A NOSTALGIC trip back to the 1940s will take place tomorrow when Haxby Memorial Hall holds its annual wartime singalong event. The concert is now in its fourth year, and such is its popularity that the organisers are holding two concerts this
A STALWART of the community has been to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE from The Queen. Geoff Rennie, of Low Hutton Park, in Huttons Ambo, was honoured because of his “services to the community in North Yorkshire”. He said: “It was quite a surprise
MAN’S first mission to Mars has moved one step closer – thanks to scientists at the University of York. The team of researchers has developed new technology to offer vital protection to astronauts against deadly space weather during a potential
CUP kings York Acorn ARLC Under-13s marched on with a 66-0 victory over Wetherby Bulldogs. The crushing victory put the Blue and Golds youngsters into the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Cup. Captain Harry Bromwich led the charge with four tries, while
HUNDREDS of pupils at all York state schools will be able to enjoy meals made from free range eggs. Primary and secondary schools across York are switching from cooking with eggs laid by caged hens, which are intensively reared in small spaces, to eggs
York Shakespeare Project will unravel Shakespeare’s most divisive drama, Shylock’s tale of prejudice and betrayal, The Merchant Of Venice, from Wednesday in York. The Merchant Of Venice will introduce two new names to the York Shakespeare Project
The Mooted Theatre Company opens a Yorkshire tour of John Ford’s Jacobean blood-fest ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore – the one with the ripped-out heart and incestuous love story – on Thursday at Harrogate’s Sun Pavilion. “We’ve just procured our heart,”
SCHOOL’S Out, Teacher Teacher and Graduation Day – these could be just a few of the tracks sung by a group of teachers taking to the stage to help raise cash for a new school extension. Staff at Archbishop of York’s CE Junior School in Bishopthorpe are
WHERE Fossgate and Walmgate once housed myriad pubs in the heavy-working days of the Irish navvies, now these York streets are full of hair salons and barbers. This proliferation has been ideal for Sherry Baines and Jackie Lye, en route each day to
TWO new stores in York have enjoyed roaring trade since opening their doors to customers. TM Lewin, the upmarket London shirtmaker, celebrated the launch of its new shop in St Sampson Square on Saturday. The company, which was founded in 1898, specialises
HUNDREDS of students from across York, North and East Yorkshire will be taking part in celebrations for the first ever national college week. York College is set to carry out a skills challenge as part of the national Colleges Week activities when, throughout
University of York Student Union president Tom Scott reads a new students magazine watched by accommodation officer Emma Daniel, centre, and Penny Hepworth, of City of York Council. The magazine, entitled New Yorkies, covers a wide range of issues such
RESIDENTS and businesses in the Selby district are being urged to have their say over future development in the area. The consultation will help Selby District Council create its new Core Strategy, which will set out the council’s vision for Selby district
PARENTS have joined forces to call for the return of a lollipop patrol to help their children steer clear of danger while crossing one of York’s busiest roads. They fear the lack of a permanent school crossing point at the junction of Stockton
OPERA and classical ballet impresario Ellen Kent is eternally buoyant. “I have ambitions, I come up with ideas, I carry them through and then they cost me and I go broke at the end,” she says. “That’s the story of my life.” In truth, her grand-scale
SKIPTON director Nikolai Foster has never forgotten his first theatrical encounter. “I remember going to the theatre as a schoolboy with everyone chewing gum,” he says. It is a recollection that made him determined to present exciting productions, not
Why is your skin so stretchy? “I was born with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a very rare condition passed through the female line, which can lay dormant for up to 20 generations. The condition affects one in 593 million, and there are probably only about ten
New Earswick Musical Society’s autumn production of Jerry Herman’s exultant musical Hello, Dolly! opens at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, on Tuesday. Directed by Ann McCreadie, with musical direction by Don Pears, the show stars Carol Richardson
There is something despicable about Johnny Borrell. And this is to the detriment of Razorlight. Third album Slipway Fires is propelled by the same ever-so-catchy mid-Atlantic MOR. Listening to Tabloid Lover or North London Trash, you could almost forget
JAMES Apollo launches his new album into orbit on Tuesday in York. His return to the City Screen Basement coincides with that day’s release of Hide You Heart In A Hive on the NoAlternative Records label. The singer and songwriter from Libertyville,
AS A rule, the average pop act is relegated to the achieves on the release of a greatest hits collection. Last Christmas’s festive collaborations from Girls Aloud and Sugababes should have been the nail in their coffins. But here both acts are with
