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  • Road safety at work

    Have you been involved in an accident while driving to your work? Do you think the accident could have been avoided if your company had taken more responsibility for you while out on the roads? If so, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

  • Why public transport around York is a sham

    I am in the position of being one of the unfortunate workers who has no other means to get to work than by public transport. To have to rely on such a sporadic service is more than a little annoying. Like many others each day I need to travel from Osbaldwick

  • Seems like an ice guy...

    Ferocious polar bears, bone-chilling temperatures and hundreds of miles of frozen ice-cap lie ahead for York army Major David Johnson next month. Cap that: David Johnson prepares for his attempt to be in the first British expedition to cross the Greenland

  • Beautiful vision

    We report tonight the very sad news of the untimely death of Alison Ticehurst. She died in the garden that she had devoted the past five years to creating. That project, the Helmsley Walled Garden in the Duncombe Park estate, will live on as a tribute

  • Little wants to get back to his Roots

    Former York City manager Alan Little has targeted a return to football with former club Southend United. Applied: Alan Little The Evening Press can exclusively reveal today Little has homed in on the vacant manager's job at the troubled basement club

  • Andy's agony

    Defender Andy McMillan has suffered an agonising blow. Blow: Andy McMillan The full-back has been ruled out of the rest of York City's season with a knee injury just eight games adrift of his 500th appearance for the Minstermen. The 30-year-old player

  • Aspirin alert to hopeful mums

    A doctor has warned childless women not to take aspirin in an effort to avoid miscarriages without first having medical advice. North Yorkshire couple Sandra and Nick Morgan last week celebrated the birth of a healthy baby boy, Finn, after 10 years of

  • We've won A64 death gap fight

    The battle to close a lethal gap on the A64 near York was finally won today. Hats off to victory: Traffic Constable Dave Brown, the traffic management officer for the Selby and Tadcaster Division,celebrates the news today that the Colton Lane End junction

  • Come home, Fergie

    Having just heard speculation that the Duchess of York might be about to buy a house in this fair city, I decided to writeand beg you to use your influence on her choice of area. Please persuade her to come to South Bank, and then maybe just maybe - the

  • Russia holds the key

    The basic problem with Nato is that it is run by old men in the Pentagon with a cold war mentality. I believe there is a practical solution for Kosovo, which is to ask Russia to put in peace-keeping troops. It is hardly likely, as one of the former great

  • Clifton Moor's new police station opens

    Residents and businesses in the northern part of the City of York were celebrating today after Clifton Moor's long-awaited new police station opened. On the move: Acting Sergeant Andy Farrar carries a box into the new police station at Clifton Moor. Picture

  • Free bus timetable for every house in York

    Every house in York was due to receive free bus timetables today in a council effort to get people out of their cars. Booklets containing a map of York and bus timetables were being distributed as part of the Council's TravelWise campaign to make people

  • Success story goes on for York hockey teams

    Hockey The success story for York hockey has continued following City of York Hockey Club's first team clinching promotion last week. Nestle Rowntree Ladies hockey team, back from left: Jane Markland, Vanessa Moore, Sue Blackburn, Bev Woods, Jane Goldfinch

  • Katie can keep new trainer riding high

    Kevin Ryan, who started the new turf season with a bang at Hamilton yesterday when completing an 81-1 double, can add to his score at Catterick tomorrow. Ryan, who has assembled a team of more than 30 horses at Hambleton Lodge near Sutton Bank, saddles

  • Shark Hepi escapes the net

    Dean Robinson has failed in his bid to bring Hull Sharks utility player Brad Hepi to Huntington Stadium. The York Wasps coach had been in long-running talks to get Hepi on a match-by-match basis or a short term contract but the New Zealander has opted

  • City net £15,000 more for Woodhouse

    York City have banked another cash windfall from the 'loss' of talent. Less than a week after netting close on £1million from Sheffield Wednesday for 19-goal top scorer Richard Cresswell, City have reached an agreement with Sheffield United over the recruitment

  • A64 victory for people power

    The A64 is to become safer at last. A year after the Evening Press launched our Close the Gaps campaign, the most notorious gap in the central reservation, at Colton Lane End, is to close. This is a victory for people power. Our campaign has received

  • Rethink needed on nursery school plans

    North Yorkshire councils have been sent back to the classroom over their plans to introduce free nursery education for all four-year-olds and better childcare. Education Minister Margaret Hodge has approved 150 local plans for providing these nursery

  • Mother searches for missing Jason

    A mother today appealed for information about her son, who disappeared without trace after a night out with friends in Selby. Jason Lee Clover, who is 28 years old, was last seen in the town on Saturday after spending the day watching the England football

  • Judge's warning as rioters are sentenced

    A judge warned that rioting would not be tolerated in the nation's jails after sentencing five inmates to a total of 23 years for prison mutiny. The men, including two serving life sentences, were sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court for their part in £900,000

  • Police chiefs to meet Straw

    North Yorkshire's Chief Constable David Kenworthy and police authority chairman Angela Harris are to meet Home Secretary Jack Straw to discuss force policy on multiracial recruitment. David Kenworthy: looking forward to meeting The force, criticised by

  • Waiting lists still falling at hospital

    Hard work, not massaging statistics, has helped York District Hospital reduce its waiting list, said Trust officials today, as national figures were published. Despite opposition parties and doctors accusing the Government of distorting clinical priorities

  • Crumbling schools to get cash for repairs

    Schools in York and North Yorkshire are to benefit from a cash boost to help pay for repairs and modernisation work. The money is part of a £53.93 million pay-out by the Government from its New Deal for Schools budget. The grants, which are to be spent

  • Private square residents lock out children

    Children have been locked out of a communal garden in York's only private square. Denise Magson with her daughter, India, and nephew Alex by the locked gates to the garden area in St Paul's Square Mum Denise Magson, who took her six-year-old daughter