York | Archive | 2002 | January
STEPHEN LEWIS finds how consumer power could lead to a healthier, more...
IT CAN'T be long before ER, the great American hospital series, returns to Channel 4. In the interim, we will have to make do with another medical drama, which made a fleeting star of a confused old lady. more...
THE way has been cleared for a European Union inquiry into foot and mouth. more...
NORTH Yorkshire MPs pushing for a public inquiry into the foot and mouth outbreak welcomed the threat of a probe by an influential Westminster committee. more...
THE long-awaited final version of regulations for the reopening of markets arrived last Friday; and has been "condensed" from its previous 18-page volume into an 81-page serial killer. more...
ONE of York's most distinctive churches and spires is facing demolition after an inspection revealed a host of major defects. more...
BARONESS Thatcher's right-hand man has thrown his weight behind the campaign to block Coppergate Riverside. more...
COUNCIL tax payers in York and North Yorkshire will learn next week if the part of their bills which funds policing is set to rise. more...
YORK-born Harry Potter star David Bradley has conjured up a magic idea in an effort to save City. more...
PHIL Shepherdson's interesting account of his last bus ride (Evening Press, January 24) prompts me to write about my own recent nightmare on a rocking 'n' rolling bus. more...
A TEENAGER was injured by a bus after running out into slow-moving traffic today, police said. more...
SOAKED sultanas may well be the ideal food for robins (Letters, January 9), but persuading the resident robin to recognise this is not easy. more...
YORK council leader Rod Hills today hit back at claims of inefficiency as criticism grew over this year's budget plans. more...
NOT so long ago, City of York Council decided to close a primary school in Haxby because there were not enough children for all three schools. more...
AN INQUEST has been opened into the death of a woman who was struck by falling masonry while visiting York. more...
I AM saddened by the insensitivity of your report, "Town hails closure of home", (January 23). Tadcaster is a caring community; and one which through many avenues, not least the town council and local church, has supported the work of Barnardos during its 50 years in the town. more...
YOUR reports and editorial last week (January 18 and 22) raised some major issues about bed management in the local National Health Service. more...
LAND Securities has given a firm assurance that Coppergate Riverside would not involve fast-food restaurants near Clifford's Tower. more...
RESIDENTS living next to a busy main road have welcomed the news that a pedestrian crossing is to be built linking them with the rest of the market town. more...
A CHILD witness has told a jury that she saw a man stabbed in a North Yorkshire street. more...
PICKERING may have to wait a year before a flood defence scheme gets under way, a public meeting was told. more...
A YOUNG cancer sufferer has inspired two York nurses to raise almost £1,000 for a special family care unit. more...
A YORK mum is still desperately waiting to be told what has happened to part of her premature daughter's body, which was removed by York District Hospital eight years ago. more...
WHO said Christmas isn't worth a can of beans? more...
THIS sorry-looking lot were on the receiving end of some rough justice when they got locked up for charity. more...
ANY plans to involve North Yorkshire in a global missile defence system will be discussed in public, the Home Secretary has pledged. more...
BARONESS Thatcher's right-hand man has thrown his weight behind the campaign to block Coppergate Riverside. more...
WESTMINSTER often seems a long way away. Ministers are quicker to react to any crisis, whether it is a rail strike or a lack of NHS beds, when it affects the South East. more...
BRITAIN is fast running out of institutions of which to be proud. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS looks at a new campaign to cut down on the illegal use of airguns by teenagers and asks, is it enough? more...
ON Sunday February 10, Helmsley YFC will hold its annual ploughing match on land kindly donated by Mr F Mallory. It's taking place on the A170, two two miles west of Helmsley between Waterloo and Court House farms. more...
A SEMINAR has been organised to explain and answer questions about the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. more...
The NFU has organised two major meetings on Friday, February 15, for farmers to find more out about new legislation regarding nitrates which could cost them thousands of pounds. more...
TURNING lazily in the wind, the modern wind turbine which generates electricity to supply around 50pc of the power needs for the Milner family at Dotterel farm at Weaverthorpe has become one of the best known landmarks in East Yorkshire. more...
THE blueprint for the future of the beleaguered farming industry unveiled on Tuesday has been called a "watershed" by Secretary of State for DEFRA Margaret Beckett. more...
YORK Wasps Rugby League Club chiefs John Stabler and Russell Greenfield today revealed they are in the race to buy York City. more...
YORK may have seen its last Lord Mayor's Parade following the payment of £600,000 to a bandsman who fell from a float. more...
A DAMNING Westminster report today slated the "disastrous"performance record of Arriva Trains Northern. more...
A BITTER row has broken out within a rail union over moves to withdraw constituency funding from York MP Hugh Bayley in protest at his "failure" to support strike action. more...
FORMER York City trainee goalkeeper Miles Massey appeared before magistrates today accused of supplying the drug Ecstasy to former Sheffield Wednesday player Thomas Staniforth. more...
MP ANNE McIntosh waved a copy of the Evening Press at Tony Blair as she confronted him over the bed-blocking crisis in North Yorkshire. more...
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection for Friday's meetings: more...
BUSINESSES in York should back the York City Supporters Trust to the hilt. more...
STARS from York City's illustrious history will be lining up at the Barbican tomorrow night. more...
YORK City were today left reeling by the news combative midfielder Richard Cooper is likely to be out of action for six weeks with a broken leg. more...
County champions Yorkshire have begun a frantic search for an overseas player to cover for new captain Darren Lehmann if he should be unavailable for the first few matches of the new season. more...
A DAY trip to Blackpool awaits happy Heworth on Saturday, but it's cup and cheer not tower and pier that they are seeking. more...
Malton and Norton golfer Simon Dyson shot a two over par 74 in the opening round of the Heineken Classic in Melbourne, Australia today. more...
A HAT-TRICK by P Smith saw Tadcaster Albion move into the third round of the York Mitchell Sports League Cup with a 4-2 win at Nestlé Rowntree Pumas. more...
YORK ladies moved into the last 16 of the Yetton Trophy after a convincing 93-70 victory over Blackpool Newton Hall. more...
GAWAIN Jones won the York Rapidplay chess tournament at the Elmbank Hotel. more...
PICKERING have won on three games to move from bottom place in division two of Hunters The Estate Agent York Senior Indoor Cricket League to fourth spot, writes Albert Pattison. more...
YORK City were today left reeling by the news combative midfielder Richard Cooper is likely to be out of action for six weeks with a broken leg. more...
County champions Yorkshire have begun a frantic search for an overseas player to cover for new captain Darren Lehmann if he should be unavailable for the first few matches of the new season. more...
THE crowds for our last two games have been fantastic. more...
YORK-born Harry Potter star David Bradley has conjured up a magic idea in an effort to save City. more...
BUSINESSES in York should back the York City Supporters Trust to the hilt. more...
YORK Wasps Rugby League Club chiefs John Stabler and Russell Greenfield today revealed they are in the race to buy York City. more...
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