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Stories for 12 November 2004

York Business

Firms build for the future

A NEW flagship building in York is to host a seminar by North Yorkshire Construction Best Practice Group.   more...

£20m catering deal is sealed

IT'S full steam ahead for Milburns, which has won a ten-year £20 million total turnover contract, retaining the catering for York's National Railway Museum (NRM).  more...

Lapping it up!

The Best Western Monkbar Hotel claims to have secured the first free hotel broadband and wireless service in York.  more...

Scientists in funding plea

SCIENTISTS at York University, who have developed a revolutionary tool for examining the nature of matter, are calling for just £250,000 to move from prototype to production.  more...

York Education

No more tears

WHEN staff at a school heard the sounds of youngsters crying during a cookery class, they were naturally concerned.  more...

You've got to trip a socket or two

THE show went on for performers at a York school play - despite a huge power cut plunging the auditorium into darkness.  more...

York Marketplace

Rock-steady

MAZDA has launched an uprated range of its B-Series pick-up trucks.  more...

Chrysler's latest PT is a winner

SINCE its launch four years ago, Chrysler's PT Cruiser has attracted many friends with its unique American hot-rod styling.  more...

Warehouse Pickers and Packers

Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Warehouse Pickers and Packers. Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement, York YO1 9UP. Manpower.   more...

Delivery Staff (6am-finish)

Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Delivery Staff (6am-finish). Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement, York YO1 9UP. Manpower.   more...

Sorters (various shifts)

Saving for Christmas? We have temporary work guaranteed up to Christmas in the following area. Sorters (various shifts). Also recruiting for permanent roles - call for details. Tel 01904 644007. E-mail: kate.cookson@manpower.co.uk 22 The Pavement, York YO1 9UP. Manpower.   more...

Office Administrator

Office Administrator required to assist part-time in a busy general office of an electronics firm. Requirements: numeracy, good organisational skills, flexible and mature personality, computer literacy, administration experience. Please apply in writing enclosing CV to Sue Hutchinson, EDW Controls Ltd, Birch Park, Huntington Road, York YO31 9BL.   more...

Waiter/ess

Permanent part or full time. Waiter/ess. Must be over 18. Good hourly wage plus tips. Includes weekends. Heworth Court Hotel 01904 425156.   more...

Care Home vacancies

Four Seasons Health Care. South Park Care Home. Gale Lane, York YO24 3HX. Assistant Cook required part time. RGN/RMN required part time. Care Assistants required full/part time Days/Nights. Laundry Assistant part time. Evening Domestic part time. Contact Anne Fieldhouse on 01904 784198.   more...

Dental Nurse

Experienced or Trainee dental nurse required for modern expanding dental practice. Contact York 422918.   more...

Bricklayer

Experienced Bricklayer required for high quality hardwood conservatory bases. Top rates paid to right applicant. Aurora Conservatories, The Old Station, Naburn, York. Tel: 01904 631234.   more...

Drivers

ANC North Yorkshire, York Road Distribution Centre, Flaxby, Knaresborough. Due to continued expansion ANC North Yorkshire has the following vacancies. Multi-Drop Driver required for the collection and delivery of parcels. Owner Drivers required for multi-drop - must have own van. LGV Driver required for long distance haulage, will involve some nights out. For further information please contact Chris on 01423 869696.   more...

Traffic Clerk

ANC North Yorkshire, York Road Distribution Centre, Flaxby, Knaresborough. Due to continued expansion ANC North Yorkshire has the following vacancy. Traffic Clerk required to organise distribution. For further information please contact Chris on 01423 869696.   more...

Kitchen Porter

YO1 Fossgate, York requires Kitchen Porter 20-24 hours. Apply Emma Sherbourne 01904 674824.   more...

Cleaners

YO1 Fossgate, York requires Cleaners 7-10am. 6 days. Apply Emma Sherbourne 01904 674824.   more...

York News

The ticket trap

FOR the past three weeks I have used the castle car park on an evening. The ticket machines will not accept resident user so I've had to pay full price, ("Just the ticket", Letters November 9).  more...

Seeking Dijon

TOYING with the idea of visiting Dijon, I seemed to remember that there was once something called "The Dijon Exchange" whereby York's young adults (they were still referred to as children in those benighted days) were packed off to France to apologise for D Day and winning the World Cup.  more...

Generally polite

ALTHOUGH I am not a customer of any of the Park & Ride services, I was surprised to read David Walkden's complaints of mis-management.   more...

Ignored again

I READ with dismay your article "Sixth Park & Ride site to be chosen" (November 3). Once again the council's officers appear to be determined to ignore the views of those most affected.  more...

Dancing days

I AGREE with Joan Roberts (Letters, November 4). I used to attend Mary Mac's School of Dancing on Bishopthorpe, York.  more...

So much moaning

ARE we not as a nation becoming a load of moaners? Take the hunt lobby: "I will break the law and go to prison". What kind of message does this give to the young of today?  more...

Bring the dogs

ONCE again the hunting season is upon us (November 8). So if like me you are aroused by butchering foxes, join me in the big hunt.   more...

