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Stories for 28 October 2003

York Business

County money man in the Top 20

HELMSLEY financial planner Jeremy Deedes has been named as one of the Top 20 practitioners in the UK at the Money Management Financial Planner of the Year Awards.  more...

Asda cracks Christmas

SUPERMARKET group Asda has unveiled plans to create a 10,000-strong seasonal squad of workers to handle the Christmas shopping rush.  more...

Finding a future after pits shut

C-Day, or Closure Day looms for Selby miners. SIR GRAHAM HALL, chairman of Yorkshire Forward looks at how help for them is accelerating.  more...

Playing the service game

DAVID ANDREWS, chief executive of York-based Yorkshire Tourist Board proudly proves that his organisation practises what it preaches on excellence in customer service.  more...

Jan's at the hub

JAN Eskildsen, the managing director of document services company, DocQwise Business Services Ltd, has been appointed chairman of the York and North Yorkshire Partnership Learndirect Hub Consumer Group.  more...

Beware business blacklist

MORE than 1,000 businesses in York are facing a crackdown on unlicensed television use.  more...

The orient success

A firm of York architects is contributing towards a multi-billion pound project to design an entire city in China.  more...

Couple are wheely going places now

WHEELS keep on turning for Alex and Rebecca Western, who were undaunted when the cycle shop Alex managed at Clifton Moor, York, for seven years, was closed down by its owners.  more...

Exhibition success breeds success

PRAISE is still pouring in from firms all over York and North and East Yorkshire who took part in this month's Evening Press Business 2 Business exhibition.  more...

Property company picks York

NORTHWOOD, the property management company which specialises in guaranteed rental income, has opened an office in Micklegate, York.  more...

Builder booked for library job

A £400,000 contract to build a new library has been won by North Yorkshire-based Severfield-Reeve Projects.  more...

Great leap Forward

Almost 100 jobs and 28 new business start-ups are expected to be created following Yorkshire Forward's decision to part fund the construction of a number of high-tech business incubator workshops at Scarborough Business Park.  more...

Face2Face with Noel's new virtual house party

After his speed-of-light visit to York in "virtual" form, media star Noel Edmonds talks Face2Face with Business Editor RON GODFREY.  more...

Steady as he goes for NU chief

HALF shut your eyes as you look out of Gary Withers' huge chief executive office at Norwich Union Life in York and you can see why the "steady ship" analogy is so apt.  more...

Share dealing

Knowledge sharing is a good way to make progress, says DAVID HARBOURNE director of the Learning and Skills Council North Yorkshire.  more...

Rollercoaster ride to the final

And the winners will be...? Business Editor RON GODFREY studies the form for next month's Evening Press Business Awards, one of the biggest events on the region's business calendar.  more...

York Leisure

Genuine article

JO HAYWOOD meets a woman who came to Yorkshire in search of a father and ended up with a family, a business and many new posh pals.  more...

Have a really frightful night

Get into some ghoulish goings-on this Hallowe'en. MAXINE GORDON sets the scene.  more...

Dad's delights

TV newscaster Harry Gration knows how Gordon Brown is feeling - he's just become the father of twin sons at the age of 53. MAXINE GORDON reports on life at home with the Grations.  more...

Colour me shocked

Civilisation could be crumbling around our ears, Martians could be dropping from the sky like leaves in a brisk autumnal breeze and rabid dogs could be roaming the streets hunting for fresh meat, but still the topic of conversation around the coffee machine - we don't do water-coolers in Yorkshire - would be Meg Ryan's hair.  more...

Present tensions

Let me be one of the first to wish you a Happy Christmas. It's a bit tardy I know, being late October. But for weeks our brains have been manipulated into thinking "Christmas" by a million subliminal hints that it is coming.   more...

York News

Thanks for giving

I THANK all those who have supported the fund raising activities of the Arthritis Research Campaign, York branch, during the past 12 months.  more...

Europe is a disaster

I SHOULD like to keep an open mind about this country's membership of the common market, but I am constantly reading stories of fraud, corruption, nepotism and mismanagement.   more...

`Pathetic' reasoning

WHAT a difference a few months in opposition have made to the views of Labour councillor Tracey Simpson-Laing who said in response to suggestions of widening the A1237 "car park", "the Lib-Dem council should look further than digging up green fields" (October 14).  more...

Tokens of respect

IN response to the letter about the reluctance of taxi firms to accept tokens (October 23), I wish to say, on behalf of Ebor Taxis, that we willingly accept tokens. We welcome them as a form of payment and we also allow pensioners a ten per cent discount.  more...

New leader needed

IF the Conservatives wish to continue following a similar trajectory to that of the old Liberal Party - that is power to irrelevance - then Iain Duncan Smith is an ideal party leader.   more...

Time we all waged war on litter

CONGRATULATIONS to Carol Partington for her initiative in trying to tackle the litter problem in Nether Poppleton (October 23).  more...

