ABOUT 30 firefighters tackled a large shed blaze on the edge of York last night. Fire crews were called to the blaze, near a farmhouse on Wigginton Road, just after 9pm, after flames were seen. They extinguished the fire by 10.10pm,
A VICIOUS fugitive wanted for knifing a man with learning difficulties in a gangland-style attack was caught by York police following a Crimewatch appeal. Peter Hannah went on the run in January when he was due to stand trial for slashing his
WHEN Northern Ballet Theatre dropped "Theatre" from its name in September 2009, it did not mean the Leeds company would be dropping the theatrical element of its performances. Indeed this year’s spectacular premiere of Cleopatra reinforced
Yorkshire are close to losing their LV=County Championship clash at Somerset. At tea on the final day their hosts had reached 95 for 0 at Taunton – meaning they only required 133 more runs from the last 33 overs of the match to win.
A PENSIONER who was injured in a crash on the edge of York three days ago has died. The 81-year-old man was seriously injured in a collision between the Ford Focus he was driving and a green tipper lorry at about 6.30am on Tuesday on the A1079 at Dunnington
Yorkshire are in trouble on the final day of their LV=County Championship match against Somerset. At lunch on day four they had reached 296 for nine in their second-innings – a lead of only 202 runs. Resuming on 248 for six they got
ON go the cravats, double-breasted frock coats, top hats and tails as Barley Hall prepares to “dress Mr Darcy” with an audience on Sunday. York Archaeological Trust’s Dressing Mr Darcy event shows the intricacies of dressing a Regency gentleman
YORK company Wildgoose Theatre will present Frank McGuinness’s political drama Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me at 41 Monkgate, York, from June 8 to 11. Written in 1992, shortly after the Lebanon Hostage Crisis, the play is a fictional account of those
STRIKER Liam Henderson says he sees York City as the ideal place to get his career back on track. The 21-year-old became Minstermen boss Gary Mills’ first signing of the summer and believes he can help to fire his new side back into the Football League
SSH. Before you read further, I must warn you that you are about to read about matters the judges would rather you didn’t know about. So please burn this before reading. Better still, forget you know I exist. But if you want, like everyone
PERHAPS the reason British car buyers love the Mazda MX-5 so much is that it fills a void left by the absence of the UK-produced drop-top sports car. Venture out into the UK's country lane network on any summer Sunday and you'll find Triumph Spitfires
There’s a lot of talk about car downsizing. And with good cause. No sooner had I returned from the UK press launch of Kia’s new-look Picanto supermini, than a TV documentary was pointing out just how much it costs to run a vehicle these days. Rising
The old adage “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” could have been written for Toyota as it contemplated trying to boost sales of its Auris hatchback. What the Auris desperately needed was something not available elsewhere in this sector,
JOHN Cleese turned up at the Grand Opera House in deep-wintry January in jeans, summer jacket and shoes, and no socks, exposing tanned legs. The weather might have caught up with that Californian look by the time the self-styled “most senile member
PLAYWRIGHT Pam Gems died on May 13 at the age of 85. The announcement came in the final week of rehearsals for the Stephen Joseph Theatre’s revival of her play Marlene, a moving celebration of the legendary actress Marlene Dietrich. “We were all saddened
Last Chance To See... Stephen Billington as John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at York Theatre Royal. CASUALTY star Stephen Billington has loved Arthur Miller’s witchcraft play The Crucible since he was 15. “I studied it for O-levels and
Preparations are in place for York’s annual folk and acoustic music jamboree, the City of York Folk Weekend. The free festival is in its ninth year and for the first time is expanding to take in evening events next Friday, as well as running all day
DAVID Gray promises his Lost And Found tour show is unlike anything he has done before. Monday’s audience at York Barbican will discover what that entails in the only Yorkshire date of his late-spring series of eight acoustic evenings. Explaining
SCOTTISH singer-songwriter KT Tunstall will play the Grand Opera House, York, on Sunday, November 6 on her 13-date British and Irish solo tour this autumn. Tickets go on sale at £20 from 10am today on 0844 871 3024 or 0844 811 0051 or online at grandoperahouseyork.org.uk
SUNDAY’S Picturehouse Docs film at City Screen, York, is Benda Bilili! (PG), Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye’s documentary account of the remarkable rise of the Congolese band Staff Benda Bilili. Their fairytale journey has taken them the streets
