Friday, December 10, 2004 100 years ago: A man who was said to be an out of work groom was charged with wilfully damaging holly trees to the amount of five shillings in Moreby Park, south of York, on two separate occasions. Evidence was given by gardeners
A NEW campaign to rid York of bogus beggars has deflected attention from the city's genuinely homeless population. So last night's fifth birthday party for the Arc Light hostel was a timely reminder that people are still sleeping rough on our streets.
IF Rob Livesey's day goes without a hitch, he must be very disappointed. Because Rob is the nabob of nuptials, the knot-tier supreme, the city's professional joiner. As York's registrar, he has heard more than 10,000 troths pledged. His face will appear
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. "I'd been writing to Damian Cruden the artistic director for various productions since leaving Rose Bruford
JANE Omorogbe knows how to make an entrance. Yes, it helps that she is a 6ft 2 tall, but there is more: her hair is topped off with flame plaits, her laugh is loud, her smile wider than a half moon. For four years her name was Rio on Gladiators; then
THE Wind In The Willows was Ian Brown's best production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, playing to 50,000 people last winter. The Playhouse artistic director will be seeking to match that success with Adrian Mitchell's dramatisation of CS Lewis's wartime
ROLL over Cinderella and tell Sleeping Beauty the news, York has a new and most unlikely pantomime in town. For one dark night only, Derbyshire travelling troupe Oddsocks Productions present Macbeth The Panto at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre on Monday.
Stagecoach Youth Theatre York has never staged a Victorian Old Time Music Hall in its 12-year history - until now. "This sad fact is about to be rectified this Christmas when we produce a festive programme for all the family entitled The Season To Be
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. Then to capitalise on all the fuss he rushed out his autobiography, Inside Story. And rushed
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. Two goals from Terry Taylor and one from Dave Williams all
AN inspired substitution enabled Volunteer Arms to make a significant move up the York John Smith's Sunday Morning Football League division one table. Their clash at Wigginton Grasshoppers was in the balance with Volunteer just ahead 2-1 at half-time
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. Wednesday night's 5-0 premier division victory at Maltby Main came at a price with Alex Willgrass
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. A county court judge at York has upheld a claim by Derek Ashdown, of Ashdown Printing Machinery
ACHIEVEMENTS in the science and technology sector in York are likely to make anyone gulp. Hence the free "bite size" taster courses as part of a new initiative by Science City York and the Learning & Skills Council North Yorkshire to get more local
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. The company was presented with the award for Off-Site Manufacturing Specialist of the Year at the
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. SEVERAL weeks after the main clean-up operation
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? "I've been involved in Early Music all my professional life, and I'd
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. Word had got out after last year's Wardrobe date by the band, plus many must have seen them on BBC2's Later With Jools
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
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. The franchise's adrenaline-pumping fusion
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
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. Lloyd Webber and director Joel
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). I have not visited York Dungeon for years, but expect it contains many examples of the butchery
Monkerhostin can make the most of his light weight by bagging the biggest prize of the day at Cheltenham tomorrow. The Philip Hobbs-trained gelding figures at the foot of the handicap in the £110,000 bonusprint.com Gold Cup and is fancied to provide jockey
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. I am broadminded, but find this to be in extremely bad taste and contemptible of the Christian religion
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. While Santa is a fictitious character, Satan most certainly is not. Ask
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). Gordon Brown is giving local councils an increase of more than
A CONTROVERSIAL housing development which caused fury in a York community has been resubmitted to councillors. A new scheme to convert a derelict Victorian cottage and stable block into six homes at Middlethorpe Manor will be considered by members of
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. They were celebrating the fifth anniversary of York's Arc Light homeless hostel. Chief Superintendent
PLANS to stage next year's UK Snooker Tournament in York have been hit by a double blow. The Barbican Centre's prospective owners have confirmed that its refurbishment will be delayed by at least four months and may not be completed in time for next November
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. Graves, who is also boss of the Costcutter chain of supermarkets
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. The Ouse below York is the venue this year, which should at least ensure that anglers have to catch a fish to
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. The Europa craft came down in a field on the boundary of RAF Linton-on-Ouse
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. Shasta Bi, 37, cheated the taxpayer out of £28,000 in a six-year benefit fraud by repeatedly forging
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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. Now he regularly exhibits oil paintings, and his latest works can be seen in
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. Hyundai is one such manufacturer keen to retain its hold, and its Santa
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. Tony Blair certainly was taking a beating during Prime Minister's
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. Although Fibbers gives those who take
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. The Quarry Theatre has been transformed into a winter landscape - was it my imagination or did
