England fans in York desperate for a victory over the Finns in a World Cup Qualifier were struggling to see the game live tonight. Following the disastrous loss to Germany in Saturday's last game at Wembley Stadium, only viewers on the digital channel
AS a frequent user of Golden Hill with a slow moving vehicle - a mobile crane - I have witnessed first-hand several dangerous incidents there while travelling in either direction. These have been caused mainly by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) and light
NEWS that an application has been submitted for a major housing development on the Monroe shock absorber factory site on York's Shipton Road is of great concern. The area has already seen extensive new housing development in recent years, and the local
I WAS really impressed with the standard of the music throughout York's Fiesta Latina festival, especially Jazz @ Last. I listened to the two sets they performed and can vouch for the clarity of performance and the variety of their programme. The band
Film-makers in York are producing a documentary about different styles of worship in the 21st century. They have filmed a family service at St Paul's Church, Holgate Road, York, featuring the debut performance of Don't Fret - the church's own contemporary
Top opera singer Lynne Dawson will return to the place which inspired her professional career when she performs Handel's Messiah in York Minster on Saturday. The soprano, who sang at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, is taking part in the BT Voices
Experts from the Central Science Laboratory (CSL), at Sand Hutton, near York, are investigating how unauthorised genetically-modified plants got into crop trials. On two GM sugar beet trial sites, one in Cambridgeshire and one in Oxfordshire, an unauthorised
Firefighters cut free a man trapped for 20 minutes after a car and a truck collided. The accident happened on the B1228 Elvington Road as the red BMW car was apparently trying to overtake the truck, police said. A 21-year-old man trapped in the BMW suffered
Chancellor Gordon Brown has held secret talks with farmers near York in an effort to avoid another fuel strike. The Government is insisting it is not going to cave in to protesters who paralysed the country by blocking fuel depots. But Prime Minister
The Evening Press today launches a campaign to Save Ryedale From Flooding. As we exclusively revealed recently, experts believe it would cost £4 million to protect Malton and Norton - and £1.3 million to defend Pickering - from another disastrous flood
TIM Easterby, down at Newmarket replenishing his stock at the Tattersalls Yearling Sales, can make his presence felt on the racecourse tomorrow. The Great Habton trainer, who has enjoyed another bumper campaign on the Flat, can score with Forever Times
EVERY Antiques Roadshow addict dreams of finding an heirloom of enormous value in the attic. Simon Howard has a bigger attic and more valuable heirlooms than most, but the £8 million Michaelangelo lurking in his library is still a sensational discovery
A History of Britain by Simon Schama (BBC Books, £25) WHEN I studied history - back in the Dark Ages - I was taught to separate the facts from the myths and then form an hypothesis based on those facts. Nowadays the practice seems to be get a good theory
THE article 'Top council job advertised at £100,000' (October 6) shows there is too big a divide between the low and highly paid in our society. The street cleaners of York are more important to public health than the chief executive. The library staff
IT'S nice to know that someone other than the Chancellor will gain from petrol price rises. The fuel hike boosted Britain's inflation level to 3.3 per cent last month. And, as pensions are linked to September's inflation rate, that means pensioners should
YORK'S Millennium Bridge has 'fallen' victim to October's heavy downpours. Heavy rain, a week's worth falling yesterday alone, and a 'flood watch' now in force, scuppered plans to launch the bridge tomorrow because the River Ouse is becoming too swollen
Singing nuns, cheering dogs and applauding Nazis - these were a few of my favourite things. You can add to that a Grand Opera House full of party-poppers going off at the touching (cheesy) moment when the lips of Maria and Captain Von Trapp touch for
Supermarkets were today ordered to sign a new code of practice to protect farmers and other suppliers. Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers stepped in to stop food giants like Sainsbury, ASDA and Tesco using their buying power to bully suppliers
Big hearted Ryedale walkers David Collier and Martin Lush have raised £1,200 for Nawton Primary School, near Helmsley, but now they have to figure out what they want to spend it on. "We didn't carry out the walk for any specific thing other than to raise
Shell-shocked villagers near Selby are cold-shouldering a new environmentally-friendly sewage treatment plant after receiving quotes as high as £8,000 to be connected to it. The connection charges to the £800,000 Yorkshire Water scheme at West Haddlesey
A York wood-turner has become a head-turner thanks to his fetchingly unusual headwear made entirely of wood. Appropriately-named Stan Wood, who lives in the Burnholme area of the city, has a penchant for making cowboy hats out of wood and says they are
A 12-year-old York car criminal is today starting a year-long custodial sentence after justices declared he is a danger to the public. He is, by three years, the youngest child ever locked up by York Youth Court. It heard a catalogue of nearly 20 offences
A major Tadcaster-based company is to close with the loss of 170 jobs, it was announced today. Bosses at the loss-making Stora Enso paper mill at Newton Kyme said their products were no longer commercially viable. They said the factory would be closed
DRINGHOUSES looked to be going out of the York FA Saturday Senior Cup when they were 3-0 down to Wigginton Grasshoppers with ten minutes remaining. But they rallied strongly with two goals from John Lake and one from Mark Ratcliffe to force the tie into
TOP training firms are well represented in our Evening Press Business Awards this year. York Business College, based in the illustrious River House building on the Ouse, was established in 1989 and under the leadership of principal Margaret Taylor over
Stephen Lewis sneaks a look around the new high-rise Viking metropolis of Jorvik 'If people still call it a village after this," says Richard Kemp, "I will scream!" We are standing in the middle of the restored Viking thoroughfare of Coppergate. And Richard's
WELL over a year has passed since the Great Floods of 1999 brought devastation to a wide area of Ryedale and Stamford Bridge. Yet the effects are still being felt, and the nightmare remains vivid in the minds of those whose lives were turned upside down
