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York | Archive | 2005 | April

Stories for 27 April 2005

York Business

Focus on health food

EMMA Smedley, 26, has been appointed the new product development manager for Pocklington-based Sundora Foods, the dried fruit snacks firm. more...

Flash dance

ALL her years as a dancer and her training in photography at York College has paid off for Mimika Cooney who opened an image business last April. more...

Theatrical turn for turf firm

TAKE a bow, Inturf. Your moment in the spotlight has come. more...

£2m injection for research

A £2 MILLION investment has been made in an edge-of-science York company, whose research is helping to speed up drug development. more...

York Education

Stay safe poster competition

A POSTER competition aimed at keeping youngsters off building sites is being launched in York primary schools. more...

Millthorpe adds to maths success

MATHS-MAD youngsters from a York secondary school are celebrating the sum total of their success. more...

GETTING teenagers interested in politics might on the face of it seem a tall order, but not at Canon Lee School, in York, where youngsters are experiencing democracy first-hand with their very own mock election. more...

York News

Guy keeps his powder dry

NOW here's an explosive electoral exchange. more...

Zap's the way to do it

SEE that ever-expanding mountain of remote controls? You know, that pile that's threatening to snap your coffee-table as it gradually takes over your life? more...

Fresh beauties

THE beauty pageant is back, with a fresh new look. more...

Ease burden on drivers

MANY have complained that York is anti-motorist. Today we know it is precisely the opposite. more...

Parking charges bring in almost £7.5m as businesses suffer

A "STEALTH tax" and "obscene" - that's what furious protesters branded the astonishing £20,000 a day raked in by City of York Council from parking charges and tickets. more...

Parking charges bring in almost £7.5m as businesses suffer

A "STEALTH tax" and "obscene" - that's what furious protesters branded the astonishing £20,000 a day raked in by City of York Council from parking charges and tickets. more...

Questions after mail bags theft

HUNDREDS of letters and parcels heading for homes in York have been stolen in two separate thefts in the city - raising questions about the security of mail drop-off points. more...

Girls line up in hope of being picked for last 15

CONFIDENT contestants strutted their stuff before judges in an effort to reach the shortlist for the MS York 2005 competition. more...

Fury over pub's 2am licence bid

PUB operator Wetherspoon was applying for permission to keep its giant Postern Gate pub in York's Piccadilly open until 2am. more...

Release of convicted murderer `will not help case of blind killer'

SUPPORTERS of convicted Yvonne Sleightholme fear the historic release of another woman jailed for murder will not help her case. more...

Aristocrat denies marriage split

ARISTOCRAT the Hon Simon Howard - owner of the famous Castle Howard estate, near Malton - has forcefully denied rumours that he is splitting from his second wife. more...

Teenager put his girlfriend in hospital

A YORK teenager who beat up his girlfriend so badly she suffered a collapsed lung is to be put behind bars, York Crown Court heard. more...

His legacy will live on

A PIONEER in the treatment of children's diseases who created the earliest premature baby cot in York has died, aged 95. more...

Bid to beat ring road queues

QUEUE-BUSTING plans to ease bottleneck blues at a key junction on York's busy outer ring road were unveiled today. more...

Barbican case set for June 9

A LEGAL battle over the future of York's Barbican Centre will go to the High Court in London in June. more...

On the decline

YOU ask `What happened to York Market?" (April 22)... probably the reason for the drop in sales and customers is down to the fact it is a seven days a week, 52 weeks a year market and nearly always has same goods on display. more...

When my stall is allowed on Parliament Street my takings rise

ON the few "market awareness" days last year that we were allowed back on to Parliament Street my takings increased. more...

Tory gets personal

THE Parliamentary Conservative candidate Clive Booth has, so far, thought it appropriate to criticise MP Hugh Bayley mostly in a personal and petty manner. His latest effort, a video is, pathetically, in the same style, the commentary beginning with: "When did you last see your MP?". In reply to this ambiguous question (York has approximately 80,000 voters) a few relevant facts. more...

Green with envy?

I WAS pleased to see my Green opponent has been so worried by Lib Dem campaigning in his ward he has chosen to write to the Evening Press to complain, illogically, we are somehow only campaigning hard in other seats. more...

John's my man

WHY am I, a founder member of the Liberal Democrat party, voting in Selby on May 5 for Labour MP John Grogan? more...

Why I am proud to be in the lunatic fringe of protesters

WITH a mixture of despair and amusement, I read your article on policing at the G8. more...

Abysmal sentence

WHILE applauding the actions of City of York Council and the Department for Works and Pensions in bringing to court a York woman who had defrauded the benefits system of £8,000 (Evening Press, April 22), the sentence of a 12 months conditional discharge and payment of £100 costs seems abysmal. more...

Blast the barriers

I congratulate the Evening Press on yet another fine article highlighting the lack of access to shops and services in York. more...

Stop bad parkers

I READ your article about adequate access for the many people who depend on wheelchairs with great interest. more...

City way behind in access for all

IN response to your report about wheelchair access around York (April 25), I am a paraplegic and full-time wheelchair user. more...

With days to go until the General Election, the voters of Selby, Ryedale and the Vale of York outlin

Selby: The largest working coalfield in Britain is no more. At its peak, the Selby coalfield employed 3,500 miners and could produce 12 million tonnes of coal a year. more...