Thursday, December 2, 2004 100 years ago: Thumbprint-collecting was proving a "most interesting" hobby and a pleasant rival to stamp-collecting, and an album, appropriately entitled "Thumb-o-graphs," was admirably suited to the purpose. Fitted to the
THE name of the awards says it all - and the winners truly are the pride of our community. Last night's York Community Pride ceremony at York Racecourse celebrated the unsung heroes who quietly and unobtrusively dedicate themselves to working for other
IT seems council leader Steve Galloway has been right all along. Despite a massive campaign, petitions and marches, it appears our younger generation just don't like York's Barbican. The home of the UK Snooker Championship has been branded as one of York's
FIVE down, 32 to go, York Shakespeare Project's 20-year plan to bash out all the Bard's plays continues to be too much of a private pleasure. Last night's house was worryingly small, which must be demoralising for this labour of love. Maybe the decision
CITY OF YORK COUNCIL was today accused of wasting almost £1million through overpayment, mismanagement and lost Government grants after the publication of a damning report into its benefits service. The Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (BFI), which visited the
YORK Acorn embark on a run of three consecutive league games away from home on Saturday, with boss Dave Kay fully aware of their importance. The Blue and Golds firstly visit Ovenden, then come Waterhead and, in the first game back after new year, current
HEWORTH ARLC co-coach Kev Fellows is to leave Elm-park Way to take charge of National Conference League rivals Featherstone Lions. The former Selby Warriors boss will thus leave a team at the bottom of division two for a team at the foot of division one
NEW Earswick All Blacks will look to kill games off better from now on in the wake of last week's late agony against Newsome Panthers. The All Blacks led 22-8 with 12 minutes left but lost 25-22, and training this week has concentrated on doing the basics
YORK can now boast two more junior rugby league internationals after starlets Chris Peace and David Leeke were selected for the Great Britain Under-15s squad. As reported by the Evening Press last month, the Minster city's Danny Allan won selection to
THE site for a new sports stadium in York is currently being discussed with the council and I must admit that the thought of leaving Bootham Crescent fills me with mixed feelings. Obviously, I spent five years here as a coach and player and it's a smashing
THESE ordinary men and women are York's finest community heroes. Now, for the first time, their extraordinary work has been celebrated at a glittering York Community Pride ceremony. The awards are a new venture by the Evening Press and City of York Council
A random noun-generating machine may have inspired the odd title, but there are plenty more surprises on this debut all-star solo. Unlike most of No Doubt's leaden back catalogue, it's good. Quickfire rap, killer disco and bubblegum pop prove heart-warmingly
Once again we see the wheels of the Government spin machine set in motion, this time to try and save face for another member of the Blair government. There is no doubt that the outcome will be another whitewash but will they remember that the person who
Councillor Alan Jones is apparently very concerned about swimming provision, and believes that citizens should be listened to when they exercise their democratic right to challenge local authority decisions (Letters, November 29). It is a pity that Coun
FINALLY a landlord in this area has the guts to ban smoking (Stub it out, November 30). I visited three pubs in York last Saturday (something I only do on the rare occasion because of smoke fumes). The air quality in all three establishments was horrendous
We already have restricted parking in the vicinity of the public bowling greens. There are plans to reduce the parking even further at Clarence Gardens and the proposed residents parking scheme in the Scarcroft Road area (Evening Press November 25) will
I HAVE seen on television that hunting foxes will still take place regardless of banning it. People who hunt say the countryside is too vast to police, so they will carry on hunting foxes. I hope our Government will use methods like Mrs Thatcher used
YKSoul would like to thank all those who attended the charity soul night at St John's York on Saturday, November 27. This event, with all proceeds going to the Cystic Fibrosis charity, raised over £2,000. A fantastic night of soul music was enjoyed by
HOPES are growing that Santa Claus will be coming to town next year, in a bigger and better grotto. A new Christmas committee, involving leading businessmen and council officers, has been formed to examine how York city centre might mark the festive season
AN ANIMAL-loving husband and wife are hoping to reunite a lost cat with its owner in time for Christmas. James and Liz Wattrus, of Main Street, Amotherby, near Malton, are members of the Cats Protection charity and have fostered around 250 cats and kittens
A YORK alleyway which has become a magnet for vehicle crime could soon be shut by council chiefs. Councillors attending a planning and transport meeting at City of York Council on December 9 will be asked to consider closing the right of way at the back
JOHN OSTER is delighted that his spell on loan from Sunderland to Leeds United has been extended by a month. The 25-year-old winger has played five games since arriving at Elland Road and was due to complete his month's loan against Leicester City this
