MORE than 100 new jobs are being brought to York by a £3 million new office development at Link Business Park, Osbaldwick, following its completion by building consultants and chartered surveyors Lightly & Lightly of Clifton Moor. Two new office units
CONTRUCTION work has started on a major new industrial park for Ripon which is set to bring at least 100 new jobs to the city. Infrastructure work has started at Canalside Business Park, Boroughbridge Road, which will create a new business base for the
Strensall, winner of the Tote Placepot Showcase Handicap at Catterick a year ago, is napped to give an encore tomorrow. The star of Ronnie Barr's small North Yorkshire stable, Strensall has drawn the plum position in stall one in the twelve-runner field
ACCORDING to a recent survey, the modern Yorkshireman is into moisturiser, the Med and mineral water. The stereotype of a bluff bloke and his beer was way out of date. Not so, says Stephen Reed of Huntington, York. He is proud to wear a flat cap. If he
YOUNG people in York are being asked to get creative this summer by putting pencil to paper in a futuristic art competition. The Without Walls partnership wants inspired young artists to help picture a vision for the city, by drawing, painting, printing
York College is hosting a summer school aimed at mature students wanting to return to education. The course runs from July 31 to August 6 with a week-long break, resuming again from August 14 to 20. It is free and run in partnership with York Progression
A YORK comprehensive school has ended the term by celebrating the news that it had won a regional award. Pupils at Canon Lee School, Clifton, York, had been pioneering a new scheme begun by the school to provide valuable work experience for talented young
poets Mairi MacInnes and Peter Robinson will be at York Central library tomorrow. The reading takes place at 6pm as part of Read-Write, City of York Council's drive to promote literature across the city. Mairi, a York resident, is the author of two novels
A MAJOR chance to help shape key development sites which will affect York's long-term economic future has been gained by York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. The chamber, which represents the interests of thousands of business people in the county
IN a childhood dream come true Anthony Worrall has been appointed the new general manager of the four-star Hilton Hotel in York. Long before Mr Worrall, 32, joined the Hilton group ten years ago, he dreamed not only of becoming the general manager of
ANOTHER acquisition has been made by York-based, DocQwise Business Services Ltd, in its bid to set up a national network of document services companies. DocQwise, which works for a series of national accounts, from its base at the City Business Centre
IT was a case of letting his work go to his head. John Schofield, of RedBlack Software, arrived at work at The Innovation Centre at York Science Park sporting a vivid hairstyle. Don't laugh. It is already proving its weight in red, having earned the company
RAIL enthusiasts are being asked to keep their eyes peeled as Arriva Trains Northern (ATN) put a special train into service. The York-based train operator is running a Class 142 train in full Arriva colours - making it the only one of its kind. The train
AN HISTORICAL partnership has been formed to bring York's past to life for visitors. The Jorvik Pastport, which will provide free and discounted entry to many of York's tourist hot spots, has been compiled in an effort to boost tourism in the region.
A SPECIAL design document has been drawn up that could protect the attractive appearance of a York village for years to come. City of York Council planners will on Thursday discuss proposals for a Rufforth Village Design Statement (VDS). If the VDS is
TADCASTER East Community Primary School has ended a successful year with two major achievements under its belt. As well as faring well in its recent Ofsted inspection, the school has scooped a Schools Achievement Award for the third successive year. The
MAIDS and mistresses who worked in Yorkshire county houses during the last 300 years are to be the focus of a special exhibition next year. Castle Howard, Burton Constable, in East Yorkshire, and Harewood House, near Leeds, are three of the seven places
CALLOUS thieves have stolen charity cash from a wishing well - less than a week after it was installed. Furious town councillors at Tadcaster today branded the culprits "scum". The wishing well was installed in Kirkgate, Tadcaster, last Monday, complete
TEENAGE trialist Craig Turns is set to don the gloves and go straight into the firing line for York City tomorrow as they take on Leeds United in a pre-season friendly. The Minstermen are set to field more trialists in tomorrow's Bootham Crescent clash
A SPECIAL open meeting will be held tonight to discuss the latest crisis facing York City Football Club. Fans pressure group Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has hailed the open forum "an unmissable opportunity" to shape the club's future. Titled Finding
COMMUTERS told today why they spend up to two hours each day travelling to and from their work in York. They said personal and domestic commitments were the primary reason for living so far from their workplace, with York's high property prices and the
TWO teams of wives whose husbands were deployed to Iraq took their minds off their departures by training for a 100-kilometre challenge. Now the eight women are to embark this weekend on the tough Trailwalker UK expedition to raise cash for the Gurkha
