TRAFFIC wardens in York could take industrial action over plans to change their rotas. City of York Council is looking at making its parking enforcement teams work a five-day week, rather than the current four-day one. The council says the move is necessary
THE TakeOver Festival is so named because a board and creative team all aged under 26 assume the reins of the Theatre Royal for three weeks; management, programming, marketing, box office, the lot. In essence, it is a festival that makes you
WHEN the future Elizabeth II dedicated her life to the British people on her 21st birthday, she probably didn’t realise she was signing herself up for 60 years and counting on the throne. Since the premature death of her father George VI, she
“The King Dies,” said the sombre headline splashed across the front page of the Yorkshire Evening Press on Wednesday, February 6, 1952. Beneath, in slightly smaller letters, was the secondary headline: “New Queen to fly home with her consort.” Princess
THE whole of the country partied on June 2, 1953, when the young Elizabeth Windsor was formally crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey. York was not about to be left out, despite a blustery wind and the threat of rain. “Street parties in York
THERE were muted celebrations in York in February 1977 to mark 25 years since the Queen’s accession to the throne. The Band of the King’s Division Depot played in Tower Gardens, before marching via Clifford Street, Coney Street and Lendal to
Megi Rychlikova rounds up Diamond Jubilee events in and around York THE citizens of North and East Yorkshire will be doing it their way when they celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Bands will play, prams will be pushed, penalty goals shot, teddy-bears
NORTH Yorkshire residents are planning Diamond Jubilee street parties in the following roads and communities: • Main Street, Hemingbrough; Rose Lea, Hillam; Main Street, Heck: Garth Drive, Hambleton near Selby: Buck Lane, Huttons Ambo; Burythorpe
London is not the only place to have a street parade during the Diamond Jubilee weekend. It will be carnival time in North and East Yorkshire. The large scale celebrations on the streets notified so far to The Press are: • Friday June 1 to
Street parties in the East Riding of Yorkshire will include: June 2: Porter Close, Driffield and Northgate Vale / Northgate Grove, Market Weighton. June 3: Fordon Road, Burton Fleming and Main Street, Cherry Burton. June 4: Back
COMMUNITIES large and small across North and East Yorkshire will be part of a network of more than 4,000 beacons that could make it into the Guinness Book of Records. The organisers are hoping the Diamond Jubilee fire chain after dark on Monday June
YORK will be giving more than 40 cheers for the Queen as the city goes party-mad to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. From 9am on Saturday June 2 to 10pm on Tuesday June 5 the barriers will be up at streets across the city as traffic gives way
MARY Samuels is dancing and laughing, and she certainly wasn’t doing that four years ago. Today, her family is healthy, her children are in school and her prospects for the future are bright. Changed days indeed. Just a few short years
AS A 14-year-old girl living with her parents in Broadway, Margaret Bowman remembers watching the coronation on television. Her parents had bought a TV set especially, Mrs Bowman says – although it wasn’t the young Queen they were hoping to get a glimpse
TEN years ago, guns fired in the Museum Gardens, and the streets were alive with celebration for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. York and surrounding areas was filled in village parties and festivals going on for days, and the city celebrated while
TEENAGE defender Ben Gibson intends to return to boyhood heroes Middlesbrough and fight for a first-team place after ending his loan spell at York City with two Wembley winners’ medals. But the former England youth international will not rule out a
JACK LEE has escaped further punishment for his yellow card offence against Sheffield – which is great news for injury-ravaged York City Knights as a ban would have left them struggling to field a full quota of 17 players. The Knights host Keighley
SIMON DYSON is a big doubt for next month’s US Open after doctors told him he must take several weeks off to rest a stressed pelvis. The York-born European Tour ace risks a fracture if he continues to play and has immediately pulled out of the flagship
MICHAEL INGHAM hopes promotion to the Football League can kick-start his international career. The Northern Irish shot-stopper has been in exile since picking up three caps, the last of which came against Wales five years ago, but has not given up
TOM RANSLEY is vowing to “leave no stone unturned” in his pursuit of international rowing success this summer. The York City Rowing Club star will be part of the Great Britain eight taking on their chief Olympic rivals in the second World Cup regatta
THE countdown is on to one of the country’s largest football tournaments for girls. Poppleton Juniors are hosting the 11th annual City of York Girls’ Football League tournament at their Millfield Lane base on Sunday, May 27. Organisers are expecting
Champions Stamford Bridge opened their Foss Evening Cricket League defence with a division one victory over Heworth. Veteran bowler Des Healey ripped apart the Heworth batting, taking 4-6 as the visitors were restricted to 61-7 in 16 overs.
