THE recently-reported comments of the Lord Chief Justice concerning sentencing policy of burglars merit a considered response on behalf of the public of York. We have improved our performance this year in respect of the investigation of house burglaries
MEMBERS of York Lions Club say a big thank you to the people of York who generously donated £4,703 during York Lions Club's annual appeal held over recent weeks. As well as a collection day in the city centre on October 26, residents from the villages
YOU carried a report of the trial of Philip Bargh (December 21). The large picture showed a pleasant-looking young man, who could have been anyone's friendly neighbour or son: except that Philip was a persistent paedophile and had served a sentence for
THE documents reveal more details about the sponsorship agreement signed between John Batchelor and Persimmon for the City chairman's motor-racing team. The leaked agreement confirms Persimmon agreed to pay £400,000 to sponsor Mr Batchelor's motor-racing
YORK City's training ground at Wigginton road is still owned by Bootham Crescent Holdings, the legal documents confirm. Following his take-over of the football club in March, it was believed that John Batchelor had bought not only the football club but
PLAYER-COACH Paul Broadbent has declared things are looking good for York City Knights as the countdown to the club's first-ever match ticks on. One blow comes with the confirmation that Broadbent himself has been ruled out of the first two months, but
A top-strength Yorkshire League XI will do battle with the Bradford League at the 2003 Scarborough Cricket Festival to see which side can lay claim to being the best League outfit in the county. This unique match is being sponsored by Pudsey St Lawrence
WHEN staying in Brittany, in the picturesque middle of nowhere, a car is vital. A car younger than 14 years and with fewer than 94,000 miles on the clock would have been nice, but you can't have everything. This was to be a motoring holiday, with 1,800
SURELY some mistake, I thought, as I surveyed the clouds swirling round the mountains and the rain lashing across the lake. We had travelled to Annecy in the French Alps expecting warm sunshine, as well as beautiful lake and mountain scenery and a picturesque
Very flat, Norfolk. But that didn't mean an easy ride for cycling enthusiast PAUL KIRKWOOD UNLIKE some of my bike rides in the Yorkshire Moors and Dales, this ride carries no gradient warnings. It is located in Norfolk, the flattest county in the kingdom
POCKLINGTON Rugby Union Club retained the Bottomley Trophy with a hard-earned 32-19 victory over Pocklington School Old Boys in their annual Boxing Day encounter. The game saw the Old Boys lead for an hour until Pocklington pegged them back in the final
WHAT a marvellous idea and gesture by organisers of the bucket collection staged at City's recent home game against Lincoln City to donate half the proceeds to the club's non-playing staff. It has been well documented that the staff received only half
A YEAR ago a post office and shop in a North Yorkshire village was threatened with closure - until Jill Taylor saw its potential and bought it. Three months later, following extensive renovation work, the rundown business in Welburn, near Malton, was
RYEDALE MP John Greenway has been visiting patients and staff at Malton Hospital and looking at where a £1.5m grant is to be spent. Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Primary Care Trust successfully bid for the huge cash injection earlier this year. Money
FURTHER meetings with former patients of disgraced North Yorkshire gynaecologist Richard Neale are to take place next month as part of the ongoing inquiry into how the NHS handled complaints against him. Inquiry chairman Suzan Matthews, QC, said informal
FESTIVE revellers are expected to take full advantage of a North Yorkshire town's new nightclub bus this weekend, as the seasonal celebrations continue. The bus between Easingwold and the York clubs, launched earlier this month thanks to a Countryside
A YEAR ago a post office and shop in a North Yorkshire village was threatened with closure - until Jill Taylor saw its potential and bought it. Three months later, following extensive renovation work, the rundown business in Welburn, near Malton, was
BRAVE York bar manager Colin Upton is bracing himself for an excruciating chest wax - if enough money can be raised. Hairy Colin has pledged to go through with the ordeal in the Slug and Lettuce on New Year's Eve if £750 is collected for York District
THE first meeting of a multi-agency group set up to redevelop an historic York hall was today hailed as "a decisive step forward". The Haxby Memorial Hall Redevelopment Group (HMHRG) has spent two years working to set up a partnership group to co-ordinate
The Kilnwick Percy Golf Club turkey trot saw an enthusiastic entry on a cold, wet day vote to play 18, rather than nine, holes of betterball stableford. Nigel Burgess and Brian Petrie won with 34 points, with Iona Buckle and Steve Johnson second with
QUEEN Ethelburga's College equestrian team was victorious at the Inter College Competition at Rodbaston College, Staffordshire. The team came first in both the dressage and show-jumping and second in the quiz, which gleaned them the overall top prize.
