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  • Your Move in York office move

    ESTATE agent Your Move has moved into part of the former National House Building Council’s regional offices at Clifton Moor. Your Move has taken about 3,000 sq ft in the two storey office property for its 30 employees, which will provide central support

  • Shepherd to create jobs after winning Drax contract

    LOCAL jobs will be created after Drax Power awarded the contract for its biomass-related construction works to the York-based Shepherd Group. Last month, Drax confirmed its plans to invest £50 million during 2012 in new biomass storage and

  • Body found in River Ouse is identified as missing Jordan

    THE body found in the River Ouse yesterday is that of missing York teenager Jordan Sullivan, police have confirmed. The discovery was made by an engineer moving a boat in the river at Naburn Marina at about 2pm yesterday, near to where 19-year-old

  • So is this really a special thing?

    YOU may have missed it, but on Tuesday the Washington Post carried an article under a joint byline. Seeing the names at the top, my mind wandered to an imagined tussle in the newspaper’s office over who should receive top billing. “This is a big one

  • New homes: The Laurel development at Strensall

    A new Daniel Gath development at Strensall provides a superb mix of stylish light and bright modern homes, says Brian Page. “THAT,” says Daniel Gath, pointing to a pile of rubble and debris, “used to be a detached bungalow.” Hard to imagine, now

  • Single-storey living isn’t just for the old folks

    Brian Page discovers that single-storey living, while handy for those with dodgy knees, is not just for old folk… as highlighted by this round-up of bungalows to rent. GETTING older, one of my drinking pals opined this week, has not got a lot

  • Pupils on a roll as they solve counting problem

    Youngsters turning their hands to a bit of technological problem-solving at the National Railway Museum impress STEPHEN LEWIS. ON a work desk at the far end of the National Railway Museum’s Station Hall, four schoolboys are clustered around

  • Bakeware company celebrates centenary

    A NORTH Yorkshire manufacturer of bakeware equipment is celebrating 100 years of manufacturing. Invicta Bakeware, which now operates from custom-built premises in Pickering, began life in 1912 as the Invicta Sheet Metal Company of Leeds. It moved

  • Hard to pin down who is responsible at Knavesmire

    CONCERNING the article on the death of Ruby Milnes (The Press, March 7) for which the race course is being taken to court for health and safety issues, it seems this tragic death is the result of a lack of co-ordination between the many organisations

  • Hit the multinationals

    When the Budget is announced next week, we will all be asked to make sacrifices in order to deal with our economic problems. At the same time many multinational companies continue to avoid billions in taxes every year. The Government talks

  • Consultants too costly

    WHEN will council officials stop hiding behind the advice of expensive outside consultants (The Press, March 12)? They are admitting they are not up to doing the jobs they are handsomely paid to do. Statements such as, “We need to supplement

  • This is a tipping point

    A NOTICE has appeared outside the Beckfield Lane waste facility. It tells us where else to take most small items, from Morrisons to Tesco. This is doubtless meant to be helpful, but most people know about the bins in those places. It misses

  • York’s fall anguish for Abergavenny at Cheltenham Festival

    NORTH Yorkshire trainer Brian Ellison was “devastated” after Abergavenny had to be put down following a fall in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. The five-year-old is believed to have suffered a broken elbow after crashing out at the

  • Training rap rules out Knights Player of Month Rhys

    YORK City Knights are reeling from a new injury blow after Rhys Clarke was ruled out for a few weeks with a shoulder injury suffered in training, while front-line hooker Jack Lee is also now a doubt for Sunday’s clash with Halifax. The Knights had a

  • Export advice for businesses

    YORK professionals will find out more about exporting at an event on March 21. The event, called Exporting Your Services & Importing Money, will be held at York St John University from 5.45pm. Colin Russell, professional services expert at the UKTI

  • Saville’s are preferred supplier again

    SAVILLE Audio Visual has been appointed as a preferred supplier to the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium. The new three-year agreement for audio-visual equipment and installation services gives the York-based company preferred supplier

