The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed David Logan as a senior manager to the York Commercial Banking team at Clifton Moor. He joins David Mountain, director of commercial banking for the North Yorkshire team which covers York and Harrogate and
TWO adjoining houses used for 32 years until recently as sheltered accommodation by the Abbeyfield York Society are up for sale. Naish estate agents, York, acting for the charity, has called for offers from £550,000. Developers are now expected to move
JO HAYWOOD meets two women on a mission to set up York's first ectopic pregnancy support group. JILLIAN and Joanna have lost their babies and very nearly lost their lives - but they have not lost their spirit. In some respects, their spirit has been strengthened
BUSINESSES interested in a new-look York City sponsorship package are urged to visit the Grange Hotel tomorrow (20/7/05). A sponsorship evening, aimed at existing, as well as prospective, financial partners, is being held at the Clifton venue from 6pm
YORK City Knights prop David Bates could be doubtful for Sunday's crunch clash against Gateshead. The Ireland international lasted no more than five minutes in the heat against Swinton on July 10 after limping off with a leg problem that has now been
THE season starts here for many of the York-area non-league clubs with the pre-season friendly schedules getting under way. Newly-promoted Goole will be looking to show off some of their new signings tonight when Sheffield United arrive for their first
LEFT-HANDER Michael Lumb, man-of-the-match in Yorkshire's C&G Trophy quarter-final triumph, has not been able to win back his Championship place in the game against Leicestershire which starts at Scarborough tomorrow. But left-arm fast bowler David
LEADERS York dropped their first Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League point of the season when they were held 54-54 by Knaresborough in division one. York duo Louise Lister and Wendy Stirke edged out Anne Albats and Alex Kaars Sijpesteijn 7-5 in the
Poppleton under-10s are the pride of Yorkshire after winning the regional National Junior Club League. The trio - the only outdoor team in the competition - fended off top-class opposition to earn the Yorkshire title. They beat David Lloyd Hull and South
Heath Scaife was in magnificent form as Shepherd SC 'A' maintained their unbeaten York Phoenix Monday Darts League division one record with an 8-1 thrashing of Acorn ARL. Scaife hit two maximums in a 26-dart 701 leg with Paul Dixon, and followed up with
THE price of school meals in York is set to rise - thanks to Jamie Oliver's campaign for higher quality food for youngsters. Education chiefs will hear tonight that the number of pupils eating school meals in the city has fallen - again since the TV chef
THERE'S this book - a worldwide best-seller - jam packed with violence, evil, magic, sorcery and sex. It's brimming with witchcraft and wizardry, temptation and all manner of nasty people killing, maiming and thieving. No, not Harry Potter - the Bible
The long-awaited report into the way the NHS handled complaints against disgraced North Yorkshire psychiatrists William Kerr and Michael Haslam has finally been published. Mike Laycock examines the findings - and assesses the reactions of former patients
TWO men have been arrested in connection with the murder of student Joe Medforth. Police in Preston made the double arrest last night, and were keeping the men in custody for questioning. A post-mortem has been carried out, and the cause of death was
COURAGEOUS Linda Bigwood tried for five years to blow the whistle on disgraced psychiatrist William Kerr. After a patient told her she had been having a sexual relationship with the doctor, the deputy sister doggedly pressed for managers to investigate
UP to 9,000 new NHS dental places could be created in York, after councillors gave a practice the go-ahead to expand. Dobson and Associates dental practice, in Lawrence Street, was given the green light to move in to a neighbouring property, which would
ALCOHOLIC York vet William Sim faces being kicked out of the profession after turning up at work drunk and hurling abuse at animal owners. A hearing of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) heard the 55-year-old, who ran a practice in Strensall
LIKE many thousands of people last week, I joined in the silent prayers for the recent victims of terrorism in London. I also prayed that God would help their families and friends to deal with the terrible losses they have suffered. I also remembered
ANOTHER Great Yorkshire Show and annual treat for us with further record crowds, nearly 700 trade exhibitors and hundreds of country folk competing to show and display the excellence of their farming, animal husbandry, horticulture, rural and sporting
I read with interest the article on the local transport plan proposals (Moving into the future?, July 16). I have never read such a load of rubbish in my life. As a regular user of the A1237 bypass, I can count on the fingers of no hands the number of
I HAVE just read the story "Row over new York homeless centre" (July 15) and I am astounded by City of York Council. I live next door to Shipton Street school and the council promised me and my husband that we would be kept informed of what was proposed
I WAS deeply disturbed by the account of the reduction in firefighting capacity described in recent articles. The new system will reduce firefighting capacity; the maximum time taken for a tender to reach a fire will be allowed to rise from eight to 15
JOHN Godber brought real sports to the theatre, Rugby League in Up'n'Under, and judo in Blood Sweat And Tears, and gave them a newly choreographed clout on stage. For his 50th play, after a run of adult dramas, writer-director Godber returns to his early
