YORK City Knights maintained their 100 per cent pre-season record with a 32-14 victory over Castleford Tigers at Huntington Stadium. Knights captain Tom Hodgson scored a hat-trick of tries to earn the man of the match award, while he also lifted the
A MEDIEVAL chapel in central York has been given a new lease of life, as a studio for glaziers working on the York Minster restoration. York Glaziers Trust has moved into the 13th-century Bedern Chapel, off Goodramgate, using it as a workplace for conservators
Thanks for the link leading me to all there is to know about what my friend called a 'Kings Penny'. Photos, history and stories about, what is known as, Dead Man's Penny all prove to be about the one my friend has and he was equally pleased as
SERVING and past members of the RAF’s ground fighting force descended on a museum near York to celebrate its 67th anniversary. The RAF Regiment, which was founded in North Yorkshire on February 1, 1942, deploys officers and gunners to provide protection
CRIME has continued to fall in York and North Yorkshire, new figures have revealed. Statistics for the period April 1 last year December 31 show a reduction in reported crime of 582 offences compared to the same period in 2007, when there were 37,950
THE two teenagers and one man killed in a horrific car accident at Spofforth have now been formally identified. They were killed on Tuesday evening when five teenagers in a silver Citroen Saxo smashed head on with a white Skoda Felicia outside Stockeld
PARENTS and carers in York will be able to access a host of information about the city’s eight children’s centres at the touch of a button. The centres provide help and support for 9,000 pre-school children and their families. The aim of the Sure Start
A STAMPEDE of supporters has raced to take part in Jane Tomlinson’s York 10K – even as organisers push up places by an extra 2,000. Although 3,000 places were originally allocated for the charity run on August 2, 5,000 people will now be lining up to
ONE of York’s finest sporting all-rounders from the 1950s to the 1970s has died after a long illness, aged 71. Jack Butcher, who died in Meadowbank Care Home, Osbaldwick, after a long illness, suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in recent years. He played
AND so farewell Spring Street, the converted church hall home to Hull Truck since 1983. Hello this spring to Ferensway, the new state-of-the-theatre Truck stop. Ironically, it does not matter where you stage John Godber’s Bouncers: all you need is
MORE than £4,000 hit the coffers of the Guardian Angels fund this week – money that will go towards a new mobile intensive care cot for babies. The transfer pod will be used to transport critically-ill babies via ambulance from York to hospitals in cities
IGNORING orders to carry out repairs to the York home of one of his tenants has left a landlord more than £450 out of pocket. William Silcox spent six months turning a blind eye to demands from City of York Council to take action to fix a large hole
YOUNGSTERS took a trip back in time with a special school day out in the region. Pupils from Barlby Bridge Primary School visited Murton Museum of Farming, to learn about the Tudors. Children learned how the Tudors navigated across the seas and settled
A TRIO of teenage inventors from a York secondary school are set to wow city business leaders at a prestigious conference. York secondary school student inventors Andrew Mathieson, 16, Mike Sansoni, 15, and Greg Ashby, 15, have been invited
A NEW Orange store has opened in Coney Street, York, creating eight jobs. It is expected to be among the telecommunication company’s top 20 performing stores in the UK. Staff were quick to note that the heritage listed building which is their new home
HUGE empty factories in Selby could soon be demolished unless the Government changes its rules on business rates. That is the fear of Selby MP John Grogan who, defying his own Government, warns the existing rules “are perversely leading to a boom for
CITY of York Council is getting down to business with small and medium-size ventures in the area to help them survive the credit crunch. The authority is hosting a “doing business with York” event next month to explain how local businesses
THOUSANDS of cancer patients in North Yorkshire have welcomed the news that they will soon be exempt from prescription charges. From April 1, people being treated for cancer will be eligible for free prescriptions, but they can apply for their
Motoring Editor STEVE NELSON tries Renault’s small car that’s big on enjoyment. AMID all the gloom that surrounds the car industry, with falling sales, job losses and halts in production, it comes as something of a welcome relief when a manufacturer
