FAN power has persuaded Billy McEwan to continue as York City manager. McEwan has committed his long-term future to the Minstermen after meeting the board and, while stressing that the job still represented a tough challenge, he admitted that the club's
HEWORTH ARLC 'A' team lost 28-20 at Elmpark Way to the touring Royal Armoured Corps representative side. The game, which was entertaining and well-contested despite the awful conditions, saw Heworth open strongly only to trail 16-4 at the break, their
ELECTION candidates were put under the spotlight during a crunch meeting at the venue that could decide one of the country's tightest seats. During the 2001 General Election campaign, Labour candidate for Selby John Grogan was pelted with eggs and flour
By next Thursday, voters will have to decide who to choose. Here we look at the election issues that dominate in York. HARD to believe now, after three successive comfortable victories for Labour's Hugh Bayley, but until 1992 York was a Conservative marginal
My Paris for the Thirsk Hunt Cup and Iceman for the 2,000 Guineas - that's my assessement on the main attractions locally and nationally tomorrow. Trained at Hambleton by Kevin Ryan, who has his horses in flying form, My Paris, a prolific winner last
FOR hundreds of waiters, hairdressers and hotel staff in cities like York which have a strong service sector, here's a tip on tips: Relaxed tax laws now say that you can keep more of those gratuities. Most of staff who receive tips should benefit from
ARTIST Kerry Regan, Shepherd Construction's site administrator at the Defra laboratory project, near Weybridge, Surrey, has been invited to develop ideas to decorate the company's board room and social area in York. The invitation came from Shepherd Construction's
A TRIO of Yorkshire food and drink specialists, Shepherds Purse cheeses, Playford Ros wine merchants and Masham's Black Sheep Brewery, are joining forces to launch the first Taste Of Yorkshire workshop. The workshop, on the Thursday, June 23, at 7pm,
ON his first solo international tour, American pianist Danny Holt sparks the University of York's Spring Festival of New Music into life on Tuesday with his vibrant showcase Fast Jump. At 1.30pm, in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, he will be playing
PETER Gabriel's defining act in Genesis was The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, one of those Seventies' concept albums that punk rock soon spat at. Thirty years on from the notorious tour in support of that grandiose epic, The Musical Box pay tribute to Genesis's
DON'T let the busy week of jazz ahead let you forget the big one in York a week today at the National Centre for Early Music. Two legends of British jazz, Peter King and Stan Tracey, play a not-to-be-missed concert. Call before it's too late on 01904
THE highly negative messages presented in your article about Newgate Market were very disappointing (April 22). It is a fact that markets nationally are finding trading difficult, not least as a result of changing retail patterns. Retail performance generally
HOW sad it was to read of the death of Dr Walter Henderson (April 27). I worked on the premature baby unit at Fulford Maternity Hospital in the Sixties with Sister Nell Sawyer, and Dr Henderson was a favourite doctor on the unit. I remember one time when
I HAVE seen York's Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando! Last night we were treated to what must be the most professional amateur production of Guys And Dolls ever performed in a local theatre. Opening nights are often a nervous affair. However, after months
IT was interesting to read the article about the access issues around the city centre (April 25). The main problem is pubs and restaurants. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of wheelchair accessible venues in the city centre. Many venues
AFTER reading your reports about the difficulties people in wheelchairs face gaining access to certain shops in York, I wish to raise a point that most able-bodied people take for granted. Having gained access to a shop people in wheelchairs have difficulty
A ROLLING Stone gathers no moss, not least because guitarist Ronnie Wood is busy painting when he is not bestriding the world with the veteran British rockers. In a rare opportunity to see his art in the north, Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley, is holding
CUSTOMERS at a York riverside pub could get the chance to drink outdoors if plans for a new terrace get the go-ahead. The owners of Yates Wine Lodge, Low Ousegate, have submitted proposals to City of York Council to refurbish the inside of the building
