Thursday, June 24, 2004 100 years ago: The North-Eastern Railway Company decided that it would "have nothing to do with" the proposed scheme for a deep sea harbour for Scarborough. Columnist TT thought that it was a disappointment, but as the decision
Robbie Dale sums up the season of farewells at the university. SO that's it, time flies so fast when you're having fun doesn't it? By the time you read this, university will have finished for another year, people will have moved on, and first years will
A FORMER York schoolmate of arms dealer turned Indian jailbird Peter Bleach is in touch after his appearance on national radio earlier this week. The fellow St Peter's School old boy felt Peter got an easy ride from John Humphrys in his On The Ropes slot
THIS is not a re-make of the 1955 Ealing comedy, just like another American update, last year's The Italian Job, had little more than a title and Minis in common with the British original. No, The Ladykillers is a re-telling, if you will, as re-told by
Introducing... Zach Lee, an actor with charity, marriage and emigration on his mind. Say hello and wave goodbye to Zach Lee, lead actor in York Theatre Royal's world premiere of Nick Lane's The Derby McQueen Affair. No sooner has he made his Theatre Royal
GINA PARKINSON explains why she is happy to be seduced by roses. THE new roses I planted earlier this year have begun to flower. I love roses and am already thinking of adding a few more to the garden. Perhaps the very fragrant climber Madame Alfred Carriere
SAUSAGE rolls have spelled out success for a North Yorkshire bakery. Helmsley-based Thomas the Baker, which has shops all over the county including in York and Selby, is proud of its sausage roll. The company sells over three million sausage rolls a year
PROPERTY consultants Carter Jonas are forming new links with North Yorkshire's farming community. The company has sponsored the Great Yorkshire Show's 2004 show catalogue, which is distributed to all potential entrants in the livestock and equestrian
A York firm is celebrating a hat-trick of new clients. Public relations and design consultancy, The Partners Group, has been appointed by Yale Door and Window Solutions to launch its products into the social housing sector. It has also won a contract
Where can you go once you've played Glastonbury? Only York. Fibbers will be playing host to kings of LA acid-rock, Arthur Lee and Love, on Monday following their appearance at the Somerset festival. Forming in 1965, Lee's band pioneered some of the most
YORK Early Music Festival 2004 opens next Friday with its dual focus on the music of Heinrich Biber and Marc Antoine Charpentier. Both died 300 years ago, prompting the festival administrative director Delma Tomlin to organise a raft of anniversary concerts
THE National Railway Museum, in York, will hold a day of jazz on Saturday, July 17. To whet the appetite, the Mardi Gras Joymakers - an 11-strong parade band in the New Orleans style - will entertain museum visitors during the afternoon with their less
IT began with 48 runners and riders on February 10. Now only five are still standing, and on Tuesday they will compete in the Grand Final of the Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands 2004, the Grand National of rock talent contests in York. The bookies
YORK band In Vitro say farewell to vocalist Olivia Sparnenn at a party gig at the Roman Bath on July 3. Olivia will head for the United States in September to team up with director and songwriter Jon Johanson, who has worked with performers including
YORK International 9s bosses have wished York City Knights all the best for Sunday as the Minster city braces itself for a rugby league feast this weekend. The ever-growing York 9s annual tournament takes place tomorrow and Sunday at Heworth ARLC's Elm
THE mumps outbreak which affected York students this summer could be one of the biggest in England this year. Out of 158 cases of mumps reported to North Yorkshire Health Protection Unit in May and June, 85 were students at the University of York, and
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the great summer holiday price hike. ELAINE Brown has no idea where her family is going for a much-needed holiday this year. Spend it by the paddling pool, probably. Why? Because they can't afford the high prices charged by travel
FEW words are more evocative to the Englishman than "matron". For those old enough to remember the birth of the NHS, it conjures up memories of the hospital matriarch whose manner was as starchy as her apron. Younger generations instantly picture Hattie
PLANS to knock down a historic York social club and replace it with a block of flats have come a step closer. Officers have recommended councillors approve the plans to demolish the Promenade Working Men's Club in St Benedict Road and build a three-storey
RAILWAY enthusiasts were outside York's National Railway Museum (NRM) today to book their seats on an exclusive train trip. Legendary locomotive The Flying Scotsman will make the first of its "summer special" trips to Scarborough on July 20. Members of
