COUNCILLORS have signed up to a new agreement to reduce an authority's impact on climate change. Coun Mark Crane, leader of Selby District Council, signed up to the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change, on August 17. Under the agreement, the council
CHILDMINDERS have joined yoga teachers on an increasingly varied list of York's email scam targets. Internet con-artists are using exactly the same trick revealed in Wednesday's Press to scam carers out of their hard-earned cash. An almost word-for-word
The moment when Ryedale School student Holly Thurman discovered she had got 8 A* grades in her GCSE results. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
Firm favourites and fabulous fashion wowed the crowd at a record-breaking Ladies Day at the Ebor Festival at York. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
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A DRUG abuser slid into the bed of a 70-year-old man with cerebral palsy and threatened to accuse him of rape if he did not give her money. Coraleena Hunter preyed on the frightened man over the course of six months, making demands for cash - having
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has instructed his players to reward their home fans with the same level of performance that away supporters have enjoyed so far this season. The Minstermen return to KitKat Crescent tonight, having started their 2006-07 campaign
ROB McGILL has joined York City's board as the club's business development director. The appointment comes after the resignation of commercial director Pete Davis and means City's board will consist of six members again. McGill, who is the father of
YORK City will need to beat the oldest goalkeeper in the Conference tonight if they are to go top of the table. Kevin Poole, who turned 43 last month, answered an emergency call from Burton Albion boss Nigel Clough just 48 hours before the start of the
The Brewers have won on their two Conference visits to York. In 2004/05 they were successful 2-1 and last term triumphed by the only goal of the game. City's line-up on November 12, 2005 was; Porter, Price, Andrews, McGurk, Merris, Convery (Mallon),
YORK City supporters are again being given the opportunity to buy mini-season tickets for the current campaign. The tickets will allow fans, unable to watch every Minstermen match, to attend any ten league fixtures of their choice throughout the season
YORK City fans will be able to travel by bus to tonight's home match with Burton Albion free of charge. First York have agreed to operate three different routes to this season's evening games at KitKat Crescent and will also pick fans up 20 minutes after
New Guinea, an impressive winner at Pontefract last Sunday, turns out again at Chester tomorrow and is napped to follow up. Michael Jarvis's progressive three-year-old scored with something to spare by three lengths on his latest outing, which came hot
York 1.45 (Yearling Stakes): 1 Doctor Brown (Frankie Dettori) 4-1 fav, 2 Cockney Rebel 6-1, 3 Prime Defender 11-2, 4 We'll Confer 12-1. 19 ran. Winning trainer: Brian Meehan. 2.15 (Lowther Stakes Grp 2): 1 Silk Blossom (Michael Hills) 3-1, 2 Indian
Thunderstorms in August may not please the majority but for Eric Alston they proved a godsend as Reverence relished the soft conditions at York to land the VC Bet Nunthorpe Stakes. A testing surface is imperative for the five-year-old and heavy showers
BROTHERLY love will see half-back Paul Thorman waive his York City Knights allegiance this weekend to fly the flag for Huddersfield. The 23-year-old Geordie will be part of the family clan heading south to Twickenham tomorrow hoping to see big brother
SELBY rugby league referee Andrew Cook, 17, has been selected to officiate in the Powergen National Schools finals curtain-raiser to tomorrow's Challenge Cup final at Twickenham. Cook, of The Poplars, Brayton, has been picked because of his dedication
CARP are the main quarry in most local commercial fisheries, but I want to focus on another resident of more placid waters, the tench. There can be few finer looking species than a big tench, resplendent with burnished green and golden flanks, huge
YORK Cricket Club head into the Bank Holiday weekend double header knowing they can ill afford to drop points if they want to keep their ECB Yorkshire Premier League title hopes alive. And they'll have to do it without opening bowler Nick Thornicroft
ACOMB'S Heath Scaife (15), Lee Brundrett (18) and Keith Turner (21) helped their team maintain top spot in division one of The John Smith's Men's Darts League with an 8-3 win over Shepherds. Volunteer Arms scraped a 7-4 win over Rose thanks to Paul Dixon
CLIFTON Cycling Club's Charlie Evans took third place in round four of the Midlands XC mountain bike series. Competing in the expert class, Evans was well placed on the highly technical circuit at Cannock, Staffordshire, slipping to third overall towards
WIGGINTON B' will play Fulford Cons in the final of the York Veterans' Bowls League Triples Competition at the Retreat next Tuesday at 2pm. Acomb A' led Fulford 11-7 after seven ends in their semi-final but a run of ten shots in four ends gave Fulford
