YORK Schoolboys Under-11 footballers pulled a cracker out of the form bag to come away from the 23rd North Tyneside Schools Festival of Football unbeaten. The hard-working Josh Poulter broke the deadlock in the first match against St Helens but a cruel
THIS year's primary schools football leagues are heading towards a dramatic climax in the last couple of weeks. Only one team has clinched a title so far - Clifton with Rawcliffe Federation, after wins over Poppleton Ousebank and Woodthorpe took them
CUPRA will not rise to Councillor Stephen Galloway's rather childish outburst at the recent full council meeting (Evening Press, April 15). However, we do believe he should respond to our 14-point letter of objection to the proposal to move Arc Light
So, York area police vehicles were damaged 550 times last year. If a private company had that record, it would sack its drivers and start again. There is a lesson here for the police: the laws of the land might not apply to them but the laws of physics
I READ that the Odeon cinema in York is regrettably soon to close. What a shame. The building could be done up and used and run by a charitable trust. This would keep Blossom Street alive and is perfect as it is on several bus routes which stop in Blossom
HOW lovely to read that Bill Hearld (April 11) and his wife had used their time so well in Amsterdam, visiting "galleries, museums and tulip gardens". It put me in mind of my own trip. Because it was only a day trip, my companion and I were terrified
I READ the letter from Rory Mulvihill ("Blind Faith", April 15) more in sorrow than in anger. Being a lawyer like me, he should be willing to investigate the evidence for the Christian faith before he dismisses it so comprehensively. Surely millions of
WHAT a sad letter from Rory Mulvihill. His assertion that Christians are "brainwashed from birth" into blindly believing the Christian message shows such ignorance of Christian thinking. If our beliefs are, as he calls them in his dismissive way, "absurdities
THE puffed-up chest and threatening brow say it loud and clear: "Come anywhere near this bird-feeder and you are mincemeat." Few topics recently have aroused so much of a flap on our Readers' Letters page than the raging controversy over sparrowhawks
TWO more members of the York City Supporters' Trust Board have resigned - effectively halving the numbers of six months ago. Steve Ovenden and wife Kirsten have both quit, leaving just six active members on the committee. The Ovendens plan to make a joint
THE days of having to frantically tidy before potential buyers view your home may be coming to an end. The York-based Hunters Property Group has launched 3D viewing, which provides buyers with a chance to visualise a property without the owner's furniture
TO ANYONE out there who lives in Hull: I'm really, really sorry. Don't get me wrong, I'm not commiserating with you about your home town - I wouldn't dare, because when all's said and done, I come from Bradford. No, Hull is a city with many virtues. William
"They looked like something out of the SAS, dressed head to toe in black, with masks and gloves." These are the words of a shop assistant at a petrol station, after burglars made off with up to £6,000 in cash and about 20,000 cigarettes. Thieves raided
CITY chiefs considering where to move York's new Arc Light centre for the homeless to have been handed a "clear mandate" to use a former garage in the city centre, it was claimed today. In a letter to City of York Council leader Steve Galloway, Dave Nicholson
YORKSHIRE CCC began their newly-named Liverpool Victoria Championship programme against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge today with Tim Bresnan already having earned the respect of the title holders. While Yorkshire were gently warming up against Leeds-Bradford
HE played Christ in the York Mystery Plays of 1996 - the only amateur actor to take on the role in recent times. Four years later, he went on to play The Devil in the spectacular Millennium Mystery Plays, performed in York Minster. He then played a leading
HOMES in York are ten per cent more likely to be burgled than the average household nationwide, figures show. In a list of the UK's burglary hot spots, compiled by insurers Endsleigh, York was 10.1 per cent above the national average. But a more detailed
PLANS to put millions of pounds of investment into York's transport network have been given the green light by top council chiefs. A total of £19 million will be spent on projects including constructing the James Street Link Road, and improving the Outer
ONE of England's principal environmental watchdogs is strongly opposing three massive York developments, it emerged today. English Heritage has lodged formal objections with the public inquiries into: The 65-hectare expansion of the York University campus
TWO more members of the York City Supporters' Trust Board have resigned - effectively halving the numbers of six months ago. Steve Ovenden and wife Kirsten have both quit, leaving just six active members on the committee. The Ovendens plan to make a joint
Neil Warnock could start life in the Premiership next season on the sidelines after the Sheffield United boss was sent off during last night's party-pooping draw with Leeds. Warnock clashed with his Leeds counterpart Kevin Blackwell, his former assistant
LOCALS living around roads used as "rat-runs" due to hold-ups during major sewerage works have voted against temporarily closing them off as a safety measure. Residents from the Nunnery Lane area of York discussed whether the route through the St Benedict's
YORKSHIRE CCC began their newly-named Liverpool Victoria Championship programme against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge today with Tim Bresnan already having earned the respect of the title holders. While Yorkshire were gently warming up against Leeds-Bradford
