York | Archive | 2002 | December
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...
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...
SESSIONS to let city residents help create a vision for York's future are to be held early next week. more...
WHAT did the archbishop say when he came face-to-face with the devil? "Pleased to meet you." more...
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...
IAN Stillman today hugged the family he has been separated from for two years - and thanked Evening Press readers for demanding his freedom. more...
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...
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...
TRIBUTES have been paid to a North Yorkshire serviceman who died in a tragic road accident. more...
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...
PERFORMANCE figures from York and North Yorkshire train operators were among the few bright spots in a gloomy national rail review. more...
A YORK body piercer who holds a Europe-wide recognised professional qualification has called for new legislation to control the body art business. more...
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...
A DOG owner whose animals terrorised a quiet country lane has been banned from keeping pets for ten years. more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A CLERGYMAN has conjured up a magical way of getting the Christian message across. more...
NORTH YORKSHIRE horse owners have thrown their support behind moves to control the spread of poisonous ragwort. more...
MEMBERS of York Vikings Rotary Club have presented £1,750 to help keep the life-saving Yorkshire Air Ambulance flying high. more...
SESSIONS to let city residents help create a vision for York's future are to be held early next week. more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOLLOWING David Bell's letter about people who can always spare a smile (December 11), I nominate Ian Shields, who drives for First. more...
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...
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...
I AM researching my grandmother's history. She was born in Easingwold in 1912. more...
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...
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 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...
OCTOBER 23, 2001, will hardly go down as the most memorable of dates in the impressive career of York City goalkeeper Alan Fettis. more...
YOUNG York City defender Graeme Law is on the verge of leaping into the Scottish Under-21s squad. more...
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...
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers will welcome joint-top scorer Bo Henriksen back into their squad for the visit of York tomorrow. more...
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...
HISTORY-MAKING Harrogate Town are plotting another 2002 first as they introduce a Latin beat to their UniBond League campaign. more...
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...
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...
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...
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 took advantage of teams above them without fixtures to go top of York Open League division one. more...
YORK know they will have to stop the rot and quick if they are going to revive their promotion hopes. more...
THE fourth round of the Yorkshire Winter League is the feature event on Sunday. more...
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...
YORK know they will have to stop the rot and quick if they are going to revive their promotion hopes. more...
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...
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...
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...
OCTOBER 23, 2001, will hardly go down as the most memorable of dates in the impressive career of York City goalkeeper Alan Fettis. more...
Jon Clegg is among friends in his third Aladdin in a row with Hunter and Frank Williams, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. more...
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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