Yorkshire Post back issues from December 2007:
Talks aim to prevent city-living property crisis
Dec 01, 2007 ... Exclusive FEARS that Yorkshire cities are being swamped by flatdevelopments have prompted urgent talks to head-off a possible crisis in the region's property market. A review is due to be conducted in the New Year to establishYorkshire's housing needs over concerns that a ...
Woman is murdered on estate
Dec 01, 2007 ... DETECTIVES launched a murder hunt after a woman was killed as shewas attacked in a garage at a South Yorkshire village. Witnesses raised the alarm after seeing a dark-haired man attackthe woman at a block of private garages next to a housing estate inRoyston, near Barnsley, at 1pm ...
Lost in time: Street life in Leeds, 1969
Dec 01, 2007 ... THE year Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and Leeds United werecrowned champions of England, Eric Jaquier arrived in West Yorkshirefrom Switzerland with his brand new Nikon F1 camera and an eye forthe unusual. For a month in 1969 he spent hours walking the streets of ...
Soaring costs of medical negligence in region hit NHS
Dec 01, 2007 ... EXCLUSIVE: Medical negligence at Yorkshire hospitals has cost thetaxpayer a colossal Pounds 161m in four years, official figuresreveal. The region's NHS trusts have received more than 2,300 negligenceclaims since April 2003 and compensation payments are rising yearon ...
Muslim peers in freedom plea to Sudan
Dec 01, 2007 ... TWO Muslim peers from Yorkshire are leading a British delegationto Sudan in a bid to secure the release of the teacher imprisonedfor insulting Islam, as sword-wielding protesters yesterday demandedher execution. Baron Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham, Britain's first Muslim peer, ...
Meredith pair must stay in jail say judges in Italy
Dec 01, 2007 ... Two of the suspects held in connection with the murder of LeedsUniversity exchange student Meredith Kercher had their appeal to bereleased from prison rejected by a court in Perugia, Italy. Giuliano Mignini, the lead investigator in the case, saidRaffaele Sollecito, 23, and Amanda ...
Sky's limit as hair products firm's HQ on move
Dec 01, 2007 ... UP to 100 jobs will be created when the company behind one of themost successful hair products in history moves its groupheadquarters to Yorkshire's first skyscraper. Jemella Group, which manufactures the Ghd range of styling ironsand hair products used by celebrities including ...
Alarm bells for retailers as consumer confidence hits a new low
Dec 01, 2007 ... Fears of a sharp slowdown in the economy were fuelled aftermonthly consumer confidence figures fell to their lowest level sinceMarch 2003. The GfK NOP barometer of UK confidence scored minus 10 inNovember, down from minus eight in October, as pessimism increasedin the wake of the ...
Financial storm hits resort's eye on bay
Dec 01, 2007 ... BRIDLINGTON'S big wheel has stopped turning - after a financialdispute plunged its future into doubt. When the landmark Eye on the Bay was launched earlier thissummer, expectations were high that it would prove a big crowdpuller. But earlier this week finance company Haydock ...
DNA finally traps girl's park rapist
Dec 01, 2007 ... A CONVICTED murderer will serve another six years behind barsafter scientific advances led to his conviction for the rape of aBridlington teenager 13 years ago. Steven Silvester, now 33, pleaded guilty to raping the 16-year-old in a Bridlington park at Hull Crown Court, after ...
Unlucky Blind Date romeo finds his true love at last
Dec 01, 2007 ... BEING jilted by a blind date before the plane takes off for aromantic getaway would put most people off love for good. But even after Blind Date contestant David Smith was stood up onthe hit ITV matchmaking show, hosted by Cilla Black, he never losthope in finding a ...
Elderly 'will be hardest hit' by post office closures
Dec 01, 2007 ... CUSTOMERS hardest-hit by proposed post office closures will besome of the most vulnerable members of the community, especiallyelderly people, opponents are warning. North Yorkshire Council has begun seeking residents' views afterproposals to shut more than 20 Post Offices in the ...
Police will test all drivers in accidents amid blitz
Dec 01, 2007 ... ALL drivers involved in any traffic incident will be breathalysedby police as part of a massive drink-drive purge which is beinglaunched across Yorkshire today. Each of the county's four forces has announced the start of itstraditional Christmas clampdown on drink and drug driving, ...
