POLICE have tonight arrested a 24-year-old man who stood on the edge of a bridge over the A1 in North Yorkshire, forcing the route to be closed. The alarm was raised at about 7.30pm when the man was seen standing outside the bridge's barriers
YORK City beat hosts Quorn 3-1 in their latest pre-season friendly fixture. The Leicestershire side took an early lead but the Minstermen hit back to win with goals from Jamie Reed, Lanre Oyebanjo and Jason Walker. Meanwhile, striker George Purcell
YORK golfer Simon Dyson kept himself in contention for the 140th Open Championship in atrocious conditions at Royal St George's. The 33-year-old shot a two-over par 72 to finish day three at Sandwich in Kent in a tie for 20th place on two-over for
A GROUP of York’s top swimmers are hoping to make a splash at the National Championships next week. Eight swimmers from York City Baths Club have won through to the prestigious competition at Ponds Forge starting on Thursday. Swimmers from the club
Acomb and Dunnington will face each other in the final of the Quality Solicitors Burn and Company under-9 league play-off. The Acomb ranks accounted for Sheriff Hutton Bridge, while Dunnington saw off the challenge of York. The final will take place
A TON-UP medal haul was the result of a successful Annual Graded Viking Sprints Swimming Gala for host club Team Jorvik. The York club ran the event at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds, a competition which attracted 27 clubs and 350 swimmers
An imperious performance from Dunnington Cricket Club under-15s saw them secure a play-off berth in the Hirepoint Plant and Tool-hire zone ‘A’. Unbeaten half-centuries from Dan Andrew and Liam Hessay proved crucial to the Dunnington total of 190-4
Heworth ensured their place in the final of the Quality Solicitors Burn and Company under-11 cup by beating Woodhouse Grange. They were put into bat having lost the toss and despite losing three early wickets, solid contributions from Ryan Whitley with
Bowlers Tom Padmore (3-11) and Tom Spearman (2-3) were integral to York’s Under-13s victory over Malton and Old Malton despite a flurry of resistance from the losing side’s batting line-up. They stormed to a seven-wicket win, a feat which was
TOP gymnast Craig Heap brought a touch of the Olympics to All Saint’s RC School’s ‘School Games’ at Huntington Stadium. The 900-plus pupils involved in the games were given a pre-competition lift by the appearance of Heap, a former Olympian and Commonwealth
TOP duo Jonty Atkinson and Tom Loten beat fellow Pocklington School pupils Oscar Cavill and James Laudage to win the Northern Schools’ Boys’ Under-12s Tennis Championships. Atkinson and Loten, runners-up last year, were 10-4 winners in the final
A MAGNIFICENT seven is being celebrated by Poppleton Junior Football Club under-15s girls. The team have retained their City of York Girls’ League title and won the league cup, while also doing the league and cup double in the Wensleydale Nike Junior
FLAIR play and fair play brought plentiful rewards for Easingwold Football Club’s under-8s in their first full York Mitchell Sports League season. Easingwold Hawks started the season strongly with three wins and a draw in the first four games before
SIMON DYSON insisted his Open chances were far from finished despite seeing his challenge dented by a calamitous closing few holes at Royal St George’s. The Malton & Norton GC star led the Sandwich field outright following a sensational start to
STRIKER George Purcell has become the running man in a bid to prove to York City boss Gary Mills he can make the grade in the Blue Square Bet Premier. The former Braintree forward has been pounding the roads in the summer – running up to ten miles
I recently received the first edition of Your Voice – apparently this is City of York Council’s new means of telling us how good they are. Surprisingly, however, there is no mention of the Union Terrace car park sell-off debate (the overwhelming
I note with interest the recent “fall” in people claiming Jobseeker’s allowance (Fewer looking for work in York, July 14). However, the truth is different. Increasing numbers of over-50s are long-term unemployed through no fault of their own, but
ORGANISERS of this year's Great Yorkshire Show say the event has come close to breaking crowd records. The three-day agricultural event in Harrogate attracted 135,086 people, just 25 short of the attendance watermark set in 2006 when 135,111 people visited
WHAT a tragedy that former Rowntree factory buildings are up for sale. Whatever is Nestlé thinking of? Still, regularly, I hear people speaking of the care that they received as Rowntree employees and, while I’m glad that jobs are being provided for
