Last weekend we had a brief taste of summer, but the warm weather holds other connotations if you suffer from allergies. With this week being National Allergy Week Jon Butler looked at how CommuniGate can help. more...
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TANK games normally come in one of two varieties: slow and worthy or quick arcade blasts like the old Battlezone. more...
SPECS: Pentium 300, 32MB RAM, 180MB free hard disk space, 2MB graphics card more...
Quake hasn't always had things its own way over on the PC, enjoying a much-debated duel in the charts with Unreal Tournament, a battle now rejoined on the PlayStation 2. more...
Now it's the PS2's turn to get a conversion of the best-known first person shooter and this is a dream for those owners who don't want to shell out for a PC. Still, the PC has one area where it remains superior - there's no online gaming on the PS2 yet. That aside, this is a very good conversion. The multiplayer option is a very good one which keeps the pace up while putting a strain on many friendships. more...
FIRST, Masham villagers refused to be beaten by foot and mouth and fabricated a flock for their sheep fair. Now Linton-on-Ouse residents are adopting a similarly plucky stance. No cattle for Cowpat Bingo? Then bring on the chickens! more...
PLAXTON has not reached the end of the road. The Scarborough bus-builder may yet motor to its centenary and beyond, thanks to a deal that safeguards about a third of the workforce. more...
WITH reference to the report `School flat scheme rejected' (May 11). more...
WITH reference to the letters from Mr Parkinson and Mr Clayton (May 4), the only thing that the United States has been guilty of toward the British is independence and saving you from having to learn to speak German. more...
I WOULD be as happy to meet Bryan Marlowe as any other voter during the course of the election campaign. I am not convinced he would like to meet me though, as he deliberately avoided making any mention of me or the Socialist Alliance in his article (May 15). more...
YORK Conservative candidate Michael McIntyre's letter setting out his "green" credentials (May 14) was a masterpiece of evasion. more...
THE feature on different approaches on the treatment of ME (May 14) raises many issues. Until the Government is prepared to put sufficient funding for research to find the cause of this devastating illness there will continue to be controversy regarding its treatment, causing sufferers yet more stress. more...
Commuters were told Labour has failed them as they arrived at York railway station today. more...
The battle to take the Vale of York is to move into top gear with the official launch of two major contenders. more...
Labour plans to scrap the Ministry of Agriculture were cautiously welcomed today by North Yorkshire farming leaders. more...
As the main political parties today tried to seize the election agenda back from John Prescott's punch-up, a Mori poll for The Economist seemed to show the incident had not damaged Labour's lead, putting the Tories 28 points behind Labour. more...
Public utilities could face daily fines if they take their time over digging up York's roads and pavements. more...
A York woman has made history by becoming the first female police officer to pound the city's most prestigious 'beat'. more...
Befuddled villagers who were in a steam over a bizarre summer ritual have given themselves a pat on the back after chicken droppings saved their blushes. more...
A quiet Selby street became the centre of national media attention when a driver appeared at the town's magistrates court. more...
A Selby area doctor accused of indecently assaulting a 12-year-old boy has been suspended from the medical register by the General Medical Council. more...
A new era of bus travel in the city of York is on the horizon, with a new fleet of state-of-the-art vehicles and a spanking new metro-style route. more...
A bail hostel resident was taken to hospital and three others lost their places at the residence after a suspected drugs overdose. more...
Drivers in York are set to be flagged down by the council next week as the authority mounts a survey of motorists' movements in the city. more...
Ryedale organisations representing the elderly and disabled will be consulted before any changes are made to concessionary travel. more...
A man faced an allegation of rape when he appeared on bail before Harrogate magistrates yesterday on indecency charges. more...
A group of York flood victims claimed today their plight has been forgotten - while millions of pounds are devoted to the nearby Millennium Bridge and Rowntree Park. more...
American-style year books giving students a permanent reminder of their school days have been made by final-year pupils at a York school. more...
Efforts to start up "walking buses" at York schools have been thwarted by a shortage of parent volunteers. more...
Would-be entrepreneurs from York who are looking to "get rich quick" should beware a new money-making scheme, the city's trading standards chiefs say. more...
