PAUL DAVISON could not fend off an in-form Fergal O’Brien in the qualifiers for snooker’s China Open. The Pickering potter, pictured, fell 5-1 to the Irishman in the first round of the event, which was staged at the Capital Venue in Gloucester.
Householders are being warned about home security after watches worth thousands of pounds were stolen in a break-in at a house in the Selby area. Thieves got into a house on Ryecroft Gardens, Eggborough and took men’s and ladies’ wristwatches and
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge seamer Matt Fisher spearheaded England Under-19s' drive for a quarter-final spot at the ICC World Cup in Dubai. Fisher, who made his Yorkshire debut last season at the age of 15, claimed 3-18 from 6.1 overs to win the man
Drax power company has announced better than expected profits despite soaring taxes on burning coal. New jobs are also being created in Hull and Immingham to transport larger quantities of eco-friendly fuel to the Selby site, bosses revealed.
THE latest locations for North Yorkshire Police's mobile speed cameras have been announced. Officers will be at the following locations from tomorrow until next Wednesday, and more information is available at northyorkshire.police.uk •
This was the scene in Cawood, near Selby, when a lorry carrying a static caravan got stuck in the narrow village streets. The wide load, on its way to Cawood Holiday Park, had apparently tried to get through the village because nearby Ryther was
STEVE Punt and Hugh Dennis host BBC Radio 4’s half-hour of satirical chatter The Now Show. Maybe their return to live comedy after a three-year gap should be called The Now And Then Show because now they’re still doing what they did back then in 2011
POLICE in a North Yorkshire market town have offered reassurances to the community following disorder in the market place. Officers were called to Thirsk town centre on Sunday evening, following reports that a group of men were causing a disturbance
MENTAL health hospitals in York are falling short of national standards and their ageing buildings are not suitable for modern treatment, inspectors have said. Bootham Park Hospital and the Lime Trees unit for children and young people have been
SCORES of people attended a meeting to find out more about the controversial fracking process, and what it could mean for York. The meeting, held at the Priory Street Centre last night, was organised by Frack-Free York, Our Clean Energy Future,
VISITORS can take a journey back to a bygone age of elegance and leisure at York’s Castle Museum this week. Turning back the clock the museum is transporting visitors to the Victorian era to live the life of the upper classes through their food
ON-LOAN winger Will Hayhurst is happy to let York City and Preston decide where he will spend the rest of the season. The teenage flank man’s current one-month spell with the Minstermen will expire following Saturday’s home match with Southend.
GARY THORNTON has admitted his selection headache in the pivots has intensified – and it might soon get worse. Pat Smith, Benn Hardcastle and Jonny Presley have all laid strong claims to start York City Knights’ Championship One season on the field
Two famous railway landmarks will be offered for sale when history goes under the hammer next week. The rare business opportunities, at either end of the Pickering to Whitby steam line, will feature at an auction at York racecourse on February
BILLY MARTIN’S hat-trick helped Rufforth United to an emphatic 9-0 victory at Tadcaster Town in round one of the York Minster Engineering Football League Junior Cup. Martin’s contribution to the rout was backed up by two goals apiece from Jack
York Citizens’ Theatre Trust is looking for a new chairman to lead its finance committee, ahead of major redevelopment at York Theatre Royal. The project, due to start in spring 2015 will see major changes to the foyer and auditorium. Liz Wilson
The Army Cadet Force is is urgent need of adult volunteers to help support the region’s 1,500 cadets. Adult instructor numbers are struggling to keep up with demand, with detachments in Acomb, Fulford, Lumley and Strensall. Volunteers help to supervise
Bury boss David Flitcroft has called for the Football League season to be extended following a succession of postponements that leaves them with four games in hand on York City. The Shakers’ last three fixtures have been called off and they have
YORK City Ladies reached the North Riding County Cup final after a comfortable 2-0 victory over Middlesbrough Lionesses. Jazz Whitwell and Ali Smith found the net for the hosts at York College in a game that could have finished 10-0 in the winners
