YORK has a new addition to its long list of cinemas: the National Railway Museum in Leeman Road. Tonight, the NRM will play host to its first ever drive-in-movie, and which edifying film has been chosen? Why, Danny Boyle’s light and fluffy junkie jaunt
“WE’VE lost a good one” were the poignant words of tribute to the teenage jockey whose promising career ended in tragedy. Speaking at 18-year-old Jamie Kyne’s funeral service, close friend Tom O’Ryan, said that Malton and Norton would never
CLIFTON Hotel let a 4-1 lead slip to draw their first Yorkshire Super League game of the season at home to Roebuck from Bradford. Victories were recorded by Steve Evans, Keith Turner, Lee Brundrett and Barry Noble who threw the best average of the night
Huntington Ladies FC are looking for new players aged 16 onwards to play in the North Riding League, competing against other ladies teams in the North Yorkshire area. They train every Wednesday at Hopgrove Sports Complex between 7pm and 9pm and play
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WHATEVER your budget, there are plenty of apartments to suit your needs in York, North and East Yorkshire. CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigates. WHETHER you want a pad overlooking the river, an apartment in the heart of the city centre or somewhere with
SHE has already completed an exhausting four-day hike in the Peruvian Andes and crossed the finishing line of the Jane Tomlinson York 10km Run, but this York fundraiser still has another challenge to face. In three days’ time, Zoe Fletcher will test
HEALTHCARE technology companies in York and North Yorkshire will converge on York Science Park at the end of the month to learn how to fund growth. A free introductory seminar has been organised to tell them about a new investment readiness programme
PureNet, the York-based e-commerce solutions and software development provider is expanding in the wake of completion of a number of contracts. The firm, which is a finalist in the Small Business Of The Year category of The Press Business Awards 2009
THE apartheid grip could not stifle Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, a play that escaped South Africa to win two Tony Awards in New York in 1974. Nevertheless, white playwright Athol Fugard and his Johannesburg cast of John Kani and Winston Ntshona, his black
SOON the students will be back. It is that time of year. Summer subsides to make way for autumn, which shakes out its misty skirts and dislodges the leaves. And, less poetically, ushers in the nightly drunken hollering. For some reason, the time for
A FLEDGLING East Yorkshire business has been shortlisted for a national ICT award. Respect Our Wishes, of Market Weighton, has been invited to present its nomination for the Best use of Information Technology in patient and citizen involvement in the
I HAVE long been intrigued by the nation’s ambivalence towards alcohol. Constant hand-wringing, head-scratching and soul-searching takes place in an attempt to explain and contain our obsession with this most successful and seductive of stimulants.
I WOULD like to thank the people of Heworth ward for putting their trust in me to be their new councillor. I will represent them with honesty and integrity. This victory says a great deal about the service given to residents by the existing Labour
I WAS interested to read about the drive-in cinema event at the National Railway Museum (The Press, September 11), but why choose a film like Trainspotting? I know the title is appropriate, but the film itself is horrible, all about drug-taking. I watched
REGARDING the controversy surrounding the new road layout at Clifton Green and the subsequent involvement of Westminster Road, I have a simple solution. Make the new layout one-way with two lanes sharing from the exit of the slip road running down
YORK’S Italian community is organising a fundraising drive to help the victims of the crippling L’Aquila earthquake. In April, 298 people lost their lives, while as many as 70,000 people were left homeless by the force of the earthquake which devastated
PUPILS from a York school will be walking on the wild side as they swap their classroom for five days of woodland adventure and games in the dark. Tregelles, The Mount Junior School, organised a week of activities in its woodland area for Year 6 children
WHY all the furore because the BNP wish to appear on BBC1’s Question Time? Surely this is not an illegal political party, so therefore they are entitled to express their opinion. If they do not get their opinions across favourably, then that is their
TWO sisters who have both beaten breast cancer will climb Britain’s highest mountain next month to raise funds to help other women who are still battling the illness. Karyn Harper, from Weaverthorpe, near Malton, and Tracy Chapman, from Ulleskelf, near
YOUTH reigns at Theatre Royal for three weeks from tomorrow when adults will have to take orders from children and young people. The entire management team for the TakeOver09 festival is aged under 26, as are front of house staff, backstage
A NEW private hire firm has been launched in York despite the recession, and is seeking to recruit new staff. Getaway Cars, based in Jubilee Terrace, off Leeman Road, is the brainchild of Paul Brolly and Peter Hills, both of whom have experience in
BUSINESS chiefs in York and North Yorkshire have welcomed proposals for a new high-speed rail link up the eastern side of Britain. The recommendations, to be put to the Government by the Northern Way and Greengauge 21, an organisation formed to assist
THE armed robber who masterminded a £1 million gunpoint raid on York Art Gallery has been jailed for life. A York judge branded Craig William Townend, a “very, very dangerous man” and a “fantasist” for tying up the gallery staff at gunpoint
Updated: A GRIEF-STRICKEN community was today uniting to say a final farewell to a young jockey whose promising career was ended in tragedy. The racing fraternity and the people of Norton were gathering for the funeral of Jamie Kyne, one of
IT has been ten years in the making, put together by Louis Rex and his son John in a back garden. Now the sky is the limit for the engineers after they finished building the light aircraft. “This is a lifetime’s dream fulfilled for me,” said Louis
THE leader of the city council is to head to Brussels to try to save one of the York’s biggest developments. Coun Andrew Waller is due to travel to the Belgian capital within the next month to meet European Commission officials, as the future
SOME of America’s most prestigious travel agents have been welcomed to York as part of a new drive to put the city on the map as the number one destination for US visitors. The group of 14 Virtuoso travel agents, representing big-name travel organisations
