It is impossible, at this time of the year, to avoid thinking about what the New Year will bring. That, at least, is better than contemplating what the old year brought. We cannot alter those things. We can try to learn lessons from the events of the
YORK City fans were today left reeling by the shock announcement that football at Bootham Crescent could be no more after this season. Paul Rawnsley, chair of Monday night's public meeting and a now a member of the working party set up to look at establishing
YORK City chairman Douglas Craig today defended the board's decision and insisted no deal had yet been done for Bootham Crescent. "No offers have been made, no details have been discussed and no discussions have taken place," he told the Evening Press
SPEND £5.5 million on revamp plans for an hotel, and the results are bound to make their mark not only on the venture but the whole area. That is just what happened at the luxury Aldwark Manor Hotel, near Alne, once Newcastle businessman Brad Holbrook
READERS of the novel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will know with absolute certainty that the secret of life, the universe and everything is 42. So Theme 42 seemed an obvious success-targeted title for Paul Duce's new company which he set up on the
WHILE other dotcoms are being ground into the dust under the heel of disillusionment, the York-based shoe-shop.com is not only alive and kicking - but virtually tap dancing... Perhaps a major reason for its success was the fact that it was founded by
WITHIN a year of opening on the ground floor of the splendid Gateforth Hall near Selby, Restaurant Martel scooped three Restaurant of the Year awards. Now Martel Smith, the mere 22-year-old head chef and proprietor of that illustrious place beyond the
A CINEMA enthusiast is giving moviegoers a blast from the past in aid of charity by screening a rare film using a traditional reel and projector. Amateur projectionist Maurice Brentley, of Acomb, York, has teamed up with rock climber Steve Windass, to
AN ELDERLY grandmother suffered serious facial injuries after tripping on a broken gutter cover and uneven paving slab in a York street. George Street resident Hilda Boag, 73, lost her footing only yards from her home after catching her foot on a broken
A MAN who died when the car he was travelling in somersaulted several times on an East Yorkshire road has been named by police. Adam Dunham, 20, from Allerthorpe, near Pocklington, was a front seat passenger in a red Rover 216 which lost control as it
PLANS to store 9,000 fridges in a secret York location for the next 12 months have been announced by council leaders. The proposals were made after new European laws made it necessary to remove environmentally-damaging chloro-fluorocarbons before disposing
A NEW NIGHTCLUB is set to open in North Yorkshire under plans by three businessmen. The club, expected to cost £750,000, will be the first of its kind in Malton and Norton. The project will involve the conversion of a disused building in Norton Industrial
PASSENGERS were today bracing themselves for four days of disruption after conductors voted to bring North Yorkshire's rail network to a standstill. Train services will be severely disrupted on January 24 and 25, and February 5 and 6 in two 48-hour-strikes
HARROGATE Town gave the visiting contingent from Doncaster Rovers plenty to think about after a typically hard-working display in the 3-0 West Riding FA County Cup second round victory over neighbours Harrogate Railway last night. Doncaster boss Steve
Non-League team Acomb 'B' provided a major upset in the Hunters The Estate Agent York and District Indoor Cricket League Knock-Out Trophy. The Acomb 'B' ranks beat reigning league champions Sheriff Hutton Bridge by 14 runs to book an unexpected semi-final
THIS is the woman whose bound-and-gagged body was dumped in a suitcase in a country lane near York. Detectives have now launched a murder hunt into the death of Hyo Jung Jin, a 21-year-old Korean student who had been studying French at Lyon University
AFTER a festive freeze-out of fixtures City of York hockey teams managed to squeeze in some action. City of York 'A' - a combination of the first and fourth teams - took on Leeds 'A' at home. But they were shaded to the honours by the odd goal of a seven-goal
As the shock waves over Bootham Crescent's imminent closure begin to reverberate, The Evening Press looks back at York City Football Club's highs and lows PROFESSIONAL football in York dates back to 1912, when the first York City Football Club, formed
SIMON Parke's long-awaited return to the world squash stage ended in disappointment as the North Yorkshire-born ace lost in straight sets at the US Open, in Boston. Former World No3 Parke, who won the tournament back in 1999, has been out of action for
YORK Gift Hampers, that wonderful marriage of tradition and technology, was a finalist in last year's awards. Can it succeed again in the Innovative Use of New Technology category? And can its new venture win the New Business of the Year? The fine foods