A FIXTURE build-up forced Pock-lington to play four West Riding Ladies' Premier League fixtures in eight days - yet they won them all. And they only dropped two sets in total, one each against Leeds Ladies and Huddersfield University, while white-washing
THE parents of hit-and-run victim Katie Scales are hoping Christmas may have helped to prick the conscience of the driver who left their daughter seriously injured. Police are still hunting the driver of the black Fiat Punto which knocked down the 11-
AMBITIOUS bosses of a York social club are hoping to establish it as a top live music venue. They hope the Crescent Working Men's Club, off Blossom Street, will become a breeding ground for up-and-coming bands, in the mould of Fibbers, the city's leading
A top-strength Yorkshire League XI will do battle with the Bradford League at the 2003 Scarborough Cricket Festival to see which side can lay claim to being the best League outfit in the county. This unique match is being sponsored by Pudsey St Lawrence
A QUARTET of youngsters from New Earswick All Blacks Amateur Rugby League Club might be junior team-mates but loyalties will be divided once the Super League season starts next year. The four under-15s starlets are all signed up to Super League academies
YORK City's training ground at Wigginton road is still owned by Bootham Crescent Holdings, the legal documents confirm. Following his take-over of the football club in March, it was believed that John Batchelor had bought not only the football club but
A NORTH Yorkshire schoolboy's brave fight against cancer has inspired generous local people to raise more than £10,000 to help buy a specialist ambulance. Jonathan and Fiona Scarlett-Abbott, of Langton, near Malton, launched the ECMO Ambulance Appeal
THE documents reveal more details about the sponsorship agreement signed between John Batchelor and Persimmon for the City chairman's motor-racing team. The leaked agreement confirms Persimmon agreed to pay £400,000 to sponsor Mr Batchelor's motor-racing
NOW that the fate of York City is in the balance it is vital that anyone who has ever considered themselves to be a fan of the club gets down to Bootham Crescent to show support, both financial and personal. The people of York have (quite rightly) moaned
MAY I thank your staff for the kindly, sympathetic help they gave me regarding my harassment by the TV Licensing Authority (December 18). Hopefully they will leave me alone now. With regard to the comment "Life without TV" how would we fill the hours?
THE BBC have made a huge mistake forcing 81-year-old Sir Jimmy Young to retire as presenter of their Radio 2 Jimmy Young Programme every weekday from noon until 2pm. None of the many "temps" have done the job as well as Jim and Jeremy Vine as his full-time
THE York City Supporters' Trust today condemned the actions of John Batchelor and Bootham Crescent Holdings after the Evening Press revealed details of the deal that brought the motor-racing chief to power. Sophie McGill, spokesperson for the Supporters
THE Evening Press is today able to reveal more details of the deal which saw John Batchelor take over York City. The reports are based on legal documents received by the paper. DAVE STANFORD, TONY CURTIS and PETER MARTINI report. Other details of the
In the first of two reports on the Channel Islands, MARTIN JARRED relaxes in beautiful Guernsey LOW-COST flights to Europe have really taken off in the last few years. For a matter of a few quid you can jet over the Channel to any number of continental
Mike Laycock visits an inn created by monks on an abbey's doorstep Approaching the Abbey Inn on a miserably misty and drizzly night, we were greeted by a stunning sight. The pub is situated straight across the road from the spectacularly floodlit ruins
There is no need to abandon the garden just because it is Christmas, writes GINA PARKINSON IF YOU can't stay away from the garden over Christmas and the weather is kind, then December is a good time to take root cuttings from perennials like hardy geraniums
THERE are just three weeks left to save York City and it's time for the slumbering masses to wake-up - it really is a case of now or never. As the clock continues to tick down towards the make or break date of January 18, the co-ordinator of a newly-launched
REFLECTING on those Boxing Day blues at Boston some 24 hours later, City manager Terry Dolan admitted he may have got it wrong. Speaking yesterday, the City chief reckoned having seen the state of the York Street pitch - best described as bog standard
IT IS said all things come in threes, but York City will be hoping they've seen the last of referee Mike Thorpe for the remainder of the season for fear of sealing a very unwanted hat-trick. The Ipswich official was the man in the middle on Boxing Day
HERE'S a chance to make a new start in a new year with a return to education - for free. Return to Learn is a ten-week course offered at no charge by York College for men and women interested in improving themselves through education. It runs on Tuesday
