MANY thanks to the woman, man and member of St William's College Restaurant staff who helped me when I tripped up just outside the building. I was helped to my feet and the staff member gave me First Aid, a cup of tea and rang for a taxi to take me to
HAVING read your article on school cleaning (October 26) I wish to make the following comments. While it is true there has been a vast improvement in school cleaning standards, most of the credit for this should go to the cleaners themselves. The article
I NOTE that the dental profession is once again rearing its head with its wish to impose fluorosis on the elderly and particularly older women. By imposing a more hyperactive halide than the First World War poison gas chlorine, they are in danger of causing
IT COULD have been the awful weather, it could have been that the safety message has finally got home, but the area is celebrating its most accident-free Guy Fawkes Night for many years. York District Hospital had only one minor burn. So far, so good.
A NORTH Yorkshire coroner has called for urgent improvements to a road junction at which there have been a series of fatal accidents. Michael Oakley is so concerned about the dangers of a North Yorkshire junction that he has pledged to take up the issue
FLYING Scotsman Gordon Connelly has been targeted as the man to get York City back on track. The Minstermen return to Bootham Crescent tomorrow for the first time in a month smarting from four successive away defeats that have sent them careering into
ONE of York's biggest speculative office developments in recent years could create more than 250 jobs. Aviator Court at Clifton Moor, where a topping-out ceremony was performed yesterday, is attracting high interest from both local and national companies
FOSTER children who run into difficulties with their "new" parents are not having their voices heard, despite high-profile scandals in children's homes which highlighted threats to their welfare, according to researchers in York today. The Children's
PRIME Minister Tony Blair claims York's Imphal Barracks will remain among the most important Army bases in the UK. And he has revealed that he personally looked into the matter before it was decided last week to close the 2nd Division HQ at Imphal and
CORONER Michael Oakley has called for urgent action to tackle a death junction on a North Yorkshire road. Mr Oakley spoke out at an inquest on Cyril Pollard, 73, and Kathleen Swales, 67, both from York, who died in a road accident at the Alne Cross junction
YORK citizens were today urged to help police to find the proceeds of a post office shotgun raid after robbers dumped the haul during an armed police chase. Police divers, dogs and officers on foot were today making a painstaking search of the Clifton
RETURNING north from a recent SDP Conference in Doncaster, I followed the signs for the A1 and was directed into an A1(M) deviation south and into an almighty snarl up. I was not the only one! I eventually found my way north, without delays, via the old
GET IN tune with the Christmas spirit this year by opening your hearts (and lungs) and taking part in Mencap's Carol Sing A Song. The notes you raise will help children and adults with a learning disability. Just get together a group of friends or colleagues
YORK'S assistant coach and utility back Paul Scott returns to the York three-quarter line for the Thwaites League North Two visit of Lymm to Clifton Park. Scott comes into the centre, replacing last week's debutant at Chester, Gareth Lloyd, who moves
NOTTS County romped to the Division Three title last season scoring an impressive 84 goals in the promotion process. But just as integral to the Magpies' May-day ascent into Division Two was the strike-stopping ability of goalkeeper Darren Ward. And the
VERONICA FRANCO, widely priced at around 14-1, is napped to lift the featured £30,000 Tote Trifecta November Handicap when the Flat turf season draws to a close at Doncaster tomorrow. Already the winner of five races this year, Peter Hedger's tough and
SCARBOROUGH face new third division leaders Rotherham United tomorrow in an all Yorkshire battle of North and South. The meeting with the more-than-Merry Millers at Millmoor is only Boro's second away day since September. Without a win in six games, manager
MANAGER Alan Little has appealed for major backing in the call to arms for goalkeeper Andy Warrington. Near three months of exile ends tomorrow for Warrington when he stands guard again in front of the fans who slammed him out of the team. The season
BOGUS callers are posing as fundraisers for St Leonard's Hospice and cheating the York hospice's terminally ill patients of much-needed cash. Police are appealing for anyone who is approached by the fraudsters to contact them immediately. The alarm was
A WARNING went out to Selby householders today after an elderly woman was attacked by a knifeman on her own doorstep. Residents were put on their guard after the attack, which happened when the unnamed woman answered a knock on her door to find a man