A THUG has been warned he could face jail if he breaks the conditions of an antisocial behaviour order (ASBO). Bradley Bell, 38, of Arran Place, off Dodsworth Avenue, York, was made the subject of an ASBO following a conviction for theft. York Magistrates
FROM the distance of 50 years since his death, Stanley Spencer stands as one of the English greats of 20th-century art. And so it is hard to believe that three of the 26 oils, watercolours and sketches assembled for this Tate Liverpool retrospective
THE Quilt Museum and Gallery, in St Anthony’s Hall, Peasholme Green, York, has opened two exhibitions simultaneously. Warp, Weft And The Printer’s Block explores the manufacture and use of cotton, silk, linen and wool in 18th and 19th-century quilt-making
Charlotte Inch has joined The Gallery at Hornseys, in Kirkgate, Ripon, to head up the development of new projects. Charlotte, 24, from York, is a History of Art and Museum Studies graduate who studied at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford and
YORK artist Amie Antoniak has taken up her brush in support of the York City Knights. Not only is she sponsoring the Rugby League club to the tune of £300, but she has donated a painting, Spirit Of The Knights, for a sealed-bid auction that will run
BIGGER than Texas, Sharleen Spiteri is going it alone, leaving behind her band of two decades to undertake her first solo tour. Opening with dates in her native Scotland last weekend, and taking in Sheffield City Hall tonight and Harrogate
For the first time, Fifi and The Flowertots are appearing live on stage in The Fairy And The Flowertots!, visiting the Grand Opera House, York, on February 18 at 3.30pm and February 19 at 11am. On a stormy day in Flowertot garden, a magical fairy is
The mastermind behind Malton’s pantomimes for more than 30 years has been honoured by the theatre company he so ably helped to keep on the map. Known to countless Ryedale performers and audiences across the decades as “Mr Panto”, John Coates was awarded
MUSIC making is a hidden art. A band disappear for four years, then suddenly emerge from the studio in a flurry of promotion with a fully formed album. But this smooth process belies the swan’s frantic legwork below the surface. Singer Alex Kapranos
IT’S going to be hard, but put any comparisons with Sigur Ros out of your mind when considering the talents of Hjaltalin – about the only thing they have in common is they’re both Icelandic. While Sigur Ros have made their name by creating strange
THE vast majority of council tenants in York remain satisfied with the city’s housing services – but that number has fallen. City of York Council’s 2008 annual housing satisfaction survey has revealed that the proportion of respondents who
THIS IS, remarkably, Bruce Springsteen’s 24th album and he has rarely sounded happier or more at ease with the world. Working On A Dream more or less flows from his last album, Magic, with barely a break in the song-writing or recording, again with producer
ANY RELEASE from a drummer in a group is likely to cause at best, mild concern. When the time-keeper in question is Josh Tillman, and the band Fleet Foxes, then it might garner a flicker of interest. In truth though, anyone hoping for more of the
JANUARY can be an indecisive month for new music, before the year’s trends and patterns have been set in aspic. So, for their ninth studio album, Baltimore’s Animal Collective have pinned everything on the ideas board and somehow emerged with a clear
ALTO SAXOPHONIST Matt Wates has played with everyone from Humph to Peter King. Tonight he brings his Sextet to Wakefield Jazz (01977 680542). Also tonight, Helmsley Arts Centre presents a recreation of the swinging sounds the Hot Club of France
Paul Weller’s return to Dalby Forest on June 27 has become the quickest-selling concert in the nine years of open-air music nights in the North Yorkshire woodland. The Modfather first went down to the woods near Pickering in 2004, when he notched up
HOLGATE Windmill will ring – or should that be grind? – to the sound of stories and music in a magical evening for adults and older children tomorrow from 7pm to 9pm. York’s single remaining windmill has some surprising stories of its own, ripe for sharing
THE battle lines are becoming ever more clearly defined in the war between the chavs and the chav-nots, as a travel company has hit out at the “snobbery” of a rival. You may remember that, earlier this week, a holiday company based in Northumber-land
WHAT’S the difference between a mechanic at the Land Rover plant in Solihull and a woman behind the counter of a Woolworths in Yorkshire? About £2.3 billion, apparently. That’s the amount of money Baron Mandelson of Hartlepool is going to cough up to
For the first time, the Government is proposing to issue clear guidelines on young people and drink. The message? Teenagers under 15 should not be allowed to drink alcohol at all. But will such guidance make a difference? STEPHEN LEWIS reports.
