YORK rugby league legend Richie Hayes has urged his former York City Knights comrades to go all the way for the good of the sport in the city. The 34-year-old former captain has returned to the Knights camp for the promotion play-off finale after being
Friday, October 8, 2004 100 years ago: What a pandemonium there would be were the ladies of our towns and cities to adopt the latest degradation for improving the elegance of the figure, in the opinion of one columnist. According to a fashion writer in
GREEK tragedy gets a bad press. So old, so dull, so wordy, so what. Actors of Dionysus, in their years in York, gave it a sexy makeover. Kneehigh Theatre, the experimental Cornish travelling troupe, go far further. They tear up Euripides's text - not
Joan Rivers has waited until she's 70 to tour Britain. Charles Hutchinson asks: what took you so long, Joan? PLENTY of overdressed, surgery-enhanced, wealthy American women sally forth on their first grand tour of Britain at 70. Yet you would not expect
Name: Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical Occupation: Hit Broadway show by Leslie Bricusse and Frank Wildhorn Past: Ran for four years in New York; has since travelled the world except Britain Present: British premiere national tour, opened in Eastbourne
IN a nutshell, the Canadian-Italian son of immigrants comes out of the closet. The traditionalist parents are shocked, scandalised, acquiring the bug eyes of King Charles spaniels, throwing their rotund arms in the air as melodramatically as Pavarotti
HARROGATE Town will be on their guard against Ashton United tonight (8pm) to avoid any dramatic slip-ups in Nationwide North. Town beat Ashton United 4-3 on the last day of the UniBond season to secure a fifth place finish and are currently some 13 places
YORK council looks set to pull out of a multi-million pound partnership aimed at getting local government services online. Under ambitious plans to transform computer systems across the county, residents would be able to make one-stop phone calls, send
Just A Quickie with...Toni Feetenby, sharp-shooting Annie Oakley in York Musical Theatre Company's Annie Get Your Gun. Will this be the first time you have played Annie Oakley? "I haven't done this musical before but when I was studying at Guildford I
YORK City players will be putting their hands in their pockets to help fund a stop over in Farnborough tonight. Budget cuts in the last few years have seen subsidies for away accommodation considerably reduced. But players have been helping themselves
I AM amazed at the proposed closure of the post offices in York and at the arbitrary way in which it has been decided to accomplish this. These closures are not related to customer convenience or financial success but basically because certain postmasters
AS a fan of both the Beatles and John Lennon I am delighted to learn that Mr Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman, has had his most recent application for parole turned down. However, I can't help thinking that if the murder had taken place in this country
ACCORDING to a recent opinion poll, journalists are one of the least trusted groups in society. Reading Ian Drury it is easy to see why. He claims that "more than one million people" took part in the countryside march last year ("Hunters run out of time
THE Breast Awareness Campaign has rightly stimulated interest in the early detection of this disease. Nevertheless I have recently been told of someone who has a "lump" and is deferring seeking diagnosis, presumably because of fear, both of examination
Compton's Eleven can beat off a strong North Yorkshire challenge for the last major handicap of the season at York tomorrow. The £30,000 Coral Sprint Trophy is the target for the three-year-old, who represents trainer Mick Channon and jockey Sam Hitchcott
THE future of the York's Odeon cinema has been thrown into further doubt after its chief executive left the job - after only six months. Tim Schoonmaker, the flamboyant media executive, is no longer the top man at Odeon Cinemas, the firm said today. Terra
A YORK mum whose baby was born three months premature today told of her sadness for the agonised parents of little Charlotte Wyatt after they lost their High Court battle to keep her alive. Caroline Hardy, 25, of Aysgarth House, Acomb, said she felt for
A NORTH YORKSHIRE farming family must pay £24,000 for polluting 16 miles of the county's water courses including the River Foss and River Ouse. Thousands of fish died when pig muck which was ten times more concentrated than human sewage poured into the
QUESTIONS have been raised about the cost and energy efficiency of an ambitious venture which promises to bathe the city in light. The York:Light project aims to light up city landmarks in an effort to boost tourism, support York's evening economy and
SKIPPER Steve Davis has added to York City's defensive woes with the news that he will be sidelined until the New Year after a hip operation. Davis, 35, has not played since the 3-0 victory at Dagenham & Redbridge at the start of September and his
SHARON Fentiman thought long and hard before agreeing her only child should receive the controversial mumps, measles and rubella vaccination. But her concern turned to horror when she went ahead - only to find 14-month Michael had wrongly received a completely
