FIVE-YEAR-OLD John Cocking's mum and dad know just how important children's high-dependency facilities can be. Two weeks before Christmas, John came home from school feeling poorly with a high temperature. A few days later, he woke up screaming for his
TV COMEDIAN Dave Spikey backed our Guardian Angels appeal while taking centre stage in York. Dave, well known as Peter Kay's sidekick Jerry "The Saint" St Clair in Phoenix Nights, performed at the Grand Opera House while supporting Jeans For Genes day
Who is the greatest Yorkshireman or woman of all time? STEPHEN LEWIS asks Sir Bernard Ingham. SIR Bernard Ingham is braced for the flak. It's dangerous enough nominating the 50 greatest men and women of any county. But to proclaim the 50 greatest Yorkshire
One of rugby league's stars of the future has put pen to paper for York City Knights. Bradford Bulls Academy winger Paul Clarke will be a Knight next season after York beat off competition from several other clubs - including Bradford - to sign the 20
Sheriff Hutton jockey Kevin Darley can figure among the winners on one of his old favourites at Newmarket tomorrow on the first of three days of the Champions' Meeting. Darley will be reunited with Paradise Isle in the £33,000 Boadicea Fillies' Stakes
I HAVE just paid my annual visit to my beloved York. What a thriving driving city with history of the UK for all to see. The gardens and parks, especially Rowntree, are just A1. But all towns and cities have them - vandals. One person who had a flowering
WITH reference to the letter "Palace for Arc Light" (October 8), I doubt whether the author, who writes of "pampered luxury", has ever seen the inside of Bishopthorpe Palace. Some years ago I had a tour of the building. I was surprised at the plain simplicity
I WOULD like to answer questions posed by readers about why City of York Council can't collect kitchen waste from the green, wheeled bins for garden waste. Government legislation prevents us from collecting and composting kitchen waste because of restrictions
AFTER being vigilant for four weeks since our green bin arrived so that no vegetable or meat waste contaminated it, the bin was emptied today. I wondered if the dustbin wagons had been steam cleaned prior to green waste collection to eradicate contamination
RINSING out food cans and crushing cereal boxes is inconvenient but a lack of landfill sites, greater energy prices, rising water levels and an increasing storm frequency will be rather more than just inconvenient if we do nothing. With a little less
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Warriors march on Selby Warriors U13s' unbeaten start to the season continued with an impressive 48-4 win at Stanningley. Magnificent defence set the tone for the game and for the fourth consecutive time it was coaches' choice
Millthorpe, Queen Margaret's and Tadcaster Grammar will all be represented at the North East finals of the English Schools' Cross-Country Cup after racing through the North Yorkshire round at Thirsk. Millthorpe and Queen Margaret's were the leading two
PROPERTY investor The Helmsley Group, of Pocklington, has stepped outside its normal brief in York to spend £3.5 million through its investment syndicate on a Sheffield city centre building. The Helmsley Group and its client investors have acquired an
ALEX Callan is a horse chest nut. And his devotion to the ancient game of conkers has led to him being crowned supreme champion of the world. He has our sincere congratulations. The Selby sales manager is determined that his all-conquering achievement
OFFICIALS are taking the message about York's green bin revolution out to residents at a series of meetings this month. Members of City of York Council's waste team are attending ward committee and residents' association meetings at venues across the
JURORS were expected to hear evidence today from the medical expert who examined the battered body of Peter Robinson. Doctor Peter Cooper, a forensic pathologist, will be questioned on the sixth day of the kick-to-death murder trial at Leeds Crown Court
The search for York's most glamorous girl began once more today, when next year's Miss York competition was launched at the city's Grand Opera House. With local heats, and a glitzy Las Vegas-style final, Miss York 06 promises to take the popular pageant
SUSPENDED York commercial services director David Finnegan has left City of York Council. The council today confirmed that Mr Finnegan was moving "on to pastures new". A statement from the authority revealed that the council had agreed that "David can
York-based Craig Robinson scored the first open match win of his fledgling career with an intelligent and emphatic victory in the 49-peg Hospitals Cup. Fished on the Ouse between Fulford and Donkey Woods, many of the field thought bream would hold the
One of rugby league's stars of the future has put pen to paper for York City Knights. Bradford Bulls Academy winger Paul Clarke will be a Knight next season after York beat off competition from several other clubs - including Bradford - to sign the 20
OFFICIALS are taking the message about York's green bin revolution out to residents at a series of meetings this month. Members of City of York Council's waste team are attending ward committee and residents' association meetings at venues across the
GAINSBOROUGH Trinity striker Jon Rowan almost became a York City player last summer but now he is hoping to dump the Minstermen out of the FA Cup. Rowan spent the full pre-season training with City in readiness for the 2004-2005 Conference campaign, featuring
George Wilkinson searches for perfect autumnal views at Chop Gate in the North York Moors. ON AN autumn Sunday, the car park at Chop Gate in Bilsdale held dozens of walkers' vehicles, the Moors bus stop was marked with a sandwich board, the traffic was
Robin Ball is a consultant paediatrician at York Hospital. He told Health Reporter Charlotte Percival how our £300,000 Guardian Angels appeal to create a life-saving children's unit could change high-dependency care in the city. What is Guardian Angels