Ryedale Live! will launch its latest music venture, the monthly Ryedale Live Songwriters Circle, at The Bay Horse in Pickering on Monday. Open to anyone, the group will be made up of singers and performers of all levels keen to develop their songwriting
Sainsbury’s staff at Monks Cross in York donned the famous red noses to kick-start their Comic Relief campaign. Dayne Summersall, the deputy store manager, said: “We are the only retailers from which you can buy your red noses this year and there’s a
The Grand Opera House, York, will hold its open day on Sunday from noon until 4pm. No booking is required, so just turn up Visitors can wander the foyer, stalls and dress bar, auditorium and backstage, and ask questions of members of staff.
YORKSHIRE actor, director and playwright Jack Shepherd recalls a bygone era of entertainment in his new drama, Only When I Laugh, whose world premiere can be seen at Harrogate Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday. The setting is the 1950s in the glory
Auditions will be held on Sunday, February 15 for Real People Theatre’s 2009 production in York. Sunny Side Up, a light-hearted look at life, will be the York company’s tenth show for International Women’s Week in co-operation with York St John University
SHOCKING figures revealed today that burglaries have soared across York – and police believe the economic downturn is partly to blame. The statistics show that, between 2006 and 2008, domestic burglaries spiralled in Micklegate, Guildhall,
YORK writer Kester Aspden’s award-winning book The Hounding Of David Oluwale has been adapted for the stage by Oladipo Agboluaje. Eclipse Theatre’s production, directed by Dawn Walton, opens at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, this weekend. Kester
YOU have to laugh, don’t you? The credit crunch may be biting ever deeper, but ticket sales are booming for comedy’s biggest names at the Grand Opera House, York. “Everybody wants to be cheered up at the moment, don’t they?” says press officer
Is it really a year since the first 1331 Comedy night in York, ponders promoter James Christopher. “Yes it is! And what a year of chuckles it’s been,” he says. “September was a bit c**p, but apart from that it’s been lovely. “So, as a special first
THE Chuckle Brothers are vowing to boldly go where no one has gone for a while in their cosmic stage show for 2009, Chuckle Trek, The Lost Generation. When Paul and Barry set off on a new adventure, they find themselves hurtling through Space towards
JULIAN Clary will make his first appearance at the Grand Opera House for 12 years this autumn, hoping for better fortune than on his previous visit to the York theatre. That November night in 1997, his exotic encore entry went disastrously wrong when
His home tour behind him, Aussie musical comedy turn Tim Minchin will lug his piano up and down the British roads to ask “Are you ready for this”, without really specifying what this is. York awaits his questions and answers on Monday, September 21
THE season of rock documentaries at City Screen, York, continues this weekend with the pick of the new crop from 2008, Patti Smith: Dream Of Life. Showing at midday in the Sunday Special slot, this portrait of the iconoclastic American punk
A FAST FOOD worker’s teenage past came back to haunt him when a girl revealed how he had tried to rape her when she was six. Gary Stock, now 22, was 15 when the child visited his mother’s house in Tang Hall, York Crown Court heard. The girl, now in
YORK City defender David McGurk is out of tomorrow’s FA Trophy third round clash at Kidderminster. McGurk had hoped to be fit for the last 16 meeting, but City manager Martin Foyle will not risk further injury to The Press Player of the Year
STAND-IN captain Richard Naylor is targeting back-to-back away wins to breathe new life into Leeds United’s play-off challenge in Coca-Cola League One. The Elland Road outfit travel to Walsall tomorrow, with 4,000 Whites fans expected to make the journey
NEW Earswick All Blacks amateur Carl Barrow will attempt to press his case for a permanent return to Huntington Stadium tonight – six years after his last spell. York City Knights take on Castleford in the Paul Higgins Memorial match, and Barrow, so
KIDDERMINSTER Harriers will be without star man Russ Penn and skipper Mark Creighton for tomorrow’s FA Trophy home clash with York City. Highly-rated midfielder Penn, who was on the verge of signing for League One neighbours Walsall in the
