LAST week, I was visiting York with friends and my daughter and I wished to take them to one of our favourite restaurants on Micklegate. We were astonished to find the new pay and display regulations in operation. Because of the limited time allowed we
Under immense pressure from the opposition parties and some backbenchers the Labour Government has finally made a U-turn in agreeing to compensate 60,000 pensioners who have lost their pensions because their pension scheme failed. Labour has agreed to
NO ONE would disagree that St Barnabas School needs new facilities. However, it seems curious that only one site is being looked at for the new school. Unfortunately the site in question is a sensitive area environmentally. As with many planning decisions
IT is hard to know where Liz Edge is coming from in her letter about monies spent on cycling (May 18). As an ex-Labour councillor she must know that money awarded to the council to spend on cycling projects is specific to that project - it cannot be spent
WITH reference to recent reports of a deteriorating post service, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't post workers' union CWU warn that the latest round of cost-cutting and the move to single delivery would have exactly this effect? Royal Mail management
MR Vassie finds one positive feature about the EU, as he sees it at least (Letters, May 14). Indeed, there are actually several. Sadly though, the EU is so rotten to its corrupt, expensive and undemocratic core, that I could list disadvantages running
I AM writing to ask readers to support the Mobilise campaign which is fighting to end the injustice of age discrimination in disability benefits. The Mobilise campaign has the backing of organisations including Help the Aged, Disability Alliance, Royal
YORK will be hoping to continue this weekend where they left off in their last Yorkshire Premier League match at Castleford. But the visit to Clifton Park of league champions Cleethorpes will present a much sterner contest. The Lincolnshire club has steadily
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Care Assistants, Nights and Days, full time or part time. Pay negotiable dependant on experience. Needed, handy person, £5 per hour. Somerset Nursing Home. Tel: 01904 448313. Updated: 09:27 Friday, May 21, 2004
Riccall House Care Home. Due to retirement we have a vacancy for a part-time cook in our family run home. 4 days per week, alt wk/ends. Wage negotiable. Tel. 01757 248586. Updated: 08:32 Friday, May 21, 2004
Abbey Lea Care Home, Barlby. Team Leader, NVQ 2 essential. 25 hrs pw, wage negotiable. Also care assistant, 15-20 hours p/w, Night Carer 10 hrs pw. Tel. Mrs Emmett 01757 213811. Updated: 16:16 Thursday, May 20, 2004
Room attendant required to work 5 days over 7 in this friendly hotel. For further details contact Sam/Trish, Queens Hotel, Skeldergate. Tel. 01904 611321. Updated: 15:56 Thursday, May 20, 2004
Wolfgang Petersen was looking for someone unknown to play a famous beauty in Troy. Then he spotted Diane Kruger, as he tells Liz Howell. TROY director Wolfgang Petersen mounted a worldwide search to find his Helen of Troy, the face that reputedly launched
Dave Gorman received an e-mail that changed his life. Well, that's an exaggeration - but it did set him off on the path to his latest show as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. LET globe-trotting comic adventurer Dave Gorman take you on a guided tour of googlewhacking
Introducing... Irish psychic Sharon Neill, blind star of the Second Sight show at the Grand Opera House, York. Blind from birth, Belfast clairvoyant Sharon Neill uses her psychic sixth sense to "give hope and proof to many that death is not an end". Well
YOU may not recall Jenni Maitland's debut performance at York Theatre Royal last July. "I had a lot less to say last time. In fact nothing," recalls Jenni, who has returned to York to play the lead role of Catherine in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
DEPUTY Prime Minister John Prescott was first to react after a condom filled with purple cornflour bounced off Tony Blair's shoulder and exploded in the Commons on Wednesday. Throwing his order papers to the floor like bar towels, Mr Prescott - a former
GETTING York mums back to work is the focus of an expanding firm which is creating a base in the city. Management consultant Peter Hartas has joined forces with Bradford-based career management experts Blue Tree to help people in York take control of
WORK has now started on a major £2 million project in York which will unite three higher education organisations. S Harrison Construction, of Malton, has started building a new 17,600 sq ft office building at York Science Park, to be used by the Higher
u MOVE over Brideshead Revisited. Castle Howard has attracted an even bigger name, one Tom Jones, sex bomb of the Welsh principality. In his only northern country-house date of 2004, Jones will take to the outdoor stage on July 24 in a picnic-style concert
Through a chance meeting with York fundraiser Penelope Worsley, Thai floral artist, dancer and musician Opas Yarcammee has agreed to give a demonstration in York at short notice. Yarcammee has been brought to England by the Thai Embassy to decorate the
Abdullah Chhadeh, the Syrian master exponent of the qanun, who plays at York Live Music Festival on Sunday, May 23. Abdullah, welcome to York for the first time. Firstly, what is a qanun? "It's a tenth century Arabic instrument, a flat sound box in the
