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Stories for 21 April 2005

York Business

Royal hireness

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...

Matalan opens seaside superstore

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...

Hats off to a new £1.4m HQ

WORK has begun on a new £1.4 million regional headquarters in York for a rapidly expanding national builder of retirement homes.  more...

York Education

York pupils get into hi-tech history lesson

A computer package designed to teach youngsters history has been launched in York.  more...

York News

Think before you burn

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...

Dungeoneers stick knife in

HELLISHLY bored by mainstream politics? How about a party with some more radical policies, which would see Britain  more...

Blast for Blair

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...

Leave rail as it is

YORK knows all about the pain of rail privatisation.   more...

Union fury over sick leave trial

A THOUSAND front line staff serving vulnerable people in York could take industrial action after a controversial sickness reporting scheme was extended.  more...

Traffic lights fault leads to York gridlock

MOTORISTS across York were hit by traffic chaos after a computer failure threw the city's traffic light network into disarray.  more...

Platform for rail protest

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...

Time call on pubs

HUNDREDS of York pubs could be forced to close their doors this autumn unless they begin applying for new licences.  more...

Taxpayers to fork out £125,000 to remove massive tyre dump

THIS is North Yorkshire's largest illegal tyre dump.   more...

Rail worker's tragedy anguish

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...

`We don't want these schemes'

HUNDREDS of people are expected to turn out for a mass protest against the "overdevelopment" of the south of York.  more...

Chris loses her fight for life

CANCER sufferer Chris Nelson has lost her brave battle for life.  more...

Village surgery cuts its hours

ANOTHER rural community is complaining about cuts to its village doctors' surgery opening hours.  more...

A sweeter Tang

AN aspirational scheme focusing on how Tang Hall could be developed in the future is to come before council chiefs.  more...

Atheist attacks the brutal aspects of religious teachings based on fear

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...

What an affront...

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...

Angry over pub

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...

Such bad timing

WAS the collapse of the Rover firm at Longbridge timed to happen just before the General Election?  more...

Origins of the EU

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...

How much more upheaval must we all endure?

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...

Spot on, Ducks

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...

Who's he kidding?

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...

Rose-tinted views

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...

Battling the bug

AS a recent patient I feel compelled to write in support of York Hospital (`Hospital patient gets `superbug'', April 18).  more...

City's hospital is National gem

WHILE holidaying in York during Easter my wife and I were both admitted to York Hospital.   more...

Rome is place to be

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...

Scooters: lifeline or pavement peril?

STEPHEN LEWIS becomes a `hell's granny' for the day.  more...

Platform for rail protest

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...

Voters complain of postal ballot confusion

ELECTION officials today moved swiftly to clear up confusion over postal votes, after residents complained they had been barred from the poll booth.  more...

Tory is a video star

THOUSANDS of homes across York are to receive a pre-election video from the city's Tory candidate in the May poll.  more...

Way we were

Thursday, April 21, 2005   more...

York Sport

Levy gears up for massive Dewsbury clash

CAPTAIN Chris Levy is keen to keep the crowd on-side as York City Knights look to crank up their promotion push.  more...

Coaches in hot water

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...

Levy gears up for massive Dewsbury clash

CAPTAIN Chris Levy is keen to keep the crowd on-side as York City Knights look to crank up their promotion push.  more...

City wrap up reserves campaign

YORK City reserves will complete their Pontins League programme tonight with a home game against Halifax.  more...

Red-hot burns

YORK City Baths Club youngster Andrew Burns was in sparkling form at the Kingston Upon Hull Age group and Open meet.  more...

Beating the race thugs

PROTECTING racegoers from thieves, thugs and fixers is the aim of a new partnership between the Jockey Club and Crimestoppers.  more...

Smith confident on Test future

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...

Special `K' team climb to top

NEW EARSWICK Indoor Bowls Club's mixed pairs knockout competition produced a thrilling final.  more...

Smith confident on Test future

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...

Paul's rio grand - 21/04/05

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...

All Blacks can't afford a slip-up

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...

City wrap up reserves campaign

YORK City reserves will complete their Pontins League programme tonight with a home game against Halifax.  more...

York Whatson

Bellydance Superstars and The Desert Roses, Grand Opera House, York

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...

Garbage, Bleed Like Me, (Warner Bros), ***

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...

Solomon Burke, Make Do With What You Got (Shout!/Sony) ****

BACK in the 1960s Solomon Burke was known as the "king of rock'n'soul".   more...

Mark Mulcahy, In Pursuit Of Your Happiness (Loose) ****

When cult songwriter Mark Mulcahy played in York in 2001, his extreme singing and lack of tunes were too much.   more...

Roger Daltrey, Moonlighting -- The Anthology (Sanctuary) ****; John Entwistle, Anthology (Sanctuary)

LOOK Who's gone retro... Daltrey and his late, and still lamented brother in rock, Entwistle.   more...

Shed Seven, One Hand Clapping, The Unreleased Demos 2001-2003 (Shed Seven) ****

ONE hand clapping? It doesn't make sense, does it?  more...

The Yards, The Yards (Industrial Erotica Records/Snapper Music) ****

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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