York | Archive | 2001 | November
In Harry Potter week, CHRIS TITLEY finds out why JK Rowling's magical books are devoured by children and adults alike. more...
THE Highways Agency has spelled out fully for the first time why it refuses to immediately close a dangerous gap on the A64 - even though it might save lives. more...
A HORSE dealer told a jury he fled for his life when he heard gunfire on a York caravan site. more...
MINSTRELS Gill Page and Dan Osbaldeston go stilt-walking in Stonegate to promote the launch of St Nicholas Fayre in York. more...
RESIDENTS of a North Yorkshire beauty spot have staged a protest against a communications mast set to be erected near their homes. more...
MINISTERS are under pressure to extend GNER's franchise to run the East Coast main line beyond 2005 to allow it to buy new trains. more...
ROBOTS which can evolve and function by themselves may seem like the stuff of Science fiction films. more...
SELBY now has its own Harry Potter. more...
JOBS have been shed at Malton Bacon Factory under its new ownership, according to union sources. more...
STUDENTS at York University will probably blame the night's beer when they see an elephant standing outside their halls of residence today. more...
THREE of York's most famous children have been awarded the right to call themselves Honorary Freemen of the City today, following a unanimous vote by councillors. more...
WHO'S a pretty boy then? The owner of two balding birds is hoping alternative medicine may be the key to making them beautiful again. more...
TWO schoolboys sprayed a woman in the face with a "noxious" substance in an unprovoked attack in Bridlington. more...
FIREFIGHTERS at North York-shire RAF bases fear they will be prevented from helping out in times of crisis if they are switched to the private sector. more...
YORK'S Quaker schools are teaming up to tackle the horrors of war in their latest annual production together. more...
WILL there be a doctor in the house during next month's Wagner and Vienna concert by the Sinfonia of Leeds? The answer is definitely "Yes". more...
RACISM and inequality in York are being tackled by a new service in the heart of one of the city's communities. more...
THE future looks green - as the attempt to make York the UK's most energy efficient city is taken to youngsters. more...
DAME Judi Dench, John Barry and John Shannon are to be granted York's highest honour by becoming Freemen of the City. more...
OUR exclusive interview with York air enthusiast Andy Jenkins finds him in good spirits. Despite the ordeal of being arrested by armed guards, imprisoned in a Greek police cell and enduring a seven-hour court hearing, he and his fellow prisoners are "having a laugh whenever we can". more...
"A plane spotter sits at the end of the runway with a pair of binoculars. We like to think we're a bit more sophisticated" more...
REMEMBER when teletext was new and revolutionary? Most of us first came across the "electronic newspaper" by watching `Pages From Ceefax'. In the halcyon days when TV used to close down, BBC transmitters would fill the empty hours by screening a smattering of the text service over music so cheesy it made the James Last Orchestra sound like a thrash metal band. more...
I WISH to thank First York. For the extra exercise my children are getting now they have given up waiting for the only bus that could get them to school on time. That's okay in the mild weather but it will soon be `can we have a lift' causing extra congestion around an already-congested school. more...
I AM amazed by the comment in the Evening Press (October 20) from a City of York Council spokesman that there has been "years of public debate" on Coppergate II. more...
WHAT a pity the Armistice Day service in York on Sunday was spoiled by the scruffy state of the gardens and, in particular, the litter-strewn shrubberies around the perimeter. more...
I HAVE recently had the pleasure of reading your coverage of our efforts to raise funds for the families of those bereaved by those tragic events of September 11 in New York. more...
A YORK pensioner found collapsed at home with mysterious head injuries was fighting for his life in hospital today. more...
THE Highways Agency has spelled out fully for the first time why it refuses to immediately close a dangerous gap on the A64 - even though it might save lives. more...
A FIRM which flouted the law and created clouds of dust in a Selby village has been fined more than £10,000. more...
A DEMOLITION company has launched its biggest-ever asbestos removal operation in Yorkshire as it takes down a mammoth stand at York Racecourse. more...
A YORK schools chief has told fellow councillors of the tragic death of York schoolboy Jamie Bucknell, who collapsed and died in front of his classmates. more...
Ravenswood, a smart stayer on the Flat, can make a successful transition to hurdling at Taunton tomorrow. more...
TADCASTER Grammar School's intermediate girls have reached the national finals of the English Schools Cross Country Cup. more...
TADCASTER Grammar School's intermediate girls have reached the national finals of the English Schools Cross Country Cup. more...
YORK City's on-loan defender Mark Maley's loan spell at Bootham Crescent will continue despite the talented youngster receiving a six-month driving ban at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday. more...
YORK City got plenty of shooting practice in ahead of their FA Cup first round clash at Colchester on Saturday. more...
YORK City's on-loan defender Mark Maley's loan spell at Bootham Crescent will continue despite the talented youngster receiving a six-month driving ban at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday. more...
MEDAL-laden Hannah Bickerdike is awaiting ratification that could see her on top of the world. more...
UNLUCKY Heworth have been handed one of the toughest possible ties in the draw for the first round of this year's RL Challenge Cup. more...
YORKSHIRE'S new captain, Darren Lehmann, today urged Darren Gough not to quit his native county. more...
YORK Acorn Running Club secretary Nick Ford and his running partner Peter Summers (Easingwold Runners) have just completed their fifth successive Karrimor International Mountain Marathon. more...
NESTLE Rowntree AC's Under 17 women's team finished 14th out of 40 teams in the National Cross Country Relays at Mansfield. more...
COACHES in York are soon set to find out that Sir Alex Ferguson is not the only football expert to come out of Govan, near Glasgow. more...
HARROGATE Town player-coach Neil Aspin, the former Leeds United defender, is leading football coaching courses at Granby Community Leisure Centre. more...
AN entertaining tussle saw York Acorn ARL under-13s beat Wakefield-based Eastmoor 34-14. more...
HEWORTH `A', despite fielding two reserves, increased their lead to seven points with a 5-2 win over Fulford `B' in the York Conservative clubs' Carlsberg-Tetley Snooker League. more...
BILL Collier won the Hammond Trophy match, which attracted 55 competitors to a coloured river Ouse between Redhouse and Poppleton on Sunday. more...
They might well soon have to start running Yorkshire-only matches at the Oaks following another Red Rose rout at the Sessay, North Yorkshire complex. more...
© Newsquest Media Group 2008