CONVERGENT Telecom Limited, which, with 225 staff, is one of the biggest employers in Pocklington, is setting its sights on the Innovative Use of New Technology Award. Tony Farmer, chief executive, believes that his firm's latest product, SmartLinx is
A ROAD-building and haulage business in Thirsk has since diversified into such a model of waste disposal, recycling and management that it is pitching for our Best Environmental Company of the Year. The 30 people working at Todd Waste Management, on the
WITH a name like Acute Marketing, Nick Eggleton expects his York business to take sudden tangents, but in his case they are always on an upward path. Nick had to issue a quick update on his entry for the Evening Press Business Awards, both in the Growth
APPLYING feng shui, the ancient art of positioning furniture to create a more harmonious flow of chi, or energy, helped to boost turnover at the Healing Clinic in York tenfold. That is the claim of June Tranmer, founder-proprietor the natural health centre
IT'S tough starting out in the crowded estate agency business, even in boomtime. No one knew that better than Lesley Beattie who, having closed one chapter of her life as founder of Friends Estate Agency in York, opened another with Quantum last November
STAFF at York-based Mitrefinch are today celebrating the news that the company has won the Pay Awards 2001 Best Support Product or Service for the Payroll Industry category. The glass trophy, awarded by Pay Magazine in National Payroll Week, was accepted
WHO could question the fact that as a business, TLC Pet Allergy Testing of Bishopthorpe, York, has been barking up the right tree? Last year the firm that introduced the first-ever blood test which can prove or actively disprove that a dog has sensitivity
IN WHAT now seems the olden days, workers would "punch a card" or clock-in. Then came family-owned Mitrefinch, of York, to blaze a new trail by creating the first-ever computerised time-recording system. That was in 1979. Since then the Mitrefinch clocking-in
TIME machines, it seems, are big business. Past Forward Limited, the York exhibition-maker which uses 21st century techniques to transport us all into history, proves the point. Its reputation for interpreting history using the latest multi-media techniques
EVERYONE has gasped at the speed with which CPP - Card Protection Plan - has become one of the biggest employers in York, operating out of its new £10 million flagship HQ at Holgate Park. Now the company, which at the latest count has 1,100 on the payroll
NO, you are not a foot fetishist! You really have seen the name of Stuart Paver connected with the Evening Press Business Awards before. Already Mr Paver's shoe-shop dot com internet sales service worldwide is in the running for the title. Only this time
It's not just that York-based Corus Rail Consultancy has almost doubled its staff - from 195 to 350 - since it moved into the private sector from British Rail that makes it a strong contender for the Growth Business of the Year category. It is the high-tech
YORK City chairman Douglas Craig today stood defiant over the shock revelation that football may be over at Bootham Crescent in five month's time, writes Dave Stanford. He rounded on the claim of 'moral guardianship' - that the directors merely look after
AFTER only a few months, Barbara Birdsall and Kate Willink set up a rival bank to their downstairs neighbours, Barclays, at Easingwold. But Barclays did not mind - in fact it co-operated by creating the organisation's own logo stamp. It was less a case
YORK City's survival could be safeguarded by teaming up with York Wasps. The rugby league club's vice-chairman Russell Greenfield told the Evening Press that he believed a sporting merger between the two clubs would enable both to prosper. Greenfield's
NEARLY three years ago when Maureen Ryan, then aged 53, was suddenly, shockingly, made redundant she promised herself that from now on she would never work at anything she did not enjoy. So, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, she began Phoenix Training
IF the turf at St James's Park football pitch in Newcastle now becomes hallowed as a result of England's 2 - 0 victory over the Albanians in this week's World Cup qualifier, then give thanks to an East Riding turfmaker. The ground, as with the late and
AFTER all the risk taking and emotional turbulence, the struggle to raise capital and the careful networking, David Horner & Co, York-based business recovery and insolvency specialist, is not only up and running but pitching for the title of New Business
FEW organisations could have had more of an impact on York than the 127-year-old firm of family builders, William Birch & Son. Time and again it has changed the skyline of the city and beyond with its new schools, factories, churches, houses and shops
JOSEPH Rowntree School pupil Neil Cordell has earned the right to call himself Europe's number one 12-year-old at squash following a sensational run at the British Junior Open. The event, held in Sheffield, is recognised unofficially as the World Junior
