A FOOD packaging firm which is creating 100 jobs at a new factory on York’s Nestlé site is preparing to open for business at the beginning of next month. IPS First will co-pack top Nestlé brands from all over the country, including coffee, but the first
CONSERVATIONISTS say they do not expect their quest to protect bats to clip the wings of one of the biggest developments drawn up for Selby in decades. Councillors were today meeting to decide whether the town’s proposed £16 million community hospital
PARENTS can help boost the coffers of a York charity by signing up to a First Aid course to learn the skills that could save their child’s life. York adventurer Andy Shield has organised the one-day training course to raise funds for the Guardian
A LIFE coach from York has made it through to the semi-final of a national competition to find Britain’s Next Top Coach – and now needs votes from the public to reach the final. Jules Wyman, who runs Positive Belief confidence coaching, in
SOLDIERS from York serving in Iraq have gone beyond the call of duty by testing their fitness to the limit in a gruelling charity challenge. Members of 2 Signal Regiment set themselves the target of running, cycling and rowing the distance between York
SELBY is to get its first credit union in a bid to offer new help to people struggling with the recession. The union is being launched next Wednesday, at an information day designed to offer advice on how to survive the financial pressures of the economic
DEVELOPERS have unveiled fresh details of their visions for York’s new civic headquarters, including cutting-edge green technologies aimed at slashing energy bills and consumption. A three-day exhibition opened at the Mansion House yesterday
A CREATURE more familiar with the Australian Outback has been seen hopping around North Yorkshire. Michael Adamson and his girlfriend, Fabi Hammond, were in Tollerton, north of York, visiting Mr Adamson’s mother on Sunday when they saw a wallaby bounding
TEACHERS in York are being urged to make cancer patients the winner at their school sports day this year by helping pupils raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The charity hopes every school in York will take part in The Big Sports Day – a national
PUPILS at Millthorpe School have been rewarded for their exam revision work with a dance and three-course meal at The Royal York Hotel. Some of the teenagers from the school in Nunthorpe Avenue, York, turned up for the prom at the four-star Station
ALREADY 23 of the 40 places have been snapped up for a free seminar next month examining the planning future of York. Rollits Solicitors, in partnership with Spawforths Planning Consultants, is holding the seminar for developers, landowners, registered
ROBOTS in North Yorkshire have a nose for good wines. After launching at the start of this year, Harrogate-based design agency Robot-food has already marked its territory in the drinks industry. The latest addition to the company’s portfolio is NICE
A FREE ten-week coaching course valued at £1,250 is being offered to North Yorkshire business people. It is being staged by The Business Owners club, a new national organisation based in Harrogate “to help local business people in York discover how to
A KAYAKER who capsized in the Ouse has thanked three mystery rescuers who pulled him to safety. Simon Sutcliffe, of Nunnery Lane in York, had just finished a session on the water and pulled up beside the riverbank near Skeldergate Bridge to
VOLUNTEERS are today being urged to step forward and become “compost champions”. North Yorkshire’s Rotters, a group of volunteers dedicated to helping the community reduce its waste, are holding a series of events in the county for anyone interested
NEW jobs are expected to be created at a Ryedale engineering company after it officially launched a £500,000 advanced, high-efficiency machining facility. Christopher Shaw, chairman of Micro Metalsmiths (MM), which already employs about 150 people,
A former Press sports editor marked his 75th birthday by swimming 75 lengths for charity. Malcolm Huntington did the sponsored swim, totalling 1,874 metres, at the David Lloyd pool in Hull Road, in aid of Heslington Church Organ Fund. The swim raised
THE Wizard Of Oz’s Dorothy is just one of nearly 100 scarecrows on display this week in the Wolds village of Wetwang. The spectacle attracted more than 500 visitors over the sunny Bank Holiday weekend, with hundreds more expected in the next few days
POLICE have re-appealed for witnesses in the hunt for thieves who strolled into a city centre museum and stole a 17th century artefact. The barometer – worth tens of thousands of pounds – belonging to Fairfax House, in Castlegate, was stolen
A GOOD friend of mine saw her fledging business go under last year and, not surprisingly, she took a sharp knock to her confidence. Having worked her fingers to the bone and given her absolute all, she was left exhausted and demoralised. It
IT WAS out with the old and in with the new as the rebranding of one of York’s biggest employers nears completion. Insurance giant Norwich Union Life has changed its name to Aviva, in one the largest rebranding ventures in UK financial services history
A GOOD Christian is supposed to turn the other cheek, but there can’t be many who would take forgiveness to the lengths that Father Stephen Robson does. The Orthodox priest, from St Anne’s monastery, in The Groves, took pity on drug addict Michael Myers
I AM rather annoyed that the navel-gazing of the three main parties in the follow-up to the expenses scandals has meant that the EU elections are now being fought with relatively minor corruption as the point, rather than on the very much more serious
ON FRIDAY, it will be 24 years since the Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels. Thirty-nine people, Italians along with some Belgians, were killed when Liverpool FC supporters charged towards Juventus FC supporters. The dividing wall, separating the rival
JUST over a month ago, hundreds of local people took part in the BHF’s York City Jog – a great turnout on what was a fun and sunny spring evening on Knavesmire. The BHF would like to thank everyone who took part. We are hoping the event will raise more
