Archive

  • Power to your elbow

    THIS week our pictorial look- back down the years is all about power. Here you can see some of Yorkshire's mightiest power stations, in various stages of construction, working life and demolition. Our main picture, taken in 1971, shows the contrast between

  • City gets cooking with food festival

    THE aroma of first-class cooking filled the streets of York today as the sixth annual York Festival of Food and Drink began. Dozens of stalls filled Parliament Street with goods from the continent and the festival's tasting boulevard. In the festival

  • School's prize guys

    Mr Fletcher, who now works as director of learning services at Hull City Council was head of the school from 1993 to 2000. At yesterday's event, head teacher Carey Chidwick congratulated pupils on achieving their best A-level results and their third best

  • City fans are simply the best!

    YORK City Supporters' Trust was on top of the world today after being hailed one of the best of its kind. The fledgling trust - established just eight months ago - was highly commended in the Trust Of The Year awards for 2002 at a prestigious football

  • Safe Braker

    Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS is taken on a high-speed safety ride in the Mercedes S-Class 600 IT may take only seconds for a driver to be hurtling into a serious crash, but it is still long enough for an amazing protection system developed by Mercedes-Benz

  • Blow Up Your TV, City Art Gallery, until November 3

    Never take your TV for granted: the artists in the new Blow Up Your TV video exhibition at York City Art Gallery don't! Curated by Janet Hodgson and David Mabb, this diverse collection of videos from 16 artists goes on show as part of Sightsonic 2002,

  • City fans are simply the best!

    YORK City Supporters' Trust was on top of the world today after being hailed one of the best of its kind. The fledgling trust - established just eight months ago - was highly commended in the Trust Of The Year awards for 2002 at a prestigious football

  • Diamond teasers for Brian

    RUSHDEN and Diamonds arrive at Bootham Crescent tomorrow top of Division Three but still looking for their first away win of the season, writes Dave Stanford. The Diamonds are also fresh from a giant-killing cup upset on Tuesday night, when they knocked

  • No Parkin leads to striker jam

    YORK City boss Terry Dolan was today sweating on the fitness of striker Jon Parkin ahead of tomorrow's crunch clash with Rushden and Diamonds, writes Dave Stanford. The giant target man, who has scored three goals and played a vital role in City's bright

  • Lantana (15, 121 minutes)

    Lantana is a shrub common in Australia, and that is the least interesting detail about Ray Lawrence's psychological drama, a study of husbands and their lies, of chance and second chance, adapted from Andrew Bovell's play Speaking In Tongues. A woman's

  • Signs (12A), 106 minutes.

    THERE is something of the night about M Night Shyamalan and his cinematic land of make-believe. He stalks the supernatural, first playing mind games in The Sixth Sense and then going weirder still than Samuel L Jackson's hair in Unbreakable. Nothing is

  • Stoute star can win last Classic - 13/09/02

    Balakheri, one of Sir Michael Stoute's three runners, can thwart North Yorkshire's chances of landing the St Leger for the first time in 29 years at Doncaster tomorrow. The final Classic race of the season is the target for Bandari, trained at Middleham

  • How about me as York Knights' new mascot?

    Don't tell anyone, but I think I might put myself forward for a new job next year. Don't get me wrong, I do intend to keep racing, but I thought I could get myself a Sunday job as well. You know, something different to do on my day off. And do you know

  • FA Cup hands Rail Winning formula

    FA CUP specialists Harrogate Railway are back on the glory trail tomorrow when they travel to Northern League division one outfit Esh Winning. The Railwaymen made more than a few headlines - as well as a nice little cash fund - last season on their way

  • Fax of strife shatters knockout hopes

    The Hunters Estate Agent York and District Senior League failed in their bid to retain the Yorkshire Inter-League Knock-Out Trophy when they suffered a 13-run defeat to the Halifax League at Copley Cricket Club in a reversal of last season's final. The

  • York drive to prevent workplace accidents

    BIG businesses in York are being urged to enter a competition to find the best ways of helping small ventures in the city cut down on accidents. Latest figures show that employees in some small firms are more likely to suffer a work-related injury than

  • School's prize guys

    FORMER head teacher of Easingwold School Peter Fletcher OBE returned for this year's prize giving ceremony. Mr Fletcher, who now works as director of learning services at Hull City Council was head of the school from 1993 to 2000. At yesterday's event

