Yorkshire Post back issues from May 2006:
Red card for 'cyber-squatters' who used England star's name
May 01, 2006 ... Greg Wright Deputy Business Editor REMEMBER the dart into the penalty box, the despairing lunge bythe defender, and the effortless chip over the keeper? Millions of us were left spellbound by England striker MichaelOwen's wonder goal against Argentina in the 1998 World ...
Adventurers ski to polar glory
May 01, 2006 ... ICE ONE: Yorkshireman leads team to triumph in Arctic endurancetest Joanne Ginley THEY had to endure temperatures as low as -42C and battle throughdeep snow but Huddersfield engineer Mike Dann's team skied over theline first in the 2006 Polar Challenge. The ...
Clarke on brink as Premier says: No excuses
May 01, 2006 ... Damaging new claims William Green Political Correspondent HOME Secretary Charles Clarke's political future looks in doubttoday amid damaging new claims over the fiasco surrounding thedeportation of foreign criminals. Having previously stood by him, Tony Blair ...
Trading standards unit bills shock
May 01, 2006 ... Councils face payout Paul Whitehouse FURTHER details about the crisis-hit South Yorkshire TradingStandards Unit's finances have emerged which could leave the county'sfour district councils facing heavy bills for years. The councils have already paid a total of ...
Gliding club soars to new heights with first coast-to-coast flight
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings MEMBERS of a gliding club in the region have notched up a firstwith a coast-to-coast flight, once thought to have been impossible. Nick Gaunt, of Helmsley, and Lindsay McLane, of nearby Wass, madethe trip from the Yorkshire Gliding Club at Sutton Bank to ...
Survey reveals raw deal for deaf in workplace
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings EFFORTS to end discrimination in the job market are not going farenough for sufferers of an "invisible" disability. New figures from a Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)survey show thousands of people who are deaf or hearing-impairedstill face ...
North of county continues to see steady rise in house prices
May 01, 2006 ... Lizzie Murphy NORTH Yorkshire has seen one of the highest monthly house pricerises outside London, according to new figures today. House values in the north of the county rose by 0.8 per cent inApril, compared with an average of 0.6 per cent across the rest ofthe country, ...
Memorial tribute to escape helpers
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings SECOND World War veterans who evaded capture or escaped fromprisoner-of-war camps have been reunited with courageous civilianswho helped them more than six decades ago. Two boulders from the Pyrenees have been turned into a permanentmemorial to the helpers, ...
Tide turns for family's old home
May 01, 2006 ... Former teacher builds new house nearby as dream clifftop sitefalls victim to east coast erosion Dave Mark WHEN the cliffs at the bottom of the garden crumbled away and LesRial's house began to fall into the sea, he would have been forgivenfor cutting his losses and bidding ...
Ex-lover turns up heat on Prescott
May 01, 2006 ... Damaging revelations threaten MP's future Dave Mark JOHN Prescott's future as Deputy Prime Minister lurched into afresh crisis last night after his former lover revealed explosivedetails of their two-year affair - and as details of another allegedbetrayal of his wife ...
Appeals to end 'humiliation' of letters to pupils
May 01, 2006 ... James Reed LETTERS telling children what inspectors think of their school arejust giving hard-to-teach pupils ammunition to use against staff,headteachers have warned. Delegates at the conference complained the letters effectivelyallowed pupils to tell teachers "you're no ...
Schools 'could join parents to wreck tests'
May 01, 2006 ... Heads raise threat of campaignJames Reed Education Correspondent HEADTEACHERS yesterday raised the prospect of joining parents in anational campaign aimed at destroying primary school tests and theleague tables they produce. The general secretary of the ...
Calendar Girls bear up for charity walk
May 01, 2006 ... Joanne Ginley THEY decorated their bras with their trademark sunflowers andwalked the hills of the Yorkshire Dales to be ready for their latestchallenge. Four members of the Yorkshire Calendar Girls, together withfriends and family, are in training for London's Playtex ...
