TWO York students today spoke of their shocking experience when the German school massacre took place only two streets from where they were staying. Caroline Apaloo and Gillian Howard, from the University of York, are living in Erfurt, Germany, and have
A TEENAGER had a knife held to his throat by a robber wearing a "Scream" mask in a chilling incident in York. The 16-year-old victim, Gavin Barker, was forced to hand over his wallet containing £100 when he stopped his bicycle at a junction in Rosedale
EVERY year at this time, our credentials as a nation of animal lovers are called into question. The RSPCA's annual report has shown yet another increase in the number of animal cruelty complaints. In North Yorkshire and the East Riding, the charity investigated
If you like to believe your 13 year old isn't being exposed to drugs, chances are you are living in a dream world. Drugs are out there - and teenagers being teenagers, they are interested in them. Just like they're interested in anything that's forbidden
YORK Brewery's expansion challenges the orthodoxy that traditional pubs are in irreversible decline. At a time when the Frog Hall has been lost and the Gimcrack is threatened, the Toft Green brewery is planning to double its pub estate to four. Its success
YORK Accord, the partnership of large public sector employers in the city who set up a mentoring scheme to exchange best practice and expertise across sector boundaries, has earned the ultimate accolade from the Government. The organisation, which involves
YORKSHIRE are uncertain whether Darren Gough will be fit to make his seasonal debut in the Benson and Hedges Cup match with Leicestershire at Headingley tomorrow. Gough was planning to bowl in the nets at Headingley today but he may still need more time
FORMER Watford and AC Milan striker Luther Blissett was in talks with York City today. But City chairman John Batchelor has moved quickly to kill off suggestions that Blissett is to replace Terry Dolan as the boss of the Minstermen. Batchelor told the
HARROGATE Town, the UniBond League division one champions, will start their penultimate game of the season tonight at Spennymoor on a high after their 6-0 win over Belper on Saturday. Town boss John Reed will pick the side from full strength. Spennymoor
THE fight by All Saints Amateur Boxing Club to find new premises is continuing -with the deadline for survival drawing nearer. As reported by the Evening Press, the club which put 'Hard 'n' Fast' Henry Wharton - Britain's only undefeated super-middleweight
CHAMPIONS York opened the defence of their IT Tennis Mixed League division one crown with a narrow, but well-merited triumph over previous title-winners Fulford. Both sides were at full-strength but, despite the appalling weather which forced several
A FAMILIAR television face has joined the cast of the musical Fame at York's Grand Opera House. Yorkshire Television Calendar news presenter Nicola Crompton has exchanged life on the box for treading the boards at the historic York venue. Nicola grew
PLANS to cut child benefit from the parents of persistent truants were today dismissed in York and North Yorkshire for targeting the problem in the wrong way. Tony Blair is considering taking the step to make parents face up to their responsibilities,
THE shooting of a Selby man by a police marksman was self-defence, an inquest has heard. Kirk Davies, 30, of Burn, near Selby, was killed by a single bullet to the abdomen. He was carrying an air rifle, which police believed to be a high-powered rifle
YORK Wasps players, fans and officials were playing a waiting game today as the countdown begun towards their proposed comeback. The Rugby Football League Council will meet tomorrow, with the Wasps business plan to be readmitted to the Northern Ford Premiership
YORKSHIRE are uncertain whether Darren Gough will be fit to make his seasonal debut in the Benson and Hedges Cup match with Leicestershire at Headingley tomorrow. Gough was planning to bowl in the nets at Headingley today but he may still need more time
WHEN the Richmond family launched a balloon with their address on it at a family wedding in York, they thought it might get as far as Scunthorpe. Instead, it was discovered, and sent back to them, by a young girl living nearly 1,000 miles away, in Austria
THE next stage of chairman John Batchelor's plans to make York City the most interesting club in the league have been unveiled. The Minstermen supremo is planning a huge overhaul of the match day experience, while York City Ladies will be integrated within
GREEN-fingered Denis Matthews is "over the bloom" after being chosen to create a garden for the world's most famous flower show. Garden designer Denis, who recently moved to North Duffield from York, was selected by the Royal Horticultural Society to
THE jury was being sent out today in the trial of a former North Yorkshire children's home warden accused of cruelty. , 54, of Wrawby, near Scunthorpe, has denied three allegations of cruelty and one serious sexual offence at St Camillus Roman Catholic
BUSINESS confidence in York has increased "significantly", it was revealed today. A preview of the latest City of York Council quarterly economic bulletin - which is yet to be published - suggests that business people in the city are pumped up in their
Kevin Darley gives Pontefract a miss tomorrow in search of bigger rewards at Ascot's televised meeting and his journey south should pay dividends. The Sheriff Hutton jockey teams up with Banjo Bay in the £35,000 Sony Victoria Cup and I expect Darley to
IN 1940 the Italian army invaded Greece and was being soundly thrashed by Greek soldiers. This led to German support for the Italians and British, Australian and New Zealand support for the Greeks. The result was a disaster for the Allies, news of which
MANY hands make light work and the annual York Rally Cycle Show is no exception. This three-day event, which attracts thousands of cyclists every year, relies completely on volunteers to do all the key jobs and ensure everything runs smoothly. We are
FEARING the possibility of a new location and harmful building material content, when re-housing the York City Archives, David Gibson writes claiming to have checked with two building firms about the unproven properties of "hydro absorbic material". A
