Friday, April 2, 2004 100 years ago: A former tinner from Scarborough, who became a national cause celebre after he stole a turnip from a field whilst desperaately poor, was in the news again. He had been sent amounts of money while in gaol, by peo-ple
YOU know that ho-ho sign, You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps? Criminal psychologist Dr Miranda Grey has entered the grey area of not being able to tell the distinction between mad and sane. Meanwhile, Oscar-winner Halle Berry has entered
Ernst & Young has appointed Harrogate-based Polo PR Partnership Ltd to coordinate a trade and business press campaign focusing on the tax implications for multi-national companies of European Union expansion. The campaign, targeting the leading pan-European
A new payments system due to be introduced next year to combat credit card fraud could also hit many businesses in the pocket, warns ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). The new system, dubbed "Chip and PIN", will mean that signatures
Don't ask long-serving American troubadour what songs he'll be performing in York. He doesn't know and that's the way he likes it, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. REMEMBER how troubadour Jonathan Richman had a habit of emerging out of nowhere to strum
The Darkness and The White Stripes are the big names out of the hat for the Carling Weekend Leeds Festival at Bramham Park, near Leeds, this summer. Lowestoft retro rockers The Darkness will top the main stage bill on August 28 in the only chance to see
I AGREE wholeheartedly with Joyce Pickard's observations about Israel's nuclear stockpiles (March 31). How can there possibly be peace in the Middle East until every country is rid of nuclear weapons. Comments coming out of the US and UK stink of hypocrisy
FOLLOWING on from my letter about the problems of parking for rehearsal evenings for York Musical Society (March 20) I write to say that it is not only the cost which is an issue. Trying to park for rehearsals on a Friday night at the Minster was made
IF the new Hungate Development is to be criss-crossed with footstreets and no car parking, is it being renamed Rungate? Annie Wright, Aston Science Park, Love Lane, Birmingham. Updated: 10:08 Friday, April 02, 2004
HAT-TRICK hero Alex Godfrey has warned that York City Knights have to up their game when his old club, Dewsbury Rams, visit Huntington Stadium seeking revenge on Sunday. The Knights beat 12-man Gateshead Thunder 54-26 in their Arriva Trains Cup cross-section
THE bill for gritting York's roads has rocketed by more than £180,000 over budget after an unexpectedly icy and snowy winter. City of York Council says £333,000 was set aside last year to deal with maintenance work during the 2003/2004 winter. But a report
A WOMAN from York faces a race against time to make her holiday flight - she has lost her passport only days before setting off. Katrina Ellis, of Fulford, has made an urgent appeal for help so she can get on her plane to Croatia. Katrina is due to catch
YORK City are still waiting for a five-figure sum to be paid to the club by former chairman John Batchelor as part of an agreement when the Minstermen were brought out of administration. The Evening Press believes Batchelor promised to pay City £45,000
The Evening Press today weighs in to back York Business Pride. The paper has become the official media partner in the campaign to create a city wonderful for traders, shoppers, potential inward investors and tourists. We already publish a monthly Business
BRITAIN'S immigration policy has long been a hot issue in the South East of England, where residents feel most directly affected. In York, it has been further down the political agenda. Only 30 asylum seekers were living here at the end of last year according
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YORK City are still waiting for a five-figure sum to be paid to the club by former chairman John Batchelor as part of an agreement when the Minstermen were brought out of administration. The Evening Press believes Batchelor promised to pay City £45,000
THIS haunting image shows the face of a mystery man whose body was found floating in the River Ouse. Police released the picture today in the hope they may finally be able to put a name to the man, whose identity remains unknown six months after he was
More than 200 staff at Corries Solicitors will move out of their four offices in York this Easter and gather under one roof at the Shepherd Developments' Stuart House. They will occupy all three storeys of the 37,000 sq ft building in Hospital Fields
WHEN I was small person, here was a computer game which involved two white blocks batting a smaller block from one end of a green screen to the other. And back again. One of the big blocks made a "ping" noise when it connected with the smaller block,
