THEY met by chance in a city centre dance hall – now a York couple were today celebrating 55 years of marriage. Malcolm and Patricia Bell tied the knot on February 27, 1954, at Holy Trinity Church, in Micklegate, five years after first setting eyes on
AN AWARD-WINNING community project has got approval from the top after been thrown a £5,000 lifeline. Space 109 in Walmgate provides a host of activities for local people young and old, including yoga, children’s art sessions and residents association
COMEDY turn Josie Long seeks to reconnect with science and nature in All Of The Planet’s Wonders (Shown In Detail) at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York on Sunday. Premiered in Edinburgh last summer and destined soon for Australian dates in Brisbane
A CAMPAIGN to improve road safety at a village between York and Selby has drawn almost unanimous support from residents. Villagers in Deighton are calling on transport bosses to build a pedestrian island in the busy A19, to help people get across the
OPEN auditions will be held on Sunday, March 8 for the Live Nation Stage Experience summer production of Fame at the Grand Opera House, York. For a ninth year, the theatre is opening its doors for the city’s young actors and musicians, aged ten to
THOUSANDS more York residents could be encouraged to swap their cars for bikes if safety improvements are made at busy junctions, a survey has revealed. Three-fifths of people who used to cycle but do not any more, and two-fifths of those who have never
TICKETS for Humpty Dumpty, dame Berwick Kaler’s 31st pantomime at York Theatre Royal, will go on sale for personal bookers on Monday at 9am. In keeping with tradition, queues are expected to form much earlier that morning outside the theatre
THE boundaries of portraiture are pushed back as art and science unite in the interactive exhibition Me Myself And MRI at the National Science Learning Centre in York. Inspiration for this multi-media show was twofold. First came Mark Quinn’s controversial
On Monday, Sue Kershaw’s A Room With A View will open in the Inspired By…Gallery at The Moors National Park Centre, Danby, Whitby. From her studio in Huttons Ambo, near Malton, Sue enjoys a view across the North York Moors: the ideal inspiration for
SIX thousand shards of medieval pottery will take on a new life in the 2009 installation at York St Mary’s from May. Mosaic designer Emma Biggs and artist and art critic Matthew Collings will arrange the fragments intricately to cover almost
Newby Hall’s shop is to be stocked entirely with original, British-produced works of art, artists’ materials and gifts in a groundbreaking partnership between the stately home and Hornseys gallery in nearby Ripon. When it opens on April 1, The Shop@Newby
SPRING is in the air, a change of season that is reflected in the burst of new paintings of Yorkshire and beyond on show at Artfulness in York from Thursday. Amie Antoniak, owner of the gallery in Goodramgate, says: “The reason for an exhibition celebrating
IN HER prime here, Ella’s opening Let’s Face The Music demonstrates total vocal virtuosity with Berlin’s minor/major musical shifts and her ease with lyrics which raise commonplace colloquialisms into ingenious poetry. Recorded in 1958, this was one
What happens when four couch potatoes trawl through the B-movie underworld in search of the purest of gold? They come up with a debut album title of Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion. First issued in their native Ireland last year
WHERE once he used androgynous naiveté, these days Morrissey is a bullish asexual. Years Of Refusal is a throwback to his early solo work, and a disappointment. The sleeve notes make it plain – “play very loud” – and the music is aggressive and energetic
CARA Dillon and Sam Lakeman, partners in music and in life, continue their folk collaborations with this collection of traditional tunes given new arrangements. A first listen suggests that Cara is an Irish Kate Rusby and prone to the same difficulties
DIANA Jones may not be a household name, but this 42-year-old Nashville singer-songwriter’s CV comes with impeccable references. Nanci Griffith and Mary Gauthier both sing on her new album, while Joan Baez and Gretchen Peters have covered Henry Russell
A former leading Wimbledon tennis umpire, who lived in York for many years, has died after a short illness at the age of 83. Bill Pickup, who died in Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, was born in Malton and educated at Nunthorpe School, York. He lived
