YORK City Knights prop Jack Aldous could be made to miss the start of the Championship One season by Rugby Football League beaks. The front-rower is to appear before an RFL disciplinary tribunal on Tuesday charged with a grade ‘B’ punching offence
A WOMAN who crashed at a petrol station while nearly five times the drink-drive limit has today been given a suspended prison sentence. Angela Richings, 50, was arrested in January after her car hit a petrol pump in Scalby Road, on the outskirts
A TRADITIONAL business that oversaw the establishment of electricity in much of North Yorkshire is set to close after 91 years. Grandparents David and Susan Higgs will switch off the lights at Eric Thompson The Electric Shop, in Picks Lane, Thirsk
HAVE you checked your loose change today? It could be worth more than you think. The Royal Mint has today encouraged people to rifle through their change to discover whether an "incredibly rare" 50 pence piece is hiding in their wallet, a jam
A TEENAGER has been charged with assaulting a police officer after an incident in Acomb. North Yorkshire Police were called to Front Street at about 5.30pm yesterday, after reports that a gang of youths were behaving anti-socially outside Superdrug
PLANS to bring a big wheel back to the National Railway Museum in York have been submitted, more than five years after it was removed. The proposals would see a 50.5-metre wheel with 42 “gondolas” being built in the main car park at the Leeman
THE themes of Brassed Off, the story of a brass band at a South Yorkshire colliery threatened with closure, resonate with York Theatre Royal cast member Clara Darcy for a special reason. She’s named after Clara Vale, the small Tyneside mining village
THE Scarborough Jazz Festival is one of the longest-running in the UK. This year’s bill has just been published and early-bird weekend tickets are on sale (scarboroughjazzfestival.co.uk and 01723 821888). Surprise booking must be festival poster-boy
CORMAC Neeson couldn’t wait for his Irish band The Answer’s travels to start this week on their New Horizon… Road Less Travelled itinerary. “Each tour begins as a work in progress,” he said, ahead of the opening gig last night. “We’ve been rehearsing
YORK musician Daniel Lucas has put together The Boss Caine Big Band Home Town Spectacular Part Two for March 7 at The Basement, City Screen, York. “After the huge success of last August’s sold-out Boss Caine headline gig at The Basement and our
THERE is an impatient element of the music-following fraternity which has a tendency to make up its mind about songs within the first 20 seconds. Bombay Bicycle Club’s fourth album won’t win many fans among this demographic. Whatever the London outfit
THERE’S been a hell of a lot of toffee for this Kettering four-piece band with no less than Noel Gallagher leading the plaudits and espousing the trio’s trip into psychedelia. Well, sorry, Noel – can’t see it myself. The 12 tracks do indeed twinkle
CASTLEFORD Tigers starlet Ben Reynolds and prop Nathan Harper will make their bows for York City Knights’ under-20s reserves tonight when they host their Sheffield counterparts in a friendly at Huntington Stadium (8pm). Mick Ramsden’s young charges
FEW things are certain in life, but Maximo Park’s high-octane sound was always one. Until now. The Geordie three-piece has embarked on a new musical path, slower and much more electronic. Thankfully for Maximo diehards, it’s deliciously gloomy.
SHERYL Crow has always been a country girl at heart, as memorable collaborations with Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Loretta Lynn testify. Now she has moved to Nashville, the spiritual home of country music, and, as the title of her new
ALTHOUGH Glenn Tilbrook will always be associated with Squeeze and Chris Difford, this is his fifth solo album. A new Squeeze album is due later this year and Happy Endings filled a writing lull when Tilbrook found things had gone “a bit quiet”
MARTIN Stephenson must be the most restless musician in Britain. Not only does he always make it his mission to cover every inch of a theatre, stage, stalls and all, at every gig, but he has rattled off albums at more than one a year since 1986.
