PARAMEDICS have thanked a sandwich shop in York for supplying free energy-boosting drinks. Riders from Life Cycle, which works alongside conventional ambulance services, are regularly given free drinks by the owner of Duncan's sandwich shop, in Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate
Villagers picked up spades and wellies to celebrate National Tree Week by transforming a wild flower meadow near York. Backed by a grant from environmental charity The Tree Council, parish councillors and villagers in Rufforth turned out to help with
THE dedication of students at Joseph Rowntree School, in York, was celebrated at the school's annual prize-giving ceremony. Head teacher Hugh Porter praised the students' achievements - both academic and non-academic - at the school's celebration of
DISTRICT nurses in York could face the axe under plans by the cash-strapped health bosses, in a bid to make £1.2 million in savings. North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) commissioned a survey which could spell cuts to the number of fully-qualified
ON THE 25th anniversary of the blaze that shut down Selby's last permanent cinema, councillors have issued fresh calls for a new picture house. On December 1, 1982, disaster struck at the Ritz Cinema, which stood at the junction of Scott Road and Flaxley
A PUBLIC alert has been issued by North Yorkshire's trading standards officers over the ease with which children can buy lethal knives and blades known as "cat skinners" over the internet. Surveys carried out both locally and nationally by trading standards
THE way fostered and adopted children are looked after in York is under review. At a meeting of City of York Council's executive member for children's services and advisory panel next week, councillors will look at a report about adoption, fostering,
Teenager Jenna Hardwick quite literally sung for her supper - and breakfast, lunch and dinner. The York High School pupil came second in the highly-successful Community Idol competition, organised by the Safer York Partnership. Jenna's prizes included
IT has a vital role, helping more than a thousand blind and partially sighted people in the York area. Now the York Blind And Partially Sighted Society is launching a major fundraising drive to help pay for a move to a new headquarters. It is leaving
DOZENS of shoppers have combined their weekly trawl of the supermarket with getting their flu jabs. Visitors to the Sainsbury's superstore, at Monks Cross, in York, were yesterday given the chance to be vaccinated against winter bugs. Customers paid
