LIVING next to nightmare neighbours can turn your life upside down. Anti-social behaviour can sour every aspect of a person's life, spoiling the peace in what should be the ultimate sanctuary of their own home. City Of York Council increasingly takes
THE closure of a school is always an emotive occasion. Queen Anne School has been a part of York life for 90 often distinguished years, starting out as a girls' grammar school and ending as a comprehensive. Towards the end of its life, Queen Anne also
Yorkshire knew they would have to tear up the record book if they were to beat Northamptonshire at Wantage Road today and make it through to the quarter-finals of the NatWest Trophy. Three times previously the sides have met in the competition and Northants
HAVING been a part of England's triumph in the Lord's Test last week, Matthew Hoggard will come down to earth with a bump if Yorkshire can find no place for him in their NatWest Trophy fourth round match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road tomorrow
DUNKIRK comrades raising money to lay their standard to rest may see their wish come true after a swift and generous response from Evening Press readers. In later editions yesterday we told how the veterans were poised to take to the streets with collection
SO 700 pigs die in farm fires (Evening Press, June 27). Why no public outcry at the avoidable suffering these poor creatures must have endured? Farms that imprison animals in such numbers should be under even more strict fire regulations to avoid such
FRUSTRATED road users want York transport managers to consider charging motorists to enter the city - but the business community has grave concerns. The city's residents were asked to voice their feelings in a questionnaire given three options, ranging
Yorkshire took a pounding from Northamptonshire's batsman in their NatWest Trophy fourth round match at Wantage Road today after the home side had chosen to bat first in overcast conditions and on a slow pitch. Gavin Hamilton managed to curb Northamptonshire's
YORK City boss Terry Dolan was hoping to settle the Bootham Crescent futures of Alan Fettis and Darren Edmondson today. The City chief is awaiting the duo's response to contract offers made at the end of last season and is hopeful the situation will be
YOUTH justices have let the teenager at the centre of the Clifton riot keep his freedom. The 17-year-old's anger began the large-scale confrontation in which breeze blocks were hurled at a police vehicle in Crichton Avenue. Earlier this year, magistrates
OFFICERS who kept their cool through the horror of a North Yorkshire air crash had their professionalism recognised at a ceremony in York. And a supermarket worker who tackled a shoplifter to the ground after being assaulted was also among those commended
EXPANDING York firm CPP will tomorrow try to fill 200 new jobs in just 12 hours. CPP Card Protection Plan is staging a Jobsmart day at the Royal York Hotel in a £40,000 drive to recruit staff. Anyone who thinks they might be interested in working for
THE LORD Mayor's Parade this year raised more than £2,000 for charity. The carnival, which saw dozens of floats wind through York in front of thousands of spectators on Sunday, raised £1,450 for the Lord Mayor Shan Braund's chosen charities, which are
The teenager rated football's hottest property for his age will be strutting his stuff for England at Bootham Crescent. Scoring sensation Cherno Samba is expected to lead the England Under-16 attack in their Nationwide international clash with Thailand
PICTURES said to have been painted by Italian prisoners of war have been found beneath the wallpaper at a city pub. The images of York's bar walls were discovered by decorators stripping paper in the Corner House pub in Burton Stone Lane, Clifton. Landlady
A FIVE storey office block could be introduced to York city centre. The building would stand on Blossom Street, behind Prudential House and close to the Odeon cinema. It would be obscured from passers-by by existing buildings, said Andrew Scowcroft of
FOUR records were broken at the annual York and District Schools' Athletics championships at Huntington Stadium. The championship best performances were set by Alex Monger (Fulford) year 8 boys 400m 56.7secs; Jessica Taylor (The Mount) year 7 girls 200m
A new health facility has been created on the outskirts of York, with a £500,000 project to double the size of an existing medical centre. The partners, and 150 guests at the Strensall Medical Practice, celebrated the completion of a complex building
Heworth hooker Anthony Howcroft faces a trip of a lifetime down under later this year after being selected for the Great Britain and Ireland Students Rugby League squad. Howcroft, who is studying estate surveying at Nottingham Trent University, has been
RICH Hayes has been crowned the Evening Press/Guildford Construction Player of the Year for a remarkable fifth time. He received the trophy and £350 first prize, provided by sponsors Guildford Construction, following Friday night's final match. Afterwards