When York Theatre Royal is returned to its usual proscenium-arch arrangement in November after seven months of in-the-round shows, the first performance will be York Opera’s staging of The Merry Wives Of Windsor. Rehearsals for Otto Nicolai’s comic opera
THE Last Friday concert series will welcome the return of Ad Hoc Baroque on June 24 for Another Cabinet Of Music Delights at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York. After their well-received appearance last year, recorder players Ann Betterton and
FACT: C’mon is the shortest title of any album from Low, the Minnesota slow-core specialists whose songs take rather longer to leave an imprint but burn deep. After railing against the Iraq war on 2007’s Drums And Guns, the Duluth Mormon trio’s
HAVE you heard the one about the five Michael Jacksons? In fact all of them appear in Thriller Live, a celebration of “the undisputed king of pop” that accommodates not only that form of the Jackson five, but also a sixth Michael, the child singer who
Born This Way is a heady cocktail of blonde ambition, retro disco and the emperor’s new clothes, not referring to rump steak frocks but to empty promises. The blitzkrieg marketing campaign preceding the launch of Lady GaGa’s latest opus has already
ON the new Beastie Boys album, the trio of evergreen New York MCs boast they have been doing this since 1983. What other group can you think of who can boast nearly 30 years of output and still sound so fresh, so relevant, so alive? That wasn’t a
HOW do you cope with being the daughter of folk music’s royal family? Surprisingly well, actually. Eliza Carthy has carved her own niche and while she is categorised a traditional singer, much of the time she is anything but. Perhaps
IT’S the voice, the voice – sorry, I just don’t get the voice. Hugh Laurie, the world’s highest-paid actor, has come up with anguished self-deprecating sleeve-notes to the release of an album whose New Orleans blues music he so patently adores.
IF spiky time signatures and foot-tapping tunes from bands you’ve never heard of get you going, then Dutch Uncles’ latest album is definitely worth seeking out. Cadenza is part Sparks, part Glee, part MGMT, with another dozen influences you’ll definitely
Hares leap into life in the summer exhibition at the Robert Fuller Gallery, Fotherdale Farm, Thixendale, near Malton, from June 4. Wildlife artist Robert Fuller made national headlines when he braved the last winter’s heavy snows to study a group
TWO Susans have united for a joint show at the Zillah Bell Gallery in Thirsk: Susan Dugdale (or Susie as she signs off her emails) and Susan Wilmot. Susie studied graphic design at St Martin’s School of Art and Leeds Polytechnic and her training still
GOVERNMENT cut-backs in arts funding will start to bite later in the year and the region’s jazz clubs will need support from punters to survive. Wakefield Jazz has hit on a subscription scheme to help in funding and subscribers can save money over the
THE Northern Stars exhibition has only a week left to run at the New School House Gallery in York. This annual showcase of selected work by the Northern Potters Association features 26 potters, all but two of them – Isabel K J Denyer and Eryl Fryer
PABLO Picasso once said, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal”. With that in mind, the Norman Rea Gallery is to mount a summer open exhibition entitled Wink, and submissions are now being taken. Taking the definition of “wink” as “an action of
THE Government’s plans to shake up the NHS will no doubt have huge implications for us all through the transference of provision of care from the Primary Care Trust to local doctors, or General Practice Commissioning Consortiums. The growth of the
I MUST be one of many people who will be sorry indeed to read that John Mannion’s fruit and vegetable shop in Blake Street is to close (The Press, May 24) and I am relieved that at least he will continue to serve us all from his market stall.
IAN Packington, former Lib Dem candidate in the recent council elections, should talk to Labour councillors before commenting on Labour not supporting the recent works in Library Square (Letters, May 25). Labour councillors were approached by a number
I WOULD like to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to the people who went to give my husband assistance after a recent fall in the car park at Sainsbury’s supermarket, Monks Cross, York. And also to the staff at the store, the paramedics and
I WOULD like to thank residents in York for voting Labour at the local elections and for giving me the opportunity to lead the council to deliver on our manifesto pledges. It is a honour I do not take lightly. I welcome to the Labour benches new councillors
I AM not in favour of the way extremely rich people can keep certain things private by means of taking out a super-injunction. The law as regards privacy in Britain is farcical and needs looking at, but the law is the law, and if we do not
AS READERS will know from my occasional contributions to Yesterday Once More, I am a local historian. I have been researching the life of the York Victorian artist Edwin Ridsdale Tate (1862-1922) for many years. I also give talks on the subject.