  • My pension difficulties

    YOU reported in The Press on the March 9 about, “Record results for Aviva Life and Pensions.” It may be good for Aviva to expect to receive an extra £6 billion of new money, but you try and get your money out of them. I turned 65 at the end of

  • NHS dentistry doubts

    ON THE front page of The Press of March 13 was an article promising 14,500 new NHS dentist places. I read this in amazement as just the previous day I had been informed that the practice where my 12-year-old daughter is receiving treatment can no

  • Drop NHS Bill now

    CAN anyone tell me why the NHS Bill is still going ahead? David Cameron said he would carry out no top-down reorganisation of the NHS, and yet this is just that. Implementing it will cost billions at a time when the Government is supposed to be saving

  • Whatever happened to the letter ‘T’?

    I WAS recently listening to the local weather forecast and was struck by the clarity of the presenter’s voice. In particular, she pronounced all her Ts. Has anyone else noticed the way the letter ‘T’ has gradually fallen into disuse in recent years

  • Just allow for one child

    WHAT is all the fuss going on between our political parties over child allowance? The Conservatives are saying one thing, the Lib-Dems another, while Labour is saying something else. Surely people who have children want them, so isn’t it enough

  • Here to help parents

    THIS Mother’s Day, mums across Selby will be showered with love and spoilt rotten. But many mums – particularly those with very young children – often feel isolated and lonely. NCT, the UK’s largest charity for parents, is here to celebrate and

  • Our budget fears

    LABOUR councillors Sandy Fraser and Joe Riches (Letters, March 5) misunderstand the fact that although we did not change more of their budget we agreed with it. This is not the case – to quote the old saying, “We would not be starting from here”,

  • Bears hope to growl in Pennine League cup semi-final

    Underdogs Sherburn Bears will be gunning for final glee as they go to Farnley Eagles in the semi-finals of the Pennine League’s Supplementary Cup (2pm). Farnley are sitting third in division five, with Sherburn third in division six, but the Bears

  • Bishopthorpe Tennis Club prepare for new season

    BISHOPTHORPE Tennis Club step up their preparations for the 2012 campaign when practice sessions start on Saturday. The club will field two men’s teams, three women’s sides and four mixed teams this season and officials are appealing for new players

  • Success for York martial arts club

    MARTIAL arts have never been as potent in York. Tip-top gyms have sprung up and titles, trophies and tournaments have been amassed. Among the vanguard of the clubs in York is the Multi Masters Academy, which was opened 20 months ago in Layerthorpe by

  • York coach's hand in world kickboxing success

    BRITISH coach Daz Catterson has had a hand in world domination. The York Multi Masters Academy stalwart, far left, who is also the WAKO GB senior coach, helped to train Monica Marowska, centre, to her triumph as the current full contact world champion

  • Dunnington win Squash League premier division

    DUNNINGTON have won the Yorkshire Squash League premier division title with a match to spare. The York team have won all 17 of their games so far, with recent fixtures bringing wins over Barnsley (3-2), Hallamshire (3-2), Chapel Allerton (4-1) and

  • Snooker: Heworth hammer hat-trick hopes

    Bootham have dominated the York Conservative Clubs’ Ted Plant Snooker Pairs competition since it started in the 1989/90 season – but they were denied in this year’s final by Heworth. Bootham, with 11 successes to their name, were targeting a hat-trick

  • Federation glory for York boxers

    A TRIO of York fighters are celebrating European Boxing Federation victories. Middleweight debutant Stewart Philips, 24, of Huntington, used his ring craft to take a points decision against Carlisle’s Micky Nolan at a packed Oceana club in Leeds.

