SUBSTITUTE Onome Sodje salvaged a point for York City with a late leveller at Forest Green Rovers in the Blue Square Premier. Sodje struck in the 86th minute to cancel out Kaid Mohamed's 41st minute opener for the home side at the New Lawn. * Don't
Updated: A WAR veteran who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day celebrated his 93rd birthday – and was presented with the war medals that he never collected. Patrick Holland, who lives at a Wheldrake nursing home, was called up as an anti-aircraft
YORK’S shortage of football pitches could be eased, under plans that would see council chiefs buy land and lease it back to a city school. City of York Council’s ruling executive is to be asked to purchase land beside the new Manor CE Secondary
ONE month after entries opened for this year’s Race For Life in York, nearly 2,000 women have already pledged to get their running shoes on. Organisers of Cancer Research UK’s famous event are hoping the event on Sunday, June 28, will raise £360,000
Staff at St Leonard’s Hospice, in York, are getting lots of help from their mascot Lenny Bear, as they get into training for their annual Midnight Walk. Lenny is helping the fundraising team prepare for the six-mile walk on the night of Saturday, June
THIS is the man who will mastermind the future of cycling in York and encourage more of us to get on our bikes and out of our cars. Graham Titchener has been announced as the project manager for Cycling City York, a joint initiative to promote
FIRE crews were today set to continue their investigation into a suspected arson attack at a North Yorkshire barn which destroyed 60 tonnes of straw. The blaze broke out at the farm building on Colton Bridge Road in Bolton Percy, between York
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC ‘A’ stepped up their promotion bid with a 64-6 win over Cowling Harlequins in Pennine League division six. The White Rose Avenue success moves the All Blacks second string up to third place, a point behind second-placed Woodhouse
Anyone visiting the University of York’s Heslington East campus could be forgiven for thinking the recession was at an end. Work is powering ahead on the new £25 million Goodricke College, and on the university’s new department of theatre, film and
AN epidemic of obesity is harming our children’s health. Yet, over the last decade, schools across the country have been allowed to sell off hundreds of playing fields. It is a welcome change, therefore, to see proposals for a school to actually acquire
SHEPHERD Engineering Services (SES) of York has been named Best Building Services Company Of The Year. The firm, which is part of the Huntington-based Shepherd Group, earned the title at this year’s prestigious Construction News, Specialists Awards.
CONSTRUCTION projects may have been halted across England in the wake of the recession – but not at the University of York, where a £500 million campus expansion is only just gathering pace. The Heslington East scheme is already providing about
We may live in troubled economic times, but business excellence lives on in York and North Yorkshire. Business Editor RON GODFREY looks at three organisations adjudged as being simply the best. AS the York Marriott Hotel completes a £500,000 revamp
FOR its innovative action to reduce waste and save on water consumption, Harrogate’s Victoria Shopping Centre has won a Green Apple Award. The 140,000sq ft shopping centre, which has 36 shops visited by more than six million shoppers every
BUDGET supermarkets have done well out of the recession. Cash-strapped families have turned to stores such as Netto, Lidl and Aldi as a cost-saver during the tough economic times. But alongside the low-cost luxuries and discount dinners
A PLUMBING student will be swapping copper pipes for a brass cornet after being chosen for the National Youth Brass Band Of Great Britain. Samuel Lovatt, 16, of Heworth, York, has been learning the cornet since the age of 11 and plays in the York Railway
IT was a case of “on me ’ead, son” when a group of American exchange students visited a York school – and enjoyed an impromptu kickabout. Pupils from Sidwell School, in Washington DC – where US president Barack Obama’s daughters Malia and Sasha
SARA Murphy has an ear for the way women talk. After 30 years in retail, much of it spent listening to women – customers and staff – laughing and chatting as they shopped for clothes, that is not surprising. Many of the best lines in her
FOUR decades ago a young couple working aboard a ship bound for South Africa fell in love. They were together for more than two years, but they fell out after she cheated on him with an older man. But now, 40 years after they parted, Mary Nicol is trying
IT’S a hard land where everyone has a dodgy haircut and the corrupt cops are more murderous than the criminals – except, that is, for the diabolical serial killer who has cast his deadly shadow across the unremittingly bleak landscape. By gum, it really
WHERE are all these rich kids? For weeks now I’ve been bombarded with information on gift ideas for Mother’s Day. These are just some examples – and I’ve included the prices – a short-sleeved jacket (£40), a turquoise bag (£55), a VIP ticket to Gardeners
WHETHER it’s down to the credit crunch or just good old-fashioned Yorkshire stinginess, the people of York are risking their lives to save a buck. Diary can now bring you new research showing that more than 45 per cent of Yorkies would rather do their
THE taste of a pint of beer after a game of cricket has become a lot sweeter at one East Yorkshire club which has launched its own ales. Pocklington Cricket Club is launching the two beers later this month and proceeds from sales will go towards building
NETWORK Rail has reassured political leaders that York will remain a national centre for the company, despite the possible loss of up to 180 jobs. York MP Hugh Bayley and council leader Andrew Waller met officials at the railway company after The Press
WE ARE constantly being harried by the global-warming “experts” (even Prince Charles is warning us that: “We have only got 100 months left to save the Earth!”) on the dreadful legacy we are going to leave our children’s children if we don’t put
I WRITE in response to Cynthia Glasby’s fawning letter, lauding the record of the Thatcher era, which started 30 years ago (Maggie’s the best, March 9). Clearly, in referring to the “freeing of workers of being forced into strikes and trades unions….
