THE voices of hundreds of Knights fans travelling to Hull KR for tomorrow's semi-final could be the closest thing the team get to having a 17th man. Richard Agar found his squad stripped down to just 15 players this week as the continuing injury crisis
LET'S go out and enjoy the day. That was the message from skipper supreme Lee Jackson on the eve of York City Knights' eagerly-awaited Arriva Trains Cup semi-final. The Knights visit Hull Kingston Rovers on Sunday (ko 3pm) vying for a place in a major
FRENCH team Avignon enjoy a training session at Elm Park Way prior to this weekend's York International 9s rugby league festival at Heworth ARLC's ground. Avignon are one of four French sides in the 24-team tournament, including reigning champions FC
Mike Laycock and family visit a farm deep in rural East Yorkshire where rare breeds not only survive but prosper. He had been born only four or five hours earlier, but already the tiny bleating pygmy goat was standing steadily on all four feet. And he
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today told traders who say parking charges are crippling their businesses that he will take their fight to the council. Mr Bayley made the pledge at a meeting with Goodramgate retailers and restaurateurs - and asked them not to go
A MAN was found selling fake film and music discs worth more than £28,000 at a North Yorkshire market, a court heard. Selby magistrates were told the man had more than 800 DVDs, CDs and computer games, including 40 "adult" films, for sale on his stall
Has England's defeat in Portugal punctured York's patriotic fervour? DAN PHILLIPS and STEVE CARROLL find out. THE England flags and Euro 2004 wall charts may already have been ripped off our walls, but how downhearted are York's England fans after defeat
YORK-BORN golf professional Guy Wills has returned to his homeland to be at the helm of the area's newest club. Wills has been appointed professional at the Flaxby Park Golf and Country Club, the new 27-hole course located in between York and Harrogate
SANTA CLAUS takes time out after distributing Christmas cheer in York - six months early. The Holiday Inn in Tadcaster Road invited local businesses for a Christmas lunch with all the trimmings yesterday, June 25 - exactly half a year before the real
On-the-ball students from York College Football Academy are jetting off to the other side of the Atlantic to enhance their football careers. Seven newly qualified coaches will spend eight weeks coaching children in Calgary, Canada, while Charlene Woodward
A YOUNG man who held up a York shopkeeper with an imitation firearm was today behind bars awaiting sentence. Aaron Richard Price, 18, of Thorpe Street, South Bank, York, pleaded guilty to robbing David Muir of cash and cigarettes in D&K Stores, Albemarle
THE voices of hundreds of Knights fans travelling to Hull KR for Sunday's semi-final could be the closest thing the team get to having a 17th man. Richard Agar found his squad stripped down to just 15 players this week as the continuing injury crisis
A CRIME gang used high-tech equipment to beat the security systems of supermarkets in York and North Yorkshire as part of a nationwide burglary conspiracy. A two-year North Yorkshire Police operation uncovered how seven men used hidden cameras to find
WHEN abroad and surrounded by different nationalities, you soon get to know who your friends are; and in terms of football, we don't have many. Throughout the Euro 2004 tournament so far, many of our fellow Brits, the Scots, the Welsh and our Celtic neighbours
FORMER York City hot-shot Peter Wragg has died of a heart condition at the age of 73. Wragg, who was living in Torbay, is only one of five Minstermen players to score four goals in a match. He netted four times in a 5-1 defeat of Crewe in January, 1961
Yorkshire have made it crystal clear that Michael Atherton will not be on their Christmas card list this winter - and quite right, too. The former England and Lancashire captain, never short of a moan and a sullen look at Press conferences during his
MR Usherwood's comments are typical of a person who is actually causing traffic problems in York (Letters, June 23). He gets off the train and then presumably gets the bus to Askham Bar. Then drives all the way back to the station and crosses Lendal Bridge
DM Richardson's letter "Kill the pigeons" (June 24) is so full of vitriol, hate and bitterness that it says more about him than it does about the pigeons. Pigeons are living creatures not crisp packets or fag ends. If you don't like them, leave them alone
I AM writing in response to an article about the opening of a new first-aid training centre in York (June 21). The article quotes Claire Adrian saying there is no dedicated first-aid centre in York. This is not true. St John Ambulance, North Yorkshire
YORK-BORN golf professional Guy Wills has returned to his homeland to be at the helm of the area's newest club. Wills has been appointed professional at the Flaxby Park Golf and Country Club, the new 27-hole course located in between York and Harrogate
MAXINE GORDON offers some bright ideas for travelling light. WHEN packing for my holidays I follow one golden rule: fill the case, and then empty half of it. After all, how many sleeveless T-shirts, flowery skirts and coloured sandals does a girl really
FIJIAN flyer Rob Kama is all set to turn back the clock and press turbo boost in aid of charity. The Rugby Football League, in association with Powergen, is holding a one-off event to find the fastest player in British rugby league, all in aid of Sport
SIMON Friend kept in touch with the leaders in the latest batch of Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire points. The powerful Aussie second-row gave another bone-shaking display in last week's win over London Skolars to collect two player-of-the-year points
