YORK City Knights prop Dean O'Loughlin has stressed his current commitment to rugby league - despite being given the chance to swap the oval ball for a pair of boxing gloves. O'Loughlin will reconsider his future in rugby at the end of the season having
FANS have until this coming Wednesday to get their votes in for the Knights' Player of the Month for April. The busy month comprised six games in total and although there was not a single National League One victory among them, with defeats to Widnes,
KNIGHTS stars of the future had a taste of military team building when they were put through their paces by personnel from RAF Linton-on-Ouse. The North Yorkshire Service Area Under-12s squad kicked off their training schedule with a spot of team bonding
If there was even the slightest lingering doubt that stress is a bad thing, this week should have sorted that out. Some people - usually the ones with brooding stomach ulcers, hyper on caffeine and sporting a stockmarket trading-induced permasweat - think
Stephen Lewis talks to a York-based missionary whose first children's book is a fun-filled African adventure. SOPHIE is a little girl in a very exotic place. Her botanist dad has taken her with him to live on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. The
Sarah Hyde is already planning a return trip to a Welsh hotel which offers the perfect retreat, whatever the weather. WATCHING the Queen's 80th birthday festivities made me wonder whether there'll be another round of flag-waving for her official birthday
YORK City Supporters' Trust are hoping to call a special general meeting "within the next few weeks". The meeting will discuss proposals for the club's financial, managerial and ownership future with Trust members deciding the appropriate way forward.
Richard Foster takes off for a day out at Fort Paull, the historic fort near Hull. What and where: Fort Paull, east of Hull, overlooking the Humber estuary. Why? Set in about ten acres, Fort Paull, with its 500 years of history, provides a grand day out
FULFORD Golf Club have made a great start to their centenary year on the York Union of Golf Clubs' competition scene. Steve Dunn and former boxing star Henry Wharton teamed up to sweep to victory in the latest round of the Kitching Trophy. They finished
IF Yorkshire were troubled by Rana Naved-ul-Hassan in the first innings they were tormented by him in the second when the Pakistani pace ace destroyed their batting. He returned figures of 7-62 on the third day of the Championship match at Headingley
A battle-scarred plane is being prepared to fly over the beaches of Normandy once more - with its original colours as fresh as they were on D-Day. Paddy Green's passion for old aircraft led him to buy the Douglas DC3 Dakota, after a lengthy search for
TRAGEDY struck when a gifted academic and well-known former York councillor died of a heart attack - the day after his wife was given the all-clear from cancer. Ken Cooke, a lawyer who represented Knavesmire ward as a Labour councillor in the early 1980s
HAVE a KitKat - appear as a housemate on Big Brother. That is the lure of the latest promotion being organised for Nestl Rowntree's best-selling York chocolate bar. For the first time in the hit television show's history, a member of the public will be
A WOMAN was arrested after a series of drug raids on houses across York city centre. About 25 police officers from York combined forces with Ministry of Defence Police from RAF Dishforth to carry out "Operation Curable" targeting three council flats connected
YORK and District Junior Cricket Association's 30th season has started with a record number of 84 teams taking part, in age groups for Under-9, 11, 13 and 15, from 26 clubs with nine competitions for the teams to take part. When the association was formed
FRESH assurances were given to rail travellers today after new doubts were cast on the ability of GNER to continue to operate its East Coast Mainline franchise, should its troubled parent company crash. Sea Containers Group, which is selling its ferry
SUPPORT is flooding in for our campaign to close a loophole in the law which prevents child snatchers being put on the Sex Offenders' Register or banned from working with youngsters. The Press has teamed up with the Phoenix Survivors charity, headed by
BURGLARS have stolen more than £15,000-worth of goods during a series of break-ins targeting streets in the south of York. York Police have raised the alarm by issuing a warning to residents to be more vigilant about securing their homes and ensuring
YORK City Supporters' Trust are hoping to call a special general meeting "within the next few weeks". The meeting will discuss proposals for the club's financial, managerial and ownership future with Trust members deciding the appropriate way forward.