YORK tennis ace John Linfoot has won his own sporting 'Oscar'. The man who once played against Hollywood movie legend Charlton Heston in York was honoured with his own award. He received the 'Service To Sport Award', handed out by the York and District
WATER bills in Yorkshire are to soar over the next five years by 18 per cent - before inflation. The price hike - higher than was originally being proposed in the summer, but lower than Yorkshire Water had wanted - will see the average bill leap from
YORK City striker Paul Robinson has recovered from a hamstring injury and will be available for Tuesday night's home clash with Halifax, writes Dave Flett. Robinson has missed City's last four matches but has trained all week and is fit enough to face
New train operating company Northern Rail will sponsor rugby league's prestigious National League Cup competition in 2005. The York-based company, who have taken over the rail travel franchises previously held by Arriva Trains Northern and First North
THESE ordinary men and women are York's finest community heroes. Now, for the first time, their extraordinary work has been celebrated at a glittering York Community Pride ceremony. The awards are a new venture by the Evening Press and City of York Council
BRAVE Rosy Garnett has been praised by Tony Blair for standing up to a "neighbour from hell". The Prime Minister paid tribute to the York mother of four during his weekly question time for helping to make her street a better place. Rosy, from Bramham
Castle Howard is seeking to recruit Catering Assistants (full and part time) for the new Farm Shop Cafe. Flexibility, commitment and a positive attitude are essential. Contact Dwayne Kettlewell on 01653 648633 for an application pack and further details
Forward+Thompson require the following skilled people: Mechanical Fitters. We are offering good pay rates plus overtime. Please send your cv to: Forward+Thompson, Atlas Road, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4UR. Tel. 01904 690999. Email: Martin@forward-group.com
Full time Catering, Bar Staff and Store person required at York Station. Hours from 5am-11.30pm. Tel. 01904 635751. Updated: 14:06 Thursday, December 02, 2004
AS THE Key Stage Two results for primary schools are released, accolades are due all round. And no school is more deserving of praise than Tang Hall Primary, which is numbered among the top 50 most improved primary schools in the entire country. Head
YORK Rugby Union Club were just squeezed out of the frame by visiting Cleckheaton in a tense tussle between the two top sides in the Under-17 Yorkshire League. Both teams went into the fixture unbeaten so far this season, so something had to give. But
YORK City striker Paul Robinson has recovered from a hamstring injury and will be available for Tuesday night's home clash with Halifax, writes Dave Flett. Robinson has missed City's last four matches but has trained all week and is fit enough to face
AN engineering company aims to triple its growth following rebranding and a move to new £300,000 premises in North Yorkshire. Atkinson Precision Ltd has relocated from Leeds to a purpose-built factory at Sherburn-in-Elmet, after receiving help and advice
A £6.4 million "cash boost" for Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency, announced by Industry & Regions Minister Jacqui Smith, turns out not to be the extra bonanza it was made out to be. The money for schemes to benefit the region was
ONE of the largest regeneration and development projects in the north-east of England is under way, thanks to the backing of a Pocklington company. Property development and investment firm The Helmsley Group, which is behind the Monks Cross North business
TRICKY things, opinions. Most people have them, rattling about their skull. But put them in public, or indeed in print, and rotten vegetables may come sailing your way. A long time ago, before I wrote this column, opinion used to be a worry. Doubt beset
MOSTLY AUTUMN are York's biggest music act - thanks to a strong following on the Continent, where progressive rock still pulls in the crowds. Their stage show last night was impressive, with its sophisticated lighting and a kaleidoscope of images projected
PUPILS and staff at Tang Hall Primary School in York were today celebrating their "amazing" results in new Government league tables. The statistics released today placed the school in the top 50 most improved primary schools in the entire country, based
Brendan Powell, whose long and successful career as a jump jockey included a win in the Scottish Grand National on Young Kenny, trained at Brandsby by Peter Beaumont, is now enjoying the fruits of his second career. Powell is fast making a name for himself
That manual title, How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb, may suggest a return to U2 at their posturing, world-preaching worst but not so. The album, their 11th studio set since 1980's Boy, was recorded over two years in a Dublin dockside street and it is the
Trouble sleeping? Forget Mogadon. All you need is a copy of Russell Watson's bland new offering, and you'll be guaranteed a deep and dreamless sleep. Watson styles himself as the English Andrea Bocelli. But don't worry, Andrea, he's just kidding himself
