YORK City slipped deeper into the relegation mire with a 2-1 home loss to Northwich Victoria. Jonny Allan's injury time goal consigned the Minstermen to Blue Square Premier defeat at KitKat Crescent. Allan had given the visitors a 26th
A GOALLESS draw at Middlesbrough earned York Schoolboys Under-15s footballers their fourth league title in five years. York, who have suffered only one defeat in their incredible five-season run, peppered the Middlesbrough goal. However, it was goalkeeper
YORK Schoolboys Under-11s have agonisingly missed out on the opportunity of playing at Wembley in the final of the National ESFA seven-a-side tournament after a superb effort, writes Craig Cayton. The Minster city youngsters qualified for the northern
BISHOPTHORPE White Rose edged Thorpe United out of the runners-up spot in the York Minor Football League under-16s division one after a 2-2 draw in the final match. York RI took the title with a 2-1 win at Easingwold Town, leaving White Rose and Thorpe
HIGH fives and even higher celebration were sampled by Rawcliffe FC Under-11s. They have won the York Mitchell Sports League title for the fifth year on the spin and still have four games to play. So far the Rawcliffe ranks have amassed 117 goals
A RUN of 18 straight league and cup wins came to an end as Dunnington Magpies FC Under-18s were beaten 1-0 by North Ferriby United. A first half penalty consigned the Magpies to the home defeat in the Hull Boys Sunday Football League. The game turned
YORK City in the Community have added an extra Easter football fun camp to their half-term programme. The three-day camp will take place at Clifton Moor’s PlayFootball venue from Tuesday, April 14 to Thursday, April 16. It will run from 10am to 3pm
THE Drax Cup 2009 has attracted a record number of entries – upholding its status as the biggest cricket competition for under-9s in the country. Some 350 primary schools from across Yorkshire are taking part, 80 more than last year and four times the
SEVEN York Schoolboys Under-15s footballers have been selected in a 16-man North Yorkshire squad. They won their places in county trials at Bedale, with teams representing Harrogate, Scarborough and Hambleton also in the running. The entire York side
FULFORD are in pole position to retain their York FA Under-19s League title. The reigning champions beat top four rivals Dunnington 4-0 at home to move above Rawcliffe, who were without a fixture. Unbeaten Fulford are now one point clear with a game
Nestle Rowntree produced a fine team performance to defeat current York Minor League Under-15 division one champions Wigginton Grasshoppers 4-0, in the first of four encounters likely to decide the age group’s three major titles. The rivals are scheduled
SUPERB goalkeeping performances ensured that the top-of-the-table clash between York Railway Institute Under-10s and Stamford Bridge U10s ended goalless in the City of York Girls’ Football League. The game provided a fitting end to the season
MORE than 1,500 of rugby union’s finest juniors will strut their stuff at the CNG Harrogate Rugby Festival. The largest junior festival in the country will see 130 teams battling it out for the honours in a tournament so big the preliminary matches
HEWORTH ARLC under-14s maintained their unbeaten record with a 18-12 win over much-improved Whinmoor Warriors – but not without a fight. The Villagers had easily seen off the Leeds side in the cup a few weeks ago but, in this penultimate game of
A LAST-GASP try capped a stirring comeback from Tadcaster Grammar School’s Under-18 rugby union team in the Yorkshire Plate final. Jonny Wheatley’s sprint to the line gave Taddy a 21-15 victory over Hipperholme and Lightcliffe School at the Harrogate
TEENAGER Lauren Bird hit the heights for North Yorkshire in the Yorkshire Sportshall Under-13s and U15s Athletics Championships. The 13-year-old, of Copmanthorpe, won gold in the high jump at the Halifax event. She was part of the county team competing
SELBY College football ace Naomi Chadwick has been brought back down to earth after appearing for England Under-17s. The teenager is back training and playing for the college’s Football Development Centre side after figuring for the national side
Rising Tadcaster stars Lilly Carlisle and Becky Wallbank will be laying down the challenge to Britain’s top young sailors as they bid to land gold at the 2009 RYA Volvo Youth National Championships and trials. Around 250 of the country’s best youth (
St Olave’s swimmers were in outstanding form in the annual HMC (Head Masters Conference) swimming gala at the John Charles Centre, Leeds. Teams from across the north of England competed in both individual and team events at nine, ten and 11-year-old
YORK City Knights director of rugby James Ratcliffe slammed the refereeing in Championship One after seeing his side lose 13-12 to a late drop goal at Keighley last night. Ratcliffe was dismayed not just with the display of Warrington whistleblower Matthew