A SPECIAL open meeting will be held tonight to discuss the latest crisis facing York City Football Club. Fans pressure group Friends of Bootham Crescent (FoBC) has hailed the open forum "an unmissable opportunity" to shape the club's future. Titled Finding
A clash of fixtures means that entries are slightly down for this year's week-long York Open Bowls Tournament, which starts next Monday. The main drop is in the number of ladies taking part because Yorkshire Bowling Association have ladies club championship
SO few girls have entered this year's York Junior Tennis Championships that no finals will be played. It follows a worrying trend for local tennis officials who have had to cancel women's events in the York Municipal Championships in the last two years
WIGGINTON have boosted their Fulford Ladies Invitation League division four title hopes at the double. They followed a narrow 55-53 victory over leaders Heworth with a 58-50 win over Tollerton to move into second place. Pauline Wreglesworth and Sue Espiner
FLAT caps and ferrets are still very much in fashion if York man Stephen Reed is anything to go by. The 52-year-old storeman has hit back at claims that Yorkshiremen have shed their traditional earthy image for a mineral water and meal at a restaurant
AN ABBA tribute band was forced to send its own SOS when members got trapped in the lift at a York concert venue. The four performers in Mamma Mia - Nick Bradman as Benny, Sandra Bradman as Agnetha, Brian Somerfield as Bjorn, and Alysha Culshaw as Annifrid
Wistow have won the first promotion place in division six of the IT Sports Mixed League after wins against New Earswick and Dunnington. Neil Richardson and Jill Marsden led Wistow to promotion winning 28 games at Dunnington with Stephen and Janet Falkingham
A RADICAL scheme to build a 1.6km tunnel under a North Yorkshire town could go ahead to protect residents from more flooding. Environment Agency engineers met residents in Pickering yesterday to discuss a set of plans to protect the town. The range of
John Miller closed in 17 darts for Cygnet 'C' against Leeman 'B' in York John Smith's Mixed Darts League. But it was Leeman 'B' who took the honours, as Toni Smallwood-Keith Wright won the decider. Cueball's Pete Leake gamed in 20 against Vaults and was
YORK City's youth team enjoyed a 2-0 win over Selby Town at Flaxley Road last night to retain the Inshops Selby Day Centre Trophy. Striker Adam Arthur got both the goals, with youth team assistant boss Brian Neaves saying it was a good run-out for the
HOUSEHOLDS are to be provided with either an additional wheelie bin or a larger one as part of Ryedale District Council's recycling scheme, following protests about the experimental collection system. Coun Howard Keal told the authority's community services
CAMPAIGNERS who failed to stop an application to build 59 flats on their doorstep say they are "disgusted" at revised plans to increase the size of the development. Residents, in Holgate, York, fought desperately to block the original Barratt Homes scheme
TEENAGE trialist Craig Turns is set to don the gloves and go straight into the firing line for York City tomorrow as they take on Leeds United in a pre-season friendly. The Minstermen are set to field more trialists in tomorrow's Bootham Crescent clash
THIS is the man fighting for his life after being seriously injured in an apparent assault in York city centre. Andrew Hickox, 42, from Elland, near Halifax, remains in a critical condition today, two days after being discovered bleeding heavily from
SONGBIRD Carrie Winfield has won a day of star treatment after singing her way to success in a national competition. The 13-year-old Sherburn High School pupil beat thousands of hopefuls to win the Smash Hits magazine's national karaoke competition -
YORK City Knights captain Richie Hayes has been granted a testimonial match in recognition of his services to rugby league and in particular the game in York. The Rugby Football League usually grant testimonials to players who have spent ten consecutive
"BETTER than a knighthood" was pantomime dame Berwick Kaler's verdict on being made an Honorary Freeman of his adopted city at a special ceremony in York today. Berwick, who has played to packed houses at York Theatre Royal for more than 25 years, was
A YORK police officer collapsed in tears with her career in tatters after the Appeal Court upheld a jury's verdict that she passed confidential police information to her doorman boyfriend. Clare Woodall, a police officer for nine years, had appealed against
YORK street entertainer Michael Mime has been arrested by US forces in Baghdad, the Foreign Office confirmed today. Michael Mime, real name Michael Todd, headed for the Middle East in February. He first said he was on a mission to spread "unconditional
The summer holidays are upon us and, if you haven't killed your kids yet, you are probably starting to pack for your long-awaited fortnight away in the sun. Unless, of course, you are anything like my mother, who barely has time to unpack her suitcase
RON Rose calls himself "the token woman writer", and this playwright from a South Yorkshire family of aunts and sisters admits to "finding women more interesting than men" as a subject matter. In his new maternity ward drama, Oh Baby!, women outnumber
LET'S get this clear - the 132nd Open was one of the best in the venerable competition's history. Rookie champion Ben Curtis - the man from Kent in Ohio who conquered all in Kent in England - was a worthy winner of the coveted Claret Jug. But for all
THE sordid story of who said what culminated in the tragic death of a decent man, Dr David Kelly of the Ministry of Defence. To watch him being questioned on TV by a group of MPs who collectively were not worthy to fasten his shoelaces, reminded me of
