KNIGHTS will be without Darren Callaghan tomorrow as he is best man at his brother's wedding. They will make a late check on fellow second-row Mick Ramsden who pulled a groin in the warm-up last week. John Smith is otherwise likely to move into the second
Congratulations to the Evening Press for the sustained pressure on City of York Council over parking charges and yellow lines. Keep it up! Thousands are with you. We are all fed up with hearing the feeble replies from Coun Ann Reid, City of York Council's
OUR garden is usually taken up with flowering plants and shrubs. I feel that in its limited space, there isn't room for fruit and vegetables. However, this year I relented after being given three tomato plants by a friend, and sowing swiss chard seeds
TALKS are still being held to decide whether a Supporters' Trust board member should replace Mike Brown as a director of York City football club. Brown's resignation in the summer left City's boardroom with a lop-sided balance of Trust Board members and
Saturday, August 28, 2004 100 years ago: The genial, modest Captain Grace, commander of the River King, performed a gallant act of rescue, diving overboard at Nun Monkton to save a little girl who had slipped off the bank. Without divesting himself of
Graze On, trained by John Quinn, can clinch the feature race at Beverley tomorrow after receiving a timely boost to his form at Newcastle last night. The promising juvenile, who broke his maiden on only his second start at Pontefract earlier this month
A NEW pedestrian crossing in York is finally working after standing idle for nine months - because an electricity company couldn't find anywhere to plug it in. City of York Council agreed to site the pelican crossing in Holgate Road to improve pedestrian
FAST bowler John Blain and acting captain Matthew Wood are two Yorkshire players who will be able to look back with some pride on what has so far been an indifferent season. Blain has turned out to be one of the county's leading wicket-takers while Wood
YORKSHIRE would have got lynched by members and fans at Scarborough if the North Marine Road covers had been as inadequate as those at Colwyn Bay, said director of cricket David Byas. Byas made his comments after a further overnight soaking of the club
A DRUG gang member who was on the run for nearly four years has been jailed for his part in a massive commercial cannabis operation at a North Yorkshire airfield. At Leeds Crown Court yesterday, Stephen Mark Gilpin, 49, formerly of Breighton, near Selby
OUTDOOR volleyball with a twist will be taking over at Clifton Park this weekend during the annual York Volleyball Tournament. Mixed teams from across the region and from as far away as Gloucester will descend on the rugby pitches to battle it out come
TALKS are still being held to decide whether a Supporters' Trust board member should replace Mike Brown as a director of York City football club. Brown's resignation in the summer left City's boardroom with a lop-sided balance of Trust Board members and
BARMAID Joanne Husband is laughing all the way to the bank after her "eBay wedding" cost her only £120. Thrifty Joanne secured her cut-price big day by buying all the clothes she needed off the internet auction site eBay. Joanne, 36, and her husband,
Last-gasp anguish denied North Yorkshire's leading amateur women's player Emma Duggleby from claiming the British Open Amateur stroke-play crown at Alwoodley. The Malton and Norton Golf Club star was favourite to land the one national title to elude her
KNIGHTS will be without Darren Callaghan tomorrow as he is best man at his brother's wedding. They will make a late check on fellow second-row Mick Ramsden who pulled a groin in the warm-up last week. John Smith is otherwise likely to move into the second
WHAT constitutes true power - is it control, leadership, wealth? The trusty dictionary's definitions of the attributes of a powerful person are dominance, authority and a commanding demeanour. This week US business magazine Forbes published its ranking
UNPRECEDENTED heights have been conquered by Pike Hills Golf Club and fittingly as it celebrates its centenary season. The club's leading players of Russ Chilton (captain), Martin Brown, Rob Hamilton, James Hudson and Adrian Lount brilliantly rose to
Last-gasp anguish denied North Yorkshire's leading amateur women's player Emma Duggleby from claiming the British Open Amateur stroke-play crown at Alwoodley. The Malton and Norton Golf Club star was favourite to land the one national title to elude her
POINTS mean prizes. That was the assessment of Sheffield Eagles boss Mark Aston this week with three games left in the race for automatic promotion from LHF Healthplan National League Two. Aston, whose side face their crunch clash with leaders Barrow
STEPHEN LEWIS enjoys a cheap and cheerful Chinese meal in the Garden. IT'S not often the head waiter in a restaurant does his best to dissuade you from trying a dish. But then, our waiter at the Garden Chinese Restaurant in Pocklington was rather unique
Congratulations to the Evening Press for the sustained pressure on City of York Council over parking charges and yellow lines. Keep it up! Thousands are with you. We are all fed up with hearing the feeble replies from Coun Ann Reid, City of York Council's
BILL Hearld's column on tattoos is full of anecdotal evidence that they will make one unhappy at some point ('It's all tattoo much for me, August 24). He completely ignores the fact that there are millions of tattooed people living healthy, happy lives