ROBERT Smith turns 50 next year, still the panda-eyed teenager in a black pool of romantic despond. Reunited with guitarist Porl Thompson for a third time, Smith has essayed album number 13, the luckiest in years for those who had lost faith since
THE Vines have dropped off the radar since 2002’s Highly Evolved sold two million copies and put the group alongside The Strokes, The Hives and The White Stripes. The Aussie band’s fourth album continues the hybrid rock that appeals to those harking
HERE, years after the event, is a live recording of the concert which saw veteran Cuban musicians playing at the most glittering New York venue. Many had endured years of isolation, quite a few had retired, and yet there they were, performing bittersweet
FUSING poetry and music often emphasises the words at the expense of the tune. Americana artist Damien Jurado’s previous efforts have often been glum to the point of disconsolate and certainly not hummable. Happily, his latest is also his most fully
A DANGEROUS driver who flouted court orders banning him from the roads 13 times has been jailed. Judge Stephen Ashurst, the Recorder of York, gave Kevin Andrew Jackson a “golden opportunity” to prove his words that he meant to go straight and
RARELY does artistic form and presentation come together in such perfect harmony. Cathy Denford’s semi-abstract exhibition Of Earth And Sky rises from the solid forms of human flesh on the ground floor to a bird flying free above the stairwell, close
YOUR big diary date tonight is at 7.30pm, the University of York Lyons Concert Hall, with the university’s ensemble in residence, the Julian Arguelles Octet. The octet gathers together some of Britain’s finest jazz musicians and was formed in 1996
BELLIGERENT, cynical John Peel favourite Mark E Smith leads his indestructible, mardy Manchester band The Fall at The Duchess in York on Thursday. In the audience, as he so often is, will be Tockwith journalist Dave Simpson, the Guardian rock reviewer
WORLD music choir Chechelele, Celtic singer-songwriter Paula Ryan and acoustic funk musicians Akimbo join together tomorrow evening at The Winning Post, in Bishopthorpe Road, for York’s contribution to Oxjam. Doors open at 7.30pm for a night of global
John Etheridge’s Sweet Chorus celebrates the centenary of Stephane Grappelli’s birth at The Shed, Hovingham Village Hall, on Sunday, at 8pm. Etheridge, the former Soft Machine guitarist, toured the world for five years with the great Parisian
GET The Blessing, the post-jazz band formed by Portishead bassist Jim Barr and drummer Clive Deamer, play The Shed at Hovingham Village Hall, near York, tomorrow at 8pm. Aside from their work on Portishead’s first trip-hop album in 11 years, Third, and
FYFE Dangerfield’s perpetually ambitious Guillemots are undertaking a jaunt around Britain’s nooks and crannies on an alternative tour with an intriguing difference. Discover more at The Duchess, in York, on Sunday evening. The trailblazing
AN SAS soldier who survived tours of duty in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Northern Ireland has been killed in a motorcycle accident. Sgt Kevin Joseph Pearson, who was 36, grew up in York, and attended Fishergate School and then Oaklands School.
DISASTER was averted in the skies over North Yorkshire after a stricken plane pilot had to be rescued by the RAF. A pilot complaining of momentary blindness was assisted by RAF air traffic controllers based at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, near York. The pilot
THE GOOD weather of a couple of weekends ago brought out the Sunday drivers around our way. Unfortunately, they all seemed to be elderly men wearing hats. Something happens to a man when he starts wearing a hat while inside a motor vehicle. Why this
GET new Government funds to us straight away – that’s the plea from small businesses in North Yorkshire. The county’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) a share of the £4 billion that the Government has secured from the European Investment
HE was the right-hand man to one of the world’s most influential people. Now a 22-year-old student from Chicago is in North Yorkshire working side-by-side with Selby MP John Grogan, after helping newly-elected US president Barack Obama during
This Sunday sees the 90th anniversary of the armistice which marked the end of the First World War. CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL speaks to veterans from the York area about why they believe remembering the sacrifice of their fallen comrades is still vitally
AN East Yorkshire micro-brewery is celebrating after beating an established brewery to win a coveted food and drink award. Wold Top Bitter, from Wold Top Brewery, near Bridlington, was shortlisted against Black Sheep Brewery’s Riggwelter Ale and Yorkshire
A TEAM from the York office of law firm Dickinson Dees LLP has helped to complete a lightning deal to secure new funding for Affinity Food Holdings, the Leeds-based fresh food distributors. The deal, which enabled London-based investment company R Capital
IS York confectioner Nestlé missing a trick here, Diary wonders? A chocolate specialist has launched a bizarre new line of “medically themed” chocs that it suggests are just what the doctor ordered. The Doctor Indulgence range includes – wait for it
PRIVATE travel provider FlyMeNow.co.uk based in York continues to soar. The organisation, which acts as a brokerage between travelers and empty seats on private and chartered aircraft, today announced it is expecting its year end figures to show more
