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  • More police on bikes!

    The apalling article on the death of an elderly man on a York cyclepath (Evening Press, January 31) rams home the need for a radical new initiative in community policing. York quite rightly markets itself as a cycle-friendly city, but those of us who

  • Reflections of Labour

    On a day when we hear of the first 1,000 days of New Labour's administration at Westminster and the problems they have heaped upon themselves, what is new when we see the problems at our very own Guildhall? King George VI once said that the history of

  • Please kick out art gallery charge proposals

    It would appear from Saturday's Evening Press that City of York Council's Leisure Services Committee will be considering a proposal to charge non-York residents £2 for entry into the city art gallery. As a York resident and a Friend of York City Art Gallery

  • Squash: Golden oldies roll back the year

    Paul Turner (York Clifton Park) beat Robert Taylor (Stillington) in a thrilling five-set veteran final at Dunnington in a game lasting one hour, 20 minutes. In the vintage championships, defending Arthur Williams was beaten in the final by Wigginton's

  • School Sport: Golden goal ensures Copmanthorpe crown

    Copmanthorpe Junior School lifted the York City Football in the Community six-a-side Predator Cup after a nail-biting finale. Copmanthorpe were, from left back row, Joseph Harford, Jonathan Heseltine, Chris Green, Jack Scott. Front row, Peter Brown, Adam

  • Football: Fans get chance to have a say

    York City supporters will be have a chance to air their views next month after the Bootham Crescent board granted a request for a fans' forum. The third fans' forum will take place on Tuesday, March 14, from 7pm to 9pm, at Queen Anne School, York. It

  • North Yorkshire man's fears over 'Dr Death' case

    With the Government announcing an independent inquiry into the self-regulation of doctors following the Harold Shipman case, the North Yorkshire son of one of his alleged victims tells David Wiles of his own struggle to open up the profession to public

  • Family flees blaze

    Sub Officer Malcolm Dunford pictured outside the fire-hit home in Kingsway West, Acomb, today Parents have been warned of the dangers of leaving matches and lighters within children's reach after fire broke out in a York house today. A mother and her

  • Town sees red over 'post box' that's a dog bin

    Coun Geoff Richardson, of Easingwold, with the dog bin which has been mistaken for a post box Confusion is reigning in a North Yorkshire market town after the installation of a new dog waste bin that looks remarkably like a post box. There is such a resemblance

  • Minster belle

    The Duke of York today launched a £250,000 York Minster Bells Appeal to commemorate the life of the Queen Mother in her centenary year. The Duke waves to the crowd outside the Minster today as he shows one of the six bells to be installed in the Minster

  • Save our post offices

    Once again we see York MP Hugh Bayley being muzzled by "collective responsibility" in his approach to the issue over the destruction of sub post offices. Does he fail to comprehend the basic economic principle that if urban or rural sub-post offices lose

  • February 2nd, 2000

    Let new bells peal in tribute If the ambitious appeal announced today succeeds, York Minster will usher in the Queen Mother's 100th birthday with a peal from six bells cast in her honour. Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and

  • February 2nd, 2000

    Football: Fans get chance to have a say York City supporters will be have a chance to air their views next month after the Bootham Crescent board granted a request for a fans' forum. Rugby League: D-day for trialist Paterson The future of York Wasps trialist

  • Chris Titley

    The blurring of King Tone I saw that nice, placid Tony Blair get into a right old strop the other day. It was on a documentary charting the 1,000 wonderful days we have enjoyed since our benevolent leader came to power. The first half of the programme

  • February 2nd, 2000

    Minster belle The Duke of York today launched a £250,000 York Minster Bells Appeal to commemorate the life of the Queen Mother in her centenary year. Sharron joins our battle to save swimming pools from closure Olympic swimming star Sharron Davies today

  • Post waste?

    The good folk of Easingwold are bewildered by the latest addition to their street furniture. Residents have been popping their mail into the red receptacle, unaware that it is actually designed to collect unwanted doggy deliveries. And the post box and

  • Let new bells peal in tribute

    If the ambitious appeal announced today succeeds, York Minster will usher in the Queen Mother's 100th birthday with a peal from six bells cast in her honour. There could be no better way to salute the Royal who commands a unique place in the nation's

  • Rugby League: D-day for trialist Paterson

    The future of York Wasps trialist Carl Paterson could be decided this week. DECISION TIME: Trialist Carl Paterson With his month-long trial period now up, the 20-year-old was back playing rugby union with Selby at the weekend. However, his father and

  • Tipster contest hits the post!

    Armchair football managers looking forward to this year's European Championships will be able to put their money where their mouths are to raise money for charity. Workers from Royal Mail's community action team in York are organising a tipster competition

  • OAP's depend on local post offices

    A sub-post office which relies heavily on pensioners collecting their benefits will be destroyed if the Government's plans to change the way benefits are paid come to fruition. Stanley Bough of Heworth Post Office, who is backing our campaign. Mr Bough

  • February 2nd, 2000

    Please kick out art gallery charge proposals It would appear from Saturday's Evening Press that City of York Council's Leisure Services Committee will be considering a proposal to charge non-York residents £2 for entry into the city art gallery. Save

  • Life for weapons smuggler Bleach

    North Yorkshire arms dealer Peter Bleach and five Latvians were sentenced to life imprisonment today for smuggling arms intended for Indian revolutionaries. Bleach and the Latvian crewmen who parachuted crates of weapons into eastern India five years

  • Attendant tells of his art gallery raid terror

    An attendant at York City Art Gallery has claimed in court that two balaclava-wearing men tied him and three colleagues up at gunpoint. Ronald James Fisher said that as soon as the pair saw him, they pointed a sawn-off double barrelled shotgun and a handgun

  • Sharron joins our battle to save swimming pools from closure

    Olympic swimming star Sharron Davies today adds her weight to the tidal wave of support behind the Evening Press campaign to save two York swimming pools. The golden girl of British swimming is appalled at City of York Council proposals which could see