CHRIS TITLEY meets Harland Miller, the York-born artist-turned-author once described as `so cool it hurts'. more...
`DON'T go in there", screamed the drunken woman as she staggered down the steps of York's Ambassador Hotel. more...
WE are rightly proud of the high standards achieved by York and North Yorkshire's schools. There are many reasons for this success: quality teaching, hard working pupils, attentive local education authorities and good socio-economic conditions among them. more...
ANOTHER helping of justice has been served to North Yorkshire's determined dinner ladies. After winning a landmark settlement, the women sipped champagne. They should savour the sweet taste of success: they have earned it. more...
A masked robber stole cash from a frightened motorist after forcing his way into his car outside a York factory in daylight. more...
A kitten was left in agony after fat from an upturned chip pan fell all over his body causing severe burns that were left untreated for five days. more...
A North Yorkshire coroner facing fraud charges was today suspended by the Lord Chancellor's Office. more...
Farmers in Ryedale have been illegally posting "no entry" signs on footpaths open to the public during the foot and mouth crisis. more...
Hooligans are destroying a community while police ignore villagers' pleas for help, it was claimed today. more...
A killer road in Ryedale may again come under scrutiny by road chiefs following safety fears. more...
Pupils in North Yorkshire have the advantage of being taught in some of the smallest class sizes in the country. more...
Traffic chaos hit York city centre when traffic lights failed at evening rush-hour. more...
Young Max Withyman and his giant teddy bear are helping to promote a safe sun message this summer. more...
A clerk of a small town council who enjoyed a salary higher than a Cabinet minister today told a court he thought the wage was "entirely reasonable". more...
Business leaders in Ryedale have issued a desperate plea to council chiefs to help regenerate their town to prevent more job losses. more...
A plan to clean up areas hit by vandalism and assess the need for youth and community facilities is being set in motion in the Chapelfields area of York. more...
The award-winning film-makers behind Trainspotting and Notting Hill are working on a movie set in York. more...
The high quality architecture at a gleaming York centre for the arts which was once a crumbling medieval church has won national recognition. more...
AS the longest day is now past I suggest that York's cyclists put aside about £1 a week and then, when the dark nights arrive they will be able to equip their bikes with a legal set of lights. more...
MAY I apologise on behalf on myself and two colleagues to any residents living in York city centre who over a period of three days every fortnight have been woken from their sleep by us washing the streets between 4am and 6am. more...
CHRIS Middleton's Yesterday Once More feature about his long involvement with the East Coast rail line (June 25) will have been of special interest to those like myself, who have an interest in the rail industry. more...
MY husband recently died in hospital after being there for three weeks, coming home for two days and then having to go back for a few hours. more...
I WOULD like to comment on Tony Blair's pay rise to £160,000 a year. Taking into account that he lives cheaply considering the perks that go with the job, rent, food, travel, holidays, entertaining, all free; plus the fact that he's altering No 11 to accommodate his youngest child at tax-payers' expense, he doesn't fare too badly. more...
THE answer to your rhetorical question, `How many more must die here?' (June 23) is that more will unless immediate action is taken to close all the gaps along this stretch of the A64. more...
NEARLY four years have passed since Britain's greatest media superstar died amid a blaze of flashbulbs in a Paris subway. Diana's death provoked unprecedented scenes of mourning and outpourings of grief, and shook the Establishment to its foundations. more...
Preparations are under way for Saturday's community fun day at York College to raise money for the St Leonard's Hospice 2000 Appeal. more...
Ninety dinner ladies across York and North Yorkshire have won up to £200,000 after a six-year "battle for justice" over equal pay. more...
A woman was airlifted to hospital and two others injured after two cars crashed near Selby today. more...
Hugs Dancer, who blotted his copybook at York earlier this month when he refused to enter the starting stalls, can get back on track at Newcastle tomorrow. more...
Once again York Wasps Academy lost a game they could have won as they were beaten 34-18 at home by Oldham. more...
York is set to become home to the first-ever basketball academy in Yorkshire, the Evening Press can exclusively reveal. more...
Basketball duo Steven Perks and Ross Steven are set to swap essays for SA after netting a place in a National League team's touring line-up more...
Once again York Wasps Academy lost a game they could have won as they were beaten 34-18 at home by Oldham. more...
Yorkshire were trying to pick up the pieces today in their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy third round match against Bedfordshire at Luton. more...
Former York City skipper Peter Swan has unveiled his first signing since being appointed player-coach of UniBond Division One side Ossett Town. more...
York City's former veteran striker John Willams has embarked upon his third spell with Third Division Swansea City after joining on a Bosman free transfer from Darlington. more...
Former York Cricket Club stalwart Tony Temple has died after suffering a heart attack while playing cricket in Canada. He was 60. more...
Only 25 anglers took part in the open match at the Willows. more...
As the Pilmoor Cricket League season moves past the halfway point, Easingwold and Sheriff Hutton Bridge look set to battle for the division one champion-ship. more...
Yapham have taken over as the new leaders of the Foss Cricket League with a two-point advantage over Woodhouse Grange, Bubwith and Aldby Park. more...
Pocklington Rugby Union Club players will ease themselves back into action in unusual fashion. more...
Former Pickering Town FC secretary Steve Adamson is seeking help with re-search into the club's history. more...
Champions Marcia, FC Magnet and York University `A' will be favourites to make it to the final of the University of York Six-a-side football tournament. more...
Yorkshire were trying to pick up the pieces today in their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy third round match against Bedfordshire at Luton. more...
A nap hand of athletic endeavour has been rewarded with county honours for five pupils from Queen Margaret's School in Escrick, near York. more...
WIGGINTON Primary School are celebrating their first overall victory in the annual Haxby Girls' Netball Club tournament. more...
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