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  • Enter the water dragon

    Godzilla has come to Scarborough...but don't worry, it's not the end of the world. A less threatening version of the monster about to frighten us at the cinema has found a new home at the Scarborough Sea Life Centre. At just three feet long, Godzilla

  • Plenty of Willing to land conquest of Ayr

    Racing by Tom O'Ryan So Willing can live up to his name at Ayr tomorrow. Trained near Darlington by Michael Dods, the two-year-old tackles the opening Ayr May Novices stakes and, after a promising first run at Redcar, looks sure to take plenty of beating

  • Grans prove they are no chimps

    Forget football strips, these garish grannies are decked out in the red and green strips of their favourite brew. June Jackson and Ivy Eden took to the streets of York dressed in the colours of PG Tips as part of a promotion to launch its new pyramid

  • Six-storey car park plan for Piccadilly

    A new shape is set to loom across York's skyline as preparations are made to build a six-storey car park in the heart of the city. The car park marks the first steps in the ambitious scheme to expand York's Coppergate Centre. Plans have been filed for

  • Emergency ward plan could slash waiting lists

    York health chiefs are hoping to streamline admissions and slash waiting lists by opening a new ward at York District Hospital to cope with emergency admissions. The new Medical Assessment Unit would mean emergency patients could be kept together in their

  • Schools put orienteering on their map

    School sport compiled by Peter Wilmott A schools' orienteering competition for competitors aged 13 and under and 11 and under will be held on Wednesday, June 10 at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, starting at 4pm. The cost is £1.50 per pupil, including a 1:10000

  • Tykes' hopes hit by early wickets

    Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner Yorkshire made a shocking start to their Benson and Hedges Cup quarter-final match against Durham at Headingley today as both Anthony McGrath and skipper David Byas were dismissed before either had scored a run. The start

  • City parade green belter

    It's green for go for York City - and it's a racing certainty of being a winner.That was the verdict of striker Neil Tolson on the club's new third team kit cast in Hibernian-type colours, which he and team-mate Graeme Murty paraded at the official launch

  • Warning over bid to end school prayers

    A York-based parents' pressure group, seeking higher standards in state education, has warned headteachers against calling for an end to the daily act of worship in schools throughout the country. Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education

  • Heritage group airs concerns over shops plan

    English Heritage say plans for a £60 million extension to Coppergate's shopping centre appear to differ little from those they have previously dismissed as unacceptable. The conservation body has concerns about the impact the design may have on nearby

  • Hang gliders swoop to rescue

    A Major national hang gliding centre could be built near York - flying to the rescue of the threatened Elvington Airfield. The British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Associationis drawing up ambitious plans to base its national centre at the airstrip. It

  • Minster door glory restored

    Masons and carvers at York Minster today surveyed the fruit from what they called their project of a lifetime - the restoration of the Great West Door. A skilled team had been working on the £1m project for three years, producing the intricate Biblical

  • Fun park hope at new shopping site

    A Developer has called for a massive fun park at Monk's Cross on the outskirts of York. Peter Smith, a director of Huntington Ltd based at Monk's Cross, wants Evening Press readers to suggest ideas for what he describes as "a leisure window" to the north