MORE has to be done to provide support for children in York whose lives are affected by domestic violence and are then left to deal with the consequences on their own. That was the message delivered by experts on the issue to a meeting of Yor-OK, an
A hero soldier cannot wait to get back to Afghanistan and his men as he recovers from the wounds he received while winning the Military Cross. Lance Corporal Colin Spooner of 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment is still under
OFFICIALS at City of York Council say the recession has left them facing another financial blackhole, as the cash crisis at the authority continues. The neighbourhood services directorate at the council is heading for a £320,000 overspend
RESIDENTS in Haxby are celebrating after winning their campaign to stop a phone mast being put up near their homes. People living in Holly Tree Meadows objected to plans for a mast in Oak Tree Lane, beside the shops. City of York Council had already
COMBATIVE midfielder Andy Ferrell has been told to change nothing in his game despite being only one booking away from suspension a month into York City’s season. Ferrell was shown his fourth yellow card during Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Kettering
MORE than 50 residents of prefabricated bungalows in York who are waiting to move in to a new £20 million housing scheme have been given a progress report on their new homes. People living in York’s Discus bungalows were thanked for their patience by
A FAMILY pet rescued from starvation at the hands of her owners will soon be starting a new life – in a top-security prison. Digger the German Shepherd dog was just skin and bones and weighed half what she should when City of York Council officers
POLICE would like to speak to the person in this photograph, in connection with a high-value theft of high-tech equipment, which occurred at York College. The theft took place in June or July. Anyone who can identify the person in the picture should
THE “chaotic lifestyle” of a York man came to a tragic end when he hanged himself from a tree after taking a cocktail of drugs. Just before taking his own life, Lee Bradley – described as “a fun-loving lad with a lot to give” – made a tearful apology
JUST two years after surviving relegation to division three by a single stroke, University of York Staff have become the best team in the HPH York Vale Cricket League. It has been a spectacular rise which few would have predicted on the
Switching the Yorkshire batting order from top to tail has been something that has been suggested tongue in cheek to director of cricket Martyn Moxon already. Maybe he should start to seriously consider it on yesterday’s evidence. Time
MORE than 12 hours of rallying in the famous Dalby forest stage awaits spectators on the 2009 Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, when it runs in the Yorkshire forests on Saturday, September 26. To celebrate Dalby’s significance in rallying history and
CLIFTON Hotel have become the first pub to provide three teams for the World of Darts Punch Tavern Classic grand final. The sides progressed to the national finale from an 18-strong regional qualifier at Wakefield’s Union Inn. In group
York City have received a £30,000 boost after the Premier League’s donation of £1million to Football Conference member clubs. The seven-figure sum will be shared out between the 68 Blue Square Premier, North and South clubs in recognition
THE Battle of Fulford will be re-enacted this weekend on playing fields where the fighting is believed to have actually happened. Sunday marks the 943rd anniversary of the battle on York’s outskirts, which preceded the better-known Battle of Stamford
TRADERS will come out of their shops to do business on the streets when one York thoroughfare closes to traffic on the city’s first-ever Car Free Day next week. Fossgate will be closed from 8am to 5pm on Tuesday, enabling businesses to serve their customers
The Kids, competing for the first time in the six-year-old event, beat two-time winners Corinthians Cougars 5-1 and 48-42 on aggregate in the final at Clarence Gardens. In the pairs contests, Kids duo Bill Waldie and Bernard Drury beat Andy
THE number of racially-motivated crimes in York this year has already passed the 2008 figure, with more than three months of 2009 remaining. The statistics, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that compared with the 52 racially aggravated
Haxby Road bowlers came up trumps in a remarkably close Clarence Gardens Bowling Association Double Triples 2009 tournament. The competition, run on a handicap basis, featured many twists and turns, with Haxby Road taking the title on shots
MOTORISTS and bus passengers are facing delays in York city centre, as engineers upgrade gas supplies. Roadworks are taking place in Micklegate, which is closed to traffic heading out of town. Skeldergate is also closed at its junction with Micklegate
TADCASTER Albion extended their 100 per cent start to the season to a seventh game with a 4-2 extra-time victory over Hemsworth Miners Welfare. Andy Sunley and a Ross Haywood own goal saw Northern Counties East League first division leaders
TRIBUTES have been paid to a civic stalwart who gave three decades of dedicated service to York. Gerald Dean, who has died aged 82, was a former Sheriff of York, a councillor for 27 years, a chairman of York Archaeological Trust, and an honorary alderman
TALISMANIC loose-forward David March has told his York City Knights team-mates to go on and win promotion without him after seeing his two-match ban upheld. The former Super League star had his appeal against the suspension rejected last night by a second
YORK Acorn ARLC will welcome back Scott Rhodes for their National Conference premier division trip to Hull Dockers. Former York City Knights half-back Rhodes, who was not back in time for last week’s 30-22 loss to leaders Skirlaugh, has
WHEN James and Dorothy Leng tied the knot in September 1939, the world was a profoundly different place. Now, 70 years later, the Pickering couple, both aged 91, have been able to celebrate seven decades of marriage, marking the occasion by having a
Skylla, caught out by the step up to six furlongs at Ripon last time out, can show her rivals the way home in the feature race at Ayr tomorrow. Trained in the Midlands by John Holt, who has only a tiny string of horses, Skylla is far and away
SECOND World War hero Leslie Broadhead and his wife, Sheila, are celebrating 60 years of marriage today. Leslie, who fought in the battle of Anzio in Italy in 1944, met Sheila in 1946 at the De Grey Rooms, in St Leonard’s Place, York, where they used
