THIS week City of York Council Trading Standards is issuing another alert to beleaguered local businesses, which are already contending with a raft of mail from firms offering data protection and health and safety registration services. To add to this
WHERE are York's worst eyesores? The Diary would like your nominations for the most neglected, dilapidated or plain ugly corners of York. We will pass over all suggestions to a group of civic-minded citizens keen to do something about them. The other
TEAMWORK Marketing, the foodservice marketing specialist of Dunnington, York, has been sold to Brahm, one of the biggest marketing companies in Leeds, for an undisclosed sum. Now about 30 staff are preparing to move out of Dunnington and into the Headingley
An art gallery in York has yet again trounced all the posh galleries of London to win a major retailing award. Castle Galleries in the Coppergate Centre has scooped the Retailer of the Year title from the Fine Art Guild Awards for the second year running
CHRIS TITLEY treads carefully on a controversial nature ramble near the heart of York. WE didn't see any newts on our tour of undeveloped Obsaldwick, great crested or otherwise. Forget the trick photograph in yesterday's Evening Press: these scaly fellas
IT is good to see that some in the confectionery business still recognise York's worth as a marketing brand. While Kraft Foods demolishes the connection between Terry's and the city, Monkhill Confectionery is launching Sharps of York. Many readers will
A VILLAGE sub-postmaster near York fears a lack of awareness about a new pension and benefit payment scheme could severely affect his business. By 2005, pensions and benefits will be paid into bank accounts by direct debit, replacing the old system of
PEOPLE from a variety of Christian groups are joining together at a historic York church in an effort to forge lasting links. Monks, nuns, friars, sisters and lay people from the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches are to hold "encounter days" every
A YORK enthusiast whose 47 "housemates" include a tarantula, 14ft snakes, lizards and a crab has pleaded for people to take care before acquiring exotic pets. Emily Neilson's call comes on the same day as the RSPCA launched a campaign focusing on the
A world-renowned toffee, yearned for since it went out of production six years ago, is being relaunched today as Sharps Of York. At a time when Terry's future in York is under threat, York-based Monkhill Confectionery has brought back a new toffee range
SELBY joined the York Amateur Bowling Association League last year and won promotion from division three in their first season with a team that included several teenagers. Their 7-1 victory over Stamford Bridge, current leaders of Division Two, shows
GOLD award winner Matthew Wood expunged Geoff Boycott from the Yorkshire record books yesterday with a blistering 160 against Devon in the third round of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy at sun-blessed Exmouth. Boycott had held the county's previous
UP to 100 new retailers could consider relocating to York, a council report obtained by the Evening Press reveals. The document, prepared for the council's economic development scrutiny committee, said York was a "successful" shopping venue, but could
NEW boss Kevin Blackwell admits Leeds United must unload their high earners before being able to bring in the players he wants. Paul Robinson has already left Leeds in a £1.5 million deal to Spurs and Alan Smith followed him out of the door yesterday
STABLE and stud staff take centre stage at York Races tomorrow. A series of races organised by the charity Racing Welfare and supported by Blue Chip Feeds pays tribute to the staff who have spent most of their lives in the sport. The Val Greaves - 'A
RELEASED goalkeeper Mark Ovendale today spoke about life on football's scrapheap after being made a free agent at York City. Ovendale, 30, has not yet been approached by a team despite a solid season at Bootham Crescent that saw him finish runner-up in
GOLD award winner Matthew Wood expunged Geoff Boycott from the Yorkshire record books yesterday with a blistering 160 against Devon in the third round of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy at sun-blessed Exmouth. Boycott had held the county's previous
YORK'S Dave Murray with 4-27 and John Sharpe (3-28) held Thorpe Willoughby's batsmen to 122-9 in division three. Sumit Mitra scored 50 as York ran outcomfortable four-wicket winners. University of York Staff batted first against Heworth but only a 44
THIS treble CD collection encompassing the career of one of the punk movements legendary bands. Sham 69 were formed in 1976 by lead singer Jimmy Pursey with their name taken from a piece of graffiti on the toilet wall of his local football team, Walton
THESE three re-issues from the Seventies still sound fresh and vibrant, especially the stand-out of the three, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. The combination of Richard's guitar, blasts of electric eloquence or fine folk picking, and Linda's
WE attended a show by the Counterfeit Stones on May 20 at the Grand Opera House. We parked in Clifford's Tower car park and were shocked by the parking prices - it cost us £5. People were coming up to the ticket machines, seeing the parking charges, and
HAVING just seen mail being delivered to addresses on Askham Lane at 7.10pm I am prompted to ask if this represents the first, second, third or fourth delivery of the day?? Since Royal Mail revised its delivery policy the whole system has become a load
JO Haywood's article "Exhausting day in parallel world" (May 17) made me so angry. How dare she call a hard working car mechanic "a grubby little oik" with oil-stained hands? Who did she think fitted her exhaust, a little man in a suit with perfectly
I WAS saddened to read that Molly, Judy and Peggy, the Nafferton pet donkeys owned by David and Joan Stead, were be sold off (Evening Press, May 22). Would it not be more kind to ask the Donkey Sanctuary to collect them? They would be treated with all
I WAS dismayed to learn that on May 20, Ryedale District Council apparently voted to support a motion calling on the Government to withdraw UK troops from Iraq. Whatever one's view of the correctness of the original decision to commit our armed forces
WE thank all family, friends and colleagues who sponsored us on the recent St Leonard's Hospice challenge walk. We completed the walk and collectively have raised more than £300 for this very worthy charity. We should also like to thank and compliment
AM I being over-cynical in asking whether the shifty owners of Terry's chocolate factory will do a deal with the equally shifty city council and do a 'Fred Dibnah' demolition job on the site? Wouldn't it be well timed to coincide with Royal Ascot at York
Thursday, May 27, 2004 100 years ago: A plasterer's labourer was summoned to a Harrogate court by his wife for neglecting to maintain her. The defence solicitor stated that the parties had been married ten years, but had only lived 14 weeks together.
