Tuesday, March 1, 2005 100 years ago: The Bishop of Hull resigned the vicariate of Scarborough to the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, and so a columnist tried to unravel the perplexity that had often arisen in the minds of those not thoroughly versed
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is also hoping that home supporters can offer the same level of support against Barnet at KitKat Crescent tonight as travelling fans showed in his first tw away games in charge. He said: "We need the fans more than ever now
RED-CARDED York City players are unlikely to be paid while suspended under the regime of Billy McEwan. The Minstermen's new manager has said he does not abide "silly" sending offs. "If you are suspended and the referee was right you will not get paid.
NEW Earswick All Blacks will visit National Conference premier division leaders Leigh Miners Rangers in round five of the GMB Union National Cup should they get through. All Blacks will play their postponed fourth round tie at home to Halton Simms Cross
THE founder of York-based Persimmon Plc, Duncan Davidson, and his wife, Sarah, have between them gleaned a dividend of more than £4.5 million from their company's latest spectacular results. That emerged today, after an announcement that Persimmon's pre-tax
YOU asked: "Have our terror laws gone too far?" (February 25). Politicians are the first to tell us school children and immigrants need citizenship lessons. It appears from his comments that Lawrie Quinn, MP for Scarborough could also do with some. We
IT is nearly years since Britain joined the US in its illegal invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. About 100,000 Iraqi civilians have lost their lives, with many British and US troops also dying as a result of a war based on false intelligence.
AT last a good news story in the Evening Press: Ikon & Diva on York's Clifton Moor is to close (February 25). I suggest a more useful purpose for this building. How about a "correction centre" for the little darlings I have seen leaving and throwing
I WONDERED what was happening with the diggers when I was cycling near Howsham ('Ground farce', February 24). The Environment Agency had good intentions of trying to protect little fish at the times of flooding but made a few mistakes and refilling probably
IN response to the discovery of headless skeletons in a Roman cemetery near the Mount, why is it that so-called experts, when they come up with something they don't understand, always opt for a bizarre explanation? In the year AD179 Britain was declared
IN response to Mrs R Collins (Soapbox, Letters, February 26) I have had no issues with traffic wardens. I am within my rights to park on a private forecourt outside my business which is not part of the public highway or pavement. I should not have to
IN response to Roger Etchells' attack on council officers over the siting of the big wheel (February 26), if he had visited the site he would have seen it was unsuitable. Much of the blame must be placed at the officers' doors for once again failing to
READING the report about the activities of Mr Honan I did not realise that nowadays, while it is okay to cycle on the pavement in pedestrian areas or go the wrong way in one-way streets etc, it had become illegal to make a complete idiot of oneself. Mr
THE Government has announced plans to radically change the system of incapacity benefits for people unable to work because of sickness or disability. To help people understand the change, Disability Advice and Information Services (DAIS) has produced
SMOKE poured out of an accommodation block at a York school as more than two dozen firefighters battled to bring the blaze under control. Staff and pupils were evacuated as the fire broke out in a storage room at Fox House, which is attached to Bootham
PLANNERS will consider the proposals for a giant observation wheel in York this week amid astonishing confusion over whether trees would need to be felled. Residents opposing the 54-metre wheel in Tower Gardens claimed last month that two cypress trees
RESIDENTS have been asked to give their verdict on a City of York councillor after he refused to back calls for a public inquiry into Derwenthorpe. Osbaldwick Parish Council has sent out a special newsletter, saying it is "very disappointed" by Coun Jonathan
RYEDALE Sports Club closed the gap on Beckett Football League second division leaders Slingsby when they beat Bagby and Balk 4-0. B and B started well, despite having only ten men, and saw Ryedale goalkeeper Matty Gardner save a 39th minute penalty. Paul
Acomb Men's first team lost for the second week in a row to a team below them in Yorkshire Hockey League division one after a poor performance. Normanby Park secured the points with a 2-0 win to leave the Tangerines hovering just two points above the
TWO thugs have been jailed for 15 years between them for a vicious Samurai sword revenge attack on a York man. York Crown Court, sitting in Middlesbrough, heard that contracts manager John Christopher O'Callaghan, 39, struck Acomb resident Steven Johnson
YORK City will give late fitness tests to four players ahead of tonight's home clash with Conference leaders Barnet (7.45pm). Top scorer Andy Bishop, captain Paul Groves and midfield pair Darren Dunning and Kevin Donovan have all missed training since
A DIFFERENT tack is being tried to return young motoring offenders on to the straight and narrow. At Huntington Fire Station boy racers are shown graphic footage of car accidents and even take part in a simulated crash scene. This high-impact strategy
YORK City will need to stop Conference hot-shot Giuliano Grazioli tonight although table-topping Barnet will be without suspended free-scoring midfielder Dean Sinclair. Grazioli will arrive at KitKat Crescent looking to add to his 21 goals this season