Prospects of racing at Wetherby tomorrow hinge on an inspection of the course - still frozen in places yesterday - this afternoon. Mick Easterby will be hoping more than most that the green light is given. The Sheriff Hutton trainer saddles Meadowbank
...WE note with interest, and some amusement, the article featuring Trevor Kidd and his newformed Band of Renown, belatedly campaigning in favour of the Land Securities proposals for Coppergate Riverside. No one should be surprised. Mr Kidd told us some
I congratulate all concerned in having reached the £7,500 target for the Jamie's Have a Heart Appeal in such a short time. This is a truly magnificent effort and a very fitting tribute to Jamie Bucknell. I hope that in some small way this appeal has helped
IT'S very nice that Terry Aconley has made friends with a robin and now feeds him regularly, (January 4) but, unfortunately, seeds are the last type of food that should be given to robins. Like wrens, these birds are insectivorous soft bills, and seeds
REGIMENTAL histories can often be a bit of a plod to anyone not a student of military history or former member of the regiment concerned. But here's one which is a good read. The Reconnaissance Corps was one of the least known of the units granted elite
IT'S a pretty ambitious project, relating the history of an entire continent, from the first appearance of humanity to the present day. Indeed, it took no less than 12 authors from all over Europe to bring it to fruition, so perhaps one shouldn't be surprised
JAMES PATTERSON is not only one of the world's most popular authors, but also one of its most prolific. This is his fourth novel in just over a year. This sequel to Roses Are Red sees the return of Patterson's greatest literary creation, Detective Alex
YORK City's survival could be safeguarded by teaming up with York Wasps. The rugby league club's vice-chairman Russell Greenfield told the Evening Press that he believed a sporting merger between the two clubs would enable both to prosper. Greenfield's
YORK City chairman Douglas Craig today stood defiant over the shock revelation that football may be over at Bootham Crescent in five month's time, writes Dave Stanford. He rounded on the claim of 'moral guardianship' - that the directors merely look after
YORK City fans were today left reeling by the shock announcement that football at Bootham Crescent could be no more after this season. Paul Rawnsley, chair of Monday night's public meeting and a now a member of the working party set up to look at establishing
Coun Alan Jones, executive member of the council's leisure and heritage committee, today reiterated that the council would be unlikely to help financially with any renovations of Huntington Stadium - but added that "stranger things have happened". York
YORK City fans have been betrayed. Bootham Crescent is to be closed and demolished at the end of the season, barring a miracle. Those responsible for its destruction are not faceless outsiders, but the very people entrusted with the moral guardianship
As the shock waves over Bootham Crescent's imminent closure begin to reverberate, The Evening Press looks back at York City Football Club's highs and lows PROFESSIONAL football in York dates back to 1912, when the first York City Football Club, formed
Coun Alan Jones, executive member of the council's leisure and heritage committee, today reiterated that the council would be unlikely to help financially with any renovations of Huntington Stadium - but added that "stranger things have happened". York
PEOPLE across York reacted with stunned disbelief today following the news that City look certain to move from Bootham Crescent. Damien Ingram, 24, of Arthur Street, York said he was "completely shocked" by the news. "I think it's disgusting that the
YORK City today sounded the death knell on Bootham Crescent, its home for seven decades. The ground's fate was effectively sealed in a bombshell document giving any new club owners notice to quit by the end of June. Bootham Crescent Holdings (BCH), which
SIZE isn't everything, as York-based Simon Mountford Communications is proving. Not that this PR company set up seven years ago by Simon, a former Evening Press journalist, is tiny, but with just seven employees it is succeeding beyond the dreams of many
DURING more than 20 years as a journalist, Peter Davenport was a skilled observer and an expert in instant communication of complex facts - some of them as dramatic as Bloody Sunday in Ireland, the Lockerbie plane disaster and the hunt for the Yorkshire
BATTLING against the odds is often the lot of the small business in this fickle world. York Polythene and Packaging has had more than its fair share of odds battling and has come out on top. It has been though the gamut, surviving everything from terrible
HERE is the best slice of independent business advice you are likely to get: There's life - and success - after Sun Life. Ask Alan Cook, 51-year-old managing partner of Pentagon Financial Services LLP, of The Grange, in Wheldrake Lane, Elvington, York
VIVACIOUS Elizabeth Liddle is so busy helping other people run the administrative side of their businesses that she hardly has time for her own administration. "So I know what it's like," laughs this 25-year-old farmer's daughter who runs her Rapport
