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  • Where are you all? asks Chief Executive

    Dejected chief executive Phil Elliott today pleaded "what do we have to do?" in the wake of the disappointing attendance for York Rugby League Club's tilt at the Super League. A mere 806 people turned out at Huntington Stadium on Friday night to watch

  • Wasps on the brink of disaster

    York Rugby League Club's match at Oldham on Sunday, September 6 could be the last in the club's 113-year history. That is a stark fact. There have been alarms in the past, but this time there's no crying wolf, the beast already has one foot in the door

  • Copyright

    City star wants to be Millennium man Stand-in York City captain Steve Bushell is poised to commit himself to York City into the next century. Little rates his players more than 'millionaires' York City manager Alan Little backed his players against the

  • £23m tourism bonanza thanks to Yorkshire guide

    The Yorkshire Tourist Board has been guided to a £23 million bonanza. The effect of the YTB's Holidays and Short Breaks Guide surpassed all expectations. It was thought that the guide would generate perhaps £20 million, substantially up from the £16 million

  • Business Link North Yorkshire

    If you are interested in any of the following contracts, contact the Business Link Information Centre at Business Link North Yorkshire Ltd, Arabesque House, Monk's Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO3 9GZ, Tel: 01904 686000. Sweden-Karlstad: The Swedes require

  • Sell our cheese abroad, says peer

    Innovative and successful British cheese makers should be encouraged to establish export markets in the rest of Europe, North America and the Far East said Food and Farming Minister Lord Donoughue. Key representatives of the UK cheese industry were brought

  • Family firm banks on eggs-tra quality

    Yorkshire-based and family run Chippindale Egg Producers and Packers boast a 50-year history in the poultry industry at Kingsley Farm, Harrogate. Having recently launched a new RSPCA Freedom Food line and employing uncompromising quality control, this

  • City better value but fail to get a reward

    York City 0, Fulham 1 While 'The Full Monty' targets Oscar honours, the Second Division's version of 'The Full Money' flattered to deceive at York City. No, not Ecofin, more 'Egofin', in the form of Fulham, bankrolled by the millions of Harrods' boss

  • City star wants to be Millennium man

    Stand-in York City captain Steve Bushell is poised to commit himself to York City into the next century. A new, improved contract has been on offer to the dynamic midfielder since just before Christmas, but as yet he has not inked the three-year deal.

  • Bury the debt, not the poor

    A thousand red balloons disappeared into thin air over York as protest group Jubilee 2000 stepped up its campaign to cancel Third World debt. Each balloon represented £1,000 which is lost in interest every hour by African countries. Saturday's mass release

  • Walls crumbling down

    York's historic city walls could literally start falling down if council chiefs fail in their bid for up to £4.5 million of national lottery cash. The threat has sparked a storm of protest from worried city councillors angry that vital repair work should

  • Armed raiders strike for second time

    A York garage was today hit by armed robbers for the second time in five weeks. A cashier at Wills and Ellis's service station in Boroughbridge Road was threatened at gunpoint in the early hours - only weeks after another cashier, who had worked at the

  • Biker, 25, is killed in three-vehicle crash

    Fresh concerns about bikers using high-powered machines on the roads of North Yorkshire were raised today after a new death on the county's roads. Witnesses were today urged to come forward after a motorcyclist was killed in a three-vehicle crash near

  • York reaps Euro boost

    North Yorkshire today began enjoying a multi-million pound boost in the wake of York's historic Ecofin summit. Hotels and tourist attractions were anticipating a bumper season after TV images of European Finance Ministers in York and at Castle Howard

  • York junior school wins high praise in report

    York's biggest junior school has received a glowing report from school inspectors. Westfield Junior School, in Acomb, is described as a "very good school" by Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspectors. According to the inspectors, the school

  • A match day in the life of

    ... Breakfast and football don't usually mix. But when you're on the other side of the world to Bootham Crescent, cornflakes and coffee are a good companion as you wait for York City's latest result to trickle through. My midweek game is Bristol Rovers

  • Empty desks ready for new recruits

    Up there on the seventh floor of Ryedale Buildings, Piccadilly, York, is the kind of controlled frenzy that ensures that Superbreak Mini Holidays regularly takes £1 million a week. It is only 2pm but already the computer has clocked up 953 calls since

  • Little rates his players more than 'millionaires'

    York City manager Alan Little backed his players against the 'millionaires' of Fulham. After the Cottagers' 'theft' of a victory which sent the Minstermen spiralling four places down the Division Two table to 15th, Little displayed true faith in his charges

  • Supershare '98

    Just when you thought they were out of it, gone, finished, over, kaput - the Fennings are back with a vengeance. Sonja Fenning, the overall Supershare champion in 1992, becomes the daily victor, earning £50 from sponsors Walsh Lucas and Company, the independent

  • Campaigners battle for safety measures on deadly road

    Villagers calling for urgent action to slow down drivers on the busy A1079 at Barmby Moor have formed a new group to plan their campaign. The Barmby Moor Road Safety Committee has been set up in the wake of the deaths of schoolboy William Johnson, aged

  • Brideshead visited by protesting farmers

    Protesting farmers kept up the pressure for an end to the beef ban as the Ecofin ministers finished off their weekend with a tour of one of North Yorkshire's finest stately homes. The two tour coaches carrying the ministers and their entourages slowed

  • York to get two summer schools

    Education Secretary David Blunkett today announced a major boost for literacy with 500 new specialist summer schools, including five in York and North and East Yorkshire. The announcement marks a massive extension of last year's scheme, which saw 29 centres

  • 'Marshal' Herbert put in cell

    York pensioner Herbert Stratton looked as if he represented the very essence of law enforcement when he strolled into town on Saturday in cowboy hat, jeans, and US Marshall's badge. But he claims a plain clothes policeman thought otherwise, suspecting