Cash funding to set up what has been billed as a legacy for rugby league in York and North Yorkshire was revealed yesterday by the York City Knights, writes Claire Hughes. Pocklington-based computer giants Phoenix Software have put forward £50,000 to
A MERE four years into the 21st century and our MPs are realising they are accountable to the taxpayer. Today the allowances claimed by our Parliamentary representatives are finally laid bare. An itemised bill for the near £80 million they spend on living
I WAS brought up on the Chapelfields estate. If you read the articles in the paper (October 18 and 19), then apply both common sense and strategic positive action by everybody - residents, the council, youth organisations, the police and your reporters
I AM trying to find anybody who knew my grandmother, Joan Foster. If she were alive today she would be 78 years old. Did anyone go to the same school or did she live down your street? I believe she was brought up by foster parents, so were you in foster
ON coming to live in York 20 years ago, I took one look at the traffic and realised it was not going anywhere. I quickly came to the conclusion that York did not have a traffic problem, but rather a traffic management problem. Imagine my surprise after
WHAT an excellent and thought-provoking feature on street clutter (October 18). So thought-provoking that I was noticing unnecessary street clutter for the rest of the day. I was pondering English Heritage's assertion that most urban traffic lights are
WE know that trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Now that everything we were told to persuade us that Saddam was a threat to anybody has been proved false, we are fed another untruth. The claim that the intelligence was wrong and the phoney apology
Two international call-ups have buoyed York Acorn as they prepare for the visit of National Conference Division Two strugglers Widnes St Maries. Centre Mike Embleton returns to the Acorn side for the match with a place in the British Amateur Rugby League
Two Ryans ran the show for York Acorn ARL under-11s in their 38-34 defeat of Dewsbury Moor. Ryan Gallacher got his hands on seven tries, including a last-ditch winner following a run from Chris Marks. Man of the match Ryan Duffell got his reward for a
York and district rugby league stalwart Stuart Evans has been presented with a tankard to mark more than 30 years of service to the game. The 56-year-old referee has spent years serving on committees, helping at association events and representing the
SHEILA Henry Hair salon in Harrogate has had a special visit from one of its longest-standing and most well-known clients to celebrate its latest accolade. Lady Emma Ingilby, who has had her hair styled at Sheila Henry for the past 20 years, was at the
IT'S easy to be confused by this government. We are told to eat our greens, quit smoking and drink moderately, all of which is sound if unexciting advice. We are urged not to smack our children, which is fine by me; but then, in the next breath, we are
YORK City youngster Sean Davies will be given the chance to stake his claim for a regular first-team shirt over the next month. Davies, 19, has impressed in the Minstermen's last two games after on-loan defender David McGurk suffered a rib injury. And
THE live album is a great leveller. Rich or poor, famous or unknown, the odds are long that the venture will be a success. Raul Malo's popular ensemble give it their best shot in an energetic greatest hits show in their home town, recorded in pristine
As a Duranie it was an excitable moment being given a collection of every single B-side (remember those?) and CD track Duran Duran produced from the mid-Eighties onwards. While there are some great mixes of Skin Trade, Notorious and Too Much Information
This album is classic, easy-listening Ronan Keating: inoffensive background noise in which 16 tracks flow into each other with barely a change in pace or pitch. Nothing grates on your senses and little excites them either. Boyzone's Keating will never
TOWERING over the industry like a unit-gulping colossus, forgive Robbie Williams a snigger as this retrospective crashes into every record shop on the planet. Rewind to 1995. As the nation wiped a disconsolate tear from its eye after Take That imploded
A letter saying you're in arrears when you're not - that's the very last thing you need on a Saturday morning. CITY of York Council has apologised unreservedly after a woman was mistakenly summonsed for council tax arrears. A senior officer said it recognised
THE pension fund at North Yorkshire printers RR Donnelley is £22 million in deficit, workers and pensioners have been warned. The company says a plan must be developed to close the deficit, and this could affect benefits paid out in respect of future
JULIE Malone's family have been left in shock after burglars targeted their York home twice in less than a fortnight. They believe intruders who snatched two expensive wall-mounted plasma TVs may have been watching their Beckfield Lane house. Now her
A DRUG dealer put behind bars for nine years after running a York heroin den has successfully applied to have his sentence cut by almost a third. Lee John Archer, 26, faced nine years in prison after admitting supplying heroin from his accomplice's home
Cash funding to set up what has been billed as a legacy for rugby league in York and North Yorkshire was revealed yesterday by the York City Knights, writes Claire Hughes. Pocklington-based computer giants Phoenix Software have put forward £50,000 to
YORK City youngster Sean Davies will be given the chance to stake his claim for a regular first-team shirt over the next month. Davies, 19, has impressed in the Minstermen's last two games after on-loan defender David McGurk suffered a rib injury. And
A BUS driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus. The woman driver of the Jaguar died in the impact on the A19 at Deighton, near York, yesterday. Passengers among the 18 hurt when the
Aussie scrum half Christopher Levy has been snapped up by the York City Knights as a replacement for Hull-bound Danny Brough. The versatile half back can play at stand-off, loose forward or hooker and has a kicking game that it is hoped will rival the
Thursday, October 21, 2004 100 years ago: A graveyard was probably the last place which one would expect to see utilised for sheep-grazing purposes, according to a columnist. Several Hampshire rams had been seen during the present week, however, sleeping
