A £4.5 MILLION flyover scheme which will close a lethal gap on the A64 moved closer today after the Highways Agency put the project out to tender. The Government roads body is asking for civil engineering firms to come forward and bid for the ambitious
Jude Morrison was sitting in her favourite French bar with a group of friends when inspiration struck. During a conversation about retired footballers' second careers, a pal asked what she would do if she could change jobs. "I said upholstery - just like
If you see a one-legged woman hopping around Monks Cross shopping centre in a rather nice oatmeal suede boot, trip her up, sit on her and call me. Granted this is not entirely in keeping with modern politically correct sensibilities, but I think you will
DEFENDER Tom Cowan, City's only long term injury absentee in recent weeks with a calf problem, has now returned to full training and could play a part in tomorrow's reserve team clash with Scunthorpe at Bootham Crescent. City manager Terry Dolan is also
CASH-DESPERATE York City were given 80,000 more reasons to ease their grimace after netting a double boost. Victory over high-flying Nationwide League division one outfit Sheffield United and Premiership Birmingham City yielded a near-£14,000 cash haul
PROVIDING a free lorry park in Tadcaster is not the responsibility of Selby District Council, and the recent orchestrated criticism against the council by a predictable handful of conspirators' letters is as fallacious as it is misdirected. Work will
Yorkshire hopes of a white rose triumph in this year's UK Snooker Championship vanished as Leeds star Paul Hunter's sudden loss of form continued yesterday and he went out 9-4 to former world champion Ken Doherty, last year's UK beaten finalist. Trailing
EVER since North Yorkshire farmer Chris Booth moved away from pigs and into pens, he's been really bringing home the bacon. Former pig and arable farmer Chris is celebrating success after diversifying away from his family's traditional family background
ONE of the world's must successful privately-owned computer software companies is preparing to open its UK headquarters in York in the New Year. The New Zealand-based Jade Software Corporation will generate possibly 25 new jobs at its new European software
THOSE businesses in York which have not yet complied with the Thursday deadline on new safety rules for equipment such as fork lift trucks and tractors have been given a period of grace to start making changes now. Jackie Armitage, senior environmental
Beauvrai, a runaway winner at Wolverhampton last week, can make his long journey to Lingfield well worthwhile tomorrow. The two-year-old, trained by John Quinn at Settrington near Malton, goes for the John Mowlem Novice Stakes and is expected to take
YORKSHIRE'S white rose is combining with Richard III's battling boar as a symbol for a group of fans of the controversial king. The two historic emblems will feature on the new flag of the York-based Society of Friends of King Richard III. It is a replacement
MEMBERS of Haxby and Wigginton Probus Club celebrated more than 20 years of meetings by honouring the two remaining founder members. Stanley Mings and Stanley Bowes joined the club when it was set up 22 years ago. At the pre-Christmas lunch at the Cottage
TWO York pensioners have been kept waiting in the cold for 16 days - because the city council has struggled to find a replacement part for their electric fire. Harry and Audrey Walker, who are both 85, have been left out of pocket after a vital part broke
A YOUNG mother and her asthmatic son are today still living in a damp council flat - six months on from saying she was "angry and fed up" with her fight to find a new home. In June, the Evening Press reported how little Taylor Butler was using two inhalers
A CARNIVAL atmosphere will fill Pocklington on Thursday when the town hosts its late-night shopping event. Thousands of people are expected to hit the streets of the East Yorkshire town as the annual event, hosted by Pocklington Chamber of Trade, kicks
A CASH injection of £20,000 will help safeguard the future of sheep-grazing on the North York Moors. Nine flocks were culled during last year's foot and mouth crisis, and farmers have struggled since then to manage animals left to roam across ever-increasing
A TEN-year-old boy with special needs who went missing in York for several hours after being sent home from school, has turned up safe and well. Adam Jack Coxon disappeared from Pottery Lane, Heworth, at 10am yesterday after being dropped off by a taxi
YES says the Rev Chris Cullwick, team vicar of Huntington and a member of the York Industrial Chaplaincy, but NO says Nick Brown of Browns,York's family-run department store First the Reverend Cullwick's view... It is easy to say that Christmas has become
RAIL passengers may once again be able to travel direct between York and much of East Yorkshire if a far-reaching report paves the way for an old train line to reopen. Services could resume between York and Beverley, through Market Weighton, after regeneration
A MASSIVE £45 million business and science development on the outskirts of York, which will create up to 3,000 jobs has been given the Government go-ahead. Vangarde, the York Business Quarter, will comprise 450,000 square feet of offices and laboratories
