MORE than 40 people were arrested across North Yorkshire yesterday, as part of a major police campaign. Operation Hawk has been running since June, but a special day of action took place yesterday with increased patrols in city and town centres
THE body of an elderly woman has been found in a North Yorkshire river. A member of the public found the woman’s body in the River Nidd, close to the viaduct near Mother Shipton’s Cave, at about 8.50am today. Police are looking for anyone who
A TRAIN guard has been threatened and abused on a journey from York. This man is wanted in connection with the incident in which the train guard was threatened, sworn at and had his phone snatched off him when he asked a man to pay for a valid
YORK theatre company Riding Lights are on the road with two festive shows, Nigel Forde’s joyous cavalcade, Only 80 Miles To Christmas!, and Antony Dunn’s feather-flying tale of the first Christmas, Goose Chase. Directed by Paul Birch, Forde’s one-hour
MORE than 50 York homes have been hit by a power cut. A spokesman for Northern Powergrid said five properties in the Foxwood Lane area had planned power cuts between 10am and 4.30 pm today to allow for work to take place. But he said this work
MEET the one-year-old Westie who has become a big daddy after mating with a fully-grown Rottweiler to create a new cross-breed. The surprise union between Joey, the West Highland Terrier, and canine giant Zara has produced 11 cross-bred puppies
THE man who died at a caravan park near Selby has been named as Sean Boy Finney. Mr Finney was found unconscious in a caravan at The Ranch park in Cliffe, at just after 3am on Sunday, and was pronounced dead at the scene despite repeated efforts
‘Tis the season to be jolly - but spare a thought for your pet, as Christmas can often spell danger for cats and dogs as owners forget to extend their seasonal goodwill to protecting their furry friends. To combat this we have come up with top
ON-LOAN York City goalkeeper Aaron McCarey has thanked his new team-mates for giving him a quiet afternoon on his debut. McCarey was only required to save two shots during Saturday’s 0-0 home draw with Rochdale and admitted that was testament to
NEW York City shot-stopper Aaron McCarey is a 12-yard terror to forwards. Aside from his debut for City in the goalless draw against Rochdale, McCarey’s only other senior appearance this season came in Wolves’ Johnstone’s Paint Trophy victory over
Yorkshire have awarded four youngsters junior professional contracts. York Cricket Club bowler Ben Coad, Stamford Bridge all-rounder Will Rhodes, Oliver Robinson and Jonny Tattersall have all been rewarded for their development last summer, which
A LAW firm which has an office in York has closed suddenly. Richardson & Co, which has an office in Peckitt Street, near Cliffords Tower, has published a statement on its website stating the business is closed. The firm, which also operated
BOOTHAM ‘B’s unbeaten run in the York Conservative Clubs’ Faber Shield Billiards League came to an end when they lost 5-1 to Fulford. Wayne Puleston (22 break) held off Bootham’s Alf Appleby (27 break), then Terry Ward (23, 29 breaks), Alan Reed
MARK WILLIAMS bemoaned his worst match in “20 years as a professional” as Ricky Walden knocked him out of the williamhill.com UK Championship in a final frame shootout. Walden was 3-1 behind at the mid-session interval and won four on the spin
EVEN Ding Junhui reckons his winning run is “incredible” but the Chinese superstar said he feels no pressure as he bids to emulate snooker legend Stephen Hendry. Ding comfortably beat Fergal O’Brien 6-1 to record his 22nd straight victory in ranking
THE Rocket finally exploded into life at the williamhill.com UK Championship – but still reckons there could be an unexpected name engraved on the trophy on Sunday. Ronnie O’Sullivan produced some scintillating snooker after the mid- session interval
NEIL ROBERTSON will put friendship aside in a bid to “destroy” Joe Perry when they meet in the williamhill.com UK Championship today. The world number one negotiated a tricky clash with Li Hang 6-3 to face his pal in the last 16 and said: “I just
STEPHEN MAGUIRE said beating John Higgins to reach the quarter-finals of the UK Championship was a “proud moment”. The 2004 York victor triumphed 6-3 and will play either world number one Neil Robertson or Joe Perry in the quarter-final tomorrow
SECOND-PLACED Acomb moved to within a point of the summit with a 4-3 win over leaders Heworth in the York Conservative Clubs’ Slater Cup Snooker Pairs League. The rivals shared the first four frames, with Heworth holding a 13-point aggregate advantage
A STRIKING blow has hit Leeds United as they bid to extend an impressive home record in the Sky Bet Championship. Front-man Dexter Blackstock, who is on loan from Nottingham Forest, is out of the visit of Wigan Athletic to Elland Road tonight with
THE North Riding County FA will be running a futsal referee course next month. The course, at a venue in the Catterick area yet to be confirmed, is in conjunction with the Wensleydale Junior Football League, who are struggling to find any qualified
THE University of York Boat Club will host their annual White Rose Head race on Saturday. The three-kilometre head-to-head rowing race on the River Ouse between the university boathouse and the Lowther pub involves university rowing clubs from
John Quinn, whose Cockney Sparrow ran a mighty race at Newcastle on Saturday to chase home the top-class My Tent Or Yours in the Grade 1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle, has good prospects of figuring on the scoresheet at Catterick this afternoon. The Norton
AN alleged murderer has claimed he saw four masked men running out of the cottage where police later found a battered body. Graham Richardson denied that he killed antiques dealer Peter Battle last December, but told a jury he felt partly to blame
A MAN allegedly attacked two people at a service in York Minster attended by both the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, a jury heard. As a procession including the choir and archbishops was moving up the South aisle for the morning service for
WE always think accidents only happen to other people, but BBC1’s Helicopter Heroes shows what happens when people become those other people. One of them is our racing journalist Tom O’Ryan, who suffered serious injuries in a freak accident earlier
