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...
WHEN it comes to a new name, the Question has finally been Answered. more...
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...
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...
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...
REPEAT offenders in North Yorkshire are being offered the chance to beat heroin addiction with an innovative drug that stops them getting high. more...
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...
AN A-MAIZING tribute to the Flying Scotsman has cropped up on 30 acres of York fields. more...
AN AMBITIOUS vision for the future of York over the next 20 years was today officially launched. more...
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...
WHEN York Race For Life was launched in 1998, just 414 women turned out for the Cancer Research UK fundraising event. more...
A LAST-DITCH bid to block controversial plans to scrap traditional ballot boxes for the regional assembly referendum has been launched by MPs. more...
PLANNERS are set to give the go-ahead to a major expansion of Tesco's store at Clifton Moor, York. more...
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...
AN AMBITIOUS vision for the future of York over the next 20 years was today officially launched. more...
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...
YOU reported "Exercise is vital for children's recovery" regarding children suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (July 10). more...
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...
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...
YOU have chosen to publish another of Dr Enticknap's diatribes about GNER (July 12). more...
MIKE Bentley really should do his homework before dabbling in polemic (Saturday Sound Off, July 10). more...
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...
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...
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...
STEPHEN LEWIS checks out a Big Brother-style futuristic home. more...
THE Race For Life is a runaway success story. Every year it gets bigger and better. more...
THE respectable mask of the BNP has been ripped away, exposing the snarling face of hatred beneath. more...
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...
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...
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...
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THE recent fine weather has seen many of us in the garden, potting up, watering and cutting the lawn. more...
SUPER consumers are to be put at the heart of consumer law, in a ground-breaking shake-up of Government policy. more...
Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO prevailed in a titanic struggle against Bishopthorpe. more...
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...
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...
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...
SUMMER signing Steve Davis has been made York City's new club captain. more...
SUMMER signing Steve Davis has been made York City's new club captain. more...
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...
Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO prevailed in a titanic struggle against Bishopthorpe. more...
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...
IT is the 12th annual Red Shirt Night at Pontefract tomorrow evening. more...
Three football teams preparing for the new season have issued appeals for new players. more...
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...
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...
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...
WHILE it may not be an angry electric-fuelled response to the Unplugged movement, Rewired is not short on innovation. more...
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...
THIS should give the former Rolling Stones bassist his hat-trick of UK Jazz and Blues chart album number ones. more...
I HATED music in the Eighties when the massed ranks of the ordinary became exalted. more...
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? 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...
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...
Essential hits, definitive collections, the best of... , the very best of..., the greatest hits. more...
School's out for summer! Room On The 3rd Floor is going to be the soundtrack to many a teenager's school holiday. more...
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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