The River Ouse through York and one of its tributaries are back on the second level of flood alert as rainwater from Wednesday’s storm runs off the Pennines. The Environment Agency this afternoon issued flood warnings for Naburn Lock, riverside
A YORK couple have described their shock after what “sounded like a bomb” going off in their home left them with broken windows and part of their roof missing. During the strong winds which battered York on Wednesday night, a 12ft steel framed
BABBLING Vagabonds present their magical and mischievous children’s theatre show The Brothers Grimm at the Milton Rooms, Malton, on February 20 at 7pm. Two brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, are on a quest to collect every word known to man but
YORK Light Youth will hold open auditions for the spring production of Disney’s High School Musical on Saturday in the form of a workshop, open to year seven and above. The production team of director John Hall, musical director Mike Thompson and
AFTER Tom Richards’ chilling one-night stand in The Ghost Hunter at York Theatre Royal in last October’s TakeOver Festival, The Press reviewer called for his ghost tour do force to be granted an extended run. What’s On is delighted to report that
THE University of York Gilbert and Sullivan Society is putting its own 21st century spin on Iolanthe from February 27 to March 1 at Central Hall on campus. “We’re using an all-new, hilarious modern-day script,” says publicity officer Morven Hamilton
JIMEOIN, the English-born Northern Irish comedian who found fame in Australia, is back in Blighty with his latest show, Yes, Yes, Whatever…?! On Saturday, he presents his signature surrealist observations and hawk-eyed dissection of the absurdities
THE Yorkie bar has been named Nestlé’s fastest growing confectionary product as the company reports global operating profits of £9.4 billion. The Yorkie chocolate bar, which is produced at Nestlé’s York factory in Haxby Road, saw sales grow by
DANNY John Jules, alias The Cat, is the fourth and final Red Dwarf leading cast member to confirm his appearance at Scarborough’s first comic convention this spring. This completes a major coup for the organisers of Sci Fi Scarborough, on the heels
JOHN McArdle will be making his York Theatre Royal debut from tomorrow as terminally ill brass band conductor Danny in Brassed Off, but he is no stranger to the city. “My daughter, Katie, went to the University of York to read sociology and English
YORK performance poet Henry Raby and musician Travels By Telephone introduce their fully formed new show, Practise Patience, on home turf at the Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green, on Saturday night. The 7.30pm performance combines the raw, honest
THE York New Musical Festival Association’s second annual Festival of New Musicals will take place from June 8 to 14 in a new location. The event will switch from the Joseph Rowntree Theatre to the studio theatre at the Upstage Centre Youth Theatre
THIRD year students at the University of York’s theatre, film and television department will present Moliere’s 17th century French comedy Tartuffe on March 7 at 7.30pm and March 8 at 2.30pm. Written in 1664, Tartuffe depicts a family torn apart
THE Press has teamed up with the Grand Opera House, York, for an exclusive Fame The Musical competition for children aged 12 to 16. “We’re offering the chance for one lucky boy or girl to win their ‘15 Minutes of Fame’,” says press officer Celestine
THE MB Soulshow will play Motown and soul classics at the Dunnington Reading Rooms, Church Street, Dunnington, York, from 7.30pm to midnight on March 8 in a fundraiser for the Dunnington Fayre. A licensed bar will be in operation and lots of dancing
THE Celtic Ladies are joined by special guests Dublin’s Irish Tenors at the Grand Opera House, York, tomorrow night. The Celtic quartet will be combining Irish favourites with music by The Carpenters, Adele, Celine Dion and Josh Groban, while the
IF Seven were a debut album by a 22-year-old hopeful, the music journals and weekend supplements would be making a big fuss of Lisa Stansfield. Rarely is an album so beautifully crafted and executed. But the pop world is very ageist, especially
SHOULD you be wondering, a ‘mendicant’ is defined as someone who lives by asking people for food or money. That would not seem to apply to Messrs Joe Pernice, of the Scud Mountain Boys and Pernice Brothers, Norman Blake, of Teenage Fanclub, and
GENTLE and melancholic, Time Of Dust is a moody, if short, collection of haunting tracks. Running to just about half an hour, the mini-album is a throwback to Maplewood – Harcourt’s first release in 2001 – and hints at the style his upcoming new
IF sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, just imagine if you’re the daughter of an American music titan – and said daughter has just released an album charting a pilgrimage to the roots of her dad. Such is the challenging backdrop to this release
THE queen of retro-soul has been treated for cancer, not that you’d know from the energy on display on her fifth album with the Dap-Kings. Opener Retreat! is an upbeat Motown-style stomp of a song, in which Jones delivers a scornful blast at a
SIMON Jeffes’ part exuberant folk, part minimalist aesthetic project Penguin Café Orchestra is gone in all but name since his untimely death. But this name-shortened incarnation, led by Jeffes’ son Arthur, continues to carry the torch, albeit with
