Yorkshire Post back issues from March 2008:
Singer Winehouse will not face court charges
Mar 01, 2008 ... Singer Amy Winehouse, 24, will not face charges in connectionwith an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justiceinvolving her husband. Police are taking no further action against the star, ScotlandYard said. She was arrested "by appointment" in December and ...
Eurovision chance for ex-builder
Mar 01, 2008 ... A HANDYMAN turned stage star will be appealing for votes tonightas he battles for the chance to represent Britain in the EurovisionSong Contest. Rob McVeigh, from Rotherham, was dubbed Rob the Builder when heappeared in the BBC programme Any Dream Will Do. Although his ...
Festival honour for former Python
Mar 01, 2008 ... FORMER Monty Python Michael Palin, above, returned to Yorkshireyesterday to collect a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BradfordInternational Film Festival. The Sheffield-born actor and writer was honoured at the openinggala of the 14th festival, which will feature a ...
West Brom and Wolves top soccer rivalry list
Mar 01, 2008 ... Football's biggest rivalry is not in the Premiership but betweenWest Brom and Wolves, according to a new survey of fans out today. The Midlands clubs have the most keen rivalry of any otherfootball neighbours south of the border, followed by the "Old Farm"pairing of Ipswich and ...
Brought to book... rogues' gallery from the 1930s
Mar 01, 2008 ... MANY wear bowler hats and suits, but their clothes can't hide thefact that they are a motley assortment of card sharps, pickpocketsand housebreakers. All 224 rogues feature in a police pocket book produced by theWest Riding Constabulary in 1933, detailing their "form", ...
Police find trapdoor leading to 'sex abuse' cellar room
Mar 01, 2008 ... Police excavating a children's home in Jersey yesterdaydiscovered a trap door leading to the cellar where victims say theysuffered horrific sexual and physical abuse. The discovery of the door in the ceiling of the underground roomgave further weight to accounts from children who ...
Man jailed for knife murder pf prostitute
Mar 01, 2008 ... A father-of-one who murdered a Huddersfield prostitute in avicious knife attack has been jailed for life. Shayne Haynes, 22, fatally stabbed Geraldine Brocklehurst, 40, inthe neck with a 20cm-long kitchen knife last October. Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Haynes had ...
Campaigner's cashless walk to India ends - in Calais
Mar 01, 2008 ... A businessman who aimed to walk from Britain to India withoutspending a penny to prove that a world without money could exist hasgiven up, less than a month into his trip. Mark Boyle, 28, set off at the end of last month on his trek fromBristol to Gandhi's birthplace on India's ...
Millionaire banker in exam scam avoids jail
Mar 01, 2008 ... A MILLIONAIRE city banker posed as a struggling student at aYorkshire university to sit a series of economics exams for Pounds20,000. Jerome Drean, 34, head of European equity derivatives trading atCredit Suisse and who earned four million US dollars in three years,travelled ...
Six Yorkshire sites targeted in scramble for eco-town
Mar 01, 2008 ... AT least six areas of Yorkshire could be targeted as the site fora new regional eco-town, research from a leading campaign groupshows. The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said it hadidentified six sites where companies were seeking permission tobuild an eco-town for the ...
Sailing to victory: Easter ban on pleasure boat lifted
Mar 01, 2008 ... AN EASTER ban which could have seen a Yorkshire pleasure boatoperator lose out on one of the most profitable times of the yearhas been lifted. Until yesterday it looked as if Bridlington's Yorkshire Bellewould be stuck in port over the busy holiday period. Her season ...
Israel set for Gaza invasion
Mar 01, 2008 ... Gaza faced the threat of a full-scale Israeli invasion last nightafter a barrage of Palestinian rocket attacks hit border towns. The much-battered town of Sderot has taken the brunt of theoffensive, but longer-range Iranian rockets have also hit ...
Hospital gets Pounds 7m upgrade
Mar 01, 2008 ... Acutely ill or severely injured patients and their relatives areto benefit from a Pounds 7m upgrade of York Hospital to replaceageing facilities with some of the best in the country. Improvements to critical care facilities on the site are nowentering the third and final phase ...