Referee was headbutted by father of young player
Dec 01, 2007 ... POLICE have been called in after the father of a juniorfootballer headbutted a referee because he had given his son ayellow card. Graham Bean, who used to work for the Football Associationinvestigating wrongdoing in the sport, was attacked after an under-14s match. He had ...
It's still always lighting up time in smoking capital of England
Dec 01, 2007 ... Earlier this year a Hull estate was named and shamed as Britain'ssmoking capital. So, asks Sarah Freeman , six months after lightingup was banned in public places has anything changed? Bransholme is the kind of estate most politicians would like topretend no longer ...
Inspirational blind traveller wins Pounds 50,000 business prize
Dec 01, 2007 ... HIS wanderlust has taken him from Leeds to the jungles ofNicaragua and his entrepreneurial spirit led him to set up his owntravel company. Amar Latif, a Scotsman based in Leeds, has not let his disabilitylimit his business or travel horizons and he has picked aprestigious ...
Conference name upsets family of gun victim
Dec 01, 2007 ... YOUTH workers have been criticised after organising a communityconference called Kids In The Hood at a venue close to theplayground where 14-year-old Jonathan Matondo was shot dead. Jonathan was murdered in the Burngreave area of Sheffield inOctober, and his family and friends said ...
Council pays back fines in parking fine row
Dec 01, 2007 ... A Yorkshire council was at the centre of a parking row last nightafter it was revealed that thousands of tickets could have beenwrongly issued against motorists in Wakefield. Drivers given a ticket after parking on streets in the city overthe last two years could now be entitled to ...
Report boosts drive to reopen rail line
Dec 01, 2007 ... The campaign to reopen an 11.5-mile stretch of railway across thePennines has been boosted by a report which says the benefitssignificantly outweigh the costs. The pressure group Skipton to East Lancashire Railway ActionPartnership, which is campaigning to reopen the line between ...
Clean start as ex-launderette is turned into new art venue
Dec 01, 2007 ... A former launderette in Scarborough hopes to become a differentkind of community hub as it re-opens as an art gallery. The South Street Gallery opens today with an exhibition of workby local artists including Steve Whitehead, Kane Cunningham, SallyGatie, David Chalmers and Andrew ...
All police officers may be armed with Tasers
Dec 01, 2007 ... TASERS could be issued to every police officer in the country ifpilot schemes now being carried out are successful, according toHome Secretary Jacqui Smith. Ms Smith said she "could see a day" when all police were armedwith the 50,000 volt electric stun gun as a piece of ...
Teenage boozers may face visits to parents
Dec 01, 2007 ... COUNCIL officials are to visit the homes of children founddrinking on the streets of a Leeds district in a bid to cut under-age boozing. They will call on families in the Kippax area at teatime - whenofficials say parents are likely to be at home - and speak to themabout their ...
Neighbour cleared of harassment charge
Dec 01, 2007 ... A gardener accused of tormenting his well-to-do neighbours in aquiet Yorkshire village by waving a pitchfork, blasting out loudmusic and making intimidating comments was cleared yesterday. Retired civil engineer John Gill, 59, had been accused ofbullying and sexual harassment by ...
Yorkshire Minister to push for more transport spending
Dec 01, 2007 ... Yorkshire's voice in Government yesterday promised to be a "goodadvocate" for the region - pushing for more spending on transportand a prestigious project that could make it world-leader in carbonreduction. MP for Don Valley Caroline Flint who was made the first Ministerfor ...
Couple's 'frustrating' wait for cash to help disabled girl
Dec 01, 2007 ... Faye Austin's baby daughter, Charlotte, died and her other twindaughter, Elspeth was left with permanent brain damage, aftermedical blunders during her pregnancy at Barnsley District GeneralHospital. Six years after filing a compensation claim Mrs Austin is stillwaiting for the ...
Two arrests in hunt for missing student
Dec 01, 2007 ... POLICE were last night questioning two men who were arrested inHuddersfield in connection with the disappearance of a universitystudent who has not been seen for more than 20 days. Tobiasz Minski, 23, vanished during the early hours of Friday,November 9, after a night out in the ...
