TRAIN operator East Coast is to start charging standard class passengers for Wi-Fi on its flagship trains from York to London and Edinburgh. The nationalised company, based in York, says that from early October, all standard class passengers
RAIN and cold weather did not deter these young Centurions from getting on their bikes to join in York's second annual car free day. Schoolchildren from schools across York defied the weather to cycle to school, to benefit the environment as well
A BOY needed extensive surgery to his arm after he was savaged by a dog as he played in a park near York. Police said Adam Wheeler was left in a pool of blood with only a young friend for comfort as the female owner of the large black dog walked off
YORK City caretaker manager Andy Porter will be in charge of the Minstermen for Saturday’s long Blue Square Bet Premier trip to Eastbourne. Porter, assisted by youth-team boss Steve Torpey, was originally handed the managerial reins for two matches following
TRAFFIC is expected to be allowed back along a stretch of road in North Yorkshire on Friday evening following a landslip. Highways engineers from North Yorkshire County Council closed the A59, the main route between Harrogate and Skipton, last week
NORTH Yorkshire Police have been given the green light for a new station in Harrogate. The new building, which was given the go-ahead by Harrogate Borough Council’s planning committee, is planned for Beckwith Knowle and will replace the existing police
YORK City Knights have not ruled out a move for Wakefield legend Jason Demetriou as they begin preparing for life in the Co-operative Championship. The Knights are thought to be one of several Championship clubs on the loose-forward’s tail, although
A WOMAN needed help from firefighters to get down from a first-floor roof in Bridlington after an incident in the early hours of yesterday. Police went to the Station Hotel in Hilderthorpe Road at 2.30am after a caller claimed someone had been assaulted
DOZENS of notorious criminals have been arrested by a new policing team set up to target York’s “most wanted”. Wanted burglars, thieves and drug-dealers are among those arrested by the crime reduction task force since it was introduced by the
A TODDLER born with a rare genetic disorder has been given a specially designed car seat by her father’s employer to allow her to travel safely. Chloe Dudley, 21-months-old, of Bishop Monkton, near Boroughbridge, suffers from 1p 36 Deletion Syndrome
PUPILS at St John Fisher School in Harrogate are organising a sponsored Cycling For Recycling event this week to raise money to improve recycling in their school. The school’s eco-committee is receiving funding from the Actively Involving Children
AN award-winning York pub held a special event to toast the Champion Beer of Britain. The Rook And Gaskill, in Lawrence Street, held a “meet the brewer” evening with Castle Rock Brewery of Nottingham. The brewery is holding celebration events in all
FOLLOWERS of fashion are invited to offer their unwanted designer, vintage and homemade clothes for a catwalk show with a twist. St Leonard’s Hospice, in York, has teamed up with York Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) to host a sustainable fashion
I write in response to your article (September 15) on the visit of occult novelist GP Taylor to a local school to publicise his book. I would like to voice my support of Stephen Green – the “Christian fundamentalist”, as you call him. Mr Green is quite
I write in reply to Peter Hawkins’s letter “Roll on privatisation”. He is very critical of Royal Mail and as he says clearly can’t wait for privatisation. Well if it’s like any of the other state industries that have been privatised I’m sure Mr
NEW undergraduates at the city’s universities are settling into the autumn term’s lectures and tutorials following a frantic week of freshers’ activities to welcome students. Professor David Fleming, vice- chancellor of York St John University, said
AN independent, government-funded business support and advice service in York and North Yorkshire has helped safeguard nearly 600 jobs over the past year, new figures reveal. Even as the business advice and support organisation’s future remains uncertain
In his engaging column on being secular (September 23) it is unfortunate Julian Cole based so much of his argument on the headlines of reported speeches by Dr John Sentamu and Pope Benedict XVI, rather than taking the time to read the speeches themselves
Ed Miliband and his brother David are persuading me that the Labour Party in opposition, Ed as leader and both as potential future PMs, can create a fairer balance in government for the deserted millions of the nations’ needy and the workforce who keep
Armistice Day will be upon us soon. It is traditional that on this day Laurence Binyon’s moving poem “Lost” is read out. I have no objection to this. But Yorkshire, along with several eastern counties, has numerous memorials sited on old bomber bases
Much comment has been made on the coalition’s plans to cut public-sector spending, but I wonder how many of these commentators are aware that current coalition spending plans mean that spending will actually increase every year from 2010-11 through
TWENTY’S Plenty for York want area-wide 20mph speed limits without road humps. The council is consulting in Your City Magazine and Local Transport Plan questionnaires. Official text omits many relevant details, including that 20mph is proven to save
Can I please thank the people who helped with the recent collection in Coppergate on behalf of Arthritis Research UK, and all the people who very kindly donated money on that day. A total of £295.75 was collected, and will be used to further research
The National Centre for Early Music, in York, is entering a formal partnership with the University of Southampton music department, home to one of Britain’s premier centres for early music performance research. The new bond builds on the
ONE of the heroes of York rugby league’s 1981 title success, Paul McDermott, has hailed the class of 2010 following their remarkable Grand Final triumph. Dave Woods’ York City Knights team overcame massive underdog status to reach the Championship
HARD-HITTING Heworth professional boxer Matt Doyle has got nothing but maximum impact in his sights. As the new season starts to swing into play, Doyle makes his combative return this weekend at the sporting club at Leeds United’s Elland Road ground.
