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LOCAL magician Craig Stephenson will perform in York next week - and The Press has two tickets to give away. He is performing in the Basement at City Screen Cinema on May 31, and one lucky winner will receive two tickets, to be collected on
A MAN ran into a moving car in York then headbutted its driver, police have said. The offender struck in Thanet Road in what police say was a “pointless and unprovoked attack”. The victim, a 39-year-old local man, was driving towards St Helens Bridge
TWO young boys indecently exposed themselves to a woman in York, in what police have called “a shocking and outrageous incident”. A 20-year-old woman was walking along a path from Heslington Road, behind the Retreat, at about 5.40pm on Sunday
ABOUT £1,000 has been stolen from a village pub, just weeks after it reopened. The Oddfellows Arms in Wilberfoss, formerlly The Village Inn, was broken into in the early hours of today, and cash was stolen from the pool table, quiz machine and fruit
IT is said, writes Alan Whitworth, that North Yorkshire’s coastline truly begins at Staithes and finishes just short of Flamborough Head. And what a coastline it is – high cliffs, bays, and beaches; headlands, stacks and sea-caves
Racked by anxiety and worry about personal problems, actress Claire King increasingly found sleep impossible and in desperation eventually turned to sleeping pills to help solve her problem. The former Emmerdale star is one of an increasing number
HOW would you like to help someone give up smoking, lose a few extra pounds or get out and do a bit of exercise? If we haven’t done it ourselves then we almost certainly have a friend who has declared they are finally going to do something about the
MATT CLARK spends time in one of North Yorkshire’s most fascinating towns, a place of hills and history. KNARESBOROUGH is gearing up for one of England’s most wonderfully eccentric charity events on June 9 when teams of fancy dressed runners take part
JUBILANT manager Gary Mills hailed the best hat-trick in York City’s 90-year history after watching his side clinch promotion to the Football League. The Minstermen ended eight years of non-League football after goals from Ashley Chambers and
YORK City chairman Jason McGill can’t believe that all his dreams have come true. “Even I didn’t envisage that we would get the treble of the FA Trophy, the stadium and promotion in the biggest eight days in the history of York City Football
IN the first week of the York Cycle Challenge, employees in the city have made 2,200 trips and burned more than 380,000 calories. Top of the league of businesses participating in the challenge at the end of the first week was the NHS North Yorkshire
COLES solicitors, which has offices in Northallerton, Thirsk and York, has been awarded the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) mark by The Law Society. The benchmark was awarded after Coles staff underwent a lengthy process of checks and refinements to
TO GO or not to go – that is the question. So what d’you do if you’re bursting for a pee and there’s not a loo in sight? Do you nip behind the nearest hedge and whip down your knickers or whip down your flies? Or d’you cross your legs (bit difficult
A TROPHY business is following the trend for vintage, launching a new range of old trophies for collectors. LRB Trophies, based in Selby, is also entering The Press Business Awards, in the hope to be recognised as Small Business Of The Year and Family
YORK shopfitting business Simpson (York) has increased turnover by about £13 million in a strong set of results. The business, based in Dunnington, recorded turnover of £73.5 million, up from £59.7 million in 2010. Pre-tax profit increased from £871,478
ACCORDING to a recent report, 40.9 per cent of York’s working age population is educated to degree level or above. This compares with 31.3 per cent nationally and 26.4 per cent in the Yorkshire and Humber region. These figures promote York in a positive
Protest marches and demonstrations appear to be attended solely by public-sector employees. Could it be that they have too much spare time on their hands? Services, without the input of these protesters, carried on as normal. Is over-staffing rife
DAVID Cameron shouldn’t get carried away by Boris Johnson’s victory in the London mayoral election. Boris didn’t win because he is a Tory, or even that he is a great Lord Mayor. He won because, in the previous election, Ken Livingstone ran a smear
ACCORDING to reports it would seem that City of York Council may vote through a plan for a blanket 20mph speed limit across York. This was to be expected once Anna Semlyen (of the Twenty’s Plenty campaign) became a councillor. Before any such vote
I HAVE just been reading the letter from JA Brough (Letters, May 16) regarding the Hampden aircraft which crashed at Haley’s Terrace at 02.18am on February 22, 1942. I had been on duty at the Royal Observer Corps post at Strensall until 04.00 hours
