CRAIG Urbani, Italian by surname, South African by birth, is playing one of America's favourite musical roles, Danny Zuko in the Fifties high-school romance Grease. Next week, Craig is at the Grand Opera House in York, midway through a year-long run in
York Theatre Royal is big on being small, as Damian Cruden tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON ARTISTIC director Damian Cruden will direct his first production in the York Theatre Royal Studio as the opening show of the second Studio season. Explaining his choice
YORK City fans will march to their threatened ground in a massive show of solidarity before tomorrow's crunch clash against Torquay United. Supporters are also being urged to wave £10 notes in the air during half-time at Bootham Crescent and then donate
YORK City skipper Chris Brass will miss tomorrow's six-pointer with Torquay United through injury. The dynamic midfielder limped off during last Saturday's FA Cup third round game with Grimsby with a hamstring strain and has not recovered in time to face
ABOUT 1,000 runners will stride out in Knavesmire Harriers' Brass Monkey Half Marathon on Sunday, January 27. This year's event, which starts at 10am from Knavesmire, York, includes the North Yorkshire Championships. Ian Fisher (Otley AC), the course
ROAD chiefs say they are expecting more severe delays on the A64 roadworks at Copmanthorpe, as the New Year "honeymoon period" ends. Work has now switched to the westbound side of the A-road with traffic travelling both ways using the eastbound carriageway
Rufforth saw off Grasshoppers to make it through to the third round of the York Mitchell Sports League Cup. Two goals from Chris Dempsey and one each by Liam Spencer and Ian Robson gave them a 4-1 win, with Joe Mills replying for Grasshoppers. Thorpe
TOY crazes of the future will be revealed for the first time when the Harrogate International Toy and Christmas Fair starts tomorrow. The exhibition, the first major show of the year in the UK, is being held at the Harrogate Exhibition Centre and features
AFTER an uncertain start to their campaign Nestl Rowntree moved into pole position in division one of the John Smith's York Sunday Morning League with a 5-2 home win over Marcia. Cooper, Osborne, Jones, Waine and an own goal were the scorers. Severus
UNION leaders were meeting their Arriva counterparts in York this morning in a bid to ward off the threat of strike action. A meeting was due to take place at Arriva's city offices, in Station Rise, between representatives of the National Union of Rail
STRUGGLING Pocklington will come face-to-face with former coach Gary Pearce for the second time this season when the Percy Road club head to Hull. Pearce, who was instrumental in Pock's rise up the ranks while he was player-coach, has since taken his
THE women who served in Britain's wartime air services are being commemorated at the Yorkshire Air Museum. The Elvington-based museum has put up a memorial to those women who served with, among others, the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service,
SWANSEA City football mascot Cyril the Swan could still face charges over an alleged assault on a female mascot from North Yorkshire, it emerged today. The incident is alleged to have taken place at the Mascot's Grand National, held at Huntingdon Racecourse
YORK City skipper Chris Brass will miss tomorrow's six-pointer with Torquay United through injury. The dynamic midfielder limped off during last Saturday's FA Cup third round game with Grimsby with a hamstring strain and has not recovered in time to face
JAILED charity worker Ian Stillman, who is serving ten years in an Indian prison after being convicted of possessing cannabis, today lost his appeal against his conviction. The decision has dealt a blow to the hopes of his parents Roy and Monica, who
YORK CITY needs you - NOW. Fans must pull together to ensure our club survives through this crisis. Turn out in force for tomorrow's vital home game against Torquay United and show you care deeply about the up-for-sale Minstermen. It is guaranteed to
I READ the Evening Press with alarm, dismay then rising anger on learning about York City's plan to sell the ground and quit the Football League (January 9). Yes, what the directors of Bootham Crescent Holdings are doing may be legally correct, but what
YORK City fans fighting to save their club from extinction have appealed for support, passion and common sense ahead of tomorrow's clash with Torquay United, writes Dave Stanford. The game at Bootham Crescent is the first since the shock announcement
ST Andrewgate is now a sought-after address in the shadow of York Minster. One of its most unusual addresses is number St Andrewgate, a residential development by local architect Tom Adams. But the street has undergone enormous changes, particularly since
MOTORIST Gary Hart was this afternoon jailed for five years for causing the Selby train crash which killed ten men and seriously injured many more. He was also banned from driving for five years. The judge, Mr Justice Mackay, told Hart: "In my judgement
URGENT repairs to York's flood defences can now go ahead, after the region's flood chiefs approved a ten per cent increase in the local authority levy. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Press, the way above inflation increase was agreed
As plans to sell York's Barbican Centre thrust the controversial venue back into the spotlight, political reporter Adam Nichols tracks its troubled ten years RAIN-soaked teenagers snaked around the concrete block of the Barbican couldn't praise the controversial
Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS looks at Jaguar's most powerful car to date NO one can doubt the success of the Jaguar S-Type since its launch in 1999: to date more than 135,000 sold. But such outstanding success has to be maintained and so this week sees
NEARLY two years have passed since the first of the twin floods which devastated large areas of North Yorkshire. So the news that money to improve flood defences is finally on its way has been received with as much relief as joy. Malton and Norton residents
THEY must be made of stern stuff, these toy makers. The mere thought of next Christmas would send most of us scuttling to our beds. But delegates attending the Harrogate Toy Fair are the crack troops of Christmas. They train all year round on a diet of
ONLY Michael Caine rivals John Travolta for the most erratic silver-screen career. Should they ever perform together, the movie would surely be a hit... or then again a miss. Last year, Travolta was the epitome of lounge-lizard villainous cool in the
