POSTAL chiefs deal with more than 30 complaints every day from angry customers in our area and the number is rocketing. Figures obtained by The Press show Royal Mail received 11,806 complaints from the YO postal area in 2004/2005 up by almost a quarter
The Press editor Kevin Booth has been attacked by some readers for publishing pictures of a man jumping out of a hotel window. Here he explains why he made that decision. I HAVE been called "sick", and compared with the pig-like caricature of journalists
Photograph by Graham Denison, Thirsk © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Graham Denison, Thirsk © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Graham Denison, Thirsk © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Graham Denison, Thirsk © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
YORK City Knights have suffered major new blows with confirmation that prop Dean O'Loughlin has quit rugby league while star half-back Phil Hasty has been suspended by the club. O'Loughlin, 23, has decided to concentrate fully on his budding boxing
IT has provided a travel lifeline for thousands of city commuters. But today, York's bus information service will shut and opposition councillors are angry a replacement has not been considered. Budget cuts have forced the closure of the service
CONTROVERSIAL plans to create a "super" police force for Yorkshire could be shelved to avoid an embarrassing defeat for the Government, a North Yorkshire MP claimed today. Ryedale Tory MP John Greenway said recently-appointed Home Secretary John Reid
THESE were the scenes of destruction after a joy rider went on the rampage in a digger in a leafy North Yorkshire village. The small JCB-type vehicle destroyed a traditional red phone box, ploughed through garden walls and demolished road signs as it
YORKSHIRE'S Liverpool Victoria Championship encounter with Hampshire, which was due to start at Headingley today, should serve up an intriguing foretaste of things to come in this winter's battle for the Ashes in Australia. Unless England captain Michael
THE Friends of Bootham Crescent are recommending that York City Supporters' Trust board members reject the proposal to make JM Packaging 75 per cent plus one share owners of the football club. A special general meeting has been called by the Trust
A POST office in a York suburb is still no nearer to reopening, a year after its "temporary" closure. The row between the Post Office and Ghulam Rabbani, of the Premier Eastholme Store in Rawcliffe, York, who wants to reopen the former Eastholme Drive
FEARS have been raised that disabled workers could lose their jobs, following a Government review of local employer Remploy. Remploy operates 83 factories, which produce a range of different products, throughout the UK. One of them, a textiles manufacturer
A THIRD site could be added to a list of possible new homes for York's Peasholme Centre for homeless people. City of York Council leader Steve Galloway has given officers delegated powers to decide whether land in Jewbury could be a viable site for the
CLAIMS by anti-nuclear campaigners that 19 sites in York and North Yorkshire could be considered as places to dump nuclear waste have been dismissed as "ridiculous". Dozens of Greenpeace anti-nuclear campaign posters have been plastered on lamp-posts
YORK Hospital bosses expect to see about £3 million lopped off the organisation's income this year under cost-cutting plans from the beleaguered local primary care trust, a report says. Earlier this month, The Press revealed that the Selby and York Primary
GORILLA suits, fire juggling, magic tricks and chest shaving it might sound like a wild hen night or a trip to the circus, but this was all part of the search for York's Bartender Of The Year. Bartenders from across the city battled it out to become
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 100 years ago At the York Police Court a Walmgate man was summoned under the Musical Copyright Act, 1902, to show why a quantity of pirated music should not be destroyed. Mr A Preston, representing the Music Publishers' Association
ALL Saints School's Under-14 football team are top of the form in triplicate. They have completed the treble of league, York and District Cup and County Cup the second year running the squad have achieved the feat. They did it last season as U13s
Can she do it? That's the burning question surrounding Kerry's Dream at Beverley this evening as she bids to gain Listed status in the featured Hilary Needler Trophy from the worst possible draw. A field of 12 runners is set to line up for this £25,000
A team of ten boys and ten girls from Copmanthorpe Primary School won the York Schools' Sportshall Athletics competition at Millthorpe School, beating Carr, Hempland and Robert Wilkinson Schools. Copmanthorpe will now represent York in the North
OPENING aces Jason English and Andy Kay put on almost 500 runs between them in a record-breaking weekend. After the York Cricket Club pairing's 217 in a Hunters York and District Senior League first division match at Duncombe Park, the free-scoring duo
Easingwold recorded the fastest-ever victory in the Hunters York Senior League Premier Cup when they took just 45 deliveries to overtake Sheriff Hutton Bridge's paltry total of 52. First division side Bridge, with only three regular first-teamers in
YORK Cricket Club advanced to third position in the Yorkshire ECB Premier League with a seven-wicket home victory over Driffield on Bank Holiday Monday. However, they were once again unable to claim the full points by bowling the opposition out.
