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  • Boy, 15, charged over death crash

    A 15-year-old boy is due in court tomorrow over a car crash that killed a man in North Yorkshire. The youngster has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, driving without a licence and driving without insurance. Douglas Scott

  • Sale agreed for Terry's site in York

    A BUYER has been found for the former Terry’s chocolate factory in York, meaning redevelopment of the site could finally go ahead. An undisclosed company has successfully bid to buy the entire Chocolate Works site off Bishopthorpe Road, where a

  • York's "thriving economy" praised in Centre for Cities report

    YORK remains among the strongest performing cities in the UK, according to the latest set of economic figures released for the major UK population centres. The city has enjoyed a three per cent rise in employment since the last annual Cities Outlook

  • Selby council chief's new dual role

    THE chief executive of Selby District Council is to split his time between the authority and the county council for the next three months. Martin Connor will spend two days a week working at North Yorkshire County Council as part of a scheme designed

  • Mills laments loss of York City strike ace

    YORK City manager Gary Mills admitted his team were missing crocked striker Ashley Chambers following Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Aldershot. The Minstermen have now failed to score in three of the six matches Chambers has sat out since suffering

  • Simon Dyson’s back in the groove on European Tour return

    NORTH Yorkshire golfer Simon Dyson’s return to the European Tour was solid if not spectacular as he finished joint-52nd in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. The world number 71 finished the tournament at his consistent best, overcoming two early

  • Memories of Fishergate campers

    THE old log book is cloth-bound in red, and handwritten on lined paper yellowed with age. It covers 15 years – from 1921 to 1934 – and is a record of the annual summer holiday taken by boys from Fishergate to a tented camp at Prospect Field (and

  • Wind of change brings success

    A SMALL renewables business launched in North Yorkshire just over a year ago has exceeded its first year turnover forecast eight-fold. WindCare was founded by Alex Thornton, Duncan Bulmer and Mark Wilson following the demise of another renewable

  • Photographers snap up national award

    A YORK wedding photography business has won almost £10,000 in prizes after being named Photography Business Of The Year. Dominic Wright Photography received the accolade at the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers Awards, also receiving

  • Ten contracts boost for skin care firm Evocutis

    SKINCARE business Evocutis has secured ten new contracts worth £280,000. The Wetherby-based business, which focuses on advanced laboratory and clinical evaluations of skincare products for the health and cosmetic markets, said the contracts with

  • Survey shows new growth in confidence

    CONFIDENCE among businesses in the region has quietly grown over the last year and reached a new peak not seen since before the credit crunch. Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce said its latest quarterly economic survey for the

  • York insurance broker in top 100

    POPPLETON based Insurance Brokers DE Ford has been recognised as one of the top 100 insurance brokers in the UK in 2012. The Top 100 Broker feature in Insurance Age is a key publication within the industry and lists the best brokers according to

  • York Blockbuster store to close

    YORK'S Blockbuster store on Haxby Road is to close as part of a first phase of closures announced by the video rental chain's administrators. Stores on Friarage Street, Northallerton, Cold Bath Road in Harrogate and Stonefall Avenue, Starbeck are

  • Polishing up history at Fairfax House

    WELCOME to Fairfax House as you’ve probably never seen it: in the middle of its winter deep clean. York’s pre-eminent Georgian mansion closes every year at this time for five or six weeks so that it can be cleaned from top to bottom. “We go

  • Police, politicians and the put-down

    SO now we can no longer be done for using insulting words or behaviour. Which is a good job, given that we once had the ridiculous notion of a student facing prosecution for asking a police officer whether his horse was gay on the grounds that he was

  • Call made to take ‘life-saving’ test

    WOMEN are still ignoring NHS invitations to undergo cervical screening tests despite early diagnosis being the best way to successfully beat cervical cancer. While the condition has attracted more media attention since the death of reality television

  • Save on the buses, not the green bins

    THE Labour Party’s intention possibly to introduce a garden waste collection tax in York is a punishment too far, particularly for the poorest. Annual figures of £26 to £80 are bandied about. Assuming a middle figure of £50, this would mean almost

  • Health cash ‘shortfall’

    Coun Paul Doughty (Letters, January 17) fails to state, in his letter on public health funding, the reason why I have not made a more favourable comment on the funding received by City of York Council. The council was originally predicted to receive

  • ‘Give us the tools...’

    HAVING been out to check all the salt bins in my ward last Thursday, I would like to thank residents. The speed with which the bins have been emptied and footpaths gritted is a sign of the great community spirit in York and in Heworth Without in

  • Fitting tribute to the fallen

    I WAS pleased to see the feature on the wonderful King’s Book of York Heroes (The Press, January 14), which is held in the Minster in perpetuity on behalf of King George V. I have known this book for many years through my research of the life and

  • Smooth talking

    REGARDING the report in The Press of January 16 concerning a reduction in the strength of John Smiths Extra Smooth, from 3.8 per cent to 3.6 per cent – on top of this the owners of John Smith’s, Heineken, are putting Smooth up by 2.5p per pint.

