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York Business

Triumph for building firm

YORKON, the York-based Portakabin subsidiary, has won a major industry award for the second year running for its pioneering work in off-site construction.   more...

Smile, please, as York's bite size courses start

ACHIEVEMENTS in the science and technology sector in York are likely to make anyone gulp.  more...

Word is bond judge rules

A NORTH YORKSHIRE businessman who trades on the basis that his word is his bond has won a landmark court case over a get-out-clause in a supplier's small print.  more...

York Marketplace

Santa force

WITH the four-by-four market growing, manufacturers have to keep up with the competitors, or lose their hold on a very important position in this particularly high earning market.  more...

Cleaner/Housekeeper wanted

Cleaner/Housekeeper wanted. Full time position at Fairfax Arms, Gilling East. Experience preferred. Excellent rates of pay. Ring Ray or Jayne on 01439 788212 or 01439 788819.   more...

Production Operatives

Production operatives required, ongoing contract, local work. £6.50 per hour, 6.30am-3pm, Mon-Fri. Please call Dave on 07977 047331(m) between 9am-5pm (agy).   more...

Sales Assistants/Clerk

Sales Assistant/clerk to work in our large retail and mail order business. the position is varied and interesting, and includes customer sales, mail order processing and telephone duties. Applicants must have a good equestrian knowledge plus reasonable computer skills. Sales and telephone experience would be an advantage. For application form and details Tel 01347 810443. Ride-Away, Stillington Road, Sutton on the Forest, York YO61 1EH.   more...

Experienced HGV Drivers

The Best Connection. Britain's No. 1 Driving Agency* * source Recruitment International. Experienced HGV Drivers. This is no ordinary job advert. In 10 seconds you could be DRIVING TOWARDS a much brighter future. CALL US TO FIND OUT WHY... Garry or Paul on 01482 610160.   more...

Sales and Promotion Representative

Venture the leading brand in modern portrait photography requires a Sales and Promotion Representative to join the team at York. You have proven experience in face-to-face sales and skills in telesales are an advantage. Enthusiastic, approachable and self-motivated you are target driven. 37.5 hrs per week including weekend and evening work. Own transport needed. Starting salary £12.5k, 15k after six months. Plus bonus and mileage. Please write or email including your CV to Miss A Baynes, Venture York, Micklegate, York YO1 6JG or york@thisisventure.co.uk Closing date for applications 17/12/04 www.thisisventure.co.uk   more...

Project Worker

STOCKTON HALL  more...

IT Coordinator

STOCKTON HALL  more...

Assistant Forensic Psychologists

STOCKTON HALL  more...

Legal Assistants and Secretary

Corries Solicitors Ltd. Corries is a Personal Injury Specialist Solicitors practice based in York. We currently require the following full time members of staff to join our team:  more...

Sales Assistants

Barnitts Home and Garden require 2 full time sales assistants. One for our revamped houseware department and one for our contemporary and pine furniture floor. Please apply in writing to J V Cooke, Gen. Manager, Barnitts Ltd, 24-26 Colliergate, York YO1 2BW Email: sales@barnitts.co.uk   more...

Security Officer

Profile Security Services require a Full time Security Officer in the Acomb area of York. The shift pattern is 6 nights on duty and 3 off. Experience is preferred but not necessary as full training will be given. You must possess the ability to use your own initiative as well as be part of a team and also have a ten year checkable work history. The rate of pay is £5.45 per hour, reviewed annually.  more...

Evening Cleaners

Part-time evening cleaners required for high class premises in the Clifton Moor Industrial Estate area. Pay from £6.00 per hour. Tel: 0800 731 4853.   more...

Plumbers

Plumbers. York & Selby areas. Weekly supervision with on Site Materials. Full back-up to maximise your earnings. CIS/On The Books. Ryedale Plumbers Ltd 01653 695073.   more...

Pig Unit Manager

Pig Unit manager required for 400 sows to bacon. Good salary and bonus, 4 bedroomed farm house. Anthony Alton, Wetherby 01937 584463.   more...

Gas Fitters

Sub contract Gas Fitters required. Call John on 07770 931698(m).   more...