EVERYBODY needs good neighbours. And what better way of fostering a bit of neighbourly spirit than by laying on a street party or two? That’s exactly what the people of Bismarck Street and those living in the Navigation Road area of York have been
WITH respect to Ashley Wilkinson’s letter about the proposed barriers at York station (Readers’ Letters, May 23), all I can say is nothing is final until the barriers are in place. Firstly, the cost of barriers will far outweigh the savings made by
METHINKS Colin Campbell is splitting some of the component parts of his hair-shirt with his assertion that nuclear power is not the answer to our looming power crisis, in his reply to Chris Clayton (Readers’ Letters, May 21). Mr Campbell doesn’t say
IT WAS a terrible spectacle to behold as MPs turned on one of their own. With nowhere to hide, Speaker Michael Martin meekly countered the hostility with the gibberish of a condemned man. Wounded and hunted down he was finally finished off, harassed
WHAT splendid news that the world’s greatest living explorer, Englishman and gentleman, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, left, has, third time lucky, conquered Mount Everest at the age of 65. Is there nothing this man cannot achieve, a fabulous inspiration to everyone
A SINGER with the songs, but without the audience can be a frustrated artist. Teitur, a star in his native Faroe Islands, experienced that characteristically flat Bank Holiday Monday feeling, playing to fewer than 40 people. While support band Share
WHEN former Lord Mayor Jack Archer arrived in York in 1946, he was struck by the friendliness and facilities. The city was big, but not big enough to get lost in, with hardly any cars on the roads and plenty of cinemas for entertainment, he recalls
YORK City are targeting “two top quality Conference players” to further bolster their squad for next season. Manager Martin Foyle has spoken to the unnamed targets and is now waiting to hear whether he will be successful in securing their services.
RYEDALE MP John Greenway is reported to have spent hundreds of pounds of public money on plants for his former London home. The Conservative has become the latest MP to be caught up in the expenses scandal at Westminster, following revelations
THE mother of Claudia Lawrence has said she has “a gut feeling” that her missing daughter could be abroad. Joan Lawrence told The Press at her home at Welham Road, Norton, she still believed the 35-year-old chef was alive, despite police treating her
BOXING trainer Glenn Banks won’t be rushing things with talented puncher Harry Matthews. The Pocklington Rocket has made an impressive start to his professional career – notching up five wins including a points victory over Lester Walsh in Coventry
Jonathon Bean cracked 118 as holders Woodhouse Grange beat Goole Town in round one of the Hunters Premier League Cricket Cup. Grange posted a total of 265-3 when batting first against Goole Town, with Nick Hadfield making 30, Andrew Bilton 60 not out
Yorkshire’s brittle batting continues to haunt them, and this time it cost them the cross-Pennine bragging rights after a hefty six-wicket Twenty20 Cup loss to Lancashire at Old Trafford last night. Their fragile nature nearly cost them
PROLIFIC opener Dan Wilson smashed a superb 95 against Castleford to lift champions York Cricket Club up to third in the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. Wilson faced 126 balls for his 95 as York racked up 270-8 against their West Yorkshire
Jermaine Beckford has been placed on the transfer list by Leeds United after rejecting a new three-year contract. The 25-year-old striker has 12 months remaining on his current deal, but has turned down the chance to further extend his stay at Elland
A DRUG addict repaid the priest who helped him get out of jail by stealing from his bank account. Michael Myers’ latest crime spree put him back in prison, this time for 18 months. But his theft of Father Stephen Robson’s cheques, one of which he cashed
Players of the month in the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League are division two stars Helen Larkin and Louise Haritakis. This week they top-scored with 33 games for Heworth against Castlegarth 2 and they have beaten 12 couples this month to inspire
CLIFFE Football Club and Hemingbrough United shared the Archie McCartney Memorial Trophy after a 1-1 draw. Hemingbrough, division two champions in the Leeper Hare York & District League, had the upper hand at half-time after netting from the penalty
SIX thousand shards of medieval pottery have been used to transform the floor of a York church. Mosaic designer Emma Biggs and artist and art critic Matthew Collings have arranged the fragments into a contemporary art installation St Mary’s Church, in
Barmby Moor moved into second place in division one of the Foss Evening Cricket League after a big victory at Melbourne. Andrew Winn, who captains the Saturday side in the HPH York Vale League, crashed an unbeaten 71, including four sixes, while
Glenn Banks has qualified to be a British Boxing Board of Control professional boxing trainer. The York coach tells STEVE CARROLL how he hopes to punch his way to the top. THEY are quick-fire punches, blows which rock the bag at the Roko gym. As Harry
HALF of the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League programme was wiped out – but Thirsk still managed to extend their lead at the top of division one. Thirsk was the only top flight venue to see any play, while play was possible at Sheriff Hutton, Alne and
GOOD neighbours became good friends, as more than 150 residents joined together for a series of street parties in York to celebrate European Neighbours’ Day. York Housing Association organised the events yesterday in Bismarck Street, off Leeman Road,
FIRE chiefs have dismissed claims they plan to cut a key frontline officer from fire engines at a number of stations across North Yorkshire. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said North Yorkshire Fire Authority is proposing to remove the officer who controls
