York | Archive | 2004 | December
STEVE Secker has been appointed as the new regional managing director of builder McCarthy & Stone's York-based north east division. more...
MORE details have emerged of the crucial make-or-break attempt by debt-hit Jarvis to raise £25 million through selling off its leases and other land interests in York, including its headquarters in the city. more...
A ground-breaking project, manufactured off-site by York-based Portakabin subsidiary Yorkon, has won a major industry gong at this year's British Construction Industry Awards. more...
Beauty is now big business, with salons on virtually every street corner. more...
Can leaving a child to cry seriously damage its future mental health? JO HAYWOOD reports. more...
SNOOKER has become more than a game for Simon Crossley. He has turned it into an art form. more...
ONE thing is almost certain during this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York if last year here and results from other recent major tournaments elsewhere are anything to go by - big names will suffer shock exits. more...
Matthew Stevens is prepared to have to work hard if he is to keep his UK snooker crown. more...
Yorkshire snooker star Paul Hunter said he is not too disheartened after suffering a shock defeat a week before he makes his bow in York in the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
THE world's top snooker stars shoot into York on Monday to start their quest for the coveted UK crown. 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...
SNOOKER star John Higgins was uncertain today if he will be able to make it to York in time for his opening match tomorrow in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
SNOOKER legend Jimmy White pulled out of the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York today. more...
FORMER world and UK champion John Parrott said he had "got a monkey off his back" with his 9-5 first round win over James Wattana last night. more...
YORKSHIRE star Paul Hunter's determined bid to win the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship was on track today after a tough opening victory which he likened to a scrap in the boxing ring. more...
SNOOKER'S cramped schedule came under attack from a former world and UK champion just before he left York's Barbican Centre last night after being knocked out of the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
PAUL Hunter was battling today to buck the trend in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship after shock defeats left only two of the world's top eight players in the event. more...
ONE is hoping to stay on cue for success at the Barbican this week, while one is currently taking a break from sporting action in York, but snooker and football's Steve Davis namesakes met in the city yesterday afternoon. more...
The pride of Yorkshire snooker was at home in Leeds today feeling totally browned off after the collapse of his bid to win the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
YORK snooker fans are seeing an inspired player who could be spearheading a new generation of talent. more...
TWO of the tournament outsiders will clash in York tomorrow for a place in the final of snooker's second biggest tournament. more...
SUPER Scot Stephen Maguire is being spurred on by the pressure in his York bid for snooker glory. more...
NO one is more surprised than David Gray to be playing in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final in York tomorrow. more...
YOUNG hot-shot Stephen Maguire destroyed David Gray 10-1 in last night's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final. more...
This year is the 28th UK Snooker Championship. more...
A NEW name went on the UK Snooker Championship trophy last year as Welshman Matthew Stevens gained the first ranking title of his career at the end of a York tournament full of surprises. more...
For the second year in succession, a Welshman won snooker's second biggest prize when Matthew Stevens triumphed in last year's Travis Perkins UK Championship final at York's Barbican Centre. more...
A DAY before Yorkshire hero Paul Hunter's first match in this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship the man who taught him how to play will be in action. more...
MAKING the highest break ever recorded in pro snook-er wasn't enough to win Jamie Burnett a place in the final stages of this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York. more...
The magnificent Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship trophy won't be the only glittering prize on display at York's Barbican Centre during the big tournament. more...
THE youngest player competing in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship will be 17-year-old Chinese cracker Ding Junhui. more...
EIGHT of the 48 players in the starting line-up for the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship starting on Monday are new to the Barbican Centre. more...
AUSSIE hot-shot Quinten Hann's opponents will have to box clever when they come up against him in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. The quick-tempered `bad boy' is fighting fit after taking up boxing this summer. more...
Thank goodness, I am not alone (although I wish I was). more...
A PERVERT who tried to lure young children into his car from the streets of York is facing a long stretch in prison. more...
SHARES in debt-laden support group Jarvis tumbled as traders reacted to news it was selling off property in York. more...
A WOMAN who was concerned about her sick cat, and a man who was feeling tired while driving on the A1 and wanted a lift to hospital for a rest, both found the same "solution" to their problems - they dialled 999 and called for an ambulance. more...
YEARSLEY Swimming Pool reopened today, almost a month after it closed for a revamp. more...
