Wednesday, July 6, 2005 100 years ago The additional tramcars which had been put on the York Tramway routes were a great improvement on the old ones, and were much more comfortable and convenient for passengers. The new tramcars were larger than the existing
It's great to see girls getting involved in rugby league, as seen in the tag rugby matches played before the match and at half-time on Sunday. Great Britain are quite a force in the female world rugby league scene. They have beaten the Aussies several
BRAVE little leukaemia sufferer Joseph Powell is a true child hero, according to his proud family. The four-year-old, from Acomb, was born with Down's Syndrome in October 2000, and was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia when he was just two.
BOOTHAM School players Lucy Langley and Rachel Jamieson hit their tennis peak right in the middle of the Wimbledon championships to book a place in the northern finals representing North Yorkshire. The pair blasted teams from Harrogate, Scarborough, Ryedale
NEW Earswick Primary School's champion footballers had a day to remember when BBC Look North presenter Harry Gration, who lives in York, dropped by to hand over their certificates. The team had a season and a half with victory in the York area primary
NORWICH Union Life, York's biggest private employer, has launched a drive to recruit 100 people. The insurance firm is seeking support advisers - back office staff who ensure financial advisers receive their commissions swiftly by doing everything from
IF YOU ask people who are in the process of starting up their own businesses what their main concerns are, obtaining finance is likely to rank high in the list of answers. In fact, having the right quality of management should probably rate even more
ESTELLE ALTY of Nestl Rowntree of York has been named Young Marketer of the Year at the Marketing Society's annual award ceremony in London. Estelle, who joined the company in 2001, was presented with the award following her work as brand manager for
SUNDAY, July 10, is a national day of commemoration for the 60th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War. Church services, celebrations and parties will take place, popular songs from that time will be sung, White Cliffs of Dover being one of
IT'S good to see that Hugh Bayley MP supports the economic aid and debt relief for Africa (July 4). However, there will be little point in this if the UK continues to give out large loans to impoverished nations and creates the same problems in the future
AS the G8 leaders gather around the golf course at Edinburgh, it reminds me of another challenge that England faced a few centuries ago when Drake played bowls before facing the might of the Spanish Armada. It was the same relative game play for global
THE Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), based at Oxford Brookes University, collects details of severe local storms in the British Isles. We are investigating the severe thunderstorms of Sunday, June 19, and especially the intense fall of
MICHAEL Lumb has been dropped from Yorkshire's squad for their final North Division Twenty20 Cup game against title-holders Leicestershire at Grace Road tonight. The stylish left-hander has yet to find any real form this season and he has particularly
NORWICH Union Life, York's biggest private employer, has launched a drive to recruit 100 people. The insurance firm is seeking support advisers - back office staff who ensure financial advisers receive their commissions swiftly by doing everything from
THEATRE has often lost writers to the TV fat cats of sitcom. Now, however, sitcom grandees Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran are dipping their finger in the playhouse greasepaint after 25 years of canned laughter, Birds Of A Feather, The New Statesmen et
LICENSING bosses will decide tomorrow whether a York village pub will be allowed to open its doors to show TV sport - outside its normal opening hours. Landlady Patricia Mahon wants to extend the hours of the Lord Collingwood, in Hodgson Lane, Upper Poppleton
MOTORCYCLE thieves who snatched a one-of-a-kind £35,000 Italian "wonderbike" have left its owner broken-hearted. Company director Felix Hirzel said the burglars who made off with his custom-built Ducati racing bike "don't know what they've got". The distinctive
POTENTIALLY dangerous waste dumped by a roadside near York was put in bags and taped off by the emergency services - but six weeks have passed and the bags are still just lying there, with grass and weeds growing around them. Police and firefighters took
A GANG of fraudsters who came to York armed with cloned credit cards to swindle shopkeepers has been jailed for a total of ten-and-half years. Judge Paul Hoffman, who yesterday handed down the sentences to four Malaysian nationals of Chinese origin, said
A BIG wheel which could have brought millions pouring into the city's tourist economy will not come to York this year. Organisers World Tourist Attractions revealed today they had finally run out of time in their bid to bring a giant observation wheel
PROP star Yusuf Sozi has banished his early inconsistency demons to become the form choice as York City Knights' National League Two title campaign and the fight for squad numbers hots up. A man-of-the-match performance off the bench at Workington saw
YORK will have to wait until next year to take a spin on the big wheel. Many families will be saddened to learn that the revolutionary attraction is not for turning in 2005. Possibly more disappointed are city tourist bosses. After the brilliant success
SEVEN-A-SIDE heaven was smartly occupied by Wigginton Grasshoppers Under-11s footballers. Not only did they win the Thorpe Tournament staged by Thorpe United at Thorpe Willoughby, but in capturing the title they went seven games undefeated, winning six
PHILIP Roe is in a pickle. Or should that be in a chilli? We have never heard of a problem quite like it, and are counting on our ingenious band of readers to come to Mr Roe's rescue. An ex merchant navy man now retired at Stamford Bridge, he worked on
