POLICE officers in North Yorkshire are quitting the force because they are bullied at work, it has been claimed. The number of officers and civilian staff leaving North Yorkshire Police has risen in the last 12 months - with bullying and harassment being
ARTIST Alan Stuttle has been inspired to record the Archbishop of York's Minster vigil to bring peace to the Middle East. Mr Stuttle, painted this watercolour from memory after visiting the Minster to see Dr John Sentamu making his prayer vigil and fast
HIS violent street attack in York left two children without their loving father. Today, killer Steven Stone is behind bars after being jailed for three years. But the family of the victim - fun-loving dad Michael Williams, of Chapelfields - blasted
CHELSEA got the defence of their Premiership title off to a winning start against Manchester City at the weekend and must start the season as favourites for a third successive title. They have invested heavily again to bring in Michael Ballack and Andriy
LEEPER Hare York and District Football League premier division champions Dringhouses began the defence of their title with a comfortable 4-2 win at Wigginton Grasshoppers. Colin Raynor had the distinction of scoring the first goal of the 2006-07 season
HARROGATE Town will be bidding to continue their unbeaten start to the Conference North season at Barrow tonight. Neil Aspin's men, currently lying fourth in the table, are yet to concede a goal after their first three fixtures and take on a Barrow
YORK City Knights chief executive John Guildford has not given up on the Super League dream - but says fans hold the key to bouncing back from relegation. The Knights battled to a second successive victory on Sunday but results elsewhere consigned them
YORK City Knights are looking to increase the number of directors at Huntington Stadium, The Press can reveal. Chief executive John Guildford confirmed talks were "at an advanced stage" with two or three potential new board members. The Press believes
PACK'S Lee Carter prevented York Knavesmire Racing Darts League division one leaders Mitre from a clean sweep with a fine 21-darter. Mitre ran out 8-1 winners with Simon Craven (21), John Quantock (21) and a maximum for 20 from Allan Galley the stars
YORK runner Richard Buck gets an early chance to build on his senior Great Britain debut tonight. The 19-year-old Nestl Rowntree AC ace is in the 400 metres at an invitation meeting in Malmo, Sweden, after featuring in the British 4 x 400 metres team
HEWORTH ARLC enjoyed an 18-2 victory in their final pre-season match, beating Pennine League division one side Moldgreen thanks to a second-half scoring spree. The Villagers, whose National Conference division two season starts next month, had a good
A SUPERB day's rugby league brought York Groves ARLC runners-up spot at the annual Wyke 7s tournament. The Terriers entered the event as one of the underdogs, with only one of the other five participating teams below them in the Pennine League structure
MATTHEW Kilgallon blamed himself for the goal that enabled Cardiff to join Birmingham at the top of the Championship table. But the York-born central defender insists Leeds United's dismal start to the season is no cause for alarm and he intends making
DANNY Rose, the academy prospect who turned down Chelsea to stay at Leeds United, makes his senior debut in tonight's Carling Cup tie against Chester City. Rose, who has only just turned 16, was one of three Leeds youngsters caught up in the row over
RICHARD Pyrah may get a rare chance to prove his worth for Yorkshire Phoenix in their NatWest Pro40 League day-night match against Worcestershire Royals at Headingley Carnegie Stadium today (4.40pm start). The 23-year-old Dewsbury all-rounder comes
AUSSIE all-rounder Dan Wilson turned from villain to hero as York clinched a tense Yorkshire League Knockout Cup semi-final win over neighbours Scarborough. Wilson made just four runs and ran out captain Stephen Piercy in an inconspicuous start to his
JOHN Rayson, a former York Cricket Club opening batsman and local school teacher, has died at his home in Sutton-on-the-Forest after a long illness. He was 77. Mr Rayson was educated at St Peter's School and captained the school cricket team in the
Greenwich Meantime, so close yet so far from major handicap victories in the Chester Cup and the Northumberland Plate, can make it third time lucky at York tomorrow. The Richard Fahey-trained gelding lines up in the £200,000 totesport Ebor and, in the
A FIREBALL erupted from beneath the streets of York city centre, blasting a manhole cover high into the air. Terrified shoppers reported seeing a "mini-volcano" belching smoke and flames into Feasegate. Police evacuated the entire street, and it remained
THE first phase of a scheme to bolster York's flood defences is to go ahead, despite millions of pounds of cuts in Yorkshire flood funding. But a leading councillor warned that if the Government continued to slash spending on defences in future years
Calculators at the ready - Maxine Gordon gives a lesson in bargain back-to-school wear. PAY attention at the back. Sit up straight. And don't even think about throwing that paper aeroplane. That's better. If these orders send a chill down your spine
IT is just as well we did not go abroad on holiday. Whittling down my hand luggage to three or four items in a small plastic bag would have been near impossible. I can't go anywhere without my essentials - which take up the best part of a wheelie bin
IT WAS a struggle for former farmers Sam Blacker and Stuart Beaton to get permission to open their new headquarters for their farm shop in North Yorkshire. But now that Ainsty Farms Direct has been in its tailor-built premises for nearly a year you can
A NEW business centre which is set to attract up to 30 new employees has been unveiled in York. The centre will be a refurbished Georgian gentlemen's residence restored to its former glory of 1810 while packed with modern technology. Richard Morrice
A BURGLAR was guaranteed a clean getaway thanks to the diligence of a York housewife. When crime scene investigators from York Police showed up at a house to take fingerprints the day after a burglary, they were amazed to find all the surfaces were spotless
THE latest Barbican delay is either a "minor hitch" or an "appalling blunder", depending who you speak to. City of York Council leader Steve Galloway insisted last week all that was needed to get the Barbican plans back on track was a minor change to
The Royal Mail has abandoned pricing post simply by weight, and has introduced pricing by size as well. It claims the new system is fairer. This newspaper hopes people understand the changes; otherwise we predict lots of confused customers.
