IT should come as no surprise that Pisceans love seafood. Those born under this fishy star sign will devour anything from exotic oysters to plain salmon. Their favourite flavours are saffron and garlic, for savoury dishes, and nutmeg and vanilla for sweet ones. more...
As the scourge of foot and mouth disease among British livestock continues, now may be a good time to make more use of vegetables and transform the way you cook, eat and entertain, writes Hannah Stephenson. more...
DAN RUTSTEIN enjoys a romantic weekend in Halifax, of all the unlikely places more...
MARTIN LACY offers a second route through York for walkers missing their regular strolls in the countryside thanks to the foot and mouth crisis. more...
Coffee and chocolate are not the only Fairtrade goods you can put in your shopping basket, discovers MAXINE GORDON. more...
JULIAN COLE is surprised by what he finds tucked away at the back of a York department store. more...
DISAPPOINTED York landlord Shaun Collinge suffered a double blow this week with his beloved Leeds losing to Real Madrid and his beloved pub coming second in an ale competition. more...
Where would we be without washing machines and microwaves? As Discovery Week approaches, MAXINE GORDON looks at how electricity changed the way we live. more...
AN armed robber who terrorised staff at his local pharmacy at gunpoint to get prescribed drugs, has been jailed for six years. more...
TRAIN services up and down the East Coast Main Line could be hit for up to five years following the Hatfield and Great Heck crashes, the Evening Press has learned. more...
INQUESTS on the 10 Selby rail disaster victims have opened with the promise to investigate all the facts "fully, thoroughly and fearlessly". more...
THE foot and mouth outbreak has forced the cancellation of a concert by the York Minster Choir at Duncombe Park, near Helmsley. more...
A COURAGEOUS former York mother has lost her 15-year battle against breast cancer. more...
YORKIE the lion was sharpening his claws today ready to do battle in the mascots stakes with Sammy the Stag as his side, York City, took on Mansfield this afternoon. more...
The last remaining peacock in York's Museum Gardens, which was thought to have flown the nest, appears to have come home to roost. more...
AN ANGRY motorist had to stump up more than £100 to get back her stolen car - after it was found abandoned only 200 yards from her York home. more...
AS a member of the audience at the BBC Philharmonic concert at the University of York on March 2, I was struck by the fact that the advertised work for soprano and orchestra, Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, was not being performed, but another set of songs (Mahler's Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen). more...
I SHOULD like to endorse what Mrs Moll says about the doctors and nurses at the District Hospital (Letters, March 2). I have recently been on the day ward and cannot fault the treatment I received. Thank you Yvonne, Rebecca, Katie and Janet and all who made my visit as comfortable as could be under the circumstances. more...
DOROTHY Nicholson stated in her letter (`City pools have taken a dive', March 3) that the Barbican pool was closed for repair work for three months due to a couple of roof bolts. more...
I AM a British foreign correspondent and have just retired following 40 odd years in Rome. more...
I DON'T care what Matthew Arnold (1822) and Bryan Marlowe (Feb 27) think about cats, for we `love 'em'. more...
I WAS interested in Janet Hewison's article on ocarinas at Kingsway Junior School (March 3). I am involved in a project advising schools on a less formal introduction to very young children to the enjoyment of playing musical instruments. This is in the light of Education Secretary David Blunkett's promise to provide funds for music in primary schools. more...
MORE than a hundred chanting demonstrators marched through the centre of York today in an effort to stop the controversial Coppergate Riverside shopping centre scheme. more...
A LEADING cycle manufacturer is removing drinks bottles from a children's trike after a North Yorkshire toddler almost choked. more...
IT never occurred to me to think of Jesus Christ as a cowboy. But then I'm not an artist, although that word has been used as suffix in a certain expression of a derogation. more...
RISING star Peter Fox has the rugby league world at his feet after signing for top Super League club Leeds Rhinos. more...
Easingwold Cricket Club must begin their defence of the Hunters York and District Senior League without captain Martin Robinson after he suffered a horrific injury in a snowboarding accident. more...
PRECIOUS metals to the power of 13 were seized by the York City Gymnastic Foundation. more...
HOOPS of delight are rebounding around Huntington School after it was earmarked for elevation by English basketball bosses. more...
EASINGWOLD'S record-breaking sidecar world champion Steve Webster is back on the glory trail tomorrow when his 2001 season gets underway at Valencia in Spain. more...
A NEW man at the helm is working hard to make table tennis a hit with youngsters in North Yorkshire. more...
YORK City are getting shirty with youngsters from Canon Lee School. more...
ARE York Wasps on course for another French revolution? more...
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