Brown pledges full support for cash inquiry
Dec 01, 2007 ... PRIME Minister Gordon Brown last night told police considering acriminal inquiry into Labour's disguised donations that he wouldwelcome the "fullest possible investigation". In a letter to the senior Metropolitan Police Officer leading theinquiry, Mr Brown said he had asked party ...
Hostages seized at Clinton poll base
Dec 01, 2007 ... A MAN claiming to be carrying a bomb walked into theheadquarters of US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton yesterdayand took two hostages. Both hostages were volunteers with Democrat front-runner MrsClinton, who was not on the scene in Rochester, New Hampshire, whenthey were ...
Dawmed warning of a 'significant' loss after group takes a triple hit
Dec 01, 2007 ... DAWMED Systems, the company that makes machines to wash anddisinfect medical equipment, warned it will make a significant lossthis year due to IT investment, litigation costs and a lack ofspending by the NHS. In a bid to return the NHS to the black, the government has cutback on ...
Marston's hit by summer flood damage bill of Pounds 2m
Dec 01, 2007 ... MARSTON'S counted the cost of the summer floods which hit SouthYorkshire in June and July with a 3 per cent fall in annual profits,but said nearly all the 150 pubs that were hit by the floods havenow reopened. Pubs across Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and Hull were forcedto shut ...
Skills challenge to parents
Dec 01, 2007 ... PARENTS must take their share of responsibility for ensuringYorkshire bridges the economic gap with the rest of Britain,according to Trade and Investment Minister Lord Jones. Lord Jones - who as, Sir Digby Jones, was director general of theCBI - said community groups and parents ...
Viridas looks at overhaul after loss
Dec 01, 2007 ... VIRIDAS, the company which has interests in various sectors, saidyesterday it recognised "the need for strategic change" as it made ahalf-year loss. The Leeds-based business saw turnover for the six months toAugust 31 drop to Pounds 2.5m compared to Pounds 3.2m over the ...
600 Group cheered by bid retreat
Dec 01, 2007 ... BRITAIN'S biggest machine tool maker 600 Group yesterday welcomedthe news that Precision Technologies Group has no intention ofmaking a bid for the company. The Takeover Panel gave PTG a deadline of 5pm on November 29 toannounce a firm intention to make an offer for the Leeds-based ...
Railway ideas above their station
Dec 01, 2007 ... HARROGATE RAILWAY chairman Rob Northfield will wait until an hourbefore kick-off to unveil a bonus system that he hopes will helpcreate FA Cup history. The part-time minnows will tomorrow try to bridge a five-division gap by beating Mansfield Town to continue an amazing Cuprun ...
Leeds ring the changes for Cup trip to Bristol
Dec 01, 2007 ... TOMORROW'S EDF Energy Cup match at Bristol might look as dead asSteve McClaren's international career, but Leeds Carnegie reckonthey have plenty to play for. Even though both sides cannot progress to the semi-finals, andeven though both have left out several key players - the ...
England v Sri Lanka day one: Hoggard sets sweet standard in Kandy
Dec 01, 2007 ... YORKSHIRE bowler Matthew Hoggard made his mark on day one ofEngland's first Test against Sri Lanka with four wickets. Sri Lanka won the toss and batted first - but failed to make anyof the advantage they must have been hoping for as they crashed outfor just 188. Hoggard ...
Saturday football: Blades win on the road, Huddersfield through in Cup
Dec 01, 2007 ... All the scores from today's football action ... Premier Aston Villa 1 Arsenal 2 L Blackburn 3 Newcastle 1 FT Chelsea 1 West Ham 0 FT Portsmouth 0 Everton 0 FT Reading 1 Middlesbrough 1 FT Sunderland 1 Derby 0 FT Wigan 1 ...
Full time: Huddersfield 3 Grimsby 0
Dec 01, 2007 ... FORMER Grimsby striker Phil Jevons struck at the double againsthis old club to put Huddersfield into the third round of the FA Cup. His goals came in a 10-minute spell after the break and LukeBeckett wrapped things up late on after fellow substitute DannyCadamarteri struck a ...
Full time: Bradford City 0 Tranmere Rovers 3
Dec 01, 2007 ... BRADFORD CITY failed to reach the third round of the FA Cup forthe third year in a row as League One side Tranmere Rovers strolledto an easy second-round victory. Halifax-born Chris Greenacre bagged a double after midfielderSteve Jennings put Tranmere into an early ...