Doctor given 18 years for murder of nurse
Mar 01, 2008 ... AN SAS veteran who used a Kalashnikov assault rifle to gun downhis former girlfriend in the street must serve at least 18 yearsbehind bars. But a judge ruled yesterday that had he committed the crime sincetougher new sentencing guidelines came into force, he would have hadto ...
Tragedy of baby boy and the mother he'll never know
Mar 01, 2008 ... THIS heartbreaking picture shows a baby who will never meet themother he is laying beside because she died after drowning in ahospital bath. Lorraine Maddi had been left alone by staff at Bassetlaw Hospitalin Worksop, after going into labour with little Jayden, and slumpedunder ...
Inquiry ordered on business park project amid flood-risk fears
Mar 01, 2008 ... A PUBLIC inquiry has been ordered into a Pounds 20m business parkscheme planned to create hundreds of jobs on a green-field site atthe edge of a market town and cash in on Yorkshire's creativeindustries boom. The proposal for the 20-acre development on the northern edge ofMalton ...
Model mother gives stamp of approval
Mar 01, 2008 ... Supermodel turned professional photographer Helena Christensenhas taken a series of photographs celebrating motherhood for newcharity stamps for the Royal Mail. The six photographs of her eight-year-old son Mingus feature onstamps which have gone on sale in time for Mother's Day ...
Lloyds TSB out of 100pc mortgage market
Mar 01, 2008 ... The UK's fourth biggest lender has pulled out of the 100 per centmortgage market. Lloyds TSB said yesterday it was ending all of its productslending 100 per cent of a property's value with immediate effect. People taking out a mortgage through its Cheltenham & ...
Joiner nails lottery payout
Mar 01, 2008 ... Touch wood - joiner Laurence Coates should have no problemsmaking ends meet after scooping a Pounds 85,000 lottery win.At first the grandfather thought his winning EuroMillions ticketwas only worth Pounds 110. But after the 57-year-old from Clifton, York, checked his ...
Home gas boiler installers arrested in death probe
Mar 01, 2008 ... A GAS fitter and his apprentice have been arrested on suspicionof manslaughter after a man died from suspected carbon monoxidepoisoning. Probation officer Mark Ellis, 41, complained of dizzy spellsafter a new boiler was installed in the bathroom of his home inDodworth, ...
Vitamin E linked to lung cancer risk
Mar 01, 2008 ... A second popular vitamin supplement has been found to heightenthe likelihood of developing lung cancer. Findings from a study of more than 77,000 people showed thattaking moderate to high doses of vitamin E led to a "slight butsignificant" increase in risk. Previous research ...
Heart op will go ahead for woman deemed 'too old'
Mar 01, 2008 ... A 61-YEAR-old grandmother who was told she was too old forsurgery to repair a debilitating heart problem will get theoperation after all following a dramatic u-turn by health chiefs. NHS managers had refused to pay for an operation to repair theirregular heartbeat which has ...
Clegg rebuked for gift 'oversights'
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has been rebuked fordelays in declaring more than Pounds 14,000 in donations, it wasrevealed yesterday. Mr Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam, did not notify the ElectoralCommission of six cash gifts received between December 2006 andlast ...
RCN angry over 'drunken and promiscuous nurses' slur
Mar 01, 2008 ... Nurses' leaders have hit back at a peer who last night brandedthem "grubby, drunken and promiscuous" during a debate in the Houseof Lords. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said Lord Mancroft's commentswere "grossly unfair" to nurses and amounted to "sexist insultsabout the ...
Rewards for cartel-busting whistleblowers
Mar 01, 2008 ... Whistleblowers will be offered up to Pounds 100,000 to comeforward with cartel-busting information, the Office of Fair Trading(OFT) has announced. It is one of the world's first competition bodies to offerrewards under the 18-month pilot scheme, although South Korea alsopays for ...
Ex-seaman jailed for rape 30 years ago
Mar 01, 2008 ... A FORMER merchant seaman who raped a young girl more than 30years ago has been jailed for 15 years. Michael Ruane, 60, subjected his victim to a campaign of indecentassault and rape from when she was aged nine to 14 between 1975 and1981. More than 30 years later, he visited ...
