YORK's silver-screen past will be the subject of an illustrated talk on Sunday morning - timely in a week when the National Railway Museum's North Yard made its debut as a drive-in movie venue. Film archivist Tim Addyman and City Screen marketing
In these tough times, six men have nothing to lose except their pants in the York Stage Musicals production of The Full Monty in November at the Grand Opera House, York. The company, then called Shipton Theatre Company, sold out the Joseph Rowntree
CITY Screen, York is taking part in the world’s first interactive multi-cinema film premiere on Thursday, when Rage will be shown in a live digital screening at 8.30pm. York actress Dame Judi Dench is joined in Sally Potter’s cast by Jude Law, Eddie
Just A Quickie with country-blues singer-songwriter Angie Palmer, English Americana’s answer to Lucinda Williams. You record your albums at Alan Gregson’s studios in Preston but you and your partner, Paul Mason, live in France. How
CHARLOTTE Hatherley’s new solo album, New Worlds, could not be better titled. The one time Ash guitarist now plays with Natasha Khan’s exotic Bat For Lashes, tours far-off lands with Bryan Ferry’s band and fronts her own trio. “I’m perfectly happy to
NICHOLAS King is opening his first solo exhibition in York since 1997 in the upstairs gallery at Pine And Oak Interiors, in Piccadilly, where his fine-art digital prints will be on display from today until October 2. King’s show, Waking
YORKSHIRE photographer Chris Ceaser returns to Fountains Hall at Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, to exhibit images of northern landscapes from today until October 11. Ceaser’s photographs of the North York Moors, the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire and
Ann Petherick is determined to banish pale grey empty walls from Yorkshire’s offices. “In these times, businesses need to cut costs, but they also need to find imaginative ways to compete,” says the York gallery owner. “That’s way we’ve launched Art
IF YOU believe the publicity, the tone and title of Basement Jaxx’s fifth album reflect it being forged by hearts of darkness. They’re having a laugh. Scars is about as dark as Times Square during a torch convention, and further proof that while south
HAVING achieved something close to fame with the Raconteurs, Brendan Benson returns to his pop/rock home ground. This is expertly crafted with plenty of hooks and an excellent period production (reminiscent of Wings). However, looking beyond the initial
NOT as wet as Romeo before Juliet, nor as charming as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s smitten Tom in (500) Days Of Summer, and without the cutting blade of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks, Charlie Fink has nevertheless written the definitive young Englishman
HERE’S an intriguing notion: a tribute album on which the person being dusted off for musical remembrance will be known to hardly anyone. Charlie Poole was a legendary singer, banjo-picker and occasional hell-raiser, who lived from 1892 to 1931, when
An honorary doctor of music at the University of Wolverhampton, Beverley Knight MBE is one of the greatest British gospel and R’n’B artists of all time. Yet, despite respectable UK sales, a cabinet full of awards and an incessant touring schedule,
THE trouble with putting out one record every three years is that everyone quickly forgets about you. So it is with Jet. Are You Going To Be My Girl, the frenzied hit with the killer riff that adorned an iPod commercial, seems a long time ago. Six
IF you’re planning a good time out, don’t invite the Webb family. On the evidence of this release, the family that plays together, flays together. This is a work of almost unremitting bleakness, even if it was mostly penned by Jimmy Webb, one of America
Hopping between two festivals in North Yorkshire this weekend, the sound you hear is your writer catching his breath. The seventh Scarborough Jazz Festival begins today at 12.30pm with a free afternoon of jazz courtesy of Jazz Services Promoter’s Choice
ANDREW Motion, the former Poet Laureate, presents poems from his latest collection, The Cinder Path, and takes part in a question-and-answer session this evening at Selby Town Hall. “It’s our first foray into poetry here and we thought: why not start
The Soper family, from Alne, near Easingwold, is fully occupied with rehearsals and preparations for York Opera’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth at York Theatre Royal. Once again, John and Maggie Soper are the guiding force behind the visual side of the
YORK actor David Bradley will open TakeOver09 at York Theatre Royal in a ceremony at 7pm tomorrow. “The TakeOver team picked David to be patron of the festival as he was born in York and has a strong public profile thanks to the success of
PUPPET State Theatre, winners of the Total Theatre Award 2008 for Story Theatre, visit York Theatre Royal for the first time to perform The Man Who Planted Trees as part of the first week of TakeOver09. Jean Giono’s story of a French shepherd and his
As York Theatre Royal is taken over by young people, Charles Hutchinson looks at what will be on offer. TAKEOVER09 is the three-week festival “by young people, with young people, for everyone”, as York Theatre Royal’s mantra indicates.