WORKMEN digging up a street in a North Yorkshire town discovered a skeleton which dates back to pre-Roman times. A team from Yorkshire Water were digging a hole for a new sewer in Sutton Street, Norton, to help prevent flooding in the area, when
ONE of the great things about visiting many European cities is how alive the streets are in the evenings. The shops don’t all shut at 5.30pm, so there isn’t that lull between the shops closing and the pubs, bars and restaurants getting busy that
COUN James Alexander has announced the former Airspeed factory in Piccadilly is likely to become a “four-star hotel with business conferencing facilities” (The Press, November 28). By making this announcement now, Coun Alexander effectively pre-empts
I BELIEVE it to be more than a rumour about the closure of Lendal Bridge (Letters, December 2). It is only since the opening of the new council palace that these punitive restrictions have been imposed. The only way the council could offload the
I LIVED in York until 1973 when I moved to Derbyshire for business reasons. We always had The Press at home and when I return to visit friends and relations, I always buy a copy and it never disappoints. Saturday November 23 was no exception
ON PAGE 19 of The Press of November 29, there was a report of a lorry visiting York with associated road closures on Wednesday, December 4. So what is the “Coca Cola Christmas lorry”? Is Coca Cola paying for the road closure signs to be put in
I AM trying to find out information on a vintage car built in York around 1908 by Thomas Horsley and sons (gunsmiths) based at the Old Swan Works, Central Garage, 10 Coney Street. Around this time they patented a disc valve engine. Better known
NORTH Yorkshire-based politician Godfrey Bloom has won an award – for gobbledygook. The controversial former UKIP Euro-MP – now an Independent MEP for Yorkshire and Humber – was today named the winner of the Plain English Campaign’s Foot In Mouth
HAVING to battle my way across Parliament Street recently, I am bemused by the city traders who complain that restricted access to certain roads has led to a drop in trade. How many more people can be squeezed into York? However, a more serious
A GP who was strongly criticised over her treatment of a North Yorkshire cancer patient has agreed to a series of restrictions by the General Medical Council (GMC). The council has told patient Christine Hutchinson, of Westow, near Malton, that
NOT being religious myself, I find that the nativity story however still bears a striking historical resemblance to contemporary times. Old chestnuts prevail involving taxation, persecution, inequality, homelessness, poverty and decree by diktat
I WISH to add to the growing concerns relating to the funding of local community centres. The Haxby and Wigginton Oaken Grove Community Centre has now lost more than £17,000 a year in council grants, much of which enabled us to run a successful
THE British public is apprehensive about the flood of newcomers from Eastern Europe expected after January. Britain is already overcrowded and impoverished. Conservative government ignore protests from local councils and residents against taking
FOLLOWING reports about the improvements to the public toilets in York, I think the change is well overdue. I would rather pay 40 pence for a clean and pleasant self-cleaning automated toilet than suffer the free, unpleasant and hardly cleaned
ALIENS take centre stage at the Minster School this Christmas as its youngest children bring some extraterrestrial twists to the traditional nativity play. The children of the reception and Years One and Two classes will be putting on their annual
OH, what is it about post war buildings that reduces people to such levels of strange hatred (Derek Reed’s letter of December 2)? Can I be daring and say that I like Hilary House? I quite like Holgate Villa too; and, deep intake of breath Press
100 years ago The Bishop of Birmingham, who was keenly interested in athletics, had written to the secretary of the Birmingham Athletic Institute a letter in which he said: “Do you think it would be possible or useful to try to get our young fellows
THE lights are shining outside York Hospital after the Christmas tree was “switched on”. Lucy Lowthian, fundraising manager for York Teaching Hospital Charity (YTHC), flipped the switch on the festive illuminations for patients and visitors to
YORK residents battling mental health issues may be given a self-help reading list run through the city’s libraries as part of their therapy. The Books on Prescription scheme, operated by City of Council in partnership with national health organisations
It wasn’t only sheep and cattle on offer at York Auction Centre this week. There was a real Yuletide mood with tinsel and baubles. MARY O’CONNOR went along. YOU wouldn’t expect chandeliers and marquees at a farmer’s market, now would you? Well
9:01pm Now listen to Ronnie talk about his display following his 6-0 win over Robert Milkins. Sensational stuff from the Rocket - breaks of 76, 63, 93, 58, 67, 57. 8:30pm
FORTY years in business is being celebrated at a York agricultural feed firm with a significant investment in new machinery. Founded in 1973 at Storwood, near York, Peter Rhodes Feed Services (PRFS) has expanded its range of milling machinery with
MANUFACTURERS in Yorkshire are returning to local production due to issues around quality, cost and delivery. One in five respondents to the Manufacturing Advisory Service’s latest barometer stated concerns over lead times and reliability were
SELBY man Ibrar Ali’s team is in the lead, two days into the Walking With The Wounded charity trek to the South Pole. Captain Ali, from Eggborough, posted an update online ahead of the third day of the challenge, saying he and his teammates in
NATWEST has outlined its intentions to support York’s house building ambitions at an event promoting access to finance. NatWest’s Real Estate Finance team hosted an event at The Royal York Hotel, yesterday, inviting a number of the city’s house
A laptop and jewellery box were stolen from a house at Bennymoor Lane, Osgodby. A rear window was forced open, and CCTV footage from neighbouring house showed an Asian man entering the neighbouring driveway during the morning.
