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  • Five wards still closed as hospital battles winter bug

    FIVE wards remained closed at York Hospital today as health staff battle the reappearance of a dreaded winter bug. The return of norovirus - which causes violent vomiting and diarrhoea - over the weekend led to bosses at the Wigginton Road

  • Review: Hank Wangford and The Lost Cowboys, The Shed, Hovingham

    THERE’S been a D.I.V.O.R.C.E but Hank isn’t talking about it. Only brief mention is made of singer and guitarist Reg Meuross, now lost to The Lost Cowboys. In his place is ace pedal-steel guitar player BJ Cole. If Reg’s harmonies are missed occasionally

  • Children fined in litter crackdown

    Updated: CHILDREN in East Yorkshire have been slapped with £75 fines under a “zero tolerance” litter crackdown. Street cleaning officials and police have been running lunch-time patrols in streets near secondary schools, to try to combat the problem.

  • New community toilet scheme to be trialled in York

    Updated: COUNCIL chiefs are hoping to flush out more support for a new public toilet plan – by launching a pilot project in part of the city. A review of the York’s heavily-criticised lavatories has seen City of York Council devise the idea of adopting

  • Pickering Town gunning for home tie in FA Vase fourth round

    PICKERING Town will host Marske United in round four of the FA Vase - providing they come through their replay at Dunkirk. The Pikes drew 1-1 with Dunkirk at Mill Lane on Saturday and the sides will meet again in Nottingham on Tuesday (7.45pm).

  • Huntington Village Stores scoops best village store award

    A VILLAGE shop in York is celebrating after winning a regional award for excellence. Huntington Village Stores, in North Moor Road, scooped the best village store award at the Yorkshire Independent Grocers Association Shop Awards 2009. Liz Unsworth

  • York's long-term unemployed offered more support

    THE long-term unemployed in York have been offered more support with the launch of a Government initiative designed to help them back in to work. The newly-refurbished offices of vocational training organisation A4e in Piccadilly welcomed York MP Hugh

  • Skelton Primary School pupils meet Bishop of Selby

    PUPILS from a York village primary school got to meet a very important visitor at the opening of their new playground. The youngsters from Skelton Primary School welcomed the Bishop of Selby, the Right Rev Martin Wallace, to open and give his religious

  • University of York students launch York Student Market Ltd

    ENTERPRISING students at the University of York are offering businesses in the city a chance to market their wares to a potential 16,000 people at a stroke. Matthew Freckelton, a third-year sociology student, Scott Murphy, a final year history student

  • FA Vase replay for Pickering Town after Dunkirk stalemate

    PICKERING Town are facing an FA Vase replay trip to Dunkirk after a Mill Lane stalemate. Former York City junior Chaz Wrigley fired the home side into the lead after 49 minutes of Saturday’s third round tie. However, Lee Day levelled

  • Snowden strike sends Pocklington Town back to the summit

    Pocklington Town stretched their unbeaten run to eight games as they won 2-1 at Nestlé to reclaim top spot in York Minster Engineering Football League division one. After a goalless first half Terry Taylor put Nestlé in front, but they were only able

  • Lee Bunce treble treble is bonus for table-toppers Heworth FC

    It was a good day for division two leaders Heworth in the York Minster Engineering Football League. Not only did Heworth beat basement side Osbaldwick 4-1, but their two main rivals failed to collect maximum points. Lee Bunce completed a hat-trick

  • Concerns remain over care system

    The Care Quality Commission (CQC) describes York as “performing well” in adult services (Praise for council care services, The Press, December 3). Bill Hodson, director of housing and adult social services at City of York Council, is rightly

  • Hessle beaten as Pocklington RUFC win in Yorkshire Two

    Pocklington RUFC were relieved to scrape a 12-10 victory away to lowly Hessle in Yorkshire Two. Hessle had the early pressure and opened the scoring in the seventh minute when simple passing along the line from a scrum gave them a try in the corner

  • Scott Rhodes sees red in York Acorn ARLC defeat

    YORK Acorn ARLC’s revival came to a shuddering halt when they turned in a below-par display against visitors Hull Dockers. The 23-16 defeat saw the Blue and Golds sucked back into the relegation scramble near the foot of the National Conference premier

  • Working at Terry's factory during World War II

    I READ with personal interest the feature “Choc Plant drama” (The Press, November 30). My late mother was one of the workers at Terry’s factory, then became a propeller sprayer. She spoke of the hard work involved in doing ‘peace work”; I believe

  • Climate debate

    With the Copenhagen climate talks imminent the climate debate is becoming very heated and polarised, with those who say CO2 levels have no effect on climate, and those who would sacrifice their granny to prove just such a link. The only observation

  • Climate change deniers

    The cat is slipping out of the bag and David Cameron’s battle with climate change deniers in his party is now in the open. About time, too. I shared a platform with Tory MP Andrew Tyrie a few weeks ago and heard at first hand his silly assertions that

  • Green postcode

    Maps show the number of feet tall a mountain and a city is above sea level. If the same information was added to post codes, it would make everybody fully aware of the danger climate change has for us, and the importance of action to minimise it.

  • Searching for Mrs R Wadsworth

    Mr and Mrs T Forgan, who now live in Australia, would like to contact Mrs R Wadsworth, sister or sister-in-law of Mrs Irene Wadsworth. Last known address Burton Stone Lane or Rowntree Avenue. If anyone knows of these two ladies, would they

  • Was Daniel Wilson's weight loss too much, too soon?