A PUB-GOER must pay £250 each to the four women he attacked in a brawl in a York pub. Rob Galley, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Steven Graham Hudson, 31, pushed over a table in the at the Black Bull, in Hull Road, sending glasses
TO CALL for returning soldiers to be feted for attempting valiantly to do an impossible job is a cynical ploy by Government and shadow cabinet politicians to avoid facing up to the failure of the war on terror, which they slavishly signed up to
HOW many more remote villages without supportive jobs or infrastructure are to have their surrounding green fields ruined by new housing estates? Ampleforth could be the next, if district planners give in to pressure from Yorkshire Housing to shun
I WOULD like to publicly acknowledge the honesty of Mr G B Petty, of Acomb, and to once again express my thanks. Last Friday, I lost my wallet. It contained cash, credit cards, precious photos and essential identification documents. I started panicking
YORK City manager Martin Foyle has admitted he would rather tackle the club’s relegation rivals away from KitKat Crescent. City visit fifth-bottom Forest Green Rovers tonight for the first of five trips to sides all fighting against the drop with
IT WAS with extreme sadness that I learned of the passing of Ron Weir. Ron was a larger-than-life character and a very popular Provost of Derwent College at the University of York. He was my economic history tutor and supervisor when a student there
ENGLAND discard Matthew Hoggard is determined to use his Yorkshire form as a springboard to a Test match return. The Tykes seamer is putting the finishing touches to his pre-season preparations in Abu Dhabi, where Yorkshire open their defence of the
TOYING with several different formations is now an option for York City, according to manager Martin Foyle. The Minstermen ended Saturday’s 2-0 FA Trophy semi-final, first leg victory at Telford with five defenders. And Foyle said: “Ben Purkiss, Mark
FORMER striker Ken Green relived his brush with the legendary Bill Shankly and his £350 transfer from Selby Town to Grimsby Town at the Robins’ 90th anniversary reunion. Green, of Huntington, York, was the guest of honour at the Flaxley Road get-together
SELBY Town will be looking for a huge favour from county rivals Pickering Town tonight. The Pikes host Northern Counties East League premier division leaders Mickleover Sports at Mill Lane (7.45pm), while the Robins take on Arnold Town at Flaxley Road
FOREST Green Rovers will be without 20-goal top scorer Andy Mangan for tonight’s crucial home clash against fellow Blue Square Premier strugglers York City. Mangan was sent off for swearing during first-half stoppage time in Rovers’ 3-0 defeat at Mansfield
BEV Harton closed 118 as Cueball ‘B’ called the shots against York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League division one rivals Cygnet. Harton gamed in 21, including three ton-plus scores, colleague Angie Hields racked up the same amount of tons for 22 and then
Huntington’s Johnny Miller gamed on 170 in the John Smith’s Mixed Darts League against Acomb, who had Lee Brundrett game on 116. Edinburgh’s Jim Hawksby (3 x 100, 125) shot out in 18 darts at Cueball, whose best was Michelle Britton (24). Slipper’s
IT was déjà vu for Nestlé Rowntree RUFC as for the second week in a row they found themselves facing a side one grade higher than arranged – this time losing 49-11 at Northallerton seconds. ’Trees started terribly, conceding a try straight
HUNTINGTON Rovers FC Past Masters are staging a reunion to celebrate their 25th anniversary. The event will be at Huntington Sports and Social Club on Sunday, May 24. Former over-35s footballers who would like to attend should phone Brian Hamilton
STAMFORD Bridge III and Bishopthorpe IV have joined the IT Sports York and District Mixed Doubles Tennis League. The two new admissions take the number of teams to 90 across 11 divisions. The 2009 season will start on May 4. Meanwhile
DOWN to a bare bones XI, City of York Hockey Club men’s senior ranks suffered a jarring 6-2 Northern League division one defeat at Leeds University I. Leeds saw off an even opening to go 2-0 up before Lee Cuffe scored after being teed up by Alex Cockram
Acomb HC men’s first XI just edged out visitors Sheffield Bankers IV by the odd goal in five. From their first penalty corner a low drag shot by Matthew Dickenson found its way into the net, but the ten-man visitors then took the initiative and, despite
POLICE frogmen will search a 45-mile stretch of the River Ouse from York to the Humber Bridge as hopes fade that a missing woman will be found alive. Lisette Dugmore, of Peterhill Drive, in Clifton, York, was reported missing by her father on July 7
SALLY Sleightholme proved the star for City of York HC Ladies first team and the scourge of Driffield. Driffield were twice put to the sword 2-1 by York in the space of four days with Sleighholme scoring all four goals. In both matches she put York
City of York Hockey Club vets have surpassed last year’s English Hockey Cup run with a quarter-final win over former European Cup and National Cup winners Southgate Hockey Club 4-3. But the reward for that triumph is no easy picking. The vibrant
Spring Of Fame, easy winner of his last two starts, steps up in class at Kempton tomorrow evening when he tackles the £80,000 Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes. But the classy three-year-old, trained at Newmarket by Mikael Magnusson, is napped to show
PUPILS at Business and Enterprise College Tadcaster Grammar School have helped host an event for enterprising women. As part of its community specialism, the school hosted an International Women’s Day event, Women On Top, at the Riley Smith Hall in
A SUPERMARKET chain is due to find out today whether it will be allowed to build a store in Pickering and create up to 25 jobs. Councillors are set to make a decision tonight on German retailer Lidl’s plans to construct an outlet on the former coal
MAJOR changes have been made at a North Yorkshire school, with the existing head signed off on long-term sick leave and the board of governors replaced. North Yorkshire County Council stepped in to make the changes at Sherburn High School because it
