YORK City's FA Trophy second round tie at Newport County AFC has fallen victim of the Arctic weather. The big freeze KO'd the game after officials at the Welsh club declared that the Spytty Park pitch would not defy winter's polar grip stretching into
YORK City Knights' pre-season friendly at home to Hunslet Hawks has been postponed due to a snow-bound and frozen pitch. The decision to rearrange the game was taken three days in advance of the match as there is little likelihood of the bad weather
I have no party loyalty, for the sake of it, having voted for all three down the years. The vast majority of our advanced years worked and paid our way in full, plus a lot more. The vast majority do or would today, if they could. We are still the salt
The heavy snow brings back memories. This picture shows my wife Sylvia holding baby Judith with son Christopher and my aunt, Retta Potter, when we went up to the Chequers Inn on the moors outside Osmotherley from Brompton during the winter of 1962-3.
CHRISTMAS cards and trees should be recycled as part of an environmentally friendly start to the new year, according to City of York Council. Christmas cards and wrapping can be recycled through the fortnightly kerbside paper recycling collection. Cards
A SURGE in Australian demand for sweets made in York is expected any day now. About 250 workers at Tangerine Confectionery, in Nether Poppleton, are preparing to manufacture even more Taveners Proper Sweets after the firm signed a distribution deal with
THERE is an upbeat mood at LSL, the massively expanding York-based provider of residential property and surveying services. Even as the group waits to tie up its £1 purchase of the loss-making 218-office Halifax estate agency business from Lloyds Banking
MORE than 100,000 businesses have obtained a range of business support services backed by Yorkshire Forward over the past year. The latest figures are announced a year after the regional development agency launched its Economic Response Unit to help
EX-YORK City Knights player-boss Paul March has insisted his team selection for Sunday’s friendly back at his old stomping ground is not a way at getting back at his former club. March, who moved to Hunslet Hawks last summer following an acrimonious
Updated: YORK City’s trip to Newport County in the FA Trophy second round on Saturday is already under threat from the weather. The Welsh club’s Spytty Park pitch was under six inches of snow yesterday and an inspection has been scheduled for 8am
This image has been sent in by texting it to 80360, but the texter forgot to say where in the country the picture had been taken. We think it might be Bolton, but do you know where it has been built? If it's not from our area can we
I WONDER, does anyone know how many miles of pavement we have in our city? If you do, do you take this into account when you do your grumbling about no gritting? I am coming up to my 82nd birthday, and I am sure there are many more people my
Yorkshire’s Chris Taylor has retired from professional cricket to concentrate on running his Pro Coach Cricket Academy. Taylor, 28, had one year left on his existing deal at Headingley, but his progress has been hampered by a series of injuries over
IF at first you don’t succeed, try again. That might be York Acorn ARLC’s mantra this weekend as they bid to host their Challenge Cup preliminary round tie against Skirlaugh at Thanet Road. The clash fell foul of the weather last Saturday and present
MEMBERS of York Acorn Running Club are enjoying a successful winter of fell racing. Acorn’s women triumphed in the team event at the Jolly Holly Jog in Ripon, with Becky Penty winning the individual race, while Heather Tuffs and Carol Dixon Yeung won
I WAS walking down Hull Road towards Green Dykes Lane, struggling in the snow as dusk approached on New Year’s Day. I smiled as a snow plough passed, ploughing the snow in the dark. To my anger, I saw the driver was holding a mobile phone, talking
Drivers’ expertise MAY I thank the drivers on route 128 (East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd) and on Stephensons motor services for their loyalty and expertise in running the services so efficiently through this village during the recent appalling weather
York Indoor Bowls Club’s New Year’s Eve mixed pairs competition drew another full complement of entries. The draw made last year’s winner Melvyn Banks and one of the club’s best players, Stuart Smith, favourites. They confirmed that status as they
I took the advice in The Press and checked my nearest salt bin. It is across the river over Skeldergate Bridge in Bishopsgate; the nearest one on this side of the river is outside the Mansion House. On looking further, I discovered that
WHY can’t people take a few more minutes on a snowy morning to remove more snow from their cars? Driving, or rather crawling, in my car to work, I noticed so many people only able to see out of their cars via the area swept by the windscreen
York ‘A’ will look to get their Yorkshire Over-55’s League division one campaign back on track after they lost to Doncaster, when they play South Leeds tomorrow at noon. Meanwhile, Thanet Road stages two national finals with the mixed pairs and mixed
This has been the warmest decade in central England since records began in 1659, and one year was the warmest ever, at 1.25 degrees centigrade above the previous 30-year average. No, this has not been lifted from the current Meteorological
York Crown Court’s objection to the Ice Factor returning to its well-established Christmas venue – and how come they have taken this long – all because cases are affected by that alien sound of enjoyment, has to be almost inhuman. Just how many crown
