HARROGATE Minstermen will be running transport for Tuesday's trip to Grays Athletic. Departure points and times are Harrogate Odeon (1.30pm), Starbeck Prince of Wales (1.35pm), Knaresborough Marquis of Granby (1.45pm), Wetherby George and Dragon (2pm
THREE men have been arrested on suspicion of rape in Selby town centre. Half a dozen police cars descended on Gowthorpe at around 3.30pm today and arrested the three, who are all local. Detective Inspector Steve Smith, who is leading the investigation
NORTHERN Irish banjo player and folk singer Damien O’Kane introduces his debut solo album, Summer Hill, tonight at the National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York. Best known for his work with Shona Kipling and Flook, O’Kane is now a member of
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has given his strongest hint yet that The Press will win its campaign to have the danger drug mephedrone banned, after he is handed a crucial report from advisors on Monday. Mr Brown has suggested the Advisory Council on the
NEWLY-appointed administrators for the ill-fated Jarvis group have sprung into action, launching an investigation into what can be salvaged from the York-based maintenance and freight group. Jarvis collapsed on Thursday when its bank lenders declared
PROBLEMS with building a new public toilet block in the centre of York have flushed out a £24,000 overspend. Contractual difficulties and structural issues mean the price of the Silver Street project has cost City of York Council thousands of pounds
A BRICKLAYER has told of the horrifying moment when he was run over by an eight-tonne digger. The Press reported yesterday on the prosecution of Bryan Christopher Kendra and Michael Antony Kendra, of building company L& S Kendra & Sons of Melbourne near
Scouts in Heworth have been banging on about composting and recycling with composting group York Rotters. The Scouts have been singing songs and drumming on compost bins as part of Compost – The Mini-Musical, written by local poet and composer Anneliese
THE Quilt Museum in York is launching two new exhibitions called Inspired By The Past and Breakthrough. Inspired By The Past includes one of The Quilters’ Guild’s most treasured items, a quilt made in 1887 by a Mrs Mills to celebrate Queen Victoria’s
THE mother of a murdered postmistress told yesterday how the killer had destroyed her life, as police appealed for information about a mystery white van. Diana Garbutt, who grew up in Eggborough, was murdered on Tuesday at the post office she ran with
DUNCAN MEREDITH, tax expert for Garbutt & Elliott chartered accountants of York, examines the regional effects of the Budget. THIS was always likely to be a “tax and not spend Budget” and that will be the painful reality over the next few years, whatever
The Bowl Of Promises show opens tomorrow morning to herald the start of spring at Pyramid Gallery, in Stonegate, York. “We’re looking forward to a bright and vibrant spring with paintings by three Yorkshire artists who use colour to great effect in
Tate Modern has commissioned York woodcarver Iain Broadbent and furniture maker John Watts to recreate a rocking horse made by Arshile Gorky, whose retrospective exhibition will run at London gallery until May 3. Gorky, alongside Rothko,
HIGH-heeled chic chocolate shoes have tripped all the way into York. The shoes, good enough to eat, are the best-selling item at Giftag Chocolate Box which has recently opened in Fossgate, York. This is the second outlet set up by former printer Graham
FAST-growing estate agency Grays & Co, with offices in York, Pocklington, Driffield and Beverley, has extended its offering to include the commercial sector – and hit the ground running. The company has teamed up with commercial practitioner Tom Nash
York Art Society will hold its 191st (Spring) Exhibition in the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Piccadilly, York, from this evening until next Friday. On display in Europe’s finest medieval hall will be a colourful display of nearly 200 paintings in a variety
THE first exhibition of the 2010 season at The Shop@Newby Hall, near Ripon, opens on Tuesday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, with an invitation-only musical evening featuring John Tunnard. Assembled by The Gallery@Hornseys, this group show will feature the
Forget the date, this is not an April Fool’s Day wheeze, promises The Duchess general manager Tim Hornsby. “You don’t really need much of an introduction for this show, do you? Nah. Dividing opinion more than most, Pete Doherty, much-maligned pop
Malton trainer Richard Fahey goes mob-handed as Flat racing on turf returns tomorrow with the William Hill Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster. Turf Talk catches up with the leading handler. AS the next lot fans out towards the bottom of the Musley Bank
CLAIRE West paints because it makes her happy. “I hope my work has the same joyful effect on others,” she says. Clearly it does, because she is exhibiting for a second time at the Saltbox Gallery and Workshop in Castlegate, Helmsley. Claire usually