MANY residents will remember the Liberal Democrats' headline promise of £100 cashback during the election campaign this spring. When, at this month's full council meeting, I asked Coun MacDonald, the new executive member for resources, when York residents
I WAS sad to read the report of the threat to Burton Croft. More alarming still was the quote from a Barratt spokesman who said: "The proposed scheme is very much in accordance with national guidance to build at higher densities on land with a former
HAXBY has the potential to be a village supplying York with a daily workforce to ensure it remains one of the key commercial and tourist centres in our area. But not if the present residential housing policy of City of York Council reaches its 40-houses-per-hectare
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on new league tables which reveal North Yorkshire is one of the most crime-free areas in the country. FOR anyone worried about violent crime, yesterday's headlines in the Evening Press made depressing reading. A 42-year-old man visiting
This has been interesting for those who follow politics and the countryside. The report into the impact of Genetically Modified Organisms on the Countryside has concluded that this generation of modified organisms present no threat. Imagine our surprise
I quote Persimmon Homes managing director Ian Hessay (Evening Press, July 18): "As a York-based company, Persimmon Homes is keen to see the continuation of professional football in the city. "With this in mind, we have been working very closely with the
An Eighties revival is threatening our love affair with the Seventies. MAXINE GORDON asks which decade was best? EIGHTIES singing sensation Matt Goss may have left town, but the current craze for all things from the 1980s shows no sign of waning. Matt
Mercedes-Benz of York is taking part in a nationwide pilot scheme being implemented by the manufacturer to gauge public opinion on showroom lay-out and design. The York site - one of only four Mercedes-Benz outlets involved in the scheme - has created
The new law to help disabled people to have proper access to buildings is no problem to businesses - it's an opportunity, says DAVID ANDREWS, chief executive of the York-based Yorkshire Tourist Board. WE MAY be languishing in the warmth of the English
One of Yorkshire's most distinguished hotels, the Relais & Chateaux-listed Middlethorpe Hall, in York, is now saving its clientele a trip down to the woods, by offering them a range of exclusive collectable teddy bears and rabbits to purchase. Designed
A new dawn in learning and skills is taking shape so, asks DAVID HARBOURNE, director of the Learning and Skills Council North Yorkshire, do YOU want to be a shaper? The recent launch of the National Skills Strategy has put Learning and Skills Councils
A Tadcaster firm has become the only video production company in Yorkshire to attain Top 50 status in the industry. Buckmark Productions, based in Station Road, Tadcaster, is again listed among the best video production organisations in Britain by Televisual
SIR GRAHAM HALL, chairman of Yorkshire Forward tells how his regional development agency will be backing the idea of York Racecourse playing host to the Queen while Ascot is out of action. EVER since plans for the new Ascot Racecourse were unveiled last
CHARTERED surveyors in Yorkshire are beginning to see an increase in demand for office space, following a weak first quarter, according to a new economic analysis just published. The survey, by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), puts
ON a sunny day in the school summer holidays there are few more family-friendly places than a British beach. All you need are a bucket and spade, a change of clothes for the children and transport to Scarborough or Filey. Generations have known this to
A SCHOOL near Selby has boosted its coffers by £1,200 with a summer fair. Organised by Friends of Hungate School, in Sherburn-in-Elmet, the fair was opened by York City FC player/manager Chris Brass. Attractions included ten pin bowling, gymnastics display
Visitors have dug deep in the North York Moors to mark national archaeology day. The national park, which is believed to have more scheduled ancient monuments than any other park in the country, opened Cawthorn Roman camps, near Pickering, last weekend
CHILDREN in schools across York and North Yorkshire finished the school year with a series of plays and concerts, a number of charity events and some farewell presentations for staff who were leaving. At Tang Hall Primary School, York, pupils gave several
A TEACHER who has chalked up 27 years at a Selby school, 21 of them as the head, has called it a day. Mike Cook, 58, joined Barwic Parade Primary School as deputy head teacher in 1976, becoming head teacher six years later. He said: "I came from the London
A BIG plan to lure yet more Government departments and possibly thousands of jobs to York and North Yorkshire is being prepared by the region's new-look investment board. The opportunity to massively stimulate the regional economy was seized after the
YOUNG people in York are being asked to get creative this summer by putting pencil to paper in a futuristic art competition. The Without Walls partnership wants inspired young artists to help picture a vision for the city, by drawing, painting, printing
AIR FORCE veterans have been enjoying a double celebration in York. The local branch of the Royal Air Force Association has been awarded a national prize. The veterans' group was awarded the National President's Cup for outstanding achievement. "This
