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  • Refreshing change

    FLIMSY frocks were out in force at Knavesmire, as the clouds parted to let the sun beat down on the racing calendar's most high profile and glamorous meeting. After a wet start to Royal Ascot at York, with Tuesday and Wednesday proving particularly dreary

  • Alan's proud of his roots

    GREEN-FINGERED TV star Alan Titchmarsh admitted he was blooming proud that York was hosting the world famous Royal meeting. Taking time out to speak to the Evening Press after lunch, in the Royal Enclosure, the Ground Force star also praised the quality

  • Celeb spotting

    TORY grandee and former shadow defence spokesman Nicholas Soames praised Royal Ascot as "wonderful". Mr Soames, who is the grandson of Winston Churchill, watched yesterday's races from the Royal Enclosure. "I think it has been fantastic," he said. "York

  • Balmount to celebrate Jubilee victory

    WITH the ground against big North Yorkshire hope Somnus, Balmont can steal the thunder on the final day of Royal Ascot at York tomorrow by carrying off the £250,000 Golden Jubilee Stakes. Trained by Jeremy Noseda, who has already had a winner at this

  • We might be back

    ROYAL ASCOT could yet be returning to Knavesmire if the Berkshire track is not ready in time for next year's event. Ascot chief executive Douglas Erskine-Crum has revealed that Royal Ascot at York has been such a success, the city would be "a front runner

  • In praise of good food...

    HUNGRY racegoers seeking sustenance during Royal Ascot will be able to drop in to church for some divine inspiration. St Edward the Confessor, in Dringhouses, is welcoming racegoers during the festival with a selection of bacon sandwiches, scones and

  • Wine showcase

    Wine enthusiasts will be descending on Harrogate next Saturday for the 12th Harrogate Wine Show. For a modest outlay you get the chance to sample wines from 20-plus exhibitors, including for the first time York-based independent vintners HC Wines. I've

  • The Picture She Took (Virago at £15.99)

    OLD photographs can be powerful things. So powerful that Fiona Shaw has managed to spin an entire book out of one. It's a simple enough photograph: a black and white image taken in a low-ceilinged cellar. Trestles support a stretcher, and on the stretcher

  • How folk lived

    Richard Foster steps back in time at Hutton-le-Hole. RYEDALE Folk Museum, in the picturesque village of Hutton-le-Hole, offers a grand day out for all the family. Its fascinating collection of buildings, machines and artefacts, set out on a three-and-a-half

  • Tykes aim to be Twentyriffic

    The purists won't be happy, but Yorkshire are now several days into a three-week break from Championship cricket and concentrating solely on the Twenty20 Cup in which they hope to make a much bigger impact this year. A long gap in the Championship programme

  • It all adds up to huge York feast

    £5M. That's what punters at Royal Ascot are spending on champagne alone. It must be the biggest feast that York has ever seen. Champagne, fine wines, smoked salmon and strawberries have been wolfed down in staggering quantities during the five-day Royal

  • On course for a party

    ROYAL Ascot's final act of 2005 was dubbed People's Saturday, as York racegoers flocked to Knavesmire to say farewell to a fantastic five days of racing. A crowd in excess of 50,000 was expected for today's last day of racing, with as many as 8,000 York

  • Crowd pleasers

    COULD the Friday crowd top the stakes during the Royal Procession? STEVE CARROLL decides they could. IT is becoming something of a home from home. The band struck up a familiar march, the path of the Ascot Landaus was starting to get a little worn. Her

  • Refreshing change

    FLIMSY frocks were out in force at Knavesmire, as the clouds parted to let the sun beat down on the racing calendar's most high profile and glamorous meeting. After a wet start to Royal Ascot at York, with Tuesday and Wednesday proving particularly dreary

  • Alan's proud of his roots

    GREEN-FINGERED TV star Alan Titchmarsh admitted he was blooming proud that York was hosting the world famous Royal meeting. Taking time out to speak to the Evening Press after lunch, in the Royal Enclosure, the Ground Force star also praised the quality

  • Man about town...

    TWENTY-FOUR hours late for Ladies Day, racegoer Marcus Curtis found his Ascot attire a real drag. He donned an eye-catching dress for Friday's meeting, and joked that he missed Ladies Day because he was "stuck in traffic". Marcus, 30, from South Shields

  • Archbishop of talk

    THE new Archbishop of York has vowed to throw open the doors of Bishopthorpe Palace to the people - and sometimes he might even cook for visitors! In his first interview since his appointment was announced, Bishop John Sentamu told the Evening Press that

  • The shape of bus travel to come

    A space-age street car, which is to become the face of public transport in York, wowed future users when it went on show in the heart of the city. As Royal Ascot punters, visitors and residents gathered in St Helen's Square, the "ftr" - a cross between

  • Driver hit two cars near home

    A DRUNK DRIVER who crashed into two parked cars spent 13 hours in a police cell before officers declared he was sober enough to be released, York magistrates heard. Louise Freeman, prosecuting, said Thomas Edward Kershaw, 27, was more than twice the legal

