Coppergate Riverside would claw business back to York city centre from Leeds and out-of-town shopping centres if it gets the go-ahead, the public inquiry into the scheme was told. But if the £60 million redevelopment scheme is turned down, the city will
THE fate of the Castle-Piccadilly area of York should be sealed during the next three weeks. That is how long it will take for the planning inquiry to hear the evidence surrounding a proposal to build a large complex of shops, restaurants, offices and
PROTESTERS gathered in York to oppose the multi-million pound Coppergate Riverside proposals, just before the start of a major inquiry into the plans. Members of the Castle Area Campaign, York Tomorrow, York Civic Trust and York Chamber of Trade met in
The £60 million Coppergate Riverside proposal this week nears the end of a decade of heated debate. As a three-week Government inquiry begins, Political Reporter Adam Nichols looks at one of the most controversial development proposals in the history
STUNNED users and staff are furious at budget-cutting council proposals to close a mental health day centre in York. News that Sycamore House in Clarence Street could close to save City of York Council £190,000 came as a bombshell to users and staff alike
RAIL users in North Yorkshire could face lightning strikes every month after union bosses threatened Arriva with a year-long timetable of disputes. As last-gasp talks to avert the first of two 48-hour strikes appeared to collapse yesterday, the National
A MAN was being quizzed today by detectives investigating the murder of a Korean woman whose body was found in a dumped suitcase on a country lane near York. The 30-year-old man, whose identity and nationality have not been revealed, was arrested last
GARY Hart has lodged an appeal against his conviction for causing the deaths of ten people in the Selby train crash. Hart was convicted at Leeds Crown Court in December of ten counts of causing death by dangerous driving. The 37-year-old building contractor
ENVIRONMENT Minister Elliot Morley is to visit Ryedale next week to view work on the Malton and Norton flood defences. Work started this week after the Yorkshire Flood Liaison Committee and DEFRA agreed funding for the project. The minister, who last
I HAVE followed York City, along with my husband who is a season ticket holder, for over 30 years and we feel hurt, very angry and dismayed that Douglas Craig can bring York City to its knees. How can Barry Swallow, who claimed he was York City through-and-through
As another pub faces demolition to make way for housing, STEPHEN LEWIS asks if can anything be done to stem the rising tide of development in York THESE days, you only have to blink and it seems another pub, club or guest house in York is being pulled
Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS takes to the mountains of Spain in the Ford's new Fiesta UNLIKE its US-based members of the family tree, Ford of Europe appears to be in pretty good health, with the UK branch, despite some hard pruning in recent years,
THE crisis at York District Hospital starkly illustrates the dilapidated state of the National Health Service. York is fortunate to have a good hospital staffed by expert, caring health professionals. Yet it is simply unable to cope with demand. Last
NORTH Yorkshire gourmets have long known that the Star Inn at Harome serves up some of Britain's most exquisite food. This reputation has even drawn the national critics away from their favoured London haunts to try some Northern cooking. So the Star's
MOVE over Bollywood historical romances. Move over Merchant Ivory and stiff-collared, stiff-lip British Raj period pieces. Mira Nair is shedding new light on contemporary Indian culture in an exuberant yet poignant portrait of changing Punjabi attitudes
NORTH YORKSHIRE MP John Greenway has welcomed the European Parliament's decision to hold a full inquiry into the foot and mouth epidemic which devastated North Yorkshire. The parliament has established a committee which will spend the next 12 months looking
AN ARCHITECT behind York's Coppergate Riverside proposals has been challenged over the aesthetic impact on historic buildings nearby. Nigel Woolner admitted that fast-food outlets could feature in the development, while insisting all cafs and restaurants
A YORK couple are going head to head this month when they both take part in a gruelling sled dog rally in Scotland. Dog lovers Guy and Helen Redwood from Dunnington, York, are taking their four pet Siberian huskies - Teba, Baloo, Elvis and Basil - to
SEVERUS WMC served notice of their John Smith's York Sunday League division one championship intentions and at the same time dealt a severe blow to Volunteer's hopes with a thumping 8-1 win. Volunteer were made to rue early missed chances when they fell
A GROUP of York teenagers have taken a year out of their studies to work with youngsters in their local community. The four-strong team, from the Gateway Christian Centre, in Front Street, Acomb, took up the challenge after finishing their A-levels at
Scarborough manager Russell Slade has injury worries as his side look for their fourth successive win at home to Woking. It will be the first chance for the Seasiders to get the double over a side this season, as the team won 2-1 in Surrey at the start
