RUGBY union legend Sir Ian McGeechan and the entire Leeds Carnegie first-team squad made a surprise appearance at a summer camp at York RUFC . Yorkshire-born former British Lions and Scotland coach McGeechan is the National League One side’s new
WITH reference to B Glover’s letter (The Press, July 23) regarding the path over the dyke at the entrance to Naburn village. I wholeheartedly agree with his comments, but may I put in a good word for Naburn Parish Council of which my husband is a
Like Simon Sweeney, I also attended a speed awareness seminar not so long ago (Letters, August 9). Unfortunately, I was just 1mph over the regular speed limit for that particular stretch of road at midnight and had carelessly missed a temporary
YOUR story regarding taxi driver Bose Thomas and his shattered windscreen (The Press, August 9) brought back memories of a similar incident I experienced in Saudi Arabia. I had a Toyota Cressida which was normally parked in a carport and came out
MY abiding memory of being part of this wonderful festival of sport came on the day all attention was focused on Usain Bolt smashing his rivals to retain his 100-metre Olympic title. But the athlete I will remember did not make headlines, yet she
LAST week, having had a hospital stay – where, I might add, I received excellent treatment and consideration – I had need to go into town for a few items in the Parliament Street vicinity. It’s quite a while since I ventured there and, of course
A FEW days ago Ian Reed, the director of the Yorkshire Air Museum remarked that the museum had come quite a long way in the past 15 years and has previously stated prior to his arrival it was run by a bunch of “amateur aviation enthusiasts”.
LIBERAL Democrats need make no apologies for opposing bad decisions made by Coun Simpson Laing and her colleagues, especially when she attempts to deflect such criticism by crude political attacks. Labour has raised the eligibility criteria for
I READ with interest the piece about the funeral collection at the crematorium in memory of Brent Woodcock and the distress it has caused his loved ones (The Press, August 10). I have heard similar problems over the years. The system operated by
I HAVE not yet been to the Mystery Plays, but can thoroughly recommend thee “fringe” events. These are one-woman shows in four different city churches, which are all well worth visiting, taking an original, entertaining and thought-provoking approach
MRS W P Carter (Letters, August 8) should check her facts before writing. It is impossible to rear red grouse “in their thousands” – let alone release them into a highly territorial environment. Red grouse are produced by wild birds responding
YORK City attacker Ashley Chambers cannot wait for his second taste of League Cup action, having made his professional debut in the competition at the age of 15. As a schoolboy, Chambers created club history when he was used as an 89th-minute
This week, GAVIN AITCHISON finds himself eating humble pie down a York local. LANDLORDS have it easy. They get up when they want, put their feet up until tea time then enjoy a few beers with the regulars. Fancy an easy life? Run a pub. That
David Wall gave up his job as an IT consultant in August 2010 and spent four months learning how to brew beer before setting up Wall’s Brewery in Northallerton in January 2011. Business has been good, and in March 2012 this week’s featured beer
YOUNG-GUN Tim Stubbs became York City Knights ’ youngest ever player last week but that mantle is set to last barely a week, with an even younger gun in line for a debut in the deep end tomorrow. Liam Ellis, a Wakefield College product who has
GEORGE WILKINSON visits the White Horse. Kilburn’s Forresters Arms had an interesting visitor, a Dutch mobile architect, his office a corrugated 1967 Citroen van once used as a nuclear fallout monitor. We had but an eye for the weather
ANITA TASKER makes a cake perfect for the weekend. IN Vienna, where my family comes from, they make cakes for the weekend which have great keeping qualities. This lemon loaf recipe was passed on to me by a French chef who told me they have
For more than two decades, gamekeeper George Thompson has been looking after heather moorland on the North York Moors. MATT CLARK went to meet him. GEORGE Thompson peers across the looming expanse of Spaunton Moor and smiles in satisfaction. A
HOW great it would have been if the post box at the end of my street had been painted gold. Sadly there are no London 2012 gold medal winning athletes resident in this area of York. If only Laura Trott lived nearby. It goes without saying that