ONCE more into The Fray step the platinum selling Denver quartet. Their debut album, 2007’s How To Save A Life, shifted more than three million units. So what does that tell us? That The Fray are purveyors of a unique musical artistry? That their
Motoring Editor STEVE NELSON takes a peek at two explosive new cars destined for launch this year. Here’s a couple of new offerings to get petrolheads drooling. First out of the blocks is the Bentley Continental Supersports, the fastest and most
LIKE the Guinness television advert tells us, good things come to those who wait. In the case of The Coast, it happens to be right on the mark. It took the Canadian indie outfit two-and-a-half years to produce this debut with Aporia Records – and
WAKEFIELD Jazz has a treat tonight in the form of chameleon saxophonist Iain Ballamy with his acoustic quartet, Anorak, featuring pianist Gareth Williams (01977 680542). Also tonight a second maverick musician, pianist Matthew Bourne, continues
ANTHONY Chalmers and Isobel “Twizzle” Trilling, stars of Celebrity Wheelie Bins and What’s Down Your Passage?, are red-carpet favourites and darlings of British television. In a warts-and-all retrospective of their showbiz careers, Tony and Twizzle perform
ARE you concerned about climate change but bored by the graphs, indifferent to the plight of polar bears and tired of being told to give up things you like by people you don’t? If so, George Marshall’s irreverent one-man show, Carbon Detox, should challenge
LEON Thompson discovered acting was not all glamour when he was scooped off the ground by the players of The Wheatsheaf Arms in training for John Godber’s Rugby League comedy Up’n’Under. Pictured introducing Leon to the rigours of the hardiest of contacts
Stones In His Pockets, Marie Jones’s Irish comedy with a tragedy forewarned in its title, returns to York for the first time in four years on Wednesday for a 7.30pm performance at the Grand Opera House. When a Hollywood film studio descends on a quiet
COMMUNITY leaders have raised concerns that a £1.4 million redevelopment of their village could be delayed. Plans for the makeover of Sherburn-in-Elmet were given the go-ahead by district planners in December and are scheduled to begin this
THIS touring production’s run in York may have come a week too late for half-term, but the stalls and dress circle were a cloud of blue school jumpers at Wednesday’s matinee and further performances this evening and tomorrow should draw family audiences
A SERIES of online, bite-sized video guides for Yorkshire’s 347,000 new and smaller businesses has been launched by the taxman. A spokesman for HM Revenue & Customs (Yorkshire and the Humber) said the guides aimed to help the region’s small and medium-sized
A HEALTHY lifestyle firm from Harrogate is a winner of BT Business’ annual Essence Of The Entrepreneur award. The Cool Drinks Company, launched in the North Yorkshire town in 2006, was among 20 winning ventures selected from hundreds of hopefuls and
ARCHITECTS and developers are to show how determined they are to remain undaunted by the effects of recession on the construction industry – by entering the latest York Design Awards. The awards, which seek to raise aspirations for excellence in design
“Oxbridge” places are on offer for these two talented East Yorkshire students. Pocklington School pupils Ruth Carter and Harry Smith are hoping to take up the places in September. Ruth, who is head girl, is studying English literature, history and
TEENAGE pregnancies rose in York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire, new figures have revealed. The latest figures show that, in North Yorkshire, the number of teenagers under 18 falling pregnant rose from 300 in 2006 to 343 the following year – an
THE father of a Special Constable murdered by an IRA gunman in North Yorkshire has welcomed a Government decision to block plans to give compensation to terrorists’ families. Brian Goodman, whose son Glenn was gunned down on the A64 near Tadcaster in
COMMUNITY groups in York are being urged to come along to an open day at the new Manor CE School today. The school is preparing to move to a new building in Millfield Lane in April and wants groups to know what facilities are available for hire. The
PLANS have been unveiled for a £4.5 million expansion and upgrade of York’s Novotel hotel to four-star status. The proposals, which include 44 new bedrooms, a new gym, sauna and steam room, and upgraded meeting facilities, will create between 60 and