NORTH YORKSHIRE MP John Greenway has welcomed the European Parliament's decision to hold a full inquiry into the foot and mouth epidemic which devastated North Yorkshire. The parliament has established a committee which will spend the next 12 months looking
THE two form sides in the UniBond League first division will clash tomorrow when Harrogate Town entertain Gretna. Both sides have won five league matches on the bounce, but that run will come to an end for one - or possibly both - sides. Town, who are
WHILE the spotlight might be on York City's perilous financial position and their fairy-tale FA Cup run, in Pickering it is the FA Vase which has caught the imagination. The Vase - exclusively for the lower echelons of the football pyramid - may not have
TWO York policemen who joined the force together 23 years ago were today being recognised for their loyal service and dedication to the job. Constable Colin Brown and Sergeant Michael Thompson, who both work from Clifton Moor Police Station, were among
FORGET demonstrations and anger and dig deep - that was the message to York City fans from club mainstay Frank Cawood. Now in an astonishing 73rd year of supporting the Minstermen, the former Supporters' Club secretary and treasurer for more than 20 years
PICKERING Town are attracting interest at the bookmakers for their exploits in the FA Vase. Non-League football is not usually known to come under the scrutiny of the bookies, but odds of 12/1 can currently be picked up for the Pikes to win the FA Vase
Colin Matthews, a member of the London and Southern branch of the City Supporters' Club is planning to take City's plight to the top. "It is my intention to highlight once again, the club's terrible plight with a public display of emotion outside the
A NORTH Yorkshire pub has been awarded a Michelin star in Europe's most celebrated awards for good eating. The Star Inn, at Harome, near Helmsley, is one of only three pubs in the country to gain the accolade, and the only one in the North. The pub is
STRIKER Stuart Douglas could be poised to line up against York City for the third time this season in his third different shirt. Rushden & Diamonds' boss Brian Talbot, who was at Bootham Crescent on Tuesday as City beat Grimsby 1-0, has taken the
A six-year-old boy was cut by flying glass and his classmates were left weeping and afraid when thoughtless youths kicked a football through a school window. Police officers said today they were looking for two teenage boys who smashed the window at Clifton
YORK City have banned the 'F'-word as they look to transfer their FA Cup form and fortunes into the League. City wing-back Graham Potter admits the Minstermen must put Fulham to the back of their minds as they prepare for tomorrow's tough trip to Rushden
A MOTORIST had a lucky escape when his car rolled down an embankment and ended up on its side after a collision with a hay lorry today. The male driver was cut free by firefighters and taken to York District Hospital with minor injuries after the accident
HELP! It's the middle of January and my New Year's resolution to use only public transport is already on its way out. City of York Council and its partner, First York, have provided the people of York with a "turn up and go", "revolutionised", "simple
YOUR article about the redevelopment of Hob Moor School (December 10) included a confession by Labour councillor Janet Looker that "we didn't go out to public consultation". For Coun Looker to justify her stance on the basis that expeditiousness takes
Small wonder that the grieving relatives of the victims of the Great Heck train disaster were seen to be distraught, along with the police officers involved, at the sentence imposed by the court on Gary Hart (Five years is not enough, January 12). While
I REMIND readers who served their National Service in the Royal Navy about the inaugural meeting of the National Service (Royal Navy) Association on Saturday, March 9, at 9.30am at the Mill Rythe Holiday Centre, on Hayling Island off the Hampshire coast
Bindaree, who has filled the frame in valuable events on his last two starts, can elevate himself to the number one spot in the big race at Haydock tomorrow. The £45,000 Bet Direct Peter Marsh Chase is the target for Nigel Twiston-Davies' gelding, who
A NORTH Yorkshire pub has been awarded a Michelin star in Europe's most celebrated awards for good eating. The Star Inn, at Harome, near Helmsley, is one of only three pubs in the country to gain the accolade, and the only one in the North. The pub is
THE controversial plans for the £60 million Coppergate Riverside proposals reached their final hurdle today with the start of a three-week Government inquiry. Protesters made their opposition clear as inspector Anthony Bingham arrived at York's Guildhall
AN OLD fashioned open-air debate is being planned over York's Coppergate Riverside proposals - as it emerged that Sir Bernard Ingham is to appear in person at the forthcoming public inquiry. Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary has been timetabled
A CAMPAIGN group has been launched in support of York's controversial Coppergate Riverside scheme - just before the big public inquiry begins. Friends Of Riverside (FOR) claims it "represents the voice of York's silent majority, those many thousands of
