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York Business

Firm hails trucker's driving record

COULD long-distance driver Jimmy Adams have clocked up a Yorkshire record?  more...

Cheesemaker lands supermarket contract

A NORTH Yorkshire cheesemaker has won a contract to supply its Yorkshire Blue and Buffalo Blue cheeses in pre-packed format to Waitrose.  more...

Firm celebrates funds injection

A York biotech venture, which two years ago raised £1.3 million for expansion and research to help drug companies combat serious viral infections, today announced that it has raised another £400,000.  more...

Businesses bartering needs under microscope

FORMER York Evening Press events co-ordinator Sam Grogan has been appointed as trade manager of the rapidly-expanding Bartercard York network.  more...

The dawn of a new sport?

WHOOSH! The success of the made-in-North Yorkshire Rock-It-Ball has surprised even the trio of businessmen who put it together.  more...

York Education

New special needs school on track for flying start

BUILDING work on York's new £3.74 million secondary school for children with special needs is due to finish this month.  more...

City readers `doing well'

EDUCATION chiefs in York deny there is a "reading crisis" among children in the city.  more...

York Leisure

Still thriving after 21 years

A support group for parents of premature and sick babies has well and truly come of age, as NADIA JEFFERSON-BROWN reports.   more...

York Marketplace

Permanent Vacancies

Current Permanent Vacancies  more...

Administrative Assistant

MACDONALDS YORKS FINEST FURNISHERS  more...

Second Chef

THE FOX AND HOUNDS, SINNINGTON Nr Pickering  more...

Care Vacancies

South Park Care Home, Gale Lane, York YO24 3HX  more...

Senior Stylist

Experienced Senior Stylist full time required for busy well established salon. Good salary and conditions. Applicants must have more than 2 years salon floor experience, be dedicated, creative and enthusiastic. KMS Hair by Design, 2 Crown Square, Kirkbymoorside, York 01751 430075 kmssue45@hotmail.com   more...

360 Machine Drivers

360 machine drivers required with CPCS. Immediate start. Good pay rate - York 07833 933962 (m).   more...

Newspaper Round

Sunday newspaper round in country area using your own car. Write to Grays Newsagents, 6 James Street, york YO10 3WW.   more...

180 Backhoe Operator

required for JCB. Must hold current relevant CPCS card mainly local authority work. Contact Mark Dunning, Dunning Plant Hire 07836 598278 (m).   more...

Events Co-ordinator/Sales Administrator

Due to the continuing growth in the catering operation at York Racecourse, a full-time opportunity exists to join our   more...

Passat remains a strong performer

Motoring Editor Malcolm Baylis is suitably impressed by the sixth generation of a family favourite.  more...

Audi flagship is even better

AUDI's best selling eight-cylinder and 12-cylinder luxury saloon, the flagship A8, is in even better shape inside and out with the latest model, which goes on sale next month.  more...

Three chairs for a new seats concept

THERE's a lot of future production ambition pinned to the arrival of Ford's three-row sport activity vehicle concept model.  more...

Nurses

Nursing Personnel are recruiting ODPs, Theatre, Recovery, Scrub and General Nurses for Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Scarborough and York. From 4th April Nursing Personnel are the PRIMARY Agency for the North & East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire NHS and PCTs. Top rates paid within 24 hours. £100 bonus on registration. Immediate start. CALL 0845 122 0414 TO REGISTER   more...

York News

The name's Galloway...

THE Diary was rattled to read in yesterday's paper that the new James Bond has been chosen.  more...

Yet another dart to the heart

YOU have to hurry, but you've still just enough time to whisk a last minute wedding gift to Prince Charles and his duchess-to-be.  more...

Time to move on

DAYS before the third anniversary of the callous killing of York backpacker Caroline Stuttle, her murderer is sent back to prison as his appeal is thrown out.  more...

Situation normal?

I ASSUME cyclists will still be able to ride on the pavements during Royal Ascot week.  more...

Memorial poser

NICHOLAS Hall's animosity towards all things Israeli (Letters, April 6) is well documented on a regular basis in the letters page of the Evening Press.   more...

Not much done

IN reply to Tony Blair's recent speech outside Downing Street, I ask what has Mr Blair done in the last eight years to:  more...

Flawed thinking

JACK Straw has been pontificating about the "deeply flawed" election in Zimbabwe but I have not heard him say anything about the council elections in Birmingham.  more...

