Yorkshire Post back issues from October 2006:
Stop tinkering, says NHS group
Oct 02, 2006 ... Demand for Ministers to give health trusts time The hard-pressed NHS is set to face even more problems in thecoming year, according to the group that represents 90 per cent ofprimary care trusts (PCTs). Government targets, increasingly expensive drugs like Herceptin,and ...
Cancer heroine tells of challenges in new book
Oct 02, 2006 ... Nishika Patel Inspirational fundraiser Jane Tomlinson is set to take thebestsellers' list by storm with a new book detailing her astonishingachievements. Since Mrs Tomlinson was diagnosed as terminally ill six years ago,she has defied doctors who said she had only six months ...
Countdown starts the search for Des Lynam successor
Oct 02, 2006 ... Kate O'Hara IT could be a case of "answers on a postcard" as Channel 4relaunches its bid to find a new presenter for popular quiz showCountdown. Countdown starts the search for Des Lynam successor Kate O'Hara IT could be a case of "answers on a postcard" as ...
Traditionalists line up to fight Cameron over swing to centre
Oct 02, 2006 ... Tory leader urges his party to leave 'ideological wilderness' Simon McGee Political Editor CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron is this week set for a fightwith Tory traditionalists over his efforts to move the party to thecentre ground of British ...
Czech student wins Miss World title
Oct 02, 2006 ... An 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic Tatana Kucharova,won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest. Kucharova defeated 103 other women in voting among a panel ofjudges and from TV viewers around the world during a two-hour finalsceremony in the Polish capital ...
Army chief takes over as Thailand's new PM and pledges end to violence
Oct 02, 2006 ... Retired army commander General Surayud Chulanont was sworn in asThailand's interim prime minister, saying he wanted to settle abloody Muslim insurgency and heal a country divided by the policiesof his predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra. "It was injustice that caused problems in ...
Inquest into journalist's death in Iraq to open
Oct 02, 2006 ... The inquest into the death of journalist Terry Lloyd who diedwhile covering the war in Iraq war will begin tomorrow in Oxford. The 51-year-old broadcast veteran was killed on the road to Basrain March 2003 while working for ITN just days into the conflict. French cameraman ...
Your days are numbered, terror leader warned
Oct 02, 2006 ... Security forces are closing in on the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq,a senior official has said, showing a captured video of the terrorchief teaching followers how to build a car bomb. The video, displayed to journalists, showed Abu Ayyub al-Masri -his face exposed - going through ...
Flyover collapse leaves five dead
Oct 02, 2006 ... Witnesses tell of horror as vehicles plunge and falling concretecrushes cars an hour after alert At least five people were crushed to death in their cars in Canadawhen a flyover collapsed. Three people were found in one car and two in another car trappedby the falling ...
Guide alerts hotel guests to rip-offs and nuisance
Oct 02, 2006 ... Surcharges for wi-fi internet access Nishika Patel TOO many hotels are ripping off customers who are also having toput up with the nuisance of loud piped music and the "menace" ofwedding parties, according to a guide out today. Business guests are being charged extra ...
New countryside agency too weak, campaigners warn
Oct 02, 2006 ... Brian Dooks NEW environmental watchdog Natural England could become starvedand toothless, according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England. The new umbrella body took over the work of English Nature, theCountryside Agency and the Rural Development Service ...
Catholics accuse BBC over attack on Pope
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Catholic Church last night hit back over claims that PopeBenedict XVI played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of childsex abuse by its priests. One Archbishop labelled a BBC documentary broadcast last night asunwarranted, misleading and a "deeply prejudiced attack" ...
How smirting and crumping have entered our language
Oct 02, 2006 ... Insults among latest additions to modern vocabulary Heiress Paris Hilton is a "celebutard", Posh Spice a "tanorexic"and Johnny Vegas owns a fine pair of "moobs", according to a newbook. It has been created as a guide to the key words and phrasesrecently added to the English ...
