Yorkshire Post back issues from March 2005:
School behaviour fails to improve
Mar 01, 2005 ... James Reed Education Correspondent BAD behaviour is a problem at one in 10 secondary schools with noimprovement in the figures in the last eight years, according to anew report. The proportion of all schools where behaviour is unsatisfactoryhas remained consistent at ...
Millions wasted on vote doomed to fail
Mar 01, 2005 ... Simon McGee Political Editor MILLIONS of pounds of public money spent on the regional assemblycampaign could have been saved if Deputy Prime Minister John Prescotthad listened to his own private polling. More than a year before his dream for the North was shot down ...
Pupils safe as fire hits independent school
Mar 01, 2005 ... Paul Jeeves HUNDREDS of pupils were evacuated from an independent school inYork after a fire in a boarding house. The blaze at Bootham School at lunchtime yesterday broke out inroof storage space of the Grade II listed Fox boarding house, whichdates from the first half of ...
Cricket trophy that united work rivals set for auction
Mar 01, 2005 ... Dave Mark FOR those who took part, it was a sporting contest to rival thebattle for the Ashes - even if the standard of cricket failed to bowlanybody over. In the early years of the 20th century, the desire to takepossession of a battered Edwardian cricket ball was ...
[Pounds]3.25m payout after birth blunders
Mar 01, 2005 ... Paul Whitehouse A MAN left disabled after being starved of oxygen during his birth23 years ago is to be paid [Pounds]3.25m compensation by the NationalHealth Service. Samuel Adam Marshall developed cerebral palsy as a result oferrors made during his birth at the former ...
Text message stalker targets former football boss Ridsdale
Mar 01, 2005 ... Kate O'Hara Crime Correspondent FORMER Leeds United chairman Peter Ridsdale is being stalked by afemale football fan who has bombarded him with more than 100 e-mailsand text messages. And the Yorkshire Post understands that despite giving anundertaking to police ...
Double life of Swallows and Amazons man
Mar 01, 2005 ... Jane Charnley ARTHUR Ransome may be remembered for tales of escapades ofyoungsters let loose in a sailing boat, but secret files made publictoday reveal his double life as a spy. The best selling Yorkshire-born author of the children's classicSwallows and Amazons series was ...
Police force to be investigated over inquiry into death of missing girl, 16
Mar 01, 2005 ... Kate O'Hara Crime Correspondent A YORKSHIRE police force is to be investigated over the way itdealt with the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl. The body of Holly Taylor was discovered four days after she wasreported missing from the Little Woodhouse Hall Adolescent ...
Churchman baffled by verger's death plunge
Mar 01, 2005 ... Paul Jeeves CHURCH officials gave more details yesterday about a popularverger who plunged more than 100ft to his death from York Minster onSunday. John Angus, 59, lived a "quiet life" with his brother in theBootham area of the city. The Dean of York, Keith Jones ...
GNER set to keep line contract after cash pledge
Mar 01, 2005 ... William Green Political Correspondent TRAIN operator GNER appears to have won a new 10-year contract torun Yorkshire's main rail link with London by pledging to pay moremoney to the Government. Rail industry chiefs are expected to announce within weeks thatthe firm ...
Tragic girl's family ends legal fight
Mar 01, 2005 ... Kate O'Hara THE family of a girl who was swept to her death while riverwalking during a school trip to the Dales have had to end their five-year fight for justice. Rochelle Cauvet, 14, died while on holiday from Royds School,Oulton, Leeds, in October 2000. Her classmate ...
'I killed twin sisters and elderly couple'
Mar 01, 2005 ... Olwen Dudgeon A former binman accused of murdering twin sisters and an elderlycouple in North Yorkshire will admit he was their killer in duecourse, a judge was told. Although Mark Hobson, 35, entered no formal pleas during a hearingat Teesside Crown Court yesterday, lawyers ...
Jackson trial told of kidnap plot to silence abuse claims
Mar 01, 2005 ... Jane Charnley SUPERSTAR Michael Jackson was accused of plotting to kidnap a 13-year-old cancer sufferer who alleges sexual abuse against him at thesensational opening of the singer's trial yesterday. In a tense Californian courtroom, prosecutors also claimed theAmerican ...
