York City kept their play-off hopes alive with a 2-1 victory at Hayes & Yeading United in the Blue Square Bet Premier. Midfielder Jonathan Smith opened the scoring for the Minstermen with a 23rd minute header at Church Road. Former
YORK St Peter’s School Under-16s rugby union team have been crowned the north of England’s Floodlit Cup champions. The youngsters came through a tough series of games to beat Manchester Grammar School in the final and bring a major trophy back to the
RYEDALE’S Terrington Hall School will stage their 13th annual under-13s rugby union sevens tournament on Wednesday. The largest event of its kind in the north of England, this year’s contest includes 24 teams from across the country. The competing
THE top game in the York FA Under-19s Football League was at Knaresborough, where visitors Rawcliffe came away with a 2-1 win. Dominic Creaser was on target for the home side, but strikes by Dale Holding and Jordan Bevan sealed the points for Rawcliffe
YORK City midfielders David McDermott and Will Hatfield joined in the fun at the club’s half-term community camps. Both players turned up to the PlayFootball sessions at Clifton Moor and helped with the training sessions, as well as handing out prizes
A QUARTET of tries by James Dunhill and a hat-trick by Josh Potter propelled York Acorn ARLC Under-15s to a 54-14 triumph over Hunslet Warriors. The prolific centre pairing were instrumental in Acorn’s emphatic victory over a physical Warriors side
HEWORTH ARLC Under-9s are on the lookout for new players. The team train at Elmpark Way on Thursdays, from 6.30pm, and anyone interested in joining should phone Graham Brown on 07906 663474.
BOOTHAM ‘A’ were the junior winners when Energise hosted York’s first lifesaving competition in 20 years. Josh Croxon, Matt Hays, Emily Croxon and Eleanor Long joined forces to lift the junior crown at the Acomb venue in the event backed by First Rescue
YOUNGSTERS in the Hambleton district are being offered a new route into rugby league. Northallerton Broncos ARLC have been formed to offer junior players the chance to hone their skills in the summer months across Hambleton and Richmond. The club will
I WAS proud to be involved in two inspiring events in York on Tuesday (The Press, February 23). Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP spoke passionately to party members and candidates on the alternatives to cuts – keeping tax income in the economy
CONGRATULATIONS to Joseph Rowntree School for its fantastic performance last week of the West End musical, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the new Vaudeville Theatre at the school. I had the pleasure, along with a packed theatre
I WELCOME Jerry Scarr and Mike Pitt’s declaration that they are not opposed to the Ryedale Gas Project (Letters, February 17). However, the sites they suggest are unsuitable for a gas-processing facility. Those adjacent to the well head
A LARGE sum of money has been allocated by central government to enable local councils to repair the vast number of potholes caused by the bad winter. Perhaps some of that mysterious £3 million that was allocated to improve facilities for cyclists
I COULD not agree more with the Damon Smith (The Press, February 21) about The King’s Speech – it has to be the best film to hit the big screen in a long time. Full of mixed emotions, not having to rely on gratuitous violence, built around
NO, NO, no, no.... no; referee, please! Having recently been yellow-carded for a letter which contained only a handful of his own words, Terry Smith is at it again (Letters, February 15). Once more he plagiarises a David Cameron speech, this
THE tribute to the “Magnificent Seven” from John A Hudson brought back great memories of the De Grey Rooms; it had a wonderful dance floor, and Johnny Sutton’s band was great to listen to (Letters, February 12). Better than any records, it had a great
MANY years ago, talking to a council planning officer, I said: “At least they can not build on the racecourse as it was given to the people of York by Royal Charter.” The reply came: “Oh yes we can. The council are elected to do what they think is
DO ANY of your other readers share my amazement at the story of the Serbian prisoners guilty of carrying out the revenge attack on a fellow prisoner at Wakefield Prison? All these inmates are serving life terms for previous murders, as is their victim