  • Bowls: New Earswick's unbowed run comes to an end in Cave

    New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club’s three-match unbeaten run came to a halt when they were surprisingly beaten 68-65 by second from bottom North Cave Yellow in the Yorkshire Over-55s League second division. The away rinks did the business with

  • Bowls: Challenge Cup final is incentive for York

    York Indoor Bowls Club ‘A’ complete their Yorkshire Over-55s League division one season tomorrow. In a campaign lacking consistency, they will hope to beat Scarborough to take third place and qualify for the end of season Challenge Cup. The game starts

  • Terry’s site ‘sell-off’

    YORK developer Grantside may sell a significant part of the former Terry’s chocolate factory site, where hundreds of homes are planned. The firm, based at Holgate Park, bought the Terry’s site in 2006 for £26 million, since when it has been

  • Teenager beats devastating virus to shine in martial arts

    BATTLING teenager Alfie Barlow is a beacon of defiance who is sparkling in the full-on world of martial arts. The youngster is due to be awarded his orange belt in kick-boxing at York’s Multi Masters Academy tonight as he steps up training sessions towards

  • Tobacco legislation reminder

    HEALTH bosses in York have teamed up with councillors to remind supermarkets and large retail outlets that tobacco products must be removed from view next month. City of York Council and NHS North Yorkshire and York PCT said the government

  • Community Pride Award winners to meet The Queen

    WINNERS of The Press Community Pride Awards have been invited to lunch with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Mansion House, it has been revealed. The Community Pride Awards are run in partnership with City of York Council and the

  • Plea after attack on man in Scarborough

    POLICE are appealing for information after a man was left with facial and head injuries in an assault in Scarborough. Officers say they are unsure exactly where the attack happened but the victim sought help at a petrol station in Seamer Road, near Falsgrave

  • York students in university protest day

    STUDENTS in York took part in a national day of action in protest at the Government’s higher education plans, including a walkout at a university campus in York. The National Union of Students (NUS) said some students in the city boycotted lectures

  • Jobless rates stable but ‘young hit hard’

    UNEMPLOYMENT in York rose slightly for the fourth month running in February — but the jobless figure is still only marginally worse than a year ago. Latest statistics show 3,682 people in the city claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance last month, or 2.7 per

  • Number of Selby councillors looks set to be cut

    A REDUCTION in the number of Selby councillors has moved a step closer. Selby District Council asked last summer for the reduction in the overall number of its councillors as a way to cutting long-term costs. The case has now been referred to the

  • Cheltenham safety rules deemed okay

    A NORTH Yorkshire photographer caught up in a near-disaster at the Cheltenham Festival believes the incident should not lead to a change in safety regulations at racecourses. Alec Russell, from Norton, watched from close range as Wishfull Thinking,

  • Len Cruddas returns as chamber chief executive

    LEEDS York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce has made Len Cruddas interim chief executive, following the resignation of Gary Williamson. Mr Cruddas previously ran the York and North Yorkshire Chamber for six years, up to the merger with Leeds Chamber

  • Nicky Henderson crowned the King of the Cheltenham Festival

    NICKY Henderson was crowned the King of the Cheltenham Festival after a fabulous four-timer on day two of the meeting. The Lambourn handler scooped a championship race double when Bobs Worth won the RSA Chase and Finian’s Rainbow claimed a dramatic sportingbet.com

  • Cheltenham Festival: Big Buck’s to rush fourth and cash in

    The remarkable Big Buck’s, whose winning sequence spans 15 wins, is set to raise the roof from the Cheltenham grandstand this afternoon if he can win the Ladbrokes World Hurdle for a fourth successive year. Trained by Paul Nicholls and the regular mount

  • Three-legged feline absconds from new home

    HE was given a new home in York after being found abandoned outside a cat rescue centre. But now Furby, a three-legged cat, has gone missing after sneaking out of his new owner’s home in Almsford Road, Acomb. Dawn Raimes said she contacted the Black

  • Costcutter brings kwiksave brand back to high streets

    KWIKSAVE convenience stores are to return to the high street next month after Costcutter Supermarkets Group has relaunched the brand. The York-based supermarket group bought the rights to the name after Kwiksave went out of business in 2007 and has

