IT is with great sadness that I learn of the closure of Fibbers (August 14). As a local artist it was always a pleasure to play there and it will be greatly missed. This venue has played host to a spectacular array of performers from every genre of music
WITH concern to your article on the success of the City of York Council's transport plan (August 13), I would like to thank all those who have helped in cutting York's congestion. The targets achieved have been the result of working in partnership with
DEREK Martin says I'm being naive, and that immigrants, especially Muslims, are a threat to us (August 14). I wonder if he read the report the same day about the Ibrahimi family? Mr and Mrs Ibrahimi and their daughters aged two and eight months, faced
WITH reference to Monday's On This Day column. Sorry to be a pedant but I'd be failing in my duty as chairman of the City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society (Northern Group) if I didn't point out that, while you are correct that August 12 is
EVEN as little 'townies' in my schooldays, we knew the difference between grain harvest and forage collection - straw and hay. ('Hay, get it right', letters, August 9). Hay and hay stacks were the stuff your pet rabbits and tramps slept on - straw was
IT is obvious: the deeper the hole, the more water you get in. So why can't they get the rivers dredged? This has not been done for years. Last time I went over Clifton Bridge I saw about 12 shopping trolleys in the river. Kids had run them down the slope
HOW dare Major (Retd) R T McCarter criticise Her Majesty the Queen for her conduct at the Commonwealth Games (August 9). I don't know in what arm of the service the gallant major served, but I can tell him that in all my 30 years service with the Grenadier
SELBY residents opposing a new hostel for the homeless said today their fears had been reinforced after they discovered "alarming" new evidence. They also revealed they had stepped up their campaign with a letter drop to 8,000 Selby area households. Objectors
POST office staff in York and North Yorkshire have been plunged into confusion by the latest twist in the Government's plans to close counters across the country. Research conducted by Liberal Democrat MPs suggests that as many as nine post offices will
STUDENTS were left with incomplete A-level qualifications on results day in York, because of delays by the examination boards. Outstanding grades for a number of modules during their final year meant that some students were given "grades pending" or were
YORKSHIRE have been unable to cope with the colossal demand for tickets for their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy final match with Somerset at Lord's on August 31. The club's initial allocation of 3,000 tickets from Lord's was sold out immediately and
IN-FORM striker Peter Duffield reckons York City will face a new kind of pressure as the Minstermen welcome Torquay United to Bootham Crescent tomorrow. But the ace poacher, who has scored two goals in two games in City's promising start to the new campaign
JULIA Race has been given her own permanent gallery space at Hazlewood Castle, near Tadcaster, completing a journey from housewife, business partner and mother of five to thriving artist at the age of 54. Born in Acomb and educated in York, she married
MILTON Bradley, renowned as a sprint specialist, can take the major honours at Ripon tomorrow. The Chepstow-based handler saddles Parkside Pursuit in the £50,000 William Hill Great St Wilfrid Handicap, and the four-year-old is napped to beat 22 rivals
Harrogate Railway's new strength-in-depth will be tested to the limit as they open up their Northern Counties East League premier division against Arnold Town, writes Tony Curtis. Boss Paul Marshall has dipped into the transfer market to secure the signings
A COUPLE are demanding action because their garden resembles a swimming pool three weeks after heavy rain hit York. Three-inch deep water swamped the back of Nick Mole and Lindsay Hodgson's house in Seagrave Walk, off Grantham Drive, York, in stormy weather
HEWORTH Cricket Club youngster Richard Walton has had a hectic few weeks after being picked for the Yorkshire Under-12s squad. The fast bowler, who is also handy with the bat, was the only youngster from the area to be picked for the county team following
THE clock is ticking to save York RLFC from possible extinction. There are just 15 days to go until the August 31 deadline for the club to raise £75,000 to meet the stipulations set by the Rugby Football League. However, as that all important D-Day moves
YORK magistrates have criticised the Government's countryside Ministry for "negligence" and the lack of supervision that enabled an employee to break the law. The Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) prosecuted its former payroll
YORKSHIRE have been unable to cope with the colossal demand for tickets for their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy final match with Somerset at Lord's on August 31. The club's initial allocation of 3,000 tickets from Lord's was sold out immediately and
MEMBERS of a York family have made a special pilgrimage to officially donate the war medals of an airman from the city to a new museum in west Wales. It is nearly 60 years since Flight Sergeant Fred Capes was killed in action in a Sunderland flying boat
A TRAINEE pilot from a North Yorkshire RAF base has been killed in a motorbike crash. Police named Luke Jonathan Lockyer, 24, a student pilot at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, as the motorcyclist who died in a collision with a car near to the base. Mr Lockyer was
SELBY'S Abbey Walk shopping centre has been sold for £7.75 million. Developers Henry Boot announced it had completed the sale of its "highly successful" retail scheme, in Selby town centre, to property company IGP Investments. Henry Boot said the sale
ELVIS fans checked back into Heartbreak Hotel today, as they remembered their idol on the 25th anniversary of his death. In York, the mourning was led by Eddie Vee, whose career as an Elvis impersonator and Monster Raving Loony has been regularly featured
CHARLES HUTCHINSON finds out what it takes to be a Talking Head REBECCA Clay has surprised herself. She is to play not one but two of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads at York Theatre Royal. "To be honest, when I went for the interview with director Jim Hooper
