LYNNE MARTIN opts for elbow room in the White Swan at Deighton instead of a bar meal... We hadn't realised when we ordered our meals that there are two different menus at the White Swan until the waitress came to our table in the bar and put place mats
BRYN EVANS enjoys lunch fare close to (a stately) home There are times when you instinctively know that something is right. Just such a thought occurred to me last Saturday lunchtime as my wife Antonia and I set about tackling our joint pudding at the
CHRIS TITLEY falls for some marvellous pub grub right in the heart of York The Golden Fleece is cunningly designed to ensnare the unwary tourist. First, he spies the A-board outside. "Why wander around looking confused and dazed, drop in and see York's
Stephen Lewis taste-tests the refurbished Duke of York at Gate Helmsley After a hard day's slog in the office, there's not much to beat a decent meal in a nice country pub. The Duke of York in Gate Helmsley always had a reputation for good eats - as well
This delightful hostelry just a mile outside of Thirsk is a cross between a traditional country pub and an old fashioned town museum. Strange curios, stuffed animals, knick knacks and paintings adorn the walls and ceilings. Old purses hang on door handles
It was third time lucky when we finally found a suitable place to dine on a recent eating out foray. We thought we would join the thousands of people who have Sunday lunch at a country pub each week, and, as we were in the northern part of North Yorkshire
Was it really just over a week ago we were basking in lovely bright sunshine? I had to ask this after we had just driven though a black hailstorm to The Nag's Head at Askham Bryan and I was eyeing up all the comforting foods on the menu. The Nag's has
Writing for a newspaper is generally good fun, you'll be relieved to hear. But sometimes readers become irate about things beyond any writer's control. Visiting restaurants to write these reviews, you can only go when you can. Sounds straightforward?
TONY McKINSTRY keeps an eye on the mysterious staff and the giant food portions in a York pub restaurant We had more chance of seeing one of the Edinburgh Arms' two ghosts than the waiter. He served our main meals then disappeared to the end of the bar
YORK City first team coach Adie Shaw insisted today nobody is out in the cold at Bootham Crescent, writes Dave Stanford. The senior squad has seen its numbers swollen to 27 players after City chief Terry Dolan snapped up trialist striker David McNiven
WE thank the kind woman who anonymously left us two bunches of flowers with a neighbour while we were out. She was an obsessive compulsive disorder sufferer, like our son Jonathan. We appreciate her thoughtfulness. Roger and Tricia Moir, Hilbra Avenue
I WAS delighted to see the York Civic Trust standing up for the city on Coppergate II. I cannot think of a worse addition to this city than a shopping scheme so far removed from the centre it would devalue and dilute everything York stands for. Yet I
Pensioners at a York community unit were among those flying the flag for the Queen Mother's landmark celebration today. About 20 people who attend Acomb Gables, in Oak Rise, Acomb, for day care were joining in a big birthday bash this afternoon. Later
YOU have carried two articles recently about attacks on council staff which have resulted in cases heard before York Magistrates Court. The articles highlight the difficult job that social workers have to do including, from time to time, being confronted
In York, a waiting crowd greeted with rapturous applause the first chimes of the Minster's Queen Mother Bells on the morning of her 100th birthday. The Kings Division Waterloo Band followed the chimes with a rendition of Happy Birthday for the Queen Mother
OH dear Mr Clews - you haven't a clue (July 28). Allan Clews describes his views of his three children's local primary school but I cannot believe it is the inspirational institution with a group of dedicated teachers known to many of us. On the teachers
It was National Playday on Wednesday so I decided to accompany the neighbourhood Playspace group to the local celebrations at Rowntree Park. When the coach finally dropped us off, various Playspace workers were already buzzing around the site, looking
York is set for a bus revolution, following demands for better services from passengers. Council transport chiefs are working with the city's main bus operator, First York, towards a radical overhaul of bus services. First York's strategy for the future
Three people were appearing at Scarborough Magistrates Court today following an armed police incident on one of the town's estates. It is alleged a shotgun was fired during a confrontation between contractors and youths on the Edgehill estate. Seven people
Dark Reign 2, published by Activision for PC-CDROM SPECS: Windows 95/98, Pentium II 233MHz, 64MB RAM, 650MB Hard Disk, 4MB 3D Video-Card, 16-bit Sound-Card, 4x CD-ROM, Keyboard & Mouse. NOTE: Video & Sound Cards must be DirectX7.0a compatible.
