York | Archive | 2001 | January
With trembling hands, CHRIS TITLEY opens a new guide to British supernatural fiction more...
Leeds Railway Station may have re-opened at last - but now the future of the East Coast Main Line refurbishment looks under threat. Transport Reporter DAN RUTSTEIN talks to a railway expert about what is going wrong with our trains more...
Home Office Fire Inspectors are today taking another look at North Yorkshire's fire service, after their scorching criticism of the brigade last year. more...
A Selby rugby referee tipped for the top has hung up his whistle in disgust after two seasons of being abused and ostracised by players, coaches and spectators. more...
Strensall & Towthorpe Sports Association has got the green light for a £300,000 project, a vital boost to sports activities in the area. more...
Youth groups in Ryedale have benefited from a share of more than £13,000 of funding to buy equipment. more...
A major search was underway today for a man who went missing off the North Yorkshire coast. more...
Blind killer Anthony O'Connell is unlikely to return to York, the scene of his crime. more...
Despite a late objection, plans to expand by successful Malton company Pro-Pak are still on course. more...
A Pickering councillor has called for free parking to be introduced for residents and commuters - with charges remaining for tourists. more...
A seemingley non-contentious planning application left Ryedale District Councillors deadlocked and divided last night. more...
ONCE again Councillor Wilde is reported to have expressed an opinion which concurs with that of the majority of residents (letter, January 3). Rumour has it that he has even committed the cardinal sin of criticising an unelected member! more...
A FEW weeks ago, I read in the New Statesman that at the summer meeting of G8 countries at Okinawa, Japan, our Prime Minister offered to the Russian Prime Minister £70 million to fund a new Russian nuclear power programme. more...
YOU describe Bristol City Council's referendum on council tax options as "innovative" (Ballot on council tax is non-starter here, January 5 2001). more...
COUNCILLOR Merrett is woefully mistaken in thinking that his committee's approval of the proposals for Coppergate Riverside is the right decision for York (January 17). more...
BRITAIN has produced some of the world's noblest martyrs. There's St Edmund, the ninth century Christian king, tied to a tree and shot with arrows by Danish heathens till his body was `like a thistle covered with prickles'. Just to push the point home, they lopped his head off. more...
MPs were tonight set to vote overwhelmingly to outlaw fox-hunting, amid claims that many scores of North Yorkshire jobs are at stake. more...
A tagged robber subjected an 18-year-old York woman to a violent sex attack in broad daylight, York Crown Court heard today. more...
A £30 million cash injection to clean up England's hospitals was being announced by Health Secretary Alan Milburn today. more...
The aunt of a teenager who died after an accident at a notorious A64 blackspot is backing local residents' pleas for urgent safety improvements. more...
AFTER the messy conclusion to the battle to run the National Lottery, it is refreshing to be reminded of the positive side to the game. Today Strensall & Towthorpe Sports Association is celebrating an award of more than £200,000 from the Sport England Lottery Fund. more...
THE Fire Service Inspectorate's damning report into the North Yorkshire brigade is destined to be filed in the waste paper basket. This is nothing less than a scandal. more...
Rochdale Hornets have made a move to sign York Wasps favourite Spencer Hargrave. more...
I wonder if the angry York City supporters have spotted their team's month-by-month improvement over the season? more...
I have a very familiar feeling as a York City supporter. Mid-season, out of all cup competitions and facing yet another relegation battle. more...
I see York City manager Terry Dolan is blaming his strikers for City's lack of goals. more...
I spent the most dismal Saturday afternoon listening to York City crash to yet another defeat. more...
Terry Dolan was going to put smiles on the faces of York City supporters, but instead the gloom is deepening at Bootham Crescent. more...
Yorkshire's cricket committee have agreed to look specifically for a first-team coach to replace Director of Coaching Martyn Moxon. more...
Beleaguered York City were today rocked by two devastating injury blows. more...
Disappointment and pride in equal measure filled the thoughts of York City's head of youth development Paul Stancliffe as Bootham Crescent's young bucks went out of the FA Youth Cup at Molineux. more...
Yorkshire's cricket committee have agreed to look specifically for a first-team coach to replace Director of Coaching Martyn Moxon. more...
The future survival of voluntary sports clubs throughout Great Britain could depend on the outcome of a tribunal in York. more...
The penultimate round of the Yorkshire Winter League saw the Hirst Tackle team make what appears to be a decisive move in winning by a point from FAPS Bradford. more...
York city Ladies made the most of their outing at Bootham Crescent on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Hull City in the Knockout Cup. more...
Four goals in the second half saw Pickering Town march into the quarter-finals of the Northern Counties East League Wilkinson Sword Trophy with a 4-1 defeat of Tadcaster Albion last night. more...
Slingsby scored only their third win of the season in division one of the Beckett League to move above their opponents Sinnington. more...
Beckett League division two side Old Malton 3rds beat first division Coxwold 3-1 in extra time in the Gordon Harrison Memorial Trophy. Substitute David Bradshaw scored twice in extra time. Mark Taylor had given Old Malton 3rds the lead in regulation time. Andy Burn equalised for Coxwold. more...
Rochdale Hornets have made a move to sign York Wasps favourite Spencer Hargrave. more...
Disappointment and pride in equal measure filled the thoughts of York City's head of youth development Paul Stancliffe as Bootham Crescent's young bucks went out of the FA Youth Cup at Molineux. more...
Beleaguered York City were today rocked by two devastating injury blows. more...
THE Arctic weather has claimed more race meetings. more...
Changing Pages, York City Art Gallery, until January 28. Closed December 25 and 26, January 1. more...
Annie Halliday, Translucent Exposures, Impressions Gallery of Photography, Castlegate, York, until March 3. more...
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