MIDDLETHOTPE Hall & Restaurant, the country house hotel in Bishopthorpe Road, York, has been awarded a prestigious third rosette by the AA. General manager Lionel Chatard said the establishment is the only one in York to have the excellence award.
THERE is no single answer to truancy. Every absentee is different. One pupil might be skipping school to avoid daily humiliation from the class bully. Another is hooked on alcohol or petrol fumes. A third prefers trashing allotments and threatening old
I READ that the police could be as much to blame as the council for the firework fiasco (November 17). This I can well believe, because I am sure that they were the very people behind the decision to stop the annual display at Clifford's Tower. My family
YOUR correspondent, Elizabeth Earle, describes Tony Blair as "a man of strong unswerving principle" (November 18). Is this the same Tony Blair who told us that, if elected, he would not introduce top-up fees for students and then, when elected, proceeded
COUN Reid's explanation about next year's public inquiry into the proposed developments at Germany Beck and Derwenthorpe needs to be balanced (November 17). Coun Reid spoke from the viewpoint of City of York Council, and it is clear that the staff, the
REGARDING the scheme to pay parking fees by phone (November 19), what do the council take us for? Not only do we have to pay a minimum of £2 to park at Clifford's Tower car park. But we also have to pay a 20p "service charge" if we do pay by mobile phone
ELIZABETH began losing her hair when she was 30. At the time she was a high-profile TV journalist, a confident woman who was able to hold her own in any situation. Within weeks, she had given up her job and barely had enough confidence to leave the house
MORE than 130 villagers protested against a mobile phone mast near their homes in Sheriff Hutton. The residents showed up to express their anger at phone company Orange for putting up the 15-metre mast in Dasket Hill without prior warning. The protestors
DETECTIVES are frustrated that key witnesses who helped a deaf woman after she was viciously raped in a York graveyard have not yet come forward. Police hoped a Good Samaritan, who helped put the 36-year-old victim in a taxi in Micklegate after the attack
Toni Smallwood reigned supreme as she added another ladies individual title to her tally by winning the York John Smith's Ladies Darts League competition. The Leeman player beat Cueball's Tracey Farmeary in straight games in the best of five final. Smallwood
Shaun Derry will refuse to shake Micah Hyde's hand after the final whistle at Elland Road tonight as hostilities between the Leeds United and Burnley pair continue. Derry is angry that the FA took no action against Burnley's Hyde, who was charged with
CITY of York I's luck changed when they shaded a seven-goal Men's North Hockey League premier division thriller against visiting Alderley Edge I. Dominant from the start, the hosts went ahead with an open-play goal by Ben Foster on his return after injury
Yorkshire have added significant firepower to their attack next season by signing paceman Jason Gillespie, who ranks fifth in the list of Australia's leading Test wicket-takers of all time. Although Gillespie was dropped by Australia during the Ashes
HUNTINGTON Stadium is set to undergo a big facelift for the start of York City Knights' National League One campaign - with a new portable pub the main showpiece. Changes planned for the ground will see new flat standing areas created immediately behind
TO HIS friends, Paul Garland was a successful football dealmaker who led a lavish lifestyle of fast cars and luxury holidays. But his life was a lie financed by his neighbours, who he swindled out of more than £150,000 to support his expensive tastes.
