York | Archive | 2000 | August
When the woman who created a milliner's miracle throws her hat into the ring of the Evening Press Business Awards 2000, RON GODFREY, business editor, takes notice. more...
BUSINESS confidence in Yorkshire is better than the national average. more...
SELL in May and go away is the old adage - but for how long? more...
RICH chairman Jim Porteous revealed that members have agreed to invest in Pace Micro Technology and Phytopharm plc as well as the `hot tip',Turbo Genset. more...
A FORGOTTEN part of York's commercial heart is stirring afresh thanks to the to the hard work and enthusiasm of local traders. more...
A TOP level survey says that business demand for property is flattening nationally due to a more subdued economy. more...
A YORK company has won the £2.25 million contract to build the new exhibition hall at the Great Yorkshire Showground. more...
LEADING York-based building services company Shepherd Engineering Services (SES) has awarded certificates to all 16 staff who successfully completed stage one of the company's Continuing Professional Development Programme. more...
YORK printers and label manufacturers Sessions is employing fellow Huntington company Guildford Construction to undertake a £200,000 refurbishment of its site. more...
THEY are queuing up to enter our Evening Press Business Awards 2000. more...
AN expanding East Yorkshire company is approaching its goal of becoming the UK's biggest telecommunications supplier of its kind, its chief executive has declared following a big take-over announcement. more...
AN established York insurance broker and a new financial advisory partnership plan to link arms together under a new roof in the city. more...
This year harvest time is tougher and more different now than in many years gone by. ROB SIMPSON, of the Yorkshire and North East National Farmers Union, explains why more...
IN spite of a fall in farmland values nationally, farmers in North Yorkshire "are generally hesitant about committing to sell and are watching and waiting. Despite falling incomes and poor prospects, lenders are still very competitive." more...
It's exam results time, but the training isn't over, says DAVID HARBOURNE, chief executive of North Yorkshire TEC. more...
MONTHS-long uncertainty over the future of £3 million turnover Kelan Circuits Ltd of Boroughbridge has ended in a management buy-out steered by a York legal practice. more...
The Kelan buy-out is yet another feather in the cap for solicitors' practice Denison Till which appears to be striking a series of mighty blows for professional services in York. more...
YORK-based training advisors have clinched a deal with the UK's leading office supplies company. more...
WHY don't you enter your venture in the Evening Press Business Awards 2000? more...
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (Century, £15.99) more...
The Covenant by Jeff Gulvin, (Orion, £9.99) more...
Noah's Ark, by Georgie Adams, pictures by Anna C. Leplar, Orion Children's Books (£4.50) and God's Kingdom, Stories From The New Testament retold by Geraldine McCaughrean (Orion Children's Books, £8.99) more...
Stephen Lewis browses through a clutch of new books from and about the delights and oddities of the White Rose county. more...
In the second of our occasional summer series of tales from the riverbank, more...
PROJECTS to help people sleeping rough in York to settle in "normal" housing have received a £240,000 boost, the Government announced today (Tue). more...
THE Government has moved to wind up two holiday companies which enticed hundreds of North and East Yorkshire residents to sales promotions with the promise of a free holiday. more...
VANDALS doused scenery and costumes in paint after breaking into a store room used by York Scouts and Guides to prepare for their annual show. more...
THE winner of Thursday's big race at York will gain a truly unique prize to keep the memory of the day forever fresh. more...
MANAGERS at Castle Howard are seeking talks with the promoter of a major open-air concert event following complaints from disappointed music fans. more...
EVENING Press photographer David Harrison took to the skies today to take these stunning pictures of contestants preparing for the Ordnance Survey UK National Ballooning Championships. more...
YORK'S Coppergate Riverside scheme has come under attack from an American museum dedicated to preserving the history of the Jewish people. more...
THE York branch of the Samaritans is itself urgently in need of help - to cope with a big jump in calls to the line. more...
GEOGRAPHY is often seen as the poor relation to heavyweight subjects like maths and English in the school lesson stakes. more...
While Flash Gordon was making his first trip to Mars in 20-minute episodes on Saturday morning matinees, shopping trolleys were being introduced in Oklahoma's supermarkets, and Britain's Mallard locomotive and Cockney runner Sydney Wooderson were breaking track records, I was an early beach boy living in Southend-on-Sea, the Blackpool-like Essex resort. more...
YORK racecourse officials put out an urgent invitation to the nation's celebrities and punters today: "Come on over - the weather's fine!" more...
I WORK in a Los Angeles museum dedicated to the preservation of and the teaching about the history of the Jewish people as part of world history. more...
A RED-FACED radio station has had to reinstate one of its presenters sacked in a Big Brother-style publicity stunt. more...
I AM considering withholding my community charge payments until council officers explain and justify, in public, increases in councillors' `allowances' when community workers such as street cleaners, bin men, hospital cleaners, porters, cooks, school caretakers and kitchen staff, who are all essential to our community health and welfare, are overworked and underpaid. more...
LITTLE Sam Broadley is a hero to his family - and especially to his dad. more...
YOUR article `Nasty niffs' (August 17) had me reeling in disbelief. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire woman is to stand trial at Hull Crown Court after denying a charge of manslaughter. more...
THE generous City of York Council has just sent me a free CD about democracy and voting in York. more...
Concorde should not be grounded. If the French had swept the runway clear of debris the awful accident would not have happened. more...
SAM Broadley demonstrated remarkable composure in a crisis. Although only five-years-old, he showed no signs of panic when he was left to look after dad Steve and baby sister Selina when Steve broke his leg at Brimham Rocks. more...
WHEN it comes to the homelessness problem most of us have chosen to walk by on the other side. Yes, we felt sorry for those figures huddled in shop doorways, particularly on an icy night. But we were not moved enough to do anything about it. more...
Three Oaks winners are set to meet tomorrow in what promises to be one of the highlights of York's three-day Festival. more...
BARRY Jones is back in business. more...
SCARBOROUGH take the field tonight knowing that their Nationwide Conference clash with Morecambe could be their very last. more...
YORK City's former Stoke player, Graham Potter, is relishing tonight's match against his old club, believing a bout of underdog status could help kick-start the Minstermen's season, writes Peter Martini. more...
MATTHEW Jones is set to play through the pain barrier to help Leeds towards their dream of playing in the Champions' League. more...
PAUL Mooring steered his York team into the last 16 of the Yoplait Men's All England Bowls Fours Championship at Worthing last night. more...
YORK'S top Du-Athlete Colin Hawxby, pictured above, will come up against the world's best in October. more...
Of the four top clubs in division one of the Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League, only York I failed to win. more...
ESCRICK have snatched the second promotion place in division ten of the IT Sports York and District Mixed Tennis League behind unbeaten champions Bubwith after finishing with a winning flourish to their season. more...
WIGGINTON have been crowned division four champions in the Fulford Ladies Invitation League. more...
DUNNINGTON A scored a narrow 47-46 away victory over Wilberfoss in the Graham Wykes York and District Tennis League's handicap knockout quarter-finals. more...
The showdown for the York John Smith's Ladies League individual competition championship is between Michelle Britton (Wenlock) and Angie Hields (City Arms), writes Dave Fotheringham. more...
YORK City's teenage goalkeeper Russ Howarth has earned another England call-up. more...
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