Byland brew continues a history of hospitality
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings A HISTORY of hospitality is continuing at a North Yorkshire abbeywith the creation of a new beer. Byland Brew is on tap and exclusively available at the BylandAbbey Inn, next to the ruins of the monastery near Coxwold. English Heritage bought the inn, ...
Hidden problems add months to Scotsman project
May 01, 2006 ... Boiler troubles on world-famous locomotive prompt engineers toseek a copper-bottomed solutionPaul Jeeves IT IS undergoing the biggest restoration in almost a decade - andthe job has just got that little bit bigger. Flying Scotsman, the world's most famous railway ...
Agonising wait over river body
May 01, 2006 ... Dave Mark THE agony will continue for the family of a mother and son whoplunged from the Humber Bridge two weeks ago after a post-mortemexamination conducted on a woman's body pulled from the water at theweekend proved inconclusive. Officers from Humberside Police have ...
New leads in hunt for man who attacked girl in bed
May 01, 2006 ... Paul Whitehouse POLICE investigating a sickening sexual attack on a nine-year-oldgirl in her own bed have been given names of potential suspects frompeople in a Yorkshire village who believe that they recognise adescription of the offender. Attempts to trace those men and ...
Daredevil pensioners start from the top in fundraising
May 01, 2006 ... Paul Whitehouse IT WOULD be impossible to deny their years are advancing but sucha trivial fact was unable to stop a pair of intrepid pensionersabseiling from a church tower as part of a fundraising event. At the age of 82, Jack Thompson was joined by the marginally ...
Scientists on standby in bird flu alert
May 01, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings GOVERNMENT scientists at a Yorkshire laboratory are poised to helpwith Britain's bird flu outbreak. The Central Science Laboratory, an agency of the Department forEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), based at Sand Hutton,near York - have put 20 people ...
Police chief's overture to Clarke
May 01, 2006 ... Letter of support on contentious force merger from chief constableand her authority chairman Exclusive William Green Political Correspondent NORTH Yorkshire's Chief Constable is refusing to rule herself outof the running for the top job at the new merged ...
Low-skilled migrants 'good for business'
May 01, 2006 ... Alan Jones Most employers have welcomed migrant workers for filling jobs thatpeople from this country were not prepared to do, research showedtoday. A survey of 1,000 migrants and employers by the social policyresearch and development charity the Joseph Rowntree ...
[Pounds]3.5m warehouse drives Volvox sales
May 01, 2006 ... Greg Wright EVER wondered where the bulb for your car's headlights comes from? There's a good chance it has been distributed by the Volvox Group,which has invested in a [Pounds]3.5m, purpose-built warehouse inLeeds, a year after a management buyout (MBO). The Volvox ...
Alliance boss on Morrison shortlist
May 01, 2006 ... Greg Wright THE battle for the post of chief executive at Yorkshiresupermarket chain Wm Morrison took a new twist yesterday, with a report that Ian Meakins, the outgoing chief executive ofpharmaceuticals group Alliance Unichem, is on the final shortlist. Mr Meakins is ...
Regeneration to build up Strata profits
May 01, 2006 ... Housebuilder slips to [Pounds]8.6m Greg Wright Deputy Business Editor HIGHER costs and a tougher market have led to a dip in full-yearprofits at privately owned housebuilder and construction companyStrata. The Doncaster-based company hopes to bounce back with ...
Leeds keep cards close to their chest
May 01, 2006 ... Richard Sutcliffe at Deepdale Preston NE 2 Leeds United 0 championship FIRST, the bad news for Leeds United. In the coming week, theywill have to edge past an in-form Preston North End, who could havebeaten Kevin Blackwell's side yesterday by a much ...
Leeds Ladies can upset the Cup Final odds
May 01, 2006 ... Leeds United Ladies v Arsenal Ladies Richard Sutcliffe LEEDS UNITED may be making a step into the unknown today withtheir first appearance in an FA Women's Cup Final, but in managerJulie Chipchase they have someone who knows more than most about sucha showpiece ...
