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Stories for 13 December 2002

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Free spirit

WHEN Land Rover decides to design a car it enters the soul of the driver. It addresses all the functional and engineering conundrums to produce a vehicle that drives as well on the rough as it does on the smooth. But more importantly it is able to tap in to the psyche, the primeval, the indiscernible something that makes us human beings.  more...

York News

Gap closure moves closer

A £4.5 MILLION flyover scheme which will close a lethal gap on the A64 moved closer today after the Highways Agency put the project out to tender.  more...

Your chance to shape York's future

SESSIONS to let city residents help create a vision for York's future are to be held early next week.  more...

Devilishly polite

WHAT did the archbishop say when he came face-to-face with the devil? "Pleased to meet you."  more...

Own up to hit and run now

SOMEONE somewhere will be very nervous today. The driver of the black Fiat Punto which hit York schoolgirl Katie Scales must know the net is closing in.  more...

Home free

IAN Stillman today hugged the family he has been separated from for two years - and thanked Evening Press readers for demanding his freedom.  more...

Father in hit-and-run appeal

THE father of York schoolgirl Katie Scales, who was knocked down in a hit-and-run incident, was today appealing for the driver to hand themselves in to police.  more...

Crews rescue broken leg boy

A TEENAGE boy was rescued by fire and ambulance crews after he fell from a 12ft high wall in Pocklington and suffered a possible broken leg.  more...

Road accident soldier is finally laid to rest

TRIBUTES have been paid to a North Yorkshire serviceman who died in a tragic road accident.  more...

Bingo hall developers are given ultimatum

THE firm behind a major development on a landmark site in York, which has been built higher than planners allowed, has a month to agree changes to the scheme or face legal action.  more...

Rail users praise GNER

PERFORMANCE figures from York and North Yorkshire train operators were among the few bright spots in a gloomy national rail review.  more...

Piercer calls for law to govern body art

A YORK body piercer who holds a Europe-wide recognised professional qualification has called for new legislation to control the body art business.  more...

Garage accident company in court

YORK magistrates have ordered a specialist garage company to pay £2,394 for an accident that injured two engineers at a city car dealership.   more...

Dogs `terrorised' passers-by - court

A DOG owner whose animals terrorised a quiet country lane has been banned from keeping pets for ten years.  more...

Death crash family victims named

A MOTHER and her two young sons, who were killed in a head-on crash on an East Yorkshire road, have been named by police.  more...

`Unsafe' food found in shop

CONSUMER watchdogs found fromage frais and other milk products for sale after their sell-by date in a York area village store, magistrates heard.  more...

Rare tea caddy in raffle

A RARE, limited edition Queen's Jubilee tea caddy is the star item in Malton's St Catherine's Hospice charity shop Christmas raffle, being drawn at 11am tomorrow.   more...

Bum notes in dash to Christmas No 1

A football pundit, twins in hotpants and two Popstars groups are battling for the Christmas number one. Has the festive chart battle always been so dire? Probably, sighs CHRIS TITLEY.  more...

Archbishop chats with `the enemy'

THIS is the moment when one of Britain's most senior clergymen came face-to-face with the devil incarnate - and at a York village school.  more...

Brand new day

As British farming faces a massive new upheaval, reporter Anastasia Weiner analyses what the changes will mean and meets the man behind it in our region  more...

Minister uses magic in services

A CLERGYMAN has conjured up a magical way of getting the Christian message across.   more...

Horse owners back bid to control weed

NORTH YORKSHIRE horse owners have thrown their support behind moves to control the spread of poisonous ragwort.  more...

Air ambulance aid

MEMBERS of York Vikings Rotary Club have presented £1,750 to help keep the life-saving Yorkshire Air Ambulance flying high.  more...

Your chance to shape York's future

SESSIONS to let city residents help create a vision for York's future are to be held early next week.  more...

New suite created for grieving parents

NORTH Yorkshire parents coming to terms with the death of their baby will soon be able to grieve in a peaceful, purpose-built hospital suite.  more...

Remembering a loved one

GOLDEN candle-shaped cards have been sent to everyone who made a donation to the St Leonard's Hospice Light Up A Life appeal.  more...

Brand new day

As British farming faces a massive new upheaval, reporter Anastasia Weiner analyses what the changes will mean and meets the man behind it in our region  more...

Great Star Wars yawn

LABOUR backbenchers, their blood close to boiling point, had been waiting almost two years for the Government to show its hand on "Son of Star Wars".  more...

Great Star Wars yawn

LABOUR backbenchers, their blood close to boiling point, had been waiting almost two years for the Government to show its hand on "Son of Star Wars".  more...

