BUSINESSES throughout York and North Yorkshire are being urged to take advantage of the radical reforms to apprenticeships announced by the Government today, to tackle their skills shortages for the future. more...
AN operations director has been appointed to oversee a £20 million hotel and golf course project in North Yorkshire. more...
STEVE Lydiatt has become the personification of enterprise on wheels. more...
THREE new reports point to a booming UK economy - and nowhere more than in Yorkshire. more...
AN Olympic-style event will mark the launch of the Oaklands Sports Partnership taking place at Huntington Stadium, on May 26. more...
SCIENCE expert Professor Charles Stirling has been named as a speaker at this year's Engineering Inspirations event at the Yorkshire Air Museum, in Elvington. more...
CHILDREN from four York schools will be getting together for a musical performance at the city's National Railway Museum. more...
TWO York secondary schools will be given £180,000 worth of funding, after being commended by the Government. more...
A BOOK highlighting different aspects of a North Yorkshire village has been produced by local schoolchildren. more...
HEAD teachers from schools in York and in North and East Yorkshire have been urged to adopt a national charter aimed at tackling bullying. more...
TWO lives, nearing their end, are wrapped in unspoken friendship and ingrained habit. more...
STELLA is running from her past. Jake is running from a mistake that could ruin his future. And both are running to Scotland. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to a spymaster turned novelist who is bringing to York his message that we can beat terrorism. more...
IF YOU travel out of Helmsley on the Scarborough road, you soon slip through two little villages squeezed together, Beadlam then Nawton. The pair persist as separate identities which is confusing. Every reference book has two sets of entries. In 1754 all the cattle died of distemper in Nawton; both parts are mainly made up of pleasant old houses. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON is happy and untroubled on the flatlands close to Beverley, apart from an encounter with a trouser-tearing gate. more...
BUSINESSES throughout York and North Yorkshire are being urged to take advantage of the radical reforms to apprenticeships announced by the Government today, to tackle their skills shortages for the future. more...
THERE are some things I hate more than having my photograph taken. Root canal work, for example. more...
YORK bus bosses have rerouted a city estate bus service after yobs ambushed two of their vehicles with stones and heavy tools. more...
A YORK man today demanded a face-to-face meeting with magistrates who gave his teenage attacker a "slap on the wrists" for a near fatal assault on another victim. more...
A JOBLESS woman branded "Britain's laziest woman" by a tabloid newspaper faces a difficult future after a tribunal approved a decision to stop her benefits. more...
ONE hundred jobs dealing with Norwich Union Life "new business" are in the balance - but this is not expected to have any impact on the company's York headquarters. more...
AN MP has stepped in to try to prevent a York dental practice going private. more...
A WORLD-famous circus has been banned from a North Yorkshire town after landing a helicopter without permission. more...
AN animal rights activist died after falling 40 feet from a window at a house in York, an inquest heard. more...
A TROUBLED parish council looked to the future as it held its annual general meeting. more...
THE thunderous roar which rocked Knavesmire as local favourite Monsieur Bond strode away to win the Duke of York Stakes capped an excellent start to the season at York Racecourse. more...
WORKERS in York can have come top of the tree for ditching their cars and taking a morning stroll or cycle to the office. more...
MAURY Yeston, the writer of Titanic: The Musical, has flown in from the United States to see York Musical Theatre Company's British premiere of his Broadway hit. more...
THE 30 per cent of York workers who commute to work by foot or bike have a right to feel smug. more...
MORE than 100 more affordable homes are to be built in York, thanks to successful bids for government funding. more...
THE police's sudden wobble over licensing reform is most odd. more...
Top national police officers sparked confusion yesterday by warning that 24-hour pub opening due to come in next year could lead to more drunken violence on our streets - after insisting for years the move would help reduce problems. So we ask Should our pubs be open all hours? more...
WE would not suggest for one moment that our Save Terry's campaign will reach anything other than a triumphant conclusion. But it is always best to plan for every eventuality. more...
IF you want to see Tony Blair and George Bush transformed in the twinkling of an eye into Genghis Khan and Vlad The Impaler, ladies and gentleman, come and behold Gorgeous George Galloway, the Great Illusionist and his able assistant, Graham Horne (Letters, May 3). more...
WITH all the sightings around the country by sensible people there can be no denying that big cats, which have either escaped or been freed from captivity, thrive in our countryside alongside all the other creatures. more...
DOES anyone else agree with me that the statue to be erected in London to commemorate the work done by British women in the last war is hideous? more...
I NOTE that the petition to Save The Odeon has 14,000 signatures (April 30). Should these same people merely pledge to attend the cinema once every month, then perhaps the management may take a different view. more...
SADLY, Kraft Foods will close the Terry's chocolate factory on Bishopthorpe Road, no matter what MP Hugh Bayley says. more...
I SEE our MP Mr Hugh Bayley is promoting international laws to stop the bad guys of the world from getting guns (Evening Press, May 7). more...
IN response to Chris Titley's Diary piece about our successful Bite Size Intros campaign to encourage adults to get back into learning (May 4), you are quite right that a campaign run with taxpayers' money must be accountable and should be open to public scrutiny. more...
I FULLY agree with Mr Reynolds (Letters, May 3) that cyclists should pay some form of road tax. more...
I MUST take issue with your correspondent Janet Kitchen who described York's public transport system as "abysmal" (Letters, May 6). more...
WHAT makes Nora Williams think she is one of a silent majority who agree with everything being done to our environment (Letters, May 7)? more...
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VICTORIOUS North Yorkshire owner Reg Bond today targeted the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot after Monsieur Bond strode away to win the Duke of York Stakes at York Racecourse. more...
Yorkshire Ladies golf title favourite Emma Duggleby went into today's first matchplay round as the third seed after being knocked off the number one spot by a record-breaking round by Naomi Edwards. more...
YORKSHIRE'S recently improved form was being put to the test at Headingley today by Frizzell County Championship Second Division leaders Hampshire. more...
Beware the Godolphin team on the final days' action on Knavesmire tomorrow. more...
YORK City Knights have added new spped and power to their back line with the signature of Leeds Rhinos youngster Austin Buchanan. more...
TWO of the great names of snooker took their leave to a standing ovation from hundreds of adoring York fans after snooker's `Hurricane' was swept aside by the `Whirlwind' in their exhibition match at the Barbican Centre. more...
HEWORTH ARLC will continue to play in the British Amateur Rugby League Association's flagship league after successfully gaining re-election. more...
THE 40-peg Sunday open on match lake and Cyprio at Carpvale saw John Fletcher (Ripon) score an easy win from peg 52 on the match lake. more...
RI Tuesday/Thursday `A' visited York University SC in men's division two of York Badminton League and won a close match 6-3. more...
York Acorn's Thanet Road base is to host a girls' rugby league development day aimed at girls in school years seven to 11. more...
LAKESIDE Primary School completed a terrific treble with victory in the final of the York and District Schools' Under-11s Cup at Bootham Crescent. more...
Ralph Butterfield will represent York in the rugby league section of the North Yorkshire Youth games later this month. more...
HEWORTH ARLC will continue to play in the British Amateur Rugby League Association's flagship league after successfully gaining re-election. more...
YORK City Knights have added new spped and power to their back line with the signature of Leeds Rhinos youngster Austin Buchanan. more...
THIS weekend sees the Powergen Challenge Cup final take place and while last year it featured two Yorkshire clubs, this year we've got a Lancashire derby between St Helens and Wigan. more...
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