York | Archive | 2005 | January
HERE is the best slice of independent business advice you are likely to get: There's life - and success - after Sun Life. more...
A HUGE bid is being made to prevent an exodus of businesses from Yorkshire. more...
Malton Laser Ltd has achieved the coveted Investors In People quality standard, with help and advice from Business Link York and North Yorkshire. more...
York Science Park Innovation Centre Ltd celebrates the start of its tenth anniversary year with two major quality standards. more...
NETWORK Rail is to base its new regional York headquarters at Jarvis House, company bosses have announced. more...
YORK'S MP has called on the city's university to do more to "open its doors" to local schools. more...
THE long debate over the Coppergate Riverside proposals is coming to a climax with the public inquiry which started this week at York's Guildhall. more...
TODAY we begin an exciting new initiative. more...
THESE old photographs show York's former garden suburb reduced to rubble following the demolition of condemned houses in the early 1960s. more...
SOME years ago plasterer Brian Elsegood was working in the home of David Thompson in York. more...
LOOKING quiet in about 1893 is Stonegate - one of York's most historic streets.The Via Praetoria, or paved street, for the Roman fort of Eboracum, the street has been in use for about 1,900 years. more...
THERE is an organisation which owns more than 60 of the most prestigious properties in York, together worth £40 million. more...
SOME of York's most dramatic changes of the last 150 years can be seen in these photographs of Pavement and its historic buildings. more...
THE busy hustle and bustle of haggling and bagging a bargain at one of York's market stalls has long been a feature of city centre street life. more...
STONEBOW in York has been the site of major redevelopment over the past few decades as illustrated by these photographs. more...
THIS week's Yesterday Once More comes from 1955, when the Northern Command Military Tattoo returned to York after a 22-year gap. more...
THIS week's Yesterday Once More is the second part of our series of photographs of the Northern Command Military Tattoo. more...
ONE of the key sights of spring in York has long been that of "daffodils dancing on the city moats" but keeping the Bar Walls pristine is a major task, as our pictures from the past prove. more...
TODAY'S look-back at times past in York focuses on the history of Walmgate, the current home of the Evening Press. more...
IN a week when the nation has mourned the loss of everyone's favourite grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the Evening Press looks back on a happier time spent by the Royal Family in York. more...
THE future of the site around historic Clifford's Tower in York remains clouded in uncertainty, with a public inquiry into a £60 million redevelopment scheme due to resume next month. more...
THIS week's look back takes us to Davygate, which has become a chic hotspot of coffee dens and designer stores. more...
THIS week's Yesterday Once More looks ahead to the Queen's Golden Jubilee - by remembering her trips to York during the 1977 Silver Jubilee. more...
FORMER patients and medical workers may recognise these fascinating historic pictures of former York Hospitals. more...
AS the tourist season gets into full swing in York, King's Square becomes a magnet for the crowds, as visitors stop a while to watch street entertainers and munch chips and ice creams. more...
ONCE, it was among York's finest buildings. more...
THESE historic photographs of Rowntree Park Baths in York chart the once-popular swimming pool's decline over a decade. more...
THE pomp and circumstance of the Golden Jubilee parades in London inspired this week's selection of pictures, which show parades in the streets of York over the years. more...
THIS WEEK and next week the Evening Press is taking a look at some of York's lost historic places of worship. more...
AS football hysteria grips the Far East, our pictorial trip down Memory Lane this week looks at when the glory days were here in York. more...
We continue our look at some of York's ancient churches and their history. more...
THIS week's peek at the past shows the changing face of two York bridges. more...
ONCE they were an essential mode of transport, much loved by thousands of soot-covered passengers the length and breadth of Britain. more...
CONTINUING our look back at a time when steam ruled the rails, here are another set of pictures celebrating the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. more...
FARMING has dominated the landscape of North and East Yorkshire for many centuries, whether carried out with the help of horses or tractors. more...
THE sight of farmers clipping their sheep is another traditional rural sight which is becoming gradually less common. more...
THE iron monsters of yesteryear still hold their appeal, as the enduring popularity of events across our district shows. more...
IT was once nothing more than a stretch of wild moorland, of importance only to grazing sheep. more...
AS York's skyline becomes increasingly dominated by new apartment blocks and hotels, more...
THIS week our pictorial look- back down the years is all about power. more...
A FAILED boiler joint in the early hours of Thursday, October 27, 1949, led to a massive explosion that laid waste to much of York Power Station in Foss Islands Road. more...
THE pictures might have been more than a century old, but when they were placed in a new exhibition in North Yorkshire they still drew an impressive crowd. more...
IF you think you are feeling the pinch of the cold January breeze this year, then take heart and cast your mind back to York winters past. more...
In the summer of 1951, York residents celebrated the Festival Of Britain. more...
WHILE one York sporting code looks forward to a weekend of hope and new life, the future of the city's football team is still clouded in doubt. more...
TODAY we look again at how the people of York celebrated the Festival of Britain in 1951. more...
WHO remembers these traditional Yorkshire trades? more...
MEMORIES of concerts past will be brought back by today's selection of archive photographs, showing bands from across the region. more...
THE great choral history of the area is the theme of today's archive photographs as we celebrate the achievements of York's amateur choirs. more...
TODAY'S selection of archive photographs continues the musical theme of recent weeks, as we look at the traditional art of Morris dancing. more...
AS WE look forward to Pancake Day, we take a look back at celebrations of the festival in the past in York. more...
THE wedding album is one of the most cherished treasures of any couple, whether newly-weds or golden weds. more...
YORK has managed to keep much of its characteristic city outline intact down the years. more...
NEVER let it be said that York City fans aren't a hands-on bunch. York City Supporters' Trust has now become the football club's new owner. more...
GLUM faces and raised hands signal the beginning of a postal strike that would see 210,000 workers walk out of sorting offices across the UK. more...
WHITE flannels against a green background have always been a familiar sight in York. more...
IT NOW draws thousands of students and visitors to its home city, but 40 years ago the campus of the University of York was nothing but fields. more...
In this week's Yesterday Once More we go back to a time when York helped the whole country party - the 1951 Festival of Britain. more...
THE monarchy's golden age is currently being celebrated, with this week's 50th anniversary of the Coronation of Elizabeth II. more...
YOU could be mistaken for thinking this tranquil river scene was in Venice. more...
Following the news that York's Mystery Plays may not be staged again until 2010 at the earliest, MIKE LAYCOCK takes a look at some of the productions staged over the past 50 years more...
SWITCHBOARD operators are calling up memories today as Yesterday Once More takes a look at York's telephone exchange heritage. more...
AS the success of television series like Battlefields and Blood Of The Vikings has proved, there's a huge public appetite for history. If someone you know loves to travel back in time, a history book makes the perfect Christmas present. more...
LAST month, to mark its 400th anniversary, the Charity Commission revealed details of some the country's oldest charities. Among them was St Peter's School in York, an institution that can look back over a remarkable 1,300 year history. more...
THE past will never be forgotten - thanks to our readers. Again our series of Yesterday Once More articles has prompted a fantastic postbag of memories, and it is time to dip into it again. more...
TONIGHT, revellers will pack the pubs and bars. As the countdown draws closer, many will gather outside York Minster to hear the bells ring out the old and ring in the new. Arms will be linked, kisses exchanged and a chorus of Auld Lang Syne belted out. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS discovers the hangmen of York were less than model citizens more...
SIX years ago, Ronald Caisley was looking for a hobby. He decided to have a go at collecting postcards. What began as a pastime quickly turned into a passion. "I started collecting postcards from around the country," he explained. "Then I thought I would do this area." more...
LAUREL and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Gracie Fields and Marty Feldman have much in common. They are among the most popular entertainers Britain (and America, in Oliver Hardy's case) ever produced; they were equally at home on film or in front of a live audience; and they all took to the stage at the Grand Opera House in York. more...
THESE views of York date from a different era of photography. Forget digital cameras, and even rolls of film. The York scenes above were captured on glass negatives. They were very kindly given to the Evening Press by Lilian Vear, who lives off Rawcliffe Lane in York. The father of her late husband Neville, Fred Vear, was a keen amateur photographer, and the glass plates were among his large collection. more...
THE world was a very different place when the Queen acceded to the throne. Georgian Britain became Elizabethan Britain 50 years ago this week, and although it was the dawning of a new age, it was too soon for the nation to come to terms with the fact. more...
ELVINGTON Airfield could soon be flying into a new future. The owners have applied for an aerodrome licence, allowing it to take fare-paying passengers for the first time. It is the latest chapter in the history of an airfield which once played a key part in the war as a Bomber Command airbase. more...
THE Royal York Hotel is being rechristened. Under its new name, it is no longer Royal or York, although it will remain a hotel. A Le Méridien hotel, to be precise, part of the global chain established in Paris by Air France 30 years ago. more...
GEORGE Hudson was a Victorian fat cat who swindled people out of their cash and heaped shame on the good name of York. George Hudson was the far-sighted entrepreneur who single-handedly transformed York into a thriving, modern city. more...
NEW Earswick is not so new any more. This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the "garden village", and the centenary celebrations began in appropriate fashion last week with the planting of a commemorative oak tree. more...
TRAFFIC on the River Ouse consists almost entirely of pleasure craft these days. From the yachtsmen and women who cruise from Naburn Marina into town to the tourists taking a trip on the White Rose Line, we all adore the river life of leisure. more...
IN the early years of the last century, York's heritage was imperilled by progress. Landmarks across the city were under threat from roads, trams and an over-zealous council. Then along came a doughty and persistent conservationist who fought to save the city's history: just what the doctor ordered. more...
EVERYONE loves a good mystery, and this one can only be solved by you. Take a look at our main picture this week. Ring a distant bell? Recognise any of the faces? The photograph is from the collection of Walter Hawksby, of Acomb, York. more...
THIS week we remember the Queen Mother's first visit to York. Readers will recall how we published a photograph of the Duke and Duchess of York, as the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were then, and asked for your help in identifying it last Monday. more...
SOME dates are shorthand for infamy. April 15, 1912, is one: the night when the Titanic sank. It was last century's September 11. Like September 11, disaster came from nowhere; it involved huge loss of life - more than 1,500 people died; and it was a man-made tragedy. more...
THE York Assizes were kept pretty busy during the convict era. Exactly 200 years ago Thomas Peters, a 26-year-old labourer, stood in the dock accused of "stealing old silver plate, including ten pint cups," says Marjorie Tipping in her book Convicts Unbound. more...
WHEN the sun came up over York 60 years ago today, it exposed scenes of devastation. Houses were destroyed, the Guildhall burnt out. The Bar Convent had collapsed, killing five nuns. Pavements were littered with rubble and shattered glass. Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield. more...
THEY don't make 'em like they used to. And this well-worn lament is never more true than when it applies to country crafts. The former army of skilled men and women bodging, weaving and whittling has dwindled to a handful keeping the traditions alive. more...
THERE is something marvellous about the way oral history can span the generations, bringing the voices of people long dead back to life. Roland Chilvers gives a beautiful example in the introduction to his new book, A Collection Of Pictures And Memories Of The Old Parish Of Hemingbrough, 1850-2000. more...
CHARLES Dickens was in York on Friday. Cedric Charles Dickens that is, great grandson of the commanding Victorian writer. He was taking up a long-standing invitation by the Dickens Fellowship, York branch. more...
JUST far enough from the A1079 not to know it's there, Newton-upon-Derwent is a quiet place possessing what estate agents would describe as bags of character. It is not chocolate box pretty, but mature trees and ancient brick cottages give it a timeless air. A casual visitor might think there was little to a village like this. They would be mistaken. It is a place packed with history, if you know where to look. more...
ON this Royal holiday, it is fitting to begin Yesterday Once More with some monarchical memories. Readers have brought in their own mementoes of previous days of pomp and pageantry. more...
LAST Thursday marked the anniversary of D-Day. Fifty-eight years earlier, the Allied invasion force had landed in Normandy as the long-awaited Operation Overlord got underway; by midnight, 155,000 troops were ashore, for the loss of 9,000 men. more...
IS there any more nostalgic sight than a windmill? Memories of these monuments to England's past are prompted by a new book, kicking off Yesterday Once More's survey of the latest additions to the bygones bookshelf. Whitby author Alan Whitworth has produced a comprehensive survey of sail-power in Tyke Towers: Yorkshire Windmills (Landy Publishing, £8). more...
THE North Sea coast is again celebrating its maritime history. Last month Whitby welcomed the Grand Turk, the square-rigged fighting frigate made famous by the TV series Hornblower. On Friday she was joined by one of the greatest stars of the sea: HMS Endeavour. more...
LAST week we journeyed to Bridlington and Scarborough to reminisce about bygone summer holidays. more...
WHEN Brian Mennell first started flying from Rufforth Airfield he asked about its history, only to be told that "nothing happened" there. more...
THE words amateur dramatics conjure up a variety of images, few of them flattering, which usually involve draughty village halls, variable singing skills and shaky stage sets. more...
MOTHER Shipton is a legend. Ask anyone about her, and they are likely to scratch together a few facts: witch, prophetess, lived in a cave... Yet despite this fame, no one had undertaken a serious, historical study into her life. Until now. more...
THOUSANDS of people flocked to Scarborough over the weekend to make the most of glorious sunny weather. Many of them will have bought a glossy guidebook detailing the history, attractions, hotels and nightlife on offer at the resort. more...
BY Yorkshire standards, Yeoman Williamson is still a relative newcomer to Grosmont. He has, he points out, lived in the North York Moors village for `only' 50 years. It may seem a little presumptuous of him, then, to have attempted to write a history of his adopted village. more...
TIM Addyman is too young to remember what is often called cinema's golden age. At 29, he marks the start of his film-going adventures with an unforgettable trip to see George Lucas's 1977 science fiction classic Star Wars. But there is something about those magical days, when it seemed as though every city centre street had its own picture house, that fascinates him. more...
NO other mass medium comes close to generating the magical memories of the movies. The telly, the wireless, even the theatre do not evoke the same sense of a communal occasion. Back when people went two or three times a week, every trip to those grand picture palaces was a special event. more...
A DIP into the postbag is well overdue, and what better time to sit back and enjoy some of your responses to Yesterday Once More than Bank Holiday Monday? Lots of faces to scrutinise in our photographs, but first, we return to the theme of our previous two articles: York's old cinemas. more...
ANY of these boys strike a chord? They were doing just that in York's pubs and clubs back in the city's swinging Sixties. Some of the city's guitar heroes only knew the one chord when they started off, but regular gigs on the circuit soon polished their performances, and many became accomplished musicians. more...
YOU should never look back, they say. No good comes of it. Try telling that to Avril Webster Appleton. The York author has been peering over her shoulder in print for several years, bringing back many happy memories for local people in the process. more...
Holy Trinity is still providing for the needy, 30 years after redundancy, as LEIGH WETHERALL writes more...
LIKE those people who find they are just as busy in retirement, Holy Trinity Church is full of life long after being declared redundant. The venerable and ancient Goodramgate building hasn't been turned into a club or café as have some churches. It even hosts the occasional service. more...
MAJOR John Hatfield, it was obvious, was a gentleman through and through. He arrived in Scarb-orough in 1792, a tall, well-spoken, well-bred man who apparently had the Duke of Rutland's backing to stand for one of the borough's two Parliamentary seats. more...
ON a warm September day almost 1,000 years ago, a line of English soldiers crouched behind a wall of shields in the marshes beside the River Ouse at what is now Fulford Ings. Ranged against them were the 7,000 or so Viking troops of the Norwegian king, Harald Hardraada. more...
NORMAN Johnston was brought up some distance away from the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). more...
BECAUSE Roman, Viking and medieval street planners did not have the foresight to anticipate the motor car, York has never been a driver's paradise. more...
A SENSE of near-panic set Peter Frank about the task of chronicling the Yorkshire fishing community. Born in Whitby in 1934, he went on to become a professor at Essex University. In the Seventies he returned to his home town, and realised how much it had changed. more...
ON Thursday night, we will all answer the door to find assorted little devils, imps and ghosts thrusting forward a bag half filled with processed sugar to the cry of "Trick or treat". more...
DAY after day, residents and tourists would make the same inquiry. Do you have a concise history of York? Eventually, a group of booksellers at Waterstone's began to realise that maybe they had discovered a gap in the market. more...
WRITER Van Wilson has, during the past three years, interviewed scores of musicians for York Oral History Society. Extracts from these interviews form the basis of two books celebrating the city's vibrant live music scene from 1930 to 1970. more...
IF you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of the Beatles - so said the American composer Aaron Copland. more...
THEIR walk-out has reminded us that modern firefighters do a complex job. Firemen and women not only fight fires, they free road accident victims, perform river rescues, pump water from flooded homes and check properties are safe. more...
YORK music lover Ian Jeffery has always loved The Beatles. "I was in The Beatles fan club in the Sixties," he said. "Although I never actually saw them, I've always been a keen Beatles collector." more...
DAME Berwick Kaler will meet the class of 2002 babbies and bairns for the first time on Wednesday. And when he takes to the stage for his 24th pantomime, he will know his legendary performances are part of the history of one of Britain's greatest theatres. more...
ONE day you might spot him. The first clue will be his motorbike, parked by the roadside. Then your eye will be caught by the rider hacking back at the verge weeds, or perhaps clicking away with his camera and making detailed notes in a pad. more...
POST-war austerity was gone, and a social revolution was about to explode. more...
This year, the Evening Press held a writing competition. Entrants had to pen a factual article on York. In the first of the three winning entries to be published, ROB OLDFIELD recalls the carriageworks more...
THE first Yesterday Once More of the New Year seems a good moment to dip into the postbag. We have more faces for you to identify and more memories prompted by previous articles. more...
AFTER last week's look in the postbag, this week we retire into the Yesterday Once More library. This is expanding all the time: the burgeoning interest in local history ensures a continuous flow of new books about all manner of people, places and periods. more...
HERE'S a new twist on family history: a mother and son who have both written books about times past. Audrey and Chris Corbett's publications are very different in terms of scope and content, but equally interesting to a devotee of social history. more...
LAST Friday, we revealed that the spring flowers had already sprung in one York garden, testament to remarkably mild weather for a month after Christmas. more...