Saturday, June 26, 2004 100 years ago: There was rather a "silly" discussion going on at present amongst the members of a certain Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps as to the social standing of the cyclist company. How it started was not quite clear, but
George Wilkinson turns flooplain drifter as he walks among the roses and cruises by golden barley where warplanes once roared. Arram is at the end of a road that fades out on to the floodplains near Beverley. The roses bloomed, swallows skimmed low and
IF you are an oldie bore, you might want to avoid the Old Ebor. The York pub is back on its feet and looking to liven up. That's not to say it has become a tacky theme pub or a shiny bottle bar. But the Old Ebor is under new management who are determined
Where will The Queen stay when Royal Ascot comes to York next year? STEVE CARROLL takes a light-hearted look at the options. CONFIRMATION that the centrepiece of Royal Ascot - the Royal Procession - is coming to York has put Royalists in the city in all
ALL-TIME batting and bowling records graced the first of this year's re-vamped awards in the Hunters the estate agents York and District Senior Cricket League. Student James Turner set the standard in the batting category when, on the opening day of the
MIKE TIPPING pops into good old Marks & Sparks for this week's Tipping's Tipples. A and L, two letters that added together make a name synonymous with Capone and Stewart. A and L also become very important if removed from Australia. Imagine if your
WITH a relative back from Australia for a holiday, we thought an English afternoon tea would kindle a little nostalgia. What better place to try than this delightful rural setting? On a good day there are shaded tables in the garden. Otherwise the front
Diarmuid Gavin has designed a garden in North Yorkshire for a new BBC2 series. GINA PARKINSON met him at the opening of Gardens Through Time at Harlow Carr. DESPITE the rain and the wind on an unseasonably cold day last week, RHS Garden Harlow Carr in
On-the-ball students from York College Football Academy are jetting off to the other side of the Atlantic to enhance their football careers. Seven newly qualified coaches will spend eight weeks coaching children in Calgary, Canada, while Charlene Woodward
POLICE are urging mobile phone owners to keep a close eye on their property, after they found that five handsets are reported stolen every day in York. Officers investigating means of cutting "volume crime" discovered that 429 mobile phones were reported
COUNCIL bosses are cracking on with the project to build a new community swimming pool in York, following the news that the Barbican Centre redevelopment can go ahead. The old baths at the Barbican, which closed down earlier this month, are set to be
A NEW £24 million bottling plant has been officially opened at a Tadcaster brewery, creating 42 jobs. Bosses at John Smith's said the new state-of-the-art plant was the most modern bottling facility in Europe. Completed three weeks ahead of target, the
Malton jockey David Allan, who joined the fully-fledged ranks when losing his apprentice allowance on Piccled at York earlier this month, can make his mark on stablemate Midnight Parkes at Warwick tomorrow. The Eric Alston-trained sprinter goes for the
Australian left-hander Phil Jaques yesterday became the only batsman in Yorkshire's history to score a double century both for and against the club when he took his epic innings against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl on to 243. And director of cricket David
THOUSANDS of cyclists from across the UK were descending on York Racecourse today to celebrate the 60th birthday of the York Cycle Show. The event, which is expected to attract more than 15,000 people, is the national rally of the cycling organisation
LET'S go out and enjoy the day. That was the message from skipper supreme Lee Jackson on the eve of York City Knights' eagerly-awaited Arriva Trains Cup semi-final. The Knights visit Hull Kingston Rovers on Sunday (ko 3pm) vying for a place in a major
THIS is the amazing mum who makes miracles come true for childless couples. Dinner lady Julie Fisher, who has two young daughters of her own, has spent the past four years helping desperate couples overcome the heartbreak of infertility. Last year she
Yorkshire Phoenix will be going flat out to achieve the double over Sussex Sharks at Arundel tomorrow and at the same time preserve their status as table-toppers of Division Two of the totesport League. Middlesex Crusaders are level on points with Phoenix
Australian left-hander Phil Jaques yesterday became the only batsman in Yorkshire's history to score a double century both for and against the club when he took his epic innings against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl on to 243. And director of cricket David
IN its effort to redevelop the site of Burton Croft, the former home of York's great benefactor JB Morrell, Barratt York has submitted a revised scheme which it hopes "...would address some of the problems which had meant that previous applications were
YORK City Knights will tomorrow attempt to reach their first-ever cup final, and York RL's first since the old club reached the Yorkshire Cup final in 1978-79. The Knights take on Hull KR at Craven Park (ko 3pm) in the Arriva Trains Cup semi-final. The
Chris Greenwood predicts a competitive career for a strong newcomer to the packed York restaurant field. IF Four High Petergate were a race horse, it would be a relatively unproven two-year-old filly, with a good field position, looking to stretch its
