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  • Loo with a view.

    The signalman/gateman at Crambe, near Kirkham Abbey, on the Scarborough line from York can contemplate a motion at his own convenience. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/George_079/PIC_0539.jpg

  • Open letter to the residents of York Outer

    Soon the local Labour party will have a choice in selecting the Labour Parliamentary candidate for York Outer. York Outer is a new constituency that includes areas on the periphery of York. But I don’t want the views of the residents of York Outer to

  • It’s Einstein a-go-go...

    WHAT do an astronaut, an athlete and Albert Einstein have in common? They're all part of the British Association For The Advancement Of Science (BA) Festival Of Science - which will be in York in September. Look-a-likes of Einstein, an athlete and an

  • School spotlight on teen pregnancies

    PUPILS at a York secondary school are spearheading a campaign aimed at warning their peers about teenage pregnancy. With 40,000 teenage pregnancies every year in the UK, youngsters from York's Burnholme Community College decided they wanted to make a

  • Drug dealing couple jailed

    A CHANCE conversation outside the former Odeon cinema put a drug dealing couple in jail for two years, York Crown Court heard. Scott Berkley, 32, and partner Katie Bradley, 30, were the latest to be caught as part of a massive undercover sting aimed

  • Maximus security

    A LEGION of Roman soldiers chased three suspected thieves through the streets of York. The soldiers were part of the Lost Legion and were camped in Museum Gardens next to the library to promote York's Roman Festival. Dressed in tunics, cloaks and with

  • House prices still on the up

    HOUSE prices in York and North Yorkshire are continuing to rise, according to latest figures. The Land Registry's monthly price index for June shows that house values increased in the City of York Council area by 0.6 per cent to an average of £195,394

  • Our Yorkshire roses.

    Look what we have in our garden ready for Yorkshire Day tomorrow. They have loads of form, shape, size, colour and exotic scent; it's called Ice cream and it is one of our favourites like the county. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/George_079

  • New property consultants open in York

    A NEW niche property consultancy will be launched in York tomorrow. Ice Cubed Properties will specialise in overseas lifestyle property and UK investment opportunities, but with a Yorkshire focus. Heading up the operation at Northminster Business Park

  • Watching out for criminals

    WE'RE watching you. That's what police have told 15 of York's most persistent criminals. All 15 have been sent letters warning them they have been put under police surveillance. They have also been urged to seek help to end their criminal ways. Operation

  • Taking the Mc on jobs status

    I READ with interest your article about the McDonalds chain attempting to alter the dictionary (McDonald's service up dictionary campaign, The Press, July 27). I am a 49-year-old man and the first job I had when I left school was at the very first restaurant

  • Drinking thinking

    WITH regard to the recent article "York aims to claim the night", (The Press, July 18), it is all very well putting these plans into action, but it seems to me that they haven't been thought through very well. Opening the bar walls after dark is a

  • Drivers to walk the line all over again

    A clampdown on drug-drivers forms part of a new high-profile road safety campaign that aims to cut deaths on North Yorkshire roads. STEPHEN LEWIS, CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL and HELEN GABRIEL report. YOU may have thought the days of walking a white line under

  • Park&Ride point

    FOLLOWING the recent letter comparing the Park&Ride services of York and Norwich (Worth taking bus, July 23), can I say the main difference between the Park&Ride services in Norwich and York is £1.3million. That is the amount that the council taxpayer

  • Late shopping

    I REFER to your article (The Press, July 23), which quotes City of York Council leader Steve Galloway as stating that the experiment in late-night shopping in York was not a success, and that any repeat of the initiative would be a matter for the shopkeepers

  • Relative poverty in society of today

    I CANNOT speak for other areas, but I do know that we oldies at Tadcaster sigh with disbelief at what the compilers of the latest Rowntree report considers to be poverty 2007. During the great depression of the 1920s and the 1930s we in this brewery

  • Important access

    I WOULD like to respond to George Wilkinson's comments about information on open access within the North York Moors National Park (Country Walk, July 21). Open access is an important piece of legislation which is why the authority invested some £25,000

  • Proud of Joyce

    I NOTE that nominations for the Press Community Pride Awards are now closed. I asked the person I wanted to nominate as Volunteer Of The Year and she said not to, so I didn't. That person is Joyce Pickard, recently given Freeman Of York status. I

  • Harriet Harman Launches time-4-change.org.uk

    http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/5107/84109884780745393dbopf5.jpg Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman MP has officially launched my website, www.time-4-change.org.uk . This is in addition to my online video blog and other social network pages. Please

