BUILDING work has started on a £1.6 million office development at a Ripon business park. more...
EXQUISITE decorations on a newly-restored Turkish baths have led to a major award for a York firm. more...
GREEN apples were on the menu for a York-based conservation and restoration company after it scooped a trio of environmental awards. more...
YORK builder Shepherd Construction has teamed up with a bank in a partnership set to win a major multi-million pound deal. more...
CRIME is plummeting at a York school - with the help of new spy cameras. more...
TALENTED youngsters from a York secondary school have been showing off their engineering skills at a showcase event. more...
FORMER Lord Mayor Janet Looker came under fire from ex-Royal Navy war gunner Bernard Hallas yesterday for wearing a T-shirt and jeans on HMS York. more...
JOHN Greenway 1, Tony Blair 0. The Ryedale MP scored a victory over the Prime Minister yesterday by pointing out the dismal failure of Mr Blair's eve-of-election speech at Scarborough. more...
THE heartbroken family of York council gardener Frank Smith told today of their devastation at his "freak" death. more...
TV personality Christa Ackroyd waved a flag for a new service urging more parents to come forward and adopt children. more...
Tony Blair snubbed a call to approve a multi-million pound upgrade to one of North Yorkshire's most important transport lifelines. more...
A SUCCESSFUL clean hands campaign at York Hospital is to be rolled out onto every ward to help combat infections such as the superbug MRSA. more...
MARY, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? more...
A NEW CD was launched to boost a charity in memory of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle - just as news came through that her killer is appealing against his conviction. more...
AN ABUSIVE care home nurse who ignored the pleas of a 93-year-old man she found collapsed with a broken shoulder bone has been struck off. more...
THEY'VE been knocked unconscious, throttled with power cords, stuck with drawing pins and beaten with walking sticks, not to mention being bitten, punched, slapped, kicked, scratched and of course verbally abused. more...
A REPORT into the way the NHS handled complaints against two disgraced North Yorkshire psychiatrists looks set to be published by July. more...
CRIME is plummeting at a York school - with the help of new spy cameras. more...
NO news is good news - unless you are a public-funded broadcaster paid a public fortune to provide it. more...
Want something for nothing? Maxine Gordon and STEPHEN LEWIS find out how you can have it - and help save the planet too. more...
IN response to Mr Dixon Smith's letter (May 20), I am appalled he can praise the people who decided not to vote while at the same time complaining about the lack of representative bodies with power. more...
COUN Mark Hill's letter about Lindis Percy, who is to be tagged and put under curfew (May 21) deserves applause. more...
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I WAS truly amazed to read in the Evening Press that limo lap dancing is coming to York during Royal Ascot week (May 21). more...
I SAW the recent notice in the Evening Press about the imposition of a 20mph speed limit along the section of Terry Avenue and Butcher Terrace to be opened to taxis as part of the Royal Ascot traffic management plan. more...
I AM pleased Mrs Nicholson found the council's scrutiny report on takeaways interesting. more...
I AM appalled at the statements in the Evening Press from Coun Galloway saying I have made comments of a "partisan nature" as City of York Council's Older People's Champion (May 24). more...
TERRY Smith's letter about Winifred Lumley's horrific attack by a drug addict (May 21) really struck a chord with me. more...
LAST Friday morning I joined members of Fulford Parish Council and others to hand out leaflets about the Germany Beck development. more...
WHILE reading the letter from Sara Goodhead about keeping our rubbish in check (May 21), I was disturbed by her lack of understanding that wrapping food waste before putting it into the bin is in itself causing a huge problem. more...
WHILE I fully support the need to recycle, I feel City of York Council does not appreciate the position regarding green waste. more...
STEPHEN Lewis's feature on the new fortnightly collection plans set out a good account of why we need to reduce the landfill rubbish we put in black wheelie bins (May 19). more...
MY police service started in February 1955 as a police cadet at the tender age of 17. more...
I WRITE in response to the report about police officers receiving bonuses for handling dead bodies, which includes our son Daniel (`Cash for corpses', May 23). more...
COWARD'S way ruled for HPH York Vale Cricket League division one front-runners North Duffield. more...
TRANSFER-LISTED defender Steve Davis has left York City after agreeing a financial settlement for the remaining year of his contract. more...
Geoff Deighton racked up a new milestone in Vale League cricket after taking five wickets in a cup match days before his 70th birthday. more...
THE Kent/Middlesex opener Michael Carberry revived his side's fortunes in the Second Eleven friendly at Clifton Park, York, yesterday. more...
Old friends Geoff Lane and Alan Stimpson have bowled over the competition to score a rare trophy double, writes Claire Hughes. more...
SILVER service was followed by a golden distinction for York's judo ace Rob Thomas. more...
COUNCIL chiefs have signed up 40 authority workers to act as greeters during next month's Royal Ascot at York. more...
FAMOUS faces will be gracing the catwalk to help fundraisers "glam up" for Royal Ascot. more...
POLICE have pledged to get tough on pickpockets to ensure punters lose money in more traditional ways at Royal Ascot. more...
YORKSHIRE'S great left arm spinner, Hedley Verity, was born on May 18, 1905, and to mark the centenary of his birth the current Yorkshire Championship game was designated the Hedley Verity-Green Howards Memorial Match. more...
YORKSHIRE had Essex reeling on 76-4 on the first day of the Championship match at Headingley yesterday but then let them off the hook. more...
Geoff Deighton racked up a new milestone in Vale League cricket after taking five wickets in a cup match days before his 70th birthday. more...
Outlawed Tollerton are hoping to make a return to action as a unit as soon as possible. more...
A resurgent Askham Bryan YPO team just failed to grab victory against Copmanthorpe in division four. more...
Wyatt Earp is napped to gun down his rivals at Catterick tomorrow on a day when Yorkshire racegoers are facing another double-header of Flat action. more...
TRANSFER-LISTED defender Steve Davis has left York City after agreeing a financial settlement for the remaining year of his contract. more...
NOEL Coward wrote Hay Fever in only three days, fevered writing indeed in 1925. Cynics might say that's why there is so little plot to a play in which, in the words of York Theatre Royal artistic director Damian Cruden, "nothing happens and yet everything happens". more...
LAST year Kathryn Williams recorded Relations, an album of covers, to fall in love with music again. more...
THE piano man for a new generation? After gaining a reputation as a smart-Alec and keyboard wizard, Ben Folds burst on to the stagnant mid-1990s scene with playful, clever songs like Philosophy and Alice Childress. more...
FIVE years after Teenage Fanclub's last studio album, Howdy, and two years on from the traditional farewell of a contract-fulfilling compilation, the sun might have gone down on the Glasgow branch of the Byrds and Big Star fanclub. Not so. more...
Passionate fans of Alabama 3 will try to convince you they are the greatest band you've never heard. more...
Despite Blur's many highs, there was always a suspicion Damon Albarn was a pony equipped with a solitary trick. more...
BILLY Jenkins is an insanely good guitarist who follows the path less trodden by other musicians. more...
Natural born thrillers both: Kelly Osbourne and actress Juliette Lewis are Hollywood's latest bad girls. more...
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