Required. Labour Co-ordinator for Nightshift (York). £25k. To work 21.30- 06.30. Duties will include interviewing staff and liaising with shift managers. Will be required to supervise staff in several departments, and the start and finish times of shifts
MICHAEL Howard strode confidently on to stage to make his keynote speech at the Conservative conference in Bournemouth, to a recording of Nimrod by the great British composer Edward Elgar. The tune was intended to capture a certain mood at the conference
Extensive revisions to Subaru's Impreza WRX means feeling more comfy at high speed, says MALCOLM BAYLIS. THERE's been few on the road to beat the performance of the Subaru Impreza WRX, but that has not ruled out extensive changes to models for next year
HYUNDAI is preparing to launch two newly-revised models on to the United Kingdom market. First is the Coupe, which is now outselling the Toyota Celica and Audi TT here, is to receive a stylish facelift to keep it ahead of the game. Having already won
THE future of the York's Odeon cinema has been thrown into further doubt after its chief executive left the job - after only six months. Tim Schoonmaker, the flamboyant media executive, is no longer the top man at Odeon Cinemas, the firm said today. Terra
Judy Burnett is exhibiting Following The Sun, Seascapes And Landscapes, at Pocklington Arts Centre until October 30 with a private view on Sunday. The York artist has spent a lot of time in the studio this summer. Oblivious to the weather in England,
ASKRIGG artist Piers Browne has made a discovery. The results can be seen in his latest exhibition of seascapes, From Brittany To Iona, at the Blake Gallery, Blake Street, York. "I've discovered, doing the sea, that thick white paint, painted on pure
Alex Lloyd sets her sights on some SightSonic events. THE latest underground clubbing craze reaches York next week as noWax joins up with SightSonic, the international digital arts festival, for a night of democratic MP3Jing. The DIY night, which was
YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is set to choose his line-up to take on Halifax in Sunday's play-off final from a provisional squad of 18. Agar is likely to name the same 17 that so convincingly beat Workington in last week's semi-final, plus second-row
MOST likely inspired by the Evening Press's highly successful makeover, Look North has jazzed itself up. But one falcon-eyed viewer wonders quite where Harry Gration's star vehicle is taking us. "The new Look North from Leeds has revamped its title sequence
Introducing... the very tall woman from York in Very Little Women, the new Lip Service spoof at York Theatre Royal. Maggie Fox, the tall one, and Sue Ryding, the not so tall one, have sharpened their satirical scalpel once more, taking their skills of
MALTON and Norton RUFC travel to Alnwick for what should be their toughest North East Two test so far this season. Alnwick drew with Huddersfield last week which, following Malton's defeat of Horden, meant that Malt took over sole occupancy of the top
A SEVERELY depleted Selby Olympia WMC side found themselves 2-0 down inside ten minutes to goals from Boneham and Watt at home to Pocklington. Murcroft pulled one back before the break and a stirring second half performance saw Ryan Chadwick hit a hat-trick
SIX points, four goals and two clean sheets from their last two games have boosted Scarborough's spirits at the McCain Stadium ahead of the visit of Aldershot (1pm). The Shots are among the favourites for promotion from the Nationwide Conference but Boro
THE judge acknowledged he was making a momentous decision, and few would have wished to take his place. After much deliberation, Mr Justice Hedley ruled that tiny Charlotte Wyatt should be allowed to die. Reluctantly accepting his verdict, Charlotte's
MARY Speed was subjected to a horrible ordeal at the hands of a teenage girl mugger. The 78-year-old was one of two pensioners assaulted by the young thief. She has a right to be angry. Instead Mrs Speed has shown astonishing understanding of her attacker
A European-wide credit, debit and retail card transactions company, which four years ago set up its HQ in York, has now opened a £20 million hi-tech data centre in Knaresborough. TSYS Europe will now transfer 50 jobs in a temporary Harrogate outpost into
The Salamander Organization, based at York Science Park, was today celebrating receiving a Queen's Award For Enterprise under the innovation category. It is the third innovation award for the transformation methods and software development company in
A report has officially confirmed what most Yorkshire farmers know - that this year's annual wheat harvest was a disaster. One of the wettest summers for decades meant that while 7.35 per cent more land was planted out for wheat in the county, yield fell
MAXIMUM smiles for a Mini gesture... Sarah Byrne, of Mosaic Events, based at Fishergate Centre, York celebrates her latest task. She is organising an Italian Job night next Friday to raise money for Yorkshire Cancer Research. The lone Mini is but a rehearsal