FIFTY years ago tomorrow, the Government ended sweet rationing. more...
RECENTLY we exhibited for your viewing pleasure selections of photographs from the 1951 York Festival. This was our city's contribution to the post-war celebration of nationhood, the Festival of Britain. more...
CITY leaders believe the liberation of York Central, the teardrop-shaped land hemmed in by railway lines, is one of the most exciting development opportunities anywhere in Europe. The scale is awesome. more...
IF you want to be transported back to the past there are only two ways to go: by steam train, or by tram. Next to a gleaming old locomotive, the most nostalgic thing on wheels is the good old tramcar. more...
IF you are interested in the past and are on the internet, you can step back in time with the National Grid for Learning's local history trail. more...
History buff JOAN PALEY works in one of York's most historic houses. In this, the last of our writing competition winning entries to be published, she explains her affinity for one particular exhibit more...
HERE'S a riddle. Which tradition, established more than 800 years ago, is only celebrating its 50th anniversary this year? The answer is the Gild of the Freemen of the City of York. more...
THE sea deserves a lot of respect, says Ron Young, "because it doesn't respect you". He should know. more...
WE all know what Dr Richard Beeching did to our railways. He butchered them. He took an axe to Britain's cherished rural rail network, leaving abandoned stations and the villages they served to rot. more...
DAISY Naylor is 93, but vividly remembers her childhood on a farm near Stamford Bridge. It was both a harder and a freer upbringing than children know today, and her tale of rural life early in the last century makes for fascinating reading. more...
THE golden age of steam began in 1896 and lasted 30 years. Not on the railways, of course - that golden age lasted a little longer - but on the roads. For a brief period steam power rivalled the petrol engine as the motorised marvel of the day. more...
IN 1968, a group of young men in their late teens and early twenties were having the time of their lives in London. Wearing their hair long and their clothes flowery, this talented quintet performed what was described as "harmony-based acid pop" as the group Angel Pavement. more...
WHAT does Easter mean to you? Church thanksgiving services and hymns, perhaps. Bonnets, daffodils, days out. Chocolate heaven, or traffic jam hell? more...
ON June 25 1876, General George Armstrong Custer led 200 men of his US 7th Cavalry to their deaths in the Montana wilderness at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. more...
The Battle of Marston Moor has been well documented but a new book digs deeper, partly by going under the very soil of the battlefield, reports Zoe Walker more...
SIXTY years ago this Friday, the dambusters set off on their historic mission. Nineteen Lancasters of 617 Squadron left RAF Scampton, near Lincoln, to carry out one of the most challenging and daring raids in the history of warfare. more...
STILL with all things Rowntree, we need your help. more...
OUR story begins, as so many York stories do, at the Rowntree works. more...
THESE sleek aeroplanes should have had York stamped all over them. They were designed and built by Airspeed Ltd, the aircraft factory set up in York - but which later relocated, lock, stock and undercarriage, to the more forward-thinking town of Portsmouth. more...
IT was the day that Britain needed. After six years of war, and the austerity that followed, the people were ready to rediscover national pride, march into a hopeful new era, and have a right old knees-up. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 50 years ago today, provided an opportunity to do all three. more...
TODAY we take a tour of Haxby, but the journey begins, strangely enough, in Middlesbrough. It was here that John Wright lived - until war broke out. He was evacuated, first to Levisham and then, in 1940, to Haxby. more...
ON Wednesday, October 14, 1778, Samuel Robinson left his home in Walmgate, York, with something under his arm. He made his way towards the city centre before ducking into the dark alley called Lady Peckett's Yard. more...
RAIL fares are due to rise above inflation, train punctuality times leave much to be desired and the Royal Mail is cancelling its rail contract. The whole network can sometimes seem to be running out of steam. more...
ThERE is something humbling about the thought of embarking on a building project that will take 250 years to complete. In these days of instant gratification, such monumental patience seems inconceivable. more...
LITTLE Mary Birkby must have been getting under her mother's feet, because she told her son George to take the five-year-old girl to Rowntree Park. George, nine years older than his little sister, duly obliged. more...
NORTH Yorkshire is littered with legends of great serpents, dragons and worms - none more gruesome than that of the Sexhow Worm. more...
THE future of the television licence is under scrutiny. During heated exchanges in a Commons committee, some MPs told the BBC's York-educated director general Greg Dyke that the fee was a "poll tax" which had no place in the modern, multi-channel world. more...
HE was known as "York's greatest benefactor". Walk around the city and you are never far from the influence of John Bowes Morrell. Every time a university student visits the JB Morrell Library, a shopper walks past the 14th century Bowes Morrell House on Walmgate or a visitor trips along Alderman's Way in the Castle Museum, they are reminded of his continuing presence. more...
WSH u wre hre... so might run a typical text message from a holidaymaker to the folks back home. A few days ago we revealed how the popularity of mobile phones and email is having a serious effect on that more traditional communications device: the postcard. more...
THAT'LL Teach 'Em, the new Channel 4 series in which modern teenagers are sent back to a 1950s-style school, has brought memories of her own schooldays flooding back for one York woman. more...
Eddie Eyres met his future wife Pat in wartime York in macabre circumstances that sum up the lives of Australian airmen in Bomber Command in the Second World War. more...
SPORT fans will be glued to the box this Bank Holiday to watch if Britain's athletes can run, jump and fling their way on to the medals podium. The ninth World Athletics Champion-ships is a festival of fitness, pitting the globe's finest and fastest against one another. more...
LAST week I asked if anyone had any details about the York Harriers athletics club, prompted by some excellent photos dropped in by Mick Liversidge. And as soon as the starting pistol was fired readers raced to the telephone and email to put me in the picture. more...
Local transport historian PETER WHEATLEY takes an evocative trip back in time, stopping off at points along the York to Scarborough road. more...
AFTER the monumental scale of the Minster, it must have been refreshing to tackle something on a more human scale. But the stonemasons who built the small parish church in Skelton invested it with the same love and care as they had lavished on York's cathedral. more...
AS we say in newspapers, this story has legs. A fortnight ago, I reported the many responses to my original appeal for information about city athletics club York Harriers. That piece included the memories of Fred Mitchell and Herbert Baker, 93 and 92 years old respectively. more...
IT must have been quite a moment for those gathered at York's Exhibition Hall two days before Christmas in 1896. Suddenly a light flickered in the gloom and the audience were treated to the very latest thing in entertainment - a moving picture show. more...
CRAG Rats will be delighted. So keen were they to get hold of Arnold Kellett's book the first time round, that it quickly sold out. Now Images of England: Knaresborough has been republished, with some of the captions updated. And it is already being snapped up by Crag Rats, as those born and bred in the market town are affectionately known. more...
SOME space for Yesterday Once More readers' comments is long overdue. So this week I unlocked the Evening Press safe to air some of those precious memories. We begin by hailing back to the summer, when we looked back at the opening of Rowntree Park to celebrate its relaunch. more...
YORK music of yesteryear can now be enjoyed all over again. more...
AS another York racing season comes to an end, we are left to ask: what other attraction could draw a quarter of a million people to the city? Not even the Pope managed that, although to be fair the 210,000 people who came to see him on Knavesmire 21 years did so all in one go, rather than over 15 days of racing. more...
THE Pope is this week celebrating his 25th anniversary as head of the Catholic Church. more...
JO HAYWOOD puts the work of a pioneering Yorkshire photographer in the frame. more...
Sunderland-based historian Keith Gregson recalls a York-born inventor. more...
IT IS easy to forget when you're barrelling down the motorway at 80mph or stuck in a traffic jam on the York outer ring road, but the landscape in which we live bears upon it the handprint of history. more...
THE spirits should have settled down for another year now that Hallowe'en is behind us. But that does not mean an end to nightly disturbances. This week things will not only go bump in the night, they will go flash, bang and wallop too. more...
WE all know about the glorious history of York pubs. That there were 365, one for each day of the year. That the 19th and 20th centuries were a boom time for pubs. That this irritating cult for changing their names is a modern phenomenon. more...
THE arrangements for President George W Bush's State visit to London this week have created a fuss. After landing in Air Force One, he will be whisked along secret routes accompanied by his own security staff on roads free of protesters, we are told. So much for meeting the people. more...
LAST week we travelled back 40 years to remember a calamity: the day John F Kennedy died. This week we return to November 1963 for some rather more uplifting memories of another icon of the age - The Beatles. more...
With news that York's Odeon Cinema could be about to close, MATTHEW WOODCOCK looks back at its 66-year history. more...
TOMORROW will be emotional for Arthur Briggs. "I think it will be a bit tearful on both sides," the 82-year-old confessed, his eyes misting over at the prospect. Sixty years ago tomorrow, on December 2, 1943, Arthur flew his last mission of the war. more...
IT was a fair way to travel, but when it comes to checking out potential Christmas presents for the history buff in your life, Yesterday Once More will not stint. more...
IT was one of York's most unprepossessing buildings. But, for countless residents, it was the first place they ever saw. more...
Today it's mobile phones and EastEnders. But what of Christmas past? Here are some memories which evoke Yuletide yesteryear in Yorkshire. more...
Until BBC war correspondent Kate Adie published her latest book, the name of Flora Sandes had been virtually forgotten. Yet hers is a remarkable tale of a York woman who ignored convention to fight at the front line. more...
THE seaside's not just for summer. Few would make Scarborough their first choice January destination, but you don't need to brave the beach to enjoy a day out in the town. There is plenty of interest in the ancient streets to warm the cockles of any history buff. more...
York historian PETER KIRTON recalls a nerve-racking time as a soldier in post-war Berlin. more...
THE Women's Voluntary Service began before the last war, and is still going strong today. more...
A FEW centuries back, anyone looking up at the grandeur of Micklegate Bar may have found a pair of lifeless eyes staring back at them. more...
AS YORK and North Yorkshire shiver in the cold snap, we take readers back to the days when winter really used to bite. more...
1. Religious hermits were the original residents of Ryedale's most remote outposts. more...
THIS week's Yesterday Once More comes from one of York's busiest areas around the River Foss. more...
ROYAL Ascot at York is a one-off, a first, unprecedented. One of the biggest meetings of the racing year is to be shifted North. more...
ONCE York had 20 windmills, but only one survives. Holgate Mill was built in 1792, on the site of a 15th century mill, and now stands in the middle of a roundabout at the top of Windmill Rise. The photograph shows it, then known as Acomb Windmill, as it was when in use in the early 1900s with its unusual five sails - standard designs had just four - still attached. more...
CLIMB aboard the Yesterday Once More time machine, and hold on tight. more...
A GRAND dame by day, a sultry beauty by night - York displays her bejewelled finery after dark. more...
THE dodo may be dead - so dead, in fact, as to have become the stuff of proverb - but at least the unfortunate flightless bird is not forgotten. more...
THE transformation of the Aldwark area of York was at the heart of Lord Esher's vision for the city when he wrote his famous report, published in 1968. more...
YORK'S riverside may be occupied by trendy bars and exclusive apartments after years of redevelopment, but the buildings are still recognisable in these pictures from the city's more industrial past. more...
ST Andrewgate is now a sought-after address in the shadow of York Minster. more...
TEN days ago, York conservationist Alison Sinclair put forward the case for a "local list" of important buildings. more...
YOU are what you eat, or so they say - but should that stop you enjoying the odd treat now and again? more...
ACUPRESSURE could help enhance natural childbirth, according to a York teacher's research. more...
There is a size 12 wedding dress with Emma Hunton's name on it and when she finds it, she is determined it will fit. more...
Deep into the far reaches of Nidderdale, at Scar House Reservoir, there was but one other car. I asked the occupants which way they were going round the water. They thought anticlockwise. Using the plughole principle, and being in the Northern Hemisphere, I set of clockwise, for the best I think. more...
George Wilkinson discovers a walk full of interest through Roman remains at Malton. more...
George Wilkinson is enchanted by an evening stroll around Nunnington more...
GEORGE WILKINSON hops on the Moorsbus for the `forbidden land' more...
I broke my rule of `never try to get anywhere on a Bank Holiday' to do a route recently recommended by the North York Moors Authority. This is useful for me as I don't have to worry about it too much and I think will be nice for you as it's a pleasant walk. more...
George Wilkinson heads to Wharfedale more...
VICTORIA ELLIS temporarily takes over from George Wilkinson, who is incapacitated, and leads a walk to Cawthorne. more...
Victoria Ellis takes in the views on a walk along the coast from Scarborough. more...
George Wilkinson hits the trail again, for a moorland walk among the heather. more...
We are back in `Heartbeat Country', TV land Goathland, on the beaten track, but with a hill or two to make the heart beat faster and plenty of fun. more...
Grosmont is this week's destination for George Wilkinson. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON stretches his legs before an appointment with the surgeon's table... more...
Victoria Ellis discovers a mobile phone is an essential piece of kit for lone walkers more...
IF YOU travel out of Helmsley on the Scarborough road, you soon slip through two little villages squeezed together, Beadlam then Nawton. The pair persist as separate identities which is confusing. Every reference book has two sets of entries. In 1754 all the cattle died of distemper in Nawton; both parts are mainly made up of pleasant old houses. more...
Hold Caldron is one of my sweetest childhood haunts. Arriving here has a magic, as the quiet back road twists round a corner and suddenly dips steep into another world, and then stops at the bottom, deep in a lovely valley, at a stone bridge over a river. The water runs beside an old mill building and crashes over a weir into a slightly scary pool and paths disappear into the woods. more...
VICTORIA ELLIS takes in the medieval ruins along the Magna Via from Helmsley more...
VICTORIA ELLIS takes a gentle stroll through the lowlands surrounding Brearton more...
When we got to Broxa Forest on the North York Moors it was typically wet, gloomy and misty winter weather, so no views from the bench. So we slipped straight into a larch wood and then soon found a nice sunken track through Silpho Moor with beech and birch, heather and bilberry, and, having dropped out of the clouds, sweet views of Whisper Dales. more...
York's Place Research Centre published a booklet last month called A Guide To The Wetland Heritage Of the Vale Of Pickering. I just had to go out and have a look and chose the carrs and ings (one-time marshlands, reedswamps or whatever) south of West Ayton. more...
VICTORIA ELLIS suggests the perfect walk for Boxing Day to help clear away the post-Christmas cobwebs more...
Today's eight-mile route is a splendid way to stride into the New Year. We started at Pateley Bridge, crossed the River Nidd and took the quiet back road through the village of Bewerley. more...
MORE in hope than with judgement, we set off in the fog on Saturday morning to the Wolds for some valley wandering. A phone call to a publican had given some cause for optimism about the weather not being `too bad'. With hindsight I think my phone call acted as an alarm clock and perhaps a peep through curtains had given the drowsy man a misleading impression. more...
VICTORIA ELLIS works up an appetite after walking in Coverdale. more...
Fantastic views are your reward when you brave the contours out of Clay Bank, says VICTORIA ELLIS more...
We took a random route to Pickering Castle turning uphill at the North York Moors Railway station, up through the slopes of old terraced houses. more...
The path we fancied near Grassington was still closed. So we decamped a mile or two down Wharfedale and settled on the village of Burnsall, which Wainwright described in 1991 as `neat and compact... well endowed with nature and a lovely riverside setting supplemented by caring residents'. more...
Victoria Ellis enjoys a smashing walk on a newly discovered track more...
You may think that travelling to Hawes deep into Wensleydale for a three-mile toddle is a long way to drive for a short walk. We had our reasons. One, we wanted a look at the Dales Countryside Museum which is showing an exhibition called Tracks In Time and this eats into the limited winter daylight. Two, we had decided that George Wilkinson was ready (after all his training walks to the pub) for a gentle test run. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON is back on his feet and makes the most of a late-winter snowfall more...
There were streaks of snow on the colder slopes of the Cleveland Hills but in Great Ayton, ice cream consumption continued institutionally at Suggitts' café. more...
Ken Walker, a reader and walker from Camblesforth, near Selby, has written a kind letter to me and has requested more routes south of York. Fair point. So I went to Cawood for a big sky river ramble. more...
VICTORIA Ellis recently did an Evening Press walk on the North York Moors near the Hole of Horcum. There has been a fuss about it. A walker has phoned the paper complaining that her party was turned off the route; farmers have phoned the paper complaining about walkers, and that the published route was wrong. more...
George Wilkinson boards the bus for daffodil country more...
Bolton Abbey is one of my favourite starts, a sentiment shared by the populace; there were more walkers than I have seen all year. This, my fourth visit for the Evening Press, was for a newish route up the Valley of Desolation and a little-publicised connection between two parts of the massive open access area. more...
Many thanks to Evening Press reader Shamuna Aslam for the gist of this gourmet's gambol to Helmsley via Harome. Rather than gamble on the buses I have started you at Oswaldkirk, which is served by Moorsbuses from York, Helmsley and elsewhere. more...
George Wilkinson discovers an unmissable walk in the Wolds more...
Today's walk could have been made for the Moorsbus Service. A short ride from Helmsley takes you to the top of Newgate Bank in Bilsdale and then you can walk back to the town over moors and through the bluebell valley of Riccal Dale using newly designated rights of way. more...
Kettlewell was as lovely as ever except for a migration of caravans and a pipeline. Rain was forecast from the west, there was a dusting of snow on Great Whernside and we had barely set off down Lovers Lane by the sparkling River Wharfe when, late in the month, we got our April showers - hail, sun, rain, sun, rain, all day. Good training for quick-change artists. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON goes on the trail of a faint path out of Glaisdale more...
Saltmarshe is a hamlet on the Yorkshire side of the River Ouse about five miles upstream of the Humber Estuary. We visited because Mr Ayre from Elvington, an Evening Press reader, sent in a tempting route. Thank you, we enjoyed the walk very much. more...
SERIAL seekers of wild floral shows, if you have done the daffs and the bluebells and have a taste for pink then head out now from York, for just one mile, and see the docks in bloom on Fulford Ings. A better bet than the `retro-hippy' dandelions at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. more...
George Wilkinson goes in and out of cloud as he walks on Thimbleby Moor above Osmotherley more...
WE got up early and beat the Bank Holiday traffic to the western dales, seeking a quiet and very colourful walk on the land between Grassington and Malham. The sun shone on Boss Moor and a big owl was floating along the gritstone walls till ushered away by a crow. more...