Davies calls time on a decade of achievement with Tykes
May 01, 2006 ... Sam Wheeler Phil Davies has resigned as director of rugby of relegated LeedsTykes, ending one of the longest reigns in the history ofprofessional sport in Yorkshire. Davies, who was in charge for 10 years at Headingley Carnegie andtook the club from the country's third tier ...
Powerless to tackle foreign criminal menace
May 01, 2006 ... Bernard Dineen AS USUAL, people are getting excited about comparative incidentalsand ignoring what really matters. Whether Charles Clarke goes or stays is irrelevant. He is by nomeans the worst Home Secretary we have had. Whether 20, 30 or 100 foreign criminals are ...
Stand by your man - the lot of a politician's wife
May 01, 2006 ... Marilyn Stowe Marilyn Stowe is head of the private-client family-law unit atsolicitors Grahame Stowe Bateson of Leeds and Harrogate. PERKS, profile and privilege. Scandal, humiliation and betrayal.Are the latter the inevitable consequences of the former? In the case of ...
Voters' verdict on Labour's week of woe
May 01, 2006 ... Simon Lee Simon Lee is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department ofPolitics and International Studies at the University of Hull. ENGLISH local elections are rarely purely local events. They tendto provide an important political barometer on national events,particularly ...
White Rose still in bloom
May 01, 2006 ... Relegation from top flight masks success story FOLLOWING the relegation of Leeds Tykes, there will inevitably bescepticism about the future of top-level rugby union in Yorkshire. People outside the county look at the meagre crowds that the Tykesand Rotherham Titans have ...
If it ain't bust, don't fix it. Play-offs are fine
May 01, 2006 ... Richard Sutcliffe on football richard.sutcliffe@ypn.co.uk THIS month will mark the 20th anniversary of the play-offs beingintroduced to decide promotion and relegation issues in the FootballLeague and there can be little doubt they have been a huge ...
Blair prepares his scapegoat
May 01, 2006 ... But has Government lost credibility? THE hunt continues apace for the serious offenders among thehundreds of foreign criminals wrongly set free by the Home Office.Yet, however quickly they are re-apprehended, it will probably nothappen fast enough to save the career of Charles ...
Out of Africa - wise words on realities of a life of crime
May 01, 2006 ... A South African arts group made up of ex-criminals is in Yorkshiretelling children that crime doesn't pay. Chris Bond met them.NONE of the six men sitting around the table is older than 30,although they all look as though they have experienced more than mosttheir ...
Clouds of glory
May 01, 2006 ... For some people, having their head in the clouds is a legitimatehobby. Martin Hickes reports on the rise of the cloudspotter. While Rene Descartes, the French Jesuit philosopher, oncedescribed clouds as being the thrones of God, most of us find ifdifficult to muster the same ...
Yorkshire slip to a late defeat
May 01, 2006 ... Lehmann's 150 knock revives hopes of victory but Edgbastoncollapse proves costly Chris Waters County Championship Edgbaston A LAST-wicket pair scrapping for dear life and agonised spectatorschewing their finger-nails. Nothing much changes at Edgbaston ...
Jackson pledges to lift Town
May 01, 2006 ... 'If anyone had said at the start we would make the play-offs wewould have taken it.' Richard Sutcliffe at Galpharm Stadium Huddersfield Town 1 Yeovil Town 2 league one AS the Huddersfield Town players trudged round a rapidly emptyingGalpharm ...
Barnsley go down to the wire
May 01, 2006 ... No anniversary celebrations as City play for pride Robert Gledhill at Oakwell Barnsley 0 Bradford City 0 league one FOUR strikers without a goal between them in nine games explainswhy Barnsley face a must-win last day game at bottom club Walsall ...
Sharp praises work of Agar and coaches
May 01, 2006 ... John Ledger PETER SHARP paid tribute to the sterling work Hull's assistantcoach Richard Agar has done over the last month after seeing his newclub complete an impressive nine-try victory over Wigan. Since stepping into the breach following the dismissal of JohnKear, Agar has ...
