A PROLIFIC church burglar who has targeted more than 500 churches and chapels is being hunted by police after a series of break-ins in North Yorkshire. Christopher John Coulthard, 50, was jailed for nine years in 2010 after admitting burglaries
COUNCIL tax bills in North Yorkshire have today been frozen for the third year in a row. Members of North Yorkshire County Council yesterday have voted to accept a £2.2 million Government “freeze grant”, which equates to a one per cent tax rise
THIS is the moment when a shop worker came face-to-face with a suspected robber in York. Police have released this CCTV image of a man suspected of assaulting and threatening assistant Joanne Wright in Millennium Food And Wine, which opened three
GUESTS at a bed-and-breakfast business in York had to be evacuated last night after a fire broke out. Fire crews were called to the two-storey building on Strensall Road, in Earswick, at about 9.25pm after the flames started in the lounge.
YORK'S HMV shop has survived another round of store closures as administrators continue their review of the business. Deloitte announced today another 37 of HMV's 219 stores had been identified for closure, including Scarborough's Westborough store
ON-LOAN says John McGrath has confirmed that Gary Mills has the full support of his dressing room as he bids to turn around York City's fortunes. The Bootham Crescent board have declared they are looking for an improvement in results following
Castleford Tigers chief executive Steve Ferres has resigned with immediate effect from the Super League club. Ferres, the first chief executive of York City Knights whom he helped to re-establish as a club after the collapse of the Wasps, was appointed
JOHN McGrath believes York City are just as good as the promotion-challenging Burton Albion team he has left behind. The Brewers are currently 13 points and 15 places above City in the League Two standings but on-loan midfielder McGrath still remembers
WHAT a wonderful breath of fresh air the boss man of Iceland is. I listened to Malcolm Walker on the telly and he is the only person who says it like it is. I have very seldom shopped at Iceland, but his candour, humour and down-to-earth honesty has
NO Ken Holmes, foxes are not “cunning and evil”; those are human attributes which imply a degree of choice (Letters, February 18). Foxes, like all wildlife, are just trying to survive in the increasingly unnatural world we are shaping. Yes, they
WHAT alarmed me most about Cabinet member Coun Dave Merrett’s statements at the recent local plan working group was his glee that Labour’s policy on new housing development would apply off-site affordable housing financial contributions only to rural
HAS anyone else noticed that for the past few weeks, BBC2, apart from a couple of hours at lunchtime, has been showing ten hours of repeated programmes, from 6am to 6pm, mostly from the day previous? Is this really what we pay a not inconsiderable
ON BEHALF of HealthLevel Community Interest Company, I would like to thank the people of North Yorkshire for their support. Over the past year, players of the Health Lottery have helped raise more than £727,000 for HealthLevel. This is money that
HERE is a list of my pet hates. No 1. People who buy houses in the suburbs then grub out their front gardens and pave or gravel them over, destroying the green ribbon on each side of the road – the very reason most of most of us moved there in
IT IS difficult to take seriously the comments of the council spokesperson that most of its old furniture will be salvaged for reuse and result in a worthwhile rebate. Dumping furniture into skips open to the elements of a Yorkshire winter is not a
COUNCILLORS around the country have to make unpalatable choices thanks to a Tory/Lib-Dem crusade against local government. In York, we face a 30 per cent reduction in funding and unpopular decisions are being made. Labour councillors were previously
FIRSTLY, I must correct Sue Cooke (“York and Leicester should go ‘shares’”, February 15). Richard III was born at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire. He was no more a Yorkshireman than I am and I have lived in God’s own country for more than his
Heworth Cricket Club, who play in the Hunters York and District Senior League, have been awarded a grant from Sport England. Treasurer David Baker outlined what the grant would be used for, adding: “The deal was for us to purchase new wicket covers
YORK City Knights were going to leave it late to decide their line-up for tonight’s under-20s friendly at Oldham (8pm) due to the injuries in the first-team ranks. A few overage players are allowed to feature but York will travel with a predominantly
Anthony McGrath hopes to continue his 17-year association with Yorkshire after being forced to announce his retirement from playing by a thumb injury that troubled him for most of last summer. The 37-year-old Bradford-born batsman, who was out
CITY Of Athletic Club’s Richard Buck has made the Great Britain team for the European Indoor Championships next month. Buck, whose appearances so far this indoor season have been blighted by injury, has been named in the six-strong four by 400
Foshinka Dai Karate classes will begin once again in York after the original club closed down due to a fall in membership, writes Oscar Pearson. Former world martial arts champion Alan Foster founded the sport in York in the early 1970s, as he
I UNDERSTAND the concerns raised by John White, the fisherman interviewed in the excellent article on protecting Yorkshire’s marine life (The Press, February 18). But the evidence shows that far from destroying the marine environment, wind farms may
100 years ago Whooping cough was the subject of many ‘charm-cures’. In Northamptonshire, a few hairs from a sick child’s head were rolled in a piece of meat and given to a dog in the belief that the disease became thereby transferred to the animal
