YORK City Knights have signed up some of the hottest young property in the York amateur game as they look to build a competitive Academy team, writes Peter Martini. The club today announced they have recruited 12 more players for their new Under-21s team
YORKSHIRE'S new chief executive Stewart Regan is determined to exploit cricket's feel-good factor on the back of England's Ashes triumph last summer. With Yorkshire gaining promotion to the first division of the Championship and buying their own ground
LIZ PAGE, managing director of York & County Press - publishers of the Evening Press - is moving on. Liz, aged 46, was editor of the Evening Press from 1996 to 2003. She was the newspaper's first woman editor. She left the company yesterday to become
A NEW Look store is to open on the site of the former Littlewoods shop in York's Parliament Street on June 1. The women's fashion chain store today announced that the 7,000 sq ft premises is one of the 34 Littlewoods stores it has bought from Associated
ONE of Pocklington's best-known pubs has been sold to a local licensee. The leasehold for The Station Hotel, at The Pavement, in the centre of the town, has been bought by Kim Lightfoot from administrators of the holding group for an undisclosed sum.
SOARING rail fares mean that it will be cheaper to travel by chauffeur-driven car than by train, a chauffeur service claimed today. Rail fare hikes of up to nine per cent mean businessmen and women can make massive savings by travelling to meetings in
MOST of us feel like hibernating when the days get darker and shorter. But for some people, the misery of winter is an annual nightmare that brings lethargy, anti-sociability and depression. Actor Johnny Briggs, who plays Mike Baldwin in TV soap Coronation
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to improve safety and tackle traffic jams on the A1079 near York. Representatives of communities dotted along the trunk road - including Dunnington, Pocklington, Barmby Moor, Wilberfoss, Shiptonthorpe, Catton and Market Weighton
VULNERABLE groups such as the elderly could be hit hard if cuts to York ward committee budgets are pushed through, a leading councillor claimed today. Green party councillor Mark Hill, who represents Fishergate ward, said his committee could lose as much
ONE of York's top hotels is up for sale. The Viking Moat House is being sold by the Queens Moat House Hotel chain, which is keeping both the sale price and response close to its chest. But the marketing of the 200-bedroom hotel on the bank of the Ouse
PLANS to scrap the council's hot meals-on-wheels service in York have been given the go-ahead. City of York Council's executive member and advisory panel for social services gave the green light to a one-year pilot scheme working in partnership with contract
A CHIP pan caught fire at a York city centre bar as staff were preparing the day's lunches. Firefighters were called to Wilde's Wine Bar, in Grape Lane yesterday, after the upstairs kitchen filled with smoke. Three fire engines were sent to the scene
PROMOTION-CHASING Leeds United put all thoughts of the FA Cup on hold tomorrow as they seek their fifth successive league win. With a third round replay against Wigan looming at Elland Road on Tuesday night, skipper Paul Butler has warned his colleagues
RAIDERS wielding hammers and a handgun threatened staff and stole watches from a York jeweller's - the second raid on the shop within six months. Armed police rushed to Harpers Jewellers, in Minster Gates, after three armed men carried out the raid just
I WAS a member of Stagecoach Youth Theatre for 13 years and throughout that period it provided me with not only a foundation in theatre but a foundation in life. John Cooper has the amazing ability to challenge and encourage the young people, far more
I HAVE been with Stagecoach Youth Theatre for six years. It is doing a lot for me, teaching me many life skills and gives me great opportunities to socialise with my friends. The main reason, of course, is to teach me the skill of drama. It would upset
ALONG with many others, I wish to protest against the proposed cut in funding to Stagecoach Youth Theatre York. The loss of funding will also impact upon a recent initiative, the Steps programme (Stagecoach Theatres Expansion Plan for Students) developed
I CERTAINLY hope that York does not follow the lead suggested by Dillon Toyne in his letter "Dirty York clean up your act" and aim for the poor recycling levels achieved in Tower Hamlets. Tower Hamlets recycled only 5.1 per cent of household rubbish in
LIZ Edge could consider an effective direction for her campaign for struggling motorists (Letters, January 8). By campaigning for better facilities for willing cyclists Liz could make more space on the roads for people like herself who have no alternative
I READ in the Evening Press about something called the St Mary's Abbey Precinct Project which would breathe new life into the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens - this under the direction, I believe of Ms Barnes (January 6). This was to follow up on the various
YORK Acorn's Under 18 rugby league players saw off Hunslet Parkside in the quarter-finals of the Yorkshire League Cup with an impressive 26-8 victory. Acorn held a 10-0 lead after 15 minutes only for Parkside to reply with two well-taken tries. With Acorn
CLOCKED the dateline at the top of this page? In our rational, scientific age it is remarkable how one date can still give so many people the collywobbles. There will be all sorts of otherwise lucid folk today touching wood, fingering rabbits' feet or
ACE jockey Graham Lee misses a host of fancied rides tomorrow after being hurt in a fall at Catterick yesterday. The Grand National-winning jockey was involved in a three-horse pile-up in the selling hurdle and suffered a badly bruised foot. Lee, who
NEW recruit Jason Golden has promised York City Knights fans honest endeavours and 100 per cent effort as he looks to develop his fledgling career at Huntington Stadium. The 20-year-old second-rower, who has joined York on loan, will make his bow in blue