THE mumps outbreak which affected York students this summer could be one of the biggest in England this year. Out of 158 cases of mumps reported to North Yorkshire Health Protection Unit in May and June, 85 were students at the University of York, and
ABSOLUTELY gutted. That was the only way to describe the mood across York at 10.30 last night. Footie fans who crammed into the city's bars for England's crucial quarter-final showdown were left bitterly disappointed as the team crashed out of Euro 2004
York City rowers are bound for the Henley Royal regatta after winning automatic qualification at Marlow Regatta. The men's four of Carl Abraham, Owen Gillard, Dave Hersserman and Sam Clarke coxed by Penny Gillard, powered their way through to the final
Phil Jaques lifted the deep depression which had been hanging over the Rose Bowl yesterday with a stunning unbeaten 193 as Yorkshire climbed steadily to 268-3 on the second day of their Championship match against Hampshire. He was to resume today needing
THIS little boy will never properly know the man his father was before he suffered devastating injuries in an horrific car crash. Glen Carter, 32, was left severely brain-damaged after the crash in York last July, when a car driven by Daniel Baker left
YORK International 9s bosses have wished York City Knights all the best for Sunday as the Minster city braces itself for a rugby league feast this weekend. The ever-growing York 9s annual tournament takes place tomorrow and Sunday at Heworth ARLC's Elm
YORK City Knights were today given a major confidence boost ahead of Sunday's Arriva Trains Cup semi-final as they received gongs aplenty in the LHF Healthplan National League Two monthly awards. The Knights dominate the divisional form team, with wing
PROTESTS against York's parking charges escalated dramatically today as traders revealed they are planning "civil awkwardness" campaigns to cause maximum disruption to the city council. Shopkeepers fed up of being "screwed" by the "Dick Turpin" authority
MISFORTUNE befell the Evening Press' new political correspondent this week. On Monday, an unpleasant infection caused my right eye to throb painfully and turn the colour of an England away shirt - bright red. Resembling something from the Conservative
While people will no doubt have sympathy with the Lord Mayors Walk traders I cannot see how withholding business tax money in protest is going to help their cause. Fighting fire with fire in this case is a lost cause, the city council will not sit back
I heartily endorse every word of Bill Hearld's most entertaining article on the awfulness of the modern girl ('Girls just aren't sweet any more', June 22). It is to be regretted that so many women have, justifiably, earned themselves such a terrible reputation
IT is a great blow to rail users that an application submitted by Grand Central Railway Co Ltd to run a high quality train service across the Pennines on the Calder Valley line through York has been turned down by the Rail Regulator ('Cut-price rail trip
AS a schoolgirl of tender years, I confided in my dad, with whom I attended football matches, that I was intensely in love (from afar) with Jimmy Rudd (the York City inside forward from 1947-1949). Sometimes my uncool, nail-biting uncle (by marriage)
A NEW compact Audi with stand-alone styling that blends five-door practicality with sports hatch desirability is to join the UK range this September. The new Audi A3 Sportback is built on the foundations of the three-door A3, but features a distinctive
FAMILY portraits with a twist are the subject of Trish Morrissey's exhibition at Impressions Gallery, York, from July 10 to September 11. Commissioned by the gallery in Castlegate, New Works comprises photographs and video work created over a two-year
Alex Lloyd looks at a more mordern spin on karaoke. KARAOKE - it's just so dated. All that singing along to dodgy backing tapes and squinting to read the words to Blondie has been done to death. For those who think they can belt out a tune - or at least
Lucy Benjamin may have been ejected from EastEnders, but she isn't bitter. Instead she is happy to be back on the stage and flying round the Theatre Royal, as she tells Charles Hutchinson. LUCY Benjamin had a role to die for in EastEnders. Remember how
YORK Light Opera presents A Night With The Light, four evenings of songs at Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from Wednesday to Saturday next week. The 7.30pm concerts comprise full company numbers, solos and duets musically directed by Philip Redding, interspersed
JOBS have been lost in York and North Yorkshire after a "cash crisis" led a travel firm to stop trading. Harrogate-based air travel firm Cyberes Plc went into administration on Wednesday, along with its subsidiary Corporate Travel International Limited
