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York | Archive | 2006 | January

Stories for 17 January 2006

York Business

Big Mac takes control of Old Swan

AN HISTORIC hotel in Harrogate has joined one of the UK's luxury hotel groups, as work continues on its £5 million refurbishment. more...

Commercial Property spotlight - In with the new

A FAST-GROWING print engineering company has become the first business to move into new workshop and warehouse units which are part of the biggest new-build development in Thorp Arch Estate's 60-year history. more...

Look-ing to the future

REST easy! That is the message from a top boss of the New Look fashion chain to staff and customers of two stores in York, who fear they might have to shut to make way for a bigger new branch in the city. more...

York Leisure

So how's the diet going?

JO HAYWOOD poses a weighty question to York women striving to slim down. more...

York News

Great outdoors

WHILE an indoor theatre group is facing ruin, outdoor entertainment is blossoming. more...

Chorus of disapproval

WE have some sympathy with York councillors in their quest to do the impossible. more...

Why 21 is the new 18

Can you tell whether a youngster is 16 or 18? If off licence staff get it wrong, they can end up in court. CHRIS TITLEY reports on a new scheme to help shopkeepers defeat underage drinkers. more...

Fantastic hospital

I HAVE nothing but praise for York Hospital. I had two children at Naburn Hospital, a very nice place, but went on to have three more children at York Hospital, one in 1991 and twins in 1998. more...

Rubbish on path

I FEEL compelled to respond to the absolute rubbish Philip Crowe, chairman of Clifton Action Group, has written regarding the proposed footpath closure at St Peter's School (January 13). more...

A caring man

ON Tuesday, January 3, I had the misfortune to collide with a young cyclist in Pavement, outside Marks & Spencer. My fault: I had seen the bus but not the cyclist and had proceeded to cross the road. more...

What a country

I JUST could not believe the letter stating that OAPs in residential homes and nursing homes will soon not be able to listen to music or watch a film in public communal areas unless they have a licence (January 10). more...

Good sing-along

I AM so angry after reading Jonathan Bonner's letter about the changes in copyright affecting the playing of music in public places (January 10). more...

Sunshine songs

I READ the letter in the Evening Press which said nursing and residential homes are to be targeted for an entertainment licence (January 10). more...

I won't be flying the flag outside my house

WHEN I voted Labour in 1997 it was not in the expectation that social inequality would increase at home or that oil-fired military intervention would be pursued abroad. more...

York should have a permanent rink

I READ the article on the temporary ice rink with interest, and concur in general with the positive sentiments expressed. more...

At castle Galloway

ONCE again that gallant knight Sir Paul of Willey gallops to the rescue of our under-fire Lib Dem council (Letters, January 9). more...

Arc of St Leonard

ARC Light: The Solution. When City of York Council sells the offices at St Leonard's Place, move the Arc Light Centre in. more...

More spaces

IT is a matter of regret that Mr Turner's choice of words in response to the news item in which I featured completely missed the point of the article. more...

Let's punish the jeering criminals

IS it only me, or do others find it galling when prisoners in court spit and jeer? more...

Way we were

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 more...

Here is a tour round my closet

A pinafore dress, a coat, a pair of shoes. They lie forlorn in my wardrobe, having never seen the light of day. more...

Thanks for that, Mr Maggot

HERE'S the glimpse of that beanpole Welsh rapper Maggot on Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother that had a York businessman ecstatic. more...

York gridlocked by crash chaos

TRAFFIC chaos hit the centre of York today for the second time in 24 hours. more...

Death blow to theatre group

THE show can't go on. That was the message from devastated members of Stagecoach Youth Theatre, after York leisure chiefs refused to save its funding. more...

City's rising tide of bike crime

YORK has the worst bike theft problem in the north of England - with more than four stolen every day. more...

Ghosthunting teams just can't get enough of our spirits

SPOOKY goings-on at a historic hotel will be televised on a prime-time reality TV show. more...

Battle against bottle breakthrough

HYPNOTHERAPY is helping problem drinkers in York win the battle against the bottle. more...

Friends Of The Earth backs fight to stop store's expansion plans

SELBY residents battling controversial, multi-million pound plans for the town centre were given a boost today, when a leading national organisation backed their fight. more...

Car tax dodgers have vehicles towed away

BEWARE, untaxed drivers - the DVLA is clamping down on road tax dodgers in York. more...

Teardrop site `reservations'

A MASSIVE transport plan for the city's biggest development site still leaves "many questions unanswered", York's opposition Labour group said today. more...

School site is put up for sale

THE former York school building at the centre of a huge community row has finally been put up for sale. more...

Bleach tells of IRA `sting'

PETER Bleach - who was jailed in India after being convicted of an illegal arms deal - told today how he had previously helped foil a plot to supply weapons to the IRA. more...

Sunny side of 50 plus

ALL over the country, people have been shrieking in horror, surprise or glee as a strange orb appeared in the sky. It was a rare sight in the heavens as this glowing disc appeared from nowhere. more...

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