FANS fighting to save York City have confirmed Friday, February 1, as the date when it is hoped a Supporters' Trust will be formally launched. York's Barbican Centre will be the venue for the supporters' second public meeting, when the Save City working
THE long debate over the Coppergate Riverside proposals is coming to a climax with the public inquiry which started this week at York's Guildhall. So it's a good time to look back at the construction of the original Coppergate Centre, which was designed
Malton pantomime's comedy turn, Mark Poole, takes to the stage tonight in Cinderella despite breaking a finger in a climbing accident in the Lake District. School teacher Mark fell on rocks near Keswick but, when asked if the injury would affect his role
A POLICEMAN from York died from post-traumatic meningitis two weeks after being hurt in a serious road accident. PC Kevin Green, 39, of Clifton, died on May 23 from a virulent form of the disease. Earlier that month he had been involved in an accident
DOZENS of operations have been cancelled and patients face delays in accident and emergency as a winter beds crisis hits York District Hospital. Latest figures show only six beds available for new patients on the hospital's admissions ward. More than
A Brush With Nature, the first exhibition of 2002 at York City Art Gallery, turns the spotlight on the Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches. Distinguished art historians John and Charlotte Gere pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape sketches
STRIKER Stuart Douglas could be poised to line up against York City for the third time this season in his third different shirt. Rushden & Diamonds' boss Brian Talbot, who was at Bootham Crescent on Tuesday as City beat Grimsby 1-0, has taken the
YORK City have banned the 'F'-word as they look to transfer their FA Cup form and fortunes into the League. City wing-back Graham Potter admits the Minstermen must put Fulham to the back of their minds as they prepare for tomorrow's tough trip to Rushden
FANS fighting to save York City have confirmed Friday, February 1, as the date when it is hoped a Supporters' Trust will be formally launched. York's Barbican Centre will be the venue for the supporters' second public meeting, when the Save City working
RICH Corner (18) stood out for Bay Horse 'A' in their emphatic 8-1 win over Volunteer in the Atlas Auto Services Darts League division one encounter. Corner was well backed by Paul Cooper (19) and Dave O'Hara, who also closed in 19 darts. Steve Johnson's
The Acomb Tackle York Winter League returns for the third round on Sunday with a field of 115 set to do battle on the Ouse below York. Competitors will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the dour second round when there was an unprecedented number of blanks
A REPORT into conditions at Full Sutton Prison, near York, says budget restrictions and health care at the jail are causing "serious concern". The annual report of the Board Of Visitors, which looks at the provisions made for inmates, also raises concerns
POCKLINGTON have been forced into Yorkshire One action this weekend despite originally arranging their clash with Sheffield Tigers for February 16. The Percy Road side hold their annual Founders' Dinner at the clubhouse tonight, and with this in mind
AN ARCHITECT behind York's Coppergate Riverside proposals has been challenged over the aesthetic impact on historic buildings nearby. Nigel Woolner admitted that fast-food outlets could feature in the development, while insisting all cafs and restaurants
A TEENAGE burglar has been jailed for three years for a string of burglaries on elderly people. John Christopher Eastman, 19, ransacked a 94-year-old woman's bedside cabinet while she slept next to it, Karen Smoult-Hawtree told York Crown Court. He had
ON Christmas Eve, your Man On The Omnibus reported on his journeys by East Yorkshire Motor Services buses between York and Pocklington, and I am glad to see that we performed reasonably well. He comments that East Yorkshire is the only bus company he
DRINKING water in Hull Road (Evening Press, January 8) has never been a problem. Traffic is. Could it be that Yorkshire Water's current spend, as part of a £4 million Towncare scheme, is to provide a supply into which the new tennis centre, with its swimming
I LOST my purse, which had a nice bit of money in it, outside Burton Lane Club. A young man rang me up to say he had found it and was on his way returning it to me. He insisted on not accepting a reward, but we made him. We did not get his name. Would
IN his column, 'Dithering over the euro', Julian Cole claims the reasons given against our joining are essentially emotional. He should study the reasoned arguments set out in a paper, The Economic Case Against The Euro. Those endorsing the document include
FORGET demonstrations and anger and dig deep - that was the message to York City fans from club mainstay Frank Cawood. Now in an astonishing 73rd year of supporting the Minstermen, the former Supporters' Club secretary and treasurer for more than 20 years
Colin Matthews, a member of the London and Southern branch of the City Supporters' Club is planning to take City's plight to the top. "It is my intention to highlight once again, the club's terrible plight with a public display of emotion outside the