Reforms after cockling tragedy come into force
Oct 02, 2006 ... New gangmaster laws that were pushed through after the MorecambeBay cockling tragedy came into force yesterday. At least 21 Chinese cocklers, all illegal immigrants, were sweptaway by rising tides in the Lancashire bay in February 2004. Under the Gangmasters Licensing Act, ...
Fears for kidnap victim
Oct 02, 2006 ... Fears were growing last night for the safety of an Asian manabducted at gun-point from his home. No contact has been made since Javed Mukhtar was seized by threemasked men from his home in Shawmoss Road in Pollokshields, Glasgow. Strathclyde Police are concerned about the ...
Traditional women seek Mr Right
Oct 02, 2006 ... Traditional values are making a comeback in sex and relationships,according to a new survey. Many respondents to a study for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour show awish to settle down in their 20s, have families before they reach 30,and remain committed to one partner for ...
Royal couple unveil memorial to war veteran
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Prince of Wales and his wife the Duchess of Cornwall weregiven a warm welcome yesterday when they unveiled a memorial cairn tothe last veteran of the First World War's Christmas truce. The royal couple were in Alyth in Perthshire, home town of AlfredAnderson. Mr ...
Ex-police chief's wife mauled by dogs
Oct 02, 2006 ... The wife of former top policeman John Stalker yesterday backedcalls for a change in the law on dangerous dogs after revealing shehad suffered a "horrific" mauling by two rottweilers. The attack in June left her "horrendously scarred", a familyfriend said yesterday. The dogs ...
Politician backs paper's claims on tape
Oct 02, 2006 ... A former political colleague of politician Tommy Sheridan lastnight dismissed as "laughable" his claims that a confession taped bya newspaper about his private life is a fake. The newspaper said the video was recorded by George McNeilage, whowas the Scottish politician's best man ...
Gauntlet thrown down to Mayor amid job row
Oct 02, 2006 ... Council's managing director insists on returning to her desk as'farce' of tussle at the top deplored Exclusive Rob Waugh THE managing director of Doncaster Council has thrown down thegauntlet to the town's elected Mayor by refusing the authority'sattempts to get her ...
Fears for elderly over flu jab delay
Oct 02, 2006 ... Deliveries hold-up 'could cost lives' Simon Bristow DOCTORS are warning vulnerable patients could be at risk becausedelays in deliveries of the flu vaccine mean some may not get theirwinter flu jabs until after Christmas. The Government ordered 15.2 million doses for ...
Charities to benefit from birthday celebration
Oct 02, 2006 ... John Roberts A YORKSHIRE woman celebrated her 50th birthday in style thisweekend as more than 200 family and friends helped her to raise cashfor two charities. Jan Davies, from Guiseley Leeds, decided she did not want anordinary birthday celebration when she turned 50 last ...
Sorry, you aren't tall enough, barmaid told
Oct 02, 2006 ... Andrew Robinson AT 5ft 4in, Vanessa Bush never considered herself pint-sized - butshe has just been rejected for a job as a barmaid. The 22-year-old, who has worked in pubs and clubs for years, wasturned down for being too short to work in the Zephyr bar in KingStreet in ...
Bishop's warning on Church rows
Oct 02, 2006 ... Michael Brown Religious Affairs Correspondent ANGLICANS have been accused by one of their own bishops ofimagining that by using "endless words" they can show they are rightand opponents wrong on issues that are threatening to break up theChurch of England. The charge ...
Inzamam waits
Oct 02, 2006 ... Inzamam-ul-Haq looks set to learn today whether his actions duringthe controversial finish to last month's final Test against Englandwill result in a ban from the International Cricket Council. The Pakistan captain is pictured above sitting through a full dayof evidence on the ...
League exodus a worrying trend
Oct 02, 2006 ... SAM WHEELER KIRK DIXON, Stephen Myler, Semi Tadulala and Chev Walker will notbe huge losses to rugby league per se, but their switches to rugbyunion should cause considerable soul-searching in the 13-man code. Although their departures - and the expected departure of ...