Cooke delivers try feast for Hull
May 01, 2006 ... Noble discovers size of challenge at Wigan as nine-try KC Stadiumdemolition stuns Warriors John Ledger at KC Stadium Hull 54 Wigan Warriors 6 engage super league THE contrasting challenges facing Peter Sharp and Brian Noblecould not have been ...
Stalwart plays for last time
May 01, 2006 ... Sam Wheeler MIKE Shelley is not the sort of man to accept defeat easily butthe stalwart prop was not too distraught by yesterday's loss as hemade his final appearance at Headingley. For once, the result was of secondary importance to the 34-year-old, who is retiring from ...
Tykes end with a whimper
May 01, 2006 ... Leeds fans left to wonder if they will ever return to top flight Sam Wheeler at Headingley Carnegie Leeds Tykes 7 Gloucester 31 Premiership WITH the team relegated, several players bidding farewell toHeadingley and Phil Davies resigning, this ...
Bees promotion fireworks
May 01, 2006 ... Quality display sinks Nuns in title showdown Sam Wheeler at Wagon Lane Bradford & Bingley 36 Nuneaton 29 National Three North BRADFORD & Bingley hosted a same-sex wedding on Saturday and theirrugby was as enlightened as their social inclusion ...
Drinking ban to tackle louts in town centre
May 01, 2006 ... Joanne Ginley DRINKING alcohol in the streets and other public places in a towncentre is to become illegal after councillors gave the go-ahead for aban. Anyone flouting the law at Pudsey, Leeds, will have their alcoholconfiscated, face a [Pounds]50 on-the-spot-fine or ...
'Excellent' endoscopy unit for Infirmary
May 01, 2006 ... Joanne Ginley A NEW [Pounds]3.5m endoscopy suite, replacing outdatedaccommodation at Leeds General Infirmary, will officially open onWednesday. It will improve patient care and provide staff with first- classclinical facilities as well as giving the flexibility to ...
City centre faces months of roads disruption
May 01, 2006 ... Dave Mark A YORKSHIRE city centre faces months of gridlock and trafficdisruption as work begins in earnest on a massive project totransform retailing and transport in the area. Hull Council is appealing for co-operation from road users as thefinal preparations get under way ...
Police fear over emergency calls
May 01, 2006 ... Officers concerned new working arrangements will cut cover Paul Whitehouse POLICE fear new working arrangements in Yorkshire could leave themwith too few staff to cope with emergencies or to provide back-up forcolleagues in potentially dangerous situations. The South ...
Gulf veterans at greater risk of mental disorders, study reveals
May 02, 2006 ... Dave Mark VETERANS of the first Gulf War of 1991 are three times more likelyto suffer depression and drug addiction than other servicemen,according to a new study published today by some of the world's mostrespected psychiatrists. The Royal College of Psychiatrists today ...
Holy orders at cathedral for beer festival
May 02, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings COMMUNION wine is the strongest drink usually associated withchurches. But yesterday Ripon Cathedral hosted a beer festival with realales from nine brewers from across England. Special commemorative glasses were raised in the festival marqueein the ...
Proud carrier's resting place bared at last
May 02, 2006 ... Barnacle-covered wreck of wartime Ark Royal captured on camera bydivers in Mediterranean David Hogg THE barnacle-covered wreck of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal -sunk by a German U-boat days after being adopted by the people ofLeeds during the Second World War - has been ...
Homecoming for child bride portrait
May 02, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings A PAINTING by Harrogate's most famous artist goes on show in thespa town this week. The portrait, Annie Gambart, is the latest addition to the town'scollection of works by William Powell Frith, a popular Britishpainter of the Victorian age. His picture ...
Swinging Sixties recalled in picture exhibition
May 02, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings KEY characters who made the Sixties swing feature in a newexhibition at a North Yorkshire stately home. Images by Philip Townsend, one of the era's most acclaimedphotographers, went on show at Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley, at theweekend. Townsend was ...