HONKY-TONK Canadian band Petunia And The Vipers are flying in from Vancouver for their second British and Irish tour after they “blew the socks off everyone” on their debut visit last year. “They arrive with quite a reputation to defend,” says
ON the road this winter with his latest album Studio Zoo, Newton Faulkner has been going from strength to strength since he first appeared on the music scene back in 2006. His unique, percussive style of guitar music has garnered a huge number
WHO is Scotland’s number one selling author? Surely J K Rowling? Or maybe Dan Brown. No, wrong. The answer is Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, Room On The Broom, What The Ladybird Heard and 160 more books besides. The Ladybird farmyard
THE Real People Theatre’s production of Anne Lister’s Ladies is taking a different direction after the all-female York company was unable to acquire the rights to the play based on those early 19th century diaries. “We’re now creating scenes from
YORK Theatre Royal and Company Of Angels are linking up to present Theatre Café York 2014, a festival of contemporary plays by European writers and an accompanying conference. The plays will be presented in staged readings on Wednesday, complemented
BOOGIE woogie piano player Jools Holland will return to York Barbican for the fourth year running this autumn. The jovial presenter of BBC2’s Later… With Jools Holland will lead his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra on November 7, joined for the York
LAURA Cantrell is reissuing her first album of original material in eight years to coincide with her February tour. The Nashville-raised singer-songwriter, who lives in New York, issued No Way There From Here last autumn on Spit & Polish Records
Norman Lovett, the deadpan comedian who appeared in Red Dwarf as Holly the computer, tells JULIAN COLE about coming to terms with life, being accidentally funny and why he now hates cars. NORMAN Lovett is having a bit of trouble with his mobile
ONLY the last few tickets remain on sale for Queen guitarist Brian May and West End and Broadway singing star Kerry Ellis’s 8pm concert at Scarborough Spa tomorrow. The Spa’s Grand Hall will be candle-lit for May and Ellis’s only Yorkshire date
THE University of York Choir and Symphony Orchestra present works by Sibelius, Syzmanowski and Bruckner at Central Hall, University of York, on March 5. Sibelius’s rarely performed, enigmatic Symphony No 6 in D minor moves from deceptive serenity
THE 2014 York Late Music concert series opens with a free all-day multi-media art installation by Vestiges on Saturday from 10am to 6pm at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York. This event features digital music by David Power and David Lancaster
HARROGATE International Festivals’ spring series of Sunday morning concerts welcomes the Navarra Quartet to the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate on March 2. The 11am programme features Mozart, Beethoven and a work by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks that
BARRY Humphries, the veteran Australian entertainer who gave the world Dame Edna Everage, is on the closing laps of his Eat, Pray, Laugh! farewell tour, playing Leeds Grand Theatre as his penultimate destination. Humphries, who turned 80 three
POCKLINGTON tyre chief Reg Bond will spend £125,000 to secure a dream date with wonder horse Frankel for his star mare Forever Bond. The 14-year-old daughter of Danetime is set to be covered by the unbeaten 2,000 Guineas, Juddmonte International
THE First World War seems very long ago. But looking through the King’s Book Of York Heroes at the page after page of photographs of those who died remains a deeply moving experience. Each photograph shows a young York man (and two York women
THE evidence of Britain’s gradual economic recovery has been there for some time now. But the latest unemployment figures reveal once again how fragile and uncertain that recovery remains. In York, Selby, Ryedale and East Yorkshire, the number
TOO many fines for crossing Lendal Bridge? There is another way of looking at it. A £30 fine will make people think twice before driving needlessly into any part of our sensitive medieval city centre. It’s an incentive to consider train, Park&Ride
Tom Scudamore makes the long journey north to team up with Vieux Lion Rouge at Sedgefield today and looks like enjoying an armchair ride on the Devon raider. Trained by David Pipe, Vieux Lion Rouge has won both his hurdle starts at Wincanton in
AS David Cameron’s coalition government slips slowly below the rising floodwaters in the south of England, questions will be asked of him and Chancellor George Osborne. Was it right to make cuts so deep to the local authorities who provide services
JAMES ALEXANDER (Letters, February 15) stated that Labour had disagreed with the LibDems spending £500,000 on the Clifton Green cycle lane and had reversed this. On July 10, 2008, opposition Labour councillors in Clifton and Holgate issued a statement
PROPOSED capping of private rents has nothing to do with reducing City of York Council’s housing benefit costs, but everything to do with Labour’s antipathy towards capitalism and private landlords. Housing benefit is already restricted to a maximum
BRAWBY trainer Geoff Oldroyd will launch a two-pronged assault on Lingfield this weekend. He saddles his stable star Ladies Are Forever in the £45,000 Listed Compare Bookmakers At bookmakers.co.uk Cleves Stakes and Alfred Hutchinson in the £45,000
A MUST-read is the book titled the Proposed EU Constitution if you desire a country run by those who you did not vote for. If this is your choice, then vote Labour, Liberal or Conservative and you will kill off the Britain you knew. If you
Stonebow House has never been a favourite building in York so the idea of changing its use to turn an eyesore into arty showpiece (The Press, February 13) containing apartments, shops, etc, may be a good one. A roof garden and flower boxes for
I HAVE read with interest comments on The Press letters page about flooding, pollution, etc. Surely the siting of sewerage treatment plants on a river bank can only lead to them being inundated during flooding. What is the point of pumping
