I HAVE read with interest the news reports coming out saying that the average person under 30 now has unsecured debts of nearly £8,000. I myself am under 30 and this information really does not surprise me. What does surprise me is the Government's lack
IN ANSWER to Edna Welthorpe's letter (TV Tribute To Queen Was Nauseating Tripe, April 20). How was her Majesty's behaviour appalling after Diana's death when she did what any grandmother, myself included, would do, and comforted her grandchildren. If
EDNA Welthorpe finishes her letter vilifying Andrew Marr's programme on the Queen with a question: I wonder what your readers thought of the programme? Well, Mrs Welthorpe, here's somebody who thought that it was well-thought-out, well-presented and mirrored
DOES anyone know which way the extra traffic will go during and after the Terry's site is developed? Not through Bishopthorpe I hope! We had enough when the new stand was built on Knavesmire and have the same problem with the building at the top of Sim
YORK City fans will be able to cheer on England together at this summer's World Cup. The club have hired out York Picturehouse's City Screen for the Three Lions' second group match against Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, June 15 with doors opening an
GOVERNMENT incompetence and a litany of broken promises are threatening to derail reforms designed to deliver a more vibrant and prosperous rural economy. That was the verdict of Yorkshire farmers and other rural business owners, who were joined by Vale
How well is York geared up for children? MAXINE GORDON investigates. YOU'VE got the baby, the designer pram and matching holdall full of nappies, wipes, cream, change of clothes, favourite toy... and you're all set for your first shopping trip into town
ENVIRONMENTAL health chiefs in Selby have added their weight to mounting opposition over controversial plans to build a waste composting plant near a district village. They raised a string of objections to the proposal by recycling firm Yorwaste for the
MEMORIES of the Ashes Test at Edgbaston last year will come flooding back for Jason Gillespie tomorrow when he pays a return visit to the ground. On that occasion he finished up on the losing side, but this time he is determined to be a winner on his
NEW hopes of major flood defence work being carried out at Pickering have been raised as a result of Ryedale councillors agreeing to spend £1 million towards a scheme. Coun Keith Knaggs told the district council's policy and resources committee that he
IT dismisses England as a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling, sex-and celebrity-obsessed TV addicts". But York tourist chiefs were breathing a sigh of relief today as the city has survived a mauling from one of the UK's top travel guides. The authors
NEW calls for an investigation into the controversial sale of land at York's Barbican Centre have been made by Labour councillors in the city. But Steve Galloway, the Liberal Democrat leader of City of York Council, today branded the move a "gimmick,"
YORK Hospital bosses are estimating saving £16.6 million by April 2011 as they prepare for one of their "most financially challenging ever" years, a top-level meeting will hear on Wednesday. Finance will be one of the topics on the agenda at a York Hospitals
JOHN Quantock retained his D Wray & Son Electricians Individual Darts League crown with an awesome display. He was up against Clifton's Martyn Turner in the final and took a 5-0 lead with legs of 20, 15, 18, 16 and 19. Turner put in legs of 18 and
CITY of York Hockey Club have become the first club in North Yorkshire to receive England Hockey's First Club award. The award, part of the Sport England Clubmark Scheme award, is a feather in the cap for the eight-year-old club. Club chairman Nigel Herd
Health warnings are everywhere. Now there is a call for information about the dangers of excessive drinking to be displayed on bottles and cans, as well as in pubs, supermarkets and off-licences. A good idea. But let's not stop there. I don't think we
HAT-TRICK hero Lee Malpas led a 50-6 rout as New Earswick All Blacks' Pennine League third division clash at West Bowling 'A' was ended prematurely to spare the home team's blushes further. Bowling, who caused the shock of the season last week by beating
ORGANISERS of the forthcoming open age York tag rugby tournament are hoping old-boys teams from the amateur scene will be involved. Teams already lined up are Acorn Old Boys, Southlands Old Boys, York Fire Service, City of York Council and hopefully York
STEPHEN LEWIS reports on a new national centre to tackle child sex abuse - and looks at the impact of abuse on victims. IT'S every parent's worst nightmare; the thought that your child could have been targeted by a predatory paedophile. The growth of
THE health service is scarcely out of the news these days - and usually for all the wrong reasons. Yesterday, we reported that beds at York Hospital were set to be closed. That news followed the revelation 200 hospital posts were to be cut, and a mental
MAY I thank Mrs Welthorpe on her outspoken letter on the Royal Family. Madam, you are beating the same distant drum that I used to in the 1950s, at RAF Yatesbury, central school of signals. Anyone in electronics was then sure to be an oddball and they
NEW Labour has once again struck another blow against civil liberties. Now the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, proposes to cut back the possibility of compensation available to innocent people who are wrongly imprisoned for crimes they have not committed
