Richard Blakey and Richard Dawson were transformed into Richard the Lionhearts at Canterbury yesterday when their seventh-wicket crusade stopped Kent from completing what had appeared to be a straightforward victory march inside three days. The pair came
Saltmarshe is a hamlet on the Yorkshire side of the River Ouse about five miles upstream of the Humber Estuary. We visited because Mr Ayre from Elvington, an Evening Press reader, sent in a tempting route. Thank you, we enjoyed the walk very much. The
A NEW name for York City as well as a football advice service and designer clothing and are among fresh plans revealed by the club's flamboyant chairman. John Batchelor, 43, said he plans to radically change the struggling club's image making York City
I'VE got a lot to thank Theakston's Brewery for. Persuading my wine-drinking girlfriend to join me for the popular tour of the brewery at Masham was a master stroke. Her conversion from over-priced wine to affordable halves of bitter is now complete.
A quilegia is a popular perennial plant grown for its attractive ferny foliage and spring flowers that bloom in May and June. The traditional Columbine associated with old fashioned cottage gardens is the dainty Aquilegia vulgaris with delicate foliage
Yorkshire this week voted in favour of 20 players being put on 12-month central contracts by the England and Wales Cricket Board from September. The only representatives of the First Class Forum to abstain on the issue were Kent and the MCC, which means
FORTUNATELY my days of working in York, or having to endure travelling through York on a regular basis have passed. It was something I had to do from about the mid-Seventies. I had the misfortune to travel through the city recently and noted the letter
THE historic beauty of the main function rooms in York's Elizabethan Heslington Hall has been restored after a major renovation project. The original features of the hall's reception rooms, previously sub-divided into small offices, can now be seen again
SEEKERS after the perfectly prepared vegetable dish might not think of the average city boozer as their first port of call. For such places, surely, are where the idea of "vegetables" consists of a few boiled spuds and an off-colour green bean or two?
A STALWART voluntary worker has sailed past 50 years' service with a long-standing young people's group in York. Lt Tug Wilson, 79, said he has enjoyed every minute of the thousands of hours he has spent working with York Sea Cadets. Mr Wilson, who started
A YORK man whose family was almost wiped out in wartime bombing of the city is searching for information about his past. Leon Helstrip, 38, who lives at New Earswick, had already started researching the family history using the internet when an Evening
A BUSY day at a community-minded York take-away saw owners offer to help send a young blind boy on holiday. The owners of Papa John's pizza shop, in Fishergate, have offered to donate five per cent of takings over three days to the McLeod family, from
CITY of York Council is fighting a rising tide of complaints about noise. Officers and councillors plan a new initiative to combat the scourge of noisy neighbours and the misery they create. The council has revealed new statistics showing that noise complaints
PROTESTERS from York travelled to Scarborough today to demonstrate against climate change. A handful of campaigners from the York and Ryedale area were staging a peaceful protest outside the Burniston Road Esso petrol station. The group urged motorists
A NORTH YORKSHIRE football team manager who butted a rival club official during a match last year has been given a community sentence. Bob Lyon, manager of Selby Town FC, was convicted at an earlier hearing of assaulting Pickering Town fixtures secretary
IT has become something of a York and District Leeper Hare League Senior Cup Final tradition that the team that scores first usually loses. This year's final between Boroughbridge and Dringhouses at York RI's New Lane ground was no exception with Dringhouses
ONE of York's worst eyesores looks set to be demolished under new council plans. City of York Council has applied for planning permission to knock down the old incinerator at the back of its waste disposal site in Foss Islands Road. But the brick chimney
SILVER is being turned into a golden prize at York Golf Club - with not a flash of alchemy in sight. The men's captain Tony Wood has unearthed a memento from the mists of time which will now be presented to commemorate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. The
A MAN who took a pig's head to court has been cleared of two charges of misbehaving in the courtroom. Immediately after his acquittal, Gordon William Palmer said of the cases about hearings at a North Yorkshire magistrates' court: "This was a waste of
