A TOP police adviser has objected to York City's proposed move to Huntington Stadium - because he fears Monks Cross will become a battleground for rival football supporters. Jim Shanks, North Yorkshire Police's architectural liaison officer, has written
ALL honour to the people of Mayfield Grove and St Helen's Road who are fighting to keep their wildlife haven ('Haven help us', January 22). Young Mary Fry's expert account of the species to be found there was very moving. All over the world we are turning
AFTER reading your article on the injustice experienced by Keith Turner, I felt compelled to write to you on behalf of myself and all the other decent people of this city, whose lives are being made a misery by these unruly gangs. Only last week my husband
HEATHER Causnett is misleading in her assertion that "indulgent punishment methods" are laid down by European Law (Letters, January 22). In 1949 Britain was instrumental in setting up the Council of Europe - a completely separate body to the European
A DRAFT traffic order displayed in the street proposes the introduction of charges for on-street parking in Micklegate. I am one of several shop owners whose business depends on the availability of short-term parking and it is surprising that we have
York's city centre Odeon is too important to be allowed to close. I remember being taken with a school party to see John Mills in Scott Of The Antarctic and thinking then what a marvellous building it was. I have visited Bradford and seen the state of
MARILYN was like a candle in the wind, so too Diana. Sylvia was like a tree losing all its leaves until bare, a symbol that is formed at the outset of Christine Jeffs's literary biopic. The difference is that whereas the farewell image of film star Monroe
IT'S the cat's whiskers - a new telephone research system designed to bring more than meow-power to Questions Answered of York. The CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) system is now likely to attract the cream of clients to the research and
KATIE Melua is sitting on top of the world, number one in the British album chart this week with her debut release, Call Off The Search. What better way could she mark the launch of her first UK tour. The 12-date itinerary starts in her former hometown
Roger Brown, front man of Magic, the Doncaster tribute band whose new concert show, A Kind Of ELO, visits the Grand Opera House, York. After your long reign as the king of Queen acts, what made you choose the Electric Light Orchestra for your latest tribute
THERE were only two things more inevitable than London grinding to a halt at the first sign of snow or, as they like to call it down here, "severe weather". Lord Hutton's report would be first leaked, then derided as a "whitewash". All came true with
NEIL Diamond wrote it, but who had the first British hit with Red Red Wine? Why, Jimmy James and The Vagabonds. And Jimmy and his Vagabonds will be reviving that 1968 number in the Soul Explosion show in York next Friday (29th). Joining him at the Grand
HAVING been away for a couple of weeks, I have just picked up information about a history of jazz course at the university. Embracing 1945 to the present, the course covers "the great rebellion in the jazz world in the early 1940s... either turning away
CAITLIN Thomas is the forgotten dancer living in the shadow of genius. However, a biographical play commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of Dylan Thomas's death now places his wife centre stage. Caitlin was premiered in the Sherman Theatre Studio
THE dangerous but magical world of The Wooden Frock has caught the eye of Emma Rice, Kneehigh Theatre's queen of anarchic storytelling theatre. Kneehigh premieres its new production tonight at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where the cult Cornish company's
Dara O Briain has been toiling away for years, but one slot on Have I Got News For You made a bigger splash than anything else. The Irish comedian swaps punchlines with Charles Hutchinson. SMART Irish comedian Dara O Briain usually has an answer for everything
CITY of York Council could face a snap inspection if the time taken to pay badly-needed benefits continues to increase, the Government has warned. The Department for Work and Pensions has announced inspections are to take place of councils which take
Alex Lloyd welcomes the return of the best beats. HIP-hop heads rejoice - York's favourite hip hop night, Beatsiality begins its 2004 line-up with a bang this weekend, bringing a first class line-up of DJ and MC talent to the city. Now established as
THE weather may have been sunny, but last summer was disappointing for York tourism, a report has revealed. Tourism figures for 2003 show that guest numbers in the city's hotels reached an 11-year low in June. A report by the Yorkshire Tourist Board showed
A YORK-based betting business which was shut down by financial watchdogs is now being wound up, the Evening Press can reveal. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) today confirmed it was petitioning to wind up 147 Racing Ltd and had frozen the assets