It amazes me that although people wish to use mobile phones they don't want masts in their locality for safety reasons. Yet they still use mobiles while driving despite recent legislation. Others have mobiles "glued" to their ears. SP Roberts, Church
The Yorkshire Wolds can be wet in August, but I read recently that 'in September there are often many days of unbroken fine weather', so you may have a drier time than us. We pulled into Huggate, pulled on our waterproofs, passed the turn off to Warter
FLEDGLING international rugby league tournament the European Nations Cup has taken a step closer to coming to York following new talks between the Rugby Football League and York City FC. As revealed by the Evening Press earlier this month, the football
YORK City Knights last night made a shock deadline-beating swoop to land Wakefield star Albert Talipeau. The Samoan, who has played 13 times in Super League this season, including three starts, has joined on loan until the end of the season, taking in
In Tipping's Tipples, Mike Tipping tries some Rioja wines ahead of the York Festival Of Food And Drink. I've been Rioja-ing around the clock this week, sampling a few of the wines which will be there for the tasting at St William's College soon. The Rioja
RESPONDING to a recommendation from a Clifton reader, we made our way to Slingsby on a warm afternoon. This family-run caf is open on Wednesday to Sunday afternoons until October. Our arrival disturbed the staff enjoying the sunshine. We chose to sit
Terry Ruane spends eight hours at Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo - and still can't pack everything in. TUCKED away in the sleepy village of Kirby Misperton is a fun-packed park for young and old. We arrived early and had no trouble finding a parking
Window cleaner Anton McLaghlin has scaled the heights of York for the last 17 years. ALEX LLOYD talks to him about his latest, and most unusual, job - making Flying Scotsman sparkle. WINDOW cleaning is not a job for the faint-hearted. The combination
ENGLAND Test hero Matthew Hoggard will be the star attraction at Chris Silverwood's benefit match at Woodhouse Grange on Tuesday. The swing bowler was a key member of Michael Vaughan's side which completed a 'Magnificent Seven' clean sweep of Test victories
SUPPORTERS of blind prisoner Yvonne Sleightholme were outraged today after she was "demoted" from an open prison near York to a semi-open jail in Staffordshire. They claimed the transfer had not been justified by any breach of conditions, and it meant
WHEN Barbara Wall saw Geoffrey Geddes standing on a railway platform, she turned to a friend and said: "If I could get to know that man, I would marry him." The friend decided to introduce them - and today the couple, former owners of York printing and
A THIEF who staged a £10,000 daylight raid on a York jewellery shop has been jailed for 21 months. Jim Withyman, prosecuting, said that the manager of Bradleys Jewellers, in Low Petergate, Mr Evans, had chased Paul Philip Elgie, 35, as he fled with three
A DAREDEVIL student from York will take the plunge for a charity expedition this week. Gail Hodgkinson, 18, will make a parachute jump tomorrow at Bridlington to raise money for a trip to the island of Borneo. She will spend three months with a group
A RUGBY FAN went out looking for a fight in the centre of York after his country was beaten by England in a vital World Cup match, the city's crown court heard. Andrew Semple, prosecuting, said Gideon Charl Roodt, 23, went looking for a fight after watching
A GANG of youths left a trail of destruction in a quiet York street today. Walls were knocked over, coping stones knocked off and smashed and fences wrecked at about a dozen homes during the rampage in Grantham Drive, Holgate, between 1am and 2am. Les
YORK City Knights last night made a shock deadline-beating swoop to land Wakefield star Albert Talipeau. The Samoan, who has played 13 times in Super League this season, including three starts, has joined on loan until the end of the season, taking in
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today condemned council chiefs for threatening a heavily pregnant woman with eviction. The Labour MP has spoken out against the way City of York Council has treated 20-year-old expectant mother and council tenant Samantha Dodsworth
Trick or Treat yourself to a spooky Hallowe'en weekend party cruise. Be prepared to be scared as the MV Van Gogh is transformed into a floating haunted house complete with ghosts and ghouls, skeletons and pumpkins, cauldrons and broomsticks - dare you
MAXINE GORDON checks out tweeds with a twist for the 21st century. THINK of tweed and you probably conjure up pictures of a great aunt in a tatty twin set or a manic maths teacher in a musty old jacket. Hardly the stuff of fabulous fashion. Well, get
OUT of the several important topics discussed at Thursday night's excellently-organised York Minstermen fans' forum with club directors Steve Beck, Terry Doyle, Jason McGill and Sophie McGill one that should not be overlooked is the current make-up of
I AM glad the Evening Press has opened the debate about the entrance fee to York Minster. As a committed Christian, I think the charges are a disgrace. They give the impression that salvation is only for those who can afford the entrance fee, except perhaps
COUN Ian Cuthbertson's letter (August 25) about the Evening Press's front page article 'Thumbs down to Races traffic plan' (August 23) makes me weep. Complaining about misleading statistics is rich indeed coming from a Lib Dem councillor. As a former
