FORMER York City youth-team goalkeeper Nick Culkin has been forced to retire at the age of 26 because of a knee injury. Culkin, who has been sidelined at Queen's Park Rangers all season, last played a league game in March 2004 and only made 25 appearances
WESTMINSTER hopefuls vying for one of the country's tightest seats are gearing up for a grilling in York. Students from the University of York will get the chance to quiz candidates standing in Selby on key campus issues like top-up fees. Despite sitting
WE don't get much time to sit and watch other sports too much, but I have respect for most of them. At Leeds Rhinos we have links with Leeds United FC, with the idea of sharing facilities and aspects of coaching and swapping development ideas. There are
A POSTER competition aimed at keeping youngsters off building sites is being launched in York primary schools. The National Federation of Builders (NFB) Stay Safe... Stay Away poster competition wants to raise youngsters' awareness of the dangers in and
THE full line-up for Finals Day of the York Primary Schools Tag Rugby League Festival, to be held on Saturday at Huntington School, is now known after four teams made it through the last two heats. Riccall and Copmanthorpe qualified from heat four, while
ALL Saints School missed out on reaching the Northern final of the Coca-Cola English Schools U13s Cup by the narrowest of margins as they lost 2-1 to Conyers School from Yarm. The York team dominated the early stages with a pass-and-move mentality that
ALL her years as a dancer and her training in photography at York College has paid off for Mimika Cooney who opened an image business last April. South African born-Mimika who lives in Rainsborough Way, York, has won two national photographic awards.
IN response to your report about wheelchair access around York (April 25), I am a paraplegic and full-time wheelchair user. It makes me seethe to read comments from business such as "the firm planned to start making the shop Disability Discrimination
I congratulate the Evening Press on yet another fine article highlighting the lack of access to shops and services in York. It isn't only wheelchair users who face disabling barriers, however; these barriers are not always physical, we also face them
WHILE applauding the actions of City of York Council and the Department for Works and Pensions in bringing to court a York woman who had defrauded the benefits system of £8,000 (Evening Press, April 22), the sentence of a 12 months conditional discharge
WITH a mixture of despair and amusement, I read your article on policing at the G8. I refer specifically to the following: "Many fear the summit and parade could be hijacked by extreme anti-capitalist demonstrators intent on wreaking havoc" (April 22)
I WAS pleased to see my Green opponent has been so worried by Lib Dem campaigning in his ward he has chosen to write to the Evening Press to complain, illogically, we are somehow only campaigning hard in other seats. He tries to dispute the figures in
THE Parliamentary Conservative candidate Clive Booth has, so far, thought it appropriate to criticise MP Hugh Bayley mostly in a personal and petty manner. His latest effort, a video is, pathetically, in the same style, the commentary beginning with:
YOU ask 'What happened to York Market?" (April 22)... probably the reason for the drop in sales and customers is down to the fact it is a seven days a week, 52 weeks a year market and nearly always has same goods on display. Unlike the past, we don't
A SUPERB display of pellet fishing saw Mick Addinall (Spectrum Auto Services) blitz the latest Bob-Co Tackle-backed event at Carpvale on Sunday. Drawn on peg 28 on the Match Lake the York-based rod opted to target the bream that have been showing in pegs
QUEUE-BUSTING plans to ease bottleneck blues at a key junction on York's busy outer ring road were unveiled today. A £500,000 scheme to add a new left lane linking Strensall Road North to the A1237, alongside minor changes to existing approaches and exits
A YORK teenager who beat up his girlfriend so badly she suffered a collapsed lung is to be put behind bars, York Crown Court heard. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Even ing Press, Barry Robert Pickard, 19, pleaded guilty to causing grievous
ARISTOCRAT the Hon Simon Howard - owner of the famous Castle Howard estate, near Malton - has forcefully denied rumours that he is splitting from his second wife. The millionaire personally rang the Evening Press to scotch rumours circulating locally
KNAVESMIRE Harriers men's and ladies teams moved up Yorkshire Veterans' Grand Prix series table after a good turn out at Meltham. The men are currently top of the all-to-count standings and the Knavesmire women are fourth. Barry Atkinson was the first