DO ANY readers have photos of the airfield and RAF Camp Clifton? All the buildings and runways are long gone. RAF Clifton was charged with repairing aircraft and at the end of the war scrapping hundreds of planes. On June 8, 1945, JP203 had
ALTHOUGH a car lover, I do try and take the green option and use the Park&Ride when I can. Due to roadworks and disruptions, I have had to get on the buses at different stops lately and have been bemused by exactly where to stand at the bus
GEORGE WILKINSON skirts the famous ruins of Rievaulx on a seven-mile walk with plenty to see and only a minor car-parking hazard to worry about. RIEVAULX has been dominated by the abbey for near a thousand years. And English Heritage has almost a
Shadowmancer author Graham Taylor is writing a film script about the day, almost 100 years ago, when the German High Sea Fleet bombarded Scarborough. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. DECEMBER 15, 1914 was just another day for Mr A Bell, the road foreman
The pick of York Art Gallery’s hidden collection of pots are going on show – chosen by a potter whose own work will stand alongside these older gems, reports JO PETRIE. THE best collection of pottery in the UK outside London is housed in York, but
In this week’s Tipping’s Tipples, MIKE TIPPING takes the letter ‘B’ as his starting point. TIPPING’S Tipples this week is brought to you by the letter B. Appropriately, it is the initial of Bacchus, the Roman God of wine, and two of
In this week’s column, DAVE STANFORD cooks up Chicken Tikka Kebabs. THESE are so simple to make but pack plenty of flavour. I think I picked this recipe up from a magazine, and it’s an easy dish to make when you’ve not got a lot of time on your hands
THE North Yorkshire Brewing Company was founded in 1989 in Middlesborough. Ten years later it relocated to old dairy buildings at Pinchinthorpe Hall, a moated house in the North York Moors National Park near Guisborough. The hall was the home of
GAVIN AITCHISON heads to York’s street of pubs and finds new life in an old establishment. SOMETHING’S going on down Goodramgate way, and it’s seriously good news for pub-goers. Just a few weeks ago, we sallied along to the Royal Oak
OFTEN it takes death to stir a reappraisal, as with Harold Pinter, but will the centenary of Terence Rattigan’s birth lead to his rebirth? Rattigan was swept away on the tide of the Angry Young Men, Pinter among them, and a check of The Press library
DAVE WOODS has warned his first-choice half-backs he would not be frightened to drop them if they do not perform – even if there are no direct replacements available. York City Knights have competition for places in most positions and head coach
A mystery shrub sends GINA PARKINSON scrabbling through her books and the internet. She thinks it is probably a honeysuckle. ON A sunny Saturday a couple of weekends ago, I spotted the first bee in the garden, visiting a shrub that had come into
YORK City will travel to Boldon CA on Wednesday, April 13 to launch the Wearside League outfit’s new Sam Bartram floodlights. The celebration game will see two of the goalkeeping legend’s former teams lock horns with the future Charlton Athletic player
Yorkshire will be returning to Barbados next month for a 12-day pre-season tour. The White Rose squad will be joining county rivals Hampshire, Warwickshire, Essex and Derbyshire in the Caribbean, where they also prepared for the 2010 campaign. Director
JASON DEMETRIOU expects a bit of flak when he brings his Keighley Cougars side to Huntington Stadium tomorrow. The 35-year-old Wakefield legend signed with York City Knights in December but quit within three weeks to take up a player-coach role at Cougar
THE lone golf club at the heart of York has been given a new transfusion at its most timely moment. Heworth Golf Club, which is celebrating its centenary year from the start of next month, has welcomed a new professional to its homely Muncastergate base
MALTON & Norton GC dropped down the East Riding Alliance from first to joint third after a poor showing on their own course as the second half of the winter event resumed. Ganstead Park GC’s Darren Moore and Dave Richardson won with a nett 65 to head
YORK City manager Gary Mills hailed the club’s first-ever “Y Factor” talent contest a success this week and believes the initiative should become an annual event. Launched to give under-16 footballers who are playing for their local clubs the chance
