More than 150 students from schools throughout the region attended a Languages For Life conference held at Millthorpe School in York. The event promoted the vocational relevance of learning languages in today’s competitive global market. It was hosted
A FUNDRAISER from York has survived severe oxygen deprivation and temperatures of minus eight degrees to reach the top of Africa’s highest mountain. Andy Shield has returned home after conquering the 5,895-metre summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
TWO York companies have pioneered a new way to fund a £20 million luxury hotel development in Whitby, bypassing traditional bank funding. As a direct result of the economic downturn, Grosvenor Financial Consultants has set up a method of syndication
THERE are only five days to go until the gates open on this year’s Countryside Live in Harrogate – and it’s promising to be the best yet. The two-day event, to be held in purpose-built exhibition halls at the Great Yorkshire Showground, starting on Saturday
BANKS and their small-to-medium-sized business (SME) clients must foster better relations if the economic recovery is to gather pace, according to York-based accountants and advisers, Garbutt & Elliott. The comments come in the wake of the SME Access
There’s something quite disconcerting about looking at a sea of grumpy old men with smiles on their faces. So it was at the Grand Opera House, where Wishbone Ash took a few hundred fifty-somethings back to a time when they wore their hair long
WITH reference to “Coming to the defence of our MPs” (Soapbox, October 14), I understand that the guidelines for MP expenses states that there should be no financial gain. Therefore I feel there is no defence for an MP claiming for a mortgage which
Having caught up with The Press on return from holiday, I noted an horrific picture of a swan entangled in fishing line with the report saying that it was caught in “discarded” fishing tackle (Swan rescued after being tangled in fishing line, October
As usual, Julian Cole’s weekly column (I think I know what to think, The Press, October 15) is full of biased inaccuracies, this time including a defence of Big Government as the only way to protect the NHS and a denial of a “broken society”.
Let there be a speedy decision to get on with building extra car parking for York Hospital. The writer in The Press on October 14 who strongly disapproves (Don’t back car park “madness”) may wish to consider the following points of view. Several hundred
If formal literacy lessons benefited very young children, you would expect to see the UK was ahead of other countries on literacy. In fact, the reverse is the case. In most of Europe, children do not learn to read and write until they are six
WHAT is City of York Council going to do next? We have had the Barbican bodge-up following with homeless shelter farce, then the council demanding up to 50 per cent of developers’ housing projects are for social housing, so no building firms will
Britain is swimming in a sea of sentiment. The populace of Leeds is also paddling in the same pool, but with an additional ingredient, a large dollop of detritus from a thousand overflowing dustbins. Is there a level – rooftops, perhaps – when the
YORK City are waiting to hear whether mistaken identity victim Richard Brodie will be spared suspension for tomorrow’s trip to Luton Town. Referee Mark Brown and his assessor were both sent away with copies of the match DVD from Saturday’s
THIS week we make our third trip into the recent past of the Stonegate and Swinegate areas of York, courtesy once more of Van Wilson’s marvellous book of oral history, Stonegate Voices. Audrey Peace was born at 17 Finkle Street, where Victor J’s café
“SOME day my life will be over and no-one will remember my name,” reckons Eilen Jewell, in Rain Roll In, the second song of the first of two mighty fine and mellow sets on Friday night. Hopefully, she is wrong because although this Idaho songwriter
THIS display of astonishing pluck must surely be the best fun you can have with your ears on. The members of this mock-heroic collective play bonsai guitars, using the humble ukulele, not so much an instrument as a musical joke, or so once it had
SORRY to continue last week’s rant about MPs’ expenses (the bee in the bonnet is madder than ever) but they just don’t get it do they? It was somewhat serendipitous (or risky, depending on how you look at it) to unwittingly pen words wondering what had
York City have restricted runaway Blue Square Premier leaders Oxford United to three shots on target in three hours of football this season. Frustratingly, for the Minstermen, all three have ended up in Michael Ingham’s net. Matt
AFTER an 11-year absence professional boxing returned to York with a hard-hitting hat-trick bang. All three of York’s current pro fighters – Harry Matthews, the “Pocklington Rocket” who helped to formulate the five-card bill at Oaklands Sports Centre
THREE was the wham-bam magic number as York’s power-pack of professional boxers all capped their local hero baptism with victory. On a night to celebrate the pro version of the noble art finally climbing through the ropes of a ring in the medieval
Wilberforce York Phone: 01759 380600 Website: www.thesteerinn.co.uk E-mail: reception@thesteerinn.co.uk The Steer Inn, located near the hstoric City of York, its owner operated and offers 15 en-suite bedrooms. Although in a rural
