'Let us decide on Euro' (October 19) asks the question why Blair doesn't hold a referendum now? The answer is simple, he knows very well that holding a referendum now would result in a massive 'no' vote. Instead the usual Labour stealth tactics will be
I am happy to respond to Mr Bonner's letter about York's recent welcome to a delegation of Chinese visitors (Letters, October 22). First, some facts. The visit was hosted by York Inward Investment Board (at the request of the Department of Trade and Industry
So the Home Care Service is once more to be used as a pawn in the City of York Council's drive to save money. We have just recently been notified by the same council that a report by the Audit Commission states that we are 'a skilful and stable workforce
York Rugby Union Club 'A' team had their hands full before beating Selby 'A' 22-10 in a Merit Table match at Clifton Park. Selby ripped into the Clifton Park side and opened the scoring when they quickly recycled the ball and sent Ed Clark in for an unconverted
The quintessential GPO red telephone box is not normally associated with high-technology computer systems. However, the managing director of The Software Box Ltd (SBL), aims to make the nostalgic icon to be forever associated with the computer hardware
NECK PROBLEM: City's Steve Agnew York City are sticking their neck out to keep midfield playmaker Steve Agnew in their FA Cup hunt. Agnew is undergoing intensive treatment all week in the build-up to Saturday's FA Cup opener away to Nationwide Conference
You can walk it if you try! That's the lesson for North Yorkshire businesses learned and given by Investors in People consultants Sallyanne Reed, foreground, and her manager Lydia Wiffen, centre. The two hesitated at first to scramble down the sheer limestone
It is the news we have been waiting to hear. The discovery of not one but two potential bone marrow donors for Nicola Coates is a double delight. Nicola and her family are naturally overjoyed. This was what they had been waiting, hoping and praying for
Record-breaker Jamie Benn's dream move to Hull Sharks is off - but the York Wasps ace could still be on his way to Humberside. IN DEMAND: York RL's Jamie Benn The Sharks' neighbours Hull Kingston Rovers have made Benn an offer which he is currently considering
Magistrates and local councillors would be given new powers to decide when pubs close under radical plans to revolutionise Britain's antiquated licensing laws. These new licensing authorities could, in theory, allow pubs to stay open 24-hours-a-day. But
Evening Press reader Betty Hartas is singing the praises of a mystery man who kept traffic moving until police reached the scene of an accident. Miss Hartas, of Eason View, Dringhouses, York, was travelling to the Flamingo Land theme park and zoo at Kirby
From left, the Lord Mayor of York, Councillor Peter Vaughan, with Ange Davison, 1999-2000 York Rag President, Siobhan Keates, from Henshaw's Society for the Blind, one of this year's beneficiaries, and Vita Scott, 1998 Rag President Students at the University
A potential bone marrow donor has been found across the Atlantic for Wheldrake leukaemia victim Nicola Coates. The 25-year-old student has been told that two people on American registers of donors are compatible and either could donate their marrow. The
I have spent a few days holidaying in and around York and I felt I had to write about your paper. The Evening Press must be the best local paper anywhere, well written and well produced. What more can I say, keep up the good work. C V Parker, Melbourne
There are an estimated four to five million dairy-intolerant people in Britain. Inability to digest lactose (milk sugar) causes nausea, cramps, bloating gas and diarrhoea. The most common food allergy in children is to milk protein. Symptoms include persistent
I write to take serious objection to Rodney Hills' threat to UNISON members in the story "Sign or you're sacked" (Evening Press, October 21). If Councillor Hills is reported correctly then he is using intimidatory tactics with our members, to frighten
Our Hospice 2000 Appeal is £5,000 the richer - thanks to a big gift from a local company and a little help from the taxman. CASH BOOST: Karen Russell receives a cheque for £3,850 for the hospice appeal from Mark Sessions. With the taxman's help the cheque
Rock on! York-based Shepherd Construction shows how to tear down in order to build up - preparing the way for its £48 million project to build a new hospital Shepherd site manager Gerard Simmonds orchestrates the demolition of a school of nursing building
York's three big guns in the Yorkshire League - the second strings of Acorn, Heworth and New Earswick All Blacks - mirrored the efforts of their first teams as all slumped to defeats. Heworth and All Blacks both took heavy beatings while Acorn suffered
City of York are finding the going tough in the premier division of the Northern Counties Hockey League. Their 4-1 home defeat against Bowdon on Saturday was the third time they have lost by that score this season, Harrogate and Sheffield having also
Two campaigns have been launched by North Yorkshire TEC to help businesses to be more competitive. We are encouraging businesses to find out about and sign up to Investors in People (IIP) - and we are writing to businesses across the county to tell them
Trainer Ian Williams has better reason than most of his colleagues to get his name on the scoreboard at Cheltenham tomorrow. Williams, one of the country's brightest young talents, with an ever-growing string of horses, has with some of his patrons also
Iain Dale, the York tycoon appointed as "Ambassador for British Business", today urged small operators among his fellow North Yorkshire exporters to "think Kuwait". Mr Dale, who sold Dale Electrics, the twice-Queen's Award winning Filey-based power systems
The Great Anglo-French Beef War rumbles on. They banned our meat from their bourguignon and now we must remove theirs from our wellingtons. France began the conflict by banning British beef despite the European Union declaring it safe. The latest volley
Young pretender Jamie Warters today declared he would be no make-weight in a projected 'king of York' showdown with former champion Henry Wharton. Warters' promoter Frank Maloney stunned the boxing fraternity with an offer to entice 31-year-old Wharton
A scramble is taking place for 200 new jobs on offer at a new monster B & Q planned for York. In two days more than 700 people called a recruitment line set up to answer responses to an Evening Press advertisement calling for recruits to the vast
A man told a tribunal that for 36 hours his mentally ill mother asked to be taken to York District Hospital after contracting deep vein thrombosis, but she was kept at Bootham Park Hospital. Simon Scully, from Thistleton Court, York, made the claims as
Young offenders in York could be brought face-to-face with their victims and ordered to make "reparations" to them under a new crime-busting initiative. Parents of persistent young offenders could also be held accountable - with court orders requiring
Posh Spice Victoria Adams met footballer David Beckham for the first time in York's St Helen's Square... but all was not at it seemed. ABOVE: Elly Bedingham and Sean Chapman (alias Posh Spice and David Beckham) after their makeover at State Of The Art
Stroke victim Winifred Whimp - one of the patients stuck at York District Hospital even though she was fit to be discharged - has now been told she can go in to a nursing home. The Evening Press reported recently how Winifred, aged 66, of Tang Hall was
York market traders angry at the French, from left, are Dave Clarke, Mike Gilmore, David Green, Rob Benson, and Simon Baynes The French Christmas market planned for York should be scrapped, city traders said today. York market stall holders and Conservative
