FRANKIE Dettori can light up a typical back-end-of-the- season programme at Nottingham tomorrow by landing the feature race on the card. Dettori teams up with Subpoena in the Racing UK Conditions Stakes and can bring the three-year-old home in front.
A PROPERTY auction at York Racecourse tomorrow is expected to yield at least £1 million. Many of the bidders at the auction, organised by York-based Hunters Property Group, will have earlier attended a free property investment show, including seminars
AS MANY as 19,000 jobs in manufacturing in North Yorkshire have been lost over the past eight years. In York alone there are 2,000 fewer people working in factories. It puts North Yorkshire fifth in a league of manufacturing job losses throughout Yorkshire
A GROUNDBREAKING project built by Yorkon, the York-based off-site construction specialists and Portakabin subsidiary, has won its fifth prestigious awards for innovation, design and architecture. Moho, which was manufactured at Yorkon's site in New Lane
FIVE bioscience companies from across the region and around the world converged on York today to attend the two-day White Rose Bioscience Forum, Yorkshire's flagship bioscience event. The companies are hoping to raise finance for their ventures at a special
IT could have been another Soham. If Philip Bargh had not panicked and let his young victim go, we might so easily have been reporting a shocking tragedy. What Bargh did was terrible enough. His abduction of a nine-year-old girl at knifepoint was a sick
I WENT on holiday a couple of weeks ago to escape the harsh reality of hard news - and landed in the middle of a real-life Agatha Christie whodunit. We had driven down to sleepy Cornwall, which had all but been tucked into bed for the winter. But within
Is chocolate an aphrodisiac? Does it make you fat? To mark National Chocolate Week, Maxine Gordon melts some chocolate myths. WE are a nation of chocoholics. Each of us munches through 10kg (22lbs) of the confectionery each year, spending an average of
A NORTH YORKSHIRE MP said today she would continue to press the Government to ban applications for housing in areas where there is a risk of flooding. This week marks the fifth anniversary of the floods which struck York and the county, and Vale of York
LUCKLESS City of York Hockey Club men's first team suffered a weekend of double agony. They lost 3-1 at Oxton on Saturday and then 2-1 at Durham University the following day. It has been a frustrating start to the campaign for player-coach Gawaine Hogg
Kevin Blackwell will cast envious eyes at Dario Gradi tonight as Leeds attempt to keep their promotion push on track at Crewe. Gradi is held in high regard at Gresty Road and Blackwell - who has faced constant speculation about his own situation - is
EBOR'S Paul Armstrong has become the first York Phoenix Monday Darts League player to defeat Sun Inn's Chris Thompson in a singles match. Thompson, undefeated for over four seasons, hit a 180 to close in 17, but Armstrong replied with a 20 and went on
NEW Earswick All Blacks fell out of the Pennine League's President's Cup after a Jekyll and Hyde first-round performance at Clayton. The division one side, lack-lustre in the first half, were much improved after the break, though their comeback was in
FRUSTRATED motorists queued in lengthy tailbacks as a two-week scheme to rip up and resurface Gillygate got under way. Traders experienced a "noticeable" drop in customers as people avoided the usually packed street, which will be closed between 8am and
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has told any fans intent on causing trouble to stay away from the club's matches. McEwan's comments came after he heard about unrest in the away end at half-time during Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Accrington Stanley. The City
NOT sure where you are going in life? Worried that you're lost and confused? A set of signs like these could help in York city centre. Instead of pointing to the main tourist attractions they would set you on the path to Material Addiction, Affective
I WAS concerned when I read about the little boy who had a fractured skull ("Medics Fail To Spot Broken Skull", October 27). Five years ago my own daughter Aimee, who was six months old, had her head banged on a concrete floor in our house. We took her
I WOULD just like to reply to the City of York Council about their phoning system (Letters, October 25). They say staff should ring the occupational health nurse and not their line manager. I work at Windsor House and the health line staff fail to tell
HAVING seen the latest episode in the sorry saga of the Barbican redevelopment ("Pool Plan Sinking", October 29), I am astounded to realise how much a small group of protesters has now cost York citizens. While recognising the right we all have to protest
THERE is little wonder the City of York Council finances are in such a mess if one is to believe any of the nonsense spoken by council leader Steve Galloway (Council tax headache explained, October 20). The fact that the council receives the fourth lowest
I THINK it rather unkind of Tricia Castle to scold Yorkies for not rushing to support Dr Sentamu (Letters, October 28). What with wheelie bins, parking charges and bridal motorcades, we've got problems of our own. Besides, most residents are not of De
I AM trying to trace an old soldier mate of mine. His name is Edward (Eddie) Broadbent. Eddie and I were in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. We served together in Germany, Cyprus and Hong Kong. I would like to get in touch with him, and I know he has
EARLIER this year the city council adopted its draft Local Plan for planning purposes. Chapter one of this document sets out the strategic policies upon which the rest of the Local Plan policies are based. The third of these strategic policies has the
NEW Earswick All Blacks fell out of the Pennine League's President's Cup after a Jekyll and Hyde first-round performance at Clayton. The division one side, lack-lustre in the first half, were much improved after the break, though their comeback was in