Selby Cricket Club’s junior section are holding their presentation night on Friday at Brayton Community Centre at 7pm. Junior members and parents are invited.
MORE than 240 runners competed in the Sutton Park 10k, with Rob Burn, the leading Thirsk and Sowerby Harrier home. He took an admirable 13th place in a good time of 39 minutes and 22 seconds. Burn also won the prize for the first V55 to finish. Club-mate
YOUNG cricketers are being catered for with a winter cricket coaching course in York. The Pro Coach Yorkshire Cricket Development Academy will run weekly 90-minute sessions for youngsters aged between seven and 16. The coaching is led by current and
THE annual York and District Over-55s tennis tournament for the Alf Bewick Memorial Trophy is to be played at Dunnington Tennis Club on Sunday, October 3, starting 1pm. Entries to Val Humby by phoning 489098 by Friday, October 1.
A BACK injury and a bout of glandular fever can’t stop Ellie Makin hitting winners on the tennis court. The 17-year-old, who is studying a National Diploma in Sport at York College, won the prestigious AEGON Masters tournament at Lawn Tennis Association
DESPITE a plucky performance, promoted Pickering All Blacks Ladies lost their first game in Yorkshire Ladies Hockey League division five 3-0 to Ben Rhydding. Nevertheless, Pickering should be able to take heart from a sound display hinting they will
HE narrowly failed to calm the Whirlwind, now Pickering potter Paul Davison comes up against one of the greatest snooker players in the history of the game. He has been drawn against seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry in the first round of the
FULFORD ‘A’ moved to the top of the York Conservative Clubs’ Carlsberg UK Snooker League with a 5-2 win over their ‘B’ team. Andy Hurley gave the ‘B’ team a start but Matt Robson and Alan Reed moved the ‘A’ team ahead. Nigel Smith levelled but Pete Dunmore
Paul Hanagan and Richard Hughes, who continue to duel for the jockeys’ championship, will be operating at different ends of Britain tomorrow. While Malton-based Hanagan heads to the west coast of Scotland for a choice book of rides at Ayr, where he
NEW council bosses in York are set for a pay rise of almost £2,500 a year. A shake-up of assistant directors posts at City of York Council will see many salaries enter a higher pay grade of up to £73,401 a year after the number of roles
YORK landlady Sarah Skrzypiec was startled when she found a foul-smelling box in her pub’s snug – with the message scrawled on it: “From the Godfather”. When she opened the box – addressed to York ghost walk organiser Trevor Rooney – she was
TWO newborn kittens are battling for survival after they were tied in a plastic carrier bag and dumped in a wheelie bin in North Yorkshire. The kittens, still in the sac in which they were born, were found by a shop cleaner in an alleyway in
A TEENAGER was left bruised and bleeding after being attacked at York Station. British Transport Police have appealed for information following the attack, which happened shortly after 8pm on Saturday. PC Henry Thompson said the incident started
A SHORTFALL of £23 million will have to be plugged by North Yorkshire health bosses in what is described as “serious deterioration” in their finances. Adrian Snarr, director of finance at NHS North Yorkshire and York, revealed the crisis to board members
A TREASURE trove of old films that lay hidden in a York attic for most of a century are to be seen again. The series of documentaries and dramas set in the British countryside of the 1930s were believed lost for ever when the rural insurer
A YORK-BASED medical project to help skin cancer patients has been given a huge cash boost. Neotherix, based at the Research Centre at York Science Park, developed a method for regenerating tissue of patients operated on. It has received half funding
POLICE and a restaurant were hailed today for rescuing stars of Britain’s Got Talent after their coach crashed in North Yorkshire. Members of The Fusion dance group, who reached the semi finals of the hit TV show earlier this year, were on their way
