THE first paramedic in North Yorkshire is in the running for a prize in the York Community Pride awards. John Sutherland, 57, has been nominated for the Health Service Hero award in the Evening Press and City of York Council campaign to recognise unsung
HERE are two school concerts, separated by more years than I care to remember. How does it happen, that time thing? One minute you are a long-haired teenager playing in a school concert; the next - give or take a decade or three - and you are a middle-aged
"WELCOME to York," declares the sign, proudly boasting the city crest. Within the green frame is a map of York, bordered by all the information a tourist might want. There are several of these dotted around the city centre, and the Diary has walked past
JM PACKAGING have offered to invest a further £650,000 into York City to become majority shareholders of the football club. But that amount would be repayable in interest to the Malton-based company on an assumed future sale of Bootham Crescent, according
YORK City Supporters' Trust board member Mike Grant believes the club's owners were misled by the football club board over the conditions of JM Packaging's £300,000 loan to the Minstermen. JMP Packaging, whose shares are split between City managing director
YORK City Supporters' Trust board member Mike Grant has voiced reservations over "onerous" clauses included in the deal concluded between Jason McGill and former chairman Douglas Craig over the transfer of shares in Bootham Crescent Holdings. Grant has
YORK City reserves suffered a 3-1 defeat against Hull City at North Ferriby, but reserve team coach Colin Walker was far from dismayed. Walker labelled the Minstermen's first half performance as the best of the season. Said Walker: "I was very proud of
EXECUTIVES are being offered a chance to swoop by helicopter on to the 20-acre grounds of Middlethorpe Hall & Spa, near Bishopthorpe, York. Lionel Chatard, general manager of the 300-year-old luxurious William III country house, has organised a partnering
A YORK businessman is stepping down as managing director of the firm he started in the city 17 years ago - partly to concentrate more on his newly-invented business simulation game, which is taking educationalists by storm. Peter Harrington, 40, becomes
I AM sure that there are scores of motorists in York who are surprised and pleased at Peter Evely's reply that they can park on grass verges with impunity (Letters, March 28). I too am surprised that his answer to the utter mess caused by cyclists and
FOLLOWING the council strike day, I put my bin out on Thursday evening for its usual collection on Friday morning before going off to London. Imagine my surprise when returning late on Saturday evening, that it was still there, untouched. On sorting the
DESPITE putting our green box out for collection for over two months now, it has never been collected. I have complained four times, and the last time I was told that it had been noted as a missed collection and should be collected by Monday. It's still
WHILE not wishing to cause any offence, I am rather surprised at B Emmerson of Selby's naivety at wanting to know why the police were photographing strikers at a rally in St Helen's Square, York. This has become the norm throughout the country for police
I AM writing in response to the many letters you have published about the lack of leisure facilities in York, specifically an ice- skating rink. I am an Australian now living in York. Australian cities pride themselves on encouraging youngsters to participate
I FIND it unbelievable that the Liberal Democrats are again persisting with their usual attempts to blame everybody else for their actions ("Labour hypocrisy", Letters, March 31). The situation really is very simple. Along with all the other councils
COUNCILLOR Vassie is having a laugh when he accuses the Government and our own MP of petty behaviour. Surely it is his Liberal Democrat administration that has behaved in a petty way. The Lib Dems knew the limit the Government set and, in their own astonishingly
ARE you, or do you know, Wendy, who has a son, Thomas, from a former marriage to Peter John Woollin? If so please contact Ellen Stocks on 0113 2821755 or 0770 8675826 as soon as possible. Thank you. Ellen Stocks, All Saints Drive, Leeds. Updated: 10:04
A TOP surgeon has told how he rebuilt the shattered face of ten-year-old road accident victim Charlotte Leighton. Richard Loukota explained the pioneering technique he used to repair injuries including multiple fractures to her jaw and a broken eye socket
THE family of the teenage motorcyclist tragically killed in Selby today paid tribute to their "full-of-fun" son, who "never had a care in the world". Kevin Marshall, 19, died in a head-on collision with another motorbike 12 days ago. Two other teenagers
YORK Acorn ARLC's chances of winning an amazing promotion from National Conference division one were boosted last night as they won 38-20 at Castleford Lock Lane while rivals Ince Rosebridge lost. However, it came at a cost. Pete Wallace broke a nose
FARMERS have been put on alert after shock news that a strain of bird flu has been found in a dead swan. Poultry farmers in the York and North and East Yorkshire areas are being asked to plan to bring their birds indoors, after a strain of avian flu was
YORK City Supporters' Trust board member Mike Grant believes the club's owners were misled by the football club board over the conditions of JM Packaging's £300,000 loan to the Minstermen. JMP Packaging, whose shares are split between City managing director
A new multi-million-pound headquarters will bring 150 new jobs to York over the next five years, in a vision unveiled today by a booming city business. The four-storey offices for Hunters estate agency will form part of a £12 million project for land
JM PACKAGING have offered to invest a further £650,000 into York City to become majority shareholders of the football club. But that amount would be repayable in interest to the Malton-based company on an assumed future sale of Bootham Crescent, according
TODAY the Evening Press urges the Government - don't cap City of York Council. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, we argue York's track record as a low spending unitary authority, and its position as having one of the lowest council tax bills in
Thursday, April 6, 2006 100 years ago The Ouse and Foss Navigation Committee of the York Corporation learned a good deal about the Ouse at their meeting at Naburn. The walls of the large meeting room were covered by plans and diagrams showing the river
