CASH-STRAPPED health bosses may not be forced to pay back their multi-million pound debt during the coming year, a top level meeting heard. Members of Selby and York Primary Care Trust's (PCT) board met yesterday to discuss a plan to save £22.8million
RELEASED York City club captain Mark Hotte believes Billy McEwan made a mistake leaving him on the sidelines. Hotte only made 16 starts for the Minstermen last season despite being named skipper when he arrived at KitKat Crescent from North Yorkshire
TERESA Humphries was suddenly sacked from her £16,000-a-year York job - because she is American. Despite the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States, chiefs at the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) terminated 33-year-old Teresa's contract
YORK City Knights starlet Nathan Priestley is eager for more National League One rugby after enjoying his initial tastes of first-team action. The 18-year-old made his competitive debut for the club as a substitute against full-timers Leigh Centurions
SO whatever happened to the "special relationship"? Any notion that such a pact of friendliness exists between Britain and the US must ring hollow to Teresa Humphries. Teresa has worked as a civil servant in York for nearly five years, yet now her bosses
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 100 years ago Today, May 24th was the anniversary of the birthday of our late beloved Queen Victoria, and the day that we had come to recognise as Empire Day. The Empire Day movement, for which Lord Meath was to a large degree
FURTHER proof, as if it were needed, of the strange "Alice in Wonderland" world that City of York councillors inhabit lies in their support of the money-wasting fiasco that has been the launch of the ftr (The Press, May 17). Hopefully, the controversy
THE new Secretary of State for Transport Douglas Alexander has made it clear that the UK is to have a pay-as-you-go road pricing scheme. The issue is no longer 'if' this will happen, but more 'how and when'. Commercial vehicles deliver the economy - everything
I TOTALLY disagree with Aled Jones (It's time to abolish out-of-date monarchy, Readers' Letters, May 18). We need a president of England like a hole in the head. We already have a prime minister and wife who act like, and think they are, president and
WHAT a morale-boosting experience the recent art exhibition in Parliament Street, York, was. I was fortunate enough to have birthday money with which to buy a painting - and what a tonic it is. You know how you just fall instantly in love with a thing
THE Government's decision to drop its much-opposed draft Mental Health Bill is to be welcomed, and represents a victory for the many groups who expressed their concerns with the proposals. However, the Department of Health's new plan to amend the existing
YORK City Knights starlet Nathan Priestley is eager for more National League One rugby after enjoying his initial tastes of first-team action. The 18-year-old made his competitive debut for the club as a substitute against full-timers Leigh Centurions
Half-term is almost upon us and parents everywhere will be busy racking their brains trying to find things to occupy their young charges during their week off. Education reporter Haydn Lewis takes a look at what's on offer in and around York. TRYING to
Youngster Ben Barber played a key role in Yorkshire's biathlon success in the national championships. The 11-year-old Copmanthorpe School pupil was a member of the three-strong team which came back with the winners' trophy. Ben, of Herdsman Drive, Copmanthorpe
RELEASED York City club captain Mark Hotte believes Billy McEwan made a mistake leaving him on the sidelines. Hotte only made 16 starts for the Minstermen last season despite being named skipper when he arrived at KitKat Crescent from North Yorkshire
CITIZENS of York, did you know Nellie Woodhouse? York's Theatre Royal has been going for more than 250 years, but it could well have come to an abrupt end in 1934 when Percy Hutchison, the man running it, went bankrupt. The theatre was saved by a group
ONE indication of the vitality of a city is the number of networking and social occasions presented by its business community. Last week, York was buzzing, with visits from the Duke of York and the Governor of the Bank of England - to name but two - and
WHEN it comes to customer service, York man David Gill is the Most Influential Person in Britain. As the customer liaison manager at CE Electric UK, the region's electricity network distributor, he won the accolade at the first national Customer Experience
IT'S good news for newts - and for nature-loving humans too! A conservation group in the Selby district has been awarded almost £50,000 of lottery cash. The cash will go towards renovating a number of old brick ponds in a local village. Hemingbrough Hagg
OUR campaign for a change in the law over child kidnap has already led to the issue being debated in the Home Office. The Press and Sara Payne's charity, Phoenix Survivor, are calling for a new law so that strangers who abduct children can receive banning
Dean Smith (Garbolino Elton) topped the latest York Open at the Laybourne complex. After pulling out hot peg 46 the result was never in doubt for the former matchman of the year. Working the far shelf with pellet fished two feet deep, he tempted 37 carp
