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The Battle of Britain is to be re-enacted by the RAF next month with a Spitfire display in the skies above an East Yorkshire town. It will be part of Pocklington’s fifth annual weekend Flying Man Festival and is a huge coup for organiser Tony

CASH has been found to provide pensioners and the disabled with subsidised train passes. Selby District Council has agreed to fund the scheme in addition to the free bus passes currently on offer. Those aged 60 and over will now be able to apply for

Rumours Of Fleetwood Mac chart the career of the world’s first “supergroup” tomorrow evening at the Grand Opera House, York, at 7.30pm. The six musicians cherry-pick more than 30 years of Fleetwood Mac from their inception in 1967 London with Mick

ARTFULNESS owner Amie Antoniak cannot believe how quickly the time has flown as she celebrates the fourth anniversary of her gallery and café in Goodramgate, York, tomorrow, April 10. “The last four years have been so much fun; I’ve met so

THOUSANDS of women will be racing for life in York this summer – and today we are launching a competition to find out why. In conjunction with Cancer Research UK, we are giving Press readers the chance to wear the coveted number one badge at

DIVERS were back at the canal at Burn as the search for clues into the murder of an Oriental man continues. The frogmen were yesterday searching the area near to where the man, who is thought to have been aged between about 18 and 35, was discovered

A POCKLINGTON beauty with a head for figures is in the final to be crowned Miss Student UK. By day Hannah Williams studies management and leadership business at Anglia Ruskin University. But by night she is in the running to win £10,000, a holiday

A CHAMPION of the Chapelfields community in York has died, aged 69. Kevin Shepherd, whose most recent work was as the bingo caller at a community centre in the suburb, died last weekend at his home in Chapelfields Road. A Coroner’s Officer said a post

Snap-happy residents are being invited to focus their camera lenses on one of the city’s parks as it launches its annual photography competition. The Friends of Rowntree Park are staging their third annual contest and asking for people to submit

RESIDENTS have bombarded City of York Council with objections to an application from a York guest house owner for an alcohol and music licence. Julie Stables, who runs St Paul’s Lodge – a six-bedroom bed and breakfast in Holgate Road – has applied for

SECURITY is being tightened up at York Railway Station and on National Express East Coast trains with the introduction of new staff to tackle fare-dodgers and crime. Fourteen railway enforcement officers employed by the train operator will

WHEN you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, the villages in North and East Yorkshire have much to offer. For example, this three-bedroom semi-detached house in York Road, Riccall, has parking for three cars and a rear

A CONSTRUCTION and engineering firm’s brass band is waiting to hear if it has qualified for a championship after competing in the North of England Contest. Members of Shepherd Group Brass Band were already celebrating after winning the Hardraw Scar Contest

COUNCIL chiefs in York paid out nearly £1.5 million in staff bonuses last year, new figures have revealed. Statistics released under the Freedom of Information Act show City of York Council paid out bonuses totalling £1,451,281 in 2007/8. The figure

IT was bedtime all day at a York primary school as children turned up still dressed in their pyjamas to celebrate reading and story telling. St Wilfrid’s RC School, in Monkgate, whose creative approach to learning was praised in an “outstanding” Ofsted

A “TRY before you buy” offer to help older people decide whether to downsize is being launched in Bridlington. Potential buyers at McCarthy & Stone’s Burlington Court development can now stay in its specially designated apartment for up to two nights

A NEW North Yorkshire business partner has been appointed by York-based national customer care quality standard Customer First UK to help drive its expansion plans. Customer First UK has appointed Yorkshire and Humberside Assessment Limited, of Cardale

LOUISE Wilcock is the new centre manager for the York Designer Outlet in Naburn. The appointment was confirmed today by McArthurGlen, which owns and manages the Fulford designer outlet among seven retail villages in the UK. Louise, who has managed York

SALES are now being agreed every week at York’s new Hungate development. According to sales and marketing director Martina Collins, buyer confidence is returning to the market and the new urban village is feeling the benefit. “In the

