YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar will stick with the tried and tested methods to get his side back up for next week's do-or-die play-off clash. The Knights lost 37-20 in the qualifying semi-final at Halifax yesterday and now need to beat Workington
Monday, September 27, 2004 100 years ago In a letter to the paper a correspondent's opinion on the tramp problem was that unless something is done to grapple with it the citizens of York would find themselves in a state of social chaos. A columnist disagreed
A DRUG addict threw York backpacker Caroline Stuttle to her death as he snatched her bag for cash to fund his habit, an Australian court heard. Prosecutor Peter Feeney told Queensland Supreme Court in Bundaberg, Australia, that Ian Douglas Previte ignored
THERE was triple trouble at the Other Side last night. First the toilet entrance partially flooded, then the middle act vanished into the early autumn air before opener Andrew Lawrence arrived 30 minutes late. The award-winning youngster may have displayed
YORK'S visit to McCracken Park earned them a merited 17-13 victory over Northern RUFC, who were relegated last season along with York to Durham and Northumberland division one. York remain unbeaten and stay top of the league. It was a blustery day, which
KEY York businesses are being asked to pledge only £100 each to make sure that visitors and residents enjoy a Christmas with sparkle. Trading bosses are resending letters to 200 shops after an initial plea for help to raise the £30,000 needed to put up
Selby wasted the opportunity to beat a Pontefract XV weakened by the absence of five of their regular back division but at full strength in the pack. Selby lost the Yorkshire League One match 22-17 because they did too little in an error-strewn first
A much depleted York RI side were overwhelmed 63-0 in their Yorkshire Three game agianst Roundhegians at Leeds. With almost a full side injured or unavailable RI were always on the back foot. Playing against the breeze in the first half, RI soon fell
Dringhouses, last season's Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve A champions, returned to winning ways following their surprise defeat the previous weekend by overwhelming visitors Malton Bacon Factory 7-0. Wayne Carter hit a hat-trick, Stephen
Sheriff Hutton made it three wins out of three as they beat Wheldrake 4-1 in division three of Leeper Hare York and District League. Sheriff Hutton's scorers were Kevin Butler (2) Dale Phillips and Jamie Tymon. Darren Malloy replied for Wheldrake. Moor
SOME pop idols care for little except the size of their entourage. But there is an honourable tradition for more thoughtful musicians to use their platform to campaign for issues they believe in. To a list including Lennon, Geldof and Bono, we can now
JONNY Waldron scored another hat-trick for York Acorn ARLC as they maintained their excellent form with a wonderful 26-12 defeat of Waterhead at Thanet Road on Saturday. The Lancastrians had themselves started the season well and could have gone top of
A HUNDRED York postal workers have finally won a long-awaited £26 a week pay rise - ending a spate of unofficial action including a wildcat strike and sit-ins. Union leaders said the pay increase for York West sorting office staff meant that deliveries
FEW printers publish prices. Instead they suggest to the public: Tell us what you want and we'll quote you. That thought guided Tony Stanley when he set up Buyright Ltd, a printing brokerage in Acomb Wood Drive, Woodthorpe, York. He has published what
Trainer Colin Tinkler and his jockey-son Andrew can figure on the scoreboard at Sedgefield tomorrow. They will be represented by Dominican Monk in the John Hellens Novices' Hurdle and I expect that this recent Bangor winner will be hard to beat A tough
THE York jobs market was given a long-awaited boost today with the announcement that a London-based organisation is heading north to base itself in the city. The London-based skills council Improve has relocated to York and has recruited 30 people to
WHEN Hayley Welch celebrates her 16th birthday next month, she will also be marking another even more important milestone. For it will be ten years since the York teenager fell ill with leukaemia, and began a tough but ultimately successful battle for
I AM beginning to feel that York is becoming a cheap and soulless city, obsessed with the material. Everywhere you turn, there seem to be buildings being converted into luxury flats - not even flats that ordinary York citizens can afford. If it isn't
I AM 80 years old and these East Yorkshire buses are my lifeline to the outside world. I rely on my daughter who is my carer to come through on these buses because they are the only ones she can get. Have consideration and think again about taking the
MAY I thank all those who have supported the fundraising activities of the Arthritis Research Campaign, York branch, over the past 12 months. At the end of our financial year we were able to send £12,750 to head office, all of which will be used to fund
FURTHER to Dan Jones report "Leader Raps Dirt Dossier" (September 18), on Friday, September 3, I called York Pride regarding uncollected refuse sacks in the narrow rear lane at the back of our houses. The sacks had been there for two weeks. I explained
