POLICE searching for missing Barlby woman Denise Preston have located her safe and well. Denise was found in York shortly after 3pm today. Officers have thanked the media and members of the public for their help to locate her.
YORK housebuilder Persimmon has enjoyed a “strong finish” to the year as it cements a 21 per cent rise in turnover to £2.1 billion. In a trade update, released ahead of its final results due next month, the Group says it has built the business
A BID to raise £50,000 to keep Viking treasure in North Yorkshire has been launched today. The nationally significant Bedale Hoard of gold and silver was found by a metal detectorist in May 2012 and includes a gold sword pommel and a silver neck
MICHAEL Ingham will welcome competition for his place as York City boss Nigel Worthington looks to recruit another goalkeeper prior to Saturday’s trip to Northampton. Former Northern Ireland international Ingham is currently the only senior shot-stopper
Having endured a relegation battle that went to the final day of last term, York City goalkeeper Michael Ingham is hoping the team’s back-to-back wins against Morecambe and Dagenham & Redbridge can act as a platform for the 17th-placed side to
RICCALL UNITED want to end more than 35 years of hurt by grabbing the York Minster Engineering League premier division title. The Selby club last got their hands on the top prize in the 1977/8 season but are ideally placed to make a run for the
YORK College are hosting a Long Term Player Development football workshop tomorrow night. It will be held in the Lecture Theatre from 6pm to 8.30pm, is accredited by the North Riding County FA and can be utilised as Charter Standard Club CPD hours
TEN Thirsk and Sowerby Harriers were among the 241 finishers of the Old Monks’ Race at Hart near Hartlepool. Rob Burn ran well to come 39th in 36 minutes and 16 seconds ahead of fellow Harriers Stuart Waters 161st in 46.33, Brian Smith 166th in
HEWORTH ARLC under-10s are seeking new players for when they get back into action. The team will next train at 10.30am on Saturday at their Elmpark Way ground. Anyone interested in joining up can phone Dave Edgar on 07957 982826.
LEEDS United boss Brian McDermott is hoping to seal the arrival of a new player before the Championship derby against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday. Keen to inject new blood into a squad that sits eighth in the Championship but, without a win
Former champion hurdler Rock On Ruby may be conspicuous by his absence from the declared runners in today’s featured novices’ chase at Doncaster, but his regular jockey Noel Fehily may find himself aboard the winner in any case. With trainer Harry
HOME comforts are expected to make the Easterby family key players when the new point-to-point season gets under starter’s orders this weekend. The Yorkshire Area Point-to-Point Club’s 2014 campaign begins at Sheriff Hutton on Sunday at East End
Azeem Rafiq has been trying his hand at a different sport in a bid to get ready for the new county campaign with Yorkshire. The attacking off-spinner spent the early part of the off-season scoring goals rather than taking wickets during a spell
Yorkshire are breaking from tradition to prepare for the forthcoming county season in Sri Lanka. The White Rose squad have spent the last four pre-seasons in Barbados during March, but are opting for the searing sub-continental heat of Colombo
TWO young apprentices have received awards as a local authority celebrates success in supporting jobs. Hambleton District Council launched its apprentice scheme 15 months ago as part of the Changing Lives Building Better Business project. Through
PEOPLE in our region are gambling more than £370 million a year on instant betting machines, shocking figures reveal. York Central MP Hugh Bayley called the fixed-odds betting terminals, or FOBTs, the “crack cocaine of gambling”, as MPs prepared
SEEDS of change are sprouting behind the scenes at Harrogate Flower Show as a new director lays down his roots. Nick Smith, 35, pictured, is taking on the role of show director, having stepped down from his position as development manager for culture
THIEVES broke into an isolated shed in a field in Pinfold Lane, Kirk Smeaton, overnight on Sunday, and stole equestrian equipment. Police urged anyone offered horse tack for sale to phone them on 101, and owners of sheds or stables to ensure their
A NEW, fully accessible public toilet has been opened at York Hospital for people with disabilities. The Changing Places lavatories have more space than standard disabled facilities, and cost £60,000, with funding coming from the Friends of York
THIEVES stole a quad bike from a farm on the Hovingham to Malton road overnight on Saturday. As well as the green Kawasaki bike the thieves took a large number of power tools including chainsaws, strimmer and leaf blowers, a lawnmower, and a water
A MAN has told a jury he was repeatedly raped by an older boy when he was a child more than 20 years ago. The man was giving evidence yesterday at York Crown Court, where Christian Draper is standing trial accused of carrying out a series of sexual
YORK’S former heritage champion has accused city leaders of planning to sell a city-centre building which was once an aircraft factory to hotel developers in “clandestine” fashion. The sale of Reynard’s garage in Piccadilly, the 1930s home of aircraft
GAMBLERS in our region are spending more than £370 million a year on so-called “fixed odds betting terminals” – the instant-access gambling machines normally found in betting shops, where punters can spend up to £100 every 20 seconds. According
YORK council bosses have dismissed calls by Communities Minister Eric Pickles for weekly “grey bin” rubbish collections to be resumed. The Minister claimed people deserved a weekly bin collection service in return for their taxes, saying the Government
A YORK financial adviser who squandered money on escorts and gambling after defrauding clients out of £160,500 has been issued with a prohibition order by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Michael Bains, 47, of Holgate, was jailed last year
WHETHER or not global warming is to blame, the past few weeks have reminded us how much chaos storms can cause. North Yorkshire may have got away lightly so far, but cast your mind back to 2007 and it was a very different story. Then Pickering
SO THE Duke of Cambridge is to attend Cambridge University for ten weeks to learn how to run the Duchy of Cornwall estate in the future. Well, I have been in farming all my 81 years and if Prince William can learn to run an estate of that magnitude
