NOTING Selby District Council's members' expenses for the first three months of the financial year (Councillors' expenses bill hits £40,000, August 12), I agree they are entitled to appropriate reimbursement for the thankless work they do. However, it
IT was tanking down on the North York Moors, stair rods. A lonely long-distance runner splashed past the car park on the edge of Wykeham Forest, everyone else was sensibly indoors, we tried to get our waterproofs on without a soaking. Then came some hanging
GEORGE WILKINSON stages a moorland walk in three acts. THE moors are starting to purple. But perhaps more than ever there are many moorland paths overgrown with the heather. I spent the best part of a wasted day last week to the north of Danby Beacon.
GOLDEN Lion gaffer Stuart Weston is soon to swap his bar for a mini-bus when he takes ten of his regulars over to Morecambe for a stag night. The small seaside town, not a usual destination for a "gentleman's" night, has been chosen because the stag,
YORK City could soon be ruling the airwaves. Chairman John Batchelor has revealed tentative plans for the football club to have its own match-day radio station. The club is set to apply for licence to set up its own station, which will be able to broadcast
TWO top Yorkshire personalities quit their posts sooner than expected this week - one with a broken finger and the other with a heavy heart. Darren Lehmann would have captained Yorkshire at Glamorgan on Sunday before leaving for Australia ahead of his
VISITORS to the Treasurer's House in York will be able to sample some of the finer aspects of Elizabethan life tomorrow, when the National Trust presents a day of music and food celebrating the period. The Orchard Singers will perform a selection of Elizabethan
YOUNG York people are getting the chance to "grill" top council bosses. The opportunity to question senior City of York Council managers about what the authority is doing for its younger citizens will come at the York Youth Festival later this month.
GARY Fellows plundered his maiden century at Old Trafford yesterday to transform Yorkshire's flagging fortunes in the Roses match. The 24-year-old Halifax-born all-rounder came in with Yorkshire crumbling on 85-5 and in real danger of suffering an embarrassing
STAMFORD Bridge Under-13s, led by inspirational captain Elliott Taylor, won the York and District Junior Cricket Association's Robson and Cooper six-a-side trophy contested by 15 teams at Heworth. Bridge's seven-man squad of Taylor, Max Pimlott, Andy
CRICKET clubs are reminded that all nominations for the Yorkshire Cricket Board Pathways to Excellence Scheme must be in by Sunday, September 1 England stars like Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard and Michael Vaughan and all Yorkshire county players have
RUGBY League fanatic George Craven has become the oldest supporter to sign up for the York Rugby League '1000 Club' at the age of 82. For the past 52 years, Craven, from Elvington, has been a devoted supporter of the club, having become hooked after walking
WITH the furore over the ITV Digital fiasco simmering all summer its been a welcome relief to get back to reporting on on-field matters. But while many clubs are still licking their wounds - and a few are still in intensive care - the collapse of the
GO to the Fulford Arms pub they said. Take a friend and enjoy two meals for a fiver they said. Write something for the paper about your experience, they added. It all seemed so simple. Little was I to know that obstacles stood in my path. The Fulford
HOW kind of Mr McBroom to enlighten us to how foolish we have been in the council ('Speed humps are a waste of our money', Letters, August 15). Of course we were barmy to introduce traffic calming which is saving more than 30 citizens from becoming road
I READ with interest your story of Tracey Rennison, single mother of five who faces eviction from sheltered housing, and I am quite sure that Mrs Rennison has only herself to blame (August 12). She is just one example of why life on a council estate is
SPEAKING as an internet user since 1989, and as someone who develops internet applications, I should perhaps point out to Phil Shepherdson (Letters, August 13) that the internet exists to allow free propagation of information, and has done in its various
I DIDN'T see the photo to which Marion Cooke (August 9) took exception, but I agree with her. There is a tendency for the media to latch on to something rural and either print what they assume to be the case (as this article did) or to depict the countryside
GARY Fellows plundered his maiden century at Old Trafford yesterday to transform Yorkshire's flagging fortunes in the Roses match. The 24-year-old Halifax-born all-rounder came in with Yorkshire crumbling on 85-5 and in real danger of suffering an embarrassing