I am getting really fed up of the Government saying Britain is in debt. If they all put their heads together, or even put a woman in charge to see why we are in debt, they would find the right answer. Which country helps other countries from disasters
I read with incredulity (The Press, June 28) that 200 council workers have the luxury of the private use of council vehicles to commute to and from work at a cost to the council taxpayers of £150,000 per annum. And that it seems is only the cost
ANNE Rylatt is correct with her letter (Rioter’s punishment does not fit the crime). This 20-year-old young man, Francis Fernie, studies politics and works consistently helping York’s more disadvantaged residents. Because of this he
ORGANISERS of this year's Great Yorkshire Show say the event has come close to breaking crowd records. The three-day agricultural event at Harrogate attracted 135,086 people, just 25 short of the attendance watermark set in 2006 when 135,111 people visited
WHILE all the debate about the phone hacking allegedly carried out by various News of the World journalists is ongoing, it appears that Scotland Yard have not spread their investigation wide enough. Scotland Yard have said that they are doing everything
I taught Frank Fernie (Letters, July 14) for several years when he was a student at Archbishop Holgate’s School. While he may not have been a gifted mathematician, he was a thoughtful, good-humoured and mild-mannered pupil. There can be no doubt
A real dampener AFTER enjoying the high of Glenn Hughes at the Grand Opera House a few weeks ago, I experienced a massive low last Friday (July 8) teatime. After alighting from a No 9 Monks Cross bus at about 6.30pm alongside The Stray, Malton
BORN and reared in Norton, Malton, and having lived longer than most, I can categorically say that the demise of Malton began with the building of the bypass. The biggest enemy that Malton has at the moment will prove to be those who wish to rid
For 20 years, York-based poet Jack Mapanje has been writing a book about his years as a political prisoner in a Malawi jail. Now it is finished. He spoke to STEPHEN LEWIS. SEPTEMBER 25, 1987. Friday. A day like any other for Jack Mapanje, head of English
David Botttomley (Letters, July 13) provides a helpful answer to Mrs Goodrick’s question about the role of a school’s learning resource manager. Mrs Goodrick has reached a venerable age, but if her health and mobility will permit, perhaps it could
I won’t take lectures on environmental issues from Godfrey Bloom. In his recent letter, Bloom tells us he sits on the environment committee in the European Parliament before regaling us with his understanding of climate change, which he denies
THE comparisons between Alan Ayckbourn and Anton Chekhov have been made so often, it was surely only a matter of time before the Scarborough knight adapted one of the Russian’s dark dramas. Prompted initially by a suggestion by York-raised director
I AM still smiling all these hours after Paloma Faith exited stage left – and not because she recovered so gamely from toppling over in her Naomi Campbell over-sized chunky, red high heels – the not-so-Broken Doll. Everyone had fallen for
The former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman loved churches – and Yorkshire has some of the best. STEPHEN LEWIS revels in an updated edition of the poet’s classic church guide. SIR John Betjeman, the former poet laureate, famously loved churches. He
In this week’s Tipping’s Tipples, MIKE TIPPING picks some wines which are top of the class. School’s out for summer soon. These days parents are often left scratching their head, as to what present to buy for their child’s teacher. I’m not sure
GAVIN AITCHISON decides to take it more slowly as he joins the pack of pub hunters. IT’S that time of year again. The pub hunters are out in force. If you’ve not spotted one already, you soon will. They’re in a whole raft of pubs in
JULIAN COLE makes easy walnut bread that goes well with cheese or cold meat. SOME recipes for walnut bread can be complicated and the results heavy. This one strips away most of the difficulties, and the result is lighter. The trick lies in the
Chartwell, the country home of Sir Winston Churchill, is only a mile or so from the Westerham Brewery, near Sevenoaks in Kent, set up in 2004 to revive brewing in the town after a gap of some 40 years. The bulldog spirit of Britain’s wartime Prime
GINA PARKINSON has the perfect plant for daisy lovers. As we travel into July, the flower beds are filling with tall, colourful perennials which will take them into August and some cases beyond. Anthemis tinctora is such a family of plants
FOUR men have been charged with a supermarket robbery which sparked an 80-mile police chase. Securicor staff were robbed as they filled a cash machine at a Tesco store in Consett, County Durham, on Thursday afternoon. They left the scene
