Road will be barred to traffic. York-bound traffic will be diverted