IT’S taken eight years to hear these eight words but York City are back in the Football League. And that is something to savour for anybody reading this report. Goals from Ashley Chambers and Matty Blair saw the Minstermen clinch a 2
PASSENGERS on trains between York and London are facing delays of up to 90 minutes because of damage to overhead power lines. York-based train operator East Coast said the wires had been damaged by a freight train at Retford, with services
WHOEVER wrote Matty Blair’s script this season did an amazing job, said York City’s Wembley hero. Blair notched the most important of a string of crucial goals – following efforts at Luton and Newport in the FA Trophy and Mansfield in the play-offs
ASHLEY CHAMBERS said last week he enjoyed setting goals up as much as scoring them – but he had to have a rethink following his thunderbolt that set York City on the way up. Chambers created both goals as the Minstermen beat Newport 2-0 in
LUTON Town boss Paul Buckle was left reeling by Matty Blair’s controversial winning goal in yesterday’s Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final. Blair was clearly in an offside position when he fired York City 2-1 in front at Wembley after Dan
LANRE OYEBANJO turned from goal star to goal-line tsar as York City completed a remarkable Wembley double – but he played down individual acts and instead lauded a huge team effort. Oyebanjo scored in the Minstermen’s 2-0 FA Trophy triumph
SKIPPER Chris Smith says he feels he has repaid York City fans after leading the club back into the Football League. The 30-year-old was a member of the team that was relegated to the Conference eight years ago and, now in his second stint
MICK RAMSDEN reckoned York City Knights would have got off the mark in the Co-operative Championship had they played a lesser light this weekend. The injury-hit Knights battled like Trojans away to champions Featherstone to hold onto a 14-0 half-time
A WONDERFULLY brave display saw York City Knights come within 12 minutes of taking all three points from Big Fellas Stadium – but they ended with nothing. Two yellow cards and two tries in five mad minutes before half-time saw the Knights
TWO teenagers have been charged with an assault which left a 15-year-old school boy fighting for his life. Aaron Richardson, of Acomb, suffered head injuries in the attack near to the entrance of the travelling fair on the Knavesmire on September
ALL-ROUNDER Nick Hadfield starred with bat and ball as champions Woodhouse Grange bagged a 57-run win at Stamford Bridge in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League premier division. Hadfield made 36 and Mike Burdett 41 as Grange totalled 143
BOLTON Percy moved into the top half of division one in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League with a 40-run home win over Pickering. Tom Malloch hit 78 and there were contributions from Peter Houseman (31) and Tom Atkinson (36) as Bolton
CHAMPIONS York moved up to third in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League with a 139-run victory at Appleby Frodingham. The victory was achieved on the back of two outstanding individual displays, with Oliver Hairs top-scoring on 93 out
Mitchell Starc made a flying start to his Yorkshire career yesterday by starring in a Clydesdale Bank 40 win over Derbyshire at Headingley. The Australian fast bowler put the frustration of 14 flights in 12 days behind him to swap air miles for wickets
YORK Acorn ARLC turned in their best display of the National Conference League division one season to beat visitors Hunslet Warriors 28-22. The hosts Acorn romped into a 16-point lead. Full-back Leigh Rientoul had two tries on the board in five minutes
Hiddon Coin, whose inexperience found him out on his debut at Thirsk at the beginning of the month, can make money for punters at Redcar this afternoon. The juvenile, trained at Nawton near Helmsley by David O’Meara is napped to lift the opening Follow
YORK City’s players will travel through the streets of York on an open-top bus this evening following the team’s historic back-to-back Wembley victories. The Minstermen will leave Bootham Crescent at 6pm, carrying the FA Trophy and the promotion
Updated: YORK City’s second slice of Wembley glory in the space of just eight days has been hailed as the victory which “means everything” to the club. More than 7,000 fans roared the Minstermen to the nail-biting 2-1 triumph over Luton Town
YORK City fans unable to make the trip to Wembley packed into pubs and bars to cheer on their team and celebrate a momentous win. At city’s Bootham Crescent home, hundreds of cheering fans were in the Pitchside bar to witness York’s 2-1 victory
THE latest Miss York has been crowned following a glittering finale to the competition at York Barbican. One of the strongest line-ups the competition has ever seen ended with the judges eventually declaring the winner to be 23-year-old Alice