THE need for speed will be addressed at the city’s first Rugby Speed Camp at York Sports Club in Shipton Road this week. Junior rugby players will learn the secrets of lightning speed at the USA-style speed camp specifically designed for rugby
TERRY Temple took out three ton-plus finishes but still bowed out 6-4 to Dean Winstanley in the pick of the Dutch Darts Masters’ first round games. The Whitwell-on-the-Hill ace threw 164, 136 and 120 checkouts, but former BDO world finalist Winstanley
LEADERS Crescent ‘B’ pulled further clear of the chasing pack with a 5-2 win over Carlton Tavern in division one of the York White Rose Ladies Darts League. Tavern took the first game, but lost the next five as Liza Moore scored 100 and 140 but
BRAGGING rights were seized by Acomb Hockey Club men’s I when they beat City of York VI 2-0. The derby victory not only extended the Tangerines’ unbeaten run in 2014, but also ensured they held on to third place in Yorkshire League division four
Acomb Hockey Club men’s II enjoyed a much-needed win when they beat visitors Adel IV 4-3 in Yorkshire League division five north. Early lethargy saw Acomb trail 2-0 before Harry Ellis replied. Adel struck again only for the lead to be halved
ARTISTS from York will be exhibiting their work when the Pop-Up Art Space in the city unveils the start of a month of events. The launch and exhibition at the venue in Little Stonegate will run from 7pm to 9.30pm on Thursday, February 27, and will
THERE was much ado about something in York yesterday, as scenes for a new film about William Shakespeare’s life were filmed in the city. Bill is a comedy from the makers of Horrible Histories. It has been described as a “Pythonesque” comedy about
Northern Ireland trainer Stuart Crawford, who makes regular and successful visits to Britain, can gain a double strike at Wetherby this afternoon. Based at Larne in County Antrim, Crawford is a shrewd operator and he can add to his tally of winners
THE problems being faced by Bootham Park Hospital are nothing new. As long ago as 2005, health bosses were talking about the need to build a new mental health hospital for York, amid concerns the ageing Georgian building was not up to the job of
THE Government’s response to the flooding in southern England has at times seemed little short of pathetic. Now a group of North Yorkshire farmers have shown Whitehall the way. They have just completed a 530-mile round trip with two tractors
POLICE seized drugs and cash from a car stopped on the A1 as part of an operation targeting criminals coming into the region. A 36-year-old man from Derby was arrested after being stopped by officers from North Yorkshire Police on the southbound
FILMING in accident and emergency at York Hospital has revealed that a government rule over payments cost the hospital £6 million. The Dispatches programme, A&E’s Missing Millions, was filmed in York Hospital during a busy 24-hour period in
A MOTORIST accused of causing the death of an elderly couple the day after their diamond wedding has appeared in crown court. Dennis and Doreen Green, from Strensall, were killed in a crash near Gate Helmsley last April when their Citroen Saxo
NOW that the Lendal Bridge trial is coming to an end, there are a couple of things residents can be fairly certain will happen. Firstly, the trial will not actually end after six months. You can bet that council officials and the Labour cabinet
WHEN designing heating systems and sizing radiators, various factors are required to calculate kilowatt (kW) heat loss for the building and deciding on which type of fuel to use. So it is with interest that I read in the Business section (The Press
YOUR profile of the new leader of the opposition Conservative group in York highlights exactly why the Tories in York are a spent force. The Press points out in the profile of Chris Steward (The Press, January 27) that last year he said in an email
PERHAPS James Alexander should have listened to his granny, as she would have said: “Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves” (The Press, February 5). So on top of the advice that is bound to come his way here is my contribution
Geoffrey Searston asked me to respond to some housing questions in these pages (Letters, December 28). This letter addresses the final of four questions Geoffrey would like answered. His question was “How small is the envelope on which he scribbles
I RECENTLY applied to buy a home on the discounted sale scheme. I was told by the council when applying for a mortgage via my bank that I should inform them the mortgage was for a discounted sale new build and that a 20 per cent deposit may be