VISITORS to York Minster will see more than they bargained for the next few months thanks to the work of a sculptors' group. Twenty four sculptures, by 14 different artists, are hidden in or around the cathedral as part of the new Within The Sublime exhibition
UNION officials today sounded a warning shot over "disastrous" probation privatisation plans. Staff working with offenders handed community punishment sentences in York and North Yorkshire said the Probation Service would suffer if the Government "dismantled
THE family of a man who died after a fire at his home today paid tribute to "a wonderful son and brother". Kevin Lowery, 24, died after the blaze in Denison Road, Selby, in the early hours of Sunday morning. His brother David, 27, managed to escape the
Follow the Wolf at Catterick tomorrow. That's my advice as Mr Wolf, trained at Scorton by the in-form David Barker, goes for a hat-trick of wins. The gelding runs in the 5th Regiment Royal Artillery Workshops Handicap, over six furlongs. Barker, whose
LAST season's top marksman Andy Bishop will be missing from the York City side that open their pre-season programme at Frickley Athletic tonight (7.30pm). Bishop, who netted 12 times for the Minstermen during a disappointing 2004/05 campaign, has picked
LAST season's top marksman Andy Bishop will be missing from the York City side that open their pre-season programme at Frickley Athletic tonight (7.30pm). Bishop, who netted 12 times for the Minstermen during a disappointing 2004/05 campaign, has picked
YORK City Knights prop David Bates could be doubtful for Sunday's crunch clash against Gateshead. The Ireland international lasted no more than five minutes in the heat against Swinton on July 10 after limping off with a leg problem that has now been
CARLTON United have dropped out of the RJF Homes Beckett Football League to leave 21 teams to go for gold this season. The ten-team division one will be made up of Aislaby United, Black Swan Pickering, Kirkbymoorside Reserves, Kirkdale United, Rosedale
HUNTERS York Senior Cricket League side Sheriff Hutton Bridge strolled into the quarter-finals of the National Village competition when they recorded a 79-run home victory over Kirby In Furness. Man of the match Paul Oldfield led the way from the front
AS a player, I fell out of love with the game of golf very quickly. In my mid-teens I enjoyed a brief flirtation with the sport but decided to sell my clubs while they were still intact as my relationship with the 18-hole swear-fest soured. Even during
A YORK school paid tribute to a former head teacher at the opening of three new classrooms as part of an £800,000 refurbishment project. Pupils and staff at Robert Wilkinson Primary School in Strensall last night remembered the late Peter Feasby, who
LANCASTRIANS welcome here! says one sign. Art snobbery NOT spoken here! says another. These notices are posted up between a myriad of pencil and ink sketches of York buildings and landmarks, an open air art gallery courtesy of Andrew Gilmour. Anyone who
I HAD just arrived home with a bunch when the item was aired on the radio. I hardly ever buy it but it was on special offer at Tesco and I couldn't resist. I knew my husband was cooking potatoes, salmon burger-type things and courgettes for tea and I
THANK YOU - that was the message from a life-saving medical service which has a new helicopter after a massive fundraising appeal. Yorkshire Air Ambulance, which gets no government cash, now has a £2.5 million new helicopter after launching its Golden
THE price of school meals in York is set to rise - thanks to Jamie Oliver's campaign for higher quality food for youngsters. Education chiefs will hear tonight that the number of pupils eating school meals in the city has fallen - again since the TV chef
RESIDENTS have started drawing up petitions over proposals to build a new homeless centre near their homes. Clifton Residents' Association met yesterday to discuss a proposal from the York Arclight Project to City of York Council to build a new homeless
POLICE cordoned off a library and pub in a busy York street today following reports that a woman had been sexually assaulted. Scenes of crime officers were making a detailed forensic search of the area in front of The Poacher pub, and Acomb Library, in
TO Mrs Corbett (Letters, July 16): Yes, I do understand, but perhaps you don't. In France there is no difference between adult and child, they all enjoy the same pastimes. Our experience of barbecues is of a holed metal wheelbarrow, full of burning fig
I WATCHED the political programme "This Week" when one of the main guests was Kenneth Clarke MP. I heard Mr Clarke rubbish reports of terrorists living in our midst, some of whom were British citizens, wanted by foreign governments for terrorist atrocities
CHIEF Superintendent Madgwick is 100 per cent right to reassure Muslims in York that racial reprisals will not be tolerated (July 14). However, this may prove to be not that easy. Take an incident that occurred with me. I boarded the 10.30pm train from
WHEN Aled Jones (Letters, July 8) says we could find a more cost-effective system than the monarchy, I believe he is not of the same opinion as many people, especially the older generation of this country. The smug Blairs would like to emulate the American
MANY of us spend at least three times as much on our lunchtime sandwiches, so 44p does not seem excessive for a school meal. But that is actually more than they cost in York at the moment. Some parents, digging into their pockets to fund the school meal
IT has a lower profile than the investigations into organ retention at Alder Hey, or Dr Shipman's deadly dispatches. Yet The Kerr/Haslam Inquiry tackles the same problems - doctors who believed they were all-powerful and untouchable, and an impotent NHS