Does outdoor food have to mean chicken drumsticks burnt to a crisp? BEN SUTTON seeks advice on better barbecuing. WHEN the steaks are burning fiercely, and the smoke gets in your eyes, When the snags all taste of fried toothpaste and your mouth is full
IF you enjoyed the rich and fruity cake of Tim Luscombe's grandiose yet intensely intimate production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus last summer, then rejoice at his return to the Theatre Royal. This time Luscombe is pulling all the strings, not only directing
INDEPENDENT brickmaker The York Handmade Brick Company is planning to cobble up a fortune. The firm, based at Alne, near Easingwold, has unveiled its new Courtyard Cobble. The brown, red and purple product follows the success of the Cobble, a distinctive
NICHE market bar and restaurant group Market Town Taverns, which is pioneering no-smoking taverns in Yorkshire, has appointed Harrogate-based PR consultancy Mike Clarke Communications to support its business development. Market Town Taverns, of Knaresborough
EXCITING news. The supermarket group Tesco has completed "the world's first study into making cheese on toast". These studies are important things. Just think, the world's first. How impressive is that? The clever people at Tesco will have frustrated
FEW will cheer the news that the Royal Mail has recorded its first annual profit in four years. It has been achieved at the expense of a once-great service. Consider how bosses dragged the business into the black. They slashed the workforce - 27,100 staff
Council officers have been talking to York retailers about the state of shopping in the city. Evening Press reporter STEVE CARROLL looks at what they found. CRIME, drinking, uncertainty over late-night shopping and a growing "yob culture" are threatening
CARERS have won their fight to secure more cash for York care homes - but warned that more investment is urgently needed. Some carers threatened not to renew their contracts after City of York Council offered to increase the fees paid to care homes and
A YORK man jailed for forcing his way into an RSPCA sanctuary with a gun and a sword to try and get back his pet could face further court action for alleged mistreatment of animals. Paul Richard Lovie, 47, of Rose Street, off Haxby Road, was today starting
A TEENAGER who admitted he was hopelessly addicted to crime has been banned from York. Magistrates have imposed a criminal antisocial behaviour order (CRASBO) on 18-year-old Daniel Holmes, who has been responsible for causing "absolute mayhem" in the
A MAN caught filming women's bottoms in York city centre has been banned indefinitely from carrying a camera in public - anywhere in England or Wales. Andrew Mackie, 33, now faces up to five years in jail if he repeats his actions of August 6, when -
York steps into the breach tomorrow to stage a meeting originally scheduled for Catterick and is offering half-price admission to racegoers who book attendance at any other day on Knavesmire this year. The one-off meeting, staged because Catterick is
RELEASED goalkeeper Mark Ovendale today spoke about life on football's scrapheap after being made a free agent at York City. Ovendale, 30, has not yet been approached by a team despite a solid season at Bootham Crescent that saw him finish runner-up in
THE big game in division one of the HPH York Vale Cricket League lived up to top billing with Tollerton Outlaws edging out Bishopthorpe by five runs. Second-placed Tollerton batted first and found runs hard to come by against accurate pace bowling from
IN division two, a hard wicket produced the goods for Wheldrake paceman Carl Van Niekirk as his 5-35 shot Burton Salmon down to 105-8. Wheldrake then used half of their overs in winning by six wickets. Stillingfleet struggled to contain Hirst United bowler
A timely release to cash in on the return of the US alternative rock legends, reformed and bound for a festival near you this summer. Disregarding the fact that it's not all that long since their posthumous best-of album, Death To The Pixies, this is
REASONS to be cheerful, one, two, three. Reason one, This Is The Sea was already the best album in the 'big music' canon of Mike Scott's Waterboys, and the big music has just got bigger. "That was the river, this is the sea," hollers Scott on the closing
B-A-Y, B-A-Y, B-A-Y, C-I-T-Y, with an R, O double-L, E-R-S, Bay City Rollers are the best! Oh, how it rolls off the tongue as if the 1970s were yesterday. On first re-acquaintance, the Rollers sound shockingly simple. No spit-and- polish modern production
SARAH Blackwood, the kitchen-sink drama queen with the Dusty Springfield eye shadow, had it right when she said: "We're from the Burt Bacharach school of songwriting: lovely tunes and honest stories that aren't patronising". At their early peak on 1995
MOST of the big Sixties hits are included, but students of the development of rock music should approach this 50-track compilation with caution. The title Life Story is a wee bit misleading as regards to this being a true retrospective of the many facets
M J NATT writes that "if Heslington residents wish to have their own exclusive and private road, they should be the ones who pay for it" (Letters, May 25). The crucial word here is "if". Local residents were sent a survey which offered the choice between
