CARDIFF and the Millennium Stadium will have to wait for another season for York City, at least via the Worthington Cup route. But while knock-out competition progress has been halted for the time being, even in defeat City's progress as a team continues
MAXINE GORDON visits York's newest Indian restaurant CAF Masala is trying hard to break the mould of the traditional curry house. The small restaurant in Fishergate has none of the trappings you'd expect to find in the average Indian. There are no ethnic
IT WAS a special occasion (our 20th wedding anniversary) and we wanted to celebrate by dining out somewhere equally special. Someone suggested the Black Swan Hotel at Helmsley. We'd often seen this old and attractive building overlooking the market square
ANYONE seeking information and advice on education in York can now find more help on the world-wide web. City of York Council's educational services team has boosted its pages on the council website, at www.york.gov.uk/learning/schools, to coincide with
CANON Lee pupils in York have started term with a new continental-style timetable - and head teacher Kevin Deadman said it seemed to be going well after the first week back. Pupils at the Clifton school now start at 8.30am, have a 15-minute break in the
A PUBLIC meeting is being planned in York following an outcry over revelations that convicted paedophiles and murderers could be living at a former bail hostel. Local residents were shocked to discover that Southview Hostel in Boroughbridge Road is now
THE world fell silent today as people across the globe united to remember those who died in the terror attacks that shook the world. On every continent, a minute's silence was marking the moment when hijacked passenger planes hit the Twin Towers of the
KNIGHTS fever is all set to sweep through York. The Evening Press can reveal today that the full name of the city's new professional rugby league club is York City Knights RLFC. Chief executive Steve Ferres disclosed the name exclusively to this award-winning
DO you ever suffer from radio rage? I might start a self-help group for those of us who become so aerated by airheads on the airwaves that we want to pelt the set with its own batteries. Certain regular voices are enough to start me twitching. John Peel
The Balti Ghor Indian restaurant came about, I am told, because the Bano Phool Spice takeaway, which opened at the shopping precinct in Copmanthorpe, was so popular it was decided to open a restaurant too in the former Costcutter shop close by. I can
YORK City manager Terry Dolan immediately set his sights on Saturday's crunch Division Three clash with Rushden and Diamonds after the Minstermen went out of the Worthington Cup at the first hurdle. Despite losing 1-0 at Sheffield United last night to
The area's anglers scored major success in national action. In the Division Five National on the River Nene around Peterborough, Tang Hall Match Group's 12-man team finished 22nd with three of their ranks scoring notable solo achievements. The pick of
YORK rower Sarah Whitwell may have stepped up in age group but the victories keep on coming for the talented youngster. Whitwell, who rows for the Newark Club, showed her class at the Cambridge Autumn Regatta to pick up two victories in her new age category
A BUDDING York actor is appealing to people to help him realise his dreams of attending a top London theatre school. Peter Huntley, aged 22, of Dunnington, has gained a place at Mount View Theatre School to do an MA in musical theatre and performance.
Michael Lumb responded to the challenge of opening the batting for the first time by slamming a career-best 73 as Yorkshire Phoenix overpowered Warwickshire Bears by eight wickets under the Edgbaston floodlights. And another tactical move also paid off
Darren Gough will thrash out his future with Yorkshire over the next few days after learning he has not been awarded one of the nine 12-month ECB central contracts. Had Gough continued to be centrally contracted then Yorkshire would have been happy to
HERE is the crew of the Yorkshire Air Museum Ambulance Service, which is now ready for duty at the popular attraction near York. This latest emergency service was launched at the Elvington site and aims to provide cover for museum events, general visitors
CHILDREN going to school in East Yorkshire today had their journeys disrupted by a bus strike. The strike by workers at East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) hit 40 per cent of all school journeys in the area. Parents of children at Woldgate School in
CITY of York Councillors have objected to plans which could see the council being fined for elderly patients remaining in hospital instead of nursing or residential homes. The Government initiative could see the council paying out £500,000 in a year for
This season's schools' netball programme is due to start on Saturday, September 28, when the Under-14, U16 and U19 North Yorkshire netball trials will be held at Joseph Rowntree School, starting at 9.30am. The schoool will also host the following tournaments
The man once responsible for blocking new pubs on the Micklegate Run has just opened a new pub on the Micklegate Run. CHRIS TITLEY talks to Arthur Swaine about pubs, the police and poachers turned gamekeepers RUMOURS is a brash, bright, loud Eighties
AFTER every popular race day in York you can see hundreds of people wandering the streets of the city. Many duck in and out of takeaways, pubs and restaurants that line the main routes from the Knavesmire to the city centre. So it was no surprise on Wednesday
BLOSSOM Street is one of those odd corners of York that seems to have offered itself up entirely to the tender mercies of the car. A small bedlam of traffic and fumes squashed between the imposing facade of Micklegate Bar and the relative calm and dignity
