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  • Way we were

    Tuesday, September 8, 2004 100 years ago: The contractor who supplied the Selby Board of Guardians with coffins complained that there had been several deaths lately of men who had been of "extraordinary large size". Therefore he wanted an extra 9s or

  • Dream team selection poser

    It's that time of year at the end of the season when the awards for the teams and players of the year are picked. All the coaches at our level are asked by sections of the media to pick a hypothetical team of the year - minus any players from your own

  • Support network for firm owners

    A NEW campaign to boost the performance of Harrogate's owner-managed businesses is under way, with a pledge of £250,000 of support over the next five years. The campaign is being run by independent Harrogate-based accountants and business adviser DSC,

  • Fairytale launch for events promoters

    Liz and Lizz did the fairy biz when they donned wings to flutter all over York city centre. Liz Peel and Lizz Bennett were promoting Fairy Nights, an entertainment which is their first assignment since they launched ninelives event management. All proceeds

  • Help us nab this coward

    THEY call it road rage. But that phrase is often inappropriate. It offers thugs a ready-made excuse for inexcusable violence. Every driver knows about frustration. In our ever-faster cars and lives we are regularly reduced to a crawl because of traffic

  • Spirit of freedom

    FOR a certain generation, no sound is more evocative than that of a Spitfire's engine. It caused York people to look skywards again as the fighter plane flew over the city. Our photograph of Britain's legendary military aircraft above York Minster brings

  • Pikes bounce back to get off the mark

    Slow-starting Pickering Town came back from a goal down against Glapwell to record their first Northern Counties East League premier division win of the season. James Dooley fired the visitors in front after just six minutes but Dean MacAuley found an

  • Pot-holed road to Wigan cheer

    WIGAN peers proved too much for York City Ladies Football team, who suffered Women's FA Cup woe. The York ranks lost 4-1 at Wigan, where the visitors' 3-5-2 formation failed to bring any dividends in a first half in which they trailed 2-0. York manager

  • Special start for babies of York

    STEPHEN LEWIS celebrates 20 years of giving tiny premature babies a fighting chance. ASHLEY Judge will never forget the first time she saw her baby son Sam. She was unconscious under a general anaesthetic when he was born six weeks prematurely at York

  • Skills centre named

    WORK is pressing ahead on a £3 million skills centre for troubled teenagers in York - starting with a new name. The centre, on the site of the former Fulford Cross special school in Fulford, will be renamed The Danesgate Pupil Support Centre and provide

  • Sacked 'keeper seeks legal defence

    FORMER York City goalkeeper Paul Crichton is considering legal action after he was sent packing from the football club. Crichton, 35, was released by the Minstermen after an argument with City supporters during the 4-0 defeat at Gravesend & Northfleet

  • Johnston to be cup king again - 08/09/04

    MIDDLEHAM trainer Mark Johnston, who won the Doncaster Cup three times in the 1990s with Double Trigger, can return to those glory days tomorrow by landing Town Moor's prestigious stamina test with Darasim, the mount of Joe Fanning. No less than £100,000

  • Can you dig it?

    YORK'S wealth of archaeological sites could soon be easier to access, according to proposals to be considered by council chiefs. Among the recommendations to be examined by City of York Council's leisure and heritage scrutiny board on Monday are new planning

  • This year's menu

    CHEFS from all walks of life will be cooking up a storm when the York Festival of Food and Drink returns to the city in less than two days. The annual gastronomic celebration, now in its eighth year, kicks off on Friday, and organisers are expecting more

  • Police target 'worst yobs'

    PROLIFIC offenders in York could be named and shamed as part of police moves to target the city's worst hooligans. A nationwide "league of shame" of 5,000 persistent criminals, thugs and disruptive residents has been drawn up by crime-fighting bosses

  • Drive to beat dicey motorists

    YORK motorists are being urged not to dice with death when they drive to work. City of York Council is launching a new road safety campaign targeting high-mileage business drivers and their employers. Speeders and "amber gamblers" will be warned that