SAFE and sure was the drive negotiated by York-born Simon Dyson to stay well on track in the BMW PGA championship at Wentworth Golf Club. With total prize money of more than £4 million the European Tour event is rated by many as the “fifth major” and
HAVING listened to a recent account from a very impressed grandson of his work experience in Germany, I wholeheartedly agree with DM Martin (Letters, May 17) that “we can learn a lot from the Germans”. We are told that hard work was very much in
CARERS’ Week, from June 13 to 19, highlights the vital work done by unpaid carers who look after someone else because of illness, disability, frailty or other health issues. It is a chance to challenge stereotypes about carers and to remind people
REGARDING Miss Stier’s letter concerning the RSPCA charity shop (Letters, May 20), I am a great supporter of this shop and the home in Landing Lane. Maybe Miss Stier does not realise that the goods have been donated by the generous people of
EYES to the political right and we will have the new Lord Mayor and his retinue parading to the Merchant Adventurer’s Hall in all their pomp. Eyes to the political left and we will have the new Lord Mayor and his followers saluting in Piccadilly as
York will play host in July to a festival of ideas that aims to put the art back into innovation and technology. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. Marcus Romer is in love with ideas. He fizzes with them: his own and ones he has picked up on his travels
A BUSY weekend of action awaits York Cricket Club. The Clifton Parkers play two Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County premier division encounters tomorrow and Monday and, in between, travel to Driffield for the opening qualifying rounds of a Twenty20 competition
YORK-BASED Jonny Bairstow has called on his Yorkshire colleagues to show their battling qualities on the final day of their LV=County Championship contest against Somerset. This is after the Tykes lost three late wickets at Taunton to put themselves
York RI Monday/Wednesday ‘A’ kept control of the York Badminton League men’s division one title race with a 7-2 win at Clifton ‘A’. Mark Harris and Ollie Cohen were taken to a deciding end by Erik Wagenaars and George Noble before winning 21-23 21-16
PICKERING potter Paul Davison aims to crack the world’s top 64 snooker players as he begins the build up to a crucial new season. The 39-year-old, currently at a career-high 72 in the rankings, said his priority for the 2011/2 campaign was to try to
A REVENGE mission is looming large for York City Rowing Club ace Tom Ransley. The 25-year-old will be part of a Great Britain eight gunning for hosts Germany when the summer season of racing gets underway with the Munich World Cup this weekend. The
KICKBOXING plunder has been earned by eight York martial arts aces. Connor Bolton, in the 69 kilogram event, and Courtney Catterson, at 50kg, led the way with gold medals at the WAKO Judgement Day competition in Sheffield. Catterson has since been selected
RI Amateurs and Selby – the two teams who led the title race in 2010 – have emerged as leading contenders for the York Amateur Bowling Association Division One in 2011. But this year the roles are reversed as champions Selby trail Amateurs by six points
Cliffe FC’s presentation evening at the Fox and Pheasant, Hemingbrough, was dominated by their crowning as the York Minster Engineering Football League division three and reserve ‘D’ champions. Award-winners were: 1st XI: player of the year – Andy Addison
IF you see a horse of George Moore’s win first time out, you should take note. It’s likely his charge will be very able indeed. “We have always been of the mind that horses want to improve when they run,” says the Middleham handler about the way he goes
Gabrial, who created such a good impression when making a winning debut at Chester earlier this month, can fulfil that promise by bagging the feature race at Beverley tomorrow. On a day when northern race-goers also have the choice of a corresponding
Despite gale-force winds lashing the area good catches were still to be had and top of the angling pile was Graham Dawkins who topped the Saturday open at the Tollerton Ponds complex with an excellent 104lb 6oz. Drawn on Kingfisher peg 18, he worked
INVESTMENT group Brewin Dolphin Holdings in York has seen a sharp upward leap in its total managed funds. The amount entrusted in the York division, based at Apollo House in Eboracum Way, Heworth Green, has soared by about 7.8 per cent over the past
A THUG has been jailed for four years after he left a man scarred for life in a vicious pub attack in York. Dean Barrett, 21, punched victim Peter Rodgers twice then attacked him with a glass at The Lowther pub in Cumberland Street. Mr Rodgers was
