Consultation 'gave York parents no real choice' The City of York's Education Committee is currently reviewing the rules which determine which schools children, moving from junior to secondary schools, will attend in future. Few can envy the committee
Stable prices disguise a growing divide between purely commercial farms and those with residential or amenity appeal, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in its latest quarterly survey of the agricultural land market in England and
Venture capital investment in the Yorkshire region has broken all records. The amount that people are prepared to invest in firms that appear to be going places in the region rocketed by 62 per cent. As much as £249 million was sunk into 82 Yorkshire
David Warner on Yorkshire Cricket A rattled Darren Gough turned in one of Sunday cricket's most astonishing spells of bowling to rip the heart out of Surrey's star-studded side in the AXA League match at Headingley yesterday. In the space of just 11 hostile
An inventor who marketed his revolutionary plastic with the help of Business Link North Yorkshire will have his new polymer exhibited in the Government's Millennium Dome in London. Electronics engineer David Lussey, who discovered the revolutionary plastic
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Scarborough slump Scarborough 1, Torquay United 3 Hopes of a first-ever North Yorkshire derby in Division Two next season look virtually dead. York City won't be playing Scarborough in the Nationwide League next season unless Boro stage a fairytale comeback
Dazzling Deakin Match report by Stuart Martel Lancashire Lynx 12, York 25 Match-winner Leigh Deakin is a milestone man. The winger's touchdown treble against Lancashire Lynx thrust York Rugby League Club into the Second Division promotion race. And the
Hat-trick poacher Leigh Deakin today trained his sights on a long stretch of success for York Rugby League Club. The winger's wonderful treble fired the Wasps into third place in the Second Division and ended the two-year unbeaten Deepdale run of Lancashire
School review 'offers fairness' The central aim of the City of York Education Committee's review of admissions to secondary schools is to try to establish a fair and unifying policy, which gives greater clarity to parents about their options, and which
York and North Yorkshire were ablaze with colour and the sight of people enjoying themselves as the first real taste of spring came to the county over the weekend. Yesterday afternoon more than 200 Yorkshire and Teesside members of the Cyclists' Touring
Farmers are being investigated for selling cattle banned for human consumption in the wake of the BSE affair. In a practice known as "cow clocking" some farmers across the country are being accused of forging the age of cattle so they can sell it on for
The campaign to save more than 200 York Army jobs - and the city's long military tradition - is moving into top gear. Scores of Labour MPs from across the region will be urged at an unprecedented emergency meeting in Westminster tomorrow to back calls
Ravaged by thieves and abandoned on its axles, the owners of this sorry-looking vehicle are the latest victim in a new crime wave gripping York. Behind the epidemic an organised gang; targeting visitors cars parked outside hotels and blemishing the city's
David Warner on Yorkshire Cricket Yorkshire never even had to break into a sweat in order to preserve their 100 per cent winning record in the Benson and Hedges Cup this season when they beat Durham at Headingley on Saturday by eight wickets with almost
Business failures in Yorkshire dropped sharply in March, according to new figures published by chartered accountants Deloitte & Touche. There were only 10 receiverships and administration orders in the region last month, as against 22 in February.
David Warner on Yorkshire Cricket Yorkshire are looking to thrash Durham for a second time in the Benson and Hedges Cup at Headingley after drawing them out of the hat today for the quarter-finals on Wednesday, May 27, writes David Warner. The pairings
Fuelling Yorkshire's "feelgood factor", Moor Lane Construction, the York-based industrial building, civil engineering and design and build firm has just completed a £650,000 project to house Leeds graphic arts equipment makers Heights Design. Steve Hargreaves
Racing with Tom O'Ryan York going eases Rain has eased the going for the first day of York's opening race meeting of the season tomorrow. The ground on the Knavesmire is now officially good, good to soft in places. Midnight Line can follow in the distinguished
A chance to invest in a racehorse will be offered to the more than 25,000 visitors expected at the three-day World of Racing exhibition at York Racecourse starting on May 29. A bloodstock sales promotion event will involve staging sales of shares each
U-turn puts the skids under BMW It was the week of Europe, the week of gargantuan car mergers and takeovers, the week of cheers for breweries; of new jitters followed by old certainties. But through this turmoil in which the stock market fell, held steady
This picture of a swimmer brings hope for all children diagnosed with leukaemia. And it is one that Hayley Welch's parents hardly dared hope they would see. Three years ago, Linda and David Welch's world almost fell apart when they discovered their young
York MP Hugh Bayley has warned having York designated as a World Heritage Site could leave the city frozen in the past. Peter Addyman, director of York Archaelogical Trust, says York has a good chance of making it onto the list of 350 sites chosen from
Business is booming in North Yorkshire according to a new survey which rates it as the country's second most profitable county. Dun and Bradstreet, a London-based business information consultancy, uses a database listing the largest companies in Britain
'Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in arm and thick in head' is a phrase sometimes applied to the natives of this county. But new research shows that at the birth of civilisation, Yorkshiremen were at the top of the development scale when it came
