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  • "I don't do age and I don't do size"...

    ...says Christine Wareing as she sips from a glass of chilled white in Oscar's wine bar in York. "People pigeon-hole you because of your age or your size, but they are not real. I can be any age or any size I want to be. That's what makes me a good model

  • Asbestos halt on underpass

    PLANS to open the new A64 underpass near York this week have been dashed by the discovery of both a leaking gas main and buried asbestos. Workers were just putting the finishing touches to the £4.1 million scheme at Copmanthorpe when they found a gas

  • Loan signing in the pipeline

    YORK City were hoping to strengthen their squad today with the unveiling of a new loan signing that could pave the way for wing play. Although City manager Terry Dolan was keeping the name of the player under-wraps, he confirmed the his target is a left-sided

  • Dutton right on the button

    CITY of York I were not entirely happy with their final preparations for next Saturday's Northern Hockey League premier division opener against Sheffield. Several late cry-offs forced changes for their final practice match against Kingston-upon-Hull I

  • Hat-trick Liz picks Park lock

    YORK St John's Ladies made a confident start to their Yorkshire League division four campaign with a 6-2 home win over Lockwood Park II. It took them less than ten minutes to open the scoring through Liz Wilcock, who went on to complete her hat-trick.

  • School award in memory of secretary

    A YORK school has created a lasting memory to a popular secretary who died last year. Nellie Woodhouse was a pupil at Park Grove School and went on to become the school secretary during the 1970's. After her death her family decided to donate money to

  • Wiggy's great White hope

    A BOLD bid by IT Sports Wigginton squash team to lure world number one Peter Nicol to the club has failed. But the ambitious Yorkshire Squash League premier division club are far from crestfallen as they have landed the services of world number five player

  • Former head of park dies

    DAVID Arnold-Forster, the former chief executive of the North York Moors National Park, has died of cancer at the age of 46. Two years ago, after leaving the Helmsley-based park authority, Mr Arnold-Forster became chief executive of English Nature, the

  • Confusion over disabled parking space

    PARKING spaces for the disabled in a York village have come under fire from a nearby resident. Julie Arthur, of Langwith Home Farm, says user information for a number of disabled spaces in Heslington Main Street is not clear. Mrs Arthur, who has lived

  • Fans rush to snap up season tickets

    YORK City fans have been flocking to Bootham Crescent to snap up next year's season tickets at half price - just as the club prepares to announce 'a major new sponsorship deal'. The club was swamped by fans at Saturday's home defeat against Oxford wanting

  • School only £2,500 from goal

    A YORK school is facing a race against time to secure £2,500 to become a sports college. Staff at Oaklands School, in Acomb, are making a desperate last-minute plea for individuals or businesses to come forward and pledge the money before tomorrow's 10am

  • Concrete footprints

    I WAS interested to read that the council is considering measuring the "green footprint" of its actions (September 20). Perhaps they would like to apply this principle to the enormous concrete and Tarmac footprint of the proposed Coppergate II shopping

  • Canny move by Batchelor

    THE sight of York City fans lining up to buy match tickets is not that unusual. In recent years, City clinched a series of glamorous cup ties against Premiership opposition which saw fans queuing round the block. But this time, there is no cup fever.

  • Heart of the country crisis

    Bonuses come in many forms. Sometimes what is a bonus for some is not for others. The prolonged spell of dry weather we have all enjoyed over the past few weeks has been a real benefit to anyone working outside. It has also usefully extended the holiday

  • Stillman family shocked by claims

    INDIAN press reports claiming deaf charity worker Ian Stillman has been refused a presidential pardon are the latest part in a campaign against him, his family said today. Ian's brother-in-law Jerry Dugdale said the British Foreign Office had told him

  • How thinking pink helped to save my mum

    THE pneumatic model Emma B helped to launch this year's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which runs throughout October, by waving a pink bra above her head on Hungerford Bridge in London. While I'm not suggesting you should go this far - the breeze that

  • The thing is...

    JOHN Major, the politician who turned drabness into an art form, has been exposed as the Bill Clinton of the Tory party. Not only did he have a four-year affair with Edwina Currie, he also - if you believe some of the stories in the national papers -

  • Web listings team casts net wider

    An Internet listings company which in two years has grown to 40 staff in Selby has now opened separate offices in York with 13 new employees - and with another 17 to be recruited by the end of this year. Directors, ex-school pals Angelo Gilmore and Matthew

  • Quality chippy is frying high

    FLIPPING heck! Fish and chip counter assistant Vicki Burge celebrates yet another award for her employers by turning mermaid. She just wanted to prove that she's proud of being very much a part of the superb fish cuisine at Kippers, the award-winning

  • Getting the most from ICT campaign

    BUSINESSES across York and North Yorkshire are being urged to get fully switched on to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) through a new campaign being launched tomorrow. Business Link North and North Yorkshire is unveiling a major series of

  • Search for 'characters'

    SPEAK up all you business "characters" of York and North Yorkshire. The regional Chamber of Commerce wants dynamic raconteurs at its monthly network lunch, "those who can talk the business talk about how they've walked the business walk," said Dave Tysall