Selby Town are hoping their centre-back crisis will have eased in time for tomorrow's big Northern Counties East League premier division game at second-placed Liversedge. High-flying Liversedge will offer a serious challenge to the Robins, who are currently
CROSS Keys find themselves anchored to the bottom of the York Sunday Afternoon Football League second division after a 6-1 beating by Drum. The result was bad enough but worse news was to follow as Stirling Park, the only team below them in the league
RYAN Chadwick made up for lost time when his hat-trick earned Selby Olympia WMC a 3-1 win over Nestl Volunteers in York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one. It was his first full game for three months after being out through injury
A YORK-BASED businessman and former journalist in the city has been awarded the highest honour in business communications. Tim Moat, who lives in Acomb Road, has earned Fellowship status of the British Association of Communicators in Business (CiB) as
WITH York City not having a game tomorrow, the club's juniors take centre stage. Coach Ian Kerr will return to former club Hartlepool tomorrow as the Minstermen's youth team are playing the North-East outfit at Chester-Le-Steeet (11am). Kerr, who coached
PRIME building sites in York could be left vacant because firms cannot afford to develop them, it is claimed. An estate agent warned builders may start pulling out of the city because of costly planning rules. Keith Hollinrake, director of York property
ART lovers should be bowled over by the latest addition to the collection at York Art Gallery - a genuine Picasso. Gallery chiefs hope their latest acquisition, a Picasso bowl depicting a bullfight, will help swell the number of visitors to the gallery
Rich Corner included a maximum for 21 as York Knavesmire Racing Darts League division one leaders Mitre narrowly defeated Huntington WMC. The leaders went 3-0 up with Kev O'Hara out in 19 and John Quantock 20, but Huntington hit back through Pip Hair
A PAEDOPHILE music teacher who groomed and abused two pupils three decades ago has had his jail term almost halved. Conrad Sandercock, 61, had his three-and-a-half year sentence cut to two years at the Court of Appeal yesterday after judges accepted he
HUNTINGTON WMC visit the Ouse at Fulford on Sunday in the only angling match booking of the weekend. Bream are likely to figure high on the agenda with a return to milder conditions this week. The warmer weather has brought some good catches to local
TWO thugs who beat a student to death have been jailed for life. Anthony Silcock and Carl Newton were convicted by unanimous verdicts of the murder of 21-year-old Joe Medforth. They have been told they must serve at least 13-and-a-half years each before
YORK City Knights have signed up some of the hottest young property in the York amateur game as they look to build a competitive Academy team. The club today announced they have recruited 12 more players for their new Under-21s team, all but one of them
NEW recruit Jason Golden has promised York City Knights fans honest endeavours and 100 per cent effort as he looks to develop his fledgling career at Huntington Stadium. The 20-year-old second-rower, who has joined York on loan, will make his bow in blue
ON the letters page tonight, York city councillor Charles Hall takes Dillon Toyne to task over recycling. But does Coun Hall know who he is locking horns with? Dillon is the man once described as "Britain's most established sex journalist". Born and brought
Friday, January 13, 2006 100 years ago At the Eastern Ainsty Petty Sessions, Thomas Stockdale and Thomas Watson were charged on remand with stealing four fowls from a fowl house at Dringhouses, the property of Thomas Mitchell, value 35s. Edmund Fawbert
I FIND it incomprehensible that a youth theatre, namely Stagecoach, will have to foreclose because of financial constraints. One was always led to believe that City of York Council prided itself in supporting youth programmes, even encouraging the younger
YORK Hospital food is excellent. But if the meals were prepared by Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay some people would still moan. My advice to the moaners is to ask for application forms for kitchen staff if they think they can do better, and maybe then
MAY we remind readers that the public inquiry which is being held to consider the proposals to close a right of way running through the grounds of St Peter's School, York, will open at the city's Guildhall on Tuesday, January 17, at 10am. You can attend
HOW on earth can First justify a 50p increase in its day ticket? For my wife - who gets her value-for-money Rover ticket every day - this means she will have to stump up an extra £120 a year. By any standards that is a massive increase in revenue. I would
WHEN is a month not a month? I have just received a child's monthly bus ticket from First York bus company. After inspection of the ticket it only actually runs for four weeks, not a month, even though the ticket has month printed on it. So not only has
HAVE any of your readers, like Paul Willey and Phil Fowler, made any of these annual "New Week's Resolutions"? The ones you have no intentions of keeping but publicly announce them just to impress and draw attention to yourself. If so, well "Happy New
AFTER throwing the Yorkshire Two promotion race open with their win at West Park last Saturday, Pocklington face another tough test when they entertain closest rivals Dinnington, at Percy Road tomorrow. Dinnington and Pocklington are level on 16 points
STEPHEN LEWIS meets the young performers dreading the demise of Stagecoach Youth Theatre, York - thanks to a proposed cut in funding from City of York Council. IT'S dark in the Stagecoach studio theatre. The walls of the small performing space in Monkgate
TODAY the past and future of child protection share a spotlight. We report the Appeal Court's decision to cut the prison sentence of Conrad Sandercock. He was jailed in September after admitting indecently assaulting children when he was working at St
