HUNDREDS of Nestl Rowntree workers are backing the campaign to save York's other chocolate factory. More than 300 Nestl employees have signed the Evening Press petition calling for Terry's to remain in the York area. Their support takes the total number
ALREADY we have seen we are beginning to bear the fruits of what Jason Ramshaw is doing at the club. The family fun day on Sunday was an unqualified success and they are now looking at ways of keeping them coming. We are hoping to make some of the features
COMING Around Again is one of three West Yorkshire Playhouse contributions to Northern Exposure, a festival of new writers and new work from the North. The Theatre In The Mill, at the University of Bradford, and the BBC are involved too in this showcase
While men-only clubs are fast becoming a thing of the past, a wave of just-for-women groups has emerged in the York business community. CATHERINE BRUCE weighs up the pros and cons of single-sex networking groups. WOMEN have been fighting against the old
A WOMAN who is at the forefront of providing help and support for older people is the latest local hero to be put forward for our York Community Pride awards. Penny Hutchinson, 45, of New Earswick, has been put forward for the Volunteer Of The Year category
ST PETER'S School, York, girls relay swimming team won two bronze medals at the National Independent School Relay Championships in London. Sally Henderson, Pamela Kinnell, Katherine Wackett, and Alice Sunderland, competed against over 40 teams from all
ROBERT Wilkinson Primary School finished an undefeated season by winning the Champions of Champions League final. Last season's runners-up lifted the trophy at Woodthorpe Primary School by winning four matches and drawing two to finish ahead of second-placed
IN THIS era of opportunity for all, women are still a rarity in the upper echelons of football and in boardrooms around the country. I have been on the board of York City Football Club for more than a year, yet people I meet in the football world are
YOU can't beat popping a bit of chick-lit in your beach bag to wile away the long hours on the beach this summer. Here are two such books which are well worth a read. Addressing the upheaval that relocating can cause, Goodbye, Jimmy Choo deals with moving
A YORK-based mental health charity has launched a survey to gauge how children with behavioural and other problems are dealt with in schools in the city. Addept, the ADHD and Learning Ability Support Group, is asking parents of children suffering from
TWO special schools in York are appealing for former students and staff to get in contact before they close this year. Lidgett Grove School and Galtres School will close this summer as part of City of York's plan to reorganise special school provision
A YORK clarinet player hit a high note after beating off competition from more than 600 musicians. Anthony Law from Bootham School, was named overall festival winner at the Janet Beaumont Music Festival in Huddersfield. Anthony won the higher education
IT almost makes you feel sorry for the planners. Under pressure from John Prescott to build ever more homes, they have pushed ahead with their flagship York housing scheme despite vocal protests from residents. Only to see all their hard work jeopardised
A WOMAN who is at the forefront of providing help and support for older people is the latest local hero to be put forward for our York Community Pride awards. Penny Hutchinson, 45, of New Earswick, has been put forward for the Volunteer Of The Year category
A TOP policeman who was "humiliated" during a Royal visit to North Yorkshire has received a letter of apology from the Duke of York. Prince Andrew's private secretary penned a formal letter to Chief Superintendent David Short after the Prince publicly
DOUBLE yellow lines are set to be painted in dozens of new locations across York and in nearby villages and towns. But City of York Council does not expect the same protests about the measures as it has experienced over new restrictions and charges recently
A CIVILIAN worker has been arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs into a top security prison near York. The Evening Press has learned that a 41-year-old woman was detained yesterday by prison officers at Full Sutton, near York. A prison
The 37 competitors fishing at Laybourne Lakes on Sunday struggled as strong sunshine and flat conditions made the fish hard to find. Ricky Gaunt (Armley Angling) led from peg 26 on the far bank, where he fished pellet tight to the island at 13 metres
THE Government has confirmed victory for a York woman battling to keep pension rights after her husband undergoes a sex-swap operation to become a woman. The Evening Press revealed the woman risked losing her entitlement to the man's occupational pension
ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan is all set to play for Yorkshire next week to see if he has fully recovered from the knee injury which kept him out at Lord's Test. If Vaughan comes through the totesport National League game against Scotland in Edinburgh
ROBERT Wilkinson Primary School finished an undefeated season by winning the Champions of Champions League final. Last season's runners-up lifted the trophy at Woodthorpe Primary School by winning four matches and drawing two to finish ahead of second-placed
YORK people could soon stand a better chance of getting a foot on the housing ladder if a multi-million pound funding bid is successful. City of York Council, in partnership with local authorities in Harrogate and Leeds, is hoping to win £7.5 million
Prize Ring can clinch hat-trick honours tomorrow evening at Wetherby, where a revised programme means the six races will be made up of five hurdles' events and a National Hunt Flat race. The two steeplechases originally schedueled to take place have been
THERE are many things which may tend to indicate that the judgment of President Bush is not all that it might be. Consider the continuing hold on power of his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeldt. Even so, it does seem a bit harsh to slag off poor old Dubya
I WAS disgusted by the £50 fine given to an Acomb pensioner ('Brian fumes at £50 fine for dropping the stub of his roll-up', May 22). To introduce a law where you must put your cigarette ends in a litter bin is ridiculous. Lighted cigarettes dropped into
MR Wilson's letter crosses the line of sensible objection to Derwenthorpe and contains serious inaccuracies (May 18). The new community will comprise 135 homes (25 per cent) at affordable, subsidised rents. These will be scattered amid the housing for
ON the surface postal voting seems all right, although it's only a couple of minutes walk to our polling station. However, voting is supposed to be confidential. How can this be? For everything to be above board, surely a voter must have to identify themselves
