You can drive 1,600 miles for only £40 worth of petrol, in a big car ('Anger At Cost Of Substitute Four-star Fuel,' October 25). Just go to Florida! Alas here at home, you will only manage 300 miles - and that's if you don't get in a traffic jam. After
Around 20 residents met together with local councillors recently to discuss the planned demolition of White Cross Lodge and Haxby Road School canteen. White Cross Lodge is a Victorian building in its own grounds, flanked to one side by the canteen and
The Prime Minister this week promised every head teacher a laptop computer. At the last local government elections the Labour Party in York promised to give a computer to every primary school child. During the last General Election the Labour Party promised
A dazzling ensemble of the latest in high street fashions graced the York stage at the annual Evening Press Fashion Show. MASKED OUT: These five models are ready to attend any fashionable masked ball in this display of eveningwear from Debenhams Something
PURE GOLD: Helen Douthwaite with one of the two gold medals she won in Sheffield Record breaking swim star Helen Douthwaite could soon find herself on top of the world. The Helmsley swimmer is hoping to enter next year's World Masters Swimming Championships
CARL NEARY, pictured, centre, in his York days, passing the ball out of a ruck, hopes to be playing for York RI again before the New Year Fixture cancellations affecting non-league weekends have now escalated to such an extent that the Yorkshire RFU have
Scarborough chief Colin Addison is erring on the side of experience to settle the FA Cup duel between two of his top ex-clubs. Addison's emotions will be tugged both ways as York City combat hosts Hereford United in tomorrow's first-round thriller at
Midfield cog Steve Agnew is close to losing his race against time to be fit for York City's FA Cup opener. A late check will be made on Agnew's persistent neck injury when City head off for tomorrow's first round duel at Hereford United. But manager Neil
York City's sole Minsterman to realise the FA Cup dream is aiming to get his home-city club on the winning road to the Twin Towers. Goalkeeper Bobby Mimms is not only City's number one, he is also the lone City representative to feature in the competition's
The new Mayor of London will have the final say on whether a memorial to the women of the Second World War is put up in Trafalgar Square. The York-based campaign for the monument wants it placed on the empty plinth in the square. But Alan Howarth, Junior
David Webb, deputy chairman of the construction division at Shepherd, prepares for Poppy Day A giant poppy has taken pride of place by one of York's main roads - to remind us all of the price of peace. The 5ft 6in by 5ft flower has been placed on the
Staff at York Dungeon are hunting an escaped bloodsucking parasite. Freddy the leech was one of a dozen on display in a sealed fish tank which forms part of the dungeon's exhibition about the plague. But he was the lucky leech selected to appear on TV
Action to get tough on neighbours from hell has been set back by the Government's refusal to fund surveillance cameras. The Home Office has rejected an application to install CCTV in a York street to crack down on nuisance youths. The Government's decision
The French Christmas market will not be held in York, organisers have announced. The decision was made as stallholders due to arrive in York in late November faced protests at the French market they were holding in Lincoln today. The cancellation of the
I was amazed to read about the conservation disaster at Copmanthorpe in which so many trees were felled unnecessarily and a green garden reduced to desert (Evening Press, October 20). If your report is correct the managing director of the building firm
Pupil Louis Kingdom is driving a York-wide campaign to help his school win the Evening Press minibus prize. DRIVING AMBITION: Louis Kingdom, aged nine, who has distributed leaflets and collection boxes all over the city in his bid to win the Evening Press
Be on the alert: Freddy the leech is at large. According to his owners at York Dungeon the little bloodsucker, head swelling from a recent television appearance, has made a break for freedom. They have yet to release an e-fit of the escapee; suffice to
See More Business, winner of last season's Cheltenham Gold Cup, is the star attraction at Wetherby tomorrow as he makes his return to action. The nine-year-old, trained in the West Country by Paul Nicholls, comes north to tackle the £40,000 Peterhouse
The retailing revolution continues apace. Serial shoppers will be delighted to learn that they can soon flex their plastic in another 70 stores at the BAA McArthurGlen complex near Naburn. This is also seriously good news for the York economy. The expansion
Building work is set to begin next month on a new two-storey library at a York school. The library, at Millthorpe School, Nunthorpe Avenue, could be opened to the public when it is completed. The school which has 980 pupils, received a Government grant
A partially-sighted photographer has overcome her disability to continue her lifetime's hobby. Beryl Slater, of Acomb, with pictures she has taken in York Beryl Slater, of Acomb, York, feared she would be unable to continue taking pictures after a detached
A York man is vowing to battle on to the highest courts despite losing his rights as 'nearest relative' to his mentally-ill mother. Simon Scully, of Thistleton Court, told the Evening Press that he would go to the Court of Appeal, in London, to try to
Up to 700 new jobs look set to be created when York's designer shopping village starts an expansion programme next year. The vacancies will be on offer from May when BAA McArthurGlen virtually doubles the size of its £64 million Designer Outlet Shopping
