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  • How to get you and your car on TV

    CHANNEL Four's car show is back for a third series and we are looking for people with a tale to tell and a car to sell who are interested in participating in a new series. You must be selling or seriously considering selling your prized motor car and

  • Military police link-up

    ATTENTION all former Military Police men and women, a free link-up service is in operation to put you in touch with former CMP/RMP WRAC Provost comrades. For more details send a stamped addressed envelope to me at the address below. D Palmer, Co-ordinator

  • Station site is wrong

    I NOTE from Evening Press (October 28) that the new railway station at Strensall is to be sited on the north east corner of the village. This would be a mile from the centre and a mile and a half miles from most residents. I thought the days were long

  • Clash with the Kaiser

    TV PLANNERS are wide of the mark if they think that all homes in this country have the luxury of a video recorder. On reading your very helpful Eight Days a week magazine, - helpful because of the eighth day - I noted that next Saturday, November 7, Channel

  • Stop roaring traffic

    I WANT to draw attention to the futile traffic calming measures that have just been finished in Escrick. Despite the work just completed, which is a dreadful waste of public money, vehicles, many of them large, heavily loaded container trucks, continue

  • War of barracks is lost as battle thunders on

    I WANT to thank the Evening Press and your readers for doing so much to support the campaign to keep the Army's Division headquarters in York, and to pay tribute to the civilian staff at Imphal Barracks for the persistent way they argued their case. I

  • Shepherds break new ground

    ALREADY breaking new ground is David Webb, who has just been appointed to the board of directors of York-based Shepherd Building Group Ltd, the main holding company for the group. David Webb It is the first time that a director of Shepherd operational

  • Symonds to score

    SYMONDS INN, who finished seventh in last year's Derby, is now carving out a career for himself over hurdles and heads to Haydock tomorrow in a bid to add to his recent debut success at Market Rasen. Champion jockey Tony McCoy, who rode Symonds Inn that

  • Bug-free for free

    LET'S face it - the North Yorkshire business community's response to the Millennium Bug has been abysmal. But from now on there can be no excuses because training in how to spot the critters that will bite computers to death an instant after midnight

  • It's happening here

    YOU MIGHT think it would give a rosy glow of security to know that the county's top police officer lives next door or just up the road. So the people of one small market town must be feeling a little unnerved after hearing that Chief Constable David Kenworthy

  • Motor group's £3.5m boost

    AN independently-owned car sales group today announced a £3.5 million investment involving a new Audi centre in Harrogate and the revamping of its Volkswagen outlets in Northallerton, Harrogate and Otley. It is the biggest investment in the 35-year history

  • Moving in the right direction

    BRIGHTLY-COLOURED new livery, free seat reservations, a new 'business class' and free places for bikes on trains. All this and, today, a new passenger charter announced by local train operators Northern Spirit. But while revealing the attractive selection

  • Rodney cleared

    BLAMELESS striker Rodney Rowe has been reprieved - thanks to a rival player. The York City forward has had a three-match ban imposed for his sending-off at Millwall lifted after a Lions' player came forward to clear Rowe. So instead of starting a three-match

  • Tourism chiefs welcome new development

    TOP officials from York and Yorkshire tourist boards, together with representatives of local attractions, have given their support to the £60 million McArthurGlen's Designer Outlet York, which opens in York on November 12. David Andrews, chief executive

  • Puzzle of moors body still unsolved

    THE identity of a man whose remains were found on a remote North Yorkshire moor 18 months ago may remain a mystery. Despite extensive police efforts, all lines of inquiry have been exhausted. Unless final tests on the skeletal remains yield any clues,

  • Jam tomorrow from rail firm

    NORTHERN Spirit has launched a new generation of Transpennine Express trains, featuring lap-top plug points for business people and on-train ramps for people with disabilities - both a first for British trains. Other added extras on the trains, which

  • Villager's anger over incinerator stench

    AN ANGRY villager has spoken of the "dreadful smell of charred flesh and hair" from an animal incinerator in Ryedale. Robert Pearce spoke out after Ryedale district councillors decide to issue a planning contravention notice against the Sinnington Hunt

  • Brothers closing famous stables

    THE owners of an historic North Yorkshire horseracing yard today defended their decision to close it down and convert it into a leisure and retail park. The Whitewall stables, at Norton, will be turned into a craft market with a shop and caf, creating

  • Helen's changing role

    IT'S all change for interior designer Helen Lucy. The 38-year-old Malton designer has landed a job as a presenter on the BBC television show Change That. The programme shows how to transform ordinary household items and junk furniture into beautiful objects