IT IS Kersten England’s 49th birthday tomorrow. It also happens to be the first anniversary of her taking over the top job at City of York Council. She hadn’t meant to start until October. But on September 30 last year (“my birthday!”) she spent the
A YORK Women’s Institute (WI) rounded off a year of special events with a lunch to celebrate its 85th anniversary year. Copmanthorpe WI’s lunch at the Royal York Hotel was the culmination of a number of events, including a moving event at Kohima War
a man suffered a black eye and his girlfriend was left with leg injuries following an unprovoked attack by a gang during a night out. The couple, from Riccall, near Selby, were in York city centre when they were turned on by a woman and a group of
A CAMPAIGN has been started to block the creation of a green energy plant on the site of a former mine. UK Coal and Science City York want to use North Selby mine, near Escrick, to produce electricity from an anaerobic digestor, incinerator and gasification
SPEEDING motorists in a village near Selby are to be electronically monitored following complaints from residents. Following a recent Southern Area Community Engagement Forum between residents of Whitley, police officers and county councillors, a temporary
LOTTERY cash is wanted to carry out the next stage of a masterplan to safeguard York’s city archives. City of York Council has revealed plans for the records, which contain details of decision-making stretching back more than eight centuries. The
D-Day will be September 7, 2011, for television viewers in York. That’s the day the Emley Moor BBC2 analogue transmitter which serves the area BBC2 will be switched off. On 21 September, the Emley Moor ITV, Channel 4 and Five analogue transmitters
MOTORISTS are set for more hold-ups on a stretch of road between York and Selby after an improvement scheme was hit by delays. Temporary traffic lights will stay in place on the A19 at Crockey Hill to allow teams brought in by City of York Council
HER life was saved when the Yorkshire Air Ambulance whisked her to hospital within the “golden hour” after she was badly injured in a road accident. Now Charlotte Leighton is to lead a Golden Hour Walk to help the helicopter ambulance service celebrate
A SECOND World War veteran who flew with the legendary Dambusters and later became a stalwart of school sport in York has died aged 90. Wally Coleman served two operational tours with Bomber Command and was part of 617 Squadron which carried out Operation
A COUPLE were allegedly threatened with a baseball bat in an attempted street robbery in York. Two men have been arrested and remain in police custody following the incident, which happened at about 4am on Monday, and police are appealing for
Youngsters from two York schools got the chance to try cycling this week, ahead of the city’s second annual Car Free Day, which was taking place today. Pupils and parents from St George’s and Fishergate primary schools were invited to take
A 61-year-old sex offender who posed as a teenage boy in his explicit text messages to a young child minder has avoided a jail sentence. Instead David Victor McEwan must do a sex offenders’ rehabilitation programme, 100 hours’ unpaid work and
THE ftr bus to the University of York may be one of the city’s flagship services – but the university is now recommending a rival bus to its students, visitors and staff. The university’s website states the Number 44 Unibus, operated by York Pullman,
TRANSPORT chiefs look unlikely to step in to reintroduce part of a York bus service, despite a public clamour for its return. First York opted to cut elements of its Number 13 route, including those serving Monks Cross Shopping Park at certain times
CHINESE officials dropped into York’s National Railway Museum for a view of the museum’s iconic Chinese locomotive. The steam engine, which carried passengers until 1977, was given to the museum by the Chinese Government in 1981. The massive machine