  • Dancers in clean sweep

    DUSTERS and mops come into their own in a performance of contemporary dance about housework. Spotless will be performed by four York dancers at the city's Castle Museum on Monday, at 4.30pm. It is a quirky contemporary dance piece which celebrates the

  • Eton boaters

    YORK City Rowing Club notched up several victories at the Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake, Eton, where the World Cup Rowing regatta had been held the previous week. The men's first eight of Will Todd (bow), George Scott, Andy Wilkinson, Joel Lancaster

  • Knights face title squeeze

    YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook reckons the exciting LHF National League Two title chase remains wide open with a host of teams still in the hunt. York top the table by two points from Dewsbury as the season heads into the half-way mark, but with three

  • Nine to pine for Dyson

    SIMON Dyson's US Open dream perished in nine crucial holes at Pinehurst. The North Yorkshire golf ace, making his American debut, fired a second round 78 - eight-over-par - to total 17-over for the two rounds and miss the half-way cut by nine shots. The

  • Battling York smited by irons of Sheffield

    YORK Union were cut to size by Sheffield steel in their first home Yorkshire Inter-District League fixture of the season, writes Max Benson. The tie, hosted by Scarthingwell GC, finished 27-9 in favour of Sheffield, whose ranks featured players on scratch

  • Buggy brush-off

    HAVING heard the Continental caf culture was thriving in York, my family and I went for a spot of lunch to the Tasting Room off Swinegate in York. Unfortunately, we were refused entry. No, not because of some Ascot week dress standard but the fact we

  • York's parking income up 80%

    INCOME from council parking charges in York has soared by a staggering 80 per cent in only six years, new figures show. Motorists handed over £6.74 million to City of York Council in parking fees and in fines for parking offences last year, compared with

  • I admire Tony

    LAUREN McCourt is perfectly entitled to her views about Tony Martin, the farmer who shot at two compulsive burglars who had consistently broken into his property and terrorised him (Letters, June 14), but she is wrong. We all have the right to defend

  • Maxi's, Ings Lane, Nether Poppleton, York

    Stephen Lewis revels in the authentic dishes served up at Maxi's restaurant in York. This may seem an odd thing to say. But the next time you go to Maxi's Chinese restaurant at Nether Poppleton, try asking for the Chinese menu. Maxi's has two menus. One

  • Crowd pleasers

    COULD the Friday crowd top the stakes during the Royal Procession? STEVE CARROLL decides they could. IT is becoming something of a home from home. The band struck up a familiar march, the path of the Ascot Landaus was starting to get a little worn. Her

  • Man about town...

    TWENTY-FOUR hours late for Ladies Day, racegoer Marcus Curtis found his Ascot attire a real drag. He donned an eye-catching dress for Friday's meeting, and joked that he missed Ladies Day because he was "stuck in traffic". Marcus, 30, from South Shields

  • Knavesmire attendance highest so far

    ROYAL Ascot at York was hailed as "outstanding" by the Duke of York after more than 50,000 racegoers created a modern-day record on Knavesmire. He spoke at a glittering reception held in the Mansion House to honour the achievements of the Evening Press

  • City traders on a losing streak

    GO HOME - and don't come back. That's the message to Royal Ascot from some of York's city centre shops and stalls. Many traders have been reporting "disastrous" sales so far, with takings down by as much as 50 per cent. One of the businesses suffering

  • Not all doom and gloom in York

    SOME traders in York have been breaking out bottles of champagne - 198 of them - to celebrate their success. Bars and restaurants have reported a roaring trade, with The Living Room, in Bridge Street, selling almost 200 bottles of bubbly on Tuesday and

  • The Tearoom, Westminster Arcade, Parliament Street, Harrogate

    HAVING been unsuccessful in visiting this venue on previous occasions, I discovered it opens Tuesday to Saturday from 8am to 4.30pm. Are there enough customers in Harrogate to justify such an early start? Judging by the breakfast menu there must be. Up

  • Giants of the border

    Verbascums are well known as tall yellow giants excellent for growing in dry soil at the back of the border. Verbascum bombyciferum, for example, will grow 1.8m/6ft tall or more with long spikes covered in soft yellow flowers rising from rosettes of large

  • Yes for Shastye - 18/06/05

    It's back to what we're used to tomorrow after the most spectacular five days of racing ever witnessed on Knavesmire - but don't despair. Pontefract is staging a typically competitive programme for their Sunday fare, highlighted by the £20,000 totesport.com

  • City Of The Sun by Sarah Bryant (Snow Books, £7.99)

    In a nightmare, post-holocaust Russia, a new dictator has arisen: Solntse, 'The Sun'. Amid the ruined cities left behind after a devastating nuclear war, he sets out to create a grim 'Utopia' based on the principles of Plato's republic. Humanity is divided

  • City missed Ascot boat

    As Royal Ascot romps home into the final furlong today there will be plenty of people asking what was all the fuss about? Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense

  • 148 injured

    Paramedics treated 148 people for injuries during Ladies Day at Royal Ascot, more than on any other day of the event so far. Of those, seven were taken to York Hospital for further treatment, on the third day of the races. Updated: 12:54 Saturday, June

