For information on membership of the association and the reunion contact: Mike O'Leary, membership secretary. Tel/Fax 0171 628 1473, email 106373.321@compuserve.com Mike O'Leary Lauderdale Tower, Lauderdale Place, Barbican, London. Converted for the new
THE 1998 Education Reform Act stated that any parent should be free to send their child to the school of their choice, and that that school must accept the child unless it was full to its maximum capacity. This freedom of choice was correctly used by
Peter, who failed to produce anything like his best form in last month's Tote Eider Chase at Newcastle, reappears at Carlisle tomorrow and should not be overlooked. It is often said that you should be prepared to forgive any horse one bad run, and that
Chester City 1, Scarborough 3 Scarborough gave their relegation fight a massive shot in the arm with a well-deserved 3-1 win at draw specialists Chester City. And in an extra boost on a night of much needed joy for the suffering Seasiders, their main
Midfielder Steve Agnew today shot down fears he did not have the stomach for York City's relegation fight. Fans of the relegation-troubled club were stunned by the revelation that the veteran schemer had asked for a move less than nine months into a three-year
Nearly 100,000 Yorkshire smokers today made the pledge to live nicotine-free lives as the nation marks No Smoking Day. Reporter ADAM NICHOLS joined them, and took some advice from City of York Council chief executive and reformed smoker David Clark DAVID
HEALTH Secretary Frank Dobson today opened a new £1 million York renal unit - and revealed how kidney failure brought personal heartache to his own childhood. Frank Dobson chats to patient Frank Stagnell this afternoon as unit manager Susan Umpleby explains
by Rebecca Gilbert, Janet Hewison and Adrian Royles Meet Ryedale's water baby - born after her parents faced a desperate battle through terrible floods to get to the hospital in time. BABY LOVE: Jane Hartley cradles her new-born baby, who arrived in the
Education is making me sleep less The trouble with being middle aged and middle class is that it fills you with angst. Throw bleeding heart liberalism into the emotional melting pot and you have a recipe for sleepless nights. (Sleepless nights of your
THE letter from Steve Galloway (February 27) contains a number of errors and misrepresentations. 1. The new city council in 1996 inherited a large backlog of several million pounds of highway work from North Yorkshire County Council. We are working through
WITH reference to the article regarding the proposed tribute to former ABB staff (Evening Press, March 5). As a former York Carriageworks coachmaker myself, I feel proud to think that the workforce are to be honoured by the arts project as outlined in
York City Baths Club's Robin Francis will be looking to retain his Men's 100metres freestyle and 200 individual medley titles at the Yorkshire Amateur Swimming Association Championships at Leeds this weekend. His biggest threat at the International Pool
HERE'S a teaser for all you quiz show addicts. Name these two programmes, both of which are screened on British television. The first is a long-running show which draws its contestants from an exclusive body, is hosted by a man famous for his acerbic
FAMILIES will be raising a glass to the Chancellor this weekend. Pensioners will join the toast. And not just because Gordon Brown left alcohol duty alone. His third Budget has restored the feel-good factor that had steadily dwindled since New Labour's
YORK Lib Dems have reacted cautiously to encouragement from their national party to boycott the food giant Nestl, which employs hundreds of people in the city. The Liberal Democrats' conference in Edinburgh agreed at the weekend to ban any party funds
MUSIC teaching in York is to be given a £368,000 boost - provided it is offered to more pupils. It means an explosion in the type of music on offer to York youngsters. Education chiefs hope to experiment with teaching steel drums, African music and modern
YOUR starter for ten, no conferring. Why has the University of York failed to be represented on the new version of the academic quiz show University Challenge? Is the famously fierce interviewer Jeremy Paxman just too fearsome to face as he poses the
An inventor who two years ago was so hard up his four children were on free school meals is now well on the road to becoming a multi-millionaire. Steve Morris, 40, who has developed a novel 3-D jigsaw, became a paper millionaire this week after his company
An alleged murder victim was one of four men who beat up his killer, the jury in the Tang Hall drugs murder trial heard today. Police logs which were read to the court named Wayne Nicholson as one of a quartet implicated in an incident in November 1997
THE cost of the damage to householders and businesses hit by the floods is set to run into tens of millions of pounds, insurance experts warned today. Alan Baldwin and his wife Marian use sandbags in an attempt to keep water out of their home in Elvington