THE new Clifton Green cycle lane has seen its costs soar from £300,000 to more than £500,000. It has been blamed in some quarters for a burst water main which forced Water End to close for more than a day. And it has been widely condemned by Press

CYCLING champion Joe Watt has quit the post, saying York was becoming “anti-car” and revealing he had felt uneasy in the role. The Conservative city councillor, who took on the position last May, said he resigned because he had only intended

SELLING your house can be one of the biggest worries when you are moving – but imagine if you could sell within a week. That is the offer being made to people buying at Antler Homes' new Oak Farm development and at Revival, by Shepherd Homes. Although

AN UNDERCOVER reporter who got a job as a carer in York was allowed to work with vulnerable clients in their homes without Criminal Records Bureau clearance, a TV documentary will claim tonight. The care company Carewatch, working under contract from

OUR archbishop has been encouraging us to wave the flag of St George in order to emphasise our Englishness. Sometimes it takes someone with different roots to point out these things, although, with all due respect, I don’t think I’ll be flapping one

HALF of all locals in Yorkshire use complicated words to appear more intelligent – even though they aren’t completely sure what such words mean. That’s according to a study by Three Barrels Brandy, a company whose product could lead to trouble understanding

A HOSPITAL is a house of medicine, not a house of God. That does not mean there should be no room for the spiritual. As York Hospital chaplain Stuart Petty says, we live in an age of holistic health care. It is only right that a person’s spiritual

“HAVE a nice day.” Who will join me in the revolution against these inane phrases that are slowly invading our lives? I think the staff in Lakeland and Gap will join me in their revolt; they must be fed up of having to say: “Did you find everything

M HARRISON asks for examples of poor English (Grammatical glitch, Letters, March 31), so here are a few from my depressingly large collection. “Mitigating against” for “militating against”; “the importance of this cannot be underestimated” (for

THE only thing that Labour politicians involved in the present Government seem to be able to do well at during the current recession is to precisely calculate and draw on their bloated expense accounts. How can Prime Minister Gordon Brown justifiably

ON FRIDAY, April 4, our son Adam was knocked off his bike while delivering The Press in Stockton-on-the- Forest. We would like to thank everyone that came to his aid, phoned the ambulance and got in touch with us to let us know. Thank you all so

AFTER a lengthy battle by information campaigners, the expenses claims of MPs in our region have been made public for the first time. Figures released by the House of Commons, under the Freedom of Information Act, show how our Parliamentarians claimed

I, FOR one, won’t be joining the Government’s Swim 4 Life initiative, free for the over-60s, unless they can guarantee me, in writing, that a very efficient, experienced lifeguard is on hand to fish me out if things go wrong. I can think

I SEE that Julian Sturdy, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for York Outer, is lucky to have a home in the nice village of Tockwith. What is not so nice is his future view, one where a future Conservative Government would abolish the whole

Give us proper numbers. !00% increase on 1 makes 2. If the whole is 100 the increase is 1 and 99 have remained unchanged; 99% unaffected. Research and effort can reveal the real results behind the percentages we are fed day in and day out. The

CONGRATULATIONS to the highways department for the complete cock-up at Clifton Green. For donkeys years the two lanes had kept traffic flowing freely. An average time between the new junction going from Leeman Road to Clifton Green would have

A MIDDLE-AGED man is standing in the chapel at York Hospital, a lost expression on his face. He looks up as the hospital chaplain Stuart Petty enters. “I’m just saying goodbye to my dad,” he says, a catch in his voice. “He’s just died.” Stuart – the

POLICE are still looking for that vital clue that could help them find missing Claudia Lawrence. The University of York chef was last seen walking towards her home, in Heworth Road, at around 3.10pm on Wednesday, March 18. Later that night, she chatted

WEMBLEY-BOUND York City today announced a massive May tie-up with York Races. The racecourse is to celebrate City’s forthcoming visit to Wembley in the final of the FA Trophy on May 9 by giving York supporters reduced admission to the race