TEENAGE goalkeeper David Stockdale and winger Bryan Stewart have been offered first-year professional terms to stay at KitKat Crescent. Left-sided defender Stephen Baynes, who was the youth coaches' Player of the Year this season, has also been handed
RYEDALE Indoor Bowls Club's Margaret Roberts celebrated becoming a world champion at the weekend and then dedicated her triumph to late sister Pam Bayes, who should have been competing in the event. Roberts and fellow Ryedale member Mark Walton became
SINCE Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing last passed this way in June, 2003, Shameless has shaken a tail feather at northern grime. Pilot Theatre director Marcus Romer has duly seen fit to ask Harvey if he would object to his urban fairytale being relocated
THIS all started with a dream, explains Jez Colborne, to ride across America on a bike. "I'm not the first person to want to do it, but I may be the first to get the Arts Council to pay for it," he says. In October last year, Colborne rode pillion with
NESTLE Rowntree RUFC lost 14-10 at Pocklington Merovingians in their final game of ther season. Merovingians caught 'Trees cold when one of their three talented 17-year-olds, centre Brad Bold, stripped the ball and raced 50 metres for a try converted
A "STEALTH tax" and "obscene" - that's what furious protesters branded the astonishing £20,000 a day raked in by City of York Council from parking charges and tickets. The Evening Press used new Freedom of Information laws to discover the huge amounts
SEE that ever-expanding mountain of remote controls? You know, that pile that's threatening to snap your coffee-table as it gradually takes over your life? There's the remote for your TV, the one for your VCR, the one for your DVD player and,, possibly
I AM utterly disgusted at the treatment of Paul Stancliffe by the board at York City. The reasons given for his departure are pathetic. Are the board living in the real world? Telling a person he must be based in York when he only lives less than one
I WOULD for the last time like to dig deep and hire an opened-top bus for York City's players to parade round the streets of York so that the fans can show their appreciation for their efforts. The only clause to this kind gesture is that the driver has
TONY Kelly (TKO, Evening Press, Tuesday, April 19) implies criticism of Paula Radcliffe taking a pee in the street. Don't criticise anyone until you have walked a mile in their shoes -- in this case run a good few. Given this unlikely case, what would
DON'T forget to send in your votes for the York City Knights Player of the Month for April. Whoever tops the poll wins the award, while everyone who votes could win two free tickets to a Knights home match plus the chance to present the player with his
TEENAGE goalkeeper David Stockdale and winger Bryan Stewart have been offered first-year professional terms to stay at KitKat Crescent. Left-sided defender Stephen Baynes, who was the youth coaches' Player of the Year this season, has also been handed
YORK Acorn ARLC will be keeping a close eye on the result of tonight's vital National Conference League division two clash between Crosfields and Waterhead. Victory for Waterhead would lift them into third place, knocking Acorn out of the promotion places
It's a family affair for the Liberal Democrats. First party leader Charles Kennedy celebrated becoming a father, now York's Liberal Democrat election candidate Andrew Waller has celebrated welcoming a new addition to the family fold. Mr Waller took time
Selby: The largest working coalfield in Britain is no more. At its peak, the Selby coalfield employed 3,500 miners and could produce 12 million tonnes of coal a year. That all came to an end when Riccall Mine, the last of the Selby pits to produce coal
GETTING teenagers interested in politics might on the face of it seem a tall order, but not at Canon Lee School, in York, where youngsters are experiencing democracy first-hand with their very own mock election. Over the coming weeks, while the main political
MATHS-MAD youngsters from a York secondary school are celebrating the sum total of their success. Congratulations go to about 100 Millthorpe School pupils who have just surpassed all previous records in a national mathematics contest. This year a record
LADY Lumley's School, Pickering's Under-19 basketball team ended up third in the national finals despite beating the trophy winners, writes Hugh MacDougall. Because of complications earlier in the tournament the finals at Nottingham involved three teams