Full time: Sheffield Wednesday 1 Colchester United 2
Dec 01, 2007 ... THE manager of the month curse came to Hillsborough today asChampionship recipient Brian Laws saw his Sheffield Wednesday side'ssix-game unbeaten run halted. If Laws was superstitious he may have feared the worst when on-loan Michael Johnson, the rock with which Wednesday have kept ...
Full time: Hull City 2 Cardiff City 2
Dec 01, 2007 ... A LAST gasp goal from Roger Johnson cruelly denied Hull Cityvictory in an entertaining game. The Cardiff City defender struck deep into stoppage time to earna point for the visiting side that their efforts had deserved. Goals from Stephen McPhee and Richard Garcia had looked ...
Full time: Ipswich 0 Barnsley 0
Dec 01, 2007 ... HEINZ Muller enhanced his standing as the goalkeeper to scoutwith another fine display to earn Barnsley a draw at Ipswich. Fulham, Wigan and Bolton are all rumoured to be in competition tosign the 6ft 6ins German and his performance cannot have failed toimpressed the watching ...
Tom Richmond: The local voices that won't be listened to
Dec 01, 2007 ... GORDON Brown's plans to give Yorkshire MPs a greater say atWestminster are in disarray. This, you will remember, was his sop to the regions on becomingPrime Minister to silence those who are rightly perturbed at theinfluence wielded by Scottish and Welsh MPs over ...
Full time: Coventry City 0 Sheffield United 1
Dec 01, 2007 ... SHEFFIELD United's sparkling away form continued with a 1-0 winat Coventry City. The Blades are unbeaten on the road in five matches since winningaway from home for the first time this season at Leicester onOctober 23. Chris Armstrong scored his second goal in two games after ...
Brian Thomas
Dec 01, 2007 ... BRIAN Thomas was one of Bradford's most popular men in businessand sport. Born in 1933 in the Nab Wood area of Shipley where he was to livefor the rest of his life, Mr Thomas was educated at Salt GrammarSchool and was so highly-regarded as an all-round cricketer that hemade his ...
Reg Park
Dec 01, 2007 ... TRIBUTES from friends and fans around the world - includingformer bodybuilder and film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, now Governorof California - have been overwhelming the family of Leeds-born RegPark, three times crowned Mr Universe, who has died in South Africaat the age of ...
Lord Allen of Abbeydale
Dec 01, 2007 ... LORD Allen of Abbeydale, who died this week aged 95, was among anew breed of post-war civil servant - meritocratic, managerial andsensitive to Ministers' political concerns. He was permanent secretary at the Home Office from 1966 to 1972,having been picked for the job by the Home ...
Taser target
Dec 01, 2007 ... THE response to calls for all frontline police officers to beroutinely armed has always been calm and proportionate, even afterthe shooting dead of two constables in West Yorkshire. Chief Constables say the ability of their officers to buildcommunity links may be threatened if they ...
The blame game
Dec 01, 2007 ... THE huge sums being paid out by the NHS to compensate patientsfor negligence - Pounds 161m for Yorkshire hospitals over the lastfour years alone - are less an indication of a crisis in thestandards of care than a sign of the times. The public now have far higher expectations for ...
Politics sinks to a new low
Dec 01, 2007 ... IT is disingenuous for Labour to claim that the Tories, too, havequestions to answer over their financial arrangements as theGovernment seeks to deflect attention away from the prospect ofGordon Brown being questioned by the police. At least millionaire donor Lord Ashcroft has made ...
How ice sculpted our world
Dec 01, 2007 ... Doughty geologist Iain Stewart is making a personal journey totell the life story of our planet, how it works and what makes it sospecial. Grace Hammond reports Dr Iain Stewart's epic journey to discover the story of planetEarth brings him face to face with tricky ice on a ...
Turning tradition on its head
Dec 01, 2007 ... Purple, yellow or topsy turvy? Sharon Dale reveals some trimmingup trends and tips The festive season has fallen victim to fashion and Christmas isbeing influenced by the catwalk. So this year purple is the colourwith touches of yellow if you want to appear really on ...
