THE Side By Side By Sondheim dinner nights and cabaret evenings were such a wickedly delicious success last Christmas, artistic director and self-confessed Sondheim nut Hannah Chissick decided to put it together again. Each night in the black-box Studio
THE York Handmade Brick Company, one of the leading independent brickmakers in the country, has won the Best Refurbishment Project award in the prestigious 2004 Brick Awards. York Handmade, based at Alne, near Easingwold, won the award for its work on
Yesterday, York Civic Trust warned against the turning York into a copy of New York. Today, former York University vice-chancellor Sir Ron Cooke (right) - argues that York is a special city and it needs to be looked after in a special way. STEPHEN LEWIS
Why not help your child enter the magical world of books this Christmas? Here local bookshops unwrap a few Christmas winners. Worm Holes, Bootham The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Pan Macmillan, £10.99, recommended age 2-5) Captivating
YOUNGSTERS from a high-achieving York primary school got a sneak peak behind the news. Two groups of ten-year-olds from Year Five at Tang Hall Primary School, which ranked as joint 38th most improved primary school in the country in last week's school
YOUNGSTERS across York and North Yorkshire who are taking part in a scheme which teams them up with adult advisors say that it's just the business. NYBEP, the business and education partnership for York and North Yorkshire, runs a business partnership
YORK Boys' U11 footballers ran riot as they inflicted a 9-0 defeat on Bradford - only the West Yorkshire team's second defeat of the season. Alex Needham fired in a Luke Quantock pass to open the scoring then Tom Kite knocked in the second from Connor
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARL Club's Under 15s beat Doncaster 34-30 in a real thriller which saw the lead change hands several times. Earswick were strong in the forwards while Doncaster showed plenty of pace in the backs. Pat Smith and Brian Wright both
SPORTY youngsters at St Aelred's RC Primary School in York have been given a double lift. Not only has the school hit the coveted Activemark standard but they have also received new kit from the Football Foundation worth £300. The Activemark scheme recognises
YORK Vikings Under 15s basketball team maintained their unbeaten home record with a 63-58 National League victory over Teesside Mohawks at York College. They dominated the second period with their tall post players, Callum Maguire and Chris Airey cleaning
SPORTY teenagers are needed to join a new basketball team - the only one in Ryedale. Youth worker Andy Brown from Ryedale's Child and Youth Projects has dusted off his tracksuit to help a group of youths set up a basketball team in Pickering. They have
I KNOW Steve Carroll was trying to be controversial in his Diary article 'Website backs council leader', (December 2), but sometimes the people of York forget so quickly what a contribution the Barbican Centre made to the city. The centre has had more
IN response to the letter about the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's plans for Derwenthorpe, 'Sell off this land' (November 24), I refer the contributor to the "affordable" housing in Haxby. Here the pitiful handful of properties the council insisted on being
WHETHER Home Secretary David Blunkett is guilty or innocent of the charges against him, I don't think he has much chance of surviving this onslaught. The allegations will be slowly drip-fed by the press and his ex-lover until the pressure on him is so
I AM in total agreement with J C Brayshaw's view on fox hunting (Letters, December 4). I come from the Scottish Borders which is greatly dependent on farming and can therefore appreciate farmers' views on livestock being killed by foxes. However, no animal
SURELY we can't be the only household who had to search for TV programmes to watch these past few weeks. I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! must be the most revolting and ridiculous programme on the box. Thank goodness it's finished! Can we now consign
YORKSHIRE have boosted their fast bowling attack by signing 26-year-old left-arm paceman, David Lucas, from Nottinghamshire. Lucas, who bats right-handed, has been signed on a four-month contract from the beginning of March and it will be extended if
ASDA has confirmed that a free bus to its store at Monks Cross is to continue. The Evening Press reported how pensioners from villages across the York area were worried they would lose the service, upon which they relied. Numerous readers had contacted
ONE of York's landmark buildings is to be placed in new hands, if city councillors give the scheme the go ahead. York Conservation Trust (YCT) wants to buy the city's De Grey Rooms and De Grey House. Next week City of York Council's executive will be
PROBATION chiefs have sought to reassure the public after a convicted sex offender tried to lure young York children into his car for sex - despite being under supervision. Roz Brown, North Yorkshire Probation area chief officer, said she regretted that
A WOMAN who claimed in court that she was a victim of a jailed York sex offender has called on a judge to "throw away the key". The 42-year-old woman says her life was ruined by Michael Anderson, 41, of Huntington, who may be jailed indefinitely after
CURTIS Cup ace Emma Duggleby was today celebrating the ideal finale to a superb 2004. North Yorkshire's leading women's amateur golfer for nigh on a decade has been named The Daily Telegraph Woman Golfer of the Year - one of the game's most prestigious
YORKSHIRE have boosted their fast bowling attack by signing 26-year-old left-arm paceman, David Lucas, from Nottinghamshire. Lucas, who bats right-handed, has been signed on a four-month contract from the beginning of March and it will be extended if
CURTIS Cup ace Emma Duggleby was today celebrating the ideal finale to a superb 2004. North Yorkshire's leading women's amateur golfer for nigh on a decade has been named The Daily Telegraph Woman Golfer of the Year - one of the game's most prestigious
IT'S nice to have ideals in life, but shouldn't they be attainable? Those modern-day prophets, the health and nutrition experts, reckon that getting five portions of fruit and vegetables under your belt should be as easy as pie. But take an honest look
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 100 years ago: During a sale of cows in number one mart at York Cattle Market, a black bull, which had been let into the ring, suddenly became infuriated. A large number of farmers and buyers were in the ring at the time, and
A YEAR ago we reported that York Hospital had the best record in England for tackling the infamous MRSA superbug. It boasted a table-topping infection rate of only 0.04 cases per 1,000 bed days. Disappointingly it has been unable to sustain this achievement