RAPIDLY-growing S Harrison Developments Ltd, of Malton, is seeking yet again to expand, way beyond its North Yorkshire borders - this time with an £18 million project in the North East. The company has submitted plans to build apartments on a derelict
Brian Alston, The Royal Bank of Scotland's northern area manager for York, as well as Middlesbrough, Darlington, Newcastle and Sunderland, has broadened his brief from business clients to also being in charge of premium and personal banking teams. Brian
Fine Young Cannibals are on the comeback trail, mounting their first tour since their demise in 1996. The line-up will be led as ever by singer Roland Gift, but fellow founder members Andy Cox and David Steele will not participate in the band's return
TOO close to call, Heat Nine of Round One of the Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands 2004 finished as a dead heat between Datyura and The Spiral. The Secret Panel vote went to The Spiral at Tuesday's clash this week and both bands will progress
CARA Dillon opens her spring tour at Pocklington Arts Centre on Thursday, buoyed by her latest award success. The Dungiven folk singer won the Best Irish Female Singer category at the Irish Meteor Awards last month, overcoming fellow nominees Sinead O'Connor
FRANK Zappa famously observed "Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny", but there is a great deal of fragrant and organic music around this week to confound the wacky master's view. First up tonight (2nd) at Wakefield Jazz is one of those events for which
Reintroducing... Su Pollard, the Hi-De-Hi! star in high spirits on tour in A Happy Medium. A Happy Medium is a comedy about "the known and the unknown conducted by a woman who knew nothing in the first place". Su Pollard plays the would-be medium in this
BRENDAN Behan's prison play, The Quare Fellow, is 50 years old this year. For the best part of 20 years, the play has lain dormant: just the kind of drama to catch the attention of the Oxford Stage Company, which specialises in giving the kiss of life
FOR the first time, the regional showcase of the National Theatre Shell Connections festival of new writing will be held at York Theatre Royal. In a new partnership with the National, the Theatre Royal will play host to more than 20 performances over
SELBY face a 'must-win' home game against Old Crossleyans in their fight for Yorkshire One survival tomorrow. Defeat at Sandhill Lane would leave Selby in big trouble. Shaun Austerfield is recalled at centre in place of the unavailable Martin Bramley
I ENJOYED reading your feature which offered hope that, at long last, the wheel is coming full circle, and we may be seeing the end of road humps and the like (March 31). These measures are a scar on our localities and do very little to save lives, all
WE also have "grass verges" damaged in this area by the refuse wagon every Tuesday, owned by the City of York Council (Letters, March 30). It has been happening for more than two years and, despite complaints, no action has been taken to prevent it. Not
THERE has been much criticism lately of First bus drivers so, because my husband and daughter are bus drivers, I must redress the balance. How would you like a job like this? You start work very early in the morning or finish very late in the evening.
TOP and bottom issues dominated the John Smith's Sunday Morning League first division duel between Derwent United and Ainsty Panthers. United's 1-0 win courtesy of a strike from Bradshaw ensured their top-flight status, while Ainsty Panthers' title aspirations
EIGHT games left and Harrogate Town have been set a points total of 15 from the possible maximum 24. Town boss John Reed has laid down the 15-point target for his Harrogate have-nots starting with tomorrow's visit of in-form Stalybridge Celtic to Wetherby
CHRIS TITLEY meets a York award winner with a wealth of silver service stories. BRENDA Sempers can tell a few tales. In a near-50 year career in catering she has marvelled at the manners of the Queen (although her dogs' behaviour left something to be
THE developers behind the massive Hungate housing development have revealed plans to drastically cut geese numbers near the York site. Amid concerns that residents snapping up plush riverside flats will not want to be disturbed by gaggles of honking birds
A SENIOR dentist has lobbied the Government in an attempt to tackle York's spiralling dental crisis. British Dental Association chairman John Renshaw's talks with Health Secretary John Reid emerged as York's dental woes reached a new nadir. The Evening
BUSINESS pride shone in York last night. A gathering of more than 30 top city dignitaries met at York's Norwich Union Life headquarters to celebrate the raging success of York Business Pride. Since its launch in November, this partnership between business
