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...
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...
BUSINESSES in North and East Yorkshire are being urged to attend a crucial meeting next Monday to discuss planned increases in water charges. more...
A YORK student will be jetting to the United States after being awarded a scholarship to study a PhD at Cornell University. more...
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...
YOUNGSTERS at a York school can teach the Greeks a thing or two when it comes to hosting the Olympics. more...
A YORK school has received a cash injection of almost £90,000 to improve its sports facilities. more...
STUDENTS celebrated their academic achievements on the first day of graduation from the University of York. more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This candid memoir tells George Carey's remarkable story from growing up as an East End boy to becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS is fascinated by the life and crimes of a one-legged lion tamer's son turned double murderer. more...
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A BILL which could help save York's closure-threatened Odeon cinema has been introduced in Parliament. more...
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...
HIGHWAYS bosses today unveiled radical plans to beat race-day congestion at all future race meetings in York. more...
PEOPLE paying evening visits to patients at York Hospital could be charged in future to use the new multi-storey car park. more...
STUDENTS celebrated their academic achievements on the first day of graduation from the University of York. more...
NORTH Yorkshire Police chiefs today defended a decision to spend more than £250,000 on 25 cars for senior officers. more...
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...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has asked a Commons select committee to investigate why the Monks Cross pensions centre has to be closed. more...
A BILL which could help save York's closure-threatened Odeon cinema has been introduced in Parliament. more...
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...
A YORK school has received a cash injection of almost £90,000 to improve its sports facilities. more...
CAMPAIGNERS declared today that commonsense had prevailed, after a telecommunications giant agreed to site a phone mast away from their York homes. more...
HERE are some more views from readers about York's new parking charges and restrictions: more...
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...
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...
SOMEONE needs to remind our Government of one crucial fact they all seem to have forgotten. more...
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...
MY fellow Holgate resident, Mr Cox, has, sadly, been quick off the mark (Letters, July 5). more...
ACCORDING to the national press Tower Hamlets in London had a greater percentage of "poor households" than any other local authority in England. more...
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 need homes as well as newts. more...
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...
YOUR front page report on underage drinking (`Caught out', July 5) draws attention to a serious issue in this and many urban areas. more...
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...
Grandmas have swapped knitting needles for mobile phones and cups of tea for more...
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...
ASCOT will bring so much to York. Excitement, glamour, exposure, top sporting action, cash by the barrow-load. more...
EVEN Morris dancers have joined the protests against York's evening parking charges and restrictions. more...
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...
MOTORISTS have told how they now rarely venture into York on an evening, following the introduction of after-hours parking charges. more...
WHICH is more lucrative, architecture or hairdressing? Depends who is doing the snipping. more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FOR the second successive week, the weather played its hand and had a severe impact on the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League. more...
Gordon Fennell (Acomb Tackle) was a runaway victor in the 48-pegger at the excellent Willows fishery, near Poppleton. more...
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...
The schools are now back in session after half-term holidays. more...
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...
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...
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...
HIGHWAYS bosses today unveiled radical plans to beat race-day congestion at all future race meetings in York. more...
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...
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