YORK City fans have been betrayed. Bootham Crescent is to be closed and demolished at the end of the season, barring a miracle. Those responsible for its destruction are not faceless outsiders, but the very people entrusted with the moral guardianship
A YORK teenager raped a 27-year-old mother in her own front garden, then stole her purse, a jury has heard. The woman told York Crown Court she was too scared to speak as Philip James Nicholas, 19, pushed her up against the wall of her house, then forced
THE parents of a Selby firefighter's wife who died in a freak road accident today paid a moving tribute to their "little gem." Helen Winder, 26, was killed instantly when the car in which she was a front-seat passenger collided with a stray horse on the
A YORK teenager who suffered a fractured skull and vertebrae after a freak snowboarding accident during a family holiday in Italy was today expected to be flown home. Jack Robertson, 14, from Huntington, was due to leave a hospital in Turin after being
GUARDS are standing by as limited supplies of Golden Ticket Wonka bars leave the Nestl Rowntree chocolate factory, in York. The magic of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is being brought to life with golden tickets secretly hidden away in five of the
THE big freeze that gripped the region over the New Year put paid to nearly all angling activity at the weekend. Every stillwater and canal in the area was covered in thick ice. Even the Ouse froze over, thereby putting paid to the Acomb Tackle Open.
The following document has been circulated to parties who have expressed an interest in purchasing York City Football Club. The contents of this document in no way constitute an offer for sale of the shares in the Football Club. The document is supplied
YORK City fans have been betrayed. Bootham Crescent is to be closed and demolished at the end of the season, barring a miracle. Those responsible for its destruction are not faceless outsiders, but the very people entrusted with the moral guardianship
CHESTERFIELD commercial director Phil Tooley has told York City's supporters NOT to give up after the news there would be no more football at Bootham Crescent from the end of the season. Having gone through the hardships of trying to save the Spireites
POCKLINGTON Coachworks of Osbaldwick seems to make a habit of reaching the finals of the Evening Press Business of the Year awards. Last year, the organisation which builds super-duper caravans for Formula One racing teams, was in the final three in the
YOU'VE got to tip your hard hat to the founder of the booming York company, Guildford Construction Ltd. As a builder to his toecaps, John Guildford, knows that the forecast of £7 million turnover was achieved on good foundations made rock solid through
THERE has been a massive leap in imagineering and next year it will be even greater. This is the fourth year since Production Imagineers Ltd, of Elvington, began trading. Now its order book for creating interior themes, theatre sets, scenic backdrops,
IT took only ten weeks for rapidly expanding e-commerce firm Management Services 2000 Ltd of York (MS2M) to attain the Investors in People standard. The speed was an expression of a philosophy that has always existed at MS2M - that if you support and
WHEN brothers Richard and Ross Stewart pooled their talents to form a company in Selby more than a year ago, it not only "had legs" - it had wheels. Their firm, Chequers Transport Services, based in a 4,000sq ft warehouse (used for short-term storage
SHEPPEE International Ltd, the Elvington firm with a lotta bottle was last year's Exporter Of The Year. Can it do the double? In spite of the strength of sterling, its exports of engineered products for the hot glass container industry all over the world
WHERE one Swallow usually makes a summer this time it made a Marriott and heralded the start of the BAM busters. Explanation: The Swallow Hotel, York, became part of the Marriott International Hotel group with a York Marriott branding in June - and that
IN only seven years Clive Owen & Company has become one of the top firms of chartered accountants and business advisers in the York area - and it believes in training with a passion Good enough reason for the firm, which in March had to move from
ALL those starting out on the hard, but rewarding road to exports, can learn inspiring lessons from Norfeed UK Ltd. The Boroughbridge supplier of nutritional and technical animal feed ingredients has just one family working against the challenges of BSE
ENTRANTS in the Evening Press Business of the Year 2001 do not come much bigger than Persimmon plc, the York-based housebuilder which boasts 4,453 employees nationally. And not one of them would be surprised that the firm, which is based at Persimmon
NO sooner had Saville Audio Visual, of Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, submitted its entry for the Evening Press Business of the Year Awards when it found itself playing a major role in international preparations in the aftermath of the U.S. terrorist
