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DETECTIVES whose quick actions and thorough investigation successfully snared the armed robbers who brought terror to a jewellery shop in York's Shambles have received an award. Detective Sergeant Mandy Grundy and Detective Constable Leah Wallhead

SCENES from the 17th Century unfolded in York this week, as the production of a short film took place at historic locations around the city. Possession is the latest short film from York filmmaker Karen Wilson, who has been working closely

Last week we took in some fresh air with a tour of village and country homes to let. We enjoyed it so much we thought we would do it again. So here is another selection of some of the great rural rentals on offer, starting with a really special property

It’s an age old dilemma – a house in the country with great rural views or a city centre pad with all the benefits of having shops, bars, restaurants and theatres right on your doorstep. (We’ve wrestled with this conundrum ourselves having lived in a

Handsome is as handsome does, here’s a very elegant looking home in a smart village location. Middleton House, in Main Street, at Linton on Ouse, is the work of the highly regarded Higginson Homes team and enjoys an executive style from the moment you

There was once a time when the good old British public would run a mile when asked to buy a house off- plan. Seeing is believing was the motto and unless there were bricks and mortar to examine there was no chance of persuading Yorkshire folk in particular

When Harron Homes launched their new show home at The Lawns in Osbaldwick they brought in magician Nigel Francis to entertain visitors to the project. We’re sure that Nigel was indeed hugely entertaining and provided lots of fun for house-hunters.

YORK party band Huge return for a rare home-city outing on Saturday (May 15) at the Ainsty pub, on Boroughbridge Road, where doors open at 7pm. “We’ll be playing a set with anything from The Rolling Stones to The Kings of Leon and everything in between

READERS are being encouraged to tell us about community projects in the city that are improving the lives of York residents. The Press is inviting nominations in the Best Community Project category of our annual Community Pride Awards.

TOURISM agency Welcome To Yorkshire has announced a £500,000 initiative to grow the region’s business tourism sector. The Business Tourism Strategy aims to increase the value of corporate business secured by the region’s four conference bureaux, including

INNOVATIVE York businesses could win funding and an overseas networking and business development trip through an initiative launched by HSBC Commercial Banking. HSBC has £90 million of funding to allocate to businesses as part of its Business Thinking

YORKSHIRE Bank has launched a new funding package for growing businesses after reporting it made £264 million underlying profit in the six months ended 31 March 2010. The bank’s cash earnings before tax grew 17 per cent to £81 million, which it said

A YORKSHIRE professional services group has extended its foothold in North Yorkshire by merging with a Knaresborough accountancy practice. The Mitchells Group, of Leeds, which includes Mitchells Accountants, has merged with chartered accountants and

THOUSANDS of spectators braved unpredictable weather for the opening day of the 2010 Dante Festival at York Racecourse. Hats are always in fashion at any racing meeting, but unseasonable temperatures and changeable weather meant they were accompanied

THE Liberal Democrats’ unprincipled, opportunistic grab for power at any price has landed them in Government, and in thrall to an untried and untested Conservative Party. While we all wait with bated breath to see how this shotgun wedding will work,

I HAVE, as I am sure many people have, watched the elections more this time than any other time in my lifetime. Until this year, the Liberal Democrats have never been in the two-horse race, so they have never really been considered particularly

IT APPEARS to me that wherever one goes these days, people refer to politicians as “they”, which strikes me as rather odd. We have in this country countless opportunities to take part in the democratic process, no matter what background one is

I HAVE a confession to make. I voted in the recent Parliamentary elections. This was no conversion. I still think engaging in undemocratic activities a bit shaming, but in this case it looked like a hung Parliament was in the offing. At last

NOW that we have a new and stable Government, would it be possible to have the signpost for Leavening, Howsham, Malton and Buttercrambe replaced at Galley Gap? It was knocked over one icy morning in February. John Parkinson, Main Street, Leavening

NOTHING became Gordon Brown so well as his dignified departure. His words of farewell were graceful and measured, and it was hard not to feel for his predicament, whatever your inclinations towards the man might have been. Brown is unlikely to feature

MAY 22 to 30 is Greyhound Awareness Week. More than 12,000 greyhounds bred for the British racing industry are ‘put down’ every year after failing to make the grade as racers; or when their ‘careers’ on the tracks become redundant. An RSPCA report on

REDUCING the national debt needs to be the first priority for the new coalition Government, business leaders in York have said. Businesses have welcomed the fact that a decision has finally been made, creating more certainty, but have stressed the two

BUSINESSES in York have welcomed the decision to make York-born Vince Cable Business Secretary. Gary Williamson, chief executive at Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce said that Mr Cable, who was born in the city and went to Nunthorpe

Hugh Bayley, Labour MP for York Central, has thrown his weight behind David Miliband to be the next leader of the Labour party. He said Gordon Brown was right to stand down and said: “The Labour party needs to face up to the fact that our policies were

I HAVE just encountered the first cuckoo of spring. Although I admire his tenacity for his lost cause, if Councillor James Alexander isn’t living in cloud cuckoo land, then I am (Letters, May 11). Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.

