I am writing to express my concern about the abolition of advance corporation tax (ACT) and the effect it will have on a charity I support. The Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (RUKBA) and its daughter charity, the Universal Beneficent Society
Your columnist Bryan Marlowe shows a misunderstanding of the firearms laws (August 31). Air weapons are very much part of the various Firearms Acts in terms of their definition and the very strict regulations covering their sale and use. An adult may
Pickering Town bid to go one step beyond tomorrow in the oldest football competition in the world. The Pikes travel to St Helen's, of the North West Trains League first division, in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup. A win will not only guarantee
York Rugby Union Club's new skipper Nigel Durham will be anxious to put the brakes on the free fall at Clifton Park. BACK AGAIN: Pocklington full back Mark Taylor (with ball) begins his 21st season tomorrow. York have tumbled from North Division One to
As soon as Steve Burdett upended the stumps of Caldy tailender Peter Urwin to seal Woodhouse Grange's trip to Lord's the preparations for the North Yorkshire side's capital trip began. WOODHOUSE GRANGE CC 1999Back from left: Paul Grewer, Peter Head, Nick
Winsome George, who gave notice of a return to form at Beverley last Sunday, can fulfil that promise at Thirsk's final meeting of the season tomorrow. The four-year-old, trained at Middleham by Chris Fairhurst, bids for the featured £10,000 Tote Hambleton
The York mother left on tenterhooks when she lost contact with her boyfriend following the Turkish earthquake said today she is to fly to the devastated country. The Evening Press reported last month how Claire Swinburn, 25, spent days by the phone waiting
A North Yorkshire father-of-three is furious after his stranded wife and young sons experienced "a total, unmitigated disaster" with the Automobile Association. Thomas Ivison, 14, of Kirby Wharfe, holds the nail that punctured the tyre as mum Jacqui stands
Sixty years after the start of the Second World War a York veterans' association has announced it is to call it a day because there are too few of the old soldiers left to carry on. Peter Shaw, secretary of the York branch for more than 20 years, said
The Indian summer is in full swing in Yorkshire with temperatures in some areas logged as the highest since records began. Stars from Emmerdale and Heartbeat enjoy York Races. Tricia Penrose, in a deep pink dress, plays barmaid Gina in Heartbeat. Next
Creditors who lost out when York company Leeming Drain Services Ltd - the family firm of stabbed businessman Geoffrey Leeming - went into liquidation will not receive a penny, it was confirmed today. The Stockton-on-the-Forest-based company went into
CAN YOU DIG IT? Tony Robinson shows the piece of Roman pottery found at the Royal York Hotel dig Camera crews, archaeologists and scientists descended on York today to start the biggest dig ever televised. The 150-strong Channel 4 Time Team crew are in
Tony O'Connell: freed on bail Epileptic and nearly blind killer Tony O'Connell has been given one last chance to save himself from a prison sentence. The 35-year-old severely handicapped man killed Krystyna Walton in a violent attack at his home in Bouthwaite
On behalf of the members of the Viking Flower Club, I should like to thank the Evening Press for the help given with advertising the Flower Festival at Sand Hutton. Thanks also to your many readers who supported us, enabling us to extend our friendship
As a young traveller, I have had the pleasure of spending the last month in your beautiful city of York. From the very first, I found the people here to be among the kindest and most sociable in England. It has been a real honour to be warmly welcomed
Robert Beaumont's article preserving the memory of Princess Diana must have echoed the thoughts of all feeling people. It added further to the heartfelt words of a mourner keeping vigil outside Kensington Palace on the second anniversary of her untimely
Powerful York Acorn runner Emily Kleboe was the seventh woman home in the Ironman Triathlon held at Wolverhampton. Kleboe completed the gruelling course, tackled by more than 300 competitors, in 12hrs 23min, which included transition time. She swam 2.4
Newcastle United's outgoing and incoming managers could hardly present a greater contrast. Ruud Gullit was relatively new to management, Bobby Robson is the old pro. Gullit is the fashion-conscious cosmopolite, Robson the down-to-earth north-easterner
Michael Vaughan celebrated his England call up for South Africa this winter by batting all day at North Marine Road yesterday while contributing an unbeaten 133 to Yorkshire's score of 290 for seven against Kent. It was Vaughan's third century of the
Who would have thought archaeology would become a spectator sport? We used to imagine that this was a highly specialised discipline practised by bookish academics on dusty digs or in dusty college chambers. Now everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the
Called to arms Bobby Mimms is seeking Millmoor happy returns tomorrow. Mimms is back in the York City goal in a bout of unexpected duty which also takes him back to Rotherham United, scene of his Football League start 405 games and 17 years ago. Top of
York City hope to stiffen their defence by signing Halifax Town kingpin Mark Sertori. City manager Neil Thompson contacted his Town counterpart Mark Lillis over a £20,000 move for the commanding centre-back, who two days ago celebrated his 32nd birthday
York's private hire companies are to charge double time during the Millennium celebrations following a specially convened meeting. And the operators have condemned City of York Council's decision to allow Hackney Carriage drivers to charge a rate of only
A 90-year-old woman needed hospital treatment after a youth tried to rob her and threw her to the ground just a few yards from her doorstep. The unnamed woman was approached in Chaloners Road, Acomb, as she was returning from the local newsagents. She