Last orders...

HOW fitting that you should print a picture of York's present MP beneath a report about short measures.   more...

Heads you lose with short-measure pints

IT is great that MPs are waking up to the fact that British beer drinkers are being short-changed ("A pint of milk is a pint, so why isn't a pint of beer a pint?" April 5).   more...

Bring back Green Cross man and save lives

WHAT happened to the Green Cross Man on our TV?   more...

Great, it's the tree-loppers on Tour

CITY of York Council prevents tourist decapitation! Pruning trees the "modern way" - with a York Tour bus top deck with shredding unit behind. I have never witnessed this procedure before. Have you?  more...

Yorkies betrayed

IT just gets worse with City of York Council, especially in relation to Royal Ascot. Not satisfied with giving Ascot a racecourse to use while theirs is coming up to scratch with ours, our council is "paving the streets with gold" for them with our hard-earned council tax.   more...

Pick another site

I HAVE just returned wandering around the University of York complex, purely out of curiosity to get a grip on what people are going on about in the letters page.  more...

Bullet for bollard

THANKS to the Evening Press for all the publicity given about the Straylands Grove bollard.   more...

Choices limited

SO the short stay car parking charges for residents have gone up by 41.7 per cent (not the 33 per cent mentioned in your Comment column (March 31).  more...

Fond farewell for Pontiff in Yorkshire

A SINGLE candle burned in York today as the city's Catholics mourned the death of Pope John Paul II.  more...

Stuttle killer loses appeal

A DRUG addict who murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle by pushing her off a bridge in Australia today lost his battle against his conviction.  more...

Girl shot in the face by ball bearing gun

A YOUNG GIRL was shot in the face when a ball bearing gun was discharged in a busy shop in York.  more...

Watchdog in civic appeal

A CONSERVATION watchdog has launched a major membership drive to help it protect York's heritage through the 21st century.  more...

Barbican binge drinking worries

THE company seeking a late-night drinks licence at York's Barbican Centre is at the centre of a binge-drinking storm at its nightclub in Newcastle.  more...

Bid to resolve city archives problem

A MAJOR investigation could help decide the future of York's 800-year-old archives once and for all.  more...

Civic duo ready to have a ball

BEHOLD brave St George as he stands in the shadow of York Minster.  more...

City readers `doing well'

EDUCATION chiefs in York deny there is a "reading crisis" among children in the city.  more...

Wild Bill gets his satisfaction

HE was part of one of the wildest rock bands in history.  more...

Tsunami victims stun newlyweds

A YOUNG York couple who tied the knot in Sri Lanka - three months after the tsunami devastated the country - have told how they were made to feel like "royalty" by the people whose lives had been wrecked by the natural disaster.  more...

It's frothy man...

GALLONS of beer have been consumed at York's first Bavarian Festival.  more...

York banks on city centre tsar

CALLS for more people to be involved in shaping the future of York city centre have been turned down.  more...

Cabbie's guide to beating the jams

The battle of the rising bollards has been won - at least for now. But how to beat York's traffic? STEPHEN LEWIS checks out queue-jumping shortcuts for diehard motorists.  more...

Brown's a vote-winner

IF, as the Conservatives jeers suggested, John Grogan has taken his final bow at Prime Minister's Questions he can at least take comfort from going out with a dignity lacking from most of his Parliamentary colleagues this week.  more...

Way we were

Friday, April 8, 2005  more...

York Sport

Go-go Griffin soar to a higher degree

Selby Griffin secured promotion from division five in their first season.  more...

Robin's best for Plough

The Plough kept their division three title hopes alive with a 1-1 draw at leaders Hambleton with a Robin Bedford goal. Walker scored for Hambleton.   more...

Hounds scent smell of title

HOUNDS hung on to top spot in York John Smith's Sundfay Morning Football League division one after defeating Severus in a hard-fought game at Riccall.   more...

Mac to the Max

YORK City boss Billy McEwan has set his team a target of finishing above Tamworth with a 100 per cent end to the season.  more...

Bott's your lot

YORK City will be bidding to end Hereford United's unblemished record against bottom-six clubs tomorrow.  more...

Six-shot Wood on target

Neil Wood completed a second hat-trick when he won the York Conservative clubs' Tayrol Scruton Cup snooker competition for the sixth time in seven years by defeating his Heworth club colleague Clive Whyte 3-1 in the final at Heworth.  more...

