YORK stormed to the top of the Yorkshire ECB Premier League table after a weekend home double. They defeated Sheffield United by eight wickets yesterday to follow up their victory against Appleby Frodingham by the same margin the previous day. That was
EASINGWOLD have opened up a 64-point lead in the Hunters The Estate Agent York and District Senior League premier division after beating York in a high scoring 30 overs game on yet another raid affected day. Former Easingwold player James Pringle hit
THREE games were abandoned without a ball being bowled whilst the result of the game at Wilberfoss has not been received and may well have been another victim of the worst weather of a badly affected month of fixtures. In the one game to be played, Hemingbrough
Monday, July 19, 2004 100 years ago: The Britannia ketch Captain Mason, from Port Dinorwic, North Wales, arrived at Skeldergate Bridge in York with about 150 tons of slates. It had come direct without trans-shipment, from the famous quarries of Mr Asheton
A VOLUNTEER who gives her free time to mentor a troubled youngster has hit out at York's evening parking charges. Helen Rough, who spends one evening a week with an 11-year-old boy as part of a council-run scheme, said the introduction of city centre
WITH great pride - York Pride, in fact - the Diary tonight publishes the first part of a new blockbuster story. It is the serialisation they all wanted. "Captain Calamity", a powerful and moving morality tale for our times, is already tipped for a Booker
ON the evening of Saturday, July 10, my girlfriend and I decided to visit a York restaurant. We parked in the car park opposite York Theatre Royal in St Leonard's Place. As I read the charges, after 9pm it is 10p. As it was 9.15pm I asked my girlfriend
AUSSIE aces Simon Friend and Aaron Wood might be new to promotion and relegation in rugby league - but they are relishing the added spice. The duo, who joined York City Knights from clubs in Australia in the closed season, are eager to end their first
HOT-SHOT Wendy Stirke won a superb treble at the wettest City of York Tennis Championships finals ever recorded. Torrential rain delayed play at Clifton Park for almost an hour but within 30 minutes the heavens opened again and drenched the players as
Riska King can take the major honours tonight on Beverley's fourth and final evening meeting of the summer. The Malton gelding goes for the £10,000 MKM Building Supplies Handicap over an extended seven furlongs and is fancied to prevail in the hands of
THE spectacular stunts of a top military motorcycle display team took centre stage at the annual Army Open Day in York. Riders from the White Helmets Royal Signals Motorcycle Team wowed onlookers by performing such feats as forming human pyramids and
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass believes new signings Steve Davis and Chris Clarke can both be towering presences in next season's Nationwide Conference. Davis, 35, and Clarke, 23, both stand 6ft 3in tall and Brass believes they will add welcome
VETERANS of one of the most bitterly-fought battles of the Second World War received a Royal salute as they marked the 60th anniversary of the ordeal with a ceremony in York. The Duke of Edinburgh watched as the veterans, most of them in their 80s and
YORK Cricket Club are the cream of the county. Two wins over the weekend sent them flying to the top of the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. They beat Appleby Frodingham and Sheffield United, both by eight wickets at Clifton Park, to leapfrog
AUSSIE aces Simon Friend and Aaron Wood might be new to promotion and relegation in rugby league - but they are relishing the added spice. The duo, who joined York City Knights from clubs in Australia in the closed season, are eager to end their first
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass believes new signings Steve Davis and Chris Clarke can both be towering presences in next season's Nationwide Conference. Davis, 35, and Clarke, 23, both stand 6ft 3in tall and Brass believes they will add welcome
POLICE said today they were keeping an "open mind" about whether two double murders near York were linked. A frail elderly couple were found dead at their home at Strensall, near York. It is thought that a neighbour found the couple yesterday, and that
JORVIK Viking Centre is celebrating its 20th year with a programme of fun events for the summer holiday period. The events, organised by JORVIK and York Archaeological Trust, offer an exciting mix of talks, battle tactics, mini archaeology, bite-sized
BRIDLINGTON'S overseas star Haafiz Khalid and Dringhouses second team skipper Dave Storr are the winners of the Hunters the estate Agent York and District Senior League June Monthly Awards. The awards covered games played on June 5 to the seasonal halfway
WITH division three leaders Bolton Percy denied any play at Stillington, New Earswick were able to cut the lead to 21 points by gaining the better of a draw with Pickering. Chris Smith made 48 and Andy Routledge 26 as New Earswick posted a score of 160
SELBY maintained their superiority in division four with the better of a draw against Whitkirk but had their lead slashed to 22 points by Londesbrough Park's success at Sheriff Hutton. In another game involving minimum overs Selby rattled up 178-6 with