George Wilkinson follows in the footsteps of saints as he takes in Lastingham on the North York Moors. Lastingham is just down the road from Hutton-le-Hole, but what a contrast with the honeypot village. Instead of ice cream we have, to quote
DRINGHOUSES ace Pat Smith and up-and-coming York City Knights starlet Jordan Rice have been praised by Rugby Football League chiefs following Great Britain Students’ historic series win down under. Half-back Smith, who goes to Hallam University and
YORK Acorn ARLC teenagers Eddie Clapham and Haiden Barber enjoyed decent debuts as York City Knights reserves beat Dewsbury reserves 36-22. The pair were drafted in due to illness to Dan Mole and the fact Luke Tomlinson, who recently turned 17, was
ADULT non-contact rugby league continues to blossom across York – bolstered by a big charity fundraising tournament featuring a posse of former internationals. Just as organisers are looking to create a new league of touch rugby to start in
TWO York lads have got another foot on the rugby league ladder after signing professional academy forms with Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. Flannan Naismith and Jack Anderson, both 16 and both former York City Knights scholarship players, have signed part-time
THIS week sees the end of an “odd” era at York City Knights, as one of the men who has been on the back-room staff for the past five years heads off for pastures new. Barrie Gargan, always a popular member of the boot room, is moving to Portsmouth and
LEE WESTWOOD’S stint as touring professional for The Flaxby Country Resort has ended – but chiefs at the development insist the parting is only temporary. The world number two golfer has been unveiled as the star signing at the £7.5 million Close
YORK City defender Daniel Parslow was presented with his Press Player of the Year award for 2010/11 before the pre-season friendly against Sunderland. Parslow starred during the campaign both at right-back and in the centre of defence and claimed the
Rich Pyrah has been forced to spend much of his county career in the shadow of his big mate Tim Bresnan, but now things are finally starting to change after an excellent first half of the summer. As Bresnan’s stock has risen courtesy of his starring
EAST YORKSHIRE rally driver Jonny Milner is celebrating after winning the title for the fastest car at Goodwood’s historic hill climb. Milner, from Huggate, had invested heavily in improving the performance of his nitrous fuelled 850 BHP Rotrex supercharged
EAST Yorkshire racer Guy Smith extended his lead in the American Le Mans Series with his first outright win of the season at Lime Rock Park. Beverley-born Smith added to his sixth and second place finishes from the opening two rounds with his first
FORMER York City striker Adam Boyes is set to be offered a contract at Blue Square Bet Premier rivals Barrow. Boyes was released by Boston at the end of last season after being shown the door at Scunthorpe but has impressed during a pre-season trial
THE annual Clifton Cycling Club road race saw an excellent day of racing across four different age group categories, with competitors battling a tricky circuit near North Newbald, writes Jake Farrell. The morning was reserved for veteran riders and
LITTLE JIMMY ODSOX, so named because he’s got three white legs and one bay one, can show his rivals a clean pair of heels at Redcar tomorrow on his handicap debut. Trained at Great Habton by Tim Easterby, the three-year-old failed to make it to a racecourse
A RYEDALE horse, who, four months ago did not even have a name, promises to make a very big name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic before the year is out. Red Duke, who hit the Group 2 jackpot for John Quinn at Newmarket last Saturday, has
WHAT’S in a name is a question that came to the fore this week, and I don’t just mean for the offspring of a certain footballer and his former pop star wife. What’s that all about? Harper Seven is the moniker attached to the Beckham’s first girl and
Updated: NEIGHBOURS fled their homes as a major fire gutted a York flat, blowing out windows and sending a huge plume of smoke into the air. Fire experts said the blaze started accidentally in a bedroom of a council property in Thorn Nook, off Malton
SIX members of a rogue-trader gang who preyed on vulnerable and elderly people in North Yorkshire have been jailed for a total of almost 25 years. The largest-ever investigation carried out by North Yorkshire County Council’s trading standards
BRAZEN thieves climbed on to wheelie bins then stole the sign from an East Yorkshire pub in broad daylight. They unscrewed a 12-foot sign from the archway to the Green Dragon pub in Beverley then made off with it in a white van.
