Yorkshire Post back issues from March 2007:
MP calls for review of flood plans over delays
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE Government was yesterday urged to overhaul its flood defencestrategy as it emerged another Yorkshire scheme has been put on holdbecause of lack of money. The Environment Agency confirmed that a feasibility study for theproject in Thirsk has been delayed by at least three ...
Morris Mania shows work of arts leader
Mar 01, 2007 ... CASTLE Howard opens its doors to the public today for the 2007season, with a special exhibition celebrating the work of one of themost influential voices in Victorian art and architecture WilliamMorris. Morris Mania reveals the close connections between the creator ofthe Arts ...
Security staff may guard speed cameras
Mar 01, 2007 ... ATTACKS on speed cameras in some parts of Yorkshire have become sofrequent that a squad of security wardens could be recruited to guardthe roadside equipment. Covert CCTV cameras are already used by the West Yorkshire SafetyCamera Partnership and some in other parts of the country ...
Academic who gave the hard truth over erosion
Mar 01, 2007 ... Special report COASTAL expert John Pethick vividly recalls becoming the "mosthated man in Holderness" in the 1990s - and still flinches at thememory of a small lady who buttonholed him at a public meeting inHornsea. When she found out it was who she suspected, she announced: ...
Praise for inner-city pupils
Mar 01, 2007 ... AN inner-city school which once faced a bleak future is now one ofthe most improved in the country, according to today's figures. City of Leeds School, to the north of the city centre, was at onepoint earmarked for closure because of falling numbers but has nowrecovered and is ...
City's poor school results bring renewed pressure for change
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE performance of Hull schools is back under the microscope todayas new figures put the city at the bottom of another education leaguetable. Hull pupils who took national tests for 14-year-olds last year hadthe worst average scores in the region and among the poorest in ...
High-flying grammar's formula for success
Mar 01, 2007 ... A YORKSHIRE grammar school is today named one of the best in thecountry at improving children's test scores - but it may struggle toearn the same accolade in future. Today's league tables reveal that Ermysted's Grammar in Skiptonhad the county's best results in national tests for ...
GCSE students fail grade for reading and writing skills
Mar 01, 2007 ... THOUSANDS of pupils at schools across Yorkshire are studying fortheir GCSE exams without even having a proper grasp of reading andwriting skills, new figures show. New league tables based on national tests taken by 14-year-olds in2006 show that in 29 Yorkshire secondary schools ...
Medical ideas win backer
Mar 01, 2007 ... IDEAS put forward by NHS staff which could help to improvepatients' health could become commercially available thanks to a new[Pounds]1m fund. Medipex, the Leeds-based NHS innovation centre which bridges thegap to investors who see a chance to develop the ideas, has forged ...
Barratt has confidence in market as profits go up by 10 per cent
Mar 01, 2007 ... HOUSEBUILDER Barratt Developments said the housing market remainsrobust and it is seeing higher reservations and forward sales despiterecent interest rate increases. Announcing a 10 per cent rise in first half pre-tax profits to[Pounds]180.2m, Barratt said visitor levels remained ...
HBOS commits to free banking
Mar 01, 2007 ... FREE banking is the buzz right now and HBOS chief Andy Hornby hasno problem pushing the right button. The big banks are facing aclampdown on penalty fees from the regulator as more customers claimback charges levied against them. Mr Hornby says: "We are committed to free banking ....
Bus firm places [Pounds]55m order
Mar 01, 2007 ... BUS and coach operator Stagecoach yesterday placed a [Pounds]55morder for 440 buses, as gridlock encourages Britons to rediscoverpublic transport. Yorkshire commuters will be among those who benefit, because thecompany took over the Traction Group bus business, which has ...
Communisis looks for role in marketing
Mar 01, 2007 ... PRINT group Communisis is to reinvent itself as a marketing expertfollowing a strategic review by new chief executive Steve Vaughan whowas catapulted in just four months ago to rejuvenate the company. Mr Vaughan said the Leeds-based group had historically focused onputting ink on ...
