BULLYING affects a third of schoolchildren in York, with cyber bullying on the increase, according to a major study. The research was carried out by bullying expert Nathalie Noret, lecturer in applied psychology at York St John University. The study
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CHURCH leaders have rejected a move to discourage parishes in North Yorkshire from applying for funding from the National Lottery. The Reverend Tony Shepard, of St Peter's Church in Harrogate, proposed the move at a meeting of the synod of the Diocese
COUNCIL chiefs are set to write off more than £30,000 in debts from former York tenants who cannot be traced. City of York Council said today that any decision to write off such debts would be in line with guidance from the Audit Commission. And it
WHEN it comes to sorting out holiday entertainment for children over the Easter holidays, it's best to be prepared and have an action plan. It's a very early Easter this year, and City of York Council staff have been working hard to organise a huge programme
A £4 million transformation of one of York's best-known buildings has been shortlisted for a top architectural award. The scheme, which saw the former House & Sons electrical shop in Blake Street transformed into two shop and office units, two apartments
A COUPLE woke up to a nasty surprise when they found an "enormous" dead rat in their toilet. Stacy Reeves, 21, of Ostman Road, Acomb, York, and her husband, Mike Reeves, 35, discovered the huge rodent in a toilet at their council home yesterday morning
OVERNIGHT business confidence seems to have returned to Yorkshire - depending on whose survey you believe. Last month gloom descended when the Business Confidence Monitor from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) concluded
ANOTHER major property deal has been struck in York's shopping heartland. This time No 10 Coppergate, occupied by furniture retailer Sofa Workshop, has been acquired by London & Lothian for £1.115 million. The commercial property investment company
ESTATE agents say York is bucking a nationwide and regional trend for falling house prices. According to the latest housing market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), prices in the Yorkshire and Humber region have fallen
SMOKERS are being encouraged to stub out the habit at numerous open days that are taking place across our region today. North Yorkshire Stop Smoking Service (NYSSS) is running the days - at which smokers can access specialist help and get expert advice
EVER caught yourself trudging the streets of York on the early morning walk to work, eyes firmly fixed on the ground? The Diary certainly has. Well, ambulating commuters using the footpaths outside York Theatre Royal got a shock this week. As if by
WHAT a tremendous idea it is to make Britain's schoolchildren swear allegiance to the country. The former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come up with this Stateside-style notion as a tool to tackle what he and Prime Minister Gordon Brown consider
RESIDENTS are determined to fight plans for an £18 million waste incinerator on the edge of a village near York. More than a hundred people braved the weather last night to pack into Tockwith church to voice their concerns about an application to North
THE completion of a new homeless hostel in York has been put back another four months, following continuing problems with the building's foundations. The £1.8 million project in Fishergate to build a replacement for the Peasholme Centre is now not expected
Head-hunted and then your head on a platter - such is football management's wild nature. But try telling Kevin Blackwell, who has endured both extremes of the managerial maelstrom, how pursuing such an occupation is at best precarious, at worst dangerous
Inglis Drever, twice a winner of the Ladbrokes World Hurdle, can become the first horse ever to win this championship event three times at Cheltenham tomorrow. Trained in County Durham by Howard Johnson, the Graham Wylie-owned gelding has won both his
NORTON trainer John Quinn was unable to experience a champagne moment after his two big hopes failed to make any impact on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival. Leslingtaylor couldn't keep up with 6-1 winner Tidal Bay in the Irish Independent
FORMER York City boss Billy McEwan is believed to be on a short-list of four managers for the Mansfield Town vacancy. McEwan, 56, has already had preliminary discussions about the job and met Stags chief executive Stephen Booth in London, according to
LEEDS United crashed into a Cheltenham hurdle at Elland Road last night. They will need to get back in the saddle quickly after a shock 2-1 defeat put a huge dent in United's League One play-off hopes. On the day which saw the start of the Cheltenham
PICKERING Town's promotion dream has been shelved because of a seating problem. Despite concerted work to upgrade the Town's Recreation Ground base to an acceptable UniBond League standard, officials of the Northern Counties East League premier division
EAST Yorkshire racer Guy Smith looks to get his American Le Mans Series campaign off to a flying start by scoring a top LM P2 class result in the Sebring 12 Hours on Saturday. Smith, 33, of Driffield, teams up with American Chris Dyson in a Porsche Spyder
A ROUNDABOUT in York is to undergo a raft of improvements. The area surrounding the roundabout which links Tang Hall Lane and Melrosegate, near the centre of Heworth, is to receive a number of modifications. Councillors said the upgrades would provide
THE hunt is on for fly-tippers who dumped rubble, including hazardous asbestos, close to the A19 in York. City of York Council is appealing for information about a fly-tipping incident near Fulford, which saw a large load of rubble dumped there some
The battle of the University campuses saw York University Students B' beat St John's 6-3 in York Badminton League men's division two. Tom Branson and Pete Parten took three Heslington wins for 164-126, but had to battle to beat Ian Waters and Ben
RAIL operator National Express is to shed almost 100 jobs - nearly a quarter of its York-based workforce. The move comes less than three months after the company took over the East Coast Main Line franchise from GNER. The job losses are not a complete
YORK has taken another stride towards becoming a 24-hour city. No, it's not your GP you will be able to access every hour of the day or night. You will not even be able to pay your council tax at 3am. What you will be able to do is visit McDonald's
WHAT a wonderful idea it is that some of our brightest and best students are being forced to tour the Nazi death camps (Lessons of history, The Press, February 27). But why stop there? The 20th century was the most violent ever, and there are plenty