Ian makes my day

FOLLOWING David Bell's letter about people who can always spare a smile (December 11), I nominate Ian Shields, who drives for First.   more...

Selfish drivers

AND there you have it. A taxi driver, CP Hird, wants York's traffic problems sorted by sweeping traffic cuts and whatever else (December 10).   more...

Support orchestra

ON Saturday, December 7, I had a pleasurable evening listening to the York Symphony Orchestra in the Central Hall at the University of York.   more...

Remember Irene?

I AM researching my grandmother's history. She was born in Easingwold in 1912.   more...

Changes to police funding must come

WHAT are we to make of the proposals to increase the police element of the council tax by at best 34.5 per cent, or at worst 74 per cent (December 11)?  more...

Home free

IAN Stillman today hugged the family he has been separated from for two years - and thanked Evening Press readers for demanding his freedom.  more...

York Sport

Twelfth Knight Jackson

YORK City Knights have pulled off perhaps the biggest signing of all National League clubs with the capture of former Great Britain international Lee Jackson.  more...

Fettis handling with Kid gloves

OCTOBER 23, 2001, will hardly go down as the most memorable of dates in the impressive career of York City goalkeeper Alan Fettis.  more...

Scots promote young Law

YOUNG York City defender Graeme Law is on the verge of leaping into the Scottish Under-21s squad.  more...

Tykes closer to buying Headingley

LEEDS Cricket Football and Athletic Club, who own Headingley, are now prepared to sell the cricket ground to Yorkshire - and the county club are eager to buy it just as soon as it is financially possible to do so.  more...

Bo seeks return

KIDDERMINSTER Harriers will welcome joint-top scorer Bo Henriksen back into their squad for the visit of York tomorrow.  more...

Knockout ewe and cry stokes Rail's emotions

THE dust from their headline-spinning FA Cup run may just be settling, but the party continues for Harrogate Railway and their `Baaaaa-my Army' as they go for glory in the FA Vase.  more...

It's just simply Brazilliant

HISTORY-MAKING Harrogate Town are plotting another 2002 first as they introduce a Latin beat to their UniBond League campaign.  more...

Woodward seven-up sinks Magnet

SEVERUS SC booked their place in the quarter-finals of the John Smiths Bitter Cup with a resounding 9-0 win over second division FC Magnet.  more...

Ebdon's double target

PETER Ebdon is aiming to give himself a Christmas bonus by becoming only the sixth player to complete snooker's big double - world and UK champion in the same year.  more...

Gilbert returns in style

JEANETTE Gilbert made a successful return to York Badminton League action, partnering Sean Ogley to head the returns 92-25 as Shepherds blanked St John's in Mixed Three.  more...

It's tight at the top

FOUR teams are locked together in the race for the second division title race in the York John Smith's Men's Darts League.  more...

Volunteer steal a march on Open League rivals

VOLUNTEER took advantage of teams above them without fixtures to go top of York Open League division one.  more...

Skipper Curtis out of York's Yarnbury test

YORK know they will have to stop the rot and quick if they are going to revive their promotion hopes.  more...

Winter warmer on Ouse

THE fourth round of the Yorkshire Winter League is the feature event on Sunday.  more...

Rooster right for Champion Hurdle boost - 13/12/02

Rooster Booster, who has developed his talents through the handicap ranks, can enhance his claims as a genuine Champion Hurdle contender at Cheltenham tomorrow.  more...

Skipper Curtis out of York's Yarnbury test

YORK know they will have to stop the rot and quick if they are going to revive their promotion hopes.  more...

Ebdon's double target

PETER Ebdon is aiming to give himself a Christmas bonus by becoming only the sixth player to complete snooker's big double - world and UK champion in the same year.  more...

Twelfth Knight Jackson

YORK City Knights have pulled off perhaps the biggest signing of all National League clubs with the capture of former Great Britain international Lee Jackson.  more...

Tykes closer to buying Headingley

LEEDS Cricket Football and Athletic Club, who own Headingley, are now prepared to sell the cricket ground to Yorkshire - and the county club are eager to buy it just as soon as it is financially possible to do so.  more...

Fettis handling with Kid gloves

OCTOBER 23, 2001, will hardly go down as the most memorable of dates in the impressive career of York City goalkeeper Alan Fettis.  more...

York Whatson

Aladdin, Grand Opera House, York, until January 5

Jon Clegg is among friends in his third Aladdin in a row with Hunter and Frank Williams, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON.  more...

Babbies In The Wood, York Theatre Royal, until February 1

He's bad and he's back in black. The leonine David Leonard, the prince of dark villains, is celebrating his 15th year in the York Theatre Royal pantomime, fresh from a tour of playing the outrageously nice Richard in Alan Ayckbourn's Joking Apart.  more...

  
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