  • Verses on vileness

    After the Crown Prosecution Service’s apologies to the many victims of Jimmy Savile I was moved to write the following. As vile as it sounds we do have some grounds to be optimistic. In the future it may be much easier to say when you

  • Recycling anger

    I WISH to voice my anger over what happened on my street. It was bad enough having to wait weeks for the normal grey bin collection. But my complaint regards the collection of my recycling. For weeks we have been washing our milk bottles, tin cans

  • Improve council services

    As a resident in York my wish for this year from the council, once they have settled into their new offices, is a simple one: improve the services we receive. With this I mean clean streets both in and out of the city centre, and with this I mean

  • Bank bonus bonanza

    THEY say this looks to be a bumper year for bank bonuses. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s bank levy will raise millions less than David Cameron promised – what a surprise. So coupled with George Osborne’s corporation tax cut, the rich

  • Happy to self-help?

    RECENTLY I read the Government’s policies were causing the disabled extra suffering through lack of care. Also, it is estimated that another 200,000 children are suffering in poverty through benefits policy. The “nasty party” is far too complimentary

  • January 21

    100 years ago There were in York one or two gentlemen whose hair had got very scanty on the top, as the tonsorial artists put it. These gentlemen could take heart of grace for the remedy rested in their own hands independently of the gentlemen

  • York City 0, Aldershot Town 0

    HAVING left their snowed-in coach at home, Aldershot proceeded to park the proverbial bus on their eventual arrival at Bootham Crescent. The phrase, famously coined by then Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, summed up the Shots’ approach to Saturday

  • Danny Gray’s goal is division one safety for Selby Town

    DANNY GRAY has jumped on board the striker merry-go-round in the Northern Counties East League. The entire league programme was wiped out on Saturday, but division one Selby Town were celebrating after snaring goal-getter Danny Gray from Tadcaster

  • Leeds United 1, Bristol City 0

    OPTIMIST Neil Warnock reflected on the positives after his Leeds United side laboured to a 1-0 win against Championship bottom club Bristol City. Three points and a clean sheet should be cause for celebration as the Whites kept themselves on the

  • Wetherby races added to long list of postponements

    WETHERBY Racecourse has been forced to abandon tomorrow’s jumps meeting due to cold snap. The majority of sporting events in the region have fallen foul of the wintry weather over the weekend, and the race meeting joined the lengthy list of postponements

  • New dates for rugby union fixtures

    MALTON & Norton RUFC have rearranged their North One East trip to Morley for Saturday, February 2. The game was postponed on Saturday due to snow, along with all other fixtures in rugby union’s Northern Divisions. Pocklington have also

  • Sohcahtoa tipped for success on Wolverhampton card

    SOHCAHTOA made a winning return from a break at Wolverhampton earlier this month and should follow up on his return to Dunstall Park in the coral.co.uk Handicap. The seven-year-old enjoyed a decent year after joining David Barron at the start of

  • One person a day in York will become insolvent

    AT least one person a day in York will become insolvent this year and lives are being torn apart as the economic crisis continues, an expert has predicted. More than 250 people in York became bankrupt last year and more than 100 were the subject

  • Body found in River Ouse confirmed as missing man

    The body of a York man who has been missing since December has been recovered from the River Ouse. Family and friends were today trying to come to terms with their loss after police confirmed the identity of the body, found in the Ouse on Saturday

  • Archbishop of York visits East Yorkshire primary school

    YOUNGSTERS at an East Yorkshire primary school welcomed the Archbishop of York to their school. Dr John Sentamu dropped in at Sutton-upon-Derwent CE Primary School to speak to the pupils and practise his drumming. The idea for his visit began

  • Candle fire rescue in Dene Park, Harrogate

    A MAN had to be led to safety by firefighters after a candle caused a fire in his home. The flame from a candle set fire to a calendar in the living room of the flat in Dene Park, Harrogate. Crews were called at about 5am on Saturday. The

  • Boy, 15, arrested after fatal crash

    A 15-YEAR-OLD boy has been arrested after a pedestrian died following a collision with a vehicle in North Yorkshire. The pedestrian – who has not been identified – was killed after a silver Range Rover collided with him and a wall in Stokesley.

