Singing has tended to take a back seat in some York schools - until now, that is. Education reporter HAYDN LEWIS went to meet a university graduate who has enlisted 1,000 pupils from 20 schools for a city-wide choral festival. WHEN pupils from Wheldrake
A BRASS band concert in York is set to raise at least £500 for the Evening Press Guardian Angels Appeal. The concert will take place at the Railway Institute, in Queen Street, at 7.30pm, on Friday, April 21. It is being organised by the York RI Band section
SIX York Under-15 schoolboy footballers have been picked to represent North Yorkshire after a round-robin trial tournament at Thirsk School. Tadcaster Grammar 'keeper Lewis Graham was selected alongside schoolmates Chris Green, Christian Derrick and Tom
HARROGATE school St John Fisher are through to the last 16 in the country after beating Penistone Grammar School 4-2 in the Northern section quarter-finals of the Coca Cola English Schools' Football Cup. Goals for twins Chris and Conor Donaghue combined
A SPIRITED attempt by York University students to engineer a fuss has been scuppered, the Diary can reveal. Campus newspaper Nouse tried to publish "the most controversial feature. Ever". This involved reproducing the rudest word in the English language
AN AMAZING made-in-York business simulation game is being closely examined by a leading bank. York entrepreneur Peter Harrington's SimVenture computer programme, a demo version of which is wowing students and pupils at selected schools and colleges in
Philip Watts has been appointed as the York-based Benenden Healthcare Society's first national business development manager. The Benenden Healthcare Society, a mutual not-for-profit provider of affordable, quality health care in Holgate Park, has especially
A life-long railway fanatic's love of Flying Scotsman has left a permanent mark on him in more ways than one. Jon Pridmore, 40, of Acomb, York, had the legendary locomotive's number - 4472 - tattooed between his shoulder blades yesterday. The tattoo,
CHURCH secondary schools in York have welcomed a crackdown on parents pretending to be Christians to get their children a place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has pledged to introduce new national guidelines for church schools on admissions
YORK athlete Colin Shafto burst through more than one barrier on his way to gold in the M70 pentathlon at the British Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships. The 71-year-old Nestl Rowntree competitor completed his first multi-event in years after
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook has resisted the temptation to change his line-up tonight, despite facing an important Northern Rail Cup clash at Hull KR less than four days later. The Knights travel to the Shay, Halifax, to take on amateurs Ovenden
JUST what is happening to the weather? After yesterday's dramatic snowfall and sleet, heavy overnight rain led to flooding today. Travellers at a caravan site in York were left knee-deep in floodwater after a beck overflowed its banks, and a road at Stockton-on
YORK City's rivals Hereford United and Stevenage Borough both tightened their hold on a Nationwide Conference play-off spot last night. Second-placed Hereford United won 2-1 at bottom club Southport - a result that will cheer relegation-haunted Scarborough
YORK could get a single festive lighting "centrepiece" this year - unless traders stump up for traditional Christmas lights themselves. Letters could be sent to city centre traders, outlining how much it would cost them to string traditional garlands
GUTTED York runner Richard Buck is out of the Commonwealth Games. The 19-year-old Nestl Rowntree Athletics Club runner has torn a hamstring at the England training camp in Australia. While the Games opening ceremony got underway at Melbourne today, the
MORE than 43,000 people across York and Selby are facing an uncertain future in NHS dentistry after new figures revealed nearly a quarter of the region's dental practices are going private. The alarming statistics released by Selby and York Primary Care
Tonight's re-arranged Powergen Challenge Cup match against Ovenden at The Shay is on after a pitch inspection. Kick-off 8pm. Updated: 17:05 Wednesday, March 15, 2006
RECENTLY it was reported that Sky TV was installed at the mental hospital that houses Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, and other criminals. Sky TV was installed so that these people could watch premiership football and, I quote, "Hollywood movies". It must
MAY I through this column of your excellent newspaper forward a message to the horrible people who have stolen my beautiful garden seat. This seat was part of a gift from my late father, an ex-war veteran whose boot laces you wouldn't be fit to tie. You
IAN Dawson of Bradford rather mysteriously has a pop at the trade unions over the Rowntree job losses (Letters, March 9). Now maybe we've been reading a different paper, but I seem to remember our colleagues in GMB campaigning long and hard to try to
I RECENTLY received my pension "rise" from the Chancellor, based on inflation. After he has taken back tax it amounts to £8.05 per month, so I am not about to book the holiday. At the same time I am charged a sum of £30.34 per month for council tax, water
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 100 years ago Mr Ernest C Breed, amateur billiard champion for Great Britain and Ireland, was back in York again with the one hundred-guinea cup, which he won during the previous week with probably the finest all-round display
IT is billed as the biggest shake-up in dental care since the National Health Service (NHS) began. But back in 1948, signing up with a dentist was painless. What a contrast to 2006. The reforms to be introduced in April will kick thousands of York and
Second homes and holiday homes can have a severe impact on local communities, a report warned last week. But are they necessarily a bad thing? We look at the pros and cons. Yes... says Ryedale Liberal councillor Nelly Trevelyan I know people who own second
