A NORTH Yorkshire firm has scooped a national prize for its "outstanding commitment to disabled employees." more...
GSM Group, the Thirsk-based company, has snapped up the ailing British Industrial Graphics Ltd (BIG) for £1.25 million to become the largest manufacturer of industrial graphics in Europe. more...
After hearing about boom from thousands of employers regionally, DAVID HARBOURNE, executive director of the new Learning and Skills Council North Yorkshire discovers the economic cloud within the silver lining. more...
TAXPAYERS could face hefty charges if they fail to meet the self-assessment deadline looming next Tuesday, July 31, warns the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). more...
COMPANIES are taking an average 46 days to settle their bills and the payment performance of the slowest-paying plcs is getting worse, according to league tables for more than 4,000 companies just published by the Federation of Small Businesses. more...
A YORK company has launched its latest technology in time and attendance software. more...
A TELEPHONE system invented by a York company that enables users to leave individual voice messages for specific callers while they are on another line is now being developed with Government cash. more...
COULD this be the most refreshing contract in the world? more...
AN INVESTMENT of some £1.2 million in new production facilities at Rigid Paper, Selby has been approved by the Rigid Group Ltd. more...
A TOP risk management and financial service company has come to York. more...
GERMAN multi-national Siemens has endorsed York as the place to be for one of its growing high-tech businesses. more...
A FIRM which specialises in property development in enterprise zones has expanded out of offices in Clifton Moor and into a new home in the new £4 million Station Park office complex in Holgate Road, York. more...
HERE it is - the vision of a brand new, bigger, sleeker £12 million Sainsburys in Foss Bank, York, which won the unanimous approval of City of York councillors, but when is it likely to come about? And will it ever happen? more...
AWARD-winning conference specialist Saville Audio Visual has just undergone another high-tech refurbishment of its presentation room facilities at its head office in Nether Poppleton, York - a project which cost about £250,000. more...
It's hard to change the subject about foot and mouth because...there is no other subject as vital, says ROB SIMPSON, press officer for Yorkshire and the North East NFU. more...
COMMERCIAL property and land values in York and North Yorkshire could be seriously affected as local councils begin to compile registers of contaminated land, warn commercial property consultants Fuller Peiser. more...
BEN Johnson, the office equipment and supply specialist of York has moved into a new purpose built building as part of its continued expansion programme. more...
SMALL businesses in Yorkshire are missing out on opportunities to boost their turnover by up to £11 billion because of lack of resources - and through not co-operating together, claims new research. more...
A LONG-established specialised haulage contractor from York today has taken over another haulage firm in the city. more...
CAR wars have broken out between the Halifax and HSBC banks in York. more...
FOR one company at least it is a case of Down Under and out, as CGNU plc, parent company to York's Norwich Union Life, announced the sale of CGU Lenders Mortgage Insurance Ltd to PMI Mortgage Insurance Australia (Holdings) Pty Ltd for about £37 million. But CGNU still has a top five position in the Australian general insurance market and recently acquires Fortis Australia Limited for £0.5 billion. more...
YORKSHIRE exports to other EU countries have risen dramatically over the past year with a 14 per cent increase to £1.6 billion for the first quarter of 2001 compared with the same period a year ago, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics. more...
DOORS of opportunity are literally opening for a Sherburn-in-Elmet company which is about to double its turnover and increase its staff by about a third. more...
If in 12 years' time my lad has underage sex it will be my fault because I chose not to marry his dad. Forget the fact that all 14-year-old boys are just one big throbbing hormone with bad hair and acne, that is completely irrelevant. No, my son will have loose morals and a lax attitude to sex because I said "I don't" to the big frock and the finger buffet. more...
Is there life after divorce? Zena Barker certainly thinks so. MAXINE GORDON hears her inspirational story while SARAH CHALLANDS reports on a new evening course to help you recover from a break-up. more...
THE supposedly staid North Yorkshire community is becoming used to its womenfolk stripping off. more...
IT was appropriate that Railtrack held its annual general meeting at York Barbican Centre today. A barbican is a city's first line of defence: and Railtrack is a company under siege. more...
AN appeal by jailed North Yorkshire arms smuggler Peter Bleach has been turned down, according to an Indian news agency. more...
THE wife of a Selby miner cleared of rape said today his name should never have been made public. more...
An animal-loving grandmother and her teenage grandson have had a close shave to raise cash to help suffering animals abroad. more...
TOUGH restrictions aimed at protecting three million farm animals from foot and mouth have received a mixed response. more...
Genetically modified crops will be planted in East Yorkshire as part of the Government's next round of trials. more...
A LORRY driver from York was killed when his vehicle overturned on a busy junction near Scunthorpe. more...
A York man has appeared in court accused of making bomb hoaxes about a North Yorkshire shop. more...
FLOOD-HIT Rawcliffe residents have been promised thast last winter's disaster will not be repeated this year. more...