Selby Town will be looking for their first Northern Counties East League premier division points of the season at early table-toppers Brodsworth, while Pickering Town visit Maltby Main. Tadcaster Albion travel to Winterton Rangers in the first division
SCARBOROUGH are still expected to be without skipper Denny Ingram as they search for their first Conference North victory at Nuneaton Borough tomorrow. The Seadogs have drawn three and lost one of their opening four fixtures, moving them on to minus-seven
MISUNDERSTOOD youngsters who lash out at their teachers could be better-off taught at home, according to one education campaigner. Pupils who don't suit the "one-size-fits-all" school model are being let down by the system, said home-educator Gwen Baldock
ONLY three teams managed to maintain their unbeaten start to the Leeper Hare York and District Senior Football League premier division season following the batch of midweek games. Another brace of goals from former York City ace Iain Dunn helped Huntington
RACHAEL CLEGG gets stuck into an archaeological dig in York. "Is this Roman or Medieval?" a volunteer asks, clutching a piece of terracotta-coloured pottery caked in mud. Toby Kendall, the Dig Live field officer, peers at it intently for a moment
WHAT do you do when you're an up-and-coming rock band looking for inspiration for that difficult third album? You go and camp out in a disused 75ft-high water tower, of course. The one British Sea Power retreated to while they started working on new
Firm favourites and fabulous fashion wowed the crowd at a record-breaking Ladies Day at the Ebor Festival at York. Punters roared as popular jockey Frankie Dettori romped home on Doctor Brown in the first race. Equally impressive were the winners in
SINGER/bassist Nick Oliveri is best known from his days with legendary Southern California rock band Kyuss, and his six years with riff-oriented rockers Queens Of The Stone Age. His Punk roots - as Rex Everything, he was an on again/off again member
To slightly misquote a famous old clich: you can't keep an old man down. If anyone was living proof of this, it has to be The Rolling Stones - a quartet of increasingly geriatric old rockers who have refused to let life get the upper hand. Not laryngitis
WINTER will be coming early to the North York Moors - but hopefully they won't leave their audience feeling cold. The band draw on rock, pop, Americana, folk, roots and blues in a fusion which, according to Farndale venue The Band Room's Big Mark, is
Eddie Vedder and his assortment of grunge survivors have travelled a long way since their 1992 debut, Ten. This eponymous eighth album marks a return to rockier climes for the Seattle outfit. Mr Vedder is evidently not happy with the state of the world
It seems that inside every Australian actress there's a frustrated pop star. The road from Neighbours to the charts is well trodden: Kylie, Natalie Imbruglia and Holly Valance all made it. Now Natalie Bassingthwaighte, who plays Izzy in the soap
RACHAEL CLEGG talks to the director of a new show about the late, great Billie Holiday which gets its world premiere in Harrogate next week. "SOMEBODY once said that we never know what's enough until we know what's more than enough" spoke Billie
TO start, a confession. I've never really heard much of Psychedelic Furs, the band fronted by Richard Butler. How I am now glad I've heard Mr Butler. His first solo outing is a classic of mellifluous melodies, heart-tugging harmonies and lariat
A LITTLE piece of Broadway will be arriving in York next month. Members of York Light Opera begin their 2006/2007 season with a celebration of the life and music of Cole Porter, Broadway's greatest wit. A scintillating mixture of biography and song,
STUNNING is the only word to describer the opening and title track by Joan Wasser. Ignoring for the moment her pedigree as band member with two of the most exciting US performers, Antony And The Johnsons (although Wasser missed their York show)
RADA-TRAINED actor Freddie Stevenson has swapped a blossoming career in acting to play guitar with a band in a bid to make it big as a singer-songwriter. The 26-year-old Scot, whose skills include Elizabethan dance and stage sword fighting, has
ONLY one condition stood in the way of Barrie Rutter's invitation to Blake Morrison to adapt A Servant Of Two Masters for Northern Broadsides. "I rang Blake in January and said, do you think you could do me a new version of an Italian classic by mid-April
The Puppini Sisters are causing quite a stir in the clubs. Feisty Italian Marcella Puppini abandoned her career with Vivienne Westwood to form the Sisters by recruiting her soul mates, Stephanie O'Brien and Kate Mullins, for a laugh. Their stylised
STUDENTS at York St John University College now have a tranquil bolt hole in the form of a peace garden. The garden has been opened at York St John by Mami Mizutori, director of the Japan Information & Culture Centre at the Embassy of Japan, in London
A cheese toastie and a cup of coffee is about the nearest I normally come to dining on a train. And even then it's usually a case of hoping that a sudden jolt at 100mph won't send my plastic cup of coffee cascading across the table and on to my lap.