GAS supply has been restored to all but a "handful" of homes in York, following a major fault last week. more...
A teenager who urged his mate to drive off with a policeman hanging out of the car has walked free from court. more...
CHRIS and Alan Nelson are planning to sell their York home of more than 30 years to help fund Chris's continuing battle for health. more...
A YORK MAN has switched from grain to grape after being awarded £1,000 to develop his knowledge of wine. more...
CIVIC trust chiefs in York have railed against the "New Yorkification" of the city - as they raise fears of a "head-long dash" to build high buildings regardless of the consequences. more...
A WELL-KNOWN York Elvis impersonator has condemned the "sick" thieves who broke in to his car while he was singing for charity. more...
EBENEEZER Scrooge is alive and well in the form of multi-millionaire Humphrey Smith, the brewery owner who has banned music and television (although not one-armed bandits) from his Sam Smith public houses (December 3). more...
GORDON Brown has once again performed an incredibly cynical pre-Budget trick of spending more and taxing less. more...
MR Bowker is wrong to say the Lib Dem-run council in Islington has over-ruled parents' wishes about the name of a new school in that London borough (Letters, November 18). more...
ON behalf of the York branch I thank all our supporters and volunteers who gave their time so unstintingly during 2004 to enable the Alzheimer's Society to support those with dementia, and their carers, in the area. more...
I THANK WC Moore for his kind comments about the work I undertook to get the No 16a bus up and running (Letters, December 1). more...
AS a Christian minister concerned for York people, I must express my opposition to the proposal by Merlin Entertainments to establish a Satan's Grotto in the York Dungeon. more...
I THANK you and your Evening Press team for the delightful pictures of all the little new-starters at schools in the area. more...
I READ a letter that yet again showed complete ignorance about the life style of the fox. more...
Fiona Dunn justifies hunting of foxes on the grounds that a fox kills for the sake of killing. She then says her children hunt, shoot and fish - and, therefore, kill purely for the sake of killing. more...
FIONA H Dunn tells us at great length about the slaughter of her animals by foxes (Letters, December 1). She then informs us she and her family also spend their time slaughtering animals. more...
I WRITE in response to Keith Allan's letter about his delight at the shopping on offer in Middlesbrough (November 26). more...
I wish the Coppergate Centre luck in their attempt to win permission to fell the trees in St Mary's Square. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS visits York hospital's state-of-the-art X-ray imaging unit. more...
BREAK a leg, that's what they say to folk about to give a public performance. And the Reverend Rob Marshall did just that. more...
CHRISTMAS shoppers in Ryedale can shop `til they drop when dozens of shops take part in a late-night opening. more...
LICENCE fee payers will welcome today's news that the BBC is slimming down. Here is a corporation without corporate responsibility - no pressure to post a profit, no shareholders to scrutinise performance, cushioned from the real world by its own tax revenue. more...
THIS is the consumer society gone crackers. Cat poorly? Too tired to drive? Want directions to the nearest tobacconist? more...
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DARREN Dunning will warm York City's bench for the first time in his career tonight. more...
HAXBY netball queen Val Kennedy will be rubbing shoulders with golden Olympic stars Kelly Holmes and Matthew Pinsent on Sunday. more...
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby is hoping to sign trialist striker Paul Robinson today. more...
A SUPERB 135 finish from Tony Raymond was all in vain as Ebor lost the decider in their York Phoenix Monday League division one encounter with leaders Sun Inn. more...
KERRY Woods' brilliant strike gave Acomb Ladies I a 1-0 victory at Batley in Yorkshire League division two. more...
Chairmen of football clubs, don'tcha just love 'em? more...
Market Weighton trainer Mike Sowersby has a useful money-spinner in Karathaena, who at Leicester tomorrow bids for her third success in four outings. more...
DARREN Dunning will warm York City's bench for the first time in his career tonight. more...
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby is hoping to sign trialist striker Paul Robinson today. more...
THE number of York youngsters in the country's junior rugby league elite has risen to four following confirmation that Ross Divorty is in the England Under-16s Youth squad. more...
IT was a tale of two halves as New Earswick All Blacks ARL Club failed to capitalise on a great first-half display and lost 32-18 at Siddal `A'. more...
SATURDAY'S RJF Homes Beckett Football League programme was tinged with sadness as two players suffered broken legs. more...
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