STEPHEN LEWIS finds out how to avoid disappointment if that grand Valentine gesture turns into a damp squib. WE LIVE in an age of grand gestures - which means that for those looking to make a big statement, a bunch of flowers or box of chocolates just
AS ANGRY business bosses prepare to confront Royal Mail officials at tomorrow's crucial meeting on the new, controversially slow postal delivery, protests from York firms have been pouring into the Evening Press office. The meeting, backed by York MP
LEE Bullock was travelling back from Wales today after his trial at Cardiff City. York City manager Chris Brass will now speak to Bluebirds boss Lennie Lawrence and see whether the First Division club are ready to make a bid for the 22-year-old midfielder's
HERE are just a few of the comments from local businesses so Royal Mail can understand just what "progress" to date has meant - and as a cautionary lesson about what might happen elsewhere ... Jonathan Abbott, of scarlettabbott, advertising design consultancy
ONE of the fringe benefits of growing up is no more homework. And then life plays a sly trick. You end up having to do/supervise your children's homework. I don't remember getting homework at primary school, but I don't recall much other than: playing
HEWORTH ARLC are threatening to pull out of next year's Accident Cup following their controversial defeat in last week's semi-final. Player-coach Brendan Carlyle says there is even a possibility of withdrawing from this year's York and District Cup as
The Accident Cup final between New Earswick All Blacks, who beat Heworth in the semi-final last week, and York Groves will take place on Easter Saturday, April 10, at York Acorn's Thanet Road ground, kick off 2.30pm. The draw for the York and District
CLASSICAL music lovers are not known for keeping up with the latest developments in drum and bass or house music. But they became more familiar with cutting-edge sounds than they bargained for at a concert at the University of York. Aficionados at the
A YORK couple claim their kitchen is a health hazard, after its ceiling collapsed following a water leak from the flat above. Their misery was compounded when City of York Council said it would be two weeks before it could send maintenance staff to repair
A PATIENT has absconded from a medium-security psychiatric hospital near York. Police say the patient, described as "potentially violent," escaped over a security fence at Stockton Hall Hospital, in Stockton- on-the-Forest, at about 3pm yesterday. A spokesman
THE proposed new 540-home development on York's eastern outskirts has been given a new name. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has jettisoned the original working title New Osbaldwick in favour of Derwenthorpe. Local residents today welcomed the change but
Mark Viduka believes the Elland Road fans can play a major part in Leeds United's battle to avoid relegation. It has been a good 48 hours for United with a 4-1 victory over Wolves being enough to lift Eddie Gray's men off the foot of the table. Defeats
THERE will be a double celebration at Bootham Crescent on Saturday and Nestl will join in the party spirit by donating 2,500 chocolate bars from its new Double range. City supporters will be celebrating securing a long-term future at their home ground
RUSH-HOUR motorists faced long delays today after a massive barn fire shut a busy stretch of the A19 in York. Twenty firefighters spent more than seven hours battling the blaze, at Manor Farm, Shipton. The road was closed from about 1am - when the fire
THERE will be a double celebration at Bootham Crescent on Saturday and Nestl will join in the party spirit by donating 2,500 chocolate bars from its new Double range. City supporters will be celebrating securing a long-term future at their home ground
ONE of the biggest retail development schemes taking place in the North of England will transform a shabby corner of York into a bustling shopping centre. Ambitious proposals to bring supermarket giant Morrisons to Foss Islands Road in the middle of a
LEE Bullock was travelling back from Wales today after his trial at Cardiff City. York City manager Chris Brass will now speak to Bluebirds boss Lennie Lawrence and see whether the First Division club are ready to make a bid for the 22-year-old midfielder's
AN ALARMING catalogue of incidents in the grounds of a York school has led to its head teacher asking permission for a huge fence to be built around it. In less than a year, Westfield Primary School in Askham Lane has suffered an arson attack, threats
THE modern mania for rebranding has reached York. Before a sod has been cut, before the first brick is laid, New Osbaldwick is dead. Long live... Derwenthorpe. Perhaps the change is an attempt to calm opposition to the model village. If so, we can only
AFTER almost two months in York and Castle Hill, Hull hospitals having open heart surgery, I returned home to watch the media hammering the National Health Service as usual. Stop pounding the NHS for the odd mistake - we all make mistakes in our lives