COUNCIL leaders in York and North Yorkshire will be handed more than £316,000 next year to prepare for emergencies such as a terrorist attack. The size of the city and county council's civil defence grants was revealed, as ministers started work on ordering
CueBall's Angie Hields played a blinder in the York John Smith's Ladies League division one clash with Flag and Whistle. Hields threw three tons and a treble 20, double 19 finish for 17 darts, and closed her pairs game with Sue Smith on 78. CueBall's
POLICE arrested 46 people during a pre-Christmas clampdown on city centre crime in York. Operation Clay, which was run over four days last week, saw teams of officers targeting thieves who steal from city stores to fuel their drug habits. The initiative
City of York Under-12 Boys 'A' team were able to put a lacklustre start behind them to fight their way to the top of the Yorkshire League at Leeds Metropolitan University. After a goalless draw with Chapeltown, York were shaken when their 'B' team beat
In the last North League game before the lengthy mid-season break, City of York Ladies continued a poor run of home results, losing 1-0 to Driffield who moved above York in the table. York dominated the first quarter of the game but went behind on 20
RAF FYLINGDALES would be vital to President George W. Bush's multi-billion-pound Son Of Star Wars project, the Ministry of Defence has finally admitted. A dossier published by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed the U.S needed use of the radar base
A MASSIVE £45 million business and science development on the outskirts of York, which will create up to 3,000 jobs has been given the Government go-ahead. Vangarde, the York Business Quarter, will comprise 450,000 square feet of offices and laboratories
FIVE wards at York District Hospital were today closed to new admissions as the number of patients and staff suffering diarrhoea and vomiting symptoms increased. A total of 46 patients and eight staff have been struck by the virus, which has yet to be
MISSING nurse Louise Kerton has featured on Germany's version of Crimewatch, 16 months after she disappeared. A reconstruction of the 24-year-old's last known movements was shown on national TV in an effort to trace her. It is reported to have brought
WIDOW Rosalind Craven today lost her battle to halt the march of the pylons across the Vale of York - and may still face ruinous costs for her campaign of opposition. A High Court judge awarded National Grid an injunction, preventing Mrs Craven blocking
TWO people have been jailed for a total of eight years for their part in the "hunting" and killing of a father-of-four in York city centre. Jason Rodney Hodgson, 33, described as the leader of the pack, knocked Mick Brolly to the ground and continued
THIS image released by police today shows the scene a fraction of a second before York schoolgirl Katie Scales was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver. A group of children, believed to include 11-year-old Katie, from Haxby, can be seen waiting on the
VANGARDE, the new business and science park planned for Monks Cross, has secured Government approval. This is big news in every sense. Everything about the project is on a grand scale. The investment: £45 million. The size: 30 acres. The jobs: 3,000.
TOM O'Ryan has galloped past his rivals to win the title of Britain's best racing correspondent. This will come as no surprise to Evening Press readers. They rely on the Ryedale former jockey's expertise to guide them through the mercurial world of the
The news that there is to be £450million spent on supporting sub post offices cannot but be applauded. Anyone trying to buy stamps in Harrogate Post Office on Friday afternoon, as I was, would have been grateful for a rural sub post office with short
JUBILANT MPs today paid tribute to the family of freed charity worker Ian Stillman and "all those around the world" who campaigned for his release. Four MPs, including York's Hugh Bayley, have tabled a House of Commons motion to celebrate his release
AS architects for the Westgate apartments in Leeman Road, we share the York Civic Trust's wish to see new buildings in scale with their setting (December 3). That does not mean the same scale is right everywhere in York. If you look at the nearest neighbours
I nominate the junction between Moor Lane and the A1237 ring road as York's worst. It can be almost impossible to turn right out of Moor Lane at times unless you take your life in your hands and put your foot down and go. Turning left isn't much better
IN A multi-million pound deal, one of Europe's biggest emergency lighting, security and fire detection systems manufacturers has piggy-backed on the expertise and supply chain of awardwinning Knaresborough company GSPK Circuits Ltd. The Cooper Menvier
SUCCESSFUL Trustmarque Solutions, the Clifton Moor-based software licensing firm, today announced that it is on target to buck the trend for the sector and boom. The five-year-old firm, which employs more than 60 people at Systems House in Amy Johnson
RAF FYLINGDALES would be vital to President George W. Bush's multi-billion-pound Son Of Star Wars project, the Ministry of Defence has finally admitted. A dossier published by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed the U.S needed use of the radar base