WE DROVE to the North York Moors Sutton Bank Visitors Centre and then along the dead straight Cleveland Road to where its Tarmac stops and it becomes the famous Hambleton Road. Here there are arrows for cycle trails - `12 miles, highly technical', `seven miles, challenging'... . Our six over a gently sloping upland plateau turned out easy and delightful. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON works up an appetite with a stroll along the river at Linton more...
AT THE Lion Inn at Blakey, roadies were setting up sound equipment for outdoor midsummer music on the moors. Just down the road a few yards after Ralph Cross we drove into Westerdale and then to the lovely sheltered car park and picnic spot called Hob Hole. more...
My busman's holiday, this time from Anglesey, with a view from the tent of Snowdonia tapering down to the Lleyn Peninsula, tepid showers and a deafening dawn chorus of Welsh jackdaws. more...
George Wilkinson heads for the coast at Goldsborough and finds a lovely quiet spot just up the coast from busy Whitby more...
THE Howardian Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. After being repulsed by vegetation and crops on a walk out of Terrington, I thought AONB might expand as Area of Outstandingly Nullified Byways. Later in the week we tried again from Terrington and hit on a real winner. more...
J B Priestley wrote in his English Journey: `We reached Buckden, towards the head of the Dale, and a notable goal for Bradfordians, who have emptied the barrels at the inn there many a time...'. Seventy years later there were 30 cars in the Upper Wharfedale car park, but we had our eye on the weather not on pints. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON meets the black-painted Darlington Mummers on his way to a waterfall that inspired Turner more...
GEORGE WILKINSON stages a moorland walk in three acts. more...
IT was tanking down on the North York Moors, stair rods. A lonely long-distance runner splashed past the car park on the edge of Wykeham Forest, everyone else was sensibly indoors, we tried to get our waterproofs on without a soaking. Then came some hanging around in the rain, messing with some deep furrows in a failed hunt for a disappeared track. Never mind, we salvaged a shorty, steep but not savage. more...
THE landscape backdrop to today's walk is purple heather. The political backdrop is a huge and hugely successful public access arrangement. The land at Bolton Abbey is owned by the Duke of Devonshire who this year publicly apologised for the treatment his grandfather had meted out by his gamekeepers to walkers. more...
We came into Huggate on York Lane and left a landscape burnished in the harvest time heat for the cool of the Wolds Inn at noon. Thereby "mad dogs and Englishmen" were delayed a while, and it was hot, more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit. more...
FOR perhaps a final fix of the purple heather this season we took ourselves off to Hawnby Moor. North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. more...
While George Wilkinson is away, Mark Reid leads the first of two walks, here setting off in search of John O'Gaunt's Castle more...
Ilkley is one of the most elegant towns in England, a former spa town that has retained the dignified air that would have once attracted the wealthiest people to this "heather spa" in search of a cure during the Victorian and Edwardian era. However, there is so much more to this small town, as you will discover on this short walk. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON explores the most northern of the Yorkshire Dales more...
GEORGE WILKINSON experiences stoat encounters of the furred kind in Arkengarthdale. more...
George Wilkinson enjoys an Indian Summer walk in Arkengarthdale. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON witnesses the potato harvest near the village of Scackleton. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON takes a brisk walk by the sparkling River Esk then heads out on to the moors on a gloriously crisp, clear day more...
Grewelthorpe is a nice village near Ripon, and near the quite gruelling but enchanting Hack Fall Woods, which were a popular and picturesque tourist attraction in the 18th and 19th centuries and apparently featured in all the best guides. more...
My GARDEN rain gauge was brimming, so we decided to walk on sand. Our choice was Allerthorpe, in the Vale of York, and a drive of a dozen miles from the city on one-time Roman road. more...
George Wilkinson heads out across Hamer Moor more...
GEORGE WILKINSON heads to Fountains Abbey for a wander round a World Heritage Site. more...
George Wilkinson steps out near the Humber Bridge for a walk at Ferriby Sluice. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON makes the most of some winter sunshine and enjoys the breathtaking views from the Cleveland Hills more...
PLAN B it had to be, because the dales' moors were erased by cloud. So we dropped down into Lofthouse, donned our waterproofs and set off for five safe miles, almost every step the Nidderdale Way. We met other walkers: this is a pleasant and popular walk, useful in the winter. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON leads us on a Boxing Day walk where the animals take the scenery - and the walkers - in their stride more...
George Wilkinson heads to Robin Hood's Bay for a bracing New Year walk. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON braves the snow to rediscover the joys of winter walking. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON takes a walk in the Wolds where frost and sunshine create a winter wonderland more...
GEORGE WILKINSON ponders the mysteries of the past as he takes us on a walk in the Yorkshire Dales... more...
GEORGE WILKINSON dons waterproofs for a day exploring becks and woods. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON heads for the hills to savour a snow-scattered landscape more...
GEORGE WILKINSON pops into a pottery on a leisurely walk near Ripon Canal. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON takes in some fabulous views on a visit to the Cleveland Hills more...
George Wilkinson is of `sound head' as he engages with the ghost of Lawrence Sterne at Coxwold more...
George Wilkinson takes a trip to Thoralby ... more...
George Wilkinson discovers Hinderwell, tucked away from Whitby. more...
George Wilkinson chooses the low road when he arrives in Wensleydale more...
George Wilkinson has a grand day out when he climbs the Cleveland Hills at Chop Gate. more...
George Wilkinson follows in the footsteps of Clare Francis to one of her favourite spots. more...
George Wilkinson arrives late in the southern Wolds to be charmed by a windmill... more...
GEORGE WILKINSON suggests an Easter walk to Rievaulx. more...
We set off to the scent of new mown grass, past Temperance House and the Crown and Cushion and left the village of Welburn down Water Lane for a super true blue walk. more...
George Wilkinson chooses a bad day but finds a good walk... more...
George Wilkinson has to get his compass out to navigate his way to Danby Beacon. more...
George Wilkinson goes for a Burton... more...
George Wilkinson opts for an effortless Teesdale amble rather than a longish woodland wander after succumbing to a fever... more...
GEORGE WILKINSON thoroughly enjoys himself at Kirby Underdale. more...
We started in the Dudley Arms at Ingleby Greenhow, shifted down the road to their car park, many thanks for this, and discarding all but summer gear, strolled out to explore the little valley south-east of the village. more...
George Wilkinson climbs up among the wildlife deep in upper Wensleydale at Burtersett. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON sets off on a walk in the western Dales where he finds a blissful sense of nothing much having changed. more...
A merry George Wilkinson follows part of the Inn Way through Rosedale. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON discovers there's plenty to do at the end of the line in Pickering. more...
While George Wilkinson takes a rest, MARK REID enjoys superb views as he explores the wonderful countryside around Bolton Priory and the River Wharfe. more...
MARK REID brings a flooded village back to life as he walks round Thruscross Reservoir in the Washburn Valley. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON comes across landmarks from the lead-mining industry of the North Yorkshire Dales. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON sets out on a long and linear walk on the southern edge of the North York Moors. more...
George Wilkinson follows an appealing route to Sutton Bank. more...
In this 350th walk for the Evening Press, George Wilkinson goes for an enjoyable and easy stroll around Escrick. more...
George Wilkinson visits Barmby on the Marsh, where the Ouse and Derwent meet. more...
George Wilkinson roams around the rim of the Hole of Horcum. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON gets going on an easy route around Grassington. more...
George Wilkinson walks across farmland in the evening and returns as the bats come out. more...
George Wilkinson savours a late-summer outing on the Cleveland Hills. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON takes a stroll to Middlesmoor, high in Nidderdale. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON is happy and untroubled on the flatlands close to Beverley, apart from an encounter with a trouser-tearing gate. more...
Victoria Ellis steps in to help out with a civilised walk in the Howardian Hills. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON enjoys some fine views on a walk in the Wolds. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON falls for a surprisingly gentle five-mile walk setting out from Aysgarth. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON samples the delights of Brimham Rocks. more...
George Wilkinson heads to the coast for a bracing walk at Saltburn. more...
George Wilkinson encounters resting racehorses and a gaunt castle at Sheriff Hutton. more...
While George Wilkinson is away, MARK REID steps in with a Dales walk around Askrigg. more...
MARK REID concludes his Dales stint by setting out from the delightful village green at Bainbridge. more...
George Wilkinson braves the rain as he strides out through a blustery Summerbridge. more...
There is an area of land bordered on the west by the A19 and to the east the escarpment of the Hambleton Hills that makes for nice walking. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON road tests a rural roam just right for Boxing Day. more...
GEORGE WILKINSON takes a peaceful ramble around Riccall. more...
George Wilkinson enjoys a winter walk out from Kirkby Malzeard, near Ripon. more...
George Wilkinson finds a warm welcome, a chilly wind and a motorcyclist's bare behind. more...
George Wilkinson follows a circular path out of Leyburn, ending up back at the market. more...
The snow made for a magical walk just out of Pickering, leaving George Wilkinson happily alone in a sea of white. more...
George Wilkinson gets excited about the publication of a new map. more...
New Marske caught my eye while map-gazing, it's a most regular square shape of half a square mile of modern housing, near the sea, near Redcar. more...
YORK'S biggest single sports event will has been given a massive boost this year. more...
FEARLESS - that's how snooker maestro Ronnie `The Rocket' O'Sullivan feels as he prepares to defend the coveted UK crown in York. more...
THE father of tragic accident victim Jamie Sanders is to tell a Government Minister personally why a flyover must be built at lethal Bilbrough Top. more...
YORK is on the brink of completing a major sports treble as the world's top snooker stars head to the city for the start tomorrow of the PowerHouse UK Championship. more...
EMERGENCY services have thrown their weight behind the Evening Press campaign to tame North Yorkshire's worst accident blackspot. more...
A PLAYER competing in the final stages of a world ranking event for the first time scored the biggest win of his career when the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship began in York yesterday. more...
A GOVERNMENT Minister has admitted there is a "very strong case" for taming North Yorkshire's worst accident blackspot. more...
DREW Henry's golden chance of a 147 maximum break was floored by a knuckleduster as the second day's play in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship produced more upsets in last night's marathon session. more...
A COACH driver revealed today how his life had been shattered since the day his vehicle ploughed into a car at notorious Bilbrough Top, near York, killing a student. more...
STEVE Davis, 9-2 victor yesterday against Paul Wykes at the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York, will be playing for an unusual private stake against his former practice partner Mark King in their second round match on Thursday - a jacket. more...
A YORK coach driver told today how he has experienced numerous "near- misses" at North Yorkshire's worst accident blackspot, Bilbrough Top. more...
SNOOKER star John Parrott was back home on Merseyside today still trying to come to terms with the `frightening' way he was knocked out of the PowerHouse UK Championship in York. more...
York City witnessed shots of a different kind yesterday as they went to the UK Snooker Championship at the Barbican. more...
The go-ahead for a flyover at Bilbrough Top marks the final victory for the Evening Press Close the Gaps campaign, as Mike Laycock reports. more...
YORKSHIRE snooker hero Paul Hunter is brimming with confidence after a superb performance in his opening match in the PowerHouse UK Championship in York. more...
THE Evening Press campaign to tame North Yorkshire's worst accident blackspot was finally won today - at a massively increased cost. more...
MOTORISTS have been reassured that the A64 Bilbrough Top flyover scheme will not lead to a repeat of the chaos suffered during roadworks at Copmanthorpe. more...
VILLAGERS fear an upsurge in rat-running along narrow country roads, once work starts on building the new A64 flyover at Bilbrough Top. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST told today how he miraculously escaped with his life in an accident on the A64 at notorious Bilbrough Top. more...
MOTORISTS who try to avoid roadwork congestion on the A64 by rat-running along country lanes will be swiftly halted in their tracks. more...
MOTORISTS on the A64 between York and Tadcaster will have the best possible Christmas present - the closure of Bilbrough Top gap. more...
NORTH Yorkshire's worst accident blackspot was finally tamed today. more...
MOTORISTS and local residents were today taking a look at plans for a new flyover at Bilbrough Top, on the A64 between York and Tadcaster. more...
VILLAGERS have helped mark the official start of construction of an £11 million new flyover on the A64 at Bilbrough Top. more...
ANOTHER gap on the A64 between York and Tadcaster is to be shut after motorists began using it as a dangerous short cut. more...
A LEADING North Yorkshire businessman today urged Britain to fight for a share of the spoils of war, following a military victory in Iraq. more...
TWENTY coachloads of peace campaigners are now set to travel from York to the national demonstration in London against a war on Iraq. more...
ANTOINETTE McCormick left York today on the first leg of her mission to become a human shield in Iraq. more...
WOMEN stood in silent protest against a possible war with Iraq, in a vigil at the University of York. more...
The looming shadow of war has made a young York couple switch their honeymoon plans from sunny Turkey - to the sophisticated charms of Belgium. more...
PETROL prices are rising in York after speculation about war in Iraq pushed up the cost of fuel on world markets. more...
FOUR York mothers have sent Tony Blair and George Bush a "heartfelt" Valentine's Day message with a difference. more...
MPs in the York area today spoke out about a possible attack on Iraq - the day the UN Security Council received its crucial report from chief weapons inspector Hans Blix. more...
ANTI-war campaigners are to gather around the Eye of York tomorrow in solidarity with those meeting for the mass demonstration in London. more...
A LEADING York peace campaigner says opinion in the city is now "overwhelmingly" against war with Iraq. more...
RESERVISTS from a North Yorkshire RAF base are among the latest military personnel in the county to be mobilised as part of the build-up for a possible war with Iraq. more...
YORK tourism bosses are expecting a slump in American visitors because of heightened terrorist tension in Britain. more...
`WE DON'T want war' - that was the message from hundreds of York area peace protesters who today headed to London for what could be Britain's biggest-ever demonstration. more...
IN response to D M Martin and R S Pearson (February 13), I shall be marching for peace. And yes I do vote and yes I do know how it is we came to enjoy our present freedoms and no I do not belong and never have belonged to any political party. more...
MORE than 100 people marched through York at the weekend to show their opposition to a war with Iraq. more...
Evening Press feature writer STEPHEN LEWIS joins peace protesters on the biggest march in British history. more...
YORK could be facing civil disobedience and strikes if war with Iraq goes ahead. more...
A YORK-BASED Internet shoe company is offering British soldiers U.S. desert boots at cost price. more...
ONLY a complete fool would want to go to war. I have the greatest respect for the peace protesters who are currently opposing war with Iraq. more...
SADDAM Hussein is a rank amateur when it comes to developing biological weapons, invading a smaller neighbour, torture, showing disregard to his own people or state-sponsored terrorism. Consider the following. more...
ANTI-war campaigners descended on York police station to demand an investigation into Britain's Trident nuclear weapon system. more...
YORK is set to hold its biggest-ever anti-war demonstration. more...
Despite the biggest backbench Labour rebellion ever against Tony Blair, war with Iraq looks more likely by the day - especially since Britain, the US and Spain tabled a "war resolution" at the United Nations. Here, The Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office answer questions put by the Evening Press... more...
HOW can we believe Tony Blair when he says that it is for humanitarian reasons that he is prepared to launch an aggressive war against Iraq? more...
FORTY soldiers left York today for the Gulf as conflict with Iraq looms ever closer. more...
I OBJECT strongly to DM Martin's letter (February 28) referring to York Against The War as the "save Saddam campaign". more...
THE campaign group York Against The War has spawned a local offshoot - Fishergate Against The War. more...
SENIOR Labour councillors are set to join a huge anti-war protest march in York - putting themselves in direct opposition to government policy on Iraq. more...
A GROUP of black-clad women held a silent vigil for peace in the heart of York today. more...
GULF war widow Anne Lennox spoke today of her concerns for the families of Servicemen preparing to fight in a new war against Iraq. more...
HUNDREDS of York residents are expected to take part in a survey that will offer a revealing snapshot into public attitudes to war with Iraq. more...
ORGANISERS of one of York's biggest-ever demonstrations have set up a temporary office to handle inquiries and co-ordinate administrative matters. more...
There is no moral case for war with Iraq, York University politics professor Haleh Afshar tells STEPHEN LEWIS. It really is all about oil... more...
A YORK church leader today revealed he is to reach out to Muslim groups in the city as Britain prepares to attack Iraq. more...
A FORMER soldier from North Yorkshire today spoke out strongly against any attack on Iraq - while his soldier son prepares for war with the British Army in Kuwait. more...
ANTI-WAR campaigners have been pedalling for peace around the streets of York city centre. more...
COUNCIL staff across York are being called on to walk out of work and occupy the city centre the day that war breaks out. more...
THE mother of a North Yorkshire soldier out in Kuwait called today for Britain to rally behind "our boys" as they prepare for war. more...
A YORK woman whose husband is stationed in Kuwait, has spoken out about her fears of war. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today backed the Government in waging war against Iraq after taking the "toughest decision" of his political life. more...
SOLDIERS from York who are serving in the Gulf have been sent boxes of goodies by the British Polio Fellowship. more...
THE York parents of would-be human shield Antoinette McCormick fear she has reached Baghdad - only hours before the bombing of Iraq by American and British forces is expected to start. more...
THE situation we are in with Iraq is not black and white as some letter writers suggest. more...
TEACHERS at a York school had to block their school gates to prevent students staging a walkout for peace. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley came under fire today over his backing for war in Iraq. more...
WORK has finally begun on the construction of flood defences in Ryedale - as environment officials urge the country to prepare for the possibility of more flooding this winter. more...
FLOOD stricken Ryedale residents could face not one, but two more flooding seasons before proper defences are completed, the Evening Press can reveal. more...
FLOOD warnings were set to be issued today at York and Naburn as high water levels were reported across the region's rivers and streams. more...
York's Without Walls project has moved a step closer to creating a future vision of York. more...
CITY leaders have met in the latest stage of drawing up an action plan for guiding York into the future. more...
AN ENVIRONMENTAL group has criticised new plans for the development of York. more...
A FASCINATING blueprint of what York could be like in the future is considered today by the Evening Press. more...