Name: Arthur Lee and Love; Occupation: Los Angeles acid rock band and their cult leader Rock status: First multiracial rock band of psychedelic era, 1965 to 1971 Where, when and why in York in 2004: Fibbers, on Sunday, June 28, for filler date on Love's
COURTNEY Pine plays in York for the first time for three years on Thursday. Jazz saxophonist Pine and his band return to York Theatre Royal for a J-Night concert as part of the York Live Music Festival. J-Night promoter David Porter says: "Courtney's
FINGERS crossed for fine weather for the Black Swan Music weekend. The City of York Day of Folk will run all day tomorrow (22nd) and the Day of Jazz all day Sunday (23rd), both midday to closing time at 11pm and will feature some of the region's best
STEPHEN LEWIS bids farewell to Roy Templeman, York's controversial planning chief. IT MAY not be fair, and it's not what he would want, but Roy Templeman seems doomed to be remembered in York as Mr Coppergate. The 'pretty, proud and poor' city has changed
RESIDENTS of a York street that has become a meeting place for gangs of up to 50 youths say they feel "under siege". Householders in Cleveland Street, off Holgate Road, blame a flurry of vandalism, nuisance behaviour and litter on drunken teenagers. They
A YORK civil servant slipped into the River Ouse and drowned, after a night out in the city drinking heavily with friends. Steven Feather, 35, was probably looking for somewhere to urinate when he fell through branches and plunged into the water near
THE bravery of a little cancer patient from York has inspired a major fundraising drive to help other youngsters fight back, just like her. Four-year-old Jennifer Pickering, of Haxby, was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma last October
FEEBLE batting followed by another injury to one of their fast bowlers put Yorkshire under the cosh on the second day of their Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley yesterday. Bowled out for 164, Yorkshire trailed by 229 on the first
A NORTH YORKSHIRE security firm owner who masterminded a campaign of night-time arson has been jailed for three years. Peter Holland, 40, forced another man to torch three cars in the Selby area, then browbeat an accomplice from York and a woman into
Bootham Crescent ticket prices have been virtually frozen for York City's new life in the Conference. Children's prices in the Family Stand have been cut to £5 from £6.50 to encourage more parents to bring their youngsters to the enclosure, although adult
UNION members are planning a march and demonstration against York's parking charges - and the Mother Superior at a city convent says she is willing to take part. The York & District Trades Union Council claims the controversial new fees will have
Zonus, narrowly beaten at Chester last time, can bounce back to winning form at Haydock tomorrow and hit the jackpot in the process. A total of £90,000 is up for grabs in the totesport Silver Bowl Handicap, and, with a field of 20 facing the starter,
All sorts of fascinating artefacts have been unearthed for the latest exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum. CHARLES HUTCHINSON is given a guided tour of the past. DUST Off The Dodo is the first exhibition to parade the combined collections of the York Museums
Alex Lloyd looks forward to the arrival in York of Peter Andre. GET ready to scream. The man behind the most unbelievable comeback in pop is hitting York tomorrow night. Yes, Aussie sex-god Peter Andre will be bringing his six-pack fuelled catchy pop
You cannot describe The Counterfeit Stones as a tribute band, as their whole act is a send-up rather than a homage to the Rolling Stones. Rock panto is probably a better way of thinking of this kind of act. It's Spinal Tap attempts to visit, rather than
Harrogate International Festival is bouncing back from its grant scare of earlier this year. Camden teen discovery Amy Winehouse, the urban jazz flavour of the moment, launches the festival on Saturday, July 24, at Harrogate International Centre: a sure
Robbie Dale looks on the funny side of being a student in York. THE life of a student can have its ups and downs. Quite apart from the stereotypical innuendo that may be ascribed to the above sentence, it is true that the time of life when we troop off
Friday, May 21, 2004 100 years ago: The remains of Oliver Cromwell, which, like the head of his Royal contemporary, were continually "cropping up", would seem to be buried not in Kent, after all, but in Yorkshire. The true guardian of the Lord Protector's
Manufacturing Controller - reporting to the Manufacturing Manager, this person will be responsible for the smooth running of production. Experience in an electronics production environment will be an advantage. Salary will be in the range of £18k-£22k
Highfield Nursing Care Home (Barkston Ash, between Tadcaster and Sherburn in Elmet, off A162/A64/A1/M1) Now part of Barchester Health Care. We require the following: Care Assistant - Day or Night Duty. Kitchen Assistant - P/T, Laundry Assistant - Weekends
Home Carers needed in most areas of York. Training, holiday pay, flexible hours including weekends. Must be commited to care work. Tel. 01904 655422. Updated: 15:59 Thursday, May 20, 2004
LIKE Tarantino, fellow writer-director Pedro Almodovar likes to introduce his audacious movie making in the grand manner. "Un Film De Almodovar", he announces, sure in the knowledge that a Cannes opening film carries the status of an event. For those