SNAITH Stormer Steven Hudson is on a roll after earning a Great Britain call-up. Steven, 16, has been selected in a 14-strong roller hockey squad to represent his country during a ten-day trip to Detroit in July, which will culminate in the Junior Olympics
Tennis opportunities at Norton College are officially the best in any school in the country. The small North Yorkshire school, which has less than 700 pupils, has been voted the Lawn Tennis Association's Tennis School of the Year. Innovations such as
SOME people are just born lucky. Alas, I am not one of them. Several of my friends, for example, were obviously at the front of the queue for great skin, hair, and nails. They never put on weight, possess a sunny disposition and have an uncanny knack
Tennis opportunities at Norton College are officially the best in any school in the country. The small North Yorkshire school, which has less than 700 pupils, has been voted the Lawn Tennis Association's Tennis School of the Year. Innovations such as
THE name Janet is said to mean "gift from God" or "God's gracious gift". Following that line of thought, York has been thrice blessed in having three women in the role of Lord Mayor: Janets Looker, Greenwood and, now stepping into the role, Hopton. Janet
I HAVE multiple sclerosis and I have made the choice to eat organic fruit and vegetables. We tend to split our shopping between the marvellous Bishopthorpe Nursery, Alligator and Tesco. We went shopping today and as we needed a more general shop, we chose
DO you know anyone, parent, grandparent, friend etcetera, who was a member of the York C.H.A. & H.F. Rambling club in the dim and distant past? The club celebrates its centenary in 2008 and is compiling a brief history of events and members, so if
Zoe Nixon watched her mother, Pam Smith, die of lung cancer at the age of 54. This ordeal was made worse by fears that her treatment was being determined by the NHS cash crisis. In a moving first-person piece, Zoe, 31, of Heslington Road, York, describes
Bollin Thomas, who has done Borders trainer Dick Allan proud since he bought him out of the Tim Easterby yard last year, can add to his scoresheet at Sedgefield tonight. The eight-year-old goes for the tictactips.com Novices' Hurdle and is napped to oblige
A "SMASHING" teacher and a hard-working head have been nominated for a prize in the York Community Pride Awards. John Green and Lesley Barringer have been put forward for the Teacher Of The Year award in the scheme, run by The Press and City of York Council
YORK'S teenage tycoons have "wowed" the business world again. The team of entrepreneurs from Huntington School had already won the city final of the Young Enterprise competition, in which pupils set up and run their own business. Now they have taken the
ANGRY student leaders claim a pay dispute between lecturers and universities is putting the futures of thousands at risk. University of York student union president Micky Armstrong said the protracted pay dispute is jeopardising the future of the university's
THE danger of losing your ball in the water could be pretty high on this golf course. As people in York and North Yorkshire dealt with the aftermath of rain and floods, ponds appeared all over the course at Fulford Golf Club. Head greenkeeper Mark Mennell
A MOTHER-of-two who has waited six years for a council house was told she could have one - if she left her husband. Sarah Alexander claims York housing chiefs said this was her only option unless her husband, Derek, forked out £1,400 of unpaid rent on
THE liver transplant patient who fell victim to a tax credit bungle is being given £50 in compensation. HM Revenue and Customs says the money acknowledges the "particularly bad effect" on Norman Power of its mistaken demand for almost £9,000 in repayments
YORK has been labelled more crime-ridden than Birmingham in a new study. Think tank Reform ranked urban areas with populations of more than 100,000 using data from police on burglary, murder, rape, robbery, car and gun crime. It rated places according
LOVE-struck Wendy Milligan married a Moroccan restaurant manager - after he popped the question in the first week of her holiday. But the couple are being forced to live apart until he can secure a visa which would allow him to live in the UK. Wendy,
SNAITH Stormer Steven Hudson is on a roll after earning a Great Britain call-up. Steven, 16, has been selected in a 14-strong roller hockey squad to represent his country during a ten-day trip to Detroit in July, which will culminate in the Junior Olympics
HE drove his car off the road, killing himself and his 89-year-old mother in a tragic smash near York. But Graham Courtney should never have been behind the wheel at all - his licence was revoked five years earlier, after he failed an eyesight test. Mr
Zoe Nixon watched her mother, Pam Smith, die of lung cancer at the age of 54. This ordeal was made worse by fears that her treatment was being determined by the NHS cash crisis. In a moving first-person piece, Zoe, 31, of Heslington Road, York, describes
OUR campaign for a change in the law over child kidnap has already led to the issue being debated in the Home Office. The Press and Sara Payne's charity, Phoenix Survivor, are calling for a new law so that strangers who abduct children can receive banning
