JUNCTION improvements at two accident black spots will go ahead - despite a multi-million pound transport funding cut. There is funding available to install new traffic lights on the A19 at the Crockey Hill junction with Wheldrake Lane, and the A1079
SELBY swimmer Sarah Lambert clinched a hat-trick of wins for the first time at the Yorkshire Championships. Lambert, 24, swam to victory in the 50 metre and 100 metre backstroke finals and also claimed gold in the 50m freestyle. The Selby Tiger Sharks
CHALLENGE Cup fever is spreading among the York Acorn camp after their passage into round two, and the benefits look set to boost their National Conference division one form too. Acorn were handed a home draw to unbeaten Cumberland League leaders Seaton
THE public inquiry into two massive housing plans for York looks set to be a lengthy one. At least 45 people have requested the right to speak at the hearing into the proposals for the Germany Beck and Derwenthorpe sites. City of York Council has been
CLIFTON Cycling Club president Mick McCormick has proved to be 'Mr Reliability'. The 71-year-old was the oldest finisher in the club's 100 kilometre reliability trial which heralds the start of the new season. Forty riders completed the lengthy course
YORK Hospital is on track to beat this year's tough targets for battling a deadly "superbug" infection. The news comes after Government figures revealed it is one of the best performing hospitals in the region for driving down rates of the MRSA infection
CUTS are coming, and they will bite, York's council leader warned today. City bosses are to unveil proposals for their spending budget for the coming year on Monday, and council leader Steve Galloway has warned some sectors will "see a difference". The
IT'S down to you. That's the message to Selby tenants, who now have the final say on the future of their homes. District councillors have agreed to ballot the tenants over controversial proposals to sell off the council's housing stock. The move comes
COUNCIL chiefs in York still expect to hold next spring's local council elections in the city - despite leaked documents suggesting polls across the country could be scrapped. Coun Andrew Waller, City of York Council's deputy leader, said plans to abandon
BOTH letters of support for closure of the path at St Peters appear to have trouble with mathematics (February 1). There are far more than two objectors to the closure as the member of staff well knows. If the school is serious in its attempts to keep
DENNIS Woodcock draws attention to the importance of making our swimming pools accessible to all (Letters, February 8). This is one of the major reasons that City of York Council is seeking to refurbish/replace its three pools as a matter of urgency.
MAY I please appeal for help to trace a friend? In the 1950s I worked at Rowntree's with Joan Dennis (her maiden name) who lived in the Tadcaster area. She would have known me as Jean Kirby. After my marriage we lost touch. I am now widowed and live in
ONE of the more unusual signs of the high price of London property has come to York. Ground rents at a modern apartment block in the city are being auctioned in London, next Thursday. Ground rents are the levies payable by the owners of leasehold apartments
DELIGHTS of York are to be paraded before big hitters in the national British travel industry. The York Tourism Bureau will launch the city's impressive programme of events at the British Travel Trade Fair at the NEC Birmingham next month. The two-day
SPECIALIST software provider Welcom Software of Harrogate has clinched a long-term deal with furniture firm Land Of Leather for an undisclosed sum. Welcom, which won last year's Progress Through People category in the Evening Press Business Awards, was
MARK JONES, a specialist in trusts, tax planning and contentious probate work, has joined Harrogate law firm Barber Titleys as a partner in the private client department. The appointment sees Mark, 41, return to Harrogate after 15 months at the Leeds
Parenthood is an exciting new chapter in anyone's life, but a young baby also brings daunting responsibility. IT CAN be a steep learning curve for new parents as they get used to feeding and looking after their child, who must also undergo a series of
YORK City have welcomed the Football League's decision to seek a £150 million negligence claim against its former legal advisors over the ill-fated ITV Digital deal - but the club might face a battle to win any compensation. The case is currently being
HUNDREDS of people who opposed moves to reroute a popular York bus service might soon be celebrating victory. Transport bosses at First could continue to run the successful No 4 service along Heslington Road, after council chiefs proposed to remove car
A GOOD Samaritan who helped a man badly injured in a brawl outside a York club is being sought by police. Officers want to speak to a member of the public who tended to the victim, left with a broken right leg, a broken nose and bruising to the head as
THE first new no-smoking tavern in York opens next week, with the creation of 12 jobs. Brigantes Bar and Brasserie will be opened on Monday by no-smoking pub pioneers, Market Town Taverns, which last month became the UK's first entirely no-smoking tavern
