THEY are a rowdy lot those councillors at City of York Council. Why else would the authority have needed a team of security staff to watch over the doors of Guildhall the other afternoon? As far as we know, this is the first time bouncers have been needed
WHAT'S the link between a Muslim teenager in Luton who took her grievance to the House of Lords and a schoolgirl in York banned from school for wearing a stud? We'll come to that in a minute. Shabina Begum, 17, claimed her human rights were violated when
A TOP US-based supplier of tailor-made hi-tech "chemical libraries" for bioscience laboratories has chosen York as its European base. MatriCal Inc, a booming Washington supplier of laboratory instruments, especially for applications in cancer treatment
TAKE a trip to Williams Bar in York and you can do far more than just eat, drink and be merry. You might write another chapter of your blockbuster novel as you sip a coffee at the popular Goodramgate venue. Or chat to friends on the other side of the
YORKSHIRE had slumped to 34-4 when brothers-in-law Darren Lehmann and Craig White joined forces in a record-breaking stand against Kent at Canterbury yesterday on the opening day of the Liverpool Victoria Championship match. The pair amassed 229 together
RELIGIOUS buildings across Yorkshire are to be given vital repairs under new English Heritage grants announced today - and York's largest parish church is one of the beneficiaries. English Heritage announced it was providing £827,000 in grants for eight
IT BEGAN as a fun family day out to a popular tourist attraction in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. But it ended in tragedy, after Andrea Clay's car collided with another vehicle as she travelled with her husband, Tim, and their three children. Today
STREETS paved with litter have caused York to be ranked among the dirtiest places in the region. Almost a quarter of the city's streets and highways which were assessed had litter and debris. In contrast, East Yorkshire came up sparklingly clean, with
HOSEPIPE bans and dried-up reservoirs will not be a feature of Yorkshire's landscape this summer, water bosses said today. The news comes at a time when millions of households in the south-east are facing water restrications, in preparation for what could
YORK City Baths Club swimmers won 11 gold, 16 silver and 14 bronze medals at the Kingston upon Hull open meet. Andrew Burns, 12, struck gold in the 100m butterfly, 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley events. He also took silver in the 100m freestyle
A TOP headhunting agency has been hired to find a suitable candidate for one of York Minster's most senior posts - worth up to £60,000-a-year. The role of Chapter Steward is currently being advertised in the national broadsheets following the announcement
FORMER York City Knights hero Alex Godfrey is to return to rugby league at the York International 9s, the Evening Press can reveal. The winger's controversial two-year doping ban comes to an end in a fortnight and his first outing back in the game will
The runs flowed freely in the HPH York Vale Cricket League, a sure sign of the increasing quality of the grounds and batting talent the league attracts. Chris Moores carried his bat for 132 as Bishopthorpe made 233-3 against Heworth in division one. Graham
A CRACKING innings by teenager Steve Smith equalled his club's top individual score in the HPH York Vale League. The 19-year-old left-hand opening batsman slammed an unbeaten 145 for Drax out of a team total of 195-6 in their division one victory at home
Thursday, May 11, 2006 100 years ago For women's afflictions, many ladies allegedly said Veno's Seaweed Tonic was "magic itself." Could you recognise any of the symptoms? Did you feel as though something was pressing down on the top of your head? Were
DAVE SCOTT is a man with big ideas. So don't expect the council's first Young People's Champion to be merely a nominal figurehead. He plans to make his mark, as he tells STEVE CARROLL. IT'S probably the biggest challenge for any politician - how to engage
IT was with great interest I read your article headlined Blockbuster in The Press, on Saturday. My mother passed away in 2003, having lived with my husband and our family for more than 30 years. I nursed her till her passing. She was one of the fortunate
I AM sorry George Appleby has so little faith in anyone involved in politics (Time For A Change, May 8). MPs and councillors are a minority of the population, and it is true there are many politicians whose life experience is indeed limited to politics
At York Citizens Advice Bureau, we sometimes have inquiries from our clients about offers that sound too good to be true. They are! People rarely give away large sums of money or expensive gifts to strangers without intending to get something back. Usually