  • Closure sadness

    Like Phil Shepherdson (Cold wind hits disability centre, Letters, July 27), I am writing to you to express my displeasure at the forth coming closure of DIAC. DIAC helped me with my benefits when I was retired from work due to my disability. I know

  • Police pay offer row

    POLICE in North Yorkshire have hit out as a long-running pay dispute with the Government continues. Officers have been offered a pay award of just 2.325 per cent this year - which they say will amount to a "pay cut in real terms". Mark Botham, chairman

  • Fight for business

    British Sugar closes its factory in York, taking all the lost jobs and economy to its Norfolk factory and pocketing a handsome profit from the sale of its site here for anything but an industry which benefits our surrounding farming industry and brings

  • Roman pursuit

    Talking of novel ways to catch criminals, how about this? Three suspected lead thieves found themselves being hotly pursued through the streets of York - by a legion of Roman soldiers. Centurion Maximus Gluteus - aka Roman tour guide Keith Mulhearn

  • Wholefood point

    FOLLOWING the letter from Karen Hannah (Organic invitation, July 24), as the director of Alligator Wholefoods, I would like to point out that, for many years, York has had a local shop selling organic and fair-traded products. We are pleased to say

  • Man badly beaten by vicious thugs

    VICIOUS hoodies repeatedly battered an innocent man and left him for dead near a York river. Detectives are investigating after a man in his 40s was left badly beaten in an unprovoked assault. The victim was left with severe injuries and his head was

  • Businessman calls for new plans for redevelopment site

    A DEVELOPER is proposing a radical alternative to York's stalled "Shoppergate" scheme - a new professional and business quarter on the Castle-Piccadilly site. Martin Burgess, managing director of Northminster Properties, claims the scheme would meet

  • It’s in the spirit

    Charlotte Percival discovers how complementary therapy can give people renewed strength to fight cancer. JENNY Quantrell has always been a positive person. But when she began battling breast cancer, she realised how much strength she would need.

  • Having fun in all this water

    I ALWAYS imagined that global warming would result in bleak, desert landscapes, like something out of Mad Max. But it is becoming more and more obvious that we are facing a future on a planet covered with water - like the post-apocalyptic Waterworld

  • Police target 15 crime lords in Operation Shadow

    THEY are York's worst criminals but now they have a shadow on their tails. The 15 "Mr Bigs" of the city's crime world - including the worst burglars, car thieves and shoplifters - may find themselves being watched over the next month. Some will

  • Drivers will face delays

    MOTORISTS on one of the busiest routes into York are facing delays and disruption because of resurfacing work. Temporary traffic lights are to go up next Monday in Malton Road, between Heworth Green and Elmfield Avenue. City of York Council said the

  • Jodrell Bank

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  • Jay visting for lunch

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  • Waterfall

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  • Waterfall

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  • Red Arrows

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  • Waterfall

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  • Splash

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  • City boss unveils final pre-season targets

    YORK City boss Billy McEwan is still hoping to strengthen his back line before the start of the new Blue Square Premier season. With David McGurk the only fit centre-back currently on City's books and youth trainee Jonathan McDonald providing cover for

  • Grosmont Station

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  • Grosmont Station

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  • Mount Grace Priory

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  • Mount Grace Priory

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  • Mount Grace Priory

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  • York Minster

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  • Clean sweep for top duo

    Next Generation II have secured promotion from division eight with wins against Cawood and then Tollerton. The first pair in the league to win all 36 games were Generation's Ed Marsden and Hayley Smith and the probable title decider will we be when

  • Nous of York is now semi attached

    YORK Cricket Club's double-pronged assault on Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB Premier League honours continued apace at Doncaster Town. After widening the gap at the top of the table, the Clifton Park outfit then accounted for hosts Doncaster to seal a place

  • Say it’s go for skipper Joe

    Joe Sayers stepped up to lead Yorkshire today in their one-day match against Sri Lanka A' at Headingley Carnegie. And if the 23-year-old left-hander handles the side well it will stand him in good stead when Yorkshire are searching for a future new leader

  • Driver nails B&Q thieves

    A SHARP-EYED motorist put two travelling criminals behind bars when he spotted suspicious goings-on at B&Q, York Crown Court heard. Glyn Smith, 36, threw two power tools out of a store fire exit into the car where accomplice Leslie Critchlow, 41, was

  • Fourth title eludes Gary

    The men's 40th anniversary singles title in the York Open Bowls tournament eluded three-time winner Gary Bunce (Haxby Road) when he finished second best to Gordon Niven (Bolton). Bunce won the first two ends with singles but Niven then won four ends