Growers fight plan to hold GM potato crop trial in region
Mar 01, 2007 ... CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to fight attempts to hold a geneticallymodified potato trial in East Yorkshire. Crop development business BASF Plant Science wants to carry out afive-year trial of a potato modified to resist the devastating fungaldisease late blight at a farm in the ...
Asda to promote local produce
Mar 01, 2007 ... YORKSHIRE food and drink producers are to be given a boost througha new business scheme aiming to give them a bigger presence onsupermarket shelves. Yorkshire Farmhouse hopes to bridge the gap between mainly small-scale local producers and large-scale supermarket buyers by ...
Atlas may fetch [Pounds]500,000
Mar 01, 2007 ... A RARE copy of the first printed atlas of England and Wales isexpected to fetch more than [Pounds]500,000 when it goes under thehammer later this month. The work of Yorkshire surveyor Christopher Saxton, printed between1579 and 1590, is bound in one volume with a rare set of five ...
Museum buys rare drawing from Captain Cook voyage
Mar 01, 2007 ... A DRAWING of Captain Cook's ship Resolution in a stream of packice while he was attempting to confirm the existence of a GreatSouthern Continent - now known as Antarctica - has been discovered inthe United States. The previously unknown picture by William Hodges, the ...
Drugs baron who invaded pop singer's home jailed
Mar 01, 2007 ... An "evil" cocaine baron who invaded the home of Girls Aloud starNadine Coyle while hunting for a base for his multi-million-pounddrugs empire was jailed for 14 years yesterday. Bryan Miller and his gang desperately wanted a safe house todouble as a narcotics cash and carry when a ...
Church to build affordable Dales village homes
Mar 01, 2007 ... A CHURCH has announced plans to build its own affordable housingto allow young families to stay in a Yorkshire Dales village. The Bradford Diocese is taking the unusual step of developing itsown accommodation in Dent in the Yorkshire Dales National Park whereat least 13 families ...
Experts bring new life to old mill
Mar 01, 2007 ... THEY helped Castle Howard retain its grandeur, and now they planto breathe life into a former corn mill. Restoration works, which will transform a former mill on the Leedsring road into an office development, are due to start shortly afterLeeds developer, the Gregory Group, ...
Landmark hotel brings jobs for 50
Mar 01, 2007 ... AROUND 50 jobs will be created at a [Pounds]12m hotel and leisurecomplex in Doncaster. Doncaster's Council's planning committee has backed planssubmitted by Basilton Properties for a purpose-built 122-bed businessclass hotel in High Fisher Gate, overlooking the Minster Gardens ....
Region goes for international cash
Mar 01, 2007 ... Yorkshire's commercial property sector will be swapping theiroffices for meetings on sun-drenched yachts later this month at theannual MIPIM conference in Cannes. AS most people will testify, the sight of cranes in many ofYorkshire's towns and cities are a testament to the ongoing ...
Body of aristocrat may hold key to bird flu
Mar 01, 2007 ... FOR 88 years, the body of a Yorkshire aristocrat has lainundisturbed in a quiet churchyard near his family seat in the EastRiding. But according to experts, a coffin containing the remains of SirMark Sykes, the 6th Baronet of Sledmere, may hold the key to haltingthe march of a ...
'Harewood' ex-actress dies at 87
Mar 01, 2007 ... ANGELA Lascelles, the first wife of the Earl of Harewood's youngerbrother, died yesterdayHarewood House announced that Mrs Lascelles, who was married tothe late Gerald Lascelles, died peacefully in her sleep, aged 87, ather home in Virginia Water, Surrey, at 2.30am. Before ...
Park shooting victim dies in hospital
Mar 01, 2007 ... A MAN shot in what appears to be a random attack has died inhospital. Skander Habib Rehman, 20, was found with a single gunshot wound tothe head by a passer-by in Brackenhill Park, Horton Bank, Bradford,on Monday morning. He was found in the park about 15 minutes after he is ...
Boy 15, beaten to death 'in gang attack'
Mar 01, 2007 ... A DEFENCELESS schoolboy was attacked and killed by a teenage gangfrom a rival estate because he was "in the wrong place at the wrongtime". Lee Conman, 15, was beaten with a 4ft long, heavy branch in thedoorway of a Chinese takeaway in Hull on September 22 last year, "anddidn't ...