I WRITE in reply to Mary Machen and Paul Blanchard's letters (February 5) about Hugh Bayley's vote on the Iraq war. I, like Mary Machen admire Hugh Bayley's tireless work for his constituents. But, unlike her, I believe that wonderful work is undermined
IN the article "York bid to beat Ascot gridlock" (January 26) Mr Templeman said traffic will be directed via the A64. So how will that traffic get to and from the A64 and the racecourse? Not through Bishopthorpe, I hope. To minimise disruption here, and
REHABILITATION in any difficult situation, including prison, must be right and worth trying" says Margaret Lawson (Letters, February 2). I fully agree, but we also need to have the courage to stop trying when it becomes obvious we are being taken for
IN reply to D Melville's comments about the Arc Light hostel (February 5), I wish to make it clear that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's homeless directorate invited the authority to bid for capital funding towards a replacement hostel. It has
Identity is obviously a big thing in Incubus, because A Crow Left Of The Murder spends much of its 14 tracks trying to find it. The fourth record for this five-piece band is musically all over the place. Sometimes it's heavy rock, with progressive undertones
LHASA de Sela had a peripatetic upbringing, partly living on a bus which plied between the US and Mexico. Her father is Mexican, her mother American, and, to add to the mix, she spent some years growing up in Quebec. Her music is just as eclectic and
Beware of an Avalanche at Kempton tomorrow. Trained by John Best, the horse of that name goes for the £15,000 Betfair.com Showcase Handicap Chase and I think that he will be difficult to beat. Although yet to get his head in front in four tries this season
YORK City's former manager Terry Dolan today took his club bosses to an employment tribunal and won a £1,300 wrangle over current season match win bonuses. A tribunal panel sitting in Leeds ruled unanimously that he had had the cash unlawfully deducted
THERE will be a double celebration at Bootham Crescent on Saturday and Nestl will join in the party spirit by donating 2,500 chocolate bars from its new Double range. City supporters will be celebrating securing a long-term future at their home ground
WHILE some York firms which rely heavily on Royal Mail are receiving late postal deliveries, they are also being hit by new surcharges if they use the prepaid mail system. Promotional Identity, of The Courtyard in Vine Street, York, produces catalogues
TRAINING opportunities for York businesses are set to increase thanks to a major firm in the city. British Sugar's Business Training Centre is to open its doors to businesses in the York area. British Sugar already has Chartered Institute of Environmental
PASSION in the workplace is on the up in North Yorkshire, according to a new survey. With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Yorkshire-based business law specialists Irwin Mitchell discovered that 40 per cent of workers questioned have canoodled
FATTY acids are to boost employment in the Selby area. Nutraceuticals company, Efamol Ltd, a world leading specialist in the field of Essential Fatty Acids, has decided to base its headquarters at Selby's Brackenholme Business Park, creating ten jobs.
TOM Stoppard, the Pocklington School old-boy with the Czechoslovakian heritage, marries European Absurdist theatre to those English stage favourites, the thriller and the farce, in The Real Inspector Hound. Written in 1968, this play within a play is
YORK Acorn will be without prop Lee McTigue for the rest of the season after he was banned by the Arriva Trains Conference League's disciplinary committee. McTigue had been sent off in Acorn's division two game against Huddersfield Sharks last month and
PROVISIONAL talks are underway between New Earswick All Blacks and National League Three new-boys Essex Eels about the possibility of a friendly match. Both clubs are sponsored by rugby league retailer www.forty-twenty.co.uk and proprietor Giovanni Cinque
YORK Acorn will be without prop Lee McTigue for the rest of the season after he was banned by the Arriva Trains Conference League's disciplinary committee. McTigue had been sent off in Acorn's division two game against Huddersfield Sharks last month and
HUNDREDS of members of voluntary groups in York have raised concerns over council plans to make people pay to park in the evening. Almost 100 members of one group alone, the York and District Family History Society, signed a petition opposing the evening
LEISURE chiefs at City of York Council are to seek a meeting with cinema bosses to discuss the future of the city's Odeon. Councillor Keith Orrell, executive member for leisure and heritage, said he and senior officers would try to discover from Odeon
PLANS to put a 40ft mobile phone mast outside a York church are being opposed by the surrounding community. More than 200 residents of Ridgeway and adjoining parts of Acomb have signed a petition objecting to an application by O2 to put a mast on a grass
THE Grim Reaper swooped on a York street to warn councillors that plans to introduce parking charges could kill trade. Death was in Micklegate to back the traders' campaign against proposed parking meters, which would see motorists paying £1.40 an hour
