DRAX Power has pushed for further support from Government after it published its Renewables Obligation (RO) Banding Review Consultation, which set out the proposed levels of support various renewable technologies would receive from the Government from
NESTLE has increased its growth forecasts after growing market share and volume sales in the first nine months of the year. Its confectionery business, which employs 1,800 people in York, grew market share slightly from 16 per cent at September
YORK City Knights’ forward pack for 2012 is virtually complete after the club confirmed the signings of James Houston and Jack Aldous – with boss Chris Thorman acclaiming the competition for places they now have up front. Houston, 28, has finally sealed
The nine jockeys banned for failing to pull up during a race that was declared void at Wetherby last Wednesday have failed in their appeal against ten-day suspensions. Sixteen-times champion Tony McCoy and leading riders Graham Lee, Paddy Brennan and
Fast bowler Moin Ashraf is determined to shed the tag of being a youngster through his performances in a Yorkshire shirt next season. The 19-year-old, recently called up to an England Performance Programme squad for their winter training camps, only
YORK’S status as a major centre for mixed martial arts will be enhanced by Cage Confrontation Four, writes Tony Kelly. The cage fighting event will get underway at the Cornlands Road home of the Energise Centre this Saturday night with a 13-bout card
Selby Warriors will hope this weekend off will help them get over their first loss of the division two campaign – 28-16 at Odsal Sedbergh. Selby missed a few first-team regulars and influential skipper Wayne Fennell that day and, although they started
FORMER world Thai-boxing champion Richard Cadden is to flex his muscles into a unique martial arts venture. The Acomb man, who went from ruling the world to setting up his own mind coaching business, is to open a gym bringing together mixed martial arts
SCOTT RHODES says it’s all to play for his York Acorn ARLC team as they look to top group ‘G’ of the interim National Conference League. The Blue and Golds lie second on points-difference behind Bradford Dudley Hill, who have a game in hand, and both
York Indoor Bowls Club’s Under-25s team were left stunned as they lost in the first round of EIBA double rinks competition. They engineered a good position thanks to a 26-15 lead after ten ends before Darlington countered. With three ends to play York
New Earswick ARLC travel to unbeaten Dewsbury Moor in the Pennine League championship needing to bounce back from last week’s 42-18 defeat at Ackworth. The two-week lay-off did not work in All Blacks’ favour as they were poor in defence, a point not
Current Yorkshire League division one champions York Indoor Bowls Club started their season with an emphatic 111-52 victory over neighbours New Earswick, picking up the maximum 18 points. Phil Emmerson’s team got off to a flier at Thanet Road leading
AFTER suffering a 13-shot deficit from the ‘away’ leg at North Cave, York IBC ‘B’ got themselves into a winning position in the Yorkshire Over-55s League division two. The home rinks of Bob Blackburn and Tony Thornton led 26-11 and 25-21 with
It says much for the high hopes entertained for Never Perfect that the North Yorkshire colt had an entry in Saturday’s Group 1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster – and it says plenty for his chances tomorrow, when he turns out on Town Moor 24 hours earlier
A NEW bank which has been set up to specialiase in small businesses has appointed a York-based broker. Shawbrook Bank launched earlier this week, with a mission statement to offer finance for businesses from £50,000 to £1 million. Now, Acorn Commercial
A RESEARCH agency based in York is recruiting after seeing an upsurge in demand. QA Research, based at St George’s Place, York, said it had weathered the storm since 2008 and organisations were investing once more in research. The business has won a
AN East Yorkshire garage is celebrating its 30th year in business by investing £50,000 in new technology. Michael Roe Motor Engineer, of Market Weighton, bought the equipment following a £500,000 investment in a purpose-built servicing and repair centre
French veterans who flew Halifax bombers from RAF Elvington during the war returned yesterday for an emotional visit. STEPHEN LEWIS joined them LUCIEN MALLIA stood next to the tail-end turret of a reconstructed Halifax bomber at Elvington and
