THE worst street in York for car crime can today be revealed by The Press as police report mixed success in their battle against the thieves. One car is stolen, vandalised or broken into in Ratcliffe Street, Clifton, every three days. It has been
Kevin Darley can hit the jackpot at Sandown's star-studded meeting this evening by winning the £90,000 Temple Stakes on Reverence. The North Yorkshire jockey, who has recently moved from Sheriff Hutton to a base near Boroughbridge, renews his successful
TRUTH is said to be stranger than fiction, but all those familiar with children's comics know better. Hugh MacDougall picks his favourite five fabulous sports heroes. Wayne Rooney probably having to sit-out the World Cup finals this summer because
NEW Earswick All Blacks Amateur Rugby League Club will celebrate their promotion campaign at their end-of-season dinner and presentation night on July 1 at the Monkbar Hotel in York. All players must have the £25 ticket money in as soon as possible
York Cricket Club staged a fine recovery to ease into the semi-finals of the Cockspur Cup Yorkshire Group. They were in deep trouble against visitors Methley at 95-5 with only 17 overs remaining. However, a fine stand of 107 between skipper Marcus Wood
ENGLAND skipper Michael Vaughan is determined not to rush things after making a return to action. He scored a fluent 67 for Yorkshire at Headingley to guide them to victory against Scotland and enhance their chances of finishing top of the North Conference
BAFFLED York City boss Billy McEwan has urged three of his most promising players to take a reality check after they turned down contracts. McEwan's delight at City's Young Player of the Year Darren Hollingsworth signing first-year professional terms
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 100 years ago Of all the Royal Commissions, which had recently been appointed, perhaps the most important was that which was to inquire into and report on questions relating to the health and safety of miners, and the administration
Michael Flanagan and Gled Hill, residents of Ratcliffe Street, which was revealed as the worst street in York for car crime. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL hears the racy secrets of original North Yorks bad girl Claire King. BEDDING Bob Geldof and snorting cocaine are not what one would expect of a girl schooled at Harrogate Ladies' College. Former Emmerdale actress Claire King's autobiography
I HAVE never been able to understand how my husband or any man, come to that can live without a handbag. Now, as everyone who knows me will vouch, my handbag' is more the size of a bin bag, and contains just as much refuse. But, however large
A North Yorkshire property developer has invested £7.5 million to start a luxury family hotel in York, plus a separate restaurant, with apartments above, on the other side of the city. David Hattersley, of Nun Monkton, plans to fully open Marmadukes,
WHAT a wizard idea, declare Emma and Christopher Watkins, managers of the new Marmadukes hotel in York. Warner Brothers prop maker Jonathan Tebbs the man who created beds for the film, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, was secretly commissioned by
CPP, one of York's biggest private employers, has launched the Trailblazers Awards to reward UK businesses operating within the emerging life assistance sector. It is offering a £50,000 prize to businesses that have a unique product or service and
EQUAS, the Pocklington firm which has helped more than 1,000 UK organisations to achieve the international quality standard, ISO 9001, has opened a new office in Canada. The quality management systems consultancy has set up its outpost in Edmonton, Alberta
Liz Edgington has been appointed as environment manager for Business In The Community's Yorkshire and Humber region She brings to the environment team her experience gained in positions with heavyweight organisations including five years spent as corporate
HOPES that we had finally uncovered conclusive proof of the existence of the Beast Of Selby look to have been cruelly dashed. "Is this the Beast Of Selby?" is the question this newspaper posed last week, complete with an intriguing picture of what appeared
That was an awful business about the boy hurt by exploding batteries in his toy car. I don't know whether you saw the story of the three-year-old lad. Apparently the batteries blew out a noxious powder which burned his mouth after his mum mixed old and
THIS is the man police would like to speak to in connection with a possible child abduction attempt. Officers have put together an e-fit of the man who put his arm around a nine-year-old boy innocently playing in the street in Clifton Moor, York. DC
YORK has seen some amazing changes over the past decade. It's hard to imagine now how the city looked back in 1996, before the Millennium Bridge was added to its landmarks, and before consumers could shop at Monks Cross and at the designer outlet as
FURTHER proof of York's growing attractiveness to outsiders comes with today's news that government buildings are being refurbished to prepare for the arrival of staff from the south of England. They are moving to York with the relocation of their government
REPLYING to my letter of May 23 (Case For Nuclear), Mr B Emmerson chose to mention subsidies for nuclear power (Nuclear subsidies, readers' letters, May 25). It is right to say that I did not raise this in my letter but, in the unlikely event of the
I READ with interest the article on rural housing (Plan to tackle rural housing, May 19) and was quite amazed at the supposed reason for the affordable housing shortage. To blame second homeowners is not on. Councillors should look further into what
May I take this opportunity to respond to your article Union Strikes Back (May 24). It seems to me that both sides in this argument, the university and the union, are forgetting the student in all this. Students now have to pay top-up fees of up to
Perhaps we could turn our car parking spaces into proper parks like this group in San Francisco. It puts a whole different perspective on the car parking debate. Website: www.rebargroup.org/projects/parking/index.html The ever-increasing space given
I HAVE never been over-impressed by the accuracy of the media when it comes to aviation matters, but my flabber was totally gasted when I heard a newsreader on Yorkshire television at 6.40am on May 26 inform us that Douglas Bader led the Dambusters' Raid
I USUALLY ignore Mike Bentley's weekly outpouring of right-wing bile. However, I must respond to his column of May 27 (Cross about taxi flag ban). It seems that three items in the recently-published list of English icons cause Mr Bentley grief.