YORK City's home match with Kidderminster Harriers has been switched to a Sunday. Newly-relegated Kidderminster had been due to visit KitKat Crescent on Saturday, April 8 but will now take on the Minstermen 24 hours later. City have also arranged to play
Food almost as bad as the Finns: is that the best insult French president Jacques Chirac can throw at us? STEPHEN LEWIS offers a stout defence of British cooking. SACRE Bleu! That nasty Monsieur Chirac's at it again. Clearly rattled by just how close
FLOOD damage at a leading North Yorkshire school will cost tens of thousands of pounds to put right. Easingwold Secondary School remained closed today after flash floods swamped classrooms, causing thousands of pounds-worth of damage to computer equipment
A national parent-teacher group says some schools are banning video records of sports days, even though this could mean parents losing out on a record of their children's early years. Education Reporter HAYDN LEWIS asked head teachers in York for their
OAKLANDS School sports partnership refused to let the rain wash out a double sports tournament at University of York last week and Poppleton Road Primary and Archbishop of York CE School reaped the benefits. A total of 18 junior and primary schools took
HEADLANDS School were crowned the first ever girls tag rugby festival winners in front of a packed Huntington Stadium on Sunday. The top five teams from the two qualifying days battled it out in a round robin final as a curtain raiser to the York City
SPORTS car sales proprietor Steve Williams has roared into a £1 million deal. Nine months ago Mr Williams launched DriveStyle at his showrooms in Hornbeam Park, Harrogate, selling convertibles to a growing UK market and matching buyers and sellers of
MCCARTHY & STONE of York has again struck gold in the British Housebuilder Awards - giving it an unbroken run of top awards for the last seven years. The retirement building specialist was awarded the prize for best volume housebuilder, beating dozens
NOW we know York council's stance on creating viable employment opportunities for the people living west of York. Unless you live or work in the centre of York, the council doesn't care. The A1237 west of York is the main artery for this large industrious
I AM writing to congratulate and thank everybody for making our show Don't Stop Us Now such a fantastic success. And for making a dream come true for our present publicity officer and lifelong member Terry Larkman. St Aelreds Players have been in existence
I READ with interest the comments by Councillor Jack Crawford about the transfer of Selby District Council's housing stock to a not-for-profit local housing association. It is obvious that Councillor Crawford has a conflict of interest with this issue
IT is now a couple of years since we all got excited about the Without Walls vision for the city, and many may be wondering what has happened to these plans. As part of the community strategy for York, the current Your Ward newsletter includes an additional
SEEING the photo of Bootham bar and its adjacent horse-trough (Yesterday Once More, June 27), reminds me of something that happened during Ascot at York. I met up with two American tourists walking the city walls "treading in the footsteps of Roman soldiers
A BURGLAR who targeted the home of seven children to steal a costly vehicle navigation device has left his young victims plagued by nightmares. A double-glazed window has had to be boarded up after it was smashed in broad daylight - creating a constant
A BOSS at one of York's leading employers has shed over two stone - and raised an amazing £13,000 for charity. Mike Kirsch, the operations director at Norwich Union in York, raised the cash following a three-month long sponsored diet, losing an astonishing
SOLDIERS from York are to spearhead new rapid response operations in trouble spots across the globe. Troops from 2 Signal Regiment, based at Imphal Barracks, will be the first to fly out to emergencies abroad to set up the new state-of-the art Cormorant
FIFTEEN-year old Danny Bennett shattered the match-record at Langwith Lakes on Saturday when he topped the 30-pegger with a staggering 109lb 13oz. Adding over 8lb to the old record best set just a month ago the Essential Baits backed prodigy used pellet
MICHAEL Lumb has been dropped from Yorkshire's squad for their final North Division Twenty20 Cup game against title-holders Leicestershire at Grace Road tonight. The stylish left-hander has yet to find any real form this season and he has particularly
SUPERMARKET giant Asda is shedding up to six management jobs from its York store as part of sweeping cuts. Up to 1,200 staff will be axed in a move which involves job losses at every one of its branches in the UK - including its supermarket at Monks Cross
YORK City's home match with Kidderminster Harriers has been switched to a Sunday. Newly-relegated Kidderminster had been due to visit KitKat Crescent on Saturday, April 8 but will now take on the Minstermen 24 hours later. City have also arranged to play
A FARMER who survived the Asian tsunami has told of the terrifying moment when a tornado smashed through his North Yorkshire farm. Albert Parker, 73, watched in horror as the twister ripped through his family farm off Malton Road, York, near the A64,
BRITISH men look in the mirror and they like what they see, according to a poll of more than 2,000 of our self-confident countrymen. And after all, who can blame them? Personally, I'd be delighted to see Jude Law, Clive Owen, Ewan McGregor or Colin Firth
PROP star Yusuf Sozi has banished his early inconsistency demons to become the form choice as York City Knights' National League Two title campaign and the fight for squad numbers hots up. A man-of-the-match performance off the bench at Workington saw
IT was hard to believe it was on after all that rainfall, but come Hull or high water, REM would play outdoors in weather fit only for Noah. Never mind the 18,000 crowd was 10,000 short of capacity; never mind that after 25 years REM are more history