A CONTROVERSIAL abattoir is to be built in a village near York despite opposition from Prime Minister David Cameron’s father in-law. Councillors yesterday gave the go-ahead for the slaughterhouse, which could process more than 9,500 animals
PRESENTERS on an East Yorkshire community radio station will today start an attempt to beat the world record for the longest time spent on air. Bill Horncastle and Dave Henderson hope to beat Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles’ current Guinness World Record of
A YOUNG design agency has completed the rebranding of the York Mansion House. The brief for United By Design in The Mount, York, was to modernise the logo for business use of the official residence of the Lord Mayor of York, Coun David Horton, and incorporate
LAW firm Dickinson Dees, which has a major office in York, has raised £40,168.82 for its charity of the year, Children’s Hospices UK. This follows a year of fundraising activity by staff at the firm, including the York office in Bishopthorpe Road. The
FRESH criticism has been levelled at Labour over key council roles, as it officially took political control in York. The party, which formally assumed command of City of York Council yesterday, has appointed its own councillors to chair three
Candlesticks, cigarette cases and trombones “float” in a new piece of artwork at St Mary’s Church, in York. More than a thousand items were flattened by a steamroller by artist Cornelia Parker to create the Thirty Pieces Of Silver installation
TROOPS from across Europe took part in a gruelling race across North Yorkshire as part of a training exercise set up by York soldiers. The 15-stage Race The Sun started at 4.30am yesterday, when 28 teams of men and women ran to and then canoed in
TWO men have appeared in court accused of being part of a two-week campaign of high value burglaries at houses in rural North Yorkshire. Noel Anthony Brown, 44, of Highfield Green in Sherburn-in-Elmet, and Andrew Milnes, 44, of Shakespeare Grange in
THE condition of a pensioner who was taken to hospital by helicopter after his car crashed into a lorry on a road outside York is now “critical”. The 82-year-old man, who has not yet been named, was driving a Ford Focus on the A1079 near Dunnington
MOUNTAINEER Gary Osguthorpe has climbed – and cycled – across Europe and America, from the Alps and Spain to Utah and Nevada. Now the 49-year-old from Strensall has been named as York’s Adventurer Of The Year in a competition organised by York’s new
PUPILS and parents across York have been urged to nominate their favourite teachers, in this year’s Community Pride Awards. This is the eighth time The Press has run the awards, in partnership with City of York Council and a host of local businesses
ROGER Llewellyn returns with a new Sherlock Holmes investigation in a wryly humorous tale of murder, mystery and the occult where the world’s greatest detective refuses to leave the stage. Arthur Conan Doyle has tired of his intolerably arrogant Sherlock
Masterchef finalist Sara Danesin Medio is taking part in a fundraising event in aid of the intensive care unit at York Hospital where she used to work. Sara will prepare a special dessert using Alphonso mango for the event at the Bengal Brasserie on
YORKSHIRE artist Douglas Gray is exhibiting figurative and landscape paintings at the Blake Gallery, Blake Street, York, until June 4. Born in Wetherby, Douglas lives in Scarborough, where he enjoys spectacular views from his studio across the South
A THUG who broke another man’s jaw outside a York nightclub remains at large more than three months on. Police are now urging the public to help them find their suspect and have released this CCTV image as part of their appeal. The attack on
ONE hundred guests donned their best frocks and ties to help boost the coffers of a primary school and playgroup. The May Ball was held in the grounds of Sutton-on-the-Forest Primary School grounds, and raised £3,000 for the cause. Local businesses
A POLICE sergeant from North Yorkshire has admitted falling asleep at the wheel and crashing into a parked car while on duty. Andrew David Farrar, 40, drove his police BMW into a parked car in Tadcaster while on a night shift on October 8, Scarborough
TOURISM bosses in York are celebrating a record breaking first year for the city’s new flagship tourist information centre. One year ago today, Visit York’s state-of-the-art information centre opened its doors at 1 Museum Street, replacing
A COUPLE whose cat escaped from a cattery while they were on holiday say they will continue to search for him and are appealing for help. Phil Walker and Clare Paradine, both 36, were in Spain when they heard their 14-year-old pet Monty had