Hague backs battle to save rural post offices from closure
Mar 01, 2008 ... Former Tory leader William Hague spoke out yesterday in thecampaign to defend Yorkshire post offices which serve thousands ofcustomers from the threat of closure. The Shadow Foreign Secretary and MP for Richmond in NorthYorkshire joined protesters fighting to save North End post ...
Killer of Stephanie, 20, sent to Greece for rest of jail term
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE Greek national who kidnapped and killed travel agentStephanie Hammill has been sent back to his country to serve therest of his sentence there. Ioannis Revenikiotis was jailed for 11 years last October for thekidnap and manslaughter of Miss Hammill, 20. Under an ...
Rogues seek to cash in on quake
Mar 01, 2008 ... ROGUE traders are targeting homes across the region in the hopeof conning householders that their properties have been damaged bythis week's earthquake. Trading standards officers have warned that unscrupulous doorsteptraders are attempting to carry out unnecessary repair work ...
Lead thief is spared prison for raid on Archbishop's palace
Mar 01, 2008 ... AN unemployed man who helped to steal more than Pounds 20,000-worth of lead from the Archbishop of York's home in broad daylighthas avoided jail. Christopher Walker, 26, sneaked into the grounds of the 13thcentury palace, the residence of Dr John Sentamu, and was ferryingthe ...
Rollercoaster girlfriend pops the question
Mar 01, 2008 ... A woman took the plunge yesterday and took advantage of a leapyear tradition to propose to her boyfriend - at the top of arollercoaster. Jenny Harrold asked "will you marry me?" as the high-speed ridereached its highest point. Her unsuspecting boyfriend, Patrick Hyde, ...
Leap year husband finally gets to church on time
Mar 01, 2008 ... ONE of Britain's most unromantic men finally walked his bridedown the aisle yesterday - after agreeing to get married on February29 so he wouldn't have to make an effort to remember theiranniversary. Martin Sanderson agreed to get married four years ago when hispartner Sam used a ...
More trains to London on way... but not for years
Mar 01, 2008 ... NETWORK Rail yesterday pledged to spend Pounds 225m upgradingtrack running parallel to the East Coast main line, allowing moretrains each hour between Yorkshire and London. Officials said the upgrade, to track running from Doncaster toPeterborough via Lincoln, provided the best ...
Two police officers warned after prisoner hanged in cell
Mar 01, 2008 ... TWO West Yorkshire Police officers have received formal warningsfollowing an investigation into a man's death in custody. Adrian Coldwell, 30, was found hanged in a cell at PontefractPolice Station on December 17 2004. Mr Coldwell had a history ofself-harm. He had been ...
Man who thumped V-sign teenagers avoids jail
Mar 01, 2008 ... A MAN stopped a bus and went upstairs to thump three childrenafter youngsters had made V-signs at him as he followed in a van. But Nigel Smith escaped a prison sentence when he appeared beforeYork Crown Court yesterday after Judge Stephen Ashurst described hisconduct as "a one-off ...
Baby milk firms beat labelling laws
Mar 01, 2008 ... Baby milk manufacturers yesterday won their High Court battle toblock the immediate introduction of new rules on labelling formulamilk. They successfully argued that a European Union directive gavethem until December 31, 2009, to affix new labels in place of old. The aim of ...
Northern Rock deputy to leave
Mar 01, 2008 ... The deputy chief executive of Northern Rock is to take earlyretirement. David Baker is to step down from the bank, which was nationalised earlier this month, on May 2, it was announcedyesterday. He has spent 34 years at Northern Rock, and was deputy chiefthrough the ...
Pledge to speed up academy schools process
Mar 01, 2008 ... The Government will speed up its academy schools programme overthe next two years, cutting costs and fast-tracking decisions,Schools Secretary Ed Balls pledged yesterday. Ten more flagship projects are expected to be opened by 2010,taking the total from 233 to 243. Mr Balls ...
Parental choice 'leads to segregation'
Mar 01, 2008 ... The Government's policy of parental choice of schools inevitablyleads to "segregation" between children from wealthy and poorfamilies, the chief adjudicator of admission appeals said yesterday. Philip Hunter warned that the current system led to aconcentration of children from ...
Over 25pc vote in EU treaty ballot
Mar 01, 2008 ... MORE than 10,000 Yorkshire voters are believed to have had theirsay on the EU treaty in an un-official referendum. The results of the poll in Pudsey - one of 10 around the countrybeing run by the I Want A Referendum campaign group - will beannounced tomorrow. More than a ...