THE transformation of Britain's postal service from the envy of the world into a disaster area is almost complete. Until a couple of years ago it was making a million pounds profit a day and enjoyed high customer satisfaction ratings. Today it is losing
THE iron monsters of yesteryear still hold their appeal, as the enduring popularity of events across our district shows. For example, the Pickering Traction Engine Rally, which took place earlier this month at the Malton Road Showfield, is now in its
THE family of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is preparing to deliver a plea for his freedom to the Indian president. Ian, 51, whose parents live in Tadcaster Road, York, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in India after being convicted of cannabis
A DIRECT and urgent appeal has gone out to the people of North and East Yorkshire to help those affected by the devastating floods in central Europe. Charity rescue worker Clive Phoenix, from Haxby, has until 4pm today to gather vital donated equipment
THE mother of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle is to dedicate her life to her daughter's memory through the foundation she has set up in her name. Marjorie Stuttle, 53, told the Evening Press today that the Caroline's Rainbow Foundation she established
PRISONERS' work from H.M. Prisons and special hospitals across the country are being exhibited by the Burnbake Trust at St William's College, York, until August 23. The trust is a registered charity formed in 1975 to aid the rehabilitation of offenders
FUSION, the latest in Ford's new generation of small cars or compact people carriers, goes on sale next month offering unique styling and an entry price of just under £10,000. It is a wise move by Ford to bring the car on to the market quickly, because
BRITISH secret agent James Bond goes up and down in age - and hairiness - depending on who is playing him, Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton or Brosnan. No-one bats an eyelid. Tom Clancy's CIA special agent Jack Ryan is experiencing similar shifts in date
HOPES that Brazilian striker Rogerio Carvalho would be available for tomorrow's game against Torquay have been dashed by red tape. City are waiting to hear from the FA for international clearance to play the 22-year-old 6ft 3in forward, who agreed a deal
MT Fuji, the new exhibition by international documentary photographer Chris Steele-Perkins at Impressions Gallery, York, captures 50 glimpses of daily life under the imposing Japanese mountain. Steele-Perkins seeks to convey the individual, the personal
By the time you read this I will have already strutted my stuff up in Newcastle in the 3.00 Newcastle-racecourse.co.uk handicap. I'm soooooooo excited about being back out on the course. I can only just about type -- if having hooves wasn't bad enough
VETERAN midfielder Nick Richardson can't wait for his new career to kick-off tomorrow. Having made 435 League appearances and after two seasons at York City, the 35-year-old found himself joining around 600 players looking for work as the effects of the
AN HABITUAL thief who stopped a boy buying his mother a birthday present is today starting nine months in jail. Julie Greenwood, aged 22, snatched £40 out of the 11-year-old's wallet and then showed the money to an eye-witness, claiming it was hers, prosecutor
FLOODWATERS may be receding but thousands of fish may still be in danger of being trapped and unable to return to rivers in the York area. Environment Agency Fisheries Officers swung into action earlier this week to rescue thousands of fish left high
WASTE managers in North Yorkshire say they are close to finding a solution to the county's "fridge mountain". A total of about 20,000 old fridges now stand in a vast heap at a depot in Hessay, near York, awaiting safe removal. But waste management firm
FAMILY and friends gathered at an East Yorkshire church to pay tribute to a pilot who died when his helicopter crashed in the North Sea. Mourners packed into St John the Baptist Church, Wilberfoss, yesterday to say farewell to Mark Wake, who was killed
THE family of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman is preparing to deliver a plea for his freedom to the Indian president. Ian, 51, whose parents live in Tadcaster Road, York, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in India after being convicted of cannabis
ELDERLY gardeners are being forced to give up their hobby after vandals repeatedly targeted their allotments. The Hempland Lane allotments, in Heworth, were attacked in the latest in a series of incidents. Joseph Ellis, who has had his allotment since
STUDENTS were left with incomplete A-level qualifications on results day in York, because of delays by the examination boards. Outstanding grades for a number of modules during their final year meant that some students were given "grades pending" or were
HOPES that Brazilian striker Rogerio Carvalho would be available for tomorrow's game against Torquay have been dashed by red tape. City are waiting to hear from the FA for international clearance to play the 22-year-old 6ft 3in forward, who agreed a deal
THREE East Yorkshire fields where genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape has been growing have been contaminated with illegal antibiotic genes, it emerged today. The fields, including one at Kilnwick Percy, near Pocklington, are among 15 in the UK where
IN-FORM striker Peter Duffield reckons York City will face a new kind of pressure as the Minstermen welcome Torquay United to Bootham Crescent tomorrow. But the ace poacher, who has scored two goals in two games in City's promising start to the new campaign
Elvis left the building for good 25 years ago today. But his spirit lives on through the Presley impersonators. CHRIS TITLEY laced his blue suede shoes and met five of Yorkshire's finest WHAT is the collective noun for a group of Elvises (or should that
York Theatre Royal and its resident touring team, Pilot Theatre Company, are to receive Stage Exchange funding for one year, as part of their plans to develop York as a centre of excellence for theatre for young people. Stage Exchange is a programme jointly
WE can only admire the courage and vision of Marjorie Stuttle. In April she was shattered by the violent death of her daughter Caroline during a backpacking tour of Australia. Yet Mrs Stuttle was determined to create something positive from that tragedy