YORK residents are being asked to make three wishes for the future of the city during the Without Walls Festival of Ideas. more...
THE disabled community is being asked to share its views on the future of York. more...
Without Walls, the initiative to create a vision for future York, has held a series of debates during its Festival Of Ideas. Here we reproduce extracts from the speeches leading Monday night's debate. more...
YOUNG people in York are being asked to get creative this summer by putting pencil to paper in a futuristic art competition. more...
ENVIRONMENT groups in York have issued a damning critique on a report looking at the city in 20 years time. more...
YORK'S future status as a world-class science city has been under debate. more...
STUDENTS were labelled York's "best ambassadors" in a debate over their relative value to city life. more...
COMMUNITY groups in York are being urged to respond to a rallying cry to take part in a massive city centre parade in September. more...
In this open letter to the leader of City of York Council, Green Party councillor MARK HILL sets out an alternative vision for the city than that put forward by the Without Walls initiative. more...
The future vision of York will be unveiled to a watching audience at a special City Conference at the Barbican Centre on Wednesday, September 24. more...
THE future vision of York for the next two decades was being unveiled in the city today. more...
LOCAL election campaign stress seemed a world away for these three Tories as they took a gentle boat ride along the River Ouse. more...
A PROUD vision for York as a community where people can thrive among a rich and diverse culture in a prosperous modern city has been unveiled at a special conference. more...
LABOUR'S local election candidates joined the crowds to meet the voters at York's late-night shopping event. more...
YORK people will have the chance to put their views on a draft vision for the city when council chiefs put the plan out to consultation next month. more...
REDUCED public access at two York police stations is damaging attempts to put the community at the heart of the fight to crack crime, according to senior Liberal Democrats. more...
FAMILIES can pencil in their vision of the future of York in an imaginative event at York Art Gallery this week. more...
LIFELONG Labour supporters in York are deserting the party in the wake of the war in Iraq. more...
THE youngest member of the influential group looking at the future shape of York has resigned, saying he felt like a "spare part". more...
YORK'S only Independent councillor says she wants to continue "working for the people and the community in York." more...
A VISION for the future of York over the next 20 years is set to be given the stamp of approval by city councillors next week. more...
York's crucial local election is now only days away. In the run-up to polling day, Political Reporter Richard Edwards is putting questions on key issues to the leaders of the four largest parties. Today, he asks about York's housing crisis more...
Only two days of campaigning are left before York's crucial city council election. In the latest of a series of articles, Political Reporter Richard Edwards questions the leaders of the four largest parties, this time on York's congestion problems more...
THE Green Party has called for urgent action to improve school crossings in York. more...
Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups are aiming to take overall control of the hung authority in Ryedale, which currently has 11 Tories, six Independents, five Liberal Democrats and one Labour. more...
COUNCILLORS have called for better provision of services for young people in North Yorkshire and demanded better communication. more...
YORK education chiefs have made the replacement of crumbling classrooms at a York school a top priority - despite a failed bid for Government funding - and are set to allocate an extra £30,000 to the scheme. more...
A LANDSLIDE local election result saw the Liberal Democrats sweep to power in York - an outcome that also saw the Conservatives wiped out and the city's first Green Party councillors elected. more...
TORIES in Selby were celebrating today after taking control following the district council elections - and adding to a night of misery for Labour in York and North and East Yorkshire. more...
THE new leader of City of York Council today signalled the dawn of a new political era. more...
IT'S meltdown. That was one Labour activist's view even before the result was announced in English Martyrs' School. The poll there was to decide the three candidates for Holgate - York's most marginal ward at the last election, writes Matthew Woodcock. more...
TORY leader John Galvin today said he still hoped to lead his party into the next York local elections - at the age of 69. more...
INDIA'S representative in Britain has met the family of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman. more...
Dave Nelson and Dan Phillips asked shoppers at Monks Cross why they were there instead of the city centre. Their comments may not come as a surprise to hard-pressed city centre retailers, but they will hardly be welcome. more...
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman's plight is set to worsen after officials announced he will be moved to what his family calls a "Midnight Express-type of prison". more...
PLANS to paint double yellow lines in dozens of new locations across York and in nearby villages have failed to spark protests like the ones which greeted city centre restrictions. more...
INDIA'S representative in Britain has come under fresh pressure to allow charity worker Ian Stillman to remain in the country if he is freed from jail. more...
THE owner of a candle shop in one of York's premier shopping streets says his trade in June was down by almost 25 per cent on the same month last year. more...
INDIAN press reports claiming deaf charity worker Ian Stillman has been refused a presidential pardon are the latest part in a campaign against him, his family said today. more...
A YORK city centre pub landlord says he is thinking of selling up because parking restrictions are hitting him so badly. more...
MORE than 150 supporters of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman gathered outside the Indian High Commission in London to protest about his imprisonment. more...
As the Evening Press launches its parking campaign, chief reporter Mike Laycock speaks to several city centre businesses about their growing concerns over charges and restrictions, and examines how the parking controversy has grown over the past six months. more...
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman is being visited in prison by a Delhi diabetes expert, amid fears that freezing conditions could kill him. more...
THE FAMILY of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is planning to fly to India as fears for his health worsen. more...
DEAF charity worker Ian Stillman's plight will be explained directly to Britain's Home Secretary tomorrow. more...
FOREIGN Secretary Jack Straw has told the family of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman he wants to see him freed from an Indian jail. more...
FANS of the Queen Mother were today finalising their preparations to celebrate her 100th birthday. more...
North Yorkshire centenarians today congratulated the Queen Mother on becoming a member of their distinguished club. more...
Charity worker Ian Stillman is a free man today.ADAM NICHOLS reviews the case experts said was a serious miscarriage of justice more...
Queen Mum fanatics Lesley North and her mother Pamela Byers were today staging a right royal party in their living room. more...
THE family of a disabled charity worker freed from the hell of an Indian jail can now celebrate Christmas together for the first time in seven years. more...
Celebrations broke out all over North Yorkshire today as the county saluted the Queen Mother on her 100th birthday. more...
JUBILANT MPs today paid tribute to the family of freed charity worker Ian Stillman and "all those around the world" who campaigned for his release. more...
In York, a waiting crowd greeted with rapturous applause the first chimes of the Minster's Queen Mother Bells on the morning of her 100th birthday. more...
IAN Stillman today hugged the family he has been separated from for two years - and thanked Evening Press readers for demanding his freedom. more...
Pensioners at a York community unit were among those flying the flag for the Queen Mother's landmark celebration today. more...
British forces have blocked an attempted breakout by Iraqi armour at Basra, it was reported today. more...
THE parents of freed charity worker Ian Stillman were today enjoying an emotional reunion with their son. more...
Three weeks later she was in the city again to attend the wedding of the Duke of Kent and the then Miss Katharine Worsley of Hovingham. She was one of three Queens in the congregation, the other two being our present Queen, a cousin of the Duke, and Queen Ena of Spain, grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. more...
A SECOND British soldier has died in action in the Gulf. The man, from the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch, was killed during an operation last night near Al Zubayr, south west of Basra. more...
THE parents of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman are enjoying their first Christmas with their son for years. more...
CHRIS TITLEY charts the special relationship York holds for the Royal who used to bear the city's name... more...
TONY Blair today signalled the start of a bloody battle for Baghdad, as Allied aircraft pounded units of Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard. more...
THE PARENTS of jailed deaf charity campaigner Ian Stillman are to hold a question-and-answer session for York residents who helped free him. more...
THE parents of freed deaf charity campaigner Ian Stillman have publicly thanked all those who helped to secure their son's release from prison in India. more...
THE family of a York soldier serving in Iraq have spoken of their pride in his mission - after they saw him in action on camera. more...
IAN STILLMAN was alone in his freezing cell in India's Himalayan foothills. more...
A PROTESTER will stand for election on an anti-war mandate, only days after resigning as a Labour candidate. more...
CHARITY worker Ian Stillman is aiming to restart his work with the deaf in England. more...
THE Union Flag is starting to fly in the York area in a show of support for British troops in the Gulf. more...
A YORK-BORN servicewoman has been preparing troops for conflict in Iraq - by checking the health of their teeth. more...
FREED deaf charity campaigner Ian Stillman has written to his supporters in York and across the UK to thank them for their continued backing. more...
IRAQ was today claiming it had suffered "many casualties" after two missiles allegedly hit a busy market place in Baghdad. more...
Deaf, one-legged charity worker Ian Stillman's imprisonment in an Indian jail brought protest from thousands of Evening Press readers. Reporter Adam Nichols speaks to him for the first time since his release. more...
TONY Blair today said large numbers of Iraqis were waiting to revolt more...
HUMAN shield Antoinette McCormick was today leaving Baghdad for Syria after being told she could no longer stay on her tourist visa. more...
NORTH YORKSHIRE schoolchildren turned their thoughts to the war in Iraq when they took part in a poignant trip to some of Europe's battlefields. more...
ICT @ Huntington began life in 1995 as the internal IT department of Huntington School in York - and then it grew up. more...
A SMALL group of demonstrators took to the streets of York to call for support for the war and backing for British troops. more...
GULF war veteran Terry Walker has criticised British and American top brass for adopting a "softly-softly" approach to the Iraq war. more...
SARDINIAN Paolo Silesu is on a mission to train our tastes in Italian foods. more...
MARGARET WELBURN knows only too well the anxiety of service families in wartime. The York mother has not one but two sons who are fighting in the Gulf. more...
FINAL negotiations were taking place this week for the opening of a third branch of The Japanese Shop, which has been so successful in York and Harrogate. more...
CHEESEMAKERS in North Yorkshire are set to benefit after their French counterparts fell out of favour in America over France's opposition to the Iraq war. more...
FULL support for our British troops - that was the message from shoppers in Parliament Street, York. more...
HUMAN shield Antoinette McCormick was today heading for Jordan after being turned back from Syria. more...
John Benson-Smith is one of Yorkshire's most high-profile master chefs, a founder and director of Hazlewood Castle Hotel, near Tadcaster and armed with fast talking passion for his subject. more...
EUROPEAN visitors are making their anti-war feelings felt - by not coming to York. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire schoolgirl is so worried about the war in Iraq that she has gone straight to the top with her concerns. more...
FIFTEEN extra acres have been planted out with large specimen plants in North Yorkshire to help feed the demands of the house building frenzy in the south. more...
YORK businesses are being urged to take the environmental destiny of the planet into their own hands by tackling energy waste head-on - and saving money at the same time more...
NORTH YORKSHIRE parents of soldiers out in Iraq have told how they feel isolated and lacking in support as they worry for the safety of their sons. more...
NATALIE McDowell is the driving force behind a nail and beauty spa in York which is about to celebrate its first anniversary with a tidy profit in the bank. more...
YORK Housing Association has cleaned up its transport act by taking on a new Liquid Petroleum Gas-powered van. more...
IRAQI officials claim an Allied missile has struck a market in Baghdad, killing 58 people. more...
THIS is the van that is helping the York Housing Association clean up its act. more...
AUTHOR and street entertainer Michael Mime is today trying to enter war-torn Iraq to try to trace his estranged daughter. more...
LICENSEES David and Sally-Anne Smith are calling time on energy waste as their pub becomes the first to sign up to PlanetYork. more...
A GROUP of residents from two York villages made their views on the war in Iraq known when they joined forces for a peace vigil. more...
ENERGY-minded staff and students are attempting to make the University of York the UK's most energy-efficient. more...
THE second Gulf War has ended early for an Army medic from York, after he was rushed out of Iraq suffering pneumonia. more...
MAINTENANCE man John Milner backed his daughter, Katie, when she decided to join his hobby at the time - a coaching holiday venture called Katie's Continental Holidays. more...
GREEN-fingered David Gregory is turning to green power after signing up to PlanetYork. more...
Have you taken the pledge? Here are some of the pledges people have made to the PlanetYork campaign. more...
TWO York brothers and their families are proudly flying the flag to send a strong message of support to Allied soldiers serving in the Gulf. more...
MODEL Alison Richards left male passers-by hot and flustered when she delivered an energy-o-gram to a York store. more...
A SILENT column of peace protesters marched to a York market before holding a symbolic "die-in" in solidarity with civilians killed in the Iraqi war. more...
THE Evening Press is bringing good news to the environment with green deliveries. more...
AN ARMOURED raid into the besieged city of Basra has been led by a North Yorkshire serviceman. more...
ENERGY efficient schools are going to the top of the class after taking part in a fuel-saving project. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley says it is vital that relations between members of the UN are repaired, after a visit to America to discuss the human crisis in the Gulf. more...
YOUNG people from the cast of York Grand Opera House's musical Annie came out in force to demonstrate the effect York residents have on the environment. more...
BAGHDAD was rocked by overnight explosions, with two large blasts heard as daylight first broke over the Iraqi capital. more...
Ambitious plans for a year-long push to turn York into Britain's Energy City more...
SEVEN Iraqi women and children were killed when American forces opened fire on a van which allegedly failed to stop at a checkpoint. more...
MORE than five thousand homes and businesses signed up to Planet York, the year-long push to make York the UK's most energy-efficient city, leading organisers to declare the campaign "a real success." more...
We asked people all over the world to send us their messages of support for our troops. As DAVID LOWE reports, the response has been overwhelming. more...
YORK street entertainer Michael Mime was today trying to cross the Turkish border into Iraq after meeting and taking advice from Kurdish politicians. more...
YORK mother and daughter Nellie and Georgina Barber are flying the flag for "our boys" in Iraq - by wearing special badges wherever they go. more...
AMERICAN ground forces have been taking on Iraq's Republican Guard in fierce battles south of Baghdad. more...
YELLOW ribbons have begun appearing in North Yorkshire - and they will not be removed until our troops have returned from Iraq. more...
YORK is set for another six months of traffic misery next year after highways chiefs ruled out extra lanes at the A64 roadworks. more...
STUDENTS will take to the streets on Friday to show their support for British troops fighting in Iraq. more...
BE in no doubt - former firefighter turned professional speaker Clive Gott, is super-motivated and super-confident. more...
HIGHWAYS bosses are to have a rethink over phase two of the A64 roadworks following renewed calls to save York from another six months of traffic chaos. more...
THE mother of a soldier stationed in Iraq today sent a message to the forces fighting in the Gulf - finish the job and rid the world of Saddam. more...
YORK traders were today delighted after a crucial stage of the A64 roadworks was completed in time for the main pre-Christmas rush. more...
SEVERE delays are expected as roadworks on the A64 restart next week. more...
SNOOKER has become more than a game for Simon Crossley. He has turned it into an art form. more...
TRAFFIC chaos once again brought the A64 to a standstill today as the second phase of major roadworks got under way. more...
ONE thing is almost certain during this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York if last year here and results from other recent major tournaments elsewhere are anything to go by - big names will suffer shock exits. more...
HUMAN shield Antoinette McCormick was safely back in York today - to the great relief of her worried parents. more...
MOTORISTS suffered extensive delays last night as they battled through York's busiest roads. more...
Matthew Stevens is prepared to have to work hard if he is to keep his UK snooker crown. more...
IRAQI elite forces have moved out of Baghdad to take on advancing US troops, as coalition commanders sought to put a stranglehold on Saddam Hussein's regime. more...
MOTORISTS are facing another three weeks of congestion and delays on the A64 near York. more...
Yorkshire snooker star Paul Hunter said he is not too disheartened after suffering a shock defeat a week before he makes his bow in York in the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
AMERICAN troops were said today to have seized Baghdad's airport after bitter overnight fighting. more...
HIGHWAYS bosses today blamed a new bout of A64 chaos on contractors who extended lane closures - only minutes before the morning rush hour. more...
THE world's top snooker stars shoot into York on Monday to start their quest for the coveted UK crown. more...
WITHIN a year of opening on the ground floor of the splendid Gateforth Hall near Selby, Restaurant Martel scooped three Restaurant of the Year awards. more...
A YORK Territorial Army soldier has been airlifted back to Britain from Iraq after being injured in action. more...
NEW British Open snooker champion John Higgins may miss his opening salvo in the Travis Perkins UK Championship at the Barbican, York, because his wife is expecting a baby. more...
VIVACIOUS Elizabeth Liddle is so busy helping other people run the administrative side of their businesses that she hardly has time for her own administration. more...
WHEN Jade Whitby and Laura Buckle took to the streets to demonstrate their support for British forces in the Gulf, they were marching for love. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire firm which sells products for pampered and preening pooches on the internet is bidding for the Evening Press New Business of the Year title. more...
SNOOKER star John Higgins was uncertain today if he will be able to make it to York in time for his opening match tomorrow in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
WHILE other dotcoms are being ground into the dust under the heel of disillusionment, the York-based shoe-shop.com is not only alive and kicking - but virtually tap dancing... more...
YORK Against the War is planning another convoy of coaches to the next national anti-war protest. more...
A SMART motor retailer in York, whose staff tapped into the student mind as part of a design project, has been nominated for the Evening Press business awards. more...
SNOOKER legend Jimmy White pulled out of the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York today. more...
A YORK soldier's charity mission has been stalled - because the desert doesn't offer enough fund-raising opportunities! more...
A GROWING environmental solutions firm near York, which supplied a baling machine to help Matalan, the superstore in Clifton Moor, experiment with recycling waste packaging, is now set to reap huge rewards. more...
FORMER world and UK champion John Parrott said he had "got a monkey off his back" with his 9-5 first round win over James Wattana last night. more...
BATTLING against the odds is often the lot of the small business in this fickle world. more...
A MOTHER with two sons fighting in Iraq got the message she had been longing for - on national television. more...
DANCING clicks with Mimika Cooney. South African-born Mimika who lives in Rainsborough Way, York, has danced all her life and now, as a recently-trained photographer she's regularly capturing its spirit in image rather than her own movement. more...
YORKSHIRE star Paul Hunter's determined bid to win the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship was on track today after a tough opening victory which he likened to a scrap in the boxing ring. more...
READERS of the novel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will know with absolute certainty that the secret of life, the universe and everything is 42. more...
A FIERCE battle was today raging in the heart of Baghdad after an American armoured column smashed its way into the Iraqi capital. more...
SPEND £5.5 million on revamp plans for an hotel, and the results are bound to make their mark not only on the venture but the whole area. more...
