How do you teach a llama to give North Yorkshire children rides? It's an unusual dilemma - but then Anne Stewart has an exceptionally unusual pet in her llama called Murphy. And her solution to the problem was to enlist a teddy bear called George to act
Massive savings of £5.5 million could be sliced off City of York Council's spending following an efficiency review, analysis has found. Initial estimates suggest work already completed could save the cash over the next five years - without affecting the
JOSEPH ROWNTREE School, a dominant force in York-area netball in recent years, have started the new season with another trophy. Their Under-14s won the York Schools tournament, beating Huntington 7-4 in the final at the Joseph Rowntree School courts.
YOU could say William Hague makes promises at the drop of a hat, if it wasn't for the fact that hats are now so rare. As my colleague Bryan Marlowe noted yesterday, the trilby and the bowler are long gone. Even the Tory leader's own baseball cap has vanished
YORK City chief Terry Dolan today landed former Republic of Ireland Under-21 international Kieron Durkan on a month's loan from Macclesfield Town. The 26-year-old Chester-born right-sided player stated his career with Wrexham before moving to Stockport
YORK City boss Terry Dolan is tonight set to cast his eye over flying Dutchman Theodor Gunnissen. Winger Gunnissen, 23, has been named in the City reserve starting line-up to face Shrewsbury Town at Bootham Crescent (kick-off 7pm) after international
WHAT a revelation! Great Britain has won more medals than since 1920 and all thanks to Australia for clamping down on drugs! I have been down on British sports people for not doing too well, but now we see why. While they have all stoically and fairly
I READ with interest the article entitled Safeway Speaks Against Rail Link in the Evening Press (Saturday, September 23). Mouchel, which carried out the preliminary feasibility study into the proposed rail link between Pickering and Malton on behalf of
THE elegant arch of York's new Millennium Bridge rises above the banks of the River Ouse. The structure, inspired by the simple design of a bicycle wheel, is now almost ready to be swung out over the water from its resting place near Rowntree Park, and
A desperate plea to save SNAPPY has been made directly to York's business community. The charity, one of the few in the city offering disabled young people a chance to enjoy activities considered normal for others of their age, urgently needs £60,000
Police were called to a York estate after a dispute between neighbours boiled over into the street. Cars were damaged and baseball bats brandished as opposing groups hurled threats at each other. The disorder, which had been simmering in Byland Avenue
With an annual mileage of over thirty five thousand and a petrol bill that would make even king of the truckers Eddie Stobart wince, you'd think Ian Davis was the world's number one travelling salesman - but he's not. Instead, 31-year-old Ian turns out
A consultant at a troubled North Yorkshire hospital has been sacked over allegations that he had an affair with a woman patient. The Northallerton Health Services Trust announced its board had dismissed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Neil Hebblethwaite
The annual Remembrance Sunday parade through a North Yorkshire market town will not go ahead this year unless a marching band can be found to lead it. The York Railway Institute band is regularly at the head of the parade through Easingwold, but this
Highways chiefs may close a crawler lane on the A64 between Malton and York to prevent more carnage. The Highways Agency is considering the move at Golden Hill, where six people have died in the last four years. A crawler lane on the incline enables motorists
York Racecourse's millennium season will come to an exciting conclusion, with three consecutive days' racing tomorrow, Friday and Saturday - a new format for the fixture. The successive days' action provides a neat 'tidying-up' of the Knavesmire fixture
Stephen Lewis joins would-be riverboat skipper David Barnes on a cruise up the River Ouse. DAVID Barnes looks as though he's been at the wheel of the cruise boat Captain Cook for years, instead of just five minutes. There's a calm authority about the
SIX people have died in four years at Golden Hill on the A64, a terrible toll that cannot be ignored. It is only right that the Highways Agency is considering ways to make this stretch of road safer. The agency must decide what to do with the crawler
YOU would have to go a long way to find a man more football crazy than Ian Davis. Certainly further the 700 miles he travels each week from Plymouth to York to play for Sunday Afternoon League side the Nomads. Mr Davis's determination never to let his
It took a little while, but young British crime writers have finally woken up to the fact that today you don't have to write like PD James to find a publisher. The past three or four years have thrown up a number of bright young Brits intent on demonstrating
Highfield Stables, home to Ryedale trainer James Hetherton, and one of the most famous racing yards in the country, is set to be sold. In a deal reputed to be worth £1million, the showpiece Norton establishment is the target of Dr John Hollowood, who