CHURCH secondary schools in York have welcomed a crackdown on parents pretending to be Christians to get their children a place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has pledged to introduce new national guidelines for church schools on admissions
SELBY'S MP will lead the rebels tonight when the House of Commons votes on the Government's controversial school reforms. John Grogan will join up to 50 other Labour backbenchers who plan to vote against the Education Bill. Tony Blair faces a test of
JOSEPH Rowntree School moved into the semi-finals of the National Schools' Boys Under-15 Squash Tournament with an emphatic 4-1 win against Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. The Newcastle side featuring no fewer than three Northumberland junior county
HUNTINGTON School's Under-18 girls' hockey team have become joint winners of the York area tournament. They drew 0-0 with Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, to earn a share of the spoils after both schools won their respective groups. Huntington were captained
CUP fever is sneaking into the York primary schools footballing ranks as the competition, if not the weather, starts to hot up. Headlands' impressive league form transferred to the cup with a 2-0 win in the only game in the preliminary round. They had
UNBEATEN York City Under-12 Schools' football team kept up their run with a 3-0 defeat of South Northumberland. The first goal came following neat work by Aaron Hudson and Andrew Simpson to play the ball in for man of the match Jules Gabbiadini to round
YOUNG Fulford gymnast Jemma Evenett is jumping for joy. The eight-year-old has just been crowned club grade five champion of Yorkshire. Jemma, a pupil at St Oswald's School, gained an overall mark of 45.586 to beat off the challenge of 53 other top gymnasts
Last week was a particularly interesting one in the business life of the city of York. Firstly, there was publication of the important report from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) entitled State Of The English Cities. Who would have thought
YORK City's rivals Hereford United and Stevenage Borough both tightened their hold on a Nationwide Conference play-off spot last night. Second-placed Hereford United won 2-1 at bottom club Southport - a result that will cheer relegation-haunted Scarborough
THE brother of a 19-year-old backpacker murdered in Australia gave his first talk to sixth form pupils about ways to stay safe while travelling. Richard Stuttle, 28, spoke about the death of his sister, Caroline, in Bundesberg four years ago, and also
AMBITIOUS targets to increase the number of passengers on York's Park&Ride services over the next five years have been slashed after the Government "short-changed" the city on transport funding. Transport chiefs at City of York Council have been forced
A FAMILY of travellers have been warned they will be locked up if they breach their antisocial behaviour order (ASBO) just one more time. In court, members of the Smith family admitted breaking an ASBO imposed to curb their unruly lifestyle. Magistrates
A LEADING travel book has ranked York as among the 200 best cities to live in the entire world. Lonely Planet's Cities Book says York is one of the most "interesting, attractive, liveable and challenging" places to live on the planet. The book, which
The York winter angling season bowed out with a whimper on Sunday when a field of 43 endured one of the poorest matches of a long campaign. Sunday's booking on the Ouse below York was reserved as the spare date for the York and District Winter League.
THEY are one of York's most treasured historical assets. Now an ambitious £174,000 project aims to bring the bar walls up to 21st century visitor standards. City of York Council has teamed up with Yorkshire Forward and English Heritage to make it easier
ONCE again Nestl are in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. It seems there is a culture of treating the workers like cattle. Or, as the majority of staff say, they treat us like mushrooms because we are kept in the dark and fed on rubbish. Workers
I READ with interest that sales of KitKats and Smarties have slumped recently (March 11). Maybe if Nestl hadn't changed the chocolate on the KitKats and focused on making plain and simple old-fashioned quality items, and making them to a high standard
COUN Simpson-Laing is right that York residents should know why the bus info centre is going to close (Letters, March 6). In an ideal world there would be no need to make cuts but we had difficult decisions to make to balance the budget. The Lib Dem group
TOMORROW the planning committee will be faced with making a decision on a huge development at 26/28 Tadcaster Road, on the York side of the junction with St Helen's Road, York. The proposal is to demolish two fine detached houses and a bungalow and to
I ENDORSE H Brown's observations (March 7). We have fed and cherished many species of garden birds over the past years. If the magpies and sparrow hawks are allowed to carry on multiplying as they are at present, we shall have no garden birds left. We
I AGREE with J V Bradford (Letters, March 11) that the maligned sparrow hawk and other raptors have always been a natural predator of small birds, without decimating their numbers. But because of the dramatic decline of their quarry in the open countryside
THE family of Caroline Stuttle have shown astonishing dignity and courage since her brutal murder in Australia in 2002. Caroline's Rainbow Foundation, set up by her mother Marjorie, has raised thousands of pounds as well as great awareness among young
Tonight's re-arranged Powergen Challenge Cup match against Ovenden at The Shay is on after a pitch inspection. Kick-off 8pm. Updated: 17:05 Wednesday, March 15, 2006
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook has resisted the temptation to change his line-up tonight, despite facing an important Northern Rail Cup clash at Hull KR less than four days later. The Knights travel to the Shay, Halifax, to take on amateurs Ovenden
Trainer Alan King and jockey Robert 'Chocolate' Thornton, who yesterday combined to produce a 17-2 winning nap for this column in Voy Por Ustedes, can do us another good turn tomorrow in the Ladbrokes World Hurdle. The duo will be represented by My Way