A YORK mother-of-four ended up in the dock at York Magistrates Court because her boyfriend wanted to save a couple of weeks' car tax, a court heard. more...
CAMPAIGNERS today spoke of their dismay after plans to give more power to the regions were delayed for up to six months. more...
A veteran nurse jailed with her husband for assaults on boys at two North Yorkshire children's homes over 30 years has been struck off the nursing register. more...
A SOPHISTICATED machine which will help in the fight against cancer was presented to researchers at the University of York by the Grand Charity of Freemasons. more...
With the Trans Pennine franchise still up for grabs, Transport Reporter DAN RUTSTEIN meets the French connection behind the First Group bid. more...
SOME of the brightest children in two areas of York are taking part in summer schools during their holidays with the aim of boosting their confidence and aspirations. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS checks out what life will be like in York's new assembly-line flats. more...
I AM researching the life of Elsie and Doris Waters (Gert and Daisy) and have their autographs from the Opera House and Empire York. more...
I NOTE that your columnist Bryan Marlowe gave himself a metaphorical pat on the back because he had, at some time in the past, won a radio prize for knowing the names of Queen Victoria's children (July 17). He recalled that she had eight children. more...
FOLLOWING on from Robert Holmes thesis that the metric system and political correctness are having a disastrous effect upon our language (July 16) - presumably The Merchant Of Venice would have had no trouble measuring a kilo of flesh. more...
I AM getting a bid fed up of The Archers. I'll be glad when they are a back number again - simply known as Dan, Doris and just plain 834792! more...
OH dear! John Potter didn't see the main point of my letter about eyesight testing (Letters, July 17). more...
LAST week the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted in favour of China to host the 2008 Olympic Games. more...
RAILTRACK chiefs today issued a public apology to the dead of rail crashes including the Great Heck tragedy. more...
As off-the-wall as it might have seemed, Chris Titley's article How to save the NHS: die (July 18), did, in a wryly humorous way, highlight the National Health Service's ever-increasing problem - taking care of an overly large population of elderly people who have high hopes, if not great expectations, of living far beyond their biblical `entitlement' of three score and ten years. more...
Paul Hanagan, who requires just one more winner to reduce his claim to 3lb, can find opportunity knocking at Musselburgh tomorrow. more...
York City's goalkeepers are no longer being put through their paces by former Everton and Wales legend Neville Southall, the Evening Press can reveal. more...
Luckless York City's injury jinx of last season has struck in double quick time and in bizarre fashion with Mike Basham ruled out of the Minstermen's friendly with Scottish first Division outfit Raith Rovers tonight. more...
Luckless York City's injury jinx of last season has struck in double quick time and in bizarre fashion with Mike Basham ruled out of the Minstermen's friendly with Scottish first Division outfit Raith Rovers tonight. more...
York City's goalkeepers are no longer being put through their paces by former Everton and Wales legend Neville Southall, the Evening Press can reveal. more...
MICK Hennigan has left Harrogate Town after refusing to be moved upstairs. more...
Yorkshire Phoenix stormed to victory by 175 runs in their day-night match at Headingley yesterday, bowling out Warwickshire Bears for 59, their record low score in county league cricket. more...
ENGLAND Test duo Darren Gough and Craig White are not sure of a place in Yorkshire's starting line-up for the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy quarter-final clash against Warwickshire at Headingley tomorrow. more...
YORK'S Jenny Whitehead is gearing up for her debut in the World Orienteering Championships, writes Dave Stanford. more...
QUIXALL Crossett will make at least one more racecourse appearance to satisfy his growing fan club before his retirement to the fields surrounding Ted Caine's farm near Chop Gate, Helmsley. more...
JANE McDermott, from Wheldrake, near York, swam to gold in the Cerebral Palsy-ISRA World Games in Nottingham. more...
THE stage is set for a dramatic climax to division one in the IT Sports Tennis League with champions Poppleton meeting leaders York I next Monday. more...
A party of 40 girls from Queen Margaret's School, Escrick, near York, are heading to Australia and New Zealand next month on the school's Centenary Sports Tours. more...
POPPLETON and Dunnington have continued their domination of Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League division one. more...
The draw for the York Junior Tennis Championships, to be played at York University, is: more...
Clifton Alliance successfully defended their title as they hammered Heworth by 87 runs in the final of the Minster Engineering-sponsored York Charity Cricket Cups Senior Cup. more...
Bishopthorpe Whiterose Junior Football Club are looking for players for the coming season for their Under-9, Under-10 and Under-12 teams. more...
CAROLE Pipes included a maximum and 140 in a 17-dart pairs games with Bev Harton as league leaders City Arms breezed to a 7-2 win against Clifton in York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one. more...
CUES, balls and pockets will be swapped for kicks, elbow strikes and punches next Sunday as kickboxers from Harrogate's Kao Loi Thai Boxing Club take on a host of opponents in a tournament at the town's Manhattan Snooker Centre in Beech Avenue. more...
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