COUNCIL staff in York can breathe a sign of relief after a former council tenant revealed he was set to leave the area. Last August, the city's magistrates banned Sean William Schofield, 41, from harrassing anyone working for the local authority or North
YORK RI team swept to a 7-2 victory at Riverside in men's division one of the York Badminton League. Craig Dobson and Geoff Oxley took both home successes, but lost out 9 and 3 to Russell Binns and Craig Liversedge, who took three straight wins for a
YORK City Rowing Club's men's squad won three events at the Nottingham City Regatta at the National Watersports Centre. York's Men's Senior 2 coxed four of captain Dave Heffernan, Charlie Heise, Dan Beaumont and Andy Wilkinson, coxed by Helena Smalman-Smith
MARCUS Wood, York's captain, is well aware that this Bank Holiday weekend's Yorkshire ECB Premier League home double header is a tougher assignment than last weekend's successes. Clifton Park welcomes North Yorkshire rivals Scarborough tomorrow and Sheffield
MORE York residents are being given the chance to sample a taste of Royal Ascot after a ticket scheme was extended. Ascot has announced that badges for the Rails Enclosure at Royal Ascot at York can now be booked by households within a five-mile radius
UP TO 100 former Terry's employees could find temporary jobs at rival York confectioners Nestl Rowntree. Nestl Rowntree said today it had already taken on eight former Terry's workers full-time, with the possibility of between 50 and 100 people joining
UNDER-FIRE council chiefs today defended their policies on parking charges and tickets after an exclusive Evening Press investigation revealed it was raking in £20,000 a day. Coun Steve Galloway, City of York Council leader, said subsidised bus services
MARTIN Jenkins first performed in Stones In His Pockets in September 2001, and those stones continue to pile up. "It's almost four years now and I've really enjoyed it. I started at the Duke of York's and New Ambassadors, and this is my third national
ARTISTIC director Damian Cruden began rehearsals this week for York Theatre Royal's production of Hay Fever, Noel Coward's comedy of bad manners in the English country. The play's seeds were sown one unusual weekend in 1921 at the New York home of Broadway
Just A Quickie with... Sam Coulson, 14-year-old Acomb actor, who is playing a character maybe twice his age in Guys And Dolls at York Theatre Royal. In 2002 for YAOS Youth Theatre, you played businessman Fat Sam in Bugsy Malone, the musical where children
JUST as it is nonsense to protect children from being scared by Dr Who, so youth theatre is a chance for young performers to confront adult issues. Take next week's double bill by York Youth Theatre's 14-16 age group. Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation of Grimm
DOES your summer holiday mean scratching prickly heat with one hand and mozzie bites with the other? Holland & Barrett in York help us discover how Mother Nature could help treat those annoying holiday ailments. Travel sickness GINGER could help relieve
Suzuki has been tinkering with its 4x4 starter, but the price remains at under £10,000. MALCOLM BAYLIS checks out the changes. IT may be the entry-level model to Suzuki's extensive range of sports utilities, but the Jimny estate is seen as the perfect
THERE is supposed to be a move away from estate cars with the arrival of the compact people carriers, but BMW still places a great deal of faith in its Touring versions. Scheduled to make its debut here in September, the 3 Series Touring is said to be
"IF you can't say anything nice, don't bother saying anything at all," my mother used to bawl whenever, as kids, me and my brothers indulged in name-calling. So heaven knows what she would have have made of Michael Howard's election strategy. Pulling
FROM the bottom of the parenting scale to the highest peak. Rachel Baker is a supermum. As well as bringing up four children of her own, Mrs Baker has fostered 40 children during the past two decades. Now she looks after special needs children with health
DRINGHOUSES stayed on course for a clean sweep of Leeper Hare York and District Football League honours by lifting the Reserve Cup after a 3-1 victory over Copmanthorpe. Gary Briggs, Steve Cross and Gary Londesbrough were all on target as Dringhouses
WHERE are all the posters? During previous elections, countless York voters plastered placards all over the double glazing to show support for their favoured candidate. But there is hardly any window dressing this year. Except in that hotbed of politics
UP TO 100 former Terry's employees could find temporary jobs at rival York confectioners Nestl Rowntree. Nestl Rowntree said today it had already taken on eight former Terry's workers full-time, with the possibility of between 50 and 100 people joining