"THAT naughty boy hit me in my face." Those are the words of little Megan Stephenson, who is still suffering nightmares after she was the victim of a shocking and apparently motiveless attack in the middle of a shop. The two-year-old was playing happily
SELBY/DRAX Ladies caused a major shock in ladies division one of the York Badminton League with an 8-1 home win over unbeaten York RI. Lisa Ward and Michelle Hall led the Selby charge with three straight wins for 90-63 in their best performance this season
Hounds FC are in a commanding position at the top of the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League first division after a 3-2 derby win over Thorpe United. Chris Harkin scored for the leaders after only five minutes before Lanaghan got the equaliser
YORK RI will try to make sure eight wins become nine when they look to stretch their lead in Yorkshire Three with victory over Wath-on-Dearne tomorrow. Fresh from a two-week break, there are few injury worries for the Railwaymen, who will go in search
YORK City have welcomed the Football League's decision to seek a £150 million negligence claim against its former legal advisors over the ill-fated ITV Digital deal - but the club might face a battle to win any compensation. The case is currently being
IF you had suggested to a York drinker ten years ago that Micklegate would host a no-smoking bar, he would have coughed in your face. But next week, the city's first fume-free bar will open on the reveller's favourite street. Many licensees will watch
STEPHEN LEWIS visits a new community house that helps complete the transformation of a York estate. IT'S a beautiful sunny day in Bramham Road, crisp but clear. Three young schoolgirls, sent home for the day because the water is off at school, are standing
Hounds FC are in a commanding position at the top of the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League first division after a 3-2 derby win over Thorpe United. Chris Harkin scored for the leaders after only five minutes before Lanaghan got the equaliser
I remember on a mid-summer Saturday in lush green England, as the dawn gave way to the rising sun of the early morning. I could hear our local song thrush singing beautifully and everything felt so good just lying there in bed with eyes barely half open
Moderate Muslims speak about respect, and put forward a lack of respect for their religious culture by native Britons as a significant factor in the world wide havoc which is being wrought upon non believers in the name of their Prophet. Those who have
There are many forms of disco dancing and my journal is about just a few of them. Most disco dances have strong roots in swing, Samba, Cha Cha, Mambo, Merengue, Fox Trot and Tango. The Hustle is believed to have begun in New York in 1970. There were many
BOOTHAM'S Barry Rankin will hope to roll back the years and defeat champion Neil Wood in York Conservative Club's Tayrol Scruton Snooker Cup. Heworth ace Wood has won the competition for the last three years and six times in all but will be put to the
NEW signing Neil Bishop has admitted that York City's dominant derby-day displays against former club Scarborough this season helped persuade him his future lay at KitKat Crescent. Bishop played in both matches against the Minstermen during the Christmas
VIOLENT crime has seen a greater drop in York than nationally since new licensing hours were introduced. Violent crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales fell by 11 per cent at the end of last year, despite longer pub opening hours, according
SHOCKED neighbours told of their horror after a teenage girl and her parents were stabbed at their York home. The 15-year-old girl was seriously injured in the attack in Bramham Avenue, as reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Press. Detectives
THE crash which killed four York pilgrims in Jordan was caused when a worn front tyre burst and their coach veered into an oncoming truck, an inquest heard. They were among a party of 18 Britons, nine of whom were killed on October 28, 2004 - the sixth
INSURERS have snatched away the best possible birthday present from Poppy Wright - financial security for the rest of her childhood. Poppy, who has just celebrated her third birthday, was forced by insurance company Direct Line last year to undergo DNA
ON the night that put the business into show business, the big winner from The Deep End at the Grand Opera House was charity. Not only did the programme proceeds from the York business community's pop talent contest go to the Evening Press's Guardian
YOU describe expansion of the A59/A1237 junction as "desperately needed" (Comment, February 8). It is no such thing. If we are to prevent a catastrophic collapse of the climate and if we are to cope with the imminent decline in world oil output we must
THOSE campaigning for the closure of the right of way at St Peter's School, York, are probably deluding themselves if they think such closure will prevent the criminal element from continuing to plague the school and its grounds. Many schools other than
THE article Charity Dingle made one pause for thought and give a wry smile (February 6). I do not think the charity causes will have made many friends by describing some people's prized possessions as cheap and nasty when donating their clothes for sale