A TOTAL of 16 pairs battled it out over three rounds of eight to decide the finalists of New Earswick IBC’s George Williams drawn pairs competition. Kath Hardcastle and Vic Wooley swept to the final with an impressive +43 but the other finalists had
I wonder if Patrick Kelly is suffering from “Woeful ignorance” (Letters, January 1), massive delusion or Hitlerian deceit. Recently, I came across the report by Lord Monckton to Parliament – On The Central Question Of Climate Sensitivity – dated May
York Indoor Bowls Club’s excellent run in the Egham Trophy ended in the quarter-finals when they were beaten by one of the competition’s favourites, City of Ely. Played at the neutral venue of Newark IBC, the tie started badly for York as they
THE driver who skidded into the path of an oncoming train has relived the drama – and revealed his daughter was one of its passengers. Brian Lakin, 64, also told how he rang his wife, Pauline, after the crash, telling her: “Don’t worry – I’
SHOULD we give a fig what Anjem Choudary thinks about anything? This man leads a group which calls itself Islam4UK and has said he will try to persuade people in Wootton Bassett to back an anti-war parade along the main street. This is the same route
A 26-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with a burglary in which a pensioner was assaulted. As reported in The Press, the burglary took place at a house in the Heworth Green area of York shortly after 9pm on Tuesday, December 22. Three men
VULNERABLE people in York are receiving care worth hundreds of pounds less than those elsewhere in the UK, according to a crunch report on the city’s cash-strapped support network. Figures which will go before City of York Council’s health overview and
HUNDREDS of York residents will get the chance to have to look at the newly-renovated Jorvik Centre with actor Tony Robinson. The Time Team and Blackadder star will launch the 25th annual Jorvik Viking Festival and join 400 lucky locals on tours of
A BRAVE postwoman was back delivering letters only a day after she was carjacked and almost dragged along behind the vehicle. The Royal Mail employee, who did not want to be named, had her van stolen as she delivered the post on Monday in Eggborough,
THE police’s latest weapon in the war against cycle crime in York could see thousands of bikes and their owners registered on a police online database. Operation Spoke is being launched by the Guildhall Safer Neighbourhood Team, and officers hope the
BUG-BUSTING health workers are in the running for a national accolade. Critical care staff at York Hospital are among the finalists in the Patient Safety Awards 2010, which honour initiatives leading to safer treatment in the health service. They
A FORMER RAF office York has received yet another commendation following his retirement. Sqn Ldr (Ret’d) Barry Treanor was awarded a commendation from the Air Officer Commanding No 22 (Training) Group, Air Vice-Marshall Barry North, during his recent
THERE have been fresh demands for a cut in the cost of York’s school lunches, after a pilot price reduction saw demand soar. The School Food Trust has urged schools and councils across the country to use special offers to tempt customers, especially
DISGRUNTLED householders who blockaded their street to stop it being used as a rat-run have failed to get it closed to motorists. Residents of Westminster Road, Clifton, York, had called for a closure to prevent drivers using their street and The Avenue
TWO East Yorkshire brothers are both fighting on the frontline in Afghanistan. Lance Bombardier James Burke, 20, and Gunner Adam Burke, 19, are both working in Fire Support Teams (FST) in Helmand Province with the Chestnut Troop of 1st Regiment Royal
A MAJOR three-day conference on child and education-related issues has started in York, attracting hundreds of people to the city. NEEC 2010, formerly known as the North of England Education Conference, is Britain’s biggest education conference and is
YOUNG people in York have been warned they are putting their lives at peril by using a frozen lake as a playground. One resident told The Press of his horror when he saw a group of children playing on Rawcliffe Lake, which has frozen over. Father-of-two
FORECASTERS warned the big chill was not going away, as hundreds of children enjoyed another day off school. More than 100 schools in York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire stayed shut all day yesterday, and a number will be closed again
CHANGES have been announced to rubbish and recycling collections across York and Selby. In York, green bin collections have been suspended until January 29, but grey bins will be emptied weekly. Kerbside recycling is unaffected. In Selby
TWO hundred water mains across the region are bursting each day because of the big freeze – more than five times the average for the time of year. Yorkshire Water said yesterday it was working flat out to repair the bursts, but the exceptionally
All state schools in York are open as normal today. According to council officials though, the following ones in North and East Yorkshire are shut or, if stated, open with different hours from usual: North Yorkshire Barton Church
HEALTH chiefs have cleared a major hurdle in their aim to revamp a York psychiatric hospital. NHS North Yorkshire and York has won planning permission from City of York Council to carry out a refurbishment of three wards at the historic Bootham Park
OWNERS of a York business which provides shelter for unwanted animals are set to be dealt a major blow to their hopes of finding a new home. A scheme to turn the site which currently houses the Fossbank Boarding Kennels in Earswick into three new homes
A WIDOW is continuing her late husband’s online diary after he lost his battle with cancer. Sarah French’s late husband, David French, lost his fight against bowel cancer in February last year at the age of 47, after writing on an internet blog about
