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Nap selection for Wednesday's meetings: CHEPSTOW 2.20 - Rodock Updated: 11:55 Tuesday, February 06, 2001

Heavy overnight rain in Gloucestershire saw York City's Nationwide Division Three League clash at Cheltenham postponed earlier today. Football League referee Phil Prosser carried out an inspection at 9.30am and deemed the pitch unplayable due to waterlogging

Businesses in Stamford Bridge were warned this afternoon to prepare for their premises to be flooded. The Environment Agency issued a Flood Warning on the River Derwent at the village and nearby Buttercrambe. A spokeswoman said homes and businesses should

EVEN before the formal opening of the £1.3 million new extension to the Innovation Centre at York's Science Park, hi-tech firms are queuing to move in - and the project is expected to generate 80 new jobs. Martyn Harrison, chairman of Malton-based S Harrison

A MAGNIFICENT oil painting marking the victory of Pocklington Montessori School in the Evening Press Business Awards 2000 was formally presented to its founder Rosie Pressland by the artist. Corporate artist David Fisher helped to hang the powerful image

BUSINESS angels in Yorkshire have been given more power to their wings with a £50,000 boost from Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency. The more than 80 member Yorkshire Association of Business Angels (YABA) secured the grant after months

BUSINESSES in North and East Yorkshire are being asked to take part in a new Yorkshire-wide awards scheme. Dubbed the Pro Yorkshire Awards, it has been organised by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Yorkshire, and will recognise the achievements

CREATING open space around Clifford's Tower, Mr Akers('No let up in the big shops row', January 30)? - it's there already. We bought it in the 1930s, and began to create a wonderful amenity area. Money ran out after the war, but successive York councils

York Acorn Running Club's Nick Ford proved himself a tough nut to crack in an annual madcap test of endurance. Competing in Tough Guy, a 10-mile cross country running race followed by a gruelling assault course held in the middle of winter, Ford finished

Martyn Turner lifted the York Unique Pub Company League Individual trophy following a tremendously exciting tussle with Chris Thompson. The best of five final produced 11 tons and 14 higher scores, including two Thompson maximums. Thompson won with 17

City of York I suffered a major blow to their hopes of survival in the Northern Counties Hockey League premier division with a 4-0 defeat at Sheffield I. York had beaten Sheffield earlier in the season but their under-strength side could not match the

Selby Town's oft-postponed Northern Counties East League Cup tie at division one high-flyers Borrowash Victoria (kick off 7.45pm) is again in doubt. The Derbyshire club's league match at home to Rossington Main on Saturday was postponed due to a waterlogged

A man who has led some amazing missions in different parts of the country was in York to talk to church leaders from all over North and East Yorkshire and York itself about plans for a mission to the region next year. Evangelist J John, who will lead

Tadcaster Albion will not now lose captain Lee Maguire for any matches following the postponement of tonight's County Cup replay at Thackley. The midfielder received a seven-day suspension starting yesterday, following his red card in a Wilkinson Sword

Bogus callers who target rural communities should find it harder to carry out their scams thanks to a new initiative being promoted by the privatised utilities and the police. While there is no major problem with conmen in North Yorkshire, a steady trickle

Proposals on how to bring much-needed cash into York Wasps coffers will be discussed at a meeting tonight - and the fans are being asked to go along. The Wasps want anyone with ideas on how to increase club funds to attend the informal get-together along

The co-ordinator of a vital York service for the disabled has joined one of its users in criticising some taxi drivers for refusing to drive members to its door. But taxi drivers have hit back, saying they have no problems with carrying disabled passengers

Chris Fairclough and York City have parted company, it was announced today. The veteran central defender, 36, has yet to play this season following an operation on both knees during the summer. A statement issued by the club stated: "The Board have reviewed

Teenager Eve Headley is dancing on air after landing a starring role in one of Blackpool's top shows. The talented 19-year-old, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, near Selby, beat dozens of other young hopefuls in auditions for the show Mystique at the resort's

Police are appealing for witnesses to armed robberies in York and Harrogate which happened within hours of each other. The first incident took place at about 6pm last night, when a man brandishing a handgun and wearing a balaclava mask walked into Hargrave's

Heavy overnight rain in Gloucestershire saw York City's Nationwide Division Three League clash at Cheltenham postponed earlier today. Football League referee Phil Prosser carried out an inspection at 9.30am and deemed the pitch unplayable due to waterlogging

North Yorkshire flood victims are sending special bottles of "Chateau Derwent" to regional council leaders in their bid to secure funding for new flood defences. Fourteen bottles of water from the river which inundated homes and businesses in the November

As York's volunteer tour guides celebrate their 50th anniversary, STEPHEN LEWIS takes the city tour 'PEOPLE say to me have you lived in York all your life?" Syd Heppell gives a disarming grin. "I say no, not yet." We are in the Museum Gardens, and the

EVEN wine enthusiast Jilly Goolden would struggle to come up with suitable adjectives to describe Chateau Derwent. Certainly the bouquet leaves something to be desired, as all the flood victims whose houses still smell of vintage 2000 Derwent know only