I WAS delighted to see the articles about the York Oxfam bookshops in the Evening Press (February 3 and 6). May I bring to the attention of readers the fact that there is also an Oxfam bookshop in York Hospital? This is a whole new venture as it is the
THE knife amnesty is wheeled out again and I can only presume it is to try to appease an increasingly disgruntled nation in the wake of the increase in the use of blades to threaten and kill. The only problem with this is the fact that the criminal who
CITY of York Council offers £500,000 for the maintenance of Yearsley pool until 2011. It would be better to invest £1 million and keep the pool for another century. The pool will be 100 years old in 2008. It has had little investment since being fitted
STEVE Galloway has got a cheek, trying to blame residents for the loss of the Barbican pool. He told the Evening Press: "The deal they helped to scupper would have provided a local public pool and fitness facility. That opportunity has gone" (February
I SHOULD like to plead with Jean Frost for toleration of domestic supernatural encounters (Letters, January 30). These disturb no one. My mother claimed to have met a ghost quite informally. This was a discreet, familial and strictly in-house spectral
WE are organising a reunion of friends and neighbours who were born and/or brought up during the Thirties, Forties and Fifties in the following areas of York: Hambleton Terrace, Rose Street, Beaconsfield Street, Vyner Street, Fountayne Street and all
BEWARE of cold-calling charity "publishing" scams, more than 150 businesses in and around York have been warned. The alert comes from Michael Hjort, secretary of the York Hospitality Association, in his latest email newsletter. He said Department of Trade
MORE than 100 pupils are preparing to do business at the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet, York. The 15 to 19-year-olds in 18 "mini companies" drawn from 14 schools across York and North Yorkshire will compete for customers and demonstrate their business
A SALES executive at a York car dealership has been singled out as one of Ford's most promising employees nationally, after being in the first handful of people to complete a rigorous Masters training programme. Ken Holford, 30, of Polar Ford York, has
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, we have another whale tale for you. Fecklessly imagining we had exhausted the subject of whale-based York exhibitions, this terrific photograph dropped into our inbox before you could say "Moby
BUSINESS leaders in the Selby area will be getting together at a special conference next week to promote the district's economy. The Active Business meeting to be held in the town will give firms advice about workforce skills and training. The free conference
BOATS on the River Foss could be a more common sight in York under a long-running scheme to revamp the city's waterways, councillors will hear next week. Under the proposal, it is intended to allow members of the boating community to be trained as lock
PLANS to replace York's "shamefully crumbling" Arc Light Centre have been passionately defended by council leader Steve Galloway. He spoke of his determination to ensure the homeless centre moves to suitable new premises, enabling it to help end the city's
GO to jail, go directly to jail and don't practice your "trade" anywhere in England and Wales - that was the message today to a cowboy builder on the run. Joseph Horner, 36, is believed to have fled to Ireland after preying on the frail and elderly. But
THE fate of the Barbican Centre has finally been sealed. Senior city councillors agreed last night to sell the site - which is earmarked for a major redevelopment, but without the new community pool that was originally proposed - after a last ditch attempt
Kevin Blackwell has scored a psychological victory over Derby County by pledging his future to Leeds United ahead of tomorrow's visit to Pride Park. Derby have been impressed by the job Blackwell has done at Elland Road and are keen to lure him away from
THE latest person to go on the sex offenders' register in York is a woman who kissed a boy in the street after drinking at least eight or nine shots of vodka. Kerry Husband, 29, has family difficulties including domestic violence and may have psychiatric
YORK RI will try to make sure eight wins become nine when they look to stretch their lead in Yorkshire Three with victory over Wath-on-Dearne tomorrow. Fresh from a two-week break, there are few injury worries for the Railwaymen, who will go in search
FOR six years York was told there would be new baths at the Barbican. It was a hard-won pledge. After the former Labour-run city council threatened to close the pool, thousands of residents took to the streets in protest. That brought a commitment to
Six hundred miles and 90 minutes lie between Pickering Town and the quarter-finals of a major national cup. And The Pikes know they have as good a chance as any of making that place their own tomorrow. Bubbling boss Alex Mathie, who admits he is quietly
Second division Dunnington Reserves are in the final of the York and District Sunday Afternoon League Cup after shocking first division Turf. Ben Connell put Dunnington ahead on two minutes but Tim Hudson made it 1-1 at half-time before Joshua Tattersall