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge lost their 100 per cent record in division one of the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League when they were heavily beaten at Clifton Alliance. Opener Paul Scaling made 49 but his colleagues struggled against David Friend (3-20), Jason
MORE than £135,000 in prize money is up for grabs in a seven-race card at York Racecourse this weekend. It’s the first of six Saturday fixtures this season on Knavesmire and the highlights are the £35,000 Listed Stowe Family Law LLP Grand Cup and the
THE new York & District Golf League season opened with a victory for newcomer Ricky Sowerby at Skelton Park. Sowerby headed a first-night field of 18 players with a stableford score of 24 points in the nine-hole event. Second place went to another
Mitchell Starc, Yorkshire’s new recruit, has revealed he did not start his cricketing career looking to terrorise batsmen with his languid style of left-arm fast bowling. For the 22-year-old from Sydney wanted to be a wicketkeeper, with the aim of
A big weekend is looming for North Yorkshire trainer Bryan Smart. He is set to saddle his Group 1 winning sprinter Tangerine Trees in the Temple Stakes at Haydock on Saturday, while over at the Curragh, he will be represented by Foxtrot Romeo in the
PATRICIA SAWIE is a girl with ambition. She may be only 12, but ask her what she wants to do when she finishes school, and she doesn’t hesitate. “The first thing I would like to do is teaching because I would like to repay what my teachers
MARY Samuels is dancing and laughing, and she certainly wasn’t doing that four years ago. Today, her family is healthy, her children are in school and her prospects for the future are bright. Changed days indeed. Just a few short years
ABOUT 30 people were evacuated from their homes in Selby last night after a bin fire broke out near a gas leak. Firefighters were called to the fire in Charles Street at about 11.40pm and discovered gas was leaking from a main at a nearby home. The
THE road south from Mattru Jong is not for the faint-hearted. Indeed it can scarcely be called a road at all. It is a relentless trail of sand and rock, tumbling along unpredictably for 20 miles, every one of them a struggle. The barren scrubland
Il Paradiso Del Cibo, meaning The Paradise Of Food, promises great things. This tiny Italian restaurant has evolved over seven years after Sardinian Paolo Silesu from a small delicatessen-cum-sandwich shop with a Latin flavour in Walmgate, York, to become
YORK turf business Lindum has had a number of successes at RHS Chelsea 2012. Lindum collaborated with landscape artist Alan Gardner to create its Out Of The Blue garden, which won a bronze medal in the new fresh gardens category at Chelsea which encourages
SCIENTISTS from York-based Government department Fera, the Food and Environment Research Agency, have taken part in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. In a break with the traditional luxurious gardens and healthy plant displays, Fera’s display outlined
YORK’S newest primary school has been officially opened. The Bishop of Middlesbrough, the Right Reverend Terence Drainey, was guest of honour at the opening of the new Our Lady Queen of Martyrs RC School, in Holgate on Monday. About 500 people, including
A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with robbing a shop assistant at gunpoint with an imitation firearm. The boy is alleged to have carried out the raid at the Goldmine Convenience Store in Haxby Road, York, on Sunday, May 13.
With the thousands of words exultantly written about the end of the journey, it might be instructive to look at what was said as York City started out on this momentous season. Max Benson wrote the report on the club’s website for the Ebbsfleet game
What an amazing eight days. The people of York have shown that the football club is a vital part of our lives and should be cherished (sadly I’m exiled in Manchester at present but I just had to make the trip over on Monday evening). How right
Absolutely fantastic, congratulations to everyone involved with the return to the football league of the mighty York City. City have certainly showed how to fight back after having been through some rough times in the last eight years, ie the Dougie
CONGRATULATIONS to the Minstermen – what a fab fortnight they have had. How many other teams have been to Wembley twice in such a short space of time and won both matches? One for the record books. Now let’s hope the people of York get back
CONGRATULATIONS York City on your win back into the Football League. Also, well done to city boss Gary Mills, not forgetting Radio York for their coverage of the match. And of course The Press for their coverage. Again well done City. John Bilton
IF this country had a true democracy instead of the mock one we have now, substantiated with your vote every five years, one referendum would settle everything. Do you believe in settling major issues by referenda, the policy adopted being of the
Tread lightly Mr Henson (Letters, May 19) when referring to civil servants who are being allowed to work from home during the Olympic Games. They are a minority who work in London, and possibly enjoying good pay, pensions and working conditions.