ED Byrne has a dilemma. The Dublin stand-up reckons he is half toff, half pikey, a split that renders him unable to fit in with the young, the old, the middle class and the working class. The Irishman analyses this outsider status in Different Class,
Reacting swiftly to the symptoms of lung cancer gives sufferers a much higher chance of surviving one of the biggest killers in the UK, as health reporter Mark Stead reports. IT’S something many of us shy away from because of the fear of what it might
Droll and disdainful to the end, deadpan headliner Sean Moran cuts through the conventions of modern life with witty, observational tales of his personal mishaps at Tuesday’s Black Comedy @ The Black Swan in York. “A comedy night with a perfect pH balance
The Chapter House Choir commemorates the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War in For The Fallen, tomorrow’s concert in York Minster’s Chapter House in support of the Royal British Legion. The 8pm programme of unaccompanied choral music
Yorkshire Bach Choir’s 30th anniversary season begins tomorrow with a 7.30pm programme of “English Tudor polyphony at its most stunning” at St Michael-le-Belfrey, High Petergate, York. Tallis’s Spem In Alium provides the platform for a rarely performed
SHE spent ten weeks in hospital after suffering an horrendous catalogue of injuries when she was thrown out of a car. But today overjoyed Laura Dent was finally back with her boyfriend and his family at their home near York. The 20-year-old, from Sutton-On-The-Forest
HELEN Spath and her team at Tullivers Health Store, in York, write a regular column to advise on the spectrum of health issues and how to treat them with natural remedies. Q: I sometimes have terrible trouble sleeping and can go for weeks without
Where did you meet your new musical partner, Amy Rigby, Eric? “Amy was in a band called The Last Roundup in New York – she was from Pittsburgh but started playing music in New York – and she used to play at one of the punk clubs, Tier 3, though I never
It’s a testament to the enduring appeal of Suzuki’s Grand Vitara that 2.4 million have been sold worldwide in the 20 years since the original model made its debut. Here in the UK, we like it too. More than 160,000 have been sold, thanks to a fan club
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has called on the Government to think again about its proposed cut in funding for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service. He says that if the increase in Government grant is limited to 0.5 per cent each year for the next
WHATEVER happened to Stephan Elliott, the Australian director of the queen of all camp movies, The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert? After a couple of duds, Welcome To Woop Woop and Eye Of The Beholder, he quit the film business, retired
A VERDICT of accidental death has been returned in the case of a Polish cyclist who died only eight months after moving to York from his homeland. Adam Lapinski, 22, was killed when he turned his bike into the path of an oncoming car on Holgate Road
COLIN Walker reckons Steven Hogg’s long-awaited elevation to first team York City duties is like “having a new player in the squad”. But the Minstermen manager said he would wait to decide whether the midfielder could command a starting spot when City
MONK Fryston rider Dean McKeown “decided to break the rules in the most fundamental way possible for a jockey” when he became part of a conspiracy to lay horses. Publishing the detailed reasons for handing McKeown a four-year suspension after finding
HAXBY Lions are hoping they have turned the corner after their 3-1 victory over Bishopthorpe in division two of the F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Morning Football League. The Lions, who lost their opening five fixtures, are pictured sporting a new
Wanderers lost their unbeaten record and the chance to close the gap on York F1 Racing Sunday Football League division one leaders Severus as they lost 5-2 at home to Nestlé Flag. On target for Wanderers were Gary Newton and Paul Bedingham. Two goals
WAYNE Aziz could provide Pickering Town with a welcome boost ahead of their tough derby clash at Bridlington in Northern Counties East League premier division. The defender has had his share of knocks this campaign, recently spending a month on the sidelines
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
FA Cup fever falls first on Elland Road tonight when the opening tie of this season’s first round pitches Leeds United against Coca-Cola Two underdogs Northampton Town. The tie has been switched from tomorrow for live Setanta TV consumption and the
TOURISM chiefs in York are hoping for a massive shot in the arm for the city’s economy as they plan to claim their share of a £30 million windfall. Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward today announced it is to plough the cash into Yorkshire
A HAT-TRICK by Alex Sutherland earned leaders Yearsley Grove a 5-2 win over King’s Head in division one of the York Sunday Afternoon Football League. Mike Harris and Marc Cocker also scored for Grove as they gained revenge for a recent 9-0 defeat by
