ENVIRONMENT chiefs will be urged to stop the reopening of North Yorkshire's footpaths during a House of Commons debate. Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh has secured a place to speak in Parliament on Wednesday. She will ask a Minister from the Department
Andy Hutchinson is the new Evening Press/Guildford Construction York Wasps Player of the Year. The absence of his nearest challenger, injured Darren Crake, from the line-up last week handed the title to big prop forward Hutch. And just for good measure
A NORTH YORKSHIRE woman has escaped with her life after drifting through African waters for six hours - an experience her boyfriend did not survive. Lucy Stone, aged 32, from Tollerton, near Easingwold, had been sailing around the coast of Africa last
YORK city centre's battle against out-of-town competition takes a new twist tomorrow when a car boot sale is staged - at York Market. Booters will be able to park up and start peddling their unwanted household goods on the cobbled area between the rear
TWO men are to receive public rewards for their part in bringing a pub manager and his three friends to justice for their "loutish" behaviour in York city centre at midnight. Peter Dransfield and Gregory Thornton intervened when they saw a confrontation
ANGRY patients banned from being treated by their two York doctors for a year have launched a petition and a fighting fund. The petition calls for doctors Martin Ashley and Gill Towler to be allowed to continue treating patients at Monkgate Health Centre
POLICE today warned women not to walk alone in an area of York after a serious sex attack on a teenage girl. They are now investigating possible links between THREE attacks on teenage girls in the area. In the latest incident, the 17-year-old victim was
PAUL KIRKWOOD takes a liberating trip in and out of Bransdale. MY walking boots still gathering dust, I was missing the Moors so decided to explore them by bike instead. I chose a road that loops into and out of Bransdale in the heart of the National
WE promised in our recent review that we would return to Number Twenty Eight on a better day. So here we are, honouring our pledge. When surveying a snack spot we are looking for four things: the welcome (including cleared tables), quality and value for
There was good news and bad news for a York bus driver after the success of last week's Yellow Day for our Hospice 2000 appeal. The "on the buses" collection raised a splendid £1,790 for St Leonard's, with drivers dressed in yellow for the occasion. But
The sands of time took RICHARD JOHNS back to his childhood, as he discovered when he spent a week in a cottage in Northumberland. IT was like a second childhood for me. Playing in the sand, with not a care in the world. As I ran along Ross Beach, scores
CHARLES HUTCHINSON visits Harrogate's newest Italian restautant and is happy to spot no pizzas at all. BRIO. Definition in English: liveliness, vivacity, spirit. In brackets, from the Italian. You will find the definition, this time in Italian and at
Matthew Wood and Michael Lumb both hit sparkling centuries at Headingley as Championship leaders Yorkshire worked their way into a commanding position against Leicestershire, writes David Warner. Wood's 102 was his second consecutive century and it confirmed
Discredited in the one-day international triangular series, England are about to discover if they can make a fight of it in the battle for the Ashes which begins at Edgbaston on Thursday. But coach Duncan Fletcher's original decision to ban his players
Mike Laycock steps back in time at the Ryedale Folk Museum. HUTTON-LE-HOLE has had a rough old time this year, thanks to foot and mouth. Visitor numbers have slumped, presumably because you can no longer roam the surrounding fells. But Hutton, one of
I WAS disappointed to see Councillors Thomas and Waudby's remarks about the police response to events in Skelton, particularly after a productive meeting in February in which we hoped a new partnership had been formed to address the youth issues in the
AS a long-time Roxy Music fan, I feel I must take exception to certain parts of Charles Hutchinson's review (June 20. For any piece of journalism to be taken seriously, the underlying facts must be correct. The percussionist playing on Tuesday evening
THE Evening Press carried features and an editorial on the urgent need for the recycling of household waste (June 20). There are millions of people working eight hours a day to create the junk churned out by the packaging industry; we can't hope to solve
I AM no great train fan but news that the Bullet train from Japan has arrived in York came as a welcome surprise (June 21). Having recently moved to York after several years 'down South' I am amazed and delighted at the wide range of cultural events taking
CHILDREN enjoyed the sunshine at the annual teddy bears' picnic held by the Headlands after-school club in Haxby. The annual event is organised by the club which is based behind the primary school. This year it was also something of a celebration for
There was good news and bad news for a York bus driver after the success of last week's Yellow Day for our Hospice 2000 appeal. The "on the buses" collection raised a splendid £1,790 for St Leonard's, with drivers dressed in yellow for the occasion. But
DAVE O'Hara was in superb 16 dart form as York Maxiprint League division one leaders Bay Horse demolished Pack of Cards. O'Hara was ably supported by Simon Craven (18), Rich Corner (17), Allan Galley (19) and Paul Cooper (20). Pack's consolation point
Acomb and Selby have established a lead for the top two play-off places in the York and District Junior Cricket Association NatWest Bank U15 League West Zone and their meeting next week should decide the zone champions. Acomb this week had a nine-wicket
