IT'S one of those places you always want to take a look inside. Even among the grand and genteel buildings of Bootham that stand as monuments to York's prosperous past, the imposing hotel with its curved bay front, set back from the broad street, behind
POP into Jim Hardie's boozer, the Blue Bell on Fossgate, York, on Tuesday and you could be confronted by an officer and a gentleman during the day and a member of the dreaded SS at night. Bizarrely, genial Jim is dressing up as a German SS officer to
IT was interesting to note that Barrow Raiders have become the latest Northern Ford Premiership outfit to encounter financial difficulties. Of course, York Wasps are the only club to have folded so far this year - and let's pray for a successful resurrection
CONGRATULATIONS but also commiserations to former York Wasps star Michael Smith following his Challenge Cup heroics last weekend. The big Kiwi second row scored a superb try for Castleford in the semi-final clash with Wigan, brushing off three would-be
Paul Kirkwood goes in search of daffodils I WAS experimenting. I wanted to know if it was possible to see something of Farndale's famous daffodils from the saddle of a bicycle rather than on foot. I set off from Hutton-le-Hole and climbed up a hill before
HAVING worked for a parish and a town council which administered local cemeteries, I can understand that dealing with cemetery related matters can, on occasion, be difficult and soul searching ('Cemetery ban on Jamie's headstone', April 17). It may be
DO you remember Vera Dawson who lived with her father and brother Bill in Front Street, Haxby over 50 years ago? I was evacuated there with my mother and brother during the war and spent many happy days with Vera and family. For many years after the war
George Wilkinson discovers an unmissable walk in the Wolds THIS is a wonderful Wolds walk, one of the best I have done. We started at Fordon which is a farm, a mini church, a house or two, that's all, a hamlet at the junction of North Dale, East Dale
THE Evening Press player of the year award has gone down to the final game of the season. Leader and last year's winner Alan Fettis edged three points clear of closest challenger Michael Proctor after picking up a single point for some fine saves against
THE supporters of York City will forever be indebted to the efforts of local rockers Shed Seven. The Sheds were this week able to hand over a cheque for £15,000 to the fans' body, the proceeds from a benefit gig the band played at the Barbican last month
RICHARD FOSTER discovers how the Belgian town of Ypres lives with is bloody past APRIL is the cruellest month, wrote T S Eliot in his poem The Waste Land. It certainly is an evocative month for visiting Flanders, where the flower of European youth died
SUPPORTERS Direct, the body which helped York City fans form a Supporters Trust, may come to the aid of York Wasps fans too. Following representations from York MP Hugh Bayley, Sports Minister Dick Caborn MP is considering broadening the remit of Supporters
Yorkshire have been a ship without a captain as they have set sail towards the new season and their defence of the County Championship title. With coach Wayne Clark at the helm since their pre-season tour of Grenada, they have not been entirely rudderless
CALLING all budding pavement Picassos. The Evening Press is teaming up with Jorvik, York's world-famous Viking museum, to launch a Viking Street Art competition. We want children to design pictures that they think would look great as street-art. The winners
INCREDIBLE support from Evening Press readers has been praised by the family of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman. In only two weeks, the Free Ian Stillman campaign has collected 1,700 signatures urging the Indian Government to release the 51-year-old
A VILLAGE playgroup has launched an appeal for new premises - because its current building no longer fits the bill. Leaders at the Swinton group spend more than an hour at the beginning and end of every play session hauling equipment to and from a storage
ANDY Gair and his York colleagues are waiting to hear from the Yorkshire RFU over the sending off of Dave 'Spanner' Spanton in the match against North Ribblesdale. The club, who claim they have no problem with the referee's decision itself, are willing
A YORK husband is today preparing for jail and is going on the sex offenders' register for raping a young woman guest at his home. David Glen Atkin, 42, showed no reaction as the jury convicted him of the sex attack that terrified the 22-year-old victim