BRITISH folk rock pioneers Fairport Convention return to Leeds City Varieties Music Hall on February 21. The veteran band now features Simon Nicol on guitar and lead vocals, Dave Pegg on bass, mandolin and backing vocals, Chris Leslie on fiddle
DAN le Sac vs Scroobius Pip are to play at the YO1 Festival in York on May 4. The duo have recorded three Top 40 albums, the latest, Repent Replenish Repeat, peaking at number 22 in the charts. After completing the first leg of their sell-out
YORK will have Buddy times two at the Grand Opera House from Monday. Glen Joseph and Roger Rowley will be sharing out performances of Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story in the week-long run when this most regular of visiting musicals returns once more
Only one question for… Singer, songwriter and percussive acoustic guitarist Newton Faulkner. Who will be on stage with you at York Barbican on Wednesday night, Newton? “It’s a mixture. Not quite a ‘band’, but more of a band than I’ve ever had
Only One Question for…. Fascinating Aida’s Dillie Keane. Why is your latest show called Charm Offensive? “I thought of it! Adele [Anderson] is normally the one who thinks them up. This time she said ‘Charm… something’, and I said, ‘how about
JOHN Bramwell, singer-songwriter and frontman of Manchester’s I Am Kloot, is taking a break from band commitments to perform a winter and spring set of intimate solo gigs. Setting out from the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on January 25, Bramwell is
AFTER 20 years of happy union between the Old White Swan, Goodramgate, and the Mardi Gras Band, a divorce was agreed this week. Although the pub cut the jazz to once a month last June, the final parting was amicable. Happily, Middleton’s Hotel
Punt & Dennis have been having satirical fun at the expense of the news for 30 year now. No one is more surprised about that than Hugh Dennis, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. NEXT year will be the 30th anniversary of satirists Steve Punt and
Fancy a Manhattan-style apartment in the centre of York? Then check out the newly-launched Roman House development, says Brian Page. NEW YORK comes to old York… that’s the theme of the Yorkshire city’s latest major apartment project. Developers
A remarkable collection of letters and diaries shed light on a poignant wartime romance. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. THE photographs show an attractive couple: a dark-haired young woman with extraordinarily intense eyes and a handsome young man with
A YORK-based online retailer of contact lenses has set its sights on generating revenues of more than £25 million after the acquisition of two businesses. GetLenses, which has a warehouse and call centre at Novus Business Park, in Nether Poppleton
SCOTT RHODES reckons there might be one or two heated exchanges when his representative amateur team take on York City Knights this weekend – but stressed he did not want to see any “messing about”. A York Select XIII go to Huntington Stadium on
AN engineering firm which manufactured components for new GPS satellites, which are due to go into orbit, has been visited by its local MP. Knaresborough company Claro Precision Engineering welcomed Andrew Jones MP to the shop floor to see the
A FORMER Pocklington School pupil who left the legal profession to launch a healthcare venture has sold his aromatherapy business. Ian Richardson, a former corporate partner with Eversheds, has sold aromatherapy products business, Aromatherapy
A YORK-based photography business has snapped the national crown of Fashion Photographer of the Year. Dominic Wright Photography, based in Queen Anne’s Road, won the title at the Society of Wedding And Portrait Photographers (SWPP) annual convention
LET’S play a game called: “Sometimes I …” What you have to do is utter those two words and then introduce an unlikely notion. So here goes: “Sometimes I feel a bit sorry for James Alexander.” Not many people will share this view of York’s council
A LONG-SERVING school caretaker has been jailed for a series of child abuse offences spanning more than 30 years. Paul Noel Stephen Cooper had a “lifelong sexual interest in young children” and conducted repeated sexual assaults on two teenage
THE reputation of the British police has taken a bit of a battering in recent months, what with the Plebgate scandal, the revelations over Hillsborough, and questions over the accuracy of crime statistics. Now come further questions about police
THERE is no need to demolish Stonebow House, a York campaign group says. It could just be done up. The York Sustainable Development Project says the building could easily be converted into affordable apartments, restaurants, bars and shops, with
RECENT flooding in the south of England has brought into sharp focus how “rolling back the state” can have serious consequences. Kersten England, chief executive of City of York Council, has stated that despite York being well-drilled in flood
PM David Cameron says “money is not a problem” when asked about repairing the massive flood damage in England and Wales. It most certainly was a problem when dredging and other vital clear waterway projects were cut and stopped many years ago.