SNOOKER'S cramped schedule came under attack from a former world and UK champion just before he left York's Barbican Centre last night after being knocked out of the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
DURING more than 20 years as a journalist, Peter Davenport was a skilled observer and an expert in instant communication of complex facts - some of them as dramatic as Bloody Sunday in Ireland, the Lockerbie plane disaster and the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper. more...
NOT even war could hold this couple back from marriage, as they proved at York register office. more...
PAUL Hunter was battling today to buck the trend in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship after shock defeats left only two of the world's top eight players in the event. more...
SIZE isn't everything, as York-based Simon Mountford Communications is proving. more...
ANTI-WAR protesters marched outside RAF Fylingdale in their latest demonstration for peace on Saturday. more...
COMMUNICATION is the name of the game for a York business which aims to revolutionise the way companies provide internal information. more...
ONE is hoping to stay on cue for success at the Barbican this week, while one is currently taking a break from sporting action in York, but snooker and football's Steve Davis namesakes met in the city yesterday afternoon. more...
THE Americans have admitted carrying out a massive strike against a building in a residential area of Baghdad - because they thought Saddam Hussein may have been there. more...
The pride of Yorkshire snooker was at home in Leeds today feeling totally browned off after the collapse of his bid to win the Travis Perkins UK Championship. more...
A DEVASTATED York mother told today how magistrates convicted her soldier son of speeding - even though he is out fighting for his country in Iraq. more...
WHETHER it's a conference for 400 delegates or a dinner for ten guests, Mosaic Events Ltd can organise it. more...
YORK snooker fans are seeing an inspired player who could be spearheading a new generation of talent. more...
TWO York brothers demonstrating in support of British troops in the Gulf today told how an anti-war protester attacked their demo and smashed up their banners. more...
TWO of the tournament outsiders will clash in York tomorrow for a place in the final of snooker's second biggest tournament. more...
GUNFIRE was reported in Baghdad as dawn broke today, with US forces looking set to continue strengthening their grip on the Iraqi capital today. more...
SUPER Scot Stephen Maguire is being spurred on by the pressure in his York bid for snooker glory. more...
A FIERCE battle was said to be raging today on the banks of the River Tigris, as US Marines battled with Saddam Hussein loyalists around a mosque where it was rumoured the dictator himself may be hiding. more...
NO one is more surprised than David Gray to be playing in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final in York tomorrow. more...
A YOUNG entrepreneur has been hailed "the backbone" of a team of hairdressers for her success in taking a Selby business from strength-to-strength. more...
YOUNG hot-shot Stephen Maguire destroyed David Gray 10-1 in last night's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final. more...
Emily Mackay finds out why peace protesters camping near a York landmark plan to carry on opposing the situation in Iraq more...
A HUGE effort by York's award-winning National Railway Museum (NRM) to make itself more environmentally friendly has spilled over into a massive £11 million scheme. more...
CALLS for soldiers serving in Iraq to be exempt from council tax have been made by a North Yorkshire mother. more...
YORK author and street entertainer Michael Mime is today back in Turkey after being assaulted, abused and threatened with death as he tried to enter Iraq. more...
It's as clear as glass: experience, hard work and the vision to see a gap in the market will equal success. more...
THE Archbishop of York has urged the international community to work together to bring about a civil and democratic society in Iraq after the suffering of war. more...
THESE young people from York took to the hills to make their point about the Iraqi war. more...
A GENEROUS gesture from a York music and video shop is helping entertain bored British soldiers on duty in the Gulf. more...
YORK-BASED soldiers have returned to the city after serving in Iraq. more...
A ROYAL Marine has returned safely from Iraq to his ecstatic York family - and told how he cheated death on the battlefield. more...
A YORK-BASED rail consultancy firm, whose turnover has soared in a year to £5 million, announced today that it now expects to grow by a further £1 million per year. more...
A MASSIVE new state-of-the-art distribution centre is being planned at Poppleton by Paver Ltd, the York-based national shoe shop chain. more...
HUNDREDS of reservists could be sent to Strensall Barracks for medical more...
LEADING defence MPs are coming to North Yorkshire to assess the county's readiness amid growing tension over terrorism and a possible war against Iraq. more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today urged Britain to stand against a gung-ho rush towards war with Iraq. more...
YES... says GEOFF HOON, defence secretary, NO...says FRANK ORMSTON, of York Against The War. more...
Picture Drum started with no capital, no office and no clients. Just a vision of a design consultancy offering clients the highest standard of service and design. more...
THE daughter of a York couple is planning to join a human shield in Iraq in an effort to avert war. more...
PEDDLING advertising and pedalling advertising are two different things. more...
A YORK couple told today why they are backing their daughter's plans to become a human shield in Iraq. more...
A MILITARY couple brought their York wedding plans forward because of the increasing threat of war in the Gulf. more...
YORK-based soldiers have already flown out to the Gulf to make preparations for a possible war with Iraq, the Evening Press can reveal today. more...
MOST business people fear deflation as much as inflation, but not husband and wife team George and Karen Clague, of Stamford Bridge. more...
PURPLE Dragonfly of Harrogate spread its wings and launched last May - and so far its speedy hovering over the public relations scene has paid off. more...
HISTORY is being brought alive as a York research and marketing agency delves into the memories of former pupils and teachers at a city school. more...
THE QUEEN'S Golden Jubilee is set to go off with a bang in Tadcaster with a grand fireworks display. more...
A LUCKY York man has won a once-in-a-lifetime trip to watch the spectacular Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in London. more...
THE past came alive in a memorabilia shop which celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee. more...
SHE was not born to be Queen. Until her uncle's scandalous love affair rocked the monarchy, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was destined to spend her life a step removed from the heavy burdens of sovereignty. more...
On June 22, the Queen will become the fourth longest-reigning monarch in 1,000 years of English history. That is the day when she will overtake Edward III who died in 1377 after 50 years and 148 days as king. Then, only Queen Victoria, George III and Henry III will have reigned for longer than our present sovereign. more...
YORK and North Yorkshire have welcomed the Queen on many occasions during the first five decades of this Elizabethan age. more...
FARMERS' market favourites are to feature at a banquet being held in York to celebrate fresh local produce. more...
The Queen's day follows a pattern reflecting her life of service. more...
TAKING the taste of Yorkshire to the whole country is the next step for one local company, but it will take it to the Eat Local Banquet first. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire woman who discovered she had a long-lost cousin is to join her in London for a special Queen's Golden Jubilee celebration. more...
For a taste of the unusual, even the dangerous, one North Yorkshire farm contributing to the Eat Local Banquet is ahead of the rest. more...
PREPARATIONS are well under way at the Dean Court Hotel, York, for the Eat Local Banquet next month. more...
LUCKY couple Darren and Jayne King are in for a right royal weekend after winning tickets to one of the Queen's Jubilee garden parties at Buckingham Palace. more...
A WEST END favourite and supplier of an exclusive Knightsbridge store is to add the Eat Local Banquet to its list of customers. more...
YORK was decorated with thousands of white roses for Yorkshire's biggest royal event in living memory. On June 8, 1961, Katharine Worsley from Hovingham Hall married the Duke of Kent in the Minster. more...
A TELEVISION chef has been in York to "beat the drum" for top local food. more...
YORK had a long wait to see the Queen after her visit in 1988. The city did not host the sovereign during the Nineties, but that only heightened the sense of expectation when it was announced she would tour York on July 27, 2000. more...
TEN years after the royal wedding, York was celebrating again. It was the city's 1,900th birthday, a wonderful reason for a year-long party. And the guests of honour were the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. more...
A PIONEERING new service is set to bring the finest local food to a computer screen near you. more...
THE Queen's association with York Minster continued in the 1980s. After celebrating the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Kent there in 1961, and distributing the Maundy Money there in 1972 she toured the great church again in November 1988. more...
A LANDMARK in the Evening Press Eat Local campaign will be on the menu tonight as food lovers from across North and East Yorkshire prepare to tuck into a feast showcasing some of the region's finest produce. more...
ROYALIST and photographer Jim Wilson took these pictures of the Queen while she was staying at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk. more...
EXPECTATIONS are high for the future of a York-based company which supplies specialist computer systems for audio recording and video-editing. more...
JUBILEE Bank Holiday Monday is party day throughout the UK, and at the heart of the celebrations in North Yorkshire is BBC Music Live, bringing the music to the party. more...
AN ATTEMPT to breathe life back into rural industry has been launched by TV countryside personality John Craven. more...
The nation's biggest ever sing-song will take place when the Beatles' classic All You Need Is Love rings round the country on Monday. more...
The craft of traditional butchering is not dead in York. more...
THE secret is finally out, as we reveal the cream of the Yorkshire food industry - the winners of the Evening Press Eat Local competition. more...
JUBILEE joy is on the cards for York and North Yorkshire this bank holiday, say tourist chiefs. more...
THE overall winners of the Evening Press Eat Local competition were thrilled to be receiving a magnificent Supreme Champion's trophy at the Great Yorkshire Show today. more...
TWO madcap monarchists are camping outside Buckingham Palace for 36 HOURS this weekend for the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. more...
SCHOOLS in York and North Yorkshire want to buy regional produce from local supplies for better school meals, but EU red tape is stopping them, claims a countryside pressure group. more...
YORK residents are grabbing a golden opportunity to celebrate 50 years of the Queen's reign this Bank Holiday weekend. more...
HAIL to Maximus Gluteus, otherwise known as Keith Mulhearn and his Roam'in Tours of York. more...
THE Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in York got off to a cracking start with a weekend of colourful events in the city. more...
PASSERS-BY who stop to gaze through the window of one of York's newest music shops are as likely to be invited in for a cuppa as they are for a new amp. more...
WHAT a Golden Jubilee weekend you had. more...
YELLOW Pages demands green thinking. more...
HERE'S something to reflect on - a career in the glass industry. more...
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 a couple of young entrepreneurs came on the scene in York, they have been creating their own scenario of success. more...
George is a home-made cupboard. It's named after Jacky Featherstone's 14-year-old son. more...
THERE'S one dotcom that will never grow too big for its boots. more...
THERE are innate talents and discovered talents. more...
TWENTY years ago, husband and wife Brian and Sally Tozer settled at Pickering to set up a residential craft centre. more...
A BOOM in demand for holidays has led to a York firm dealing in hotel breaks taking on 30 more reservation staff. more...
HEALTH and Safety is booming for a York electronic manufacturing company. more...
York's Millennium Bridge will finally open today - in time for the Easter holidays. more...
WHEN it comes to effort and profit you can expect The Max from the 48 staff of The Max. more...
York's Millennium celebrations came to a late but great climax today when a £4.2 million new bridge across the Ouse was officially opened. more...
Two communities from either side of the Ouse were united today with the opening of York's Millennium Bridge. more...
YORK'S shiny new Millennium Bridge may have opened in a blaze of publicity this week, but residents living nearby think its glaring night-time lights are not such a bright idea. more...
IT IS a bus company with drive. more...
Walkers and cyclists were reassured today that York's Millennium Bridge is safe to use after cracks appeared on the pathway. more...
IT'S no trick of the imagination at Trickster's Lane Restaurant in York. more...
The Duke of York will give York's Millennium Bridge the royal seal of approval when he visits later this month, City of York Council revealed today. more...
Phooey to all those who fear April 1. That was the lucky day in 2000 when Veronica Finney and her partner, Paul Spink, first opened Turn Back Time in Heworth Road, York. more...
DRIVERS who take their vehicles across York's newest bridge are set to be blocked by new laws. more...
It began with a conversation in a North Yorkshire pub - no names, no pack drill - when Tony McGurrin and Tom Watherston discussed the poor state of the glasses in which their drinks were served. more...
IT WAS meant to be a monument to civic pride in the new century ... but police today admitted the Millennium Bridge site is now a major nuisance. more...
FRESH problems are dogging York's Millennium Bridge, with council chiefs admitting that they have no idea what is causing cracks on the walkway. more...
IT'S a juicy challenge, but a tough one. Can UK Juicers of Acaster Malbis keep the two titles in won last year - the Evening Press e-commerce Business of the Year and Growth Business of the Year? more...
THE Academy Hair and Beauty Training Centre, in Malton, seems to be on a permanent wave of success. more...
A YORK company which is holding its own as a successful brand development consultancy is vying for two accolades in this year's Evening Press Business of the Year awards. more...
A DERELICT outbuilding which was transformed into a gift shop has proved a hit in North Yorkshire. more...
MARK Johnson is used to running a sound business - literally. more...
A NEW dimension will be added to the forthcoming York 9s tournament with the news it will include an England v Scotland international fixture. more...
YORK City Knights have announced they are to sponsor the newly introduced Shield competition in this month's York International 9s. more...
Could the champion maker turn champion? more...
PLAYER-COACH Brendan Carlyle already has irons in the fire ahead of this weekend's York International 9s. more...
THE teams who make it through to the last 16 of this weekend's York International 9s will be offered automatic qualification to the 2004 tournament as organisers begin planning for next year's event, writes Peter Martini. more...
THE Russians descended on York yesterday as their representatives in the York International 9s, Strela Kazan, arrived in the city. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire couple who have brought the authentic taste of Africa to the Dales have been overwhelmed by the response to their business. more...
YORK IRONSIDES player-coach Brendan Carlyle reckons he has a squad good enough to win the York International 9s this weekend. more...
TWO little words put the final seal on a package of measures that keep the 94 staff at Woodlands MS Resource & Respite Care Centre, York, happy, dedicated and loathe to leave. They are: "Thank you." more...
YORK RU could have a couple of aces up their sleeves as they launch their cross-code assault on the York International 9s. more...
AGAINST doctors' advice, Maxine Emmett decided to have a second child. more...
A TRIO from York hope to don international jerseys tonight when England take on Scotland at Heworth ARLC's Elm Park Way. more...
AVIS Turner is on a mission to support adults with learning disabilities enter the world of employment and break down the social barriers they face. more...
BOOK lover Jo Dodd was working out her redundancy from Norwich Union when she decided to create Worm Holes. more...
Nine primary schools are all geared up for action in the Marston Moor Cup tomorrow. more...
A York firm which helps other businesses run smoothly today announced that it is heading for record profits. more...
YOUTH rugby in York is making giant steps to keep up with the big boys. more...
YORK Ironsides came close to a famous victory in the York International 9s tournament at Heworth yesterday. more...
YORK was conquered by the French this weekend as Lezignan won the city's second International 9's tournament. more...
BRITISH Sugar's York factory has yet again proved it is a heavyweight contender in the 2004 Evening Press Business of the Year competition. more...
SNOOKER'S glamour boy, Yorkshire's own Paul Hunter, makes his bow in this year's UK Championship in York at 10am on Wednesday morning. more...
NIGEL Bond, world championship beaten finalist eight years ago, made the first century break of the tournament as the £84,500 Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship got underway in York. more...
FEW printers publish prices. Instead they suggest to the public: Tell us what you want and we'll quote you. more...
SOME of the star names came into play today in York after a opening day of revenge, tight finishes and sore limbs in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
FRESH from its second victory in succession as Retailer of the Year in the annual Fine Art Guild Awards, Castle Galleries, in the Coppergate Centre, York, is now pitching for the same title in the 2004 Evening Press Business Awards. more...
IT was hairy stuff as Leeds potter Paul Hunter made it through to the last 16 of the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
A YORK woman wants to take the worry out of going out to work and leaving your child with a nanny. more...
A RELIEVED Paul Hunter has moved into the televised rounds of the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship, but Irish star Ken Doherty, beaten finalist in the last two UK tournaments in York, is on his way home after suffering a shock early exit. more...
HARRY Potter has boosted business for a York company, which supplies school furniture. more...
THE 1991 world champion John Parrott faces a tough second round match in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York on Saturday against Stephen Hendry, winner of the British Open last Sunday. more...
CASTLE Howard Estate is a natural contender for the Evening Press Best Environmental Company. more...
Steve Davis went out at the first hurdle for the third tournament in a row, beaten 9-6 yesterday by world number 17 Allister Carter, from Essex, in the UK Championship at York's Barbican. more...
BEASTIES and creepy crawlies are helping the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) at Sand Hutton to intensify the fascination of thousands of schoolchildren in the region in scientific study. more...
THE `Whirlwind' is up and running again and eager for his next big match in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
NO WONDER that Cicada is particularly chirpy just lately. more...
SELLING is more than a knack. It's a craft that can be learned - and trained sales teams yield more profits than untrained ones. more...
ARCHITECTS always boast that their work makes a difference to the environment, but few can lay greater claim to working for the common good than Phil Bixby, sole proprietor of Constructive Individuals. more...
IF the maxim for a successful business is try, try and try again then York City Knights Rugby League Football Club is bound to be a winner in more ways than one. more...
DARREN Morfitt was inspired to set up his own locksmith and security business after going to the rescue of a relative who had lost her handbag and house keys. more...
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...
THE National Railway Museum in York saw some of its biggest crowds ever at a single event as more than thousands of people crowded to RailFest. more...
A TRAIN which served the Royal Family for almost 40 years will go on display at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York. more...
WHAT began as a feasibility study in 1998 to see whether human allergy tests could be extended to animals has resulted in an amazing niche market company in York with a turnover of more than £500,000. more...
RailFest, the celebration of 200 years of railways, has proved a huge crowd puller at York's National Railway Museum. ALAN HYDE, corporate affairs manager for GNER, examines the wider significance of the event. more...
ROYALTY has made the National Railway Museum its home after rail chiefs handed over a special locomotive for the York collection. more...
NATURALLY, as a waste management company Yorwaste Ltd is single-mindedly dedicated to the environment. more...
THE wheel may have come off a prized exhibit, but that was one of only two dampeners on a fantastic celebration of rail in York. more...
THE award-winning Selby architects whose controversial plans for a £41 million redevelopment of York's Barbican site have been approved, today continued to defend their project. more...
Janine Roberts has always been at her happiest among the flowers, especially her own at her shop, Ello Flower in Goodramgate, York. more...
Michael and Mimika Cooney's brainwave took a 6,000-mile move to York and years of fine tuning before they could prove it was a truly great idea. more...