No-one close to peerless Woods
Oct 02, 2006 ... Not even the weather can stop World No 1 winning a 13th WGC title Mark Garrod HE could not quite make it four eagles out of four on the 18th andbecause of two rain delays it took him seven and a half hours to getthere, but Tiger Woods had no trouble achieving what he ...
Clough earns tough victory
Oct 02, 2006 ... DEFENDING champion Noel Clough (Feitsen Tempo) took victory in thelatest round of the Yorkshire Cyclo-Cross Association's points seriesat Huddersfield yesterday, beating arch-rival Chris Young by 32seconds. Clough, from Northallerton, took his second win of the series inthe ...
Schumacher back on top after China victory
Oct 02, 2006 ... Michael Church Tyres and the genius of Michael Schumacher were the vital factorsas the German edged closer to an eighth world title with victory atthe Chinese Grand Prix. Schumacher pushed world champion Fernando Alonso into second placeto move top of the drivers' standings ...
Widnes victory confirms Cas fears
Oct 02, 2006 ... Castleford's relegation from Super League was confirmed yesterdaywhen Widnes earned the right to meet Hull Kingston Rovers in the LHFNational League One grand final. The Tigers' lifeline was finally snapped when Whitehaven, who areineligible for promotion, lost 24-20 to Widnes in ...
Withers hat-trick sees off Wolves
Oct 02, 2006 ... Wigan-bound full-back signs off at Odsal with try-scoring displayto book meeting with Hull Bradford Bulls 40 Warrington Wolves 24 Super League John Ledger at Grattan Stadium AS farewells go, Michael Withers could not have produced a morefitting way to ...
Tesco launches software as profits eye [Pounds]1bn
Oct 02, 2006 ... SUPERMARKET giant Tesco is taking on another new market with thelaunch of its own brand computer software. An initial range of six titles, which will include office softwareand security suites, will sell for less than [Pounds]20 each. The launch comes in the week that Tesco is ...
MDL measures up new [Pounds]1.1m Yorkshire office
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ian Briggs MEASUREMENT Devices Limited (MDL) is ensuring its Yorkshireoperation has an integral part to play in the mining industry incountries such as China and South Africa. MDL, which designs, manufactures and supplies laser measurementtechnology, positioning and ...
Women still fail to get on boards across Yorkshire
Oct 02, 2006 ... In spite of the rising number of women entering the world ofbusiness, the percentage of female board members has stayed the samesince last year, a report has claimed. While the average fees for non-executive directors who sit parttime on company boards has risen by 7 per cent to ...
Tyre crumb helps keep players safe
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ian Briggs FROM the road to the booming world of five-a-side football. Abusiness has been launched which aims to recycle millions of vehicletyres and use them to produce artificial sports fields. Credential Environmental, the waste specialist owned by the Leeds-based venture ...
SSP insures its future with [Pounds]31m flotation
Oct 02, 2006 ... Software supplier eyes Euro-growth Ros Snowdon Deputy City Editor SSP HOLDINGS, Britain's biggest supplier of insurance software, isfloating on the AIM market today with a market capitalisation ofabout [Pounds]70m. Halifax-based SSP's software is installed in ...
Healing words for those opposed to women bishops
Oct 02, 2006 ... A call to traditionalist Anglicans not to despair as the Church ofEngland edges closer to having women bishops - and possibledisintegration - was issued at the weekend. It came from Leeds-based Bishop of Beverley Martyn Jarrett at atraditionalists' festival at York Minster. He is ...
Birthday tribute to missing daughter
Oct 02, 2006 ... Brian Dooks PARENTS of a missing North Yorkshire woman, whose disappearancedetectives are treating as murder, have asked the public to light acandle on Friday, which would have been her 21st birthday. Jenny Nicholl left her home in Bolton Avenue, Richmond, on theevening of ...
Young actor bows out as Billy Elliot
Oct 02, 2006 ... Simon Bristow Schoolboy Liam Mower was today back in the classroom studying forhis GCSEs after taking a series of standing ovations for his finalperformance in the lead role of the hit musical Billy Elliot. The actor, who was presented with a 10-week-old labrador puppycalled ...