THE man who held out a message of hope for thousands at risk from York's "asbestos timebomb" eventually succumbed to a disease related to the deadly material, an inquest heard. Former York Carriageworks employee Dougie Peacock, 58, of Carrfield, Woodthorpe
COSTCUTTER, the York-based convenience store group, is planning to merge with a grocery wholesaler, it was claimed today. Costcutter, which employs about 100 people at its Dunnington head office, is said to be working on a tie-up with Nisa Today's, a
THE net is closing in on the brutal thugs who chased the keeper of York's historic Bar Walls before throwing him off them. Police officers revealed they were following up a strong lead in the hunt for the three teenagers who attacked Chris Wooldridge
PICKERING snooker pro Paul Davison is set for a return to snooker's main circuit after completing the Pontin's International Open series. Although Davison lost 4-0 to sixth-ranked Mark Joyce in the last 16 of the eighth and final event of the season-long
WELL, he was certainly impressed. Readers may have inundated The Press with complaints about the size, safety, reliability and ticketing arrangements of York's new ftr superbus, but Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander had little but praise after taking
The runs flowed freely in the HPH York Vale Cricket League, a sure sign of the increasing quality of the grounds and batting talent the league attracts. Chris Moores carried his bat for 132 as Bishopthorpe made 233-3 against Heworth in division one. Graham
YORKSHIRE had slumped to 34-4 when brothers-in-law Darren Lehmann and Craig White joined forces in a record-breaking stand against Kent at Canterbury yesterday on the opening day of the Liverpool Victoria Championship match. The pair amassed 229 together
WHEELIE-BINS, wheelie bins everywhere - so why can't I have one? That is the question being posed today by frustrated resident Raymond Grosvenor, as The Press reveals that a massive wheelie-bin mountain is standing on an industrial estate just outside
WOODHOUSE Grange will play host to York and District Senior Cricket League rivals Folkton and Flixton in the third round of the npower National Village competition. The two teams will meet at Sutton-on-Derwent on Sunday, May 21 after Folkton beat Church
An opening stand of 80 between B Stephenson (31) and C Cameron (46) sealed Barmby Moor's six-wicket defeat of Malton and Old Malton and their leadership of HPH York Vale League division three. Apart from Matthew Bulmer's 47, the Malton side had showed
Selby head HPH York Vale League division four after an eight-wicket win over Ovington. Chris Jeffreys (5-27) and Carl Paterson (3-21) dismissed the visitors for 110 and Selby wasted little time as Richard Firth peppered the boundary seven times in his
YORK'S streets, far from being paved with gold, are strewn with litter. That's the damning verdict of an Audit Commission report, which the GMB union has used to rank towns and cities in order of cleanliness. York came sixth from bottom in Yorkshire and
YORK'S young people are great. You need only look at pages 28 and 29 of today's Press to see some of the fantastic things they get up to - everything from raising money for charity to remembering York people killed in the Zeppelin raid of 1916. It's such
CHRIS Spurr is set to make his long-awaited return from injury as York City Knights' Academy team look to build on their excellent first win. The 25-year-old has not played a competitive game since breaking a leg and dislocating an ankle while representing
FORMER York City Knights hero Alex Godfrey is to return to rugby league at the York International 9s, the Evening Press can reveal. The winger's controversial two-year doping ban comes to an end in a fortnight and his first outing back in the game will
Pam Sly, who hit the heady heights of Classic success at Newmarket last Sunday when Speciosa won the 1,000 Guineas, returns to her usual bread-and-butter fare at Wetherby this evening. The Peterborough trainer, best known for her handling of jumpers,
I AM replying to George Appleby's letter on the subject of PR or proportional representation (Time For A Change, May 8). Mr Appleby is quite right to say that 'sectors of the population are left without an effective voice...'. He is, however, totally
YOUR readers may be forgiven for not having noticed that just over a week ago a special meeting of City of York Council took place to agree a new constitution - the rules by which the council operates. Motions will be vetted by the ruling Lib Dem executive
I WOULD like it to be widely known that I have no interest in Wayne Rooney's foot. Furthermore, I have no interest either in the World (or, for that matter, any other) Cup. The only thing that concerns me is the amount of money it will cost the taxpayers
I AM an infrequent bus user as I live within walking distance of the city centre. However, the other day I was carrying heavy shopping, so thought I'd catch the bus from Ousegate to the Mount. This trip usually costs £1, which I think is the minimum fare
