SEVENTEEN-year-old Anna Mason is thrust into domestic responsibility after her mother dies in a horse riding accident in 1813. Her father John, a Whitby businessman, becomes a recluse and leaves Anna to run the household and her brother, Charles, to continue the family business - including a smuggling operation. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS dips into the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary - and takes a crash course in Buffyspeak. more...
Where on TV will you find lines of the quality of: "That's great, Larry, you've really mastered the art of the single entendre"? more...
THIS is the van that is helping the York Housing Association clean up its act. more...
LICENSEES David and Sally-Anne Smith are calling time on energy waste as their pub becomes the first to sign up to PlanetYork. more...
YOUNG people from the cast of York Grand Opera House's musical Annie came out in force to demonstrate the effect York residents have on the environment. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS explores the ancient parish of Skipwith, which has become one of the largest conservation projects in Yorkshire. more...
I HAD planned on going, as invited by farmer Tom Pearcy, to "get lost" in his Grimston Bar 30 acre Spider's Web Maze of Maize (Evening Press, July 23 "Giant web puzzle for the whole family"). But just in case I am "overdue" - will I have to wait for harvest time or can I take along my new garden strimmer? more...
THE other morning I was cycling into town along Bootham. As the lights changed to red there was the usual rush from the amber-gamblers and red-runners, leaving a people mover at the front of the traffic queue. He stopped with his front tyres inside the cycle box. more...
I UNDERSTAND David Parker's anger (Press, July 19) at the possibility that Nestle-Rowntree Athletic Club may lose its home through no fault of its own. more...
I WONDER if I am the only reader to have noticed that over the past two years, the reliability, punctuality and quality of accommodation in GNER trains between York and London and Newcastle has been declining. more...
WITH reference to your feature "Robots Rise Up" (July 25), robot was first used by K Capek in Rossum's Universal Robots (1920) and the word "robot" in his coinage from a Slav root meaning "work". It portrays the fear that increasing automation and regimentation would dehumanise mankind and in the end the robots take over and wipe out humanity. more...
I WRITE as a former officer of City Of York Council in sadness at the passing of a great leader lost. more...
A DISTRAUGHT pensioner claimed today that former York council leader Rod Hills spent his last moments in his Leeds flat. more...
SENIOR Labour Party colleagues today paid tribute to Rod Hills. more...
DOZENS of new ambulances costing a total of £4 million are off the road in North Yorkshire today - because they cannot cope with speed bumps. more...
AN investigation was under way after a man was found dead at a power station, near Selby. more...
A WOMAN had a lucky escape after her car ended up on its roof on the A64 near Malton. more...
STUDENTS were labelled York's "best ambassadors" in a debate over their relative value to city life. more...
THE new Bishop of Selby-designate travelled by steam train to meet the people of Malton. more...
A COUNTY police station may be closed and sold into public ownership - to be rented out by the police force for a "one-stop-shop" in the town. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire hospital is to get an £18 million upgrade. more...
POLICE who seized computer equipment in a raid on a Ripon house found nearly 700 indecent images of children had been taken from the internet, a court heard. more...
A GIANT metal structure emerging from a North Yorkshire yard can today be revealed as a trial run for a new terminal at Heathrow Airport. more...
TONY Blair was today set to increase the pressure on York Hospital to bid for controversial "foundation" status. more...
Council chiefs are being urged to spend thousands of pounds hosing water on to North Yorkshire's streets to tackle pollution caused by global warming. more...
FARM workers have been warned to secure their machinery after a spate of thefts from rural businesses on the outskirts of York. more...
AN ANGRY York resident has hit out over work to replace a gas main outside his house, which he says is preventing his wife from working following her night shifts. more...
AN EMERGENCY bus service is still transporting shoppers between two York villages, two weeks after a fire destroyed their only grocery shop. more...
THE creative director of York's newest professional theatre company has offered to join the campaign to save the city's Mystery Plays. more...
RESIDENTS of a village pioneering a conservation initiative have explained their hopes to a minister from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). more...
EXTRA police patrols could take place on North Yorkshire's roads over bank holidays and weekends as part of a scheme to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed in the county. more...
CHARITY runner Teba Diatta sets off from York Minster to the sound of deafening thunder. more...
A MARATHON Beetle drive and mountain climb by a dynamic York duo has raised thousands of pounds of charity cash. more...
A YORK office worker who regularly witnesses young heroin users injecting in a city alley has criticised the police for allegedly ignoring the problem. more...
THE showers came and went, but the rain could not dampen spirits as the crowds flocked to Ryedale Show on Tuesday. more...
HUNT supporters in North Yorkshire have slammed a report suggesting that banning the pursuit might not be as financially devastating to the countryside as initially claimed. more...
THE Countryside Agency has named August 19 as the date when it will publish the latest version of the map to determine those areas of land in part of North Yorkshire which are registered common land and open country. more...