In the wake of the current floods, the chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith of Finsbury, says that the country must make a choice whether to save town or country. He then goes on to say that there is no bottomless purse to build further
THE floods of Somerset and the south of England are a terrible disaster for this country. Some of this could have been avoided if the Environment Agency had listened to the people who know their land. Dredging had been mentioned but the agency
“THE army went in two by two – hurrah, hurrah!” – or that’s what Noah Cameron should have ensured as the South disappeared underwater. “Are you going to the Somerset Levels prime minister?” hollered journalists, but answer came there none from
YORK Station has not seen any reduction in the provision of seating for passengers (Letters, February 10). In fact, as part of a £650,000 investment, passengers will benefit from the addition of more than 100 new seats in four new covered waiting
SINCE Labour’s closure of Lendal Bridge started on August 27, more than 40,000 drivers have been fined, bus reliability times have shown little improvement, congestion elsewhere has increased, and city-centre traders have said it is hurting business
I AND a number of friends (15 in number) make up a small walking group. We decided that we would have a weekend away in York, to visit the sights and to celebrate a significant birthday of one of our older members. Two groups of us drove up for
WHAT a farce this Lendal Bridge trial has been. A journey from just off Tadcaster Road, through town to Clifton Moor reguarly takes about over half an hour. You can drive from York to Wakefield in the same time. Who is actually benefiting:
COMMERCE and a sociable environment will keep the historic Centre of York alive and healthy. And that depends on easy, pleasant and fast access by people. Transport planning needs to optimize movement of people, not movement of cars. Cars take
IT is rumoured that last week a masked horse rider with a gun was seen crossing the Lendal (Dick Turpin) Bridge. Council workers were later seen removing droppings from the roadway. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of this person should contact
WHEN the American forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, General Eisenhower ordered army photographers to take as many photographs as possible of the horrific conditions. He said: “Over time people will forget what the Nazis did
100 years ago Dr JR Lucas, Bishop of Blackenzie River, whose diocese was the largest in the world, and included the North Pole, had been telling some good stories at a meeting at Eastbourne. “On one occasion,” he said, “I wanted my teeth attended
YORK’S Simon Dyson will be accompanied by a full South Africa complement in the Africa Open which starts today. Dyson, who dropped three places to 169 in the world golf rankings after missing the cut at last week’s Joburg Open, will play the first
YORK City Knights are yet to firm up which Castleford Tigers players they will be able to get on dual-registration this season – but one player pencilled in to make the switch is exciting full-back Ben Reynolds. The 20-year-old, who is equally
POCKLINGTON Cricket Club will host a question and answer session with Yorkshire chairman Mark Arthur on Wednesday, February 19. Arthur will be accompanied by Ian Dews, the county’s director of coaching, and first-team players Adam Lyth and Andrew
Andrew Gale has confirmed Joe Root will open the batting for Yorkshire in the LV= County Championship when available this summer. The Yorkshire captain believes the 23-year-old should not have been shunted up and down the England Test order as
YORK’S greatest-ever parks players and officials will be celebrated on Friday, April 25 in the racecourse’s Voltigeur Suite. The first York Football Legends awards night is being hosted by City Football Development and tickets, including a pie
IN the wake of the loss of several teams from the York Minster Engineering Football League, including 100-year-old Nestlé Rowntree, the league structure will be reorganised next season. The premier division will again comprise 15 teams followed
HOPES of York IBC capturing the North East Ladies League suffered a jolt after they lost to current leaders Doncaster 88-74. York managed to win only one rink, that of Maureen Robinson. At home, they made the most of a good start, which saw
THE three-pronged national competition campaign by York Indoor Bowls Club ladies continues to gather momentum. The York team marched into the the semi-finals of the Vivienne Trophy after beating Suffolk outfit Beccles 94-56 at the neutral venue
New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club got their Yorkshire League Division Three season back on track with a resounding victory over Hornsea. The 96-60 triumph enabled them to amass the maximum 18 points at stake. At home, the team led by Brian Birch
ACROSS the next few days, York Indoor Bowls Club will host four more national area play-offs. The action opens with the ladies singles on Saturday between North Cave’s Danni Martinson and Hartlepool’s Lauren Copeland starting at noon. Two hours
Malcolm Jefferson heads to Kelso today with bright prospects of completing a double with a brace of in-form horses. Firth Of The Clyde and The Panama Kid are both seeking to pull off a hat-trick of wins over fences after a purple patch for the
TREES were brought down and the gable end of a block of flats collapsed in a North Yorkshire town as 70mph winds battered the region. Firefighters in North Yorkshire dealt with 20 weather-related incidents on Wednesday evening and overnight and