YORK City's away trip to troubled club Weymouth has been brought forward to next Thursday. The game, against a Weymouth side who also visit KitKat Crescent tomorrow, was due to take place on Tuesday, April 7 after the match was unable to be played on
She was featured in BBC4’s documentary series on American folk music; her new album was reviewed in the Observer last weekend; her songs have been covered by Joan Baez and Gretchen Peters; and Nanci Griffith and Mary Gauthier are among the guest contributors
THE magic formula will change when a North Yorkshire’s boutique music festival returns “stronger and longer” in 2010 after bowing to the credit-crunch blues this year. Magic Loungeabout founder Simon Adamson has decided to put the “refined,
ZODIAC will reach for the stars when exploring Visions Of Heaven And Earth in tomorrow’s debut concert by this new York choral group at a candle-lit York Minster. Made up of 12 singers to match the number of star signs, Dr Paul Gameson’s contemporary
IT MUST have been one of the most expensive cigarettes ever ignited. The Diary has learned that a woman who dropped a cigarette butt out of her car window has been forced to pay £215. Bosses at Hambleton District Council said that, last summer, the
I’VE BEEN telling you this would happen for years. The middle classes are finally on the verge of revolt. According to The Guardian, the police are preparing for a “Summer of Rage” as victims of the economic turndown take to the streets to demonstrate
HERE we go again, council tax rises without any real challenge to spending (Council tax rise lower than feared, The Press, February 25). May I suggest, ditch all those expensive consultants and recruit senior citizens as financial advisers. Now, they
There’s not much public sympathy for banks in the current financial crisis. But are they solely to blame? CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL reports. IT WAS easy for Debbie Hawkins to get into debt. Five years ago, she applied for credit cards through the post and
JOHN Peel once said, “The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the rock’n’roll era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong”. David Gedge and his re-formed Leeds band The Wedding Present continue to justify the late Peel
IT is 17 years since IRA gunman Paul “Mad Dog” Magee murdered Special Constable Glenn Goodman on the A64 near Tadcaster. Today, we report a small victory for his family – and for the relatives of other terrorist victims. Ministers have ruled out offering
THERE have long been suspicions that National Express may have paid too much for the franchise to run trains on the East Coast Main Line. The company agreed to pay the Government £1.4 billion. Even before the recession began to bite, that was a lot
GETTING rid of several senior management personnel from City of York council sounds to me to be the best idea anyone’s had since the introduction of sliced bread (“Management Cull”, The Press, February 21). So well done Coun David Scott for daring
I AM unable to answer the following question: why is it that as a resident of York (that is, in Huntington) I pay council tax and any other charges I am answerable for to City of York Council, but when it comes to Westminster politics I have to vote
Traffic lights are indispensable. This truth holds good for any time, day or night, and for any place: urban, suburban, semi-rural, or rural. To suggest otherwise (Do traffic lights do any good, Letters, February 23) is to fly in the face of
March 12 marks the 25th anniversary of the start of the year-long long miners’ strike. A quarter of a century on, the devastating economic and social problems resulting from the pit closure programme are still to be seen in areas throughout Britain
Rob Brydon meet Rob Brydon. The Welsh parodist, sitcom and sketch show star and film and television actor, is peeling off all the layers for his new show: his first stand-up tour as himself. Wave goodbye to his alter ego, the ever-optimistic
MAY I, in The Press, express my thanks to the ladies who helped me when I had an accident in crossing the road on February 20. Their help and kindness was great. Also my thanks go to the ambulance crew and staff at the hospital. Once again, my grateful
WHERE do these Chinese crabs get their mittens from – are they Christmas presents from Santa Claws? Dale Minks, Ancress Walk, York.