WHEN Karin von Bismarck arrived in York, the city where her husband, Michael, had come to work for Nestlé, she looked for an au pair agency and couldn't find one. So she started her own. more...
THERE'S nothing tougher than starting up a new business, but when you are partially sighted the challenge is even greater. more...
QUIP of the week at the Barbican this week was by Mark King after his first round win over Alain Robidoux. more...
HERE'S an accountant's equation that works: Handsome firefighter + girlies on a night-out + fire engine turned dream machine = Firemansliftsyork, a lucrative business that trades on emergency fantasies. more...
BRIAN Pritchard has won a second crack at winning some glory for Harrogate at this year's UK Snooker Championship. more...
REVITALISING an entire North Yorkshire town is a pretty fair reason to pitch for the title of Evening Press Best Environmental Company of the Year. more...
THERE have been 25 century breaks in the 28 matches played in the first three days of the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship at York's Barbican Centre. more...
MARK Williams, the world's top-ranked snooker player, whose opening match in this year's Travis Perkins UK Championship ends tonight, is attempting to become the first player for seven years to successfully defend the title. more...
A VISION of York 20 years from now is being created by the city's most influential community groups. more...
FISH and chips is in the blood for one York chippy owner who had a taste for the trade from a young age. more...
SNOOKER star Ronnie O'Sullivan, safely over the first hurdle in his bid to regain the UK title, isn't sure what the future holds for him. more...
THE chance to mould a city of the future is being offered to York's residents. more...
KEEPING positive under intense pressure helped Yorkshire star Paul Hunter stay on course in his bid to capture the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. more...
WITHOUT Walls is the new name of the project to draw up a vision for York. more...
JIMMY White is hoping to be at his best as he bids tonight to earn a place in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship semi-finals in York. more...
PLANNERS drawing up an image of York in 20 years' time have highlighted issues the city has to deal with. more...
RONNIE O'Sullivan, the world's most popular snooker player, is close to mental collapse he revealed after winning through to the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship quarter-finals in York. more...
YORK'S most influential groups were meeting today in an effort to form the next 20 years of the city's development. more...
THE chance of a clash of all-time greats in Sunday's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final in York is a step closer today with Jimmy White through to the semi-finals. more...
With the Without Walls debate in full swing, STEPHEN LEWIS asks Sir Ron Cooke for his ideas for the future of the city more...
WHETHER it's a fast food outlet or health spa, York's GIA has the experience and the know-how to design it. more...
THE Welsh dragon will walk into the arena in York tomorrow for a final snooker showdown after having had just enough fire-power to stem a once mighty `Whirlwind' reduced to little more than a few feeble gusts. more...
THE challenges facing York over the next 20 years were outlined to a packed conference in the city. more...
SESSIONS to let city residents help create a vision for York's future are to be held early next week. more...
I HAVE recently returned from a weekend visit to York and, while I appreciate the quality and interest of what you have to offer, our visit was soured and I will never visit the city again. more...
RONNIE O'Sullivan was leading the way with most centuries at this year's UK Championship ahead of the semi-finals and final. more...
I WOULD never for a moment suggest the stream of civic-minded people passing through Guildhall were motivated as much by the promise of a free mince pie and a cup of hot coffee as by the desire to contribute to the debate on the city's future. more...
The ditty from which Adam Rodway's York venture takes its name may be dotty, but "...give the dog a bone" gift shop is doing very nicely in knick-knacks, thank you. more...
Mike Laycock looks back at our campaign against York's new parking charges and restrictions, which has gathered support from across the community. more...
York team captain Kevin Hopper triumphed in style in the inter-town amateur challenge final against Harrogate's champion this week. more...
THERE is something about a Giles Rocholl picture that puts the excitement into businesses. more...
ALMOST 6,500 people have called on City of York Council to halt its highway robbery. more...
WINNING a world ranking tournament for the first time in his career after a dramatic Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship final in York gives Matthew Stevens double reason to celebrate this Christmas. more...
WHEN you produce mushrooms, it's worth playing it by the book. more...
A COMPANY BOSS claims York's parking policy "stinks" and is likely to drive away the small businesses and shoppers needed for the city to prosper. more...
MATTHEW Stevens has gone top in snooker's LG Electronics Tour Order of Merit following his victory in the Travis Perkins UK Championship in York on Sunday. more...
A FORMER pig farmer proved that there is more than one way of bringing home the bacon when he changed his career to the graphics industry. more...
CELEBRITY chef John Benson-Smith has revealed he was thinking of opening a new restaurant in York - until evening parking charges came in. more...
THREE more organisations are abandoning York city centre for their meetings in the wake of evening parking charges. more...
A CITY centre hotel manager says York's evening parking charges have hit his business - and are a poor reward for almost £6 million of investment. more...
ONE more major protest against York's parking charges is being planned on "P-Day" - the day councillors decide whether to scrap or reduce evening fees. more...
CRICKETERS have been hit for six by evening parking charges, it was revealed today - as council officers prepared to unveil possible changes to the fees. more...
CONTROVERSIAL evening parking charges in York are set to be cut to a flat rate £2 - with a £1 discount for residents. more...
BUSINESS leaders who have been heavily involved in the campaign against evening parking charges have warmly welcomed the changes. more...
MOTORISTS and business leaders today warmly welcomed council proposals to halt York's highway robbery. 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...
THE elegant arch of York's new Millennium Bridge rises above the banks of the River Ouse. more...
THE owners of a top York restaurant who warned they might quit York because of yellow lines have welcomed plans to restore evening on-street parking. more...
THE launch date for York's new Millennium Bridge has been set for next Wednesday. more...
FEWER people have been parking in City of York Council's long-stay car parks - and even these have been leaving their vehicles for shorter periods, a report has revealed. more...
FOR Jacqui Gernon, the baby boom goes on. Construction work on her third Happy Jays day nursery has begun. more...
YORK'S Millennium Bridge has `fallen' victim to October's heavy downpours. more...
A NUN has pleaded for yellow lines outside her York convent to be included in a proposed review of evening parking restrictions. more...
The waiting is over. more...
Anticipation was written on the faces of Millennium Bridge watchers as they squinted in the autumn sun and waited...and waited...and waited for York's new superstructure to glide in to place. more...
ANTICIPATION was written on the faces of Millennium Bridge watchers as they squinted in the autumn sun and waited ... and waited ... and waited for York's new superstructure to glide into place. more...
CHANGING the image of tattoos and piercings - this was the ambitious aim of a York body art studio. more...
A £3 MILLION state-of-the art waste water treatment plant has been hailed as "potentially an important step forward" in attempts to restore salmon stocks in the River Ouse. more...
Workers laboured into the early hours to make sure York awoke to see its Millennium Bridge proudly in position. more...
York is set to enter the year 2001 with its Millennium Bridge still closed to the public. more...
AS the sighted child of blind parents Gareth Owens has always regarded the task of translating complexities into simple language as his birthright. more...
FEW organisations could have had more of an impact on York than the 127-year-old firm of family builders, William Birch & Son. more...
THE Evening Press today urges Coun Steve Galloway, leader of City of York Council, to reconsider the draconian parking charges that are driving visitors away from York and threatening to ruin the economy of the city's heart. more...
A LOT of time, effort and money has gone into making Burn & Company, the York solicitors and business practice, a "people first" organisation. more...
YORK'S controversial new parking charges and restrictions must go - and today the Evening Press launches a campaign to achieve just that. more...
AFTER all the risk taking and emotional turbulence, the struggle to raise capital and the careful networking, David Horner & Co, York-based business recovery and insolvency specialist, is not only up and running but pitching for the title of New Business of the Year in the Evening Press Business Awards. more...
A WORRIED mother told today how she fears her teenage daughter's safety has been jeopardised by new parking restrictions in York city centre. more...
IF the turf at St James's Park football pitch in Newcastle now becomes hallowed as a result of England's 2 - 0 victory over the Albanians in this week's World Cup qualifier, then give thanks to an East Riding turfmaker. more...
THE furious owner of one of York's top restaurants - Rish, in Fossgate - is planning to hit City of York Council in the pocket over its controversial parking policies. more...
NEARLY three years ago when Maureen Ryan, then aged 53, was suddenly, shockingly, made redundant she promised herself that from now on she would never work at anything she did not enjoy. more...
THE owner of a York art gallery and shop claims parking charges are penalising the shoppers and tourists who bring wealth and prosperity to the city. more...
SALEEM AKHTAR, the man who has built up an expanding chain of Asian restaurants across the region, is spicing up the Evening Press Business Awards. more...
A CARE group that helps people come to terms with bereavements today backed our campaign to axe York's new parking charges. more...
AFTER only a few months, Barbara Birdsall and Kate Willink set up a rival bank to their downstairs neighbours, Barclays, at Easingwold. more...
It's not just that York-based Corus Rail Consultancy has almost doubled its staff - from 195 to 350 - since it moved into the private sector from British Rail that makes it a strong contender for the Growth Business of the Year category. more...
HERE are some more views from readers about York's new parking charges and restrictions: more...
AS an organisation which specialises in business development advice it is worth heeding what Hunter Gee & Holroyd, the York chartered accountancy firm has been doing to collectively involve its own staff in making major changes and improvements. 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...
NO, you are not a foot fetishist! You really have seen the name of Stuart Paver connected with the Evening Press Business Awards before. more...
BUILDING communities is a matter of action, not talk for Phil Bixby, of York. more...
MOTORISTS have told how they now rarely venture into York on an evening, following the introduction of after-hours parking charges. more...
A NO-COMPROMISE yet empathetic approach to recruitment is paying dividends for more...
A MUSEUM boss has spoken out about the "bizarre" introduction of evening parking charges - not long after a campaign was launched to boost York's evening economy. more...
EVERYONE has gasped at the speed with which CPP - Card Protection Plan - has become one of the biggest employers in York, operating out of its new £10 million flagship HQ at Holgate Park. more...
TIME machines, it seems, are big business. Past Forward Limited, the York exhibition-maker which uses 21st century techniques to transport us all into history, proves the point. more...
IN WHAT now seems the olden days, workers would "punch a card" or clock-in. Then came family-owned Mitrefinch, of York, to blaze a new trail by creating the first-ever computerised time-recording system. more...
CLAMPERS are set to move on to the streets of York to deal with drivers who persistently flout parking regulations. more...
OF all the millions of labels produced by Sessions of York, the huge label printing and application machinery company on a five-acre site in Huntington, York, there is one yet to be worn by the firm itself - the Evening Press Exporter of the Year. more...
ANGER is mounting at York's parking taxes. Every day brings new protests. more...
APPLAUD Jane and Martin Nordli for making a huge success of facing the ruin .of history more...
I HAVE lived in York all my life, that is more than 50 years, and I have not seen a council treat city businesses with such contempt. more...
WHO could question the fact that as a business, TLC Pet Allergy Testing of Bishopthorpe, York, has been barking up the right tree? more...
THE owner of a York alterative therapies centre spoke today of her anger at having to shut up shop because she claims parking charges have hammered her business. more...
SHEY were finalists in last year's tough category for Best Environmental Company - and this time Chris and Christine Dennis justifiably expect their Tadcaster business, Waste To Compost to be up there among this year's leaders. more...
TRADES unionists are pressing ahead with a public meeting on York's controversial parking charges - and say City of York Council has been invited to attend. more...
A TRADER says he is considering moving out of York city centre because business has slumped so badly in the wake of the parking charge changes. more...
THERE has been a lot of glittering revelry since the last time Fiona Sidwell entered her York-based corporate hospitality and events company, Exclusive Events, in the Evening Press Business of the Year. more...
Bass Brewers, which employs 123 people at the Tower Brewery, Tadcaster, keeps up the good work which earned the company so much praise as finalists of last year's Evening Press Business Awards. more...
A SOCIETY which has been organising public lectures in York city centre since 1833 suggested today that evening parking charges could place the long-standing tradition in jeopardy. more...
NO sooner had Saville Audio Visual, of Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, submitted its entry for the Evening Press Business of the Year Awards when it found itself playing a major role in international preparations in the aftermath of the U.S. terrorist atrocities. more...
A DEPARTMENT store is offering customers a parking fee refund in an effort to spark a campaign to lure shoppers back into York city centre. more...
ENTRANTS in the Evening Press Business of the Year 2001 do not come much bigger than Persimmon plc, the York-based housebuilder which boasts 4,453 employees nationally. more...
MORE motorists have come forward to tell how they no longer come to York city centre in the evening because of the controversial new parking charges. more...
ALL those starting out on the hard, but rewarding road to exports, can learn inspiring lessons from Norfeed UK Ltd. more...
YORK'S three leading music theatre groups have branded evening parking charges a "dangerous and direct" attack on the evening life of the city centre. more...
STAFF at York-based Mitrefinch are today celebrating the news that the company has won the Pay Awards 2001 Best Support Product or Service for the Payroll Industry category. more...
A YORK choir is warning that it will no longer give concerts in the city centre because of evening parking charges - and might even have to close down altogether. more...
IT'S tough starting out in the crowded estate agency business, even in boomtime. more...
MOTORISTS can still park for free on an evening in a City of York Council car park, the Evening Press can reveal today. more...
IN only seven years Clive Owen & Company has become one of the top firms of chartered accountants and business advisers in the York area - and it believes in training with a passion more...
HUNDREDS of readers have flocked to sign the Evening Press petition calling for an end to York's "highway robbery". more...
WHERE one Swallow usually makes a summer this time it made a Marriott and heralded the start of the BAM busters. more...
DOUBLE yellow lines might have been - controversially - painted in York's Fossgate, but this photograph reveals how many motorists are still parking there regardless. more...
APPLYING feng shui, the ancient art of positioning furniture to create a more harmonious flow of chi, or energy, helped to boost turnover at the Healing Clinic in York tenfold. That is the claim of June Tranmer, founder-proprietor the natural health centre in Fulford Cross, in her submission for the Evening Press Business Of The Year Awards. more...
Following the storm of protest over parking charges, York council leader Steve Galloway is writing a series of four articles to explain the background to the changes. In his second article, he addresses the state of the city centre economy. more...
A MOTORIST has attacked the price of a Park & Ride ticket in York, after discovering that the equivalent service in Scarborough is much cheaper. more...
SHEPPEE International Ltd, the Elvington firm with a lotta bottle was last year's Exporter Of The Year. Can it do the double? more...
WITH a name like Acute Marketing, Nick Eggleton expects his York business to take sudden tangents, but in his case they are always on an upward path. more...
DOZENS of evening classes are to be switched from York city centre to the University of York campus in the wake of evening parking charges. more...
WHEN brothers Richard and Ross Stewart pooled their talents to form a company in Selby more than a year ago, it not only "had legs" - it had wheels. more...
ONE of York's leading developers has warned that York's "ridiculous" parking charges could put an end to the city's revitalisation. more...
IT took only ten weeks for rapidly expanding e-commerce firm Management Services 2000 Ltd of York (MS2M) to attain the Investors in People standard. more...
AUDIENCES at York Theatre Royal have fallen by ten per cent in the wake of evening parking charges. more...
A ROAD-building and haulage business in Thirsk has since diversified into such a model of waste disposal, recycling and management that it is pitching for our Best Environmental Company of the Year. more...
CITY OF YORK Council leader Steve Galloway is to debate the authority's controversial parking charge policy with some of its fiercest opponents. more...
CONVERGENT Telecom Limited, which, with 225 staff, is one of the biggest employers in Pocklington, is setting its sights on the Innovative Use of New Technology Award. more...
COUNCILLORS claim residents are up in arms after being shunned by York's new Park&Ride service. more...
THERE has been a massive leap in imagineering and next year it will be even greater. more...
A VOLUNTEER who gives her free time to mentor a troubled youngster has hit out at York's evening parking charges. more...
YORK Gift Hampers, that wonderful marriage of tradition and technology, was a finalist in last year's awards. Can it succeed again in the Innovative Use of New Technology category? And can its new venture win the New Business of the Year? more...
RESIDENTS in an area of York were baffled when an anonymous document came through their letterboxes, defending City of York Council's parking policies. more...
YOU'VE got to tip your hard hat to the founder of the booming York company, Guildford Construction Ltd. more...
A NIGHT out in York has become an expensive treat for Ryedale people, say town councillors at Kirkbymoorside who are pressing the city council to give them a better deal on the controversial parking issue. more...
POCKLINGTON Coachworks of Osbaldwick seems to make a habit of reaching the finals of the Evening Press Business of the Year awards. more...
MOTORISTS have told how their evenings out in York were ruined by unexpected parking tickets. more...
In the third of four articles responding to the Evening Press' Stop The Highway Robbery campaign, Liberal Democrat councillor Steve Galloway, leader of City of York Council, explains the authority's attitude to cars - and reveals the increased use of buses in York. more...
FIVE years ago Infocom at the York Science Park was a start-up funded by £100,000 of private investment and four staff. more...
A SHOWDOWN over York's parking charges is expected next week after opposition councillors tabled a motion calling for an urgent review. more...
SMALL traders in York revealed today that they had suffered a sharp drop in business - with some not expecting to stay afloat for the next 12 months. more...
YORK'S tourism chief Gillian Cruddas has joined the hundreds of city residents signing up every day to the Evening Press's Stop The Highway Robbery campaign. more...
AS a market trader for 30 years I have seen the ups and downs of York trade. Unfortunately it has been more down than up. more...
YORK council leader Steve Galloway has responded to furious protests against parking charges by issuing an extraordinary challenge to the Evening Press and the people of York. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to York's tourism chief about parking charges and Royal Ascot. more...
A PAINTER and decorator has hit out at the parking difficulties he faces when trying to paint shop fronts in York city centre. more...
With the local elections looming, the scramble for your votes is hotting up. The three main City of York party leaders explain why you should choose them... more...
TRADE unionists are threatening to stage a fuel-protest-style "go slow" during the Ebor Day race meeting if councillors fail to agree to an urgent review of York's parking charges. more...
ROAD humps, crime and congestion charges were all on the agenda when voters of the future grilled politicians of the present at a York school election hustings event. more...
NEW tourism figures appear to show that York's popularity continues to grow - despite the controversial city centre parking charges. more...