FIVE buildings have been selected to receive a major makeover in an effort to clean up an East Yorkshire town. more...
A YORK man today spoke of his relief after attempts to pursue him for a bill for more than £350 for a "free prize" were dropped. more...
A CUDDLY cat is making a difference in East Yorkshire as he spreads his own version of feline therapy. more...
A NEW website has been launched to help people in the Harrogate area to find information about local NHS services. more...
A SELBY couple's garden has been judged the best in town - and they didn't even enter the competition. more...
TWO York streets will be closed to traffic on Saturday to allow the setting up of market stalls. more...
A York meals-on-wheels service is soon to celebrate 40 years of ferrying food to hungry households. more...
STUDENTS at All Saints' School in York were presented with awards after training to be "active listeners". more...
A GARDEN which won an award at Hampton Court Flower Show has been recreated in York. more...
A GROUP of York choristers are ready to raise their church roof in celebration. more...
CHILDREN at a York school have been putting their ideas forward for a new school building. more...
AN ARTS foundation course for people aged between nine and 13 will take place at York St John College, in Lord Mayor's Walk, York, next month. more...
STUDENTS were labelled York's "best ambassadors" in a debate over their relative value to city life. more...
THE creative director of York's newest professional theatre company has offered to join the campaign to save the city's Mystery Plays. more...
WHEN the news came in about Rod Hills' death, the first reaction in the newsroom was one of shock. But as more details emerged, and we learnt his body had been found in a flat in one of the worst boroughs of Leeds, the tragedy acquired a sense of terrible inevitability. more...
THE food served up to children on a summer day out is generally "old junk", according to a new report. more...
AS some sort of picture begins to emerge of Rod Hills' last few hours, we are left to wonder how it came to this. How sad and strange that the life of the dominant York politician of the last 20 years should end on a makeshift bed on the floor of a Leeds flat. more...
WHAT cheek of John Barnwell in continuing to criticise York City's decision to replace the manager's role by a player/managers role. more...
AS York City are looking at trialists from all over why don't they take a look at a young player they already have on their books. more...
A WET outfield following Tuesday's downpour held up the start of Yorkshire's Championship match against Gloucestershire at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival. more...
YORK City Knights half-back Scott Rhodes was set to see the club's doctor today to assess the damage to his left knee. more...
FORMER Cardiff City defender Andrew Jordan today spurned York City's contract offer to join Second Division Hartlepool. more...
ANOTHER fresh face arrived at York City with player-manager Chris Brass admitting his immediate recruitment campaign is drawing to a close. more...
YORK City Knights half-back Scott Rhodes was set to see the club's doctor today to assess the damage to his left knee. more...
A WET outfield following Tuesday's downpour held up the start of Yorkshire's Championship match against Gloucestershire at the Cheltenham Cricket Festival. more...
STRIKER Mark Quayle, 24, has signed for Scarborough and will make his debut in the game against a full-strength Hull City side at the McCain Stadium tonight (7.30pm kick-off). more...
STRONGLY-fancied Melanie and Graham Brooke were knocked out of the mixed pairs competition in the York Open Bowls Tournament at the quarter-final stage. more...
WOODHOUSE Grange booked a place in the final of the Hunters the Estate Agent Premier League Cup when crushed Sheriff Hutton Bridge. more...
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge remain favourites to take this season's Pilmoor Evening Cricket League championship after their latest victory. more...
YORK Under-13s cricketers have completed a double triumph this season. more...
YORK'S Under-17s cricketers swept in to the Joe Lumb final after hammering Halifax by seven wickets. more...
OSBALDWICK is thick with football after the formation of a new battalion of youth teams. more...
VARIOUS cup draws were made and officials elected for the 2003-2004 season at the annual general meeting of the North Yorkshire Schools FA. more...
Corner pegs dominated the 60-peg open match on Maple Lake at the Oaks, where Paul Sheehan (Sensas Garbolino) scored an easy win from peg 62a. more...
Andrew Burns was the star of the show for York City Baths Club as he picked up the top boy award in the nine-year-old age group at the Rotherham `A' and `B' Meet. more...
Harrogate Town have boosted their ranks with the capture of former Leeds United and England Under-21s midfielder Mark Ford. more...
ANOTHER fresh face arrived at York City with player-manager Chris Brass admitting his immediate recruitment campaign is drawing to a close. more...
FORMER Cardiff City defender Andrew Jordan today spurned York City's contract offer to join Second Division Hartlepool. more...
WOODHOUSE Grange booked a place in the final of the Hunters the Estate Agent Premier League Cup when crushed Sheriff Hutton Bridge. more...
Persian Punch, the grand old man of Flat racing, could well be responsible for the roof being raised off the grandstand at Goodwood tomorrow. more...
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