With reference to the openness pledge on cabinet-style council (March 1). If this has been given by those who regularly promise public consultation, watch out democracy. Cabinet-style government could very easily turn out to be cabal-style government.
I am writing in response to the article 'Sorry folks come back when you're 18' (March 1). Being 16 years old, I would be boring if I didn't want to go out and have a good time but I always find it frustrating because there is nowhere for me and my friends
This sporting chance for York It is not so much a sports centre, more a university of fitness. Just reading out the facilities is enough to leave the more sedentary among us breathless: 13 tennis courts, two half Olympic length swimming pools, a gymnasium
Software firm goes for growth A York software firm today announced that it had acquired half of one of its distributors in Ireland. Budget could help York A top team of financial analysts from Garbutt & Elliott, the York accountancy practice in Monkgate
A high-tech metalsmith firm based in Kirkbymoorside has won a £420,000 order from the US. Rapidly-expanding Micro-Metalsmiths Ltd, which manufactures metal components for industrial use at its Ings Lane works, has won the order from an American defence
All aboard at York for today's start of the three-day Confex 2000 conference exhibition at Earls Court... Kate Evans, conference sales assistant at York Tourism Bureau brandishes the latest weapon in the armoury designed to lure conference organisers
Derek Holmes, a well-known member of Heworth Golf Club and a former Dringhouses football player, has died suddenly while on holiday in Holland. He was 69. Mr Holmes was a prolific goal scorer for Dringhouses, who won a number of trophies in the 1950s,
Enter the Dutch - and suddenly York-based CEDG Ltd, the railway consultancy, has undergone a name-change to Corus The new Corus Rail Consultancy branding was fanfared by marketing assistant Christian White and Sue Jackson, administration manager, at a
The Internet is a marvellous invention. Soon many more people will be able to enjoy its benefits: Tony Blair was today telling a conference that he wanted everyone hooked up within five years. However, there is a downside to the unregulated freedom of
Ros Kerr's long list of achievements in darts now includes another York John Smith's Ladies League Individual title. But, Kerr's 3-2 win in the final against her Brigadier colleagues and team captain Sue Lowery was a near thing. Lowery led 2-1, Kerr finding
It is not so much a sports centre, more a university of fitness. Just reading out the facilities is enough to leave the more sedentary among us breathless: 13 tennis courts, two half Olympic length swimming pools, a gymnasium, fitness centre, aerobic
Veteran goalkeeper Bobby Mimms has been told by York City that he can leave the club. His contract runs out at the end of the season, and City boss Terry Dolan has said that it will not be renewed - in a playing capacity at least. The 36-year-old stopper
As international Women's Week got under way this week, a vital service for women in York was under threat. A combination of lack of funding and volunteers, coupled with no permanent home, means York Rape Crisis is now experiencing its own crisis. Volunteers
Police are urging the public to be on their guard following reports of a bogus collector in the Ryedale area who is trying to cash in - in the name of charity. The man, whom police described as being white, around 5ft 8in tall and in his 60s, claims to
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott swept into North Yorkshire to enjoy a rural break...and set a village abuzz with talk of not so much who was among them, but how he got about. Farndale resident Nigel Burnham contacted the Evening Press to report how
We're not after bother, just a good night out I am writing in response to the article 'Sorry folks come back when you're 18' (March 1). Transferring trouble While I applaud any attempt to improve road safety for everyone ('City black spot work scheduled
Pub lovers were celebrating today after a controversial application to turn Terrington's only watering hole turned into a house was refused by planning chiefs. Robert and Jill Snowdon had applied to turn the Bay Horse Inn into a private house. The application
Dame Judi Dench York-born actress Dame Judi Dench was in the city today to collect a Millennium Person of the Present award. She was joining other luminaries for a prestigious lunch at York's Mansion House. The Millennium Person competition was jointly
The euro, once heralded as a major competitor to the dollar, has turned out to be a very weak currency indeed, having lost more than 16 per cent of its value. The City of London has done very well outside the eurozone. The EU has its own currency, its
While I applaud any attempt to improve road safety for everyone ('City black spot work scheduled', March 1), surely banning right hand turns out of Mill Lane will only transfer a problem junction a few hundred yards along to the Heworth Road/Malton Road
Mimms can leave Veteran goalkeeper Bobby Mimms has been told by York City that he can leave the club. Matchwinner Mike City of York first team enjoyed a welcome 2-1 win over a Hull side buoyed by their thrashing of Harrogate in the Northern Counties League
Lloyd's Ace New plans for a £10 million tennis and fitness centre in York were unveiled today. Weeded out: the Internet drugs trade The Evening Press today exposes a scandal that is sweeping the Internet - and reveals the alarming ease with which children
It's a case of WWWomen being in the driving seat on the information highway. Female proficiency in the use of the World Wide Web suggests that they will overtake males as the largest group of Internet users over the next five years. Research from direct
Complaints about mobile phones now rank alongside dodgy car dealers in the top ten areas of grievances voiced to trading standard officers in North Yorkshire. Now they are considering "naming and shaming" the phone companies responsible. Every day North
York Rugby Union Club 'A' team overwhelmed a Hull 'A' XV several places above them in the 'A' Teams' Merit Table, winning 32-7. York's support play was their best this season, with four or five players always available to receive the ball. They achieved
Engineering and manufacturing companies in the Yorkshire region are still finding life tough - but they may have spotted a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. This is the conclusion of the latest quarterly survey carried out by EEF Yorkshire and
Step into an Internet booth for business advice wherever you are in York and North Yorkshire. That is the vision outlined in a bid by Business Link partnership to become a Small Business Service. The plan is to set up 28 interactive kiosks in remote communities
After a frustratingly slow start to the season, Middleham trainer Micky Hammond's fortunes have struck a purple patch, and tomorrow on his local course he can continue the revival. Former jockey Hammond sends Three Franks to Catterick in the hope that
A top team of financial analysts from Garbutt & Elliott, the York accountancy practice in Monkgate, led by tax partner Michael Backhouse will be working with the Evening Press on Budget Day to bring you a real understanding of how you are likely to
Mike Thornicroft turns after scoring City of York first team enjoyed a welcome 2-1 win over a Hull side buoyed by their thrashing of Harrogate in the Northern Counties League premier division the previous week. York began as they meant to go on, Mark
A York software firm today announced that it had acquired half of one of its distributors in Ireland. Mitrefinch Ltd, based on the Green Lane trading estate at Clifton Moor, has paid £100,000 to bring its shareholding of Advance Systems Ireland (ASI)
York rail giant GNER came out fighting today in the battle over the right to run London to Scotland train services. Richard Branson's Virgin rail group yesterday announced a string of impressive-sounding plans for the next decade - including the introduction
When Trevor Tasker left his North Yorkshire home to marry his Internet sweetheart in America, he was expecting a pretty thirty-something. He had fallen in love with Wynema Shumate after a whirlwind e-mail romance, and the pair had swapped photographs
The 10g pack of 'skunk' cannabis The Evening Press today exposes a scandal that is sweeping the Internet - and reveals the alarming ease with which children can get hold of potent drugs. With ten spare minutes, Internet access and cash or credit cards
New plans for a £10 million tennis and fitness centre in York were unveiled today. The College of Ripon & York St John announced it was going into partnership with Next Generation Clubs - headed by former Wimbledon star David Lloyd - to develop the