RESIDENTS in Selby can raise their concerns about crime and policing in the district with the police and crime commissioner for North Yorkshire, Julia Mulligan, next week. Mrs Mulligan will be at Selby Community Centre in Scott Road, between 4.30pm
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove recently castigated Simon Cowell for his negative attitude to his school days, but many children hate school. Perhaps Gove should look at what our schools are doing these days. Our education system is out of step
CONSERVATIVE councillor George Barton (Letters, January 4) rightly criticises Labour’s “pompous cabinet”, yet indicates his party’s preference for even fewer “backbench councilors” to cover a larger and growing number of York electors. All other
YOUR photograph highlighting King’s Square as a European-style open piazza and, quote, “a world-class space” is already out of date. The clutter has returned. Plonked beside a tree is an enormous eco-waste solar compactor, which could be tucked
THE PRESS of December 30 reports that New Earswick and District Disabled Social Club is to shut. It is shocking and disgraceful that City of York Council should remove £5,500 of funding for a club that gives people with disabilities an opportunity
A PIONEERING £2m scheme to combat flooding in Pickering has started this week. More than two years after the first proposals had to be dropped because of escalating costs, construction work on the long-awaited flood storage reservoir got underway
WAS IT really necessary to end the year and start the new one with yet more car-hating nonsense from Paul Hepworth (Hopes for 2014, The Press, January 1)? He looks a reet barrel o’ laughs. It puts me in mind of local radio. Same old songs every
A WOMAN was arrested after a pedestrian was hit by a car in Wiske Avenue, Brough, East Yorkshire. Humberside Police said a silver Mercedes hit the 28-year-old man at about 6.20pm. He was taken to hospital with what were believed to be non-life
DAVID QUARRIE (Letters, November 29) has the audacity to assume that the majority of the UK population wants out of Europe. Yet until we have a referendum nobody can make such a claim on the evidence to hand. Jane Collins (Letters, same date
THE RSPCA has claimed the country is in the grip of a horse crisis as it investigates the case of two “neglected” animals seized from boggy land in York. The charity said a member of the public had called it before Christmas to say the horses were
I WOULD like to give some praise were it is due. I went to use the toilets at the Union Terrace car park last week with my disabled daughter and the attendant was so helpful and kind. We did not have the 40p to use the toilets, but that was not
ON BEHALF of Minster Lions Club of York, I would like to thank everyone who donated to our Christmas appeal with Rocking Rudolph. We have raised the record figure of £7,003, which is fantastic. I would also like to thank my fellow Lions and the
IN THE 1984 miners’ strike, at first Arthur Scargill and his men had the sympathy and support of the general public (Letters, January 7). They may well have prevailed but for one simple mistake. Scargill was afraid to call a national strike ballot
The Sixth Selby (Brayton) Scout Group Gold Cup Pack are the North Yorkshire County Six Factor 2013 champions. The event, which is held every two years, involves pack, district and county stages over two months. The Brayton groups’ Yellow Six
AFTER reading the praise for the Park&Ride bus driver for his help (Letters, December 31), I would like to add that all the drivers on the 24 bus are pleasant and helpful. As I now have to use a walking frame, which I couldn’t manage without
I WOULD like to thank the kind people who checked on me when I collapsed in town. I went down because of the lack of seating in Parliament Street. Between St Sampson’s Square to the fountain I saw one seat. Where have all the double benches gone
HAVING seen the pictures in newspapers and on TV of people standing on breakwaters, harbour walls, etc, during the high-winds and high seas surely shows how stupid some people are. I spent 13 years at sea and spent nearly half of this time on the
RESIDENTS have criticised plans by Selby District Council to buy land near a village in the district. Plans to buy 482 acres of land at Burn Airfield from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) will be discussed at a meeting of the council executive
A BRAVE 12-year-old girl has decided to have her flowing locks shaved off to raise funds for cancer research in memory of her mother who died from the disease. Poppy Harrison, who lives in Slingsby, wanted to do something after watching a television
RESIDENTS in East Yorkshire have been urged to look out for two vehicles seen in the area. Humberside Police said suspected poachers with two dogs were seen in fields close to the Full Sutton Industrial Estate at about 1.20pm on Sunday, in a silver
A NEW adoption hotline in East Yorkshire is to be staffed by volunteers who have adopted children themselves. The team will answer initial queries from people wanting more information about the adoption process from Being Family, the new name for
THIEVES stole a tractor from an open access barn in Mill Lane, Rawcliffe, near Selby, overnight on Sunday. Humberside Police said the red and black Massey Ferguson tractor was inoperable and had no batteries in it, so was probably placed on to
THE Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police has assured residents issues such as wildlife crime are taken “very seriously”, and denied speed cameras were used to generate income for the force. In a live webchat on Monday, Chief Constable Dave
100 years ago An excerpt from the Marsden parish magazine concerning carol singing said: “We feel bound to protest strongly against the profane practice that prevails here on Christmas Eve of parties of young men staying up all night to howl the
AN EVENING Of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show heads to the Grand Opera House, York, on March 9 with a new cast and a revamped show starring West End leading lady Aimie Atkinson, winner of the BBC Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre. That 2006 success
THE first phase of one of the biggest developments in York Racecourse’s history is continuing, with the aim of completing it by the start of this year’s racing season in May. Initial work at the northern end of the venue is seeing a new pathway
A FORMER RAF navigator whose career saw him play rugby with an African dictator has died at the age of 88. Ian Ryott Spaven was born in Whitby in 1925, the son of Scarborough midwife Agnes, and corn merchant and agricultural engineer, Herbert.