DAVE LEE TRAVIS is the latest to fall victim to feminine spite. How things have changed. When I was a growing girl, if a man touched me or any other girl “inappropriately” (whatever that means), a slap around the face or a well-aimed knee in a sensitive
I HAVE recently started working in York city centre and frequently on my way home I pass a young homeless guy with his dog. He sits at the end of Coney Street most nights, even in the cold and wet, and he never asks for money like some do. I used
So Coun Sonja Crisp’s idea of consultation is to engage the people affected in Heworth Without after advertising on the worldwide web that the city’s biggest Tour de France camp site is to be on Monk Stray (The Press, February 7). To all the people
I am disappointed to read of residents who wish to see Stonebow House demolished without considering cost or proposing a replacement (The Press, February 6). Over the years I have witnessed a good many attractive buildings demolished and the erection
THE road name for Falcon Close is “worn and indistinguishable” (Letters, February14). Do you then need the eyes of a hawk to see it? And another question while I’m here, why hasn’t anyone suggested siting the York Wheel on the space we hope will
Storyteller Eden Ballantyne will be weaving his tales around the portraits at Beningbrough Hall, near York, tomorrow and on Saturday. Eden, a professional storyteller from Stories Alive, will be telling a brand new tale composed especially for
A flat in Holme-on-Spalding Moor was gutted after a pan of food left in the oven burst into flames. Fire fighters wearing breathing gear fought the blaze in High Street, New Road, after the alarm was raised at 7.40pm on Monday night. Humberside
Flood victims in Whitby are to benefit from an appeal fund which has so far raised more than £6,000 and is still growing. The campaigners have also collected clothing and furniture to help a number of families swamped by deluges such as the tidal
Two people were taken to hospital after being cut free from the wreckage of their car after a crash north of Whitby. The casualties were trapped following the accident on the A174 near Lythe just before 9.40pm on Monday. Fire fighters from
AT the February meeting of the Haxby and Wigginton Flower Club, Madeline O’Beirne took first place in the advanced section, Joy White came second and Joan McBurney was third. In the intermediate section, Penny Fowler was first and joint second
A derelict shop in Selby town centre could become a new tattoo parlour. The former Boozebuster shop in Gowthorpe could be completely renovated and turned into the new studio for Steve Dagg’s Scorpio Tattoos – currently based in Church Lane.
COUNCILLORS have backed plans for 182 homes in East Yorkshire. East Riding of Yorkshire Council initially delayed its decision on the proposals by David Wilson Homes for land at Molescroft, north of Beverley, pending talks over a proposed link
WHY on earth is the government refusing to apply for funding to help us cope with the flooding? The European Union Solidarity Fund was set up in 2002 specifically to help member states struggling with catastrophic events. 23 countries have applied
100 years ago After the lapse of several months, and the appearance of many unexpected delays, the bells of York Minster, which the previous May had been removed to London to undergo retuning and general repair at the famous Spitalfields bell-foundry
ROCHDALE soul singer Lisa Stansfield will return to the York concert stage on September 12, this time switching to the Barbican. Lisa played the Grand Opera House last June, when she introduced songs from her long-awaited upcoming album, as well
FRIENDS Robert Gowland, 11, and Elliot Ritchie, 12, completed a 5km run around the streets of Haxby and Wigginton in their onesies and raised £243 for charity. The Joseph Rowntree School pupils organised the fundraiser for Classrooms In Malawi
A DEAF man from York has told how he has struggled to get fair access to health care in the city. Jack Sturdy, 27, who works as a bricklayer, said he had been left waiting for appointments after not hearing his name called without a visual indicator
A NORTH Yorkshire bus manufacturer has signed up as an official sponsor for a celebratory transport project launched by the Mayor of London. Optare, based in Sherburn-in-Elmet, is working in partnership with Transport for London and The London
YORK Light Opera Company will bring a reworking of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular operetta to York Theatre Royal for the first time next month. Completely rescored, Hot Mikado still retains all the original well-loved songs but all transformed