AN "alleygating" scheme in York has been targeted by vandals only a week after the first gates have been put up. Foxwood community leaders have reacted angrily after finding that vandals have forced off the padlocks on newly-erected gates across alleyways
DOMINIC Matteo is hoping his 100th league appearance for Leeds United on Saturday brings their first double of the season and their first win in eight games when Middlesbrough visit Elland Road. Skipper Matteo, whose career since leaving Liverpool three
ALEX Godfrey is in the frame for a recall for York City Knights after proving his fitness following closed season surgery. The 25-year-old winger had a major hernia operation in the autumn which ruled him out for much of pre-season including the two friendlies
BBC Radio York staff abandoned their posts and held a one-hour protest after the resignation of director general Greg Dyke. A skeleton staff kept the station running while more than 20 workers protested, some holding placards in support of Mr Dyke. The
YORK City boss Chris Brass has set his team a target of climbing into a play-off place by Easter. The Minstermen have not occupied one of Division Three's top seven positions since the 2-0 home victory over Cambridge United at the start of October but
A YORK student was today recovering in hospital after being struck down by potentially-lethal meningitis. Some 12,500 students and staff have been put on alert after the first-year University of York student admitted herself to York hospital on Sunday
A YORK student was today recovering in hospital after being struck down by potentially-lethal meningitis. Some 12,500 students and staff have been put on alert after the first-year University of York student admitted herself to York hospital on Sunday
We like to grumble about the weathermen, but their predictions of this week's big freeze were very accurate. So how do they do it? STEPHEN LEWIS investigates. WEATHER forecasters can be forgiven for feeling pleased with themselves this week. They are
A GREAT week for Selby Town could be topped by another victory in the Northern Counties East League premier division on Saturday. Town closed the gap on leaders Brigg Town to just one point, and will now look to press their advantage against strugglers
CLIFTON Rangers' boss Sean Brayshaw was jumping for joy after his side won the bottom-of-the-table battle with Bubwith White Swan in York and District Sunday Afternoon League division one. The goal came from a left wing cross which Chrissy Moffat met
Robbie Dale looks at how students in York are being encouraged to think about the environment. AS EVERY student knows, times can be tight. It's half past midnight, you've just consumed a small bath tub of alcohol and now, despite being unable to tell
A CRUCIAL report which will help determine whether York's Mystery Plays can be saved is set to be published next month. Ben Pugh was commissioned last autumn to assess the viability of staging a large-scale community performance of the Plays in the atmospheric
FIAT's UK boss Massimo Toso knows that his company has had a bad press. He's spent most of his time here reading it. But it's an image the car company does not deserve, he says, and aims to prove it with the launch of the new Panda this week and the all-new
York's city centre Odeon is too important to be allowed to close. I remember being taken with a school party to see John Mills in Scott Of The Antarctic and thinking then what a marvellous building it was. I have visited Bradford and seen the state of
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection from Saturday's meetings: Ascot - 2.35 Tiutchev Updated: 11:54 Friday, January 30, 2004
YORK has a new celebrity. And this guy's big. Really big. Meet Harry the abominably enormous snowman. Standing eight feet tall from his snow shoes to his bucket top hat, he towers over Broadway West, Fulford. Like any larger-than-life star he has attracted
NESTLE Rowntree's bid for a second consecutive John Smith's York Sunday Morning League title hit solid resistance when relegation-threatened Derwent United held the champions to a 2-2 draw. Matthews and Wash put 'Trees 2-0 up but Strickland and Landers
GREG Dyke's departure from the BBC is a serious blow to both the corporation and the man. Mr Dyke has lost his dream job and the BBC is battling to restore its confidence and reputation. Yet all this turbulence could and should have been avoided. The
SUPPORT for our Save The Odeon campaign is coming in thick and fast. Our postbag is filled with letters demanding that the cinema stay open, petitions grow longer by the hour and emails from around the world add a global perspective to this local issue
A PENSIONER told today how she fell for her husband during romantic dates at the threatened York Odeon Cinema. Margaret Owston, from Heworth Hall Drive, made an impassioned plea to the chain's owners to keep the picture house open because it holds so
YORK City boss Chris Brass has set his team a target of climbing into a play-off place by Easter. The Minstermen have not occupied one of Division Three's top seven positions since the 2-0 home victory over Cambridge United at the start of October but