POLICE have launched a new security marking system following a spate of 4x4 thefts in East Yorkshire. A total of 19 of the vehicles were targeted in the last six months. Now Humberside Police have joined up with Datatag to launch the new marking and
MISS York, Anastasia Smith, has won a series of morale-boosting successes as she prepares for next week’s Miss England final. Anastasia, 20, of Norton, near Malton, is the only one out of all 61 contestants to have been shortlisted in all of the individual
ONE of Britain’s most iconic locomotives will return to York next week. Mallard will be brought back to the National Railway Museum on Tuesday, hauled from Locomotion in Shildon. Mallard will be on the museum’s turntable from July 22, before taking
PARKING will remain free at council car parks in Tadcaster and Sherburn in Elmet, Selby District Council has announced. The council’s executive board passed a 20 per cent increase in parking charges at a meeting earlier this month, but the decision will
THREE brothers called Sherwood have won a national award for quite literally creating their own Sherwood forest in Selby. David, John and Kevin Sherwood, planted their own homage to Robin Hood and his merry men on their farmland in Thorpe Willoughby
THE future of York City Knights is under threat amidst uncertainty over the lease on Huntington Stadium. The Knights were told earlier this week that the lease on their ground had passed from Nuffield Health to Greenwich Leisure Limited.
A multimillionaire businessman who fell from a cliff above the River Wharfe near Boston Spa while riding his Segway scooter probably died due to an “act of courtesy” to a fellow dog walker, a coroner has said. An inquest in Leeds heard that
THIEVES have stolen cash cards from two people after distracting them while they used cashpoints in York. One man’s card was stolen by two other men after the thieves claimed they had lost their own. The stolen card was used later to withdraw a
THE Friends of York Walls group has been accepted as a full member of an international organisation. The Walled Towns Friendship Circle is dedicated to preserving, educating and promoting walled towns and cities around the world. The York group is
TWO thieves will have time on their hands for the next 12 weeks after they were caught cycling through Acomb in the early hours with a stone sundial. Police suspected something was wrong when they saw Richard Cook, 32, and John Melvyn Roy Medd, 43,
A 17-YEAR-OLD who sexually assaulted two women and attacked two men in a night of “mayhem and madness” has narrowly escaped a custodial sentence. The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual touching and two
YOUNG people are finally to get a long-awaited café and events centre in the heart of York after years of campaigning. The café, which will to function as an affordable meeting space and music venue for 13-to 19-year-olds, has been granted permission
BUS company First York has donated £1,000 to a local playgroup, after winning a national award. The firm’s depot in James Street was recently named best for safety in First’s national safety awards and won a £1,000 cheque for a charity of its choice
A ROW has blown up over prayers held before council meetings in Ryedale. Currently a vicar is brought in by the leader of the council, to lead a few minutes of prayer before the full council meeting starts. Now Liberal Democrat councillors
THE bravery of a young leukaemia patient and his family have been praised, as treatment for his condition continues. Freddie Hyde, from Clifton, York, was diagnosed with the potentially-fatal blood disease last year, and has undergone months of chemotherapy
A TOUCH of country life has been brought to the centre of York with the transformation of a city square into a giant lawn. Turf was laid across St Sampson’s Square earlier this week and will remain in place until tomorrow for the Tea On The Lawn event
RESIDENTS’ fears about snakes in York are to be raised with one of the city’s MPs. Osbaldwick councillor Mark Warters is to write to York Outer MP Julian Sturdy, asking him to help residents worried about snakes escaping from their neighbour’s home
ELDERLY residents in Selby have been urged to back a new scheme to help prevent fraudsters gaining access to their homes. Nominate a Neighbour, led by North Yorkshire Police, encourages residents to work together to protect vulnerable people, by helping
PUPILS at a York primary school have been enjoying the use of a selection of musical instruments bought in memory of a former head teacher. Herbert Glandfield Sherriff was head teacher at New Earswick Primary School from 1965-1986. Following his
A RALLYING team from York will be following in the footsteps of Michael Caine next week when they set off on a European road quest to support a North Yorkshire charity. Simon Morris, his father Ken, son Sam and brother-in-law Glen Midgley will be driving
A PARTY was held to thank the cast and crew of a major new television programme currently being filmed in York. The team behind Eternal Law attended an event organised by Visit York in partnership with the City of York Council, at Revolution Bar to
PASSENGERS have hit out at cuts and confusing changes to bus services in the Rawcliffe area of York. One bus user, Dee Boyle, claimed existing bus routes were being replaced by one so convoluted and confusing that she doubted anyone would be able to
