WE promised to feature all the firms aspiring to win the title of 1998 Evening Press Business Venture of the Year. Here are some more. There is a lot at stake, with £8,000 worth of prizes as a result yet again of sponsorship with the Evening Press by
York and District Schools' Rugby League Under-16 team kick off their season on Saturday in division six of the English Schools' Rugby League. The first fixture is away to Scarborough Schools on Saturday. The other teams in the league are Featherstone,
Double Trigger, the best stayer trained in North Yorkshire for many a long year and arguably the most popular horse in the country, makes his final appearance in Britain at Doncaster tomorrow. The seven-year-old, who will be retired at the end of the
Traders in Harrogate are to be told how plans submitted to revitalise the town's Victoria Centre will benefit their own businesses. Tops Estates plc, which bought the long-term lease of the Victoria Centre for £23 million last May, will address Harrogate
Barclays small business banker Chris Coward went back to the classroom to help a North Yorkshire computer firm's expansion plans. Bert Pallister has been one of Chris's customers at Barclays since he set up Thirsk-based NRE Computers, selling computers
North Yorkshire Training and Enterprise Council launches its two week-long Skills For Success Roadshow on Saturday. The roadshow goes out to 15 locations in North Yorkshire - mostly market towns - demonstrating to adults how easy it can be nowadays to
Angry farmers are pleading with commuters to "put British pork on your fork". Ian Furby with the message on the huge haystack by the side of the York-Edinburgh rail line Ian Furby, manager of Shedden Farms Ltd, at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, has come up
Parents who forced a serial paedophile out of a North Yorkshire today called for him to be locked up for life after their predictions he would reoffend came true. William Anthony Knowles, 37, abducted a seven-year-old boy in a Midlands street just weeks
York's festival of Food and Drink is back - bigger and better than ever before. The second annual festival, which starts on Saturday, September 19, and runs until Sunday, September 27, has nearly doubled in size since last year with more than 130 events
That is the question being asked as the opening of the shopping park looms and the unit reserved for the restaurant stays empty. The slow uptake of the fast food giants has meant bonanza time for small food concessionaires who have been invited to sell
The £90 million dream of York's Monks Cross Shopping Park is about to come true. The first 12 stores at the new park open tomorrow - and by the time the Lord Mayor of York, Coun Derek Smallwood takes part in the grand opening a week on Saturday with the
The York-based campaign to build the first national memorial to women who served in the Second World War comes to Bettys Tea Rooms this month, where supporters will stage a day of fundraising. York MP Hugh Bayley and the Lord Mayor of York, Derek Smallwood
Anne McIntosh, Tory MP for the Vale of York, will be meeting local farmers this week to listen to their concerts for the future of the farming industry in North Yorkshire. "The crisis currently being experienced by the UK farming industry is unprecedented
Yorkshire firms are being invited to win new business in the defence industry at a top European conference in Italy in the autumn. Liverpool-based Euro Info Centre North West is organising the UK delegation to DECIDE '98 which takes place on October 15
Dickie Bird brought the rain to Headingley today when he was officiating in his last first class match in the championship clash between Yorkshire and Warwickshire. And the downpour was so fierce that it put back a presentation before the start of a portrait
France-Saint-Denis: Architectural Services. Project management and architectural services are required in France. Ref S168/210 (deadline September 28) Paignton: Gas geldt. Torbay Council is seeking liquefied petroleum gas, a 4, 000 litre storage tank
Walsall 2, York City 3 Tap & Spile Man of the Match: Alan Pouton Hoodoo-shattering York City thrilled, spilled, and thrilled again in a kings of the road show. City matchwinner Mark Tinkler (right) acts as defensive cover Another irrepressible, irresistible
Goalden-eye Mark Tinkler hailed his York City winner at Walsall as a long time coming. Tinkler's terrific 30-yard drive six minutes from time propelled the Minstermen to an historic first conquest at the Bescot Stadium last night after six previous attempts
Shocked householders today told of their horror at the killing of a "good neighbour" well known and liked by many. Police have named Krystyna Walton, 48, of Sowerby Road, Acomb, as the woman whose body was found in a nearby bungalow on Monday. Neighbours
A bus service to the new Monks Cross shopping park will initially be free. First York says there will be no charge for its new non-stop bus service between Stonebow in the city centre and Monks Cross for the first four days after the service is launched
Everyone foresaw the day when the sleeping giant would stand up - because the potential of the area has been known for some time. The Browne family, which owns Rodgers Carpets, were among those who, years ago, realised how invaluable Monks Cross could
British Davis Cup captain David Lloyd is behind an £8 million scheme to build an indoor tennis and sports centre at Monks Cross which could be a hothouse for producing York's first Wimbledon star. A view of the new shopping complex from the air, looking
