York | Archive | 2002 | October
IMPLICATIONS for on-line conveyancing will be discussed by York district land registrar, Roslyn Lovel, at a free seminar. more...
THE European Parliament has endorsed the choice of York as the headquarters of a centre which champions the cause of not-for-profit organisations throughout the Continent. more...
A FREE online business referral community covering York and Harrogate has just been launched. more...
GEORDIE solicitor Ann Laverty has left her beloved Newcastle to become a partner at Philip Ashworth and Company in York. more...
The speed and efficiency of training by the York-based train operators is held up as an example by Business Link York and North Yorkshire and the Learning and Skills Council North Yorkshire of how Investors in People (IIP) is being put to best effect. more...
ENGINEERING sub-contractors in North Yorkshire are "hanging on by their fingernails and their fingernails are getting shorter." more...
Anyone would think I had asked for the moon on a stick. It was a perfectly straightforward request, but the woman behind the counter looked at me like I was an alien who had just dropped out of the sky into her café. more...
THE Home Office is considering a proposal whereby criminals who commit crimes such as burglary, mugging and vandalism could escape prosecution by saying sorry to their victims and signing a special contract in which they promise to go straight. more...
JO HAYWOOD meets a couple who have learned two's company but ten's a family more...
Scientists think they may be able to genetically modify pigs so they can more easily act as organ donors for humans. This poses a dilemma which is, at the very least, intriguing. more...
AS edifices go, it is not quite in the class of the pyramid at Giza, one of the only wonders of the ancient world to survive. That is made of six million tonnes of granite and limestone. more...
IT is ironic that New Labour, the arch modernisers, have enshrined in a Millennium act a law which takes us back to feudal times. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS joins a roving council committee on a fact-finding walk more...
HOMEOWNERS in a North Yorkshire village have been stunned to learn they could have to PAY to drive into their own homes. more...
A MASSIVE £11.5 million blueprint for transport at Monks Cross, York, is set for approval. more...
A WOMAN tried to burn down her marital home so that she and her husband "could die together", a court heard. more...
YORK City supporters today lodged an objection to plans to build 93 homes at Bootham Crescent. more...
A WINTER crisis could be looming on York District Hospital's wards, as latest figures show bed blocking levels are running at a higher level than the same time last year. more...
HEALTH chiefs from York District Hospital were in London today to discuss the implications of gaining foundation hospital status. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire war veteran is to sue the Ministry of Defence over tax he claims to have wrongly been paying for more than four decades. more...
ARE you a good listener? more...
A SPECIAL needs group which was on the brink of closure has thanked the Evening Press for helping to keep it afloat. more...
THE owners of hundreds of bikes found dumped in York have a chance to be reunited with their cycles this weekend. more...
A FOUNDATION stone for a new learning centre at York St John's College was laid by Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope. more...
ENGINEERING sub-contractors in North Yorkshire are "hanging on by their fingernails and their fingernails are getting shorter." more...
GHOSTLY goings-on are in store for visitors to a North Yorkshire beauty spot. more...
VALE of York MP Anne McIntosh has outlined new proposals to bring "peace of mind" to the region's pensioners. more...
MORE than 200 staff at York College are set to join a strike by further education lecturers next week. more...
YOU couldn't make it up. more...
THE city of York, which was once attacked for the state of its streets, has now been shortlisted for a national cleaning award. more...
MORE than 780,000 extra passengers helped make York one of the country's hottest places to catch a bus. more...
I AM afraid that the letter from Susan Scott with her facts about monosodium glutamate (MSG) was a complete load of rubbish (October 21). more...
IF centralisation of power, with its inevitable high tax and waste, is the answer to solving the problems of our country ie transport and education to name but two, then the Russians would be the richest nation on earth. more...
HAVING sold guns on and off for 27 years, nothing has changed. People love guns or hate them, there is little middle ground. more...
I'M nearly 14 and I was a friend of David Harry who unfortunately passed away in his sleep last week (`Mum's agony at son's death', October 25). more...
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist was fighting for his life in hospital today after a serious road accident in York. more...
A MAN was punched in the face and robbed of cash and credit cards after being attacked by two young muggers in a York street. more...
PLANS to sacrifice a community social hall for the sake of a new primary school have split parish councillors. more...
THE different faces of York - from Vikings to ghost hunters - today joined forces to relaunch the First Stop York By Train promotion. more...
AN INFLUENTIAL Westminster committee is to turn the spotlight on a critical shortage of affordable homes in York. more...
RETURNING hero Jon McCarthy is keen to keep great expectations in check but admits the chance to re-ignite his career at York City was too much of a temptation. more...
YORK City boss Terry Dolan will be forced to make at least one change to his line-up to face Wrexham at Bootham Crescent tonight, writes Dave Stanford. more...
YORK City Knights' hopes of signing Featherstone flyer Chris Spurr have been hit by a late attempt by Batley to prize him away. more...
Yorkshire CCC's 9,000 members are being circulated with new draft rules which they will be asked to approve at another extraordinary meeting of the club at Headingley on December 7. more...
City Of York I picked up a vital Northern Hockey League premier division point at highly-fancied Durham University on Saturday. more...
Acomb men's first team continued their good start in division one of the Yorkshire League with a hard-fought 2-0 victory over a young Hull II. more...
City of York V lost 5-3 at King-ston upon Hull in a ding-dong match. more...
City of York Ladies suffered their first North League defeat of the season, losing 1-0 at home to unbeaten Timperley. more...
A BRILLIANT Mick Harris game inspired Volunteer to a 6-3 win in York Open League division one. more...
MY wife hates football. But her logic could teach the Football Association a thing or two. more...
Malton jockey Russ Garritty heads south to Cheltenham tomorrow and can make his presence felt at the home of National Hunt racing. more...
YORK City supporters today lodged an objection to plans to build 93 homes at Bootham Crescent. more...
YORK City boss Terry Dolan will be forced to make at least one change to his line-up to face Wrexham at Bootham Crescent tonight, writes Dave Stanford. more...
RETURNING hero Jon McCarthy is keen to keep great expectations in check but admits the chance to re-ignite his career at York City was too much of a temptation. more...
YORK City Knights' hopes of signing Featherstone flyer Chris Spurr have been hit by a late attempt by Batley to prize him away. more...
Yorkshire CCC's 9,000 members are being circulated with new draft rules which they will be asked to approve at another extraordinary meeting of the club at Headingley on December 7. more...
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