  • Swing aces in hunt

    NORTH Yorkshire golf duo Simon Dyson and Emma Duggleby were striving to peg back the leaders of their respective tournaments today. Dyson hit a commendable two-under-par 70 on the opening day of the Linde German Masters tournament, where a fine finish

  • Knights embark on art attack crusade

    GET your pencils out, because your artwork could well be the new emblem of York City Knights RLFC. In keeping with the club's desire to be community orientated, club bosses are letting the public have their go at designing the new club's logo - and the

  • Former pub bouncer in new hospital role

    THE current disruption at York District Hospital is being smoothed over by a new commissionaire - former city pub bouncer Lisa Harrison. Lisa, 31, of Gale Lane, Acomb, is the new friendly face that greets motorists and pedestrian visitors to the hospital

  • Jeepers sleepers, where d'you get that bed?

    A LUCKY youngster could soon be having sweet dreams from the comfort of a specially-designed Army Jeep bed - raising money for the Woodlands Respite Centre in York in the process. The respite centre in Thief Lane, which is owned by the Multiple Sclerosis

  • Paul's geared up for Mini mission

    A POLICEMAN from North Yorkshire is to help recreate one of cinema's most famous heists when he jumps into his Mini and heads off on an Italian Job. Paul Wren, a sergeant based at the North Yorkshire Police Newby Wiske HQ, will next month drive his Mini

  • Army chief ready for challenge

    THE new commander of the Army in York is Brigadier David Shaw, who has just taken charge of the largest brigade in the UK. Brigadier Shaw, 45, has been promoted from his previous post as head of the Army Presentation Team to command 15 (North East) Brigade

  • No Parkin leads to striker jam

    YORK City boss Terry Dolan was today sweating on the fitness of striker Jon Parkin ahead of tomorrow's crunch clash with Rushden and Diamonds, writes Dave Stanford. The giant target man, who has scored three goals and played a vital role in City's bright

  • City gets cooking with food festival

    THE aroma of first-class cooking filled the streets of York today as the sixth annual York Festival of Food and Drink began. Dozens of stalls filled Parliament Street with goods from the continent and the festival's tasting boulevard. In the festival

  • Bully for Lee

    BIG game hunter Lee Bullock is relishing a career 'first' as York City prepare to welcome leaders Rushden and Diamonds to Bootham Crescent tomorrow. Bullock is now in his fourth season as a first team regular and made his 100th League appearance for City

  • Residents shocked by stabbing in leafy street

    POLICE in riot gear surrounded a North Yorkshire house for more than two hours after reports that a man had stabbed his father. Shocked neighbours in Lime Tree Avenue, Peasey Hills, Malton, described how officers at the scene wore full protective visors

  • Trader found with big drugs stash

    A SELBY man was caught by police with a £250,000 drugs stash, a court heard. Philip James Easey, 41, of Northfield Lane, Riccall, pleaded guilty to supplying 50 kilos of cannabis resin. Andrew Campbell QC, prosecuting, told York Crown Court that Easey

  • Usual scapegoats

    I READ the letters from R Westmoreland, Roy Stevens and Alex Featherstone (September 10) with a mixture of sadness, disgust and shame. How convenient for them to have the usual scapegoats, America and Israel, to blame for the world's woes. The attack

  • Shut the gap now

    FOLLOWING the fatal accident at Bilbrough Top last weekend, the Highways Agency has announced that the notorious gap will now be closed. However, the agency denied the move was in response to the death of a 19-year-old student. This may seem odd but bureaucracy

  • Cold reality of drop sets in as Frost bites

    A touch of Frost in mid-September froze out Yorkshire at Edgbaston yesterday and had the County Champions skating on even thinner ice in their bid to avoid the drop into the Second Division, writes David Warner. Needing at least 11 points to keep their

  • Half-term holiday poser for parents

    PARENTS who have children in schools run by North Yorkshire Council and City of York Council could face a two-week half-term holiday because of differing dates. Children attending schools in York will break up for half-term on Friday October 25, a week

  • Councillors under fire in York row over hostel

    TWO Labour councillors have come under fire amid accusations that they failed to tell people about changes to the nearby probation hostel. Southview Hostel, Borough-bridge Road, is now an "all-purpose" hostel, whose residents could be serving sentences

  • A64 killer gap to close

    THE notorious Bilbrough Top gap on the A64 near York will shut next spring, highways bosses revealed today. The Highways Agency said it had decided the gap in the dual carriageway central reservation must close when work starts on construction of a new

  • Anat Almog, The King's Manor, York, until September 20.

