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Stories for 15 July 2004

York Business

Moves to create city centre chief

A new highly-paid city centre supremo could be appointed for York if plans being formulated by the city's top businesses are realised.  more...

Name change for research company

WHEN it comes to a new name, the Question has finally been Answered.  more...

Buyer's market

BEACON, the Clifton Moor-based purchasing consortium for the independent hospitality industry, has launched a new division aimed at small to medium-sized enterprises called Beacon Commercial.  more...

York Education

Schools merger plan put on hold

THE plans to merge two York secondary schools and expand a third have been put on hold pending changes in the way the Government funds school buildings.  more...

York News

Classes forced out over parking

DOZENS of evening classes are to be switched from York city centre to the University of York campus in the wake of evening parking charges.  more...

Prison-leavers offered new drug to beat their addiction to heroin

REPEAT offenders in North Yorkshire are being offered the chance to beat heroin addiction with an innovative drug that stops them getting high.  more...

Business park gets green light to expand

A BIG expansion of a York business park is set to go ahead - provided it does not shunt plans to reopen a railway line into the buffers.  more...

All aboard the amaizing maze

AN A-MAIZING tribute to the Flying Scotsman has cropped up on 30 acres of York fields.  more...

Vision for future of York launched

AN AMBITIOUS vision for the future of York over the next 20 years was today officially launched.  more...

University snubs Burton Croft plea

THE battle to save Burton Croft erupted into controversy today after the grandson of John Bowes Morrell hit out at the University of York for snubbing the campaign to get the threatened building listed.  more...

Labour of love

WHEN York Race For Life was launched in 1998, just 414 women turned out for the Cancer Research UK fundraising event.  more...

Last-ditch move to stop postal `home rule' voting

A LAST-DITCH bid to block controversial plans to scrap traditional ballot boxes for the regional assembly referendum has been launched by MPs.  more...

Tesco bids to extend store

PLANNERS are set to give the go-ahead to a major expansion of Tesco's store at Clifton Moor, York.  more...

It's too expensive!

A MOTORIST has attacked the price of a Park & Ride ticket in York, after discovering that the equivalent service in Scarborough is much cheaper.  more...

Vision for future of York launched

AN AMBITIOUS vision for the future of York over the next 20 years was today officially launched.  more...

Thanks for helping to keep air ambulance flying

THE Rotary Club of York Ainsty thanks the people of York and further afield who contributed to our charity fundraising event last Saturday at York Racecourse.  more...

Rest time is vital

YOU reported "Exercise is vital for children's recovery" regarding children suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (July 10).  more...

Swan is not listed

As the person who revised and rewrote the list of listed buildings for York in the early 1990s, perhaps I could answer the questions raised by GB Ledger ("Is this Swan listed?", Letters, July 10).  more...

Let justice prevail

THE International Court of Justice in the Hague (The World Court) has found that the vast concrete wall that Israel is building on Palestinian land, separating people from their lands, schools, hospitals and work places, is illegal, and must be demolished.  more...

Defending GNER

YOU have chosen to publish another of Dr Enticknap's diatribes about GNER (July 12).   more...

Get your facts right

MIKE Bentley really should do his homework before dabbling in polemic (Saturday Sound Off, July 10).   more...

It's a summer tax

Mike Laycock's article "Drivers staying away from York" (July 10) was interesting and I had to laugh at the cheek of Quentin Macdonald pleading with York motorists not to boycott York on a night because the parking fee money not generated could result in "important services being cut"  more...

Beat binge drinking

BINGE drinking is making news and I wish to add that up to the age of 16 children are dependent on their parents for spending money.  more...

Ban lethal weapons

IN response to your headline "Scarred For Life" (Friday, June 9) and the samurai sword attack on Steve Johnson, yes, it was horrific and the perpetrators are obviously highly dangerous.   more...

Let your home do the thinking

STEPHEN LEWIS checks out a Big Brother-style futuristic home.  more...

Run for love

THE Race For Life is a runaway success story. Every year it gets bigger and better.  more...

Vile face of BNP bigots

THE respectable mask of the BNP has been ripped away, exposing the snarling face of hatred beneath.  more...

Tracked from space by satellite

ROAD pricing could be on the way. A government-funded study has suggested a toll scheme that would charge drivers up to 90 pence a kilometre (£1.45 a mile) to drive on the nation's roads.  more...

It's too expensive!

A MOTORIST has attacked the price of a Park & Ride ticket in York, after discovering that the equivalent service in Scarborough is much cheaper.  more...

Classes forced out over parking

DOZENS of evening classes are to be switched from York city centre to the University of York campus in the wake of evening parking charges.  more...

