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  • How to see the world

    Travelling the world is a dream for many young people, but for their parents it can be a living nightmare. When I announced my travel plans to my parents, I was greeted by wows, gasps and cries of "oh no you're not". They warned of kidnappers, muggers

  • Check mates

    ONCE upon a time, poker was confined to smoky casinos, the bright lights of Vegas and big wigs with shades and visors. Now, men and women everywhere get their friends round to drink beer, eat pizza and play poker in their living rooms. My boyfriend

  • New Zealand Whites

    YOU may have heard of the ABC club before. Among wine anoraks it is an acronym for the Anything But Chardonnay club and to my mind, those that subscribe are a misguided bunch of individuals. By avoiding chardonnay, a wine drinker is missing out on

  • United's Livermore deal goes through

    DAVID LIVERMORE has finally swapped Millwall for Leeds United after a year's delay. And the tough tackling midfielder, who failed a medical at Southampton, admits he will have to work on his fitness. Leeds first asked about Livermore last year but

  • Magic Mitre bounce back to sink Clifton

    MITRE 'A' tightened their grip on the York Knavesmire Racing Darts League division one title with a stunning 8-1 win at Clifton 'B'. Clifton took the opener with Lutz Leutzsch, but Simon Craven got Mitre 'A' on terms with a maximum for 18 plus 20.

  • Girls get to grips with great game

    SCHOOLGIRLS in York have been getting to grips with rugby league thanks to a joint coaching scheme from National League sponsor LHF Healthplan and the Knights. The club's youth development team have been running 'Skills Days' with Year 7 to 10 girls

  • York fixture pile up

    YORK Cricket Club progressed to the final of the Myers Burnell Cup when they beat Acomb by 55 runs - and immediately gave themselves a headache. The final is on Sunday, August 6, but the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier Cricket League may require

  • Stoute can win Redcar riches

    REDCAR'S bright new initiative of staging a £50,000 sprint handicap for three-year-olds has been rewarded with a useful field for the inaugural running of the richest race in Britain tomorrow. A total of 14 horses are set to line-up for the Weatherbys

  • Dream believers

    A FEW things happened in the past week to show that belief is still in abundance at Huntington Stadium - and how important that could prove. In chronological order, the York International 9s, while critics might describe it merely as a bit of light

  • Italian football scandal

    IF Juventus really were an Old Lady she'd be the 'don't make a fuss, dear' type who would scream the house down once the attention waned. It's almost as if Catherine Tate had Juve in mind when she dreamed up her bad-mouthed gran character - especially

  • Dyson lives to fight again

    NORTH Yorkshire's Simon Dyson blasted his way back into the reckoning for the business end of The Open after an up and down second round. The supreme test that has been posted by the heat-singed Royal Liverpool course in Hoylake sternly examined the

  • It's time to face fax

    ROB SPICER says York City Knights will give "everything we've got" to turn over Halifax tomorrow and boost their chances of staying in National League One next year. Both Spicer and fellow key backrower Jason Golden return for the vital 'four-pointer

  • Gainsborough Trinity 2, York City 1

    FORMER Hartlepool striker Jack Wilkinson scored York City's goal in last night's 2-1 friendly defeat at Gainsborough Trinity. Lively second-half substitute Wilkinson, playing as a trialist, headed in a Mark Convery corner at the far post to draw the

  • Death of Don Barber

    FORMER York City reserve and Scarborough first-team winger Don Barber has died, aged 83. Mr Barber - a South Bank native - was spotted by York City scouts while playing for a team from Terry's, where he worked throughout his life. He scored Boro's

  • Rashid bowls Yorkshire to victory on his debut

    ADIL Rashid became a cricketing hero to an ecstatic 4,000 crowd at Scarborough yesterday when he bowled Yorkshire to a crushing Championship victory over Warwickshire on his debut appearance. It was a real Boy's Own story as the slim 18-year-old leg-spinner

  • Key worker

    HE'S probably one of the unsung heroes of York sport, but the work done by Spen Allison should not go unrecognised. Spen, 66, holds an almost endless number of positions on a long list of sporting bodies, mostly in his first love of rugby league, including

  • Parcel poser

    WHEN I send a parcel by private means I get charged VAT included with the charge. By Royal Mail I do not. Why is this? Keith Chapman, Custance Walk, St Benedict Road, Nunnery Lane, York.

