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  • River Ouse

    There can hardly be a more pleasant way to savour some of the local delights than a leisurely sail on the River Ouse. There is much to see on the riverside, such as the impressive Guildhall. A small open archway at water level is directly below the

  • River Foss

    The River Foss is the second and smaller of the two rivers that meet in York. The Foss, like the Ouse which it joins just below Skeldergate Bridge, has played an important part in the city's history. Before drainage work, the Foss formed

  • Toddlers take it in their stride

    THEY toddled their hearts out - and raised hundreds of pounds for our Guardian Angels appeal at the same time. At Edward the Confessor Church in Dringhouses, York, nursery children raised more than £700 for our appeal by taking part in a sponsored "toddle

  • More new ground for City supporters

    ST ALBANS City, Stafford Rangers and Oxford United have been confirmed as Nationwide Conference opponents for York City next season. Hertfordshire side St Albans beat Histon 2-0 in yesterday's Conference South play-off final at Stevenage Borough. Former

  • Scorecards

    May 6-7 Premier Division Clifton Alliance (30pts) beat Hull Zingari (7pts): Hull Zingari 228-7 (D Salpietro 96, A Markham 29, F Hawthorne 3-46), Clifton Alliance 229-4 (M Taylor 67, J Gilham 31, R F T Musgrave 32no, P M Moriston 54no). Malton & Old

  • Scorecards

    May 6-7 Doncaster v York York: S Piercy b M Chadwick 28, D Broadbent lbw b K Raza 13, D Wilson lbw b K Raza 0, N Kay c A Fiddler b K Raza 0, M Mortimer c S Groves, b M Chadwick 4, R Flack c P Ellis b A Parkin-Coates 10, M Wood c G Attenborough b A Parkin-Coates

  • Anne learns how DIY store does it better

    ANNE McIntosh, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions, and Conservative MP for the Vale of York, set off on a quest to find out how they "B&Q it" in York. She was taken on a tour of B&Q's store at Clifton Moor Retail Park, learning on the way all

  • Treat in store

    OLD-FASHIONED is big business. At least that is what entrepreneur Terry Stockwell is pinning his hopes on. Terry is the proprietor of Tea For Two in Boroughbridge High Street, opened last June, but in quaint old-fashioned style. Now he is opening a new

  • Skipper slams 'abysmal' display

    YORK Cricket Club crashed to a heavy eight-wicket defeat in their Yorkshire ECB Premier League encounter against Doncaster. York's skipper Marcus Wood described his side's display as an abysmal performance which followed a disappointing defeat at Hull

  • Byas still positive

    YORKSHIRE were left still searching for their first Championship win of the season after Sussex took only 50 minutes on the final day to canter to a five-wicket victory at Headingley on Saturday. It was Yorkshire's second consecutive defeat and they are

  • Fight teen is cleared

    A TEENAGER punched a Selby nightclubber "in self-defence", a few weeks after the club-goer's father had smashed up the youth's car with a metal bar, a court heard. Liam Olsson had to have two metal plates inserted in his jaw after being attacked by Jonathan

  • The ftr of city travel arrives

    IT'S been hailed as the future of transport. Today, people in York got the chance to try out the new ftr "superbus" for themselves, as it went into service carrying passengers for the first time anywhere in the UK. Council and transport chiefs declared

  • Council apologises over treadmill confusion

    LEISURE chiefs have apologised for failing to explain to fitness enthusiasts why treadmills in their gym were switched off. The jogging machines were taken out of action at the first-floor Edmund Wilson fitness suite in March after concerns were raised

  • Detective backs kidnap law plea

    ONE of York's leading police officers today backed The Press in calling for a change in the law over child kidnap. Detective Inspector Jon Reed, of York CID, endorsed our calls for strangers who snatch children to be placed on the Sex Offenders Register