    I would like to congratulate butcher Daniel Wilson for losing eight stone in only months (Butcher’s best cut, The Press, December 3). However, in my opinion, it is a very dangerous amount of weight to lose in such a short period of time. The story

  • Review: Megafaun, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale

    FOLLOWING the unexpected success of Bon Iver, record men must have scoured rural areas on Sundays listening for the sound of the banjo plucked by a backwoodsman. Imagine their joy on chancing on Megafaun, once part of Bon Iver’s former, and equally

  • Unwelcome guests at Christmas

    I KNOW it sounds churlish as we approach the season of goodwill and all that, but sometimes don't you just want to tell people there’s no room at the inn? How many of us will wake up on Christmas morning with a sinking feeling, not because of all that

  • History of Huntington School

    BACK in 1877, when Huntington Board School first opened, education was still pretty much a hit-and-miss affair. True, with the establishment of Board Schools – run by local school boards – elementary education in England was, for the first

  • York City 2, Wrexham 1

    WREXHAM’S directors could have been forgiven for glancing ruefully at Bootham Crescent’s home dugout on Saturday. Just last autumn, York City manager Martin Foyle was Brian Little’s number three at the Racecourse Ground. But, when Little

  • Hospital heroes: Lee Conway, ward sister at York Hospital

    UP ON ward 26 at York Hospital, Elizabeth Metcalfe is getting ready to go home. Ward sister Lee Conway is fussing over her, helping her to pack her things and making sure she has everything she needs. “Are you all right, Mrs Metcalfe?” she

  • York bus drivers face 20mph limit

    COUNCIL officers are to ask bus drivers to drive at no more than 20mph in York after hearing claims of aggressive bus handling. The move, if successful, could encourage more people to leave the car at home, according to one passenger. But First York

  • Nestlé announce KitKats are to become Fairtrade

    Nestlé had sweet news for cocoa growers today when it announced its bestselling KitKats are to become Fairtrade. David Rennie, managing director of Nestlé Confectionery, said more than 6,000 farmers on the Ivory Coast would benefit from the move, which

  • York libraries to offer health information

    LIBRARIES across York will soon be offering health information and free access to NHS online services. It is part of a scheme to improve the availability of health information, following a national agreement between the Department of Health and the Society

  • Free insulation offer to York homes

    FREE insulation is being offered for more homes in York. It followed the success of a scheme launched earlier this year by City of York Council, the Energy Partnership and the Energy Savings Trust Advice Centre. Throughout the summer, the council visited

  • Visitor numbers soar at York museums

    YORK’S museums are claiming a tourism triumph, after the recession failed to stop the number of visitors to the city’s heritage attractions soaring. New figures drawn up for the first six months of this financial year by the York Museums Trust

  • Council HQ team looking forward to ‘West life’

    THE team set to take charge of creating York’s new council headquarters believe it will breathe fresh life into its historic setting. As revealed in The Press on Saturday, City of York Council has selected West Offices in Station Rise for its

  • Snow White cast raise awareness of NHS services

    HEALTH bosses have joined forces with the cast of the York Grand Opera House panto Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs to raise awareness of the NHS services available to patients this winter. Up to 40 per cent of patients who attend hospital A&E departments

  • Ten arrested in York drug raids are bailed

    TEN suspected criminals who were arrested in dawn raids on ten York properties have been bailed pending further inquiries. The arrests were made during Friday’s crackdown, which was one of the largest and most concerted drug-busting operations in York

  • Christopher Jackson cleared of ‘bogus post’ robbery

    A JURY has acquitted a former postal worker accused of being a bogus postman who tried to rob a shop worker at knifepoint. Christopher John Jackson stood trial twice at York Crown Court, accused of tricking assistant manager Ann Crosby into unlocking

  • David George Newnham, 22, in court for injuring woman

    A YOUNG man from Selby who gave a young woman a “significant” head injury by pushing her over after she kicked him between the legs has been prosecuted. Rebecca Woodthorpe was knocked unconscious in the street fracas and doctors kept her in

  • Territorial Army medics receive long service medals

    TERRITORIAL Army medics who have been deployed to field hospitals in combat zones across the world have received long service medals at a ceremony in York. Two soldiers were also awarded operational service medals for a tour of duty in Iraq earlier this

  • Partners to help preserve Pocklington Canal

    HERITAGE bosses have drawn up an agreement to improve the restoration and maintenance of historic structures along Pocklington Canal. Cabinet members at East Riding of Yorkshire Council are due to meet tomorrow to approve plans for a Heritage Partnership

  • BBC film new Anne Lister drama in York

    A BBC period drama on the life of a pioneering 19th century female diarist and former York school pupil has been filmed in the city. Actors dressed in the fashions of the early 1800s have used York’s historical locations to shoot The Secret Diaries Of

  • Hilda Forster celebrates her 90th birthday

    FIVE generations of one family came together to celebrate a great great grandmother’s 90th birthday party. Hilda Forster, of Lindesy Avenue, Acomb, gathered together all 23 members of her York-based family for the celebration at The Winning Post pub

  • Upgrade on gas network begins at cost of £492k

    WORK on upgrading part of York’s gas network was due to get under way today as power bosses devote almost £500,000 towards the scheme. Engineers will today begin replacing 4.5km of old metal gas mains with modern plastic pipes in the Huntington area

  • Youngsters get on their bikes to meet Father Christmas

    YOUNGSTERS got on their bikes to see Santa as part of a festive fancy dress ride led by Cycling City York. The ride was organised in conjunction with green transport charity Sustrans, and saw members of the Cycling City York team join parents