LAND ROVERS are the name of the game for a new York business. When Paul Finney moved to York from Chesterfield he was looking for a new challenge. He found one - selling parts and accessories to the area's Land Rover owners. York Landrover Services Ltd
BUSINESSES have united to make a North Yorkshire town a hub of digital technology. The launch of Harrogate Digital Forum attracted almost 100 business people all keen to join the campaign to make Harrogate a national centre of excellence in digital technology
YORK piano ace Karl Mullen thrust himself into the public eye by being the first person I know who took an upright piano on to the streets of York as an energetic busker. On first hearing as I walked down Coney Street, I thought some highly talented pianist
YORK City Knights were today given a major confidence boost ahead of Sunday's Arriva Trains Cup semi-final as they received gongs aplenty in the LHF Healthplan National League Two monthly awards. The Knights dominate the divisional form team, with wing
YORK is set to be blooming lovely this week, as its centre will be filled with hundreds of flowers. One of the city's top employers, Portakabin, a subsidiary of the Shepherd Building Group, has donated two large cubes, each of which will be filled with
YORK College's £50 million new state-of-the-art campus has been approved by councillors. The five-storey building was given the green light by City of York Council's planning committee following more than two-and-a-half hours of debate. The 30,000-square
ENGLAND'S footballers were looking back last night, too. There was David Beckham, trying a little too hard to emulate last year's rugby World Cup hero Jonny Wilkinson. It's under the bar, David. Michael Owen was keen to remind quivering fans how taking
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with an assault on an Acomb man. Rolf Watson, 34, of Green Lane, was left bleeding and in shock after being punched in the face by a member of a teenage gang after remonstrating with them for scratching
The rain has come in time for Somnus to play a starring role on Pitman's Derby Day at Newcastle tomorrow. An enforced absentee from Royal Ascot last week due to the lightning-fast ground, Ryedale's top sprinter has seen the weather turn in time for him
TWO new cycling paramedics will soon be on their bikes and ready to deliver emergency medical treatment in the city centre. Kate Walker, 31, the first female ambulance service cyclist outside London, and Neil Green have joined the Tees East and North
YORK College's £50 million new state-of-the-art campus has been approved by councillors. The five-storey building was given the green light by City of York Council's planning committee following more than two-and-a-half hours of debate. The 30,000-square
ANOTHER Viking invasion of York yielded winning plunder for the raider, but home forces almost gave as good as they got. Reigning British Darts Organisation Lakeside world champion Andy 'The Viking' Fordham was the man who tried to carry off all before
THE mother of a man whose battered body was found in a York flat has come face-to-face with the man police say murdered him. Rosie Wall, of Chapelfields, York, sat in the public gallery at York Magistrates Court as Group 4 officers brought John Paul Marshall
Phil Jaques lifted the deep depression which had been hanging over the Rose Bowl yesterday with a stunning unbeaten 193 as Yorkshire climbed steadily to 268-3 on the second day of their Championship match against Hampshire. He was to resume today needing
It was very distressing to read of the ordeal Rolf Watson and his family had to go through ('Gang yob put me in hospital', June 23). I sympathise with them and do not want them to feel they are alone. I wish there could be some kind of campaign empowering
As a local trade unionist I must add a couple of comments to the view on the closure of Terry's given by Paul Jagger of the regional TUC ('Future for York after Terry's goes', June 23). Paul is, of course, right and speaks for all trade unionists in calling
Despite some people's opinions, our police forces aren't stupid and clearly recognise the need for an integrated database and information system to vet people who work with children and other vulnerable people. But, in the light of the Huntley debacle
Mike Usherwood's unhealthy obsession with the behaviour of cyclists continues unabated (Letters, June 23). Has he considered seeking professional help? So, he counted 14 moving traffic offences being committed by cyclists. Next time he should try counting
THE East Riding of Yorkshire Council, (ERYC), is drafting an affordable housing strategy which should be ready for consultation later in the year. Until the introduction of the 1980 Housing Act, which gave UK council tenants the right to buy their rented
IF YOU want to strike the motherlode of sporting saloon cars, tap into the rich racing-orientated seam of the Lexus IS range. It offers performance par excellence, with the ride beefed up by the rear-wheel drive layout and lowered suspension. Few executive