CROFT Racing Circuit have announced their fixtures for 2011. The venue, based just outside Darlington, will again be offering the best British motor sport in the North East region with 11 events planned throughout the year. Topping the bill will be
MARTYN Turner bowed out in the second round of the latest Players Championship events at Derby. The Rawcliffe arrows ace beat Brian Woods 6-5 before losing 6-3 to Justin Pipe in the first competition and was then beaten 6-1 by former Premier League finalist
YORK City Knights brought in a third loan player from Castleford this week in England Academy ace Jordan Thompson – and with his arrival comes another quandary for head coach Dave Woods. Those who saw the 19-year-old centre in the two pre-season
UNIVERSITY Student ladies proved too strong for RI Monday/Wednesday ‘B’ at the Heslington campus and ran out comfortable 8-1 winners in ladies division one of the York Badminton League. Rachel Farrington and Beth Cowell were the pick of the student
EASINGWOLD’S Denis Cleary will win his first international badminton cap when he lines up for England against Scotland in the 11th McCoig Trophy clash in York. Cleary and doubles partner Pete Preston, were selected for the veterans’ team event, to be
HEWORTH’S John Sherlock had to overcome two former champions before he won the eighth Brian Jeffrey Memorial Over 50s snooker knock out crown. After a slow start in his semi final, and playing off a scratch handicap, he powered his way to a 52-17
A REUNION of past players and friends of former amateur rugby league club Punch Bowl proved a big success with more than 100 people attending. The event was held in Bar 13 at Huntington Stadium and special guests included Brian and Kathleen Coulson,
Bootham ‘A’ held on to top spot in the York Conservative Clubs’ Carlsberg UK snooker league despite losing 5-2 to Fulford ‘A’. Chris Dower (36 break) won the first game only for Luke Fleet to level for Fulford. Tim Fillingham moved Bootham ahead
Leaders Heworth recovered from their 6-1 trouncing by Bootham to inflict the same score on Fulford and opened up a four-point lead in the York Conservative Clubs Slater Cup snooker pairs league. Simon Chamberlain and Jake Stephenson won the first
RAIN scuppered a fascinating day of British Universities and College Sport (BUCS) action, with all games due to be played on grass called off. The weather has proved a menace to the sportsmen and women of York, not to mention the ground staff, this
AS one black icon continues to fragment before our very eyes, another may get a new and deserved lease of life in the land of the free. Tiger Woods’ exit at the first hurdle of the first World Golf Championship match-play tournament of the year
When the going gets tough, the tough get going – and none are tougher than Giles Cross in this afternoon’s valuable stamina test at Newcastle. The £30,000 totesport.com Eider Chase, run over four miles and one furlong, will take place on heavy ground
A GANG of thieves who targeted elderly and frail victims have been jailed for a total of 21 years. Miles Connors, 40, and his two partners in crime staged 50 house raids against victims whose ages ranged from 98 to 55 from which they netted £27,000
A MAN wearing a balaclava attempted to rob a Selby petrol station by threatening two women with a knife. Officers cordoned off the area around Millgate Service station after the man, who was believed to be brandishing a kitchen knife, demanded
A MAN who suffered an horrific attack at the hands of two thugs which left him fighting for his life in a coma has turned his life around. Jonathan Latham has vowed not to let the two men who carried out the attack after a Christmas party, and who have
Ooh la la! As York gears up for the final showdown of the Viking Festival, a famous face has brought a bit of glamour to the city. Dressed in full French maid attire Vicki Michelle, star of television comedy ’Allo, ’Allo, opened the continental market
A CANDLELIT vigil is to be held in York Minster tomorrow to mark the 37th birthday of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence. Claudia’s father Peter Lawrence is holding the meditative event, A Vigil For The Missing, to mark the birthday of his daughter