GLENN Wool plays the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in The Basement at City Screen, York, on Sunday, enroute to Australia and California. The riotous Wool was born in Canada, honed his comic talent in Britain and is now based in Los Angeles, having attained
Mirth Control Comedy Club returns to Pocklington Arts Centre on Thursday after a summer break with an 8.30pm line-up of MC James Redmond, Christian Steel and headline act Gordon Southern. “James Redmond is a dry, slick and subtle stand-up who delivers
AUSTRALIAN comedy rock superstar Tim Minchin’s first gig in York has sold out, so the powers that crank up his publicity machine agreed to his being interviewed on the condition that The Press would discuss only his DVD. You may have that DVD already
Detectives investigating the suspected murder of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence have travelled to Cyprus to speak to a man known by the 35-year-old who was in England on the day she vanished. Speaking at a press conference to mark the six-month
A Bentley car will always be the centre of attention. And so it was when motoring editor STEVE NELSON took possession of one for a week. The questions came thick and fast, from colleagues, motorists, friends, neighbours... and even the girl behind the
A YORK accountancy practice has raised more than £1,800 for charity with a 25-mile sponsored walk. Ten staff from HPH Chartered Accountants, Bootham, completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge of Ingleborough, Whernside and Penyghent in July in
STAND by businesses in York to make your mark on the future of the city. The next York Business Forum takes place at York College on Wednesday, October 21, at 4.30pm. York Business Forum is a private sector and city council initiative. Chairman Adam
BROTHERS Rob and Edward Fawcett have bought The White Horse Inn in Ampleforth in a £300,000 deal funded by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The pub, which has stood in the North Yorkshire village since 1783, will continue to be managed by
ONCE Tupperware parties were all the craze. Now two York women have launched parties to sell their own and other local craftspeople’s handmade gifts. After trialling their home party service, jeweller Jo Bagshaw, of Heslington, and textile designer Rebecca
Lisa Hodgson, from Pickering, will be taking part in the Great North Run on Sunday, in aid of the cancer unit at York District Hospital. Lisa, 30, completed the run for the first time last year when she raised funds for Breast Cancer Research. To
Local farmers and producers are setting out their stalls to celebrate the tenth anniversary of York’s first farmers’ market, reports MAXINE GORDON. IT’S hard to imagine that a decade ago, a farmers’ market was a new concept to the people of York.
My planned assault on the summit of Everest is becoming more of a reality, in my mind at least, as I begin to look at relevant training climbs and courses which will not only give me an idea of the technical knowledge I will require to scale the
York’s annual food jamboree kicks off today. MAXINE GORDON has the highlights. WHETHER your passion is for curry or chocolate, coffee or chardonnay – the York Festival of Food and Drink has something to tempt all tastebuds. Now in its 13th year, the
IT is one thing to dip an occasional toe in Gilbert & Sullivan during carefree days at university. It is quite another to form a new company and stage a show when faced with the harsh realities of the real world. But four University of York graduates
LET me get this straight. The credit crunch was caused by the greed of absurdly rich bankers. Currently lawyers and politicians are charging exorbitant fees to “solve” it. The preferred solution...? Sack lots of low-paid people in the social sector
AS THE world’s glitterati arrived in Canada for the Toronto International Film Festival, two slightly more dishevelled travellers landed on the same Tarmac. Heavily jetlagged, we queued for our visas, half expecting to be packed on to the next flight
I WAS pleased to read that there seems to be some movement over what to do with the Barbican (The Press, September 15). I do hope the wrangling does not go into a spiral again, because York is missing out on a great deal of tourist trade. While wanting
IN The Press of September 14, it was stated that Energy Partnership Ltd are launching a new scheme to cut energy bills in the city. In the very near future, I am having a new and more efficient heating boiler fitted as a way of doing my bit to save
LIZ EDGE may like to call me a NIMBY, but this is something she could also be said to be with regard to buses and cycles, as seen by her comments over many years (Readers’ Letters, September 11). As someone who cycles on average 30 to 50 miles
LAST Saturday, we spent a truly joyous time at Whitby. The day was a crucible of molten gold and the night a canopy of silver stars. The whole town was so alive and vibrant and soaring with optimism. By sheer chance, I took this photo
John Lewis stores suffer a 50% drop in profits. Is this a measure of the reduction in stops for the New Labour / Conservative driven Westminster gravy train where its passengers can top up their perks income of the job and, for many, put themselves
AS AN ex-Merchant Navy mariner, it was with considerable excitement and interest that I read about the two 12,000-ton merchant ships recently negotiating the fabled North East Passage. This was so long dreamed about by traders because it cuts 3,500