A WHITBY fish shop voted the best in the UK celebrated National Chip Week in vintage style this week. Quayside of Whitby, which was voted the UK’s Best Independent Fish & Chip Takeaway, is asking customers to take a dip in its “dip of the day
A RADICAL redesign of a building dubbed York’s “worst eyesore” would save it from unnecessary demolition, a campaign group has argued. The 1960s-built Stonebow House could be demolished depending on the decision of City of York Council, due to
VIKINGS, trains and snowdrops will all play their part this half-term with visitors expected to descend on York, North and East Yorkshire. Whether families are looking for a hands-on outdoor adventure or hoping to be scared by bloodthirsty re-enactments
A FORMER inmate of American prisons will speak about his personal experience of human rights abuses in US jails at a meeting in York tonight, organised by the city’s branch of Amnesty International. Shaun Attwood, author of Hard Time and a new
A SMALL village school where pupils are “proud to belong” is celebrating after Ofsted inspectors ruled it is a good school. Staff, pupils, parents and governors at Wetwang CE School are celebrating after Ofsted judged it to be good in all key factors
YORK-born TV Harry Potter actor David Bradley, who played Argus Filch in the film series, is among a host of famous faces who have put pen to paper to take part in this year’s National Doodle Day. His doodle will be auctioned on eBay, along with
FORMER poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion will visit a York school next month. Sir Andrew is in the city for the York Literature Festival, and will visit St Peter’s School on March 24 to spend an afternoon in a creative writing workshop with pupils
PLANS to build 500 new homes over the next five years – and improve thousands of others – have been unveiled by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. The authority says a massive programme of investment in council housing will improve the quality of
NEIGHBOURS who have put up with an empty home becoming a derelict eyesore on their street have spoken of their frustration as the house continues to crumble 14 years after the owners moved out. Residents on Lerecroft Road, Dringhouses, say they
A MAN who was seriously injured when he was hit by a taxi while crossing Boroughbridge Road in York has left hospital. The 31-year-old man was hurt at 12.15am on Saturday, and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with a head injury. Nobody
A THIEF has been barred from every church and religious building in York after he was caught trying to get coins out of a collection box. A police community support officer (PCSO) followed Paul James Harrison when he walked into St Wilfrid’s RC
A YORKSHIRE MEP is to speak at York Cemetery’s refurbished chapel as part of International Women’s Week. Linda McAvan will meet women for drinks and canapes from 7pm to 9pm on Friday, March 7. She will be discussing issues affecting their day-to-day
A FORMER York student who works as a historical consultant on the award-winning Horrible Histories TV series is returning to the city to give a lecture on TV history programmes. Greg Jenner will give a free talk called Lavish Dramas, Thoughtful
BOOK-LOVERS in York are invited to enjoy a literary “blind date” this Valentine’s Day – all in the name of charity. Staff at the Oxfam Books shop in Low Petergate are inviting customers to pay £2 for a mystery book, with all proceeds going to provide
A WOMAN in her 30's was taken to York hospital following a crash on the A64 near the Fulford Interchange this morning. An ambulance was called to the crash between a black Land Rover Freelander and a black VW Polo at about 8.30am and took the woman
A WIND turbine higher than York Minster could be built on land near the city. Plans to build the turbine at Murton Moor were submitted to City of York Council in December by Origin Energy, a company which promotes renewable energy and puts proceeds
WORKERS at a North Yorkshire power plant have urged MPs to help save their jobs. Energy creation at Eggborough power plant could stop from 2015, with 800 jobs at risk, after Government funding for a biomass conversion fell through. Workers
THE perfect girlfriend for a man from York is 5ft 6 ins tall, drinks white wine, has no tattoos and supports Manchester United, according to a survey. A “study” of 2,000 men by location based dating app Lovoo also found that men like a woman with
THE motorcyclist who died in a crash last weekend has been named as Simon Parsons from Harrogate. Mr Parsons, 25, was riding a black Triumph Daytona at about 5.10pm on Sunday, when he was in collision with a gold Honda CR-V near the entrance of
VIKING swords and gold jewellery are being dusted off at the Yorkshire Museum in time for a week of Viking-themed fun at half- term. The museum is planning free events for children and families throughout the half-term week, including drop-in sessions
Tributes have been paid to a past president of a North Yorkshire Rotary Club and a former member of a town’s Round Table. Martin Leadbetter died in hospital last week following a heart attack while at work in Leeds. Mr Leadbetter, 59, a chartered
MEMBERS of the area’s Chamber of Commerce have voted in favour of a merger with the Bradford Chamber. The Leeds, York & North Yorkshire Chamber will now become the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce after members voted to join forces