WARNINGS have been issued about the latest set of "get-rich-quick" letters currently dropping onto the doormats and into the email accounts of homes and businesses in York. The city's trading standards chiefs have advised residents to ignore the letters
SCHOOLS across York and North Yorkshire were given top marks for health in a presentation at the House of Lords. The ceremony marked the successful accreditation to the National Healthy School Standard of the City of York and North Yorkshire Healthy School
FROM the battles of the Vikings to the way the seafarers celebrated their weddings, everything you ever wanted to know about the Nordic invaders is to go on display in York. The city's history will be brought back to life during the annual Jolablot festival
A DEDICATED family firm in York, which immersed itself in community spirit to raise more than £4,000, has handed over the money to Cancer Research UK. Sales rep Andrew Elcock, 27, and his aunt, accounts manager Liz Atkinson, 39, both work at Elcock Ltd
A STATUE of a lady holding a dog has been stolen from an East Yorkshire garden. The 5ft marble feature was taken from the Topiary Garden at Sledmere House, Driffield, between Friday and Saturday last week. Updated: 10:25 Saturday, December 28, 2002
POLICE in East Yorkshire are appealing for information after two women were affected by CS gas during a night out in Bridlington. The women were at The Loop Pub, on Boxing Day, at about 10.30pm, when they suffered feelings of panic and dizziness due to
Knaresborough soldier Corporal Gareth Evans played for the British Combined Services basketball team at the NATO Championship held at Mons in Belgium. The annual competition, which involved ten countries, was won by Latvia, who beat USA 102-96 in the
YOUTHS dreaming of a white Christmas frolicked in foam after the fountain in Parliament Street, York, was filled with bubble bath. The fountain, which for a number of years provided the base for a large Christmas tree, was only recently brought back into
PUB landlords in York today rubbished claims that Britain's revellers are losing their taste for the traditional New Year's Eve blow-out. A survey, published by Scarborough-based frozen food company McCain, claims only 17 per cent of Britons plan to party
THOLTHORPE youngster Laura Birkinshaw gave away two years to some of her rivals but still won gold at the English Schools' Under-15s Badminton Tournament held in the East Midlands. The 13-year-old Easingwold School pupil beat Felicity Porter, of Sussex
A FATHER and son involved in an accident on the A64 have been released from hospital. John Hunter-Lindsay, 57, from Laneham Close, Doncaster, suffered severe bruising and his 22-year-old son, Neil, suffered a broken collar bone in the accident near Malton
The Yorkshire Winter League is set for a tense finale in the new year following last weekend's penultimate contest on the Ouse at Hunter's Lodge. Long-time leaders Anglers World York slumped to fourth place on a flooded and icy river leaving the way open
POCKLINGTON Rugby Union Club retained the Bottomley Trophy with a hard-earned 32-19 victory over Pocklington School Old Boys in their annual Boxing Day encounter. The game saw the Old Boys lead for an hour until Pocklington pegged them back in the final
FLOOD warnings were in place today for footpaths along the River Ouse, in York city centre, following heavy rain. The Environment Agency also issued a flood warning on the Ouse at Naburn Lock. The alert means homes, businesses and main roads are in imminent
PLAYER-COACH Paul Broadbent has declared things are looking good for York City Knights as the countdown to the club's first-ever match ticks on. One blow comes with the confirmation that Broadbent himself has been ruled out of the first two months, but
THE Evening Press is today able to reveal more details of the deal which saw John Batchelor take over York City. The reports are based on legal documents received by the paper. DAVE STANFORD, TONY CURTIS and PETER MARTINI report. Other details of the
THE York City Supporters' Trust today condemned the actions of John Batchelor and Bootham Crescent Holdings after the Evening Press revealed details of the deal that brought the motor-racing chief to power. Sophie McGill, spokesperson for the Supporters
JO HAYWOOD turns up the heat... in the name of relaxation It should feel dumb, but it doesn't. You've got a hot stone on your forehead, several more nestled neatly along your spine, two gripped purposefully in your fists and a couple of particularly warm
Feeling lonely and low as others enjoy Christmas? Don't despair, help is at hand as STEPHEN LEWIS reports CHRISTMAS is a time when we're all supposed to be having fun - going to glam parties and spending time with the people we love most. And probably
It's that time of year again when we review what we have done in the last 12 months and look forward to achieving something new in 2003. Here are a few ideas to help you make next year your best yet. Too many people today think they are stuck where they
