SHOPPERS were today warned not to panic-buy meat because of the foot and mouth crisis. Traders moved to reassure consumers there was plenty of meat to go around despite a seven-day ban on the movement of animals. The Meat and Livestock Commission backed
STEPHEN Lewis's column trivialising transport issues ill becomes a so-called responsible journalist. This is not the first time that Mr Lewis has attempted to trivialise a serious issue. His weather analysis at the end of 2000 trivialised climate change
THE Compassionate Friends is an organisation run by and for bereaved parents and their families. It began over 30 years ago in Coventry when it was realised that meeting and talking to other bereaved parents helped those going through this most terrible
CAMPAIGNING residents who won their fight to stop a mobile phone mast being installed in their church spire are angry at planners who went ahead and approved the application anyway. Mobile phone company Vodafone applied to install the mast in the spire
GETTING Junior into the school of your choice is so important that some parents will fork out thousands for the privilege. Researchers say more than half of North Yorkshire parents - 54 per cent - would pay out up to £10,000 more for a home simply because
A NORTON worker stopped by police on his way to work at a local bacon factory had a cocktail of illegal drugs with him, a court heard. Terence Briggs, 29, was jailed for three years at York Crown Court yesterday after admitting possessing 25 Ecstasy tablets
A NORTH Yorkshire schoolgirl is taking the first tentative steps towards musical stardom. Sam Smith, from Asenby, near Thirsk, has been singing and playing the acoustic guitar for about two years. But now she has produced her own CD, been filmed by regional
ANGRY residents say a wrecked car left abandoned in a York street is a "hazard" to residents. The car was left in Sandcroft Road, Dringhouses, and local youths "smashed it to smithereens", according to resident Lisa Hamilton. Now glass covers the road
BENCH-WARMING duties would have Jon McCarthy singing in the valleys tomorrow. After ten months of injury anguish the former York City favourite is in with a chance of figuring in tomorrow's Worthington Cup final for Birmingham against runaway favourites
I WAS going to run this as a competition... Put a cross for where you think the Minster is. But that would have been far too naughty. So, as Kenneth Williams used to say: "Stop messing about..." No visit to this fair city would be complete without a visit
POLICE today named two men who were found dead in a York flat. Neil Patrick McDaid, 33, from Hull and Kevin Robert Owens, 24, no fixed address, were discovered in the George Street flat, off Walmgate, on Thursday evening. Police suspect they had been
THE famous peacocks of York's Museum Gardens are under threat. One of the two male birds living in the gardens has been found dead. Numbers of the birds, whose colourful plumage delights visitors and locals alike, have been dwindling in recent years.
Tired, footsore and half-drenched, we had two things on our minds; a hot meal and an open fire. The long traipse across the North York Moors had taken its toll. As our legs seemed as if they were about to give way, out of the gathering gloom enveloping
I AM glad that Paul Gardner, the owner of Russells Restaurant in Coppergate, York, has found a way of enhancing service to customers by introducing some new technology in the form of an interactive menu (February 22). I wish he could have done something
WHEN the national bus pass scheme is introduced in May and pensioners get a free pass to replace the City of York Bus Card they may think that it will cost less to travel; in fact the following example shows that they will be worse off. Assuming one travels
I WOULD like to thank the people of York for the £537.57 they donated to Terrence Higgins Trust and North Yorkshire AIDS Action during our street collection in York on Saturday, December 2000. The money that was raised will provide vital services to people
WHEN Jeffrey Archer locked eyes with Nikki Kingdon across a crowded Harrods food hall, he instinctively knew just what to say. "You are so beautiful," he told her. "I must see you again." His approach was as successful as it was direct, but whether it
MASSIVE queues and ringing tills ... better times are back for York's tourist attractions after the misery of the floods. Museums across the city say they have been extremely busy over the half-term break, with long queues snaking to the York Dungeon
JENNY Bristow today admitted she was a Blind Date cheat. Last Saturday, millions of TV fans saw the 25-year-old East Yorkshire woman being picked by Chris Douglas - but what viewers didn't know was that the pair had arranged it all before the show. Tonight
JOHN Brooks will be going for gold at the World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston, America, tomorrow, writes Dave Stanford. Brooks, from York, a member of the PPP healthcare Great Britain team, took bronze in the men's 40-44 lightweight category at
A LITTLE over a year ago he was trying to keep his burgeoning football career alive with York City. Now he is making waves on national television. Andy Douglas's face is now familiar to millions as one of the stars of Channel Four's voyeuristic Shipwrecked
York Wasps will hand a debut to trialist forward Dave Birdsall tomorrow as they go in search of their second win in four days. Birdsall, a prop or second rower, has joined the Wasps from Castleford amateurs Lock Lane and will start on the bench against
