MEET Sam - one good reason why our Guardian Angels appeal is so important. Sam Paxton, two, from Clifton, York, is a perfectly normal, happy little boy. But only two weeks ago, things were very different - and Sam had to be rushed into York Hospital
"MUM, I've got three police cars after me. Get them off my back." Those were the frantic words of a war hero who led armed police on a 70mph chase through the streets of York. Speaking to his mother on his mobile, it was a desperate cry for help by
A FATHER today made an emotional appeal for help finding his 22-year-old son, who has "vanished off the face of the earth". Robert Ailwood, an archaeology student at the University of York, was last seen in Piccadilly on Wednesday. Since then, 40
My wife feels, our concerns about the awful effect extreme Muslims are having on life is detracting from our retirement years. Self professed moderate Muslims continuously blame us, their adopted country, for their isolation. I see it as self inflicted
A PAY-as-you-drive car club has gone up a gear since its launch in York a month ago. Seventeen people have signed up to the eco-friendly scheme with city companies and at least one higher-education establishment starting talks with the club's operator
YORK City have been drawn away to giant-killing hopefuls Newcastle Benfield in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup. Harrogate Town have a tough away fixture at Tamworth and Scarborough, if they can make it past Ossett Albion in their replay tomorrow
"Does anyone know what this ladybird is? Found on Saturday 14th Oct." Photograph by Ken Pitcher, York The copyright of this image remains with the photographer If you can help Ken identify this creature, please drop us a line. Phil Lamond has kindly
GENERATIONS of romantic boyfriends and husbands have given them to their sweethearts - and they have always been made in York. But now Nestle Rowntree has confirmed that production of Black Magic and Dairy Box will definitely move abroad as part of its
NOW that the fruit season is virtually over, York farmer Richard Morritt has decided to harvestpaper. Richard, 39, and his brother-in-law, Adam Walker-Jesse, 36, have invested more than £45,000 with the help of grants from Defra and the Yorkshire Agricultural
PARTNERS Leisure Ltd, part of York-based marketing communications and design company The Partners Group, has beaten-off strong competition from the East Midlands tourism industry to win the region's Gold Award for Marketing Excellence. Partners Leisure's
For the fourth year running, Inntravel, the Yorkshire-based tour operator that offers "gentle activity holidays", has scooped the Best Specialist Short Breaks Operator in the prestigious national Travel Awards of The Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and
THESE pictures are an amazing record of the catastrophic fire which ripped through Selby Abbey 100 years ago this week. The fire was discovered by a Mr and Mrs Sykes just before midnight on October 19, 1906. They alerted the Verger, Mr Bagshaw. The fire
A YORK school cook claims she is the victim of a campaign of intimidation by people demanding better meals for kids. Theresa Topping has been the school cook at Derwent Infant and Junior School in Tang Hall, York, for four years but about 20 parents
CONKER shortage? What conker shortage? While all around us poor children are wasting away for the want of a conker, we are knee deep in the blummin' things. Walk into the living room and you will find yourself crunching across a carpet of them. Every
IF PROOF were needed of York's rocketing property prices one need look no further than one of the city's most historic residences. The 700-year-old Lendal tower, on the corner of the city bridge of the same name, was snapped up last month by North Yorkshire
TENS of thousands of drivers can expect lengthy delays as a stretch of the A64 near York is shut today. Motorists have been warned to brace themselves for tailbacks as week-long resurfacing work gets underway on the busy link road. Up to 25,000 cars
HERE'S a new record which won't be a matter of national pride: Britons are now the fattest men and women of Europe. The north, in general, is heavier than the south. We have known for a long time that we all appear to be getting heavier, something
IT might be good news for our waistlines if we all ate fewer of them, but it is further sad economic news for York that two famous chocolate assortment brands will soon be lost to the city. Production of Dairy Box, a traditional favourite dating back