WHAT on earth is Carole Tucker on about (Letters, January 28)? She claims people move to York because they seek to "live among their own" and that "if large numbers of foreigners arrived in York the indigenous population would move from those areas, and
IN response to Richard Best's letter about New Osbaldwick (January 13) allow me to clarify the position. The Meadlands Area opposed architects PRP on the basis that the public consultation response was 42.7 per cent for Aire Design and 24.5 per cent for
AS YORK and North Yorkshire shiver in the cold snap, we take readers back to the days when winter really used to bite. Our first picture, from 1958, shows early morning skater Sheila Prickett enjoying the Rowntree Park lake all to herself. Must have been
THE former director of a York design firm has cleared his name after a tribunal ruled he was unfairly dismissed - but the company he was suing has gone bust, owing £2 million. Nick Townend, 44, lost his job as managing director of the York branch of Northcross
FREE workshops have been organised to help businesses in York and North Yorkshire become national winners. A series of half-day workshops are being staged by the Learning & Skills Council North Yorkshire throughout the region in February and March
TWO young entrepreneurs have thanked a princely scheme for helping them set up in business. Rebecca Quartermaine and Tom Lambert set up their landscape photography business in Kyme Street, York, in April 2002 with a £3,000 loan from the Prince's Trust
WHITE rose snow lay frosted on the Yorkshire ground. The tallest girl in rock looked smoking-hot in a diaphanous white dress in support act Blanche, and white heat and white light emanated from The White Stripes. It was all white on this thrilling, thrilling
Name: Jackson Browne Occupation: Poetic country rock singer-songwriter and political activist Born: Clyde Jackson Browne, October 9 1948, Heidelberg, Germany, to US Army parents. Jazz pianist father played with Django Reinhardt in Europe Age: 55 Where
STAMFORD Bridge Singers make their first visit to Easingwold Parish Church on February 8 to sing Choral Evensong at 3.15pm in celebration of Candlemas. The music includes works by Charles Stanford, William Mathias, Christopher Tye and Robert Poyser, the
GORDON Tyrrall, singer, acoustic guitarist and wooden flute player, performs songs and dance tunes from Britain and Ireland at the Black Swan Folk Club, York, on Thursday. A professional musician since 1979, he has roamed Europe with the band Iona, worked
GREEK tragedy is transferred to Edwardian England when Actors Of Dionysus perform David Stuttard's new version of Hippolytus in York. After missing out York on last autumn's tour, the company returns to the city where it was formed 11 years ago to present
YORK RUFC need a thoroughbred performance against Bridlington on Saturday and have turned to Dick Francis to provide it. The Clifton Parkers are hoping he will provide the perfect script when he gallops out for his first team debut against one of York's
ALEX Godfrey is in the frame for a recall for York City Knights after proving his fitness following closed season surgery. The 25-year-old winger had a major hernia operation in the autumn which ruled him out for much of pre-season including the two friendlies
A CRUCIAL report which will help determine whether York's Mystery Plays can be saved is set to be published next month. Ben Pugh was commissioned last autumn to assess the viability of staging a large-scale community performance of the Plays in the atmospheric
A PENSIONER told today how she fell for her husband during romantic dates at the threatened York Odeon Cinema. Margaret Owston, from Heworth Hall Drive, made an impassioned plea to the chain's owners to keep the picture house open because it holds so
YORK RUFC need a thoroughbred performance against Bridlington on Saturday and have turned to Dick Francis to provide it. The Clifton Parkers are hoping he will provide the perfect script when he gallops out for his first team debut against one of York's
HARROGATE Railway are hoping to make the most of their post-win buzz from last weekend's game against Armthorpe Welfare in Saturday's match against Thackley. Rail hit back after going 1-0 down to hosts Welfare with goals from Steve Davey and Phil Turner
Forecasters are warning of possible localised flooding as milder temperatures, strong winds and heavy rain are predicted to sweep across York and North Yorkshire. Weather experts fear that melting snow, which lies up to 30cm deep in some areas of the
A TOP police adviser has objected to York City's proposed move to Huntington Stadium - because he fears Monks Cross will become a battleground for rival football supporters. Jim Shanks, North Yorkshire Police's architectural liaison officer, has written
Reporter CHRIS GREENWOOD looks at the life and career of Greg Dyke, following his resignation as BBC director general. WHEN the diminutive figure of Greg Dyke faced the cameras in front of Broadcasting House he signalled the end of his high-profile career
HARROGATE Railway are hoping to make the most of their post-win buzz from last weekend's game against Armthorpe Welfare in Saturday's match against Thackley. Rail hit back after going 1-0 down to hosts Welfare with goals from Steve Davey and Phil Turner