Why, when there are any amount of commercial aircraft available, does Binyam Mohamed, warrant being flown back to this country (not even his own country, let’s not forget) in a luxurious, private, Gulfstream jet for a mind-boggling £120,000? He
MITCH Benn, the guitar-wielding musical satirist from BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and Radio 2’s It’s Been A Bad Week, headlines Wednesday’s Comedy Night 6 at York Theatre Royal. Joining him on the 8pm bill in the main house are Perrier Award
Lovely little Ivan Cameron. His wonderful short life story with his family is being shared by every one of us who have lost loved ones, and more particularly with those who have had similar life experiences, like Gordon Brown. His father, David
We should be careful not to play down the significance of words such as “golliwog” by relating them to idyllic childhood memories. Since visual mediums began they have been used to portray certain races in a negative light. DW Griffith, considered
A MASSIVE haul of cannabis plants seized in a police swoop on a York industrial estate could have a street value of more than half-a-million pounds. The Press’s exclusive pictures today reveal the astonishing sight which greeted officers when
BAD news. A serious chest infection confined Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert to a Cardiff hospital, forcing the postponement of his Hyena Lounge Comedy Club gigs at City Screen, York and Harrogate Theatre earlier this month. Good news, twice over. A fully
YORKSHIRE, the West Country and Manchester combine in the 1331 Comedy bill at Bar 1331 in York on Thursday night. Comedy powerhouse Ben Schofield takes the headline spot. “Yorkshireman Ben has been a firm favourite at my other comedy nights
Prompted by the speedy sell-out of Richard Herring’s 7.30pm show in Screen One of City Screen on March 15, promoter Toby Clouston-Jones has asked the York City supporter and former Pocklington schoolboy to add a second performance of The Headmaster’s
YORK’S weather-beaten roads and footpaths are to receive a £1 million repair windfall after the city’s political chiefs rubber-stamped their spending plans for the next year. City of York Council will plough the extra funding into urgently-needed
THE Hyena Lounge Comedy Club presents Josie Long on tour in All Of The Planet’s Wonders (Shown In Detail) on Sunday at 7.30pm in The Basement of City Screen, York. Premiered in Edinburgh last summer and destined soon for Australian dates in
BUS operator First York is to reduce or axe many services in York. From April 26, many services will run less frequently and some evening services will stop altogether. The firm's Airlink service to Leeds Bradford Airport is also being
CHARITABLE organisations in York are once again invited to apply for grants of up to £50,000 from the Gannett Foundation – the trust run by The Press’s parent company. The foundation wants to hear from registered charity groups and organisations whose
SURREALIST stand-up Eddie Izzard will return to Sheffield Arena on Monday, October 26, in Stripped, his first British tour in six years. The former Sheffield Polytechnic accountancy student last appeared at the Arena on his Sexie tour in 2003 when
YOU are never too old to learn, reckons Clint Eastwood, and at 78 he should know. The stalwart Hollywood actor, director and producer had envisaged calling time on his acting days after 2004’s Million Dollar Baby, but instead he is celebrating
PLANS to move Selby Town Football Club to a new purpose-built stadium just outside the town centre are in danger of being kicked into touch. Club officials say there is still time left to play in the long-running scheme that would see the Northern Counties
HE may be hot property after his screen debut as Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control, but Yorkshire actor Sam Riley puts his latest role down to nothing more than good luck. The onetime warehouse worker and 10,000 Things lead singer in Leeds is
CLINT Eastwood said a long, solemn goodbye to the Western in Unforgiven 17 years ago. Now he picks up the gun once more in Gran Torino and with his final act he may, or may not, have called time on his remarkable acting career at 78. If killer-turned-farmer
Yorkshire Tourist Board is campaigning across Europe to encourage more visitors to our region. But can our art, cuisine, culture and hospitality compete with that of Spain, Italy and Germany? How would tempt Europeans to Yorkshire? All your comments