A REPORT has just been published about the Rover MG car company after it was sold by BMW to The Phoenix consortium. This report took three years, cost £16 million of taxpayers’ money and ends up blaming no one. It criticises the five main board
IN answer to Cynthia Glasby’s comment regarding No 5 bus service, I don’t think she got the point I was making (Readers’ Letters, September 4). Why cannot the No 5 bus service be on time like the No 1 bus service to Haxby-Wigginton? The No 1 bus takes
I WOULD like to thank all the people in Heworth who voted Green Party in the recent by-election. I stood on a platform of openness and honesty; prioritising environmental and social issues; and working hard to solve local problems. I am delighted
I WOULD just like to say a big thank-you to everyone who took part in the performance at Joseph Rowntree Theatre last Friday. It was wonderful. These young people gave an excellent night’s entertainment to everyone and all the proceeds went to Snappy
A YOUNG mother from East Yorkshire, who was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was only 28, is celebrating her survival by taking part in this Sunday’s Great North Run. Jo Hawkett, who is now 30, graduated from university with a first class law degree
A FATHER-of-three will complete a remarkable double this weekend – competing in the Great North Run before and after a major heart operation. Dean Fielding, 43, was born with a leaky heart valve, but that didn’t stop him finishing the half
KNITTERS in York are being urged to put their needles together to help keep cancer patients warm this winter. Macmillan Cancer Support’s York branch has launched a comfort blanket campaign and is calling on its supporters to knit patchwork squares
YORK City Knights players have imposed their own alcohol ban in the run-up to Sunday’s showdown at Keighley. The Knights travel to Cougar Park for their Championship One qualifying semi-final, where victory would thrust them straight to the grand final
A CYCLIST riding from West Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire coast passed through York on his journey to raise money for an organisation that provides housing for vulnerable people. Nigel Cook rode from Dewsbury to Bridlington via numerous places including
SIMON Russell will not play against York City during his loan spell with Blue Square Premier rivals Tamworth. The Minstermen winger is hoping to make his Lambs debut during tomorrow’s home match with Salisbury, but Martin Foyle has blocked Russell
Goodness knows where Yorkshire would be in the County Championship table had it not been for Ajmal Shahzad. The 24-year-old pace bowler is fast turning into a player who can be relied on when it really matters. And boy does their current match against
IN-FORM York RUFC will be looking to stay with the Yorkshire One pacesetters when they travel to Heath tomorrow (3pm). The Clifton Parkers have won their opening two games, against Malton & Norton and Sheffield, to sit alongside Bradford Salem, Castleford
The CIU Bowls League season drew to a close as Burton Lane ‘B’ were crowned champions of the Afternoon League. Burton Lane won their last three games to ease past Tramways and RI ‘A’, who shared the second place.
York Hearts Supporters’ Club are running a road-trip to Aberdeen v Heart of Midlothian at Pittodrie on Saturday, October 17. Any Hearts or Aberdeen fans interested in making the trip can email yorkhearts@yahoo.co.uk or phone/text 07791 626238.
ST PAUL’S have been crowned as John Smith’s Men’s Darts League division one champions, after completing the season with an 8-1 win over New Inn. Acomb were runners-up after defeating Britannia 7-2, while Crescent ‘A’ won division two despite losing
A John Smith’s Peoples’ Darts Championship qualifier will be held at The Clifton Hotel in York on Tuesday, September 22. Entry is free and the winner will go through to the area finals. Registration is at 7.45pm for an 8pm start. No county, international
TADCASTER Albion manager and chairman Paul Marshall is targeting a good FA Vase run ahead of tomorrow’s second round qualifying trip to Brighouse Town. Marshall, who took on his dual role in the summer, is keen for his side to progress as far as possible
ANY of those that win, they are all stars,” mused Paul Midgley when pressed to reveal his Westow stable’s top performers. Midgley has had a lot of ‘stars’ this year. There’s a best-ever total of 37 winners to consider, with 22 individual victors,
LEEDS United club captain Richard Naylor’s return to fitness has intensified the competition for centre-back places at Elland Road. Naylor played for an hour in Leeds reserves’ 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough on Wednesday night and reported no ill
Division one champions Nestlé Flag picked up where they left off last season with a 5-2 win over hosts Hounds in the York Sunday Morning Football League. A tight first period saw both teams score twice to make it 2-2 at the break. In
All eyes will be on the Ouse below York on Sunday as the Fulford and Donkey Woods sections host the WJC Noakes Cup. The first big York match of the autumn is always keenly anticipated as anglers engaged in Winter League duties over the coming months
THE heartbroken father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has vowed to increase his efforts in the hunt for his daughter – six months to the day after she vanished without a trace. In a desperate effort to keep the investigation to find his
PEOPLE in Selby are to get their say on how they believe affordable housing should work as a scheme to make home-buying easier is unveiled. Selby District Council has joined forces with other local authorities in the region to create a new