Stopping children from taking up smoking at a young age can be vital for their health for the rest of their lives. But getting that message across is not always easy. Education Reporter Haydn Lewis dropped in at a York secondary school, where a group
SCIENCE and scientists get a bad press more often than they receive a good one. Perhaps that is because many of us prefer to live with our worries and fears rather than accept the quite astonishing benefits that science has contributed to contemporary
PETER PLASKITT'S search for an apprentice is over. Claire Mullen has been chosen as the new showroom manager for interior designers Plaskitt & Plaskitt in Monkgate, York. Miss Mullen, 25, of Holme on Spalding Moor, joins the firm having completed her
This site could be the third added to a list of possible new homes for York's Peasholme Centre for homeless people. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
WELL, he is the town cryer. It's his job to cry. Reader Dale Minks sent us this photograph of an apparently-sobbing John Redpath, York's well-known oyez man, on the steps of the city's Mansion House. Dale had read The Press's story on Monday about Northern
THEY should ban that five-a-side football. I've often thought so, and now I'm convinced. I've been a sceptic for years, not just because of the muck the so-called beautiful game generates in the car boot, and the noxious holdalls that get left in the
ON her tour blog for The Guardian's Culture Vulture website, The Handsome Family's Rennie Sparks says she judges the audience by whether they laugh at the first chorus of a new song called After We Shot The Grizzly. Under the Band Room fairy lights
IT used to be a byword for reliability and efficiency. Yet today, like so many other public services, Royal Mail has become just another source of irritation and stress. Almost 12,000 people in the York area complained about the post last year up by
HEATHER Causnett wrote: "We have enough of those (business premises being converted into flats) already and it is time that brakes were applied to the creation of even more!" (Cinema Sadness, readers' letters, May 25). It doesn't take a PhD in economics
RIDICULOUS, says the nuclear industry of claims that Elvington, Strensall Common, Linton-on-Ouse and other sites in Yorkshire could be used for dumping nuclear waste. We certainly hope so. Tony Blair's backing for nuclear power as the solution to our
THE announcement that the Land Registry is to close its York office (The Press, May 25) over the next ten years ignores the fact that many staff are already looking to their futures and moving elsewhere, rather than staying on a sinking ship. Many
ON behalf of all the staff of the bus information office which City of York Council has seen fit to close from June 1, may I thank the many members of the public who have taken the trouble to express their appreciation and support for our service.
I AM writing to ask what has happened to our legal system, since I have always felt it protected our most basic moral standards, especially for children? I believe that it is illegal for anyone to expose themselves in public. The Sexual Offences Act
I would like to thank Mr Shepheard for his letter (Restorative Event, May 27). This has given much encouragement to those at the Central Methodist Church, in York, who have been working very hard organising organ recitals for several years. In addition
I WOULD like to say we have a wonder doctor, David Walsh, at Clementhorpe Court. He is someone who does everything he can for all his patients; he is a very caring doctor. I was reading an article about doctors not being as caring as they should be
I'VE had enough of listening to the ever-increasing news reports on "The Drought" and I'm tired of reading newspaper articles headed "Drought Britain". Personally, I'm fed up of getting soaked to the skin and having to dry my socks on the radiator
I FINALLY used the ftr and saw what all the fuss was about. I agree with those who say it is a waste of money. It's a lovely, clean bus and although the seating looks hard, I found it very comfortable. You expect a hostess with a drinks trolley may
AT 5.45pm today, May 26, whilst waiting at traffic lights in Cemetery Road, York, I was privileged to have my first sighting of an "ftr" bus travelling from Heslington Road towards the city centre. A huge and very distinctive vehicle, an impression
HAVING spent my last 30 working years busily jumping through other people's hoops, can I say that at least John Prescott can comfort himself in the knowledge he can knock his own balls through his own hoops? Eric Wood, Oakdale Road, Clifton Moor,
John Steel, drinks manager at the Bobo Lobo, who won the Bartender Of The Year contest at Bar 38, in York © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
PLEASE can anyone explain what "York Pride" is is it a secret society and does it only apply to York inside the bar walls, and not to us at Strensall? I live in a cul-de-sac and we have had our communal grass cut once this year, despite all the verges
IT'S all about healthy eating at one York primary school, where enterprising pupils have been selling fruit and vegetables for charity. As part of Healthy School Week at New Earswick Primary School, Year 6 pupils have been preparing all kinds of healthy