IT was tense and it was exciting and it was ultimately decided by a drop goal three minutes from time. Keighley half-back Jon Presley, noted for his try-scoring this season, won the Championship One clash with his boot to end York City Knights’ winning
WEMBLEY have revealed the timetable for the FA Trophy final between York City and Stevenage on Saturday, May 9. City fans are also reminded that if the scores are level after 90 minutes, extra time will be played. If there is still deadlock, a penalty
IF Blue Square Premier survival does evade York City, they will only have themselves to blame. Glancing at the run-ins of all their relegation rivals reveals the Minstermen have by far the easiest collection of matches. Back in August, those matches
RELEGATION-HAUNTED Holgate ‘B’ picked up four valuable points in division one of the NEDL York and District Table Tennis League, losing narrowly to Railway A, for whom Paul Robertson was undefeated. However, they lost ground to fellow strugglers Coneysthorpe
JUST before getting to the door, there would have been one final check – cash, keys, ticket, yes ticket. It’s here, got it, sound. Then it would have been out of the door to a waiting car, some mates, a bus, a coach, or a train with perhaps a flurry
FOUNTAINS Abbey near Ripon and the adjacent Studley Royal Water Gardens are a World Heritage Site, one of only 28 in Britain designated so by UNESCO, and indeed of “outstanding universal value”, worth a visit now and then. The morning foothills air was
WINNING breeds confidence and Scott Brannan has new bags-full after getting his second year as professional player off to a flier. The assistant professional at York Golf Range in Towthorpe opened his 2009 season with victory in the Yorkshire Professional
Pass The Port, winner of the Musselburgh Gold Cup 12 months ago, heads back to the Edinburgh course tomorrow with sound prospects of producing an Easter Sunday encore. Trained in Wales by Derek Haydn-Jones, the gelding appears to have been carefully
THE dry area under our holly tree is coming to life as April continues. It has taken some time to get this spot right; the soil can be poor and parched, especially in the summer, so the plants need to be tough to survive. Galium odoratum
I DON’T always have time to absorb Readers’ Letters in The Press, but one letter caught my eye this week. Actually it was a photograph of some shiny, happy people drinking wine that grabbed my attention, but the letter that accompanied it (
THERE are two questions I should have asked the staff at The Black Swan in Oldstead but neglected to do so. Firstly, what causes the lights in the restaurant to dim and then brighten again intermittently? Secondly, and perhaps more importantly
IS IT still possible to live the rural dream? That’s the question Selina Scott poses as she travels across Yorkshire in a film for the BBC. The seasoned newsreader and presenter has the credentials for this endeavour. Yorkshire born and bred, the 57-
THE sun was shining and the day set fair. Our journey took us through the village of Kilburn, past the White Horse and to the top of Sutton Bank. It was only as we approached Rievaulx that we realised it must be at least 25 years since we had visited
A CONTROVERSIAL hike in the price of parking at York Hospital has been branded a “tax on the sick” by patients’ campaigners. More than 4,000 people from across York, Selby and North Yorkshire use the hospital’s 180-space car park every week and now they
A DEDICATED worshipper who has been at the forefront of a historic York church’s activities for 80 years has helped celebrate a centenary religious milestone. Clifton Methodist Church is commemorating 100 years since the laying of its foundation
YORK’S proposed cultural quarter must be viewed as a long-term project, according to the man who helped draw up the plans. Coun Dave Taylor also said City of York Council must take the lead and drive the scheme forward, to help York beat the recession
A CARE company criticised over its treatment of the elderly in a BBC Panorama programme has hit back at the show’s claims. Carewatch Care Services Ltd works under contract from City of York Council to provide the elderly with support and help in their
A POEM which inspired a York woman in her battle against cancer has now won her a painting by a nationally renowned artist. The national competition asked people to come up with a title for a painting and a few words explaining what inspired the idea
BAR staff in York are being fingerprinted before they can sell booze, so their bosses can monitor their work. Employees at York Brewery pubs now have to give a thumb-print before they can activate the till at their bar. The brewery’s Lancastrian owners
YORK: Police have appealed for any witnesses to a distraction burglary. Detectives said a woman knocked on the door of an 84-year-old man’s home, in Fulford Road, at about 8pm on April 4. They said she asked the man if she could use his toilet.
