MEET young Charlotte Rose, who just a short time ago was in hospital - dangerously ill. But now the brave nine-year-old is back on her feet after suffering from a life-threatening brain haemorrhage at the age of eight. The haemorrhage left Charlotte
THESE intrepid adventurers were given a Scottish hero's welcome as they arrived for the world premiere of a film charting their latest voyage. The Ales Angels, a six-strong gang of regulars at The Bluebell pub, in Fossgate, joined landlord Jim Hardie
GETTING your football boots on this weekend will help raise more vital funds for our Guardian Angels appeal. Transport operator First York is sponsoring a football and family fun day on Sunday, which will help support our campaign for a new £300,000
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A LEAVE of absence has been given to one of York Minster's most senior bosses - chapter steward Stephen Anderson. Mr Anderson was taken on for the £60,000-a-year role last November - just over six months ago. Minster spokesmen have refused to explain
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I READ Coun Christian Vassie's letter regarding free parking (No such thing as free parking, The Press, July 2), with a certain amount of disgust. Services have to be paid for, but surely not by the motorist who lives and pays taxes to the city's coffers
THE internet has turned the world into a global village. Sadly, there are plenty of global village idiots around too. Gangs of teenage drinkers have been using websites to organise massive boozing sessions in York. One message, posted on MySpace, urged
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NEW Labour has at last achieved something it can be proud of while in power. The majority of the population can now breathe fresh air while dining out or having a drink. I think it is brilliant. For those that pour scorn on the new law and think that
WITH reference to the letter "Trespass warning for hunt protesters" (The Press, June 30), I would like to point out that if hunts in the Yorkshire region are abiding by the law, as Ken Holmes assures us, then they clearly have no need to worry. If
WHAT an historic moment. Three years after the Barbican Centre swimming pool closed amid much controversy, work has started on pulling it down. Contractors have begun to remove tiles from the pool's roof. No doubt the recriminations will go on for
AFTER obtaining 20p to spend a penny, I used the public loos in Parliament Square. To enter the loos, I had to run the gauntlet of what appeared to be drunks and vagrants. On entering there was a disgusting pong, but I was desperate. I found a door
ANYONE living in or visiting Market Weighton can never complain of never seeing a policeman. There is a life-size cardboard one outside the Co-op in the High Street. Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.
A LETTER you published recently (from David Miliband, June 28) gave a link to the Government's new Carbon Footprint Calculator. I tried it. I stated that I didn't own a car, travelled by public transport and made all short journeys by foot or cycle.
YORK city councillor Andy D'Agorne voices his opinion and quite rightly so (The acid test, June 29). That is his prognosis in relation to fluoride in our water supply, and the addition of folic acid to bread. The same debate can be had about the milk
READING the delightful column by Andrew Hitchon, "Just don't mess with the Aussies" (The Press, June 26) was a pleasure indeed. Anyone in York from Down Under who happened to read this very truthful account would no doubt conclude that perhaps some
TWELVE protesters from York were arrested during an anti-Trident protest at a nuclear base in Scotland. It is understood the protesters, most of whom are students in York, were arrested by officers from Strathclyde Police and the Ministry of Defence
ON behalf of St Leonard's Hospice we should like give a big thank you' to everyone who supported the SAY St Leonard's' campaign in the city centre on Sunday, June 24. The event was intended to get people talking about the hospice and to raise awareness
NOW that the Blair to Brown interchange has been completed, I am reminded of 1976 when Harold Wilson saw the writing on the wall and he handed over to Slim' Callaghan to face the election he knew was dicey. Has Blair realised that he has been found wanting
A NORTH Yorkshire MP has called for tighter security checks on foreign doctors in the wake of this weekend's bomb attacks. It has emerged that some of those arrested for the attacks were doctors working in British NHS hospitals. Now Anne McIntosh, Tory
Press reporter Richard Harris gets grilled' by pupils at a school careers fair. "IS A pregnant woman allowed to wee in your helmet if she is desperate?"* This was just one of the more outlandish questions asked at a local school's recent jobs fair
THOUSANDS of residents in York are unable to get the kind of house they want, a new report to councillors has revealed. An extensive study of housing in the city found 4,285 households were in "unsuitable" accommodation, with more than 1,500 of those
Is putting armed police on the streets the best way to respond to a terrorist threat? Or would we be better off just carrying on with life as normal? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. YORK is not used to the sight of police armed with sub-machine guns patrolling
A NEW head teacher has been appointed to an independent school in East Yorkshire. Mark Ronan, who is currently deputy head teacher at Trent College, Nottingham, will start his new job at Pocklington School on January 1. Mr Ronan was brought up on the
HOPES are high that more than 100 jobs can be saved at GSPK Electronics, the Knaresborough firm which went into administration last month. The company was tipped over the edge when one of its largest customers, in Germany, was unable to pay its bills
BANK fraud is a serious problem these days. But it's reassuring that, amidst the convincing and dangerous scams, there are some refreshingly amateur efforts doing the rounds. A colleague of The Diary arrived at his desk yesterday to find an email
THIS week I'm doing two things that I've never done before. I'm going to have my eyebrows done, and I'm going to have a pedicure. These are the first bits of high-maintenance grooming that I've ever had done in my life - and the prospect is making me