AM I the only one who has noticed it? Or, indeed, am I seeing things? That is certainly how I feel when I drive down Green Lane (Clifton Without) towards Water Lane, and see, facing me, a 30 mile speed limit sign - where it used to state 40. I continue
A HUNDRED York postal workers have finally won a long-awaited £26 a week pay rise - ending a spate of unofficial action including a wildcat strike and sit-ins. Union leaders said the pay increase for York West sorting office staff meant that deliveries
(Caption: BEST FRIENDS: Jan Smith, left, and Judith Smith, of Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, at Cliffe, near Selby, with their dogs, Todd and Jade, who have been used in cancer sniffing trials.) MEET Todd and Jade - the North Yorkshire canines whose noses
ICE-COOL York speedster James Thompson has won the 2004 Green Flag MAS British Touring Car Championship. He lifted the drivers' trophy at Donington Park yesterday after an intense battle with his VX Racing team-mate Yvan Muller. The fight for victory
YORK City boss Chris Brass has expressed his delight for Andy Bishop after the 21-year-old striker broke his Minstermen duck with an injury-time goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory at Burton Albion. Bishop has waited ten games to get off the mark for City
My kids are never leaving home. They will be here forever, cluttering up the place with their over-sized shoes, their over-active hair and their over-the-top diva-like strops. It's not that I expect them to love us so much in their later teenage years
KNIGHTS stand-off Scott Rhodes has revealed the cheeky tactics used by Halifax foe Alan Hadcroft in order to score his side's crucial second try yesterday, writes Peter Martini. Knights were leading 6-4 after 17 minutes when Rhodes, who had tidied up
WHY did York magistrates reply "Come back on Monday" when Graham Francis Burbage begged them to lock him up? To be fair, they originally opted to send drug addict Burbage, 36, of Chaloners Crescent, Dringhouses, to Hull Prison for seven days, sentence
ALL those stories about horrible things that happen to you when you go to Big School - well they're all true.... That's what James Campbell says anyway, and he seems like someone who would know. The only known stand-up comic for kids, he brought his act
THE beauty of Imagine York is that you don't have to imagine York. Just log onto the website (www.imagineyork.co.uk) and the 4,500 images stored there bring the old city back to life before your eyes. The photographs are captivating, the captions illuminating
Pocklington found it hard going at Sheffield Tigers, where they lost the Yorkshire Two game 37-7 to a much bigger, more experienced home side. Nevertheless Pocklington looked the livelier side for long periods in the first half. And though they went behind
MALTON and Norton maintained their unbeaten start to the North East Two season with a hard-fought 19-8 victory at Driffield. The home side were first to get points on the board when Malton were penalised at the ruck and Alex Piercy fired over a penalty
ANOTHER second half horror show saw injury-ravaged Harrogate slide to a second successive National League Two defeat as Rosslyn Park applied similar tactics to Stourbridge last week to score five tries courtesy of the rolling maul. Gate crashed 48-10
SOME pop idols care for little except the size of their entourage. But there is an honourable tradition for more thoughtful musicians to use their platform to campaign for issues they believe in. To a list including Lennon, Geldof and Bono, we can now
Poppleton remain unbeaten and stay top of Leeper Hare York and District League divison two after a 3-1 win at Riccall. They were were restricted to a single strike from Joe Vaughan up to the interval. Poppleton made sure with second half goals from Gary
AT a certain stage in their career, most people ask the same question: is there life after work? Muriel Pierotti has answered that with a resounding "yes". She does not let age tie her down. To celebrate her 85th birthday, she took to the skies in a glider
YORK FA Saturday Senior Cup holders Haxby United are through to the second round after a 2-0 first round win at home to Nestl Rowntree. In the first half the deadlock could not be broken although Matt White had a great chance to score for Nestl Rowntree
NEW club Cawood beat Heworth 5-3 in one of the two games which were played in the first round of York FA Saturday Junior Cup. Cawood won with goals from Ben Rawson and two headers by Billy Atton and Ray Meehan, the last of them being scored when Cawood
DESPITE the pelvic thrusts, electro keyboards and shirts and ties, this was not a Pulp tribute act, but York's latest rock hopefuls, The Clients - the new band of ex-Shed Seven bassist Tom Gladwin. Cheered on by his former band-mates and an up-for-it
HEWORTH'S awful start to the National Conference League division two campaign continued with a 40-12 hammering at fellow strugglers Saddleworth Rangers. The Pennines side had been the only other team without a point before the encounter but their seven-try
ROCK star Thom Yorke led hundreds of CND campaigners to the heart of RAF Fylingdales to protest about Son of Star Wars coming to North Yorkshire. Dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, the Radiohead front man carried a huge banner on the march, to within