THE results of The Health Profile Of England report, published on Tuesday, are alarming. As a nation, and indeed a region, we have become increasingly sedentary in recent years, and it is vital that we act quickly to combat these worryingly high
THE Labour Government created it and it seems the Labour Government are hell bent on destroying it. The National Health Service of Great Britain, the envy of the world, is up to its neck in debt, even though more money than ever is being thrown at
I HAVE just been visited by the Food And Safety Unit, for the second time in 18 months, with both reports stating: "excellent cleanliness and practices noted". The last time I was visited I was told that my kitchen etc was one of the cleanest the inspector
CONGRATULATIONS to members of York Opera on their production of The Gondoliers. Four of us went to the theatre and enjoyed a lively and energetic performance. The lead parts were excellent, but what was so refreshing to see was all the young men and
HULL City Council and Selby District Council have granted planning permission for large wind turbines. The Croda chemical plant in Hull will get one turbine and Rusholme, near Drax, will be home to 12 turbines providing clean energy to almost 15,000
THE sensible, thought-provoking letter about a parent allowing their six-year-old daughter to ride her bicycle on the pavement (Why it has to be on the pavement, October 11) proves the truth of the saying - rules are made for the obedience of fools
UNISON wholeheartedly supports our toilet crews ("Respect our loos" call by cleaners, Readers' Letters, October 9). Like so many of our members - cleaners, refuse collectors, street sweepers, care workers - they do a too-often thankless task in difficult
I AM writing in response to Mr Cordock's letter (No answers yet, Readers' Letters, September 7) regarding the options over the Barbican Centre and generally to set the record straight about the options available for swimming in York. Despite what the
I CAN'T believe that members of City of York Council, in their York Pride newsheets, are asking residents for donations towards the £21,000 cost of the Magic Tree which they intend to put up in Parliament Street for a few weeks at Christmas! Let folk
THE Tories are like British Rail's undecided arrow. David Cameron says: "New Direction." But in which direction? No one knows. Both David Davies and William Hague say: "We might not like it but we must change." I say: "Why?" All three parties are
Our expanding waistlines are becoming such a problem that some health trusts are handing out vouchers for slimming clubs. Could it happen in North Yorkshire? LUCY STEPHENS reports. BRITAIN is the fattest country in Europe, it was revealed this week
Hopes that York City's defensive problems were on the wane have been hit with the news that David McGurk needs a throat operation. Billy McEwan branded the Minstermen's defending as suicidal at times against St Albans as they lost 4-2 with just ten men
THREATS of scares were eventually tamed by the formbook in the Senior League Cup second round of the Leeper Hare York and District Football League. Three premier division sides hosting division one clubs found themselves trailing before the top-flight
Pontefract's final meeting of the season today promises to provide trainer Brendan Duke with a notable success. The Lambourn handler saddles Zafonical Storm in the £40,000 totesport.com Silver Tankard and this tough juvenile is fancied to prevail. Zafonical
Thorpe United moved into third place in the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division following their 1-0 win at Dunnington. It was Thorpe's sixth straight win over Dunnington and the only goal of the game came from Adam Garner. Pocklington
All four visiting sides in Reserve B' won. Paul Warriner scored the only goal of the game as Wigginton won at Bishopthorpe, and two goals from Easingwold's Martin Piercey set up his side's 3-1 win at Amotherby. Andrew Metcalfe senior added the third
A Dave Clarke hat-trick kept York RI as the early Reserve C' leaders as they drew 3-3 with Ouseburn. LNER Builders and Huby also drew 3-3 with the Builders scoring through Mark Rollinson (2) and Andrew Sykes. White Horse recorded their first away
The only home win in the entire reserve section was recorded in Reserve A' by homesters Copmanthorpe. Steve Auton powered in a rocket shot to put Copmanthorpe in front. Although Gary Hurst levelled for visitors Huntington, Tom Settle ensured a home
HOPES of at least emulating last year's FA Cup feat of reaching the first round proper were extended by ruthless Harrogate Town. The Wetherby Roaders sealed a place in today's fourth qualifying round draw after a committed 1-0 win away to Trafford.