  • When violence is a home defeat

    NADIA JEFFERSON-BROWN looks at how the authorities are preparing for an upsurge in domestic violence during the World Cup, and speaks to one York woman who has suffered at the hands of an abusive husband. FOOTBALL fans are to face hard-hitting images

  • Welcome to Hotel Terry's

    LEADING hotel operators want to open a luxury hotel on the former Terry's site in York. Plans are being developed for an art gallery and museum elsewhere on the land, which would maintain links with the former chocolate factory's heritage. York-based

  • Concern for 'vulnerable' woman missing a month

    POLICE are trying to trace a "shy and vulnerable" woman who went missing from her York home almost a month ago. Susan Rosamund Brown, 56, known as Rosamund, was last seen by her landlady at her home in Copmanthorpe on April 17 and York police say they

  • Charity caf serving again

    A CHARITY coffee shop controversially shut following the closure of Acomb Gables has been reopened - to the delight of the local community. Age Concern and The Alzheimer's Society (AS) have teamed up with some of the original volunteers to make a fresh

  • RAF worker killed as he crosses road near base

    A MAN died after he was in collision with by a car close to the RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse. The accident happened late on Friday night, when a 55-year-old local man was hit by a blue Toyota Corolla, on the road between Newton and Linton-on-Ouse, near

  • Bridge can't hold hitters

    HALF centuries for both Nick Hadfield and Mike Burdett saw Woodhouse Grange gain a comfortable six-wicket victory over newly-promoted Stamford Bridge in the premier division of the Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Senior Cricket League. Bridge

  • Supervisor tied up in car park robbery

    TWO brutal thugs today tied up and attacked a York car park supervisor - before making off with thousands of pounds. The victim, believed to be 60, had arrived to collect weekend takings at the NCP car park in Piccadilly when the pair struck. They grabbed

  • Cook lays down law to spluttering Knights

    "WE'RE in this together and we have to get out of it together." That was the blunt message from head coach Mick Cook after his York City Knights side crashed out of the Northern Rail Cup at the quarter-final stage to continue their disappointing run of

  • Bridge can't hold hitters

    HALF centuries for both Nick Hadfield and Mike Burdett saw Woodhouse Grange gain a comfortable six-wicket victory over newly-promoted Stamford Bridge in the premier division of the Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Senior Cricket League. Bridge

  • Royal command performance

    CENTURIES by Robert Mackle (107) and Robert Nicholson (117no) saw Studley Royal amass 336-4 at Duncombe Park in division one of the Hunters the estate Agent York and District Senior Cricket League. Not surprisingly the huge total was beyond the home side

  • Dashing Dave

    ONE-TIME Woodhouse Grange wicketkeeper Dave Gilbertson relished in his role as a spin bowling all rounder for Sheriff Hutton Bridge against Thirsk. He doubled with 57 and 5-22 as his side defeated Thirsk by 86 runs in a game staged at Harome because of

  • Osborne King of Kartiers

    KARTIERS keeper Tom Osborne enjoyed the game of his life to help the Selby side lift York FA's Saturday Senior Cup. A string of fine saves by Osborne kept Huntington Rovers at bay as Kartiers enjoyed a slender 1-0 victory after surviving a second-half

  • Pride of Panthers

    HAMILTON Panthers lifted the York FA Acaster Steel Cup by beating Nestl Rowntree 4-0 in the final at Tadcaster. The early pressure came from Charles Rice League side Panthers with both Danny Smith and Jamie Willstrop forcing the Nestl keeper, Joshua Chilton

  • 'Keeper Holden holds key to treble triumph

    GOALKEEPER Ben Holden was the hero as St John's College won the York FA Sunday Afternoon Cup yesterday. His save in the penalty shoot out ensured that the students beat Dunnington to become the first club to win the trophy three times on the bounce. The

  • A grand mother at 63?

