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. The Australian left-hander, who returns to Yorkshire next season
One of the UK's leading corporate clothing companies has appointed the York-based Partners Group to handle its PR, design and marketing communications. Prima was recently acquired by workwear specialists Alexandra plc and The Partners Group will promote
Andy Atkins-Krger, managing director of York-based search marketing company Web Certain, has been appointed president of the newly-formed Search Marketing Association (SMA). He will head the committee comprising of the £2 billion industry's leading search
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 . Following on last year's success, it has won two gold awards two silver and a bronze in the 2005
IN several moving reports this year, we have highlighted one side of the organ donation story: the giver's tale. We told how York woman Louise Johnson's decision to be a donor transformed the lives of 25 people after she died of a brain haemorrhage. Louise's
NEW figures have revealed low levels of unemployment across York and North Yorkshire. Business leaders said the region's diverse economy helped people secure jobs. The county comes out well compared with the rest of the country, with the level of jobseekers
The crisis in dentistry may be about to get worse - with more practitioners threatening to leave the NHS next year. Dentists in the area warn huge fears over new NHS contracts could lead to more surgeries going private after April 2006. Businesses are
CRUEL cat owners are dumping their unwanted pets and heading off on holiday, an animal sanctuary said today. Good homes are now urgently needed for dozens of cats which have been abandoned by their irresponsible owners. Staff at the York Cats Protection
FULFORD'S multiple British grass-track champion Paul Cooper is making rapid progress in his bid to hit the same heights in speedway. Cooper has already jumped from number six rider to number two at Sheffield Pirtek Tigers during his first full season
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. Put into bat, Askham Bryan/YPO reached 158-6 and owed
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. The four yobs demanded the phone and cash as blood poured from Stuart Wynn's face in a terrifying attack near York city centre
ANXIOUS residents sparked an emergency response after a glider flew low over York homes and landed suddenly in a field. Dutch pilots Frank Romeijn, 56, and Joost Nuse, 35, were shocked to find themselves surrounded by police vans and ambulances after
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. United's new £1.1million acquisition was introduced to the sparse
A MOTHER-OF-TWO who only expected her liver to hold out another eight months has undergone a life-saving transplant. Dyan Taylor, 52, of Woodthorpe, York, suffers from a hereditary liver condition that killed her mother, Barbara Simpson, last year. She
YORK will host the UK Snooker Championship in December for the fifth year in a row. It has been officially announced that Barbican Leisure Centre, the city venue embroiled in controversy since its closure last year, will stage the two-week tournament,
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. Put into bat, Askham Bryan/YPO reached 158-6 and owed
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. Dickinson fired in from 20 yards after a Steve Davey dummy created the chance
I SUPPOSE it serves me right for mocking someone who had apparently chucked a sickie to go to the Ashes test last week. Or maybe the Good Lord just has a funny sense of humour. Whatever the reason, the ink was not yet dry on last Wednesday's paper when
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. It is true that many prisoners of war died in the prison camps under
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. Mr Reeson criticised the 1941 Japanese
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). This talk about "today's busy lives" is driving me mad. Can
I AM looking forward to the refuse collection changes. They will herald the kick up the bum I need to recycle. I appreciate the council will be hit with fines if they exceed landfill targets and will have no option to pay them. But they will recoup the
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). The council can apply for permission
INTELLECTUALS are not the only ones bereft now television's cultural zenith, Big Brother, has come to an end for another summer. Staff at North Yorkshire's Chocolate Factory had a special reason to enjoy the Channel 4 programme: it showed their products
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 100 years ago The Mayor and Mayoress of Doncaster had been suffering from ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating pigeon pie provided for their guests at an entertainment at the Mansion House. They had taken the choir of Priory
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. THE field behind the Sports Centre at York University is a long way from Old Trafford
OUR last home game of the season against Workington a week on Sunday might be an emotional time. We're hopefully going to be presented with the LHF National League Two trophy, while for a few guys, like Mick Ramsden and Lee Jackson, it will be their final
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. The eight-year-old lines up for the £15,000 betfair.com Handicap over
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. It is especially exciting
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. Mr Webster spearheaded
CITIES would be queuing up to take York's place as host of the UK Snooker Championship. It is one of the most prestigious events in the sporting calendar, enjoying days of live TV coverage. The benefits - priceless publicity and extra tourism revenue
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. The Tap & Spile in Monkgate can serve alcohol until midnight from Sunday to Thursday, and until 1 am on Fridays
HIGHWAYS bosses have refused to reveal whether motorists are continuing to desert York's car parks. City of York Council claims it could be "commercially damaging" for it to publish monthly parking revenue figures for June and July. However, it will happily
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. Paul Stabler was 15 when he began to work at his family firm - the well-loved department store
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. The Australian left-hander, who returns to Yorkshire next season
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. After having an exhibition match against the West Indies cancelled and a replacement
FANS will get the chance to quiz manager Billy McEwan at the York City Roadshow at York City Social Club on Thursday. The panel will also include members of the club's board and the fans' forum format will give supporters the opportunity to ask questions
ACOMB took the York Vale Evening League championship title for the first time. While they were beaten only once, the highest score of the season was posted by Copmanthorpe with 151 in response to Westow's 148 from 18 overs. League secretary Mike Wellock
THE Yorkshire Air Show at Elvington last Sunday was a wonderful spectacle in perfect weather. However, memories of the day will be spoilt because of the huge delay in leaving. It took more than two and a half hours to get out of the car park after the
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. Ragwort supports the life cycle of a multitude of
IT is saddening to see that City of York Council has been pressed into adding ugly carbuncles to perfectly useful footpath signs. While Coun Brian Watson presumably measures his walks with 176 yard (1/10 mile) 'click' on his car's odometer, most experienced
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. The largest study ever carried out, however, in Australia reported that mild cannabis
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? Here, the developers retained the front and one end faade of what was the old Woolpack pub and
WHY not move York Hospital to Terry's factory and make something good of the building? It would be an ideal location, no excuse of bed-blocking. There would be plenty of space for the ambulances and car-parking spaces and it could make a place to convalesce
FANS will get the chance to quiz manager Billy McEwan at the York City Roadshow at York City Social Club on Thursday. The panel will also include members of the club's board and the fans' forum format will give supporters the opportunity to ask questions