  • Reward offered after theft of mountain bikes worth £8000

    A REWARD of £800 is being offered by a theft victim who had three expensive mountain bikes stolen from an outbuilding at his North Yorkshire home. The sum is offered after burglars struck at the man’s house on Main Street in Fadmoor, near Kirkbymoorside

  • GP will not appeal against being struck off

    A FAMILY doctor’s nine-year battle to clear his name has come to an end, after he announced “with a heavy heart” he would not appeal against the decision to strike him off. North Yorkshire GP Derek Keilloh told hundreds of well-wishers and former

  • Fire at beauty salon in Huntington

    FOUR people were treated for smoke inhalation following a fire at a York hair salon. Firefighters were called to Kuki Hair And Beauty Spa in Huntington Road yesterday morning after a electrical fault in a tumble dryer caused a fire. Five fire

  • Gas emergency in Driffield

    FIREFIGHTERS in Driffield were called to a gas leak in an oven. A crew was called to Eastgate South off Wansford Road where a man suffering gas inhalation was given oxygen and a woman was left in the care of paramedics.

  • ‘Pub crawl’ in search of people’s life stories

    A PROJECT to gather stories from the people of York is due to visit the city’s pubs. Storyteller Adrian Spendlow is turning story-gatherer on behalf of City of York Council, collecting memories, anecdotes, knowledge, and experiences from local

  • Review: Huge, Grand Opera House, York

    IT may be the bleak midwinter, the Christmas and New Year festivities may be but be a distant memory and snow may even be drifting outside your front door as you read this on “Blue Monday” – said to be the most depressing day of the year. But almost

  • £300m Selby development on hold

    A DECISION on whether a £300 million Selby development should go ahead has been delayed. Proposals for the first phase of the huge Olympia Park scheme, on land owned by animal feed manufacturer BOCM PAULS, were submitted to Selby District Council

  • UPDATED 9.05AM: Schools closed due to bad weather

    THE following schools are closed due to bad weather in York, North and East Yorkshire. In York all schools are open with pupils at Manor CE asked to wear warm clothing instead of the usual uniform. In East Yorkshire the following schools are

  • Student fundraisers ready for RAG parade

    HUNDREDS of students are expected to parade through York city centre as part of their annual RAG parade. University of York students will take part in an action packed week from February 2 to 9, including a firewalk and a Man Versus Food pizza

  • Motorbike crash victim, 20, back home at last

    A NORTH Yorkshire man paralysed in an horrific motorbike crash has returned home after nearly six months in hospital and has pledged to spend his life helping other injured people. Nic Kane, 20, from Sand Hutton, near Thirsk, was left paralysed

  • York snow: rolling weather coverage

    5:07pm MOTORISTS have been involved in 19 collisions in today’s snow, North Yorkshire Police say. The vast majority involved damage to vehicles only, with three leading to people suffering minor injuries. A Peugeot travelling

  • Teenager’s event to aid Huntington’s Disease research

    A TEENAGER is appealing for support for a fundraising event he is organising. Josh Cunnington, 17, from Northallerton, organised High Diversity last year to raise money into Huntington’s Disease after the death of his grandfather from the condition

  • Further snow forecast for the region

    A COATING of snow turned the region into a winter wonderland at the weekend – and more snow is expected today. At the University of York campus at Heslington, children made the most of the weather by going sledging and at Bootham Crescent, volunteers

  • York designers behind new brand for UK dance company

    A YORK design agency has made a great start to 2013 after launching new branding for the English National Ballet. The Beautiful Meme won the tender for the high-profile national project to create a new brand identity for the organisation under

  • Advice on staying warm

    RESIDENTS concerned about rising fuel costs have been reassured by district councils that there is advice available on how to stay warm. Hambleton and Richmondshire district councils are reminding residents about the Home Heat Helpline – operated

  • Fire drama at York care home

    THREE people living in a York residential home for elderly people were evacuated after a fire started in its laundry room. The fire started due to an electrical fault in a tumble dryer in Broadway Lodge in Fulford, causing thick smoke to billow

  • ‘Pain’ warning over NHS cuts

    THE long-expected cuts to health services in York and North Yorkshire will be announced tomorrow at a public meeting of the region’s NHS trust. In an attempt to reduce the £19 million health deficit facing the trust, the board is expected to announce

  • Charity workers in sensory garden appeal

    THE creators of a sensory garden for four young men with autism in York are appealing for help in finding materials. United Response, a charity which supports people with learning disabilities, mental health needs or physical disabilities to live

  • Derwenthorpe housing development gets deadline extension

    DEVELOPERS behind York’s Derwenthorpe project say they will still receive almost £1 million in public funding for affordable housing, despite missing a deadline for completion of the first phase. Last autumn, City of York Council was asked to relax

  • Yorkshire secures Fair Trade status

    YORKSHIRE has been officially declared the UK’s first Fairtrade region. Towns and cities can secure Fair Trade status if they show adequate support for Fairtrade, and after three years campaigning, Yorkshire has been certified such a region. The

  • Anger over York bus service

    A YORK bus firm has defended its performance after being accused of ignoring passengers’ concerns about one of its services. Almost 1,000 Huntington residents signed a petition organised by City of York Council’s Liberal Democrat group to vent