LANCE Armstrong trained to win a record-breaking seventh Tour de France by cycling up and down mountains in the Canary Islands. Wuss. Jim Thompson embarked on an epic bike journey of his own today saying, "Training? Who needs it?" "I've hardly ridden
WE'VE got our champion team - now let's find another champion fan. League sponsor LHF Healthplan is looking for the Knights' most fanatical supporter from the last 12 months as it launches the 2005 'Most Dedicated Fan' search - and they should have a
DAN Potter will cap a wonderful personal month tomorrow when he is crowned the Knights' Player of the Month for August, as voted for by Evening Press readers. The centre's hat-trick against London and all-important brace against Hunslet not only helped
IT is interesting to note the relative points for and against records of Mick Cook's team compared to Richard Agar's class of 2004. Cook came to Huntington Stadium with a reputation for being keen on defence, a fact backed up by his desire this week to
Penstemons come and go in Gina Parkinson's garden. Perhaps her luck will change. I Have grown penstemons in the garden for years. They have come and gone, some surviving several seasons, others lasting one summer. The hardiest seem to be the narrow-leafed
Bradford's Ajmal Shahzad, who last year became the first Yorkshire-born cricketer from an Asian background to play for the county, is poised to turn out for Phoenix on Sunday in their Totesport League clash against Leicestershire Foxes at Headingley (
Mike Laycock finds the rollercoasters of Lightwater Valley as thrilling as ever. IT is now 14 years since I joined boxer Frank Bruno as he launched the world's longest rollercoaster. Lightwater Valley named it The Ultimate, and, with one and a half miles
A PROMISING singer-songwriter from York is to star in a regional TV programme. Jess Gardham, of South Bank, will feature on My Yorkshire on ITV1, in a 15-minute slot showing her bid to conquer the music industry. The 22-year-old, who describes her music
THE former Shipton Street School, in York, was only considered as the new home for Arc Light's rehabilitation centre from the start of this year. The Evening Press has learned that the Arc Light Reprovision Board started to consider alternative places
THESE boulders on a path near a York beauty spot have landed village leaders in a legal quandary following complaints from a disabled angler. Poppleton Parish Council installed the two giant rocks on a bridlepath which leads to the popular piece of common
DOZENS of furious locals have launched a protest bid against a mobile phone mast, which is to be installed in the heart of their community. Residents in the Albemarle Road area of South Bank, York, have hit out at the city council and mobile phone giant
Bradford's Ajmal Shahzad, who last year became the first Yorkshire-born cricketer from an Asian background to play for the county, is poised to turn out for Phoenix on Sunday in their Totesport League clash against Leicestershire Foxes at Headingley (
LIKE Julian Cole I also have some sympathy with the Keep York Local party and like Mr Cole I am an "incomer". Although I have a long association with York, I still cannot claim to be "local". I think that it is unfair to blame all incomers for York's
IT was claimed the kerbside recycling boxes and new green bins will only be emptied once a month when the new garden waste collections begin in October (Letters, September 1). This is most definitely not the case. The new garden waste collections will
YOU could say it was Hall signed, sealed and delivered for the man charged with keeping the area's newest golf club up to scratch. Less than two months ago Sandburn Hall Golf Club at Flaxton opened to rave reviews and at the helm of its cutting edge is
IN 1993 the Mercia Cinema Society published The Cinemas Of York in a format we called "cheap and cheerful" - that is, typescript, photo-copied and comb-bound. The edition was successfully received and has now sold out. The original research was in a 1984
IN your report 'Late licence for two nightclubs' (August 31) your reporter claims I complained of late-night fighting and vandalism and "said the decision was 'ludicrous' before storming out of the meeting." I had already sat through a three-hour hearing
I WAS reading the Press and saw a picture of Fishergate School, with me on it ('Yesterday Once More', August 27). It was wonderful to see all my class of all those years ago. But the date was wrong because we all left school in July 1950, the picture
FOOTBALL has a funny way of throwing up a googly every now and then. Seeing York City third in the table - until 1.45pm today at the very least - may have been unexpected a few months ago. Add to that 90 minutes of entertaining play, another game with
THE entire York City Knights squad will receive a National League Two winners medal tomorrow, despite the Rugby Football League's stringent rules regarding the number they give out. Under RFL guidelines, players must have played 75 per cent of the league
YORK City Knights second row forward Ian Kirke has joined Super League side London Broncos on a month's loan. The former Dewsbury player has been training with Leeds Academy full-time in the last few months and has been one of the stars of the Knights
In this week's walk, guest writer Mark Reid heads to the Dales and takes a scramble up Pen-y-ghent and is rewarded with dizzying views. Pen-y-ghent dominates Horton-in-Ribblesdale, rising dramatically above the rooftops. The long climb to its summit is
MICK Ramsden reckons there could be few better ways to finish your career than leading your club out on the day they are crowned champions. But the York RL stalwart will get that chance on Sunday as the Knights end their 2005 home campaign against Workington
ADAM Sullivan returns to the York City Knights 17 for tomorrow's visit of promotion hopefuls Workington Town. The Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire Player of the Year leader injured an ankle in the win over London Skolars last month, when it was feared
THE National League Two cup will not be the only trophy on show tomorrow. For former Knights Richard Agar and Danny Brough will return to their old stomping ground and bring with them the Powergen Challenge Cup. Agar, Knights boss last season and now
NEWMARKET trainer Mark Tompkins, with half-a-dozen York winners in the bag already this season, can play a starring role on the sixth Evening Press Sunday Raceday on Knavesmire tomorrow. Tompkins saddles Connect in the feature event on the bumper seven-race
My alter-ego on this journal is as a staff photographer. Long before I joined the Evening Press photographic department, as a junior photographer of six months employ on a weekly in Lincolnshire, I had been made all too aware of why it was a good idea