York Wasps' Millennium season must go down as one of the most horrific in recent history - and not just for events on the field. When the Northern Ford Premiership broke new ground with a Boxing Day kick-off, York fans had no idea what lay in store for
YORK Wasps are unlikely to name a new coach within the next fortnight after deciding to advertise the post. Chief executive Ann Garvey said they already had eight serious contenders but wanted to see who else was in the market. York had been hoping to
Ballroom dancing will return to York's De Grey Rooms on Friday. MAXINE GORDON meets the man behind the revival. OME dancing! That's the cry from colourful showman Howard Duckworth, who is bringing ballroom dancing back to York's De Grey Rooms. As Howard
Here are some of the comments about the questionnaire on the future of the pools from people living near the Barbican Pool when I was out in the community recently. "This has been written to get the answers the council wants, not to pose the questions
I CAN understand the frustration and outrage behind the "dump the pump" campaign but everyone must know that it would be a futile gesture and achieve absolutely nothing. If we don't fill up on Monday we will have to fill up on Tuesday or Wednesday or
YORK City manager Terry Dolan was today stepping up his search for a centre-back after it emerged hopes of luring Mark Bower back to Bootham Crescent had fallen through. The 20-year-old Bradford City centre-back impressed during a three-month long loan
DIETING is as much part of our summer as downpours at Wimbledon. But if you're cutting back on the calories in order to fit into last year's shorts, spare a thought for your pet. Chances are your four-legged friend has spent the winter grazing on snacks
One in four women suffer from oily or shiny skin. Clarins has just launched a new range of products to tackle these problems, but do they result in non-shiny, happy people? We put them to the test... SAY 'no' to shine is the catchphrase of the latest
MEMBERS of a social club demanded swift action when they found a tree was responsible for the poor quality of their satellite TV picture. But when John Regan, secretary of Boroughbridge Social Club, did as he was told by his committee and commissioned
THE antics of a drunken man who got off the train at the wrong station frightened a 93-year-old women so much that she had to be locked in a signal box for safety, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Mackenzie Nall, who has a record for drink-related offences
A YORK woman whose son underwent needless surgery on his skull as a baby has finally won her battle for damages from health bosses. Wendy Foster, 30, from Middleton Road, Acomb, was relieved that the ordeal was over, but remained angry about what her
AN American tourist has thanked people for their "fantastic" response after they helped her find a wallet which was lost near York. Vivian Helmsworth, from Arizona, is visiting the city with fellow American Ray Bybee and took a taxi to the Yorkshire Air
Yorkshire took a pounding from Northamptonshire's batsman in their NatWest Trophy fourth round match at Wantage Road today after the home side had chosen to bat first in overcast conditions and on a slow pitch. Gavin Hamilton managed to curb Northamptonshire's
A BENCH installed as part of a North Yorkshire village's Millennium celebra-tions has been stolen. Members of the Stockton-on-the-Forest Millennium committee, who organised the events that paid for the bench, said today they were devastated by the theft
NEW York City capture Gary Hobson has told the Evening Press of his delight at joining Terry Dolan's Bootham Crescent rebuild. Hobson, who is set to become the City chief's third pre-season summer signing subject to passing a medical, confessed his Minstermen
YORK City manager Terry Dolan has snapped up central defender Gary Hobson to plug the gap after Mark Bower decided he will be staying at Bradford. Hobson, 27, who played under Dolan at Hull City, arrived at Bootham Crescent today for a medical after being
Asked to recite the principal parts of the verb 'to eat', the irrepressible Hyman Kaplan suggested the following: 'eat, ate, full.' The opposite of 'inhale', he suggested, was 'dead'. And no, no, no, the plural of blouse wasn't blouses; obviously it was
MARON, narrowly beaten on his last two starts, can make it third-time lucky at Catterick tomorrow. Trained by Alan Berry, whose horses are enjoying a fine season, the three-year-old lines up for the Scotch Corner Handicap with John Carroll in the saddle
A York boy has won damages for needless skull surgery, but health reporter Andrew Hitchon finds his mum in no mood to forgive or forget. WHEN Wendy Foster took her baby son Steven to York District Hospital to have his ears checked she had no idea of the