SOME local politicians attempted to blame Associated British Foods (ABF) plc for the projected closure of its York sugar factory. They even threatened ABF with the Monopolies Commission and planning restrictions on the factory site, as though this
I AM an allotment holder on Fulford Cross allotments and I feel that City of York Council is deliberately mishandling the situation. It has only sampled the soil in the bridge centre, some 200 yards from the top allotments. It says it has sampled some
AS Richard Smith said in The Press (Arrogance Of British Sugar Condemned, August 17), British Sugar has totally stuffed local farmers. They have been arrogant and dictatorial in all their negotiations with a "take it or leave it" attitude. British
I WAS bemused by the article concerning the road humps in Foxwood Lane (Less Bump From Your Hump, August 12). I have lived in Foxwood Lane for eight years and have a speed cushion directly outside the house. However, Forrester's Walk is an offshoot
CITY of York Council recently resurfaced Askham Lane for the benefit of ftr buses, removing the four speed humps on the short stretch of road near my house. Unfortunately the speed humps were reinstalled seven days later, transforming our new smooth
SARAH Thompson is right (A Walk Of Shame, Letters, August 18). The small group of objectors to the original Barbican redevelopment plans who are responsible for the delays have a lot to answer for. Were it not for their ill-judged opposition then
I CAN agree with only one thing in Ben Drake's letter (Profits Of Doom, August 15). It was all pie in the sky, but totally predictable, as the trades unions, along with this Labour government, have long since lost the plot. Mr Drake defends mass
MY husband and I went up to Edinburgh last weekend to the Fringe Festival. We arrived at about 9pm and, as we were walking to our hotel, I commented to my husband on how busy all the bars and restaurants were as people were literally queuing up outside
A new pricing system at Royal Mail means letters and parcels are now priced by size as well as weight. GAVIN AITCHISON looks at the impact of the change, and gauges reaction in our area. IT'S one of the biggest changes to the British postal system
DARING York army captain Paul Tetlow is nearing the end of a gruelling rowing race across the Atlantic. He and three fellow rowers on Yorkshire Warrior were only 200 miles from England yesterday, having been beaten to the finishing point by an American
LIFE in a bubble is no mystery for youngsters, who have been unlocking the secrets of science at the University of York. Fifty pupils from all over the UK and Ireland have descended on York to take part in a residential Salters' Chemistry Camp at the
MORE than 1,200 customers have now signed a petition opposing the closure of a popular city centre newsagent. Staff at Maynews, in Parliament Street, have been overwhelmed by public support, since they started their fight for survival seven weeks ago
A DEAF woman may have been drugged by an unnamed person before an incident in which she was allegedly gang-raped, a jury heard. Simon Myerson QC told Leeds Crown Court yesterday that the 37-year-old victim may have taken the date rape drug GHB by drinking
PORTERS and security staff at the University of York are fuming over new contracts which they claim will mean a "complete change of lifestyle." About 70 to 80 staff have been given 90 days notice of the new contracts, which will be issued in mid-November
SHOCK and disappointment greeted the news that York's Barbican plans have hit a fresh obstacle. As revealed in The Press on Saturday, the controversial £6.4 million deal has fallen foul of a legal hitch which could prolong it even further. Fiona Evans
NEW laws allowing pubs, clubs and takeaways to open late are letting down York's residents - a leading licensing councillor has claimed. Coun Brian Watson, one of the council's licensing committee members, told The Press he thought residents were getting
FRESH controversy surrounds the city's green bin scheme after the council made moves to remove some from a York street. The Labour Party has criticised City of York Council for giving the garden waste bins to residents in Fossway, only to later tell
THE eight-year-old twin daughters of a man who was missing in York have received a letter from their daddy - posted in Oxford. Christopher Patrick Mendez, known as "Paddy", was believed to have been busking and sleeping rough in York after vanishing
A BLACK man from York claims his life has been made a misery by racists since police appealed for information about a rape in West Bank Park. Marvin Gabriel, 31, of Fossway, said he had been subjected to "threatening stares" and whispered comments from
