A highly infectious virus affecting York District Hospital has now spread to seven wards - and the outbreak could last for another week or even longer. Hospital chiefs have stressed that the illness, which causes stomach upsets and diarrhoea, usually
A visionary 21st century community to be built on the outskirts of York will cost the city council up to £3 million for cutting-edge design features. The cash will be freed up by the sale of land that makes up the New Osbaldwick development, near Osbaldwick
A 31-YEAR-OLD woman has been charged with the manslaughter of her former partner after his body was found in a North Yorkshire river earlier this month. Christine Rhodes, of Church Crescent, Stutton, near Tadcaster, will appear before Selby magistrates
Dancers from York are taking part in a pioneering new dance theatre which will present its first show at the Grand Opera House. Students from the new Yorkshire Youth Dance Theatre, a scheme for dancers aged between eight and 18, will present A Celebration
Darren Gough grabbed two wickets with his first eight balls at Headingley today to give Yorkshire a great start to their Benson and Hedges Cup clash with Leicestershire, who were struggling on 88 for five after 33 overs. There was a big shock even before
Sir Michael Stoute and Kieren Fallon, who were on the mark at Newmarket yesterday with Petrushka, whose impressive win in the Nell Gwyn Stakes promoted her to favourite for the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas in a fortnight's time, can keep up the good work tomorrow
An international call to arms beckons once again for teenage shot-stopper Russ Howarth. The York City youngster has been drafted into the England Under-17s squad to face Luxembourg a week on Thursday in Dudelange. And in an extra feather in the cap for
The Archbishop of York's warning that the Internet and other computer technology could be a force for evil has inspired a poetry competition on the world wide web. York group City Dwellers - which aims to make the city a more vibrant place to live - has
A cornered burglar threatened to stab a guesthouse owner who chased him down the street to reclaim a stolen television set. Stephen Foster, proprietor of the St Raphael Guesthouse, Queen Anne's Road, York, pursued the man after his wife, Janet, spotted
An armed robber has been jailed for four years after he terrified staff at a York supermarket with an eight-inch cleaver. Nicholas Lee Williams, 39, had taken a cocktail of drugs and drink before the Christmas time raid on the Spar shop in Lowther Street
The church choirmaster who claims he was forced to resign because he lives with his partner out of wedlock had his resignation accepted by the parochial church council last night. Stephen Hartley, 63, who lives in York, has been the popular choirmaster
Line dancing and the Internet may not seem like obvious partners but one North Yorkshire man has successfully combined the two. Danny Hellawell, from Norton, holds line dancing classes from Easingwold to Old Malton and is also responsible for the Wild
EIGHTEEN extra officers will take to York's streets as city police prepare to crack down on neighbourhood louts. The officers, all seasoned policemen and women with experience serving in other forces, are expected to take up their posts during the summer
Joker Jimmy Cricket was shaking in his wellies when he crossed the rickety bridge over the York Dungeon's new feature - the pit of despair. But the irrepressible Irish comic kept a smile firmly on his face despite the pit's bottomless appearance and the
The Normark Armley Angling-backed spring series saw the 40 entry struggle at Carpvale with York's Tony Marshall winning with just 16-15-0. Drawn on peg 40 he took three carp on long pole and maggot plus a solitary bream on short pole and worm. Close behind
Yorkshire were today meeting Leicestershire in the Benson and Hedges Cup for the first time in 15 years - and hoping for the same result as in their last encounter without cutting it quite so fine. On that occasion, Yorkshire scraped home by just one