THREE York men who joined in a sustained violent attack at a city pub have been given custodial sentences and a fourth has had his jail sentence suspended. Jack Small, 22, of Dodsworth Avenue, Reece Sandford, 21, of Scarcroft Road, Thomas Smith
TOM O’RYAN, The Press’s award-winning racing journalist who suffered serious injuries in a freak accident earlier this year, will feature on BBC 1’s Helicopter Heroes programme next week. A cameraman from the programme was on board the Yorkshire
POLICE have renewed their appeal for witnesses to a crash in North Yorkshire which killed three people, including a woman and her son. Two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene after a Ford Focus travelling towards the Malton bacon
A CITY-CENTRE shopping centre could become the focus of any plans to boost York’s night-time economy by extending the hours stores stay open. City of York Council officials have said the city often suffers from a “lull in activity” between people
LECTURERS and students in York have marched through the city centre as part of a row over pay. The protest march went from Micklegate Bar to St Helen’s Square yesterday, as thousands of lecturers and support staff went on their second national
A MAJOR police operation will take place in North Yorkshire today, with scores of officers on the streets to help crack down on crime across the county. In Operation Hawk the road crime team, road policing group and the firearms support unit will
CITY leaders have rubber-stamped £10 million in funding for a new bridge allowing York’s key “teardrop” site to finally be developed. The money from City of York Council’s Economic Infrastructure Fund (EIF) will pay for an access route opening
CHILDREN’S centres in York have been chosen to trial a new NSPCC film to help parents cope with their children crying. The film, which will be rolled out across the city in the new year, aims to help parents cope with the stresses of sleeplessness
ONE thousand trees have been planted by volunteers at a new community woodland near York. People from across North Yorkshire took part in a special family planting day at Three Hagges Jubilee Wood at Escrick Park Estate, between York and Selby.
YEAR 7 and 8 pupils from nine secondary schools across York showed off their speaking skills at the York Civic Trust Public Speaking Competition last week. Set up in 2012, the competition invites schools to enter a team of two pupils to speak for
COUNCIL bosses in Ryedale have put tips on how to deal with garden waste online after collections stopped over winter. Green waste will not be collected in the district until the start of March after the service was cut back because of funding
A CASTING call to appear in one of Hollywood’s next blockbusters has been netted by a Whitby business. Caedmon Nets has been asked by Briar Rose Productions to supply hand knitted nets for Disney’s latest film Maleficent. Starring Angelina
RESIDENTS in the Hambleton district are being urged to collect food and household items to distribute to struggling communities this Christmas. The Hambleton Foodshare project, which supplies parcels to people with temporary financial problems
CITY of York Council has been praised for its efforts to increase car sharing within the organisation. The Energy Saving Trust Fleet Hero Awards recognise the work of organisations that are reducing fuel bills and lowering their carbon footprints
VETERAN rockers Status Quo will perform at Scarborough Open Air Theatre next summer, it has been confirmed. The band, who played a sell-out concert earlier this year, will take to the stage again on Saturday, July 12. Tickets cost £35, plus
ROADWORKS will be taking place on Eastfield Avenue in Haxby next week. The road will be resurfaced from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday from Monday. There will be no on-street parking during the work, but access will be maintained for residents
Hundreds of local people and visitors enjoyed the festivities at Tadcaster’s Christmas Market and Festival. Scores of stalls lined the streets of Westgate and Kirkgate and children enjoyed all the fun of the fair with rides, face painting and a
A NEW and expanding North Yorkshire brewery is hoping to open its doors to the public next spring. Brass Castle Brewery, previously based in Pocklington as a nanobrewery, has now moved to Yorkersgate in Malton, with founder Phil Saltonstall saying
PEOPLE are placing their lives at risk by putting a brave face on health problems to avoid worrying their loved ones. A survey carried out by York-based Benenden Health in partnership with charity Beating Bowel Cancer found people in the region
DEVELOPERS could win permission to turn a North Yorkshire village pub into housing next week. Hambleton District Council planners have said proposals by York-based Skelwith Properties Ltd to convert the Three Tuns in Raskelf, near Easingwold, into