AS A CITY, York is what you might term "hostile" when it comes to dance music. Yet from our very bosom has sprung Vector Lovers, an act whose stunning brand of quirky electro-funk and dreamy digital beats is poised to become an underground electronica
IN a survey of its regular clientele, the Deep Blues Club asked: which performer at the club was your favourite? "Three names cropped up time and again: Blind Mississippi Morris, Errol Linton and Kent DuChaine," says Tony Clarke, co-promoter of the York
THE Departure are making friends in the build-up to the October 18 release of their second single, Be My Enemy. On Tuesday, they play Fibbers in York, midway through their debut headline tour. The Northampton band, all aged between 21 and 23, have already
THERE'S an old jazz gag about a man who takes a holiday in an exotic country and is delighted by a chorus of native drummers playing in the hills above town. After three days and nights of drumming, the man's head is starting to spin and after four he
SINGERS and instrumentalists from the York district have the chance to take part in the 2004 York Early Music Christmas Festival in December. The Minster Minstrels, York's early music ensemble for young people, will present the Young Minstrels' Guide
Fathers 4 Justice have made headlines by flour-bombing the PM, climbing the walls of Buckingham Palace and invading York Minster. But who are they? With a Channel 4 documentary due to be screened on Monday, STEPHEN LEWIS tries to find out. THERE are times
Children from a school near York launched an art attack on a graffiti-ravaged youth shelter this week. Guided by professional mural artist Griselda Goldsbrough, the 243 pupils of New Earswick Primary School brought art and social awareness together to
YORK Race Committee will have no say in the running of Royal Ascot at York next year, it's a case of Royal Ascot rules okay. Only the carefully vetted and selected will be allowed in the Royal Enclosure: £50 for the grandstand is exorbitant and so is
I HAVE been following the controversy over the proposed development at Derwenthorpe because friends of mine live in Osbaldwick. It is a pleasantly quiet rural area removed from noise and pollution of heavy traffic. It seems clear from your report (September
A OGILVY completely misses the point on fox hunting (Letters, October 4). Where most will agree foxes need to be culled at some point, it's the arrogant, pompus fools on horseback, with their silly grins, old sport, that the majority of people in this
I HAVE worked with Gurkhas on many occasions while serving in the forces and have many fond memories and much respect for them. I agree with Mr Ruston's sentiment (Letters, October 2) about how Britain should acknowledge the service these men, as individuals
I WOULD like to comment on the story you published regarding the poor bus service in the Malton Road area (October 4). The situation is just as bad, if not worse, around the nearby New Lane area of Huntington. With the recent timetable changes, the excellent
I FOUND Bill Hearld's article about being active into old age amusing and thought-provoking (October 5). I only wish I had the nerve to try some of the more hair-raising pastimes enjoyed by some of our older citizens, but am far too much of a coward and
BETWEEN 8am and 6pm, Monday to Saturday, there is supposedly a ban on vans, lorries, private cars and motorcyles using Coppergate. It is signalled at the appropriate times by electronic signs at each end, though no information is displayed outside those
A European-wide credit, debit and retail card transactions company, which four years ago set up its HQ in York, has now opened a £20 million hi-tech data centre in Knaresborough. TSYS Europe will now transfer 50 jobs in a temporary Harrogate outpost into
PLANS for a new train maintenance base which could bring up to 40 jobs to York have moved a step further today. City of York Council chiefs are to screen opinion for the viability of a new train care facility at a former refuelling depot on railway sidings
YORK MP Hugh Bayley claimed today that a new flood map of the city was "incredibly misleading" - and could blight hundreds of riverside properties. The online flood risk map, unveiled yesterday by the Environment Agency, is said by officials to be the
CITY leaders have moved to crack down on illegal parking at Monks Cross in York following numerous complaints about access. Residents, employees, bus operators and the emergency services had hit out over problems caused by dozens of roadside parked vehicles
TOURISM chiefs were celebrating today after winning the industry's version of the Oscar at a ceremony in York. The Yorkshire Tourist Board White Rose Awards 2004 were held at a gala dinner and award ceremony last night at the National Railway Museum,
A ROW has erupted after an official from a fundraising organisation for a York school launched a stinging attack on its local ward councillor. Edward Denison, founder and vice-president of the St Peter's School Foundation, said Clifton councillor Ken
THE Ouse below York takes centre stage on Sunday with the John Smith's Hospital Cup booked on all York waters. With no other major distractions locally, and an upcoming Winter League series to practice for, the entry may require the use of both banks.