STAMFORD Bridge teenager Katie Hills is New York-bound. The 16-year-old York College student will represent Great Britain in women's roller hockey at the first ever Federation of In-line Roller Sports world championships in Rochester, New York, in July
NEW York City chairman John Batchelor is finally hoping to get behind the wheel this weekend when the third and fourth rounds of the British Touring Car Championship slip into gear. Oulton Park in Cheshire is the venue with Wilmslow-based Batchelor anxious
SUPPORTERS Direct, the body which helped York City fans form a Supporters Trust, may come to the aid of York Wasps fans too. Following representations from York MP Hugh Bayley, Sports Minister Dick Caborn MP is considering broadening the remit of Supporters
THE curtain came down on football at Bootham Crescent for the season a week earlier than planned after Leeds United announced they have switched their final two reserve fixtures to Elland Road. United's second-string drew 0-0 with Middlesbrough at the
AN AMAZING reunion is set to take place this summer when a family split between Latvia and York get back together after almost 60 years apart. Charles Udris, who lives in Acomb, York, has not seen his sisters since he was forced into slave labour by the
DESPERATE times call for desperate measures. After a morning in the company of my wife, Karen, and her sister, Sarah, I was 'chattered' out. An offer to treat them to Sunday lunch may have seemed generous but was really a cunning ploy as they couldn't
INCREDIBLE support from Evening Press readers has been praised by the family of jailed deaf charity worker Ian Stillman. In only two weeks, the Free Ian Stillman campaign has collected 1,700 signatures urging the Indian Government to release the 51-year-old
UNISON, the public service union, wholeheartedly supports Margaret Hunt (April 11) in calling for free care services for all pensioners. Our branch in York helped propose a policy for free care at our last conference and, we're proud to say, as a result
WHY was Mrs S E Farmer of Doncaster surprised to find a lack of anti-hunt demonstrators in York last week (Letters, April 16)? Does she not realise that most of us were actually at work earning the money that, in our tax contributions, will go to pay
I LOVE a tale with a twist in it, and one with a happy ending - like your account of little Oliver, the missing cat (April 18). It brought tears of joy and laughter to my eyes to read that "each time the animal collection officer (dog-catcher) tried to
I commend the fine dance moves exhibited at York Racecourse last Saturday night by Matt Graham ('Break Dancer', April 17). I was the Night Owls disco DJ who played "Ra Ra Rasputin" especially for Matt, and watched in amazement as he performed his unique
BETTER late than never but the week that was can only be described as a good one for York City. Two home wins and six goals scored ended a season-long drought of no more than two strikes in a home game this season from the men in red and a four-year wait
LUTHER Blissett: Watford legend, ex-AC Milan and former England international. It's already an impressive looking CV. But now add cult status and figurehead for a group of Italian anarchists. It sounds like a shaggy-dog story but it's true. Blissett,
YORK City manager Terry Dolan today explained his reasoning after wielding the axe on five of the nine players who will be out of contract at Bootham Crescent this summer. Marc Thompson had already been told his contract would not be renewed but the midfielder
THE curtain came down on football at Bootham Crescent for the season a week earlier than planned after Leeds United announced they have switched their final two reserve fixtures to Elland Road. United's second-string drew 0-0 with Middlesbrough at the
To mark the return of our Days Out column, Rachel Lacy visited Hull's new £45 million attraction, The Deep DESCRIBED as the world's first Submarium, The Deep is a blockbusting Millennium project which cost a mind-boggling £45.5 million to build and has
THERE are plenty of jobs to be done in the garden. In our house, once April is here indoor tasks are neglected until rain forces me inside. This is such a lovely month in the garden with herbaceous perennials shooting up and trays of seedlings filling