Scarborough entertain Doc Martens side Hednesford Town in the FA Trophy at the McCain Stadium without influential player-coach Mark Patterson. Patterson is serving a one-mtach suspension after picking up five cautions. "We will miss Mark obviously, but
PICKERING Town boss Jimmy Reid has threatened his players with the axe should they fail to perform this weekend. The promotion-chasers entertain Arnold Town, a team just below them in the Northern Counties East League premier division, and Reid is demanding
HARROGATE Town boss John Reed has been quick to pour scorn on suggestions he is in line to take over at his home club of Doncaster Rovers. Just hours after news broke of boss Steve Wignall's departure from Rovers, the rumour merchants had put Reed in
The country's top police officers have taken the unusual step of mounting a joint campaign to press for a radical shake-up of the criminal trial system. The Evening Press talked to North Yorkshire Police assistant chief constable Peter Bagshaw, whose
A YORK businessman whose printing firm was wound up with debts of more than £1 million has been banned from becoming a director of any company for the next seven years for "unfit conduct." The Insolvency Service ruling means that Stephen Mason, aged 43
RAY McInally increased his hotly contested York John Smith's Men's League Three Fastest Finishes competition lead with a superb 180 for 15 darts. However, Poacher lost ground in the race for the division one title. Cygnet conversely improved theirs with
FARMER Colin Newlove has been no stranger to the headlines over the past few years. His giant bull, Frank Bruno, was a world record beater and his turkey, Clever Trevor, managed to avoid the festive pot when it demonstrated its skill as an acrobat. And
York 'B' team kept the club's hopes alive in the National Over 60s Double Rink Championship with a magnificent 44-29 victory at Hornsea. Frank Turner, Peter Littlewood, Dave McCowan and Doug Mitchell opened up a 15-4 lead by the ninth end which took the
DIVING demon Chris-topher Farrow is hoping to jump for joy again this month as he bids for a second Benelux boost in succession. The nine-year-old, formerly of Kirkbymoorside, won international gold and silver in Belgium at the end of last year, taking
A CAMPAIGNING father whose little boy was almost run over by a van on his way to school has given a cautious welcome to plans to improve a main road in his village. Roads bosses have outlined safety plans on the A64 through Sherburn after Gordon Mallon
IT may be the unlucky 13th, but this Sunday should see anglers return to the banks following the big freeze-up. Although most local stillwaters are still iced over, the rivers are flowing again, which should allow the fourth round of the Yorkshire Winter
BRIDGE repairs to guard against another Great Heck rail disaster will begin next month, the Evening Press has learned. Work will start on four road-over-rail bridges, which have been identified by experts with North Yorkshire County Council as needing
GNER managed to buck the national trend last year by reducing the number of cancelled trains, it was revealed today. Research carried out by the Liberal Democrats revealed the York-based train operator cancelled 457 services in the first nine months of
URGENT repairs to York's flood defences can now go ahead, after the region's flood chiefs approved a ten per cent increase in the local authority levy. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Evening Press, the way above inflation increase was agreed
STARS of the silver screen were the inspiration for student hairdressers at York College's annual competition. This year's York College Hair and Beauty competition took place at Ikon/Diva at Clifton Moor and the audience included city employers as well
YORK City fans fighting to save their club from extinction have appealed for support, passion and common sense ahead of tomorrow's clash with Torquay United, writes Dave Stanford. The game at Bootham Crescent is the first since the shock announcement
JURY members in the York garden rape trial were today considering their verdict. Yesterday, self-confessed long-term heroin addict Phillip James Nicholas, 19, told them that a woman he barely knew had encouraged him to have sex with her on the ground
YORK City players today showed a united front to rally behind the Save City campaign ahead of their crunch clash with Torquay United. 'We're in this together' was the uplifting message to supporters from City's Gary Hobson and Nick Richardson, who appealed
Ryedale trainer Tim Easterby is bidding for a major cross-country double in two of tomorrow's televised feature races. Turgeonev, winner of his last three starts, represents the Great Habton handler in Ascot's £60,000 Victor Chandler Handicap Chase at
I READ the Evening Press with alarm, dismay then rising anger on learning about York City's plan to sell the ground and quit the Football League (January 9). Yes, what the directors of Bootham Crescent Holdings are doing may be legally correct, but what
THE village column (January 7), informed us that Poppleton library will now only open in the day time. This is presumably as a result of the recent vandalism. There is also an article about vandalism on the Scarcroft Road allotments forcing gardeners
GIVEN the news that a man seeking to protect his neighbour's property must now pay £170 court costs for his use of what may be described as vernacular language ("Raid fury lands man in court", January 8), I shall take heed of this message from the courts
YORK City fans will march to their threatened ground in a massive show of solidarity before tomorrow's crunch clash against Torquay United. Supporters are also being urged to wave £10 notes in the air during half-time at Bootham Crescent and then donate
YORK CITY needs you - NOW. Fans must pull together to ensure our club survives through this crisis. Turn out in force for tomorrow's vital home game against Torquay United and show you care deeply about the up-for-sale Minstermen. It is guaranteed to
YORK City players today showed a united front to rally behind the Save City campaign ahead of their crunch clash with Torquay United. 'We're in this together' was the uplifting message to supporters from City's Gary Hobson and Nick Richardson, who appealed
GNER managed to buck the national trend last year by reducing the number of cancelled trains, it was revealed today. Research carried out by the Liberal Democrats revealed the York-based train operator cancelled 457 services in the first nine months of