GREG Gilbert, the other brother in Delays, sums up their career thus: “The first album sounded like the sun, the second album like a club, Everything’s The Rush was a festival, but this new album sounds like roots beneath the city shaking the

AN injury and illness epidemic has spread through the York City Knights ranks causing their reserves match to be postponed – and hitting preparations for Sunday’s big one against Hunslet Hawks, writes Peter Martini. Only seven of the first-team squad

FANS’ group York Minstermen have announced their two Wembley coaches are sold out. Organisers of the group have asked us to point out that their coaches are totally independent from the official Travel Club. Places on York City’s Travel Club coaches

There are striking similarities between York City and Oxford United’s attacking talismen, writes Dave Flett. Both players served their apprenticeships in part-time football and, if you stood them side by side, Brodie is just an inch taller

RESULTS on Saturday could give an indication of who the frontrunners will be in this year’s RL Conference Yorkshire premier division. That is the view of York Lokomotive spokesman Andy Starkey, whose side travel to Moorends Thorne aiming to be among

ROB WEBBER has been called up for the full England rugby union squad to tour Australia next month. The former Pocklington schoolboy, 23, has been included in Martin Johnson’s tour party of 44 which will play a warm-up game against the Barbarians

PRIME DEFENDER sprang a 20-1 surprise in the Group 2 Duke of York Blue Square Stakes at York Racecourse. Ridden by former York-based jockey Robert Winston, the six-year-old landed a first Pattern race success when holding off Showcasing and

YORK City super fan Simon Hood has admitted he never expected his cycling odyssey would end at Wembley stadium. At the start of this season, former Fulford School pupil Hood set himself an ambitious target of pedalling to every league and FA

Julie Camacho has a smart horse on her hands in Beat The Rush, who can underline his potential by figuring on the scoreboard tomorrow on the final day of York’s May Festival. Beat The Rush, who runs in the Grand Hotel & Spa York Handicap, the closing

Ben Sanderson claimed a maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket to help Yorkshire bowl out Loughborough University for 253 at Headingley yesterday. The 21-year-old, who has played his part in all three of the White Rose county’s Clydes-dale

BURN opener Ray Adamson was left stranded on 99 not out by his own team-mates in his side’s HPH York Vale League division one victory against Heworth. The former England rugby union international moved to within a single of his century with a couple

AVIATE flew home to snatch the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes on the line – and give trainer Henry Cecil his ninth win in the prestigious contest at York Racecourse, writes Steve Carroll. The speedy filly, ridden by Eddie Ahern, careered down the rails

York City striker Michael Rankine is happy to carry on as Richard Brodie’s “donkey” if it helps fire the club into the Football League. Rankine is expected to line up alongside 37-goal leading marksman Brodie in Sunday’s Blue Square Premier

York Minster’s Undercroft Museum will be open free of charge from 7pm until 11pm tomorrow to offer a range of events to celebrate the Museums At Night scheme. This will be the second year that the Minster has taken part in the nationwide campaign,

A North Yorkshire soldier blown up in Afghanistan has returned home and relived the moment a bomb killed his comrade and left him seriously hurt. Lance Corporal James Grundy, of the Royal Engineers, suffered two broken cheekbones and a broken upper

TORY MPs from the York area have expressed delight and goodwill towards the coalition Government formed between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Julian Sturdy, the Conservative MP for York Outer said he was “delighted” that David Cameron

UNEMPLOYMENT figures in York and North and East Yorkshire are continuing to fall. The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance fell in April, returning to 2009 levels in some parts of the region. In York, 3,957 people were claiming Jobseeker’

YORK City has offered what little help it can to fans having problems obtaining their Wembley play-off tickets. The pledge comes after fans complained they were being charged high postage rates and booking fees for tickets sold through an appointed

ORGANISERS are going back to the drawing board in their search for a site for York’s ice rink, buoyed by council support. Lunchbox Theatrical Productions say they and City of York Council officers will make site visits to re-examine every potential location

UP TO 300 empty houses across Selby District are to be reallocated to improve affordable rented accommodation in the area. Selby District Council has agreed to take over the running of empty homes which have stood empty for six months or more and are

FOR one couple the opening day of the 2010 Dante Festival at York Racecourse was extra special – and it had nothing to do with the betting. York Nestlé worker Dave Ellis used the big screen to propose to Joanne Bailey, his girlfriend of three

FLAMBOYANT York estate agent Claude Elmer has died at the age of 79. Mr Elmer, of Nether Poppleton, who leaves a widow, Joan, died of a heart attack on Sunday. Mr Elmer set up his first estate agency in York in the early 1970s, and also opened branches

A FAMILY say they are being terrorised by youths whose latest “prank” was to throw a tin of red paint at their home. Margaret Knight, 35, who lives in Spalding Avenue, Clifton, York, with her disabled mother, Norma Knight, and six children, said their

ROCKER Pete Doherty wowed the crowds in a York solo gig – only weeks after cancelling a show in the city at the last minute. The singer-songwriter performed an acoustic gig at The Duchess on Tuesday night to hundreds of fans packed into the Stonebow

A DOOR-TO-DOOR bus service for elderly and disabled people in York is to be put out for tender. Coun Steve Galloway, City of York Council’s executive member for city strategy,, has approved plans to invite bids for the running of the Dial & Ride bus

A YORK company rearranged the opening of its new workshop to ensure it could be opened by a very special guest. Printing firm Ceejay UK yesterday unveiled a new workshop next to its current base on the Green Lane Trading Estate, at Clifton. Wayne Ficco

A STYLISH single mum from York has reached the final 12 in a contest to find the UK’s most fashionable woman. After seeing off competition from 13,000 other hopefuls, 23-year-old Tasha Muds, of Acomb, now faces a sudden-death online vote in the

A NEW top boss is set to be appointed at North Yorkshire County Council next week. The authority’s chief officers’ appointments committee has selected Richard Flinton, 45, to replace John Marsden, who left in March to become chief executive at North

MORE than 40 Yorkshire artists will present their work at a major exhibition to be staged at City of York Council’s proposed new home. The display, which takes place at West Offices between Saturday, May 22 and Saturday, May 29, will raise thousands