WHILE out walking to the shops in the Groves area of York last Sunday at around 11am, I noticed many cars (at least six and I suspect many more in streets that I did not walk down) all with parking tickets. Not so nice for the people who own the cars
WITH the Budget looming (I use that word advisedly) today, I wonder how many of readers have picked up on the implications of the abolition of the ten per cent lower rate tax band? Gordon Brown, below, made great play of the lowering of the 22
PROSPECTIVE Conservative York MP Susan Wade seems to have joined the queue of those campaigning for dualling of the A1237 (The Press, March 6). She and other supporters of this road's expansion seem blissfully unaware that Department for Transport
THE return of Rob Spicer will be like bringing a big new signing to the club. That was the opinion of York City Knights head coach Paul March who is eagerly awaiting the back-rower's return to action after his lengthy lay-off. Spicer has been out since
I WAS saddened to read in the press that a number of service personnel in Peterborough had had to suffer abuse at the hands of a few individuals. I have seen first-hand the hard work that many dedicated servicemen and women do for us, year in,
ON FEBRUARY 28, Leo Enticknap asked how can Labour claim that inflation is running at 2.2 per cent and take them seriously, especially when bills have gone up by many times this amount on average. Well, this Government has contrived to make the
IT IS with great interest I read that the police are to have yet another campaign against the motorist (The Press, March 8). Could this be because it's an easy way to collect revenue - it can't be about upholding the law in a fair and even manner
SO COUNCILLOR Galloway and his mates are opposed to the new eco-town (The Press, March 6) on the grounds that it's in green belt land. Well, Mr Galloway and fellow councillors, the major developments to the east of York encroach on greenbelt land
"Roar Us To Wembley" - that is the rally cry for all York City fans as their club attempts to reach the home of English football for only the second time. If Colin Walker's men are to emulate the Minstermen's play-off winning heroes of 1993, they
I TOOK advantage of the open-top bus on Residents' First weekend and found the journey very enjoyable. The taped commentary mentions Frankie Howerd and Dustin Gee as being from York, and then goes on to say that the only comedians in York now are in
DISTURBING new figures show that two children are being referred to child protection teams every week in the York and Selby area. Two-thirds of these children are considered to be at risk of significant harm from serious offences such as sexual abuse
A WINDFALL of as much as £400,000 could head York City's way if they can battle past Torquay in Saturday's FA Trophy semi-final, second leg at KitKat Crescent. Club secretary Nick Bassett believes the huge figure, which he said would set the club up
FINANCE bosses at the debt- ridden local health trust are expecting to exceed their budget for hospital work by £18 million this year. The figures were revealed in the latest performance dashboard published today by North Yorkshire and York Primary
FIREFIGHTERS in North Yorkshire have been called to more than 10,000 false alarms in two years, causing massive disruption and hindering vital community work. Research by The Press has revealed more than half of all reported incidents in our region turn
Most people focus on the challenges and problems of their daily life and work, and end up in an unresourceful state of blame, of themselves or others. Whether your goal is securing a promotion, changing jobs or simply building up your own self belief
DAVID Moorcroft has no problem feeling that he belongs'. But it isn't his country which gives him that feeling. "I'd say I feel I belong more to certain organisations - this college, and clubs that I'm a member of," says David, 16, and an A-level student
HOMELESS people in York have donated their spare change to The Press Guardian Angels Appeal - boosting our funds by more than £100. Over recent months residents at the Arc Light Centre, in Leeman Road, have saved up their coppers to help build a new
HUNDREDS of technology-mad youngsters have taken part in a tournament at the National Railway Museum (NRM). The all-day Rotary Club Technology Tournament, organised by the three York Rotary Clubs, attracted nearly 200 York youngsters at the museum's
HYDRAULIC urinals could be coming to York as part of a major revamp of the city's public toilets. Leading councillor Andrew Waller has revealed City of York Council might introduce urinals that would be stored underground during the day, and then raised
RAIL operator National Express East Coast revealed today it was set to cut almost 100 York posts in a bid to ensure it was "fit for the future." The company, which took over the East Coast Main Line franchise from GNER in December, said it was reducing
A YORK-BASED train company has appointed a rail freight operator to help ensure its services run on time. Grand Central says it has asked Doncaster-based freight company EWS Network to provide hour-by-hour operational control of its train service running
WITH the region bracing itself for a bout of severe weather, one family had a lucky escape when a tree blew down on their bungalow. Tim Bradley and his wife, Tracey, of Heslerton, near Malton, were powerless to stop the 40ft Scots pine from coming crashing
FAST food fans will soon be able to buy their favourite meal 24 hours a day, seven days a week. McDonald's, at Clifton Moor, has successfully applied to open until 5am despite objections from the local parish council and a resident. Currently the restaurant
LOW cost airline Jet2.com today predicted that Yorkshire's economy in 2008 will be boosted by a raft of new business destinations launching this year. The airline is forecasting a potential increase of 21 per cent on overseas travellers visiting Yorkshire
A ROUNDABOUT in York is set to undergo a raft of improvements, City of York councillors said today. The authority's Labour group said the area surrounding the roundabout which links Tang Hall Lane and Melrosegate, near the centre of Heworth, was to
A WELL-known author and local historian has died at the age of 72. Joe Murphy, of Osbaldwick, wrote four books on the local history of work, illustrating them with old photographs which he collected from hundreds of different places. His wife, Glenda
CHURCH leaders have rejected a move to discourage parishes in North Yorkshire from applying for funding from the National Lottery. The Reverend Tony Shepard of St Peter's Church in Harrogate proposed the move at a meeting of the synod of the Diocese
ESTATE agents say York is bucking a nationwide and regional trend for falling house prices. According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) latest housing market survey, prices in the Yorkshire and Humber region have fallen for the seventh