  • York taxi drivers' buses anger

    ANGRY taxi drivers taking punters to Royal Ascot claimed they were being blocked in by buses. Alan Rowley, secretary of York Taxi Association, described the situation on the first day of Ascot as a "nightmare", with many taxi drivers not being able to

  • Council A64 alert anger

    BUSINESS owners reacted with anger to a council warning to motorists to avoid the A64 today. Traffic bosses urged anyone wishing to travel to the east coast to find an alternative route to avoid traffic making its way to and from the racecourse on the

  • Celeb spotting

    TORY grandee and former shadow defence spokesman Nicholas Soames praised Royal Ascot as "wonderful". Mr Soames, who is the grandson of Winston Churchill, watched yesterday's races from the Royal Enclosure. "I think it has been fantastic," he said. "York

  • Banned York driver was stopped behind wheel

    A banned driver thought he was legally allowed behind the wheel because he had served a prison sentence, York magistrates heard. But Steven Daniel Bailey's three-year driving disqualification was still in force when police stopped him on Wigginton Road

  • Everything in their garden's lovely

    A GOLD award has joined the collection of accolades at a college near York as the horticultural department notches up a hat trick of successes. Askham Bryan College has won the final regional round of a national landscaping competition, following two

  • Gift for York bike theft boy

    BIKE-MAD paperboy Carl Holliday had the "best birthday ever" after he was given a mountain bike to replace one which was stolen. Evening Press delivery boy Carl celebrated his 14th birthday in style, after John Campbell, of York bike shop Wilco Motosave

  • Nine to pine for Dyson

    SIMON Dyson's US Open dream perished in nine crucial holes at Pinehurst. The North Yorkshire golf ace, making his American debut, fired a second round 78 - eight-over-par - to total 17-over for the two rounds and miss the half-way cut by nine shots. The

  • July hat-trick

    The Lord's Taverners York Under-11s cricket team have three matches next month. They are in action at Doncaster on Sunday, July 3 before taking on their East Yorkshire counterparts at Sutton on Sunday, July 10, and then playing host to Barnsley at Clifton

  • Tykes aim to be Twentyriffic

    The purists won't be happy, but Yorkshire are now several days into a three-week break from Championship cricket and concentrating solely on the Twenty20 Cup in which they hope to make a much bigger impact this year. A long gap in the Championship programme

  • Billy gets Law onside

    FULL back Graeme Law will be at York City next season after signing a contract. Also confirmed on board for 2005-06 at KitKat Crescent yesterday was left-sided youngster Stephen Baynes, who has inked a first professional deal. But there is still no news

  • The firing line

    FIRE chiefs hope building experts may help them press for new safety rules in the wake of the Fulford Place blaze in York. Officials from the Buildings Research Establishment (BRE) have visited the damaged flats complex, hunting for clues as part of the

  • York's parking income up 80%

    INCOME from council parking charges in York has soared by a staggering 80 per cent in only six years, new figures show. Motorists handed over £6.74 million to City of York Council in parking fees and in fines for parking offences last year, compared with

  • Weekend jaunts are a plus point of life in National League Two

    IF York City Knights do not win promotion this season, there will be a silver lining - the weekend trips away. Last week's jolly down in London was another fun-filled affair by all accounts and the Knights fans have another one coming up in August at

  • Short putts

    Round up of golf news for the York area on Saturday, June 18, 2005. Roger and in for ace Malton and Norton GC 18-handicapper Roger Jenkins holed in one at the club's par-three 17th hole. Playing in a friendly senior four-ball, he and his partner won the

  • Title push bags a Matt finish

    KELLY'S eye was well and truly in to land Fulford Golf Club's 36-hole stroke-play championship. Matthew Kelly captured the crown in stunning style, sinking a 30-foot birdie putt at the third extra hole of a four-way sudden death play-off. Kelly, whose

  • Look to future

    RATHER than "forward not back" as in the Labour election manifesto slogan, it looks more like back to the future with much of Labour's thinking. It is about time the party stopped its pretence of acting on behalf of all the people when the only people

  • Carry on dreaming

    THE few planning notices that were put up have long since faded away and anyone going for a walk across the meadows at Osbaldwick may be forgiven if they did not know that Joseph Rowntree Foundation was planning to build its new "Derwenthorpe" housing

  • Knights face title squeeze

    YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook reckons the exciting LHF National League Two title chase remains wide open with a host of teams still in the hunt. York top the table by two points from Dewsbury as the season heads into the half-way mark, but with three

  • Rudston and Boynton

    Rudston, near Bridlington, gave us the excuse to camp in the Wolds and the site in the walled grounds of Thorpe Hall was very attractive and rustic but also with all the mod cons for the swarms of children. By noon the tent was up, boots were laced and

  • Billy gets Law onside

    FULL back Graeme Law will be at York City next season after signing a contract. Also confirmed on board for 2005-06 at KitKat Crescent yesterday was left-sided youngster Stephen Baynes, who has inked a first professional deal. But there is still no news