Stephen Biscoe: Beware television's shabby box of tricks
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE makers of the BBC cookery show Saturday Kitchen have beencaught out in a shabby deceit, showing the presenter Eamonn Holmes ina television studio during a "live" recording of the show when he wassimultaneously taking part in a BBC Radio Five Live sports programme. The bogus ...
Frantic search for missing radioactive capsule
Mar 01, 2007 ... A PIECE of radioactive material was lost by the University of Yorkfor five days after it was sent by mistake to a stainless steelreprocessing plant in South Yorkshire. Staff stripping down a machine for decommissioning wrongly thoughtthe radium 226 was inside a lead container, ...
Food label fight
Mar 01, 2007 ... AT a time when consumers are rightly taking a keen interest inwhat they are eating, it is disturbing to discover that the bodyresponsible for food labelling rules is considering cutting theamount of information available to customers buying meat products. If the Food Standards ...
Save now, pay later
Mar 01, 2007 ... AT the very time when Britain's Armed Forces are involved in twoactive, volatile and highly-dangerous theatres of war, the House ofCommons Defence Committee has expressed concern about the low levelof Government spending on defence research. Inadequate investment in this vital ...
Gough retraces his steps
Mar 01, 2007 ... DARREN GOUGH plans to model himself on England captain MichaelVaughan in an effort to put Yorkshire cricket back on the road togreatness. Gough wants to emulate his Yorkshire team-mate's man-managementstyle after taking the reins at Headingley Carnegie. He promised his ...
More homes at risk as coastline slips into sea
Mar 01, 2007 ... Nearly 70 more houses are under threat on the Yorkshire coast inthe next 50 years, a report is expected to reveal today. As many as 67 homes - valued at [Pounds]5m - could disappear dueto coastal erosion. View the photo gallery Pressure is now growing for a national ...
Kear's return will be no old pals' act
Mar 01, 2007 ... John Kear, the man who masterminded Hull's Challenge Cup finaltriumph, is back on Sunday aiming to add to their early season woes. THEIR involvement in one of the most memorable matches of moderntimes formed a bond which will last a lifetime but there will be noroom for sentiment ...
How agents took over the beautiful game - and how football allowed it to happen
Mar 01, 2007 ... With the Football Association introducing new guidelines to crackdown on the agents playing by their own rules, Bill Bridge looks athow the money men got control of even the game's grassroots. THERE'S an eight-year-old living in deepest West Yorkshire who istaken by his parents to ...
Kear's return will be no old pals' act
Mar 01, 2007 ... John Kear, the man who masterminded Hull's Challenge Cup finaltriumph, is back on Sunday aiming to add to their early season woes. THEIR involvement in one of the most memorable matches of moderntimes formed a bond which will last a lifetime but there will be noroom for sentiment ...
Victims who curse their bad fortune with the postal fraudsters
Mar 01, 2007 ... A growing number of people are becoming victims of mail fraud. You are invited to a presentation to collect a prize and persuadedto join a "holiday club". The "prize" is worthless and the club doesnot deliver. Average loss: [Pounds]3,000. You are told you have won a prize in a ...
Blades freeze ticket prices in Lane plans
Mar 01, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD United have frozen season ticket prices for next seasonin a bid to attract even more supporters and justify a majorredevelopment of Bramall Lane. The move is also a boost in the nationwide fight to bring down theprice of watching Premiership football. Chelsea and ...
Ian Appleyard:Fowler would be a smash in Sheffield
Mar 01, 2007 ... LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez will be 'looking for God' thissummer - a replacement for Robbie Fowler, the striker regarded as anultimate power at Anfield. Fowler, 31, is being released at the end of the season and may yetbe destined for Dubai, Qatar, or Major League Soccer in ...
Savings help council to keep tax rise to 1.94pc
Mar 01, 2007 ... A Yorkshire council has instigated its lowest ever council taxincrease after the spectre of legal action over a bullying scandalhas been lifted.Richmondshire District Council has agreed to push ahead with arise of just 1.94 per cent in its share of the new tax bill, makingthe ...
