York | Archive | 2004 | September
FOUR landlords who became fed up with their letting agents not returning calls and upsetting their tenants decided to join forces and go it alone. more...
RECORD profits and turnover up 25 per cent on last year will be unveiled next month by a North Yorkshire landscapingcompany. more...
A NEW venture by York-based Shepherd Building Group has got off to a massive start. more...
BUSINESSES need to take care in checking whether they are complying with European law on the data they hold on employees. more...
HOW long the property boom will last is anyone's guess. more...
IN JUST seven years, Jacqueline Gernon has built up Happy Jays Ltd of Clifton Moor, York, to become what her husband and co-director, Tony, describes as "the premier provider of high quality child care in the York area." more...
ONE of the biggest firms to reach the finals of Retailer of the Year is Ebor Foodmarkets Ltd, of Dunnington, better known as Costcutter. more...
NOW, at last, after nearly four exciting months, the finalists of the Evening Press Business Awards 2004 can be announced. more...
YORK has 10,000 more jobs since Labour came in power in 1997, the city's MP Hugh Bayley said today. more...
STAYING with my friend and her two sons last weekend, I spent a good hour pouring over the lads' most prized collections. Not fossils, shells or rocks, but Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. more...
THIS is the moment when a two-day bid to save trees from the axe ended in confrontation and arrests in York today. more...
SCHOOLCHILDREN in York are becoming so fat that uniform suppliers are selling skirts with up to 44-inch waists. more...
A DESPERATE man pulled his own teeth out with rusty pliers - because he couldn't find an NHS dentist. more...
HOW'S this for a scarily good deal? York handyman Geoff Plows is selling a couple of coffins for £50 each. more...
THE boyfriend of York backpacker Caroline Stuttle has given touching evidence of the phone call he received from her just minutes before she was thrown to her death from a bridge in Queensland, Australia. more...
THE father of tragic York backpacker Caroline Stuttle said today that he intends to release a book to help other parents facing similar heartbreaks at the end of the trial of the man accused of her murder. more...
FIVE children suffered minor injuries today when a double-decker bus carrying them to school was forced to brake sharply. more...
A FATHERS 4 Justice campaigner behind a serious security lapse at Buckingham Palace was back in York today to plan his next headline-grabbing stunt. more...
POLICE watchdogs have refused to back North Yorkshire's most senior officer in a row over jury service. more...
THREE days of non-stop celebration will mark the wedding of Sinan Altin and Gulay Kavak. more...
YORK has 10,000 more jobs since Labour came in power in 1997, the city's MP Hugh Bayley said today. more...
DEVELOPERS say they are on schedule to begin the redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre later this year. more...
JUST one question, who are all these people moving into these five-storey "apartments"? more...
A SKIFFLE night with The Dog House Skiffle Band in aid of St Leonard's Hospice has been organised for Saturday, October 23. more...
THERE are many issues to consider when voting at a general election. Hunting is way down the list, so heaven help us if this issue decides who governs us. more...
HOW predictable that A Ogilvy, a true blue Conservative if ever there was one, says miners fighting for their living behaved illegally compared to people who cannot swap to drag hunting - which is no different to fox hunting but without the blood, fear and mutilation. more...
READER A Ogilvy fails to understand the parallel drawn between the miners and the hunts (Letters, September 24). more...
ALL who knew Derek and Jean Robinson will remember them with affection and respect. Their untimely death in such tragic circumstances has shocked colleagues and friends alike (Tributes to stab victim doctor, September 20). more...
WHEN I see and hear about the tragedies in Palestine, Beslan, South Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan , the Congo, Israel and so forth, I think about that marvellous John Lennon song, Imagine. more...
I WISH every success to Penny Cole, Doreen Rogers and others in their struggle to reinstate full, historic access rights over the River Nidd at Skewkirk (September 23). more...
I WOULD like to thank everyone who attended the public meeting on post office closures at the Guildhall ("Post closures `soft targets'", September 21). more...
I LOOK forward to the arrival of the StreetCar in York - it looks wonderful! more...
I LISTENED with interest to the speech given by the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, to the US senators, looking forward to elections in January 2005. more...
LET me tell you a true story. It concerns an old friend who is in his nineties, living in York, and a bit dodgy on his legs; so much so that he had to buy an electric buggy in order to continue to get about, do his shopping and so forth. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the plight of York's `hidden poor'. more...
TOO much chocolate is also bad for your teeth. And few pains are as unrelenting as toothache. more...
THE size of York's young obesity problem is encapsulated in one photograph. Two adults fit comfortably into an enormous skirt. Yet skirts and trousers with similar waistlines are now being supplied to youngsters by school uniform specialists Rawcliffes. more...
IT'S not every day North Yorkshire plays host to a rock'n'roll legend (unless you count Alistair Griffin). more...
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 more...
WHAT'S in a name? Ask a boy named Sue, or Peter Ian Graham or a poor kid named Gary Glitter Smith by a misguided mum who was an adoring fan in the Seventies. more...
Imagine enjoying all the excitement of Halloween this half-term in the magical surroundings of Disneyland Resort Paris. more...
YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is one of three Knights stars in the running for top National League awards - but says he would swap it all for promotion. more...
POPULAR Stand regulars will have to sit elsewhere for the LDV Vans Trophy match against Blackpool on Wednesday night (7.45pm) after a decision to shut the stand to save money. more...
CITY of York hockey club's second team opened their North League East campaign with a 1-0 victory at Marton and Furness I. more...
Race walker Paul Evennett has been burning up the streets of Manchester to claim his first major title. more...
SUN Inn ended their York Unique-Phoenix Darts League division one programme with an emphatic 8-1 win at Cygnet `A'. more...
BRITISH boxing will rise briefly from a menacing terminal decline this Friday when Ricky `The Hitman' Hatton again takes to the ring. more...
Playful Dane, who just failed to make all the running at Redcar on his latest start, can show his rivals a clean pair of heels from start to finish at Newcastle tomorrow. more...
POPULAR Stand regulars will have to sit elsewhere for the LDV Vans Trophy match against Blackpool on Wednesday night (7.45pm) after a decision to shut the stand to save money. more...
NEW Earswick All Blacks stormed into the third round of the Tetley's Yorkshire Cup after a comprehensive 64-6 demolition of neighbours York Groves. more...
SCARBOROUGH FC head coach Nicky Henry has failed in his bid to sign a proven goalscorer for tonight's trip to Rochdale in the LDV Trophy. more...
In-form Kirkdale United maintained their 100 per cent start to division one of the RJF Homes Beckett Football League with a 5-1 defeat of Heslerton. more...
YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar is one of three Knights stars in the running for top National League awards - but says he would swap it all for promotion. more...
The new music director of Opera North, Richard Farnes, has opened his innings in fine style with a new production of Puccini's lyric drama. more...
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