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. We managed to arrive on time, collect our tickets and still be in our seats for the start of the show, unlike a huge
ANGELS will line the streets of York this weekend, when a favourite Christmas festival returns to the city. The spectacular Festival of Angels begins tomorrow, bringing snow, ice and a touch of festive sparkle to The Quarter. Among the attractions in
DINNER theatre is a new experience for Alasdair Harvey. In essence, in Putting It Together, he sings Sondheim for your supper in the Harrogate Theatre Studio, performing alongside Rebecca Thornhill, Sophie Bould, Hadley Fraser and Mark Hilton. Musical
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. So satisfying was the initial union last Christmas that the York company is to re-mount Scott
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'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. Reed remains in ebullient mood after his charges seized the pinnacle of the Conference
NORTH and east Yorkshire's flag is flying high atop the Northern Counties East Football League premier division. The top-flight is currently dominated by clubs from North and east Yorkshire with the leading four positions held by Selby Town, Harrogate
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. Fresh from a 60-3 drubbing of Ryton at Clifton Park, the club can gear
A NOBLE effort ended at the quarter-final stage for York Rugby Union Club's Quality Street Gang in the Dubai sevens' tournament. The team, which is run by YRUFC supporters, battled through a talented group to reach the first knockout stage. But in a heart-breaking
York RI, who made light work of Thornensians, face a much tougher test this time out as they travel to Baildon in Yorkshire Three. Six tries and power up front put Thornensians to the sword 50-5, but Baildon have lost only twice all season and are firmly
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. Bishop, 22, missed Tuesday night's 1-1 draw against Halifax after twisting his ankle in the previous match against Carlisle
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. Just as well, since the festival's remaining seven events (until Monday
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
Tom Hanks is five times the actor he used to be. Thanks to new technology, he could play any number of roles in his Christmas movie, The Polar Express, in which an eight-year-old boy boards a train for a trip to see Santa Claus at the North Pole. Chris
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). Nine years later after deserting the family nest, Large
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. Not because he's a bad director - Batman Forever
DON'T help others less fortunate than yourself seems to be a modern day phenomenon. I admit I'm a soft touch for any down-and-out, especially if they have a doggy friend with them. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, so remember, tomorrow it
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. While the York Dungeon grotto may not be in the best of taste it,
WHAT a predictable and stereotypical reaction from the "fundamentalist right" to York Dungeon's poking fun at Christmas. The Rev John Billingham, and others who agree with him, has done more to put young people off Christianity than any amount of camped-up
I HAVE been following the public debate on the impending implementation of rising bollards in the Straylands and Woodlands Groves area. Having read the original article (November 24), one could be led to believe City of York Council is tirelessly fighting
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. This could be a solution to two horrendous problems. It could be an answer to the diabolical school run St Peter's has
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. We are on above average incomes and own a three-bedroom house extended to
I FELT ashamed to be a member of the York electorate as I watched Prime Minister's Questions last Wednesday. As Tony Blair fielded intelligent and probing questions from all sides of the House on big issues such as the right of householders to defend
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. Graves, who is also boss of the Costcutter chain of supermarkets
ROB LIVESEY has married more than 10,000 people in the last 25 years, including his mother and sister. City of York's head registrar was today celebrating his "silver anniversary" in a career which began at Manchester Registry Office on December 10, 1979
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. The company, which has offices in York and runs cross-Pennine services from the city to Manchester
EMERGENCY out-of-hours GP services in York and North Yorkshire could face a radical overhaul, a leading York doctor has said. Dr Brian McGregor was speaking after health chiefs announced the organisation responsible for the vital service was facing "potential
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. Judge James Barry described their crack cocaine operation, which sold from a terraced home in Clifton
YORK MP Hugh Bayley is calling on the Environment Agency to speed up plans to strengthen York's flood defences. Speaking up for areas hit by the 2000 floods, he pressed the agency to take action without delay. "The flood in 2000 came within two centimetres
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. Third-placed Poppleton 'A' were much
LEEDS United manager Kevin Blackwell is backing Sean Gregan to put last weekend's sickening attack on his family behind him. Gregan plays against West Ham at Upton Park tonight, though he considered quitting the game to become a brickie after louts shouted
ANGELS will line the streets of York this weekend, when a favourite Christmas festival returns to the city. The spectacular Festival of Angels begins tomorrow, bringing snow, ice and a touch of festive sparkle to The Quarter. Among the attractions in
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. Bishop, 22, missed Tuesday night's 1-1 draw against Halifax after twisting his ankle in the previous match against Carlisle
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ONLY two weeks until Christmas and my party diary is already pleading exhaustion, not to mention my poor feet. With the Evening Press do on Saturday, the wise solution would be to take Sunday night off and sup hot chocolate in front of the telly. But