Renewable energy on the agenda for planning and conservation staff
Mar 01, 2007 ... UP to 100 planners and conservation staff are due to debate thecontroversial question of renewable energy development in our mosttreasured landscapes and historical sites in Hebden Bridge today. The event has been organised for staff employed by the fivenational parks and seven ...
Interchange gets go-ahead
Mar 01, 2007 ... PLANS for a new transport interchange for Castleford have beenapproved by Wakefield district councillors. Metro's development team will now press ahead with the project andif all goes well building is due to start next year, with a plannedcompletion date in 2010. Metro's ...
Bold look heralds new era for city
Mar 01, 2007 ... A SWEEPING curve of white metal and glass, designed to simulate agiant breaking wave, is bringing 21st century modernity to Hull citycentre. The roof of the [Pounds]200m-plus St Stephen's development,unveiled at an official topping out ceremony yesterday, heralds a newera for ...
Moxon confirmed on Yorkshire shortlist
Mar 01, 2007 ... Yorkshire County Cricket Club have revealed that former captainand director of coaching Martyn Moxon is down to the last few namesfor the director of professional cricket role. Moxon today resigned as the head coach of Durham and Yorkshirehave confirmed he is in the running for the ...
Council tax freeze for Yorkshire pensioners
Mar 02, 2007 ... A YORKSHIRE town hall has become the first in the country tofreeze council tax bills for pensioners - sparking a clamour for thezero-increase policy to be extended to other authorities in thecountry. Kirklees Council has approved a three per cent rise in its counciltax demand for ...
Town first class at deliveries
Mar 02, 2007 ... Postal workers in Huddersfield are delivering the best service inthe country with 96 per cent of first-class mail picked up the nextday. In 28 out of 30 postcode areas in the North staff are beatingtheir 93 per cent targets for delivering first-class post the nextday, according ...
Council does about-turn on charging for school meals
Mar 02, 2007 ... A COUNCIL'S plans to scrap free school meals lasted just four daysafter its budget was amended by opposition councillors. The Lib Dem-run Hull Council voted unanimously to reintroducecharging for primary school meals at a Cabinet meeting on Monday. But that was overturned ...
Thousands hit in 'faulty fuel' crisis
Mar 02, 2007 ... ANXIOUS drivers bombarded motoring groups were bombarded withcalls yesterday as investigators sought to pinpoint the cause of thefaulty fuel crisis. Thousands of motorists have complained of engine trouble afterfilling up with unleaded petrol at service stations and ...
Tory MPs hit back at critics of Thatcher's lobby statue
Mar 02, 2007 ... TORY MPs from East and West Yorkshire have signed a motioncelebrating the career of Baroness Thatcher in response to calls fora statue of the former Prime Minister to be removed from the Housesof Parliament. East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight and Shipley MP Philip Davies areamong the ...
More awards joy for Arctic Monkeys but Jarvis loses out
Mar 02, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD band Arctic Monkeys picked up more accolades last nighthard on the heels of their success at the Brit awards. The group won Best Album for their debut Whatever People Say I Am,That's What I'm Not, and Best Music DVD at the NME Awards. The plaudits come following a ...
Minster to increase admission charge by 50p
Mar 02, 2007 ... ADMISSION charges at York Minster - controversially introduced in2003 to tackle an annual deficit of [Pounds]600,000 - are to beincreased by 50p. From next Friday adult visitors will pay [Pounds]5.50 for entry tothe Minster and senior citizens and students will be ...
Rooms with a view now waiting for guests
Mar 02, 2007 ... A holiday on a country railway station platform with a dozentrains a day rumbling past 10ft from the window might not sound likeeveryone's idea of a peaceful break. But a couple who have made their home in the old Station House atHunmanby Station, near Filey, and converted the old ...
Two charged as police investigate funeral home
Mar 02, 2007 ... TWO men have been charged in connection with a policeinvestigation into a funeral home. The investigation by police was first revealed in the YorkshirePost. Yesterday the two men, aged 47 and 44, were charged withconspiracy to prevent the proper burial of a ...
Chiefs planning to axe ambulance communications centre
Mar 02, 2007 ... AMBULANCE chiefs have announced they plan to close one ofYorkshire's three 999 communications centres. The base at Rotherham will go if its closure is confirmedfollowing a public consultation. Remaining centres at York and Wakefield will take overresponsibility for calls in ...