RESIDENTS who want to ask Selby District Council questions about planning must now pay £25 to book an appointment. The council’s new Planning Surgery scheme covers pre-application and development services and offers expert advice to residents and
THERE was a time when governments built houses for the less well off, but these days social housing is almost entirely down to private developers. And if they don’t yield a profit, they don’t get built. It’s a far cry from the post-war golden
“How do you find out that you’re good at that?” After gawping open-mouthed at the TV, my daughter made us all laugh by asking this question. How indeed do you discover you have a natural aptitude for moguls? Of all the winter sports surfacing
A GRANT scheme has been launched in York providing a total of £1 million funding for businesses looking to implement biorenewable technology. The Biorenewables Capital Grant Scheme (BCGS) is open to applications from small to medium-sized businesses
York cadets have been honoured in recognition of their outstanding contribution to their communities by one of the oldest merchant guilds in the country. Nine cadets and service personnel selected from hundreds serving in the region were presented
A JOINT project between Northallerton Retail & Business forum with its local councils has seen free wifi brought to the market town’s High Street. Northallerton Town Council and Hambleton District Council have teamed up with the business group
ALMOST £1 million of cuts to York’s children’s centres and youth services have been hidden in council plans for a “transformation programme”, councillors have claimed. Proposed changes to the way City of York Council operates have earmarked £5.48
THE creation of a larger dining room as part of a university expansion in York has been approved. The move will allow York St John University to have 100 extra places in the Holgate Building at its campus on Lord Mayor’s Walk, which it says is
FRESH plans have been submitted to turn the former home of Yorkshire tourism into an organic nursery, potentially creating 45 new jobs. Under the plans the building in Tadcaster Road in York, which was used by the Yorkshire Tourist Board before
TRIBUTES have been paid at the funeral of Malton’s four-times town mayor Jason Fitzgerald-Smith. St Mary’s Priory, in Old Malton, was packed on Friday for the service, when Mr Fitzgerald-Smith, who was Malton’s deputy mayor, was described as the
Drumming up a crowd for anything on Valentine’s Day is always going to prove tricky. Unfortunately the first evening concert of the inaugural York Chamber Music Festival proved no exception to the rule, the Lyons suffering from unpopulated patches
AN East Yorkshire councillor is to call for assurances that more funding will be freed up to get young people back into work. Coun Jane Evison, East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s portfolio holder for economic development, said the authority’s employment
THE head teacher of an independent school in York has hit out at an exam regulator’s report which claimed schools were launching tactical appeals against bad results. Jonathan Taylor, the head of Bootham School, said appeals were being made “because
YORK’S annual architectural design awards have received backing from a further four local businesses as this year’s competition gets under way. David Wilson Homes, Shepherd Group, ARUP and solicitors Crombie Wilkinson have all joined with Hiscox
THESE campaigners will learn tomorrow whether their efforts to save a Victorian village school can be supported. Sherburn Junior School, near Selby, which operated from 1874 to 1978, is considered one of the last remaining historic buildings in
FOUR people who were arrested for illegal hunting in Ryedale have been released on police bail. The group was arrested at Salton between Malton and Kirkbymoorside at about 11am on Sunday, when police disturbed a suspected illegal hunt and seized
THE leader of City of York Council and its health and social services boss have met residents and staff at one of its elderly persons’ homes. Authority leader Coun James Alexander and Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, cabinet member for health, housing
A FORMER used car salesman who tried to pass on a stolen £33,000 Audi TT has been given a suspended prison sentence. Jamie McHale, 25, had pleaded guilty to handling a motor car and assisting in its disposal at an earlier hearing, and was sentenced
