MUCH has been written about the mis-selling of pensions and endowments by the assurance companies. Strong words have been spoken about their methods of "ripping-off" the public. But what about the banks? How helpful and honest are they? I do not have
OUR NHS and state school system give us free services available to all, or there are privately-financed services for those who choose them and can afford to pay. Not so if you need a dentist. Privately-financed dentists are available to all but a free
IT is very unfair that the only remaining farmers in Heslington, Mr and Mrs Chris Hawkswell, have to give up two thirds of their land to the University of York for its mammoth expansion plan. The university claims that the new area will be "nearly car
MR Edwards is again busy promoting the line six service in Osbaldwick (Letters, May 19). Why? Does it need this after almost three years of service? It would seem so. He proudly proclaims that there has been a 35 per cent increase in patronage. Really
Saturday, May 22, 2004 100 years ago: At York City Police Court, an 18-year-old woman was brought up on remand charged with wandering abroad, not having any visible means of subsistence. The police court missionary said she had reasoned with the girl
IF on a visit to a York pub you're confronted by a group of leaping men brandishing blades and stamping heartily on the floor, don't be afraid. They are probably members of the city's "rapper" dancer group who can sometimes be seen plying their hobby
GINA PARKINSON shows how to lay down turf with the help of a breadknife from the kitchen. AFTER weeks of hard work levelling and raking the area that was to become our new lawn, it was ready to be turfed last week. I rang the supplier at 4.45pm on Wednesday
Speed demons Alex Godfrey and Austin Buchanan are both in the squad for Sunday's York City Knights clash against Gateshead Thunder at Huntington Stadium. Godfrey has been missing since the Hunslet Hawks match on Easter Monday after pulling a hamstring
DEPARTING utility star Mark Stewart has described York City Knights fans as "the best he's ever played for" ahead of his last game in a York shirt. As revealed by the Evening Press, the Aussie is returning down under next month, meaning Sunday's LHF Healthplan
GATESHEAD will be aiming to end the worst current run in professional rugby league when they visit Huntington Stadium on Sunday. Thunder have gone 23 matches - and exactly 11 months - without a win, gleaning only one point in that time. They lost their
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC are set to quit the Yorkshire League and play in the Pennine League next season. A unanimous vote at the club's annual general meeting confirmed that the senior side would be making an application to join neighbours York Groves
York chef JAMES LOWE reaches E and F in his alphabet of food and cooking. This month I've picked out some of the best ingredients, cooking methods and culinary terms that come under E and F in my A to Z of food. First up are eggs, a key kitchen item.
A YORK student is being encouraged to "live her dream" by the father of murdered backpacker Caroline Stuttle. Alan Stuttle has set up an annual travel bursary for students at Huntington School, where Caroline was a pupil, to encourage their artistic talent
THE striking logo used to promote London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games was created by a designer from York. Ben Millar, who did a foundation course specialising in graphic design at York College in the 1990s, works for Kino Design, which won an
A MAN jailed for "blowing up" telephone boxes on the A64 near Malton with powerful fireworks has failed in an Appeal Court bid to get his four-year jail term reduced. Geoffrey Layton, 31, of Dufton Approach, Seacroft, Leeds, was jailed at York Crown Court
PLANS to convert a city centre York hotel into flats have been greeted with dismay by tourism chiefs. Developers want to create 15 two-bedroom properties at the Bedford Hotel, in Bootham, which will result in the loss of 17 en-suite hotel rooms only five
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC are set to quit the Yorkshire League and play in the Pennine League next season. A unanimous vote at the club's annual general meeting confirmed that the senior side would be making an application to join neighbours York Groves
There is no doubt where the best racing is tomorrow - and no prizes for guessing that it's not in Britain. While home-based punters are handed a staple diet of one low-profile Flat meeting and two even lower-profile jumping fixtures, over in Ireland,
DAN JONES visits Hovingham and enjoys five-star service at a first-rate village pub EVERYTHING about Hovingham screams picture postcard. Tucked snugly amid the Howardian Hills, the thriving community boasts a pub so fine you wish you could fold it up
SIX weeks ahead of its official opening the Flaxby Park Golf and Country Club has ended its membership drive. Interest has been so keen in the 27-hole course located near the A1 between York and Harrogate that the course has posted 'membership full' notices
A CHIP off the old block helped to secure a victory for York Golf Range professional Andrew Smith in the first Young Masters tournament of the year at the Eagles course at Spaldington, near York. Smith organised the event along with Jonathan Charters-Reid
YORK City Knights Supporters' Club felt the full benefit of the recent Sportsman's Dinner when the money raised by the event was officially handed over this week. The bash, held in March at the Cottage Inn in Haxby, featured former Leeds and Scotland
IT'S great news for York folk that the final of this year's inaugural Gillette Tri-Nations Tournament will be coming to nearby Leeds. The Rugby Football League this week confirmed that Elland Road, home of Leeds United, which last hosted rugby league
I agree with our MP, Hugh Bayley, about the rise in our council tax by 8.5 per cent (Evening Press, May 20). Coun Steve Galloway disagrees with Mr Bayley's statement, but he should look to his own transport councillor Ann Reid. She has already admitted