Second arrest in student murder hunt
Mar 02, 2007 ... POLICE investigating the murder of a 20-year-old universitystudent who was shot in the head in a Bradford park have made asecond arrest. Police are now holding a 19-year-old woman and a 20-year-old manfrom Bradford in connection with the murder of Skander Habib Rehmanin ...
[Pounds]40,000 bank con left victim suicidal
Mar 02, 2007 ... FRAUDSTERS left a painter and decorator in debt and suicidal aftertricking him into letting them use his bank account to launder stolencheques, a court heard. The victim, Stanley Cubbison, from Hull, was approached by IshanulHaq promising legitimate work and told funds would be ...
Fourth man jailed for Bradford PC shooting
Mar 02, 2007 ... Hassan Razzaq has been jailed for 20 years for the manslaughter ofPc Sharon Beshenivsky. The 26-year-old is the fourth man to besentenced following the fatal shooting of the 38-year-old officer inBradford in November 2005. Razzaq, of Sebert Road, Forest Gate, east London was jailed ...
Rising costs shut woollen spinner
Mar 02, 2007 ... TWENTY two jobs have been lost at a Yorkshire wool firm whichclosed after being hit by rising costs.Woollen spinner Joseph Barraclough, based in Mirfield, WestYorkshire, went into administration last week after a move tointegrate it into the Cam Hali Group, of Turkey, failed ....
Brooke North's hello to new partner
Mar 02, 2007 ... COMMERCIAL law firm Brooke North has progressed its plans forexpanding by adding two new specialisms.The Leeds-based practice has made a high-profile partnerappointment in bringing Dai Davis from Nabarro Nathanson to establishdisciplines devoted to information technology (IT) ...
Suitor eyes up vehicle weigher PM Group
Mar 02, 2007 ... Vehicle weighing systems company PM Group said yesterday it hadreceived a bid approach.At the same time, the Bradford-based company confirmed that itsmanagement would not proceed with a buyout. PM is in the forefront of moves to compel householders to pay forthe rubbish ...
Property portfolio salvation of UK Coal
Mar 02, 2007 ... UK COAL is in talks with some of the UK's biggest housebuilders,including York-based Persimmon, Barratt Developments and Wimpey aboutplans to convert land next to former pits into housing and officespace.The news came yesterday as Britain's biggest coal miner said ithad ...
Deirdre has last laugh in i-to-i sale
Mar 02, 2007 ... EXCLUSIVE: A former stand-up comedienne who started a travelbusiness in her bedsit has sold it to holiday giant First Choice in adeal thought to be worth around [Pounds]20m. Deirdre Bounds, 41, started educational travel firm i-to-i 12years ago in her flat in Rawdon, Leeds, and has ...
RBS shareholders get plenty to smile about
Mar 02, 2007 ... IT was good news all round yesterday for shareholders in RoyalBank of Scotland, Europe's second biggest bank.Underlying profits were up 14 per cent to [Pounds]9.41bn in 2006.And the total dividend was up more at 25 per cent, or 90.6p pershare. It was the second successive year ...
Titans stars linked with Tykes switch
Mar 02, 2007 ... LEEDS and Rotherham are engrossed in an intense battle forpromotion to the Premiership but it is understood that leading Titansplayers have already agreed to join the Tykes next season, regardlessof the outcome of the title race. The West Yorkshiremen are overwhelming favourites to ...
Fans will give friendly welcome
Mar 02, 2007 ... MUCH speculation has been aired as to the reception Chris Adamsmight receive when he plays against Yorkshire for Sussex this summer. Of no less interest will be the reception accorded Anthony McGrathnow that the Yorkshire batsman appears to have abandoned his missionto quit the ...
McGrath looks set to remain
Mar 02, 2007 ... ANTHONY McGRATH is believed to have performed a dramatic U-turnand agreed to stay with Yorkshire, who have persuaded Martyn Moxon toreturn as director of cricket. McGrath is understood to be staying at Headingley Carnegie, wherehe will link up with Barnsley duo and good friends ...