A P COX calls the rail workers vote for strike action "silly" and implies it is simply about perks (Letters, 24 May). It is not. The central cause of the dispute is an attempt by Network Rail to close the pension scheme and remove workers' pension rights
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 100 years ago: By what was termed "a strange coincidence", seven children strayed away from their homes and were unable to find their way back, all on the same day in seven separate incidents, and were taken to York Police Station
A DRUNKEN man desperate to get his dog back from the RSPCA stormed its York animal home armed with a sawn-off air rifle and a samurai sword, a court heard. A man who went to investigate the break-in discovered Paul Lovie standing in a darkened room holding
SHE was a grand old duchess, a crowd-pulling celebrity from before the war. He was a fresh-faced school-leaver who liked nothing better than to buff up her boiler. Now the two are to get together again for the first time in four decades. Their lives have
A BIG-hearted North Yorkshire firm is helping a teenager go on her dream trip to Peru. Hannah Griffiths, 19, of Sowerby, near Thirsk, will be meeting llamas as she treks through the heart of the Peruvian Andes to raise money for Voluntary Services Overseas
YORK'S kingpin of non-League football Jim Collis is back - and he is determined to rediscover the habit of nearly five decades as a winner. Collis has been appointed the manager of ailing Northern Counties East League division club Tadcaster Albion. His
COMPETITIVE spirit was high on the agenda at Sunday's fifth annual North Yorkshire Youth Games in York. More than 1,200 athletes aged between nine and 16 took part in the mammoth event held at Huntington and Joseph Rowntree schools and the Rawcliffe Bar
EAGER Copmanthorpe Beavers ran away with the honours in their section of the York and District Scouts and Guides Cross Country Championships. The young scouts powered their way over the modified 800m course on Knavesmire to take both the junior and senior
AMY and Stephen have been happily married for two years. They have good jobs - him as a computer programmer, her as a magazine sub-editor - they have a small, but lovely New York apartment and they have a spontaneous, fun social life. Then, out of the
YORK school children were treated to lunch from a top chef to celebrate the opening of a new healthy eating canteen. Michael Hjort, from Meltons, showed children at Carr Junior School how easy it is to cook healthy foods. The school is one of ten in the
A YORK primary school is celebrating after two members of staff were nominated for regional teaching awards. Scarcroft Primary School's head teacher, Anna Cornhill, and teaching assistant Karen Foster have both been nominated for prestigious accolades
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to a man for whom laughter became a way of surviving. THERE'S a poem in Jack Mapanje's new book that should give everyone in York who reads it a prickle of shame. Entitled simply The Delights Of Moving House, Tang Hall, York
CHIEF Superintendent David Short was understandably upset by Prince Andrew's comments about his uniform. So were many others who felt neither Ch Supt Short's perfectly smart appearance, nor the way our police force chooses to spend its money, were suitable
A POLITICIAN has launched a hard-hitting campaign aimed at stamping out drugs crime in York. Tory parliamentary hopeful Clive Booth warned drug-related offences were a "tragedy" shaming the city. If elected, he promised he would ensure no addict would
TORY MP Owen Paterson threw his weight behind attempts to boost tourism in rural areas during a visit to the Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, near York. The Conservative spokesman on rural affairs was joined by Euro MP Timothy Kirkhope, who recently
HUNDREDS of Nestl Rowntree workers are backing the campaign to save York's other chocolate factory. More than 300 Nestl employees have signed the Evening Press petition calling for Terry's to remain in the York area. Their support takes the total number
ST PETER'S School, York, girls relay swimming team won two bronze medals at the National Independent School Relay Championships in London. Sally Henderson, Pamela Kinnell, Katherine Wackett, and Alice Sunderland, competed against over 40 teams from all
A CLUTCH of First Division clubs are waiting in the wings to talk to Lee Bullock if Cardiff City decline their option to sign the 23-year-old midfielder. Bullock scored three goals in four starts for the Bluebirds during a successful loan spell last season
THE controversial scheme for a new model village on York's outskirts has suffered a fresh setback - with the discovery of great crested newts on the site. Objectors to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's 540-home Derwenthorpe scheme say that they and an
A CLUTCH of First Division clubs are waiting in the wings to talk to Lee Bullock if Cardiff City decline their option to sign the 23-year-old midfielder. Bullock scored three goals in four starts for the Bluebirds during a successful loan spell last season
IN THIS era of opportunity for all, women are still a rarity in the upper echelons of football and in boardrooms around the country. I have been on the board of York City Football Club for more than a year, yet people I meet in the football world are
ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan is all set to play for Yorkshire next week to see if he has fully recovered from the knee injury which kept him out at Lord's Test. If Vaughan comes through the totesport National League game against Scotland in Edinburgh
MR Brown accuses motorists of being responsible for killing and maiming thousands of men, women and children each year (Letters, May 18). The facts are somewhat different. A road research laboratory report showed speeding was the primary cause in only
TESCO'S board members shared a £16.8 million payout last year, with chief executive Sir Terry Leahy getting almost £3 million. His pension pot is worth £3.8 million. I do not believe anyone is worth that amount, it doesn't matter how many good ideas they
THE residents of Filey Terrace have for years parked alongside the railway fencing, thereby leaving a clear passage for any vehicle wishing to progress the length of the terrace. There is therefore no legitimate reason for the council to waste money on
FOR Sale Ladies' Swimsuit. Reason for sale; local council unable to provide suitable swimming facilities for arthritic woman. Cannot get down ladders at Waterworld or Yearsley and unable to 'jump in' as advised by councillor. Swimsuit in reasonable condition
