STAFF and pupils at schools across the region are celebrating their success in the national school performance tables. The tables, published by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), show the performance of GCSE and A-level students throughout
STUDENT police officers were given a taste of the front line when they dealt with shoplifters and drunks as part of their training. Thankfully for them, the would-be criminals were all being played by volunteers. The event was part of a 17-week training
HE'S English and he's Australian - and he will captain a York Cricket Club team this summer. Jason English who hails from Down Under, will lead the York 2nd XI side in the Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Cricket League. It is probably the first
SO what's the thread linking Tony Blair's wish for a more polite society, that dreadful woman off The X Factor and Channel 4's even more appalling Celebrity Big Brother? Well, I hope to establish a connection, so here goes. Many national newspaper columnists
A York company that provides laboratory testing of clinical trials conducted in detecting cancer and other diseases has formed a major transatlantic alliance giving it a global network in more than 60 countries. Pivotal Laboratories, based in Aviator
A MAJOR conference for business women throughout York and North Yorkshire is to be held this spring. The one-day conference - also aimed at women considering setting up their own venture - is being held at The Pavilions near the Great Yorkshire Showground
RALPH Yates & Sons, the Malton agricultural goods specialist, has opened a £500,000 lawnmowers and garden machinery centre in Pickering. The 10,000 sq ft purpose-built shop, behind the firm's Ralph Yates Steam and Moorland Garden Centre on Malton
YORK City reserves' trip to Doncaster Rovers has been brought forward a week to Tuesday, March 14, kick-off 2pm. The reserves' next game is against Sheffield United 'B' at home on Tuesday, January 31, kick-off 2pm. Updated: 09:54 Thursday, January 19,
YORK City striker Andy Bishop has dismissed FIFA's officious ruling over goal celebrations as "stupid". The directive from football's governing body was called into question at the weekend when Holland international Arjen Robben was sent off for racing
GREEN campaigners are calling on City of York Council to put off plans to enter long-term contracts with waste treatment firms before residents have spoken up. City of York Council's executive is due to decide on February 7 about whether to put forward
BURGLARY, assault, threats to pupils - these crime statistics were being used to support a York school's bid to close a right of way running through its grounds. The highly controversial proposal to shut the footpath through St Peter's School is this
THE site chosen for York's big wheel has been branded "fraught with danger and safety problems" by police, but councillors were today likely to give the plan the go-ahead. Officers have told council officials considering the National Railway Museum (NRM
HE'S English and he's Australian - and he will captain a York Cricket Club team this summer. Jason English who hails from Down Under, will lead the York 2nd XI side in the Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Cricket League. It is probably the first
SOME of the York Indoor Bowls Club's top bowlers will be battling out in a new league in the next three months. The invitation-only York IBC Champions Singles League is for past winners of the the club's singles competition. Prize money of £600 from sponsors
TOUGH GMB Union National Cup third round ties are on the agenda for both York Acorn and Heworth on Saturday. Acorn travel to take on Cumberland League leaders Hensingham, while the Villagers face West Hull, who are pushing for promotion in National Conference
COULD Charlie Benskin be York's Inspector Morse? Charlie is the main character in a new murder mystery novel, which is set in York despite its author living on the other side of the world. Ron Willis completed the book after emigrating from York to Perth
TEACHERS are refusing to teach a 15-year-old boy until he gives the names of the members of a gang which beat up two school cleaners. Staff at Huntington School made the unanimous decision to stop teaching the teenager after he was spotted with two other
I WAS delighted to read there are plans for a more frequent Yorkshire Coastliner bus service. A couple of years ago my employer moved our place of work from Leeds, near the station, to Thornbury near Bradford, despite our protests. I don't drive. I struggled
EVEN the Evening Press has now run an article on Big Brother. Really! (January 14). A more puerile programme could never have been tailored for Mr Blair's dumbed-down British public, with newspapers full of the antics of self promoting, inadequate buffoons
FOLLOWING the public meeting on January 16, I was surprised to learn that incineration is by no means the cheapest option for disposing of waste. It seems City of York Council is supporting it simply because it is seen as the easy option. It seems to
I AM writing regarding the guy who bought the domain names and is being banned from using them (Travel Agent's Olympic Plea To Tony Blair, January 12). Firstly let me ask how it was possible for a member of Joe Public to buy up these domain names if the
MAY I address the following question to Sara Robin, Paul Hepworth et al? What part of "I would sell my car and use a bicycle if I could but with my work/lifestyle it is simply not possible" do you not understand? Mike Usherwood, Mendip Close, Huntington
Thursday, January 19, 2006 100 years ago If the tremendous tide of Liberal victories at the polls continued as it had begun, the House of Commons would not be large enough to seat all the Government supporters on one side of the House. Already more than
THE funeral was taking place today of former York RL director Paul Duffield at Fulford Church. Mr Duffield died on January 9 in York Hospital after a long battle against leukaemia. York City Knights club officials and members of the amateur rugby league
New Earswick All Blacks are confident of repeating last Saturday's win over Thornhill Trojans 'A' in the return Pennine League division one fixture this weekend. The All Blacks will be without scrum-half Ben Jones, who is carrying a shoulder injury. Also
TOUGH GMB Union National Cup third round ties are on the agenda for both York Acorn and Heworth on Saturday. Acorn travel to take on Cumberland League leaders Hensingham, while the Villagers face West Hull, who are pushing for promotion in National Conference