YORK City groundsman Jez Milner received a £2,000 cheque from the club's vice-presidents towards the sanding and re-seeding of the KitKat Crescent pitch this summer, writes Dave Flett. Manager Billy McEwan has placed great importance on producing a decent
A HEALTHY breakfast club was an early port of call for a General Election candidate. Hugh Bayley, Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for York, visited the Funfishers Club at Fishergate Primary School, York to sample what out-of-hours facilities
ABOUT a third of all youngsters caught skipping school in York were with their parents. The latest truancy figures from City of York Council show that out of the four anti-truancy sweeps conducted between September 2004 and January 2005, eight of the
RICKY is 19, cocksure, fresh out of a young offenders' unit, and determined to stay out of gun trouble. But once he returns to his east London manor, he is sucked again into the vortex of violent crime. Ricky is played by Ashley Walters, alias Asher D
Introducing... former So Solid Crew rapper Ashley Walters, aka Asher D, now making his film debut in Bullet Boy. Ashley Walters was serving time in prison for a gun offence when he heard about the script for Bullet Boy, Saul Bibb's street drama set amid
MARCUS Wood, York's captain, is well aware that this Bank Holiday weekend's Yorkshire ECB Premier League home double header is a tougher assignment than last weekend's successes. Clifton Park welcomes North Yorkshire rivals Scarborough tomorrow and Sheffield
HUNDREDS of Poles who have found work in North and East Yorkshire are desperate to fill in national insurance forms but do not have the necessary English. That is the claim of Dave Beech who, with Mariola Debowska, has launched Planet Language Services
WHITBY Creamery is to lay off 50 of its staff later this year. Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) announced the redundancies as part of its plans to restructure its Whitby Creamery by ending its own-label yoghurt manufacturing, and concentrating on milk and
POPULAR acoustic duo Steve Knightley and Phil Beer showed why they are one of the best live music acts around when their informal Upclose tour stopped off in East Yorkshire. They thrilled a capacity audience with their virtuosity on guitar, fiddle, mandolin
SHED Seven's lost songs from their aborted contract with Taste Music are back in their hands at last, newly released by the York band in a 1,000 print run available from their website and Track Records. Here singer Rick Witter gives a track-by-track guide
A DOG Named Hero complete the line-up for the second round of the Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands 2005 after their victory in Round One, Heat 12, this week. Battle resumes at Fibbers, in Stonebow, York, on May 11, when Cardboard Radio meet the
REGARDING late licence applications, as a customer of Wetherspoons I agree their pubs are well run but that is not the point. Any person with experience of city centre nightlife knows public nuisance, disorder and crime occur on the street after closing
I WRITE in response to David Bryant and the problems of York market (April 26). Mr Bryant suggests the market "is there to cater for the needs of local people buying everyday items". I should argue that this is exactly what the market fails to do. When
ON two successive Thursdays Julian Cole has given us the benefit of his wisdom on the immigration question. We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief because we have it from the horse's mouth, JC's, that immigration is "under control". On what information
IT has been interesting to compare the different methods of delivering electioneering material during the past few days. Hugh Bayley's pamphlets arrived with a personally addressed copy each for my wife and I; Andrew Waller's pamphlet was addressed to
I WRITE to correct misleading impressions which may have been gained from Ted Batty's letter ('John's my man', April 27). In this he suggests - as a "founder member of the Liberal Democrat Party" - electors should vote tactically in the General Election
I AM grateful to Mrs Thornton (Letters, April 23) for pointing out that my 'It's time for a change' video is being distributed to the voters in York whom, I believe, have yet to decide how to vote. This election is characterised by three types of response
SUPER York foster carer Rachel Baker has been down to Buckingham Palace to be made an MBE by the Queen. The 59-year-old mother-of-four, from Claxton, near York, said her whole family deserved the honour because it was their sacrifices and caring attitude