SCARBOROUGH may be languishing in minus mode at the foot of the Nationwide North table, but their FA Cup run continues. The Seasiders will tomorrow have a second chance to account for Northern Counties East League first division side Ossett Albion
BOSSES at GNER have reassured passengers that its services will not be affected if its parent company declares itself bankrupt. The rail firm's debt-ridden owner Sea Containers looked to be on the brink of filing for bankruptcy as a deadline passed yesterday
UNIBOND League division one joint top scorers Harrogate Railway underlined their potency thanks to their own Marchant of menace. Hit-man Graham Marchant hammered a hat-trick to take his seasonal tally to 12 in the 6-1 destruction of visiting Chorley
York City's red-faced trip to St Albans City had all the hallmarks of the FA Cup third qualifying round. It had the non-League ground complete with sloping pitch and grey corrugated fencing to keep the trees out. It had the spirited and enthusiastic
JOHN Carver's hopes of being appointed manager of Leeds United have been washed down the plug-hole. He looked on helplessly from his technical area as the gutless Whites crashed 4-0 at home to Stoke on Saturday His three Championship games in charge
TWO players with close Pocklington links did most of the damage as Selby came out 19-13 winners of a keenly-contested Yorkshire Two derby at Percy Road, where the result was in doubt right to the final whistle. Selby hooker and vice-captain Shane Sellers
York's visit to Sandal was lucrative in that they won 20-18 but alarming in that they were outplayed for much of the game, writes Chris Houseman. The greatest jail escapes of all time come to mind and there was no doubt that York were lucky to win despite
MALTON and Norton dominated almost the whole of their Yorkshire One game at home to Bradford Salem but handed a 22-20 victory to the visitors in second half injury time. Malton held territorial advantage and monopolised ball possession for most of the
York RI's season got no better as they went down 34-0 at Ripon in the Yorkshire Two bottom of the table clash. The visitors could count themselves unlucky as they more than competed in the first half and had Ripon defending desperately. Two successful
A MOTORCYCLIST was killed when his bike left the road near Selby. The middle-aged man, believed to be from the area, died when he lost control of his powerful Suzuki motorbike on the A162 near Sherburn-in-Elmet at about 5pm yesterday. He was travelling
The owners of a jewellery shop who discovered a natural spring in their back garden have finally been allowed to sell the water. Ken, 51, and Rachel Hobson, 31, who run a jewellers in the town, found the water source in August 2000 and planned to bottle
A TIMID family dog is recovering after being attacked by a pit bull terrier as her young owner looked on in horror. Malcolm Bulmer was with his daughter, Zoe, nine, at Rawcliffe Lake, Clifton Moor, York, when the dog launched itself at their labrador-collie
A BULL TERRIER has escaped a muzzling order after it bit a nine-year-old girl's face at a garden gate. The girl had spent the evening playing with friends at the home of Tracey Ann Hewitt, said Matt Boxall, for City of York Council animal health officers
Museum bosses are inviting residents to a public meeting to discuss the management of the city's galleries and museums. York Museums Trust is holding the meeting to look at its finances and development of the Art Gallery, the Castle Museum, the Yorkshire
THE housing boom in York and North Yorkshire is now bigger than ever - with house prices rising at their fastest pace for more than two years. A study by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has revealed that house prices across the UK, especially
PUPILS and staff at a primary school on the outskirts of York are celebrating getting the go-ahead for a £836,000 extension. Planning permission has been granted for a three- classroom extension and remodelling of the interior of Wheldrake School. City
CHOCOLATE will be the dish of the day at a York restaurant this week - in fact, it will be every dish of every day. To celebrate National Chocolate Week, which runs from today until Sunday, the chefs at Four High Petergate hotel and bistro are serving
PICKERING'S public toilets have come in for damning criticism after a survey by town councillors. Paying a surprise visit last month, they found the loos in The Ropery "adequate" - but those in Eastgate were grimy, vandalised and, in several cases, unusable
SELBY Abbey has launched the next phase of its £4.5 million restoration campaign. Trustees are now concentrating on the cathedral's magnificent 14th century parapet statues as part of the millennium restoration appeal. The carved head-and-shoulder