UNKNOWN territory beckons for trophy-collecting Emma Duggleby next week. The newly-crowned Yorkshire Ladies champion has travelled extensively across the globe in a decade and more of high-calibre amateur women's golf. Only two months ago she was in South
JORVIK Warrior Jamie Warters is being lined up for an autumn comeback against Manchester's Lee Whitehead. Warters, once rated as one of Britain's leading light-heavyweights, had been due to make his long-awaited return to the ring a fortnight ago only
Richard Blakey and Richard Dawson were transformed into Richard the Lionhearts at Canterbury yesterday when their seventh-wicket crusade stopped Kent from completing what had appeared to be a straightforward victory march inside three days. The pair came
A unique squad of Asian rugby league players, who will take part in the forthcoming York Nines competition, will be unveiled in Bradford tomorrow. The South Asia Bulls, an new invitation squad drawn from teams across West Yorkshire, will compete in the
RELATIVES of a York rapist broke down in court and others reacted angrily as he was jailed for five years and placed on the sex offenders' register for life. Last month, a jury unanimously convicted David Glen Atkin, 42, of raping a young woman guest
THE collapse of York Wasps not only signalled the end - for the time-being - of professional rugby league in the city, but also brought to a premature conclusion the careers of three well-respected players. Andy Precious, Mick Ramsden and Darren Crake
CASTLEGATE is not usually thronging with people yet this venue always appears busy when I pass. Looking round at our fellow snackers, I couldn't detect whether they were visitors to York or locals. The menu ranges from the light (two toasted crumpets
THEY'RE a bit like buses, these oriental buffets. You know; you wait for ages for one to come along, and then they all arrive together. No sooner has the Jumbo Chinese Buffet opened in George Hudson Street - to the great delight of anyone who loves cheap
THERE was considerable indignation recently concerning the arrangements for pantomime booking at York Theatre Royal. This matter has now been resolved. However, there is now another serious problem which will no doubt create even greater indignation among
YOUR article about wildlife meadows in peril (May 13) was very true. Wildlife meadows are disappearing at a startling rate. A prime example is the 53 acres or so of meadows at Metcalfe Lane, Osbaldwick which the City of York Council is determined to develop
I WENT to purchase a chair from a department store at Clifton Moor. When my husband went to pay at the desk we were then informed of a £10 delivery charge on anything less than £250. Will people be warned, through Age Concern, who are good at the 'watch
WHY did they have to install "a new sophisticated fire-alarm system" at the refurbished Palace Cinema, Malton (May 13)? Was it because of the over-heated bedroom scenes of Casablancan passion - starring old Bogey and Bergy? Or was it the projected performance
CAN I take this opportunity to pass on my congratulations to Prince Charles and Camilla on their (impending) wedding announcement. As one of the original Goon fans and an honorary member of the Loony Party, Charles deserves every happiness for the future
MUCH-loved teenager Jamie Bucknell now has a permanent memorial in his home village of Strensall thanks to money raised by readers. The people of York reached the £7,500 target for Jamie's Have A Heart Appeal within three weeks last year and went on to
A BUS shelter outside a York junior school has become a haunt for drug addicts who intimidate law-abiding people, a councillor claims. Liberal Democrat councillor Mark Waudby has hit out at drug abusers who he says are making life a misery for bus users
THE Government has finally agreed to pay its share of the £1 million bill for the Selby train crash. But North Yorkshire Police must still meet about £300,000 of the cost of the accident at Great Heck, in which ten people died. And this - along with the
LANDLORDS do not often get out and about, but this week there has been some discreet shuffling and whispering among the key-holders of York's best inns. It turns out that a handful of the city's finest are joining forces and staging a major real ale festival
EVENING Press reader Valerie Flower will get thousands of women on their marks for the Race For Life. Valerie is the winner of the Evening Press competition to wear the 2002 race number for tomorrow's event - and has the double honour of being invited
YORK RL Club legend Edgar Dawson got his hands on some prestigious silverware yesterday as he became the first person to lift the Fairfax Cup. However, he was not awarded the trophy for his own feats, but rather he was unveiling the main prize for next
A YORK woman's dream holiday ended in a nightmare after she developed a life-threatening illness during a long-haul flight. Shirley Lodge, 37, from Osbaldwick, is now recovering at home following a speedy diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Shirley
