A POLICE search was being carried out in York after a man was arrested beside the River Ouse. A police underwater search team was preparing to continue searching the river near Clifton Bridge, while other officers scoured an area 400 yards either side
EURO 2004 has arrived and football fever is sweeping the nation. Fans around the country are filled with the usual blind optimism ahead of any major international tournament and are no doubt reliving in their minds that famous 1966 "They think it's all
ALL Bootham Crescent Holdings shareholders will be asked to hand back their shares for £1 each at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, July 6. The meeting is being called to transfer the holding company into a private limited company after the football
I AGREE with Jean Weston that speed humps are counterproductive (Letters, June 10). Careful drivers put wear and tear on their cars and their backs while driving at higher revs in a lower gear, thereby inflicting more noise and pollution on local residents
AFTER waiting some years for the council to give permission, the Acorn Rugby Club erected a fence around the club perimeter. This fence has made a tremendous difference for both the club and local children. Since it has been up, no cars have been driven
THE LHF Healthplan National League Two season is beginning to hot up, with two-thirds of the campaign left to decide the promotion race. And, with the Knights well-placed to fulfil their dream of winning a place in next season's Division One, lucky Evening
IN-FORM Chris Langley has continued his surge up the Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire player of the season standings. The 13-try centre pipped several team-mates to the man-of-the-match accolade in the win at Halifax last week and thus claim three more
THE Knights Evening Press-sponsored Player of the Month for May has now been decided and he will receive his award prior to the home game against London Skolars a week tomorrow. The name of the winner will remain a secret until then - although our picture
YORK City Knights' remarkable win at Halifax was preceded by a similarly stunning success by a representative junior team adopted by the club. The York Knights Junior Ironsides - who will represent the region in the Canterbury Cup, a junior competition
Saturday, June 12, 2004 100 years ago: Columnist TT was stuck in a railway carriage with an opinionated gentleman, who interrupted his reading of Punch to suggest he had a better idea of how to run a seaside resort than Scarborough Corporation did. His
GEORGE WILKINSON heads off the beaten track for a loop in the Dales. The sun shone for the most northerly half-day 'circular' route one can do in the Dales National Park. We set out from Whaw, a handful of old houses down by the river in the top end of
Windsor is gearing up for Royal Ascot which starts on Tuesday. Next year it will be York's turn. Steve Nelson combines a sight-seeing trip to the town with a visit to Legoland. The similarities between York and Windsor are striking. While the huge stone
ALTHOUGH he worked in the building next door, Jon had never eaten in this caf despite knowing of its reputation. Advertised as providing great food, freshly prepared and value for money, would it live up to its claim? We are well versed in staff and works
OVERNIGHT success has, paradoxically, been a long time coming for comedian Dave Spikey. But, if a storming set at a packed Grand Opera House is any guide, Spikey has a little more in his bag of tricks than just Phoenix Nights' long-suffering compere Jerry
Gina Parkinson looks at jobs to be done in the June garden. IN VIEW of the weather we have had so far this month, watering has got to take priority - if there is only time to do one job, make it this one. Containers, hanging baskets and window boxes will
YORK City Knights head to Rams Stadium tomorrow looking to increase the longest winning run throughout the LHF Healthplan National Leagues One and Two. And if they do complete a 2004 treble over the Rams, having hammered them twice in the Arriva Trains
How would you like to be remembered in your epitaph? STEPHEN LEWIS talks to a Riccall man with a grave obsession. ON a gravestone in Ripon Cathedral's churchyard, there is an inscription that demonstrates a quirky sense of humour. Here lies poor but honest
RICHARD Blakey returns for revitalised Yorkshire in their totesport League match against Worcestershire Royals at New Road on Sunday. The experienced wicketkeeper-batsman will also take Simon Guy's place behind the stumps in Wednesday's absorbing battle
YORK'S cycling civic leader is getting on the "chain gang" in more ways than one, as she steps into the civic hot seat. New Lord Mayor Coun Janet Looker plans to use pedal power to get her through this year's busy council programme, and has decked her
YORK City Knights head to Rams Stadium tomorrow looking to increase the longest winning run throughout the LHF Healthplan National Leagues One and Two. And if they do complete a 2004 treble over the Rams, having hammered them twice in the Arriva Trains
A THUG who carried out a brutal and unprovoked attack on an innocent passer-by in a York street has failed in an Appeal Court bid to cut his nine-year jail term. Richard Sampson, 24, of Cranfield Place, Foxwood, York, was jailed at York Crown Court in
YORK City managing director Jason McGill has revealed that the club will be submitting, jointly with Persimmon Homes, a second planning application for the redevelopment of Bootham Crescent. The club do not intend to move into a new stadium for ten years
THE York man banned from all hospitals in England and Wales is to spend the next four weeks on health premises - on a judge's order. Norman Hutchins, 53, of Rowntree Avenue, Clifton, was to have been sentenced yesterday for obtaining surgical masks by
