Many congratulations to John Oxley and his team for combining with Channel Four's Time Team Live for some wonderful television. The six live broadcasts and websites must have brought the city's history alive for people around the world. The enthusiasm
Thanks for supporting the Age Concern Caring Circle campaign which was backed by BT. The response to the campaign - which aims to help thousands of the one million older people currently living in poverty or suffering poor health due to a lack of accurate
There is to be a meeting of the Priory Street Centre, York (Denham Room) next Tuesday at 7.30pm so that people and groups who have an interest in establishing a community radio project in York can discuss the possibility of setting up a station. The aim
There is no doubt that vaccination for many diseases has had a massive impact on world health. But the latest ruling by government relating to the triple vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) could seriously affect its efficacy. There has been
Burgeoning York Acorn aim to get their National Conference second division campaign back on track when they play host to unbeaten Hull Dockers on Saturday, kick-off 2.30pm. The club are set to pull off a big coup with the imminent signing of former Heworth
Burythorpe are champions of the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League - and took the title in style beating last year's champions, Ovington, by 77 runs. Mick Cooper (42) and Geoff Brewer (37) gave Burythorpe the ideal start with an opening partnership
Fate can have cruel surprises waiting for us. To sit on a bench in Parliament Street on a sunny, late summer day might seem the safest of places to be. The branch which fell from a tree in York city centre yesterday shows that ill chance can intervene
Barry Hills, who took Doncaster by storm yesterday with a 2,574-1 treble highlighted by the victory of Sheer Hamas in the £200,000 St Leger Yearling Stakes, can again make his presence felt on Town Moor tomorrow. The Lambourn trainer saddles Rainbow Ways
Four million visitors a year can't be wrong - York is a prince among cities. Its magnificent Minster, bar walls, ancient buildings and its many-splendoured history make it a natural attraction. But there is an army of officials, entrepreneurs and workers
Glamorgan captain Matthew Maynard, who scored his maiden century on debut against Yorkshire at Cardiff 14 years' ago, took a shine to their bowling once again at Headingley by thrashing a superb 186 on his way past 20,000 first class runs. Not only was
The Evening Press today launches a poster campaign to find a bone marrow donor for leukaemia victim Nicola Coates. We are printing dozens of posters appealing for people to come forward to join the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust's register of potential
The teacher training course at York University is among the top ten in the country, according to figures published today. It scored a total of 842 points in the league tables from the Teacher Training Agency. This placed it ninth in the country. Oxford
A York man struck by a falling tree branch as he sat on a city centre bench was recovering at home this afternoon after hospital staff declared it was a "miracle" he had no broken bones. SAFETY: City of York council workmen prune trees in Parliament Street
Karl Farkas: supported anti- drink-drive campaign in 1995 A York rock singer and pub worker who spearheaded an anti-drink-drive campaign was today starting his second prison sentence in five years - for drink-driving. Karl Philip Farkas - who sang for
The report in the Evening Press (Sep- tember 2) referred to the future of a vital business development in the York Business Park at Nether Poppleton. Vital for whom? The plans are for another supermarket in spite of the fact that there is already a supermarket
Triplets, from left, Rebecca, Emma and Bethany Collins look forward to becoming the first triplets to attend the nursery unit at Pickering County Infants School Staff at Pickering County Infants School's new nursery unit may be forgiven for expecting
Angry York City fans are to launch a see-red dismissal for chairman Douglas Craig. The Independent YCFC Supporters' group are to stage a red-card protest demanding Craig quits the club, currently marooned one place from the bottom of the Football League
A lawyer is calling for a fast track to compensation for medical negligence victims after helping a client who lived in the shadow of wrongly-diagnosed leukaemia. York solicitor Mark Tempest helped Colin Langley win £25,000 damages from York NHS Trust
A spate of burglaries on the outskirts of York has been branded by police as the worst in recent memory, prompting warnings to householders to tighten up security. There have been 11 burglaries in Haxby and Wigginton since the beginning of the month and
Work by York-based research-ers suggests that millions who suffer the misery of migraine headaches could relieve the symptoms by simply cutting out foods to which they are sensitive. Joan Tyreman, left, of Harrogate, and Linda Whincup, of York, who have
The death of a 91-year-old woman who fell from her first-floor room has led the York coroner to call for improved inspections of windows in the city's residential homes. Donald Coverdale hoped City of York Council inspectors would pay particular attention
Visitors to York are being asked to vote for their top tourist attractions and facilities in the first ever York Tourism Awards Below:Nigel Paterson, left, trading director of Northern Spirit and Gillian Cruddas, chief executive of York Tourism Bureau