ADVENTURE is the last thing on Candida Wilton's mind when she moves into her new shabby London flat after an acrimonious divorce from her Home Counties headmaster husband. Straightforward survival is more her goal. Her initial diary entries are full of
I WOULD like to invite Evening Press readers to attend an interesting public meeting tonight, September 11. Following the Earth Summit in Johannesburg and the general increased awareness of the social and environmental problems facing humanity, the meeting
THE terrorists hijacked our emotions along with four aeroplanes a year ago. We long to return to the world of September 10, 2001, the cosy, comfortable, safe world that now seems an age away. But we cannot. We want to wake up to find that those apocalyptic
Michael Lumb responded to the challenge of opening the batting for the first time by slamming a career-best 73 as Yorkshire Phoenix overpowered Warwickshire Bears by eight wickets under the Edgbaston floodlights. And another tactical move also paid off
PUDDINGS and lots of them - that's what the Durham Ox in Crayke means to me. Forget the beamed ceilings, the wood panelling, the cosy bar, the wine, the beautiful starters, the delicious main courses... In an inspirational move for the indecisive, the
HEAD teacher Tony Wootton has moved back to his home city with his move to Millthorpe School in York. Mr Wootton, 44, is one of several head teachers who have been settling into new schools at the start of the autumn term. He grew up in York and attended
MUSIC boxes containing instruments, puppets, games and stories are to be loaned out to parents of under-fives in York. Each box, called Melody Monkey's Marvellous Music Box, can be used by children and adults with no formal music training, as all songs
CHANGING the lives of the city's teenagers is the modest challenge that former head teacher Liz Watson has set herself in her new role. Liz has just moved from her former job as head teacher at Burnholme Community College in York to take on a new position
KIDNEY patient Matt Ward's hopes of glory in the national Transplant Games were licked - when he popped out for an ice cream and missed the start of the 100 metres race. Matt, from Salisbury Terrace, Leeman Road, York, was competing in the annual event
Darren Gough will thrash out his future with Yorkshire over the next few days after learning he has not been awarded one of the nine 12-month ECB central contracts. Had Gough continued to be centrally contracted then Yorkshire would have been happy to
Janet Hewison visits a country pub on the edge of the North York Moors THERE was a stunning quietness about the village of Wass when we arrived - too early - for our meal at the Wombwell Arms. The pub and a handful of stone cottages were glowing peacefully
Jardines Lookout, who lost out in a tactical affair at York last month, can get back on top in the feature race at Doncaster tomorrow. This high-class stayer lines up for the £100,000 GNER Doncaster Cup and, with Pat Eddery in the saddle, he is fancied
York City Baths Club' 11-year-old girls dominated the Leeds Junior sprint meet at the Leeds International pool. Sophie Calpin returned with three golds and one silver medal. Her golds came in the freestyle, butterfly and breaststroke with silver in the
A NEW-look charity shop has opened its doors to customers after its first revamp in 11 years. The Red Cross store in Walmgate, York, re-opened after being decorated and fitted with new carpets and lighting. Shoppers are being offered extra choice with
WHEN the stalwarts of Tockwith Church were planning their big day in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee, they knew exactly what they wanted to help bring in the punters. What could be a more fitting attraction to their royal celebrations than a bouncy
KNIGHTS fever is all set to sweep through York. The Evening Press can reveal today that the full name of the city's new professional rugby league club is York City Knights RLFC. Chief executive Steve Ferres disclosed the name exclusively to this award-winning
A NEIGHBOURS' squabble over late-night noise ended in York Crown Court before a circuit judge, 12 jurors and two barristers. The court heard that student archaeologist Alvaro Mora Ottomano and his friends returned home noisily from the pub to his downstairs
YORK City manager Terry Dolan immediately set his sights on Saturday's crunch Division Three clash with Rushden and Diamonds after the Minstermen went out of the Worthington Cup at the first hurdle. Despite losing 1-0 at Sheffield United last night to
'FEELING merry, are you? Not that I know what that's like, of course, sir." He's a legend in his own lunchtime, is Tom, the teenage waiter at the King's Head Hotel, in Kirkbymoorside. Tom is quite possibly the funniest waiter you'll meet. He's a fresh-faced
I WAS appalled to read of the death and injuries resulting from yet another accident on the A64 at the notorious Bilbrough Top black spot (September 9). Despite public protest through the Evening Press campaign, the gap in the crash barrier has been kept
AT 11 o'clock on the morning of September 11, I shall pause for a few minutes and think of those people (many of whom were Muslims) who died in New York. I shall also think of those who have since died in Afghanistan, approximately twice the number killed
JANET HEWISON checks out the fare at a smart York hotel AS one of York's 'posher' eating out venues, the Grange Hotel, with its award-winning Ivy restaurant and downstairs Brasserie, is the sort of place York residents like me walk past every day without
I WOULD be a liar if I said I didn't have a chip on my shoulder about Italian restaurants. Well, they are just a bit wooden sometimes aren't they? All red and white check tablecloths, jumbo pepper grinders and piped Pavarotti. Italian cuisine seems so
GO to the Fulford Arms pub they said. Take a friend and enjoy two meals for a fiver they said. Write something for the paper about your experience, they added. It all seemed so simple. Little was I to know that obstacles stood in my path. The Fulford