A convoy of lorries will be passing through a York village for nearly a month so that a mine shaft can be filled. Bishopthorpe Parish Council has agreed to let four lorries use the village as a route to North Selby mine shaft, which is to be filled using
YORK are aiming for a Yorkshire ECB County Premier League and Cup treble when they pay a return visit to Scarborough tomorrow. Last week York beat Scarborough at Clifton Park, having already beaten them in the League at North Marine Road earlier this
Queen Mum fanatics Lesley North and her mother Pamela Byers were today staging a right royal party in their living room. The pair iced three cakes and purchased tiaras and Union Jacks to add to a Queen Mother tea towel, commemorative mugs and other collectibles
And so continues the litany of e-catastrophe. Every advert on TV at the moment is screaming e-something at us as advertisers struggle with a message they have no idea how to sell. And Internet Banking seems to be at the top of the list at the moment.
ALL-TIME great Lee Crooks has been handed the task of rebuilding York Wasps into a rugby league force. The former Great Britain forward was today named as the new coach of the Wasps, with Garry Atkins his possible assistant. The announcement ends a long
THE Queen Mother has lived a remarkable life through a remarkable century. She has been an enduring ambassador for Britain since she married Prince Albert at Westminster Abbey 77 years ago. As a Duchess, as the Queen and now as the Queen Mother she has
SIMON RITCHIE overdoses on mushrooms and garlic at a pizzeria in a village pub Vampires should steer well clear of Pizzeria Medici at the Blacksmith's Arms at Newton-on-Ouse if they know what's good for them. But for us mere mortals who love the pungent-tasting
Mike Laycock was 40 last weekend, but the old codger felt like a school kid again as he queued for his dinner at a popular pub If life begins at 40, last Sunday was the first day of the rest of my life. And after an enjoyable child-free birthday party
Simon Ritchie finds that there is certainly plenty to eat at the Cornucopia The Cornucopia has long been a firm favourite with locals from the horseracing twin towns of Norton and Malton, but had it got what it takes to lure diners from elsewhere? After
MIKE LAYCOCK visited a village pub for lunch as staff faced the mother of all days behind the carvery It has become a big Mothering Sunday tradition for sons and daughters: take mum out to lunch. So when I was asked to try out the lunchtime carvery at
Lynne Martin falls under the spell of a pub with an very unusual menu You know that sinking feeling when you open a menu and it is written in French and you only have a basic grasp of the language? Well it happened to me. I thought I had suddenly been
When asked to choose my top two eating-outs of the year it threw me into bit of a quandary as four outstanding meals sprang to mind. The meaty monk fish at the Three Hares in Bilbrough was delicious, as was that huge tender steak Chris had at the Middleton
The omens weren't good for SIMON RITCHIE at the Four Alls Inn restaurant in Flaxton Moor but some things improved as the night progressed The Four Alls pub on the A64 is a place we had often driven past on the way to the coast but had never ventured inside
In the current anti-French climate, FRANCINE CLEE settles down to a slap-up British feast It's a truly great British tradition, the Sunday lunch. Say the very words and you're transported to a Dennis Potter world of groaning tables, straining waistbands
Can a pub - other than perhaps the Woolpack - ever have received as much free advertising on prime time TV? It's a landlord's dream: a regular appearance on Yorkshire Television's Sixties police drama Heartbeat, regularly watched by 15 million viewers
SIMON RITCHIE enjoyed an adventurous fish dish at a North Yorkshire pub and was well and truly hooked The closest I'd ever been to a marlin, before visiting the Farmers Inn, was watching big game fishermen wrestle with the pointed-nose fish on TV travel
CHRIS TITLEY charts the special relationship York holds for the Royal who used to bear the city's name ON APRIL 26 1923 a very "special relationship'' began. It was the day Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon became the Duchess of York by marrying Albert, second son
Three weeks later she was in the city again to attend the wedding of the Duke of Kent and the then Miss Katharine Worsley of Hovingham. She was one of three Queens in the congregation, the other two being our present Queen, a cousin of the Duke, and Queen
Pensioners at a York community unit were among those flying the flag for the Queen Mother's landmark celebration today. About 20 people who attend Acomb Gables, in Oak Rise, Acomb, for day care were joining in a big birthday bash this afternoon. Later
In York, a waiting crowd greeted with rapturous applause the first chimes of the Minster's Queen Mother Bells on the morning of her 100th birthday. The Kings Division Waterloo Band followed the chimes with a rendition of Happy Birthday for the Queen Mother
Celebrations broke out all over North Yorkshire today as the county saluted the Queen Mother on her 100th birthday. As the Queen Mother celebrated with the royal family and thousands of fans in London, the carnival atmosphere spread to York and North