OH how I laughed when I saw the joke headline in Saturday's Evening Press, "York Uni Wins Late-Bar Fight". However, on reading the article, and to my growing incredulity, I realised that it wasn't a joke headline at all but was genuine and that the University
IT was sad to read that so many university students suffer depression these days (October 6). I can't see things improving when they read of all the restrictions on their partying from their village neighbours (October 8). I have lived round the back
DESPITE all the campaigning to Make Poverty History, the G8 summit delivered nothing for trade justice. The eight richest countries failed to commit themselves to any changes in the global trading system toward a more level playing field for developing
I'VE found a use for my new green wheelie-bin - in the short term at least. Like many others with gardens, we compost most of our garden and green kitchen waste and burn or bury the rest. So we have nothing to put in our green bin. I did consider painting
I WAS able to empathise with your correspondent who had difficulty contacting the green bin advice centre at York Pride. I rang on Tuesday October 4 requesting advice. I left a message. I rang a further five times during the week, leaving at least one
Hot-shots Pocklington School are in the North East finals of the National Schools' Hockey Championship after winning the Humberside regional final. The Under-14s girls fired in 16 goals on their way to winning the regional round - and didn't concede a
ALL Saints are all delighted after eight of the school's netballers were selected for the County Academy squad following trials. They are Beth Kilbride, Megan Corner, Beth Penhaligan, Sophie Addison, Calista Hutchinson, Maddie Hardy, Hatty Kenworthy and
Happy travellers Pickering Town kept up their good away record with another win to lift them into the top six of the Northern Counties East League premier division - but only after stealing a late goal. Matthew Morton struck in the last two minutes of
HOW many of you are like me. You have a feeling that you have seen that face before but you cannot put a name to it? How pleased we would be if we could look up our "memory database" of faces and come up with an instant identification and name. That is
A £1.5 MILLION Centre of Vocational Excellence in Food Chain Technology was opening today at the Askham Bryan College farm in York - amid applause from more than 120 agricultural bosses and policymakers. The new centre, backed by the Learning and Skills
THE destiny of three York schools has been up in the air for two long years. When radical plans to close Lowfield, create a new Oaklands and rebuild an extended Manor School were first announced, the future of more than 2,000 pupils, their parents and
Nestl Rowntree Rugby Union Club stretched their winning sequence to four with a 15-7 victory over a visiting Scarborough II and III combination. Scrum-half Brian Cottom was put over in the corner by winger John Atkin, who was tackled just short and number
YORK is in a strong position to be involved in the 2012 Olympics - but will still have to compete against European cities like Paris for a chance to reap the benefits, enthusiasts heard at a special meeting. Representatives from sports clubs across York
YORK'S eyesore White Swan Hotel should be revamped to provide community facilities and a performance venue, the Green Party said today. But the idea has drawn criticism from City of York Council leader Steve Galloway. The Greens said the transformation
DETECTIVES have been knocking on the doors of dozens of potential suspects in the hunt for York's Hoodie Rapist. Officers have received many calls following repeated appeals in the Evening Press for information about the churchyard attack. A £2,000 cash
A NEW champion has joined the ranks of the world's sporting legends - and he's from North Yorkshire. Alex Callan has been crowned the 2005 world champion ... of conkers. In one of the few sports at which Britain still truly excels, Alex beat competitors
NEXT Generation, Heslington, made a fine start to their National Premier Tennis League fixtures with a 3-1 home win over North Yorkshire. Dutch international Jan Siemerink, a former ATP Tour player, at one time ranked in the world's top 30, has agreed
FULFORD 'A' went joint top of the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League after a 5-2 win over Acomb 'A'. Glen Mountain, Wayne Puleston, Richard Stroughair, Wayne Hartley and Simon England won for Fulford. Heworth 'B' are the other joint
ROYAL Ascot will definitely NOT be coming back to York next year. The Berkshire-based course today announced that its near £200 million redevelopment should be ready in time to hold next year's Royal Meeting. Douglas Erskine-Crum, Ascot's chief executive
GAINSBOROUGH Trinity striker Jon Rowan almost became a York City player last summer but now he is hoping to dump the Minstermen out of the FA Cup. Rowan spent the full pre-season training with City in readiness for the 2004-2005 Conference campaign, featuring
BUS operators First have admitted liability for the dramatic bus smash which demolished part of a York house. First have also agreed to pay for sisters Mary Mullen and Bernadette Moore to stay in rented accommodation until their home can be re-built.
WE all know many York residents are unhappy about the new rubbish regime. But how are the people on the front line finding it? Not to their liking, according to a tirade from "Billy the Binman" which dropped on our desk this week. Confusion has reigned
A FRESH round of Pride of Britain awards has given us all a new range of reasons to be glad we're British. The fight back to health of courageous Davinia Turrell, the woman whose masked face became the symbol of the 7/7 London terror attack, could not
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 100 years ago General complaint was being made among the watermen and mariners plying between Hull and York as to the dangerous state of the river Ouse in the neighbourhood of Selby, and unless something was done it would soon
