POLICE have tonight thanked residents after claims a man tried to abduct a nine-year-old boy in a North Yorkshire town proved to be unfounded. The boy had said he was approached by an unknown man outside his home in Norton between 7pm and 8pm on
A WOMAN who was caught driving while more than three times the drink drive limit has been given a four-year driving ban. Kathy Crofts, 54, of St Andrews Road, Whitby, was arrested on Thursday for drink driving just days after a previous arrest
RAIL operator East Coast has warned high winds are likely to hit its services tonight and has urged passengers to complete their journeys as soon as they can. Forecasters have predicted winds of up to 70mph this evening on the East Coast Main Line
THREE company directors have been ordered to pay back more than £200,000 following a fraud investigation sparked by a York pensioner. John Alexander Higginson, Vincent Andrew Watkinson and Timothy Leonard Herbert Wright were all jailed for their
HARROGATE artist Anita Bowerman has just finished paper cutting this heart out for Valentine’s Day. “I love the detail in the tiny hearts, which took hours to cut out with a tiny sharp scalpel, to make it perfect for Valentine’s Day,” says Anita
THE hopes York City Knights had of upcoming prop Dan Fleming coming to Huntington Stadium on dual-registration this term appear to have waned – although head coach Gary Thornton has not ruled it out. The 21-year-old Wales international has been
FOR one night only during York Light Opera Company’s spring run of Hot Mikado, the audience is invited to dress in 1940s costume at the 7.30pm performance on March 10. “The show is a jazzed-up, swing version of the original Gilbert & Sullivan
CABARET trio Fascinating Aida have been peddling their particular brand of musical cheekiness up and down the country for three decades now. Last night saw them shock and delight their York audience in a performance that proved that they’re nowhere
You have exactly one week left to make your views known about proposals to improve Exhibition Square, Duncombe Place and Fossgate. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the latest plans to Reinvigorate York. WHAT should be done with the statue of William Etty
YORK Science Park is cementing its reputation for nurturing business as two resident firms leave the site having outgrown their premises. Creative Digital agency The Distance and IT company Rapita Systems have both moved to larger accommodation
LOQUACIOUS Irishman Ed Byrne has so much to say in his Roaring Forties show that he has jettisoned a support act for the latest leg of the tour. “It was the first gig back the other night but also the first without someone opening the show,” says
ONCE upon a time all we wanted for St Valentine’s Day was a card, a bunch of flowers and a box of chocs. But today, it appears that Botox, dermal fillers and skin peels are the sought-after gifts on February 14. According to the Good Surgeon
TO become a British citizen, immigrants need to satisfy the Life in the UK Test. It tests knowledge of our traditions and customs by asking questions such as “What is the Grand National?” Or “10 Downing Street is the official residence of… a, the Queen
VALENTINE’S DAY is fraught with danger. Wrong flowers, wrong present; the list is endless. Even a harmless little card can cause offence. Thank goodness, then, that the world’s worst Valentine’s card, a 100-year old hirsute example, is safely under
DENNIS BARTON is right to be worried about fracking, but earth tremors are unlikely to be an issue in York (Letters, February 10). Firstly, the small earthquakes he mentions in Texas have been caused by injection wells, not fracking. Injection
CONCERNING your lead article “Access denied to deaf patients” (The Press, February 10), while more detailed explanations by NHS officials may well require an interpreter for deaf persons, what is wrong with pen and paper? Surely a mother whose
I AM sure that this council has a comprehensive, considered and well-devised, long-term traffic strategy. If they would be kind enough to share it, perhaps we would all stop complaining about the short-term pain as we would be able to see the long-term
AT A time of the year when many customers will receive their water bills, I’d like to explain how we have acted to reduce the burden on household budgets. Over the next six years we plan to cut our profits to keep water bills as low as possible
I SEE James Alexander is once again getting excited about personal remarks made about councillors (Letters, February 8). I felt that Coun Cuthbertson (Letters, February 6) was asking some relevant questions about the money being spent in York.
WILL the Government department that funded the pig farmers in far off Peru please now do likewise for our own farmers and their animals, who are floundering knee-deep in muddy waters trying to survive. Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby, York.
