York | Archive | 1998 | December
ANIMAL rights hunger striker Barry Horne was back in Full Sutton jail today after 18 controversial days at York District Hospital. more...
PEOPLE power has saved Clifford's Tower from a controversial new neighbour - but councillors still hope something can be salvaged from the £60 million scheme to extend York's Coppergate Centre. more...
TRAFFIC police fear dozens of posts could be shed during a major shake-up in the York area. more...
SELBY residents were praised by the town's police chief today for their invaluable help and courage in "shopping" drug dealers. more...
A HARD-FOUGHT battle by parents and pupils at a York school was drawing to a close today after councillors backed its closure. more...
THE Queen made a personal request to visit to a North Yorkshire toffee factory after she received a tin of its sweets at her Buckingham Palace home. more...
CABBIES fear another row may be looming over their appearance, a year after bosses at York railway station tried to smarten them up. more...
The image sent to our offices by Uri, and the one he was trying to communicate to readers telepathically, was the star. Readers responded with pictures including a desert island with palm trees, and a castle. One reader connected, however, and sent in a star. It was signed only `Andy S'. more...
I WON'T conform with the fashion of today. All that body piercing the lads and lasses seem to go in for - must be torture. more...
RARELY has there been such a public response to a local issue as the outcry against proposals to develop the Coppergate Phase II shopping complex. more...
COMMON sense has finally prevailed with the decision to send hunger striker Barry Horne back to prison. more...
WHY put such an offensive heading in the Evening Press of December 2 - Priest Compares Hunger Striker With Christ on your front page? more...
Being an anglophile who has spent many great times in York, including six weeks this summer, I am shocked to learn there are no Nativity scenes in the city. more...
WE are now well into the 1998 foxhunting season. During the coming months about 20,000 foxes will be chased to the point of total exhaustion before being torn to pieces by packs of hounds in the name of 'sport'. more...
SHOCK, horror! Enterprising York businessman dares to employ 22 people. "It is so quiet and secretive we did not know it was there" say our planning commissars. (Evening Press, Monday, December 7). more...
YOUR report about the oil slick on the River Ouse. (Evening Press, November 21) prompts this letter. more...
YORK City player-coach Neil Thompson is to have an operation on his troublesome Achilles next week. more...
STEVE Robinson's time in the top flight with Tottenham Hotspur was over in a blink of an eye. more...
MICK Crane, who played a major part in the Wasps' promotion campaign in the second of two loan spells from Hull Kingston Rovers, is tonight expected to sign a one-year deal with York Rugby League Club. more...
SIMPLY DASHING, a fast-finishing runner-up to Cyfor Malta at Cheltenham last month, returns to Prestbury Park tomorrow with excellent prospects of going one better in the feature race. more...
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