    Psychiatrist Patricia Rashbrook has sparked outrage by becoming Britain's oldest mother-to-be. Mike Laycock examines the reaction in North Yorkshire to her decision to become pregnant at the grand old age of 62. Patricia Turgoose was only a week off her

  • Forsyth confirms his retirement

    YORK City Knights veteran Craig Forsyth has confirmed he has brought his career to a close. The prop has not played for the Knights since the Northern Rail Cup win at Featherstone on February 22 after which he stepped aside because of work commitments

  • Cook lays down law to spluttering Knights

    "WE'RE in this together and we have to get out of it together." That was the blunt message from head coach Mick Cook after his York City Knights side crashed out of the Northern Rail Cup at the quarter-final stage to continue their disappointing run of

  • Time for a change

    THERE isn't a single party which can command enough faith from the population to be representative of a majority view in our affairs. Whoever manages to win the next general election, they will be a tiny minority of people, with very limited life experience

  • Touching a nerve

    WELL, it appears I have touched a raw nerve with Philip Lickley's reply to my earlier letter. However, I can comment on life among students in Bath as I am one of the unlucky ones who have to live with it day in and day out, and it is hell. It is not

  • A changed area

    MAY I tell Phillip Lickey (Unfair to students, Letters, May 3) what it is like living next to students in our area? For us it means a very changed area. A lot of our properties have the "run-down" look now - very untidy gardens, curtains which look as

  • Ticket blunder

    EXACTLY which part of "Pay And Display" did Chris Grosvenor not understand? (Drink-drive ticket fury, May 5). Did it really come as a shock for him to be fined for parking without a valid ticket, or are things different in Pocklington? If he knew he was

  • What a wonderful world

    Yesterday was heaven; we got the last major jobs done in the garden to show it at its best. The birds were singing their hearts out and our thrush sang the last few notes as the sun sank. He was up at the crack of dawn to continue the symphony and was

  • Workington Town 28, Knights 16

    YORK City Knights really need to start playing at 3pm. Games kick off at that time but so many times the Knights' brains, if not their bodies, are still in the changing rooms. They paid the price again yesterday as they were knocked out of the Northern

  • They're figuring on a hunch

    King Richard III is back - sorry, Richard, for a joke in poor taste - on his old stamping ground in York. The maligned Crookback of Shakespeare's poisonous play received rather better press in York, his favourite city, where the real Richard's reign from

  • Easy life for Derek

    HE has helped to ensure top sporting events ran smoothly and worked to "green" parts of Europe and the Middle East. Now Derek Edwards, one of the most respected personalities in UK turf production, has retired from the company near York he founded more

  • The worse for Wear!

    IF Trinny and Susannah ever jumped out of my wardrobe and started twanging my bra strap, I'd knock their horsy teeth out. I have often wondered while watching their What Not To Wear show if the director has had to cut and re-shoot the bit where the carthorse

  • Osborne King of Kartiers

    KARTIERS keeper Tom Osborne enjoyed the game of his life to help the Selby side lift York FA's Saturday Senior Cup. A string of fine saves by Osborne kept Huntington Rovers at bay as Kartiers enjoyed a slender 1-0 victory after surviving a second-half

  • Skipper slams 'abysmal' display

    YORK Cricket Club crashed to a heavy eight-wicket defeat in their Yorkshire ECB Premier League encounter against Doncaster. York's skipper Marcus Wood described his side's display as an abysmal performance which followed a disappointing defeat at Hull

  • The camera never lies

    THIS is the man who offered money for sex to a boy at a bus stop in York city centre. And below is the picture that caught David Mason when it was published in The Press. When Mason's girlfriend said the picture looked just like him, he took a clipping

  • Man badly injured in A1079 crash

    A YOUNG man was badly injured in an horrific crash between a car and a lorry at an accident blackspot near York today. The man was pulled from the wreckage of the Vauxhall Vectra and taken to York Hospital with serious head injuries, following the collision

