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  • Double standards

    AS A firm believer in buying British whenever possible, I write in support of the poster alongside the A19, reading 'Save Our Bacon, Buy British' (Evening Press, November 10). Do they share the philosophy of a farmer whose vehicle I saw in a market town

  • Defending Waterloo

    THE Evening Press article 'Streets Ahead in Name Game' (November 7) reminded me of what we have lost at Tadcaster in street names. Not so very long ago, we had such private addresses as Hazledene Villas, Sunnydale, Coronation Villas, York Terrace and

  • Burning anger over firebugs

    THE picture of the burnt-out Danelaw village (Evening Press, November 9) made me sad and angry. Years of work have gone into the making of that village and it was at last beginning to look settled and part of the landscape. Many hundreds of children spend

  • Joint favourites move through to semi-finals

    Hounds and Yorkshire Herald, joint favourites for the York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup, both moved into the semi-finals. Hounds, the holders, beat Severus SC 3-1, with goals from John Glavin, Alan Clayton and Gary Cygan. The Severus effort came from

  • Green Tree treat

    PETER Green played a major part in Green Tree 'B' team's exciting 5-4 York Exhibition Hotel Group League win over Osbaldwick Sports. Tree were beginning to struggle following a four tons-plus for a 20-dart game by Osbaldwick's John Holden, but Gary Scott

  • Best Foot forward for Euro summit

    YORK'S Olympic swimmer Caroline Foot has been selected to represent Great Britain in the 100m butterfly in the European Short Course Championships next month. Foot, a member of York City Baths Club, will be hoping to add another medal to the bronze she

  • Doubts over a Cabinet for York

    APATHY towards local government is growing. We need only look at voter turn-out to see that it is a turn-off. In some local elections in North Yorkshire as few as one in five voters bothered to put their cross on the ballot paper. That is scandalous,

  • Italian Job

    NINE-GOAL striker Richard Cresswell is tailor-made for a striking Anglo-Italian job. England under-21 manager Peter Taylor is currently drawing up a squad from the Nationwide League to tackle their Italian League Serie 'B' counterparts in Italy later

  • Monks Cross makes lights work

    MYSTERIOUS lights are being reported across York's night sky. The beams have been sighted reflecting off clouds and criss-crossing like lasers. The truth is out there, but it's slightly mundane...witnesses of the strange happenings are not watching extraterrestrial

  • Haxby anger over drug-dealing claim

    HAXBY youths have strongly denied that their town is a hive of activity for drug dealing. One 17-year-old lad told the Evening Press that drink was the problem in the area, not hard drugs. Other 17-year-olds supported him when he added that he had never

  • Cabinet shakers

    SOONER or later, York citizen's will get a different way of choosing their city's leaders. The personalities who run the council could be directly elected by the people of York, leading to more lively local elections, under proposals being considered.

  • Why warrior Elder bared it all at mall

    FEMALE streaker Elder, who stripped naked in front of the Lord Mayor of York at the opening ceremony of York's designer shopping outlet, told today of her reasons. The 33-year-old mother-of-one told the Evening Press she felt compelled to do "just something

  • That's my boy

    HIS father was the singing sensation who wowed a generation of lovestruck girls. Now the women who once swooned over '70s pop star Donny Osmond could be opening their doors to find his teenage son on the doorstep. And a York man is helping Don Osmond,

  • Van the who?

    AFTER hearing the name Van something or other bandied about York for over a week, I began to wonder who or what it was. All I could think of was Van Heusen (shirt-maker); Van Johnson (a hunky film star of the 50s); and the popular Morris van. Then the

  • Moore soars to a Hill-topping best

    YORK Acorn Running Club's Darrell Moore recorded a season's best time of just over 33 minutes to win the men's 10km road race at RAF Menwith Hill. Club member Catriona Sowden claimed third place in the women's race, which was won by Tadcaster Harriers

  • Taking the ruff with the smooth

    THE York Early Music Foundation is organising a series of early dance workshops in York primary schools next week. Taking the ruff with the smooth, pupils will be learning how to dance in some of history's most complicated costumes: large Elizabethan

  • Colleges' merger plan moves forward

    THE merger of York's two colleges has moved a step closer. York Sixth Form College and York College of Further and Higher Education, both on Tadcaster Road, are set to merge in April next year with sixth form principal Mike Galloway as the new head. In