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  • Welcome to the Rose

    IN response to the article by Dan Beergutstein in Bar Talk (May 27), I found his description of the popularity of the Rose and Crown pub off Lawrence Street extremely unfair and unusually bitter. I was a regular during Peter Brooks' time as landlord there

  • No such thing as an urban design expert

    IN his equally ill-informed (and professionally questionable) defence of the increasingly infamous Plaskitt conservatory, chartered architect Matthew Laverack has yet again demonstrated that there is no such thing as an expert in urban design. Virtually

  • There's a lot more you can do in 90 minutes, Kevin

    Football fever will sweep the nation when Euro 2000 kicks off on Saturday. MAXINE GORDON suggests some alternative fixtures to ensure June remains a footie-free zone I'M not a football-phobe, but I am a bad loser. As a Scot living in England, the next

  • Host of events for festival

    WHITBY Festival, starting on Saturday, will see a host of exhibitions and displays around the seaside town's varied attractions. There will also be a dance at the Coliseum and Whitby Pavilion on Saturday and a performance of Moby Dick on a touring theatre

  • Broad Acres prove No1 with the Tatler set

    THE Yorkshire Tourist Board has been saying it for years but now the "friendly" county of Yorkshire has been voted the most sociable in the country by society magazine Tatler. The July issue of the magazine, most commonly found gracing the coffee tables

  • Megan's riding high

    WHEELCHAIR-bound Megan Robinson has beaten all the odds to win her first dressage competition with her beloved pony, Sixpence. The gutsy teenager, who is also profoundly deaf, came away with the winner's rosette after beating 25 able-bodied competitors

  • Julia's breast Implant blow

    RADIO York presenter Julia Booth is one of thousands of women hit by a health scare over breast implants filled with soya bean oil. Julia, 43, of Heworth, had a double mastectomy in 1997 after discovering she had inherited a defective gene giving her

  • Student slams Oxford elitism claims

    A FORMER York state school pupil now studying History at Oxford has launched a scathing criticism of the Government's attack on the university's "elitist" admissions systems. Tom Moran, aged 19, who went to Fulford School, points out that state pupils

  • Taking a peek behind Time Team doors

    A CLOSER look at one of the sites featured in TV's Time Team programme will be on offer during York's first learning festival, which starts tomorrow (Thursday). Staff from the central library in York will be giving tours of St Leonard's Hospital next

  • Farms seek £200m from court

    PIG FARMERS from across North and East Yorkshire descended on London today to demand a fairer deal from the Government. Along with mascot Winnie the Pig, they gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the opening day of a judicial review launched

  • Speaking up for hospice

    Two larger-than-life characters will join forces tonight to raise cash along with the laughs for our Hospice 2000 Appeal. Former England and British Lions Rugby Union player Gareth Chilcott, and one of Liverpool's current comedy talents, Sean Styles,

  • Marc Thompson (Defence/midfield)

    Born: York January 15, 1982 Youngster who turned 18 in January and has been catapulted into first team action only re-cently. Another youth and reserve team regular, he had not featured in the first team until Terry Dolan's arrival as boss. However, he

  • Bobby Mimms (Goalkeeper)

    Born: York October 12 1963. Experienced 'keeper who joined the coaching staff of Bootham Crescent under Neil Thompson while still on the playing register. Capped for England at Under 21 level his clubs include Rotherham United, Everton (FA Cup Final appearance

  • Young City miss out on title

    YORK City's youth team have returned home disappointed having failed to retain their top international title - despite not conceding a goal throughout the tournament. City's boys, all of whom were under-18s, were competing in the Candia-66 International

  • Matt Hocking (Defence/Midfield)

    Born: Boston January 30 1978. A £25,000 close season capture from Hull City after a successful loan period at Bootham Crescent in the closing weeks of last term. He was on Sheffield United's books as a junior before joining the Tigers in the summer of

  • Beleaguered Wasps will see out season

    YORK Wasps Rugby League Club were today given the green light to play out the rest of the season. The High Court this afternoon deferred the Inland Revenue's winding-up petition until August 9, giving the club 63 days to come up with a package to satisfy

  • Peter Hawkins (Defence)

    Born: Maidstone September 19, 1978 Another player signed by Dolan from the Premiership, 21-year-old Hawkins is on a month's loan from Wimbledon where Ben Thacher and Alan Kimble have limited his first team opportunities. Was man of the match in his City

  • Martin Garratt (Midfield)

    Born: York, February 22 1980. Hails from Middlesbrough and after attending the club's school of excellence signed on the youth training scheme in 1996. He turned professional two years later and made his first team debut at the start of the 1998/99 campaign