WITH a delicious array of home-grown and home made foods on offer at York farmers' market it is easy to see why more and more people are choosing to buy their shopping from local producers. A string of food scares over recent years, on everything from
WITH a delicious array of home-grown and home made foods on offer at York farmers' market it is easy to see why more and more people are choosing to buy their shopping from local producers. A string of food scares over recent years, on everything from
FATHER Christmas is once again preparing for his busiest night of the year by staying in his giant snowman grotto and wonderland in York. The grotto at Monks Cross Shopping Park is now open from 11am daily until Christmas Eve and, thanks to Boots the
FORMER BBC weatherman Ian McCaskill is to be guest speaker at Sherburn High School's prizegiving evening on Monday. Certificates and prizes will be presented for academic and sporting achievements - as well as for effort, attendance and service to the
JUBILANT MPs today paid tribute to the family of freed charity worker Ian Stillman and "all those around the world" who campaigned for his release. Four MPs, including York's Hugh Bayley, have tabled a House of Commons motion to celebrate his release
THE Christmas Fatstock Show made a welcome return to York Livestock Centre for the first time since the foot and mouth crisis. Farmers from around the region gathered at the market in Murton, York, for the show, which was followed by a sale of cattle
SANTA has made an early landing at an air museum near York. But the festive visitor was not looking for an airborne replacement for Rudolph and his chums. Instead Santa was on hand to help the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington send a cheque £517 to the
THOUSANDS of pounds have been raised in memory of Gail Hepworth, six months after the brave mum lost her battle for life. The cancer victim's fight to stay alive to see her two sons grow up proved an inspiration to people across North and East Yorkshire
A £4.5 MILLION flyover scheme which will close a lethal gap on the A64 moved closer today after the Highways Agency put the project out to tender. The Government roads body is asking for civil engineering firms to come forward and bid for the ambitious
York woman Josephine Cook's legs have been voted the most lovely in the country. The 32-year-old's slender pins proved winners in Best magazine's Lovely Legs competition to find the nation's most perfect pair. Josephine, of Stockton-on-the-Forest, who
New Earswick All Blacks continued their good Yorkshire League division one form by beating winless Eastmoor 28-10 at home without ever getting into top gear. All Blacks scored after four minutes when an Adie Robinson pass saw winger Ian Calpin cross in
NORTH Yorkshire County Council will be hit by fines worth £750,000 under a new penalty system for failing to tackle "bed-blocking". The figures were revealed in a Conservative Party survey of the potential impact of charging councils for each day an elderly
GLYN Humphrey salvaged a Northern Hockey League premier division point for City of York from a 1-1 draw at Timperley. The home side were worth more than their 1-0 half-time lead as York, missing the power of Jimmy Gilbert on the left, gave a poor display
THE long-term partner of a missing man found dead in a ditch has spoken about his devastation at the news. Ian Turner disappeared from the Sherburn home he shared with John Good on September 30. His body was discovered off Welham Road, outside Norton,
Yorkshire hopes of a white rose triumph in this year's UK Snooker Championship vanished as Leeds star Paul Hunter's sudden loss of form continued yesterday and he went out 9-4 to former world champion Ken Doherty, last year's UK beaten finalist. Trailing
THE cream of York's amateur boxers will be looking to defend the honour of the city at Huntington WMC tomorrow night on an action-packed card, writes Tony Curtis. York All Saints ABC have six of their young pugilists down to fight, with two more on stand
DEFENDER Tom Cowan, City's only long term injury absentee in recent weeks with a calf problem, has now returned to full training and could play a part in tomorrow's reserve team clash with Scunthorpe at Bootham Crescent. City manager Terry Dolan is also
EVENING Press tipster Tom O'Ryan was still in a state of shock today after being crowned the country's top racing correspondent. O'Ryan, northern correspondent for the Racing Post, won the Clive Graham Trophy after being named journalist of the year at
CASH-DESPERATE York City were given 80,000 more reasons to ease their grimace after netting a double boost. Victory over high-flying Nationwide League division one outfit Sheffield United and Premiership Birmingham City yielded a near-£14,000 cash haul
A retired York psychiatrist has been charged with rape and indecent assault. Former Clifton Hospital consultant Michael Haslam, 68, of Crayke, near Easingwold, faces one charge of rape and four of indecent assault. The charges are understood to follow
IS it time to scrap the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year awards? As soon as that sonorous, sombre music reverberates - the heart-strings start to sag. It is all so predictable, all so pedestrian, all so ponderous. Indeed, at this particular time of