THERE will never be a solution to the question who is allowed to live in the countryside, a more pressing matter are the swollen prices of property and the negative diversity in the villages, not now the healthy mix of occupants, more likely a rich
First and foremost I would just like to congratulate my beloved York City on promotion back to the football league. What a fantastic job Gary Mills and all the staff right through to the first team have done. When Gary Mills was first appointed,
The producers of the Mystery Plays should seriously think about how much goodwill they would generate throughout the city if they cast Gary Mills as God. Mick Hickling, Clifton Dale, York.
I AM baffled to see employment rising. It seems at the moment there are no job opportunities in York whatsoever. There are mainly only jobs via agencies which are mostly unhelpful and rude; many are very picky and particular. Gone are the days when
THE pigeon population in York centre seems to have exploded over the past couple of years, resulting in vast amounts of droppings. I walked through King’s Square one afternoon and saw visitors looking at the benches covered in pigeon droppings, unable
May I comment on Mr Laverack’s letter about items on the Local List? York’s Local List is not the property of York Open Planning Forum. It is the property of the many people who, with the assistance of The Press and Ward committees, have nominated
THE North Yorkshire pilot locked up in an African jail after finding a massacre is being framed for the murder, his brother fears. David Simpson, 24, from Gillamoor, near Kirkbymoorside, has been locked up for nearly two months after finding 18 mutilated
SOMETHING wicked this way comes to the Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Harlow Carr, Crag Lane, Harrogate, this summer. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men will present their all-male production of Shakespeare’s gripping thriller Macbeth on June 2 at 7.30pm
A MAN who was arrested following a stabbing near Selby will have no further action taken against him. The 24-year-old man was arrested in Sherburn-in-Elmet at 1.40am on March 11, after a 25-year-old woman received a puncture wound to her leg.
A MEMORIAL service will be held in Tadcaster next month to mark the 20th anniversary of the murder of a special constable by an IRA gunman. Regular police officers and special constables – serving and retired – are being invited to attend the
WHILE there wasn’t a cloud in the sky over North Yorkshire yesterday, there was an aerial display team as the Red Arrows rehearsed their latest spectacle. The seven jets took to the skies over RAF Church Fenton ahead of the start of their 2012
The centre of York is about to become a giant outdoor gallery, celebrating the city’s contribution to science and technology, as STEPHEN LEWIS discovers. HOLD on to your hats. The centre of York is about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Railfest was first held at York’s National Railway Museum in 2004 to mark 200 years of rail travel. That nine-day festival attracted more than 60,000 people and eager rail fans queued round the block to get a first glimpse of some of the country
A STARK warning over the future of the NHS in North Yorkshire was delivered to a packed public meeting by health bosses in York. The “ticking time bomb” of obesity, diabetes, an aging population and GPs spending more time in the board room than the surgery
York’s National Rail Museum is getting up steam to host Britain’s biggest rail celebration. The nine-day Railfest 2012, from June 2 to 10, will see an enormous space the size of 11 football pitches bustling with an awe-inspiring line up of
Railfest 2012 will welcome the largest gathering of rail speedrecord breakers ever brought together in one place. The announcement comes as a number of modern vehicles are added to the already impressive line-up of attendees for the event.
A 206-YEAR-OLD stone arch built to commemorate one of Britain’s great naval victories is standing proud again after a painstaking restoration project. Nelson Gate, next to the A170 on the outskirts of Helmsley and originally an entrance to the Duncombe
THE future of a high-speed rail project and the benefits it could bring to the north will be discussed at an event in York next month. Following the Government’s decision to go ahead with the HS2 scheme, a panel of local and national experts
The festival will see a huge space bustling with a bumper line-up of more than 50 locomotives. Railfest will welcome the largest gathering of railway record breakers ever brought together with over 30 of the attending locomotives having made
Preparing a 109-year-old locomotive for Britain’s biggest rail celebration, Railfest 2012, is no mean feat. It takes dedication, expert knowledge and a lot of elbow grease to repair and maintain an engine from the golden age of steam. Fortunately
A record-breaking East Coast locomotive is to be named Battle of Britain Memorial Flight by TV star Carol Vorderman, in a spectacular ceremony to launch Railfest 2012. The locomotive will carry a specially-designed livery featuring the planes
FIRE crews from North and West Yorkshire spent more than two hours tackling a blaze at an industrial estate near Selby. The incident took place at the ground floor of a three-storey building in at the Maltings Industrial Estate in Turpin Lane, South