THOUSANDS of new places have been created at NHS dentists in York to try and ease the shortage in the city. The city's MP, Hugh Bayley, met dentists at RS Dobson & Associates Dental Practice, in Lawrence Street, which has now doubled in size with
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 100 years ago For the hauling of the heaviest and fastest-timed trains on the East Coast route, between York and Edinburgh, there was in the course of erection at the North-Eastern Railway Company's Works at Gateshead, two huge
Former Heworth coach Alfie Hill is returning to local rivals York Acorn as head coach. Hill left Heworth in the summer after two years at the helm and has been in the frame for the Acorn job ever since the departure of coach Eric Fitzsimons. After a number
So far My York News has carried two poems by budding poet William Watts of York. The Watts family has now sent us the third poem in his trilogy. The family writes: "William's Step-Granddad has been taken very ill and he has written his poems to make him
We all finance our national life, its security, maintenance, and development for our survival, enjoyment and fulfilment in the competitive world of today and tomorrow. We contribute and benefit according to our capabilities and the opportunities we derive
THE most recent case of a policewoman killed on duty is thought to be PC Alison Armitage, who was run down by a suspected stolen car in March 2001. The 29-year-old was run over twice in the car park of a derelict pub. Car thief Thomas Whaley, 19, of Oldham
YORK City Knights have agreed a new strategic partnership with Oaklands School that will benefit the club on and off the pitch. They are also in talks with York College about setting up a new School of Excellence affiliated to the Knights. Under the first
HUNTINGTON Stadium is set to undergo a big facelift for the start of York City Knights' National League One campaign - with a new portable pub the main showpiece. Changes planned for the ground will see new flat standing areas created immediately behind
Dock Tower, who went close to scoring a shock victory on his most recent visit to Wetherby, returns to the course tomorrow in a bid to prove that his latest effort was no fluke. Trained near Market Weighton by Mike Sowersby, the three-year-old will be
Yorkshire have added significant firepower to their attack next season by signing paceman Jason Gillespie, who ranks fifth in the list of Australia's leading Test wicket-takers of all time. Although Gillespie was dropped by Australia during the Ashes
HERE is the second in our new weekly High 5s series in which a member of the Evening Press sportsdesk selects their top five in a particular facet of sport. Today sports editor Martin Jarred picks his nap hand of television's best sporting analysts. But
UP TO 1,800 new jobs are expected to be generated at Sherburn-in-Elmet following the launch of one of the UK's largest speculative industrial developments. More than 100 commercial property agents from across Britain converged on Cosmic Park, an £85 million
NEAPOLITAN chocolates are to be discontinued. Whatever Kraft bosses say, this amounts to a confession that they didn't know what they would lose by closing Terry's. Only the York workforce had the expertise to make Baroness Thatcher's favourite treat.
NOW that former spy chief Stella Rimington has criticised Government plans to introduce identity cards, saying they would not make the country safer, we need a much wider debate on whether or not we need ID cards at all. After all, on the same day huge
IT is good to see the Environment Agency is thinking ahead and making £1.7 million available to combat flooding in and around York (November 16). Of particular interest was the fact that Clifton Ings can hold six million cubic metres of floodwater, and
HOW I wholeheartedly agree with the letter from G Alderson re fireworks (November 16). It really is nothing short of anti-social behaviour. The new laws do not appear to cover the louts who still set them off not only in the evening but in broad daylight
REGARDING the uproar concerning the recent actions of Councillor Ann Reid: surely it is naive to believe that in choosing to test the new traffic lighting system for emergency vehicles in the manner undertaken, she would not have had to put this idea
REMEMBER, remember the fifth of November? Hempland and Heworth Allotment Association will remember the fifth of November for a variety of reasons. Firstly for all the hard work we put into organising and running a free community bonfire and barbecue.
A SMALL group of senior citizens were discussing the recent action against rising council taxes which landed our peers in jail, and were considering what could be done locally in support. Would there be sufficient support in York to march, and possibly
ONLY The Lonely - Roy Orbison. Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan. All By Myself - Celine Dion. Or do you scorn these carping, miserable crooners and delight in being footloose and fancy free, master of your own destiny? It depends whether you
ONE of Terry's traditional brands - Neapolitan chocolates - has been quietly scrapped with the closure of the York factory. Parent company Kraft said today it would not have been viable to transfer production from the Bishopthorpe Road complex to a new
A pensioner who was attacked on her doorstep today thanked police and hospital staff for the "fantastic" way they treated her. Mary Burton, 77, said staff at York Hospital's Accident & Emergency department were kind and gentle as they treated her
A BRAVE community who stood up to an abusive yob have won justice and an anti-social behaviour order to keep him under control. Courageous witnesses who were prepared to speak out against the 25-year-old man were praised by police after a judge slapped
A pedestrian was in collision with a bus in York city centre. The victim was a woman in her 50s who was taken to York Hospital with a suspected broken leg after the crash on the corner of Coppergate and Clifford Street at about 5.45pm. Sgt Dave Hopper
PARENTS in York could be jailed under a new city council power if they fail to stop their children acting violently or playing truant. City of York Council is planning to introduce parental orders and contracts in a bid to clamp down on youngsters causing
AMONG the York reception party disappointed by Mike Tyson's no-show yesterday was town crier John Redpath. He was among a small gathering outside York Minster hoping to meet the noted flesh-eating history buff. When word came that Iron Mike had been floored
WHAT always puzzled me about The Waltons was why they all went to bed at the same time. All that "Goodnight grandpa," "Goodnight Jim Bob," "Goodnight Mary Ellen," "Goodnight ma," "Goodnight pa". I know they didn't have television, but surely the adults
York Groves had an unblemished defensive line in their 20-0 Pennine League division five win over Woodhouse Warriors. John Rushworth opened the scoring after a strong drive from Chris Nuttal. Chris Smith scored the next try when he powered through the
