Your article Danger Traffic Lights Scheme Delayed (May 14) was no surprise to those following the progress of the consultation. From the beginning when the scheme was proposed, it was obvious that a public inquiry would result. At the first presentation
I read with dismay the reports in the Evening Press (May 18) that the Government is to scrap incapacity benefit for those who have been unable to remain in constant employment because of health problems. As one of the region's providers of financial advice
Drugs have permeated every level of society. A North Yorkshire school cleaner sold cannabis to pupils, a court was told yesterday. In another case, a York drugs smuggler was jailed for importing £158,000 of the same drug. Meanwhile, sports internationals
Kevin Darley, who rode three winners, yesterday - one at Hamilton in the afternoon and two at Thirsk last night - can add to his scoresheet during another stint of evening duty at Ripon tomorrow. The Sheriff Hutton jockey teams-up with Bally Pride in
Wasps' rescuer Richard Collier has been appointed as a new director of York Rugby League Club. The owner of Copmanthorpe-based firm Collier Plant hire was today welcomed on to the Northern Ford Premiership club's board by delighted chairman Trevor Cox
York-born goalkeeper Nick Culkin is soaring Concorde-high after a fillip from treble-hunting Manchester United. Culkin, who travelled to Barcelona in supersonic class with the rest of the red devils raiders for tomorrow's European Champions' League Cup
A new £11 million Railway Heritage Centre is opening in Britain - but it will not compete with York's National Railway Museum, it was claimed today. Steam, the Museum of the Great Western Railway, is to open next spring on the site of a former locomotive
The Drama of York's £1.7million art gallery robbery was recounted in court today as one of two men arrested over the raid was released from custody by magistrates. The court heard how police mounted a surveillance operation and seized back the city's
At a time when we are all urged to give to the Kosovo appeal in addition to supporting our own St Leonard's Hospice, Cancer Haven and other worthy causes, York Against Motor Neurone Disease collected £1,588.02 in three weeks: £250 at York City football
I wonder whether other readers know of the excellent Shopmobility scheme which operates from the second floor of the Piccadilly car park in York? I am a volunteer for the York Blind and Partially Sighted Society and recently took a blind woman aged 90
I appeal to readers to give generously during ActionAid Week. This year the theme of the charity's fundraising week is 'sowing the seeds of change', with the focus on something that is important to us all - good wholesome food and the right to grow it
Fulford are striving to retain the division one trophy in the IT Sports York and District Mixed Tennis League after a big win at Dunnington and a 55-53 victory at Poppleton. Joe Reddick and Jill McCreedy were Fulford's top scorers in both matches. York
For years we have watched the horrors unfold in the Balkans. From our perspective in prosperous, untroubled North and East Yorkshire, it seemed like a world away. The conflict came closer to home when British airmen were despatched to bomb former Yugoslavia
York's famous Bettys Caf is getting a younger sister. Helping launch the new Little Bettys tearooms in Stonegate, York, are youngsters, from left, Betty Wilkinson, aged four, Victoria, aged three, Elizabeth Todd, aged two, Betty Thompson, aged three,
A veteran fire engine could be putting lives at risk, according to disgruntled firefighters. OLD VEHICLE: The 25-year-old fire engine which York firefighters believe is too old for the job Picture by Frank Dwyer At about 25 years old, the old R-registered
Scenes from the heart of York will be seen whizzing down the highways of Europe - thanks to a local coach company's novel way of celebrating its fiftieth birthday. Eddie Brown and the coach painted with York scenes, next ot Clifford's Tower Picture: Mike
A York drug smuggler has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after undercover customs officers caught him in bed at the end of a £158,000 cannabis run. Colin Yarrow is led from York Crown Court after being jailed for four-and-a-half years for drugs
A former cleaner at Ampleforth College supplied drugs to its sixth-form pupils, a court heard. Steve Kitching, 28, of Storey Close, Helmsley, pleaded guilty to supplying cannabis and claimed the school near Helmsley had a drugs problem. Magistrates at
A father turned his family's Christmas into tragedy when he snapped and shook his tiny baby repeatedly, York Crown Court heard yesterday. Kevin John Holder, aged 34, severely and permanently brain-damaged his three-month-old baby Kira when his wife Wendy