ALL Bootham Crescent Holdings shareholders will be asked to hand back their shares for £1 each at an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, July 6. The meeting is being called to transfer the holding company into a private limited company after the football
EURO 2004 fever was sweeping York today as Sven Goran Eriksson's Lionhearts prepared to take on France in Portugal. Dozens of pubs across the city are expected to be bursting at the seams on Sunday as England fans flock to watch the game against the current
LADY Protector, who had discovered a rich vein of form in recent weeks, can complete a hat-trick at Doncaster on Sunday. Trained, not far from the Town Moor course by John Balding, the five-year-old goes for the Littlewoods Bet Direct Fillies' Handicap
YORK City managing director Jason McGill has revealed that the club will be submitting, jointly with Persimmon Homes, a second planning application for the redevelopment of Bootham Crescent. The club do not intend to move into a new stadium for ten years
RICHARD Blakey returns for revitalised Yorkshire in their totesport League match against Worcestershire Royals at New Road on Sunday. The experienced wicketkeeper-batsman will also take Simon Guy's place behind the stumps in Wednesday's absorbing battle
TWO talented teenagers who have just scratched the surface of Yorkshire first team cricket look set to have big futures with the club if they continue with their current rate of progress. They are 18-year-old fast bowler Ajmal Shahzad, from Bradford,
JAMES KILNER heads into East Yorkshire to check out a revamped pub. WHEN learning that my next Eating Out engagement would be in Melbourne, I couldn't help but raise a quizzical eyebrow. Would I really be sampling the culinary delights of the city that
PIKE Hills golfer Martin Brown is eyeing a 2004 double after winning the York Union Amateur Golf Championship at the weekend. Having clinched victory at The Oaks with a five-under par two-round total of 139, rising star Brown, 24, is now setting his sights
I WRITE in response to recent letters from residents concerning the council's policy on fixed penalty fines for litter. Officers do not give warnings for littering, and the incident referred to in the Press recently involved officers approaching and talking
YOUR correspondent K A Roworth is correct to emphasise the importance of green space to city dwellers (June 4), but that must include the children of Leeman Road. The opportunity to enhance the quality of their education by moving St Barnabas School to
I HAVE been following the discussion about the necessity of the number 6 bus in your letters column. I would like support the continuation of this service and also that of a number of residents who have contacted me about the future of the service. This
Forget teeny-weeny bikinis - micro-mini skirts are here. JO HAYWOOD takes up the challenge to find York's miniest mini. And the shortest she could find ran to nine inches. THERE is nothing simple about skirts. There's the maxi, the midi, the mini, the
TODAY sees the kick-off of Euro 2004 and sports fans cannot have failed to notice that dozens of pubs and bars across the city have embraced footie fever like a long-lost family member. All the games will be held in regular licensing hours, which means
In this week's Tipping's Tipples, MIKE TIPPING tries wines guaranteed not to be corked. UNTIL recently I thought trichloroanisole was a cream you asked for quietly at the chemist. Actually, TCA is the chemical responsible for making some natural cork
FORMER York favourite Jamie Benn will be hoping to be the ace up Dewsbury's sleeve at Rams Stadium on Sunday. The ex-York Wasps star has recently rejoined the Rams having missed the Arriva Trains Cup campaign while playing for his amateur club in Castleford
MIKE LAYCOCK steps back in time to the 1940s world of James Herriot. IT was a literary and TV phenomenon which swept the world. The humorous stories of veterinary life in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales and Vale of York struck a chord with tens of millions
LEISURE chiefs in York are counting the cost of an £83,000 overspend in their council budget. Figures revealed by City of York Council show that, despite extra income and expenditure savings from its £10,721 leisure and heritage budget, the department
YORK Refugee Week 2004 gets under way tomorrow with a picnic featuring "cultural cuisine", and continues with comedy and poetry evenings and a debate. The week, organised by Refugee Action York (RAY) with support from organisations including City of York
THE American who saved Nicola Coates's life with a transatlantic bone marrow transplant has paid his first visit to Britain - as the special guest of her family. Newspaper editor Scott Wittchow and his wife, Gretchen, have spent the past fortnight with
RACEGOERS were hanging on to their hats during a dramatic day at York Racecourse, as a veteran TV presenter, "police" with a difference and a charity cycle rider who has touched the heart of the nation watched some nail-biting finishes at the city's Knavesmire
PIKE Hills golfer Martin Brown is eyeing a 2004 double after winning the York Union Amateur Golf Championship at the weekend. Having clinched victory at The Oaks with a five-under par two-round total of 139, rising star Brown, 24, is now setting his sights
BRITAIN'S heart tsar Dr Roger Boyle, a former consultant cardiologist at York Hospital, is made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Dr Boyle, who was appointed the Department of Health's national director for heart disease in 2000, heads the Government's