FORGET Iraq. Explosions and shellfire will rock York for the next fortnight, according to police. Fireworks and flying eggs are likely to shatter the peace as Hallowe'en, Mischief Night and Bonfire Night loom up in quick succession, the police warned
YORK Rugby Union Club's fledgling under-16 team were knocked out of the Yorkshire Cup by a Hull Ionians side that have not been beaten in three years. The visitors, who boasted several county standard players, ran out 42-0 winners in the second round
York RI Rugby Union Club's Under-18s capped their first match against Queen Ethelburga's with a momentous 58-6 triumph. The game was the second in the North Yorkshire Challenge Series and RI never looked back once hooker Dan Hickie powered over for the
Pickering Town 'A' still top the York Mitchell Sports Football League first division after winning 7-2 at Dunnington. Jonny Birbeck led the way with three goals followed by David Thompson (2), Bradley Magson and Joseph Howard. Tom Connell replied twice
HE'S a Cook, a gardener and a Little Gem. And Jake Cook is still only five years old. York's youngest horticulturist already has his own greenhouse in which he grows tomatoes, sunflowers and strawberries. At this rate, he could soon supply York Market
CONGRATULATIONS on your front page on Monday ("Give us hope"). At last we have media recognition that not only is it necessary to deal very severely with the bad lads and lasses who are causing so much misery today but that they are actually the symptoms
HOW I agree with Ron Atkin, the uncle of the two tearaways who stated that a short, sharp shock will end their reign of terror (October 19). The problem is, Ron, why should everybody else have to pay for this? When I was growing up on the estate where
LIKE Felicity Jones (Letters, October 18), my wife and I also found the gate from Cloister Walk to Sainsbury's car park padlocked last Saturday. It was a surprise but no great inconvenience, as we could walk past the former County Hospital building and
I CANNOT work out why - apart from his well-known blind prejudice against cyclists - Mike Usherwood tut-tuts at Paul Hepworth for being pictured cycling without a helmet. There is no law compelling cyclists to wear helmets, and the balance of evidence
WHAT planet does Mike Usherwood live on (Letters, October 19)? When I last looked the wearing of cycling helmets was through personal choice not law. Between 1987 and 1991 head injuries were responsible for 39 per cent of pedestrian deaths; 25 per cent
YORK could lead the way in reducing car use. I support Jonathan Tyler's ideas for moderating traffic ("Putting a price on driving round York", October 13). Road charging is the best plan. It's worked in London, helps fund public transport improvements
DOES Tony Taylor believe that because "over 25 per cent of carbon emissions come from ongoing underground coal fires in China which cannot be extinguished", it is acceptable for us to ignore the causes of the other nearly 75 per cent and carry on driving
A MILLIONAIRE from York has won the exclusive UK right to market a new pill-sized video camera, which could prolong the lives of throat cancer victims all over the world. Richard Edmondson, of Fulford, but now living in Spain is, managing director of
Ryedale MP John Greenway and Methodist superintendent Keith Himsworth give their views on the proposed new legislation. Yes......says Ryedale MP John Greenway, head of the House of Commons joint committee on the new Gambling Bill. THE scare stories in
NO one takes care of unfinished business like Elvis Costello, not even The Sopranos. He already has re-released "our worst record", 1983's Goodbye Cruel World, once before and now he is scratching again at this old sore. "With the benefit of a little
FOR a man held culpable for a nation's moral collapse, 80s synths and electro-pop seems a strange obsession for right-wing America's ultimate bogeyman. But so it is with Marilyn Manson, as emphasised with the release of a greatest hits album. Eurythmics
CITY councillors could take to the streets of York to quiz Friday night revellers as part of an investigation into the growing menace of drink-related problems. The questioning would focus on the drinking habits of 18 to 30-year-olds, in what has been
MARTIN DAY has at least two good reasons to have his head in the clouds. For the instructor pilot at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York, has just completed his season as the Tucano display pilot. Flight Lieutenant Day took part in more than 56 air shows between
CRUEL doorstep cheats who prey on elderly people claim the number one spot on a damning "top five" list of the worst swindlers, conmen and thieves. Trading standards bosses have made tackling the tricksters, who include cowboy tradesmen, rip-off builders
YORK MP Hugh Bayley revealed today he claimed £135,744 in expenses during the last financial year. In addition to his £57,485 salary, he spent £16,867 on travelling to and from the Commons, and to other European parliaments, during 2003/04 - and another
Leeds United's teenage sensation Simon Walton is determined not to be overawed even though he can hardly believe he is in the first team. Having scored his first senior goal in the 1-1 draw at Reading on Tuesday, the 17-year-old midfielder is still on
PAUL Hopwood was the man with all the moves as he won the first York blitz chess tournament held at the RI club in Queen Street. Blitz involves each player having only five minutes on their clock to complete the game. Hopwood led from the start, finally
It's official - Little Jake's a real Gem in the potting shed at the age of five. WHILE other youngsters are playing computer games or watching television, green-fingered Jake Cook is busy getting his hands dirty in the garden. The five-year-old, who lives
Aussie scrum half Christopher Levy has been snapped up by the York City Knights as a replacement for Hull-bound Danny Brough. The versatile half back can play at stand-off, loose forward or hooker and has a kicking game that it is hoped will rival the
ADRIAN Mutu has become the latest player to be embroiled in a drugs scandal and, while I believe such incidents are rare and there is not a problem in football, there is no place for substance abuse in the sport. I also think that as the substance Mutu