Queen Mum fanatics Lesley North and her mother Pamela Byers were today staging a right royal party in their living room. The pair iced three cakes and purchased tiaras and Union Jacks to add to a Queen Mother tea towel, commemorative mugs and other collectibles
North Yorkshire centenarians today congratulated the Queen Mother on becoming a member of their distinguished club. Annie Worcester, of Westminster House Nursing Home, York, who celebrated her 100th birthday last October, also lived through two world
DAVID Beckham is hoping the boo-boys are a thing of the past after earning the adulation of the Bootham Crescent faithful. Saturday's friendly between York City and Manchester United was notable for the lack of abuse directed Beckham's way. The England
ONCE again the drugs tsar Keith Halliwell is to spend £30 million of tax payers' money to put users in rehab. Isn't he approaching the problem from the wrong end? What he needs to do is to ensure anyone convicted of selling hard drugs is given a ten year
I THANK the Evening Press for coverage of the problems relating to the city archives. The council's treatment of archivist Rita Freedman, whose only 'crime' was to defend her lifetime work, was reprehensible. It is wonderful that someone is prepared to
THE gruff demeanour and the tatty look said it all. It might be July, but there was definitely A Touch Of Frost in the air in York, as actor David Jason nipped in for an exterior film shoot. Jason was on the railway tracks near York station to film early
ANIMAL health officers found a badly underfed dog tied to a bed and covered in his own filth in a York couple's home, the city magistrates heard. Mike Hessay, of City of York Council, said the dog was one of four suffering from fleas, wet or covered in
A deputy headteacher has narrowly avoided losing her licence after she injured a motorcyclist in a road accident. The collision has affected Carol Wallis so badly, magistrates told her to see a doctor so she can do her job properly when school resumes
DJS fed up with the lack of opportunities in York are fleeing to the coast - and taking scores of clubbers with them. Frustrated by the closure of the Arts Centre last year, the young group of entrepreneurs, known as End Crew, are bussing out York clubbers
THE former leader of the right-wing British Movement, Colin Jordan, has accused North Yorkshire Police of carrying out a raid on his home in revenge after he won a legal action against them. Jordan, aged 77, told a court in Harrogate yesterday that the
A VISITING Sudanese teacher will be kicked out of the country after he molested two students at the University of York. But first Abdelkrim Elawid Abuzeid, 58, must finish a 30-day jail sentence for the indecent assaults he carried out in broad daylight
North Yorkshire centenarians today congratulated the Queen Mother on becoming a member of their distinguished club. Annie Worcester, of Westminster House Nursing Home, York, who celebrated her 100th birthday last October, also lived through two world
SCORES from under-8s and under-9s rugby league matches will no longer be appearing in the Evening Press following a county clampdown. The Yorkshire Junior Amateur Rugby League has brought in the new ruling in a bid to stamp out competitiveness in the
Celebrations broke out all over North Yorkshire today as the county saluted the Queen Mother on her 100th birthday. As the Queen Mother celebrated with the royal family and thousands of fans in London, the carnival atmosphere spread to York and North
BLUE Mountain can reach the pinnacle of his achievement by winning one of the toughest sprint handicap races of the season - the £85,000 Vodafone Stewards' Cup at Goodwood tomorrow. Trained by Fulke Johnson Houghton, who last month on Knavesmire won the
In the wake of tourism minister Janet Anderson's visit to Scarborough and Whitby, Stephen Lewis reports on moves to reverse the decline of seaside towns. TOURISM, says Janet Anderson, was invented in Scarborough. It's a nice little soundbite, and may
THE British do not share the American passion for roads. You cannot imagine a songster urging Driffield-bound motorists to "get your kicks on the A166". However, a new poll shows that we do have some feelings for our highways. The A1 has been named Best
Simon Ritchie finds some excellent food in picturesque Terrington Terrington, often dubbed The Village of the Dead, was living up to its cruel nickname as we arrived on our eating out foray. There wasn't a soul in sight in the picturesque village between
Simon Ritchie hits the bull's-eye with a traditional pub meal out at Escrick THE residents of Escrick are a lucky lot. This little village, which straddles the A19 between York and Selby, boasts two top eating establishments. There's the Parsonage Country
STEPHEN LEWIS braves the wrath of Dick Turpin and is pleasantly surprised at what he finds When a pub chef has just been named second best in the country in a prestigious national competition, it's got to be worth checking out. Stewart Parker, right,
LYNNE MARTIN samples some great British pub grub I am not quite sure what a Spotted Ox should look like, but this one had hanging baskets outside and was just what we were looking for - the epitome of a good English pub. You know what I mean - tasty food
