York | Archive | 2004 | July

This is a placeholder template

Stories for 7 July 2004

York Business

Scarborough Sea Life and Marine Sanctuary

IT'S not many commercial organisations that will invest about £25,000 of profits each year on annually saving 50 injured or abandoned seals around the Yorkshire coast.  more...

Hallmark IFA

EVER since brothers David and Clive Holbrook, founders of Hallmark IFA, relocated their independent financial advisers' practice from Clifton Moor to illustrious premises in the heart of York in December 2001, public awareness and appreciation of their organisation has been on the up.  more...

Chance to discuss rising water bills

BUSINESSES in North and East Yorkshire are being urged to attend a crucial meeting next Monday to discuss planned increases in water charges.  more...

York Education

Student to study music in New York

A YORK student will be jetting to the United States after being awarded a scholarship to study a PhD at Cornell University.  more...

Hold the front page

PUPILS from Tang Hall Primary School got a sneak peak behind the news when they went on a guided tour round the York & County Press publishing centre in Walmgate, York.  more...

Pupils celebrate spirit of Olympics

YOUNGSTERS at a York school can teach the Greeks a thing or two when it comes to hosting the Olympics.  more...

£90,000 boost for sports at school

A YORK school has received a cash injection of almost £90,000 to improve its sports facilities.  more...

Big day for the graduates

STUDENTS celebrated their academic achievements on the first day of graduation from the University of York.  more...

York Leisure

Cushie Butterfield (She's A Little Cow), Collins, £9.99

Cushie is too poorly to go to school. Each day, her face is a different colour and it's only when mum finds some face paints under her bed that she realises what Cushie is up to.  more...

Time's Eye, Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, £12.99)

AN outpost of British troops on the North West Frontier in the year 1885 discovers an impossible object: a silver sphere hovering without any visible means of support.   more...

The Cruellest Miles, Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury (Bloomsbury, £16.99)

IN 1925, the Alaskan town of Nome was hit by an outbreak of diphtheria. It was a desperate situation, people were dying. Supplies of serum were needed to save the isolated community from a terrible human tragedy.   more...

The Whole Story And Other Stories, Ali Smith (Penguin, £6.99)

ALI Smith packs a whole life into a short story. Within a few pages, occasionally even a few paragraphs, you know everything you need to know.  more...

Know The Truth: A Memoir, George Carey (HarperCollins, £25)

This candid memoir tells George Carey's remarkable story from growing up as an East End boy to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury.  more...

The World Of Crime, Mark Llewellin and Peter Riley (P and D Riley, £9.99)

STEPHEN LEWIS is fascinated by the life and crimes of a one-legged lion tamer's son turned double murderer.  more...

York News

Way we were

Wednesday, July 7, 2004  more...

Bill could help save threatened cinema

A BILL which could help save York's closure-threatened Odeon cinema has been introduced in Parliament.  more...

Chastisement without bruises

GREAT news for all right-thinking parents this week, with our betters having at last laid down what constitutes "reasonable chastisement" of the nation's children.  more...

Traffic-buster for York races

HIGHWAYS bosses today unveiled radical plans to beat race-day congestion at all future race meetings in York.  more...

Hospital may charge for evening parking

PEOPLE paying evening visits to patients at York Hospital could be charged in future to use the new multi-storey car park.  more...

Big day for the graduates

STUDENTS celebrated their academic achievements on the first day of graduation from the University of York.  more...

Police chiefs to get 25 top cars

NORTH Yorkshire Police chiefs today defended a decision to spend more than £250,000 on 25 cars for senior officers.  more...

New life for the homeless man who lived in a car park

PETER Frost, the man who lived in a North Yorkshire car park while he was down on his luck, is building a new life for himself in Nottingham.  more...

Bayley asks for probe on closure

YORK MP Hugh Bayley has asked a Commons select committee to investigate why the Monks Cross pensions centre has to be closed.  more...

Bill could help save threatened cinema

A BILL which could help save York's closure-threatened Odeon cinema has been introduced in Parliament.  more...

Water quality wins seal of approval

A NORTH Yorkshire theme park and zoo was one of the locations where an independent tap water watchdog tested the quality of Yorkshire's drinking water.  more...

£90,000 boost for sports at school

A YORK school has received a cash injection of almost £90,000 to improve its sports facilities.  more...

Campaign halts mast bid next to homes

CAMPAIGNERS declared today that commonsense had prevailed, after a telecommunications giant agreed to site a phone mast away from their York homes.  more...

Even the ghosts had packed up

HERE are some more views from readers about York's new parking charges and restrictions:  more...

Tim deserves the outbreak of `Henmania'

HOW does Richard Lamb dare to condemn `Henmania' as madness and imply that Tim is not worth this sort of popularity (Letters, July 3)?  more...

Heroines puzzler

THE War Memorial on York's Salisbury Road in "proud and loving memory of the men and women of Leeman Road and District who gave their lives in the Great War", has the names of three women on the front of it: Mary C Carter, Lillian Eva Ellis and Gertrude Reed.   more...

