STAFF at a York-based international mobile phones provider learned today that their firm is to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise and International Trade. more...
RETAIL giant Matalan has opened the doors of its new clothing and homeware superstore in Scarborough town centre following a £6 million redevelopment project. more...
WORK has begun on a new £1.4 million regional headquarters in York for a rapidly expanding national builder of retirement homes. more...
A computer package designed to teach youngsters history has been launched in York. more...
CITY of York Council Environmental Health and Trading Standards deal with a wide variety of matters, as regular readers of this column will know. more...
HELLISHLY bored by mainstream politics? How about a party with some more radical policies, which would see Britain more...
SCARBOROUGH student Jessica Haigh was brought face to face with Tony Blair yesterday, and gave him a blast every bit as icy as the North Sea wind. more...
YORK knows all about the pain of rail privatisation. more...
A THOUSAND front line staff serving vulnerable people in York could take industrial action after a controversial sickness reporting scheme was extended. more...
MOTORISTS across York were hit by traffic chaos after a computer failure threw the city's traffic light network into disarray. more...
WHISTLES and chants echoed through the streets of York as a protest rally shunted the future of the rail industry into the General Election spotlight. more...
HUNDREDS of York pubs could be forced to close their doors this autumn unless they begin applying for new licences. more...
THIS is North Yorkshire's largest illegal tyre dump. more...
A RAIL WORKER suffered terrible injuries as he tried to save a York academic who was killed when she fell into the mechanism of a moving walkway, a court heard. more...
HUNDREDS of people are expected to turn out for a mass protest against the "overdevelopment" of the south of York. more...
CANCER sufferer Chris Nelson has lost her brave battle for life. more...
ANOTHER rural community is complaining about cuts to its village doctors' surgery opening hours. more...
AN aspirational scheme focusing on how Tang Hall could be developed in the future is to come before council chiefs. more...
AS an atheist I admire your paper for being representative enough to include letters from different points of view on religious beliefs, and for also regularly carrying the excellent articles of non-believer Julian Cole. more...
IN response to your editorial comment about the York Ascot meeting, I note the disabled are to be charged extortionate fees to attend and also access to the crematorium may be restricted. more...
WE, the residents of Plum Street, are much aggrieved at the decision of Ryedale District Council planning committee to approve the re-development of the historic Cornucopia pub (`Ugly pub plan given approval', April 14). more...
WAS the collapse of the Rover firm at Longbridge timed to happen just before the General Election? more...
BOTH Eric Wood and Richard Whiting (Letters, April 12) are incorrect - the idea behind the European Union did not materialise during or after Nazi Germany or the Second World War. It was earlier. more...
NOT content with wanting to close ancient rights of way, St Peter's School, York, now proposes the abolition of residents' parking for the whole of one side of Queen Anne's Road and North Parade. more...
I totally endorse theatre reviewer Charles Hutchinson's comments about Flying Ducks Youth Theatre's production of Moby Dick! The Musical at Rowntree Theatre (April 14). more...
I CANNOT understand if Lord Best of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has succeeded in deluding himself that his "Disasterthorpe" housing estate proposals are environmentally friendly, or whether his latest letter (April 12) is yet another bid to delude the people of York. more...
I SEE that Richard Best has once again put on his rose-tinted spectacles while looking to create utopia at Derwenthorpe (Letters, April 12). more...
AS a recent patient I feel compelled to write in support of York Hospital (`Hospital patient gets `superbug'', April 18). more...
WHILE holidaying in York during Easter my wife and I were both admitted to York Hospital. more...
LAST time I looked, this was a Protestant country. In truth, it's probably more of a secular land, but officially at least, this is an un-Catholic place. more...
STEPHEN LEWIS becomes a `hell's granny' for the day. more...
WHISTLES and chants echoed through the streets of York as a protest rally shunted the future of the rail industry into the General Election spotlight. more...
ELECTION officials today moved swiftly to clear up confusion over postal votes, after residents complained they had been barred from the poll booth. more...
THOUSANDS of homes across York are to receive a pre-election video from the city's Tory candidate in the May poll. more...
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CAPTAIN Chris Levy is keen to keep the crowd on-side as York City Knights look to crank up their promotion push. more...
YORK City Knights' rival coaches Ian Millward and Dave Woods have both been found guilty of breaching Rugby Football League regulations following investigations by its disciplinary commissioner. more...
CAPTAIN Chris Levy is keen to keep the crowd on-side as York City Knights look to crank up their promotion push. more...
YORK City reserves will complete their Pontins League programme tonight with a home game against Halifax. more...
YORK City Baths Club youngster Andrew Burns was in sparkling form at the Kingston Upon Hull Age group and Open meet. more...
PROTECTING racegoers from thieves, thugs and fixers is the aim of a new partnership between the Jockey Club and Crimestoppers. more...
YORKSHIRE'S agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board for staging Test matches at Headingley will have to be renegotiated now that the county club's hopes of buying the ground have been dashed. more...
NEW EARSWICK Indoor Bowls Club's mixed pairs knockout competition produced a thrilling final. more...
YORKSHIRE'S agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board for staging Test matches at Headingley will have to be renegotiated now that the county club's hopes of buying the ground have been dashed. more...
Norton trainer Julie Camacho, who saddled her first winner of the new Flat season when Royal Melbourne landed an 11-1 success at Catterick yesterday, can double her score tomorrow. more...
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARL Club have the end of the season in sight but cannot afford to lose focus in the last two games with maximum points required to guarantee promotion. more...
YORK City reserves will complete their Pontins League programme tonight with a home game against Halifax. more...
NO wonder master percussionist Issam can't stop smiling. The Syrian Pharaoh of Rhythm has an unbeatable view of the "the art of sensuality in motion", on stage with the Bellydance Superstars and The Desert Roses. more...
AFTER a band break-up and a rack of records which promised much but delivered little, Garbage return to the sound which sold ten million albums worldwide. more...
BACK in the 1960s Solomon Burke was known as the "king of rock'n'soul". more...
When cult songwriter Mark Mulcahy played in York in 2001, his extreme singing and lack of tunes were too much. more...
LOOK Who's gone retro... Daltrey and his late, and still lamented brother in rock, Entwistle. more...
ONE hand clapping? It doesn't make sense, does it? more...
IT starts with muted handclaps and muffled remnants of a boozy rehearsal, and ends with a heartfelt acoustic send-off. more...
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