Bella has that warm glow
Mar 01, 2005 ... IT wasn't just the gritting lorries that did brisk business lastweek. Greg Wright Deputy Business Editor Up in Helmsley, North Yorkshire, the cold snap led to recordweekly orders at thermal lingerie company Bella di Notte, as morewomen decided to slip into something ...
Rensburg rejects Rathbone bid again
Mar 01, 2005 ... FUND manager Rensburg yesterday spurned an improved bid from rivalRathbone Brothers, claiming the offer significantly undervalued thecompany. Greg Wright Rathbone spiced up its bid with a cash element after examining thebooks of its target, but Leeds-based Rensburg rejected ...
HSBC sets bank profits record
Mar 01, 2005 ... But [Pounds]9.6bn not enough to please the market HSBC revealed the biggest profit ever made by a UK bank yesterday -[Pounds]9.6bn - but the market was unimpressed as this was less thanexpected and the shares fell nearly 3 per cent to 868p. Ros Snowdon Deputy City ...
Warnock aims for the best
Mar 01, 2005 ... SHEFFIELD UNITED manager Neil Warnock says a victory tonight overArsenal in the FA Cup would be the biggest result of his career. The Blades will reach the quarter-finals for the third season in arow if they beat the Gunners in their fifth-round replay at BramallLane. And, ...
Rhinos accuse Bulls of mischief
Mar 01, 2005 ... Bradford Bulls have made an audacious attempt to sign GreatBritain hooker Matt Diskin from arch rivals Leeds Rhinos. Ill-feeling between the Engage Super League neighbours eruptedagain when Bradford contacted the champions to see if they would beprepared to release Diskin when he ...
Fox keen to impress Knill
Mar 01, 2005 ... MANCHESTER UNITED have allowed England Under-21 internationalmidfield player David Fox to join Rotherham United on trial. The Millers are interested in signing Fox on loan but also facecompetition for his services from a club in Holland. Manager Alan Knill said: "We have got ...
Pet concerns and the tale of Rover's return
Mar 01, 2005 ... THE first pet we ever had was a canary. I seem to remember that itwas called Jimmy, but that can't be right. Whoever called a canaryJimmy? Ian McMillan I must have been about six at the time, and all I can rememberabout it is that when my dad, brother and myself came ...
Desperate and draconian
Mar 01, 2005 ... Taking liberties with the Commons IT IS hard to imagine a more powerful or timely argument for theGovernment's anti-terror legislation than the admission by SaajidBadat that he had plotted to blow up a passenger aircraft. Theexistence of a British-born potential suicide bomber is a ...
Can we bank on Tony, the family man?
Mar 01, 2005 ... Maternity pay and flexible working look set to be key electiontopics as the parties fight for the family vote. Features editorCatherine Scott reports Today there are an estimated five million British mothers jugglingmotherhood and career. But a recent survey showed that in ...
Whitehouse tips Blades for upset
Mar 01, 2005 ... Dane Whitehouse played the last time, Sheffield United beatArsenal in the FA Cup. Ian Appleyard reports. DANE WHITEHOUSE lived a schoolboy's dream when he wore the red-and-white stripes of Sheffield United. A local lad who never wanted to play for anyone else but theBlades, ...
Palmer jumps at chance to put Tykes in line for first Twickenham final
Mar 01, 2005 ... Though they are bottom of the Premiership, Leeds remain confidentof reaching the Powergen Cup final. Sam Wheeler talks to captain TomPalmer. IF all aspects of Leeds' play were operating as efficiently as TomPalmer's specific area of expertise, the Tykes would be challengingfor ...
Noon in England rallying call
Mar 01, 2005 ... JAMIE Noon feels that England should be pressing for a grand slamthis season, not sitting pointless at the bottom of the Six Nationstable. Sam Wheeler The Goole-born centre insists that England's record of threedefeats in three Championship matches does not reflect the ...
Alert for under-25s as mumps cases rise tenfold
Mar 01, 2005 ... People under the age of 25 are being urged to get mumps jabs aftera large rise in cases in Hull and the East Riding. Alexandra Wood So far this year there have been 20 confirmed cases, against justfour in the same period last year. About 10 per cent of those affected ...