WHEN Chris Rock moved to Stamford Bridge from his native Middlesbrough in 2001, he was keen to find out more about the famous battle once fought here. To his surprise, he could discover little about it. He couldn’t work out where the battlefield
SLUNG Low Theatre’s summer journey through David Scott ’s allegorical novel The Ground Remembered and five North Yorkshire festivals concluded at Ryedale Festival. Pickering Castle was the nearest that Alan Lane’s Leeds company came to conventional
ARE you one of those people who feels there is a book inside you just bursting to get out? A free ‘meet the author’ event in Haxby next Saturday might be just the thing to help you get started. Local writer Agnes Sam, whose novel The Pragashini
CHILDREN’S author and poet Christina Gabbitas, from Selby , will be at Waterstone’s in York next Saturday to sign copies of her book Felicity Fly. The book, beautifully illustrated by Julie Omond, follows the adventures of a well-spoken fly named
YORK City striker Jason Walker will be out to prove today’s Capital One Cup hosts Doncaster Rovers were wrong not to sign him three years ago. Walker enjoyed a successful trial period at Rovers while still a Barrow player and was told he would
York Hospitals Golf Society topped the scores in the fifth York City Supporters’ Trust Golf Day at Pike Hills Golf Club, writes Mark Smith. The winners pipped Pavers in the three-quarter stableford competition, which raised £2,500 for the Minstermen
Yorkshire have taken former Lancashire fast bowler Steven Cheetham on trial as they continue to explore options when it comes to strengthening their bowling stocks. Cheetham, 24, was released by the Red Rose county at the end of last season after
Joe Root has backed Yorkshire and Lions team-mate Jonny Bairstow to bounce back from the disappointment of being left out of the England teams for their most recent Test and one-day international series. Bairstow, the York-based star, was dropped
Entries for the new-look 2012 Trackrod Rally Yorkshire on September 28 and 29 are officially due to open today. The rally, comprising the sixth and final round of the RAC British Championship, this year features a new 15-mile Friday night stage
York Lokomotive ARLC go to Catterick today to face North Yorshire Stallions in the Yorkshire Men’s League. The Lokos are listed as having no game this weekend but this cross-group fixture has been arranged at late notice. The Lokos have one
YORK Ladies ARLC are back in training for their up and coming WARLA Winter League campaign. York are looking to build on last season’s success when they finished fourth in the table while also winning the Plate Challenge Cup. New and old players
THERE was a hole lot of celebration at Fulford Golf Club and Malton & Norton GC this week. The ace brace of clubs returned to the top flight of the Yorkshire Union team championship after victory in the second-team event at Keighley GC.
SWING commander Simon Dyson looked certain to miss the weekend at the final major of the season. The York golfer hovered for most of the second round around the projected cut-line before falling away badly at the end in difficult conditions and
THE total now stands at 150 and counting – no mean feat for York City Knights ’ “Mr Consistency”. Prop star Adam Sullivan has hit that notable appearances landmark for the Co-operative Championship club, but he isn’t likely to stop there, with
GREAT BRITAIN’S 4x400 metre relay outfit narrowly missed out on a medal – with York athlete Richard Buck suffering more Olympics disappointment. The Bahamas beat the USA to take gold, but Team GB’s Martyn Rooney was unable to run down Trinidad
Two North Yorkshire horses can help the Great Britain and Ireland team to secure victory in the annual Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot this afterernoon. The competition features four teams of riders, made up by Europe, the Rest of the World
SPORT and politics shouldn’t mix, should they? That’s a question that has been posed across decades and the position of the poser has been frequently moved more often than those proverbial goalposts. But give a politician a chance and there he
A MILLIONAIRE York property developer caught red-handed with a cannabis factory next to his property must pay back £784,471 or face jail. Joseph Kelly, 49, must sell a string of rented homes, land, cars and his marital home to pay back the money
PREPARATIONS for this year’s Pocktoberfest are gathering pace. The annual beer and music festival – which this year includes Echo and the Bunnymen and the Guillemots – will be held at Pocklington School sports centre on October 27 and 28.
