Beryl and Norman were married on July 3, 2011 at Hazlewood Castle. Photographers Our photographs were taken by David Golding Wedding Photography. David and Diana were absolutely fantastic. Very warm, very personal – they really helped to make
Richard Shields and Lynsey O’Donnell were married at Burn Hall. Photographer Paul Eddom of Visual Image Photographic Services, with Keith Meadley as second camera. How did you meet? We met at secondary school, but lost touch with each other
A WOMAN who was killed in a crash on a North Yorkshire road has been named. Debbie Elizabeth Tennant, 21, from Middlesbrough, died when the Ford Ka she was driving collided with a Kia Sorrento on the A19 between Northallerton and Thirsk at
YORK City manager Gary Mills hailed a “tremendous” display during last night’s 2-2 home draw against Darlington. But the Minstermen chief also told his side they must eliminate the errors that cost them maximum points. Jamie Reed gave City an early
YORK City Knights have spoken of their frustration following yet another delay in the saga surrounding the Crusaders’ application to join the Co-operative Championships. The Knights ended the season in the Championship drop zone but will be
IN RELATION to the proposed out-of-town development at Monks Cross (The Press, September 8), we want to explain our position further. We believe it is misleading to promote this proposal under the guise of the “Community Stadium”. At a time when all
AFTER reading that York Railway Station has received The Station Of The Year Award (The Press, September 17), for excelling in “providing a smooth, efficient and pleasant departure and arrival point for customers”, I look forward to seeing the wretched
I HAVE often read in The Press of offenders in York being finally put behind bars after months and sometimes years with strings of offences, terrorising their neighbourhood with unsociable behaviour such as GBH, theft and other criminal activities
I HAVE to agree with Mrs J Statham (The Press, September 2) regarding the number 11 bus service to Bishopthorpe via South Bank. The scheduled last bus from Stonebow is 10.45pm, but having stood from 10.25pm until 11.05pm on a recent Tuesday night
IN REFERENCE to your leading article on the council’s £211k bill for consultants (The Press, September 15), it is a shame the Liberal Democrats weren’t given the opportunity to defend this spend. The work of consultant Northgate Kendric Ash occurred
TRACEY SIMPSON-LAING exaggerates the alleged financial benefits of the Code for Sustainable Homes and does not understand the consequences (Letters, September 9). The schemes she extols are heavily subsidised with taxpayers’ money – this is not available
AFTER their first collaboration last year for Nobby Dimon’s reinvention of Lorca’s Spanish world as A Blood Wedding In Wensleydale, North Country Theatre reunites with Harrogate Theatre for The Rocking Horse Winner. Adapted and directed once more by
BUDDING young entrepreneurs from York have the chance to get on board a new initiative which is to stop off in the city. For the last three weeks, the StartUp Britain bus has been making its way around the country, visiting 14 key locations with the
YORK Economic Partnership (YEP) is working with City of York Council to make York a more international city. The partnership of public and private-sector members will help the council to develop a strategy, with York Professionals conducting an audit
Landscape photographer Joe Cornish and artist Kane Cunningham command national and international interest. Their new exhibition opening next week promises to reinstate the significance of the landscape. Jo Hughes reports. JOE CORNISH and Kane Cunningham
THESE students at Easingwold School were among those who took part in the recent prize giving evening. The guest of honour at the ceremony this year was Kenyan-born Valentine Nkoyo, who spoke warmly of the time she had spent in York. She said: “Culturally
A NEW book swap scheme has been launched at Burton Green Primary School in York. Children are able to bring in any books from home that they have already read and on Wednesday lunchtimes other children can buy them for 10p each. The first book swap
TWO York firms have joined forces to launch an accountancy service for dentists. Financial services firm Practice Financial Management Ltd (PFM) and Chartered Accountants Townends have created joint venture PFM Townends LLP to combine the two firms’
A HAIR and beauty business in Harrogate is celebrating as it has almost doubled its staff and moved into premises three times as big. Halo Hair and Beauty, owned by Joseph Ferraro and Chris Burton, has been based in Cheltenham Mount, Harrogate, for the
JASON Walker’s 20-yard wonderstrike earned York City a share of the spoils in an entertaining 2-2 home draw against Darlington. The Minstermen deserved to take all three points in the Bootham Crescent encounter but the visitors converted their
THE York Schoolboys Under-12s football squad has been finalised ahead of the 2011/12 season. The squad will meet at York College on Saturday at 9.20am for a squad photo. Squad members are advised to take their boots and parents have been asked to use