AN ALARMING catalogue of incidents in the grounds of a York school has led to its head teacher asking permission for a huge fence to be built around it. In less than a year, Westfield Primary School in Askham Lane has suffered an arson attack, threats
POLICE chiefs have thrown out controversial plans to introduce a costly premium-rate phone line for residents who want to contact the force with day-to-day inquiries. Members of North Yorkshire Police Authority said they would not support the proposal
YORK City's former manager Terry Dolan today took his club bosses to an employment tribunal and won a £1,300 wrangle over current season match win bonuses. A tribunal panel sitting in Leeds ruled unanimously that he had had the cash unlawfully deducted
HEWORTH ARLC are threatening to pull out of next year's Accident Cup following their controversial defeat in last week's semi-final. Player-coach Brendan Carlyle says there is even a possibility of withdrawing from this year's York and District Cup as
In the past 12 years, the number of women diagnosed with ectopic pregnancies has trebled. JO HAYWOOD talks to a York woman who thought this was a rare condition - until it happened to her. SUE Hayes was happy, healthy and busy planning her Valentine's
THORPE United's lead in division one of the Mitchell League continued despite having no game but Copmanthorpe moved into third with a win at home to second place Tadcaster Albion. Danny Cates with three goals and a fourth from Mathew Howden completed
IT will transform a tatty corner of York, create lots of jobs and offer residents an impressive alternative to out-of-town shopping. The Foss Islands retail park is good news. Most residents will welcome another supermarket. York city centre offers many
AFTER our 2-1 defeat at Hull, my weekend was made slightly more bearable by news that our old team-mate Michael Proctor had scored twice on his debut for Rotherham. I am good friends with Michael even to the point where he turned to me for advice about
LEISURE chiefs at City of York Council are to seek a meeting with cinema bosses to discuss the future of the city's Odeon. Councillor Keith Orrell, executive member for leisure and heritage, said he and senior officers would try to discover from Odeon
PUPILS who study and board near York's Odeon Cinema have been on a mission to save it from closure. Students at The Mount School have collected 260 signatures for our campaign to retain the historic picture house in Blossom Street, which is just a few
York's Odeon is more than just a cinema. Those who fail to see this are as shortsighted as those who wanted rid of the city walls and other York landmarks we value today. 'Close the Odeon', argues Mr Leo Enticknap (Letters, February 5). Although the cinema
IN the mid-Nineties British Coal tried to introduce a flexible working package, worse than the present one. They were unsuccessful because some employees refused to sign up for it. Roy Vann, of Stillingfleet National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), refused
S DUNHILL rightly draws attention to the problems on the A1237 Northern ring road (Letters, February 6), yet we should remember these problems vary in different locations. The Haxby area certainly suffers from congestion while the Woodthorpe end must
THE 24-year-old New Yorker Norah Jones follows up her five Grammy-grabbing debut, the mellow jazz-blues fusion Come Away With Me, with a musical journey into a brave new world - down some country roads. The Norah Goes Nashville-feel peaks in the thigh-slapping
STRIPY shirts, sensible haircuts. Naming yourself after assassinated archdukes of Austria. Not pretending to be thick. Or American. Having a sense of humour. Writing songs that totally change musical direction after one minute, but somehow end up in the
Rock luminaries such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Jools Holland, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Billy Preston among others played to a packed Albert Hall to pay musical homage to the other "quiet" Beatle - George Harrison. That was
WHEN is a double album not a double album? When the whimsical Kurt Wagner says so, even though the call-and response albums Aw CMon and No, You C'Mon are not available separately but as a dual package instead. Wagner had set himself the challenge of writing
SINCE these expansive recordings from 1995 to 2002, Jason Pierce has shed his fixation with 100-piece orchestras and realised that bigger is not always better. Not that Spiritualized's charity concert at Fibbers in York on March 3 will be a solo show
WATERCOLOUR songs are the fashion right now. Ever since The Thrills put the top down on their convertible and moseyed off to Californian shores, fey and winsome has been the name of the oh-so-cool game. On first listen Woodstar come from the same school
HELMETS off to Della Cannings and the rest of the North Yorkshire police think tank for the latest money-making ruse - a premium rate bobby hotline. Has there ever been a better example of boys-in-blue skies thinking? Just imagine it. You see some spotty
