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Stories for 3 March 1999

York Business

Insular Britain is 'risking jobs' fear

Business newsline by Tony Seymour  more...

Customer services director is ace in card firm's pack

CPP Card Protection Plan, which is planning to bring 750 jobs to York within five years, has appointed a customer services director.  more...

Thousands quitting long-hours workplaces

The number of people applying to work for an overseas voluntary group has increased dramatically as a new report gives evidence of a "crisis" in the workplace because of British industry's long hours culture.  more...

Sitting comfortably?...

SOHO - the Small Office and Home Office sector - is one of the biggest growth areas in the UK market.  more...

Fengs can only get better

Barclays Premier Banking (BPB) in York has undergone a feng shui transformation, which literally mans arranging your work space for peak performance and maximum profit.  more...

York News

Tesco joins store wars

Store wars are hotting up in York as Tesco makes the latest in a series of supermarket expansion applications.  more...

Figures show teatime TV viewers are wild about Harry

A fierce battle for teatime TV viewers is under way, with Look North pulling out its big guns - in the form of veteran anchorman Harry Gration - against YTV's flagship Tonight programme.  more...

Trolley brake inventor to wheel in the money

The North Yorkshire inventor of a device that has led to the "unstealable supermarket trolley" is heading for stardom and millionaire status.  more...

On the cards

York's major new employer CPP today unveiled plans for a new office complex on the former carriageworks site.  more...

Horne £11,000 would have paid for life of luxury

Hunger striker Barry Horne could have stayed at London's Savoy hotel for six weeks for the same money it cost York NHS Health Trust to put him up for just under four, the Evening Press has learned.  more...

Key accused over York defence jobs

Tory Defence spokesman Robert Key was accused today of trying to stop hundreds of Defence Vetting Agency jobs coming to York.  more...

Dog muck crackdown as town's residents call foul

An East Yorkshire town councillor is calling for rewards to be issued for information leading to the conviction of dog owners who allow their pets to foul in public and then fail to clean it up.  more...

Students boycott campus for events

York University could lose thousands of pounds worth of revenue in a dispute with the Students' Union.  more...

Rapist hunt goes on Net

Police hunting a rapist who attacked an 18-year-old girl in a train lavatory are turning to the Internet in an effort to find vital witnesses.  more...

Soccer school is on the ball

England's cricketers returned from Australia after another Ashes series defeat. England's football team floundered in the last World Cup and are struggling to qualify for the European Championships. In the face of such failure, patriotic sports fans are left to wonder why other nations succeed where we do not.  more...

Trolley good idea

The eccentric inventor may be a crusty British cliché, but here in North Yorkshire we have established a thoroughly modern reputation for innovation. Our county's creative minds include David Lussey, whose revolutionary plastic polymer is being marketed worldwide; the people behind design consultancy Ideas; and those helping to establish the reputation of York Science Park.  more...

Mum in a spin over fault

A shocked York mother has helped highlight a national washing machine safety scare after seeing her toddler open her machine during its cycle.  more...

Hitting on a piece of the action at auction site

It's got the whole of North Yorkshire's Internet lovers gripped.  more...

Pollution 'could profit Yorkshire Water'

EXCLUSIVE by David Wiles  more...

Let's have a referendum on Frakenfoods

Under a three-year contract with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, will investigate genetically modified foods (Evening Press, February 25).  more...

Fantastic efficieny

I write in response to E M Bramwell's letter (February 23) headed Real Life Savers. I wish to support the NHS by saying that I recently attended the day unit at York District Hospital for a minor operation after which I went to the X-ray department for another reason, unconnected with the operation.  more...

Come and join us

On March 9, St John Ambulance in North Yorkshire launches a recruitment campaign. We urge local people to come and see that St John Ambulance is not just about First Aid, we also have a huge range of volunteering opportunities on offer.  more...

It's your move

Last year the school chess programme could not go ahead because of a change of secretaries and other difficulties. But the York Chess Association hopes to include it in 1999-2000 season.  more...

Putting out signals

Did you serve in 16 Signals during the 1960s, or do you know anyone who did? This includes all ranks and trades, male or female.  more...

Stop cruelty to mink

Every year more than 50,000 mink are killed for their fur after spending their short lives in small, wire cages - all for the sake of fashion.  more...

Janet Eldred

I won't pay to watch drivel on the telly  more...

York Sport

Feet of learning

Talent-spotting York City have plugged in to a new production-line of potential.  more...

Little backs new scheme

City boss Alan Little welcomed the Academy development as a back-up to players who may slip the scouting net.  more...

Hoggard earns his place in the sun

Yorkshire's young fast bowler Matthew Hoggard has created such a good impression with South African side Free State this winter that he has been invited back as their overseas professional next season.  more...

Johnson sets sights on double Success

Symbol Of Success, who bounced back to winning form at Sandown two weeks ago, can follow-up at Ludlow tomorrow.  more...

Shooting star

School Sport compiled by Peter Wilmott  more...

  
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