I WONDER when RS Scruton (Letters, April 19) last rode a bike anywhere within York. If, indeed, he or she has ever ridden a bike at all. The question regarding who would use a bridge between Poppleton and Skelton is fair enough. I know that I'd use such
LISTENING to the BBC World Service last Sunday, I was interested to learn that the World Health Organisation has declared 2004 Road Safety Year. UK statistics for death and injury on the roads are well documented; probably less known are the worldwide
I WOULD like to express my gratitude to a young couple who came to my aid when I fell from my bicycle. My thanks to these 'Good Samaritans' for caring and stopping to help me. Mrs M Reeve, Berkeley Terrace, Poppleton Road, York. Updated: 11:16 Wednesday
THE Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York is winning heavyweight backing. City of York Council's executive has thrown its full weight behind efforts to persuade American owner Kraft Foods to reconsider its decision to close the chocolate factory
SO Terry's is to close? Well the factory looked obsolete many years ago, and the site must be worth a lot now. Nevertheless, if some enterprising soul starts a new chocolate factory in York, hires some of Terry's old staff and maintains the quality, he
TWO innovative York firms received prestigious Royal honours today. The Salamander Organization Ltd and the Yorktest Group have both received Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2004. It was the first time in at least five years that the Queen had honoured
A YORK accountant will be putting aside her calculator to strut down the catwalk for charity. Alexa Trezise, from Garbutt and Elliott in York, will be making her fashion debut at the Leeds Chartered Accountants Students' Society annual fashion show at
THERE are nights when you can feel the va va voom in a theatre, busy with the buzz of expectant chatter and excited faces of all ages. Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is Britain's premier touring ballet company; York Theatre Royal is a mid-scale venue for
The big news in the game this week has been the so-called betting scandal involving St Helens players Sean Long and Martin Gleeson. Both players have allegedly used their online betting accounts to back against their club, betting they would lose by more
School football has now entered its final phase and the race is on to establish the winners. Manor School will be hoping to maintain their league lead in every single age group, with four of the five teams currently boasting an unbeaten record. Fulford
"Short stories are like a sniper's bullet. Fast and shocking," says crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. And in Twisted (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.99), Deaver has put together 16 brilliant "bullets" - many of them award-winning - for his ever-growing army of
IT WAS a decisive campaign, in which the better prepared side struck hard and fast, and delivered its exultant people a smashing victory which promised salvation from their enemies. As the titles of both these books suggest, the 1967 conflict was not
ARCHBISHOP Holgate's School pupils swam the English Channel in an effort to reach China. More than 30 students took part in the sponsored event to swim more than 20 miles - the equivalent of the channel - and raise cash for an expedition to China. Pupils
PUPILS from York and North Yorkshire will be looking at how the world will survive in the future at a young people's version of the Earth Summit. Youngsters from Fulford School in York, Easingwold School, St Aiden's School in Harrogate and St Augustine's
SCHOOLS will have a harder time getting lottery funding after changes to the way Awards For All grants are given. The National Lottery is introducing new rules to encourage schools to work more closely with community groups. Schools will now have to show
A 16-year-old York student is heading for success after making it to the finals of a national engineering contest. Maddie Doyle, a pupil at Huntington School, was the runner-up in the regional heats of the Green Design Challenge UK. She will compete in
A WOODEN display made during a project between York fathers and their children will be unveiled at the National Railway Museum. The display was made through a Family Learning Course, which took place every Saturday for more than a month. The project gave
PETER Lorimer today laughed off a report that Galatasaray have made an approach for Leeds United marksman Mark Viduka. Director Lorimer reckons it is open sea-son for stories linking Leeds' biggest names with moves out of Elland Road this summer. Lorimer
EXPERTS say there is "little doubt" that big cats such as panthers, lynxes and pumas are indeed roaming the countryside, following a massive increase in sightings. A study by the British Big Cats Society (BBCS) has revealed that in the past 15 months
PUPILS from York and North Yorkshire will be looking at how the world will survive in the future at a young people's version of the Earth Summit. Youngsters from Fulford School in York, Easingwold School, St Aiden's School in Harrogate and St Augustine's
CITY council leader Steve Galloway has staked his administration's reputation on its success in making York a safer place. He has relaunched the drive to clamp down on antisocial behaviour, and given the council's deputy chief executive Laura McGillivray
A COUNCIL representing thousands of villagers has been plunged into turmoil after six members resigned amid a bitter war of words. The Evening Press today reveals a catalogue of crisis at Strensall and Towthorpe Parish Council. Five members of a "modernising
DESPAIRING York City fans were left hoping for a miracle today after the club's 2-1 loss to Yeovil left it teetering on the edge of relegation. But club chiefs remained upbeat and urged fans not to give up the fight while there was a chance of survival
YORKSHIRE were opening their Championship season at Headingley today, keen to avenge the embarrassing defeat when they last came up against Essex three years' ago. Having just become county champions for the first time in 33 years in the 2001 season,
THE Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York is winning heavyweight backing. City of York Council's executive has thrown its full weight behind efforts to persuade American owner Kraft Foods to reconsider its decision to close the chocolate factory
THREE York workers have been sacked from Nestl Rowntree over their role in printing a rude message on thousands of Aero bars, the Evening Press can reveal today. A senior Nestl source said the trio were among nine production staff originally suspended