HOW I wish that I could say of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove… Michael Gone. That politician seems to have some very strange and destructive ideas about improving education. He is prepared to allow unqualified people to teach, he advocates
IT IS difficult to reconcile James Alexander’s total of “70 or so people” who attended the recent community conversation in Haxby with the real numbers (Letters, February 12). Of a total of 65 or so people in the room, about 20 were young people
THERE are a number of amusing ways of dealing with cold callers (Letters, February 7). My favourite was suggested by a lady whose ploy is to feign deafness combined with a helpful interest in the message. Such manoeuvres provide a certain malicious
TO GLORIFY the First World War, the BBC have hired a troupe of stooges to misrepresent its horrors and the reasons 10,000,000 indoctrinated and misled young men were sacrificed to the sucking slime of Europe’s hideous killing fields. To soften
KEITH ISAAC joins the list of those peddling nonsense about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (Letters, February 8). How many times do people have to have it explained that the ECHR has nothing to do with the European Union? The
AS OUR rates are going up again, is there any chance of having our road name repainted as it is worn out and indistinguishable. Mr W Poole, Falcon Close, Haxby, York.
100 years ago The Archbishop of York had been visited at the palace at Bishopthorpe by a large deputation of ladies active in the suffragette cause. The deputation consisted of about 40 or 50 ladies, who were conveyed to the palace in two large
GARY THORNTON was leaving it late to decide his York City Knights line-up for Sunday’s final friendly – but the starting 13 could well provide clues to his first-choice team. The Knights meet a York Select XIII made up of leading local amateurs
JOSH Carson knows he cannot afford a drop in form despite signing a new contract extension at York City. The former Ipswich Town winger has committed his future to the Minstermen until the summer of 2015 but, with the likes of Michael Coulson,
MAJOR repair work will need to be done if York’s Simon Dyson is not to suffer a second successive early exit from a European Golf Tour event. Dyson closed the first day of the Africa Open with a one-over par 72 to open a gap of ten shots to the
YORK College has been fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £45,000 in court costs over the death of a three-year-old girl at its nursery. Lydia Bishop died when she became entangled in a rope left on a slide in the playground at the Sim Balk Lane
NIGEL Worthington is calling on York City’s wingers, midfielders and defenders to score more goals. In 17 matches since mid-November, Michael Coulson is the only player, outside of striking trio Wes Fletcher, Ryan Bowman and Ryan Jarvis, to have
PLYMOUTH Argyle entertain York City tomorrow having lost just one of their last 11 home games in Sky Bet League Two. That loss came during a 1-0 reverse against play-off hopefuls Burton at the end of November. Wycombe and Fleetwood are the only
PICKERING TOWN boss Mitch Cook admits it won’t just be “another game” when Bridlington Town arrive at the Recreation Ground tomorrow. Cook spent two years in charge of the Pikes’ Northern Counties East League premier division derby rivals and reckons
Third division Marcia Grey provided the biggest shock in the Ian’s Cars of Barlby League Cup quarter-finals by ousting first division Hounds 5-4. Despite starting with nine men, Hounds went ahead through Chris Jackson. They were up to full strength
Leeman United continue to head division two in the Ian’s Cars of Barlby York Sunday Morning Football League after beating basement side York Medics 5-2. Stewart Brown gave the students an early lead but Jamie Moore equalised from 25 yards before
Harrogate Town, who earlier this week signed striker Joe Ironside – son of former Scarborough goalkeeper Ian Ironside – on a month’s loan from League One outfit Sheffield United, go for their third win on the spin at Histon in Conference North.