THERE are still those who think of Paul Brady as a folk singer. Certainly that’s how he made his name as a member of Planxty, but in the Eighties he turned his back on trad, although not his roots. Coming from County Tyrone, the Troubles were never
The Movie Songbook was hardly the obvious vehicle for the former front person of Texas. But then again, why not? If Sharleen Spiteri wishes to make it in the States, she could do worse than team up with the legendary Phil Ramone and recreate Hollywood
BRINGING together the veteran Irish folkies and the American guitarist, slide genius and musicologist must have seemed like a good idea at the time. And there are a couple of moments when this unlikely collaboration really works – with Cooder to thank
YORK City manager Martin Foyle is calling on his players to capitalise on a weekend when at least two of the club’s play-off rivals are guaranteed to drop points. The fifth-placed Minstermen entertain relegation-threatened Tamworth tomorrow while AFC
NOT since Kate Bush has a female English singer-songwriter shown so much promise and so much originality at such a young age. “Promise” is not quite the right word because Marling’s gifts seemed fully formed at 17 on her debut Alas, I Cannot
IT seems the Eighties are back in vogue. Synth pop is enjoying a resurgence and next week Ashes To Ashes is back on the telly. But nostalgia ain’t what it used to be and Can’t Slow Down is very much a case of same old same old. It starts promisingly
QUINN is the leader of the Cheerios and the president of her school’s Celibacy Club. She is also expecting a baby. Finn believes that he is the father. He is not. Noah ‘Puck’ Puckerman is the real daddy. Anyway, Finn eventually gathers the strength
BOY is this poppy. Poppier than popsicle-sucking popstrels popping body-poppers in a field populated by poppies. Owl City is effectively Adam Young, music-meister and tack-sharp lyricist, who is the dynamic driving creative force on latest release
SO WHAT of the two-week trip to Ghana by your Jazz Notes correspondent, an old York ham sizzling in the sub-Sahara sun? Picture him crossing the fast-flowing White Volta River by dugout canoe, nerveless grip on PA amplifier and speakers, electric
What came first, the idea of casting male swans in the corps de ballet or the desire to do Swan Lake? “Well, I’d only done Nutcracker by that point for Opera North, so I was thinking there’s no point me doing Swan Lake as a contemporary choreographer
YORK City have full squad to choose from ahead of tomorrow’s Blue Square Premier clash with Tamworth. Alex Lawless and Chris Carruthers were both back in reserves’ action after injury during Wednesday night’s penalty shoot-out victory over North Riding
RELEGATION-THREATENED Tamworth will arrive at York City tomorrow looking for their first goal in more than eight hours of football. The Lambs have failed to net in any of their last five matches with Iyseden Christie the last player to find
DORIN Tuca will be the soloist for Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor at tomorrow’s Spring Concert by the York Symphony Orchestra at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York. Under the baton of Alasdair Jamieson, the 8pm programme opens
ACTOR Don Warrington is making his (belated) directorial debut at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Mustapha Matura’s Trinidadian play Rum And Coca Cola, maybe to his own surprise. “I boarded the bus rather late on the journey, as they had already
THE chance to play Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps ultimately led actor and writer Patrick Barlow to create the West End’s longest-running comedy, and yet he ended up never appearing as the have-a-go hero. Now in its fourth year at the Criterion in London
YORK City Knights’ Championship One match at Doncaster on Sunday will be labelled the St John Ellis Memorial game. York-born Ellis, a former Great Britain winger, died suddenly, aged 41, on New Year’s Eve in 2005 after leading a pre-season training
YORK-BASED Jonny Bairstow insists he won’t be neglecting his wicketkeeping as he aims to cement a place in the Yorkshire side. It seems more likely in the short term at least that Bairstow will play as a batsman only in the county’s first team due
IT’S the game of the day in Coca-Cola One and Leeds United are up for the challenge. United head for East Anglia and a showdown against leaders Norwich City, who sit one place and eight points above Simon Grayson’s men after a quite astounding turn-around
By Royle appointment, actor and activist Ricky Tomlinson will introduce his Laughter Show in York on Wednesday in the guise of his best-known character, armchair slob Jim Royle in BBC1’s The Royle Show. Ricky will be on and off stage all night with
YOU could predict which role Leslie Grantham would be playing in a stage version of Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s beloved Dad’s Army, yet he was initially uncertain whether he should step into the spiv suit and correspondent brogues of Private Walker.