FOURTEEN years. That was the amount of days in a York hospital bed that were lost over the last financial year because of "bed blocking" - most of them because patients could not get to the nursing home of their choice. Today, The Press can reveal shocking
I HEARD the first one about ten days ago in Janet's garden across the road. Early Saturday morning, I heard another one, this time coming from Lindsey's next door. On Sunday morning, I spotted one two doors up and by mid-afternoon its distinctive sound
BOSS Mick Cook is confident York City Knights can avenge last year's double defeat against Workington and book a second appearance in the Northern Rail Cup semi-finals in three years. Victory at Derwent Park in Sunday's quarter-final will see the Knights
This is beginning to look like an obsession, I know, but I'm afraid I simply could not let Peter Edwards's comments about the number of seats on the FTR pass by without comment. Mr Edwards, we are not interested in having extra standing space on your
IN REPLY to the Osbaldwick resident with the somewhat Neanderthal ideas, who finds it so easy to sneer and take a poke at advancements in technology (Waste Of Money, Letters, May 4), I feel they need a little educating in the realities of this modern
AFTER reading the article about the carpet retailer in Green Lane, York, (New Bus Stop Threat To Acomb Carpet Business, May 2), something occurred to me. What will happen if an FTR turns into Green Lane and there is a large articulated lorry waiting to
After a ten-year hiatus, Europe's lifting of the ban on British beef imports means our infant dairy calves will once again be making the long and terrifying journey to veal farms in Europe. Of the British public, 75 per cent of those questioned claim
Having researched safety aspects of cycling, I know there is an increased risk attached to cycling through red lights, but the risk is not massive. The main risks for cyclists are riding on narrow major roads; motorists or cyclists not taking sufficient
Reading aloud to your kids is one of the best ways of having fun together, says Jacqueline Wilson. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. WHEN her daughter Emma was born, admits children's author Jacqueline Wilson, she was "one of those fidgety babies who barely slept
Gina Parkinson enjoys a brief gardening affair with the blossom trees, Amelanchier. We have reached the end of the first week in May and blossom trees are filling our gardens and lining the streets with their colourful blooms. Pink and white cherry and
RELEASED York City players Dave Merris and Chris Porter are both considering careers outside the game. Merris and Porter were both members of the Minstermen's last Football League side and have completed three full seasons at KitKat Crescent. Left-back
Lucy Stephens takes our dine out for £15-a-head challenge to a York cocktail bar. SHAKEN, not stirred. How rarely do you get a chance to utter those immortal words? Cocktail bars ought to be the sorts of places where the ordinary punter can get a chance
A GROUP of golfers from North and East Yorkshire are set to continue their quest for glory in Europe's biggest pro-am competition, the Lombard Trophy. Kilnwick Percy Golf Club professional Aaron Pheasant and club amateur Steve Mullarkey will tee up in
IN-FORM left-hander Andrew Gale has won a place in Yorkshire Phoenix's side to play Nottinghamshire Outlaws in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy match at Headingley tomorrow. And South African paceman Deon Kruis also makes his first appearance of the
YORKSHIRE CCC are joining forces with three midland counties in an attempt to get a better deal from the England and Wales Cricket ground over the staging of national and international one-day matches. They have teamed up with Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire
OUT-of-hours doctor care across England has been branded a costly mess in nationwide research - but services in York and Selby were not even considered in the top level survey because of a lack of information. The National Audit Office (NAO) this week
Nestl Rowntree Athletics Club junior (under-20s) team got their season off to a flying start with an impressive victory in the first match of the season, a National Junior League event at Cleckheaton. The York athletes produced a fantastic team performance
YORK'S shopping boom is going from strength to strength, with the news that a top natural beauty chain is planning a move to the city. French company L'Occitane plans to open a shop in Low Petergate at the end of this month - the chain's first stand-alone
IF Yorkshire were troubled by Rana Naved-ul-Hassan in the first innings they were tormented by him in the second when the Pakistani pace ace destroyed their batting. He returned figures of 7-62 on the third day of the Championship match at Headingley
AUSTIN Buchanan is returning to York City Knights, the Press can reveal. Talks with Buchanan's current club, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, have been ongoing for some time and an agreement has been reached which sees the winger sign on loan for the rest
POCKLINGTON RUFC closed their season with a 12-5 defeat at the hands of the President's XV at Percy Road. Mark Taylor and Joe Holborough scored for the President's side, with James Green converting Taylor's effort from the touchline. Matt Atkinson touched
In Tipping's Tipples, Mike Tipping asks if the wines he loved in Chile will taste as good back in Britain? Ever the research scientist, I was keen to put the above to the test. If you had read Tipping's Tipples a few weeks back, you would know that I
AUSTIN Buchanan is returning to York City Knights, the Press can reveal. Talks with Buchanan's current club, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, have been ongoing for some time and an agreement has been reached which sees the winger sign on loan for the rest
Kieren Fallon may resemble the walking wounded, but he can steer Rumplestiltskin to a memorable victory in tomorrow's Stan James 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. The former champion jockey suffered a foot injury when leaving the stalls in a race at Tipperary
George Wilkinson takes the high road to experience glorious views of the Cleveland Hills at Bank Foot. Bank Foot is one of those straightforward names, go east from the farm there and you go straight up, up an escarpment of the Cleveland Hills and on
I WOULD like to comment on some of the issues raised in Why The Delay (Letters, May 1) regarding City of York Council's handling of antisocial tenants. The council takes its responsibilities towards its customers extremely seriously and acts as quickly
REFERENCE your article (Police Mass At Club As '50 Mourners Brawl At Wake', May 4). I was the woman in the accompanying picture and would like to point out that, while I did become dragged into a scuffle, I was not arrested and am not either of the "ladies
SO City of York Council has selected the preferred site for the new Arc Light centre after a period of consultation with all parties concerned. Well, it's a shame councillors didn't have to go to the polls for re-election this year or the decision would
THE latest executive decision to park Arc Light in the middle of a residential area at Union Terrace beggars belief. Let us not pretend Arc Light has no consequences. Will City of York Council take positive steps to fight resultant crime and compensate
WHEN we sample a caf attached to a garden centre or nursery, it doesn't mean that we are enthusiastic gardeners. In this case we were responding to suggestions from readers in Dringhouses and Foxwood. The caf signage is not of the best. The nursery is
