York | Archive | 2003 | December
A FREE Information Technol-ogy (IT) training programme is being provided for smaller-scale businesses in parts of North Yorkshire. more...
Reprinted for the first time in softback, this is the story of Albert, the saddest polar bear ever. more...
Matt produces the funniest topical cartoons in Britain today. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS welcomes the discovery of a nine-book pile of fresh crime-writing talent. more...
IT is set to be another busy New Year's Eve in city and county, as revellers pack Yorkshire's pubs and bars to welcome 2004. more...
FORGET the Whitehall Sir Humphreys who collect gongs with the regularity that the rest of us receive gas bills. more...
Crime dominated the headlines in the second part of 2003, as CHRIS TITLEY recalls in the concluding part of our review of the year. more...
SICK thieves stole a nine-year-old girl's mobile phone as she lay bleeding in the street after a road accident in York. more...
A tireless York youth volunteer who has spent more than half of a century introducing youngsters to life on the water has been recognised by The Queen in her New Year Honours list. more...
A DISABLED York pensioner has been left stranded, after his motorised bicycle was stolen while he enjoyed a Christmas drink. more...
A POLICE chief has warned that officers will crack down on drunken and antisocial behaviour in York as revellers celebrate the New Year tonight. more...
A MAN whose work has been to "encapsulate beauty in this rather ugly world" is celebrating today after being made an MBE in the New Year's Honours List. more...
WHEN 2004 arrives just after midnight tonight I hope people will resolve to refrain from saying the following: more...
READING CR Duckels' letter about waterways and facilities (December 22), I am sure David Heigh of York leisure services is aware of the situation. more...
IN response to F T Smith's comments about BT, (Letters, December 5), if the company thought that if it ignored me I would go away, it was very much mistaken. more...
I WISH to reply to the comments (December 12) about making the city centre foot-streets only, and my suggestion for a special vehicle for the disabled and elderly. In response to the comments made by Mr Watson, I agree I am not reliant on a wheelchair and I am not disabled, but my wife is disabled and has great difficulty walking. So, Mr Watson, I do have some idea of the difficulty you face. more...
MY wife and I totally agree with Jeremy Banyard's letter "Council tax bungle" (December 12). more...
I TAKE great exception to Frank Cartin saying don't close the pubs, close York FC football ground, (Letters December 16). I don't hear him complain when the races are on in city. more...
IN response to your coverage of the incident of the car sliding into the Ouse at South Esplanade (December 23, pictured right), it was interesting observing the glee which greeted the announcement that the car was a Jaguar, and could have cost up to £70,000. more...
Down at the dog warden service, a telephone is ringing. more...
POLICE today arrested the man they had named as their chief suspect in the hunt for the killer of West Yorkshire constable Ian Broadhurst. more...
ARMED police brought York railway station to a standstill for almost three hours as the hunt for Britain's most wanted man moved to the city. more...
For the crowds kept outside the station foyer, spilling over into the taxi ranks at York Railway Station, the confused frustration was growing. more...
A NEW Year's Eve threat made by a York company to pull out of a deal to bring jobs to the former Thrall Carriageworks site has been called off - for the time being. more...
DOCTORS and nurses in York faced their busiest Christmas this year after a festive surge of patients to the city's hospital and walk-in centre. more...
WHILE you're downing your 15th pint of fortified wine this evening, seeing in the New Year with typical English sophistication, spare a thought for the workers. more...
I TAKE great exception to Frank Cartin saying don't close the pubs, close York FC football ground, (Letters December 16). I don't hear him complain when the races are on in city. more...
YORK City boss Chris Brass expects to choose from a virtually fully-fit squad when his side return from their two-week break. more...
FIRST York bus company has provided York City Knights with a "marvellous Christmas present" by offering free buses for fans travelling to home games next season. more...
The Ouse had been carrying nearly six feet of flood water over the festive period, so it was with some relief that competitors in Sunday's York Winter League were faced with less than a yard of additional water. more...
YORK had the upper edge against Hull `A' in the Top Ten Tournament beating them 86-64 on aggregate thanks to the pairing of Iain Boyle and Graham Instone. more...
ROWNTREE men's team are finding the going tough in division one of York and District Badminton League. more...
FIRST York bus company has provided York City Knights with a "marvellous Christmas present" by offering free buses for fans travelling to home games next season. more...
HULL Kingston Rovers are set to bring their full first-team squad - and a bumper contingent of fans - to Huntington Stadium on Sunday as the Robins pay their own tribute to York City Knights star Rich Hayes. more...
HIGH-FLYING Easingwold School's football team have earned their stripes. more...
YORK City boss Chris Brass expects to choose from a virtually fully-fit squad when his side return from their two-week break. more...
Former York City manager Terry Dolan could be in line to return as manager of Rochdale - ironically with a little help from the Minstermen. more...
THE Grand Opera House pantomime has only three days to go before Jack And The Beanstalk becomes a has-bean. more...
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