HARROGATE Ladies' College said farewell to its headmistress of 11 years at the school's annual speech day. Parents, staff, pupils and governors all paid emotional tributes to Dr Margaret Hustler, who has had such an impact on the growth and success of
PROMOTED to open the innings, Andrew Gale showed his gratitude by rapping out easily the highest score of the match as Yorkshire Phoenix beat Durham Dynamos by six wickets in the Twenty20 Cup at Riverside last night. Not only did the powerfully built
A CONFERENCE being held in York this month is set to debate the role of young people in industry. A gathering of some of the top scientists, engineers, technologists and academics from across the United Kingdom will debate the future of the science-based
GANGS of teenage drinkers are using websites to organise mass boozing sessions in York, The Press has learned. Groups of up to 100 youths have been meeting on Knavesmire at weekends to get drunk and footage of the late-night benders has been posted online
A match on the Ouse is a rare beast indeed so far this season, but 51 brave souls battled against a flooded and rising river on Sunday in the Walt Leary Memorial between Hunters Lodge and Linton. John Cyrowski (Barlby Village Stores) followed his excellent
The Inland Revenue have confirmed they will be launching a legal challenge against Leeds chairman Ken Bates' buy-back deal. Bates placed the club in administration on May 4, but with the administrators' approval immediately formed a new company to
Dean Smith was in winning ways at Langwith Lakes on Sunday again when he topped the 49-pegger with an impressive 142lb 4oz. In another cracking contest on Kevin's and Bethany's Lakes, John Brain was his closet rival, with 136lb 12oz, followed by
Hambleton trainer Kevin Ryan goes on the warpath at Newbury tomorrow evening when Apache Dawn bids to prove his runaway success at Newcastle last week was no fluke. The Guy Reed-owned gelding revelled in the mud at Gosforth Park and left his rivals for
18 years after starting his cycling career in York, Charlie Wegelius is set for his Tour de France debut. Deputy sports editor TONY KELLY speaks to the bike ace. HE has competed in the Olympic Games, the European Championships and the Commonwealth
A WOMAN with learning difficulties could not face losing her jailbird boyfriend - so she falsely accused him of rape and got him arrested, York Crown Court heard. Christopher Nixon wanted to end his relationship with Ann Rachel Newman after he was released
HARROGATE Town open their Blue Square North campaign with a trip to Nuneaton Borough on Saturday, August 11. Neil Aspin's men will then host Boston United in their first home game on Tuesday, August 14. The Pilgrims were relegated from the Football
It WAS a case of "same again" for Pocklington RUFC as pre-season training started this week. First team captain Sandy Mitchell and vice-captain John-Paul Kelly will again be at the helm for the 2007/8 campaign after being re-elected for a second term
A SUPERMARKET refused to sell a woman alcohol - even though she had a passport to prove she was 22. Daniella Altin, of Burton Stone Lane, York, said the hitch arose when she was at the Tesco Extra store in Clifton Moor with her two young children and
YORK Minstermen will hold a general knowledge quiz at KitKat Crescent Social Club on Thursday. Teams of up to four people are welcome with entry costing £1 per person. The quiz will begin at 8.30pm with the doors opening at 7pm. Smoking is also
DEMOLITION experts have started work on York's Barbican Centre pool, three years after it controversially closed down. Sad residents watched as a couple of digger trucks rolled in and contractors started removing tiles from the swimming pool roof. The
HARROGATE Minstermen will host a cricket festival and fun day at Knaresborough Forest CC on Sunday. A York City XI will take on other teams representing Harrogate Minstermen, York Mysterymen and the Union Pub with the first match due to take place
NORTH Yorkshire's top cops have become the first to undergo new drug and alcohol testing. Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell and Deputy Chief Constable Adam Briggs were the first officers from the force to take the new alcohol and substance misuse tests
YORK CS Football Club will start pre-season training on Saturday, meeting on Little Knavesmire at 12.45pm. New players welcome. For further information, phone Andy on 07845 644289 or 07734 679183.
COUNCIL bosses in York have signed up to a nationwide programme to help tackle climate change. City of York Council is to cut carbon emissions and reduce energy bills by joining phase five of the Carbon Trust's Local Authority Carbon Management (LACM
PRISONERS at a top-security jail near York had the opportunity for some spiritual guidance during a visit by the Archbishop of York. Dr John Sentamu, who has been a prison chaplain at a remand centre, talked to prisoners in Full Sutton Jail's segregation
POLICE are aiming to cut the number of accidents on roads in York and Selby in a high- profile blitz on drivers who fail to obey the rules of the road. Operation Capable, which begins this week, will target speeding and other driving offences on the
POLICE in York need to "raise their game" against travelling criminals, it has been claimed. The number of travelling criminals arrested in the city has dropped, but Sergeant Rick Ball, of North Yorkshire Police, believes there are still just as many
RESIDENTS in Pickering are calling for better flood protection after torrential rain severely damaged homes and businesses last week. Flood defence plans had beendrawn up for the area, but were later scrapped due to a lack of funding. Now local people
RESIDENTS have hit out at Selby District Council, claiming that it has failed to help them create a planning blueprint for their village. As part of the parish plan, published last month, residents at Stillingfleet, near Selby, discussed the future of
STUDENTS at a York horticultural college have a landscaping triumph in their sights. Two teams of green-fingered students at Askham Bryan College, on the outskirts of the city, have honed their techniques in preparation for the finals of the UK Landscaping