York News

Hugh gives Tony a huge lift

WHEN you are taking a beating and faced with the prospect of a plane trip to Northern Ireland to retrieve the seemingly irretrievable, it's good to see a friendly face emerge from the crowd.  more...

Mr and Mrs Fraudster

A YORK woman jailed for a £28,000 benefits fraud is married to a bank manager sent to prison only weeks ago for stealing thousands of pounds from customers.  more...

How did they walk away from this?

TWO men had a miracle escape when they emerged alive from the mangled wreckage of their light plane, which crashed during an attempted emergency landing near a North Yorkshire airbase.  more...

Festive festival returns to York

ANGELS will line the streets of York this weekend, when a favourite Christmas festival returns to the city.  more...

Barbican snookered

PLANS to stage next year's UK Snooker Tournament in York have been hit by a double blow.  more...

MP: Flood plans are urgent

YORK MP Hugh Bayley is calling on the Environment Agency to speed up plans to strengthen York's flood defences.   more...

City leaders mark anniversary of haven for the homeless

THE commander of York Police, the leader of City of York Council and the Dean of York joined the city's disadvantaged and homeless for an informal drink in a pub.  more...

Drug gang's `vile' crime

A GANG of Jamaican gangsters who spread their £1.768 million drug dealing ring to York have been sentenced to a combined total of 30 years in prison.  more...

Vital GP service faces overhaul

EMERGENCY out-of-hours GP services in York and North Yorkshire could face a radical overhaul, a leading York doctor has said.  more...

Trains will take strain

FASTER trains, more of them and more seats. That's what TransPennine Express (TPE) is promising when its new weekday timetable gets under way on Monday.  more...

Lord of the rings

ROB LIVESEY has married more than 10,000 people in the last 25 years, including his mother and sister.  more...

Homes fight vow

A CONTROVERSIAL housing development which caused fury in a York community has been resubmitted to councillors.  more...

Hugh Bayley's chewing question to the PM shames me

I FELT ashamed to be a member of the York electorate as I watched Prime Minister's Questions last Wednesday.   more...

No more excuses

LIBERAL Democrat councillor Tom Holvey is misleading your readers by trying to claim that Liberal Democrat mismanagement of the council is the fault of the Government (Letters, December 7).   more...

No quick fixes

IN reply to Tim Staddon (City homes idea', Letters, December 8) it would be wonderful if four bedroom housing was plentiful enough that those on average incomes could afford it.   more...

Bollard solution

If the people of Straylands Grove do not need the rising bollards, then perhaps it could be situated at the top of Queen Anne's Road.  more...

Truth on rat runs

I HAVE been following the public debate on the impending implementation of rising bollards in the Straylands and Woodlands Groves area.   more...

It'll be a scream

WHAT a predictable and stereotypical reaction from the "fundamentalist right" to York Dungeon's poking fun at Christmas.  more...

Man is the devil

I AM flabbergasted that the Rev John Billingham is still trying to convince the world that Satan is a living being. True, evil exists, but it is entirely in the hearts and minds of man.  more...

Stop this sickness

I AM shocked that Satan's Grotto has not brought an outcry from concerned parents and responsible adults who should know better than to expose youngsters to this kind of sickness.  more...

Cashing in on evil

I WAS appalled to see the front page of the Evening Press showing the York Dungeon's offer of Satan's Grotto just to cash in on the Christmas season.   more...

Religious myths do more harm

AS an atheist pensioner who has always lived in York, I think the Satan's Grotto may be very relevant at this time of the year ("Grott-esque", December 6).   more...

Tomorrow it could be you

DON'T help others less fortunate than yourself seems to be a modern day phenomenon.   more...

Gasworks nightmare revisited?

Residents feared for their health during the clean-up of a heavily-contaminated gasworks site in Heworth earlier this year. Now their nightmare could be about to begin all over again. STEPHEN LEWIS reports.  more...

Festive festival returns to York

ANGELS will line the streets of York this weekend, when a favourite Christmas festival returns to the city.  more...

Perils of pointing the finger

GREG Dyke's had a busy old year. He became Chancellor of his alma mater, York University. As Director-General of the BBC he fought Tony Blair - and Tony Blair won.   more...