THIS venue came recommended. On the Brandsby Road from Crayke, this food shop, cafe-bistro and market courtyard is open from Tuesday to Saturday. A Sunday brunch is also available but please book (01347 889241). From the car park, we walked through the
CYBULA Ltd is the massively complex face of technology made simple. The trailblazing firm on York Science Park is on the verge of seeing its pattern recognition technology, which can recognise one face out of millions in two seconds, making a massive
FAST-GROWING Swansure Group Ltd, the York insurance products organisation which has D&D Homecare Ltd under its corporate wing, has made a strategic acquisition which has doubled its staff and taken its turnover to £30 million. The Group, based at Aviator
A new organic supermarket is opening in York in October. Called Out Of This World - or OOTW for short - it will occupy the former Safeway supermarket in George Hudson Street which has been derelict for more than a decade. It is part of the new Oakgate
HE'S been variously described as "daft as a brush", "as switched on as a power station" and "the 22nd most important person on radio". What Ian McMillan will certainly be, when he hits Ripon Leisure Centre with his Big Family Show next Friday, is a blast
WE'RE spoilt for choice for Gig Of The Week with the Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival under way at Bramham Park. Take your pick from any of Pearl Jam on the main stage today, Franz Ferdinand or Kaiser Chiefs on the main stage tomorrow, Primal Scream on
Digestive problems can be painful and embarrassing - and stress is a major factor in triggering them, LUCY STEPHENS reports. PUTTING on a big presentation at work, going for a job interview, even getting married - these are some of the major events people
MARTIN Boyd will be taking his band down to Cornwall this weekend, where his band has become a firm favourite at the Bude Jazz Festival. Versatile players in his Kid Boyd Band such as Frank Brooker, Rod McNamara and Brian Herbert put the band a step ahead
NORTH Yorkshire's most senior police officer has joined the ranks of Abi Titmuss, Kelly Brook and Sophie Anderton. And no, she's not donning a bikini and hair extensions to take part in the next series of ITV's Celebrity Love Island. The Diary can reveal
THERE is something fractured and disjointed about York-born artist Paul Wilks's abstract oils. Look at them for long enough, and shapes and forms seem on the point of resolving themselves, before slipping away once again. Paul calls them his "post-traumatic
TODAY, we pass the first significant milestone in our Guardian Angels appeal. Press Assistant Editor Francine Clee handed over £35,000 to York Hospital's children's ward. It is the first of what will be many such presentations over the next few months
TALKING of children - congratulations to all our thousands of students who have done so well in their GCSEs. Earlier this week, we reported shocking figures which revealed that a teacher is physically assaulted in a York school almost every day.