TEAM power has been increased with a new appointment at York’s Chokdee Martial Arts Academy. Owner Richard Cadden, the former twice world Thai-boxing champion, has added Danny Hague to the Nether Poppleton gym as its new strength and conditioning
WORLD number one Judd Trump has been among his scalps on the green baize – now Steve Gregson is hoping he can get a second chance to carve out a career as a professional snooker player. The 23-year-old has again picked up his cue in a bid to pot
HEWORTH consolidated their position at the top of the York Conservative Clubs’ Slater Cup Snooker Pairs League with a 5-2 win over Fulford which gave them a 13-point cushion, writes Colin Robinson. John McCready and Keith Batty gave them an opening
For nearly 40 years, stonemason Paul Deamer has been working to maintain and preserve the fabric of York’s great Minster. Next week he will give an illustrated talk about his work. PETER STANHOPE reports PAUL DEAMER must be one of the happiest,
BOOTHAM’S Matt Dawson and Jamie Robinson won the inaugural York Conservative Club’s Paul McReady Memorial Pairs Knockout defeating Roy Walker and Simon Whitely 2-0 in the final at Bootham. Matt Dawson was the main scorer as the Bootham pair surged
FOR youngsters at one York primary school the world of work no longer seems a remote prospect. Pupils at Tang Hall primary school got to meet a female firefighter, staff from York City Football Club, representatives from the army and the police
HOME Farm shop at Beningbrough has won two awards during February. The shop, run by Lucy and Alistair Jackson, won the Countryside Alliance awards for local food in Yorkshire as well as the national Farmers’ Retail & Markets Association (FARMA
Opportunities for getting final outings into Cheltenham Festival runners before the eagerly-awaited meeting kicks off in just under three weeks, are becoming thin on the ground, but Tim Vaughan has chosen Doncaster today as a dress rehearsal for Swynmor
YORK Racecourse is facing fresh legal proceedings over the death of a teenage cyclist in a crash with a lorry near the course. Ruby Milnes, 17, was on her way home from York College to Bishophill in May 2008 when the accident happened. The lorry
A NEW Sushi and sake bar has been launched in Harrogate in a £150,000 new venture. The 35-seater restaurant, Kaiten Sushi and Sake Bar, is a partnership between restaurateur Cindy Cheung and specialist Japanese chef Tim Yip. The pair set up
A TEENAGER attacked a York shop worker and threatened to shoot her in a terrifying attempted robbery, she has said. The raider also told victim Joanne Wright that he had a knife in his bag and demanded money from the till of the Millennium Food
Police are hunting a knifeman who robbed a shop assistant in Scarborough. He struck at the Premier Store in Victoria Road at about 6.30am yesterday, demanding cigarettes, alcohol and money from the till, Police say he did not get any money, but
FIREFIGHTERS rescued a child whose leg became stuck in a slide in an East Yorkshire town yesterday. The youngster got trapped in the piece of play equipment at Bessingby Gate, in Kent Road, Bridlington, at about 4pm. Fire crews used airbags
MORE than £600 was raised for charity at the York Lifestyle exhibition held at Dean’s Garden Centre, pictured above. A charity prize draw at the event raised £440 for brain injury centre York House Ventures, and York Against Cancer also raised
PICTURES taken from the heights of York Minster have shown how work on creating a new gateway to the historic landmark is moving on. The area outside the South Transept of the cathedral may currently be a building site, but its transformation into
NEARLY a quarter of children in some York neighbourhoods are living in poverty but the city is doing better than most, a landmark new report has revealed. Almost one in nine children in York (11 per cent) are in poverty, according to the Campaign
MEDIEVAL traders headed to York’s Parliament Street for a market with a difference. The medieval market is an extension of the continental market which periodically visits York, and has been running alongside the city’s Viking Festival this week
COUNCIL bosses have said they will step in to ensure a North Yorkshire village continues to have a bus service after operator Harrogate and District Travel said it would withdraw its service to and from Follifoot from March 10. North Yorkshire
A GROUP has been set up to support and help promote a centuries-old theatrical tradition. The York Mystery Plays Supporters Trust will be launched at a special event at York’s De Grey Rooms on March 11, and aims to help raise funds and support
SPOT tests are being carried out on beef bought by North Yorkshire council chiefs to be served at the county’s schools in the wake of the horsemeat controversy. North Yorkshire County Council said all meat supplied for its in-house food service
WORK on improving footpaths and drainage on a stretch of the A64 in Ryedale will start next week. The scheme will be taking place in the Rillington area and begins on Monday, with the work expected to last four weeks. The Highways Agency said
THE 60TH anniversary of the discovery of ghostly goings-on at a York tourist attraction is being marked by spine-chilling tours. The Treasurer’s House has reopened in spooky style by commemorating the 1953 experience of Harry Martindale, who as
A MAN attacked his older brother with a cavalry sabre after saying he would “slash him up” following an early morning confrontation, a court has heard. Christopher Lee Barker, 41, hit his brother David on the head with the sword at the family home