  • Aspin appeal to aid aspirations

    HARROGATE Town boss Neil Aspin has called on more non-League managers to be considered for professional posts in the game. Aspin, who has established Harrogate as Conference North high-fliers over the past two seasons, believes it is wrong that many

  • Leaders’ unbeaten record goes Popp

    POPPLETON enjoyed a 90-18 win against Knaresborough in division one of the Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League when John Moore and Robert Jones dropped just one game. Poppleton then lost their first game of the season to York. York's score of 67 rested

  • Rosbay ready for a step up

    Tim Easterby, enjoying a lucrative summer, stretches his net to Sussex tomorrow as he aims to catch another major prize. The Great Habton trainer sends Rosbay to Goodwood for the £85,000 BGC Heritage Handicap and David Allan's mount has every chance

  • City’s Shield start may pose Christmas teaser

    BLUE Square officials have confirmed that York City will enter the newly-launched Setanta Shield at the fourth round stage on December 22. The competition for Blue Square Premier, North and South clubs will not be regionalised, leaving City fans with

  • Robins strive for an Otis lift

    SELBY Town continue their pre-season programme at Goole in the Otisdale Cup tonight, ko 7.45pm. Town travel to North Cave on Thursday and Hall Road Rangers on Saturday before hosting a Barnsley XI next Wednesday, ko 7.30pm. The Northern Counties East

  • Frazer no-go

    DEFENDER Frazer Richardson is rated doubtful for Leeds United's friendly at Darlington tonight after suffering a hamstring injury in the 2-0 defeat at Burnley. Also likely to miss the trip to the North-East is midfielder Eddie Lewis and striker Leon

  • Grey cell brigade

    YORK Minstermen will hold their monthly general knowledge quiz at KitKat Crescent Social Club on Thursday night. The quiz will start at 8.30pm with the bar open from 7pm and admission open to members and non-members. Prizes include money, alcohol

  • ’Houses party

    TADCASTER FC will be aiming to preserve their unbeaten record when they take on Dringhouses tonight in the Nestlé Rowntree Centenary Cup at Mille Crux. Tadcaster drew their opening game against Rowntrees 2-2 before beating Huntington 2-0. Dringhouses

  • It can’t be that time already

    IT seems Christmas comes earlier every year, or so The Diary fears every autumn as we walk around city centre shops and out-of-town shopping malls, cursing decorations that have gone up in October or even earlier. It seems this year is to be no different

  • When should we step in to help?

    DISPLAYS of gratuitous violence are not something one expects to encounter on the crowded streets of York on a Saturday afternoon. Save for the occasional Viking horde in St Sampson's Square, that is. Hence, the juxtaposition of peaceable, semi-zombified

  • Cawood storm Castle

    DIVISION three leaders Castlegarth were beaten by a great team performance by Cawood in the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League. Cawood dented the Castlegarth stronghold in the second round. Lesley Savage and Sue Matchett had a great 8-4 win and

  • Acorn duo in a rush

    YORK Acorn duo Matt Embleton and Tom Hill played at centre and loose-forward respectively as the BARLA (British Amateur Rugby League Association) Great Britain Under-21s began their Russian tour with a 20-6 win over Vereya in Moscow. Heworth youngster

  • Harman staves off full house

    CYGNET A's Natalie Whitehead closed 87 as the York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division two front-runners were prevented from a full house by Sun's Freda Harman. Joan Woods closed 74 as Clifton B' secured victory within the singles at Severus

  • Loss of printing jobs ‘necessary’

    RR Donnelley and union bosses have spoken out about the decision to axe about 100 jobs at the printing plant. The Press exclusively revealed that workers were told on Thursday about the redundancies which will come into affect in January. In a statement

  • Parents to go back to school

    PARENT School is coming to York as part of a £60,000 Government pilot scheme. City of York Council is giving parents a helping hand this autumn, on how to make their child's transition from childhood to adolescence as smooth as possible. The new round

  • Work starts on £150m city site

    DEVELOPERS have started work on the first phase of the £150 million Hungate redevelopment scheme in York. The development will include 162 apartments and town houses to be built on part of the site closest to the River Foss and a nature reserve. Developers

  • Popular police officer wins praise

    POPULAR York bobby Dave White has been praised by a local MP. PC White, neighbourhood police officer for the Micklegate ward, is leaving the city to work as community bobby for Brayton, Thorpe Willoughby and Hambleton, near Selby. York MP Hugh Bayley

  • Protest over road clutter

    IT IS believed to be the most cluttered street in rural England, with 45 road signs in the space of half-a-mile. Now a campaigning organisation is calling on North Yorkshire County Council to reduce the amount of "street furniture" in Low Street, South