A CARE company which looks after people in their own homes is to create 250 jobs over the next few months. Home Instead Senior Care has offices in Harrogate, Ripon, Thirsk, Wetherby, north Leeds and York. Sheena Van Parys, owner of Home
THE rising number of stag and hen parties in York is “scaring off” tourists, one of the city’s leading hoteliers fears. Jeremy Cassel, managing director of Cassel Hotels Ltd, which operates The Grange Hotel in Clifton , says such groups bring drunken
YORK Minster is running a host of family-friendly activities for younger visitors, including a free discovery trail with Monty the Monkey and craft activities. The timetable for children's crafts workshops is: • Fabulous Flags: Wednesday, 10am
A MAN from York who was seriously injured in a crash on the A19 earlier this week has died. The 57-year-old was driving a silver Rover when it was involved in a head-on collision with a black Vauxhall Mervia at about 2pm on Tuesday, about two miles
A YORK school will be centre-stage on the nation’s TV screens tomorrow when it features on the BBC’s Songs Of Praise programme. Bootham School was chosen by the programme’s directors when they were looking to “explore the use of silence in religious
AN APPEAL against the removal of a gipsy and travellers’ site on land near Selby has been refused by the Government. Selby District Council issued an enforcement order against the site, which saw 20 caravans parked on land next to Hillcrest Café
THE start of the grouse shooting season on Monday will bring huge economic benefits to the region, according to the organisation representing rural land owners. Douglas Chalmers, of the CLA, said: “Just as the £9 billion investment made by the
A LANDLADY has told how Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley popped into her pub for a meal and a pint before watching his son Ferdinand playing God and Jesus in the York Mystery Plays . The star of films such as Gandhi and Sexy Beast later returned
THE twists and turns of York Maze were today helping an East Yorkshire woman prepare for a trek along the Great Wall of China. Gail McGregor, from Pocklington, will be training for her charity walk in aid of Alzheimer’s Society by spending the
A CITY-centre street in York will be closed to traffic again this weekend – only weeks after it reopened following major roadworks. Skeldergate, which runs parallel to the River Ouse between Micklegate and Skeldergate Bridge, was shut for about
YORK residents will from next week have the chance to air their views on controversial proposals to change council tax benefits. The Government’s planned abolition of the current scheme will see councils across the country given a fixed amount
A MAN has been found lying unconscious in a North Yorkshire road. The man, aged 58, from Cornwall, was found by a passing motorist near Riverside Caravan Park on Low Wath Road, Pateley Bridge, close to the junction with Ashfield Court Road
100 years ago An advertisement stated: “You'll hardly know yourself, so great will be the change in your health after you have given Beecham's Pills a fair trial. Perhaps the use of this homely, everyday phrase may seem a trifle extravagant in
A BUSY York car park visited by hundreds of tourists a day has been “invaded” by rats, according to a former city councillor. Liz Edge said she had seen rats near the bins and toilets and in Union Terrace car park which were giving an “appalling
A YORKSHIRE Euro MP has thrown his hat into the ring to become the new Police and Crime Commissioner for East Yorkshire. UKIP member Godfrey Bloom, who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in Brussels, will be up against candidates
A YORK MP has called for answers over how the legacy of the London Olympics and Team GB’s success will benefit schools in the city. Questions over the amount of additional sports funding support the Government will provide for York youngsters
ONE of York’s senior councillors has been selected to join a national tourism group. Coun Sonja Crisp , City of York Council ’s cabinet member for leisure, culture and tourism, will join the Local Government Association’s culture, tourism and
Local schoolchildren will have the chance to sample traditional Korean games and activities at a special event organised by the Centre for English Language Teaching (CELT) at the University of York . A group of 30 teachers, from the Daejeon Metropolitan
PUB landlords in York are being urged to speak out over a minimum price for alcohol. Clubs and pubs in the city were asked earlier this year, about how they were coping with the recession in a survey by city of York MP Hugh Bayley who then called
ENGINEERS repairing a York sewer found more than they bargained for when they uncovered a Roman mosaic floor. A 120-metre section of damaged Victorian sewer in Toft Green was in the process of being replaced when workers spotted the mosaic tiles
ONE of Britain’s most famous archaeologists has visited an excavation uncovering secrets from York’s past. Prof Mick Aston, former presenter of Time Team, dropped in at the dig between the Guildhall and Mansion House yesterday to meet staff from
PLANNERS have said approval should be given for two bars to operate within yards of each other in the centre of York. City of York Council has been recommended to change the use of Bora Bora, in Swinegate Court East, from a café to a “drinking
