THE family of a rail worker who died after becoming trapped between two trains on a North Yorkshire heritage railway have paid tribute to the "caring husband and father". Former police officer Robert Lund, 65, from Beverley, was killed in an
A YOUTH has been arrested after a girl was subjected to a serious sexual assault in Selby. Police and PCSOs guarded a property in the Flaxley Road area of the town throughout the day today, as investigations into the attack took place. A spokesman
THE PRESS has two cases of an exciting new beer to give away to lucky online readers. Rudgate Brewery in Tockwith teamed up with York Cocoa House in Blake Street earlier this year to produce York Chocolate Stout, celebrating York’s historic chocolate
THE head teacher of a York secondary school facing closure has told the council that there is still time to reconsider their decision. City of York Council’s cabinet met last week to decide the fate of Burnholme Community College and opted
A SMALL business mentor from Scarborough was awarded the Lifetime Contribution to Enterprise award at the IAB (International Association of Bookkeepers) Awards. Tony Robinson, an author on small business issues and owner of business support
ITALIAN restaurant Zizzi has undergone a £100,000 refurbishment. The York restaurant, one of 120 in the chain in the UK, was revamped as part of a brand-wide initiative to localise the decor in its branches. Paolo Sunda, general manager
PROPOSALS on how the proposed high speed rail line HS2 can benefit areas north of Birmingham will be discussed at an event to be held in York in June. HS2: Opportunities For The North, will be held at the conference centre at the National Railway
AN OVERWHELMED Gary Mills admitted that it is a “privilege” to manage York City as thousands of supporters turned out for last night’s open-top bus parade. The journey from Bootham Crescent to the Mansion House saw fans line the streets to
DAN PARSLOW says his York City team-mates should not underestimate their achievement after they ended the club’s eight-year hiatus out of the Football League. Sunday’s Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final win over Luton at Wembley ended a memorable
JASON WALKER feels better than ever as a player – and has revealed that is all down to York City boss Gary Mills. Walker was one of the Wembley heroes as the Minstermen gained promotion to the Football League with Sunday’s 2-1 play-off final
YORK City forward Matty Blair was today named Blue Square Bet Premier player of the month for April and the play-offs. Blair has been rewarded for an incredible run of goalscoring form as the Minstermen won the FA Trophy and clinched promotion
YORK City will not sit back and look to just survive in League Two, said captain Chris Smith. The Minstermen skipper has been buoyed by the efforts of previous teams promoted out of the Blue Square Bet Premier and believes the plan will be to kick on
WOOLPACK’S Julia McKie checked out on 114 with a bull to seal victory over York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League division three visitors Beeswing. As Woolpack were winning 8-3, newcomers Shoulder again lost out by the narrowest of margins when Jubilee
Joint division three leaders Duncombe Park and Woodhouse Grange both recorded comfortable wins in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League. Park travelled to Malton & Old Malton II, where the game was reduced to 38 overs per side. Matt
BASEMENT side Dringhouses hit form in style as they whipped Whitkirk by 125 runs in division two of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League. Chris Storey hit 91 and Ian Wilson 44 as hosts Dringhouses rattled up a total of 205. Whitkirk’
Lindoro, who has been in cracking form since joining Brian Ellison’s Norton establishment, can chalk up a hat-trick of wins at Southwell tomorrow – and provide Amy Ryan with a milestone victory. Ryan, whose is attached to the Hambleton yard of her
YORK 1 picked up back-to-back wins over their second team and title rivals Fulford in the IT Sports York Mixed Doubles Tennis League. Phil Langley and Louise Marshman were in top form as they led the firsts to victory in their spat with the Clifton Park
YORK’S Simon Dyson has slipped to number 43 in the latest World Golf Rankings. The 34-year-old Malton & Norton Golf Club star who was at number 40, is due to resume his European Tour campaign in this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. The 4.5
Rich Pyrah is putting the finishing touches to his recovery from a broken hand by playing for Yorkshire’s second team at York this week. The all-rounder was one of the shining lights amid the wreckage of 2011, enjoying success in all forms of the game
DUNNINGTON moved into second place in division one of the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League after a 59-49 win over Bishopthorpe. The reigning champions were locked at 36-36 heading into the final round, but an 8-4 win for Karen Mitchell and Kate
CHAMPIONS Retford United and runners-up Bridlington Town have missed out on promotion from the Northern Counties East League premier division. A range of concerns from the Football Association led to Retford being denied the chance to move up to Evo-Stik
CRAFTY Cockney Eric Bristow stepped up to the oche for the opening of a new Betfred betting shop in York. The five-times world darts champion took on customers in a series of exhibition clashes at the shop in Front Street, Acomb. The new Betfred