A 29-year-old man arrested in connection with an attempted burglary in the Selby area has been released on police bail. The man was arrested following an incident at a house in The Gardens, Camblesforth, in the early hours of Monday, after a police
MORE than 940 people were caught TV licence-dodging in York last year, new figures have revealed. TV Licensing said more than 250 Selby viewers and more than 900 in Scarborough were also found watching their screens without a licence, but almost
THOUSANDS of rail passengers travelling between York and London are facing travel misery today because of an overhead wire collapse on the East Coast Mainline. Services run by East Coast and Grand Central have been severely disrupted, with journeys
COMMUNITIES in Pateley Bridge, Sleights, Rufforth and Ripon will be the next in North Yorkshire to have their broadband upgraded by the end of the summer. The work is the next phase of Superfast North Yorkshire’s expansion of high-speed fibre broadband
AN arson attack caused £70,000 of damage to a barn at Appleton Wiske, near Northallerton. Emergency services were called to the fire at the 60-year-old barn on the road to Deighton. About 300 bales of hay valued at £6,000, and agricultural
Work to improve footways and drainage on the A64 in Rillington, near Malton, will begin on Monday and will last for four weeks. Temporary traffic lights will be in operation and it may be necessary at times to close Sands Lane and Pine Tree Avenue
YORK eco-champion Kate Lock has been shortlisted in a nationwide search by WWF to find Britain’s unsung environmental heroes. The competition – called Hidden Heroes – has been launched as part of WWF’s Earth Hour at 8.30pm on March 23. The
A VIDEO production company based in York has created the latest music video for Irish chart-toppers The Script. Digifish, which is based in Seaton Ross, was commissioned by Sony Music to create the video for the band’s upcoming single, If You Could
TRIBUTES have been paid to Oliver Grieveson, a major name in regional rugby union, who has died at the age of 82. After completing his national service in the Navy, where he played for the Navy and Combined Services team, Mr Grieveson played as
TWO York pubs are teaming up to try to revive local interest in one of England’s historic bar-room games. The Phoenix in George Street and The Golden Ball in Bishophill hope to host a local bar billiards league, to increase the number of people
NORTH Yorkshire residents who want to delve into their family history or discover stories behind their houses are to be offered tips from the experts. An event for amateur historians will be held at Harrogate Pavilions next month, with those in
PERFOMERS and musicians with a debt of gratitude to “York’s Very Own Mr Music Man” will come together to present Bev Jones: My Life In Music on April 14, the day of his 73rd birthday. The song and dance extravaganza will take place at the Riley
MARKET traders have given a mixed response to plans to extend pedestrianised hours in streets in the centre of York. As reported in The Press yesterday, City of York Council is to extend the period of time that vehicles are barred from city-centre
A YORK sportsman is seeking support as he takes on his latest challenge – funding the racing wheelchair he needs to pursue his Paralympic dream. Tiaan Bosch, 32, from Woodthorpe, needs his own custom-made wheelchair if he is to progress to international
THE Rev Nicholas Henshall, vicar of Christ Church in Harrogate, has been appointed as Acting Archdeacon of Richmond in North Yorkshire. Janet Henderson, who became Archdeacon in 2007, has left to become the first woman Dean of Llandaff Cathedral
A VACANCY for a councillor has arisen at Langtoft Parish Council. A by-election to fill the vacancy will be held if ten electors of the parish write to the chief executive of East Riding of Yorkshire Council at County Hall, Beverley, East Yorkshire
GLOBAL insurance company Hiscox is hosting an open day to recruit staff for its new York office on February 28. The open day, hosted by James Scottwood, HR manager at Hiscox, will provide a chance for members of the public from York and the surrounding
LONG-RUNNING BBC show Question Time will be broadcast from York next month. The televised debate, hosted by David Dimbleby, will be in York on March 21, with political and public figures answering questions from members of the public. A venue
THIEVES stole a pony trap from a field in Balne, between 1pm on February 8, and 3pm on February 12. The trap is a green two-wheeled vehicle with carriage wheels, hardwood seats and black shafts, which has been extended by about two feet. Anyone
We launched our Stamp Out Poverty campaign to raise awareness of the many people struggling to make ends meet. KATE LIPTROT talks to one family living in difficult conditions. IN a one-bedroom flat, plagued with mould, mum Donna D’Arcy fears for
THE life of a York-born physician will be celebrated with a special event from the University of York next month. John Snow was born into poverty in the city on March 15, 1813, and became a physician, best known for his work on cholera, ether and
A CHARITY worker who had six of her organs transplanted after being given six months to live has returned to work. Dawn Carter, of Northallerton, has become one of three patients in Britain to survive a single six-organ transplant operation, in
A NORTH Yorkshire motorcyclist is planning a remarkable 15,000-mile charity ride from York to South Africa in memory of seven-year-old cancer victim Jamie Inglis. Michael Atkins, 42, said he will travel on a Triumph Tiger 800 XC across two continents
AN East Yorkshire school has been awarded more than £1,000 worth of musical instruments. Goole High School was given three guitars, a drum kit, cymbals, along with plectrums and guitar strings, worth a total of £1,150, after applying for funding
