DAY one and a Great British Hope is already out. Greg Rusedski, the British Number Two, crashed out of Wimbledon in humiliating style yesterday after fighting for four hours against Vince Spadea of the United States, who had previously lost 22 matches
YORK'S Oscar-winning actress, Dame Judi Dench, spoke out in disgust today after learning of the planned cull of 50 Canadian geese in Rowntree Park. Speaking from her home in Surrey todayg, she said she was outraged and appalled that the birds' lives were
Musician Dave Nicholls wanted to make more of his terrace home, so we called in the architects.Stephen Lewis reports. HOME makeover is all the rage these days. Programmes like House Doctor and Changing Rooms have opened our eyes to how simply changing
IT grows for seven years, flowers once for a week, and then it's gone. This grand looking Chinese Cardiocrinum is at the start of its single week of flowering. It is to be found at Wytherstone Gardens, home of Lady Clarissa Collin, at Pockley, near Helmsley
NORTH Yorkshire rail travellers could be among those who benefit as one of the region's main stations becomes the first in the country to be provided with life-saving equipment. Public Health Minister Yvette Cooper visited Leeds City Railway Station to
A SANDWICH shop owner is angry that a CCTV camera was not recording when one of her vans was damaged in York city centre. Karen Donaldson, manager of Makdonaldson's sandwich shop in Lawrence Street, York, contacted the Evening Press after the Citroen
THOUSANDS of residents in Ryedale villages are set for a better public transport deal thanks to a £750,000 Government package. At present, sparse services leave people unable to take up employment and training opportunities, and youngsters unable to take
A psychic trader in York knew something was wrong with her shop premises when she got a funny feeling. So Di Jarvis rushed back to the shop in Walmgate - to find it completely wrecked by a flood. When Di arrived at her Pagan shop, Odyssey, she found it
A MAJOR building programme which could bring nearly 130 new homes to York will be discussed this week. City of York Council planners will study proposals to build on White Cross Road, off Haxby Road, and Huntington Road. If accepted, a four-storey block
THEY were placed as a tribute to a young man killed in an horrific car crash. Flowers tied to a tree by grieving relatives wanting to commemorate a life cruelly cut short. But six weeks after the tragedy, flowers left at the scene of the smash are giving
SWIMMERS are being invited to make a big splash at Waterworld at Monk's Cross this week, as part of a national Splashathon in aid of pregnancy research. The sponsored swimming challenge is giving tiny tots the chance to raise money for Tommy's Campaign
A BOSNIAN refugee living in York is issuing a desperate SOS after her nephew in Sarajevo developed leukaemia. Genna Grandich, of New Earswick, says nine-year-old Adnan Kuldija was diagnosed seven weeks ago as suffering one of the worst forms of the illness
Green Hammerton driver Miles Johnston finished fifth in the Gold Star at the Dukeries Stages Rally in Sherwood Forest - despite driving the last four stages in a "mobile sauna". Johnston and co-driver Mark Andrews' Peugeot 106 suffered damage to the radiator
A COLLISION between a car and a tipper lorry which left an elderly York woman driver dead proved that "speed kills", a court heard today. Prosecutor Michael Sandiford told Pickering magistrates that a police examiner who investigated the accident near
POLICE dogs, traffic officers and York's specialist off-road unit are to be used in a huge blitz on moped thefts. Senior officers believe that Operation Polar could also help drive down anti-social behaviour in the city as many of those involved in the
SEVEN hundred pigs and piglets died when an electrical fault sparked a severe fire at their piggery. Firefighters were able to save just under half of the pigs, but many which did not perish in the fire itself had to be destroyed afterwards because of
All right, I admit it. The changing images which sartorially defined the dynamic corporate creature always passed me by. As lapels and kipper ties widened then narrowed, as shirt colours changed from pink to floret-peppered, as trousers flared then funnelled
ROSEBYS, the curtains and linens retailer, is in talks with Potter, the transport and storage group about the possibility of massively extending its storage space at Selby - leading to another 80 jobs over the course of the next year. Rosebys' parent