WOMEN across York will be swooning over Brad Pitt's knees tonight. The heartthrob displays his lower extremities throughout the $200 million Hollywood epic Troy. This, Brad confidently forecast in the Evening Press last week, will cause a fashion revolution
YORK'S most famous porkers have shaken off their mucky image and had a makeover. The pigs who have made their home in the city's Swinegate Quarter for the last 12 years have been restored to their former glory by their creator, York sculptor Jonathan
ALL York's folk sessions and clubs are joining forces for the City of York Folk Day 2004, a day-long feast of music, song and craic at the Black Swan Folk Club, Peasholme Green, York, tomorrow (22nd). Co-ordinated by Black Swan promoter Roland Walls,
RICHARD Safhill returns to his home city to perform with the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet at the Church of St Chad on Knavesmire, Campleshon Road, York, next Saturday (29th). "I am originally from York, and I studied at the Royal Northern College of Music
Richard Thompson, the English balladeer who lives in California, the folk singer who doesn't really sing folk songs, the guitarists' guitarist, talks to JULIAN COLE ahead of his concert in York. WHEN Richard Thompson's new solo album is released, listen
Top girls Heworth have won the Connexions Girls' Football League under-17 title for the first time since its formation. Heworth lost just one game all season to close rivals Poppleton Tigers to topple York City from the winner's podium for the first time
STEVE Galloway will have expected - perhaps even relished - a conflict with traders over new parking charges. Friction has always existed between York's merchant adventurers and the city governors. But the council leader cannot have anticipated battling
A WARM welcome to Tim Schoonmaker, who has become chief executive of the Odeon group. The cinema, he says, "gives many people their most powerful media experience". It is in his gift to ensure York people continue to enjoy that experience for many years
A YORK trader is calling for bus drivers to watch their speed when tackling a busy city centre bend. Their concern comes two days after an elderly man was in collision with a bus at the bottom of Parliament Street at its junction with Coppergate. The
A YEAR-LONG wrangle over a family's troublesome windows has been solved - with a bit of help from the Evening Press. At one point Mick and Julie Ellerby, from the west side of York, believed their holiday was in jeopardy because double glazing installed
A YORK swimming pool was forced to close today after suffering a devastating vandalism attack. Police said the culprits used hammers to smash clear blocks at the Joseph Rowntree pool in Hawthorne Terrace, New Earswick - showering the water with glass.
THE Odeon chain has announced the appointment of a new chief executive - who will ultimately decide the fate of its York cinema. Tim Schoonmaker joined the company from media group Emap Plc, and has replaced temporary chief executive Ian Pluthero, who
CRUEL injuries are threatening to block one of the most eagerly-awaited knockout confrontations since Achilles met Hector on the battle-plain of Troy. In the red corner is Manchester United's talismanic skipper Roy Keane, while in the blue corner of FA
This Sunday sees the second of the three-match spring series fished at the prolific Laybourne Lakes. A better entry than last weekend's disappointing 18 is hoped for, while tickets may still be available from Terry Pinder on 01904 621296. A pair of spectacles
LAWYERS for Michael Haslam are considering their next moves in a long-running libel action, following a court's decision to quash the retired York psychiatrist's conviction for raping a patient. Haslam served a writ against the Sunday Times in 2000 over
Team Castrol Suzuki sidecar duo Steve Webster and Paul Woodhead head the entry list in the second round of the British Sidecar championship at Mondello Park in Dublin this weekend. After winning in Italy last Sunday, in the first round of the European
A WAR hero who shot down a German bomber in York during the Second World War claims that 62 years later, he is still waiting for the medal he was promised. Henry Hemus, now aged 82, was commended by his senior officers when he brought down the plane in
Bootham Crescent ticket prices have been virtually frozen for York City's new life in the Conference. Children's prices in the Family Stand have been cut to £5 from £6.50 to encourage more parents to bring their youngsters to the enclosure, although adult
FEEBLE batting followed by another injury to one of their fast bowlers put Yorkshire under the cosh on the second day of their Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley yesterday. Bowled out for 164, Yorkshire trailed by 229 on the first
THE Odeon chain has announced the appointment of a new chief executive - who will ultimately decide the fate of its York cinema. Tim Schoonmaker joined the company from media group Emap Plc, and has replaced temporary chief executive Ian Pluthero, who
NISSAN'S latest Primera, the car that, according to its advertising is a new form of intelligence, arrives in July with a new and more luxurious interior, added technology including a unique traffic avoidance feature for its DVD satellite navigation system
PORSCHE, the world's most successful sports car, is to launch two new models in September, the 15th generation in the history of the model. The models are the 911 Carrera with a 325bhp, 3.6-litre six cylinder boxer engine, and the 911 Carrera S, powered