  • Car torque is such a bore

    CARS are fundamentally ugly things. Jeremy Clarkson may swoon over the latest sporty convertible, but this is a man who models himself on Status Quo: a style arbiter he ain't. Moreover, cars have got uglier in recent years. We know the late Inspector

  • Barry Conlon (Forward)

    Born: Drogheda, Ireland, October 1 1978. Signed from Southend Utd in July 1999 for £100,000. A Republic of Ireland Under 18 and 21 international he was on the YTS with Queens Park Rangers before joining Manchester City in 1997. Made a handful of senior

  • Lee Bullock (Midfield)

    Born: Stockton-on-Tees, May 22 1981. Highly promising midfielder who turned professional at the end of last season. Has developed through the junior ranks and helped the youth side reach the fifth round of the FA Youth Cup in 1998/99. Made his senior

  • Doubts rise over flood defences

    As the York floods subside Stephen Lewis asks are we still at risk? FOR the crowds who gathered on Skeldergate Bridge on Monday evening to gawp at the swollen River Ouse, the floods in York were little more than a sideshow. True, the poor old King's Arms

  • A sign of the TV times

    'CAN you live without television?" asked a recent Channel 4 TV programme. I'm sure most of us could if we tried. But the television licensing authority doesn't think we can, or should. For one of their spies may turn up at your the house at any time of

  • Compensate pig farmers

    IT is indicative of the thorough mess Britain's farmers are in when a beef crisis tax threatens the livelihood of pork producers. Extra safety measures introduced in the wake of the BSE affair are costing pig breeders more than £5 an animal. At a time

  • Great neighbours

    TONIGHT we carry more reports of people taken to court charged with anti-social and aggressive behaviour. Sometimes it can seem as if values such as courtesy and neighbourliness have succumbed to yobbishness and ignorance. Happily, that is not the case

  • Cyclists are tops

    MR USHERWOOD asks if cyclists have "stealth technology?" (Letters, June 2). My list compares the general energy efficiency of various forms of travel. 1. Cyclists, 100 per cent; 2. Walking, 40 3. Train, 28 4. Bus, 25 5. Moped, 22 6. Car, four share, 13

  • Pistol pointed at girl in gang clash

    GANG warfare erupted when three Acomb teenagers grabbed weapons and crossed the River Ouse to "sort out" youths in Clifton. A terrified 15-year-old girl had an air pistol pointed at her head as they searched for the "Clifton lads" only days after Crichton

  • Stop hunting now!

    LABOUR MP Gordon Prentice has put forward an amendment to the Government's Countryside and Rights of Way Bill, which would lead to a ban on the hunting of deer, foxes, hare and mink with dogs. The Government is attempting to wreck the amendment using

  • Booth bids to break his duck at Chepstow

    CHARLES BOOTH, without a winner so far this season, is fancied to break his duck tomorrow. The trainer based at Foston between York and Malton, sends Palmstead Belle on the long journey to Chepstow, and the hint should be taken. Palmstead Belle goes for

  • Couple step out for our appeal

    GETTING ready to put their best feet forward for our Hospice 2000 Appeal are St Leonard's supporters Dennis and Muriel Foster. They will be the leaders of the hospice's special eight-mile Family Adventure Walk at Castle Howard for the third year, when

  • Goodwill gesture

    Whistleblowing Euro-MP Robert Goodwill is giving £1,000 to our Hospice 2000 Appeal from the Brussels expenses loophole he exposed. Mr Goodwill, from Terrington, near Malton, acted after reading an Evening Press editorial which praised him for revealing

  • Children coin it in for appeal

    Some of the youngest supporters of our Hospice 2000 Appeal have raised an amazing £220 in 10p pieces - which they handed over in a wheelbarrow. The three and four-year-old children of St Paul's Nursery School in York have been collecting the 2,200 coins

  • Win a trip on HMS York

    HELLO sailor. Here's your chance to win a fantastic sea-going prize - a prize that money can't buy. The Evening Press has teamed up with the Royal Navy to offer one of our readers the chance to sail aboard HMS York, the warship that took its name from

  • Justina's life among the headhunters of Sarawak

    Schools and skulls for York girl Justina O'Callaghan is rubbing shoulders with headhunters during her year out in Sarawak, near Borneo. Justina, 19, a former York Sixth Form College student, is spending six months teaching English between finishing her

  • Rioter 'handed himself in'

    YORK youth justices have allowed a Clifton rioter to keep his freedom after he handed himself in to prevent an "anti-social" teenager being jailed in a case of mistaken identity. The 17-year-old youth terrified a policewoman by wielding a breeze block