IRISH storyteller and stand-up comic Tommy Tiernan has not forgotten his last visit to the Harrogate Comedy Festival. “I was put in the boot of a car at Leeds Bradford Airport, driven to Harrogate and told to tell jokes at gunpoint,” he says, “and then
A LETTER writer in this newspaper yesterday suggested that harnessing all the hot air produced by politicians could solve our energy problems. Funnily enough, a similar notion had already been warming up in my mind. So please let me introduce to you
A CHARITY trek in Peru to raise funds for research into heart disease was made all the more poignant by an unexpected family illness for two women from York. Hazel Smith, 36, of Tadcaster, and Deana Philpott, 36, of Copmanthorpe, who both work at Quantum
’VE just read that Jeremy Paxman has written a critique in the Radio Times saying that the education system doesn’t teach pupils about the British Empire. Surely this can’t be true? Not to teach about the Empire is totally wrong as it forms such
JAMES ALEXANDER claims I am misleading people by pointing out that Labour attempted to stop the construction of the new swimming pool in Heslington (Letters, October 15). He even goes as far as threatening to report me to the standards board if
THE Harvest Auction fundraiser for St Mary’s Priory Old Malton Restoration Fund, held at the Royal Oak, Old Malton, on October 12, was a great success, raising £4,317. This far exceeded any reasonable hopes. We would like to thank the dozens of parishioners
THE big six energy companies must be quaking in their boots now that our Government will be “watching them closely”. Unemployment reaches record levels; a minister throws constituents’ letters into park bins, another has a conflict of interest
THE proposed City of Sanctuary idea, while coming from the best of humanitarian intentions, has already polarised opinion and needs more rational thought. Would people come here if they knew there was a vociferous minority, already emailing racist
IN YOUR latest New Homes and Lettings guide, only five pages were devoted to new homes. There were only two adverts for sites in the City of York Council area and one was Hungate, started before the recession. York is in crisis, it’s a house-builder
A YORK woman whose great-grandfather fought in the Battle of the Somme is walking more 22 miles along the First World War battle lines for charity. Rochelle Sharpe, of Osbaldwick, will take part in the “Wenches In The Trenches” walk alongside other
YORK-based charity SNAPPY received two awards at the Duke of York’s Community Initiative annual awards ceremony. SNAPPY (Special Needs Activities and Play Provision for York) was awarded the Duke of York’s Community Initiative
DOCTORS in North Yorkshire who urged patients waiting for minor operations to go private are being investigated under data protection laws, it has been revealed. The inquiry into the activities of GPs at the Haxby Group Practice, north of York, will
MY WIFE and I recently went to the open day at York College and looking at the transport links I find it strange why there is no railway station serving the college, considering the railway runs behind Tesco at Tadcaster Road. With York going green
GOING on from Mr P Elskill and Andre Carr’s problems of using Hazel Court (Letters, October 5 and 11), I found an old petrol can with liquid swishing about inside. Taking it to Hazel Court, with other items on August 26, I was told that it could
I SHOULD like to thank the editor of The Press for printing my letter of October 14 complaining that our council officers were ignoring my emails. Within hours of its publication I had received a reply from a senior council employee. I waited a few
THERE are many anti-capitalist and anti-Government demonstrations going on all around the world right now. Sadly the majority of people cannot seem to understand or accept that we have been living in a fanciful totally unrealistic world since
A NEW chair of York professionals was appointed to the board at the organisation’s annual general meeting last night. Rachel Goddard, founder and managing director of York-based Intandem Communications Ltd, will take over the role from John Yeomans,
THE coal mine where a worker from Selby was killed in a roof fall last month is gradually “returning to normal” according to one mine union leader. Kellingley Colliery was thrown under the national spotlight after father-of-two Gerry Gibson, 49, was