Andrew Gale is relishing the prospect of opening the batting with Yorkshire’s new signing Aaron Finch in this summer’s NatWest Blast T20. The White Rose captain is set to form an exciting opening partnership with the powerful Australian as the
Amy Ryan, out of the saddle since taking a crashing fall at York last summer, returns to action at Lingfield today after making a full recovery from a prolonged shoulder injury. Champion apprentice in 2012, the North Yorkshire rider teams up with
SIX years of waiting – one great chance. The time is now for Ollie Pears. “He’s the real deal,” he says of his brightest hope – the horse that will, luck permitting, drive the Norton trainer into a new sphere of his training career. Pears has always
MALTON & Norton RUFC’S relegation clash with Northern tomorrow has been described as a “must-win” game by club chiefs. The Ryedale side head into the fixture at the Gannock just two points ahead of third from bottom Morpeth in the North One
HUNTINGTON WMC Angling Club will stage a match on Marley Pool at Laybourne Lakes in Hessay, near York, on Sunday. The match will use pegs one to ten and 37 to 52. Meanwhile, the Tadcaster Tower Rose Bowl match will be held on the River Ouse
A BUDDING filmmaker who has lived in York almost all his life has been refused JobSeekers’ Allowance – because he is not considered an habitual UK resident. British-born Tim Hall has been hit by new rules aimed at preventing EU migrants from taking
A NEW helpline has been launched to help residents whose homes have been flooded. HM Revenue and Customs launched the line to help affected residents get practical help and advice on tax problems. HMRC will also help arrange instalment payments
CHILD care workers around York will be able to discuss their favourite children’s books and authors at an event this month, being organised to encourage young people to read. The Early Years Book Club will be held at the Eccles Building in Burnholme
THE number of people with eating disorders being admitted to hospital in York and North Yorkshire has risen by more than a third, new statistics have shown. In 2011/12, 47 people in the York and North Yorkshire area were admitted to hospital with
Staff at the National Railway Museum have been busy preparing for next week’s half-term activities. The team worked on fine-tuning the bespoke railway track building equipment which demonstrates how railway infrastructure is designed. From
A Valentine Ball organised by the mother of a young heart surgery patient from York has already raised thousands of pounds. The £5,300 raised by the popular Heart To Heart Valentine Ball, held at the Royal York Hotel, will go to the Children’s
A museum in York believes it has unearthed the worst Valentine’s Day card in history. York Castle Museum has discovered a 100-year-old Victorian example featuring real facial hair stuck on the design to resemble a moustache. The card also features
REBECCA Johnson, aged 15, in the role of Cinderella, which she will be performing in the 35th anniversary production by St Francis Players. The pantomime opens next Thursday, in Thorpe Willoughby Village Hall, continuing on Friday evening at 7.30pm
A FORMER police officer sent abusive text messages to his landlord in a series of crimes against the property owner, who is trying to evict him, York magistrates heard. Alan Glasby is also likely to face a court case for not carrying out the community
A CERAMIC crocodile, scenes from Alice In Wonderland and a cityscape in 3D form part of a new art exhibition by York College students at a Ryedale stately home. Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley, is the setting for an exhibition called Discovery,
THE Vikings have returned to York, ready for doom, gloom and a world-ending apocalypse. This year’s Viking Festival will be the 30th and is themed around Ragnarok, the Norse Sagas’ version of the end of the world. Vikings will camp in Coppergate
VOLUNTEERS are wanted to help line the route of Yorkshire’s Grand Départ of the Tour de France. Almost 30,000 people have already registered an interest in helping with July’s race, with George at Asda designing the uniforms for the volunteers.
THIEVES have stolen bikes and equipment worth about £35,000 from a York store. The raiders struck at Cycle Scene, in Wigginton, overnight on Wednesday, February 12. Items stolen included mountain bikes made by Argon, Morida and Norco, as well
A YOUNG woman has admitted helping hammer burglar Liam Green after he attacked a 50-year-old woman in her home in Baker Street, Clifton, home. Stephanie Knights, 18, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting an offender by washing Green’s clothes
FEMALE entrepreneurs are dominating the high street according to experts – and one Ryedale town is a prime example of women driving economic growth into town centres. Data used in a report from the Federation of Small Businesses showed that the
Paris-based Quatuor Diotima made a welcome return to the Jack Lyons Concert Hall with a programme of Janácek, Hosokawa and Beethoven. The first half kicked off with Janácek’s String Quartet No1 – based on The Kreutzer Sonata, a novella by Leo Tolstoy
A MEMBER of the sales team at Harrogate International Centre (HIC) proved she knew exactly where to draw the line when it came to securing the venue’s latest client. Eager to lure one of the UK’s newest tattoo exhibitions to Harrogate later this
The recent television coverage of the flooding in the Somerset levels and in the south more generally has been harrowing. These past few weeks my thoughts have been with those families whose lives will have changed irrevocably, almost in the blink
AN ambitious scheme to see a new velodrome open in York is set to be approved next week. Plans for a 250m Olympic-length velodrome at York Sports Village will go before a planning committee on Thursday, and officials have recommended the scheme
A SPECIALLY designed headstone is being installed in York Cemetery in memory of a Hollywood actor’s ancestors who lived in poverty in the city. York-born actor Mark Addy, who rose to fame in The Full Monty, learned about his great-grandparents’
NORTH Yorkshire’s council leader has said he will try to find more cash to fix the region’s roads if the Govern-ment agrees to match-fund a £5 million repair programme. Members of North Yorkshire County Council will next week debate the authority