  • Tang Hall's Winnie is York's Local Hero 2000

    PUBLIC-SPIRITED pensioner Winnie Starkey has been voted York's Local Hero 2000 for years of devoted duty to the people of Tang Hall, York. Winnie, 74, has lived in the same house in Tang Hall Lane all her life and like her mother before her has always

  • London for fiver proves a big hit

    THOUSANDS of rail passengers have been flocking to take advantage of GNER's introductory £5 fare between York and London on its new White Rose service. The new service - comprising of two as-new trains leased from Eurostar - was only launched last Tuesday

  • Noah rescues York flood animals... but that car is still there

    NOAH appears to be rescuing his animals from the floodwaters of York But this Noah only has stuffed animals and he is in fact the York actor who will be starring in the Mystery Plays which start as the end of the month. Arnold Durham, 60, of Escrick,

  • East Coast amusement supremo dies

    SCARBOROUGH amusements arcade supremo Jimmy Corrigan has died at the age of 61, three weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Mr Corrigan, who owned Corrigan's amusement arcade in Foreshore Road, Scarborough, died at his home on Monday. Tributes have

  • Stark steps down

    Equestrian star Ian Stark, one of Britain's main hopes for a medal in the Olympics this year, has withdrawn from the Bramham Horse Trials, which were starting this afternoon. He was scheduled to ride Rangitoto at the event near Wetherby but is keen to

  • Success at the double

    Seven members of the York Railway Institute Judo Club recently took part in an Area Judo Championships held at Goole. This special Millennium event attracted almost 150 of the best junior competitors from around the North East of England. Lynsey Ellwood

  • Big summer push for St Leonard's

    A plea for even greater efforts to push our Hospice 2000 Appeal towards its final figure of £2 million has been made after a week in which the total went up by over £50,000. Building work on the "new look" St Leonard's Hospice in Tadcaster Road, York,

  • It's time for young dancers to take to stage

    Two young ballet dancers will be taking to the stage tomorrow to help our Hospice 2000 Appeal. Charlotte Carr and Sophie Hepworth are among over 100 children aged three to 15 who are pupils at the Barbara Taylor School of Dancing, and who will be taking

  • Kieran Darlow

    Still only 17 years of age and about to start his second year as a youth trainee at Bootham crescent, Darlow made his debut in City's penultimate game of the season - a 2-0 win over Halifax - and caught the eye with a number of surging runs. Joined the

  • James Turley (Forward)

    Born: Manchester, June 24 1981. Promising young striker who is another product of the club's youth system. A member of last season's successful youth side he turned professional during the summer. Steven Walters (Midfield) Born: Young midfielder who helped

  • Paul Talbot (Winger)

    Born Gateshead August 11, 1979. Terry Dolan snapped up this left-sided youngster from Newcastle United until the end of the season. The Magpies trainee had been unable to break into the first team and it was Dolan who handed him his League debut in the

  • Barry Jones (Defence)

    Born: Prescot, June 20 1970. Equally at home at either right back or centre of defence he was signed from Wrexham for £40,000 in January 1998 after a period on loan. Born in Prescot he was on Liverpool's books before joining the Welsh club in 1992. Missed

  • Kevin Hulme (Midfielder)

    Born: Farnworth, December 7, 1967. The 32-year-old midfielder is another Neil Thompson signing from Halifax Town. Made his debut in the goalless draw with Peterborough at Bootham Crescent. A tough-tackling, aggressive central mid-fielder who likes to

  • Russell Howarth (Goalkeeper)

    Born: York, March 27 1982. Young local born keeper who impressed in pre-season friendlies in the senior side. Last season he was capped for England under 16s. A product of City's youth system he started the season as No 1 ahead of the vastly experienced

  • Christian Fox (Midfield)

    Born: Aberdeen, April 11 1981. Promising young player who has come through the youth ranks and is in the first year as a professional. Although born in Aberdeen he is eligible to play for England was a member of their under 16 squad. He was in City's

  • Darren Edmondson (Defence)

    Born Coniston, November 4, 1971. Terry Dolan's final recruit of the current campaign, signing until the end of the season initially after being recruited from Huddersfield Town. Started his career with Carlisle making 214 appearances for the Cumbrians

  • Andrew Dawson (Defence/Midfield)

    Born: York, December 8 1979. Local lad who graduated through the club's school of excellence. Joined the Youth Training Scheme in 1996 and turned professional two years later. Made a dramatic senior debut in December 1998 when he came on as substitute

  • School rings the changes

    The first School Report of this half-term by Janet Hewison comes from Archbishop of York's CE Junior School at Bishopthorpe, York THERE aren't many schools that can boast an Archbishop for a neighbour, but this week's school regularly finds the Most Reverend