THE RSPCA welcomes concerns expressed in Charity Works to Avoid Cat-astrophe (Evening Press, February 25) regarding the increase in the cat population and the urgent need to control it by neutering. However, I would like to clarify some points in the
IN the past couple of years, there has been considerable effort to improve the safety of roads in the city by the use of coloured surfaces, and this is to be commended. However, it appears to have been to the neglect of rural roads, many of which are
THE Evening Press pictures of the floods brought back some happy memories tonight. Mum and I lived in a flat in Skeldergate. Going out one Sunday morning in 1947 to catch a bus to Leeds to visit my married sister, we were met with a flooded lower floor
I WRITE on behalf of the Haxby and Wigginton Youth and Community Association in response to your article in the Evening Press (Friday, February 26) about the decision of the City of York Council to retain £12 million in reserves. This association has
GYRATING hips and twirling scarves were part of a colourful display by women of York's Bell Farm Estate during a belly-dancing workshop, organised by City of York leisure services department to mark International Women's Week and seven willing volunteers
SCHOOLS in York are to get a £1 million boost in the next financial year. The City of York Council has outlined its spending plans for the year 1999/2000. Its capital programme includes plans to: Provide four new permanent classrooms at Huntington Primary
THREE 140s propelled Russ Armstrong to a fine 15-dart York Exhibition Hotel Group League game and a 7-2 win for Osbaldwick at Vaults which consolidated their top four place in division one. Shepherds, the leaders, out-shot second-placed Dringhouses, Mick
BARTON, unbeaten in five races this season, and the brightest young prospect in Britain, leads the Ryedale team into battle at next week's Cheltenham Festival. "I don't honestly think there's a UK-based novice that can beat him," says big-race jockey
ANGRY parents are claiming a "safe route to school" in York is anything but safe after their son was injured in an accident. Rowland Jowett, of Woodlands Grove, Huntington, who was knocked off his bike on "safer route" Rowland Jowett, 15, a pupil at Huntington
COMIC RELIEF has generated another feast of crazy and funny events for the York area - from serving school-dinners in a pub to balloon launches and the odd beard shave. York Sixth Form College teachers Christine johnson and Tom Dunn fling custard at each
THE rumble of lorries through Brafferton and Helperby could soon be a thing of the past. County councillors yesterday voted to carry out further consultations with the aim of banning heavy wagons from the villages' roads. Residents believe the ban would
A MAJOR clean-up operation is swinging into action in Stamford Bridge this weekend as floodwater levels continue to fall. Tom Du Boulay, spokesman for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: "The worst of the crisis now seems to be passing." An emergency
A TRIP for a trim turned into a hair-raising experience for a lady motorist. Adele Wrigglesworth, owner of Beautiful Hair, in Mill Lane, Wigginton, where a customer crashed a car into the wall, terrifying staff and customers The customer's weekly trip
ONE or more Selby pits face closure if the miners' strike starting tomorrow turns into a prolonged conflict, union leaders were warned today. Arthur Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers confirmed that the all-out strike would start at midnight tomorrow
WITH reference to Hands off our Regional Accents (Evening Press, March 6) it is all very well to say preserve our regional accents but if people with a thick accent cannot make themselves understood to those of us not cognisant of that accent, they are
SHAKESPEARE was the thing this week at Pocklington School where pupils took part in daily events to celebrate the life and work of England's famous playwright. Head of English Mark Rowe as King Lear with pupil Heather Rodgers The most colourful event
THE funeral of Simon Kilvington took place at St Helen's Church, York, yesterday followed by a private burial service at Fulford Cemetery. Mr Kilvington, who lived in Millfield Road, York, was the last surviving male member of Kilvington's of Stonegate
YORK mums are in for a bumper Mother's Day according to the city's florists and card shops. One-year-old Emily Kenkinson, of Clementhorpe, York, is surrounded by Mother's Day blooms in Newgate Market, York And if you have yet to book your table at one
LION-TAMER Darren Callaghan has been handed the daunting task of masterminding York Wasps march to the Northern Ford Premiership summit tomorrow. Callaghan, signed from amateurs York Acorn in the close-season, will make his first professional start against
ALL OVER the country sons and daughters will be expressing their love for their mums tomorrow. Mother's Day has come round again and will be celebrated with flowers, drives into the countryside and lunch out. There will be hardly a pub or restaurant meal
YORK CITY today denied a claim that their sprinkler system was turned on before the midweek visit of Blackpool. The game against the Tangerines was called off by match referee Alan Wiley just after 5pm on Tuesday after an earlier inspection by local official
BRITON Lennox Lewis is poised to rule the world three times over. That's the knockout verdict of York's one-time lord of the ring Henry Wharton on the eve of what's been dubbed the last great fight of the 20th century. Lewis, the World Boxing Council
PLANS to bring down the speed limit on a major route into York have been thrown out - even though the road claimed another victim hours before county councillors made the decision. North Yorkshire Police and City of York Council both objected to the proposals
FRIENDS and relatives of a young York father savagely stabbed to death were today coming to terms with the decision to acquit his killer of murder. Drug dealer Jason Nicholas Wade, aged 27, knifed and slashed his victim 11 times, Leeds Crown Court heard
A MAYDAY call to save the annual Elvington Air Spectacular has been answered. The show WILL go on - for this year at least. Dave Tappin with one of the stars of the air spectacular, a Handley-Page Victor tanker, a veteran of the Falklands Jubilant organisers