Probation service in fight over site
Mar 01, 2005 ... A bidding war between the probation service and a housingassociation could decide the future of a large development site in aseaside town centre. Mark Branagan Brooke Square in Scarborough is being eyed up by developers afterScarborough Council moved its environmental health ...
Under-pressure hospital trust to benefit from [Pounds]13.8m lifeline
Mar 01, 2005 ... CASH-strapped hospitals in Leeds have won a one-off windfallrunning into millions of pounds which is likely to mean they willescape falling into the red. Mike Waites Health Correspondent A routine revaluation of buildings owned by Leeds TeachingHospitals NHS Trust ...
Youths quizzed after boy killed in crash
Mar 01, 2005 ... TWO youths have been questioned by police investigating a crashinvolving a car, said to have been stolen, which left a Sheffieldschoolboy dead and another in hospital. Paul Whitehouse The dead boy, 14, from Wincobank, was believed to have been afront seat passenger in a ...
Persistent kerb crawlers in city to face driving ban
Mar 01, 2005 ... First behaviour contracts signed by two vice-area motorists SERIAL kerb crawlers convicted in Sheffield courts risk beingbanned from driving in future under new police measures aimed ateradicating the problem. Paul Whitehouse Under existing regulations those found kerb ...
School safe after church refuses to back closure
Mar 01, 2005 ... Dave Mark A CLOSURE-threatened Hull primary school may be off the hit-listafter church leaders who own the building finally revealed that theywould not support any moves to axe it. Hull Council is currently conducting a city-wide consultation thatcould close or merge several ...
Residents oppose plans for new coastguard base
Mar 01, 2005 ... Mark Branagan A ROW has broken out over the building of a base for auxiliarycoastguards in what has now become a congested residential area ofWhitby. HM Coastguard currently has a main lookout on the East Cliff andan equipment store in Captain Cook Crescent. It wants ...
Prescott welcomes homes at ex-colliery
Mar 01, 2005 ... Sally Cope A scheme to regenerate a former West Yorkshire mining communityhas been unveiled to the Deputy Prime Minister, who visited thecounty yesterday.John Prescott marked the past and welcomed the future on a tour ofthe Allerton Bywater Millennium Community site, which ...
Airport on schedule for take-off with terminal nearly complete
Mar 02, 2005 ... YORKSHIRE'S newest airport is steadily gearing up for take-offwith the terminal building only weeks away from completion. Emma Dunlop Construction workers have been working around the clock tocomplete the [Pounds]80m Robin Hood Airport, at the former RAF basein Finningley, ...
Minster to benefit from [Pounds]344,000 ecclesiastical heritage windfall
Mar 02, 2005 ... DONCASTER Minster is the biggest financial winner in a[Pounds]1.3m package of grants announced by English Heritage and theHeritage Lottery Fund for places of worship in the region. Paul Whitehouse The Minster and Parish Church of St George, widely regarded as thefinest work ...
Hospital cuts 'will hit patient care'
Mar 02, 2005 ... Health chief's grim warning as financial crisis deepens DEEPER cuts in services will be needed at crisis-strickenhospitals in Yorkshire, hitting patient care, health trust chiefshave warned. Mike Waites Health Correspondent Bradford Teaching Hospitals ...
Report warns of threat to Britain's seas
Mar 02, 2005 ... A VAST swathe of sea stretching from Flamborough Head in Yorkshireto the Dover Straits has been identified as being at risk from moderndevelopment in a new report. Alexandra Wood An assessment by Government officials says much of the open sea isunaffected by pollution and ...
Footballer helps family escape fire
Mar 02, 2005 ... Emma Dunlop A FORMER Leeds and Sheffield United player had a narrow escapeafter a fire broke out in his home. Defender Paul Beesley helped his wife and three children escapejust before the roof collapsed and burning debris crashed into theirbedrooms on Sunday ...
Woodhead criticises 'twaddle' curriculum
Mar 02, 2005 ... James Reed Education Correspondent GEOGRAPHY lessons have become little more than a "pamphlet forGreenpeace", according to a former chief inspector of schools. Chris Woodhead yesterday attacked the make-up of the nationalcurriculum, saying pupils did not study events ...
