FEAR of crime remains one of the most significant blights of modern life. People walking the streets, or sitting in the supposed safety of their own homes, can be made to feel that they are confronted on all sides by crime. Sometimes the fear of crime
A letter in yesterday's Evening Press (Sad Goodbyes) regarding the tragic death of Elaine Britton, wrongly stated that she died a year ago today. In fact Mrs Britton died on July 8 last year. We offer our sincere apologies to Mrs Britton's family for
THE Americans claim that Britain is more violent than the US. Well perhaps they may have a point. We have come under the American influence in so much of what we do, that it was only a matter of time before we also took on the reputation of becoming an
I REFER to the news report on the front page ('Lendal Bridge to shut for six weeks', Evening Press June 28 ). Mr Evely states the work will be carried out in September to avoid the summer holidays. Surely this would have been the best time to close the
THE launch of this year's York Early Music Festival was being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 today. Guest artists playing at a concert at the National Centre for Early Music, in Walmgate, included The York Waits, the Yorkshire Bach Choir, the Lindsay String
I HAVE been amazed at the one-sided coverage of the increasing price of petrol. To get about by car we demand more and more of our countryside is concreted over for roads, car parks and out-of-town shopping centres; we make our streets unsafe for children
WE KNOW where you live. That's the message from TV Licensing as detectors start a high-profile blitz in York. Buses in the city have been emblazoned with posters "naming and shaming" streets where residents have failed to buy TV licences. The aim is to
GOALKEEPER Alan Fettis looks all but certain to stay at Bootham Crescent. The news will also be a massive fillip to the York faithful after the Northern Ireland international became an instant hit at the end of last season. City boss Terry Dolan, who
RESIDENTS in a burglary-plagued area of York are to get their say in how an injection of crime-busting cash will be spent. More than £30,000 is available to allow people in the Bootham area to increase the security of their homes and reduce their fear
HORSING around is the last thing on this man's mind - for he's just been saddled with the prospect of execution. But don't worry, capital punishment hasn't returned. It's just Bishopthorpe Pageant participant David Smith rehearsing his part as Archbishop
TWO city centre retailers have rallied behind the beleaguered proposals to expand York's Coppergate Centre. Nikki Reynolds, deputy manager of Marks & Spencer in the city, believes the £60 million Coppergate Riverside scheme will help York compete
THE face may be familiar to generations of armchair travellers - but what's he doing in York? Globetrotter extraordinaire Alan Whicker, whose warm and witty descriptions of his travels encouraged generations of Britons to get out and see the world, is
GOALS are proving hard to come by at York College's Football Academy. The academy, run in partnership with York City, has been hit by the theft of a portable goal from a training pitch at its former York Sixth Form College base, off Sim Balk Lane. The
Beckett Football League division two champions York RI thirds have resigned from the competition over their poor discplinary record. The club's committee was unable to get assurances from the players that they would improve their conduct, so have decided
THE Scarborough International Bike Week Festival reaches its climax this weekend as 81 riders - including six from North Yorkshire - compete for the traditional "Cock o' the North" title. The list of competitors includes Scarborough's own Tony Flinton
POTTERMANIA hits York tomorrow and the city's booksellers are gearing up for a price war. The recommended retail price has been slashed by the big chains as they compete for sales of the publishing phenomenon of the Millennium. Stores have put on special
York Cycleworks junior rider Stephen Ward has hit a rich vein of form with a hat-trick of wins in the space of a week. He took victory in the Chesterfield Spire Midsummer Road Race from an eight-man gallop on the hilly Baslow course in the Peak District
SOUTH Bank's Martin Fisher has become only the second person in the 90-year history of the Manchester to Blackpool race walk to achieve a hat-trick of consecutive wins. His time of 8hrs 28mins 21secs gave him first place in the 50-mile event, the 71st
YOUNG thieves picked on the wrong woman when they tried to snatch a bag from Eileen Hilton's bike. The muggers were left empty-handed by the cunning safety measure she dreamed up to secure valuables in her cycle basket. Now Mrs Hilton, 68, of Turnberry