More years ago than I care to remember I was playing cricket for the village. The team's players, having put the opposition to the sword, were proposing to adjourn to the local pub for a bar meal. One of the then newly-married players was having a cheerful
FIVE years ago, the Labour Party ended 18 years in the political wilderness when Tony Blair swept to power on the back of a massive parliamentary majority. Since then, it has been a roller-coaster ride for New Labour. Unemployment was brought down to
NEARLY £1 million-worth of property has been stolen from Selby area premises in the last year - most of it by heroin addicts, it was revealed today. The shock figures were released by local police chiefs, who announced they would be concentrating their
A YORK mother told today of the remarkable courage of her son, who inspired all around him during a five-year battle against cancer. Even when he learned he had only a short time to live, Guy Francis still packed as much as he could into his final days
Seven per cent of British women think about their body shape 50 times a day. Seven per cent? Is that all? What are the other 93 per cent of you doing while we, the dissatisfied, self-obsessed minority, are worrying about the size of our bums? Either some
THE Evening Press has become an official time beacon for future generations. A copy of the newspaper formed part of a time capsule buried on the site of a new £500,000 two-storey extension, being built for Beacon at its headquarters in Amy Johnson Way
A NORTH Yorkshire firm specialising in providing technical, manufacturing and maintenance services for top companies today celebrated its first birthday with the announcement that it has clinched a contract worth at least £100,000. TEK2 Technical Solutions
A NORTH Yorkshire businessman has invested £150,000 in setting up Britain's first Kall Kwik Digital Business Centre - based in York. Robert Peacock, who already owns a Kall Kwik Centre in John Street, Harrogate, today set up the high-speed on-demand business
Small businesses in Yorkshire and the North East who want to "think big - and act big" are being offered an opportunity to set up Business Alliances through the Business Link network. The concept has proved its worth in the west of England, where there
THE next stage of chairman John Batchelor's plans to make York City the most interesting club in the league have been unveiled. The Minstermen supremo is planning a huge overhaul of the match day experience, while York City Ladies will be integrated within
YORK Wasps players, fans and officials were playing a waiting game today as the countdown begun towards their proposed comeback. The Rugby Football League Council will meet tomorrow, with the Wasps business plan to be readmitted to the Northern Ford Premiership
A READER has come forward to explain exactly what happened to the stones when the huge York Castle walls were demolished in the 1930s. We asked in a recent Yesterday Once More article where all the stones went, and also for memories of the demolition
AN AUTISTIC York schoolgirl, locked inside her own private world, could soon benefit from a pioneering treatment which has seen dramatic results in the United States. The family of Rachael Hamilton, eight, who live in Huntington, are hoping to raise over
WITH only a year's darts experience, Simon Jackson has won the Marston Moor Villages Doubles-Board League individual championship. The 24-year-old Alice Hawthorn, Nun Monkton, player prevented an all-Oak final when taking out Peter Scaum 2-0 after Andy
York rider Polly-Anne Robinson has continued to impress in the world of equestrianism. The talented six-year-old finished a superb fourth in the confined novice show pony lead rein class of the Ponies UK Winter Championship at Keysoe, Bedfordshire. Polly-Anne
SCARBOROUGH boss Russell Slade is poised to sign a new two-year contract to stay in charge at the McCain Stadium. Slade (pictured below) has done a remarkable job in transforming the Seasiders' fortunes since taking over last November when the club was
Disruption will once again return to North Yorkshire's rail network when four days of strikes begin tomorrow. Station and clerical staff at Arriva Trains Northern start a 48-hour-strike tomorrow. Their actions will be followed by conductors in a two-day
SILVER icing on a Pontefract cake could be sampled by the wizards of Wigginton Squash Club tomorrow. The IT Sports Wigginton team, who wrapped up their debut campaign in the Yorkshire League premier division with an admirable third place, now go racquet-head
MORLEY RUFC are the next obstacle for Ralph Zoing and Harrogate to overcome in the club's pursuit of the Yorkshire Cup. Harrogate will have fond memories of taking on the Maroons with their last competitive fixture coming back in the then Jewson One 1998
THE RSPCA today urged the Government to introduce a five-step plan to prevent animal suffering, as it released its latest cruelty statistics. New figures, released today, show that in North Yorkshire and East Riding there were 3,647 cruelty complaints
YORK'S own brewery is set to double its presence in the city with two new pubs. Moves by York Brewery to take over two premises close to the city walls are at an advanced stage. Bosses at the thriving Toft Green business hope to have venues at the former
FORMER Watford and AC Milan striker Luther Blissett was in talks with York City today. But City chairman John Batchelor has moved quickly to kill off suggestions that Blissett is to replace Terry Dolan as the boss of the Minstermen. Batchelor told the
PLANS to breathe new life into Tadcaster town centre got a mixed reception at a public meeting. The multi-million-pound scheme, drawn up by Samuel Smith brewery, has won the backing of Tadcaster Chamber of Trade - but was greeted less enthusiastically
CHIEF Superintendent Lacy says our police did not have the manpower to attend an incident of vandalism which had been reported (April 25). The previous week, however, you gave notice of a police crackdown on road fund licence dodgers. Is it the case that
IT was a pleasure to witness the St George's Day parade on April 21 and see so many young people involved. However, these groups would not be possible without the selfless commitment of the leaders of all ages who were marching with their organisations