PICKERING Town’s bandwagon keeps on going. The Pikes’ unbeaten run stretched to 14 games in midweek after Ricky Greening’s goal in the 115th minute saw off AFC Emley in the League Cup fourth round. Hall Road Rangers in the Northern Counties East League
NEEDING nine points to guarantee runners-up spot in the John Smith’s Bulmers Darts League, Shepherds had Shaun Day (20), Mark Hartley (18), Dave Gibbons (131 c/o for 15), Tony Cooper (180 for 19), Mark Jones (107 c/o for 18) and Rich Saville (180) to
SIR Alan Ayckbourn will direct the world premiere of his 74th play, Life Of Riley, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, from September 16 to October 16. Now in the seventh age of man himself, the 70 year-old Scarborough playwright depicts the
CLIFFE and Tollerton are fighting it out for the Fulford Ladies Winter Tennis Foss League title. Unbeaten after six matches, the duo are due to collide before the end of the campaign. Bishopthorpe lead the way in the Ouse League with ten points from
SKELTON shrugged off the 25th-minute dismissal of goalkeeper Dominic McGregor for bringing down a Wanderers attacker, to prevail in the York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup semi-final. An outstanding team display was produced by last season’s beaten finalists
Nestlé Flag hammered out a warning at the top of the Ian’s Cars of Barlby York Sunday Morning Football League first division. They showed no mercy to anchor club Cliffe, rattling up a 12-2 triumph to remain five points clear. On target were Ash Hill
AT stake is Yorkshire One rugby as Malton and Norton hunt a win over relegation rivals Skipton at The Gannock tomorrow. With a six-point cushion over the second bottom side, Malton will secure their spot in Yorkshire’s elite division with another two-point
AS one of the patients who has received the facet joint injections in the past for congenital and skeletal problems, and has now been denied the procedure, I would like to comment. I have had the so-called “back trouble” for 55 years. Sufferers
Faith’s not enough I read R H Triffitt’s letter about having a belief in God and, while I totally agree that this can enrich one’s life and possibly make one a better person, I cannot agree that such a belief automatically makes for the kind of
It may be a embarrassing question to ask City of York Council, but after months of the wind turbine installed at the council’s Hazel Court depot at great expense not actually turning and making any electricity to help run the headquarters, now the blades
KEITH Chapman and Stuart Wilson are right to draw attention to the loss of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4, which will occur in 2015. The Government has sold the FM frequencies for mobile phone use (apart from a few low-power local stations), 80 per cent of
Reading the letter by Mr Bonner from Huntington Road on the sale of knives to young people (Take hard line to keep crime down, March 22), it amazes me still that one can go in to a sports shop and with out any form of a licence and a crossbow and bolts
York RUFC go hunting their fifth Yorkshire One win in a row at Keighley. The Clifton Parkers continued their sparkling recent form with a 30-14 win over Scarborough and are three points behind third-placed Castleford with a game in hand. Keighley will
IT has come to light that Tony Blair has made an estimated £20 million over the past two years, a lot of this money paid to him from companies that are dealing in Iraqi oil. Would it not be only proper and fitting if he gave the money to the relations
Congratulations JA Whitmore on a timely and succinct letter (All is revealed?, March 23) concerning the scandal of the Unite union making the Labour Government look like a wholly owned subsidiary. I also agree to a point with the comments about
ANY sensible person will acknowledge that the ill-thought-out Labour smoking ban has been disastrous for the licensed trade. Surely a room could have been set aside whereby no bar person would be affected, with smokers going into the main bar to buy
AN AIR of surprise and delight still suffuses this one-time pharmaceuticals marketing man. At the age of 42, John Bishop finds himself selling out theatres, appearing on television and having a right old ball. In truth, balls pop up a lot. Much
Glad to be grey? It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of grey roots must be in want of a bottle of hair dye – or a darn good hairdresser. The fine art of covering our greying hair is a matter of pride – and prejudice.