Mobile phones save trapped guards
May 02, 2006 ... Security pair guide firefighters during suspected arson at disusedschool Paul Whitehouse TWO security guards trapped by smoke and flames in a blazingschool had to use mobile phones to guide firefighters to rescue themfollowing a suspected arson attack.Without the ...
Action urged to shield teachers from malice
May 02, 2006 ... James Reed PARENTS and pupils who make malicious allegations against teachersshould face legal action, headteachers said yesterday. It is grossly unfair that teachers are left with damagedreputations but their accusers can walk away., School leaderscomplained at the National ...
Government's school sweets ban 'a gimmick'
May 02, 2006 ... Meal plans could backfire, says head James Reed Education Correspondent BANNING sweets and crisps from schools is a Government gimmickthat will do little to tackle childhood obesity, a headteachers'leader warned yesterday. Government efforts to improve what ...
Stars turn out in tribute to tragic police officer
May 02, 2006 ... Robert Sutcliffe FOOTBALL stars and TV celebrities descended on Bradford yesterdayto play in a football match in aid of the family of policewomanSharon Beshenivsky. Champion boxer Amir Khan and Coronation Street stars Ryan Thomasand Bradley Walsh, who play Jason Grimshaw and ...
British not French first to blame germs for sickness
May 02, 2006 ... Paul Whitehouse THE legendary rivalry between the English and French has existedfor centuries. In recent history the conflict has been played out through thechannels of diplomacy rather than warfare, but now researchers at aYorkshire university have made a discovery which ...
Flowers at grave lead to emotional meeting
May 02, 2006 ... Canadian half-brother's surprise trip 'wonderful' Dave Mark WHEN she found her father's grave in a cemetery on the far side ofthe world, Yorkshire woman Ann Hallgarth feared she had reached theend of the road in her search for the family she had never known. But the ...
Brave Jane saddles up for toughest challenge yet
May 02, 2006 ... Cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson, right, will today announce she isto embark on her most ambitious charity fundraising feat yet. Shetold Maggie Stratton why she wants to cycle 4,200 miles acrossAmerica. IN nine weeks, cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson will set off fromthe Golden Gate ...
Mother and baby hurt as cars collide head-on
May 02, 2006 ... Paul Whitehouse A MONTH-OLD baby sustained facial injuries and his mother wasseriously injured during a head-on smash between two cars in avillage on the outskirts of Sheffield. Three other people travelling in the same car were also hurt as aresult of the collision, which ...
Skull fracture for race-fall jockey
May 02, 2006 ... Julie Hemmings A JOCKEY is seriously ill in Leeds General Infirmary afterfracturing his skull in a fall. John Flavin, riding for County Durham trainer Richard Guest, hadwon two earlier races at Sunday's meeting at Wetherby, before theaccident in the 5.15 "Go Racing In ...
Clubbers pelt police with missiles after shooting
May 02, 2006 ... Victim, 27, wounded in stomach Robert Sutcliffe POLICE were pelted with stones and bottles by drunken clubbersoutside a Leeds nightclub, minutes after a 27-year-old man had beenshot. Dozens of extra officers wearing protective equipment were draftedinto the area ...
Richest EU countries shut door on migrant workers
May 02, 2006 ... William Green Political Correspondent EUROPE'S most powerful countries outside the UK have slammed thedoor shut on workers from Eastern Europe amid fears of an influx ofcheap foreign workers. Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria are amongcountries ...
Clarke clings on as Tories turn screw over fiasco
May 02, 2006 ... Prescott to play 'full part' in elections David Hogg PRESSURE intensified on the Government as Home Secretary CharlesClarke resisted demands he reveal his progress today in tracking downmore than 1,000 foreign prisoners released in the UK. Tory calls for an urgent ...
United hope for glory night
May 02, 2006 ... Leeds United are three games away from the Premiership. RichardSutcliffe talks to one Elland Road player who remembers the glorydays. MATTHEW KILGALLON believes Friday's play-off showdown with PrestonNorth End is Leeds United's biggest game since the heady days oftheir thrilling ...