  • Pig farmers threaten tough action

    MORE than 1,000 pig farmers from across Yorkshire were expected at an "emergency" mass rally today to discuss the "deepening crisis in their industry". The demonstration, organised by the British Pig Industry Support Group, comes in response to concerns

  • Companies have designs on business success

    HUNDREDS of business people in York and North Yorkshire have learned that designers aren't all the effete, stubble-chinned posers they've been cracked up to be. Rob Lewis, Hydramotion's systems manager totes The Spear which has earned huge design acclaim

  • Faces behind the post office raid

    FOUR men were responsible for the armed robbery of a post office in Selby, it emerged today. WANTED: Male, white, 5ft 8ins, slim to medium build, aged 24, very pale complexion Male, white, 30 to 40 years old, 5ft 6ins with dark hair and beard stubble

  • It's official: regional newspapers provide best value

    FORGET your assumptions. The regional press is far better read by business people than the so called "top" national newspapers, Financial Times included. Evening Press marketing manager Paul Stevenson: results encouraging That is the conclusion of a detailed

  • Business Link North Yorkshire

    If you are interested in any of the following contracts, contact the Business Link Information Centre at Business Link North Yorkshire Ltd, Arabesque House, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO32 9WU, Tel: 01904 686000. France - Paris: Breathtaking

  • Farmland falls in value

    THE value of farmland across Yorkshire has fallen sharply as rural incomes continue to tumble, according to a survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. The RICs farmland survey reported that average prices in three months to September had

  • Mentors for pupils

    MAKING Mentoring Work is the theme of an invitation-only meeting organised by the City of York educational service with North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership at the Royal York Hotel on Thursday, November 12. The two-hour informal evening

  • Accountants have a ball

    A BOWLING team of Harrogate accountants proved themselves to be super-professionals by skittling the opposition drawn from 40 teams throughout North Yorkshire - and winning a small fortune for charity. The Tannin Level pitted their skills against teams

  • Roma still standing

    ROME wasn't built in a day and it will certainly take David O'Leary plenty of time to establish Leeds United as a major force in football. Italian giants Roma gained a UEFA Cup goal-less draw at Elland Road which meant Marco Delvecchio's first leg goal

  • Whizzkids are to the Manor born

    ALL aboard for a share of the action - or rather, the action of the shares. Financial whizzkids from the Manor CE School, York, took a free train ride, courtesy of Transpennine Express to Leeds. There the pupils, Julia King, Emily Foster and Anna Lockley

  • Murty to miss old boys' reunion

    A FLOCK of parrots were never more sick than former York City flier Graeme Murty. The winger who sealed a £700,000 move from City to Reading in the summer has yet to kick a ball in competitive anger for his new club this season. While he was looking forward

  • Little determined to halt City's away-day blues

    HISTORY-MAKERS York City are desperate to manufacture something much more lasting tonight - rot-stopping. The Minstermen take inaugural steps on Reading's manicured Madejski Stadium, their morale savagely gnawed away by three consecutive defeats. Going

  • Developer raps the prophets of doom

    A MALTON developer who has just announced £7 million worth of development deals due to begin in the run-up to Christmas today pooh-poohed the prophets of doom. Martyn Harrison, chairman of Harrison Construction, has hit back at economic sages who foresee

  • Monks Cross 'is no threat' says Clifton Moor chief

    THE appearance on the scene of Monks Cross, which has attracted 40,000 shoppers a week, has not had a significant affect on Clifton Moor. So claims Clifton Moor manager Robbie Burnett who points out that in the first week of Monks Cross opening last month

  • Getting it right at shop outlets

    The Yorkshire Outlet, Yorkshire's first purpose-built factory shopping centre, has seen sales boom since it opened its doors to bargain hunters two years ago. During its first year, the development near Doncaster attracted some two million shoppers and

  • Museum remedy for Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe

    THE oldest chemist's shop in the country has been rescued from closure and will be given a new lease of life this week after being shut down for almost a year. Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, at Knaresborough Market Place, went on the market in January

  • Eight inmates moved in jail riot alert

    EIGHT inmates faced being removed from Full Sutton jail today after officers were tipped off about a threatened disturbance. The men were removed from their wing at the maximum-security jail near Stamford Bridge, which houses some of the country's most

  • Wake up to crime threat

    CHIEF Constable David Kenworthy has told how witnesses of crime were threatened in his quiet North Yorkshire home town of Easingwold. Mr Kenworthy said the intimidation by criminals happened while police were conducting an operation against car thieves