Johnson pushes for England call-up
Oct 02, 2006 ... Matt Barlow Steve McClaren admits Andrew Johnson's spectacular start to theseason is giving him a selection headache. Johnson, 25, has been in prolific form since moving to Evertonfrom Crystal Palace in the summer. He scored his sixth goal in Saturday's 1-1 draw ...
A-levels 'do not prepare for university'
Oct 02, 2006 ... Four out of 10 students do not believe A-levels prepare them forthe demands of a university degree, college leaders have claimed. More than half the undergraduates surveyed said their teacherssteered them towards courses which the school did well, rather thansubjects to match ...
Zokora 'dive' gives Spurs dubious victory
Oct 02, 2006 ... Phil Casey Tottenham midfielder Didier Zokora took a dive to earn a match-winning penalty in the first half after Spurs had taken a 42-secondlead to break their Premiership goal-drought. Danny Murphy slotted home his first for the club with less than aminute on the clock to ...
Improving secondary education will take a decade, says Blunkett
Oct 02, 2006 ... Former Education Secretary David Blunkett has suggested it willtake another decade before the Government's reforms raise standardsin secondary schools. Mr Blunkett said the Government had started to change educationwith reforms to primary school, including the literacy and ...
McClaren denies FA order on agent
Oct 02, 2006 ... England boss refuses to comment on reports he will cut Gordonlinks Duncan Bech Steve McClaren denies the Football Association have demanded hesever links with Colin Gordon in response to the agent's commentsthat football is rife with corruption. Gordon claimed that ...
Outlook bright as Tories are stirred by the wind of change
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Conservatives have not had it so good for so very long, butwill the feeling last? Political Editor Simon McGee reports on what'sin store at what should be the party's best week by the sea in ageneration at their annual autumn gathering this year in a breezyBournemouth ....
Two fight for lives after stabbing drama
Oct 02, 2006 ... Kate O'Hara Crime Correspondent A MAN and woman were fighting for their lives with stab woundslast night, while their neighbour was critically ill in hospitalafter throwing himself from a motorway bridge.Police would not say if the two incidents were linked, but ...
Hillsborough black-out is bad news for fans
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ian Appleyard ON FOOTBALL ian.appleyard@ypn.co.uk The city of Sheffield plays host to two of the biggest footballclubs in the north of England - Sheffield United and SheffieldWednesday - each with its own set of supporters who want to knoweverything you can ...
Policeman wins 'sexiest gay' title
Oct 02, 2006 ... Andrew Robinson A YORKSHIRE policeman has been crowned Britain's sexiest gay man. PC Mark Carter, 23, impressed judges at Mr Gay UK as he paraded onstage in his police uniform and then stripped to swimwear. About 50 of his colleagues came to cheer him on at ...
New pipe to Yorkshire keeps gas supply safe
Oct 02, 2006 ... CUSTOMERS could soon feel the benefit of a new gas pipeline whichhas begun receiving supplies of natural gas from Norway Supplies were being received from the North Sea at the Britishterminal at Easington in East Yorkshire yesterday. British Gas owner Centrica will be the ...
Potato firm serves up 'history on a plate'
Oct 02, 2006 ... A potato has been created from primitive plants in South America,where it is thought Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the vegetable.Plant scientists have bred the potato directly from Phureja, aSouth American potato species that has been unchanged for 7,000years. Sixteenth ...
Looking good for students
Oct 02, 2006 ... The Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor hasbeen named favourite student anthem of all time. The Killers' Mr Brightside came second, followed by Leeds bandKaiser Chiefs' I Predict a Riot. The poll, of some 200 student DJs, was carried out for the NMEStudent ...
Love-split Tarrant praises wife
Oct 02, 2006 ... Television presenter Chris Tarrant praised his wife for completingthe Great North Run despite the "pressures" of the last few weeks,during which the couple announced their separation after reports hehad been having an affair. Tarrant issued a statement once he had heard that his ...