STEVE Waddington is looking for suggestions for a suitable site for the Peasholme Centre, York, (Residents take to centre stage, May 24). The clear and obvious answer is: where it is now. Our caring, consulting council is going to waste in excess
AS A correspondent who has had a strong antipathy towards many aspects of the ftr concept, it may seem perverse and even contrary of me, in light of recent correspondence, to say that I actually quite like the colour. The purple for me evokes the imperial
AFTER reading many letters from people complaining about the ftr, I felt I had to write in with a suggestion of how to end this matter. Quite simply, give them the very old double-decker buses on the Number 4 route! This way they would all be happy
I HAVE tried to get something constructive done with speed humps in Foxwood Lane, York, for two-and-a-half years, to no avail. We have sleepless nights due to road noise and vibration caused by the ftr and all other vehicles larger than a car. During
OF course we care, when we can afford to. Maybe in 2012, or more likely in 2050, when the EU is more in charge of our affairs. Not now, but keep working and voting for us so you can fill the bottomless pit we need to keep spending on your behalf.
PARENTS, teachers and community groups are being urged to nominate their young heroes for a prize in The Press awards scheme. The York Community Pride Awards, which we run in conjunction with City of York Council, recognise people who make a positive
How does York compare as a tourist destination today to the city of ten years ago. With the results of the latest Visitor Survey now out, CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigates. WHAT difference does a decade make in the life of a city? Ten years ago in
A PETROL bomb was thrown through the front window of a house in a terrifying early-morning attack. Four children were at home at the time of the incident, in Healey Grove, Heworth, York but all managed to escape unharmed. Police said forensic experts
ONE woman was badly hurt in a car smash that closed a main York road to bank holiday traffic for more than five hours. The accident happened on the A19 Shipton Road yesterday morning when a car travelling into York crashed into another vehicle on the
A MULTI-MILLION pound revamp of a top Government department's York headquarters is set to get under way as more than 200 civil service workers prepare to move to the city. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) offices at King's
TRAMPOLINES or airbags could not have been used to break the fall of a man who leapt from a top-storey hotel window, firefighters said today. Although a common sight in television cartoons and Hollywood movies, fire chiefs said none of North Yorkshire's
HE was only 22 when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer now York insurance salesman Paul Hayes is planning for the future after being given the all clear from the disease. Paul, from the Leeman Road area of York, has decided to share his story
A TOP security firm will continue to prowl west York for signs of trouble after residents voted to maintain its nightly patrols. Householders decided to use cash from the ward committee budget to contract local security firm Mayfair Security to monitor
CHARITIES are urging people returning home from a night in York to take extra care after a 16-year-old girl was raped by a stranger who offered her a lift. The Press told on Saturday how the teenage victim was subjected to the terrifying ordeal in a
A £9 MILLION building which recycles its own rainwater is now starting to take shape in York. Pre-fabricated straw panels are now starting to be put in place at City of York Council's ecoDepot at Hazel Court. Work started on the site, which will become
PLANS to build a waste composting site on the doorstep of residents near Selby have been put under the microscope by county councillors. A new report into the scheme to build a recycling centre near Thorpe Willoughby has been rubbished by campaigners