Bored - why don't they do something positive instead?

WHENEVER I read reports of acts of mindless vandalism by young yobs, there is always a comment by some moron telling us that the little darlings are bored.   more...

Fuming away

I APPRECIATE Mr Wilkinson's concern with the authorities' lack of action over the York litter problem (Letters, November 8). Perhaps the very falling of the autumn leaves may well annoy him.  more...

Unfair system

IN response to Anne Wilcox's question (Letters, October 30), the reason why the council can legally (although not fairly) harass Fiona Coleman over council tax is because most student houses are let on joint tenancy agreements.   more...

Declining service

GREEN Express Railtours have run special trains for 16 years from the north of England and rely on the postal network to serve our passengers.  more...

Work together to prevent this development

LIKE Coun D'Agorne (Letters, November 6), I welcome Coun Aspden to the all-party campaign against the proposed Connaught Court Development, albeit late.  more...

Our post is all over the place

WHAT has happened to our postal delivery service? Here in Huntington we get posts delivered at varying times of day, one day it was 5.30pm!  more...

No to people's parliament

ACCORDING to folklore born deep in the mists of time, the way household pets and wild animals behave can indicate impending good or bad luck.  more...

Spotlight on a dying habit

SMOKING was blamed today for close on a third of deaths in York and North Yorkshire, and almost as many in East Yorkshire.  more...

Crash survivor is coming home

JORDAN bus crash survivor Graham Haslam is expected to return to York on Saturday after doctors in the Middle Eastern country give him the all clear.  more...

Stabbing woman is sent to prison

A JUDGE has jailed a York woman for stabbing her ex-partner and told her to seek counselling and therapy.  more...

Tributes to fatal car crash victim

MEMBERS of a grieving family say they have been overwhelmed by the flowers, bouquets and messages of condolence sent by Ryedale well-wishers following the loss of a beautiful young woman.   more...

Memorial bench thrown on fire

VANDALS have destroyed a memorial bench to a York man who starved to death because of an obsessive eating disorder.  more...

You've got to trip a socket or two

THE show went on for performers at a York school play - despite a huge power cut plunging the auditorium into darkness.  more...

Mums protest at crèche changes

MOTHERS are protesting after a York swimming pool's much-loved crèche staff were replaced by employees from the closed Barbican Centre.  more...

At the court of `King Arthur'

FIREBRAND former miners' leader Arthur Scargill told a York audience last night that the closure of the Selby pit has shut the door on a source of wealth for the region.  more...

No more tears

WHEN staff at a school heard the sounds of youngsters crying during a cookery class, they were naturally concerned.  more...

Drastic measures

Two initiatives have been announced today to ensure drinkers are aware that their favourite tipples are getting bigger and stronger. Health Reporter CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigates.  more...

No plans for missiles at base

THE Government has moved to quash claims that America may be allowed to site interceptor missiles at RAF Fylingdales.  more...

Crying off

THEY look like they are preparing to become the youngest boys ever to swim the channel. In fact, the goggle-eyed trio in our photograph are simply readying themselves for cookery class.  more...

Smoking ban seems nearer

FOR at least four decades we have known smoking is bad for us. It causes cancer, heart disease, all manner of respiratory problems and shortens lives.  more...

Dear Santa, you big fat fraud

SANTA needs a spin doctor. You would think that a fellow who dispenses presents and joy to millions of children would be universally loved.  more...

Way we were

Friday, November 12, 2004  more...

York Sport

Aussie Levy raring to start with Knights

CHRIS Levy has admitted he has a hard act to follow - but he is determined to deliver the goods.  more...

Robinson blow, but Davis targets return

York City have been hit by a major blow with striker Paul Robinson ruled out for a month.  more...

Essex for starters

YORKSHIRE begin their season next year on April 13 when they visit Chelmsford to take on Essex in the Frizzell County Championship.  more...

'Pool play part in plan for park

PARK life will be the prime consideration for York Rugby Union Club when they entertain Hartlepool on Saturday.  more...

Watts a lot of heroes

LEGENDARY York player Basil Watts will be lauded tomorrow as one of the British heroes who won the first-ever rugby World Cup - exactly half a century after the feat was achieved.  more...

Marcia prove ten times able

Marcia blasted their way clear at the top of the John Smith Sunday Morning Football League first division with a 10-2 mauling of Blacksmiths Arms who are struggling to find their feet in the top sector.   more...

Vaughan benefit cracker

England cricket captain Michael Vaughan announced details of his 2005 Yorkshire benefit at Headingley yesterday and revealed that one of the main attractions would be a Twenty-20 floodlit match on the Test ground between his own star-studded International XI and a Yorkshire XI.  more...

Essex for starters

YORKSHIRE begin their season next year on April 13 when they visit Chelmsford to take on Essex in the Frizzell County Championship.  more...

Double mission - 12/11/04

Bingley trainer Sue Smith and her husband Harvey, the former top show-jumper, never afraid to take on the big guns when the occasion demands it, stage a double-assault at Cheltenham tomorrow.  more...

Robinson blow, but Davis targets return

York City have been hit by a major blow with striker Paul Robinson ruled out for a month.  more...