A silent killer puts nations at risk
Mar 02, 2005 ... Warnings about terrorist use of biological weapons have capturedthe headlines - but a global epidemic of a commonly occurring viruswould claim millions more lives. Health Correspondent Mike Waitesreports on the deadly danger of flu. OUTBREAKS of flu caught from birds in Asia were ...
Red alert with snow and ice likely on roads
Mar 02, 2005 ... Andrew Robinson MORE snow and freezing temperatures could be on the way inYorkshire, with Pennine areas and the North York Moors bearing thebrunt of it. The Met Office has put highways departments in the region on redalert - the highest warning in its traffic light system of ...
I'm Ripper victim, but he'll be better treated
Mar 02, 2005 ... Pensioner's family in health care struggle Robert Sutcliffe A WOMAN left for dead by the Yorkshire Ripper is struggling to getbasic health care - while he lives a life of luxury, her familyclaimed last night. Olive Smelt, 76, of Boothtown, Halifax, was lucky to survive ...
323 passengers flee 'burning' plane
Mar 02, 2005 ... William Green MORE than 300 passengers escaped down emergency slides after theirplane caught fire at Manchester airport yesterday - only months aftera similar incident with the same aircraft. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight was taxiing alongthe runway when ...
Jury still out on ASBOs as cure for yobs
Mar 02, 2005 ... Amy Binns AT the age of only 11 Aneeze Williamson had clocked up 13convictions for everything from racial abuse to being involved in anassault that left a man with a punctured lung. He had been banned from school for over a year and spent his timein numerous burglaries and ...
Just 18 - then came news that devastated a family
Mar 02, 2005 ... Holly Mills had a bright future before her when she was struckdown by vCJD. Her parents spoke to Paul Jeeves A MONTH before Holly Mills was to go to university, consultantneurologists broke news which plunged her life into turmoil. The bright, articulate 18-year-old was told ...
Police chief's report 'smokescreen' - MP
Mar 02, 2005 ... Mark Branagan A chief constable's response to criticisms about spending publicmoney on company cars for senior officers was condemned as a"smokescreen" yesterday by an MP. Della Cannings has been asked by North Yorkshire Police Authorityfor a report setting out the force's ...
'Fat cats' row over university chiefs' pay
Mar 02, 2005 ... Joanne Ginley UNION officials last night condemned university vice chancellors'salaries after a survey showed an average rise of 6.6 per cent to[Pounds]144,420 in the last year. It reveals that over 60 vice-chancellors up and down the country,including those of Leeds, ...
Picture heavy with irony shows star with children 25 years ago
Mar 02, 2005 ... John Woodcock When this picture was taken it couldn't have seemed moreinnocuous. Today, more than 25 years later and with his sensationaltrial underway, it is heavy with irony. Michael Jackson, wearing a policeman's helmet and holding a younggirl on his knee, was relaxing ...
Jackson will go in witness box to deny sex abuse charges
Mar 02, 2005 ... Boys were sometimes out of control at ranch - defence Kate O'Hara Michael Jackson will go in the witness box to personally denychild molestation charges in a Californian court, his lawyer claimed yesterday. Just hours before British-documentary maker Martin Bashir ...
More yobs breach behaviour orders, figures show
Mar 02, 2005 ... Simon McGee Political Editor FOUR in 10 yobs breach their Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, theGovernment's flagship tool to curb the bad behaviour, latest figuresshow. Home Office figures published yesterday reveal the proportion ofAsbos broken rose from 36 per cent in ...
Ministers unveil action to fight bird flu
Mar 02, 2005 ... Mike Waites Health Correspondent HUGE stockpiles of drugs are being ordered to counter a deadly flupandemic as Ministers yesterday unveiled a series of emergencymeasures to help the UK cope with a major outbreak of the disease. More than 50,000 people could be killed ...
CJD girl's parents win U-turn over drug test
Mar 02, 2005 ... Medical Council experts back family's call for research intopotentially life-saving treatment Jane Charnley Paul Jeeves and Kate O'Hara THE parents of a 19-year-old woman suffering from the braindisease variant CJD were last night given new hope when ...
