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  • Heat is on at hi-tech science centre

    TONY BLAIR is the first to admit that when it came to his school science lessons, the teachers' age old mantra rang true: Could do better. So it was a real education for the Prime Minister when he opened a new £25 million National Science Learning Centre

  • The Commonwealth Games

    The Commonwealth: a tenuous string of countries still harking back to the good old days of the British Empire loosely tied together to bagsy a slice of the Queen for special occasions. The Commonwealth Games: a multi-million dollar party with streamers

  • Simon Ritchie casts his eye over the latest thrillers

    FORMER Yorkshire mining engineer Stuart Pawson has struck gold with his crime collection featuring the affable detective Charlie Priest and his crew. Shooting Elvis (Allison & Bushby, £18.99) is book 11 in the series and, if you've not read Pawson

  • 'E' lads - it's Neal Bishop

    AS York City boss Billy McEwan regularly espouses, there's no "I" in team and for the Evening Press February Player of the Month there's no "I" in Neal either. Neal Bishop was unveiled as Neil Bishop on signing for the Minstermen and that was how his

  • Jacko gives Billy's boys the thumbs up

    YORK City legend Barry Jackson is hoping that Billy McEwan's 2005/06 charges continue their winning run until the end of the season. Jackson, who has played more games for City than any other player in the club's history, was a key member of the 1964/

  • Landlady Lynn aims to become B&B queen

    IS THIS Britain's best landlady? Lynn Laughton is in the running to scoop the prestigious title - but the secret of her success is as simple as "being herself". Lynn runs the Clifton Farm bed and breakfast in peaceful Westow, on the edge of the Yorkshire

  • Landlord of archbishops' local clocks up 25 years

    HE has kept successive Archbishops of York refreshed after a busy day at the palace, raised more than £100,000 for charity and kept the sparks flying at the village bonfire. Now Geordie landlord Gordon Watkins has been honoured by the local community

  • 'We don't want an incinerator'

    A CAMPAIGN group who claim York could soon be home to a new incinerator have urged people to tell council chiefs there is another way to deal with waste. York Residents Against Incineration, Y-RAIN, has produced a leaflet stating that "incinerators are

  • Decision looming on future of bloodstock company

    A CRUNCH decision is expected in the next few weeks as a prestigious horse racing company ponders a move to York. Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS) has confirmed it has still not yet concluded negotiations with South Yorkshire council chiefs over a new

  • Student Peter a fast learner

    YORK St John University College student Peter Williams is hoping the roads of Helmsley can steer him to success at next week's World University Championships. Williams, 19, has been selected in a six-strong British team for the 30km Time Trial and 150km

  • Over-60s get dates to collect free travel tokens

    A TICKET to ride is to be given to all York residents aged 60 and over who will be entitled to receive free bus travel throughout York and North Yorkshire. From March 27, those who are eligible can choose either to receive a free bus pass, £40 worth of

  • Vale echoes to Bird call

    HPH York Vale Cricket League's appeal for umpires for the new season has been backed by one of cricket's modern-day legends. Clubs decided on the move to establish a panel of neutral umpires at the league's annual meeting in November. Now the initiative

  • Jacko gives Billy's boys the thumbs up

    YORK City legend Barry Jackson is hoping that Billy McEwan's 2005/06 charges continue their winning run until the end of the season. Jackson, who has played more games for City than any other player in the club's history, was a key member of the 1964/

  • Waiting game

    I AWAIT with anticipation what the government information commissioner's decision will be after the investigation into how City of York Council handled the ex-commercial services director David Finnegan's so-called early-retirement package, (March 11)

  • Missing tree

    WE are constantly being warned about the threat of global warming and urged to do all we can to save the environment by various means, such as recycling waste and planting trees. Speaking of trees, there was a nice one in Eason View, Dringhouses, York

  • Heat is on at hi-tech science centre

    TONY BLAIR is the first to admit that when it came to his school science lessons, the teachers' age old mantra rang true: Could do better. So it was a real education for the Prime Minister when he opened a new £25 million National Science Learning Centre

  • Knights seek recruits

    YORK City Knights are looking to boost their threequarter line in the wake of a worsening injury crisis. Boss Mick Cook has met with chief executive John Guildford to discuss the need for temporary new blood, and the club have since identified potential

  • NHS dental contracts are a 'very good deal'

    PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair has claimed that controversial NHS contracts being offered to York and Selby dentists represent a "very good deal." He indicated that if insufficient British dentists were prepared to accept such contracts, the NHS would be prepared

  • Vale echoes to Bird call

    HPH York Vale Cricket League's appeal for umpires for the new season has been backed by one of cricket's modern-day legends. Clubs decided on the move to establish a panel of neutral umpires at the league's annual meeting in November. Now the initiative

  • Daring to DIY?