PICKERING Town warm up for next Saturday’s top-of-the-table clash with Mickleover Sports by travelling to Brodsworth tomorrow. The third-placed Pikes are just five points behind Northern Counties East League premier division leaders Mickleover and can
SIMON Dyson made a solid start to golf’s Dubai Desert Classic as he looks to break back into the world’s top 100. The North Yorkshire star, who finished seventh in the Qatar Masters at the weekend, carded a one-under par 71 on day one of the Emirates
GOALS from Chris Dyson and Kevin Martin earned leaders Nestlé Flag a 2-1 victory over Thorpe United in division one of the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Morning Football League. Hot on Flag’s heels in second are Ainsty Panthers, who beat Hambleton
A MAN who molested a lone teenage girl on a bus has been warned he is likely to go to jail. John Beautyman, 45, was found guilty of sexual assault by a jury at York Crown Court after it heard a harrowing account of the attack from his young
THE Bridgefield at Bishopthorpe took centre stage once again in the Acomb Tackle York and District Winter Angling League. With the River Ouse around York still carrying at least four feet of extra floodwater, many of the 90-strong field struggled
Arthur Benstead mastered the difficult conditions at Linton, where the Ouse was falling but still three feet up. Benstead found his 5lb 10oz of roach sufficient to earn the win despite drawing unfancied peg 17 at Thorpe Underwood. The Pontefract rod
SELBY Town Football Club are stepping up their 90th anniversary celebrations with a club reunion. Robins officials are inviting former players, committee members, supporters and sponsors to attend the event at their Flaxley Road ground on Friday
CLIFFE FC closed the gap at the top of the East Riding County League division three to four points with a 3-0 win over Leven Members Club Reserves. The Cliffe goals came from Andy Kirkham, Byron Summers and Ben Rawson. Meanwhile, the club’s reserves
A BROTHEL keeper netted nearly £57,000 through a string of sex houses in York and elsewhere, York Crown Court heard. But when financial investigators tried to claim his criminal wealth for the taxpayer they could only get their hands on £886. Last September
WHEN was the last time a North Yorkshire trained horse won the Grand National? You have to go back to 1960 and Merryman II, saddled by the legendary Captain Neville Crump, to find the most recent county winner of the world’s greatest steeplechase.
TAKING the next step is the aim of Stillington trainer Ruth Carr. After a successful first season which spawned 12 winners from her Mowbray House Farm base, Calmdownmate’s victory at Southwell earlier this month has already got Carr off the mark in 2009
A friend showed me a 'Kings Penny'. It's the same material as the old pennies, about 5 inches across, has Britania and the lion on it with the name of the soldier who it was awarder to. It was to do with WW1. Can anyone tell me anything
INTERNATIONAL honours are on the cards for Pocklington’s most famous mini-rugby union export. Rob Webber is in the England Saxons match squad to face Portugal at Sale’s Edgeley Park ground in Stockport tonight (kick-off 8pm). The 22-year-old forward
RESURGENT York RUFC have a derby day destruction on their minds. The Clifton Parkers travel to Sandhill Lane to take on Selby in Yorkshire One looking to continue an impressive run of form which has seen them edge ever closer to Twickenham. York followed
A hooded man wearing sunglasses threatened two teenagers at knifepoint and asked them to hand over their wallets. The 18-year-old victims were outside one of their homes in Newborough Street, behind Kit Kat Crescent, when the incident happened at about
TRANSPORT MINISTER Paul Clark has hailed York as a shining example as he visited the city to launch the latest version of Kickstart – a multi-million fund for bus services. The £25 million package of measures aims to provide new and improved bus services
Updated: LUMINARIES from the Roman Catholic Church descended on York Minster for a Mass in honour of Mary Ward – the founder of the Bar Convent. The Mass was taken by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor
GRAND Central has been given the provisional go-ahead to run an extra train each day between York and London – but hopes of a door-to-door service from Poppleton to the capital have been scuppered. The Office of Rail Regulation revealed its “proposed