TREES at a North Yorkshire stately home have been named among the best in the county. The Tree Register, a national database, has identified four “champion” trees at Beningbrough Hall and Gardens, after the gardener Tom Longridge read about the
A PRISONS watchdog has withdrawn an assessment which reportedly described plans to close a women’s prison near York as “baffling”, after saying it should not yet have been published. Reports this week claimed the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB
In the latest of our occasional series on local churches, MATT CLARK visits a church once attended by Anne Brontë. It also boasts a curious Georgian mausoleum. IT was 16.40 hours on a bitterly cold afternoon in March 1945 when Flying Officer Lowe
RESIDENTS in Selby were this week unable to pay their council tax due to problems with the council’s computer systems. The problem was reported early on Monday morning, and was later revealed to be a software issue which stopped the authority being
A HOTEL thief who stole cash from a till and an office in a North Yorkshire town is being hunted by police. The suspect broke into the Travelodge at St Nicholas Cliff, in Scarborough, in the early hours of December 17, forcing open the till.
ALL eyes are on the future at Haxby Road PrimarySchool and Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy after both schools opted out of local authority control and formed the Ebor Academy Alliance. Executive head teacher Richard Ludlow talks to education reporter
TWO former trainee accountants have worked their way up to senior management roles as JWPCreers appoints its latest associates. The North Yorkshire firm, which has offices in York and Selby, now has six associates and seven full partners across
A NEW building development in the heart of London’s financial district is being made fire safe thanks to cable cleats manufactured in Rillington. Ellis, which manufacturers stainless-steel supports for cables, was contracted to supply its fire-proof
RESEARCHERS at the University of York have made important discoveries on how to conserve British butterflies using data collected by “citizen science” schemes. The country’s climate has warmed over the past four decades and many species, including
A BUILDING restoration specialist in York has hailed 2013 a record year for recognition, with 22 national and regional building conservation and apprenticeship awards. As well as the RIBA Stirling Prize For Architecture, as voted for by BBC TV
BUSINESSES in two Ryedale towns will have the chance to hear about council plans for two new visitor information points when local tourist information centres close in April. A town-centre firm in both Malton and Helmsley will be invited to become
A CHILDREN’S charity in York is looking for a new chairman to head up its work in providing new opportunities for children. York Playspace provides “chill-out zones” during term time at Moor Lane Youth Centre, Tang Hall Community Centre and the
PUPILS hosted a surprise visit by police sniffer dog Zam when he visited an East Yorkshire school. The three-year-old black Labrador, who is trained to hunt for drugs, was led on a tour of the toilets and grounds of Goole High School as part of
PLANS to build new homes on land attached to a Selby pub have been submitted to the council. The plans, by developer WA Hare, would see six new homes created in the car park area of the New Inn, at Barlby. If permission is granted, half a dozen
LORRY drivers have been sent a warning not to use a motorway bridge in East Yorkshire during high winds after a series of accidents led to huge tailbacks when the route was closed last month. Three trucks overturned on Ouse Bridge on the M62 in
RESIDENTS and businesses in the Hambleton district have less than two weeks left to have their say on their council’s next budget. Hambleton District Council has lost £1.6 million in funding in recent years – almost 30 per cent of the Government
A RYEDALE novelist’s book could soon be coming to the big screen as major film producers are queuing up to have a look at his work. Malton writer Ian Johnson’s latest book, The Witcher Keys, has so far received interest from Exclusive Media, the
People living in Selby will benefit from a selection of new homes for rent and shared ownership, made available thanks to a partnership between Selby District Council and a local housing association. Jephson Homes Housing Association, together
FIREFIGHTERS are getting closer to moving into their new base in the centre of York as construction work enters its final stages. The £2.3 million station on the site of the former Kent Street coach park, next to the Barbican Centre, was designed
DEVELOPERS have been dealt a blow in their plans to add more homes to a huge development in Ryedale, after planners said they should not be allowed to expand it. Persimmon Homes Yorkshire wants to raise the number of homes at the Westfield Nurseries
