A WICKED deflection denied York City a prized three points against Blue Square Bet Premier champions elect Crawley Town. Jonathan Smith turned in Michael Rankine's cross to give the home side a 14th minute lead as they bossed the first half at Bootham
CAMPAIGNERS have welcomed the announcement that controversial plans to rename the Selby War Memorial Hospital could be overturned by a public vote. Bosses at NHS North Yorkshire and York and York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust were
TWO people have been seriously injured in a road accident in North Yorkshire. A blue Ford Fiesta and red Honda CBR1100 motorbike crashed at 5.30am today on the A168 at Boroughbridge, at the junction of Leeming Lane and Highfield Lane.
YORK City manager Gary Mills is confident his side can become the first Blue Square Bet Premier team to beat champions-elect Crawley Town since mid-October. Only FA Cup conquerors Manchester United and FA Trophy part-timers Dartford have beaten the
DON’T drop your guard. That is the message from top policemen and security advisers to businesses in North and East Yorkshire. It comes amid fears that the slow economy could spark a serious spike in business crime – and as the Sheffield-based Business
BUSINESSES behind a weekend event to raise the profile of York’s fashion industry are already making plans for a second event in September. Fashion City York, organised by a collaboration of retailers in the city, was sponsored by Browns and Fenwicks
RICHARD Flanagan, the new president of York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, has said that York needs to do more to stay competitive. The partner at Lawrence Hannah said his priority would be to ensure York and North Yorkshire was ready for business
LAW firm Ware and Kay has made four new appointments covering their York and Wetherby offices. Solicitor Jethro Powell has joined the litigation department at its Peasholme Green office in York and three trainees have been given permanent positions
PETER Moody, who co-founded York estate agency Hudson Moody with Ben Hudson in 1996, has been appointed to lead the Harrogate residential business of Savills estate agency. Mr Moody sold his stake in Hudson Moody last year to become a freelance consultant
As part of Business Press Monthly’s profiles of York’s New Generation of businesses, Julie Hayes speaks to Jonathan Cotton, of Bang Hair. Bang, currently in Gillygate, is expanding into new premises in Low Petergate in May, into the two-storey
LEADERSHIP is in the spotlight more than ever. The global economic downturn, Britain’s fragile recovery and public spending cuts – and now political reform in North Africa and the Middle East – have called for some big decisions by leaders. Having a
York is the Railway City, but it is now also the Steel City, discovers Business Editor RON GODFREY as he meets the boss of Tata Steel Projects. THERE is a lot of steel in the York economy…and it’s growing massively. No sooner had rail infrastructure
Heritage attractions in York have been told to seek funding from local businesses in the light of Government cuts, but will it fill the gap? Julie Hayes asks York’s attractions and businesses. HERITAGE attractions in York will struggle to pull
Peanuts, fairy dust, siestas and holograms? Julie Hayes speaks to John Gallery of Great Potential about the rebirth of the meetings industry. THE UK meetings and conference industry needs to up its game, York business tourism consultant John Gallery
Your work force may be made up of many different sources. You may have agency workers under your employment, but have you considered what your duties and responsibilities are towards these individuals? Could they in fact be seen by the
FIRST there came the dearth of US tourists in the wake of 9/11, then the York floods, then a fire. Then the economic downturn came to test Iqbal Chowdhury. But somehow Iqbal tends not just to survive, but thrive. Bengal Brasserie, which he helped to
REDUNDANCY does not have to be a negative thing and could be seen as a turning point in an individual’s career, employment advisers have said. People often end up in wrong jobs through peer or family pressures, or satisfying particular needs, such as
ONE of York’s best-loved restaurants, El Piano, is cashing in on a global gap in vegan restaurants. The Grape Lane-based restaurant, which is 100 per cent vegan and gluten-free, already has a sister restaurant in Grenada, Spain. Founding director
In the small village of Rillington, based on the A64 three miles east of Malton, is a world-leading manufacturer. Julie Hayes interviews managing director Richard Shaw A NARROW road from a quiet street leads up to Ellis Patents’ facility in Rillington
I WOULD like to bring to the attention of your readers an incident involving my daughter at about 7pm one evening last week. From Poppleton Road, driving on Water End, she was at the traffic lights waiting to turn right into Salisbury Terrace. Two
IN MAY of last year, I voted for the first time. Being a member of a political party since I was 15, I had waited a long time to finally make my opinion count for something. But when I went to the ballot box for the first time, I voted deliberately
WE ARE hearing so much about the new system for voting that no one seems to understand fully plus the financial cost of recounting votes time and time again. With the census, we were informed if we did not fill in the form we would be prosecuted.
