A LAST-minute plea has gone out in advance of a meeting of social services chiefs next week for a ceiling on the amount vulnerable elderly people should have to pay for being looked after in their own homes. Age Concern says many of the price increases
A LIGHT aircraft which performed stunts over York University may now have started buzzing Acomb, according to local resident Jim Doherty. The Evening Press reported last month how an "airborne boy racer" was reportedly performing aerobatic manoeuvres
SAFETY concerns have prompted residents of a North Yorkshire street used as a rat-run by motorists to carry out a traffic survey. For years, locals in Shipton-by-Beningbrough have asked the county council to ban heavy vehicles from East Lane. However,
TWO York children are planning to take on the might of Hollywood. Jack Smith, 13, and Jonathan McNeil, 12, may get in the record books as the youngest-ever film producers when their film Runaway William II is released. Filming on the project, which has
A PENSIONER from York who spent £6 on a premium rate phone call to a prizeline fears his gift could end up costing him more money in the long run. Like hundreds of other York prizewinners who rang the number set up by Disbursement Claims of High Wycombe
HARROGATE, close to relegation frame in Jewson's National League division one, conceded the double to visitors Rugby by 21-7 at Claro Road. Chances went begging and Harrogate were forced into errors. Jim Quantrill kicked two penalties to put Rugby 6-0
YORK'S first visit to Huddersfield's new Lottery-inspired sports complex on the site of the old Bentley and Shaw brewery could hardly be described as auspicious. On this heavily muddied pitch between the towering viaduct of the Huddersfield-Sheffield
SCARBOROUGH manager Mick Wadsworth could well face a disciplinary charge after referee John Brandwood ordered him from the touchline to a seat in the stands. The incident came during a tempestuous first half, when Steve Wood, the scorer of Macclesfield's
NUMBER crunching scientists at York University believe they may have cracked the problem of European city centre congestion - using music. Firmly believing there's many a new tune played on an old fiddle, mathematicians say they can use existing traffic
ALMOST 60,000 cases of BSE could have been avoided had action to tackle the outbreak of mad-cow disease been taken earlier, a scientist is claiming. And the amount of contaminated meat entering the food chain could have been reduced as soon as the cattle
YORK today launched a glossy bid to market the city as a business destination. More than 2,000 copies of a high-quality brochure extolling York's five key virtues have been printed in advance of next month's European finance conference. A copy will go
YORK Acorn moved smoothly into the third round of the BNFL National Cup with a 32-18 victory over Yorkshire League senior division side Featherstone Miners Welfare. The Blue and Golds meted out severe first half punishment to their Thanet Road visitors
HEWORTH extended their unbeaten League record to eight games with a 34-24 win over basement side Saddleworth. The Oldham side belied their league position with a spirited performance but Heworth always looked the stronger side with Jason Gatus and Craig
FORTUNE, they say, favours the brave. It also smiled benevolently on the brittle at high-anxiety Bootham Crescent on Saturday. Fragility was not to be found in York City's resolve, but it was there in abundance in the Minstermen's confidence. There was
MIDFIELD live-wire Steve Bushell urged terrace 'snipers' to hold their fire. Bushell was among other City men angered by the volley of boos and catcalls aimed at second-half substitutes Scott Jordan and Richard Cresswell. The young duo were brought on
RELIEVED manager Alan Little hailed his York City battlers for fighting their way out of the depths of despair. He conceded that City's 1-0 victory over Walsall on Saturday was far from convincing. But the win was the first on the League front since beating
PLANS to revamp Easingwold town centre have been pared down because of a cash crisis. Originally, residents were told the scheme to enhance the town's main street, Long Street, would cost £300,000. But that figure is now closer to £200,000 after residents
HEARTBEAT star Bill Maynard admitted last night that he had refused a request to plug a new video featuring co-star Nick Berry. The rest of the cast of Britain's top-rated drama series agreed to appear in TV plugs for the video, set in Canada as a sequel
CAMPAIGNING York pensioner Joan Merryweather has taken a protest about pension levels and social service charges for the elderly to the top. Joan, a leading member of York and District Pensioners' Association, travelled to Scarborough at the weekend in
EDUCATION Secretary David Blunkett today admitted City of York Council is locked in a "Catch-22" predicament over its review of the way secondary school places are allocated. In an exclusive interview with the Evening Press, Mr Blunkett said he viewed
MYSTERY today still surrounded the death of a York man who was killed when the off-road car he was travelling in crashed on a disused airfield. And three people were treated in hospital in Scarborough after a head-on crash on the A64 near Malton closed
PROPOSED drastic cuts in power station emission levels could wipe out half of Britain's pits. Environment Agency chiefs dropped their bombshell on the coal industry with proposals to bring forward the deadline for an 84 per cent cut in sulphur dioxide
A WAITER was today pinning his hopes on an appeal against deportation to his native Algeria. Support for the man, who had worked at an Italian restaurant in Malton for three years, was growing in the town today as he spent his fourth day in police custody