POLICE officers hunting a former York sex offender say they have received more than 50 calls from members of the public who say they may have seen him. Peter McDonagh, 44, served time in jail for imprisoning a woman in his Acomb home and stealing
York political group leaders agree to fix rate at 3.25%. Wow !!! Forget about political parties and just vote as you feel and understand the issues. You are intelligent people and know right and wrong like the rest of us. Join our sensible
FAILURE to beat Weymouth tomorrow would be “a disaster”, says York City boss Martin Foyle. The Minstermen manager has dubbed the KitKat Crescent clash with the crisis-hit club as a “must-win” for his struggling troops following their 2-0 capitulation
A BALI high was top of the agenda for Simon Dyson who was among the leaders after the first day of the Enjoy Indonesian Open – the first title he won as a pro on the European Golf Tour three years ago. Dyson was among seven players, including
YOUTH players from all over the country have descended on Weymouth to try to get a game against York City at KitKat Crescent tomorrow. The debt-laden Blue Square Premier club, whose first-team quit before their match at Rushden and Diamonds a week ago
YORK City fans will have to buy tickets in advance if they want to attend the Minstermen’s FA Trophy semi-final first-leg at AFC Telford on March 14. Supporters have been advised the game at the New Bucks Head Stadium is all ticket for visiting supporters
PICKERING Town and Selby Town are praying for a slip-up from leaders Mickleover Sports at the top of the Northern Counties East League premier division. Mickleover lead the race for promotion to the UniBond League, nine points ahead of second-placed
LEADING scorer Jermaine Beckford is back to spearhead Leeds United’s double-pronged assault on the Coca-Cola League One play-off zone. The 23-goal striker is back from suspension in time for tomorrow’s Elland Road showdown with promotion rivals
SEVERUS booked their place in the last four of the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Morning Football League’s Grand Central League Cup with a 4-2 win over Hounds. Pete Mullen, Mark Triffit and Mark Thompson, with a brace, were the Severus scorers
NATIONAL Express warned today it is planning to cut costs to ensure its York-based rail business remains profitable in the wake of the recession. The transport giant said while it had increased full-year profits, its rail business was facing “challenging
The Acomb Tackle York and District Winter Angling League reached a nail-biting climax on the Ouse around York. A superb last-leg performance by the six-rod Barlby Village Stores squad saw them clinch victory on the day and also edge out long-time leaders
YORK powerhouse athlete Richard Buck will be hoping to put his rivals in a cloud of Turin dust after his latest international call-up was confirmed. The City of York Athletics Club one-lap specialist has been included in the British team to
Volunteers moved to the top of division one in the John Smith’s Bulmers Men’s Darts League. Paul Dixon (18), Paul Botterill (180), Dave Mason (19), Paul Cropper (180 for 18) and Mick Harris (19) helped them to an 8-1 conquest over Fulfordgate, whose
A MAGICAL 170 finish could not save Paul Brandon from defeat in the latest round of Clifton Hotel/Crescent WMC Individual Darts League matches. Brandon’s bullseye checkout came in a 15-dart leg and he enjoyed a final average of 58.47, but Dave Scaum
Phil Kinsella, number one jockey to Norton trainer Malcolm Jefferson, eases himself back into action at Doncaster today after more than a month on the sidelines. Kinsella suffered a recurrence of a shoulder tendon injury in a fall on the same course
IF CHELTENHAM is the pinnacle of National Hunt racing, then point to points are its glorious grassroots. While the barometer of racing starts to swing inexorably towards the Cotswolds next month, the action a little closer to home tomorrow should
FLYING Malton and Norton RUFC will look to pull off another Yorkshire One shock when they clash with derby rivals York at The Gannock tomorrow. Last weekend, Malton did what York failed to accomplish in the EDF Senior Vase when they stunned Bradford
LONG-RUNNING roadworks on a busy York bridge have been hit by fresh delays. An upgrade of Moor Lane bridge will not now be complete until March 23, weeks later than planned. City of York Council called an emergency meeting this week,
A MOTORIST who died when his car collided with a lorry on the A64 in North Yorkshire has been named by police as Andrew John Carruthers, 36, from Farnley, Leeds. The accident happened on Tuesday afternoon on a stretch of the trunk road near Sherburn,
