YORKSHIRE today signed former Clifton Alliance star Aaron Finch as an overseas player for a portion of the 2014 county campaign. The powerful Australian opening batsman has been predominantly signed to play in the NatWest T20 Blast for the Vikings
LANRE Oyebanjo is bracing himself for another breezy day when York City tackle Plymouth Argyle in Devon this weekend. The south-west has been worst hit by the recent gale-force weather and, while Oyebanjo confesses that he would rather play in
Tadcaster Grammar School Year 7 student Adam Knipe was instantly dubbed a lucky mascot. With the school sponsoring the Northern Counties East League match between hosts Tadcaster Albion and Garforth Town as part of a new tie-up between school and
OLD Malton St Mary’s are on the cusp of making club history after reaching the final of the North Riding FA Saturday County Cup. Striker Danny Fogg and goalkeeper Toby Wells were the heroes in the semi-final against Teesside League side Whinney
YORK City Ladies enjoyed a 3-2 North-East Women’s Regional League win over Whitley Bay thanks to goals from Lisa Bjornstad, Lauren Shuttleworth and Beth Clayton. The success was their third in the league on the spin, taking them to second in the
Thirsk and Sowerby Harrier Nicola Booth did well to come 33rd, after a long lay-off, clocking 27 minutes and ten seconds in the ladies’ race of the latest North Yorkshire/South Durham cross-country meeting at Richmond. Club-mates included Faith
LEADERS Marcia Bishopthorpe beat Golden Slipper and title rivals Tramways ‘B’ to strengthen their grip on the York Black Sheep Mixed Darts League. Slipper’s Doreen Johnstone shot out on 100 after firing a 133 score, but Marcia’s Michelle Britton
Leaders Fulford ‘A’ suffered a second successive defeat in the York Conservative Clubs’ Carlsberg UK Snooker League as their ‘B’ team recovered from 2-1 behind to win 4-3. Glen Mountain (30 break) and Andy Marshall (36 break) moved the ‘A’ team
ROWNTREE RUFC were held to a 12-12 draw at Selby fourths – a side they had beaten easily at Mille Crux. Selby scored an unconverted try to lead 5-0 at half-time, but then ’Trees’ Alex Ulyet scored two tries, courtesy of fine breaks made by Chris
Yorkshire pair Martyn Moxon and Andrew Gale today revealed their delight at the show-stopping capture of Aaron Finch. Although signing him to play in Twenty20 cricket is arguably the most exciting part of the deal for Yorkshire supporters, the
DEFENDING champion Martin Lowe is aiming for a magnificent seven at this weekend’s York & District Table Tennis Closed Championship. The perennial number one seed took his sixth title 12 months ago and is the favourite again to prevail in the
John Quinn, who had a whole host of entries lined up this week for Forced Family Fun, has opted to send his progressive gelding to Musselburgh today and the hint should be heeded. A Flat winner when previously trained by Michael Bell at Newmarket
A DOG owner has told of the moment her golden retriever tumbled 104ft from a North Yorkshire viaduct – but somehow survived. Lola, who is 19 months old, was enjoying her walk when she jumped over the wall of the Nidd Viaduct near Harrogate and
ARCHAEOLOGICAL digs on the site of a new £22 million road in East Yorkshire have been completed. Samples taken from the site of the Beverley Southern Relief Road will now be analysed, with work on building earth embankments and installing drainage
PART of the A64 between York and Malton was blocked yesterday after a van crashed into the back of a car. The collision happened on the eastbound stretch of the road at Whitwell-on-the-Hill at about 10.45am. The driver of the black Ford Transit
A THIRD of people in York don’t answer their landline phone in order to avoid nuisance callers, a phone company has revealed. The numbers come from phone provider TalkTalk, which said many people feel unsafe in their own homes because of nuisance
CITY leaders last night faced calls to refuse to set a budget including millions of pounds in cuts as a protest against Government austerity measures. York People’s Assembly asked City of York Council’s Labour cabinet to “take a stand” and abandon
THESE young people from across York attended a ceremony to mark the completion of their Duke of Edinburgh Awards. The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Julie Gunnell, presented the certificates at the Citadel, in Gillygate. The scheme offers a challenging
THE history of a Ryedale railway station has been revisited in a new book – 50 years since it closed. Kirkbymoorside History Group has helped retired scientist Dr Sue Oldfield publish a book about her grandfather, James Herbert Dobson, station
A CONTROVERSIAL scheme to attract more shoppers to a North Yorkshire market town by introducing high street car parking charges has been approved. North Yorkshire County Council’s Hambleton area committee agreed visitors parking in Northallerton
NOBODY likes a litter lout, but with the proliferation of leaflets being handed out these days in York city centre, we can see that it’s tempting for some people to discard them thoughtlessly. And it’s even worse in the evening, with nightclubs
MORE than 40,000 motorists have been fined for crossing Lendal Bridge since controversial traffic restrictions came in last summer. But almost a quarter of the fines issued were challenged – and more than 6,000 appeals were successful. Despite
THANK you for alerting York residents to the council’s plans to site a nine-day event of camping and entertainments on Monk Stray to coincide with Le Grand Depart (The Press, February 7). How and when was planning permission for this granted when