ACCORDING to the Home Office, car crime makes up nearly 20 per cent of all recorded crimes in England and Wales. Car crime can be distressing and annoying as it can cause a lot of inconvenience - you could be without a car for weeks, waiting for the garage
Is the cost of using the telephone or watching TV when you are in hospital too high? Ofcom thinks so. STEPHEN LEWIS investigates. PETE Lambourne is pleased with his bedside TV/radio/telephone set. It is mounted on a long arm, like an old-fashioned angle-poise
STAFF at Huntington School, York, are absolutely right to unite against the thugs who attacked two cleaners. After being asked to leave the school grounds, a pair of youths knocked the men to the ground, punching and kicking them. It was a cowardly and
Oscar The Boxer makes the long journey to Musselburgh from Malcolm Jefferson's Ryedale yard tomorrow and can land a knockout blow in the Cosmic Case Handicap Hurdle. The seven-year-old steps up to three miles after a rock-solid effort on this course earlier
WAKEFIELD Trinity coach Tony Smith reckons the squad he has lined up for York City Knights shows how important he is treating tomorrow's friendly, writes Peter Martini. The Wildcats visit York just 48 hours before facing local Super League rivals Castleford
On the day of Christmas Eve we were stopped in our tracks by the sound and sight of the Stagecoach choir delivering their unique Christmas message to the people of York, next to the Evening Press vendor stand in Parliament Street. It went this way; "Jingle
IT'S something to squeak about! Serial entrepreneur and mum-of-two Nicky Ghouri, of Thirsk, is creating a high street buzz with a new range of toddlers' shoes...that squeak. BeeSqueaky shoes are quality soft leather and canvas shoes aimed at toddlers
WHAT a batty creature! A Pipistrelle bat got itself into a spot of bother at a York primary school when it managed to get stuck inside a light fitting. But the animal was rescued from its prison after being spotted by a pupil during a maths lesson at
YORK'S lengthy Barbican saga has taken two new twists. Councillors are to consider a fresh licence application for the leisure complex, after receiving 24 objections from local residents. And the Government has decided not to intervene over a City of
A LABOURER who murdered his girlfriend's baby after four months of barbaric cruelty, when he made the infant's existence a "living hell", had his conviction upheld in London's Court Of Appeal. Kevin Raw, of Elm View, Pickering, was jailed for life at
CITY council leader Steve Galloway is calling on the Local Government Minister to visit York and witness the authority's achievements before deciding on how much cash it will receive next year. In a letter to Phil Woolas, at the Office of the Deputy Prime
HOSPITAL chiefs are preparing for a new era of health care. The Department of Health has finally approved York Hospital's bid for foundation status, and referred it to a regulator for evaluation. Jim Easton, the hospital's chief executive, said he was
ENVIRONMENT chiefs in Selby have come under fire after it emerged they were heading for a budget overspend of more than £600,000. The figure includes almost £200,000 more than anticipated on recycling - an overspend of more than 30 per cent. The ruling
CONTROVERSIAL plans to axe special needs teachers and shut down a children's home have given the green light by education chiefs. The Evening Press revealed last week that four teachers who advise schools across the city on how to look after youngsters
YORK City Knights will come face to face with a man recently regarded as the person NRL players would least want to fight against when Wakefield Wildcats visit Huntington Stadium tomorrow (kick-off 7.30pm). Kiwi loose-forward Monty Betham, who can also
YORK City striker Andy Bishop has dismissed FIFA's officious ruling over goal celebrations as "stupid". The directive from football's governing body was called into question at the weekend when Holland international Arjen Robben was sent off for racing
RICHARD Owens, of North Yorkshire County Council, announced "Rural lifeline bus services are facing cutbacks" (January 4). Then it was reported that North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) has already thrown its weight behind the plan for the new park-and-ride
WHILE I think park-and-ride schemes are, in principle, a good idea, I cannot believe that the proposed Hazelbush Caf site is appropriate. Within 100 yards of this site is the Towthorpe/Stockton-on-the-Forest A64 junction, where every year there are several
REGARDING the announcement by North Yorkshire County Council on rural "lifeline" bus services facing cutbacks: a percentage of our council tax money is to provide these services and everybody benefits from them. Why should we, the public, have to lose
I THINK it is excellent news that First York has put its fares up for the third time in less than a year. Not because people should pay more, but because people might finally switch to other local operators who do offer value-for-money fares. I often
IT was interesting to read that residents have been consulted about incineration or mechanical biological treatment options for waste disposal (January 12). The joint public consultation by City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council on the
IN response to Derek Slater (Letters, January 16), I should point out that his idea of sending the residual waste to Drax was indeed mentioned in two of the options in the Best Practicable Environmental Option report... and then not put as one that the
A LETTER published in yesterday's Evening Press alleged that City of York Council was proposing to close a senior citizens' home. That is not the case. We are happy to make it clear that the Selby and York Primary Care Trust proposes to close Acomb Gables
TEMPERATURES went mild today. There was even a touch of spring in the air. Don't be fooled. Have you seen what's happening in Moscow? The mercury's plunged to 30 below. Even the Russians, used to stoically enduring bitter winters, are struggling as pipes
YORK City Knights will come face to face with a man recently regarded as the person NRL players would least want to fight against when Wakefield Wildcats visit Huntington Stadium tomorrow (kick-off 7.30pm). Kiwi loose-forward Monty Betham, who can also
My son is lucky enough to be part of the Stagecoach community. Lucky because of our family demographics, life could be so different. Living in an area of York, where kids hanging around on street corners are an all too common sight. Where mobs of girls