Rob vows 'em

IF Rob Livesey's day goes without a hitch, he must be very disappointed.   more...

Arc angels of homeless

A NEW campaign to rid York of bogus beggars has deflected attention from the city's genuinely homeless population.   more...

Way we were

Friday, December 10, 2004  more...

York Sport

Let me at 'em

YORK City's joint-top scorer Andy Bishop is set to be recalled to the starting line-up for tomorrow's trip to Northwich Victoria.  more...

Festive cheer on the Ouse

A SELL-OUT field is expected to compete for the usual large array of prizes in the York Amalgamtion annual Christmas Cheer contest on Sunday.   more...

Graves weighs up Headingley options

YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club chief executive Colin Graves has played down reports that he is on the brink of forming a new company which would buy Headingley cricket ground, writes David Warner.  more...

Leeds boss banks on tough guy Gregan

LEEDS United manager Kevin Blackwell is backing Sean Gregan to put last weekend's sickening attack on his family behind him.  more...

Bootham brace of aces smash Sessions

BOOTHAM CC `A' have now got their eye on taking the York and District Table Tennis League division one title after they crushed champions Sessions `A' 9-1. Paul Eastwood and Jon Wooldridge were unbeaten for Bootham.  more...

Graves weighs up Headingley options

YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club chief executive Colin Graves has played down reports that he is on the brink of forming a new company which would buy Headingley cricket ground, writes David Warner.  more...

Light monk to lift prize - 10/12/04

Monkerhostin can make the most of his light weight by bagging the biggest prize of the day at Cheltenham tomorrow.  more...

Let me at 'em

YORK City's joint-top scorer Andy Bishop is set to be recalled to the starting line-up for tomorrow's trip to Northwich Victoria.  more...

Bail and hearty bid

York RI, who made light work of Thornensians, face a much tougher test this time out as they travel to Baildon in Yorkshire Three.  more...

Ack-ack attack

A NOBLE effort ended at the quarter-final stage for York Rugby Union Club's Quality Street Gang in the Dubai sevens' tournament.  more...

York aim to gun down hosts

YORK will look to keep pace with league leaders Percy Park by beating Acklam tomorrow, before the pair face-off in a massive crunch match in Durham and Northumberland One next week.  more...

Enjoying the high life

NORTH and east Yorkshire's flag is flying high atop the Northern Counties East Football League premier division.  more...

Reed's war cry

`TOP, top, top, top,top of the league' - it's a chant Harrogate Town boss John Reed wants to hear reverberating right through to the end of the Conference North campaign.  more...

Mathie has to dig deep into Pikes' reserves

THERE'S a break from NCEL premier division duty when Pickering Town could be without six players for tomorrow's FA Vase third round trip to Billingham Synthonia.  more...

Golden-eye Bond fires in hat-trick

AN inspired substitution enabled Volunteer Arms to make a significant move up the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one table.  more...

Battling Fulford in ten-goal thriller

FULFORD Reserves belied their lowly league position when they travelled to second placed Thomas's Hotel and came away with a well- deserved point from a rip-roaring 5-5 division five encounter.  more...

York Whatson

What's on offer to indie fans at the university

With the Stone Roses Bar, formerly the Grapes, opening in January, there will be one more venue catering for those students who are not fans of the generic mainstream music favoured by most clubs and bars in York.  more...

All aboard

ONLY two weeks until Christmas and my party diary is already pleading exhaustion, not to mention my poor feet.  more...

Preview: The Blake Head exhibition, until January 4

MATHS professor Malcolm Ludvigsen did not pick up a paintbrush until four years ago, concentrating instead on relativity, cosmology and black holes rather than blank canvases.  more...

Preview: Phantom, the movie

There were more than a few gasps of surprise when it was announced that Joel Schumacher had been chosen to direct the big screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical The Phantom of The Opera.  more...

Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera Running time: 142 mins Certificate: 12A ***

Andrew Lloyd Webber's sweeping Gothic musical, based on Gaston Leroux's novel, is the largest grossing stage production in the world. Since its debut in 1986, it has played to more than 80 million people around the globe.  more...

