York | Archive | 2000 | October
EUROPE'S biggest online shoe store, the York-based www.shoe-shop.com has been short-listed to win the prestigious North Star award. more...
DOT.com companies will be among the new faces making a splash at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's exhibition for people management professionals, taking place in Harrogate this month. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire law firm has put £125,000 into a high-tech computer link as part of an office expansion. more...
IN the 50 years that CE Seymour has been selling bespoke clothes in York, it has measured up quite a few blue bloods in its day - but nothing like this. more...
A LUCRATIVE deal with Peugeot won by Knaresborough-based Treves UK has resulted in a £750,000 investment in high tech carpet-making equipment - and the creation of 12 new production line jobs. more...
Galaxy DJ Antony Collins has the world at his feet - but because they are giant size 13s, they can cause a problem or two. MAXINE GORDON gets in step with the big man who wakes up with more than 100,000 people every morning. more...
CHARLES HUTCHINSON reveals how he has been fighting the flab for years with support from his local slimming club. more...
York weaver Jacqueline James has established a celebrated career despite being partially sighted. MAXINE GORDON reports. more...
IF North Yorkshire Moors Railway bosses are successful in their bid for a Harry Potter-based attraction, the gravy train really will ride into Ryedale. Scenes from the first of the movie adaptations of JK Rowling's books have already been filmed at Pickering station. Six more are lined up. more...
BEGGING is among York's most enduring and controversial problems. It is easy to understand why so many beggars are attracted to our wealthy city with its thriving tourist trade. Visitors who saunter through the streets are an easy target. more...
Eight senior Tory politicians have admitted smoking cannabis. Is it time to make the drug legal? Here are two opposing points of view. more...
A terrified teenage girl trapped in her blazing North Yorkshire home was rescued by firefighters after she alerted them on her mobile phone. more...
York's Millennium Bridge has `fallen' victim to October's heavy downpours. more...
Top academics from York and Hull are joining forces in a bid to create a new "world class" medical school based in both cities. more...
Residents of the twin towns of Malton and Norton will soon be watched over by the imposing eye of Roman emperor Vespasian, after the towns' forum approved the design for the Malton and Norton marque. more...
Fancy turning your grandad into an exploding dinosaur? Or your embarrassing teacher into a whistling pair of trousers? more...
Rush-hour motorists were held up this morning when a lorry loaded with Tarmac overturned on the A64 in North Yorkshire. more...
A senior York policeman today urged people not to give money directly to beggars or the homeless in the city. more...
Ambulance response times in North and East Yorkshire have fallen well below Government targets, according to a report out today. more...
A young athlete from Malton has been offered some truly Olympic footwear after an injury caused his feet to bleed. more...
A campaign to find adoptive families who will offer a home to a child has been launched in North Yorkshire. more...
These boots are made for walking. more...
The case against a man accused of conspiring to rob a York newsagent was thrown out of court after no evidence was offered. more...
The former treasurer of a village fete near Selby has been sentenced to 240 hours community service after pleading guilty to what a judge described as "squalid dishonesty." more...
On behalf of the Friends of Lime Trees, staff and, more importantly, the young patients, I would like to convey an enormous thank you to all those people, organisations and charitable trusts who donated generously to our appeal. more...
YOU reported our council had accepted a £100,000 payment to lift planning restrictions on the former gas works site in Heworth Green in order to allow housing to be built (`Homes bid sparks toxic fears', October 2). I have some questions. more...
COUNCILLOR John Galvin's fretful response to the Lib Dem Focus newsletter for Copmanthorpe ward (Letters, October 3) will reinforce the view that his party's time has come... and gone. more...
CAN you play snooker? I know many people who stay at Woodlands Multiple Sclerosis Respite Care Centre who would give everything just to be able to walk round a snooker table and shake an opponent's hand. more...
Our adversarial political system, coupled to a five-yearly electoral cycle, is sadly blinkering many politicians and commentators to one stark fact. Namely that this planet has finite reserves of fossil-derived fuel. more...
I APPLAUD efforts to involve young people in decisions that affect their lives, but I wish we would come up with new models of involvement. more...
A rampaging bullock caused mid-morning mayhem in Ryedale today when it ran through Malton town centre past stunned motorists and shoppers. more...
Bellringer David Potter was set to receive an MBE from the Queen today. more...
Am I alone in being annoyed when told the outcome of a film I hope to see, or in never taking a peek at the last page of a book before starting to read it? more...
SPIRIT of Park, unbeaten in two races over hurdles, can complete a hat-trick tomorrow - provided Wetherby's opening meeting of the season survives a 3pm inspection today. more...
YORK Wasps coach Lee Crooks knows his side are in for a tough start to the season - but he wouldn't want it any other way. more...
YORK City manager Terry Dolan today made his third acquisition in as many weeks by landing left back Neville Stamp from Second Division Reading. more...
YORK Wasps have announced three friendlies before their Northern Ford Premiership campaign kicks-off at home to Doncaster Dragons on December 3. more...
CONFIDENCE at City of York has taken a battering. more...
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