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Stories for 31 March 1999

York Business

Minimum wage 'puts 8,000 jobs in danger'

Business newsline by Tony Seymour  more...

Dream comes true for two friends

A dream has come true for two Yorkshire women who have launched their own events company to fill what they see as a gap in the market.  more...

Nidd Vale back on acquisition trail

Nidd Vale Group, one of Yorkshire's largest privately-owned motor retailers, is back on the acquisition trail.  more...

Innovative firms get awards

Six innovative York-based businesses have been successful in their applications for SMART awards from the DTI, after receiving vital support from Business Link North Yorkshire.  more...

Changes for TECs welcomed

Speculation is mounting over the future of Business Links and Training & Enterprise Councils, fuelled by the Chancellor's decision to create the £100 million Small Business Service (SBS).  more...

Cities 'should work together'

York and Leeds should work together, utilising each other's strengths, says the president of York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce.  more...

York News

Horne back on hunger strike

EXCLUSIVE by Adam Nichols  more...

School places protesters march on York council offices

Angry parents marched through the streets of York today in protest at secondary school places allocated to their children.  more...

MP seeks floods inquiry as angry victims meet

Ryedale's MP today called for an urgent independent inquiry into the cause of the floods which devastated North and East Yorkshire and left hundreds homeless earlier this month.  more...

Hunters' epic trek to help preserve rural life

The chairman of the Sinnington Hunt is to walk the length of Britain to help protect "the rural way of life".  more...

Print firm's 'secret' plan green light

York printing giant RR Donnelley looks to have won the green light to relocate to the former Samsung factory site near Knaresborough.  more...

Wetherby forensic lab criticised for poor security

The Forensic Science Service was urged today by MPs to step up security to stop thefts of vital evidence and drugs from its laboratories, including the one it runs at Wetherby.  more...

Pioneering study into rail suicides

EXCLUSIVE by Maxine Gordon .  more...

Residents in fight to stop new access road

Parents living in a former rat run are protesting against an access road they say will return them to the days when their children could not play out on the street.  more...

Family venues put up prices

Fees for children may have been axed at the National Railway Museum (NRM), but no Easter free-for-all is planned for children at other York tourist attractions, which do not benefit from the same Government subsidies.  more...

Welcome move on rail deaths

The figures on rail suicides are shocking. More than 175 people kill themselves on the railways each year. On the East Coast Main Line alone, there have been 150 suicides since 1991.  more...

Democracy denied

A firm is about to move into the former Samsung factory near Knaresborough. It has been given the right to build a 100,000 square foot extension to the site at Flaxby. Yet officials refuse to say which firm it is.  more...

York gets into gear for Britain in Bloom

York's famous daffodil display will be long gone by the time the judges of the Britain in Bloom competition come to the city in August.  more...

Driven to distraction

An East Yorkshire woman who was looking forward to the road tax for her small car costing her £55 less this year thanks to the Chancellor's budget generosity got a nasty shock when she called at the Post Office.  more...

Mr Wright is so wrong over Kosovo and EU

I wonder just how your reader Mr Wright of Easingwold (Letters, March 25), with all his political jargon, might feel if he found himself sitting in one of those horse-drawn carts we have seen on television?  more...

Charitable concern

With daily begging letters from numerous sources, empty bags left for clothes and books, raffle tickets at the door (and wherever you may meet socially), cans or collecting boxes thrust at you on your shopping trips, TV appeals and the sponsorship of family and friends, charity is rapidly overtaking the kind of financial concern which you only associate with rent or mortgage.  more...

Loo views

I am currently trying to make a documentary about public toilets in the region and am looking for people to contribute to it.  more...

I'll drink to pub

I read with interest what the owners of the pub in Heworth, The Shoulder and Mutton, plan to do at Easter time and I think it is a novel idea to put up Crosses outside the pub and recreate the Garden of Gethsemene (Evening Press, March 27). I support them completely.  more...

Stay away, Lady T

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the television that interfering old megalomaniac indulges in a self-congratulatory ego trip with a man accused of torture and murder. Yes, Lady Thatcher is back.  more...

Janet Eldred

A message from the heart  more...

York Sport

Let's get it together!

EXCLUSIVE by Tony Kelly, Chief Sports Writer  more...

Sini hit by four-game brawl ban

York Wasps will be without Iefata Sini for their two toughest games of the season so far after the winger was hit with a four-match ban.  more...

Tips of Iceberg help juniors

It was a titanic collision when an 'Iceberg' hoved into view at the Easter basketball camp at the Northern Ryedale Leisure Centre.  more...

Eccles holds key to Scottish double

Key To The City, who remained in Scotland after winning at Hamilton on Monday, can notch another success at Musselburgh tomorrow before returning to his Lambourn base.  more...

Pocklington hit their rivals for six

School sport compiled by Peter Wilmott  more...

Boro face Norwegians

Division three basement club Scarborough have a prestige friendly tonight when they welcome Norwegian side Tromso to the McCain Stadium (7.15pm).  more...

Sportsmail: Heavy hearts at Bootham Crescent

Those of us who actually pay to watch York City have endured some football matches of terrible quality at home this season.  more...

  
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