Starbeck faced-off against Wigginton across three divisions of the Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League. Starbeck’s first team edged a close match with Wiggy’s top side 8-4 in division two thanks to a captain’s display of 26 game wins from Gary Saunders
THREE boys have been rescued off the Yorkshire coast, after the dinghy they were in started being washed out to sea. The coastguard rescued the boys, one of whom was aged only ten, from Bridlington’s South Bay at about 10am today, after they
CITY of York Athletics Club ace Scott Lincoln finished fourth in the shot put on his Great Britain junior debut at the Loughborough International. The 18-year-old threw 17.23 metres, some distance short of his personal best. Wilson said: “It was
YORK Acorn ARLC ‘A’ progressed to the first round proper of the Yorkshire Men’s League tier four cup competition after defeating Hull Dockers ‘A’ 32-20 in a preliminary round contest. In an open game played in a good spirit, Acorn’s try scorers were
COLIN HENSON implies that all the civil servants being allowed to work from home during the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be on vacation, watching TV and enjoying the Games (Letters, May 19). This blinkered view takes no account of targets
MANY readers will have read the touching feature about the Oliver family (Women’s Press, May 15) and were doubtless moved by the love and fortitude demonstrated by Rob and Tracey Oliver in caring for their seriously ill son, Alfie. Martin House
CONGRATULATIONS to York City on the second victory at Wembley in one week and their promotion. With the Community Stadium plan being approved in this same week, can I make another plea for common sense to prevail and for the city to seize this opportunity
A BROTHER and sister and their company face a £14,000 bill for their “cavalier” and “irresponsible” attitude to safety regulations at a fire-hit York restaurant. Part of Goodramgate was evacuated and cordoned off during a blaze at Bombay Spice
WITH the approval of Monks Cross stadium, this could be an opportunity for the centre of the city to really come into its own. It would require our councillors to start thinking outside the box and implement some revolutionary ideas and policies
CAN you solve my little problem? On April 1, the Queen visited York to distribute the Maundy money. The streets were crowded, especially in front of York Minster. I was visiting your city and two lovely ladies helped me by creating a little
I HAVE read with interest the letters about the day the bomb dropped on 32 Brownlow Street. As a young child I lived at 30 Brownlow Street with my parents, Alec and Ivy, my grandad, my aunt Lill, sister Audrey and brother David. Mr Bond lived next
I HAVE just seen Taste The Waste, one of three films being screened at City Screen as part of the Green Film Festival. These facts have raised my adrenalin levels; the images are burnt on my mind: 1. More than half our food lands in the bin. Each
WITH reference to the front-page headline ‘Crossbow Road Rage Nightmare’ (The Press, May 16), it should come as no surprise to anyone when we see once again the spectacle of mayhem through the medium of weapon ownership. It is all too easy these
I AM writing my first letter to The Press because the debate on cars verses cycles seems endless and no one is ever going to be 100 per cent right. If it’s blocking off rat runs, losing lanes of traffic to make a cycle lane or moving a cycle lane
SOME 18 years ago soon after my arrival in York, I did a tour of the city with two HSE Traffic Inspectors, with whom I was working on a pay and grading review. Among their many comments was that York was the worst example of self-inflicted traffic misery
POLICE in East Yorkshire are appealing for help in tracing a 15-year-old girl who went missing from home 12 days ago. Natalie White was reported missing from her home address on Litton Croft Estate in Wakefield on Thursday, May 10, and police believe
TOM Straszewski first performed for the York Shakespeare Project in 2009 and has been an actor with the project ever since, culminating in his turn as Dogberry “bringing down the house” in Much Ado About Nothing last summer. That show took
Updated: A RAIL worker has died after becoming trapped between two trains on a heritage railway in North Yorkshire. The man died in the incident at Grosmont Station, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, at about 12.30pm yesterday, British Transport
A FORMER miner who became a greensman at Drax Golf Club has died at the age of 55. Elvin Dickinson, who was also a keen golfer, was planning on taking a holiday with his son, Paul, who is a soldier and has recently returned from his second tour of
A VINTAGE tea party is taking place in York tomorrow. The event, in Parliament Street, is being organised by Alzheimer’s Society in York as part of Dementia Awareness Week. Cakes and home-baked scones with clotted cream will be served by helpers
A PUB landlord who was found hanging had some history of depression, an inquest was told. Andrew Graham Wingfield, 39, who ran the Cottage Inn at Haxby, but formerly managed several city-centre restaurants, lived in Fulford and cycled to the pub at
WHEN I was young I was obsessed with history and television, so the epic ITV series The World At War was right up my proverbial street. I watched every episode of this chronicle of the Second World War, but one in particular changed my childish
After the wettest April on record, and a very cold May so far, this striking picture of swallows lined up on power lines above the RSPB Fairburn Ings might finally herald a change to warmer weather. Paul Miguel, a local photographer who took the picture