Access is from street level. Although there is some accommodation immediately within the door there is a step up to the main caf. There is another step down to the toilets. We were shown to a table and immediately spotted a notice. 'The use of mobile
The ugly issue of racism raised its head this week following alleged racial abuse of the referee at the Halifax Town match on Monday. There have been no official complaints filed to date but the topic has been attracting attention on the unofficial website
Where were you on September 20, 1995? Simply Red (rather appropriately) were number one in the music charts with Fairground... and there was the small matter of a Coca-Cola Cup clash at Old Trafford where illustrious hosts Manchester United had their
A GRIEVING mother has condemned bosses at Castle Howard after they ordered the removal of flowers from the spot where her son died - and then got his name wrong. Friends and relatives of Lawrence Koppert placed tributes outside Castle Howard's Carrmire
YOU could say it was Hall signed, sealed and delivered for the man charged with keeping the area's newest golf club up to scratch. Less than two months ago Sandburn Hall Golf Club at Flaxton opened to rave reviews and at the helm of its cutting edge is
DON'T know your thoroughbred from a Tote booth? Unsure of what the draw, the going and the starting stalls actually mean? You can find the answers to these and other questions, and have a great time, at the sixth annual Evening Press Sunday Raceday, which
FORGET Gordon Ramsey and the air in the kitchen turning blue - this top student chef prefers a harmonious workplace. The trademark swearing and temper tantrums will have no place in Mark Richardson's kitchen. The 26-year-old York College Student of the
EVENING racing could soon be included in the York Races calendar. Chairman of York Race Committee Nicholas Wrigley has revealed that Knavesmire may host a night meeting one summer in the near future. "We are thinking about evening racing at York," he
THE male driver of this car had a lucky escape after his car overturned landing on its roof in a hedge. He was driving a white Mitsubishi FTO coup in Holtby Lane, Stockton-on-the-Forest, at about 5.40pm yesterday, when he was involved in a collision with
MICK Ramsden reckons there could be few better ways to finish your career than leading your club out on the day they are crowned champions. But the York RL stalwart will get that chance on Sunday as the Knights end their 2005 home campaign against Workington
READING Julian Cole's column (September 1) made me think. I wasn't born in York but moved here when I was 11 and my father got a job in the city. Apart from a few years living in Malton I've lived in the city for nearly 40 years now. I went to Queen Anne
ONE in every four people living in York drinks too much alcohol. That's the shocking finding of an in-depth study into the impact of booze on our city. Community chiefs ordered the report after a national survey laid bare the effect of alcohol on the
YORK City shot up to third in the Nationwide Conference table last night thanks to a brilliant strike by Clayton Donaldson. His stunning individual goal sank a tough Cambridge United outfit - relegated from the Football league last season - 1-0 at KitKat
A GROUP of hospital workers from York have scooped £774,505 on the National Lottery. The cash has been shared by 11 workers who are thought to work in the maintenance department at Stockton Hall Hospital. They each won about £70,500. Craig Bailey, 33,
I WAS fully aware that we had council houses in York but I did not know we also had council caravans. You reported that a resident of the travellers site at Clifton is waiting for council workers to arrive and solve a problem she is having with rats.
FORMER England amateur international Jonathan Plaxton will make a welcome return to the York Union of Golf Clubs' team for Sunday's duel against their Harrogate counterparts. Fulford GC's Plaxton is in line for his 102nd Union appearance for the improving
Oaks on the rise: UP, up and away was the clarion call at The Oaks GC. The Aughton-based club have been promoted to division one of the York Union Scratch Division after a fine triumph in a play-off over Malton and Norton at York GC. The pivotal victory
SO much is reported about the actions of young thugs but very little is written about teenagers who help other people. Most of our young people are law abiding and we often tend to generalise and tar them all with the same brush. On August 21 I tripped
YOUR report about the trained physiotherapist who couldn't get a job ('Frozen out', August 30) is familiar. Profit alongside management control, coupled with outside contracts, has demoralised most of the NHS staff into accepting the inevitable decline
Dave Stanford gets reacquainted with the Mount Royale Hotel at restaurant One 19. THE last time I "dined" at York's prestigious Mount Royale Hotel, I left in my underpants and soaked to the skin. It was 1980 and I was about eight years old and had overdosed
THE Knights have asked that fans remain in the stands immediately after tomorrow's game while the National League Two trophy is presented to the team. The club recognise that supporters will want to greet the players immediately after the final hooter
Simon Ritchie casts his eye over the latest thrillers. THERE'S nothing like a thriller with an historical twist to pull in the readers: just look at Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Now Jeffrey Deaver - the man behind such hits as The Bone Collector and
Readers of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code will be familiar with the role played by The Knights Templar in shaping the course of medieval history. But were they really guilty of the crimes of blasphemy and sexual deviance of which they were accused
YORK City shot up to third in the Nationwide Conference table last night thanks to a brilliant strike by Clayton Donaldson. His stunning individual goal sank a tough Cambridge United outfit - relegated from the Football league last season - 1-0 at KitKat
YORK City defender Chris Brass has gone to Conference North side Harrogate Town on loan for one month. Former player-manager Brass, who has struggled with injury since Christmas, made the switch yesterday afternoon and was likely to be in Town's side
FORMER Scarborough boss Ian Kerr is York City's new head of youth development. Kerr has joined the Minstermen from Hartlepool United where he has been overseeing their youth development scheme for the past three years. Before that, he was youth team coach
Saturday, September 3, 2005 100 years ago There were nearly always pathetic cases of lost children at the large railway stations during the holiday season. At Scarborough station, the previous Saturday night, a small boy - a mere child - turned up between