We will always have our binding links with the UK countries as we do with the USA, the Commonwealth and others where we have exercised influence, like Malta. What we need now is to rediscover our nations' wealth of character with our own Parliament
John Spearing can spoil Richard Fahey’s party by winning the £125,000 William Hill Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster tomorrow. The Worcestershire trainer saddles Mull Of Killough in the traditional first day showpiece of the new campaign, which has attracted
VILLAGERS have told of their shock after discovering a woman who grew up in their community was the victim of North Yorkshire’s post office robbery murder. Diana Garbutt, formerly Kiefer, was brought up in Eggborough, attending Whitley and
Updated: A rapist who forced his young victims to film him has been locked up indefinitely, thanks to the courage of an 11-year-old girl. Antonio Domingo Baraken, 54, shouted insults and threatened a judge from the dock of York Crown Court
IT IS 9.30am and breakfast is in full swing at Carecent. There is a fug of warmth and chatter in the large, cheerful room attached to the Central Methodist Church on St Saviourgate. Groups of men and women clustered at the tables laugh and
POLICE are investigating an assault where a woman was attacked by another woman during a night out in York. North Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses and information after a 25-year-old local woman was assaulted in the Willow restaurant, in
HOUSING bosses forced their way into six homes in York yesterday, claiming tenants were putting themselves and neighbours at risk. For the first time, City of York Council applied for – and gained – warrants to gain access to 13 council-owned properties
REPRESENTATIVES of international police forces watched as York officers saved a man’s life. Sergeant Martin Metcalfe, of Clifton Safer Neighbourhood Police team, was driving the international delegates on a tour of York when he spotted a man lying on
A MAN accused of rape has been found not guilty after only a couple of hours of deliberation by a jury. Ender Gulterkin, of Backhouse Street in The Groves, York, had been charged with raping a 33-year-old woman at his home on September 28. York Crown
THIS goose has chosen a rather precarious nesting site close to a field gun outside York Castle Museum. The bird has been guarding its eggs in a concrete planter, much to the delight of museum’s visitors. A spokesperson for the museum, said: “A
Updated: Jarvis, once one of York’s most powerful firms, has collapsed, placing 2,000 jobs at risk, including about 350 in the city. The news, which sent shockwaves throughout York, came after the troubled national rail maintenance and freight
A York soldier whose protest against the war in Afghanistan sent him to jail has been compared to Mahatma Gandhi. Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton’s decision to oppose the British Army’s role in the conflict – which earned him a nine-month prison sentence
A MASTERPLAN of potential sites where civil servants could be based in York is being drawn up by the city’s political chiefs. Chancellor Alistair Darling promised in this week’s Budget that the number of London-based civil service posts was to be cut
YORK holidaymakers look set to benefit from a price war between two major airline rivals at the region’s airport. Low cost airline Ryanair celebrated its new base at Leeds Bradford International Airport yesterday by announcing it was prepared to match
SPEED limits are set to be cut in four areas of York over the next year under plans drawn up by transport bosses. Money is expected to be made available in City of York Council’s programme of work for 2010/11 to introduce 20mph zones in the Holly Bank
BAR staff from two York pubs have created their own version of Calendar Girls to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake. More than a dozen barmaids and barmen from the Yorkshire Terrier, in Stonegate, and the Last Drop Inn, in Colliergate –
MORE than 5,000 people in our region have signed up to save a life since The Press launched its campaign to improve organ donation rates. We launched our Lifesavers campaign in December, following the death of 22-year-old Emma Young, who died while awaiting
Ex-Press journalist JIM KELLY looks back at his time aboard HMS York as she celebrates 25 years at sea. HMS York sailed from Weymouth on a brilliant summer’s day in 1985, but the Falklands War must have still cast a long shadow for its crew
VANDALS and litter louts have forced a York church to look at stepping up its security measures to stave off the threat of intruders. Holy Trinity Church, in Micklegate, has applied to install a set of railings and a gate to prevent troublemakers sneaking
THOUSANDS of people lined the streets in a North Yorkshire town to give soldiers returning from Afghanistan a hero’s welcome. Children, shoppers, pensioners and office workers waved flags and banners as 120 troops from 10 Field Squadron Royal
A HAXBY couple are today celebrating their golden wedding. Neil and Cynthia Moore, of Acacia Grove, first met in 1954 when both worked in the NAAFI in Museum Street. At the time Cynthia was a 15-year-old postgirl while Neil was 17 and working in the
“A LIFE lived to the full” is how friends and family of a popular York man have chosen to remember him following his death earlier this month. Chris Neumann, of Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor, died on March 8 following a long battle with a rare disease of
TWO chefs from the same York kitchen are battling it out for an award in culinary excellence. Michael Newlove and Matthew Hyde work at the York Marriott hotel and were among five chefs shortlisted in the Visit York Tourism Awards. “There
York’s first five-star hotel is nearing completion. Today, in the first of an occasional series, the general manager of the Cedar Court Grand, Andrew Coney, speaks to The Press. ONLY eight weeks to go, a busy seven days ahead and a blood pressure