A YORK trio of kick-boxers are gunning for British titles - with two of them challenging for the same crown. Gold medal-winning performances by brothers Richard and Gareth Brown at the European Martial Arts Association Northern Series tournament at Chorley
A SEVERELY depleted Selby Olympia WMC side found themselves 2-0 down inside ten minutes to goals from Boneham and Watt at home to Pocklington. Murcroft pulled one back before the break and a stirring second half performance saw Ryan Chadwick hit a hat-trick
THE York City Knights' kitman is appealing for a kind-hearted fan to help him make their crucial promotion match on Sunday. Steve Harris, the team's equipment manager, needs someone to drive his minibus taxi tomorrow evening after he found himself double-booked
YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is set to choose his line-up to take on Halifax in Sunday's play-off final from a provisional squad of 18. Agar is likely to name the same 17 that so convincingly beat Workington in last week's semi-final, plus second-row
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Grays Newsagents (York) Ltd, 6 James Street, York YO10 3WW. We are expanding our team of contracters and are seeking applications for owner drivers to deliver newspapers in the York/Harrogate areas starting at 4am for approx 3.5 hrs per morning. Applicants
Driver/Packer (Nights) required, 6 nights, £280.31 pw (3, 4 or 5 nights possible pro-rata). Full driving licence, no experience necessary as full training will be given. Duties involve packing and delivering newpapers in the York area. Will involve working
Sunday Newspaper round in country area using your own car. Write to Grays Newsagents, 6 James Street, York YO10 3WW. Updated: 09:41 Friday, October 08, 2004
The right candidate will be friendly, but professional and must have hotel reception experience. (Straight shifts working late/early shift pattern). Excellent salary dependent on experience. Contact Dawn Falkingham, The Parsonage Hotel, Escrick, York
PMP Recruitment. Chocolate Packers required, immediate start p/t hrs 5.30pm-9.30pm £7.34 per hour. Please call Sarah on 01904 602125. Updated: 09:37 Friday, October 08, 2004
VAUXHALL does not believe in resting on its laurels. It may have produced a cracking car in its new Astra hatchback and estates, but why stop there? Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be improved on, and soon to arrive in the showrooms is a three-door
THE new-look Audi A4 should be on sale here in January. The popular range has been completely overhauled both visually and mechanically, and the new 26 model, 10 engine range is to be priced from £18,765 on the road to £28,725. In addition to its redesigned
CERAMICS by Ben Arnup, abstract paintings by Val Bestwick and sculpture by Eoghan Bridge are on show at Pyramid Gallery, Stonegate, York, until October 28. Yorkshire potter Arnup's latest work concentrates on geometric forms, especially from Venetian
GILL Douglas has defied shoulder problems to complete 25 new works for Spirit Of The Islands, her tenth anniversary exhibition at the Treasurer's House, in York. "It seems a long journey from my first exhibition here, Intimate Views, with lots of interiors