FLAMINGOLAND is set to build a major new ride - a giant vertical swing. Ryedale District Council’s planning committee is being recommended to approve the 46 metre-high ride despite objections from Pickering Town Council, which said it will
THOUSANDS of people turned out to an Olympic-themed celebration at the annual Sherburn-in-Elmet Gala. In keeping with the theme, the floats were led around the village on Saturday by a torch bearer, and gala queen Emma Kennedy, 15, was all smiles despite
A DELEGATION of Canadian airmen were among those who gathered in Sutton-on-the-Forest for an annual memorial service on Saturday. Wreaths were laid at the village’s memorial to members of the Royal Canadian Air Force who were stationed at nearby
A MEMBER of a “professional” gang of thieves that travelled from Leicestershire to target caravans near York has been jailed. Adam Dean Roughton, 22, was one of two drivers who towed caravans worth a total of £30,000 from a farm, York Crown Court
TOP chefs and the best food Yorkshire has to offer saw thousands of people head to Malton for the town’s annual culinary festival. The fourth Malton Food Lovers Festival has been described as the “best and busiest” yet, by organisers, thanks to appearances
CONTROVERSIAL plans about the future of the NHS will be the subject of a public meeting in York tonight where a panel of experts will answer questions. The event, hosted by Defend Our NHS in partnership with York Social Ideas, will explore the possible
AN MP is calling for City of York Council to confiscate all horses tethered dangerously on verges after Transport Minister Norman Baker confirmed local authorities had the necessary powers. York Outer MP Julian Sturdy raised the issue of tethered
A GRADE II listed building in Yorkshire will host its first competitive coarse fishing event on Saturday. Nidd Hall Hotel, near Harrogate, has invited anglers to its 4.5 acre lake, stocked with tench, carp, roach and perch, for the five-hour competition
A WOMAN was left distraught and in fear for her health after what her family said was a bungled plumbing job which led to a rat infestation in her housing association property. Stella Cook, 76, has been a tenant of York-based Yorkshire Housing – formerly
A YORK musician has told how his band initially beat The Beatles to win a place as the house band on a 1960s television show. Tony Lea, 62, of Woodthorpe, was a guitarist with well-known York band The Ousebeats when they beat thousands of entrants to
A STUDENT’S final-year project has given local musicians a new platform to promote their talents and will help cancer patients and their families. Connor Devine of York St John University is giving all the profits from The Best Of York, the album he
A FORMER York resident who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder is nearly half-way through a bid to run 100 marathons in 100 weeks. Simon Buckden, 40, was diagnosed with PTSD after the horrific atrocities he witnessed in Bosnia left
A MAN who sought a new life in York bit a store security guard so hard he drew blood through a jacket sleeve, York Crown Court heard. Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said the employee suffered “immense pain” when George James Langton hung on to his arm
A SELBY business leader has said the announcement that a major theatrical event at the historical Selby Abbey will show the town is not “a rundown backwater”. This week, The Press reported a York-based theatre group had its second request for £20,000
HUNDREDS of school pupils past and present will take part in a special service at York Minster today to help celebrate 200 years of Manor CE School. Former pupils, including Norman Rowley, from Australia, will join the entire school population –
THE Bull Inn public house in the village of West Tanfield, North Yorkshire, is up for sale at an asking price of £110,000. The pub, which has a prominenet position in the picturesque village near Ripon, which is one of the most photographed villages
RESIDENTS’ views are being sought on plans to enhance green spaces in and around a North Yorkshire town. The Northallerton Environmental Enhancement Initiative has identified a number of potential sites for imrovement. But local people are being
A vardo – the traditional horse-drawn wagon used by British Romany people – is raising funds for St Leonard’s Hospice. Owner John Vickers and his wife, Jean, will be collecting funds as they journey from their home in Knottingley, near Pontefract,
EMERGENCY teams from a moorland RAF base were the first on the scene when four cars and a minibus crashed in the North Yorkshire countryside. Fortunately the teams from RAF Fylingdales, between Pickeering and Whitby, were turning out as part of a
100 years ago The North Eastern Railway Company had just issued a new design of headgear for assistant stationmasters throughout their system. The cap, which was of the “cheese-cutter” type, was a decided improvement over the pattern hitherto