    ISRAELI potter, architect and teacher Anat Almog is exhibiting drawings at the University of York's Centre for Conservation, The King's Manor, York, until September 20. In York for Celebrating Conservation, 30th Anniversary, Anat has put together the

  • Bully for Lee

    BIG game hunter Lee Bullock is relishing a career 'first' as York City prepare to welcome leaders Rushden and Diamonds to Bootham Crescent tomorrow. Bullock is now in his fourth season as a first team regular and made his 100th League appearance for City

  • Planet York push was 'a huge success'

    MORE than five thousand homes and businesses signed up to Planet York, the year-long push to make York the UK's most energy-efficient city, leading organisers to declare the campaign "a real success." Now complete, the aim of Planet York was to make York

  • Fax of strife shatters knockout hopes

    The Hunters Estate Agent York and District Senior League failed in their bid to retain the Yorkshire Inter-League Knock-Out Trophy when they suffered a 13-run defeat to the Halifax League at Copley Cricket Club in a reversal of last season's final. The

  • Cold reality of drop sets in as Frost bites

    A touch of Frost in mid-September froze out Yorkshire at Edgbaston yesterday and had the County Champions skating on even thinner ice in their bid to avoid the drop into the Second Division, writes David Warner. Needing at least 11 points to keep their

  • Darren champing at the bit

    KNARESBOROUGH-born racer Darren Manning is ready to grasp his big chance with both hands when he lines up against the best drivers from the American Champ car racing circuit. Manning, a former pupil at King James' School, still hasn't given up his dream

  • Twickenham beckoning

    ST PETER'S School Under-15s rugby union team are back on the Twickenham trail, just six months after their famous success at the home of English rugby, writes Tony Curtis. Back in March, the boys, then skippered by Michael Morris, lifted the Daily Mail

  • Jailed arms dealer in new evidence plea

    JAILED arms dealer Peter Bleach has urged India's High Court to hear new evidence. Bleach, a former pupil of St Peter's School, York, who originally lived in Fylingthorpe, near Whitby, has spent seven years in a Calcutta prison for his part in an arms

  • 5,000 are expected at York campus open day

    FIVE thousand potential students and their families from all over the country are expected to come to the University of York's Open Day on Thursday, September 26. The day offers visitors, including teachers and school careers advisers, a chance to see

  • Time for a brew

    WOMEN who are serving time at an open prison near York are preparing to serve coffee in aid of charity this month. Inmates, staff and members of the public are expected to take part in a fundraising coffee morning at HMP Askham Grange, Askham Richard,

  • £36m trains boost for Selby rail travellers

    SELBY rail passengers are set to enjoy better services to London and Hull, thanks to a £36 million investment in new rolling stock by Hull Trains. The company is planning to buy four new Class 220 diesel trains, capable of cruising at 125mph. A spokesman

  • Diamond teasers for Brian

    RUSHDEN and Diamonds arrive at Bootham Crescent tomorrow top of Division Three but still looking for their first away win of the season, writes Dave Stanford. The Diamonds are also fresh from a giant-killing cup upset on Tuesday night, when they knocked

  • Rivers go under scrutiny

    COUNCILLORS have agreed to investigate ways of breathing new life into York's rivers. Members of the Leisure and Heritage Scrutiny Board accepted a proposal made by Coun Mick Bradley to look at how to improve the Foss and the Ouse. Many of the city's

  • What I said about bail hostel

    YOU have quoted me in three consecutive editions of your paper, mostly accurately enough, about the bail hostel in Boroughbridge Road, York, but your report on Tuesday misrepresents my position. I did not say we thought the change from being just a bail

  • Harsh on Friends

    I WAS very surprised to read Helen Mead's column slating the Friends Reunited website and even more surprised to read she hadn't even visited the site. She passed judgement before seeing the evidence! I can understand if she is not interested in meeting

  • A64 killer gap to close

    THE notorious Bilbrough Top gap on the A64 near York will shut next spring, highways bosses revealed today. The Highways Agency said it had decided the gap in the dual carriageway central reservation must close when work starts on construction of a new

  • Trust York to lead the way

    IT ALL looked so different in the dark days of January. York City faced extinction. A proud football club seemed to be in danger of slipping into oblivion. But this gloomy scenario overlooked the one asset no football club can be without: its fans. A