STAFF at the Royal Mail office in Leeman Road face re-location out of North Yorkshire after an announcement that all customer service centres are to be merged into four giant call centres. Nine staff at the customer service centre in Leeman Roa, York,
Buy on-line. Sell on-line. Do everything on-line. If we were to believe the adverts we are already at the stage where we can atrophy into amorphous blobs, subsisting solely on what the Internet can offer us. But should we believe the hype? Last Christmas
No new revelations for This is York this week. We're still reeling from winning the Web Site Of The Year award (Newsquest Editorial Awards) and from all the frenetic activity surrounding our launch at the Evening Press' Computer And Internet Fair last
CARD Games, trained at Sheriff Hutton by Mick Easterby, can prove the ace in the pack at Haydock Park tomorrow. This smart filly, owned by Guy Reed, bids for the 1999 Boursot Racecourse Catering Award Winner Handicap and will have the services of top
Big Brother's coming to a screen near you. Stephen Lewis reveals all... CHANNEL 4 has certainly chosen the right title for the nation's latest venture into voyeuristic TV. Hot on the heels of the BBC's Castaway 2000, in which the TV camera boldly went
WATCHING the back of a bus promises to be more fun than watching the telly this month. Buses in York are carrying posters 'naming and shaming' streets where residents have failed to buy TV licences. One already has a poster on the back warning: 'There
THE Archbishop of York said today he would have to "consider seriously" the implications of a proposed report on the possible ordination of women bishops. Dr David Hope would not be drawn on whether he would consider his position if a "theological study
VETERAN Heartbeat star Bill Maynard, paralysed by a serious stroke, says the hit show must continue. He has urged TV bosses to replace him with singer David Essex playing a highly personable wheeler-dealer gipsy. They worked together last month on the
LEEDS United are among a trio of Premiership clubs tracking Sunderland's former York City defender Darren Williams. Any transfer involving the player will be of interest to City, who negotiated sell-on clause, believed to be worth ten per cent of any
My wife has always been one of the most sensible people I know. She did everything by the book - she was the perfect daughter and model student. She never even went through a sullen teenage period. In fact, the only aberrant thing she has done in the
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
YORK Dunkirk veterans who are bidding to raise £2,600 for a display case to lay their standard to rest in the Minster today thanked the people of the city for their generosity. Members of the York branch of the Dunkirk Veterans Association totted up an
CHILDREN in North Yorkshire are to benefit from an extra £1.75 million boost to fund pre-school places for three-year-olds, after a battle by the county council. The council was allocated funding for just 106 three-year-old places during the current summer
A PIG farmer's bid to build homes on his crisis-hit farm in York's greenbelt has been thrown out by planners. Chris England was told by members of City of York Council's planning committee that they were sympathetic to his plight but felt his application
Defeats for Sheffield United and Harrogate last weekend threw the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League title race wide open as only four points now separate the four front runners. As York's skipper, Nigel Durham put it after his side's knife edge victory
THE Government's Central Office of Information was due to release details today about the visit to York of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. It is thought that the Royals, who are visiting the city on July 27, will be greeted at Micklegate Bar as part
POTTERMANIA hits York tomorrow and the city's booksellers are gearing up for a price war. The recommended retail price for the latest Harry Potter adventure has been slashed by the big chains as they compete for sales of the publishing phenomenon of the
FORMER York City defender Steve Tutill has walked out on Darlington to sign a three-year deal with Third Division rivals Chesterfield. The centre-half, who has been a Feethams regular since making his debut against Mansfield in February 1998, finished
A BID to build a massive seven-storey block of more than 100 apartments in York city centre has been given the go-ahead by councillors. But planners look set for some rounds of wrangling with developer Taywood Homes before the deal to build the 113-apartment
GOALKEEPER Alan Fettis looks all but certain to stay at Bootham Crescent. The news will also be a massive fillip to the York faithful after the Northern Ireland international became an instant hit at the end of last season. City boss Terry Dolan, who