Way we were

Thursday, July 15, 2004  more...

Don't get caught by garden cowboys

THE recent fine weather has seen many of us in the garden, potting up, watering and cutting the lawn.  more...

Consumers in line for `super powers'

SUPER consumers are to be put at the heart of consumer law, in a ground-breaking shake-up of Government policy.  more...

York Sport

Bishops' Hamshere hell

Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO prevailed in a titanic struggle against Bishopthorpe.  more...

Blizzard of Oz

Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey marked his return to Yorkshire's side after injury with a stunning unbeaten century as Lancashire were crushed by eight wickets with 13 balls to spare in the Twenty-20 Roses clash at Headingley last night.  more...

White out for Tykes

YORKSHIRE captain Craig White broke down during last night's Twenty20 Cup victory over Lancashire with a crippling knee injury and will be out of action for some time.  more...

Knights chief dismisses Hull rumours

RICHARD Agar has dismissed as rumours speculation linking him with the vacant role at Hull FC - saying he is fully committed to his York City Knights job.  more...

Davis named new City skipper

SUMMER signing Steve Davis has been made York City's new club captain.  more...

Davis named new City skipper

SUMMER signing Steve Davis has been made York City's new club captain.  more...

Blizzard of Oz

Australian all-rounder Ian Harvey marked his return to Yorkshire's side after injury with a stunning unbeaten century as Lancashire were crushed by eight wickets with 13 balls to spare in the Twenty-20 Roses clash at Headingley last night.  more...

Bishops' Hamshere hell

Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO prevailed in a titanic struggle against Bishopthorpe.  more...

Brothers battle bravely in defeat

BROTHERS Phil and James Langley put up a brave fight before going out of the men's doubles in the City of York Tennis Championships at St Peter's School last night.  more...

Zarzu can collar Red Shirt victory - 15/07/04

IT is the 12th annual Red Shirt Night at Pontefract tomorrow evening.  more...

Football teams seek new players

Three football teams preparing for the new season have issued appeals for new players.   more...

Knights chief dismisses Hull rumours

RICHARD Agar has dismissed as rumours speculation linking him with the vacant role at Hull FC - saying he is fully committed to his York City Knights job.  more...

Will York's royal date end traffic headache?

As a new traffic masterplan is unveiled for York race days, STEVE CARROLL and MIKE LAYCOCK look at what the proposals mean and what residents think of them.  more...

Lumb XI esape Raw deal

The Hunters York Senior League Joe Lumb XI maintained their unbeaten record when their game with the Aire/Wharfe League at Rawdon was finally abandoned because of rain.  more...

York Whatson

Mike And The Mechanics, Rewired (Virgin) ****

WHILE it may not be an angry electric-fuelled response to the Unplugged movement, Rewired is not short on innovation.   more...

Razorlight, Up All Night (Vertigo Records) ****

ROCK'n'roll mischief makers Razorlight have not just come up with the goods on this, their debut long-player, but laid them all out for an almighty shop front display.   more...

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Just For A Thrill (Randm) ****

THIS should give the former Rolling Stones bassist his hat-trick of UK Jazz and Blues chart album number ones.   more...

Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Please Describe Yourself (V2) *****

I HATED music in the Eighties when the massed ranks of the ordinary became exalted.   more...

Dr John, N'Awlinz, Dis Dat Or D'Udda (Parlophone/EMI) ****

GOOD music often has a sense of place and swamp jazz pianist Dr John is more attached to his roots than most.   more...

Rachel Goswell, Waves Are Universal (4AD) ***

RACHEL Goswell? She was the wispy singer in the translucent, shoe-gazing Slowdive in the early Nineties and is still integral to Mojave 3's deluxe Home Counties country rock.   more...

The Ordinary Boys, Over The Counter Culture (B-Unique Records) ***

COMING from a dull seaside town and raging against the monotony and melancholy of everyday English life, it's no wonder The Ordinary Boys are Morrissey's new favourite band.   more...

Thin Lizzy Greatest Hits (Universal) ****

Essential hits, definitive collections, the best of... , the very best of..., the greatest hits.   more...

McFly Room On The 3rd Floor (Island) ****

School's out for summer! Room On The 3rd Floor is going to be the soundtrack to many a teenager's school holiday.   more...

The Duchess Of Malfi, Apricot Theatre, Trinity Hall, Monkgate, York, until July 17

TODAY we munch on the television junk food of Big Brother. In Jacobean times, audiences feasted on the big bother of revenge tragedies, brutal and bloody, but never brief.  more...

  
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