Tarah Mason told My York News how she and a friend captured what they believe may be a ghostly apparition on their mobile phone while on their way home from a night out and walking through a tunnel in Leeman Road. Their exploits have inspired another
I was born and bred in York (Hollybank Rd/St Paul's primary/Nunthorpe Grammar) and I would like to settle a family argument before I get much older. As a schoolboy in the 50s I have a recollection of the Ouse being drained of almost all its water (a mere
My eight-year-old daughter came to me begging for a Baby Annabell Pink Pram for Christmas and said: "If you have enough pennies by then, can you get me it?". "To which I replied: "We'll see" (a firm favourite answer with most parents, no doubt). "Does
From 2007, anyone selling a house will have to pay for a survey before they even put it on the market. STEPHEN LEWIS looks at the latest Government plans to shake up the house buying and selling market. THEY will be called Home Information Packs - HIPs
So the 'oul fella' might get his bus pass yet. George Best, showing the steel-edged determination that characterised his wonder years of playing, is fighting back against the illness that last week almost tipped the world of football into maudlin mourning
JERRY Springer - The Opera provoked 60,000 complaints when it was broadcast by the BBC, mostly from Christians outraged at its alleged blasphemy. So it is something of a surprise to learn from writer Stewart Lee that the musical was inspired by the York
CHILD sex beast Philip Bargh was today jailed for life and told he would not be released until he no longer posed a danger to children. Bargh, 28, formerly of Beckfield Lane, York, and now of Stamford Bridge, admitted kidnapping a nine-year-old girl with
The murderous destruction planned by Guy Fawkes is being shown by documentary makers for the 400th anniversary of his gunpowder plot. A £1m replica of the Palace of Westminster was blasted to pieces by experts for the programme on ITV1 this evening. Fawkes
DOORSTEP callers are being banned from parts of the region in an attempt to stop elderly and vulnerable people being fleeced of their cash. The "No Cold Calling" zones are among 140 being set up across Britain to stop ANY traders turning up unannounced
A COMMUNITY pub which hit the buffers after being beset by problems has been transformed. Pub "trouble-shooter" John Carr says he has turned The Locomotive, in Watson Street, York, into a safe, clean environment following its enforced closure in July.
A TV company was forced to make three of its staff redundant after a trusted employee stole nearly £20,000 of its funds, a court heard. But Anita Gray, 39, walked free from court after she was handed a 200-hour community punishment order, to be completed
TRANSPORT bosses in York are hoping the Government will consult them before outlawing drinking on trains and buses. An alcohol ban has been proposed on public transport as part of moves to tackle yobbery and drunken disorder. But there are concerns a
THE York Mystery Plays have inspired Britain's most controversial theatre show, Jerry Springer - The Opera. Co-writer and director Stewart Lee said the show was ideal for York, where the musical that prompted 60,000 complaints to the BBC will run at the
A KNIFEMAN shot twice with plastic bullets by armed police after drunkenly wandering in to a York curry house has been jailed for four years. Officers confronted Terry Myers, 44, after he went to the Viceroy of India, in Monkgate, to order a takeaway
This week I will be getting my own back. Having entertained my children and a million of their friends at a huge party on Saturday night, I have decided to have some fun myself during this season of tricks, treats and whatever else passes for Hallowe'en
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has told any fans intent on causing trouble to stay away from the club's matches. McEwan's comments came after he heard about unrest in the away end at half-time during Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Accrington Stanley. The City
I READ with interest the front page referring to a "rogue builder" ("Ban Him", October 29). Since moving to York 12 years ago I have had several local trades people in to do maintenance and improvement work on my home. I have always used recommended people
I WAS disappointed to read Coun Janet Looker's comments in the Evening Press on October 27. She seems to suggest that the process by which approval was given for the Barbican complex lacked legitimacy. Where was she when the consultation process was going
MAY we thank everyone who helped and supported our evening with Harlequin and David Kendall, which raised £475 each for New Earswick Bowls Club and York Hospital Radio. Thanks everyone, it was a real fun evening. Ray Blogg and Ivy Eden, Fundraising co-ordinators
FACT or fiction? The October edition of the Liberal Democrats Holgate Focus has just arrived on my doormat. The headlines on the front page tell me all about the £21 million schools boost for the west of the city and goes on to trumpet the building of
RECYCLING and fortnightly collections are here so people have got to get used to them. These people who complain they have too much rubbish because they have a family of four or five members should think how I am coping with a family of seven - the answer
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 100 years ago Polling was taking place in York, under atmospheric conditions which were far from pleasant. A heavy fog the night before had brought on a cold rain in the morning, but in the four wards in which contests were taking
HEWORTH ARLC Under-11s finally enjoyed their first win of the season when they turned the formbook upside down to beat Garforth 30-16. The Tigers were undefeated in four games but were turned over by strong running from most improved player Jordan Potter