Watts a lot of heroes

LEGENDARY York player Basil Watts will be lauded tomorrow as one of the British heroes who won the first-ever rugby World Cup - exactly half a century after the feat was achieved.  more...

Chris comeback on hold as Malt face test

SOMETHING has got to give in the North Two East showdown tomorrow between Wes-toe and Malton and Norton.  more...

'Pool play part in plan for park

PARK life will be the prime consideration for York Rugby Union Club when they entertain Hartlepool on Saturday.  more...

Clayton-tastic

On-loan Harrogate Town hitman Clayton Donaldson has been named as the Nationwide North player of the month after getting 34 per cent of the website vote.  more...

Joe's focus firmly on Cup

All Northern Counties East League eyes will be on the second round of the league cup this weekend with all five teams from the area facing division one opposition.  more...

Bishops' Broadbent bags brace

THERE'S no stopping class and two more goals for veteran Broadbent helped Bishopthorpe to a 5-0 win over Real Way Station to keep them top of division three.  more...

Barratt quick on the draw to swamp Bay crew

Skelton were quickest out of the blocks in the top of the table division four duel and by half-time had carved out a 3-0 cushion at Bay Horse (Tadcaster).  more...

Marcia prove ten times able

Marcia blasted their way clear at the top of the John Smith Sunday Morning Football League first division with a 10-2 mauling of Blacksmiths Arms who are struggling to find their feet in the top sector.   more...

Racing retreat

THE odds have been slashed on one of York's most historic homes opening its doors to Royal Ascot racegoers.  more...

Aussie Levy raring to start with Knights

CHRIS Levy has admitted he has a hard act to follow - but he is determined to deliver the goods.  more...

York Whatson

Swiv's seven

Alex Lloyd finds that Selby has all the best tunes this weekend.  more...

Preview: The Exalted Feminine, Adze Gallery, York until December 23

MOVE over lads' mags. Adze Gallery, in York, has an eye for the girls and a passion for the female form in The Exalted Feminine, a new exhibition of painting and printing.  more...

Review: Coffee And Cigarettes. Running time: 96 mins Certificate: 15 ***

COFFEE And Cigarettes is a film about coffee and cigarettes, shot in black and white, black for coffee, white for cigarettes.  more...

Review: Ladies In Lavender, Running time: 104 mins Certificate: PG ****

AS chance would have it, Charles Dance came across William J Locke's short story Ladies In Lavender in a book being used to dress the set of a film he was making in Prague.  more...

Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, Running time: 107 mins Certificate: 15 **

RENEE Zellweger has porked up again, stuffed-shirt Colin Firth and handsome cad Hugh Grant are back, and so are the jokes about big bums and dodgy Christmas jumpers, and Bridget's three comic stooges.   more...

Preview: Colour of Fire - The Junction, York November 29

COLOUR Of Fire release A Pearl Necklace For Her Majesty as their new single through Riverman Music on November 29.  more...

Preview: Coming up

WIZZ Jones brings his battered old guitar cases to York for the seventh time on Thursday in an early highlight of the Winter Warmers season at the Black Swan Folk Club.  more...

Preview: Jazz notes

Guitarist John Etheridge concludes his Northern tour tonight at Wakefield Jazz. He will be joined by tenor saxophonist Ed Jones. Ben Crosland and Dave Tyas complete the dynamic quartet, more details from 01977 680542.  more...

Preview: John Martyn, Grand Opera House, York, Thursday, November 18

Name: John Martyn, Occupation: Folk rock veteran, incurable romantic, innovative guitarist and singer with distinctive slur and growl. Five-decade career spanning folk, blues, jazz, reggae, trip-hop and funk  more...

Preview: Getting the blues in Pocklington

Pocklington Arts Centre and the European Blues Association are linking up for the annual Acoustic Blues Weekend of workshops, jams and performances later this month.   more...

Preview: Alistair Griffin, Grand Opera House, York, November 16

Just A Quickie with... Alistair Griffin, former York busker, Fame Academy runner-up and 2004 chart star from Castleton, Whitby, who plays the Grand Opera House, York, on Tuesday.  more...

Preview: Mother Goose, Harrogate Theatre, November 26 to January 8

HARROGATE Theatre has a new dame for this season's pantomime.  more...

Preview: Boothby Graffoe, Grand Opera House, York, November 13

Introducing... surreal comedian Boothby Graffoe, still in recovery from fleeing the Kings Of Comedy reality TV show.  more...

Preview: Gary Wilmot, My Kind Of Music, Grand Opera House, York, November 14

ENTERTAINER Gary Wilmot had a gap in his diary.  more...

Preview: Mo Molam, Theatre Royal, November 15

What Mo Molam misses most about politics is talking to people - which is just what she will be doing in York on Monday, as she tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON.  more...

Review: The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, York Theatre Royal, until November 27

AN old Morris Minor is sinking into the ground outside their windswept cottage in the Connemara hills. The picture of the Kennedys is fading on the kitchen wall.   more...

Here's hoping for more

Jo-ann Hodgson reports on a musical high at the university.  more...

  
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