YORK'S bid for a £2.25 million super sports complex has fallen at the first hurdle.The University College of Ripon and York St John had hoped to attract £1.8 million Lottery cash to build a world-beating sports centre - with the dream of grooming North
PAUL Hebblethwaite, the North Yorkshire joiner who became the first profoundly deaf person to sail around the world, has received a top sporting achievement award. The 31-year-old, of Helperby, was given a special prize at the Yorkshire Electricity Sports
SECOND-PLACED Leeds No 1 side took full advantage of missed opportunities and a kind rub of the green in defeating York 5-1 in their Yorkshire Snooker League fixture at Little Moor Working Men's Club, Leeds.Keith Lawrence again played first for York,
THE boyhood home of York's Oscar-winning composer John Barry has been recognised by the British Film Institute. He is the only one of the city's contemporary entertainment figures to have a plaque made to honour his name. The musician
A RETIRED man who raped and regularly abused a young schoolgirl could die in jail, York Crown Court heard. Judge Arthur Myerson reduced a prison sentence he was to impose on William Copeland Duff Bruce, 56, because he suffers from angina and arthritis
A FRAUDSTER was today starting a nine-month prison sentence after stealing from a man who treated him like a son. Roland Mawston, 51, helped himself to £11,000 from the building society account of Parkinson Disease sufferer Robert Long, of the Ivy Lodge
A CUT-PRICE factory outlet clothes shopping store at Clifton Moor has crashed leaving £394,000 worth of debt and the loss of 14 jobs. Disastrous Christmas takings are blamed.Julian Unsworth, sole director of FOSC Limited, today alerted all 96 creditors
BOOTHAM Conservative Club 'A' have started the second half of the Focus Fireplaces York and District Table Tennis League season in great style going to the top of division one.They had a 10-0 win over Rowntree 'A' and followed that with a 9-1 win over
A CRUSHING 9-0 win against Indoor Bowls Club has taken City Arms 'B' team to within one point of the lead in York Sam Smith's Darts League division three.Paul Cooper recorded a superb 16 darter and Wayne Mountain chalked up 18.The leaders Trafalgar won
YORK Cricket Club could pull out of the Yorkshire Cricket League in 1999 in order to be part of a new England and Wales Cricket Board backed Premier League playing two-day matches at weekends.Eight clubs in the YCL have requisitioned a special general
YORK'S Lord Mayor today pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair: don't ruin my office.When Councillor Mick Bradley was elected to the second highest mayoral office in the land last year, it was the 610th time a Lord Mayor of York had assumed the dignity.Mr
IF YOU'RE a glutton for white knuckle rides get your vocal chords ready to scream - very loudly.Two of the world's scariest rides are winging their way over to North Yorkshire to take pride of place in the county's top theme parks.Representatives from
A TEAM of specialist thieves are targeting four-wheel drive vehicles in Ryedale, police warned today.Malton police have issued a warning about the threat after three vehicles were stolen this week - two of them on Thursday night.Sgt Mick Pounder, of Malton
THIS NORTH Yorkshire street is a postman's nightmare. Take a stroll along Station Road in Easingwold and watch the street name change from door to door. The Garth is in Station Road but next door Torosay is in Raskelf Road. Addresses alternate without
HUNDREDS of farmers from across the region attended a rally to highlight the current crisis in agriculture.Around 400 farmers gathered at Thirsk racecourse yesterday to hear speeches from local Tory MPs Anne McIntosh, John Greenway and David Curry.They