Shannon plea by friend who was with her on day she disappeared
Mar 01, 2008 ... A FRIEND of missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has appealedfor her to come home. Megan Aldridge, also nine, formed a firm friendship with Shannonwhen they started at Westmoor Junior School, Dewsbury. The two play together regularly and were side-by-side in themoments ...
City's parade tribute to soldiers' Iraq service
Mar 01, 2008 ... SOLDIERS who served on the front line in Iraq were welcomed backto Sheffield yesterday by crowds who watched them parade through thecity. The soldiers, from the Chestnut Troop, the 1st Regiment RoyalHorse Artillery, returned from a seven-month tour of duty justbefore ...
Ministers 'court disaster' over illegal meat imports
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE Government has been accused of cutting back on efforts tostop illegal meat imports while splashing out cash on toothbrushkits and wallets. The number of detection dogs sniffing out illegal imports - theprobable cause of the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak - has been cutfrom 11 ...
Buoyant Capita has 2008 revenue in the bag
Mar 01, 2008 ... CAPITA group, Britain's biggest back-office outsourcing firm,said it was enjoying strong demand for its services, as it metforecasts with a 19 per cent rise in underlying 2007 profit. Chief executive Paul Pindar said progress in the first few weeksof this year would underpin ...
More pain on the way as the price of oil hits another record
Mar 01, 2008 ... The price of oil set another record yesterday after passing the103 dollars a barrel mark. Light, sweet crude for April delivery continued a week ofunprecedented rises after fetching 103.05 dollars in electronictrading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It later fell back ...
Rightmove feels the tremors from slowing house market
Mar 01, 2008 ... PROPERTY website Rightmove saw its shares slide last night onfears it will be hit by the slowdown in the housing market. The group's share price closed the day down 5 per cent to 502pdespite it reporting a robust start to 2008. Rightmove, which is partly owned by HBOS and the ...
Odds are on another tough year, says Rank
Mar 01, 2008 ... Gaming group Rank yesterday braced investors for another toughyear despite signs of improved trading at its Mecca Bingo clubs. The firm - hit by last year's smoking bans, restrictions on money-spinning games machines and a consumer slowdown - saw underlyingprofits fall 7 per cent ...
S&N launches revolutionary new treatment to help heal the wounds
Mar 01, 2008 ... SMITH & NEPHEW is launching a new wound treatment that can helppatients with serious, hard to heal wounds. S&N's wound management operation, which employs 1,000 people inHull, has developed two products called V1STA and EZCARE that use anew technology called Negative Pressure ...
Barnsley 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0: Honours shared in Oakwell battle
Mar 01, 2008 ... Sheffield Wednesday remain unbeaten in South Yorkshire derbygames this season after a battling goalless draw at Oakwell. The Owls adapted much better to the windy conditions but wereunable to find a way past Barnsley goalkeeper Luke Steele in frontof a crowd of ...
Bristol City 2 Hull City 1: Tigers slip up at Ashton Gate
Mar 01, 2008 ... Hull City's late charge for a play-off place in the Championshipsuffered a setback at the League's surprise package, Bristol City. The hosts took the lead via Dele Adebola on 14 minutes after adefensive mix-up, and restored their lead with Jamie McCombe afteran own goal from Liam ...
Sheffield United 0 Charlton Athletic 2: Ten-man Blades suffer defeat
Mar 01, 2008 ... SHEFFIELD UNITED's faint play-off hopes were left in tatters asthey crashed 2-0 to Charlton at Bramall Lane. Sam Sodje powered home an 82-minute header from a corner byDarren Ambrose after Chris Iwelumo had given the visitors the leadwith a close-range shot on the stroke of ...
Huddersfield Town 0 Swansea 1: Page sees red for Town
Mar 01, 2008 ... HUDDERSFIELD Town captain Robert Page was sent off for twobookable second-half offences as runaway League One leaders Swanseatook revenge for defeat at the Liberty Stadium in November. Jason Scotland, the striker Town tried to buy in the summer,struck just before the interval and ...
