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  • Calling shipmates

    I appeal to those shipmates who served in "C" Class destroyers i.e. CA, CO, CH and CR vessels to join our association. The 8th Destroyer Flotilla/Squadron Association was originally limited to those who served in the 8th in the Far East from 1945 to 1963

  • Horse Racing: Paul can boost his Scores

    Paul Flynn, leading his rivals a merry dance in the race for the amateur riders' title, can extend his long lead tomorrow. Flynn, who at Warwick on Saturday completed his first double to take his score for the season to 14 winners, is reunited with The

  • Packed streets sound warning

    York retailers desperately need a good Christmas. The out-of-town shopping centres are now well established and attract significant business. If city centre stores are to compete they must make the most of the seasonal spending festival. So it was encouraging

  • Football: Newcastle run rule over City kids

    Geordie giants Newcastle United are the latest club to cast their envious eyes over York City's boys brigade. SHOOTING STAR: Young York City midfielder Lee Bullock (left) cracks in a shot against Plymouth Argyle at Bootham Crescent Manager Neil Thompson

  • City buildings pick up brickbats and bouquets

    Signs which are the wrong size and the wrong colour, shops decorated in garish and vivid paint, poor quality shops which cater for the mass tourism market in York's historic heart. York Civic Trust has all these aesthetically challenging city scenes in

  • Attempt to reopen mother's case

    The daughter of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in England to be executed, is joining her aunt in a campaign to reopen her mother's case. Georgie Ellis, of Beverley, East Yorkshire, said she and her aunt were launching the campaign together following the appointment

  • Massive wartime bomb proves a blast at York air museum

    An example of the Grand Slam bomb designed by the legendary bouncing bomb creator Barnes Wallis has been delivered to the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York. Sgt Tim Atkinson with the 20,000lb Grand Slam bomb which has been acquired by the Yorkshire

  • Fit to burst

    York almost ground to a halt under the weight of visitors in a "sensational" pre-Christmas shopping boost. Parliament Street: shoppers pour in for the St Nicholas' Fayre held over the weekend About 250 coaches - more than ever before - brought many thousands

  • Petrol price fury

    I must write regarding petrol prices. Week in week out petrol companies have been putting one pence a litre on the price. When I went for fuel today it had gone up two pence so I suppose that will now be the trend. It is time motorists got together to

  • Vile smell in York

    I recently spent a week in your lovely city. However, I was bemused by the attitude of your council to the prevailing pollution there. I found the smell that permeated everywhere to be overpowering and disgusting. A taxi driver explained that the culprit

  • Boycott in focus

    How disturbingly easy it is for the media to whip up misguided xenophobia like football hooligans on the subject of the beef war. There are a number of countries opposed to importing our beef (America being one), yet I dare to say there are some patriots

  • More traffic lights will blight nice city route

    I disagree with Mark Wade that there was a mood of 'controlled fury' at the recent consultation meeting (Letters, November 16). Most present could see that the proposals put forward for Shipton Road had good and bad points. Yes, let us have more cycle

  • Roles just Grand

    Young dancers from York are preparing to join Hunter the Gladiator and Nolan Sister Denise after being picked to star in this year's pantomime at the city's Grand Opera House. Hannah Smithson and Jack Cussans, who have been chosen for the Grand Opera

  • Magic moments for Rowntree Players

    Aladdin (Mieke Jackson), centre, with fellow members of the Rowntree Players cast Picture: Paul Baker The Rowntree Players are rubbing the magic lamp and doing everything else in their power to draw in a sell-out audience for their first night charity

  • Rugby: Luckless Acorn denied by late field goal

    York Acorn should be celebrating only their third win in the National Conference second division but instead their home clash with promotion contenders Waterhead ended in heartache. A field goal by Waterhead's stand-off and captain Jon Perks three minutes

  • Rugby: McBride bids farewell to York in great style

    Naithan McBride completed his second spell with York Rugby Union Club with a crucial try in their 27-3 victory over Percy Park at Clifton Park. MATT FINISH: York second row forward Matt Halifax (left) gets the ball down to open the scoring against Percy

  • Football: Bridges' blockbuster sends Leeds tops

    Perhaps it will be Leeds United's season after all. Despite manager David O'Leary's insistence that his side cannot win the Premiership title, his skilful youngsters continue to make him eat his words. Striker Michael Bridges sent Leeds back to the top

  • Trusty watchdog

    Those brickbats and bouquets are flying about again. That can mean only one thing - the York Civic Trust has published its annual report. This time it is a derelict building on Foss Islands Road and the changing faces of York banks that has provoked the

  • Rugby: Lambert joins Rovers

    Captaincy could be on the cards for Matt Lambert following his return to his former club Featherstone Rovers. The Australian second rower joined York Wasps from Featherstone in 1998 and enjoyed two successful seasons at Huntington Stadium. But York could

  • Football: York City 0, Plymouth 0

    Patience is a virtue in short supply at Bootham Crescent these days. As is becoming the norm, the sporadic grumblings of discontent rolled down from the home terraces yet again. In truth it was a sometimes tedious encounter, with both sides content to

  • Four hurt as tanker and cars crash on A19

    Fire crews used cutting gear to release two men from their cars after a serious road accident resulted in four people being injured. The scene on the A19, near Whitley Bridge, after a crash involving a tanker and three cars Picture by Eric Foster The

  • Cool response to pub proposal at former museum

    A real ale pub proposed for York city centre is expected to be refused by City of York councillors. The plan to transform the Museum of Automata in Tower Street, which has stood empty for more than two years, into a JD Wetherspoon pub is expected to be

  • Millennium facelift for majestic Minster window

    Work has begun on a £350,000 Millennium restoration of York Minster's ancient St William Window. Lucy Rutherford, deputy supervisor at the Minster glaziers' workshop, with part of the St William Window which is being restored In what is described as one

  • Call centre moves in top management

    York's major new employer, CPP, today announced that more of its most senior staff are to be based here. Less than a year after the London business moved its operations centre to York, it already employs more than 300 people in the city - double the number

  • No way out for hundreds of delayed rail passengers

    Hundreds of train passengers heading south from York Railway Station today faced long delays after a problem on the line further north. Services were plunged into chaos when GNER's 5.25am service from Newcastle to Kings Cross struck something on the line