A PRIMARY school which is promoting healthy eating by growing its own fresh produce is in line for a top award. Pupils at St Barnabas CE Primary School, in the Leeman Road area of York, are running a Community Cook Shop, as part of an educational
TWO family pets have been stolen from locked cars in a mini spate of dognappings. The first, an 11-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier called Levi, was stolen from her owner’s – Joanne Carlyle – car after she was suddenly taken to hospital.
UNDER-FIRE Michael Martin has announced he will resign as Speaker of the House of Commons. He made the announcement at 2.30pm today in a statement in the House. He had come under heavy criticism over the past 24 hours over his handling
IT’S called the Ship Inn – but the pub at Acaster Malbis was nearly sunk last summer when the nearby River Ouse bursts its banks and inundated the bar. The Ship remained closed for almost nine months, but now it has reopened under new landlady
A MAJOR £77 million refinancing package negotiated by one of Selby’s biggest manufacturing employers has been welcomed by John Grogan, the town’s MP. Animal feed manufacturer BOCM Pauls, which has one of its successful mills in Barlby, will use the facility
A SCHEME has been unveiled for a £5.5 million North Yorkshire business park, which will create up to 200 jobs. Westfield Business Park, off Scarborough Road, Norton, has just been granted planning permission for a mix of office and industrial units.
YORK MINSTER’S bid for £10 million of Lottery money should be completed by the end of the year, its most senior cleric has said. The Dean of York, the Very Rev Keith Jones, has confirmed that the cathedral’s application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (
A CHARITY officially launched only a week ago in memory of an 11-year-old girl who died of a brain haemorrhage has already raised nearly £10,000. Rob and Katherine Aveyard, of Woodside Avenue, Burnholme, York, officially launched the charity
A BIOTECH company from York has teamed up with another from Sheffield in a bid to develop a stem cell vaccine for the treatment and prevention of prostate cancer. University of York spin-out company Pro-Cure Therapeutics Limited (“Pro-Cure”), based at
Easingwold School pupil SPENCER BROWN, 15, relives his trip to Wembley for the FA Trophy final between York City and Stevenage for thepress.co.uk. A TRIP to Wembley was the perfect medicine for all York City followers after an ill-favoured and
VAN ZELLER, a new Harrogate restaurant, has picked up two coveted AA rosettes less than two months after opening. Out of dozens of restaurants in the Spa town, Van Zeller will be only the third to hold a brace of the AA guide’s rosettes that are awarded
For the third year running, The Press has obtained details of every crime committed in York and North Yorkshire. In the first part of a three-day investigation, reporters GAVIN AITCHISON and JENNIFER BELL look at the big picture in York. CRIME in York
THE £500 million expansion of the University of York is moving into top gear with the start of construction work on new academic buildings. Vice-Chancellor Brian Cantor was joined by university staff and students for a groundbreaking event as the £66
THE Rigby brothers were to the fore for Bolton Percy as they beat Easingwold to go top of Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League division three. Jamie Rigby hit 57 in Bolton’s score of 184-9, while brother Alistair made 32 and then took 3-23 as
YORK City Knights say they have not spoken to second-row starlet Ross Divorty about a return to Huntington Stadium from cash-strapped Doncaster. The 20-year-old was back at his old stomping ground last week to watch a reserves match, after which rumours
BELEAGURED British Sugar Cricket Club are appealing for players to help get them through the season. The HPH York Vale Cricket League outfit, which was turfed off its Millfield Lane ground just before the start of the season by the British Sugar company
NEW Earswick crumbled to 21 all out against Thirsk – the lowest total in the York & District Senior Cricket League for more than five years. New Earswick’s Stuart Massheder took 6-24 in 12 overs to dismiss Thirsk for 97 in division 5B. However,
Yorkshire’s hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of the Friends Provident Trophy were extinguished by Sussex, although Michael Vaughan recorded his second half-century of the county’s Group ‘D’ campaign at Hove. Yorkshire, needing to win their
SELBY Warriors ARLC are putting the finishing touches to their preparations for the Selby & District Challenge Cup final. The Warriors play Brotherton at Brayton College on Saturday, May 30 (kick-off 2.30pm), before taking part in the Edgar Hanson Workshop
Can the Queen’s Free Agent come to the rescue at Goodwood tomorrow? With Irish-trained horses dominating the Derby betting, time is running out for the home-based team to put up a spirited defence in next month’s premier Classic. But tomorrow’s Cocked
ONE of June Scatchard’s most treasured possessions is an old diary dating from the early Sixties. Covered in brown paper and wrapped in clingfilm, it is decorated by a couple of stickers from June’s school days more than 40 years ago.