A NEW scheme has been launched to fight back against the theft of catalytic converters in the Selby district. Operation BYTE will see North Yorkshire Police and the Selby District Community Safety Partnership mark catalytic converters with the owner’
THE former chief executive of a North Yorkshire organisation which helps people with learning disabilities and their carers has died at the age of 65. Richard Pacey, of the Wilf Ward Family Trust, was appointed by its founders, Wilf and Phyllis Ward
The National Railway Museum in York has the largest collection of railway objects in the world and attracts over 700,000 visitors per year. Its collection includes more than 300 locomotives and rolling stock, 628 coins and medals, 4,899 pieces
THIS slippery customer ended up in the bin after its slither in the sunshine caused panic in a York street. The 5ft snake crawled through a bush and a fence and onto the roof of a van parked outside a house in Osbaldwick Lane yesterday lunchtime to bask
A RARE beetle whose only UK habitat is small patches on the banks of the River Ouse is being recorded in stone by a York sculptor. The iridescent green tansy beetle, known as “the Jewel of York”, lives exclusively on the tansy plant and can only be found
A YORK cyclist was left shaken after a group of men tried to push her off her bike in Micklegate. Dr Mariann Hardey, 31, of Walmgate, had stopped at a red light in Micklegate when the group approached her and tried to push her from her bike
A QUESTION Time-style political debate will be held in York on Friday. The free event, organised by York Conservatives and featuring representatives from five political parties, takes place in the main hall at St Peter’s School and runs from 7pm to 9pm
A WEEKEND of free tours and taster sessions at Selby’s new leisure centre has been announced by the council. Following confirmation that Selby District Council has set up a new leisure centre at the former Walker’s Bingo Club in Portholme Crescent, the
In the impressive line-up for Railfest 2012 is a unique rail vehicle that travels along the track powered by sail. Spooner’s Boat, the body of which was built by north Wales boatbuilder, Bill Piper, from Porthmadog, has a canvas sail and boat-like
HOUSEBUILDER Persimmon has applied for an extension to its planning permission for York’s biggest housing development. The 700-home project at Germany Beck, Fulford, was given outline consent on May 9, 2007, following a lengthy public inquiry, but
Updated: YORK’S new Lord Mayor will be officially appointed at a ceremony tomorrow. Huntington and New Earswick councillor Keith Hyman will take over from the current mayor, Coun David Horton. Coun Paul Firth will assume the title
A NEW block of luxury self-catering apartments in the centre of York has been hailed as a vote of confidence in the city’s buoyant tourism sector. St George’s Keep has been created out of former solicitor’s offices in Clifford Street which have lain
PLACES are still available for the Cliffe sponsored cycle to raise money for the Cliffe Oxen Lane Playing Field Association. Registration for the event begins at 11am on Sunday, May 27, at the New Inn, York Road, Cliffe. There will also be a raffle
THE Lord Mayor and Sheriff of York have been to almost every primary school in the city during their year in office – and finished off with visits to the city’s smallest and biggest. Coun David Horton and Alan Deller, who hand over their chains of office
SOUTH Shore Holiday Park in Bridlington is for sale for £5.3 million after being turned around by a London property firm. The resort was bought out of administration in February 2009 by South Shore Holiday Village Limited and the firm has invested almost
A MAN has suffered facial injuries after being thrown down stairs in a bar. The 31-year-old victim is alleged to have been thrown down a set of stairs in the Georges Bar, Market Walk, Driffield, shortly after midnight and sustained serious cuts to
A CELEBRATION of the life of Graeme Lowe, former Barlby Community Primary School head teacher, will be held at Selby Abbey at 4pm on Friday, May 25. As reported in The Press last week, Mr Lowe, 69, died at home on May 10. He is survived by his widow
York Central MP Hugh Bayley and Coun James Alexander, leader of City of York Council, joined members of the 1st Holgate Scout Group to pick up litter and remove weeds from the bar walls as part of a Scout Community Week. The week aimed to
A MAN has suffered serious injuries after falling from the balcony of a pub in North Yorkshire. Police have appealed for witnesses after the man, believed to be from the Langley area of County Durham, fell from the balcony of the Wetherspoons pub
A young criminal was caught in a stolen car only days after being released from prison. Thomas Matthew Paul Metcalfe had been out of jail for only four days when he was caught in an Audi in Deangate, York, the evening after it was stolen in Northallerton
A BAKING bonanza with a difference has been staged in York to raise funds for a charity which provides support to people suffering from multiple sclerosis. The goodies went on sale at a cake break event held at a house in Little Lane, Haxby, with the
100 years ago Those who were interested in the better housing of the working classes had the opportunity of inspecting a model dwelling house which had been erected in Stockton, by Mr JC Currah, a local builder, in which was fitted his invention,