YORK City will give late fitness tests to four players ahead of tonight's home clash with Conference leaders Barnet (7.45pm). Top scorer Andy Bishop, captain Paul Groves and midfield pair Darren Dunning and Kevin Donovan have all missed training since
TRIALS for four North Yorkshire Rugby League Service Area representative squads will take place during the first week of the Easter school holidays. The under-12s' trial will be on Wednesday, March 23, 5pm at Joseph Rowntree School, New Earswick. U13
YORK Groves ARLC boosted their chances of avoiding relegation from Pennine League division five with a crucial 36-6 win over fellow strugglers Cowling Harlequins. The Terriers have been left in the relegation mire following the withdrawal from the league
York's "superclub" has closed because party animals now prefer to go out in the city centre. Does this mean our once sedate nightlife can at last rival that of livewire Leeds? CHRIS TITLEY investigates. IT was one of the most hyped events of pre-millennial
A CONTRACT to manage the development of a new multi-million pound auction market complex at Thirsk has been won by York-based chartered surveyors and property consultants, Lightly & Lightly. Lightly & Lightly director Colin Linley has been appointed
IN response to "Where were the gritters?" (February 21). The first sight of heavy snow and York grinds to a stop, then it blames City of York Council and its gritters. As someone who has done call-out duty in the past I write in defence for all emergency
HOW many people watched Bruce Forsyth's BAFTA tribute on TV and reflected on the quality of programmes in those days - good family entertainment for all to enjoy? Many people would like to know where this type of entertainment is today. Are we to accept
LAST year you reported that Upper Poppleton residents pay well above £1,000 each year via a precept to have their dog bins emptied, while residents of Nether Poppleton have theirs emptied free of charge by City of York Council (July 20, 2004). Another
NOT since the premature passing of the late, great Brian Clough has anybody involved in football been more engaging in front of a television camera than Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho. Watching Sunday's Carling Cup final, for me, was only the prelude to the
A NEW route for a £4.8 million bypass near Selby has been given the green light by council chiefs. The 1.4km long road will bypass Burn between the Common Lane junction to the north and the Burn Lane junction to the south on the A19. There will now be
A NEW wave of postal cutbacks has infuriated York communities which have already seen their local post offices closed. Post Office bosses have sealed up a letterbox mounted on the wall of Albemarle Road Post Office, which was controversially closed before
FURIOUS residents today revealed that they had to fork out thousands of pounds for a new community centre manager - while neighbouring villagers got the same service for free. Householders in Upper Poppleton said it was an "injustice" to almost double
SUN Inn stormed to an emphatic 9-0 win against Rose and Crown in the York Cygnet Phoenix Darts League division one. Chris Thompson led the charge with a maximum for 15 and 18. He was well backed by Jon O'Mara with 180 for 16 and Kev Walton with a pairs
AN INQUEST into the death of a York Minster verger who fell from the cathedral's north-west tower will open either today or tomorrow, according to the York coroner. John Robert Angus died after he plunged 100ft from a balcony next to the Minster's West
THE horror of a road smash was brought to shocking life in a bid to drive home a vital safety message. The powerful scene was played out for young motoring offenders on a hard-hitting course designed to prevent death on the roads. Under-18s who have been
YORK Groves ARLC boosted their chances of avoiding relegation from Pennine League division five with a crucial 36-6 win over fellow strugglers Cowling Harlequins. The Terriers have been left in the relegation mire following the withdrawal from the league
YORK highways chiefs were on course to "bust" their winter maintenance budget by £100,000 even before the recent wintry weather, the Evening Press can reveal today. The cost of the severe conditions has led City of York Council to dip deep into its reserve
Clare Dennis had a sex-change operation but is still legally a man. But all that is about to change, as MAXINE GORDON reports. CLARE Dennis sits quietly composed in the brown brushed-velvet armchair of her Acomb home. Her brown hair has had a roller in
ON A recent shopping trip with my mother and sister, my mum bought a 'With Sympathy' card. "Who is that for?", I asked, thinking one of the old folk from my parents' village must have died. "It's for someone who isn't dead yet," my sister piped up. "We're
BATTERED by his own MPs over a new law to tackle terrorists, Charles Clarke today turned his attention to lower level offenders. Here the Home Secretary is on firmer ground. Police and councils agree Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) have proved a
RYEDALE Sports Club closed the gap on Beckett Football League second division leaders Slingsby when they beat Bagby and Balk 4-0. B and B started well, despite having only ten men, and saw Ryedale goalkeeper Matty Gardner save a 39th minute penalty. Paul
NOW here's an image to enjoy. The Queen arrives in York for Royal Ascot. She steps off the train, gives a regal wave - and has her hat blown off by a yell of welcome from the mighty mouth of York town crier John Redpath. What a moment to treasure. But
HOW would you react if your husband persisted in calling you his little squirrel and skylark? Tanya Moodie's Nora, too bright for her straight-lace husband Torvald Helmer (John Lightbody), almost manically plays up to his cooing, but you can see the frustration
