A FAST-growing international IT company today formally launched a permanent northern outpost in York - and immediately began recruiting for an extra 22 staff over the next two months more...
A POSTER campaign started today as the next phase of a £7 million national advertising campaign by Norwich Union to promote its new range of stakeholder pension plans - and staff at the York-based headquarters are getting ready for a surge in demand. more...
All good things come in threes for the Knowles family, discovers more...
SINCE you have woken up this morning, has your skin been in contact with traffic fumes, cigarette smoke, strong sunlight, central heating or air conditioning? If you have answered yes to three of the above, chances are your skin will be prone to premature ageing, which leads to fine lines and wrinkles, dullness and loss of suppleness and elasticity. more...
Hidden deep in the North York Moors is a well-kept secret - The Orange Tree, the perfect remedy for the stresses and strains of modern life. JAMES KILNER reports more...
HISTORY was created last Sunday at the BAFTAs. Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 fame presented our own Patrick Moore with an award for his tireless work presenting The Sky At Night. It was particularly poignant for me because that programme instilled in me a life-long excitement about astronomy. I am but one of many. more...
THE report about unpaid rent of more than £1 million owed to City of York Council (Evening Press, May 5) at least highlights the reason for such an amount being allowed to accumulate. more...
"A megaphone for the little man - it gives ordinary people a voice in local affairs." more...
WHEN I was 14 and went to serve my time as an apprentice jockey an old stableman said to me: "Son, you'll go through life and there's three things you will never see: more...
ABOUT 18 months ago the local bus company introduced Day Rover tickets costing £1.70 which enabled one to board a bus and go anywhere in York during most of the day. An excellent idea. more...
I WRITE on behalf of the governors of St. Peter's School, York to correct a number of misleading and inaccurate statements reported in your newspaper last week regarding our acquisition of the Queen Anne school site and the subsequent sale of the school's land on the Avenue. more...
A youngster missing from home since Sunday has been found safe and well nearby his home, police said this afternoon. more...
The hats were out and the bets were being laid today as York's racing season got under way. more...
The parents of North Yorkshire's only known human victim of mad cow disease have finally received £25,000 in compensation - as scientists warned many more could die. more...
A dog owner faces a £1,240 court bill because her two pets savaged and killed sheep near York. more...
A Michelangelo drawing recently found at Castle Howard may be heading abroad. more...
A learner driver whose motoring brought havoc to a York retail park has been jailed for two months for his behaviour. more...
A drunken man stunned postal workers when he climbed 110ft up a building site crane and refused to come down. more...
As fast as a speeding Bullet, but a lot longer and heavier, a revolutionary locomotive is heading to York. more...
Proposals for the long-awaited flood defences for Malton and Norton will be put before residents of the two towns next week. more...
The life and times of one of North Yorkshire's best-loved hospitals has been documented in a new short film. more...
The nation's leading Jews have added their support to protests against the Coppergate II scheme, angry at the effect on an important heritage site. more...
A bomb scare was sparked in York when a workman found two suspicious items at the council tip in Foss Islands Road. more...
Ryedale campaigners want to improve driver safety on rural roads. Reporter Richard Edwards, who is sick of being told his driving is terrible, more...
A woman walked away from the wreckage of her home today after a suspected gas explosion ripped through the property and razed it to the ground. more...
Coronation Street's critics can say what they like, but the soap's story lines are always up to date with what's happening in the real world: the national census, which is causing problems for Norris Cole (should enumerators question their neighbours?); Alma Halliwell, a victim of belatedly-diagnosed cervical cancer, and Audrey Roberts and Curly Watts standing in the local council elections. more...
The loss of several key players through injury took its toll on York Wasps Academy as they were beaten 44-6 by an older and more experienced Featherstone Rovers side at Huntington Stadium. more...
One Lancastrian is all set to replace another as a Yorkshire opener in the Cricinfo Championship match against Essex which starts at Chelmsford tomorrow. more...
Teenage ski sensation Adam Lee, from York, has firmly established himself as one of Britain's best on the slopes after winning a top competition, writes Dianne Hillaby. more...
Amateur boxing in York is to undergo a massive upswing as it prepares for a season's finale later this month. more...
The 11-year-old lad who challenged all-comers at snooker took on twenty challengers - and managed to beat 13 of them. more...
Two of the new teams in division ten of the IT Sports York and District Mixed Tennis League have started with two wins out of two, Wistow III heading the table on games difference from Stillington. more...
In the battle of the expected leaders of the York Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League division one, John and Alex Moore led Poppleton to victory with an unbeaten 24 against Dunnington. more...
Kirkbymoorside Tennis Club is offering a five-day intensive coaching course in the May half-term holidays for beginners, improvers and intermediate junior players. more...
Poppleton, Fulford and Dunnington all got off to winning starts in the new Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League division one campaign. more...
Sandra Bruce included 140, 121 in an outstanding 19 darts for Castle Howard Ox in York John Smith's Ladies League division one. more...
Britannia have retained the York Unique Darts League title. Shepherds took an early 2-0 advantage in their encounter with the champions, with excellent wins from Mick Wilsden (16) and Paul Botterill, who registered a maximum 180 score. Britannia fought back to level the match at 3-3, Ray McInally including a good 17-dart leg and a 180 score. Britannia dug deep and won the remaining pairs encounters to run out 8-3 victors. Chas Ramsden and Chris Thompson also hit maximum 180 scores, taking the match tally to four. more...
Two of the Hunters Estate Agent York and District Senior League's representative sides have had a successful start to the season. more...
Two of the Hunters Estate Agent York and District Senior League's representative sides have had a successful start to the season. more...
Captain David Byas overtook Geoff Boycott as Yorkshire's heaviest scorer in county league cricket during his powerful knock of 48 which helped Phoenix to a five-wicket win over Somerset Sabres in their opening Norwich Union National League match of the season at Headingley yesterday. more...
DILSHAAN can prove himself a genuine Classic contender by winning the £145,000 Convergent Communications Dante Stakes - the richest Derby trial in Europe - on Knavesmire tomorrow. more...
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