A GROUP of independently-minded York election candidates today urged voters to "dump the dinosaurs" - and vote Independent. more...
STEPHEN Hendry, the seven times world champion, eased his way into the third round of the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship, with a convincing 9-4 win over Welshman Dominic Dale last night. more...
I was at Thursday evening's meeting with Steve Galloway, when he issued the Evening Press with his oddball challenge about supporting recycling (Under Pressure, July 23). more...
CURRENT and would-be councillors who braved York's voters of the future at a lively question and answer session today hailed the event a success. more...
THERE have been 26 century breaks in the PowerHouse UK Championship this week up to end of play on Thursday night. more...
THE gloves came off today in Selby's local election campaign as the Labour and Conservative Parties launched their manifestos. more...
THE only female referee on snooker's world ranking tournament circuit has been busy at the Barbican Centre this week. more...
YORK'S controversial evening parking charges could be changed by November, council leader Steve Galloway said today. more...
HUNDREDS of North Yorkshire residents turned up to an event aimed at helping them shore up their defences against flooding. more...
A VOTE for an Independent councillor is a free vote and a free voice, says long-serving Selby councillor Maurice Patrick. more...
THE best disabled snooker players in Britain duel for UK glory at the Barbican Centre on Wednesday morning. more...
OFFICERS suggested raising revenue through evening parking charges when Labour ran York council - but the party said "no" because of the potential damage, Labour group leader Dave Merrett revealed today. more...
MOTORISTS in York and North Yorkshire were being urged to drive carefully today after the region's roads were covered with debris and standing water by strong winds and rain. more...
TWO York brothers will be appearing on television with their snooker hero during the BBC's coverage of the PowerHouse UK Championship. more...
I WAS interested to read that Steve Galloway suggests parking charges could be reduced, even done away with, if recycling were increased and residents used the system more (Under Pressure, July 23). more...
TWO flood warnings have been issued on the River Ouse at York and Naburn today following more heavy rainfall. more...
DEFENDING champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is biting mad as he starts his second match in this year's PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York tonight. more...
CASH-STRAPPED City of York Council has managed to find £50,000 to employ consultants - and should also find money to scrap new parking charges, Labour group leader Dave Merrett claimed today. more...
EXPERTS are to be quizzed tonight by councillors looking into the issues surrounding flooding in York. more...
Yorkshire hopes of a white rose triumph in this year's UK Snooker Championship vanished as Leeds star Paul Hunter's sudden loss of form continued yesterday and he went out 9-4 to former world champion Ken Doherty, last year's UK beaten finalist. more...
A SHOPKEEPER today paid his monthly £638 business rates bill in small change in protest at York's parking charges. more...
DEFENDING York against future flooding could cost as much as £11 million - and the Environment Agency admits such funding may be difficult to secure. more...
RONNIE O'Sullivan is at a loss as he seeks to stay on track in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York tonight. more...
YORK'S evening parking charges have come under a blistering attack from York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. more...
THE Government has stumped up an extra £1.5 million towards the cost of new Yorkshire flood defences in the wake of last year's disaster. more...
DETHRONED champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is locking his cue away till next year after his shock exit from the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in York. more...
MORE York organisations and individuals - from the Tories to the Quakers - have joined the Evening Press campaign to Stop The Highway Robbery. more...
MPs Hugh Bayley and Anne McIntosh have secured a Ministerial meeting to discuss the need for millions of pounds of flood defence work in North Yorkshire. more...
PETER Ebdon is aiming to give himself a Christmas bonus by becoming only the sixth player to complete snooker's big double - world and UK champion in the same year. more...
THEY had come from various operatic societies and choirs from across the York area - but they were all singing from the same hymn sheet. more...
ONE year on from the flooding which devastated North Yorkshire, an MP revealed today he is pressing for a major change in the way flood defences are funded. more...
A REVIEW of York's controversial parking charges will be completed within two months, following a noisy lobby of councillors by scores of protesters and a stormy council meeting. more...
FLOOD victims were furious today after planners called for a £1 million defence scheme at Stamford Bridge to be put on hold. more...
Ken Doherty bids to make it third time lucky tomorrow in the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship final. more...
WHAT will it take for this city council to realise that the "ghost capital of the world" is fast becoming the ghost city of the North? more...
A £1 MILLION scheme to protect Stamford Bridge from flooding has been blocked by councillors - devastating a mother whose family home and business have twice been inundated. more...
YORK CITY midfielder Lee Bullock collected a snooker cue for winning the man of the match award in the FA Cup game against Brentford last Saturday. more...
THE future of the world's best woman snooker player could be in doubt, she admitted in York this week after playing through pain to retain her UK title. more...
SMALL traders have come up with a series of suggestions to help City of York Council raise extra cash so parking charges can be cut. more...
RESIDENTS and businesses in the centre of Stamford Bridge have launched a campaign group to press for flood defences to be built as quickly as possible. more...
A YORKSHIREMAN will be centre stage in tomorrow's PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship final at York's Barbican Centre. more...
I RARELY go to Monks Cross shopping centre, but when my wife and I did on Sunday afternoon we were struck by three things. It is very easy to get to by car, parking is free, and the centre was full. more...
FLOOD victims who are unable to live in their homes could soon be entitled to reduced Council Tax bills. more...
TIM HART gained revenge for York when he beat Harrogate's Brian Pritchard in the amateur challenge match at the Barbican CueZone. more...
A LIBERAL Democrat councillor has written to York businesses which advertised in the Evening Press' recent parking protest supplement to ask for "constructive suggestions". more...
FUNDING for flood defences across Yorkshire looks set to be plunged into further crisis next month. more...
THE 138 by Mark Davis in his first round match remains the highest break made in York since the PowerHouse UK Championship started at the Barbican on December 1. more...
YORK could introduce a flat rate evening parking charge - with a hefty discount for residents, it emerged today. more...
URGENT repairs to York's flood defences can now go ahead, after the region's flood chiefs approved a ten per cent increase in the local authority levy. more...
WATCH out on television next spring for a piece of snooker wizardry from the young pro' who has been running the show at the Barbican CueZone during the UK Championship. more...
SIGNATURES are still being collected at shops and cafés across the city for the Evening Press Stop The Highway Robbery petition. more...
COUNCILLORS in York are set to lobby the Government for millions of pounds in order to protect the city against flooding. more...
A FIGHTING friend inspired Mark Williams to deliver a knockout punch to land the PowerHouse UK Snooker Championship in a toe-to-toe battle which went the full distance at York's Barbican Centre. more...
In his fourth and final article in response to the Evening Press Stop The Highway Robbery campaign, York council leader STEVE GALLOWAY examines options for changing city centre parking charges and restrictions. more...
ENVIRONMENT Minister Elliot Morley is to visit Ryedale next week to view work on the Malton and Norton flood defences. more...
CONTROVERSIAL York parking charges have been defended - because they could help in the battle to save the environment. more...
YORK is to host Britain's first National Flood Forum - two years after the city was hit by the devastating floods of autumn 2000. more...
CHARITIES, voluntary workers and street entertainers in York could be spared evening parking charges. more...
FLOOD defence chiefs have approved urgent repairs costing more than £1 million to three damaged defences in Yorkshire. more...
"COUNCILLOR" Mike Laycock's restaurant review (July 31) shows clearly that his parking campaign is just a soupcon of gourmet scaremongering. more...
VITAL work to keep North Yorkshire roads and properties free from flooding has been placed in doubt after plans emerged to slash county council funding for the work of the environment department. more...
BOSSES of a York restaurant group say they are struggling to recruit new staff because of crippling parking charges. more...
THERE is a certain irony in Lloyd Massingham of Rock-Ola music accusing me of intimidation, not by writing to me personally but by sending a letter at me through the Press (`Anger at letter to advertisers', August 2). more...
A RESIDENT asked to take part in a City of York Council survey claimed today that questions on controversial evening parking charges were biased. more...
AN "OVERWHELMING" number of York motorists want the city's controversial new evening parking charges scrapped, according to councillors behind a new survey. more...
I WAS disappointed to read that the Liberal Democrat councillors are upsetting businesses and individuals who criticise their parking policies. more...
HUNDREDS of shopkeepers, clubs, voluntary and residents' groups have been invited to a meeting to decide the next stage of a campaign against York's parking charges. more...
YORK'S controversial new parking charges and restrictions cost £158,800 to introduce, it was revealed today. more...
YORK'S high parking charges have come under fire from an organisation representing the city's pensioners. more...
GUESTS staying in bed and breakfast accommodation at York's Bar Convent have confirmed some of the nuns' worst fears about the impact of evening parking charges. more...
A RETAILER has launched a scathing attack on York's parking charges, claiming they are ruining the city's economy. more...
FORMER Cabinet Minister Frank Dobson is backing the Evening Press Stop The Highway Robbery campaign. more...
A COUPLE warned today that their York restaurant and similar small businesses will go bankrupt unless evening parking charges are dropped soon. more...
MEASURES intended to improve car parking in an East Yorkshire town have angered traders. more...
VISITORS are deserting York for the charms of a neighbouring district because of controversial parking charges and Minster entry fees, it was claimed today. more...
THE Evening Press Stop The Highway Robbery petition has collected more than 5,000 signatures. more...
PARKING charges and restrictions are set to cost a York pub thousands in lost takings - after rugby players abandoned it for their post-match celebrations. more...
As the row over York's evening parking charges rumbles on, Mike Laycock visits another historic northern city to examine what happens when motorists park up there for a night out. more...
Congratulations to the Evening Press for the sustained pressure on City of York Council over parking charges and yellow lines. more...
THE Evening Press Stop The Highway Robbery petition was being handed over to City of York Council today - boosted by hundreds of signatures collected at a city centre department store. more...
A TOURIST says he will never visit York again after his family and two friends were fined up to £210 - because they had returned to their parked cars 18 minutes late. more...
SADDAM Hussein was defiant today after the war against Iraq was launched with a wave of air strikes targeting the country's top leadership. more...
THE Home Office has set out "simple preventative steps" - like stocking up on bottled water and tinned food - that people should take to guard themselves against possible terror attacks in this country. more...
MANY Terry's workers have been at the factory since they left school. Reporter Richard Edwards asked them their thoughts on a black day for York. more...
YORKSHIRE'S top army officer spoke today of his confidence in soldiers from the region who have been deployed to the Gulf. more...
FOR one former Terry's worker, the news the historic York factory was to shut hit especially hard. more...
THE Terry's chocolate factory site could be worth more than £50 million, if property-hungry developers get their way. more...
The Lord Mayor of York today offered his full support to the servicemen and women from the city who are out in the Gulf. more...
The last surviving Terry who managed the York chocolate factory returned to the Bishopthorpe Road site today and declared: "This is a tragic moment - for the more than 300 who work here, for past employees, for years of history." more...
THE Labour Party is today at least three members lighter after three York stalwarts burned their membership cards in response to war in Iraq. more...
THE American owners of Terry's were urged today to think again about their decision to close the York chocolate factory. more...
SECURITY has been tightened at Westminster amid fears of a terrorist attack more...
THE Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York is winning heavyweight backing. more...
MPs from across York and North Yorkshire today spoke of their regret as war started in the Gulf. more...
The Evening Press is campaigning to save Terry's and more than 300 jobs. more...
YORK residents were today urged to take part in non-violent civil disobedience in protest at war in Iraq. more...
THE shock has subsided. York now has a choice: we can meekly accept Terry's closure with a shrug and a sigh, or we can fight back. more...
WOULD-BE human shield Antoinette McCormick has reached Baghdad - just hours before the conflict began. more...
A UNION leader today declared his support for the Evening Press campaign to keep Terry's in York. more...
Police were called to a York school after hundreds of students protesting against war with Iraq spilled out onto a city street. more...
Ripon Cathedral is to hold a special service of prayers on Saturday. more...
Two Iraqi missiles this morning hit northern Kuwait, according to the official Kuwaiti news agency. more...
Opinion on the outbreak of war were divided in York today. more...
CIVIC heads in Selby and Tadcaster today urged local people to get behind the British troops - even if they were against the war with Iraq. more...
PUPILS at a York private school were today holding a silent vigil against the war. more...
THE war against Iraq claimed its first British casualties early today when a helicopter crashed in the Kuwaiti desert. more...
Student protesters today claimed police officers were heavy-handed with them as they were arrested during anti-war demonstrations in York city centre. more...
YORK College students were thrown off campus as they tried to gather support for their anti-war protest, sparking a row between college management and staff. more...
TRAFFIC was brought to a standstill in the centre of York last night as peace protesters occupied Ouse Bridge and Museum Street. more...
ABOUT 200 hundred pupils took part in a vigil at a York school following the start of the war. more...
The war in Iraq has triggered an unprecedented wave of protest in York. Political Reporter Richard Edwards observed local demonstrators as they said: "Not in our name" more...
BRITISH and American troops may enter Baghdad by Monday, a British military official revealed today. more...
MILLIONS of euros of European Union money have already been released to help provide humanitarian aid to refugees from the Iraqi war, York MP Hugh Bayley said today. more...
TORY MP John Greenway has called for limits on how anti-war protesters are allowed to behave. more...
YORK-BORN actress Dame Judi Dench is taking centre stage on Sunday night at a Concert For Peace. more...
EX-SERVICEMEN and women are urging York residents not to forget troops fighting in the Gulf. more...
AN IRAQI living in North Yorkshire was desperately trying to contact his family in Baghdad after Friday night's intense bombardment of the capital. more...
ANTI-war protesters daubed red paint on York's Mansion House and other council buildings to symbolise the blood of those being bombed in Iraq. more...
THE Evening Press today issues an urgent plea to highways bosses: Get York Moving. more...
SEVEN British servicemen aboard two Royal Navy Sea King helicopters died in a mid-air collision during action in the war on Iraq. more...
THE Evening Press today took its campaign to Get York Moving to a crucial meeting of highways bosses. more...
ROAD bosses are to adopt traffic chaos solutions put forward by Evening Press readers to help solve the A64 roadworks chaos. more...
MOTORISTS have been assured there will be no repeat of the Copmanthorpe traffic jam nightmare when the next big A64 project gets underway. more...
THIRTEEN people were arrested during the biggest protest seen at a North Yorkshire "spy base" in 20 years. more...
YORK'S traffic nightmare eased today when Cemetery Road reopened to vehicles. more...
FIVE coachloads of York protesters against the war in Iraq joined a major peace march in London. more...
SALES of bottled water have rocketed in York, as people stockpile emergency supplies - and cope with the warm spring weather. more...
DOZENS of members of two different faiths came together to pray for peace at a North Yorkshire cathedral. more...
TWO British soldiers are missing in southern Iraq, and several US marines have been killed in fighting around the city of Nasiriyah, in what has been described as the toughest day so far in the war in the Gulf. more...
HUMAN shield Antoinette McCormick told today of the daily terror of life in Baghdad. The 38-year-old York woman, speaking exclusively to the Evening Press, revealed she has now fulfilled her original aim of becoming a shield to avert Allied bombing of civilian sites. more...
THE mother of a North Yorkshire soldier out in the Gulf told today of the "absolute hell" her family has been going through since the war started. more...
HUMAN shield Antoinette McCormick, speaking from war-torn Baghdad today, said the message to her from ordinary Iraqis had been: "We hate Bush, but we love Americans." more...
A GULF War veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome is urging people to rally behind our troops by sending them messages of support through the Evening Press. more...
GNER is poised to clinch the East Coast Main Line franchise, it emerged today. more...
MINISTERS have pledged to announce the winner of the drawn-out battle for the East Coast Mainline franchise within two weeks. more...
Transport Secretary Stephen Byers today extended the GNER franchise by two years, until April 2005. more...
ANGRY MPs and passengers today condemned a "scandalous" Government decision to extend GNER's franchise by only two years. more...
THE Government's failure to award GNER a 20-year rail franchise on the East Coast Main Line could have a "potentially devastating" threat on York, according to a leading councillor. more...
A RAIL watchdog today savaged the Government's decision to "play the two-year Joker card" over the East Coast line franchise. more...
TRAIN travellers who prefer the sound of silence to the shrill symphony of mobile phone ring tones can now go in peace thanks to the latest move by York-based rail firm GNER. more...
THE Government's most senior rail adviser has re-ignited the East Coast Main Line franchise controversy by revealing that Ministers repeatedly ignored his recommendation that GNER should be given a 20-year deal. more...
THE dream of faster and more comfortable trains to London will be put on hold until 2006. more...
RAILTRACK chairman John Robinson has delivered a vicious assault on the Government, launching a salvo of criticism over its handling of the company's demise. more...
GNER managed to buck the national trend last year by reducing the number of more...
This year is the 28th UK Snooker Championship. more...
A NEW name went on the UK Snooker Championship trophy last year as Welshman Matthew Stevens gained the first ranking title of his career at the end of a York tournament full of surprises. more...
For the second year in succession, a Welshman won snooker's second biggest prize when Matthew Stevens triumphed in last year's Travis Perkins UK Championship final at York's Barbican Centre. more...
A DAY before Yorkshire hero Paul Hunter's first match in this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship the man who taught him how to play will be in action. more...
MAKING the highest break ever recorded in pro snook-er wasn't enough to win Jamie Burnett a place in the final stages of this year's Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship in York. more...
The magnificent Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship trophy won't be the only glittering prize on display at York's Barbican Centre during the big tournament. more...
THE youngest player competing in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship will be 17-year-old Chinese cracker Ding Junhui. more...
EIGHT of the 48 players in the starting line-up for the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship starting on Monday are new to the Barbican Centre. more...
AUSSIE hot-shot Quinten Hann's opponents will have to box clever when they come up against him in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship. The quick-tempered `bad boy' is fighting fit after taking up boxing this summer. more...
YORK council leader Steve Galloway has sought to quash rumours that Terry's chocolate factory will easily fall into the hands of residential property developers. more...
A SENIOR Cabinet Minister has declared Terry's decision to close its historic factory as a "body blow" for York more...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has held talks with Terry's boss John Pollock and union leaders about plans to close the chocolate factory next year. more...
In the wake of its decision to close down Terry's chocolate factory, Mike Laycock examines the structure of the US food giant Kraft. more...
