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  • Quarry blasts threaten our home, claim couple

    RESIDENTS living near a Pickering quarry have spoken out against plans to allow blasting to continue. Raymond and Marguerite Cook, of The Rookers, near the south-eastern corner of Newbridge Quarry, say blasts used to extract stone should be weaker than

  • Sewage fears over new homes

    by Rebecca Gilbert FEARS have been raised over the ability of a sewage system to cope with the building of 100 new homes near York. Phase four of a housing estate in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, has received planning consent from the town council but

  • Let's face the music and dance, says blind Kath

    In National Volunteers Week, CHRIS TITLEY learns how lending a helping hand can make all the difference KATH Humphries is dancing again. At 85, she has returned to the dance hall in Bishophill Junior, York, that she first graced as a 17-year-old. "I have

  • Stabler to the rescue

    FORMER chairman John Stabler will be back in charge of York Wasps next week - if he can stave off the threat of the winding-up order which is hanging over the club. Stabler and fellow ex-York director Russell Greenfield will next week try to persuade

  • £15,000 cash riddle at working men's club

    OFFICIALS at a North Yorkshire working men's club have launched an internal investigation after an auditor's report revealed unidentified cash payments of more than £15,000. Some of the club's 2,500 members have expressed concern about the shortfall -

  • Shepherd abandons £4.4m headquarters

    SHEPHERD Building Group is moving out of its sleek head office at Fulford Moor House in York and into new, smaller premises on the same site. The huge family firm today announced that years of gradual job cuts and transfers which saw group head office

  • Roof fall man dies

    A CONSTRUCTION worker who fell 30 feet from a DIY store in York has died from his injuries. Family, friends and colleagues were today in mourning for Simon Pickering, 20, who was pronounced dead on Wednesday night in Leeds General Infirmary. Mr Pickering

  • Residents protest over mast scheme

    by Adam Nichols Political Reporter PROTESTS against plans for an eight-metre mobile phone mast in the centre of York are being organised into a residents' campaign. The Fishergate Management Company Ltd has written to City of York Council opposing the

  • Riverside trees face lethal disease threat

    AN important feature of North Yorkshire's riversides is under threat from an "ecological disaster". Anglers, farmers and walkers have been asked to help stop the spread of a lethal fungal disease which is affecting alder trees on streams and river banks

  • Twickers looming for York wing ace

    YORK'S James Black has a big date at rugby union's Twickenham headquarters tomorrow. The flying winger is included in Yorkshire squad to tackle East Midlands (12.45pm) in the Under 20s county final. That match is a curtain raiser to the Yorkshire senior

  • York have reason to be optimistic

    York Cricket Club's fears that the season could be one of gloom and doom have been translated into a new found optimism. While their Yorkshire League standing is not all it might be the weather has ensured that few clubs have had a really happy start