A YORK woman has asked the public for help in finding the thugs who shot her cat. Lorena Healey, from Tang Hall, has been forced to take her three-year-old cat Calvin to the vets on two occasions after he was shot by an air rifle. The
DEVELOPERS who were thwarted in their plans for an old people’s home in a village near York are now aiming to build houses on the site. Bonnycroft LLP’s proposals for a 60-bedroom care facility in Strensall were blocked last year by City of York Council
THEY were blasted by rain, hail and wind – and one woman sank up to her neck in a bog – but it was worth it. Intrepid walkers who took on Yorkshire’s Three Peaks in a storm have raised almost £7,000 so far to help paralysed York mother Debbie
WHERE there’s a woolshop, there’s a way. Delighted tourists gawped and clapped as Katey Walker, with the help of a real shepherdess, Cluny Chapman, steered a small herd of sheep along Shambles in York. It was Katey’s way of celebrating
East Riding of Yorkshire Childminders are hosting a Fun Day in the grounds of Burton Agnes Hall, Burton Agnes, on Friday, June 10, from 10am. Families are being invited to take their children around the woodland/insect walk, play giant games in the
With a week off school and unpredictable weather on the horizon parents may be feeling worried about how to keep their children entertained this half-term. But an array of events are on offer in York, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire to keep
THE story of a forgotten battalion that played a crucial role in the First World War has been chronicled in a new book. The 11th Durham Light Infantry: In Their Own Names by Martin Bashforth tells the story of the pioneer battalion that provided
City Screen, York, presents an appropriately late-night celebration of Vincent Price at 11pm tonight to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of the King of Horror. The Picturehouse cinema will be showing William Castle’s cult thriller
Schoolchildren have been celebrating the work of a York professor who worked on the Muppet Show. The Patch-Work Composition Project honoured the work of Professor John Paynter – internationally renowned music educationalist and Professor Emeritus at
A FORMER Lord Mayor of York has hit out at the current holder of the civic role for criticising the cost of the ceremony which will usher her successor into office. The decision to stage the event to mark the appointment of the new Lord Mayor, Acomb
THE search is on for the best sausage in Yorkshire. As other counties have their own official sausages, tourism bosses Welcome to Yorkshire have launched region-wide sampling roadshows to help choose the official Yorkshire banger. A
STUDENTS in York are being given a task with a difference – to see if they could build a community stadium for the city with £15 million to play with. The team in charge of the project to deliver a new home for York City FC and York City Knights
TWO veteran fundraisers will make a landmark walk for Macmillan Cancer Support on Saturday. Huntington resident Andrew Fair, 51, and Kath Burton, who both work at Sainsbury’s Monks Cross store, will be marking the charity’s 100th year and Andrew’s
TRUANCY figures in York have remained at around the same level as last year, according to Government figures. Figures compiled for the autumn term 2010, show the percentage of unauthorised absence in York secondary schools dropped slightly from 1.35
A SUSPECTED burglar who allegedly bit a police officer after being chased from a house in Harrogate has been released on conditional bail. The man was arrested after running from the home in Bilton on Wednesday at about 10.30pm, when he was discovered
Textiles students have given up their Saturday mornings to produce a colourful banner for a project run by the Minster. The theme of Looking Back, Looking Up And Looking Forward was given to 20 Church of England schools across the region and 17 pupils
FLAUTIST Fiona McLaughlin is holding a recital to raise money for York Against Cancer at Castle Howard today. Fiona, of Raskelf, studied at the Maastricht Conservatorium in the Netherlands and the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden before returning
THE Archbishop of York is going green this weekend with an environmental event at the Minster. Dr John Sentamu will be launching the Big Environment Celebration at York Minster tomorrow at 10am. It has been organised by York Minster and
A complementary medicine centre in York has changed its name in a ceremony carried out by one of the city’s MPs. Hugh Bayley was at the York Clinic for Integrated Healthcare in Tadcaster Road, formerly called the York Clinic for Complementary Medicine