I SUPPOSE it was appropriate on All Fools Day that Coun James Alexander should play party politics on the subject of this country’s required financial support of EU bailouts (Letters, April 1). He is presumably fully aware that Alastair Darling signed
IN THE Press of March 21, it was reported that there will be a reduction in the number of police officers on the beat in areas of York because of the Conservative/Lib Dem cuts. Talking to the residents of Acomb, Chapelfields and Foxwood areas as part
IT STARTED with my mother. I learned at an early age that when women ask a question, it’s really a challenge, daring you to prove them wrong. So I answer with trepidation the question: “Why do many people use the transitive verb ‘lay’ intransitively,
I HAVE been trying to find references to (and hopefully pictures of) Clyde Street, York, around 1924. Because the City Archive has as yet found no reference, I can only assume it was another victim of a Second World War raid. Perhaps
CHRIS Moncrieff (View from Westminster, March 30) finds it predictable that “last Saturday’s TUC march in London would result in an element of violence and disgraceful behaviour”. Wrong twice over! The march didn’t result in violence, it was made an
FURTHER to Mrs Reed’s letter on Saturday, March 26, regarding the rubbish on the roads around the area where she lives, I would like to add my voice to the question of who is responsible for the clean-up of verges and lay-bys. I live in Copmanthorpe
HAVING walked and driven into York via Micklegate Bar, I have noticed on several occasions a crop of orange wheelie bins locating themselves against either the side of this historic gateway or directly behind it. Who do these bins belong to? It
I RECENTLY wrote to The Press about the need for a lift in the Delwood Sheltered Accommodation in Fulford (Letters, March 7). It has been brought to my attention that this has been on the residents’ association agenda since September 2010. Coun
LABOUR’S Westfield candidates claim the Winter Fuel Allowance is being cut by the Government (Letters, March 31). This is somewhat misleading, as we have come to expect. The allowance is continuing at the same level as previously: £300 for households
I LIVE on Salisbury Terrace and on walking home from work recently I was pleased to notice that the council had delivered new supplies of bin bags to each home on the estate. Whether this is the best way to spend limited funds I am not sure, but that
FROM one Staffordshire owner to another: well done Odin (Odin bites back as muggers hit master, March 29). My hero. X Louise Marshall, Chapel Terrace, Church Lane, Wheldrake.
HUNDREDS massacred in the Ivory Coast; fighting raging on in Libya while the RAF plans for flying missions overhead for the next six months; UN workers brutally killed because someone decided to indulge in a spot of book burning thousands of miles away
I WAS a bit shocked when I spotted my first grey hair. I saw it in the rear-view mirror of my car, and at first thought it had come from my friend’s dog, a shaggy mongrel who left half his coat on your clothing after being petted. But when I tried
CRAWLEY Town manager Steve Evans is taking nothing for granted despite his side’s 13-point advantage at the top of the Blue Square Bet Premier. The Red Devils will clinch the title tonight at Bootham Crescent if they can beat Gary Mills’ York City and
IN the first of a series of columns throughout the cricket season by Yorkshire and England batsman Anthony McGrath, he looks ahead to the new season, which starts on Friday, with The Press Yorkshire CCC reporter GRAHAM HARDCASTLE. As much as it gets
THERE was no shortage of shocks in the first round of the York Minster Engineering Football League Reserve Cup. Copmanthorpe, second in reserve ‘A’, lost 5-3 at home to F1 Racing, who are second bottom in reserve ‘D’, while Easingwold were the second
MAVIS Barker combined with Flag ‘A’ colleague Sharon Neads to secure match points at Tramways ‘B’ in their 7-4 victory in York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League division one. A four-woman Beeswing team pulled off a great result at Ox ‘A’. Nikki Judson
New Earswick All Blacks ARLFC’s bid for Pennine League President’s Cup conquest suffered a tumble when they lost 32-10 to Keighley Albion in the quarter-finals. All Blacks took an early lead with centre Joe Stearman breaking the line to score an unconverted
THE pressure was off for City of York Hockey Club’s men’s II as they drew 2-2 with Hull University I in Yorkshire League division one. York went into the Huntington School clash having secured promotion the previous week and came away with a point despite
City of York Hockey Club ladies first team’s North League division one promotion hopes were jolted by an unlucky 4-3 defeat at Lancaster. They started well, adapting to a fast bouncy pitch and took the lead from open play when Laura Horne reacted to
One Kool Dude, who was denied by only a short head on his debut at Dundalk in Ireland a couple of weeks ago, faces a much shorter journey to the races tomorrow from Richard Fahey’s Malton stable as he bids to go one better. The two-year-old travels
RELEGATION befell Acomb Hockey Club men’s first XI who suffered a double whammy. A 2-2 draw at home to Kingston-upon-Hull meant Acomb had to win their last two games to hold on to their Yorkshire League division three status. But 24 hours after the