LEEDS United were dumped out of the Carling Cup after a 3-0 home defeat by Manchester United. Michael Owen marked his first start of the season with a first-half double as the visitors made light of a traditionally hostile environment at Elland Road
MANY of Britain’s top rally drivers are in action when the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire returns to Ryedale for the 35th staging this weekend. And The Press is promoting a competition for the rally organisers to offer lucky readers the chance to
SACKED Selby Town boss Leon Sewell said he feels like he has been “kicked in the teeth” after the Northern Counties East League strugglers fired him after just 13 weeks in charge. Sewell claims he was not “given a chance” by chiefs at the Flaxley Road
EAST Yorkshire’s Guy Smith has won the 2011 American Le Mans Series title after finishing second at Laguna Seca in California. The Beverley ace and American co-drivers Chris Dyson and Jay Cochran brought their G-Oil/ ModSpace/Construct Corps Lola-Coupe
CLIFTON ALLIANCE II batsman James Postill has been handed a two-year ban and his club relegated to division two of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League after he admitted striking an opponent with a bat. The incident, which took place during
SEAN LEVEY, who has enjoyed a tremendous run since switching from North Yorkshire to Wiltshire in July, can provide yet another reminder of his talents at Newmarket tomorrow. The apprentice rider, who spent six years with top trainer Aidan O’Brien in
THE Think, Don’t Swim campaign aims to raise awareness of the dangers of the rivers, initially through a poster blitz of York’s pubs, clubs and shops, and also the city’s two universities as freshers arrive. In agreement with the mother and sister of
YORK’S rivers are potential death traps – that is the stark message from the emergency services as The Press today launches a campaign to tackle the dangers. Our Think, Don’t Swim campaign aims to raise awareness of the risks that the Ouse
THE moment will be forever imprinted on Vicki Horrocks’ mind: 11am on July 24, 2011. It was the first day of a holiday in Corsica with friends and her husband, David. But it saw her receive the phone call which meant her life would never be complete
NEW ways could be tried to bring empty homes and vacant space above businesses in York back into use. City of York Council’s cabinet member for health, housing and adult social services, Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, will next week decide whether to approve
WITNESSES are being sought after a silver Vauxhall Corsa and a blue-and-black moped collided at the junction of Market Place and Holme Road in Market Weighton, at about 5.40pm last Friday. The moped rider suffered a broken wrist but the driver of the
MOTORISTS in Selby are set to face six months of disruption, as essential roadworks are carried out on the town’s bypass. Repairs to the A63 Selby bypass will take place from early October, with lengths of the road being closed to traffic. North Yorkshire
MORE than 80 former employees of Sherburn-based Averys, the weighing machine company, yesterday attended the first every reunion since the factory closed nearly 30 years ago. Workers, both male and female, from all over the Selby area turned up to
A REPORT due before the Scrutiny Committee of Selby District Council this week, shows the number of emergency calls answered within ten seconds has failed to meet the target set by North Yorkshire Police. Only 77.4 per cent of calls to 999 in July were
A STREET entertainer who performs as a Star Wars Stormtrooper claims he was abused and kicked by a gang of youths in York. Police were called to Coney Street on Saturday afternoon after reports of an argument between Simon Watson and a group
A STUNNING show of period costumes is coming to York. The work of students who have taken a four-month training course at the York-based Northern College of Costume will go on display at the college at Market Street on Friday, from 2pm to 8pm, and
THE former Borders store in Davygate, York, will get a new lease of life when it reopens as Cult on September 30. It is the 67th store opened in the UK by SuperGroup, and will employ 25 people. Julian Dunkerton, SuperGroup’s founding partner and
DOZENS of volunteers are to be trained in York to help the city cope with heavy snow. About 50 people have signed up for the city council’s “snow warden” scheme, and training will begin this weekend. Volunteers will help keep cul-de-sacs and minor side
HIGHWAYS chiefs are helping to investigate the accident at a York roundabout in which a lorry overturned, crushing a car. Several motorists contacted The Press yesterday to call for a redesign of the A64 Hopgrove roundabout, where a mother and daughter
RESIDENTS in the Selby area have been asked to look out for a green Ford Maverick vehicle, registration number R722OAJ, which has been seen around the Hillam and Gateforth parts of the district. Anyone who has seen the vehicle should phone North Yorkshire
A FIRE destroyed eight tonnes of corn in an agricultural drying machine on a North Yorkshire farm. Fire crews from Thirsk and Northallerton were called to Kirby Knowle shortly before 4.30pm yesterday.
