York | Archive | 2005 | August
Bracken Hill Fine Foods, Elvington-based makers of quality speciality preserves, has yet again struck gold at the Great Taste Awards at London's Olympia . more...
Tony Webster, former managing director of the European arm of US-based food ingredients company Pecan Deluxe Candy, of Sherburn-in-Elmet, has led a multi-million pound buy-in management buyout (BIMBO) of Sunquest Tanning Systems. more...
Andy Atkins-Krüger, managing director of York-based search marketing company Web Certain, has been appointed president of the newly-formed Search Marketing Association (SMA). more...
One of the UK's leading corporate clothing companies has appointed the York-based Partners Group to handle its PR, design and marketing communications. more...
York has already established itself as one of the country's leading centres for bioscience research and business development and nowhere are the applications more important than when directed towards the improvement of human health. more...
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 more...
WHY not move York Hospital to Terry's factory and make something good of the building? more...
REGARDING the proposals for the memorial hall in Haxby, couldn't the trustees consider what was done to what is now the Jorvik Medical Practice in Stonebow? more...
INTELLECTUALS are not the only ones bereft now television's cultural zenith, Big Brother, has come to an end for another summer. more...
I APPRECIATE and entirely understand A Dobinson's comments regarding the effects of cannabis and driving (Letters, August 22). There is, as yet, no conclusive research. more...
IT is saddening to see that City of York Council has been pressed into adding ugly carbuncles to perfectly useful footpath signs. more...
I AM incensed by the anti-metric nonsense coming from activists who think they have the right to enforce obscure inappropriate regulations claiming to forbid putting metres and kilometres on footpath signs (August 19). more...
I AM looking forward to the refuse collection changes. They will herald the kick up the bum I need to recycle. more...
I DISAGREE with Barbara and John Pettitt that today's parents do not have the time to teach their children to say "please" and "thank you" when it is appropriate to do so (Letters, August 20). more...
IT is distressing to see in these pages the call for the eradication of a plant species. Common ragwort holds its rightful place within nature's balanced framework along with all our native wild plants. more...
A G REESON and A L Dixon (Letters, August 17) feel America dropping atom bombs on Japanese cities in 1945, was legitimate. "War is a dirty business... you must use all the means available... to win" wrote Mr Dixon. more...
THE letters from Mr Reeson and Mr Dixon (August 17) vindicating the holocaust by atomic bombing shocked me, a Japanese professor living in York with respect and love for British society. more...
THE Yorkshire Air Show at Elvington last Sunday was a wonderful spectacle in perfect weather. more...
I SUPPOSE it serves me right for mocking someone who had apparently chucked a sickie to go to the Ashes test last week. more...
YORK will host the UK Snooker Championship in December for the fifth year in a row. more...
A MOTHER-OF-TWO who only expected her liver to hold out another eight months has undergone a life-saving transplant. more...
ANXIOUS residents sparked an emergency response after a glider flew low over York homes and landed suddenly in a field. more...
A STUDENT was hit in the face with a plank of wood by a vicious gang of teenagers who were after his mobile phone and money. more...
HE has been serving customers in York for half a century - now a director of one of the city's last family firms is preparing to hang up his shop coat for good. more...
CRUEL cat owners are dumping their unwanted pets and heading off on holiday, an animal sanctuary said today. more...
The crisis in dentistry may be about to get worse - with more practitioners threatening to leave the NHS next year. more...
NEW figures have revealed low levels of unemployment across York and North Yorkshire. more...
HIGHWAYS bosses have refused to reveal whether motorists are continuing to desert York's car parks. more...
A CITY centre pub has won the right to hold more al fresco events and open into the early hours - despite protests from dozens of residents. more...
CITIES would be queuing up to take York's place as host of the UK Snooker Championship. more...
IN several moving reports this year, we have highlighted one side of the organ donation story: the giver's tale. more...
Have the antics of Freddie & Co reignited enthusiasm for our summer game? On the eve of the next Test match, CHRIS TITLEY joined some young cricketers to find out. more...
FANS will get the chance to quiz manager Billy McEwan at the York City Roadshow at York City Social Club on Thursday. more...
FORMER Pickering Town player Gavin Dickinson grabbed an injury-time goal against Bridlington Town to preserve Goole's unbeaten start to the UniBond League first division season. more...
ACOMB took the York Vale Evening League championship title for the first time. more...
ASKHAM Bryan/YPO cast aside their dismal league form with a measured performance to beat Copmanthorpe by 35 runs in the final of the HPH York Vale Cricket League Guy Mitchell Cup at Woodhouse Grange. more...
FANS will get the chance to quiz manager Billy McEwan at the York City Roadshow at York City Social Club on Thursday. more...
New Earswick All Blacks will finally sample their first rugby league fixture of pre-season on Thursday when they entertain local rivals York Acorn at White Rose Avenue. more...
BIG striker Michael Ricketts responded to Richard Cresswell's arrival at Elland Road with his first competitive goal for a year as Leeds eased past Carling Cup opponents Oldham last night. more...
Yorkshire are expected to confirm within the next few days that Darren Lehmann will be joining them in September for their last three Championship matches and four totesport League games. more...
ASKHAM Bryan/YPO cast aside their dismal league form with a measured performance to beat Copmanthorpe by 35 runs in the final of the HPH York Vale Cricket League Guy Mitchell Cup at Woodhouse Grange. more...
FULFORD'S multiple British grass-track champion Paul Cooper is making rapid progress in his bid to hit the same heights in speedway. more...
Yorkshire are expected to confirm within the next few days that Darren Lehmann will be joining them in September for their last three Championship matches and four totesport League games. more...
Playful Dane, one of only a handful of horses trained at Yarm in Cleveland by former jump jockey Scott Cunningham, can show his rivals a clean pair of heels at Musselburgh tomorrow. more...
OUR last home game of the season against Workington a week on Sunday might be an emotional time. more...
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