A HOUSEHOLDER tracked down the man who stole his fishing tackle and broke his nose. Chris Nicholson confronted Steven Paul Quinn on the raider's doorstep and demanded his property back. When Quinn denied being responsible for the shed break-in at Mr Nicholson's
A TRADITIONAL pub in a York residential area is seeking permission to stay open until as late as 1am as the licensing revolution gathers pace. The Swan in Bishopgate Street, Clementhorpe, also wants to extend its drinking-up time from 20 to 30 minutes
RESIDENTS were dismayed today after a controversial all-night train washing depot was given the go-ahead by York planners. The Leeman Road depot will operate seven nights a week, from 8pm to 5am. Trains will be washed and refuelled at the site, toilets
WIDOWS and other relatives of York Carriageworks asbestos victims attended a special memorial ceremony on the site where the factory once stood. Holgate Arch, in Holgate Road, York, was adorned last night with scores of blue and purple ribbons to mark
HOUNDS and Marcia go head to head on Sunday for the York John Smiths Sunday League division one title decider. The game was rearranged after the original match was abandoned because of torrential rain a fortnight ago with the score at 2-2 and recent games
FIVE people were taken to hospital after a rush-hour crash at a notorious North Yorkshire blackspot. Two cars collided head-on at Barton crossroads, on the A64, between York and Malton, last night. One man had to be cut free from the wreckage, and a 69
FAN power has persuaded Billy McEwan to continue as York City manager. McEwan has committed his long-term future to the Minstermen after meeting the board and, while stressing that the job still represented a tough challenge, he admitted that the club's
Former S Club 7 singer Jon Lee is starring in the world premiere tour of Love Shack. Here he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON why he's happy to consign his S Club days to the past. JON Lee turned 23 this Tuesday. Is he really only 23? He has packed plenty into
GILES Havergal is a master of the transfer from page to stage. In his library of adaptations stand Brighton Rock, Travels With My Aunt, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Death In Venice and David Copperfield, premiered in 2000 at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago
THE regular production team of producer/director Deborah Jones and musical director Richard Benson links up once more for Lionel Bart's Oliver!, next week's musical by Pickering Musical Society at the Kirk Theatre, Hungate, Pickering. Packed houses will
TURN left past the chickens, right past the rabbit hutch, watch out for the goldfish - then sit back and enjoy your facial. Down the garden might not be the traditional place for a health and beauty salon, but Joanne Maddison-Raynor would not have it
SUPPLEMENTS taken by thousands of people to reduce the risk of fractures may actually be ineffective, say York researchers. A study by the University of York into calcium and vitamin D supplements - which some older women rely on - has found no evidence
IT is sporty looks all round for SEAT's new Leon five-door hatch with the coup appearance. The new Leon's face is recognisable as a SEAT by its headlamps, strong bonnet lines and grille, with its central logo. From the side, the car's dynamic line can
CHILDREN used to skip school to rebel against authority. It was their way of defying teachers and parents - but if they were found out they were in real trouble. No more. Today a third of those York pupils caught out of school are with their mum or dad
HARROGATE Town have it all to play for in the match of the season at Wetherby Road tomorrow. They host league leaders Southport in a game that will be the biggest factor in who wins the title and who gets the final play-off spot. A point for Southport
Goole are in control of the Northern Counties East League premier division after beating Eccleshill United 2-0 last night to go top on goal difference. A win tomorrow against Long Eaton United will guarantee the championship and promotion, barring a ten-goal
Copmanthorpe under-12s overcame the odds and torrential rain to lift the Mitchell League Plate at KitKat Crescent on Tuesday. Joe Broughton drilled home the only goal of the final against York College five minutes before half time to end a difficult season
HOUNDS and Marcia go head to head on Sunday for the York John Smiths Sunday League division one title decider. The game was rearranged after the original match was abandoned because of torrential rain a fortnight ago with the score at 2-2 and recent games