WE have been expecting this news for some time. The discovery of a dead swan in Fife could herald the arrival of the H5N1 bird flu strain in Britain. Avian influenza was bound to alight on our shores sooner or later. It has taken its time, giving the
YORK Acorn ARLC's chances of winning an amazing promotion from National Conference division one were boosted last night as they won 38-20 at Castleford Lock Lane while rivals Ince Rosebridge lost. However, it came at a cost. Pete Wallace broke a nose
A financial study uncovered shocking levels of financial ignorance among young people. CATHERINE SEVIGNY investigates. "FACE up to it!" These are the words of Nikki Humberstone, money management training officer at York's Citizens Advice Bureau. "The
Henrietta Knight's decision to bypass today's Betfair Bowl at Aintree with Impek and aim him instead at tomorrow's John Smith's Melling Chase, is a hint not to be overlooked. The Lambourn trainer felt that an extended three miles in this afternoon's race
YORK City Supporters' Trust have admitted some principles of a future ownership partnership with JM Packaging have been discussed but that talks are still at a preliminary stage and no conclusions have been reached. In a statement, the Trust confirmed
ACCOUNTANCY firm JWPCreers is in the advanced stages of securing new premises in the heart of York. The firm is thought to be planning to base about 45 staff in the city, including many from the former Creers company in Spen Lane, York, and a corporate
IF you've got it, flaunt it. Georgia Horsley, Miss York, had a stunning red silk dress that she wore in the Miss England contest - a dress designed by Sarah Ashton, of Thimbelina in York. So she flaunted it when she formally opened Sarah's new, larger
BRITSAFE Security, the specialist manned guarding company with offices in York and Leeds, has become one of the first in its industry to achieve approved status in a new Government-backed quality scheme. The SIA (Security Industry Authority) Approved
I WAS not at all surprised that the rate of Caesarean births at York Hospital has risen well above the national average. When I attended ante-natal classes at York Hospital while pregnant with my first child, the midwife walked into the room and said,
B EMMERSON asks why the police were filming strikers at the pensions demonstration (Letters, April 3). Anyone who has been to a demonstration in London or at military bases such as Menwith Hill or Fylingdales will know that this is standard practice in
LABOUR'S Dave Merrett has a lot of work to do if he is to bridge the credibility gap left after his Labour group failed to propose any alternatives to the Liberal Democrat budget passed in March. The Lib Dem budget was designed to safeguard York's vital
IF all the York councillors have the welfare of York residents at heart like they all want us to believe, why don't they make a lovely gesture of foregoing their expenses for the next 12 months to help save jobs and cuts in services? Oh look, the flying
THE long-awaited refurbishment and redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre will not take place until next year, the Evening Press can reveal. The centre's new owners, Absolute Leisure, say that because the project has been hit by planning and other delays
FEARS that a York "super-bus" will cause parking problems can be resolved, according to a city council chief. Arguing for the introduction of traffic regulation orders to give the new FTR bus a smooth run through the city, Coun Ann Reid, City of York
LITTERBUGS, fly-tippers - and residents who leave their burglar alarms ringing too long - face fines under new rules which take effect today. The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act brings in a raft of new measures to combat "enviro-crimes". Environmental
NOISE levels at an airfield near York will be monitored by council officials during a major series of drag racing events. City of York Council has pledged to check on the events programme, unveiled on Wednesday, until a legal wrangle over noise at Elvington
CAROL Instone and Joan Jackson achieved a hat-trick of successes in the ladies Simpson Indoor Bowls Pairs final in which they beat Sue Tomlinson and Brenda Love 23-19. However, after four ends no-one could have guessed that there would be such a turnaround
A CYCLIST was killed in a smash with a car on a notorious hill in East Yorkshire. Police are seeking witnesses to the fatal collision, which happened at about 2.30pm yesterday on the A166 at the bottom of Garrowby Hill, at the Pocklington and Bishop Wilton
A POWERFUL display from centre Sam Arkle helped York RUFC cruise to a 28-6 win over Sandal in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup last night. Arkle scored one try, but his battling display in the centre along with partner Fijian Billy Cakaunitabua, gave
TODAY the Evening Press finds itself in the unusual position of going into battle on behalf of an inflation-busting hike in York council tax. It is not a decision entered into lightly. We know that the hike in these bills affects many thousands of our
NEW Earswick travel to face a potential banana skin in Dodworth, made more slippy by the fact they may have one eye on next week. The All Blacks need just four points from six games to assure promotion from Pennine League division one, and they could
GORDON Hubble, a former York RI RUFC captain and a school teacher in York for more than 30 years, has died in York Hospital after a long illness. He was 80. Mr Hubble, who was born in Walsall but lived most of his life in York, played for RI from 1947
SAFETY is the aim of the game for Heworth ARLC on Saturday. Victory over Stanningley at Elmpark Way will go a long way to assuring they stay out of the re-election zone and dispel fears of being kicked out of the National Conference League. It is unlikely
A POWERFUL display from centre Sam Arkle helped York RUFC cruise to a 28-6 win over Sandal in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup last night. Arkle scored one try, but his battling display in the centre along with partner Fijian Billy Cakaunitabua, gave
TOP of the North East Regional Women's Football League York City Ladies did their best impression of mudlarks to wield a 5-1 win over Republica to stay ahead of the pack. City struggled to adapt to seriously muddy conditions and went behind early on but
YORK City Knights RL Supporters' Club are running two coaches to Sunday's opening National League One fixture at Widnes. One coach goes direct from Huntington Stadium at 11.30am, and the second leaves at 11.15am with the usual pick-up points through the