Travellers near Selby blocked in a council officer at a site where they live as part of a protest against their "disgusting" living conditions. Police officers arrived at Linwith caravan site at Carlton to find district council technical assistant Ben
Driver fatigue, rather than excess alcohol, was the cause of a road accident that claimed the life of a young York man, an inquest heard. Allen Grimes, aged 26, of Pulleyn Drive, York, died when his Vauxhall Cavalier left the A59 road near Green Hammerton
AN abduction attempt on a 16-year-old student failed when she struggled free, York police said today. The girl was grabbed and told to get into a car by a man who had sounded his horn at her shortly before yesterday's incident. Detective Inspector Phil
A York killer boasted of "having got away with murder" within days of lying to the jury that acquitted him, Leeds Crown Court heard today. Tang Hall drug dealer Jason Nicholas Wade, 29, wrote to his girlfriend, Simone Mariga, that he had invited his victim
Football There are so many entries in the Primary Cup competition this season that there is a preliminary round which has to be completed by this coming Saturday. First round ties have to be completed by October 22. Preliminary round: Dringhouses v St
FORWARD-thinking York City boss Terry Dolan today charged new signing Kieron Durkan with supplying the ammunition to end the Minstermen's blank returns. As first revealed on the Evening Press website - www.thisisyork.co.uk - yesterday, Dolan has landed
FORMER York City trainee John Keegan makes his Scarborough debut today as the Seadogs' reserves visit their Rochdale counterparts for an Avon Insurance League encounter. The youngster, in the third year of his YTS contract at Bootham Crescent, has been
OUR athletes compete against the rest of the world, they should not have to compete against the rest of us and local authorities for adequate training facilities. No wonder Britain failed in swimming events, just look at the facilities we provide to encourage
IF City of York Council wants to encourage people to use Park & Ride they should take a leaf out of Southport's book. There, you pay 40p to park your car and then travel free into Southport on buses which are powered by natural gas. Every day of the
THE reinstatement of the widely-respected York archivist, Rita Freedman, was greeted with satisfaction and relief by her many supporters. However, reinstatement does not mean exoneration. Mrs Freedman has still to face a disciplinary hearing. The law
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. The sum raised of £17,000
Forget Mel, Craig and Nasty Nick. Former pupils of a North Yorkshire school are to emulate the Channel Four favourites in a sponsored three-day Big Brother event. And they are hoping it will be beamed live over the Internet. The school-leavers, made up
Community music group Voice of the Drum will bring the sound of the savannah to York on Saturday through Senegalese drummer and teacher Magette Dieng. The York-based group is celebrating this week after receiving a National Lottery grant. It means it
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a famous brewery name from pub signs, lorries and T-shirts, but not from the beer itself. The notoriously publicity-shy Samuel Smith's is removing its familiar black-on-gold brewery name and Yorkshire white rose
The Twin Towers are coming to York as the city gears up for England's showpiece fixture against Germany on Saturday. York Racecourse is erecting a special Wembley marquee, complete with famous towers, to make sure racegoers can still watch the vital World
North Yorkshire trading standing officers are seeking nearly £55,000 compensation for victims of a massive business rates scam, Leeds Crown Court heard. Robin Spencer QC, prosecuting for the consumer watchdogs, said the money should go to the firms who
FOR York City players and their fans, making the 700-mile round trip to Plymouth once a season must be bad enough. So spare a though for amateur footballer Ian Davis who undergoes the six-hour drive every WEEK - just to play Sunday football in York. The
FORMER York City trainee John Keegan makes his Scarborough debut today as the Seadogs' reserves visit their Rochdale counterparts for an Avon Insurance League encounter. The youngster, in the third year of his YTS contract at Bootham Crescent, has been
FORWARD-thinking York City boss Terry Dolan today charged new signing Kieron Durkan with supplying the ammunition to end the Minstermen's blank returns. As first revealed on the Evening Press website - www.thisisyork.co.uk - yesterday, Dolan has landed
York chartered suveyor Alan Black will be on Knavesmire tomorrow hoping to see his racehorse Middlethorpe gain his fourth success of the season by winning the Racing Gifts Apprentice Handicap. Black bred Middlethorpe from his mare Prime Property and owns
A York punk poet's first novel deals, it says on the back, with "postponed- modern sacrilege". Yes, but what does it all mean? CHRIS TITLEY tries to find out. HE has chosen a name that no one can pronounce. He has given his debut novel an aggressively
Turnstone by Graham Hurley (Orion £9.99) THIS is an excellent police thriller set in and around Portsmouth, where the author has lived for 20 years. It follows the efforts of Det Insp Joe Faraday as he tries to find out what became of missing fast yacht
