AS a first-time visitor to York, I am astonished by the amount of noise pollution which is tolerated by your council. The overall firework noise on November 5 and the ear-splitting, ground-shaking barrage which emanated from the racecourse on November
I AM somewhat confused by AP Cox's suggestions that the ticket machines in Castle Car Park are not working correctly (Letters, November 20. All four ticket machines were tested on November 3 and were found to be in full working order. The only recorded
IT is hardly surprising to hear of yet more nouveau industrial planning with no responsibility taken on behalf of the builders or planners to recognise or deal with what is a national problem ("Traffic fear on new offices bid", October 29). York is already
I READ Mike Laycock's article on bizarre events at Abbey with wry amusement (October 20). In August 2003 I paid for car insurance with Direct Line over the telephone using a debit card on my Abbey current account. Unknown to me, a direct debit was created
IN response to Philip Lickley's letter about recent bus service changes (November 5), I can report that the withdrawal of service 16a was directly connected with First York's positive response to reinstate a bus service to the Flaxman Croft area of Copmanthorpe
IT seems that the Post Office branch closures are to go ahead even in the face of heavy local opposition. There is no point in the York MP Hugh Bayley and Government ministers hiding behind the feeble excuse that it is all down to the Post Office and
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 100 years ago: A correspondent wrote that he had recently visited the "old moorland town of Kirbymoorside (sic)", and on going to the post office he was glad to recognise the same polite and pleasant official who had performed
Monday, November 8, 2004 100 years ago: A good story of the telephone came from Scarborough. A few days previously the police rang up the Magistrates' Clerk on the telephone, to inform him that there were no cases at the Police Court that morning. Owing
BAGBY and Balk took advantage of their rivals being in FA Cup competition action by beating Carlton United to move into third place in the RJF Homes Beckett Football League. Darren Bell fired Bagby and Balk ahead but former B and B player Tom Kendall
JOHN Prescott has bowed to the inevitable and abandoned the Yorkshire Assembly referendum. Despite New Labour's fondness for opinion polls and focus groups, the party failed to detect an overwhelming surge of apathy for this proposal. Or perhaps Mr Prescott
THEY say York is the perfect setting for a Dickensian Christmas. And they're right. Pay for festive lights? Harrumph. Bring Santa here for the children? Bah, humbug! Thanks to a face-saving donation from Nestl Rowntree, York raised enough money to string
HEWORTH ARLC 'A' team hit back to beat visitors Castleford Panthers 'A' 14-12 in CMS Yorkshire League division three. Panthers led 12-0 after 28 minutes from two converted tries before Heworth winger Eddie Phillips intercepted in his own half to race
A York Green Business Club will be launched in the city on Wednesday. The club, which will provide free help and advice on how businesses can save money by adopting environmentally-friendly business practices, will be formed at an 8am breakfast seminar
NORTH Yorkshire firm Just Puds has succeeded in getting its product stocked at Asda and Waitrose stores. The Ripon-based firm' product, Just Puds, was recently praised by celebrity chef Rick Stein, who declared: "They're good enough to be served in my
BARRATT York development administrator Samantha Murray is the best employee in the house builder' northern region. Samantha, 29, of Linton-on-Ouse, near York, pictured, beat off competition from the north of Scotland to Leeds to win the company's coveted
BRACE yourselves for the biggest and best business exhibition in the region on Wednesday, starting at 9am. The Evening Press Business2Business exhibition is back - with a record 68 stands at York Racecourse, seven seminars, helicopter flights, a casino
FOLK legend Martin Carthy introduced himself to a York audience as "the only living person never to have played in Fairport Convention". The guitar guru and ballad singer extraordinaire has played in many other significant folk ensembles, including Steeleye
Mansion House could soon be available to hire for corporate bashes at £1,000 a pop. STEPHEN LEWIS looks at how the city is re-inventing itself as a quirky conference destination. WHY do dull, when you could do grand, Gothic or simply gobsmacking? That's
YORK City's board of directors are expecting to be inundated with offers for the full-time managerial position - without having to advertise. But the cash-strapped club will be unable to take someone on unless the playing staff is reduced. Viv Busby was
Two-goal Adam Arthur helped carry York City Reserves to a 2-2 draw against Doncaster Rovers last night - but a late Matthew Coad penalty could have won it. The draw heralded a start for Kevin Donovan, who looked strong over 90 minutes after his return
THE king is dead, long live the king is an ermine-tinged maxim often applied to a new managerial appointment at a football club. Yet it cannot be used to describe yet another head-turning event at York City as they undergo another switch in management
YORK city centre will lack two major festive treats this Christmas - a Santa's grotto and an ice skating rink. But it should boast the best-ever St Nicholas Fayre, with extra stalls in the Coppergate Centre square for the first time. A grotto was set
SANDRA Bruce, with 21 darts, and a match-winning pairs by Tracey Bruce-Wendy Shortle gave Independent a 5-4 victory over Blacksmiths Arms in York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one. Angie Hields (two 100s for 22) helped steer Cueball to a 6
BATTLING City of York men's hockey first team tamed leaders Brooklands MU II by twice coming from behind to draw 2-2. The visitors, the top side in the Northern Hockey League premier division, were annoyed by several decisions they felt went against them
CONTROVERSIAL proposals to hold polls on "home rule" in Yorkshire have finally been killed off by a disconsolate John Prescott. In a statement to MPs, the Deputy Prime Minister abandoned the postponed polls in Yorkshire and the North West after last week's