Pupils at Galtres School in York netted fourth place in a netball tournament held at the Barbican Centre. The annual event was part of the PowerPlay calendar, organised by the Federation of Disability Sports Organisations (FDSO), for children and adults

THIRTY nine is a wonderful age to be - stick with it, Helen Mead. The best years of a woman's - and a man's - life are between 39 and 40. Jack Benny lived more than half his life at that age. And I'm on the way to doing the same. I've just celebrated

Chris Fairclough and York City have parted company, it was announced today. The veteran central defender, 36, has yet to play this season following an operation on both knees during the summer. A statement issued by the club stated: "The Board have reviewed

A NORTH Yorkshire transport company has taken on seven more staff and bought a £70,000 transport lorry - one of 11 new vehicles to come - in order to double its trips to Spain for regional exporters. Nidd Transport Ltd, based near Ripon this month launched

The Kilima Hotel, York, has re-opened following a £750,000 refurbishment and extension raising the hotel to three-star standard. It means the hotel in Holgate Road is poised to take greater advantage of the massive developments which have been taking

THE Green Belt (Letters, January 18) is an outdated idea and does not work. When a city gets too big the belt has to be slackened off and we get a circle of development. Successive circles impede travel out of the city and stop air flow which removes

I WRITE to ask your readers for their help this year with Marie Curie Cancer Care's annual Daffodil Appeal in February and March. Giving a donation and wearing a daffodil supports local Marie Curie nurses. A team of 76 Marie Curie nurses work throughout

"SQUEAMISH readers, be warned: you should skip straight to the crossword now." So said Chris Titley in his latest diatribe (January 31). Mr Titley goes on to relate a sick story about a sick medical student hanging about in public toilets; very enlightening

WITH regard to the article headed 'Police stop 2,100 speeding motorists' (January 31), when will we see a similar report of how many cyclists have been caught cycling without lights, cycling through red lights, or on pavements and in pedestrian precincts

Pupils at Galtres School in York netted fourth place in a netball tournament held at the Barbican Centre. The annual event was part of the PowerPlay calendar, organised by the Federation of Disability Sports Organisations (FDSO), for children and adults

Pride of Britain Jonathan Marwood and Gavin Crusher have returned home victorious from a prestigious international golf match in America. The North Yorkshire duo were in the British team which defeated their United States counterparts 111-68 in the Transatlantic

Acomb's hopes of making headway in the first division of the Yorkshire League suffered a major setback when they crashed 3-0 to third-placed Doncaster. Acomb found themselves a goal down from a short corner after just five minutes and from thereon in

A woman driver was taken to Scarborough District Hospital with serious facial injuries after the car she was driving was involved in a three-vehicle smash at Scagglethorpe, near Malton, yesterday. The woman, who has not been named, was driving a Renault

North Yorkshire's Chief Constable hailed a bright new future for policing in the county after the green light was given for nearly £3 million of extra funding. North Yorkshire Police Authority members voted unanimously to approve the new budget which

A seven-year-old boy who sparked a full scale police search after going missing from home in York has turned up safe and well at school. Steven Sharman was reported missing from the home of his grandparents in the Clifton area of the city yesterday evening

Hull City chairman Nick Buchanan today promised to come begging to York City and other football clubs in the region after the Tigers were barred from their Boothferry Park home. Hull were locked-out of their ground by the club's landlord, David Lloyd,

Council education staff in York received another accolade today as they were awarded national recognition for their work. City of York Council was one of only three across the country to be given "Beacon Status" in education, meaning it will be held up

The Government has given itself more time to decide whether to call a public inquiry into York's Coppergate shops scheme. Under normal planning rules, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott would have just three weeks to make such a decision - with the deadline

So what do women want? With the release of Mel Gibson's film What Women Want, Evening Press writers Maxine Gordon and Charles Hutchinson offer alternative views... She says: OKAY fellas, I'll let you in on a secret. You want to know what women want? Well

SOMEONE once said that life is too short to stuff a mushroom. Who this someone was escapes me for the moment but you will have to forgive me for not immediately rushing off to my dictionary of quotations because, quite frankly, if life is too short to

Nannies in London enjoy a good salary and lots of perks, but is it the same here in the North? MAXINE GORDON finds out NEWS that nannies in the capital can earn £22,000 a year and enjoy perks such as a car, mobile phone, free gym membership and holidays

Proposals on how to bring much-needed cash into York Wasps coffers will be discussed at a meeting tonight - and the fans are being asked to go along. The Wasps want anyone with ideas on how to increase club funds to attend the informal get-together along

YORK rail passengers have lost two years of faster tilting train services because of indecision over the new East Coast franchise, the Evening Press has learned. York-based train operator GNER had pledged to bring in 140mph tilting trains by 2004 if it

BIRMINGHAM, Bristol and Edinburgh are all within reach for York passengers for less than £15, as Virgin slashes prices in an attempt to win back customers. The heavily-criticised train company is preparing itself for a massive influx of passengers during