A YORK pub will stage a charity fun day this weekend in aid of an organisation which helps the families of wounded soldiers. SSAFA Forces Help provides accommodation for relatives of injured servicemen and women while they are visiting their loved
POLICE are trying to trace a driver who failed to stop after his car was involved in a crash on an East Yorkshire road. A white Mazda estate was approaching the roundabout between the A614 and the A1079, near Beverley, at 3.45pm on Sunday when another
OUTDOOR clothing specialist Jack Wolfskin has opened a new 115 sq m store in Lendal, York. The store, which is only the second to open outside London and the fifth nationwide, will employ four people. The company, which is one of the largest franchise
BUSINESS leaders in North Yorkshire are seeking people’s views on potential out-of-town developments in York. Plans for a new retail park, which would include a huge new Marks & Spencer store and also see a community stadium for York City FC and York
Updated: A VICTIM of an “obscene” poison pen campaign says the author of a series of letters to residents in Acomb “is not going to win”. Over the past eight months, nine residents in Foxwood have received disturbing, sexually explicit letters referring
DETAILS of how £67 million in grants was spent on creating new homes in York and North Yorkshire have been revealed. According to the Local Government North Yorkshire and York Housing Board, £67 million has been spent on creating 1,800 affordable homes
POLICE have appealed for information after an assault outside an East Yorkshire nightclub. An 18-year-old man was involved in an argument with another man outside Hooters, in Market Place, Driffield, between 12.55am and 1am, on Sunday, September 11.
BUS passengers are being reminded of the new 112 bus route which operates on Sundays from Bishopthorpe to York city centre, Skelton, Clifton Moor, Haxby and Monks Cross. As part of recent service changes to local bus routes, the former Sunday services
RAIL passengers using the East Coast Main Line have named York as their top travel destination. Customers using rail operator East Coast’s services were asked to choose their favourite spots across six categories, with York heading the list in three
A YORK man jailed last year for drugs offences has been ordered to repay £5,000. Darren Sholl, 41, was jailed in November 2010 for 12 months, after admitting possessing a bodybuilding drug with intent to supply it to others, possessing cannabis and
COMEDIAN Bill Bailey has added a second night in York to his autumn itinerary and now will appear at both the Barbican and Grand Opera House. The Barbican was unable to accommodate the additional date when Bailey expanded his Dandelion Mind tour,
NESTLÉ has hit back over claims that Rowntree Fruit Gums can help people meet the Government’s healthy eating targets. According to a national newspaper, the York confectionery giant suggested to a customer that eating 195 gums was equal to
THE funeral is today being held of a former supermarket worker who became the face of Asda during a national advertising campaign. Colin Jones, of Stamford Bridge, became a well-known face in 2000, when he was chosen to be in the supermarket’s TV advert
YORK’S new £32 million council HQ could be fitted with panels designed to make the building greener. Developers working on transforming West Offices in Station Rise, which was once the city’s first railway station, have drawn up proposals to install
A YORK-BASED rail operator has unveiled two films charting speeded-up journeys along the country. Grand Central, made the films entitled “Grand Central’s 2,660mph train”, in homage to 1953 BBC footage showing the speeded-up journey from London
A YORK man celebrated his 50th birthday by completing the Great North Run to raise money for poverty-hit communities in Africa. Richard Vis said he was optimistic he would reach his target to raise £1,000 for the Catholic aid agency CAFOD. Mr Vis, a
RESIDENTS of a York street which suffers flooding, sometimes with sewage, have appealed for action to address the issue. Heavy rain in last Friday’s storm backed up the drains and flooded gardens of 11 properties in Carr Lane, Acomb – something
THE father of a North Yorkshire CJD victim has accused the Government of complacency over the disease, after research showed more than one in 1,000 people may be carrying it. Holly Mills, 25, of Thornton-le-Dale, near Pickering, has survived for eight
CURIOUS onlookers were surprised to see two sheep spending the day in York city centre. The sheep were a feature at the National Farmer’s Union stand in St Sampson’s Square and were brought by farmer and NFU member Rosie Dunn as part of the York Festival
A MAJOR auction of promises will be staged tomorrow night at York’s Guildhall as part of a joint venture between two city festivals. The York Festival of Food & Drink and the York 50+Festival are behind the plans for a candlelit three-course dinner
A CONTRACTOR is offering a £2,000 reward to help catch thieves who stole more than £33,000-worth of equipment from a disused mine near Selby. Between 1pm on Saturday, September 17 and 6.30am on Monday, thieves entered Wistow Mine, which is currently
PLANS for a new sports club in a Ryedale village could be approved next week, only four months after they were withdrawn. Sherburn Parish Council has applied for permission to build the sports and social facility, together with a 24-space car park,
HUNDREDS of bikers from East Yorkshire are expected to take part in a convoy to protest against new European Union regulations this week. The ride will take place on Sunday, and is planned to coincide with 70 more similar events which are due to take
DINERS at an Indian restaurant helped raise money for the intensive care unit at York Hospital as part of a special fundraising night. Masterchef finalist Sara Danesin Medio, who used to work in the intensive care unit, took part in the event at the
Updated: A man has died after a head-on crash between a lorry and a car on York's outer ring road. The accident happened at 8.15pm on Tuesday on the A1237, between the B1224 and Moor Lane roundabout, and involved a blue Vauxhall Signum heading
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