NEW-BOY Dean Ripley is determined to prove himself good enough to win a contract at York City Knights for the rest of 2006. The 22-year-old made a shock debut for the Knights in Sunday's defeat at Halifax, the club having kept his registration under wraps
A drop goal from youngster Tom Mackley wasn't enough to keep Hunslet Warriors at bay last night as York Acorn were beaten by a last-minute try. Tries for Matt and Mike Embleton, another for man of the match Lee McTigue and two additional goals for Mackley
Dringhouses suffered their first Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve 'A' defeat in 25 games to put title celebrations on ice, writes Terry Todd. Hosts Dunnington, who knocked Dringhouses out of the FA Cup earlier in the season, led with goals
Blue Monday, who made a big name for himself last season, makes his eagerly-awaited return to action at Ripon tomorrow and promises to be hard to beat. The Roger Charlton-trained five-year-old goes for the Ripon Silver Bowl Conditions Stakes over ten
Getting youngsters to knuckle down to the serious business of preparing for their exams can be a tough task for many parents. For those teenagers who are struggling to find the motivation to get started, Education Reporter Haydn Lewis takes a look at
NO objectors have come forward to oppose plans for a new state-of-the-art "super school" in west York. During a six-week council consultation, no parents or carers of children at Lowfields or Oaklands Secondary Schools in west York came forward to object
IF all the non-smokers in the world love the "fresh air" so much, why don't they go outside and let all the smokers smoke inside? PR Willey Burnholme Drive, Heworth, York. Updated: 10:15 Wednesday, April 19, 2006
I sympathise with City of York Council, and its citizens, over the Government's decision to cap its council tax. Embarrassingly for Tony Blair, the highest Band D council tax in the country stands at £1,490 in his own constituency of Sedgefield. No mention
WITH reference to the report "Bar staff sold booze to teens" (April 14), I have worked in the licensed trade for several years, and I feel sorry for the "guilty parties", the bar staff. Also, having carried an ID card for 45 years of my working life,
YOUR article "Foreign Policy" (April 12), did not mention "Springboard". This is a primary school introduction to foreign languages, using the simple international language Esperanto. Esperanto is an ideal starter language. It has a regular grammatical
I Read Jo Tanner's reply to my letter about animal experiments with some amusement. I have been told before by proponents of animal testing that each of us uses two mice and half a rat during a lifetime, but what always confuses me is who gets the monkeys
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has threatened that KitKat Crescent will be no place for slackers in the next fortnight. Following the Minstermen's 2-0 home defeat to Halifax on Easter Monday and results elsewhere, McEwan's men only have a remote opportunity
THE "Northern Way" is one of those initiatives that most business people know about, but would be hard-pushed to describe in any detail. That is a pity because it is, potentially, hugely important. Its very existence is a response to the well-hyped £30
A TEAM of 16 employees from Deans Garden Centre at Stockton-on-the-Forest, York, are waiting to learn the outcome of their two-mile run in the York City Jog for the British Heart Foundation (BHF). They are hoping that their run, which took them down Minster
AN ARMY regiment which recruits in North Yorkshire has held an historic parade. The Green Howards formed up and paraded the battalion for the last time on British soil, prior to their deployment on operations in the Balkans. The parade was appropriately
NO objectors have come forward to oppose plans for a new state-of-the-art "super school" in west York. During a six-week council consultation, no parents or carers of children at Lowfields or Oaklands Secondary Schools in west York came forward to object
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has threatened that KitKat Crescent will be no place for slackers in the next fortnight. Following the Minstermen's 2-0 home defeat to Halifax on Easter Monday and results elsewhere, McEwan's men only have a remote opportunity
THE price of petrol in York has crashed through the £1-a-litre barrier for the first time this year. Rising oil costs are leading to fuel providers across the country raising their prices. In the city, super-unleaded petrol is now selling for as much
OH, no, here we go again. That's what motorists will be thinking when they see the price of unleaded nudging towards £1 a litre. First we had council tax. Then gas prices. Now the cost of fuel is going through the roof. That £1 figure is frightening enough
WHAT a bombshell. English Heritage, the environmental watchdog which tamely backed the Coppergate Riverside shopping development, has finally bared its teeth. It has lodged formal objections to all three of the massive developments which could change
MICK Calam reckons his York Acorn 'A' side have enough firepower to shock New Earswick All Blacks in tonight's York and District ARL Cup final. Some of Calam's team, who will represent the Blue and Golds at Heworth's Elmpark Way (ko 7pm), might be playing
Is it time to abolish prisons? A new pressure group thinks so. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. PRISONS are brutal and abusive institutions that have no place in the 21st century. That is the view of Dr Paul Mason, leading justice expert and prison abolitionist
NEW-BOY Dean Ripley is determined to prove himself good enough to win a contract at York City Knights for the rest of 2006. The 22-year-old made a shock debut for the Knights in Sunday's defeat at Halifax, the club having kept his registration under wraps