A YOUNG woman died and two people were injured in a car crash in North Yorkshire last night. The two-vehicle crash happened on the A170, between Wilton and Thornton-le-Dale, near Pickering. A North Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed a woman in her early
RELAXED and happy in the warm sunshine, these York pilgrims are pictured here enjoying a visit to historic ruins during a pilgrimage to Jordan. But within days the group was plunged into a terrifying nightmare when their tour bus crashed, killing nine
Two's company and three's a crowd, but is one fun? JO HAYWOOD investigates the highs and lows of the single life. IT'S all very well being on your Bridget Jones (alone - geddit?) if you're Renee Zellweger, but what if you're just an ordinary mortal without
THANK goodness they're over. Hallowe'en and bonfire night. They're not like they used to be, when children expected no more than a toffee apple and a Catherine wheel. Now its expense all the way, with outfits, parties and - if they get their own way -
ASK Kia if size matters and the answer is most definitely "Yes!". That is, especially when it refers to their latest model, the new-look Sportage, which is designed to provide an a la carte approach to motoring. At the European unveiling of the new edition
YORK City Knights head coach Mick Cook has spoken of his delight at the return to the club of former boss Paul Broadbent. The former Great Britain international prop will further enhance the impressive-looking coaching set-up at Huntington Stadium, taking
IF the noise made by the fireworks in York had been caused in any other way the people responsible would be prosecuted for creating a statutory nuisance and fined £5,000 or sent to prison. Why the special dispensation for fireworks? Mrs E Roberts, Queen
THE thunderous devices which now pass for fireworks can partially, and sometimes totally, deafen babies and young children, as there is no way of protecting them from the auditory onslaught, even if they are kept indoors. The low frequencies emitted by
FURTHER to your article on the recommendations of the Independent Pay Review Panel for councillor allowances (October 30), I note with interest that both local and national government have set precedents in honouring in full pay review body findings.
I AM no great fan of Michael Moore and I do feel a certain degree of schadenfreude in seeing him look a little less self-satisfied, I cannot say that I entirely share Stephen Dalby's jubilant tone, (or should that be jubilant "Tone"?), at the re-election
I RECKON that every guest at a wedding should be given a badge so they can proudly proclaim which side they are on before the fighting starts. I don't mean the old-fashioned tradition in church of sitting on the left if you know the bride, or on the right
FINALISED your Christmas menu yet? If not, you are way behind prison catering. The lags at Full Sutton jail near York are all sorted. That's if my anonymous source is to be believed. He or she has enclosed what looks very much like the prison's festive
YORK City's players should shoulder most of the blame for the sacking of manager Chris Brass reckons skipper Darren Dunning. The midfielder said: "I think we as players let him down." Brass was yesterday relieved of his managerial duties in the wake of
YORK City Supporters' Trust, the body that owns and controls the football club, has made a brief statement following Chris Brass' sacking as manager. Trust Chairman Richard Snowball said: "So far this season, the team's results have been a disappointment
WHEN you produce mushrooms, it's worth playing it by the book. You've heard of book worms, so how about book mushrooms? Edible gourmet fungi can thrive on old books, turning them into compost and solving the problem of phone directories clogging up wastefill
Paul Hanagan, who ended the Flat turf season at Doncaster on Saturday with a 16-1 winner, started the all-weather winter campaign with a 14-1 success at Wolverhampton yesterday. The Malton jockey, gunning for his maiden century of winners and now just
YORK MP Hugh Bayley dropped into the city's ambulance HQ - and praised staff for an improved performance. Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service (TENYAS) this year received a one-star rating after a poor zero-star showing the previous year.
SWIMMERS are facing "betrayal" over the community pool being proposed to replace York's Barbican Baths, a senior Labour councillor claimed today. Coun Alan Jones said residents could end up with a smaller pool than the one which closed down earlier this
YORK should set up an official site to allow travellers to come and go as they wish, a leading city travellers' spokeswoman said today. Christine Shepherd, of the York Travellers' Trust, said a "transient" site in the city would help to solve some of
A teenage street mugger has been jailed for 27 months after he targeted University of York students in drink-fuelled attacks. Luke Stratton was nearly glassed with a beer bottle and had his face punched before he could escape from Daniel John Kelly, 18
WANTED: one much-loved pygmy goat who has taken hoof from his home at a York agricultural college. Pint-sized pet Naughty Boy has lived up to his troublesome reputation by slipping out of Askham Bryan College. The black and white animal has not been seen
SPORTS clubs in York area could be left substantially out of pocket if a planned hike in alcohol licensing fees goes ahead. New rules relating to the way alcohol is sold across the country are due to be introduced in April next year when the 11pm standard
A MAJOR row has erupted after York's long-awaited sixth Park&Ride hit further delays. Opposition Labour councillors said two years of hold-ups were "expensive and unnecessary" - and had put funding in serious jeopardy. But Liberal Democrats said the
YORK City Knights head coach Mick Cook has spoken of his delight at the return to the club of former boss Paul Broadbent. The former Great Britain international prop will further enhance the impressive-looking coaching set-up at Huntington Stadium, taking
YORK City's players should shoulder most of the blame for the sacking of manager Chris Brass reckons skipper Darren Dunning. The midfielder said: "I think we as players let him down." Brass was yesterday relieved of his managerial duties in the wake of