THE council's flying squad is on the trail of two feathered fiends who are causing havoc in a York car park. Two mischievous crows - nicknamed Russell and Sheryl by frustrated drivers - are causing hundreds of pounds of damage at Askham Bar Park&Ride
PEOPLE who put their bin bags out for collection too early face being fined as York council workers adopt a "zero tolerance" stance on cleaning the streets. Council bosses today warned that any black bin bags which were left on the street more than the
THE semi-finals of the York Unique-Phoenix League saw the PDL Trophy holders, Sun ease into the final after a 4-1 win over Hospital Social Club 'A'. Chris Thompson with 14 and 19-dart legs shone for Sun who will play Cygnet 'A' who disposed of Alice Hawthorn
Hail Queen Kristina could be the call to arms at York's St Peter's School, writes Tony Kelly. Pupil Kristina Stiller is one of only two oarswomen to represent Great Britain at the Munich junior international regatta to be held on May 10-11. She will steer
THE father of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle plans to resettle in New Zealand and open an art gallery. Alan Stuttle, 65, travelled to New Zealand after closing his studio in Micklegate, York, after 33 years. He was inspired by the adventurous
HAT-TRICK hero Alex Godfrey has warned that York City Knights have to up their game when his old club, Dewsbury Rams, visit Huntington Stadium seeking revenge on Sunday. The Knights beat 12-man Gateshead Thunder 54-26 in their Arriva Trains Cup cross-section
YORK City finance director Terry Doyle welcomed the success of the one-off opportunity to host a rugby league game at Bootham Crescent on Wednesday night but warned against any "crescendo" of support for a future groundsharing arrangement between the
A GUNMAN who left a woman scarred when he hit her while firing "recklessly" into a busy York street was today starting a 17-month jail term. York Crown Court heard how Lee David Smith, 27, shot terrified Emma Garner using an air gun with a telescopic
UNDERCOVER police officers on a benefits crackdown found an illegal asylum seeker, a dole cheat and a man breaking the rules of his asylum support scheme all working as Big Issue sellers in York city centre. Today police said Big Issue sellers should
BUSINESS pride shone in York last night. A gathering of more than 30 top city dignitaries met at York's Norwich Union Life headquarters to celebrate the raging success of York Business Pride. Since its launch in November, this partnership between business
MOTORISTS are in a flap after two crows with a rubber fetish began pecking off their windscreen wipers at Askham Bar Park and Ride. Now Russell and Sheryl face being wiped out by pest exterminators. Surely we can come up with a more imaginative solution
Temporary post to cover maternity leave (6-12 months) 25 hours, 5 days per week Have you had experience of working with young people with a variety of needs? Can you lead and motivate a team of staff offering a high quality housing and support service
The position has been created to show how the new system will work. All that needs to be done to maintain this system is to enter the hot job details into the Y&CP generator under market - hotjobs with the next number and then upload it. As the jobs
YORK City finance director Terry Doyle welcomed the success of the one-off opportunity to host a rugby league game at Bootham Crescent on Wednesday night but warned against any "crescendo" of support for a future groundsharing arrangement between the
GOOD news for Suzuki fans. All models across the range have been given a specification boost, without any extra pounds being added to the price tag. Radio and CD players, driver and passenger airbags and anti-lock braking, with electronic brake force
MAIDS and Mistresses, a series of linked exhibitions and trails across seven of Yorkshire's great country houses, opens on April 3. Castle Howard, near York, is among the houses taking part in the celebration of 300 years of women and the Yorkshire country
THE Yorkshire Museum, York, is inviting families to expand their horizons on a journey into forgotten worlds this Easter in a fortnight of fun-filled activities. These will run from Saturday, April 3 until Sunday, April 18 from 10am to 4pm daily and will
Two bars are about to reveal their revamped images, says Alex Lloyd. YOU can't switch on the television these days without encountering a glut of programmes dedicated to makeovers and now it seems the nightspots of York are following a similar trend.
IT used to be the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. But these days everyone prefers initials, so it has been shortened to the PDSA. Whatever the name, the charity is still doing what it does best: providing free veterinary treatment for the pets of