  • Worm turns fortunes for Sparling to win

    It was a quiet weekend on the York match angling scene with activity limited to stillwater fisheries. The Poppleton Lakes complex has been in good form of late and the different ponds offer variety. Both of the weekend matches produced big weights but

  • Wing and a prayer

    THIS Spitfire relives the days of the Battle of Britain as it soars high above York Minster. The legendary fighter was en route from Lincolnshire to a display in North Yorkshire when this stunning image was captured. It was piloted by Squadron Leader

  • Pikes bounce back to get off the mark

    Slow-starting Pickering Town came back from a goal down against Glapwell to record their first Northern Counties East League premier division win of the season. James Dooley fired the visitors in front after just six minutes but Dean MacAuley found an

  • I didn't think I'd be here to tell the tale

    A FARM worker told today she feared for her life when she was dragged from a tractor by a "road rage" motorist and repeatedly kicked while on the ground. Terrified Jayne Cooper, 25, from Copmanthorpe, suffered two cracked ribs and a bloodied nose when

  • Parking stink

    A COMPANY BOSS claims York's parking policy "stinks" and is likely to drive away the small businesses and shoppers needed for the city to prosper. Ian Fozard, managing director of Market Town Taverns plc of Knaresborough, which runs a chain of niche bars

  • Clean up litter

    MOST days, but particularly at weekends and on race days, the city's streets are covered with the refuse dropped by customers of fast-food outlets. These remains - boxes, chips, bits of pizza, chicken bones, etc - are a health hazard as well as being

  • Shame on Brown

    HAS Chancellor Gordon Brown no shame? The answer his secretary gave me after I wrote to him about his decision to close the Department of Work and Pensions centre at Monk's Cross, near York, beggars belief. What a waste to spend public money on an office

  • Greedy masons

    The proposed development at Connaught Court Nursing Home, Fulford, is a particularly unfortunate example of heartless and greedy property development. It is unfortunate because the same institution proposing the development now provides the protected

  • TV reception help

    I was surprised to read about the problems experienced by Peter Braithwaite (Letters, August 16) in receiving the new digital terrestrial transmissions. Most viewers in the York area, who now receive their programmes from Leeds, should be able to receive

  • Freight concerns

    PRESSURES from two different directions are combining to paint an alarming picture for the road transport industry in 2005. The application of the working time directive to transport in March will, as confirmed by the Government's own figures, cost more

  • Saving pennies over phone mast?

    I THANK Tom Stirling and the Evening Press for publicising the erection of a phone mast in Shipton-by-Beningbrough which does not benefit the local area (September 1). This is not a simple "Nimby" complaint, although I do not use a mobile phone except

  • 'Club must pay the going rate'

    "The labourer is worthy of his hire" is maxim which was formulated centuries ago to dignify those who had to sell their labour in order to earn a living. It is a noble sentiment which seems to have passed by those in charge at York City. I don't care

  • Tali wants to tarry at Knights

    NEW recruit Albert Talipeau has not ruled out being a York City Knights player on a permanent deal next season. The Samoan star, who moved to Huntington Stadium a week ago in a loan contract from Super League side Wakefield, made his Knights' debut as

  • Cowap hits drive time road

    THE Evening Press is not the only medium undergoing a makeover this week. Radio York is re-tuning too. But not to everyone's taste. This email arrives from a loyal listener. "A little bird has told me that in the shake-up of programmes planned for this

  • Accelerating into the future

    Xceleron, the cutting edge of science York University spin-out company, today announced that it has won a contract to help pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline set up the industry's first in-house Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) facility. Professor

  • Andrew appointed chamber president

    SOLICITOR Andrew Lindsay is the new president of the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. Mr Lindsay, 46, who succeeds HSBC banker Mark Vines, is head of the corporate and commercial department of Denison Till of York. At the chamber's annual

  • Yorkshire foods get a real taste for success

    Deliciouslyorkshire, brand identity for the regional food group, is bringing home a whopping 67 medals from the prestigious Great Taste Awards. The tasty success - 19 gold medals, 31 silver medals and 22 bronze - was achieved from 4,100 food establishments