NEIGHBOURHOOD consultation is to take place in York over possible boundary changes linked to a Yorkshire and Humber regional assembly. A referendum is set to take place in August next year on whether Yorkshire and Humber residents want a regional assembly
MAGISTRATES banned a man from a York nightclub after hearing of his bad behaviour there. The 12-month order was imposed on Mark Andrew Stevens, 26, of St Nicholas Croft, Askham Bryan, after he appeared at York magistrates court and admitted involvement
YORK youngsters are being encouraged to take the plunge, without having to splash out, this summer. Young people aged 15 and below are being offered the chance to swim for only £1 in the city's pools. The offer is available at the Barbican, Edmund Wilson
YORK'S Joe Lumb Under-17 side continued their good form with a 35-run victory over the Heavy Woollen District at Liversedge. Openers Nathan Briggs (Hemingbrough) and Leon Sacks (Acomb) put on 80 to provide a good platform for York's 214-9. Sacks made
A TRACTOR driver and a car driver have been arrested in connection with road accidents near Selby in which three bikers died, police said today. North Yorkshire Police spokesman Tony Lidgate said both men had been arrested had been bailed pending further
SCHOOLBOY squash starlet Graham Marr is celebrating that 'just champion' feeling. The Sherburn High School pupil lifted the Under-15 Junior Champion of Champions title at the recent finals in Nottingham. Marr, who was competing in the gold section of
A DRIVER suffered cuts and broken bones after her car left the road and hit a tree in East Yorkshire. The 42-year-old woman, from the Pocklington area, was hurt when her Ford Fiesta, travelling from Bolton towards Pocklington, left the unclassified road
DUNNINGTON beat Rowntree Park 68-40 in division one of the Tyke Petroleum Men's League. Dunnington finished the stronger, allowing Rowntree Park only ten of the last 36 games. Wigginton's title chances evaporated with their heavy 72-36 defeat by Wheldrake
AN INTERNATIONAL operation to tackle internet child sex abuse has led to the prosecution of a York man who created and downloaded indecent images of children over a period of several years. Operation Ore, the international project which saw about 50 men
WITH Chris Silverwood all set to return after injury and Darren Gough back in the Test squad, Yorkshire should be able to play their most successful trio of fast bowlers in the Championship match against Hampshire at Scarborough tomorrow. Silverwood was
FAME is on its way for one York singer as he waits for his big break on television. Daniel O'Shea, 20, is one of seven hopefuls waiting for his chance to enter the BBC Fame Academy. Daniel is in the first batch of seven out of 25 talented youngsters looking
WINGER Rob Kama has spoken of his relief after finally getting on the scoreboard for York City Knights. The Knights have scored 26 tries and racked up 176 points in the four games Kama has been involved in since joining from York RUFC, but the 26-year-old
A DEVELOPER has bought York's former Arts Centre and plans to spend several hundreds of thousands of pounds to turn the listed building into a restaurant. Rushbond has exchanged contracts with the University of York, which for four years has been trying
SO the police considered it appropriate to stop David Lambert for cycling too slowly (July 18). It's a pity they don't direct resources to stopping speeding motorists and motorcyclists. Perhaps they can't catch them? When I retired I considered taking
I NOTE that the council chief executive's department has incorporated the suffix First Among Equals as part of its letter heading. What does it mean? Historically, early prime ministers were regarded as "primus inter pares," - first among equals. In the
HOW can York incorporate past, present and future? On a 1907 photograph of Bootham is a sign indicating a skating rink (where the Salvation Army Citadel now stands). If York had an ice-rink its citizens wouldn't have to go out of town - spending money
I WAS surprised that the Rock Church in York, which staged an excellent show in Parliament Street, had no mention in your weekend events page (July 14). It was a great show with music, dancing, face-painting, children's crche, balloons and much more,
THE Wilberforce Trust thanks everyone who supported our recent fundraising events. We were delighted to welcome so many visitors to our Summer Fayre. Thank you also to all those who worked to make the event such a success. We raised £2,025. The money
YORK City Knights captain Richie Hayes has been granted a testimonial match in recognition of his services to rugby league and in particular the game in York. The Rugby Football League usually grant testimonials to players who have spent ten consecutive
WINGER Rob Kama has spoken of his relief after finally getting on the scoreboard for York City Knights. The Knights have scored 26 tries and racked up 176 points in the four games Kama has been involved in since joining from York RUFC, but the 26-year-old
WITH Chris Silverwood all set to return after injury and Darren Gough back in the Test squad, Yorkshire should be able to play their most successful trio of fast bowlers in the Championship match against Hampshire at Scarborough tomorrow. Silverwood was
As George Best's alcohol problems hit the headlines again, MAXINE GORDON talks to a recovering alcoholic about how he won his battle with the booze and to a woman who has been in Alex Best's shoes. LIKE the Queen, Reg has two birthdays. There is the day