Usually I comment at the end of each York City season. This year, I refrained as I seemed to be in a minority about the validity of Colin Walker’s promotion to York City manager. I am not in the least bit surprised at the drabness, lack of quality
Yorkshire’s new signing, the former Surrey all-rounder Lee Hodgson, has revealed he does not expect to walk into the county’s first team straight away. When the Tykes announced the capture of the Middlesbrough-born 22-year-old, Yorkshire director of
The Tower Trophy was the feature match and, boosted by anglers getting in some practice for this weekend’s Acomb Tackle York and District Winter League, a sell-out field of 71 lined the banks of the Ouse at Fulford and Donkey Woods. The river was carrying
Adam Thompson (17, 17), Keith Turner (20), Mark Mason (20) and Mark Hartley (14) helped Acomb to the top of the John Smith’s Bulmers Men’s Darts League with a 9-0 drubbing of Crescent ‘B’. Clifton are in second place after Martyn Turner (17), Paul
FAVOURITE Martyn Turner maintained his 100 per cent record in the Clifton Hotel/Crescent WMC Monday Night Individual Darts League with a 7-2 win over Daz Uttley. Turner, who is fourth in the Clifton Hotel group with games in hand, claimed his third
IT IS a good job Peter Maddison isn’t ruled by first impressions. The Skewsby trainer admits he “didn’t fall in love” at first with Lothian Falcon – the horse who is well on the way to putting the York builder on the racing map. In a sport which can
NORTH Yorkshire’s three-strong contingent will be bidding to bag a place in the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup semi-finals in New Zealand this weekend. Harrogate’s Rachel Daley and Lucy Staniforth, who are both coached by York College head of sports
Bethany’s Lake was the hot pick at Langwith Lakes and produced the leaders, including winner Andy Stoner. The humble maggot proved to be the right approach for Stoner at peg two, where his far bank tactics produced 61lb 2oz of carp to 3lb to see him
YORK Next Generation registered their fifth successive victory to go third in division one of the Yorkshire Squash League after beating Chapel Allerton III 5-0. Nathan Hill beat Andy Hall 9-3, 9-3, 9-4 and Matt Inglis ousted Ian Cawthorne 9-5, 9-3,
Take Group Captain to pull off a shock victory in the final major handicap of the Flat turf season at Doncaster tomorrow in a race he won two years ago. The £2 million Totescoop6 November Handicap, with £85,000 in prize money, is the target for the
THEIR Yorkshire One season is unravelling, but York RUFC will try to get on a more even keel when they entertain Heath at Clifton Park tomorrow (2.15pm). Last weekend’s 27-23 defeat to Keighley has left pre-season promotion plans in tatters, with York
A GIRL of 16 and a 21-year-old man have been charged in connection with an incident in which police officers were pelted with stones and missiles, as Bonfire Night celebrations got out of hand. About 30 police with riot gear were drafted in to protect
Watching the recent American elections on television, one thing which truly moved me was the long queues of people keen to vote and belief that effective change can be achieved through the ballot-box. Such enthusiasm for the democratic process
FIRST Gordon Brown used the ‘R’ word. Now even Bank of England governor Mervyn King has admitted we’re heading for a recession. Everywhere you look, people are counting the cost of the credit crunch. House prices are falling, jobless queues growing,
On the same day Anne McIntosh MP said she had a meeting with the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, to seek tougher penalties for shoplifters we read in The Press where a man with previous convictions for drink-driving gets two years in prison for killing
Well done to Yearsley Pool for the lido performance, the climax of its centenary celebrations (Sounds of brass, dancers and swimmers, The Press, November 1). It was very good and made the history and past of the pool come alive. A silent solitary
NOW that the work has started on the university campus at Badger Hill, I sincerely hope the trees and hedgerows along the side of the road, which have been there for as long as I can remember, will not be destroyed but added to, as they will soften
PETROL just got cheaper at several York petrol stations. Supermarket Asda, which has a petrol station at Monk’s Cross, has announced it will be reducing the cost of fuel by 2p to 92.9p a litre on unleaded petrol at all its outlets from today. The retailer
WREATHS will be laid in York and across the country on Sunday in remembrance of those who gave their lives for their country. This year marks the 90th anniversary of Armistice and the ending of the First World War. There are very few left now who fought
IN THIS week of remembrance I am sure some of your readers would be interested in the above. It is a copy of a postcard I have and lists the names of men from The Groves district who died in the First World War.. I remember family members from way
Last week was the coldest for a long time. I felt so sorry for the staff at Tesco’s with doors wide open and no heating, due to the building being refurbished. The person I worried about most was the elderly gentleman – Dave Davison – who was selling
BUSINESS leaders in York and North and East Yorkshire today gave the thumbs up to the decision by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to reduce interest rates by 1.5 per cent to 3 per cent. But some were more cautious than