A former police detective has been charged with murdering his partner. The body of Detective Constable Heather Cooper, 33, who was originally from Acomb, York, was found by police in Blackdown Woods near Lurgashall, West Sussex, on Sunday
ALDWARK Manor Golf & Spa Hotel near York has invested nearly £200,000 in the refurbishment of six of its bedrooms. The traditional period-style rooms have been made into ‘best in house’ suites in the 54-bedroom hotel, owned by Q-Hotels group. The six
A SUPERMARKET worker who needed a special chair at work because of her size is today celebrating – after she and her husband lost 15 stone between them. At her heaviest, Jane Bovingdon weighed 27 stone four pounds in February last year, wore
A YORKSHIRE pilot hanged himself following an air disaster in Ireland which claimed the life of a pilot from York. An inquest at West Yorkshire Coroner’s Court heard how Oliver Lee, of Bradford, was tormented by the belief that had he been
THE number of pupils skipping class in York remains low according to the latest Government figures. Figures released by the Department of Education (DfE) show that in the autumn and spring of 2010-11 attendance in both city primary and secondary schools
An elderly woman’s home has been targeted twice by vandals in North Yorkshire. Police say a brick was thrown through the door of the 72-year-old’s home in Hambleton Place, Thirsk, and left a petrol can outside the property in the early hours
THIEVES have stolen two distinctive and valuable cycles from a property near Tadcaster. North Yorkshire Police said the two bikes, together worth £3,500, were taken from a garage on Headwell Lane in Tadcaster. The incident took place between
THE mother of a cyclist who was severely injured in a collision with a York bus says he appears to be making an incredible recovery – thanks to “brilliant” hospital staff. Carol Beard said she feared her 26-year-old son, Kurt O’Sullivan, of
HOW DO you follow an unheard classic? After more than a decade on the indie fringes, Herman Dune released their masterpiece, Giant, in 2007. Few listened, and the band fell apart. Now rebuilt around original songwriter, singer and guitarist David-Ivar
A POLICE initiative has been stepped up to stem an expected rise in burglary during the darker winter evenings. North Yorkshire Police have dedicated a team of officers under Operation Haven, the force’s year-long burglary reduction campaign, to
AFTER months of waiting, the winners of our Community Pride Awards will finally be unveiled at a ceremony at York Racecourse tonight. The awards dinner, which is being held for the eighth year, will give all the finalists their richly deserved
A TEACHING assistant from North Yorkshire with cerebral palsy is pinning his hopes on paralympic glory. Joe McKechnie, 22, of Chasegarth Road in Easingwold, is currently working towards his goal of gaining a place in the England football squad for the
A PILOT who had to be rescued after he crashed his plane in a river in East Yorkshire in 2010 has died in a light aircraft crash in Switzerland. Sipan Osman, 29, from Leeds, and his 40-year-old passenger died at the scene of the crash in the canton
A MOTHER of two who runs a haulage company has been jailed for 18 months for helping her husband launder £477,000 in cash stolen from criminals. Derry Ellen Priestley, 48, led a life of luxury, enjoying holidays, fine dining, shopping sprees
AN HISTORIC clock that towers over the streets of York and has been dormant for more than a decade has been repaired. The clock on St Saviour’s Church, home to York Archaeological Trust’s DIG attraction, has finally started ticking again. Made by
SCHOOLchildren in York and North Yorkshire are being urged to take part in a charity Christmas poetry competition. Organised by the York branch of Cruse, the competition is open to schools in York and surrounding areas, including Selby, Malton, and
The trial into the murder of Mark Webb heard details of an exchange of text messages between him and his wife Susan Webb. 8.09am Mark Webb - I have a nice surprise for you later. 10.12am Susan Webb - Got plans later. Kerry (Munton) asked
A FATHER of five had his throat cut and was left to die after being confronted by his wife’s new lover, a murder trial heard. Mark Webb, 40, was attacked by Brian Cox in Acomb, York, after exchanging angry text messages with his estranged wife