A 2-2 draw at Danby brought down the curtain on Nestlé’s season in the Purple Mountain Ladies Hockey League. Danby scored first after ten minutes of constant attacking play, but Nestlé pushed on and Vanessa Walker levelled from a well worked team
THE man who trained the most winners in Britain last year will head a star-studded panel at the Middleham Stables Open Day on Good Friday. No-one saddled more than the 211 victors by Mark Johnston and his team in 2010 and the Kingsley House-based trainer
The spring meeting of the York & District Lady Past Captain’s association tournament will be played at Fulford Golf Club on Wednesday, April 13, starting from 9am. Anyone unable to play must advise the club representative as soon as possible who will
A MAN who pretended he had buried the body of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence in a field has been jailed for 18 months. Former York man Richard O’Rourke, 48, sent text messages to a policewoman and a barmaid, giving a precise location where
RESIDENTS in York have been targeted by computer fraudsters. City of York Council has put out a warning after computer owners received unsolicited calls offering to fix computer viruses. A caller claims to be acting on information from Microsoft and
A POSTGRADUATE researcher at the University of York is “over the moon” at scooping a top science competition prize, writes Nicola Hebden. Nuclear physicist, Adam Tuff, 26, came under the scrutiny of school pupils all over the country who voted him the
A GANG of men attacked a 20-year-old near the River Ouse in York, leaving him with a broken nose and injuries to his head and face. The attack was described as nasty by police, who said they are keen to trace a “Good Samaritan” who helped the
A TEAM of students from the University of York were last night seen to fall at the final hurdle of their quest to win University Challenge. The 40th final of the BBC2 quiz saw Chris Caudwell, Ben Keane, Simon Donnelly and team captain Andrew Clemo face
A SUPERMARKET giant is expecting to create up to 20 jobs with the opening of a new store in central York. Work is scheduled to start in June on transforming the Piccadilly site currently occupied by the British Heart Foundation’s furniture and electrical
A donkey who saved a sheep from a dog attack in North Yorkshire is to receive an animal bravery award. Dotty the donkey stepped in when her stable mate, Stanley the sheep, was attacked by a dog in a paddock at Row Brow Farm, near Scarborough
Slimming group members are preparing to walk from Selby to York to raise funds for the children’s high-dependency ward at York Hospital. The walk, on Easter Sunday, will start at Selby Rugby Club and end at York Hospital. Walk organiser Susan Purdy
ARMED police were sent to a house in The Groves, York, following reports of a man with a knife. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said a man was arrested in connection with a domestic incident at a property in St John’s Street at about 8.45pm
A MARRIED couple were taken to hospital after a man wearing a balaclava tried to gain entry to their North Yorkshire home by smashing in the front door. Police were called to the property in Hillam Road, Gateforth, near Selby, at 9.30pm on Sunday, after
THE Ministry of Defence has said it is too early to say whether Gurkhas based in York will be affected by Army redundancies announced yesterday. One thousand soldiers and 1,600 Royal Navy personnel are to lose their jobs in the first tranche of redundancies
NOISE patrol officers have seized a TV and speakers from a nuisance neighbour – after he played the same song at full blast more than 20 times in a row. Officials from City of York Council were called to a house in Danesfort Avenue, Acomb,
A THIEF who uses numerous aliases may be in the Harrogate and Wetherby area after breaking the terms of his release from prison. Police believe Simon Keith Wilson, 27, from Scarborough, who is also known as Ian Docherty, Stephen Petit, Mike Sheldon
A DECISION to alter bus services to York from Selby through the village of Escrick has been criticised by residents who say it will mean they have to cross the busy A19 on foot. Arriva, the company which operates the 415 service from Selby to York, announced
BUS bosses and council officers will be questioned tomorrow about their response to public complaints about the city’s public transport. More than 40 people attended a public meeting in November with senior management from First York organised by York
THE HANDLEBAR Moustache Club of Great Britain came to York for its annual weekend away. The club, exclusively for people who have a “hirsute appendage of the upper lip with graspable extremities”, held its annual general meeting in York and
CITY Screen, York, is showing the first documentary film to be made in 3D, Werner Herzog’s Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (U). For his follow-up to Encounters At The End Of The World, the German director gained unprecedented access through the tightest
FRIENDS of a York mother-of-two who died from skin cancer have raised nearly £2,000 by holding a charity fundraising night in her memory. Carmel Smith, 44, of Saddler’s Close, Huntington, died earlier this year. She was married to Mal, 54, and had