Swindon Town 0 Leeds United 1: Kandol on target
Mar 01, 2008 ... Tresor Kandol gave Leeds United a much-needed win at the CountyGround against Swindon Town. David Prutton's cross found Kandol and his header beat Swindongoalkeeper Phil Smith. United suffered an early setback when new signing SteveO'Halloran pulled up in the pre-match ...
Care takes next step towards fulfilling England potential
Mar 01, 2008 ... LEEDS-BORN scrum-half Danny Care could make his England debutagainst Scotland next week, having been called into Brian Ashton's30-man training squad yesterday. The 21-year-old, who came up through the ranks at Leeds Tykes,but left to join Harlequins two years ago, is one of three ...
Leicester Tigers 34 Leeds Carnegie 21: Leeds remain cast adrift
Mar 01, 2008 ... Leeds Carnegie remain 10 points adrift at the foot of theGuinness Premiership after losing 34-16 at champions Leicester -their 13th defeat in 14 league games. The visitors did not seem deflated by relegation rivalsWorcester's unexpected victory at Sale on Friday, and they ...
Statement to City suggests Owls deal imminent
Mar 01, 2008 ... THE Pounds 50m takeover of Sheffield Wednesday took another stepcloser yesterday after an official announcement was made to theLondon Stock Exchange. The Owls made a short statement, saying while no formal offer hadyet been made to shareholders, the club were in talks. "The ...
Wigan Warriors 28 Bradford Bulls 14
Mar 01, 2008 ... BRADFORD'S disappointing start to the engage Super League seasonhit a new low as they delivered a desperate team performance infalling to a five try defeat at Wigan tonight. After taking an early 8-0 lead, the Bulls completely lost theirway over the closing 70 minutes and never ...
Mark Stuart: Will Brown be the last Scot to take power in Downing Street?
Mar 01, 2008 ... IN recent months, it seems as if a pincer movement from theScottish National Party in the North and the Conservative Party inthe South is about to cast asunder the 300-year old Union betweenScotland and England. With the SNP setting a new target date for Scottish independenceby ...
Tom Richmond: The caravan moves on for a failed politician
Mar 01, 2008 ... I WILL never forget a colleague's confident prediction when TonyBlair undertook his last major reshuffle hours after Labour sufferedheavy losses in the local elections of May 2006. "At least Margaret Beckett won't be made Foreign Secretary,"declared this political veteran boldly ...
Gervase Phinn: Wentworth revisited
Mar 01, 2008 ... I got my first real glimpse of a world of privilege when, as achild of 10 in 1956, I came upon Wentworth House. Our class of 30 pupils was bussed out one bright, sunny Mondaymorning from Broom Valley Juniors to Wentworth Woodhouse, a villagetwixt Rotherham and Barnsley, so that ...
Elizabeth Bryan
Mar 01, 2008 ... ELIZABETH Bryan, who has died aged 65, was a highly respectedconsultant paediatrician who focused her energies on the study ofmultiple births and providing support to families with experience ofthem. Towards the end of her life she wrote a moving memoir Singing theLife about ...
War games
Mar 01, 2008 ... IT was inevitable that Prince Harry would be pulled out ofAfghanistan once his deployment had become public knowledge -despite his commendable, and spirited, determination, to servealongside his fellow soldiers. His continuing presence in thetroubled Helmand province would have ...
Tony Fairhurst
Mar 01, 2008 ... YORKSHIRE journalist Tony Fairhurst, a familiar figure on theEast Yorkshire golf scene for many years where he reported eventsfor the Yorkshire Post, Hull Daily Mail and Scarborough EveningNews, has died suddenly aged 73. He went to Hallgate School in Cottingham, where he was ...
Jo Martin
Mar 01, 2008 ... JO Martin who has died aged 39 after a prolonged battle withcancer, was joint-managing director of the Hull-based company Arco,a leading supplier of safety clothing and equipment. The elder daughter of Stephen and Carolyn Martin, she was born inNorth Ferriby and went to a number ...
Secrecy hinders eco-town cause
Mar 01, 2008 ... THERE is little contentious about the concept of the eco-town -the Government's answer to this country's housing shortage. Building homes that meet much higher environmental standards onbrownfield sites, and with strong public transport links, is anappropriate response to a ...