    Crash. There goes another one. The tiles are dropping off the walls in our kitchen, as if they're having a ceramic mutiny and decided not to stick around here any longer. I suppose I shouldn't complain: my (former) sister-in-law once had an entire shelf

  • Way we were

    Saturday, March 18, 2006 100 years ago The craze for sensationalism was unfortunately on the increase. Those who had to be entertained and amused did not find the bill of fare served at a place of entertainment exciting enough unless it included several

  • Good to go

    Mike Tipping boldly goes where no Evening Press wine writer has gone before - an internet tasting session. Captain's log, star-date 18.03.2006 I have beamed down to early 21st century Planet Earth, to evaluate a phenomena known as a virtual wine tasting

  • Lastingham walk

    George Wilkinson takes it easy on the moors. George Wilkinson came back temporarily indisposed from a city of spices, ochre, hot blue skies and sharp white mountains. Back to Yorkshire and a snarl of late winter. So I went out and did an easy walk. The

  • In out

    Friday is bin day. Which bin? Which box? Papers? Yes! no! I don't know! Has anybody put theirs out? Which one? Oh, I don't know! It's like boat race day: in out in out in out. A friendly binman's comment. "Don't worry love, the council don't know either

  • Students to pay for transport

    STUDENTS at colleges in North Yorkshire will be forced to pay for school transport after a council cost-cutting scheme was given the green light. The move means thousands of youngsters in post-16 education will have to pay £304 a year to travel on council-run

  • Christian study school to open

    A NEW centre of Christian learning will teach potential church leaders how to deal with controversial moral and ethical issues such as human cloning, homosexuality and cohabitation. The Christian ethics course will be one of several taught at York's first

  • 31 Castlegate

    Maxine Gordon enjoys a fine-dining experience at one of York's newest restaurants. WORD of mouth is hard to beat when it comes to restaurant recommendations. So when I received two phone calls from Evening Press readers urging me to visit a new restaurant

  • Shady characters

    Daffodils are popular for their early flowers as they brighten the spring garden with their golden trumpets, but elsewhere in the shade, and often overshadowed by bright primulas, daffodils and tulips, grow the pulmonarias. These soft leafed and subtly

  • Saddle up

    Fancy being a cowboy or cowgirl for the day? Maxine Gordon leads the way - yee ha! WITH its wooden stables, discarded wagon wheels, and cow horns proudly displayed above the words 'Saloon', Sarah Kreutzer's ranch would not be out of place in the Wild

  • Good luck from Rudd

    FORMER York City captain Billy Rudd sent his best wishes as the modern-day Minstermen set out to equal a 42-year-old club record at Canvey Island this afternoon. Billy McEwan's men were bidding for a seventh successive league win in Essex today and, if

  • Youthful outlook

    THE pros and cons of York City Knights' Academy set-up will soon come to the fore as the Under-21s season prepares to kick off. Under new Rugby Football League rules, all National League One clubs must, like their Super League peers, run an U21s side

  • Another £600,000 in debt

    Multi-million pound debts in the local health service are even higher than predicted, it emerged. Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) revealed it is £600,000 deeper in the red than the £23.7 million originally expected. Today, York MP Hugh Bayley

  • Chief Constable does the twist

    I READ with interest North Yorkshire Chief Constable's perception of the public's view on policing (March 14). She said: "It was encouraging that so many people felt safe at home and at work." Yes, of course they do because they would rather not be out

  • Pile drive torture

    HOW much longer must we endure the thud, thud, thud of the pile driving at the old gas works site on Heworth Green, York? I live at least half-a-mile from the site and find it disturbing to say the least. It must be torture for people living in the vicinity

  • Difficult job

    I WAS surprised and quite alarmed by the headline of Haydn Lewis's piece, "Church of England gets tough on fake Christians" (March 15). I fully support the C of E initiative to reduce "false" applications for foundation places at its voluntary-aided schools

  • Bingo! I've just won £100,000

    A BINGO hall must be "charmed" - that's the verdict after another lucky punter scooped a massive cash jackpot. Tony McDaid, of Acomb, York, is the latest big winner at the Clifton Bingo Club, and will pocket more than £100,000. Tony - who works for Evening

  • Title triumph for teenager

    TEENAGER Neil Cordell wrested the York Men's Open Squash Championship crown from defending champion Matt Lowery at Wigginton last night. Cordell's 9-2 6-9 9-6 9-4 triumph in the final gives the Cordell household a unique double as they now hold both the

  • Forward thinking

    THE proposed new road for the A1079 will be a waste of money because all it will do is make more road traffic (March 14). The best solution for between Wilberfoss and York is to reopen the York-Beverley railway line because it goes close to Wilberfoss

  • June reunion

    A REUNION will take place this year which will be of interest to many individuals and families who attended meetings at 26 St Saviourgate, York, from 1942 to 1988. These will include Young People's Mission; Christian Fellowship Centre; Stonebow Evangelical

  • Flood cash victory for villagers

    A VILLAGE near York should finally be safe from flooding by the autumn after funding was found to pay for full defences. Work should start this summer on building a floodbank, sluicegate and pumping station to prevent floodwaters from the River Derwent

  • Going loco for Flying Scotsman

    SUPER train spotter Jon Pridmore, programmes officer at the National Railway Museum, in York, certainly proved his devotion to the Flying Scotsman locomotive - by having the classic steam locomotive's number 4472 tattooed between his shoulder blades (

  • Playing for fun

    Nestl Rowntree Rugby Union Club players might be feeling a bit roughed up right now - but it's all in the name of fun. 'Trees are one of only a few social rugby clubs across Yorkshire - in other words, a club that does not play in a league - and this

  • Knights seek recruits

    YORK City Knights are looking to boost their threequarter line in the wake of a worsening injury crisis. Boss Mick Cook has met with chief executive John Guildford to discuss the need for temporary new blood, and the club have since identified potential

  • Double hope - 18/03/06

    Ian McMath, a double-glazing expert who has two businesses in his native Cumbria and is starting to carve out a career as a racehorse trainer, can give his latest venture a huge boost at Kelso tomorrow by landing his first double. McMath, who currently

  • Fight to keep North Yorkshire youth hostels

    Cyclists are unhappy about the latest list of hostel closures proposed by YHA as part of its strategy review. This follows too closely on closures that stemmed (allegedly) from The F & M crisis, that included three Yorkshire Dales hostels, including