YORK City boss Chris Brass has expressed his delight for Andy Bishop after the 21-year-old striker broke his Minstermen duck with an injury-time goal in Saturday's 2-0 victory at Burton Albion. Bishop has waited ten games to get off the mark for City
MARK Johnson is used to running a sound business - literally. Fifteen years ago his company, Alphasound, was a mobile discotheque service, operating a fleet of mobile DJs who mainly served York's Royal York Hotel, the Viking Moat House and other venues
WHEN the Knights faithful belt out a rousing rendition of "We are York and we're proud of it" to greet a defeat, it is clear the effort and commitment had been there in bucket-loads. Indeed it was. From the smallest fan in the noise-ridden stands to captain
THE article "Reclaim the Streets" (September 21) appears to suggest that action by the police to deal with the antisocial behaviour of drunken revellers is being taken because of representations by York Tourism Bureau chiefs that the city's image is being
SO WILLIAM Dixon Smith believes that Jason Hatch and friend were simply playing a foolish prank when they dressed up as Batman and Robin in support of Fathers4Justice (September 20). Presumably he is a happy family man or, if divorced, has a kind and
WE live in Wilberfoss but our doctors, hairdressers and family are all in Dunnington, so we rely on the 744 and 746 buses to get us to there. We both also have a job of dog walking in Dunnington after school and now we can't because the buses are stopping
I AM disgusted that East Yorkshire is withdrawing its buses from coming through Elvington village without considering the problems it is going to cause the elderly and infirm. We rely on these buses for keeping doctors appointments, shopping and also
THE 21st century vehicle shown in the Press (September 22) looks to me like a glorified bendy bus. It is very similar to the one that operates between Askham Bar and town which, on approaching Micklegate Bar, straddles both the inside and middle lanes
HERE we are, well over a year since Bush declared that the war was over in Iraq, and yet the killing continues. Since the start of war more than 10,000 Iraqi civilians, 1,000 US military personnel, 60 UK soldiers and many others have been killed in the
THE York jobs market was given a long-awaited boost today with the announcement that a London-based organisation is heading north to base itself in the city. The London-based skills council Improve has relocated to York and has recruited 30 people to
A YORK television vet went undercover to expose illegal traders selling wild birds from the back of a van in Yorkshire streets. Emma Milne - star of BBC1's fly-on-the-wall show Vets In Practice - turned reporter to lead the probe into the illicit trade
GLIDING grannie Muriel Pierotti has taken to the glorious skies above York again to celebrate her 85th birthday. The dedicated charity shop volunteer has pledged to mark her birthday each year with a glider trip from Rufforth Airfield. This year she spent
GOVERNMENT vehicle safety employees could soon be given police powers to stop and check vehicles in North Yorkshire for roadworthiness. Senior police officers were meeting today to decide whether to press ahead with plans to allow non-police personnel
EASINGWOLD sidecar star Steve Webster is within touching distance of the 2004 Eastern Airways British Sidecar Championship. A fourth place and a win at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, yesterday was enough for Webster and his Team Castrol Suzuki passenger to
ANOTHER motorcyclist has been killed in York - bringing this year's death toll on the county's roads to 13. The tragedy happened on the A166 York to Stamford Bridge road between the Grimston Bar turn-off and the Dunnington Lane end junction at about 3pm
YORK City Knights boss Richard Agar will stick with the tried and tested methods to get his side back up for next week's do-or-die play-off clash. The Knights lost 37-20 in the qualifying semi-final at Halifax yesterday and now need to beat Workington
ROCK star Thom Yorke led hundreds of CND campaigners to the heart of RAF Fylingdales to protest about Son of Star Wars coming to North Yorkshire. Dressed in black and wearing sunglasses, the Radiohead front man carried a huge banner on the march, to within
A FURIOUS row has broken out between the Big Issue and York homelessness agencies over allegations they are bussing rough sleepers out of the city to drive down the numbers on the city's streets. An article in today's Big Issue In The North claims City
It's as clear as glass: experience, hard work and the vision to see a gap in the market will equal success. That is what happened when Lewis Carr, who knew the conservatory and double glazing industry inside-out, got together with property developer Mark
BOASTING a teenage goalkeeper who started the season as third choice, a centre-back who arrived on loan without any recent first-team experience and a summer signing who was recruited as a midfielder, defences don't come much more makeshift than York
MAINTENANCE man John Milner backed his daughter, Katie, when she decided to join his hobby at the time - a coaching holiday venture called Katie's Continental Holidays. That was in 2000. Now Katie, who speaks fluent Spanish and German, has helped to generate