Family inspired by tragic brother's memory
Oct 02, 2006 ... Poignant race success for brothers and sisters of man who diedduring last year's Great North Run Andrew Robinson THERE was triumph through tears when six family members completedthe Great North Run a year after their 28-year-old brother lost hislife in the same ...
Jagielka celebrates 'most important' Blades goal
Oct 02, 2006 ... Ian Appleyard PHIL JAGIELKA scored the 'most important' goal of his career andthen tipped Sheffield United to go from strength-to-strength in thePremiership. The Blades captain hit a last-minute goal against Middlesbrough tosecure his club's first victory of the ...
Police shocked by violence in park stabbing
Oct 02, 2006 ... Detectives were viewing CCTV footage and interviewing witnessesyesterday to try to trace a man who stabbed a 17-year-old girl in theneck and stomach in a park during an apparent robbery. The teenager, who is in a critical condition in hospital, isbelieved to have been taking a ...
Police hunt gunman who shot reveller in stomach after nightclub confrontation
Oct 02, 2006 ... Lucy Harvey A 26-YEAR-OLD man was last night recovering in hospital afterbeing shot in the stomach in a Sheffield nightclub.The victim, from Wolverhampton, is understood to have been among agroup involved in a confrontation in the Niche club, Eyre Street, atabout 3.30am ...
Grand final awaits for Bulls or Hull
Oct 02, 2006 ... Yorkshire's Super League rivals ready to meet in decisive play-off showdown as favourites St Helens lie in waitJOHN LEDGER SUPER LEAGUE THE historic Hull Fair swings into action on Friday but for allthe fun of the fairground the attractions will play second fiddle ...
'Weeks left' for Briton in shadow of gallows
Oct 02, 2006 ... Andrew Robinson TIME is running out for a Yorkshire man facing execution inPakistan, who could be hanged within weeks. Leeds man Mirza Tahir Hussain had been granted a stay of executionbut this expired at dawn yesterday and a sentencing date could be setwithin ...
Superebug blamed for 49 hospital deaths
Oct 02, 2006 ... A superbug has claimed the lives of 49 people at three hospitalsin the last eight months. A further 29 deaths are being investigated and could be linked tothe outbreak of Clostridium Difficile (C Diff) at the UniversityHospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Dr David Jenkins, ...
Suspect held over student's 'violent' death
Oct 02, 2006 ... Detectives were last night preparing to question a man wantedafter the "horrific and very, very violent" death of a Polishstudent. A murder inquiry was launched following the discovery of 23-year-old Angelika Kluk's body in a Glasgow church on Friday. Peter Tobin, who worked ...
PC's widower at 'policing family' service
Oct 02, 2006 ... Rob Waugh THE widower of murdered West Yorkshire police officer SharonBeshenivsky was among 2,000 people attending a memorial service toremember officers who have died in the line of duty. Paul Beshenivsky's wife was shot dead while answering an alarm ata Bradford travel ...
Cameron needs firm foundations
Oct 02, 2006 ... Vision must come before gimmicks THESE are heady times for the Conservative Party, given therevival that David Cameron has presided over throughout the pastyear. This week's conference will be the first for more than 15 yearswhich has not been overshadowed by bitter ...
A harsh lesson for hounded schoolteacher
Oct 02, 2006 ... Bernard Dineen THE nursery school teacher wrongly accused of assaulting a toddlerin her care has been totally cleared by a court.So all's well that ends well? No, it isn't. Not by a long chalk. For 14 months she had the threat of losing her reputation, herlivelihood ...
Voice of experience identifies age-old case of discrimination
Oct 02, 2006 ... Stephen Biscoe OFFICIAL representatives of special interest organisations can berelied upon to state the obvious when their subject comes bobbing tothe surface. So no-one was likely to have gasped with surprise when KateJopling, senior policy manager at Help the Aged, said ...
Cameron's countdown to total war
Oct 02, 2006 ... David Curry David Curry is Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon. THE phoney war is nearly over. Then it will be the Brownblitzkrieg. A new Prime Minister will be fighting for his life and itwill be trench warfare. This is the crucial reality the Conservatives should ...