SUPPORT is coming in for our campaign to save Terry's - from across the York community and much further afield. more...
THEY will no longer be made in York if Terry's closes down next year - but York Fruits will continue to keep their traditional name. more...
I WAS amused to read in your Save Terry's campaign that "the last surviving Terry" blames "people from abroad who take over without having a local interest". more...
CONGRATULATIONS to the Evening Press and the GMB union for taking on Kraft Foods over its threat to close Terry's. more...
The National Railway Museum will be alive with the sound of music and theatre as part of the celebrations to mark the bicentenary of the train. more...
A LEADING Euro MP claimed today that the decision by Kraft Foods to close Terry's chocolate factory in York was another example of multinational companies thinking the UK was an "easy touch". more...
One of the UK's biggest ever rail festivals is being planned by the National Railway Museum to celebrate the bicentenary of the train. more...
The UK rail industry is joining forces with the National Railway Museum to offer a unique insight into the modern railway. more...
HOW perceptive of Colin S Jeffrey to know the closure of Terry's of York will not devastate people's lives (April 23). more...
From miniature models to massive steam locomotives, Railfest will have an unrivalled range of rides for visitors to enjoy. more...
DESPITE living on the South Coast I am shocked to read Terry's chocolate firm is dumping York and its workforce and skipping out to Poland or thereabouts. more...
The most famous locomotive in the world will open one of the largest rail festivals this country has ever seen. Flying Scotsman will steam into York on May 29 to officially open Railfest, the National Railway Museum's celebration of 200 years of the train. more...
TOURISM bosses have welcomed suggestions that a chocolate visitor centre should be opened at Terry's if the factory closes down. more...
TENS of thousands of people are expected to flood into York this weekend, as the city celebrates 200 years of rail travel. more...
MORE than 1,000 people have already backed our campaign to save Terry's - just over a week after the shock news broke that the chocolate factory is set to close. more...
IT was the moment York had been waiting for - when the Flying Scotsman arrived home to crowds of cheering train enthusiasts. more...
A CONSUMER boycott of Terry's chocolates may be gathering pace in protest at the decision to close the York factory. more...
RAIL passengers are to get a chance to try out a new train at the National Railway Museum in York this week. more...
AFTER marrying into a family of past and present Terry's workers, I have lost count of the number of times I have heard the phrase "we have stopped making them". more...
PASSENGERS were given a sneak preview of things to come when a new train was unveiled at the York RailFest celebrations. more...
IT is time the people of York and beyond dragged themselves into the real world with regard to the Terry's closure. The owners of the building are going to close the place and flog it for as much as they can get. more...
LIKE countless others, I was shocked to hear of the planned closure of Terry's and can, from a rather unique standpoint, empathise with the people of York and, particularly, the firm's employees past and present. more...
THE campaign to save Terry's has won backing from... the Terrys. more...
EVERY reader who signs our petition - and there are already more than 2,000 of you - is helping to hold a corporate giant to account. more...
As more than 2,000 of you sign up for our campaign, American bosses blame York's high production costs for the loss of 316 chocolate industry jobs and generations of loyal service...and say `No' to Terry's factory switch. more...
MANAGEMENT from Terry's have come face-to-face with union leaders to explain their decision to close the site. more...
Terry's chocolate factory is a famous York landmark. But what is it like inside? Chief Reporter Mike Laycock and photographer Paul Baker toured the huge - and often empty - complex. more...
HUNDREDS of people are continuing to sign up each day to our petition to save Terry's, with the number of signatures now flying past the 3,000 mark. more...
THE battle to save Terry's was today being taken to a union's national conference in Scarborough. more...
THE Evening Press campaign to save Terry's went nationwide today - as it emerged that company bosses are refusing even to reply to our open letter calling for a rethink on closure plans. more...
A FORMER managing director of Terry's today backed our campaign to save the York company - saying he could not understand the commercial rationale for moving production abroad. more...
HUNDREDS of Nestlé Rowntree workers are backing the campaign to save York's other chocolate factory. more...
A HERO of the campaign to save Terry's suffered a heart attack within hours of taking it to a union's national conference, it emerged today. more...
OLDER workers facing redundancy from Terry's in York fear their pensions could be badly hit. more...
Mike Laycock reflects on the Evening Press campaign to save Terry's following today's confirmation that the chocolate factory will close. more...
THE battle to save Terry's for York is over. more...
ALL hope has gone; Terry's will close. Soon the factory will become another icon of York's past, part of the tourist trail, a nostalgic reminder of a time when the city used to make things. more...
CITY of York Council said today it wants more jobs to be created on the Terry's site than are currently employed there. more...
The fight to save Terry's is over. So what can we do to make sure other big multi-nationals don't cut and run in the same way; and how can York continue to compete in the global jobs market? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. more...
COUNCIL bosses are drawing up a blueprint for the redevelopment of the Terry's factory, following its closure next year. more...
A MAJOR new sports stadium for York City and York City Knights could be built on the doomed Terry's chocolate factory site, council leaders have revealed. more...
REDUNDANCY terms - "significantly better than the statutory minimum" - have been agreed for more than 300 Terry's workers facing the axe. more...
PEOPLE carriers are taking over the world. Latest is the new flagship to join the eight -model Mitsubishi seven-seater Grandis range. more...
WHEN BMW's new 5 Series models, the 523i, 525i and 530i, go on sale in the spring, they will be powered by three versions of the six cylinder petrol unit launched in the 6 Series 630i. more...
Motoring editor Malcolm Baylis discovers Vauxhall's missing link - the fastest road car ever produced by the manufacturer. more...
Motoring Editor Malcolm Baylis casts his eye over the new Ford Focus. more...
Full time catering, bar staff required at York Station. Hours from 5am-11.30pm. Tel 01904 635751. more...
Cavity wall/Loft Insulation Installers. Permanent position, basic wage + bonuses. OTE in excess of £400 (training). 50 mile radius of York. Clean driving licence and build experience preferred. Solarwall Ltd 01904 690824 (Office Hours). more...
The Fox and Hounds, Sinnington. This renowned country inn with award winning food requires Second Chef. Excellent £20k package. Accommodation available. Tel: 01751 431577 email foxhoundsinn@easynet.co.uk more...
Corries is a specialist Solicitors practice based in York. We currently require the following full-time member of staff to join our team: more...
Corries is a specialist Solicitors practice based in York. We currently require the following full-time members of staff to join our team: Legal Assistants. These positions involve assisting a Fee Earner in handling road accident claims. You will require excellent keyboard skills, office experience preferably gained in an insurance, legal or customer service field, A-level or equivalent education and the ability to solve problems and work on your own initiative. E-mail CV and current salary to katy.clifton@corries.co.uk or post to Katy Clifton, Corries Solicitors Ltd, Alexander House, Hospital Fields Road, York YO10 4DZ. Previous applicants need not apply. Visit our website at www.corries.co.uk more...
Corries is a specialist Solicitors practice based in York. We currently require the following full-time member of staff to join our team: Secretary - Assisting a Solicitor in handling complex personal injury claims. The position entails large volumes of dictation so previous audio-typing experience is essential, along with the ability to deal with clients in a sensitive and efficient manner. E-mail CV and current salary to katy.clifton@corries.co.uk or post to Katy Clifton, Corries Solicitors Ltd, Alexander House, Hospital Fields Road, York YO10 4DZ. Previous applicants need not apply. Visit our website at www.corries.co.uk more...
Panel Beater - Vehicle Accident Repair Centre requires a panel beater able to work to the highest quality standards. On target earnings in the region of £25,000 plus per annum. Bodyshop experience essential. more...
CLEANER/COUPLE - Required for Malton Motors 5 nights a week, more...
Full time Mail Order Clerk. Required by one of the UK's leading online leather handbag and accessory retailers. 37.5 hours per week (5 days @ 7.5 hours). Working days vary between Monday and Saturday, plus Sundays in November and December on a rota basis. Please write or phone for application form (previous applicants are welcome to apply) and further details to: Mr M T Johnson, Cox's LeatherShop, 31 Shambles, York YO1 7LX. Tel 01904 624449. more...
F R STUBBS - Ironmongers. Counter Assistant/Driver required more...
Cleaners required Clifton Moor, 5-7pm, Mon-Fri. Tel. 01274 660860. more...
JCB Operator York area must be experienced and have current driving licence. Call office 01904 481891. more...
WHERE are we going as a nation when the BBC broadcasts a programme for our children and grandchildren such as Dick and Dom in da Bungalow? more...
I THANK the people who came to my aid when I fell in Rougier Street, York on Friday January 7. more...
IN response to Peter Lowe of Chester and his comment about the Environment Agency letting rivers `go natural' (`Why I'm suspicious of global warming theory', Letters, January 18), I make these points. more...
IT is deeply worrying that more employers are going down the route of scrapping sick pay for employees off work for short periods of time. more...
I FULLY support the work the Disasters Emergency Committee is doing to relieve the plight of the tsunami victims (Letters, January 13). more...
AFTER the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Asia, we all must be proud to be British. more...
THE council's premature decision to allow the felling of yet another great beech in Fulford is insensitive and unjustified. more...
COUN Galloway, while admitting that he was not surprised by the result of the council tax vote, said "it did not imply that residents necessarily wanted to see big cuts in services", (January 11). more...
SO an agreement has been reached that the York council tax rise is to be five per cent. more...
THERE are two solutions to the growing problem of phone masts appearing all over York. more...
WHAT puzzles me about plans for a mobile phone mast is how T-Mobile (UK) can put a mast up on land which is (or was) the property of the citizens of York? more...
HOW ironic that the picture to illustrate the proposed 9.7-metre high mobile phone mast outside All Saints' Church in York should feature in the foreground a similarly large mast (`Fears over mounting number of phone masts', January 18). more...
NOW you see them, now you don't. Last night a court ruling prevented us publishing pictures of the five yobs who tormented a dying man in Sherburn-in-Elmet. more...
DERWENTHORPE has much to commend it. The new village would bring 540 new homes to a city suffering from a housing crisis. Critically, many of these will be affordable. more...
VIKING warriors were gathering at Stamford Bridge again as they practised for a re-enactment of the most important battle in their history. more...
ONLY one thing is more inevitable than a London council breaking its promise to collect the Christmas tree that's been lying in the front garden since Twelfth Night. more...
FULFORD School staff and pupils have held a jam-packed week of fundraising activities in a bid to raise £5,000 for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. more...
FOUR teenagers who "revelled in violence" during a series of unprovoked attacks - including a prolonged rampage in York's South Bank last summer - were today starting a total of ten years behind bars. more...
PERVERT Norman Hutchins could face further questions over whether he attempted to obtain surgical masks while held in a secure mental unit, the Evening Press has learned. more...
ONE of York's most distinctive church spires could soon house a mobile phone transmitter, in a deal that could secure the troubled building's future. more...
COUNCILLORS are being urged to back York's controversial Derwenthorpe scheme, despite almost 500 objections from local residents. more...
A "NORTHERN PROMS" extravaganza looks set to be staged in York during Royal Ascot week, the Evening Press can reveal. more...
FULFORD School staff and pupils have held a jam-packed week of fundraising activities in a bid to raise £5,000 for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. more...
NEW signs telling drivers to slow down when they pass through west York villages are set to be trialled in two areas, a city council report reveals. more...
YORK council's contribution towards regional flood defence funding has more than halved - to only £14,500. more...
ALL her life, Alice Leaf has taken a daily dose of cod liver oil. more...
COUNCILLORS faced with the tough decision of deciding where student pilots should fly in North Yorkshire have visited RAF Linton-on-Ouse. more...
YORK'S MP has called on the city's university to do more to "open its doors" to local schools. more...
City of York Council imposed a 10pm curfew on fireworks this week after complaints from residents of "deafening" noise. But does their big bang theory ring true? JO HAYWOOD talks to a hearing expert. more...
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WORLD exclusive: chavs can write! The news will intrigue boffins who believe that these listless, ape-like creatures found hanging around shopping centres are actually the missing link. more...
LEEDS United reserve Rob Constable is expected to make his full York City debut against Morecambe tomorrow after agreeing a one-month loan deal. more...
VIV Busby is prepared to continue in his caretaker role for the time being despite offering to step down after last Saturday's 3-0 defeat against Burton Albion. more...
PLAY-OFF hopefuls Morecambe will arrive at the newly-named KitKat Crescent aiming to extend an eight-match unbeaten run. more...
The only contest booked on York waters this weekend sees Star Angling Club tackle the Ouse at Beningbrough village tomorrow. more...
EBOR'S Mark Hartley-Tony Raymond included 26 and 27-dart legs on their way to qualifying for the York Cygnet-Phoenix League Paris competition semi-finals. more...
Rosie Redman, a faller at Doncaster on her latest outing, is napped to gain rich compensation in the North Yorkshire Grand National at Catterick tomorrow. more...
LEEDS United reserve Rob Constable is expected to make his full York City debut against Morecambe tomorrow after agreeing a one-month loan deal. more...
VIV Busby is prepared to continue in his caretaker role for the time being despite offering to step down after last Saturday's 3-0 defeat against Burton Albion. more...
PLAY-OFF hopefuls Morecambe will arrive at the newly-named KitKat Crescent aiming to extend an eight-match unbeaten run. more...
YORK know only a victory will keep their promotion prospects alive when they take on Consett at Clifton Park tomorrow. more...
A "NORTHERN PROMS" extravaganza looks set to be staged in York during Royal Ascot week, the Evening Press can reveal. more...
TADCASTER Albion boss Jim Collis is hoping rest leads to reinvigoration and rejuvenation rather than rustiness and relapse. more...
PICKERING Town go in search of history tomorrow by reaching the last 16 of the FA Vase for the first time ever. more...
SHOULDER of Mutton were easy meat as their two teams in York and District Sunday Afternoon League both took a roasting last weekend. more...
IN a remarkable division two game, Acomb WMC rattled up a 7-1 half-time lead at home to Deramore Arms through Danny Gray (4) and Will Moore (3). more...
MARCIA maintained their challenge for a clean sweep of trophies when they edged out Derwent United in the quarter-finals of the Challenge Trophy. more...
With the Stone Roses Bar, formerly the Grapes, opening in January, there will be one more venue catering for those students who are not fans of the generic mainstream music favoured by most clubs and bars in York. more...
Jo-ann Hodgson joins in the end-of-term parties at the university. more...
Alex Lloyd reports on a York showcase for new bands and talents. more...
AS MUCH as you may try to deny it, Christmas is fast approaching, bringing with it the inevitable round of parties and engagements. more...
ONLY two weeks until Christmas and my party diary is already pleading exhaustion, not to mention my poor feet. more...
Alex Lloyd rounds up what's on offer in the nights before Christmas. more...
Alex Lloyd on the club that has reclaimed Friday nights for York. more...
RENEE Zellweger has porked up again, stuffed-shirt Colin Firth and handsome cad Hugh Grant are back, and so are the jokes about big bums and dodgy Christmas jumpers, and Bridget's three comic stooges. more...
Andrew Lloyd Webber's sweeping Gothic musical, based on Gaston Leroux's novel, is the largest grossing stage production in the world. Since its debut in 1986, it has played to more than 80 million people around the globe. more...
Blade: Trinity, the third instalment in the bloodthirsty Marvel Comic series, falls victim to a nasty bout of trequelitis, which also blighted The Godfather Part III, Return Of The Jedi and Jurassic Park III. more...
TOM Hanks has hit the buffers. First, the Coen Brothers' remake of The Ladykillers suited neither Hanks and his false teeth, nor the Coens in their switch from arty to artless. Then Steven Spielberg's The Terminal failed to repeat the magic of Hanks's earlier gnomic role, Forrest Gump. more...
Tom Hanks is five times the actor he used to be. more...
THE Baudelaire children have just had their first fortunate experience. The first three bedtime stories of fictitious author Lemony Snicket have been transformed into a wickedly humorous, picaresque screen adventure for a dark winter's day. more...
Just A Quickie with... Impresario Simon Thackray, who has just invited all the guests for The Shed's 13th birthday programme. more...
CHRIS McNulty is an Australian singer who has lived in the USA since 1988. more...
PAUL Jones and Dave Kelly's visit to the Shire Hall in Howden on Wednesday is "one of Howden Live's most ambitious events to date". more...
Name: The Beautiful South more...
Introducing... York electro pop duo Boomerang, who are spinning back to deliver on a promise made 17 years ago. more...
BEING widely tipped as a rising star of the folk scene can make performers hit and run. more...
RAY Charles died last June, and if this movie tribute seems to have arrived with undue haste in the manner of the rush of John Peel hagiographies, cancel that thought. more...
News that the famous luvvie Sir Ian McKellen has got in on the dame act has seen Berwick Kaler rising to the challenge. "Well, if he puts his arms across his chest, we know he's in trouble," a spirited Berwick tells Charles Hutchinson on the eve of Sleeping Beauty. more...
THE Wind In The Willows was Ian Brown's best production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, playing to 50,000 people last winter. more...
LUCY Hunter-James is the new principal boy in the York Theatre Royal pantomime. Welcome to the northern madhouse, Lucy, from Banbury in the south. more...
ANYTHING Ian Brown could do with Wind In The Willows, he has done again with his latest fabulous family show for Christmas in the West Yorkshire Playhouse. more...
THIS is the holiday season, only this is the Billie Holiday season, and the West Yorkshire Playhouse has just been struck by another dose of the blues. more...
GOING Dutch is John Godber's 44th play, and the first new work of his 20th anniversary year at Hull Truck Theatre. It is also the third in his trilogy of Brits Abroad comedies, following on from the skiing escapade On The Piste and the French jaunt April In Paris. more...
Just A Quickie with... Sheilah Cuffy, whip-cracking star of Blues In The Night at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. more...
Introducing... panto baddie David Leonard's heroes and villains. more...
POCKLINGTON Arts Centre will celebrate its fifth anniversary next month. more...
West End stage star Gemma Craven talks to Charles Hutchinson about her more...
Jo-ann Hodgson steps off campus for York's student nights. more...
Jo-ann Hodgson has fun on campus in the name of charity. more...
FIFTY students swapped the cobbled streets of York for the style central that is Paris last Thursday as they embarked on a sponsored hitchhike in the name of RAG. more...
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