THE number of high earning York council officers looks set to be cut as part of the drive to reduce public spending, council leader Andrew Waller said today. But he indicated the authority’s new chief executive was unlikely to see a pay cut, at least
A 42-YEAR-OLD father-of-two who loved cycling has lost his battle with cancer after being diagnosed with the disease just weeks ago. Martyn Miller, of Huntington, York, was told on July 22 that he had cancer around his body – just weeks after developing
BUS passengers were today being invited on board a special information bus to give their views on public transport in the city ahead of York’s first Car Free Day next week. Bus It, the region’s travelling public transport information bus, was stopping
SOME of the most important Viking treasure to be found in 150 years has gone on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York. The Vale of York Viking Hoard, worth over a million pounds, was jointly acquired last month by the York Museums Trust and
CELEBRATED hairdresser Trevor Sorbie is cutting a new career – styling wigs for people with hair loss. The 58-year-old stylist to the stars gave a masterclass on wig-cutting at Betty Brown’s in York. The Clarence Street shop is part
A PROSTITUTE-killer on the brink of release from jail blew her chance of freedom when she was caught stashing heroin in her York cell. Rosina Outram was being lined up for parole after serving 16 years of a life sentence for the torture and murder of
ALL seven illegal immigrants arrested in a swoop in York last week are likely to be deported from the country. UK Border Agency officials have established that none of them were in the country legally. Six remain in agency custody, a seventh has been
A MOTHER-OF-THREE who cheated York taxpayers out of more than £20,000 by claiming benefits she was not entitled to has narrowly avoided being sent to jail. Michelle Barrett, 29, was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison suspended for two years after pleading
PATIENTS will be able to keep a check on their health from their own sofa when a revolutionary new system comes on line in North Yorkshire. The Telehealthcare technology will see electronic units installed in people’s homes to monitor their condition
THE major health problems of an East Yorkshire benefit fraudster has saved him from a trip to jail for cheating the taxpayer out of nearly £20,000. Derek Horseman needs to take painkillers daily and is nearly blind in one eye, York Crown Court heard.
SEVERAL York churches will be taking their praise to the streets on Sunday for an open-air service on the Millennium Bridge. The event, hosted by Churches Together in south-east and south-west York, is one of several similar services that have taken
A HOME hunter could soon be residing in “one of the finest houses in the region” complete with 200 acres of grassland – if he or she has £6 million. Would-be buyers are already interested in buying the 18th century Sheriff Hutton Park. Meanwhile another
YORK’S MP has called on the Government to help the city get extra money for affordable housing. Hugh Bayley issued his call during a meeting with top officials from the Homes And Communities Agency at the Guildhall and city leaders. The discussion was
A NORTH YORKSHIRE family is to star in a nationwide road safety campaign to warn of the dangers of drivers being distracted by young passengers. Posters featuring James and Anna Hare, both 37, and their three children, Rosie, nine, Harry, six, and four-year-old
A YORK guest house owner, who displayed plaques outside his business falsely claiming accreditation to Yorkshire and national tourism bodies, has appeared in court. Nicholas Read, 39, also admitted his website had misled people into thinking he had a
A MAJOR York company has once more thrown its weight behind our campaign to honour York’s unsung heroes. As always, our York Community Pride campaign has unearthed some of the city’s true champions – people who go the extra mile to help others or improve
A PROLIFIC letter writer and author who fought a long battle against a rare progressive neurological disorder has died, aged 74. Margaret Lawson, whose life-long dream had been to write a book, lived long enough to see her first effort, a short novel
CLOUDS gathered on York’s Knavesmire as the doors opened on the city’s biggest ever beer extravaganza. York Beer And Cider Festival began yesterday with about 200 beers and 30 ciders and perries available. The event, which is being held outdoors for
A NEW Park&Ride development on the edge of York is set to get the go-ahead – complete with a wind turbine. Plans to create 1,250 parking spaces at Dringhouses will be analysed by planers next week with the team behind the scheme saying
ENGLAND’S first “liquid deli” has opened in York, bringing new jobs and a range of quirky tastes to the city. Demijohn sells liqueurs, spirits, oils and vinegars, ranging from cucumber vodka and gooseberry gin to raspberry or elderflower vinegar. In
RESIDENTS have lost their fight to stop a multi-million pound block of 50 apartments for older people being built in their town. Selby district councillors have given Hanover Housing Association (HHA) planning permission to go ahead with the £7.5 million
A FRESH analysis of obesity in York could be carried out to ensure the city is tackling the weight issue in the right way. City of York Council’s health overview and scrutiny committee is to be asked to approve a study of how children in the area are