THERE is a signboard as you approach the castle from the village of Ripley. Strangely it does not point to the tea room, although should you approach from the opposite direction, you are left in no doubt. Through the courtyard and there you are. Responding
MEGI RYCHLIKOVA has Czech relatives and knows Prague well. Here she shows how the city's historical sites give clues as to how it will cope with the tragedy of this week FLOODS were the last thing on my mind when I sat in Vaclavske namesti (Wenceslas
RUGBY League fanatic George Craven has become the oldest supporter to sign up for the York Rugby League '1000 Club' at the age of 82. For the past 52 years, Craven, from Elvington, has been a devoted supporter of the club, having become hooked after walking
Rachel Lacy visited Pickering to fish and clamber around the ruins of the historic castle. Pickering, nestling at the foot of the North York Moors, is one of those places that many people drive through on the way to somewhere else - the coast, the moors
Vita Spericolata, having her third race in a fortnight, can notch her second success in the feature event at Pontefract tomorrow. This speedy filly, trained by John Wainwright at Kennythorpe near Malton, lines-up with Robert Winston in the saddle in the
BECAUSE it is holiday time for many, gardens will be left to their own devices for a week or two and, if the weather continues with its warm and wet progress, will be jungle-like on the owners return. While plants in beds and borders will have no problems
DEDICATED golfer Steve Dunn may have reached the scoring forties but he is winding up towards joining the professionals. The Fulford Golf Club ace stunned a field studded with the area's leading professionals to win the York Union Open championship at
A WORLD-beating York worker hopes his dive into the unknown will encourage disabled people across the country to enjoy a water-based sport. Kevan Baker, 43, who has held the world wheelchair discus record and has also competed in four Paralympic Games
EVERYTHING in the garden was lovely when a York family proved that helping the city's St Leonard's Hospice was an all-year round activity. Ruth and Des Higgs and their daughters Rachel, 21, and Emily, 19, support the hospice with fundraising all year
York Cricket Club's Matthew Wilkes, who attends Easingwold School, made the final county Under-12 trial along with club-mate Luke Wilson. Huntington School pupil Wilson was selected for the team along with Heworth's Richard Walton, but could not play
A REMARKABLE record of the life of a craftsman who played a vital role in the "uncovering" of one of North Yorkshire's most treasured historic sites has been handed to a top conservation body. English Heritage has been given the archive of photographs
THE former teachers of murdered backpacker Caroline Stuttle have praised her work, as they presented the first annual psychology prize in her memory. Caroline, 19, from Huntington Road, York, was killed while backpacking in Australia in April. She started
DEDICATED young dancers at the Evelyn Witcombe Dance School, in Huntington, York, have been attending special dance workshops this summer. The school has organised four workshops in all, and Evelyn has been putting the young dancers through their paces
A GUIDE who runs "ghost walks" in York city centre has told of her ordeal after her group was pestered by a trio of nuisance youths. Gwyneth Williams, who as "Mad Alice" walks the streets of York telling ghostly fables from the city's past, said she was
YORK City could soon be ruling the airwaves. Chairman John Batchelor has revealed tentative plans for the football club to have its own match-day radio station. The club is set to apply for licence to set up its own station, which will be able to broadcast
TWO York teenagers could be set for stardom after one headed for the national final of a young impressionists competition, and the other was celebrating successfully meeting a top recording company boss. Stacey Anderson, of Clifton Moor, and Sedellah
A PILOT had an amazing escape when his glider smashed into woodland as he tried to land at a North Yorkshire flying club. An air ambulance flew the man to hospital after emergency workers freed him from the wreckage. Rescue workers said the man narrowly
IT has been a busy week for always-ready-Eddie Vee, the "Yorkshire Elvis", official loony and media darling. As well as appearing last night in the Evening Press and on ITV, and on Talking With Elly on Radio York at 1pm today (repeated at 5pm tomorrow
This year marks the 21st birthday of the Yorkshire Miniaturists Association. CHRIS TITLEY is more than a little interested. CLIFF Hirst throws nothing away. Everything can be reused in his incredible shrinking world. A shelf in his workshop is lined with