All-out war has broken out in the US music business. Digital Media Manager HOWARD DAVIS looks at the ethical conundrum that is napster.com WHO would have thought that a piece of shareware named after its 19-year-old creator's haircut ("nappy" meaning
AT LEAST everyone can agree on one thing: the land around Clifford's Tower and Piccadilly is an eyesore and development is urgently needed. From this point of consensus, views in York go in a number of directions, with some people believing the Eye of
A LEADING retailer has launched a stinging attack on the latest scheme to expand York's Coppergate Centre. Adam Sinclair claims the £60 million Coppergate Riverside proposals could damage the city centre's existing retail heart. And he suggests that if
It all started in Holland, both the holiday and the hooliganism. In a city of decriminalised cannabis, where supporters from all nations congregated in coffee shops, where would you expect to find the England fans? In the marijuana-less bars of the red
'You're travelling to the Mediterranean ...by car?...with the kids?" Some people were more sympathetic than envious when I revealed my holiday plans. They probably felt that after driving 950 miles across England and France over three days, with two children
CITY centre roads are being closed as York holds a weekend of celebration. Let's Party sees events throughout York and surrounding areas on July 1 and 2 to mark the year 2000. The headlining event on Saturday will see York College join with St Leonard's
THE French are throwing a big party to honour the gallantry of a First World War Victoria Cross holder from Harrogate. It will follow the unveiling of a new memorial to 2nd Lt Donald Bell, the only professional footballer to be awarded the VC. Lt Bell
YORK City were this afternoon signing West Bromwich Albion's former England Under-21 international Graham Potter. The 25-year-old has agreed terms and was being put through a medical at Green Hammerton today and provided there are no problems will sign
York City Rowing Club's first eight have drawn a top seeded crew in the first round of the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta which starts on Wednesday. The crew they have drawn is from Ghent in Belgium and captain and bowman Mick Homa said:
LECTURING jobs are to go at the College of Ripon and York St John in a shake-up of subject areas, it was announced today. The college, which is to close its Ripon campus from September 2001, announced that 29 academic posts would be lost over the next
DARLINGTON boss David Hodgson has quashed speculation linking York City with Quakers' striker Peter Duffield. But former City striker Marco Gabbiadini was expected to depart Feethams today to sign for division two new boys Northampton Town. And one time
A BUMPER crowd will be expected at Common Road on Sunday as Dunnington attempt a second consecutive ECB National Knockout Cup giant-killing act. The Costcutter York and District Senior League first division side will face Oxbridge Yorkshire County Premier
YOU can't keep a good portfolio down, it seems. Last month our RICH members fended off the worst effects of the shares avalanche, but still couldn't stop their unit price sliding 14p to £2.55. This month the unit price rose to £2.60, in spite of the latest
TAKE a trip to your local town or city centre these days, and the chances are you will discover a farmers' market bustling with shoppers eager to discover fresh and tasty ingredients for their dinner table. Farmers' markets have sprung up around North
THIS is the vision designed by Corus, the York-based rail consultancy... it is part of a £98 million extension of the Tyne & Wear Metro to Sunderland, work on which has now begun. The underground station at Park Lane is the first of five new stations
A YORK entrepreneur who became boss of Sheffield United football club is now set to make millions from the stock exchange flotation of his medical services group. Ian Townsend, managing director of The Medical House who lives in Ouseburn and once ran
IT'S not the first place that springs to mind for a day-out from York. It is hardly a tourist hot-spot. But I spent a very pleasant few hours in Selby with my daughter last weekend: firstly at the Abbey Leisure Centre and then at the town's abbey, before
CRACKING the human genetic code - the 'book of life' as it is already being dubbed - is undoubtedly one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements. It has undreamed-of implications for virtually every aspect of our lives. Medicine, agriculture, biology
