THE shake-up of secondary schools in the west of York will end up in a two-tier education system. That is the fear of father-of-three Chris Wellburn, whose children have all gone to Lowfield School. He said he was angry and worried the proposals to combine
A NEW era is under way for York-based William Anelay Ltd, one of Britain's longest-established property restoration and conservation business, after being acquired from its original family ownership for the first time in its 258-year history. The heritage
ROAD safety campaigners today reacted with disbelief after a drink-driver who was found asleep behind the wheel of his car kept his licence. Stuart Philp, 41, was more than three times the legal alcohol limit when police found him slumped in his parked
MORE than £200,000 is set to be invested in York's CCTV network, bringing in new control equipment and digital recording. VCR machines would be dumped, images could be shared quickly over computer networks and £6,000 a year could be trimmed off the budget
THE former University of York student whose wife and baby were found shot dead at their home in America is refusing to talk to police, it was reported today. Neil Entwistle, 27, had agreed to travel to the US embassy in London to speak with investigators
THOUSANDS of readers have been following the story of the Diary's rusty ring with rapt attention. It has been the talk of dinner tables from Wigginton to Wheldrake. Today we are able to reveal the origin of the metallic object which has caused such comment
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers took the honours in the Leeper Hare York and District Football League premier division clash of the day as they moved into second place after beating St John's College 2-0. Terry Taylor gave Wigginton the lead and Chris Abercroft
POWERFUL play saw Martin Lowe retain the men's singles title in a fast and hard-hitting final at York and District Table Tennis Association's Closed Championships last night. For the second successive year he packed too much punch for former champion
GUTSY York Acorn ARLC put up a tremendous fight before going out of the GMB Union National Challenge Cup third round at Cumberland League leaders Hensingham. They went down 7-0 after travelling with just 16 players as several of their more established
YORK City boss Billy McEwan blasted top scorer Andy Bishop for an "abysmal" performance during Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Woking. McEwan was critical of all of his strikers after the match - except Clayton Donaldson - but singled out the display of 14-goal
SHAME on Steve! And on the Liberal Democrats who are neither liberal (generous, free from bigotry) nor democrats (believing in respect for the individual within a community). So all the local residents who fought to Save Our Swim, who gave freely of their
IT looks like Coun Galloway is punishing the Save Our Barbican group by ensuring they do not get a proper council-owned swimming pool within walking distance of their homes. However some of us said right from the start that the Kent Street option would
WHEN, oh when will we see the back of Galloway (Steve not George) and his cronies. The latest in a long line of cock-ups sees his announcement that we won't get a swimming pool on the Barbican site - and he has the audacity to blame the protesters. I
I AM concerned about what we hear of the "antics" of Derek Acorah (January 26). If he is not genuine then he is callously deceiving people and creating a great deal of pain in claiming to be in touch with the dead. If he is a genuine medium then he himself
HOW easy it is to rewrite history and use it selectively. Our opponents claim that the opposition to the revised Barbican scheme was caused by "overdevelopment". They conveniently forget, of course, there were always opponents who objected to any private
OF course we need a new central library (January 23). The council's scrutiny review of the library service (available on its website) says a new central library is a priority for a service with out-of-date buildings, services and stock. Building the library
IT hardly represents English football's greatest accolade but Neil Smith's status as the country's second longest throw-in taker proved decisive in Woking's 2-0 defeat of York City. Former Gillingham, Fulham and Reading midfielder Smith once finished
I LOOK forward to the Evening Press printing the Prime Minister's response to David Alexander's letter regarding the closure of Acomb Gables (January 21). As Mr Blair has not yet achieved his aims of joined-up government and multi-agency solutions to
FINALLY an edition of your Evening Press without one photograph or reference to York councillor Steve Galloway (January 23). I have always enjoyed reading your paper, and look forward to my copy Monday to Saturday. However, I have lost count of the number
Monday, January 30, 2006 100 years ago The whole nation united in sincere condolence with Queen Alexandra on the death of her father, King Christian IX of Denmark. His reign had suddenly and quite unexpectedly come to a close. Although an old man, the
TWELVE-TRY Malton RUFC kept up their Durham and Northumberland One title charge with a 74-5 demolition of North Shields. Malt never looked after the opening minute when centre Ryan Lonsdale put Karl Shaw over for the opening try converted by Ben Hough
YORK RI ran out comfortable 36-9 winners over a Castleford side that are fighting for their Division Three status to give flanker Nathan Ashman the perfect going away present. RI's eighth league win in a row was never really in doubt as Michael Tyrpenou
AFTER two successive home defeats Pocklington grabbed an important 24-14 away win at Barnsley in Yorkshire Two. The visitors scored four excellent wing tries to gain revenge for defeat at the hands of the South Yorkshire side at Percy Road earlier in
WHAT good news it is that City of York Council is planning to spend more than £200,000 in bringing York's CCTV network bang up to date. The investment will include new control equipment and the use of digital technology, which would record pictures of