THEY admitted swindling tens of thousands of pounds in benefits, but two York women have been told they now face a prison sentence when they return to York Crown Court next month. In the first hearing on Wednesday, Judge Jonathon Rose heard Stephanie
THE helicopter flown by Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger is on display this week at the Yorkshire Air Museum. The Hiller chopper was built in California in 1960, by the Hiller Aircraft Company, bearing the registration number G-ASAZ. In
DRINKING up time looks to have been called once and for all at a York pub, just weeks before its 70th birthday. Punch Taverns, which owns The Fossway, in Huntington Road, wants to turn it into flats, saying it is no longer viable as a business. The pub
ATAX on the sick. That is what patients’ representative Richard Smith has branded the increase in parking charges at York Hospital. Strong words. But we do have some sympathy. The cost of parking at the hospital has gone up iby 20p an hour, from £1.50
T here was a time when being fingerprinted was a mark of shame. It meant a trip to the police station to have your fingers rolled across an inky pad. These days, electronic fingerprinting is almost routine. It is used in some York schools, for registration
I write in response to the article in The Press entitled “Fast and furious – netball has changed (April 7) written by Helen Mead. What a load of bunkum, trying to get netball banned. It is a highly skillful and athletic game – as anyone who has witnessed
I really can’t believe the furore expressed about the loss of the left filter lane at Clifton Green. The narrow approach road after the entrance to the Homestead effectively meant that only the first half a dozen cars really gained any benefit.
The council has done it again, making obstructons on Fulford Road. Common sense should have told them that a clear bus lane was required. No doubt we will get one after great expense, some years later. C P Hird, York Road, Haxby, York.
I was disappointed but not wholly surprised at the decision by Coun Joe Watt, to step down as Cycling Champion. This and other “champion” roles are allocated amongst the various political groups, who make the individual appointments from within
While on a research trip recently to Eastern Europe one could not ignore the blight of graffiti scrawled over the beautiful architecture of Krakow. This city is not alone in that part of the world, and the saddest realisation is that the authorities
THE organiser of York’s first Relay For Life, taking place this summer, today revealed she was set to run her first marathon. Emily Court, of Acomb, York, hopes to raise about £1,000 for Cancer Research UK by completing the London Marathon on April
COUNCILLORS have been discussing ways in which out-of school clubs can be more inclusive, particularly for families on low incomes. City of York Council’s education scrutiny committee has been looking into services outside the normal school
A FATHER who started campaigning seven years ago for parents and children to be able to cross a York road safely has hailed the creation of a zebra crossing. Mark Brayshaw said the crossing, in Green Lane, meant that children finally had a safe walking
DAREDEVIL fundraisers will be embarking on an aerial adventure at a North Yorkshire forest this summer – to raise money for stroke sufferers. Dalby Forest will stage a Tree Top Challenge event in aid of the Stroke Association, which will see those taking
Faith is felt in varying degrees and ways about many different things and ideas. It brings people together and divides them too. It is also a powerful motivator; hence the old saying - Faith can move mountains. People like young Paul Blanchard