Bass Brewers, which employs 123 people at the Tower Brewery, Tadcaster, keeps up the good work which earned the company so much praise as finalists of last year's Evening Press Business Awards. Once again, the brewery is seeking the Best Environmental
THERE has been a lot of glittering revelry since the last time Fiona Sidwell entered her York-based corporate hospitality and events company, Exclusive Events, in the Evening Press Business of the Year. There has also been a lot of money raised for good
SHEY were finalists in last year's tough category for Best Environmental Company - and this time Chris and Christine Dennis justifiably expect their Tadcaster business, Waste To Compost to be up there among this year's leaders. The couple used to count
APPLAUD Jane and Martin Nordli for making a huge success of facing the ruin .of history Or rather - what a luxurious haven they have made of The Abbey Inn smack opposite the gothic curves and ragged shapes of Byland Abbey in Coxwold whose ruins are testimony
OF all the millions of labels produced by Sessions of York, the huge label printing and application machinery company on a five-acre site in Huntington, York, there is one yet to be worn by the firm itself - the Evening Press Exporter of the Year. Its
A NO-COMPROMISE yet empathetic approach to recruitment is paying dividends for York-based executive search specialist Beresford Kane Associates, which is pitching to win the Evening Press Small Business of the Year category. Since Steven Matsell and Maura
BUILDING communities is a matter of action, not talk for Phil Bixby, of York. Mr Bixby is the sole proprietor of Constructive Individuals, an architectural firm in Holgate Road which specialises in advising whole communities about how to make a better
YORK City's hopes of bagging a plum FA Cup tie against Premiership money-bags Fulham are back on hold. The third round clash featuring Fulham at Second Division Wycombe ended in a 2-2 draw last night leaving the projected fourth round tie involving the
AS an organisation which specialises in business development advice it is worth heeding what Hunter Gee & Holroyd, the York chartered accountancy firm has been doing to collectively involve its own staff in making major changes and improvements. All
Club historian David Batters was in shock this morning after hearing the news City will no longer be playing at Bootham Crescent from the end of the season. "It is just one shock after another," he told the Evening Press. "I'm flabbergasted with the whole
SALEEM AKHTAR, the man who has built up an expanding chain of Asian restaurants across the region, is spicing up the Evening Press Business Awards. As leader of a family business of eight restaurants and takeaways in York, Harrogate, Flaxton and Bradford
A LOT of time, effort and money has gone into making Burn & Company, the York solicitors and business practice, a "people first" organisation. That is why the practice is entering the Progress Through People category in the Evening Press Business
AS the sighted child of blind parents Gareth Owens has always regarded the task of translating complexities into simple language as his birthright. Even while studying physics he discovered he could communicate scientific research into simple language
HOW many Evening Press readers think Gary Hart should be sent to jail for what he did? Of these how many have left home recently on a cold frosty morning with a frozen windscreen that they can barely see through, or with screen washers that are frozen
When telly archaeologist Julian Richards dropped into York, he told CHRIS TITLEY that there was more to the Vikings than facial hair and hard hats VIKING expert Julian Richards has a confession to make. He's been to York three times since the Jorvik Centre
YORK City chairman Douglas Craig today defended the board's decision and insisted no deal had yet been done for Bootham Crescent. "No offers have been made, no details have been discussed and no discussions have taken place," he told the Evening Press
YORK City today sounded the death knell on Bootham Crescent, its home for seven decades. The ground's fate was effectively sealed in a bombshell document giving any new club owners notice to quit by the end of June. Bootham Crescent Holdings (BCH), which
CHESTERFIELD commercial director Phil Tooley has told York City's supporters NOT to give up after the news there would be no more football at Bootham Crescent from the end of the season. Having gone through the hardships of trying to save the Spireites
The following document has been circulated to parties who have expressed an interest in purchasing York City Football Club. The contents of this document in no way constitute an offer for sale of the shares in the Football Club. The document is supplied
FOOTBALL fans have called with one voice for people power to run York City Football Club. A unanimous show of 300 hands at a packed city centre meeting gave a ringing endorsement for a Supporters' Trust to save the club from extinction. The fans crammed