Splash the cash for Joe

ACOMB'S canoe slalom international Joe Stephenson is looking for sponsors to help him compete in this year's Junior European Championships.  more...

Trio's battle against the drop

THERE is no margin for error for either Harrogate, Selby and Malton and Norton as their rugby union seasons go on the line on Saturday.  more...

World hero to win - 08/04/05

Howard Johnson and Graham Lee, on the mark at Aintree yesterday with Grey Abbey, can follow-up tomorrow with Inglis Drever in the main supporting race to the Grand National.   more...

Grand National : Frenchie to take the prize

Take a chance on Innox, at around 20-1, winning the John Smith's Grand National for France at Aintree tomorrow.  more...

Bott's your lot

YORK City will be bidding to end Hereford United's unblemished record against bottom-six clubs tomorrow.  more...

Mac to the Max

YORK City boss Billy McEwan has set his team a target of finishing above Tamworth with a 100 per cent end to the season.  more...

Atkinson treble sinks tourists

PLAYER of the week Cameron Atkinson grabbed a hat-trick of tries for York RUFC Under-8s in an 8-7 victory over tourists Burton-on-Trent.  more...

Honours even for York teens

YORK RUFC's Development Squad returned from their tour of the north east with honours even.  more...

Trio's battle against the drop

THERE is no margin for error for either Harrogate, Selby and Malton and Norton as their rugby union seasons go on the line on Saturday.  more...

York Whatson

DJs

Alex Lloyd introduces some of York's up-and-coming DJs.  more...

Preview: Walking The Landscape, until May 6

SINCE leaving the teaching profession ten years ago, Frank Gordon has moved to the Yorkshire Dales National Park to indulge in his dual passions of painting and hill walking.  more...

Preview: York Open Studios 2005

Introducing...York Open Studios 2005, the weekend when artists open their doors to all.  more...

Preview: Unless, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, until May 7

UNLESS, a play adapted from a novel by the Canadian writer Carol Shields, looks inside the ordinary life of Reta Winters, a woman who has an extraordinary tale to tell.  more...

Preview: Jack Dee, Grand Opera House, York, April 10

Hitting the road again, Jack Dee is as irritable as ever, railing mercilessly against the little things that bug him. Charles Hutchinson reports.  more...

Preview: Living Pretty, The Studio, York Theatre Royal, April 14-16

LIVING Pretty is the story of one man's journey from Jamaica to Leeds, turned into a play by his great friend.  more...

Preview: Moby Dick, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, April 14-16

The Flying Ducks youth theatre celebrates its tenth anniversary with a whale of a premiere, discovers Charles Hutchinson.  more...

Review: Gigi, New Earswick Musical Society, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York

THIS show was staged by the New Earswick Musical Society - and what a performance it was!  more...

Review: Burnt Offerings & Bad Habits, Shift/Shaft, The Studio, York Theatre Royal

THIS is an artistic statement from Leeds multi-media company A Quiet Word. "While we do use text, along with film and music, the word is only part of the material we use to tell a story. Hence the name of the company: the Word is there, but it's Quiet."  more...

Preview: ReelinandaRockin, Grand Opera House, York, Thursday, April 14

HERE is another of those Sixties nostalgia enterprises, but ReelinandaRockin is not just a conveyor belt of bands with next to no original members left.  more...

Preview: The Glitterati, Hurricane Party and The Black Velvets, Fibbers, York, Monday, April 11

THE Black Velvets, The Glitterati and Hurricane Party all report to Fibbers on Monday for the New School of Rock Tour.  more...

Jazz notes

WAKEFIELD Jazz returns tonight after the Easter break with a typically exciting band.   more...

Preview: Omar and The Howlers, Post Office Club, in Marygate, Tuesday, April 12

THE Deep Blues Club will be welcoming favourite acts Errol Linton, Bill Sheffield and Mojo Buford in its summer programme, but first comes the springtime York debut of "undoubtedly one of the biggest blues acts in the world today".  more...

The Machinist Running time: 102 mins Certificate: 15 ***

TREVOR Reznik has not slept for a year, and Christian Bale has not eaten a la carte for a very long time to play this cadaverous, friendless lathe worker at an industrial plant.  more...

Sahara, Running time: 123 mins Certificate: 12A **

SAHARA ticks all the boxes for action, drama, comedy, romance and thriller but that is a mirage. This Sahara is as dry as desert.  more...

  
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