IT IS easy to live in one of the world's great tourist destinations without getting round to seeing many, or indeed any, of the sights. York's Residents 1st weekend does away with such excuses - and gives something back to those who live in the city by
Thousands of NHS dental places are being created across Selby and York in a bid to crack a chronic shortage in the region. But how will this work? LUCY STEPHENS talked to the Selby and York Primary Care Trust to find out. This April dental services across
Milton Bradley may be past retirement age, but the Chepstow trainer continues to passionately ply his trade winter and summer with the enthusiasm of a man half his years. Tomorrow at Southwell, at a run-of-the-mill 'banded' meeting, Bradley is set to
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers took the honours in the Leeper Hare York and District Football League premier division clash of the day as they moved into second place after beating St John's College 2-0. Terry Taylor gave Wigginton the lead and Chris Abercroft
SHERIFF Hutton beat Barmby Moor 7-3 in division two although the highlight was a second half hat-trick from Barmby's Matthew Beavers. Stuart Greenwood, Kev Martin, Jim Scott (3) and Kev Butler (2) scored for Sheriff Hutton. Leaders Poppleton stretched
MARY Magdelene singing the Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have). Pontius Pilate warbling away to the Oasis hit Wonderwall. And Jesus rattling out The Smiths' Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now while being flayed by Roman soldiers
YORK City boss Billy McEwan blasted top scorer Andy Bishop for an "abysmal" performance during Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Woking. McEwan was critical of all of his strikers after the match - except Clayton Donaldson - but singled out the display of 14-goal
AN ELDERLY couple had to be taken to hospital with serious injuries after their car was in collision with another vehicle and overturned. North Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened at 5.45pm yesterday on the A64
THE shake-up of secondary schools in the west of York will end up in a two-tier education system. That is the fear of father-of-three Chris Wellburn, whose children have all gone to Lowfield School. He said he was angry and worried the proposals to combine
THE entire city of York could end up with worse swimming pool provision than Tadcaster under new council plans, a leading Labour councillor claimed today. Coun Dave Merrett said that the authority was only seeking to patch up the Yearsley pool over the
A MASSIVE mythical beast took centre stage during celebrations for the Chinese New Year. York's Museum Gardens played host to a 100ft oriental dragon - created by city schoolchildren - at the event organised by the National Centre For Early Music (NCEM
A BUILDING firm, whose turnover was said to have doubled to £8 million last year, was today in ruins, with 130 jobs lost. Russell Construction, based in a converted barn in Fold Walk, Buttercrambe, near Stamford Bridge, was last year predicting that it
IT'S your city - enjoy it! That was the message to York residents this weekend, as more than 50 attractions around the city threw their doors open to residents at discounted rates. Parliament Street was packed with people enjoying musical entertainment
ROB Hulse is hoping for a recall as Leeds United resume their promotion quest at Ipswich tomorrow night, but he faces strong competition from fellow striker Richard Cresswell. Ten-goal Hulse served a one-match suspension, missing the 3-0 win over Sheffield
CAMPAIGNERS against the redevelopment of York's Barbican site today won a crucial High Court battle. A judge backed a claim by Save Our Barbican (SOB) that it should have won more Legal Aid cash, when it unsuccessfully applied last summer for a judicial
HER boss called her "courageous" for risking an important personal day to carry out such a test - but it was a move which outraged many of York's motorists. Transport supreme Coun Ann Reid caused fury after the Evening Press discovered her daughter had
THIS is the last straw! To lose the Barbican swimming pool is just plain unforgivable. The whole point of the Barbican redevelopment was to secure a new swimming pool for York. Developers will be making loads of money from the site. What do residents
I AM absolutely disgusted by the proposals affecting the present Barbican site and the Edmund Wilson Swimming Pool. I cannot believe that the council are seriously planning to build a care home next door to the refurbished Barbican with bars and restaurants
MAY I add to the comments made by Trudie Elliott about flying the flag (Letters, January 26), following Gordon Brown's suggestion to celebrate our Britishness? I suggest that the Government should declare St George's Day as the appropriate day to celebrate
HEWORTH ARLC shocked promotion-seeking Crosfields into action and ended up on the wrong end of a 40-10 scoreline. The York side - more than half of whom were teenagers - scored the first try of the match when winger Mike Welsh shot over from a Dan Briggs
GUTSY York Acorn ARLC put up a tremendous fight before going out of the GMB Union National Challenge Cup third round at Cumberland League leaders Hensingham. They went down 7-0 after travelling with just 16 players as several of their more established
ALTHOUGH York lost their Powergen Yorkshire One visit to Bridlington 19-12, they showed they had turned themselves round after the previous week's hiatus. More backroom action saw a change of coaching regime and the captaincy restored to Andy Kay, who
SELBY RUFC slipped towards the Yorkshire One relegation zone after seeing victory against Ilkley slip through their hands. They led 25-12 with ten minutes to go at Sandhill Lane but slumped to a 26-25 defeat as Ilkley scored two late converted tries.
SIMON Gatenby's spectacular second half goal gave division one leaders Heslington a 2-1 win over Rufforth, whose Anthony Evans had levelled after Danny Walters had given Heslington an early lead. Second-placed Tockwith took the points at Elvington with
GOALS were in short supply for York-area sides in the Northern Counties East League on Saturday with Selby Town, Harrogate Railway and Tadcaster Albion all failing to hit the net. Selby's hit-and-miss season continued as they were held to a 0-0 draw by