Queen Margaret’s School in Escrick is supporting a pioneering woodland project. The school has adopted two “Square Shares” in Three Hagges Jubilee Wood, part of the nearby Escrick Park estate, and planted a copse of 100 oaks. Three Hagges Jubilee
THESE stunning images have helped land a heart doctor at York Hospital a string of photography awards. In his day-to-day life, Dr Sanjay Gupta, 41, is a consultant cardiologist. But in his spare time he turns his hand to photography - a talent
AN education watchdog has praised the work of children’s centres in York. Inspectors from Ofsted rated the Knavesmire, St Lawrence’s and The Avenues children’s centres as good in their first inspections, and highlighted the centres’ work with vulnerable
A CANNABIS dealer who used his illegal trade to pay household bills has been given a community order. Helen Wheatley, prosecuting, said police found more than £1,360 of the drug when they raided Daniel James Michael Welford’s Selby home. They
A PETITION signed by more than 200 people who want 20mph speed limits introduced in their village has been submitted to the Government. Residents in Barkston Ash, near Tadcaster, have launched a campaign calling for the current speed limit through
STAFF at a York firm have formed a ten-strong team to ride in Cyclists Fighting Cancer’s 120-mile Etape de Yorkshire event on June 8. The riders from RedBlack Software, based in King Street, will be led by cycling enthusiast Andrew Throup, account
Emergency equipment that could save lives in the community has been installed in Ripon thanks to the fundraising efforts of a parents’ association. Ripon Grammar School has taken delivery of a defibrillator, which has been mounted in a locked cabinet
YORK student Zoe Collishaw won a new scooter and iPhone package through a competition organised by motorcycle insurance firm Bennetts. Zoe completed her compulsory basic motorcycle training (CBT) in October. Her prize consisted of the latest
Despite the difficult climate we all continue to operate in, I am hugely optimistic about York’s prospects for 2014. In 2011 we set ourselves an ambitious target of becoming a topfive UK city and top-ten European mid-sized city in economic competitiveness
The creative and digital economy is York’s fastest growing sector, employing almost 9,000 people. Data from the Business Register and Employment Survey shows rapid growth in the creative and digital sector in the city which has seen 18.4 per cent
Manufacturing is a shrinking sector in York, with only four per cent of the city’s workforce employed in the industry, a total of 4,100 jobs. However, extend the scope into North Yorkshire and the region’s industry produces a more thriving picture
York is on a mission to get 15 per cent of the city’s businesses trading internationally by 2016. The latest statistics revealed only seven per cent of business were exporting, so the challenge has well and truly been set to more than double the
Standards in education in York sets the city apart from other northern cities, from primary school years to university degrees and everything in between. York consistently proves itself as an educated city, and is currently ranked as the seventh
The past 20 years have seen York make a marked move from manufacturing and industry to a knowledge-based economy, with science more recently at the forefront of the transformation thanks to the city’s high skills quota and award-winning university
York is one of the key centres of financial and professional services (FPS) employment and enterprise within the Leeds City Region, which itself is the second FPS largest sector in the country. The industry employs 23,000 in the city, the equivalent
Tourism is a big contributor to York’s economy, and with plans in place to create a billion pound tourism industry in the city over the next ten years, it’s about to get even bigger. York’s popularity as a destination with both domestic and international
Geographically York sits at the heart of the body that is the UK, connected by a vast infrastructure that allows access to local, national and international markets. London can be reached by road in around 3.5 hours, by rail in 1.5 hours, and by
With a thriving economy and significant potential returns on investment, York is attracting a wide range of investment from both private and public sectors. As a result, big changes are in the pipeline for the physical and economic landscape of the
Shoots of recovery are now blossoming into growth as York emerges from the downturn positioned to expand its horizons, reach out into new markets, and develop its core appeal. The city was not immune to the financial crash, sectors were hit and