FOUR people were taken to hospital after two separate road crashes in North Yorkshire. A 16-year-old male motorcyclist suffered cuts and bruises to his leg and shoulder after he was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Corsa, at the junction of Beech

YORK City’s limited edition Wembley shirt is shifting well in the club shop. The first day of the sale of the shirt, which has been manufactured in a special one-off colour of purple to mark the club’s appearance in the FA Trophy final against Stevenage

LEE MAPALS has begged Keighley coach Barry Eaton to let him loose against York City Knights tomorrow night. The free-scoring winger left Huntington Stadium under a cloud last season – despite averaging a try per game – and he has told The Press he wants

HEWORTH ARLC might have no game on Saturday but their focus on promotion will not slacken. The Villagers will be keeping check on Ovenden’s progress at Eccles & Salford Juniors. Ovenden are the only team who can catch the Villagers for the third promotion

YORK Acorn ARLC reckon the recruitment of former York City Knights second-rower John Smith is a huge boost to their chances of National Conference glory. Smith, nicknamed ‘Bull’ during his time at Huntington Stadium, played his second game for the Blue

DIVISION three leaders Clifton Hotel beat second-placed New Inn 5-3 in the Yorkshire Darts Super League. York side Clifton were trailing 3-1 to their opponents from Gildersome, Leeds, but hit back in superb style. The top performer was Tony Cooper

A “WICKED and vicious” thug who broke a teenager’s jaw in a York street has narrowly escaped being locked up – despite a judge telling him: “You deserve to go to prison”. Michael Kitching’s 15-year-old victim was enjoying a game of football with friends

THE Rotary Club of York Vikings are holding a charity golf day on Thursday, May, 14 at York Golf Club in Strensall. Organisers are inviting entries from teams of four for the event which raised more than £6,000 last year to take the total in the last

The 2009 Harewood Speed Hillclimb season starts on Sunday with the Spring National meeting. The meeting will feature a great range of cars from most manufacturers including Ginetta, MG, Ford, Peugeot, Honda, Toyota, VW, BMW, Porsche, Ferrari, Mitsubishi

BESET by injuries and withdrawals, York Indoor Bowls Club’s Over-55s ‘A’ team lost all three games to finish last in the Yorkshire Challenge Cup at Scarborough IBC. York had high hopes of winning the Brian Fearnley Trophy for the fourth time in six years

South African batsman Jacques Rudolph fears 2009 may be his last at Headingley due to an imminent change in the Kolpak rules. The ECB are intent on clamping down on the amount of foreign players entering the county game on the controversial trade agreement

A WOMAN serving a life sentence for the vicious torture and murder of a pensioner is due to give birth after becoming pregnant while on day release from a York open prison. Lisa Healey will look after her child – which is due to arrive in the

York and District Indoor Bowls Club’s singles finals proved exciting, none more than the men’s singles final between Paul Allenby and David Stroughair. Allenby opened with four winning ends but back came Stroughair to win nine successive ends to lead

YOUNG people are to be given a new sporting chance with the launch of a York-based charity that plans to distribute tens of thousands of pounds every year. The Sports Development Foundation (SDF), bringing together some of York’s most influential businessmen

Gayle Bradley and Elaine Sanders stood out as Selby Drax had little trouble achieving a maximum return in their York Badminton League ladies division one match against Huntington ‘A’. Bradley and Sanders took a return of 126-68 from three straight wins

FULFORD Tennis Club have been promoted to the top Yorkshire tier in the National Club League pyramid. Fulford beat local division 2a rivals York and then Holmes Ladder in the last match of the season to secure a place in the county’s division one.

A BENEFIT cheat from York who used a string of aliases to make more than £50,000 in fraudulent claims has been given an 18-month prison sentence. The jail term, which was suspended for two years, came after 50-year-old David Allgood, of Hawthorn Street