COUN Derek Smallwood tries very hard to convince readers that Labour's failure to produce any budget alternatives was some form of dignified protest (Letters, April 21). This is nonsense. The reason Labour didn't submit a single amendment on anything
IT was a wet Wednesday morning and we were stuck for something interesting to do with our grandchildren. We then saw an advertisement for a Roman catapult workshop at the Yorkshire Museum. Not quite sure what we were in for, we turned up at 11am and the
SO Steve Carroll's article (Budget Travel, April 20) couldn't find the "council on jollies" headline it was obviously designed to unearth. There was, however, a real story to be told, and that is how insular and inward-looking City of York Council has
DASH it - let's have a boozy column today. So what can we tell you? Well, the beermeisters over at Knaresborough's Rooster's Brewery (Brewster's Rewery when you've had a few) certainly have something to crow about. Sean Franklin is cock-a-hoop after returning
A York commercial property specialist has bought out a well-established Malton estate agency. Andrew McBeath, who only last year set up his chartered surveyor's practice, MPC Limited, at Clifton Moor, has acquired Paul Beanland and Associates for an undisclosed
BE prepared - for a new master of the York building which once housed the headquarters of Girl Guiding North East. The three-storey office, converted from a house in Heworth Green, will be the new base for expanding communication and design consultancy
Nobody whistles any more, have you noticed? My late dad was a whistler and he drove the family crazy. From the moment he got up, while he was washing and shaving, he'd be whistling while the rest of us moped about in a dopey daze. He'd whistle while he
TRADERS were celebrating today after roadworks outside their shops which have caused weeks of traffic chaos were completed ahead of time. Yorkshire Water finished the work in Bishopthorpe Road, York, a week early, after closing the road for five weeks
A WOMAN appealing against an animal cruelty conviction will have to wait until September to find out whether she has a case. Rachel Ashworth was found guilty of 17 charges of animal cruelty in December last year after RSPCA inspectors found over a hundred
IT received only seven representations - dwarfed by the letters and emails from people living near the other three short-listed sites. But a key report to the seven councillors who have to decide where Arc Light's new homeless centre will reside has appeared
FRIENDS and family of tragic teenager Joel Corner should have been celebrating one of the most important milestones of his young life today - but instead they were in mourning. The teenager was one of three people killed on Thursday when the Audi A4 he
YORK Family Tennis Tournament, to be held on Saturday and Sunday, has had to be switched to the University of York in Heslington as the recently resurfaced Rowntree Park courts are currently out of action. The main bloc of four courts have no surround
YORK City fans will be able to cheer on England together at this summer's World Cup. The club have hired out York Picturehouse's City Screen for the Three Lions' second group match against Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, June 15 with doors opening an
A MOTHER has told how she pleaded with her son not to kill himself shortly before he smashed into a stone archway in a copycat suicide. Andrew Naydin Fennell suffered multiple injuries after crashing his Nissan Terrano 4X4 into the Carrmire Gate at Castle
YORK City Knights playmaker Phil Hasty believes the new-look team are finally starting to gel together. The scrum-half was the star of Sunday's narrow Northern Rail Cup second round win after scoring two tries and setting up the other. But while perfection
REIGNING champions Clifton Alliance had a comfortable victory in the Hunters York and District Senior League President's Trophy Challenge when they defeated Hunters Premier League Cup holders Woodhouse Grange by seven wickets at Clifton Alliance. With
Another London Marathon filled the streets of the capital on Sunday. HUGH MacDOUGALL picks his five best performers in what has become a sporting institution. THERE'S big money in the masochism of marathon running. Some of the elite brigade can earn a
YORK City Knights playmaker Phil Hasty believes the new-look team are finally starting to gel together. The scrum-half was the star of Sunday's narrow Northern Rail Cup second round win after scoring two tries and setting up the other. But while perfection
York-based jockey Robert Winston makes the long journey to Bath for tonight's meeting there and can be well rewarded for his effort. Winston, who won aboard Villago at Pontefract yesterday, teams-up with a brace of runners trained by Sir Michael Stoute
A GREEN-fingered volunteer could be in line for a prize in The Press's community awards - after receiving a double nomination. John Cossham, of Hull Road, has been put forward for the Volunteer Of The Year title in the York Community Pride Awards, which
The north's "most compelling city". That is how the Rough Guide To England describes York. We couldn't agree more. The praise is all the more welcome coming from a guide which generally dismisses the English as a nation of "overweight, alcopop-swilling