WHAT sort of person on this earth could do that to an animal?" Helen Overton's question will be echoed by everyone who reads our story about the maiming of her cats, Ditto and Cinder. Both pets had been held down and shot in the eye at point blank range
GOOD to see York transport chiefs cracking down on the latest highways menace. No, we're not talking about lightless cyclists, phone-wielding drivers, rat-running commuters or incontinent horses. Instead, the cause of this new nightmare is... the electric
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby praised his old guard after last night's 1-1 Nationwide Conference draw with high-flying Halifax Town. Busby selected six teenagers in his starting line-up against the Shaymen and, while delighted with the youngsters
THE Side By Side By Sondheim dinner nights and cabaret evenings were such a wickedly delicious success last Christmas, artistic director and self-confessed Sondheim nut Hannah Chissick decided to put it together again. Each night in the black-box Studio
BUILDERS merchant JH Walker, one of the oldest firms in York, has been sold. The more than an acre of Foss-side yard in Foss Islands Road has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Travis Perkins Plc, one of the biggest suppliers in Britain to the building
A STUDY of economic trends has found over the next six months there will be more jobs and more orders for firms in North Yorkshire, but signs of increasing optimism in the county were hard to find. But the latest CBI/Yorkshire Forward survey shows only
YORK and District Schools' netballers showed their superiority at the first of three inter-area tournaments at the weekend. The Under-19 and U16 sides won all their games while the U14s lost only to hosts Harrogate and District. The tournament was held
A MEMORIAL fund established after a Ryedale hospital worker was killed in a road accident at Malton has reached £7,000. Celtic FC fan Joanna Rookes, 35, from Malton, was killed when she was knocked down by a car in Newbiggin in January. The fund, run
Runner Bean, performing on his favourite course, can show his rivals a clean pair of heels at Huntingdon tomorrow. Trained by Richard Lee, who sent out a winner at Sedgefield yesterday, the ten-year-old goes for the Flahive Brickwork Conditional Jockeys
AS Christmas draws near, I find myself wondering if Hugh Bayley, as he prepares for his own Christmas, reflects on some of the statistics coming out of the horror that is now Iraq. About 1,250 young American soldiers and perhaps 63 British will not see
City of York Council is accused of a £1 million fiasco over benefit payments etc (December 2). Many councils have a bad habit of throwing money down the drain by putting innocent children into foster care - at the cost of £250 a child per week on a regular
It was great to read in the Press how well Huntington School did in the national A-level results (December 2). To find themselves in the top 25 schools in the country is a great achievement. The head teacher, staff and especially the pupils deserve great
IN response to the letter from Barbara Strangeway (December 5), we, too, were told that our free bus to Asda from Osbaldwick was to be axed after Christmas. Most passengers are senior citizens, who do not have access to private transport, so carrying
A PHONE call from Sierra Leone started it off. A former pupil of St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School working out there with the United Nations began looking for an old primary school friend. They left St. Mary's, as I did, in 1967 when we all went
I WAS recently "flamed" for an unsuccessful navigation of the City of York website. I had failed to understand the significance of the category "yortime." However, it seems I was not alone in my ignorance. I quizzed a number of our most respectable citizens
IT is sad when a mother of three children can explain the difference between a pheasant and a partridge and a rabbit and a hare, but can't explain why a fox has killed their pet ducks. (Letters, December 1). Like all predators, a fox will kill any form
YORK'S slowing housing market is resulting in a boom in city lets, a new survey has revealed. Latest research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) says rents are rising at their fastest rate for over three years. RICS states the increases
YORK passengers will benefit from new train services when a leading company brings in its winter timetable. Virgin Trains' new Cross Country timetable, which comes into effect on Monday, will see new business and commuter routes provided for the city's
TRAVELLERS in York endured a cold, dark night without electricity after emergency generators failed. A number of caravans at the Clifton Moor site lost power on Monday evening after a temporary generator supplied by City of York Council broke down. Engineers
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation's hope that its Derwenthorpe scheme might finally go before planners by Christmas have been dashed. City of York Council says it will not consider the controversial proposal for a 540-home model village on York's outskirts
YORK'S James Thompson crowned a great year when he was named National Racing Driver of the Year at the Autosport Awards in London. Commentator Murray Walker presented the Paul Warwick Trophy to Thompson, who won the British Touring Car Championship for
A YORK council tenant has turned rat-catcher after discovering a foot-long rodent in her flat. Tang Hall resident Sharon Taylor, 24, couldn't sleep one night because of a heavy cold. Suddenly, she heard strange noises coming from the kitchen of the first
York-based float ace Mick Potter (Anglers World Holidays) led the way with a fine roach net of 10lb 4oz to win the 82-strong Leeds Christmas Cheer match on the Ouse between Hunters Lodge and Linton-on-Ouse. Drawn on the bungalows section at peg 222, he
YORK Hospital chiefs today admitted their standards of cleanliness were "not acceptable" after they were warned they must improve. Independent health watchdogs said "a lot more work" was needed to prevent the spread of superbugs in wards. The watchdogs
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby praised his old guard after last night's 1-1 Nationwide Conference draw with high-flying Halifax Town. Busby selected six teenagers in his starting line-up against the Shaymen and, while delighted with the youngsters
Animal lovers across York reacted with horror and outrage today at the plight of tabby cats Ditto and Cinder, who were blasted through the eye with an air gun. As these shocking X-ray pictures show, the gun pellets are permanently lodged in the face of
IT might have taken 52 matches to arrive but, for York City supporters, Kevin Donovan's first goal in three years was well worth the wait. Donovan's 89th-minute solo effort earned the Minstermen a gutsy point at home to Halifax last night, as well as