Preview: Garden State - Zach of all trades

He plays Dr John Dorian in Scrubs on Channel 4. Now Zach Braff makes his feature writing and directing debut with Garden State, the off-kilter tale of the reluctant New Jersey homecoming of struggling actor Andrew `Large' Largeman, his slow reconciliation with his widower father (Ian Holm) and the romance with habitual liar Sam (Natalie Portman).   more...

Review: Garden State Running time: 102 mins Certificate: 15 *****

Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff) moved 3,000 miles across the country to sunny Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of stardom. And to escape his domineering psychiatrist father, Gideon (Ian Holm).  more...

Review: Blade: Trinity Running time: 113 mins Certificate: 15 ***

Blade: Trinity, the third instalment in the bloodthirsty Marvel Comic series, falls victim to a nasty bout of trequelitis, which also blighted The Godfather Part III, Return Of The Jedi and Jurassic Park III.  more...

Review: The Polar Express Running time: 100 mins Certificate: U **

TOM Hanks has hit the buffers. First, the Coen Brothers' remake of The Ladykillers suited neither Hanks and his false teeth, nor the Coens in their switch from arty to artless. Then Steven Spielberg's The Terminal failed to repeat the magic of Hanks's earlier gnomic role, Forrest Gump.  more...

Preview: Polar Express - Tom: a man of many parts

Tom Hanks is five times the actor he used to be.  more...

Jazz notes

THE far-sighted committee of Leeds Jazz delivered the goods once more at the Wardrobe, with a date from the US piano trio, The Bad Plus.   more...

Preview: The Burning Bush, York Early Music Christmas Festival - SOLD OUT

The Burning Bush specialise in Jewish music with klezmer, Hassidic dances, exotic music from the old Ottoman and haunting, mystical ballads of the ghetto. What drew you to this music?  more...

Preview: Hank Wangford, Hovingham Village Hall, Dec 11 and 12 only at 8pm

UNLIKE Scrooge, Hank Wangford remains resolutely miserable at Christmas. As he prepares to wheel his wagon train back to The Shed this weekend for his sixth cheerless Christmas festivities with the Lost Cowboys, Hank promises: "Last year you had our personal guarantee of getting depressed in the middle of nowhere; this year we may even have transcended that misery."  more...

Review: Ebor Singers; Chapter House, York Minster

AS a first salvo in this year's York Early Music Christmas Festival, this was just what the doctor ordered: Charpentier savouring all the holy fun surrounding the birth of Christ.  more...

Preview: A Christmas Carol, Kirkgate, York Castle Museum, until Dec 23

The Dreaming is still the only theatre company to have been granted permission to stage a show in Kirkgate, the mock Victorian street at York Castle Museum.   more...

Preview: Putting It Together, Harrogate Theatre Studio, until January 2

DINNER theatre is a new experience for Alasdair Harvey.  more...

Preview: The Season To Be Jolly, Stagecoach Studio Theatre until Dec 18

Stagecoach Youth Theatre York has never staged a Victorian Old Time Music Hall in its 12-year history - until now.  more...

Preview: Macbeth The Panto at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, Monday, Dec 13 only

ROLL over Cinderella and tell Sleeping Beauty the news, York has a new and most unlikely pantomime in town.   more...

Preview: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until February 5.

THE Wind In The Willows was Ian Brown's best production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, playing to 50,000 people last winter.  more...

Preview: Cinderella, Grand Opera House, York, until January 2.

JANE Omorogbe knows how to make an entrance.  more...

Preview: Sleeping Beauty, York Theatre Royal, until January 29.

LUCY Hunter-James is the new principal boy in the York Theatre Royal pantomime. Welcome to the northern madhouse, Lucy, from Banbury in the south.  more...

Review: Derek Acorah; Grand Opera House, York

I EXPECTED great things from the first of two nights with Derek Acorah - not least because the theatre was billed as a total sell-out.  more...

Review: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, West Yorkshire Playhouse, until February 5.

ANYTHING Ian Brown could do with Wind In The Willows, he has done again with his latest fabulous family show for Christmas in the West Yorkshire Playhouse.  more...

  
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