York | Archive | 2004 | January
AS CREDIT card bills from Christmas land on doormats across York and North Yorkshire, a York accountant has warned that people who don't play their cards right will face hefty charges. more...
DAYS spent waiting for workmen to arrive could be coming to an end - thanks to two North Yorkshire businesswomen. more...
SOME of the finest high-tech brains in York and East Yorkshire are uniting to win national contracts. more...
THREE North Yorkshire schools are to receive more than £1.3 million funding after the Government today announced they were among 238 to be given specialist school status. more...
SIPPING cocktails in the heated pool on the top floor of our executive Walmgate office suite, the Diary was oblivious to the snowy wastes outside. more...
A CINEMA-LOVER has blamed the threatened demise of York's Odeon on "intransigence and brinksmanship" by council planners. more...
MANDY Cole's story is one of courage and hope. She sank into a vicious circle familiar to anyone who has battled a weight problem. Because her size made her miserable she sought comfort through eating. more...
ITS name means "great street". But Micklegate's greatness is fast diminishing, according to traders. more...
As a new survey reveals that two-thirds of us would like cosmetic surgery, more...
A YORK woman has lost ten stones - nearly a third of her body weight - after undergoing a risky stomach bypass operation. more...
GRITTERS stepped up their efforts to clear icy pavements and side roads in York today as pedestrians came a cropper in treacherous conditions. more...
TRADERS have blasted City of York Council, saying it has allowed a major historic street to turn into a "ghetto" full of empty shops, drug users and rubbish. more...
COUNCILLORS have resisted demands by English Heritage to launch a study into the impact of new developments on York's historic fabric. more...
THREE North Yorkshire schools are to receive more than £1.3 million funding after the Government today announced they were among 238 to be given specialist school status. more...
PLANS to build new homes on green belt land may be scaled down after councillors agreed to include the huge York Central development proposal in plans for the city's future housing needs. more...
YORK council leader Steve Galloway has assured residents that the Barbican auditorium will NOT have fewer seats after its planned refurbishment. more...
A YORK man has been jailed after notching up his EIGHTH conviction in less than ten years for driving while disqualified. more...
A YORKSHIRE woman scored a century today as she celebrated her 100th birthday. more...
FEWER than half of York people are satisfied with cleanliness levels in the city, says a report from Government watchdogs. more...
THE urban elite are to be found in York, according to a new survey - although you may have to look quite hard to discover them. more...
IN response to your front page report in the Yorkshire County edition of the Evening Press of January 24, I wish to correct the misleading impression created by the photograph accompanying the article. more...
I WAS intrigued to read in Business Press (January 27) that the top chef at Hazlewood Castle, John Benson-Smith, had opened two successful "brassières" in Lancashire. more...
I AM trying to trace Joyce Foster who lived in Wycliffe Avenue, York. Her family lived in Norman Street and her father's name was Jim Foster. more...
AS a car owner why do I feel increasingly unwelcome in the city in which I have happily lived for the past seven years? more...
I INCURRED a parking fine when I visited York to see a pantomime. I paid it but it is the good people of York who will eventually foot the bill. more...
SO the gritters were poised, and the council had plans to deal with "the situation". more...
DAVID W Gulliver asks: "How much longer are we going to have to put up with the so-called `traffic calming' measures introduced by City of York Council?" (Letters, January 27). more...
I WRITE in response to John A Wallace about Hugh Bayley's change of mind on top-up fees for university students (January 27). more...
BY far the worst building to have been built within sight of the city walls since Ryedale House is the new Mecca bingo hall. It is out of scale with its surroundings, shapeless and dull. more...
CITY of York Trading Standards has received information about a new type of rogue trader - the "investment scammers". more...
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on a new helpline which aims to help consumers stand up for their rights. more...
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection from Friday's meetings: more...
Craig White called upon his players to give an extra two per cent in everything they do after being appointed Yorkshire captain yesterday - a move which was forecast in Wednesday's Evening Press. more...
Leeds United players have so far decided not to defer their wages to help the club but we went ahead with it and it turned out fine. more...
Tadcaster Albion, second in York Mitchell Sports League division one, are now only a point behind leaders Thorpe United. more...
THOMAS Audsley scored a hattrick as Brooklyn beat South Milford 5-2 in the first round of the York Mitchell Sports League Cup. more...
AUSSIE firebrand Simon Friend has leapt from the cauldron to the cooler - and is now set to be thrown into the York City Knights melting-pot. more...
Lincoln City manager Keith Alexander has been given the all-clear to return to work two months after collapsing with a brain haemorrhage. more...
Craig White called upon his players to give an extra two per cent in everything they do after being appointed Yorkshire captain yesterday - a move which was forecast in Wednesday's Evening Press. more...
RAY FELL, chairman of the Leeds United Supporters Club, has condemned the `vultures' who are feeding off the club's cash crisis. more...
BASEMENT battles abound in Arriva Trains Conference division two on Saturday as both York's Conference clubs seek points and pride - should the games beat the weather. more...
York's Ladies came through their tough Yetton and Vivienne Trophy games against Cumbria with flying colours. more...
AUSSIE firebrand Simon Friend has leapt from the cauldron to the cooler - and is now set to be thrown into the York City Knights melting-pot. more...
BASEMENT battles abound in Arriva Trains Conference division two on Saturday as both York's Conference clubs seek points and pride - should the games beat the weather. more...
SELBY Warriors player-coach Kev Fellows will be able to choose from a full-strength squad on Saturday as his side bid for a third `giant-killing' in the Pennine League's Shipley Trophy. more...
Lincoln City manager Keith Alexander has been given the all-clear to return to work two months after collapsing with a brain haemorrhage. more...
PERHAPS it's the politically cynical times in which we live but epic American film scores no longer pack their old punch. more...
If cruising through the 'hood with a couple of divas in the back of your convertible is high on your agenda during the next few weeks, Honey could be the soundtrack to have your speakers pumping. more...
ELVIS Costello is the one bound for the Oscars, nominated for Best Song for Alison Krauss's snow-capped version of his lonesome ballad The Scarlet Tide on the Cold Mountain soundtrack. more...
THIS is a a pleasant puzzle. Essentially a stop-gap album, Ceremony is a limited release which will mostly appeal to the sort of fan who has to have everything. more...
SO-CALLED "mini" albums arouse suspicion in this reviewer, always wary of the loyal music buyer being needlessly parted from their hard-earned. more...
ON the face of it, the new album by quirky, enigmatic French duo Air sees studio boffins Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin emerge from behind the controls to take centre stage - even appearing on the front cover and performing all the vocals themselves, rather than drafting in guest singers. more...
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