DUNNINGTON sit proudly on top of the York Minster Engineering Football League premier division after a 4-1 win over Copmanthorpe. Scott Sullivan missed a fifth-minute penalty for the hosts and Copmanthorpe then took the lead through Mark Featherstone
SCARBOROUGH Athletic marched on at the top of the Northern Counties East League at the expense of derby rivals Pickering Town. The Pikes were beaten 2-0 at Queensgate in the premier division on Saturday, with returning striker Ryan Blott netting
IN-FORM York RUFC leapfrogged Yorkshire One opponents Castleford with a stunning 40-0 victory at Clifton Park. The home side turned in a faultless performance against their promotion rivals to move up to third in the table with five wins from seven
COACH Alfie Hill pledged to “go back to the drawing board” after his under-strength York Acorn ARLC side were beaten 50-8 at Leigh East. The Blue and Golds are third from bottom of the National Conference premier division and Hill admitted they are now
YORK City fan Kevin Finch won a signed Minstermen T-shirt in Coney Street to round off a week of sporting competitions run by The Press promotions team. All week, we were giving away sporting merchandise in the city centre. The other four winners of
WHO needs summer, when autumn is as glorious as this? October is the busiest time of year at the arboretum at Castle Howard, where these pictures were taken. Elsewhere, the tourist season may be winding down, says Maurag Carmichael, administrator
FLAXTON trainer Noel Wilson, who is soon to shift base to Lanarkshire, can play a starring role at Pontefract’s final meeting of the season this afternoon. Wilson saddles Hotham in the totesuper7 Handicap over five furlongs and this course
YORK-BORN golf star Simon Dyson was left cursing the seventh hole at the Oceanico Victoria Golf Club venue of the Portuguese Masters. Dyson finished the European Tour and Ryder Cup points ranking tournament 15 shots off the lead with a five-under-par
A SON reunited with his father after 17 years apart went on to run off with his stepmother, York magistrates heard. Benjamin Andrew Smith, 18, also took with him some of his dad’s travel money, stolen when the father was away from home. Now the son
A MAN accused of a New Year’s Day stabbing in Selby has been found not guilty after a three-day trial at York Crown Court. Ian James Hearty, 39, of Bridge Court, Selby, said he was relieved at the verdict, which saw him leave court a free man after being
ONE of Britain’s most historic naval victories was marked in York with two Trafalgar Day parades. About 60 Sea Cadets from York, Filey, Scarborough and Hull, marched through the city to music from the York unit Sea Cadet band to celebrate this week’s
A MAJOR revamp of York Central Library, which will leave it closed until next year will begin on October 31. The library will close at 10.30pm on Hallowe’en and reopen in about four months, after a £540,000 refurbishment, which will see it rebranded
VETERANS of the Falklands War were at a museum near York to talk about their experiences as pilots in the conflict. Martin Withers, of Easingwold, who flew the Vulcan Bomber that dropped bombs on Port Stanley airfield, and Barry Neale, from Devon, a
POLICE are investigating after a man in supported living accommodation in York suffered scalding to his feet. The incident happened at a property in Willow Glade, Huntington, where the man – understood to have learning disabilities – was being supported
BRIDES-TO-BE were able to sample everything they could possibly need at the Yorkshire Living Brides Wedding Fair – and they brought with them an army of bridesmaids, grooms and mothers. Organisers hailed yesterday’s free event at York Racecourse an overwhelming
YORK has been earmarked as a possible fan-zone should England win the right to host the football World Cup in 2018. Officials from Leeds, Sheffield and Hull have all independently contacted York’s civic leaders, wanting to team up for the event. They
POLICE searching for Claudia Lawrence have warned they will be knocking on the doors of men known to have had relationships with the missing York chef if they fail to come forward soon. Speaking to a national paper seven months after 35-year-old Claudia
A BITTER-SWEET row has blown up between two neighbouring confectioners in one of York’s oldest streets. John Plant, the owner of Sweet Treasures, in Shambles, has posted signs warning customers his business has no connection with Candy Shakes
A NEW forum aimed at giving residents in the south of Selby district a stronger voice about their local services will be launched on Thursday. The first meeting of the Southern Area Community Engagement Forum will take place at Chapel Haddlesey
A SCHEME to turn a former hotel on the edge of York into a care home has been thrown into doubt. Developers wanted to create a specialist unit for the elderly by converting the site of the Gateway To York Hotel in Hull Road, Kexby, and applied for permission
TWO brothers have been jailed for kicking a man’s head so that it was “knocked from side to side”. Both of Michael Haynes’ cheekbones were broken from top to bottom and he needed two metal plates inserted into his face after separate attacks by Kyle