Sport eclipsed by new homes

WHAT do York citizens have to do to get a decent sports venue in this city ("£7m York sports ground rejected", October 24)?   more...

What the butler said about Paul Burrell

CHRIS TITLEY talks to a man who believes Paul Burrell has not only let himself down, he has let his profession down too.  more...

Whisky lorry driver in hijacking terror

A DRIVER was taken on a 46-mile terror ride through North Yorkshire after being abducted from the cab of an articulated lorry laden with whisky.  more...

Scarred by teenage yobs, Doug now finds his photo used for BNP recruitment drive

THE British National Party is using a brutal attack on a York man to launch a recruiting drive in York.  more...

New care scheme for sick children

SERIOUSLY-ILL children in the York and Selby area are to benefit from a new nursing service from the start of next year.  more...

Coroner buys football club

A NORTH Yorkshire coroner has bought struggling First Division football side Derby County.  more...

Greenway calls for vote on IDS

CONSERVATIVE MP John Greenway today admitted demanding a vote of confidence in Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.  more...

Nestlé staff evacuated

WORKERS were evacuated from the Nestlé factory in York today after fire broke out in the cocoa roasting plant.  more...

Days out planned for troubled teens

TROUBLED youngsters are being targeted for a half-term activities scheme that youth workers hope will slash crime and antisocial behaviour in York.  more...

Paradise lost?

IT IS called Paradise Fields - but fearful residents of the estate in Easingwold claim it is more like Paradise Lost.  more...

Offenders given chance `to make amends'

TACKLING antisocial behaviour is to be at the forefront of major changes to the way offenders, ordered to do unpaid work in the community, will serve their sentences.  more...

Rail festival a military operation

PROFESSIONALS are being called in to a York museum in the preparations for one of the biggest ever rail festivals next year.  more...

Monster pud on the menu

VISITORS to York got a real taste of Yorkshire spirit with a giant, 6ft Yorkshire pud.  more...

Contamination alert over pasta sauce

AN ITALIAN tomato sauce containing a potentially cancer-causing chemical has been withdrawn from the shelves.  more...

York woman's fury over eyesore site

A YORK woman has criticised council planners for refusing a sports complex next to her home - after travellers who spent the summer on the land made her life a misery.  more...

My Concorde dream flops

LAST week saw a remarkable event. It is very unusual for a technological advance to be abandoned because of lack of interest.   more...

China hands

AS they rarely say in York, that'll do nicely, me old China. DSP Architects, based in St George's Place, have landed a dream commission, to create an entire Chinese city from scratch.  more...

Your vote is in danger

THE most dangerous extremists are those who seek to wrap themselves in the cloak of respectability. If proof were needed, then look no further than the British National Party.  more...

York Sport

Slick Sinners pull away at the top

SINNINGTON moved four points clear after beating a weakened Old Malton 3rds 3-1 in division one of the RJF Homes Beckett Football League.  more...

Faith in athletics eroded

The latest athletics doping scandal involving THG may turn out to involve  more...

Salute super Steve

I AM sure all of Steve Webster's ex-colleagues at Nestlé Rowntree will join me in congratulating him and his passenger Paul Woodhead on winning the 2003 Sidecar World Championship.   more...

Samoa the men to win

IT'S been hailed their greatest hour, even their version of the World Cup final.  more...

Six on the bounce sends Acorn to top

York Acorn `A' are flying high at the top of Pennine League Division Five after their 38-2 away win at Wetherby.   more...

Iron man should have gone too - Parkin

RED-CARDED York City striker Jon Parkin has questioned referee Eddie Evans' decision not to send off Scunthorpe United defender Cliff Byrne as well at Glanford Park on Saturday.  more...

Whit's fantastic

AFTER a string of Yorkshire League Division Two defeats, Acomb finally broke their duck.  more...

Six on the bounce sends Acorn to top

York Acorn `A' are flying high at the top of Pennine League Division Five after their 38-2 away win at Wetherby.   more...

Adams' marksmanship all in vain

Anita Adams shot out on 112 in the opener for Slipper in their York John Smith's Ladies League division two match against Leeman `B'.  more...

Slick Sinners pull away at the top

SINNINGTON moved four points clear after beating a weakened Old Malton 3rds 3-1 in division one of the RJF Homes Beckett Football League.  more...

Rowntree's home comfort

AFTER six consecutive away games Nestlé Rowntree RUFC enjoyed their first home fixture of the season with a 27-0 success over Knaresborough `A'.  more...

Iron man should have gone too - Parkin

RED-CARDED York City striker Jon Parkin has questioned referee Eddie Evans' decision not to send off Scunthorpe United defender Cliff Byrne as well at Glanford Park on Saturday.  more...

Nap selection - 28/10/03

Tom O'Ryan's nap selection for Wednesday:  more...

York Whatson

Quay Moments (In A Relationship), National Centre For Early Music, York

INSPIRED by his own boating experiences, Stewart Howson explores family relationships and the English abroad as they sink or swim on a flotilla sailing holiday in Greece.  more...

  
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