A GOLFER is planning to play 90 holes in one day at a York course to raise money for charity. Luke Smith, 31, of Muncastergate, York, estimates he will have to run and walk about 30 miles to complete five rounds on June 26 at Fulford Golf Club
A family tragedy has spurred a North Yorkshire woman to get in the saddle at York races. MAXINE GORDON reports. KRISTA Brown lifts her garage door to reveal not a car, but a black mechanical horse facing straight on to a large, ornate mirror. It’s
A DISABLED teenager who undertook a mammoth fundraising drive for a new wheelchair got her new wheels in time for her 18th birthday. Hollie Byrnes, of Holgate, York, suffers from a genetic condition called arthrogryposos, which means her joints
A PAIR of bowling fans have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with a blessing surrounded by their family. Margaret and Thomas Hunter, of Ratcliffe Court, Skelton, met on a night out at the Acomb Hotel in 1952, while Margaret was out with her
THESE 31 members of the 6th Selby (Brayton) Beaver Scouts made history when they spent a night under canvas at the Tamrak camp site at Barlow. Until January this year, six-to eight-year-olds were not allowed to stay overnight in camp, but now new rules
A MAN who broke another man’s jaw in a late-night argument over an insult has been ordered to pay compensation to his victim. Daniel Thomas Stansfield admitted GBH but said he was acting in self-defence when he punched Martin Howsham during a brawl
When I was a child most of our family outings involved a walk of some sort. Whether around a town, along the coast or, more usually, across the North York Moors, my heart would sink when my dad took a heap of mud-caked boots from a kitchen
PUPILS past and present packed into York Minster to celebrate 200 years of a city school. Former students of Manor CE School in Nether Poppleton, including one, Norman Rowley from Australia, joined the entire school population – more than 900 students
A YORK man has raised more than £1,000 for charity by running three different events. James Richardson, an employee of Wallis Business Services, aimed to raise £800 for York Against Cancer and York Lollipop, a local charity dealing with hearing loss
A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER celebrating her 100th birthday today said the secret to her long and happy life is “being cheerful, happy go-lucky and smiling”. Kathleen Hick, of Lime Tree Avenue in New Earswick, is today marking her landmark birthday with friends
PUPILS and parents across York have been urged to nominate their favourite teachers in this year’s Community Pride Awards. The awards, which celebrate the city’s unsung heroes, look for inspirational teachers who are enthusiastic and committed to making
BEER enthusiasts are set to embark on a mammoth pub crawl to try to declare York the real-ale capital of Britain. An army of volunteers is being recruited to take part in York’s first “beer census” to discover the full range available in the city.
JUBILANT York City players were met with roaring cheers as they paraded through the city to celebrate their historic Wembley double. City-centre streets became a sea of red, white and blue yesterday evening as thousands celebrated the Minstermen
A FUNDRAISER from North Yorkshire is gearing up to take part in this year’s York 10K run to help support research into a devastating illness that affected his great-grandmother. Nurse Sam Holmes, 32, is taking part in the event – part of the Jane Tomlinson
There is a real feel of the Roaring Twenties about this splendid print, possibly produced as a poster but never made into one. Perhaps it’s the perfect 1920s chic of the clothes; or the gleaming bodywork of the cars; or the spill of light across Bootham
A BREWER from Pocklington who set up his own business has now won the Dame Brittan’s Festival Choice award at the Dales Festival of Food and Drink in North Yorkshire. Pennine Brewery’s Real Blonde Ale sold out fastest at the three-day festival at
HARROGATE At Christmas, the group responsible for raising the money to fund the Christmas lights in the town, has now launched its fundraising appeal for 2012. The group, which raised nearly £31,500 last year, is requesting pledges from local retailers
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a fire at a waste recycling centre where about half a tonne of waste materials went up in flames. Crews were called to the centre, off Turpin Lane, South Milford, just after 1.30am yesterday, where a fire had started
A York schoolboy has won an award from the Royal Society for his outstanding performance in the National Physics Olympiad. St Peter’s School sixth former Daniel Spencer was one of only five students from his year group awarded the top prize after he
AS much of a landmark in York as the Minster or the city walls, Bettys tea rooms have been a fixture in the city for 75 years this year. While staff have come and gone over time, Alan Stockdale has worked at the tea rooms in St Helen’s Square for 40
A NUMBER of roads in Stamford Bridge will have traffic restrictions placed on them owing to Jubilee celebrations on Sunday, June 3. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has granted restrictions on Church Road, between the A166 and Viking Road, Moor Road
100 years ago We understood that the new motor fire engine which Messrs Rowntree's had recently purchased from the well-known firm of Messrs Merryweather, London, was shortly due to arrive in York. Mr W Lawrence, the superintendent of