* We would like to point out that the piece of music performed in the above video is not the Royal Wedding symphony mentioned below. A MUSICAL director from York has written music for the Royal Wedding. Bev Jones, 70, of Temple
FRESH fears have been raised that proposed housing targets might not meet York’s needs and could be challenged by the planning inspectorate. The York Economic Partnership has joined the York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce in expressing
THE cost of City of York Council burials has increased by 50 per cent in the last two years, new figures have shown. An investigation by a national newspaper looked at burial costs at councils around the country, and found that the current cost of burial
Pupils from two York schools – The Mount and Millthorpe – played host to students from Grunheide, in Germany. The visitors, who were in York for threee days, have been taking part in an initiative called Pride And Prejudice: In Search Of Our National
Benjamin Fahey and Lily Brown, as Prince William and Kate Middleton, alongside the bridesmaids, as pupils from the Evelyn Witcombe dance school get ready their Dance Showcase this week. The show, which involves 87 dancers aged between three and 63, will
CHILDREN from the Karen Hilltribe danced for shoppers at Monks Cross to help publicise the difficult conditions in remote areas of north west Thailand. The Karen Hilltribes Trust, a York charity founded by Penelope Worsley, of Heslington, has raised
A YORK MP has pledged to play his part in protecting nature in Yorkshire. Hugh Bayley, who represents York Central, met local nature conservation organisation Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund at the House of Commons. The meeting
St John Ambulance stalwart Andrew Furnass has been invested into the Order of St John, in recognition of his contribution to first aid. Mr Furnass, 47, a York Hospital porter, of Westmoor Lane, Raskelf, received the honour at a ceremony in the order’
PEOPLE affected by autism are invited to the launch of a new campaign in York today to highlight the perceived lack of support for them. The National Autistic Society is beginning its You Need To Know campaign in the city because it says parents and
THE £12.5 million cost of a new mess at a North Yorkshire RAF station has been branded “colossal” by a councillor. The new combined mess at RAF Fylingdales, on the North York Moors, was officially opened last month by the Princess Royal. Coun Howard
A MOBILE phone application which is designed to help people find the nearest and most appropriate NHS service at the touch of a button has been used by 1,000 people in just a month-and-a-half. The Choose Well device, introduced by NHS Yorkshire and
THE political struggle to decide who rules York is on. Rival parties will spend the next four-and-a-half weeks in a battle for supremacy which could be one of the closest and most intriguing the city has ever seen. Voters go to the polls
KING of quips Tim Vine delights in silly puns and one-liners, and a packed Grand Opera House welcomed his unique brand of comedy with open arms. Vine’s support, comic magician John Archer, fooled the legendary Penn And Teller on TV and earned himself
York's oldest radio station is back home after an eight-month refurbishment. MATT CLARK went to see the changes. ADAM Tomlinson doesn’t do early mornings; or rather, he didn’t until he landed the flagship Breakfast show on BBC Radio York. And it’
A BID to restore the York-built grandfather of modern trains to its former glory has secured £465,800 in Lottery cash. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded the grant to restore the world’s first electric autocar and accompanying 1904 autocoach
PUPILS at a North Yorkshire school have won the local heat of a national spelling competition. The team from Rossett School in Harrogate came out on top against nine other teams in the 2011 Times Spelling Bee. They will now go forward to the semi-finals
A MAN whose nephew was saved by emergency heart surgery is gearing up for a gruelling cycling fundraiser. Paul Scott, 37, of Osbaldwick, York, plans to cycle coast-to-coast across England, to raise £3,000 for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. Paul
POLICE in Selby are stepping up the fight against vehicles that do not have the correct insurance. Officers will target road users who are using vehicles for commercial purposes without proper insurance. Inspector Richard Abbott, of the Selby
ELDERLY residents and their neighbours have been warned to watch out for bogus callers after a spate of burglaries in North Yorkshire. Police are investigating four break-ins on Saturday in the Harrogate, Bedale and Ripon areas. All four incidents saw
A NETWORK of businesses in Pocklington, which was formed when the town’s chamber of commerce closed, is growing thanks to social media. Darren Wiseman, director of Eshopcreator and one of the founding members of the group, with local accountant Andy
ENGAGE Mutual has recorded its best ever year end results, finishing 2010 with a surplus of £36 million. The Harrogate-based friendly society, which provides life insurance, savings and health cash plan products, said it had grown customers by 7 per
