A North Yorkshire trainee accountant has passed his first three professional exams, putting him on course to become one of the youngest fully-qualified chartered accountants in the country. more...
A visit to a North Yorkshire factory by the Duke of York on Friday will be tinged by both tragedy and triumph. more...
YET again York is nowhere to be seen in the top 20 rankings of Britain's most vital urban shopping centres. more...
YOUNGSTERS at a York school are being trained in how to save lives with a £2,000 funding boost. more...
PRIMARY school children from across York were discussing major issues affecting them at a conference taking place in the city today. more...
SCIENTISTS of the future are set to get to grips with creepy crawlies at a York festival. more...
A YORK primary school has been given a massive funding boost to help staff and pupils celebrate 100 years of the school. more...
ISLE is a 13-year-old half-Jewish girl who is sent out of Germany by her parents on the eve of the Second World War to live with her uncle Willy in Morocco. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS looks forward to an online chat with the creator of Harry Potter and other top authors during World Book Day. more...
YORK publican Craig Regan hadn't suffered much bad luck before. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today called on planners to come to a compromise with the owners of York Odeon in order to secure its long-term future. more...
PUPILS at a York school have written hard-hitting letters to the Odeon's owners to persuade them to keep it open. more...
THE latest issue of the Collins Gem English Dictionary has just landed on my desk; not lobbed there by an irate colleague, you understand, but sent through the post by its publishers in the hope that I might write about it. more...
LIFE on the open road has its appeal. Life in a stationary Ford Escort is somehow not quite as romantic. more...
STUBBORN Yorkshire folk refuse to stub out their cigarettes. Despite 50 years of evidence that smoking kills, a substantial number remain addicted to tobacco. more...
I THINK a word of praise and congratulations must go to the team of students from Fulford School who organised a post-war dinner dance in aid of St Leonard's Hospice at Elvington Air Museum. more...
WELL done Mr Hale, I am sure that many of our youngsters would welcome the opportunity to work with our small businesses if only the bureaucracy were to be minimised (Letters, February 26). more...
THIS letter is to all leaders of Christian churches, in and around York. I believe the Lord is saying, it's time to pull down barriers. It's time to put aside all our differences and intolerance for one another and become what we are supposed to be, the body of Christ. more...
I WOULD suggest that Coun Galloway checks his facts before commenting again on the prospect of linking Selby with York in a possible reorganisation of local government in North Yorkshire (Green vote for merger, February 14). more...
I THINK people are missing the point with regard to the clowns and jugglers that are appearing daily at a prison near you ("Send in the clowns", February 25). more...
AS a resident of Heworth ward, I would like to place on record my gratitude to Coun Paul Blanchard for his efficiency in handling a recent problem I brought to him. I don't think councillors get credit for the day-to-day work they do and it feels good knowing they are there to help. more...
NESTLE workers have the prospect of losing their jobs because of losing sales (February 19). more...
I HOPE Elliot Morley is happy spending millions of pounds to increase the wild bird population ("Rise in Yorkshire bird populations", February 28). more...
MY teenage son is a member of a rifle and pistol club and over the years has become more skilled at target shooting, winning medals and cups. more...
I MAKE no apology for being classed as one of Mr Cordock's "hardcore of intelligent self-appointed spokespeople" (Letters, February 25) who regularly voice their concerns over what many see as inappropriate over-development in York. more...
A SINGLE mum has lost half her income after a computer error "deleted" her two-year-old son. more...
Gas cartridge airguns have been designated lethal weapons, and their owners have been given until May 1 to hand them in or apply for a firearms licence. We ask: Are our gun laws fair? more...
A YORK mother is appealing to the city's landlords to keep her 14-year-old daughter out of their pubs after she spent the night with four "squaddies". more...
TEENAGERS travelled to York from all over the country to see London pop sensation Blazin' Squad perform - but it still wasn't the frenzied affair some had expected. more...
A FLOOD campaigner today backed a new digital map which promises to "revolutionise" insurance assessments in high-risk areas. more...
SCORES of angry York church-goers, traders and residents took thair protest about parking charges to a meeting of city council leaders. more...
IT'S hardly the lap of luxury, but one man has made an extraordinary home for himself - in an isolated car park. more...
SMOKING could be banned in public places in York, North and East Yorkshire, to tackle some of the highest levels of health problems in the country. more...
ANIMAL rights activists have posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of several prominent North Yorkshire hunting supporters on the internet. more...
THE world's tallest woman and shortest man have been in York - all for a scoop of ice-cream. more...
RACING officials today assured York residents they would not be left out in the cold when tickets for Royal Ascot in the city finally go on sale. more...
CUB SCOUTS are in seventh heaven after a York firm and a local joiner rallied round to help them repair their much-vandalised hut. more...
Kieren Fallon, who was in trouble at Lingfield yesterday, returns to the Surrey course tomorrow with bright prospects of completing a double on And Toto Too and my Nap selection Big Bad Burt. more...
LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare. more...
LEIGH Wood is set for a recall to York City's first-team squad at Oxford tonight after surviving a cancer scare. more...
YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders. more...
THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent. more...
The River Ure match record was smashed in an historic contest fished between Hutton Beck and Barn Island on Sunday. more...
THE Scarborough League's representative side lifted the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy last night after beating their Leeper Hare York and District counterparts 3-0 at Bootham Crescent. more...
YORK City Knights centre Damien Reid's switch to Barrow has now gone through, with the Knights receiving a minimal fee from the Raiders. more...
ST OLAVE'S School pupil Oliver Cohen has emulated his brother Nicholas by winning the Yorkshire Schools Boys' badminton Under-12s title. more...
YORK City boss Chris Brass is calling on his players to reproduce the form that earned a 2-2 home draw against Oxford earlier this season. more...
BACK To The Bars? Aren't teen rap pack Blazin' Squad too young for all but milk bars and Mars Bars? more...
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