York | Archive | 2001 | December
THE past will never be forgotten - thanks to our readers. Again our series of Yesterday Once More articles has prompted a fantastic postbag of memories, and it is time to dip into it again. more...
MAXINE GORDON gets advice on how to make the most of the festive season more...
Another year nearly over and once again the cold and flu season is well and truly on us. Remember to get plenty of vitamins and minerals at this time by eating fresh fruit and vegetables, extra vitamin C and zinc can only help. Eating garlic and taking Echinacea for their anti-viral properties can stave off the odd viral illness. more...
regarding the Coppergate II affair, do the City of York councillors have the legal right to sell off York's heritage? more...
I RECENTLY received treatment in Ward 16 at York District Hospital. I would like to express my appreciation to everyone concerned with my stay from the calm paramedics, cheerful porters (even at 2.00am in the morning), the efficient phlebotomists and especially the excellent Mr Miller and his dedicated team of doctors and nurses. more...
HAS our Prime Minister any pride in being British? Does he not remember that thousands of our men and women fought for our country and a lot of them died in World Wars One and Two? more...
The thought that people can throw a small cat at a bus is truly sickening (`Thugs throw live cat at bus', December 13). more...
A CHILL ran through me as I read about `The classroom of the future' (December 10), in which the teacher instructing the class may be substantially replaced by computer screens imparting `literacy and numeracy'. more...
I DISAGREE with your correspondent who felt the courts should not be deterred from giving a custodial sentence to women who had families or were pregnant (Letters, December 5). more...
NO outbursts over spots breaking out on the night of a party, no embarrassing discoveries of girlie magazines under the bed, no cries of "I hate you". more...
POLICE have seized a quantity of crack cocaine in a raid on a house in Clifton, York. more...
POLICE today appealed for information about the last movements of a Ripon man, Owen Dudley Harriott, who was found dead at his home. more...
FURIOUS villagers near York branded a government decision to delay a much-needed bypass as "beyond belief". more...
PUPILS from one of York's premier secondary schools have been suspended for bringing cannabis into the classroom. more...
YORK Wasps might have put on a much-improved display yesterday but coach Leo Epifania was still far from happy. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley appeared on North of Westminster on BBC 2 yesterday to extol the virtues of the Euro. more...
SNOOKER star Ronnie O' Sullivan romped to a record win to cap an excellent two weeks on the green baize in York. more...
DEFIANT air enthusiast Andy Jenkins has told the Evening Press he has "no problem" with returning to Greece to plead his innocence. more...
PRINCE Charles was today in North Yorkshire to launch a report which shows that more than half of all English villages now have no pub, and seven out of ten do not have a shop. more...
A YOUNG shop assistant was subjected to a terrifying ordeal when a robber pointed a gun at her and demanded cash from the till. more...
A COMPUTER fault at City of York Council will cost taxpayers nearly £900,000 to put right, estimates reveal today. more...
POLICE today dismissed claims that there are hundreds of paedophiles living in York and Scarborough. more...
YORK City Football Club have given their backing to Jamie's Have a Heart Appeal - by donating a fully-autographed football to the fund. more...
EVANGELIST J JOHN, who is to lead a mission to the York area next spring, challenged a huge congregation at York Minster last night to "get back to the original script" to find the real meaning of Christmas. more...
YOUNGSTERS in York have being spreading a little of Christmas cheer by helping to make December shopping a bit more bearable. more...
THE dream of a green Christmas is being made reality by guidelines put out by the PlanetYork team. more...
WELL done to the Barbican Centre and everyone else involved in making York's first year as host to the UK Snooker Championship such a triumph. more...
THE heir to the throne is far from a typical pub customer. Even though hundreds of pubs are named after him, the Prince of Wales is rarely seen at the bar, although he did pop into the Blacksmiths Arms in Naburn for a whisky during his post-flood visit last year. more...
ACE! Work has finally started on building York's long-awaited £11 million indoor tennis centre. more...
A VICTIM of the Great Heck train disaster who thought he had escaped with severe more...
IT was hoped the days of York Wasps conceding record scores were over. They are not. more...
IF York Wasps improve every week as much as in these last seven days, then a top half position come the end of the season will be a dead cert. more...
Martin Todhunter, who narrowly failed to land a major success with Kingsmark at Haydock on Saturday, heads to Musselburgh tomorrow with high hopes of going one better. more...
RECORD-BREAKING goal-kicking ace Jamie Benn is set for a return to Huntington Stadium. more...
YORK Wasps might have put on a much-improved display yesterday but coach Leo Epifania was still far from happy. more...
UNDERFIRE York City chief Terry Dolan is looking for his players to stand tall and win back fan fervour in the wake of the Minstermen's 1-3 defeat at home to Cheltenham. more...
RECORD-BREAKING goal-kicking ace Jamie Benn is set for a return to Huntington Stadium. more...
YORK Wasps might have put on a much-improved display yesterday but coach Leo Epifania was still far from happy. more...
THERE were goals galore in the Northern Counties East League premier division as matches involving Harrogate Railway, Pickering Town and Selby Town shared 20 between them. more...
THE last thing bottom dogs Scarborough needed after having been docked three points by the Conference last week for fielding an ineligible player was to lose another three points in a 2-1 defeat at home to Northwich Victoria. more...
OLD Malton continued their quest for the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division title with a 4-2 win at Huntington Rovers. more...
Barmby Moor prevented Copmanthorpe opening up a big gap at the top of Leeper Hare York and District League division two as they held the table-toppers to a 2-2 draw at Copmanthorpe. more...
THE division three title race in Leeper Hare York and District League has opened up as leaders Sheriff Hutton suffered their second consecutive defeat. more...
YORK RI Rugby Union Club crashed out of the Junior Knockout Cup with a disappointing performance in losing 12-3 at Skipton. more...
HEWORTH exacted the perfect revenge on cross-city rivals York Acorn, as they ended the Blue and Golds' dreams of a place in the third round of the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Challenge Cup. more...
York beat Cleckheaton 21-7 in a friendly match at Clifton Park. more...
Pocklington were swamped in their rearranged Yorkshire One encounter with Scarborough, as the visitors cut loose in the second half to rack up a 57-3 victory. more...
The message for Selby from their 28-17 club match defeat at Hemsworth was that they will have to pull their socks up. more...
UNDERFIRE York City chief Terry Dolan is looking for his players to stand tall and win back fan fervour in the wake of the Minstermen's 1-3 defeat at home to Cheltenham. more...
SNOOKER star Ronnie O' Sullivan romped to a record win to cap an excellent two weeks on the green baize in York. more...
BARRY Conlon and his Darlington team-mates must have thought Christmas had come three weeks early to Feethams on Saturday. more...
THE Royals they may be, but it was York City not Reading who were the kings of Bootham Crescent after another superb FA Cup showing from the Minstermen. more...
AS the frustration continues the sense of foreboding mounts. more...
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