THE sixth Tribfest music festival comes to Sledmere House in the Wolds from August 16-19, featuring 22 top tribute acts with additional stages for folk acts, unsigned bands and the Laughing Bull comedy festival. The main focus of the festival
A MEDIEVAL-STYLE garden has been created near a park in Clifton to commemorate York’s 800th anniversary as a self-governing city. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has created the feature in the style of a monastery garden at the Homestead, site of
PROPOSALS to turn a former pub in the centre of Selby into a house, office and flats have been blocked. The Golden Lion, in Millgate, closed just over a year ago after trade fell away, leading to a scheme being drawn up to convert it into two studio
THE Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at York Hospital has been given a boost thanks to a generous donation. The Charity Best Beginnings provided the unit with a DVD called Small Wonders, a tool that will help families of sick and premature babies
ATHEIST Roy Hattersley will visit York Minster this autumn to deliver the first of a new season of Ebor Lectures. The former deputy leader of the Labour Party is due to speak on October 3 about Atheism And Ethics: Are God And The Good Life Inseparable
A BLOCK should be put on new wind farms in East Yorkshire, according to the region’s MP who feels a raft of schemes are “close to desecrating” its landscape. Government figures show the area has had the highest number of planning applications for
TWO brilliant bronze medals were won by York City Baths Club swimmers at the National Championships in Sheffield. Annie Johnston saved the best of her five events for last – the 100 metres breaststroke – as the 14-year-old swam a strong heat followed
IT has been a summer of personal bests and medals for Tadcaster Swim Squad. Ten-year-olds Harry Souter, of Barwick-in-Elmet, and Fergus Whittaker, of Bishopthorpe , both recorded PBs in each of their three swims at the North Eastern Age Group
The plan is to potter and relax, maybe deadhead those Californian poppies – but GINA PARKINSON knows she won’t be able to resist doing more than that. IT WAS a shock last Sunday to go out into a mistily dewed garden and sniff a fleeting scent of
LEAGUE champions York will meet Dunnington in the final of the Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire Under-13s Cricket Cup. York will be looking to complete a double at Woodhouse Grange on September 2, at 10am. The plate final will be between Sheriff
POCKLINGTON beat Bishopthorpe by 62 runs to clinch the York & District Junior Cricket Association Quality Solicitors Burn & Company Under-11 (Incrediball) Championship, writes Paul Wilkinson. Pock batted first and their score of 297 was
ARCHIVE film footage of North Yorkshire seaside towns will be on display at Scarborough Art Gallery next month. The It’s A Coast Thing exhibition will feature a selection of films from the Yorkshire Film Archive, focusing on the coast and dating
A SONGWRITER’S songwriter, LA based Shane Alexander returned to York after a gap of four years. Tipped in some quarters as a rising star, Alexander's performance had more of the quality of a wayfaring journeyman. Now on to his fifth record,
A SOLICITOR and company director have been appointed to the board of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Erfana Mahmood, who has experience in the public sector and high-value commercial lending sector, has been appointed as a non-executive
Patients and staff at York’s St Leonard’s Hospice got a close-up view of one of the famous Olympic torches. Torchbearer James Atherton, who carried the torch through Westminster on July 26, visited the hospice on Wednesday. He was chosen for
DETAILED plans for two new superstores which are to be built alongside a community stadium on the edge of York have been handed in. The application by Oakgate (Monks Cross) said the Marks & Spencer store which would be a focal point of the
THE younger generation shone in an inaugural juniors versus seniors challenge match at the New Earswick Nature Reserve Angling Open Day, writes Mark Smith. The three-hour challenge, the idea of one of the New Earswick Junior Angling Club members
CRACK quartet Zack Lawrence, Jack Green, Zak Cottle and Tom Eaton were the star performers at City Football Development’s latest school holiday course. The four youngsters shone under the watchful eye of coaches Mike Morton, Ryan Qualter and Matty
LEAGUE and cup winners York RI are looking for new players to join their under-15s girl’s squad. The team won the City of York Girl’s Football League seven-a-side title and the League Cup as U14s, going through the entire season unbeaten. The
YORK City in the Community are staging a series of summer holiday football camps – and you could win a place with The Press. We are promoting a competition for the Minstermen to offer readers the chance to win one of two places at the Energise
York RUFC under-17s will hold pre-season training sessions on Wednesdays from 6.30pm at Clifton Park. The squad have been placed in the top division of the Yorkshire League and are looking to build on last year’s Yorkshire Cup win. The U17s