CITY of York Athletics Club star Richard Buck claimed a double success at the McCain Loughborough International. Buck, won the 400 metres race in 46.4 seconds ahead of Great Britain junior Jordan McGrath, who clocked 47.0. He then ran the last leg
THE fifth annual York City Fans’ Darts Tournament will take place on Saturday. Past winners Tony Mercer, Ian Rankeillor, Patrick Makin and Simon Smith are all expected to be among the field at KitKat Cresecnt Social Club, hoping to become the first players
WHEN I was young, I hated wash day, which in our house seemed to be every day. My mother’s machine had a wringer – for those who grew up in the automatic age, that’s two long rubber barrels, one of top of the other, which you fixed to the top. It was
STRENSALL secured a rare win in division nine of the IT Sports Mixed Doubles Tennis League. They beat Bishopthorpe as Sue Tymon and Chris Pillai top-scored with able support from Janet Powell and Mark Howarth. Tollerton top the division after beating
STATISTICS often tell a complicated story that can be read in any number of ways. The crime figures we publish today can be seen in a mostly positive light. Crime has fallen for the fourth year in a row, with a drop in the overall figure for last year
FOR SUCH a very old and very fine building, York Minster always has new stories to tell. Just last week, we reported on plans to open up previously unseen parts of the Minster to tourists, and relayed news of job losses among part-time visitor reception
Taxpayers in Church Fenton will have to pick up a £1,500 bill after a failed bid by the parish council to challenge a planning decision made by Selby District Council in the High Court. The parish council took legal action over the decision
DUNNINGTON lifted the Leeper Hare York & District Football League’s Senior League Cup with a 4-0 victory over Wigginton Grasshoppers. Chris Burgess gave Dunnington the lead seven minutes before the interval in the final at Pocklington Town. After the
HERE’S the latest in neighbourhood nuisances for you. Never mind noisy parties, people parking in your space or intimidating teenagers hanging around the local shops. How would you fancy having bears wandering outside your front door? That’s the issue
Pocklington had their first win since being promoted to division one of the Fulford Ladies Invitation League. Claire Taylor and Fiona Lambert were in sparkling form to get Pock off the mark against Dunnington. York 1 are in the driving seat again with
York Guildhall Orchestra gave a concert on Saturday night of Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Enigma opened the concert with a strong, confident and colourful performance. Particularly of note were the slow variations
As a prominent member of the campaign to save York Odeon, I am delighted to know that the cinema will at last reopen in the near future. It now feels as if the The Press-led campaign has finally succeeded in its objective. I feel confident the former
Slip ‘B’s Roz Kerr has been crowned York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League individual champion. Kerr recovered from a 1-0 deficit after opponent Tracey Farmeary, of Cueball ‘B’, checked out on 75 for 18 darts in the first leg. However, Farmeary’s finishing
P Christian asked why a cyclist was using the main traffic lanes round Grimston Bar roundabout, in preference to its peripheral cycle paths (Right type of bike, Letters, May 13). Last August, the Department for Transport issued extensively
I was really disappointed to see the article by Chris Moncrieff (Polls position sign of doom, The Press, May 13). He was obviously watching a different Prime Minister’s Questions to me when he said Cameron and Clegg annihilated the Prime Minister
THE father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence says he feels angry that somebody in York is withholding key information about what has happened to his daughter. Peter Lawrence said he found it “incredible” that nobody has come forward to
Richard Bowen is correct, I do have “a bit of a bee in my bonnet” when the subject of affordable housing raises its head (Policy has failed, Letters, May 13). I was born in York and schooled in this city. I have seen since the end of my college education
Further to the letter suggesting the creation of a Park&Ride service that would stop at the hospital (Bus is the answer, May 13), I can reassure Ms Jones that City of York Council is proposing to build three new Park&Ride sites, one of which could service
WOULD the committee who have planned for the hospital/council offices as a dual venture, please afford the people of Selby the courtesy of an open meeting to explain why it is so vital this double venture goes ahead. Or do we live in a Third World
Shortly before Coun Galloway made his pronouncement on University Road’s surface (Off the road, The Press, May 9), I had driven down it, as I have sporadically for the past 35 years, and thought: “Good lord, this road is in an awful state – another unforeseen
As a regular traveller up and down the country, I can only state that the barriers in York Station will be a complete waste of time and money. Already we can see the automated ticket sales and the removal of the very popular inquiries booth. The
WHEN Odeon announced in 2006 that it was pressing ahead with the closure of its York cinema – in the face of 13,000 readers backing a Press campaign calling for it to be saved – it looked to be curtains for the city centre’s last traditional picturehouse
ABOUT 15 staff at York College face redundancy as part of a £500,000 cost-cutting plan. The move comes after the Government placed new caps on its funding for employer training and higher education courses at the college. College bosses
VISITORS got a fresh look at the secret treasures of York Minster, when three new tours got under way. Staff offered their new “hidden Minster” tours for the first time, at Sunday’s “Night Fever” event. The Minster was open until midnight on Sunday
OPPOSITION councillors joined forces to demand that City of York Council considers bringing the Barbican Centre back into public use, at a cost of more than £800,000. At the final meeting of the scrutiny committee, which oversees the council
The sacrifice of airmen during the Second World War has been honoured by the Archbishop of York. Dr John Sentamu was at Lissett Aerodrome, near Driffield, to dedicate a memorial sculpture to those men and women who gave their lives. During the conflict
STAFF at a popular York pub say it is “business as usual” after they were put into administration. The Guy Fawkes Inn, in High Petergate, was left closed last week, after the collapse of a wing of local businessman David Hattersley’s empire and the bar
IT’S payback time for the teenage gambler who turned to crime and put her family in the dock. Lisa Stewart-Stevens stole £3,144 from her employers, The Range, by making out false refunds, York Crown Court heard. She used her mother and her brother-in-law
Updated: YORK’S former carriageworks site has been bought by Network Rail in a multi-million pound deal which safeguards its future as a rail vehicle servicing centre. Fears had been raised that the company might quit the factory in Holgate Road after