  • More new ground for City supporters

    ST ALBANS City, Stafford Rangers and Oxford United have been confirmed as Nationwide Conference opponents for York City next season. Hertfordshire side St Albans beat Histon 2-0 in yesterday's Conference South play-off final at Stevenage Borough. Former

  • Way we were

    Monday, May 8, 2006 100 years ago Structural alterations of an important character had commenced at York station with the object of providing a large tearoom for the use of passengers, particularly of those who had to break their journey at the Minster

  • Chance to work, rest and play

    A MARS a day helps you work, rest and play, went the old confectionery slogan. It may not be the right company, but there are happy echoes of that slogan today in developers Grantside's plans for York's historic Terry's site. "We are aiming to bring a

  • Thanks a bunch

    What a bunch of angels. The whole city is rallying round to support our Guardian Angels appeal to raise £300,000 for the high dependency children's unit at York Hospital. From the nursery children who, we report today, have raised £700 through a sponsored

  • Super Khalid hammers double ton

    THE outstanding performance in division two saw Bridlington's overseas star Hafiz Khalid hit the seventh double century in the League's history when he made 202 against Dringhouses. In making his 14th three-figure score for the Seasiders, Khalid, Nick

  • Service sufffer same fate

    THERE was an acute sense of dj vu in the Civil Service ranks when, for the second week running their game ended in a draw with them just three runs short of victory. David Suddaby and Tony Smith were their two tormentors whose all-round ability just gave

  • Super saver Mike spot on

    THE York FA Saturday Junior Cup Final between the reserve sides of Bishopthorpe and Dunnington at Tadcaster Albion was a real nail-biter. Dunnington goalkeeper Mike Edmondson was the hero as his save in the penalty shootout earned his side their silverware

  • Simply Divine - 08/05/06

    BANK on Divine Spirit hitting the heights at Ayr this evening. Trained near Darlington by Michael Dods, the five-year-old has the plum rails draw in the Ayr Racecourse Champagne & Seafood Bar Handicap and is napped to show his rivals the way home

  • Giving recycling the green light

    IN response to T Scaife's letter (Bin muddle, May 3) regarding the weekly bin collection. When the idea was first introduced I wasn't too happy about it, but after giving it a go I don't have a problem with it at all now. By recycling plastic (mainly

  • Unlucky number

    SO MR Blair wants the electorate to forget nine days of headlines and see nine years of achievements, including: Billions invested in NHS = hospital closures and redundancies! Pension funds plundered and closing! Graduates saddled with mortgage-size debt

  • Campus wisdom

    SOME months ago you published a letter from me about my reasons for not wanting to see an extension of the campus for the University of York. I personally think it will be given the go-ahead no matter how much we complain. I think the people who want

  • Feeling liverish about psychedelic buses...

    I HAVE just seen the picture of the psychedelic colour scheme on one of the ftr vehicles (Frontrunner in fashion stakes, May 4). I am astounded that some art student has been given £1,000 for this apparition. I'm sure that if the powers-that-be at First

  • Time running out

    I READ the article "A Time To Remember" by Karen Grattage (The Press, May 1), with much interest. I have had a great interest for many years in the history of SOE and the Resistance. One of the bravest was Vera Leigh, born in Leeds on March 17, 1903,

  • Hostel dangers

    It is no wonder that the Liberal Democrat Executive in York has voted to locate a homeless hostel in a residential area (Union Terrace Car Park). After the Barbican fiasco, and the saga of the council tax capping, they need to sell off the Reynards Garage

  • The ideal site

    I would have thought the ideal site for the new Arc Light building would be the ex-tennis courts in Bootham Park. There are a minimum number of residential properties affected and it is shielded from both Bootham and Grosvenor Terrace by the railway and

  • Detective backs kidnap law plea

    ONE of York's leading police officers today backed The Press in calling for a change in the law over child kidnap. Detective Inspector Jon Reed, of York CID, endorsed our calls for strangers who snatch children to be placed on the Sex Offenders Register