You work for us

SOMEONE needs to remind our Government of one crucial fact they all seem to have forgotten.  more...

Abortion emotions

MR Quarrie is cautious about "emotion and sentimentality" influencing our thoughts on the recently-pioneered images of foetuses (Letters, July 2), but, in truth, moral decisions almost always stem from emotional reactions.  more...

Why I rode on...

MY fellow Holgate resident, Mr Cox, has, sadly, been quick off the mark (Letters, July 5).   more...

How do they do it?

ACCORDING to the national press Tower Hamlets in London had a greater percentage of "poor households" than any other local authority in England.   more...

Police lag behind

WHEN I was elected to the police authority six years ago I was dismayed at how far behind the police were in terms of information technology.  more...

People v newts

PEOPLE need homes as well as newts.  more...

Nappy dismay

I WRITE in reply to Phil Lamond's letter (`Lay off our nappies', July 5). I was incensed by the letter and in particular the fact that his two-year-old child is still in nappies.   more...

Challenge of youth

YOUR front page report on underage drinking (`Caught out', July 5) draws attention to a serious issue in this and many urban areas.   more...

All set for York's Roman Festival

THE countdown has begun to a celebration of York's past as a vital outpost of a multi-national empire, with the city's second annual Roman Festival.  more...

It's all go for grans

Grandmas have swapped knitting needles for mobile phones and cups of tea for   more...

Odeon hope

THE Odeon is a protected building but not a protected business. Grade II listing ensures the shell of the 1937 movie theatre will remain intact, whatever happens.  more...

Coping with race traffic

ASCOT will bring so much to York. Excitement, glamour, exposure, top sporting action, cash by the barrow-load.  more...

Morris group takes steps to register protest

EVEN Morris dancers have joined the protests against York's evening parking charges and restrictions.  more...

Council's budget was in a mess

The Evening Press launched a campaign last week to oppose York's evening parking charges and the banning of off-street parking. In the first of four articles, City of York Council leader Steve Galloway talks about the financial crisis which led to the charges being imposed.  more...

We don't bother to come to York

MOTORISTS have told how they now rarely venture into York on an evening, following the introduction of after-hours parking charges.  more...

Everyone famous wanted to be an architect

WHICH is more lucrative, architecture or hairdressing? Depends who is doing the snipping.  more...

York Sport

Cash crash hits City

YORK City Football Club confirmed today that following legal advice they have no grounds to pursue the £42,500 owed to the club by ex-chairman John Batchelor.  more...

Cash crash hits City

YORK City Football Club confirmed today that following legal advice they have no grounds to pursue the £42,500 owed to the club by ex-chairman John Batchelor.  more...

Knights get Stan back

YORK City Knights have bolstered their forward fire by bringing Carl Stannard back to Huntington Stadium - and his return may prove crucial with another injury crisis looming.  more...

York's Central command

The Hunters York & District Senior League maintained their unbeaten record in the Leeds Area Cricket Council Knockout competition when they won a closely fought contest against the Central Yorkshire League by seven runs at Carlton.  more...

Same wold downpours dog games

FOR the second successive week, the weather played its hand and had a severe impact on the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League.  more...

Fennell-ementary

Gordon Fennell (Acomb Tackle) was a runaway victor in the 48-pegger at the excellent Willows fishery, near Poppleton.  more...

Keep a weather eye on Somnus - 07/07/04

A RACING tipster relying on weather forecasters might look a pretty precarious combination to some, but if those looking at the climate changes are correct then North Yorkshire hope Somnus should be in his element at Newmarket tomorrow.  more...

Cricket finals looming large

The schools are now back in session after half-term holidays.   more...

Knights get Stan back

YORK City Knights have bolstered their forward fire by bringing Carl Stannard back to Huntington Stadium - and his return may prove crucial with another injury crisis looming.  more...

Strength of Rhinos eases the loss of Harris

I am sure Leeds Rhinos will be massively disappointed to find out what they thought was a legal and binding contract to bring Welsh rugby union international Iestyn Harris back to them, where he started his rugby league career, somehow appears not to be.  more...

York's Central command

The Hunters York & District Senior League maintained their unbeaten record in the Leeds Area Cricket Council Knockout competition when they won a closely fought contest against the Central Yorkshire League by seven runs at Carlton.  more...

Traffic-buster for York races

HIGHWAYS bosses today unveiled radical plans to beat race-day congestion at all future race meetings in York.  more...

York Whatson

Bat Boy: The Musical, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until July 17

STRANGE story, stranger musical. The story of Bat Boy was cooked up by the fantasist American tabloid, the Weekly World News, which regaled readers with its discovery of a cave-dwelling bat-child, with powers of night vision, in the mountains of West Virginia.  more...

  
Restrict search to 7 July 2004

© Newsquest Media Group 2008