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York City fans are being urged to step forward and offer their skills to set up a Supporters' Trust.
CLIFTON Ladies scored a good 7-2 away win over Riverside in ladies division one of the York Badminton League.
LIFE'S a beach - and then you celebrate New Year's Eve on one.
DAN Broadbent scored a hat-trick as Kirkbymoorside Reserves won 4-0 at Slingsby to close the gap on RJF Homes Beckett League division one leaders Rosedale to one point.
York and District Umpires' Association's annual winter course will start on Sunday, January 6.
A FORMER University of York lecturer, who has spent his life making foreign languages accessible to all, has been made an OBE.
CHRISTMAS can once again be greener for York and North Yorkshire residents.
The York and Ainsty Hunt point-to-point race meeting at Easingwold has been scheduled this year for Saturday, April 27, and will include a round in the Gerrard Ladies Open Championship.
New Earswick All Blacks Amateur Rugby League Club resume training tonight at Rawcliffe recreation ground at 7.30pm.
A YORK bat enthusiast has issued a plea to anyone felling trees in the New Year to watch out for the winged mammals.
Middleham trainer Andy Crook was fined £2,200 over the running and riding of Battle Warning, who was beaten just over two lengths into fourth place in the last race at Southwell yesterday.
YORK-based rail firm GNER is to cut single fares across its network to as little as £5 from today.
YORK City's FA Cup preparations clicked in to gear today with manager Terry Dolan and his squad enjoying their now traditional pre-cup build-up with a difference.
IT is ironic that in the week when North Yorkshire is declared foot and mouth free, the dreadful state of the county's footpaths is revealed.
WE are thrilled that Dame Vera Lynn has joined our campaign for a memorial to the women of the Second World War.
NINE hundred and seventy-one names were on the New Year's Honours List. I should know, I've read every one. Twice. It's not that I expected my name to be among them, at least not at first; but then I discovered that this year's medal mart was dominated…
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FORCES' Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn has joined the York-based campaign for a memorial to the women of the Second World War.
SUB-ZERO temperatures didn't chill the spirits of thousands of York revellers who partied in the streets to welcome in 2002.
YORK'S Chris Jay is making a name for himself in Korea at the national sport of taekwondo.
YOUR paper did itself and the Holgate Windmill Preservation Society a disservice by publishing the article on the mill by Kerry Beadling (December 7).
I READ the report of the automatic car which developed a fault and ran out of control in St. Benedict Road, York and the woman's driver's struggle to control it (December 28).
ARE we going to have a new national football stadium and if so, where? No use asking the English Football Association about this subject - they know FA!
REGARDING Colin Jeffrey's letter (December 27), I work in the retail industry and I, along with many of my fellow workers, have no desire to work on Christmas Day.
Lingfield's new and much-applauded Polytrack surface offers the best chance of racing tomorrow as the big freeze continues to cause havoc to meetings on turf.
YORK Wasps suffered a triple whammy yesterday as the big winter freeze put paid to the New Year's Day clash against Swinton Lions.
NORTH Yorkshire's footpaths are amongst the worst in England, according to a survey published by the Countryside Agency.
TWO New Year revellers turned heroes when they helped to rescue a woman who had jumped off a bridge into a freezing York river.
NEW Year's Day will always be that bit more special for a York mum and dad after the birth of their baby girl.
TWO people were injured in a crash just off the Grimston Bar roundabout in York today.
YORKSHIRE continued to feel the big chill today after temperatures plummeted to -11C overnight.
HUNTING enthusiasts in North Yorkshire were out to see the traditional New Year's Day meet on the day the county was finally declared free of foot and mouth disease.
NORTH Yorkshire has finally been confirmed as foot and mouth disease free, prompting farmers' leaders to speak of hopes for better times ahead in 2002.
ROWNTREE 'B' team player Sean Marshall produced arguably the best all-round performance in the 17 years history of the Hunters The Estate Agent York and District Indoor Cricket League.
SOME of York's smaller residents took advantage of an icy trip down the River Ouse as plunging temperatures froze the city's main river.