WITH the top two division one sides inactive, Carlton Towers boosted their chances of returning to the premier division at the first attempt when they gained a narrow victory over a Ripon side who belied their bottom status. Abhay Sharma (51) hit a half
July 17-18 Premier Division Beverley Town (4) drew with Sessay (20). Sessay 212-5 (M Polson 40, M C Till 40, N Harrison 53no, P Parnaby 3-14); Beverley Town 122-7 (N Stephenson 30, J Mitchell 31, M Polson 3-38, S Langstaff 2-43) Easingwold (26) beat York
OVER recent weeks, we have brought you a selection of fantastic old photographs from the York Reference Library archive. The library has long held a superb collection of old prints of the city and beyond. For years they were stored in rows of filing cabinets
RECENT letters suggest the Derwenthorpe development is being thwarted because of great crested newts. This is not the case. Delays are over concerns that the development will cause flooding along Osbaldwick Beck and problems with access. Mitigation measures
S GREAVES (Letters, July 12) appears to have misunderstood the information you published about Ascot and our trial of a different way of managing race traffic. Tadcaster Road is not being blocked off "for race days". In fact, a short length - in one direction
I HAVE just returned from one of my infrequent visits to York and was absolutely disgusted at the amount of litter I encountered. The whole city centre was littered with fish and chip papers, cigarette ends, bottles, cans and so forth. I thought we now
GET ready for the next hugely-successful Evening Press Business 2 Business Exhibition. The event, organised in association with the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, will again be at Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse on Wednesday, November
A YORK property project manager has drawn up a register to plug the skills gap with expert craftsmen who have reached retirement age. Peter Black, who is 65 himself, is calling on silver-haired plumbers, electricians, joiners, plasterers and bricklayers
PROOF of the "trickledown" of business knowledge came in the form of a £22,000 cheque from the Government to Burnholme Community College in York. This is on top of the £150,000 the community college received from the Department of Education and Skills
ELECTORAL victory will explode in Tony Blair's face if he takes the wrong step in the council tax minefield. Changes to the rates never win votes, but they lose plenty. The seemingly unassailable position of Margaret Thatcher was poleaxed by the poll
YORK'S council has attempted to plug its funding gap by squeezing the motorist. The introduction of evening car park charges in particular has incensed the city. Tonight we carry another story about the negative impact of this decision. We publish a supplement
A NORTH Yorkshire couple are like the proverbial cats that got the cream. Elaine and John Culf are celebrating after their boarding cattery was judged one of the top three in the country. They were presented with the prestigious moggy award at a special
CALLS for an end to the controversial "capping" of council tax have divided politicians in York. The Local Government Association (LGA) has backed a report by a Commons select committee, which has called for an end to the capping of council budgets by
A VOLUNTEER who gives her free time to mentor a troubled youngster has hit out at York's evening parking charges. Helen Rough, who spends one evening a week with an 11-year-old boy as part of a council-run scheme, said the introduction of city centre
RESIDENTS of a York suburb were "surprised and disturbed" by the shock discovery of half a decomposing pig stuck to the top of a telegraph pole. The head and torso of what appeared to locals to be a cooked pig was believed to have been stuck to a telegraph
PEOPLE living in the most expensive homes could see council tax bills soar under a funding shake-up. Bills for the costliest homes - worth more than £600,000 - could rise to over £6,000, under proposals due to be unveiled tomorrow. Everyone with a house
SCOTT Smart got his hopes of a top three British Superbike championship finish back on track with a third win of the season at Mallory Park. The Sutton on Forest speedster upset the top five rankings after a good weekend at the Lincolnshire circuit saw
TWO people died and four were seriously injured in a weekend of mayhem on North and East Yorkshire roads. A motorcyclist from the York area and the driver of a Jaguar car were killed in separate incidents, as the region witnessed no fewer than four serious
POLICE today named the man they wanted to question over the murder of two sisters in a village near Selby. Officers warned the public not to approach Mark Richard Hobson, 34, who lives at the flat in Millfield Drive, Camblesforth, where the bodies of
REPORTS of the death of Gloucestershire as the kings of one-day cricket have been greatly exaggerated, as Yorkshire found to their cost on Saturday when they were soundly beaten by five wickets in the semi-final of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy
BROWN is a boring colour. Even devout chocoholics would have to agree that on the excitement spectrum brown is doomed to spend eternity lurking about on the sidelines with grey and beige, while red, blue and yellow live it up out front with the rest of
