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York | Archive | 2006 | January

Stories for 25 January 2006

York Business

Property challenge

PROPERTY group Hunters has appointed a new head of investor sales. more...

Grade A water

HARROGATE Spa Water is toasting a perfect start to 2006 after learning its production standards are of the highest possible order. more...

Independent living firm's city move

SCARBOROUGH company Independent Home Living of Ramshill Road, which specialises in personal and domestic care of people in their own homes, is expanding into the York area, with a new venture based at the Nuffield Hospital. more...

Advice team helps survey firm map future

A PHOTO-BASED survey company in North Yorkshire is set for major changes to the way data is collected in its industry, thanks to advice and support from a trio of advisers from Business Link York and North Yorkshire. more...

Entrepreneur invests in Dr Who's Time Machine

MULTI-millionaire entrepreneur Graham Kennedy, of York, knows when it's time to clean up. more...

The Robards report: Stimulating partnership

COMPARED with many other cities, York might be thought of as relatively well integrated. more...

York Education

Teachers refuse to teach boy after gang attack

TEACHERS are refusing to teach a 15-year-old boy until he gives the names of the members of a gang which beat up two school cleaners. more...

Stressed out?

Exams, peer pressure and part-time jobs can all create pressures for today's teenagers, but do girls and boys handle them differently? Education reporter Haydn Lewis dropped in at Canon Lee School, in York, to speak to Year 11 students about what stresses them most. more...

York News

Are we being taken for a ride?

Bus fare rises imposed in York on January 1 prompted widespread anger. So is it time for local authorities to take buses back under their own control STEPHEN LEWIS reports. more...

Name game

CONGRATULATIONS to Janet Hopton, who has compounded her achievement of being voted on to the council as an independent by being named York's next Lord Mayor. more...

New buses, higher fares

TWENTY years after bus deregulation, the question is still being asked: is the free market the best provider of public transport? more...

Way we were

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 more...

Why are men scared?

OUT of the auditorium they drifted, alone, in pairs and in larger groups. Some were wiping away a tear, some were quietly reflective, and others were engrossed in an animated conversation fuelled by the power of the film they'd just seen. more...

Do they listen?

IN light of the result of your recent poll regarding the "York Eye" (January 20), does it not show once again how out of touch are our locally elected councillors with the views of the people of our fair city? more...

The party party

RECENT leadership revelations make the Liberal Democratic Party much more inviting. But I am not keen on politics. more...

Dyslexia no joke

I REALISE that Saturday Soundoff should not be taken too seriously and is perhaps an attempt to be "controversial". more...

Make it affordable

REGARDING the report "Developers could pull out of York over affordable housing rules", it is a shame Kevin Hollinrake, of York property firm Hunters, comments that developers were finding it difficult to set aside 50 per cent of their sites for affordable homes and still make a profit (January 13). more...

Chaos on rubbish

I READ the Evening Press article on waste collection (January 4) with amazement. If Coun Waller believes the city residents are backing the scheme because they are complying with its diktats, he is wrong. more...

Caught out by parking puzzler

I WAS recently duped into believing that the "car-sized bays" on Davygate were legal parking areas after the daytime restrictions were lifted ("The Asphalt Bungle", January 21). more...

It was an honour to meet you, George

I WRITE to recommend that your readers visit the Yorkshire Air Museum and also to thank its staff for a memorable day. more...

My BT nightmare

THE letters from Mrs P Horne (January 11) and Mr R Osborne (January 16) more than rang a bell, they brought back memories of a nightmare. more...

Don't shelve it

LIKE many others, I have read of the financial crisis within our local health services with mounting concern. Your headline described the situation as "critical" and referred to a £23 million debt (January 5). more...

Vulnerable targets

ACOMB Gables; special needs teachers; Stagecoach; a children's home; music licences for old people's homes. The list is endless. more...

Keep our library just where it is

THE actions of City of York Council never fail to amaze me. more...

Nestlé pulls plug on lights

HUNDREDS of businesses were urged today to save York's Christmas lights -after Nestlé Rowntree pulled the plug on future sponsorship. more...

Bus bosses eye new fare deals

BUS bosses who caused outrage when they hiked the price of York city centre fares are to consider raising the age young people can travel for half price to 18. more...

Minister issues council tax cap warning

THE Government has warned York city bosses it would consider imposing a limit on its council tax increase if the local authority attempts to raise it by 7.5 per cent. more...

`Mad cat person' logs on

YORK'S cats have been catalogued. more...

NHS dentist pain for 400

LONG-SUFFERING dental patients were today urged not to lose faith in the local health service, after it was revealed nearly 400 people had an offer of dental care suddenly withdrawn. more...

Big drop in York street robberies

POLICE in York are winning the battle to reduce street robbery. more...

Budget cuts under fire

SLASHING cuts planned for York's council ward committee budgets have come under fire from authority opposition chiefs. more...

`We'll fight on' pledge after Selby new school is approved

THE first stage in a controversial, multi-million pound development in Selby town centre has been given the green light by planning chiefs. more...

In the bunker

EVER fancied an undercover job at a top secret Government location? more...

Fault in deep-fat fryer causes inferno at city centre eaterie

"THE kitchen just blew up into flames, right in front of my face." Janette Robinson spoke out after she cheated death when flames ripped through a city centre bar. more...

Vicar hails £250k revamp

CONGREGATION members in a York community now have their church back - after a major revamp costing nearly £250,000. more...

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