St James's dividend boost
Mar 02, 2005 ... WEALTH management company St James's Place, which advises some ofBritain's richest people, raised its dividend for the first time infour years yesterday reflecting the company's growing confidence inthe stock market and investments. Ros Snowdon Deputy City Editor ...
Benson's is beating off the might of the DIY giants
Mar 02, 2005 ... IF you pop into Benson's hardware shop in Ripon don't mention theTwo Ronnies. Kathryn Moore The infamous 'Fork Handles' sketch by the duo, set in atraditional hardware shop, has been re-enacted countless times atBenson's hardware shop in Ripon. Benson's is one of Ripon's ...
Aircraft steel demand sees Corus unveil [Pounds]6m upgrade
Mar 02, 2005 ... STEEL group Corus yesterday announced a [Pounds]6m upgrade of aYorkshire plant to meet growing demand from the aerospace industry. Greg Wright Corus said it was planning to improve furnace capacity at its sitein Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. The group said the move ...
Salamander's software that could help save lives on the battlefield
Mar 02, 2005 ... IMAGINE being lost in the skies above a war zone, desperate forintelligence that might save your life. Greg Wright Deputy Business Editor How do you make contact with comrades on the ground? A York-based software company has been enlisted by the Ministry ...
Another two are added to WYG's list
Mar 02, 2005 ... No stopping consultancy after latest acquisitions THE boys from White Young Green are at it again. Not content with22 acquisitions in eight years, they've added another two. Eric Barkas City Editor Whatever these guys are eating should be available on ...
Homes that you can afford proves a winner for Ben Bailey
Mar 02, 2005 ... NO matter who you are, being good at what you do counts. Stand up Ben Bailey, housebuilder to the less well off. Ben's average selling price is just [Pounds]154,650, one of thelowest in the country. Most of his homes are two to three bedroom. Eric Barkas But ...
Blades suffer in penalty agony
Mar 02, 2005 ... Ian Appleyard at Bramall Lane Sheffield United 0 Arsenal 0 Arsenal won 4-2 on pens Arsenal survived a dramatic night at Bramall Lane to bookthemselves a quarter-final against Bolton, with Alan Quinn and JonHarley missing penalties in the penalty ...
Ye gods! What a right royal gift for republicans
Mar 02, 2005 ... IN the bad, old, prehistoric days BB - ie before Blair - civilservants used to say that, if their Minister got it wrong, it wastheir fault, not his. Bernard Ingham It was not always true. Some Ministers were inclined to bewayward. But the maxim illuminates the old protective ...
Chris Curtis
Mar 02, 2005 ... Tributes were paid yesterday to an original member of TheSearchers who died at his home, aged 63. Chris Curtis was lead singer and drummer on hits including NeedlesAnd Pins and Sugar And Spice before leaving the group in 1966. The following year he topped the charts with Let's ...
Lehmann Ashes tour doubt
Mar 02, 2005 ... Chris Waters DARREN LEHMANN'S rapidly diminishing hopes of taking part in thissummer's Ashes series have suffered a further blow after theYorkshire batsman was forced to rule himself out of contention forAustralia's forthcoming Test tour of New Zealand due to a shoulderinjury. ...
Naming and shaming
Mar 02, 2005 ... A policy for criminals of all types IN SPITE of the fact that anti-social behaviour orders have beenin existence for six years, the jury is still out on theireffectiveness. Certainly they have had little effect curbing anti-social behaviour, where there is now one incident every ...
Tanya gives all on her journey of discovery
Mar 02, 2005 ... Tanya Moodie is a strong woman whose stock-in-trade is theportrayal of other strong women. But, in Ibsen's A Doll's House, shefinds herself playing the weak and manipulated Nora. Sheena Hastingsreports. TANYA Moodie is trying to illustrate the essence of being aBuddhist, using a ...
A Doll's House
Mar 02, 2005 ... Review A Doll's House West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Sheena Hastings POOR Nora. She puts on a good show for her patronising fool of ahusband, Torvald. He calls her his lark, his squirrel, his 'sillygirl', and she skips and twirls giddily to please him. Their ...