York | Archive | 2002 | January
COMPANIES in York and North Yorkshire will converge on Yellow Pages printers RR Donnelly at Flaxton Moor, near Knaresborough, next Tuesday to learn how to grapple with green issues. more...
YORK & County Press has become the first newspaper group in Britain to promote on-line learning via the Internet for staff who operate the presses. more...
A RAPIDLY-growing bio-science firm at Science City in York is braced to create up to 32 more high-tech jobs, as it prepares for a £1 million move to a sleek new laboratory in Poppleton. more...
I have a cunning plan. It is so ingenious, so downright devious in fact, that it makes me want to throw my head back and cackle wildly like an overacting baddie in a crackly old black and white movie. Well, I've got the belly and the moustache, so there's no reason why I couldn't pull it off quite convincingly. more...
A surprise discovery on honeymoon turned eczema sufferer Amanda Cooper's life around. MAXINE GORDON reports more...
Feng Shui novice MAXINE GORDON tries out a new DIY guide to bringing harmony to your home more...
GORDON Campbell Thomas and his friends at York Sustainable Development Limited are doing the people of this city no service whatsoever in calling for the Ryedale Building to be retained (Evening Press, January 2). more...
I THANK the York people who helped my fundraising efforts for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. more...
AS the local reporter for Country Music Roundup magazine I am dismayed by the low attendances at one of our most cosmopolitan venues. For musical entertainment Fibbers, on York's Stonebow, is the only one providing music of all genres from every corner of the world. I have lost count of the times I have turned up to see a country music artist who has often journeyed thousands of miles to entertain, only to find country music lovers in this area can't be bothered to turn up and support them. more...
John Craven's assessment of the overcrowding at York District Hospital is correct (January 22). But the core of his solution - shortage of nursing homes - is wrong. more...
PANTO dame Berwick Kaler brought a performance of Jack And The Beanstalk to a halt last night to give his support to the Save York City campaign. more...
A DECISION on Coppergate Riverside was more distant than ever today after it was disclosed that a public inquiry into the controversial scheme must be adjourned indefinitely. more...
A FATHER stabbed his near-neighbour to death in a dispute over children's behaviour, a York jury heard. more...
WOMEN were confronted by knife-wielding robbers in two incidents near York Railway Station, police revealed today. more...
THE mother of a York student who was killed in a horrific car crash has paid tribute to her "honest, generous and loving" daughter. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire woman who was airlifted to hospital after a serious riding accident says she was lucky not to be killed. more...
BUSINESS manager Geoff Taylor has won an award for the way in which he has helped out at a York tourist attraction. more...
A NEW NHS "super-authority" which will swallow up North Yorkshire Health Authority looks set to have its headquarters in York. more...
YORK will be joining in the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, despite a third of councils around the country ignoring this summer's anniversary. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair was today unveiling details of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. more...
MEMBERS of a York brass band told a court about the moment when tuba player Roy Gill fell from a wagon during the 1999 Lord Mayor's Parade, leaving him paralysed. more...
BUS fares in York are to have a hefty rise for the second time in only five months. more...
A GENEROUS hotel manager has offered free teas to 100 city residents as an apology for a Residents First Weekend disaster. more...
WORSHIPPERS from a York church are hoping divine intervention may help in the fight to save York City. more...
A MAJOR £1.3 million spending programme for York's Edmund Wilson swimming pool is going public this week. more...
THE fight against crime in East Yorkshire will be set to verse with Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan being made poet-in-residence to Humberside Police. more...
RECORD numbers of people in Yorkshire and Humberside signed up for vocational courses in the New Year - indicating fear and uncertainty in the workplace. more...
A DECISION on Coppergate Riverside was more distant than ever today after it was disclosed that a public inquiry into the controversial scheme must be adjourned indefinitely. more...
THE North Yorkshire-based president of the National Farmers' Union today welcomed the "excellent" news that the last county in Britain has been declared free of the "dreadful blight" of foot and mouth. more...
BUSINESSES are being urged to take advantage of a bright idea that could save them thousands of pounds and make York a greener city. more...
YORK will be joining in the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, despite a third of councils around the country ignoring this summer's anniversary. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair was today unveiling details of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. more...
IAN McMillan has become Yorkshire's beat poet. more...
THE publication of the Curry report today is a chance for farmers to put the dark days behind them and look to a more rewarding and prosperous future. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS quizzes York's leisure chief Alan Jones, about the future of the Barbican Centre more...
COUNCIL chiefs today moved to reassure people that buildings in York are safe after a tourist was killed by masonry falling from an ancient church. more...
NORTH Yorkshire's transport network was still struggling to recover from gale damage today. more...
The biggest change in rural England during the past 40 or so years, is the way all the available spaces in our villages and small towns now have homes built on them. more...
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection for Wednesday's meetings is: more...
YORK City's bid to pull themselves out of the quagmire at the bottom of the Third Division could suffer a hammer blow by news Darlington are closing in on Michael Proctor. more...
THE generosity of Premiership Fulham towards the Save York City campaign is to continue. more...
HULL City boss Brian Little has vowed to beat York City tonight `for his brother Alan'. more...
POTENTIAL new York City owner John Batchelor today revealed he would hope to see the Minstermen playing in a new stadium within two years. more...
YORK Wasps' chief executive Ann Garvey is hopeful their French connection sequel will be better than the original, after the club were handed Villeneuve Leopards in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup. more...
YORK City centre-half Matthew Hocking just can't wait to get out for tonight's rearranged clash against Hull City. more...
YORK Wasps' chief executive Ann Garvey is hopeful their French connection sequel will be better than the original, after the club were handed Villeneuve Leopards in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup. more...
CITY of York I threw away victory at Deesside Ramblers which would have cemented their place at the top of the Northern Hockey League First Division. more...
Acomb Ladies drew 1-1 with Wakefield Wanderers in Division One of the Yorkshire League. more...
Lord Collingwood cleared the relegation zone in York White Rose Ladies League division one, recording a splendid 6-1 scoreline over Deramore, whose Avril Rose saved the whitewash. more...
Sheriff Hutton's reign at the top of the Leeper Hare York and District League third division is seriously threatened after they went down to their third defeat on the trot. more...
NESTLÉ Rowntree men's team produced a great performance at the Northern Cross Country championship at Derby. more...
York athlete John Brooks raced to second place at the East Midlands Indoor Rowing Championship. more...
Woodhouse Grange Cricket Club, National Village Knock-out winners at Lords in 1995, will celebrate their diamond jubilee with a sporting dinner at York Viking Moat House on Sunday, February 24, 2002 (5pm for 6pm). more...
SKIPPER Chris Brass insists York City will have nothing to fear when they square up to Premiership Fulham on Saturday. more...
YORK City centre-half Matthew Hocking just can't wait to get out for tonight's rearranged clash against Hull City. more...
HULL City boss Brian Little has vowed to beat York City tonight `for his brother Alan'. more...
YORK City's bid to pull themselves out of the quagmire at the bottom of the Third Division could suffer a hammer blow by news Darlington are closing in on Michael Proctor. more...
YORK City chief Terry Dolan is adament his Minstermen can build on their FA Cup heroics to kick-start a climb away from the foot of Division Three. more...
PANTO dame Berwick Kaler brought a performance of Jack And The Beanstalk to a halt last night to give his support to the Save York City campaign. more...
POTENTIAL new York City owner John Batchelor today revealed he would hope to see the Minstermen playing in a new stadium within two years. more...
WORSHIPPERS from a York church are hoping divine intervention may help in the fight to save York City. more...
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