LOOKING at the financial situation of North Yorkshire County Council and its public transport cuts in the most isolated areas of the county, I can only see as a support measure – and not an alternative – for people to run community transport schemes
CITY of York Council’s failed legal challenge against the Government’s planning inspector’s ruling on the 200-home Grain Store site was clearly misguided and showed poor judgement (The Press, February 8). The council claimed the inspector’s decision
IT was a case of “Beanie there, done that” for these girls from Elvington Church of England Primary School when they sold Beanie toys to raise money for St Leonard’s Hospice. The pupils from Class 6 met hospice mascot Lenny The Bear as they handed
HAVE any runners in York missed out on a place in the BUPA Great North Run? Heart Research UK is a Yorkshire-based national charity that funds pioneering research into heart disease as well as encouraging people to live a heart-healthy lifestyle
A WOMAN broke a man’s cheekbone with a plank of wood, kicked his sister in the head and hit his mother with a beer can in three separate incidents, York Crown Court heard. Laura Louise Carrington, 25, began the violence at a party by running at
WITH all the flooding that has dominated the media recently and the report by the Met Office chief scientist Dame Julie Slingo, and I quote: “While there was not yet definitive proof”, all the evidence supported the theory that climate change had played
NOW that thousands of homes along the River Thames are threatened following exceptional rainfall, the Government is at last taking climate change and flooding seriously. ‘Exceptional’ floods in 2000, 2007, 2012 (the wettest year on record) and
We would like to thank the 70 or so people who attended the first of a new series of community conversation meetings in Haxby and Wigginton ward recently. The meeting was very informative and the council is keen to work in partnership with the
THE recent revelation from the council regarding the expected loss of 250 council jobs over the next two years reminds me of the story of the fat politician. The said gentleman sat in the best restaurant in town, eating the best food, drinking the
KATE LOCK’S scare stories on fracking don’t stand up to scrutiny (Column, February 7). The “earthquakes” are minor tremors, smaller than a bus going past your house. A fracking well uses much less water than a golf course. Water pollution is unlikely
FOR many years all authorities have emphasised that smoking in confined spaces is detrimental to the health of non-smokers in the same space. Smoke-free leglislation in 2004/6 has consequently resulted in hotels, pubs, cafés, etc, being smoke-free
100 years ago “W” wrote: “Is it impossible to introduce by way of effort some scheme whereby the Ouse is not able to claim so many victims? I value to the utmost the lofty ideal set by our coroner. But the matter should not rest there. There
THREE people have been arrested as police continue their investigation into an armed robbery at an East Yorkshire post office. A large sum of cash was stolen when a man in a balaclava threatened staff at Hornsea Post Office in Cliff Road, Hornsea
A LEADING Catholic boarding school in Ryedale has appointed its first ever lay headmaster. David Lambon will join Ampleforth College from St Malachy’s College in Belfast, and will take over in September this year. He will replace Fr Gabriel
PUPILS from across York and North Yorkshire converged on Fulford School to take part in a UK engineering challenge. Pupils from six schools – Selby High, Joseph Rowntree, Manor CE, Canon Lee, St Olave’s and Fulford – became real-life engineers
THE wait for Wes Anderson’s much-anticipated all-star caper The Grand Budapest Hotel will end officially on March 7, but before then City Screen, York has arranged a couple of sneak previews for Sunday, March 2. The Picturehouse cinema also will
SHOPS across East Yorkshire are to get a tax cut of up to £1,000 over the next two years. The business rate relief agreed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council will apply to all occupied retail properties in Pocklington, Stamford Bridge, Market Weighton
YORKSHIRE councils are asking the public for their views on sexual health services across the county. City of York Council and North Yorkshire County Council took over responsibility for local sexual health services earlier this year, and now commission
WAYS of raising the profile of Selby and bringing in more investment have been discussed at a business breakfast summit involving local companies and organisations. The event, organised by Selby District Council and hosted by Drax Power Ltd, agreed
Easingwold is hailed as an essential foodie pit stop, but now independent retailers face threats from a 25,000 square feet supermarket. MATT CLARK looks at the pros and cons of convenience versus quality. MIDDLE England is the stuff of dreams,
A MANUFACTURER of noise measurement products is celebrating its 45th year in business with a record growth of 40 per cent. As the business expands, Filey-based Pulsar Instruments has set itself the target of becoming the world leader in its field
MOBILE connectivity at the Winter Olympics in Sochi has been provided for thousands of users by a York-based communications specialist. Cellhire, based at Clifton Park, has delivered about 15,000 connections for the Games through a partnership
CHILDREN at a York school are planning a special “Dr Bike” day to show their bikes just how much they love them on Valentine’s Day. Pupils at Archbishop of York’s CE Junior School in Bishopthorpe are staging the day, which will feature a bike wash