When I leave Westlife, I want to be the next Robbie Williams, or so wished a frustrated Bryan... whoops, Brian McFadden. Bryan dropped the Y and concentrated on the I to become a facsimile of the cheeky ex Take That dancer. What came next? Perhaps grow
IN the eternal rock v pop battle, Girls Aloud strike a killer blow for the pop camp. Thanks to the genius of production team Xenomania, the cheeky chav queens have assembled a fine selection of three-and-a-half minute electro-pop songs with appeal to
THIS is "A Short History Of The Willard Grant Conspiracy", as the album subtitle announces. That short history - 80 minutes is short?! - is not a greatest hits collection, because these forefathers of Americana hit the soul rather than the charts. The
ON reading Mike Bentley's article entitled 'We can't all be Posh and Becks' (Saturday, November 27) I found some of his comments offensive. Many teenagers I know are hardworking. We are working to our potential with a variety of ambitions; not, as Mike
I WRITE in relation to the revenue-raising scheme otherwise known as ResPark (November 25). As a resident involved in the ballot who voted against, I am very disappointed that these traffic regulations are going to be introduced in my area. If this were
Home Secretary David Blunkett should get a life and stop interfering with ours through his increasingly repressive diktats. Accusations of favouritism notwithstanding, we are given to understand that his recent lost love may have been his only love to-date
Several recent letters have shown two sides of the Christian religion. Readers T. Taylor, J. Diatta and A. Frodsham reflect the humourless, dogmatic, fear-inducing aspect. They want York Dungeon to abandon its Satan's Grotto feature, claiming lasting
ONE is tempted to ask Mr Cole (Too Out of Touch, Thursday November 25) to tell us - did he get where he is today "without putting in the necessary effort or having natural abilities?" When he overlooks the most important words and meaning at the end of
Further to Mr Parker's letter ('Not the Minster', November 29), the residents' parking pass actually depicts Bootham Bar, not Micklegate. The pass was originally described as the residents' parking pass, but became known colloquially as the Minster badge
LADIES and gentlemen done up like "doggies" dinners, with immaculate make-up and coiffure to outdo one's contemporaries and mounted on fine equestrian stock, are supposed to be the epitome of country life come a sharp Saturday morning but ..... should
PLEASE put me on the list to demand that Yorkshire's local television programmes such as Dales Diary and Soapbox stay on the box. Patricia Ford, The Fairway, Tadcaster. Updated: 08:49 Thursday, December 02, 2004
I would like to thank Bob and Joy Jones (Letters, November 29) for publicising the benefits of nature reserves such as Clifton Backies and Wheatlands that are free to the public. It is only through the support and hard work of members that these areas
A YORK MAN will spend New Year's Eve and the rest of the festive season confined to his home under a nightly curfew because he glassed a disc jockey in a city nightclub. Deputy district judge Andrew Pascoe told Morien Gavin Evans he should spend his evenings
A NORTH Yorkshire landlord is "delighted" after almost three-quarters of Evening Press readers who took part in a poll supported a smoking ban at his pub. We asked readers to phone in with their views, after the Blue Bell Country Inn, at Alne, near Easingwold
PUPILS and staff at Tang Hall Primary School in York were today celebrating their "amazing" results in new Government league tables. The statistics released today placed the school in the top 50 most improved primary schools in the entire country, based
HUNDREDS of freezing York residents today woke to their fourth day without heat. Gas supplier Transco said power was restored last night to about 40 homes in Salisbury Terrace, Leeman Road - leaving homeowners in about 260 properties in the area still
REGULAR charity and fun runners could find themselves priced out of next year's BUPA Great North Run after the introduction of a controversial new membership and ballot system. The scheme also discriminates heavily against anybody who was unable to compete
Clifton St Annes Personal Care Services Ltd, St Johns house, Kirk Hammerton, York. An established family company seeks a Manager for a 36 bedded residential care home for elderly people. A unique opportunity exists to participate in the further development
Bright & cheerful part time receptionist required for busy veterinary practice. Hours: Monday-Friday 3.15pm-6.15pm and alternate Saturdays 9am-1pm. Experience preferred. A working knowledge of computers is essential and some knowledge of farming would
Forward+Thompson require the following skilled people: Mechanical Fitters. We are offering good pay rates plus overtime. Please send your cv to: Forward+Thompson, Atlas Road, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4UR. Tel. 01904 690999. Email: Martin@forward-group.com
Audit Clerk required for York Accountancy practice. Salary according to hours and experience. Please send full CV to: post@morrell-middleton.co.uk or to 3 Cayley Court, George Cayley Drive, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4WH. Updated: 14:05 Thursday, December
New train operating company Northern Rail will sponsor rugby league's prestigious National League Cup competition in 2005. The York-based company, who have taken over the rail travel franchises previously held by Arriva Trains Northern and First North
