York | Archive | 2004 | November
A glittering celebration at the Royal Armouries in Leeds unveiled seven winners from our region's business community all of whom have invested creatively in the arts. more...
THINGS are hotting up for the York Curry Company. more...
LET the people of Old York stretch out their hands to the people of New York. more...
IT'S been a long, hard struggle against some sceptics who for years dismissed the work of the Yorktest Group as mere "quackery", but now endorsement has come from no less than the Queen. more...
HOB Moor does not have the obvious appeal of a purpose-built park. Neither is it as rugged as a windswept hill farm. It is, as Elizabeth Smith concedes, "apparently very flat and featureless". more...
I think Mr Mike Holden should stay off the brandy more (Readers' Letters, November 12). more...
ONE wonders if the so-called travel consultants ever consider what the impact of their grandiose plans would have on the people living in the areas. more...
I AM writing to express our serious concerns over the proposed installation of traffic lights at the junction of Bishopthorpe Road and South Bank Avenue. more...
AN open letter to my Palestinian neighbour. I do not share your grief at this very sad and uncertain time for the Palestinian people. more...
Of Course I welcome two full pages of the Press promoting Amnesty International's campaign to tackle complacency surrounding domestic violence (November 10). Bravo. more...
IN the week when the council's strategy for replacing the Barbican has turned from tragedy to farce, your editorial was right to ask "is city pools plan sunk?" (November 10). more...
NOW that Charlie Croft has revealed the amount to be realised from the Barbican development will be lower than anticipated for the refurbishing of Edmund Wilson and Yearsley Pools (November 3), perhaps he will reassure us by confirming that no one, architects included, is going to waste the small amount now forthcoming on altering the facilities at Yearsley. more...
I SINCERELY hope this year's Remembrance Sunday is the last of its kind. more...
THANK you for your editorial acknowledging that the problems at both Yearsley and Edmund Wilson pools are long term (November 10). They are not the result of lack of care this year, last year or indeed recent years. more...
I WAS sorry to read about the proposed small new Barbican pool. It is sad that the development of the Barbican Centre is motivated by profit. more...
People who wear cream trousers are not of this world. more...
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to tackle absenteeism among York council workers is to be extended after showing initial success. more...
A Good Samaritan who left his van to help a cyclist knocked over in York was rewarded with a parking ticket. more...
MORE than a dozen tenants at a block of flats in York have been left stunned by proposals to demolish their homes. more...
POLICE are hunting a gang of thugs who carried out an unprovoked and vicious assault on two young men at York Station as they returned home from a night out. more...
A CENTURIES-OLD ceremony has taken place to celebrate the official nomination of North Yorkshire's next High Sheriff. more...
COMMUNITIES across North Yorkshire fell silent to remember those who sacrificed their lives for future generations. more...
Celebrating 18 years since she gave birth to triplets, hardworking York mum Linda Barker said: "I wouldn't swap it for the world." more...
A YORK woman told today how car-jackers made her lie face-down on the ground at gunpoint in South Africa. more...
ANGRY York residents have got together to fight plans for an all-night train washing depot on their doorstep. more...
CARELESS motorists whose vehicles are "shop windows" for opportunist thieves have left a York beat officer at the end of his tether. more...
Open schools longer to provide more flexible child care? Or offer working parents tax breaks so they can pay for their own? STEPHEN LEWIS reports on rival proposals to improve child care for working parents. more...
A LIBERAL leader was lambasted by a fellow Ryedale councillor for demanding an expensive public inquiry into RAF Fylingdales. more...
MODERN Sundays are much like any other day of the week, filled by work, shopping and socialising. more...
JANET Looker is a long-standing and respected councillor who has become an excellent Lord Mayor of York. more...
WHAT in God's name do they think they're doing? more...
ROD Stewart and Neil Diamond are two star singers performing major concerts in very different surroundings - and we can arrange for you to see both of them. more...
YORK City's senior service player curse has struck again as the Minstermen seek to recover from a jarring week. more...
NEW British Open snooker champion John Higgins may miss his opening salvo in the Travis Perkins UK Championship at the Barbican, York, because his wife is expecting a baby. more...
YORK City's senior service player curse has struck again as the Minstermen seek to recover from a jarring week. more...
POPPLETON started the season five games unbeaten, including an 8-1 thrashing of Strensall, but are now winless in four and have now been beaten 4-2 at home by Strensall. more...
UPWARDLY mobile York Acorn snatched a late field goal to claim another two points against Ince Rosebridge. more...
YORK moved up to second place in Powergen Durham and Northumberland Division One with a 71-5 victory over Hartlepool. more...
Hambleton trainer Kevin Ryan, on the mark with handicap hurdler Petrula at Wetherby on Saturday, reverts to the Flat game at Lingfield tomorrow and has excellent prospects of adding to his tally of winners. more...
YORK City's senior service player curse has struck again as the Minstermen seek to recover from a jarring week. more...
NEW British Open snooker champion John Higgins may miss his opening salvo in the Travis Perkins UK Championship at the Barbican, York, because his wife is expecting a baby. more...
UPWARDLY mobile York Acorn snatched a late field goal to claim another two points against Ince Rosebridge. more...
THIS 26-14 defeat to Blackheath was the third in a gruesome trio for Harrogate, coming in effectively just six minutes. more...
YORK RI finally put some mixed performances behind them with an emphatic 29-10 victory over Northallerton. more...
MALTON & Norton were given a harsh 58-6 lesson by a totally dominant Westoe side which had pace, strength and ability above anything Malton have encountered in recent seasons. more...
A STRONG last quarter showing saw Pocklington pull away to a 22-10 victory at determined Scarborough. more...
Selby's six-game unbeaten run came to an end on Saturday courtesy of a below-par first half performance which allowed Old Crossleyans establish a deserved 21-7 lead. more...
YORK moved up to second place in Powergen Durham and Northumberland Division One with a 71-5 victory over Hartlepool. more...
SHOT-SHY Harrogate Town suffered their second successive Conference North goal-less draw against Worksop Town on Saturday. more...
SUBSTITUTE Liam Salt added plenty of spice to Pickering Town's attack as his second half hat-trick sank Parkgate 4-1 in the second round of the Northern Counties East League Cup. more...
IN Reserve `A' there were wins for the top three sides. Dringhouses, unbeaten since their opening fixture, beat Huntington 2-1. Wayne Carter scored both 'Houses goals in the first half with Neil Cadywold replying. more...
THE clash of the top two premier division sides lived up to all expectations in a tight 2-1 thriller. more...
POPPLETON started the season five games unbeaten, including an 8-1 thrashing of Strensall, but are now winless in four and have now been beaten 4-2 at home by Strensall. more...
TOFFS who want to arrive at Royal Ascot in York in style are hiring rail trips to the city on the Orient Express. more...
This show rocked the theatre last night and seeing the stage full to bursting with people, each and every one of them blown away by the atmosphere, was a real tonic. more...
WELCOME to the idiosyncratic world of Boothby Graffoe - the guitarist comic who lulls his audience into a false sense of security before jolting them with well-aimed barbs. more...
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