  • Students launch classroom-built rockets at Elvington Airfield

    IT WAS all eyes to the skies at Elvington Airfield when school pupils brought their classroom-built rockets to see who could go beyond the clouds. The event yesterday was part of the national United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge (UKAYRoC

  • North Yorkshire accountants merge

    A SCARBOROUGH chartered accountant with offices in Malton and Helmsley is to merge with another firm in the seaside town. Ashby Berry & Co will join forces with Coulsons to create one of the biggest independently-owned practices in the Scarborough

  • £10,000 is raised for homeless

    YORK train operator East Coast has raised £10,000 for homeless young people. The company is thanking thousands of passengers who helped it raise the money in just one day for the Railway Children, an international children’s charity which rescues homeless

  • Dramatic weekend looms for talented pupils

    HUNDREDS of talented youngsters are set to put their skills to the test as part of the York Schools Drama Festival on Saturday. The stage is set for 300 young performers to showcase their creative talent at the University of York to a sell-out audience

  • Social worker struck off over computer porn

    A SOCIAL worker and naturist leader from North Yorkshire was caught with sickening images of child abuse on his work computer, a hearing was told. Drugs counsellor John Wymark-Hoar, 64, of Victoria Road, Malton, downloaded “disturbing” photos, cartoons

  • Ex-Royal Marine spared jail because of work with charity

    A FORMER Royal Marine who assaulted a man in his own home over an argument about a mobile phone has avoided a prison sentence. Oliver Matthew Chard, of High Trees Court, Sherburn-In-Elmet, appeared at York Crown Court to face a charge of actual bodily

  • Pressure is on for York residents’ salty diet

    ADULTS in York are risking high blood pressure by consuming more than 500 million grammes of salt every year – the equivalent in weight of 119 African elephants. According to UK charity the Blood Pressure Association, York is getting through 511,657,000

  • Politicians clash over rise in York council tax

    A WAR of words is escalating between a Government Minister and York’s council leader over the authority’s decision not to freeze council tax. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles suggested in the Commons that City of York Council was “going to find itself

  • Recycling collection success in East Yorkshire

    NEW recycling waste collections in East Yorkshire have led to a large fall in the amount of waste being sent to landfill. It has also prompted a sharp rise in emails to East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s informal service for recycling queries

  • March 15

    100 years ago The boating season would soon commence, and there was no pleasanter row down the river than that in the direction of Bishopthorpe. There was the view of the fine old palace, and the village itself, with its tall row of

  • Service to mark those who died in York Blitz

    A SERVICE will be held in a city-centre church next month to commemorate the 70th anniversary of York’s blitz, in which 72 residents were killed and the church was destroyed. St Martin-le-Grand in Coney Street was one of about 9,500 York properties which

  • Takeaway staff dumped waste bags in car park

    A TAKEAWAY owner whose staff dumped food and other waste in a York car park has been fined for fly tipping. Mehmet Ali Altun appeared before York magistrates after members of the public complained to City of York Council about bags of rubbish

  • ‘Never Forget’ tribute to Louby

    A SPECIAL tribute concert inspired by a Ryedale teenager is being held at Norton College next month. Never Forget will include performances by friends of Laura Robertson-Tierney, 18. They will sing songs that were special to her, as well as numbers

  • Jubilee plantings give schools right royal spruce-up

    A HUGE tree-planting operation swung into action at two East Yorkshire schools after they were given 120 saplings to spruce up their grounds. St Mary and St Joseph RC Primary School and neighbouring Pocklington Infants each received 60 young trees after

  • Young dancers primed for lift off

    PROFESSIONAL dancers delivered a workshop to youngsters ahead of their starring performance in York. Members from BalletBoyz worked with young dancers aged 12 to 16 at York Dance Works ahead of their show, The Talent, which was performed at