I AM writing in response to recent cycling injuries to let readers know about a helpful service from a York legal firm. Corries offer CASCA (Compensation and Advice Service for Cycling Accidents) nationally. This gives cyclists, on a 'no win, no fee basis
I AM livid about Prince Edwards' remarks to the American press about life in Britain. He says the British hate success - what on earth does he know about success? He couldn't hack the hard discipline of the Royal Marines. He made a complete fool of himself
The Ouse between Redhouse and Poppleton proved tough going for the 44 entries in York's Dispensary Cup. As expected, pegs around the Rough Field did all the damage with Gary Brayshaw (Osset) taking full advantage of his end peg 1 above the rough. After
TO LIVE for years believing you have a malignant disease is one of the harshest situations imaginable. Every aspect of your now fragile life will change, and nothing will be as it was before the dreadful diagnosis. To spend all those years believing you
INJURY-DOGGED striker Marc Williams will be out to make a long-awaited impact on front-line duty tonight. Williams, whose pre-season training and eventual start to the new campaign has been blighted by illness and injury, will spearhead the City reserves
A MARATHON clipping of yew trees has begun at the University of York - and it will be another three weeks before the team of gardeners is able to lay down its shears. The 250-year-old trees stand at the rear of Heslington Hall and in their prime they
THERE has been another big cat sighting in the Ryedale area, this time as an unwelcome guest at a hotel in Pickering. "On Saturday we had a phone call from Pickering police who said they had a reported sighting of a puma in our gardens," said Roger Clayton
A DESERTED medieval village on the Yorkshire Wolds will yield up some of its secrets to people joining guided tours this weekend. English Heritage is organising tours of Wharram Percy, six miles south-east of Malton, at 11am and 2pm on Sunday. To reserve
RESIDENTS of two moorland villages face a new battle to save their spring water supply... 16 years after emerging victorious from a previous skirmish. Yorkshire Water aims to spend about £3 million to pump hard limestone water to fewer than 100 homes
DANCE music wizard Richard Helstrip has won his first recording deal - even though he is four years too young to go to the clubs where the debut single will be played. The 14-year-old Lowfields School pupil, also known as Free Radical, recorded the Ibiza-style
I WAS very interested to read the letters written by Jan and Ali Houlgate regarding their father-in-law, but the statement that he was the last person to be born in Shambles cannot possibly be true because my sister and I were born in 1928 and 1932 at
IT would seem that hardly a week goes by without some fresh Government idiocy. David Blunkett's latest idea is a special savings account for children into which the Government will regularly make payments to give a total, when the child is 18, of around
YOUR headline article in the last Monday's final edition has certainly raised a few eyebrows. There has been no true consultation of residents regarding CCTV for Clifton. This is a difficult issue requiring extensive, genuine residents' consultation and
A CONSTANT stream of doctors, carers and health staff are no substitute for the concerned friend who drops by for a chat. And this is what the charity Age Concern is trying to address with its befriending service, which matches up older people with volunteers
RESIDENTS on a York estate have formed their own action group to fight the area's growing drugs menace. Chapelfields Crossroads was established in Acomb by concerned parents, and has won support and praise from York police. The group aims to: Form a support
THE chips are down for ring king Paul Ingle. Hopes that the Yorkshire Hunter's second world title bid will be staged at the McCain Stadium home of Scarborough Football Club have been given a big KO. But the fight's promoters are still hopeful of staging
PICKERING Town showed all their fighting qualities to book their place in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup for the first time in the club's history with a 3-2 win over St Helen's Town. Already hit by the loss of striker Mark Wood and Joe Connor
TOO often young people make the headlines for all the wrong reasons. So it's great to find a York teenager making them for all the right ones. Richard Helstrip - or Free Radical, as he likes to be known - has won his first recording deal at the age of
CELERIC, who bounced back to winning form on his favourite Knavesmire course last month, has excellent prospects of following-up at Doncaster tomorrow in the Great North Eastern Railway Doncaster Cup. The battle-hardened veteran had become somewhat disappointing
YORKSHIRE have rejected moves to take championship cricket back to Harrogate and Sheffield next season, despite the county club's members urging such action in a resolution which was passed at the annual meeting in March. Yorkshire had formed a sub-committee
A YORK woman was today meeting her hero as a reward for walking to the top of the world. Sarah Ratcliffe, of Siward Street, Hull Road, climbed 14,500 feet to the source of the Ganges in Tibet to raise cash for Mencap. And today she was meeting England
THE death knell seems to have been rung for York Arts Centre after its members agreed that they expect it to close. A resolution has been passed to "accept the probable eventual liquidation of the arts centre." This is expected to lead to the end of what
ELDERLY residents of a warden-controlled flat complex today said they will not pay their rent because their lift is out of order a week after being closed down because it was dangerous. Ernest and Anneliese Wheatley, who live in a second-floor flat at
A YORK man lived under the shadow of leukaemia for eight years after being given a wrong diagnosis. Now Colin Langley hopes his personal nightmare will drive a campaign to change the system for people who suffer when doctors get things wrong. He is pressing