THE mother of the girlfriend of tragic Jamie Bucknell today called for a new national policy to let families know what designs they can use on the gravestones of loved ones. Julie Barnie, mother of 14-year-old Helen, was speaking after Strensall Parish
PROTESTERS fighting council plans to sell off half the Oaken Grove Primary School site in Haxby, York, for housing are set to turn out in force to lobby councillors at a site meeting on Tuesday. Their protest comes as the City of York Council planning
A FALKLANDS veteran from York whose ship was sunk by an Exocet has been emotionally reunited with a fellow survivor, 20 years after the disaster. Close friends John Miller, of Acomb, and Derek Moon, of Sunderland, were on board HMS Sheffield when it was
A MOTORIST whose lies led to her mother being summoned to appear before magistrates has been banned from driving for four months. Samantha Anne Hayes, 29, was uninsured and had no test certificate for the car she steered down Green Lane, Acomb, York,
York area riders figured strongly in the outcome of Velo Club York's ten-mile time trial on the demanding A168 Marton/Walshford course, despite being out of the top three places in the men's event. Joel Wainman (Pete Read) was again pushed into second
STAFF at the Grand Opera House in York, left to right, Celestine Dubruel, Naomi Stanley, John Pallett, Nikki Bartlett and Lizzie Richards, get in the mood for the high-energy show Fame - The Musical which is coming to the city. Singers and dancers from
NEIL Wood became the first winner of York Conservative Clubs' Foster's Challenge handicap snooker knockout competition when he recovered from 2-0 down to defeat Brian Coulson on a re-spotted black in the fifth frame at Fulford Conservative Club. Coulson
MALTON and Norton secured promotion to Yorkshire Two last Saturday and immediately set their sights on the title. Although rivals Heath only trail the Gannock table-toppers by a point with three matches to play, their shock 29-23 defeat by Leeds Corinthians
FULFORD Golf Club's James Mason, who enjoyed a trophy-laden 2001, was quick off the mark for success in the new season. Mason helped Yorkshire to a 12-6 victory over Lincolnshire in the annual non-league meeting at Elsham. He won his singles three and
A HOLIDAY company is planning a 18-hole golf course, gym and tennis courts for Ryedale. Griffon Forest Ltd wants to build the new facility just off the A64 near Flaxton, less than three miles from the well-established York Club, near Strensall. The company
SOME Millennium ideas were bad (that Dome), others were works of genius. And so Centurion's Ghost Ale proved. Created as York Brewery's millennial beer, this week it was named Champion Beer in the dark milds, stouts and porters category of the Brewing
AN injured pet rabbit from York has undergone almost £1,000 worth of treatment - including a rare brain operation. Colin, a nine-month-old Netherland Dwarf owned by Rebecca Hampton, ten, and her sister, Rachel, eight, was left with cuts to his face and
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was robbed of his mountain bike at knifepoint in a York street. The boy had been pushing his bike along Bellhouse Way, in Foxwood, near to its junction with The Gallops, when he was confronted by a youth who produced a knife with a four-inch
A NORTH Yorkshire baby lived for only two days after suffering brain damage at birth, an inquest heard. Coroner Geoff Fell adjourned the hearing in Harrogate into the death of Alfred Martin to a date to be fixed, to allow North Yorkshire Police to conclude
An inquest into the death of a York man found hanging in his bathroom has been opened and adjourned indefinitely. The body of Roderick Guy Neal, 42, was discovered at his flat in High Petergate on Thursday. Updated: 10:20 Saturday, April 20, 2002
THE family of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle is setting up a memorial fund to help other young people realise their dreams. The York Diocese revealed today that an initial collection for the appeal - which is still in its early stages - will
YORK City manager Terry Dolan today explained his reasoning after wielding the axe on five of the nine players who will be out of contract at Bootham Crescent this summer. Marc Thompson had already been told his contract would not be renewed but the midfielder
A SECRET surveillance operation has exposed a catalogue of crime as gangs of youths run amok on the streets of a troubled York estate. Terrified residents in Acomb's Chapelfields Road area have covertly recorded the reign of terror. The Evening Press