SHE'S back - and she feels like a new woman. Multiple sclerosis victim Yasmin Heesom has returned to York after ten weeks at a New York complementary therapy clinic. And friends and carers can hardly believe the transformation. "Yasmin has got her soul
ENVIRONMENT chiefs will be urged to stop the reopening of North Yorkshire's footpaths during a House of Commons debate. Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh has secured a place to speak in Parliament on Wednesday. She will ask a Minister from the Department
Knaresborough motor racing driver Darren Manning has lunged himself into a hectic training schedule in readiness for the next round of the F3000 series this weekend at Magny-Cours in France. Despite the lack of a good result from Nurburgring last weekend
York Wasps will finally be able to put behind them the worst season in their history tomorrow - but first they must ensure it doesn't plummet even lower. The Wasps couldn't have asked for a tougher end of season match than a trip to runaway Northern Ford
Darryll Holland, who completed a magnificent five-timer at the last Doncaster meeting, can again make his presence felt on Town Moor tomorrow. The top-flight jockey is fancied to complete a treble on Stallone, Smart Predator and Big Moment. Stallone is
LOOK at the clip of York's Blue Bicycle chef Kenny Noble. He had it zebra-styled by Lawton Henry of Walmgate to raise money for the up-market restaurant's pet charity which fights to ease the suffering of Alzheimer's victims. The 38-year-old chef has
A MAN today told of a horrifying attack by drunken youths which left him drenched in blood - saying someone could have been killed. David McGouran, 51, and his wife, Carol, of Woodlands Avenue, Wigginton, were walking back from a village pub when they
CHEERS! Barry and Barbara Stickney are celebrating the rise of the Phoenix from run-down boozer into double award-winner. The Phoenix success story comes courtesy of a wonderfully sympathetic restoration by owners the Unique Pub Company, and the committed
There is only £22,000 to go as the St Leonard's Hospice £2 million reaches the final countdown - with a weekend of fun-packed events coming up. A community fun day in the grounds of York College takes place tomorrow along with a giant auction at the Racecourse
George Wilkinson soon loses himself in the peace at Hutton Buscel, near Scarborough SAINT Matthew's in Hutton Buscel has a Norman tower and a sundial with an awkward homily that reads 'Time wasted is existence, time used is life'. Today's toddle is no
ON the bus, in the pub and even in the cinema, they are always going off. And they don't just ring like a normal phone, but chime and bleep tunes ranging from Mozart to the latest Steps hit. Once a Yuppie status symbol, mobile phones are now an essential
I WELCOME readers to York's new weekend skateboard and mountain-bike track, to be found opposite Starbuck's in Coney Street, by St Martin's church. Entry is free, just bring your own wheels. Show up on a busy Saturday or Sunday and surf the sidewalk,
THE legislative programme for the first session of our New Labour Government reveals their apparent sense of priorities. Time is to be found to hold a vote to ban fox hunting but not tobacco advertising. Apparently the welfare of foxes is of more importance
ART work by students at York College has been on show all week as part of the college's annual creative show. The show celebrates a diverse range of arts, 3D crafts, design, media and performance. The creative show incorporates such diverse subjects as
A MAJOR exhibition of one of the country's fastest growing art forms is currently under way in an East Yorkshire town. Creative textiles, which includes embroidery, quilt making and cushion crafting, used to be seen as a painstaking pastime followed by
THE 30,000 road tax cheats estimated to be on North Yorkshire's roads will have nowhere to hide from Monday. Under the banner, "Your time is up, don't risk it - tax it", wheelclamping hit squads will be trawling the streets of the county as part of a
VILLAGE school teacher Alison Metcalfe is in line to win a regional award in this year's Teaching Awards. Mrs Metcalfe teaches the youngest children at Sutton-on-the-Forest CE Primary School, near Easingwold. She is one of five regional finalists in the
A TEENAGE king James ruled at Easingwold GC. The club's junior captain James Woodhouse bagged his first hole in one at the tender age of 15. Playing off 21, James has only been playing golf for the last four years, but it was high fives all round at the
A COMMON interest in dancing brought together a couple who are celebrating their golden wedding today. Arthur and Betty Whatt, of Wilberfoss, between York and Pocklington, met at a dance at an RAF base in the late 1940s. Both originally from Hull, the
THE YORK Golf Club will swing into one of its most eye-catching events on August 13. That's when it will host the Darren Gough Golf Day comprising 20 teams of four players including the Yorkshire and England pace ace. Other members of the England squad
THIS happy couple have far outreached the "gold and silver" stage of their marriage, and today they were marking a rare anniversary - 70 years. Acomb couple Douglas and Winifred Clarke have still got smiles on their faces as they prepare to celebrate
FANTASTIC weather was matched by an excellent sporting event at Harrogate Granby High School, where the North Yorkshire Youth Games were held. More than 850 boys and girls from across the county took part in 16 competitions covering 11 different sporting
York Wasps will finally be able to put behind them the worst season in their history tomorrow - but first they must ensure it doesn't plummet even lower. The Wasps couldn't have asked for a tougher end of season match than a trip to runaway Northern Ford