  • Sidney's surge

    I WAS a bit taken aback when Sidney Sheldon's latest novel landed on my desk because I didn't think he was still with us. But no, he is going strong at the grand old age of 87 - and writing better than ever. Sheldon, whose novels include Windmills Of

  • Ten-match offer at the Crescent

    YORK City supporters can make a saving of up to £40 on matchday admission by buying a ten-game mini-season ticket. The offer is designed to help fans who cannot attend every Nationwide Conference fixture and allows spectators to pick the ten matches they

  • City's Harrison cheats death

    GERRY Harrison is enjoying a new lease of life at York City after having a close brush with death in April. The 32-year-old midfielder, who made his Minstermen debut as a second half substitute at Dagenham on Saturday after signing non-contract terms,

  • Get intelligent

    A CONGESTION-busting scheme in York has been hailed as a remarkable success by traffic experts. Over 240 homes in the city took part in the Intelligent Travel project, which aims to persuade families to walk, cycle and use buses to get about, rather than

  • Ageing cost set to soar

    BRITAIN may need to spend up to four times as much on long-term care for the elderly by 2050, according to a report published today by the York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The soaring bill will come because of an increase in the number of people

  • Takeaways in noise attack

    SOME York late-night takeaways are "sticking two fingers up" at residents and the council by ignoring restrictions on opening hours, a city councillor has claimed. Licensing bosses have been asked to investigate ways of forcing food outlets to close at

  • Nestl veterans win triples title

    NESTL 'B' team won York Amateur Bowling Association veterans' section triples crown. They beat Holgate 20-11 in the final at Glen Gardens, where fine weather graced the climax of the competition after it had earlier been dogged by the summer downpours

  • Scream woman's chilling warning

    YORK psychotherapist Heather Stephenson-Snell told her "dog sitter" she would kill him if she ever learned he was with another woman, a court heard. Adrian Sinclair, who claimed he had a relationship with Stephenson-Snell, told a jury at Manchester Crown

  • City's Harrison cheats death

    GERRY Harrison is enjoying a new lease of life at York City after having a close brush with death in April. The 32-year-old midfielder, who made his Minstermen debut as a second half substitute at Dagenham on Saturday after signing non-contract terms,

  • Sacked 'keeper seeks legal defence

    FORMER York City goalkeeper Paul Crichton is considering legal action after he was sent packing from the football club. Crichton, 35, was released by the Minstermen after an argument with City supporters during the 4-0 defeat at Gravesend & Northfleet

  • Death crash heartache of York family

    THE parents of a young York man who died in a car crash have told how memories of their "hero" son are helping them come to terms with his tragic death. Richard Dale, 22, was killed when his car smashed into a tree in Foss Islands Road early on Friday

  • I'll never be a doormat

    The scales have fallen from my eyes. How can I ever repay Dr Laura Schlessinger for showing me where I have been going wrong all these years? There was I, muddling blithely along, thinking that give and take would get me and my Other Half through those

  • Post office fury

    I RECEIVED a Liberal Democrat newsletter about post office closures and the fact that York MP Hugh Bayley voted in favour of closure of urban post offices. So I am perplexed by the report in the paper (September 4) where two Labour councillors are pictured

  • Youngsters were never so threatening, Liz

    Every point made by Liz Edge at the end of her letter in explanation of the behaviour and attitude of children is true. However, some of the assumptions she makes are not. For instance, she talks about groups of teenagers on street corners "doing what

  • Fox hunting is just not a worthy issue

    THE politics of this country have sunk to a sorry state. We have a war that most Brits did not want causing loss of life of our own troops and the Iraqi civilians; a national health service sinking to the standards of a Third World country; children leaving

  • No-show voters

    BEFORE Coun Scott started political mud-slinging in your columns (Letters, September 2) regarding absences from the planning east vote on Burton Croft, he should have checked his own party's attendance. Coun Ruth Potter was not there and had no substitute

  • Band played on

    WE talk of a bad summer, but the Railway Institute Golden Rail Brass Band concluded its summer band concerts in a sunny Parliament Street and have only lost one day. We got a bit of a soaking at Cawood, but otherwise it has been great weather - with a