IT was billed as the bus of the future - but for some sectors of the community, it's taken a step backwards. Blind and disabled people living in York have voiced serious concerns about the controversial new ftr bus which was launched in the city in May
I READ with dismay of yet another crisis engulfing the sale of the Barbican site by York City Council. (Barbi-can't, The Press, August 19). Over the last eight months, the Liberal Democrat council has overseen the scrapping of a swimming pool for
I MUST say I agree wholeheartedly with D Dawson and his comments about the lap-dancing venue (Bring on the dancing girls, Readers' Letters, August 23). If you want to go, then go; and if not, stay away. It's a simple as that. There are things
I BELIEVE that millions were spent on extending the bus lanes in Malton Road as far as the Monks Cross roundabout. I wonder to what avail, as I frequently see buses waiting at the traffic lights at the end of the bus lanes while the rest of the traffic
MANY of your readers will have been surprised to see reference in the media to the start of the new hunting season. Foxhunting, of course, is now illegal although many hunts have not been disbanded. It was only a few weeks ago that Tony Wright, a hunter
READING the letter about the allotment holder on Fulford Cross, the one phrase that jumped out at me from the council was "showed higher than expected concentrations of lead and arsenic". The council is just trying to scare people into giving up their
I HAVE heard some silly reasons for supporting the Iraq disaster, but John Prescott saying that he only supported the war because the road map was put on the table as a solution to the core dispute in the Middle East: Israel-Palestine' must go down
THIS letter is an appeal on behalf of the Vulcan To The Sky Trust (www.vulcantothesky.com). The trust is a charitable organisation based at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and is currently rebuilding a Vulcan aircraft
EVERY year more than 41,000 people from all walks of life are newly diagnosed with breast cancer - that's 100 people a day. In view of this shocking statistic, I am writing to ask The Press readers to join me this summer in supporting the 41,000
WHEN I first purchased a box of Black Magic chocolates after the changeover made by Nestl of Switzerland to continental flavour, I returned them. I contacted the marketing department in York to advise them of a future drop in sales. A perfect product
I feel readers will not have been aware, from the report in The Press, that the figures quoted have very little to do with attacks on teachers. They actually cover all the occasions reported to the local authority when teachers or classroom support staff
THOUSANDS of complaints of animal cruelty were investigated during the past year by RSPCA inspectors in the York, North and East Yorkshire area. Dedicated officers looked into more than 3,078 allegations in 2005 and carried out 6,464 visits as part of
A DRUG addict who stole from his parents and burgled his friends' home while they were on holiday has been jailed. Robert Ian Keeble, 21, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after he pleaded guilty at York Crown Court to a series of thefts. Chris Smith
DETECTIVES are continuing to investigate a gang rape in a York park. It is now four weeks since three men carried out a serious sexual assault on a woman in West Bank Park, and police say they are still hunting the attackers. Police have yet to make
SEVEN days. That's all the time that remains for golfers who want to tee up in the inaugural The Press Golf Day on September 11. Entries of teams of four for the event, which is being held at Sandburn Hall Golf Club, in Flaxton, close a week today, meaning
A TRAVEL agent claims council red tape is losing him ten of thousands of pounds in business. Paul Smith, owner of Quartz Travel in Heworth, York, had an application to have his company website address printed on the back of an eight-seater airport shuttle
THE chimney at the Foss Islands depot may not represent everyone's idea of perfect beauty. But to Peter Edwards, it is a daily reminder of York's proud industrial heritage. And something more, as well. Every time he looks at it, he wonders at the
ITS aim was to bring peace to war-torn Lebanon. But the Archbishop of York's prayer vigil in a tent at the Minster also brought a little peace into the life of a badly troubled local man. Dr John Sentamu has revealed how, at the start of the week-long
HIGH-dependency care for sick children in York today moves one step closer - as we hand over the first sum of money to make the vision a reality. Months of tireless fundraising by our readers are today starting to bear fruit as we give the first £35,000
THE trial of four Polish men accused of gang raping a deaf woman in a York churchyard has finished without the jury reaching a verdict. After two days of deliberations, the jury of five women and seven men could not make a decision on the case. Judge
MORE than 3,000 people in York are on a waiting list for an NHS dentist, according to a health boss. Penny Jones, acting chief executive of Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT), said in a letter to City of York Council leader Steve Galloway that 3,085
THEY provide important help to hundreds of pensioners and other vulnerable York residents. But the home help service may in future be denied to people in "moderate" need, as council chiefs struggle to deal with rising pressures on the city's social services