Splendid isolation
Dec 01, 2007 ... A Day in a Dale. Yvette Huddleston and Walter Swan report fromUpper Swaledale and Birk Dale Birk Dale (sometimes spelt as one word) isn't the most northerlyof the dales, though it sometimes feels like it. During two out of three recent trips here, the weather wascloudy, cold ...
Muddy waters of flood strategy
Dec 01, 2007 ... A softly-spoken civil engineer from New Zealand is redrawing themap of the Humber to fight the threat of flooding posed by globalwarming. Roger Ratcliffe joined him for a riverside walk Philip Winn strolls along one of the centuries-old flood defencebanks overlooking the gritty ...
Ambition is high for Garside after Dunauger takes award
Dec 01, 2007 ... Tracy Garside, a freelance instructor from Spofforth, nearHarrogate, has just won a prestigious annual award from the EventHorse Owners Association. She picked up the owner rider of the year prize for herachievements on her 10-year-old dun event horse Dunauger, who shecompetes ...
Phillips happy to see sport growing
Dec 01, 2007 ... The biggest names in the world of sport will gather atBirmingham's NEC next Sunday, December 9 to hear who the public hasvoted BBC Sports Personality Of The Year. Zara Phillips was named 2006 BBC Sports Personality Of The Year,and the award followed a thrilling year for her, ...
Squad depth set to be tested
Dec 01, 2007 ... Ipswich Town v Barnsley BARNSLEY will be without captain Brian Howard for the first timein the league this season as they look to end Ipswich Town's 100 percent home record. Howard, who is suspended, is the team's leading goalscorer witheight goals but an inspiration in the ...
Cooke looking to move forward
Dec 01, 2007 ... Sheffield Wednesday v Colchester United DIRECTOR Ken Cooke has pledged to move Sheffield Wednesdayforward as the club adjusts to life without chairman Dave Allen. Cooke wants to heal rifts and unite supporters after steppinginto Allen's shoes for this week's agm and says it is ...
Hangover is cured as Blades aim high
Dec 01, 2007 ... Coventry v Sheffield United BRYAN ROBSON hopes Sheffield United have finally shaken off therelegation hangover that threatened the club's bid for an instantreturn to the Premier League. The Blades manager, who is set to make a new bid for BoltonWanderers midfielder ...
Tigers' defensive stability faces stiffest test yet
Dec 01, 2007 ... Hull City v Cardiff City HULL CITY'S new-found defensive confidence will be put to thetest today against two strikers who have enjoyed success at thehighest level over the past decade or so. The Tigers are unbeaten in four outings and have conceded justonce during that run of ...
Cup shock would allow life of Riley to get much easier
Dec 01, 2007 ... Harrogate Railway v Mansfield Town JAMES RILEY has an extra incentive as FA Cup minnows HarrogateRailway prepare to step into the national spotlight tomorrow. The former England Schoolboys defender has already played hispart in an amazing Cup Odyssey that started three ...
O'Brien in at deep end for Bantams
Dec 01, 2007 ... Bradford City v Tranmere Rovers TEENAGER Luke O'Brien will be handed a full debut as BradfordCity look to earn a place in the FA Cup third round for the firsttime since being relegated from the top two divisions in 2004. The defender's only previous competitive ...
No danger of Ritchie easing off
Dec 01, 2007 ... Huddersfield Town v Grimsby Town THE FA Cup may not have been the kindest to Andy Ritchie as aplayer but the Huddersfield Town manager would never take thecompetition lightly. His bad luck started as a Manchester United player in 1979 when,after playing in every ...
'I put in 70 hours a week and, quite honestly, Chelsea could not pay me what I am worth.'
Dec 01, 2007 ... ANYONE easily offended should stay well away from Elland Road ifFreddy Shepherd succeeds in his bid to buy a one-third share ofLeeds United. Ken Bates and Shepherd in the same boardroom? A union of two ofthe most outspoken men in football, men for whom delicacy and tactare low on ...
Rose leads way in Sun City
Dec 01, 2007 ... European No 1 Justin Rose fired a flawless 65 to claim a share ofthe lead after the second round of the Nedbank Challenge yesterday. Rose, who won the Volvo Masters at the start of November to claimhis first Order of Merit crown, carded seven birdies and no bogeysover the daunting ...