RUMOURS of a bust-up between Mitch Ward and the management were rife today after the midfielder was left out of both the first team squad for last night's game - and the reserve team today. Ward was seen leaving Bootham Crescent before kick off last night
I'LL just warn you first. I'm about to talk about the Beckhams. Part of me would like to think that most people were ready to leave poor old David and Victoria alone by now, but judging by the hectares of newspaper space, the hours of broadcasting time
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 100 years ago: A sketch was printed showing the new Elect Cocoa Block being built for Messrs Rowntree at Haxby Road. The sketch showed the skeleton steel framework of the building, which was the first large structure to be built
Late-night drinking in York is being linked to a rising tide of lawlessness. Chief Inspector Andy Bell has said: "York is a tourist city and we want to attract visitors, not discourage them by being seen as a centre for the binge-drinking culture" (Council
THE shock has subsided. York now has a choice: we can meekly accept Terry's closure with a shrug and a sigh, or we can fight back. In a world seemingly governed by giant multinational conglomerates, it is easy to presume that nothing we do will make a
SO ONCE again a decent, innocent man, along with his family, has had to suffer the protracted trauma of having to defend himself against false charges of sexual misbehaviour by a woman which apparently occurred more than 20 years ago (Ex-JP is cleared
The Evening Press is campaigning to save Terry's and more than 300 jobs. Mike Laycock looks back at a remarkably similar campaign fought in the 1990s to save more than 300 jobs at York firm RR Donnelley. The coincidence is extraordinary. In 1996, the
WHAT a brilliant column: Saying goodbye to granddad from Matthew Woodcock (Evening Press, April 16). My own grandparents were magnificent. Unfortunately, I didn't have them long enough. John's grandma and confidence-booster, Maria - she became 'Lalla'
DEAR oh dear. Less than one month since I was selected as York's Conservative Parliamentary candidate and Coun Blanchard (Letters, April 16) says the Tories are a spent force in York. Bless him. Readers may wonder why a local councillor had to write on
CONTROVERSIAL proposals to shake up York and North Yorkshire's £4 billion a year tourism industry are up for discussion tomorrow night. More than 50 people will gather at York's Marriott Hotel, Tadcaster Road, when Tourism Society Yorkshire members will
THE horrors faced by David Gemmell's new hero would daunt anyone, let alone the superb warrior that is Skilgannon the Dammed. Cursed because he put an entire town of men, women and children to the sword, he is magically brought back to life after 1,000
STEPHEN LEWIS explores the sound of silence at York University's new music research centre. I'D NEVER truly heard the sound of silence before - and let me tell you, it's an eerie experience. Deep beneath the magnificent concert hall at York University's
SEX scandals and "she devils" will be some of the topics discussed at open course lectures taking place at the University of York. The lectures, which will take place throughout May and June, will look at women in York from the Middle Ages to the present
A COMPUTER scam which has claimed victims across North Yorkshire is set to be tackled by telecom bosses. A Selby area man alerted British Telecom to the problem of calls being made from his computer to a remote African island, which cost him £50. Since
A WARNING has gone out to benefit cheats that fraud will not be tolerated, after a York woman was convicted of falsely claiming more than £17,000. Janet Smith, of Northfields, Strensall, pleaded guilty on Thursday to obtaining benefits by deception after
MORE than 6,000 people have signed a petition opposing the controversial redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre. The petition was due to be handed over this afternoon to City of York Council planners during a site visit. The planning committee will meet
YORK City supporters will be hurt, shocked and in despair today as they contemplate the growing reality of non-league football. Having worked so valiantly to ensure the club survived to celebrate 75 years of League football in the famous old city, it
BISHOPTHORPE'S dramatic 2-1 win at Huntington on Monday night will take the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division relegation battle down to the last games. There was no score in an even first half, but Connor McGuire put Bishopthorpe in
GORDON Fennell (York Nomads) topped Saturday's 51-entry at the Willows from peg 34 on Goldrush. Neglecting the silver fish and going all-out for carp, he targeted the snags with cat meat for a 36lb net of fish to 3lb. Dennis Gelderd (York Nomads) had
YORK City boss Chris Brass is ordering his players to keep fighting for their Third Division lives. Last night's 2-1 home defeat against Yeovil means the Minstermen are effectively four points from safety with three games to go because of their insurmountably
THE shock has subsided. York now has a choice: we can meekly accept Terry's closure with a shrug and a sigh, or we can fight back. In a world seemingly governed by giant multinational conglomerates, it is easy to presume that nothing we do will make a
THE message is very similar for York City fans today. All hope is not yet gone. True, the team's defeat by Yeovil leaves them on the brink of losing their Football League status. But as director Sophie McGill points out, the club was on the verge of extinction
YORKSHIRE were opening their Championship season at Headingley today, keen to avenge the embarrassing defeat when they last came up against Essex three years' ago. Having just become county champions for the first time in 33 years in the 2001 season,
YORK City boss Chris Brass is ordering his players to keep fighting for their Third Division lives. Last night's 2-1 home defeat against Yeovil means the Minstermen are effectively four points from safety with three games to go because of their insurmountably
DESPAIRING York City fans were left hoping for a miracle today after the club's 2-1 loss to Yeovil left it teetering on the edge of relegation. But club chiefs remained upbeat and urged fans not to give up the fight while there was a chance of survival
Johnny Murtagh may require directions to get to Beverley tomorrow, but the dual-Derby winning jockey should not leave the course empty-handed. Murtagh, a former top rider in Ireland, is now working out of Newmarket as stable-jockey to David Loder, with
YORK scandal MP Piers Merchant is about to make a political comeback. But not for the Tory Party and, most disappointingly of all, not in the city that led to his downfall. Piers, political historians will recall, was washed along in the tide of sleaze