A MAN has died following a car crash on the East Yorkshire coast. Lee Richardson, 25, died after the grey Vauxhall Corsa he was driving was involved in a collision with two other vehicles in Cliffe Road, South Cliffe, Bridlington. Two men, aged
HUNDREDS of people heard the Archbishop of York chronicle his journey from Uganda to Yorkshire at an open evening last night. Dr John Sentamu spoke about his life and faith in front of an audience at All Saints’ Church in Pocklington. He also answered
York has paid tribute to the man described as the “heart and soul” of its retail community after the death of Ian Thompson, chairman of Barnitts. Ian, whose family hardware business is well known in the city as an Aladdin’s Cave, selling a
A SCRAP crushing machine caught fire yesterday morning as it was being dismantled for scrap at Horwell Brothers in Mansfield Street, York. Fire crews were called to the scrap metal merchants’ premises, just off Foss Islands Road, at about 8.40am after
THE estranged husband of a former York schoolgirl who became a millionairess is to go on trial charged with her murder. The body of 46-year-old Joanna Brown was found in woodland in Berkshire last November, two weeks after police launched a murder probe
A MAN has been jailed for imprisoning and raping a teenager in Bridlington. Ryan Ashman, 26, of Tennyson Avenue in the resort, was sentenced to five years for five counts of rape and one count of false imprisonment of a 16-year-old Bridlington
LANDLORDS in York are being urged to attend a series of information fairs. City of York Council’s housing standards and adaptations team is running three events at the Priory Street Centre next month, and they are open to landlords, letting agents and
A DOG found starved and injured near Tadcaster last year has been nursed back to health. Billy, thought to be about seven years old, was found wandering in Healaugh by Selby District Council’s dog warden, Bill Parker. Billy, a collie cross, was emaciated
RESEARCHERS from the University of York have contributed to a major United Nations pollution study. The university’s Stockholm Environment Institute helped assess how to reduce the impact of black carbon and tropospheric ozone, and the risks to climate
A YORKSHIRE survivor of riot-torn Libya has described how he dodged snipers as he tried to flee the country. Father-of-two Don Goodwin made three desperate attempts to escape a remote desert camp before finally catching a plane to safety as chaos and
TOP players will carry the coffin of Tadcaster rugby fan Clive Gott onto their pitch as part of a celebration of his life. The event will take place on Wednesday at Headingley Carnegie Stadium in Leeds, the home of his favourite rugby league team, the
A clinic for patients with an irregular heart rhythm has been set up at Bridlington Hospital. Atrial fibrillation is a non life-threatening condition, but can cause heart palpitation, dizziness, shortness of breath and in some cases lead to a stroke
FIREFIGHTERS were called after a lorry caught fire in Harrogate. Two crews fought the fire, which started in the cab of a Mercedes truck at the great Yorkshire showground in Wetherby Road.
A SUPERMARKET in Pocklington has gained planning permission to expand its sales area and car park. Sainsbury’s, in Limb Road, is currently one of the smallest Sainsbury’s stores in the country. The plans allow the store to extend its sales area
Visitors to York can explore the city’s historic Mansion House from next week, when the Lord Mayor’s residence opens its doors for 2011. The house was built in 1725, and visitors can take tours of the property and see displays including the medieval
A York paramedic who was the city’s first ambulance man on a bicycle has been presented with a royal award for his dedication and long service. Mark Inman, York’s former “pedalling paramedic” who introduced the Life-Cycle bicycle in May 2001 to respond
PROTESTERS who swarmed into York’s council chamber and staged a noisy table-top campaign against service cuts have come under attack from two of the city’s political leaders. The group leapt over Guildhall’s public gallery and stood in the centre of
A RENOWNED York birdwatcher and angler has died aged 94. Frank Oates took up birdwatching seriously nearly 50 years ago, logged more than 300 different species in Yorkshire and was a life member of York Ornithological Club. Frank, a widower from Dringhouses