  • Flat-pack blues

    READING about prisoners from Full Sutton prison, near York, complaining that their Argos deliveries are too slow, put me in mind of my own recent experience. I had ordered a bookcase from Argos. In my innocence and ignorance, I thought, from seeing

  • Going downhill

    I HAVE just been reading the article in The Press about prisoners complaining at Full Sutton. They are in prison for terrible crimes. They are there to be punished not rewarded. A relative was a prison officer. He was disgusted at how the prisoners

  • Doing time

    REFLECTING on prison facilities (Jailhouse Strop, The Press, July 18), paying your debt to society is one thing, accepting it is another, as we are all vulnerable to lapses in our lives. However, having to face your responsibilities in the outside

  • Time to improve Ouse eyesore

    WHEN we entertained guests recently, we took to the tourist trail. When is something going to be done about the rat-and-pigeon infested eyesore at Skeldergate Bridge, namely the Bonding Warehouse? It is an absolute disgrace on an otherwise historical

  • Dinner money issue in a spin

    WITH reference to the debate about school dinners (School Meal Price Hike Shock, The Press, July 11), I feel we should put the record straight on the funding issue. The Labour Government has given local authorities and schools extra money to help pay

  • School insists on uniform direction

    GLAMMED-UP girls at a York school have been told they could be sent home - after skimpy skirts were outlawed. Fulford School head teacher Steve Smith issued the warning to pupils who turn up to classes looking like they are heading out for an evening

  • 638 sign petition for city newsagent

    HUNDREDS of customers have signed a petition against the proposed closure of a newsagent in York city centre. As recently reported in The Press, Maynews, in Parliament Street, may have to shut because the neighbouring optician Dollond & Aitchison wants

  • Firefighters tackle 300 fires in 4 days

    WALKERS are being urged to take extra care after fire fighters battled double the normal amount of blazes this week. People planning to make the most of the hot weather with daytrips this weekend are asked to be on their guard after there were 300

  • Cricket club hit by burst water main

    THREE days and hundreds of gallons later - and still Yorkshire Water had not managed to stop this burst water main. The leak - on Little Knavesmire - is one of 11 bursts which happened all over York on Tuesday after excess pressure built up in the

  • Grassroots protest

    MORE THAN 200 villagers packed a meeting to voice fears over plans to build 700 homes on York's southern outskirts. Residents raised a series of concerns about Persimmon Homes' proposals for land around Germany Beck at Fulford, including traffic, flooding

  • Villagers oppose composting plan

    VILLAGERS faced with the prospect of a controversial composting plant fewer than 400 metres from their homes have come out in force to show their opposition. More than 500 residents of Thorpe Willoughby, near Selby, flocked to the village sports club

  • Flood defences funding worries

    PLANS to strengthen flood defences in a vulnerable area of York could be delayed by a year because of cuts in Government funding. Embankments protecting hundreds of homes in the Leeman Road area came perilously close to failure during the floods of

  • Police officers voted top of the cops

    York PC Dave White was one of seven district winners of the Community Police Officer Of The Year Awards, who were praised for their hard work at an awards ceremony at Hovingham Hall last night. The awards, organised by North Yorkshire Police Authority

  • Thieves target paintings at the University of York

    Works of art - worth £600 - have been stolen from the University of York. They were on loan from a private collector in St Albans, Hertfordshire, when they were pinched from the wall of a corridor at Wentworth College. A spokesman for the university

  • HMS York captain thanks well-wishers for support

    SAILORS on board HMS York have been buoyed by hundreds of messages of support from the city of York. The Royal Navy destroyer has already evacuated 500 people from troubled Beirut, delivering them to safety in Cyprus. Commander Tim Cryar spoke to

  • Medieval tracks

    Richard Foster packs a picnic and sets off for one of the most tranquil spots in Yorkshire which was once a thriving community. Why go there? Wharram Percy, the most famous and intensively studied of Britain's 3,000 or so deserted medieval villages

  • Lake Garda

    Festive season in Lake Garda staying at the four-star Grand Hotel Liberty; six days and five nights, from £499 per person; departing December 23, 2006, with Harry Shaw City Cruiser. LOCATED in the heart of Riva del Garda, this stylish hotel was built

  • Rosedale

    George Wilkinson takes a trip on the Moorsbus to Rosedale. The Moorsbus took us up through Hutton-le-Hole and over the moors all the way to the top and the Lion Inn at Blakey. We were wearing our Moorsbus badges, a capital M', or if upside down a W

  • Coffee Culture, Goodramgate, York

    YORK is not short of snack spots. Some are part of national chains, others somewhat anonymous. It is always a delight to find a venue where the owner is so obviously in attendance. This is true of Coffee Culture. From the outside the caf appears small

  • Hot tips for summer

    School's out for summer. So what are your kids going to do over the holidays? Why not read a good book or two? Booksellers Gillian Roe, Suki Pearman, Veronica Isaac and Natalie Riley, from the children's department at Waterstones in York, make some recommendations

  • So, she’s on this quest for wisdom...

    "DA-AD! I've found the Seed of Wisdom!" the daughter screeched, tearing out into the garden where we were enjoying a quiet cup of tea. This is a remarkable claim to be able to make at any age, let alone for an eight-year-old working in line with National

  • Sun bathers

    Gina Parkinson and her plants are beginning to wilt in the summer sun. THE July weather has certainly sorted out the sun lovers in the garden, with many plants really suffering in the dry heat. Hydrangeas that usually do so well in our damp

  • Way we were

    Saturday, July 22, 2006 100 years ago At the Scarborough Police Court a man was summoned to show cause why certain obscene prints, found on the premises at 25, Huntriss Row, and kept there for the purpose of sale, should not be destroyed. The