THE average wage in York would need to rise by £22,000 to keep up with soaring house prices, new research has shown. The charity Shelter said it had examined wage and house price inflation since 1997 in every area of the region. The information
A drink-driver who was nearly four times the limit has been banned from the roads for two-and-a-half years. York magistrates also gave Nicholas Martin Scherer, 25, a 12-month prison sentence suspended for a year on condition he observes a 12-hour
CYCLISTS and pedestrians are finding their way along a York cycle path repeatedly blocked by flooding, following work to bury power cables underground. Flooding problems have plagued the track, to the rear of Ambleside Avenue in Osbaldwick, for
TOUGHER rules on flyers being handed out in York could be considered in an attempt to clean up the city-centre. A “no flyer zone” has already been introduced in parts of central Leeds, with those who distribute promotional leaflets, cards and stickers
HOTELS in York are filling up ahead of a political conference which is set to boost the city’s economy by more than £600,000. The Liberal Democrats’ Spring Conference will be held at the Barbican between March 7 and 9, with 1,400 delegates and
STUDENTS, staff, and residents gathered at the University of York for a gala celebrating Chinese New Year. They were joined by members of the Consulate General of China and York’s Civic Party at the University’s Central Hall. Welcoming the
INSURANCE giant Aviva has admitted it is paying compensation to more than half a million customers following historical errors at its York-based division. The Aviva Life business, which is predominantly based in York and employs around 2,500 people
A NEW rural crime network has been launched in North Yorkshire with the aim of tackling issues in rural areas. The National Rural Crime network aims to unite rural areas by looking at operations in various communities, sharing best practice, and
Richard III is to make history by becoming not only the last English king to die in battle, but also the first to have his genetic code sequenced. Scientists want to map the king’s DNA before his remains and any samples taken from them are reinterred
WHEN a York scientist witnessed his partner recovering from a double lung transplant he was inspired to devise a revolutionary new technique to help patients after major surgery. Professor Dave Smith, of the University of York’s Department of Chemistry
Brayton Players will present Dick Whittington for their annual show next week and for one member of the cast it will be an extra special production. Celebrating her 30th anniversary in the players’ production will be Vanessa Smith, who first appeared
RESIDENTS in East Yorkshire have just over a week to submit their nominations for this year’s Chairman’s Awards. The awards, run by East Riding of Yorkshire Council, honour people, companies and organisations who have improved the area where they
THE first “cuckoo” of spring has been spotted on the beach of the East Yorkshire coastline by a group of wildlife enthusiasts. Participants on a walk organised by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust spotted a juvenile cuckoo ray seafish washed up on the tide
A WEDDING with a difference took place at a parish church in York, writes Fran Rankin. Seven-year-old Freddie Wilson “married” Phillipa Cranmer, six, at St Mary’s Church in Haxby in front of a congregation of more than 100 classmates and parents
YORK could be the city where the Church of England votes to allow women to become bishops, two years after it was the scene for a major defeat on the issue. The church debated the divisive subject for years up to July 2012 when members of its ruling
FIRE safety chiefs have praised a family who escaped their burning York home and said the life-saving precautions they took should act as an example to others. Michael Ward was woken in the early hours of Monday by the smoke alarm going off at
HEALTH chiefs and councillors in York have welcomed new rules which could lead to smoking in cars with children becoming illegal. An amendment to the Children and Families Bill has given Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt the power to make it an offence
TOP digital gaming professionals are speaking in York as the city hosts the launch of a new research project linking the industry with social science. The University of York is today hosting the Game Intelligence event,, which marks the official
SPECIALIST officers dedicated to stamping out loan sharks are targeting Scarborough in a new campaign. The England Illegal Money Lending Team has joined North Yorkshire County Council and Scarborough Borough Council to raise awareness of the dangers
NEW delivery routes were this week introduced for postal deliveries in Northallerton. Royal Mail said the changes would mean some residents may receive their post earlier or later than previously. The company said many people will still get
WATER bills in East Yorkshire will be lower than expected this year, Yorkshire Water have confirmed. The bills will rise by an average of £6 instead of the planned £12 following industry regulator Ofwat’s decision. Work in Bridlington will
PLANS for new council houses in York are being unveiled today. A project in Fenwick Street, near Bishopthorpe Road, will see eight apartments aimed at older tenants who want to downsize from larger homes being created. The site was outlined
NEW figures have revealed 150 police officers and staff in our region have been caught breaching data protection laws. Eighty police officers and civilian workers with North Yorkshire Police and 70 with Humberside Police have been disciplined for