PRINCIPAL Mike Galloway went back to the canteen floor to serve students at York College as part of National Learning At Work Day. more...
Schoolboy Chris Morgan was congratulated today for five years' perfect attendance at secondary school. more...
A Scarborough firm is offering wannabe comedians a course in how to be a stand-up comic. STEPHEN LEWIS goes in search of a few tips from an expert. more...
They all pretended there were "real" issues to talk about yesterday. more...
Thousands of parents across a wide stretch of York were this afternoon being alerted to a major schools shake-up. more...
Hundreds of workers at Scarborough coachbuilders Plaxtons could keep their jobs after a deal was clinched in York. more...
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Yorkshire may go against England boss Duncan Fletcher's wishes today and not pick Craig White for Sunday's National League match against title-holders Gloucestershire at Bristol. more...
Danny Mills believes his former club Charlton can turn Liverpool's champagne flat and assist Leeds United back into the Champions League. more...
Yorkshire may go against England boss Duncan Fletcher's wishes today and not pick Craig White for Sunday's National League match against title-holders Gloucestershire at Bristol. more...
York's snooker coup in staging the UK Championship later this year was hailed as great for the game by a former world champion when he visited the venue yesterday. more...
North Yorkshire favourite Pipalong smashed through the £400,000 barrier as she bounced back to form at York to avenge last year's defeat in the Duke Of York Victor Chandler Stakes. more...
Tim Etherington's North Yorkshire yard has enjoyed an excellent start to the Flat season - which bodes well for the Evening Press' "people's racehorse". more...
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New Zealand Test batsman Matthew Sinclair has made a blistering start to the Yorkshire ECB County Premier Cricket League. more...
Margaret Sinclair and Hilary Seavers led the way as Poppleton-based club Riverside beat Market Weighton 8-1 in ladies division two of York Badminton League. more...
New Earswick Under-15s completed a notable cup double in dramatic fashion with a penalty shoot-out victory over Pocklington in their York Minor League Cup final. more...
Hamilton Panthers Under 16s ended their time together in style by lifting the York Minor League Cup with a 5-2 defeat of Strensall in the final. more...
Never-say-die Clifton Hotel came from behind twice to clinch a dramatic York Sunday Afternoon League and Cup double. more...
Visiting clubs dominated the honours in the annual Wigginton Grasshoppers six-a-side tournament. more...
Revenge will be in the Knaresborough air tomorrow when Nestlé Rowntree bid to get one over on their West Yorkshire League arch-rivals Carlton Athletic. more...
Malton and Norton's Emma Duggleby relinquished her Yorkshire Women's Championship crown after losing a thrilling final at Ganton. more...
York professional Kirsty Taylor shot a one under par 72 in the first round of the La Perla Italian Open Women's Golf Championship which continued at Poggio Dei Medici today. more...
A gradual return to summer rugby was being debated by Northern Ford Premiership clubs at a meeting in Oldham today. more...
The Rugby Football League has been forced to switch the venues for the first two Tests between Great Britain and Australia in November. more...
The Rhodes Haulage Interworks rugby league tournament continues tonight when Civil Service Old Boys take on Castle Howard Ox at New Earswick (kick-off 6.45pm). more...
Tim Easterby, who was on the mark with Pipalong in yesterday's Duke Of York Stakes on Knavesmire, can crown a memorable week with success at Thirsk's televised meeting tomorrow. more...
Inbetweeners fancies itself as "the first film about the British University experience". Presumably that is supposed to buy it credibility but alas confirms what a naïve, milk-tooth piece of film-making it is: a student work indeed, as over-excited as freshers about sex, drugs, lesbianism and nudity. more...
IT wasn't just the hills that were alive with the sound of music on the first night of York Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society's latest production. more...
THE Wheels On The Bus is "probably the best-known children's song of the last 150 years", according to Andrew Thomas, director of a new live show inspired by that very nursery rhyme. more...
FIVE new productions and two new concert programmes, all to run in repertory, have been announced by Opera North for its 2001/2 season. Three previously successful productions are also being revived. more...
MY Fair Lady was not the first, and it will not be the last, piece of entertainment to soften the blows administered in the play that inspired it. more...
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