York-based jockey Robert Winston, who rides in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday, can prove himself in good form ahead of his Classic bid by scoring at Redcar tomorrow. He teams-up with Mecca's Mate, and this recent Musselburgh winner is napped
A £2 MILLION investment has been made in an edge-of-science York company, whose research is helping to speed up drug development. Xceleron Ltd, a University of York spin-out venture in the Biocentre at York Science Park, has received the backing from
TAKE a bow, Inturf. Your moment in the spotlight has come. The Wilberfoss turf firm is taking its grass to the stage - at the Buxton Opera House in Derbyshire. On-stage greenery is being prepared for Alan Ayckbourn's play Body Language, which will be
EMMA Smedley, 26, has been appointed the new product development manager for Pocklington-based Sundora Foods, the dried fruit snacks firm. Already she has signalled her intent to capitalise on the boom in healthy eating when it comes to future product
I READ your article about adequate access for the many people who depend on wheelchairs with great interest. In Haxby and Wigginton we have many access violations by cars parking on the footpaths and blocking wheelchair and baby buggy users. I have seen
WHY am I, a founder member of the Liberal Democrat party, voting in Selby on May 5 for Labour MP John Grogan? I have two very logical reasons. The first is the man himself. He has been a very good constituency MP. That is not just my opinion. People of
ON the few "market awareness" days last year that we were allowed back on to Parliament Street my takings increased. This tells me that it's the number of people who pass my stall that counts as much as the type of goods I am selling. Unfortunately, when
A LEGAL battle over the future of York's Barbican Centre will go to the High Court in London in June. A judge will decide whether or not to allow a full judicial review of City of York Council's decision to grant planning permission for the redevelopment
A PIONEER in the treatment of children's diseases who created the earliest premature baby cot in York has died, aged 95. When Dr Walter Henderson came to York the children department services were divided between separate wards at the city and county
SUPPORTERS of convicted Yvonne Sleightholme fear the historic release of another woman jailed for murder will not help her case. Susan May made legal history at Askham Grange Prison yesterday when she was released at her earliest parole date despite maintaining
PUB operator Wetherspoon was applying for permission to keep its giant Postern Gate pub in York's Piccadilly open until 2am. It also wanted permission to open the pub as late as 3am on occasions such as Burns Night, Australia Day and patron saints days
CONFIDENT contestants strutted their stuff before judges in an effort to reach the shortlist for the MS York 2005 competition. More than 40 girls paraded in front of the Miss England talent scouts and had their photographs taken at Next Generation Club
HUNDREDS of letters and parcels heading for homes in York have been stolen in two separate thefts in the city - raising questions about the security of mail drop-off points. Royal Mail workers are still sorting through damaged items recovered from the
A "STEALTH tax" and "obscene" - that's what furious protesters branded the astonishing £20,000 a day raked in by City of York Council from parking charges and tickets. The Evening Press used new Freedom of Information laws to discover the huge amounts
MANY have complained that York is anti-motorist. Today we know it is precisely the opposite. York depends on motorists. Without their massive financial contribution, the "pedestrian" city would go bust. Parking charges brought in £7.5 million in 2004/
THE beauty pageant is back, with a fresh new look. Bikinis and stilettos are out, but a commitment to have fun and help a good cause is in. The first contestants in the MS York event are different to their counterparts in contests of yesteryear. A future
Selby Town have dramatically handed the Northern Counties East League premier division title initiative to bitter rivals Goole after slipping up 2-1 at Sheffield. A draw for the Robins last night would have eliminated Harrogate Railway from promotion
THE day before the 6-0 defeat at Carlisle, Billy McEwan was confident of soon filling City's KitKat Crescent. The following day, he was considering his future. That's a disturbing 48 hour about-turn. As fans we are only too well aware the playing staff
NOW here's an explosive electoral exchange. The man who came close to destroying Parliament has been corresponding with the man who hopes to return there. Guy Fawkes and Hugh Bayley have been in touch via email, the Diary has learned. Guy, also known