  • Firms get together for new agreement

    A DEAL has been struck between York-based Hunters estate agents and international property company GVA Grimley's residential division. Hunters will now be responsible for selling, advertising and marketing all GVA Residential's property portfolio throughout

  • City sign winger Cook

    YORK City today strengthened their squad by signing highly-rated Watford youngster Lee Cook on a month's loan. The arrival of the 20-year-old could pave the way for wing play at Bootham Crescent - Cook is a left-sided attacking midfielder. The new acquisition

  • Fans rush to snap up season tickets

    YORK City fans have been flocking to Bootham Crescent to snap up next year's season tickets at half price - just as the club prepares to announce 'a major new sponsorship deal'. The club was swamped by fans at Saturday's home defeat against Oxford wanting

  • Cavalier primed to have the first laugh - 01/10/02

    Royal Cavalier, a Doncaster winner last month, can add to his tally on the first day of Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting tomorrow. The gelding, trained by veteran handler Reg Hollinshead, goes for the opening NGK Spark Plugs Rated Handicap and is napped

  • Bank robber jailed after hostage drama

    A BANK robber who briefly held a girl hostage while claiming to be armed has been jailed for six years. Prosecutor Susan Kerr told York Crown Court that Terence Stott, 42, terrified the manager and customers of a North Yorkshire branch of the HSBC bank

  • Pub in trouble over paint

    A YORK pub's vivid green, red and black paintwork has got it into trouble with planners. When the former Falcon pub in Micklegate was refurbished and renamed Rumours, it was also given a snazzy new image to attract younger drinkers. And that included

  • York cannabis courier faces jail sentence

    A NORTH Yorkshire man caught with £250,000-worth of drugs has claimed he was terrorised into acting as a cannabis courier. Philip James Easey, 41, alleged that Tenerife gangsters forced him to abandon his hopes of a life in the sunshine, running a club

  • Man dies as lorry hits car on hard shoulder

    A MAN was killed in front of his wife when a lorry ploughed into their parked car next to the A1 in North Yorkshire. The couple's car was parked on the hard shoulder of the A1 northbound, at Kirby Hill, close to Boroughbridge, when it was hit by the lorry

  • Ace Angie activates amazing accuracy

    IN true exhibition style, Angie Hields produced a 108-finish with two double-tops, then double 14, as Phoenix 'B' raced to an 8-1 win at Tap in York John Smith's Ladies League Division One. Playing well in support Tracey Farmeary totted up three tons

  • Stillman family shocked by claims

    INDIAN press reports claiming deaf charity worker Ian Stillman has been refused a presidential pardon are the latest part in a campaign against him, his family said today. Ian's brother-in-law Jerry Dugdale said the British Foreign Office had told him

  • All Blacks sadly fade away for cup anguish

    LADY Luck refused to smile on York's competitors in the second round of the Yorkshire Cup, as both New Earswick All Blacks and York Groves were knocked out. New Earswick All Blacks were beaten 34-18 in extra time after their thrilling match at Redhill

  • North Yorkshire's population rises by 11% in 20 years

    THE population of North Yorkshire swelled by more than ten per cent over the past 20 years, Census 2001 figures show. The new figures show the current population is 569,700, up from 511,500 in 1981, and an overall rise of 11.4 per cent. The last 20 years

  • City sign winger Cook

    YORK City today strengthened their squad by signing highly-rated Watford youngster Lee Cook on a month's loan. The arrival of the 20-year-old could pave the way for wing play at Bootham Crescent - Cook is a left-sided attacking midfielder. The new acquisition

  • Selby police hunt pistol raider

    A FATHER of seven told today about his terrifying ordeal at the hands of a masked raider who robbed his Selby petrol station at gunpoint. Andrew Gibson, 39, was working at the Thrust service station, in Selby Road, Monk Fryston, at 4.55pm yesterday, when

  • Dungeon damsel sells real skull to customer

    BOSSES at the York Dungeon were left scratching their heads after a shop assistant sold a real skull to a customer. The sale was made by retail supervisor Natalie Edwards when a visitor spotted the cranium on a bookshelf. Now the museum is desperately

  • Dear Prime Minister...

    Dear Prime Minister: AT the TUC conference, you made it clear how irresponsible it would be if you were to ignore the clear warning signs seeping out of Iraq that might endanger the peace of the world. I can't help wondering where those sentiments were

  • Passion for peace

    ON Saturday three coach-loads of people joined hundreds of thousands of others from all over the country in a peaceful protest against British and US policy on Iraq. As one of the speakers at the rally said, it was a day for people of all colours, all

  • I don't want to look like a clown for fashion's sake

    ALL this striving by women to be honed and toned to sizes 8/10/12 (Jo Haywood, Evening Press, September 24) can make larger women (including me) feel absolutely enormous. After reading about Liz Hurley, I thought I must be the biggest person in York -

  • Save our churches

    AS a Christian, though not a regular churchgoer, I regret the threat of closure facing some of York's churches. Congregations are getting older and smaller, and this is unlikely to change in our materially-minded society. Another reason to feel distress

  • Heads you lose

    IT TAKES all sorts and some people like to collect skulls. Perhaps it makes a change from stamps, although storing the grisly objects must be a problem. One such collector struck lucky, if that's the word, after an imitation skull bought from the York