I WAS sorry to see that Molly, Judy and Peggy, the Nafferton pet donkeys, owned by Polly and David Stead, were to be sold off and would lose their home (Evening Press, May 19). Couldn't they be bought by City of York Council, re-stabled and trained as
George Wilkinson enjoys a gentle climb or two around Millington, near Pocklington. MILLINGTON'S swallows were picking up nesting material, we picked up a wide and colourful verge and strolled through a shallow valley of greening trees and racing crops
TWO teenagers shared a record double century stand in an astonishing performance for the Hunters York Senior League's Joe Lumb side in their match against Wetherby League at Stillington. Opening batsmen Ben Hough and Stephen Sacks scored 278 in the full
In the second of his Tipping's Tipples reports from southern Germany, MIKE TIPPING visits Wurttemberg, famed for its reds. THE Wurttembergische Weingartner-Zentralgenossenschaft (WSG) in Moglingen has a very long name that is hard to pronounce. It also
MIKE LAYCOCK and family found fantastic fossils in the Yorkshire Dales. WE clambered on to the scree and began searching the piles of stones. Suddenly, my daughter Gabrielle gave an excited cry: "I've found one!" On the side of a stone she had picked
A shell-shocked CHRIS TITLEY samples France's favourite delicacy. THE French like to think they know their way around a kitchen. "We have ze best chefs in ze world!" they boast, laughing at us rosbifs and our Kraft Dairylea triangles. But how does their
STAFF at a York pub who wanted to help a former colleague suffering from cancer raised more than £3,000 for York Hospital. The Kings Arms pub, in King's Staith, the former workplace of York cancer sufferer Jamie Glover, handed a cheque for £3,042 to Dr
A FRUSTRATED beat bobby has appealed to York residents to keep their homes secure after a flurry of sneak thefts on his patch. Light-fingered opportunists have struck at six homes in the past two weeks in the city suburb, stealing wallets, purses and
A SMALL team of York City Baths Club swimmers competed in the third Middlesbrough open meet and returned with five gold, five silver and four bronze medals, with 45 top eight awards and a total of 50 personal best performances. Alice Sunderland, 14, topped
TRANSPORT chiefs are pressing ahead with plans to ban traffic passing under Walmgate Bar, in an effort to protect one of York's most historic monuments. Council chiefs today tabled experimental proposals to close the section of road under the bar to all
KEVIN Blackwell is next week set to become Leeds United's fifth manager in the last two years of turmoil. The club's head coach has been interviewed for the job and is the top choice to succeed Eddie Gray who was sacked after failing to save Leeds from
SEMI-FINAL heartache was suffered by North Yorkshire's queen of clubs Emma Duggleby. The defending English Ladies Close Amateur Champion lost the grip on her crown when she was beaten in the last four by Shelley McKevitt at the Northamptonshire Golf Club
SPEEDING motorists fast-tracked through the courts in North Yorkshire are already facing stiff penalties. One motorcyclist from Leeds, Christopher Naylor, 29, who rode his Yamaha R6 past police on the A65 near Settle at 103mph, has been disqualified for
Beleaguered Yorkshire were hit by more problems at Headingley yesterday as they slumped to a crushing defeat by 244 runs in their Championship match against Nottinghamshire. Even with a top-strength and fully fit side they would not have stood a prayer
A YORK City fan has been banned from all professional football matches for six years and jailed for soccer violence that terrified a packed pub. Accountancy student and bank employee Geoff Alastair Clapham, 22, was one of the ringleaders as a large group
A YORK smoker fined £50 for dropping a tiny roll-up fumed today: "Where could I bin it?" Brian Gray, 65, from Chapelfields Road, was left shocked and outraged when council officers slapped him with the penalty as he waited for his wife in Front Street
Speed demons Alex Godfrey and Austin Buchanan are both in the squad for Sunday's York City Knights clash against Gateshead Thunder at Huntington Stadium. Godfrey has been missing since the Hunslet Hawks match on Easter Monday after pulling a hamstring
A YORK postman claims that a York delivery office is in chaos, with piles of postbags going undelivered daily. The worker said he decided to speak out because staff were demoralised and customers across the city infuriated. He told the Evening Press that
Beleaguered Yorkshire were hit by more problems at Headingley yesterday as they slumped to a crushing defeat by 244 runs in their Championship match against Nottinghamshire. Even with a top-strength and fully fit side they would not have stood a prayer
PHIL Jaques last weekend joined fellow Australian Matthew Elliott in racking up a century on his Yorkshire debut in the National League, his stunning 105 seeing Phoenix home by five wickets against Sussex Sharks at Headingley. But who, if anyone, will
In the second of our monthly series Forest Park golf professional Mark Winterburn teaches reporter STEVE CARROLL a lesson. Mark's Top Tip Number 2: The address position WITH your feet shoulder width apart, stand upright holding the club at about belt-buckle
SEMI-FINAL heartache was suffered by North Yorkshire's queen of clubs Emma Duggleby. The defending English Ladies Close Amateur Champion lost the grip on her crown when she was beaten in the last four by Shelley McKevitt at the Northamptonshire Golf Club
SIMON Dyson must have wished he'd stayed in China after an anguished exit from the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Germany. The North Yorkshire ace went into the European Tour event in good form after finishing second in the BMW Asian Open in China. After a
Forget the summer of lurve... welcome to the summer of curve. MAXINE GORDON introduces hot looks for the fuller figure. IT'S summertime and the living is supposed to be easy. But for many women, the thought of shorts, sundressess and strappy tops can
YORK City Knights are hoping for a bumper turnout from young fans tomorrow as the club gears up for its family fun day. As reported by this column last week, the game against Gateshead Thunder at Huntington Stadium (ko 3pm) will be turned into a fun-for-all