YORK’S Chris Mathews pushed county ace Brian Dawson all the way before losing 5-4 in the stage one final of the Streamline Taxis York Open Darts Championship. After a pair of 20-dart legs, Mathews went 3-1 up against Dawson (20) but his Barnsley
AS a taxpayer it is good news to see that Lloyds Bank is now in profit again, but disappointing to see that staff bonuses are being increased. These should not be seen as being more necessary as the first and major priority, (no doubt after looking
YORK darts players can win the chance this week to take on legends Eric Bristow, Wayne Mardle and Peter Manley at two different venues. Tomorrow at Crescent WMC, the YDP (York Darts Promotions) will host the first of seven knockout tournaments,
I FULLY agree with Philip Roe on the disgusting behaviour of Aiden Burley MP (Letters, February 13). I have visited Auschwitz and it took me at least three days to get over what I saw and some of our group longer than that. I object to cruelty
THREE items in The Press caught my eyes recently. 1. Tourists spend more than £600 million a year in visits to the city, but nowhere is mentioned any form of benefit to the people who live here. No doubt businesses will be rubbing their hands as
YORK Indoor Bowls Club came through a tough Yetton Trophy quarter-final with flying colours, beating a strong South Forest team 87-75. The Thanet Road club will now play City of Ely – who beat Riverain 68-67 – in the semi-finals at Darlington IBC
Anxious vigil now awaits hopes of New Earswick NEW Earswick’s promising season in the Yorkshire League is now on hold as both their division one and division three teams lost 18-0 on points. The first team have completed their league fixtures and
YORK ‘B’ conclude their game against North Cave Yellow in Yorkshire Over-55s League division two tomorrow at noon after yesterday’s away leg. On Saturday, starting at 10am, New Earswick IBC host the Yorkshire Double Rinks finals, which feature
JACK STEARMAN wants his New Earswick All Blacks side to send out a message to the rest of the Pennine League Championship by toppling Methley Royals. The unbeaten league leaders are the visitors to White Rose Avenue on Saturday and the All Blacks
York Ladies Amateur Rugby League Club have blasted into their fourth consecutive WRLA Challenge Cup Plate Final after a 22-6 semi-final conquest of Huddersfield Ladies. York took the lead after eight minutes with second rower Chelsea Moore powering
WE would like to thank the kind lady who paid for our meal at Thompson’s Fish Restaurant on Friday, February 14. As we are both senior citizens, we were touched by her kindness and generosity to us. Angela and Brian Nye, Beverley Gardens, Dodsworth
LAST Sunday morning, on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show, the Governor of The Bank of England, Mark Carney, gave a rare interview with Marr. For a change, Marr listened to the replies to his questions without frequent interruptions. Carney answered almost
WHEN I read the story of Tim Hall (The Press, February 13) who was refused Jobseeker’s Allowance because he was out of the UK for four months, I was reminded of Jurassic Park. In the movie, the children are scared of the monsters and Sam Neill
I WOULD like to deliver two compliments and an observation. The first compliment is to the BBC regarding a recent episode of Call The Midwife. The subject was a difficult one, dealing with physical and mental disability. The use of disabled
THE last moments of a York woman whose death was a mystery for four and a half years have been revealed by a friend who tried to save her. Lisette Dugmore, 36, lost her footing and plunged into the River Ouse, an inquest heard yesterday. No
100 years ago At the York City Juvenile Court, William Dalby, 15, and Harry Dobson, 14, were summoned for stealing six penny packets of chocolate from the shop of Mrs Rose Clark Snarry, tobacconist and confectioner, of 12 Fishergate, on February
EVERY February 3, on the anniversary of the plane-crash death of Buddy Holly, the cast of Buddy sings an encore of American Pie, the Don McLean song that recalls “the day the music died”. It is one of pop’s most quoted lyrics, but although the
I GUESS there are two types of people you don’t want to see when you have been flooded: reporters and politicians. Even those of us whose feet have stayed dry can possibly see that. The inundation in the south has caused a tremendous amount of
PUPILS from all over York have been taking part in a Royal Shakespeare Company project to make their own theatre based on Shakespeare’s play Richard III. The pupils from York High School and Applefields and Acomb, Poppleton Road, St Barnabas CE
ONE of the owners of Cycle Heaven, Bishopthorpe Road, York, is appealing for anyone who knows the identity of the vandal who smashed one of its shop windows to contact police. Piers Maffett went to the shop as soon as police told him about it at
MORE than 13,000 homes and businesses in East Yorkshire are expected to get faster internet access through the first phase of a £14 million broadband project. The initial stage of the Broadband East Riding scheme will focus on Bubwith, Goole, Hemingbrough
As the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War draws near, STEPHEN LEWIS looks through a remarkable book which records the details of every man and woman from York who lost their lives on active service between 1914 and 1918. THE
FARMERS have had to sell land to continue payments for financial products they were mis-sold by banks, a campaigning York lawyer claims. Johanne Spittle, of Lupton Fawcett Denison Till, represents many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
The everyday lives of some of the shiest creatures on the Yorkshire Wolds are to become national news via a new nature blog for BBC Wildlife Magazine. Reporting on the secret world of badgers, deer, owls and other wildlife on the Wolds will be
FURNITURE and kitchen manufacturer Treske is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the completion of a conservation contract for a Doncaster church. The Thirsk-based business was chosen to provide new oak seating, replace the old pine pews and
CYCLISTS and HGV drivers can learn about the problems created when lorries and bicycles share the same road at an event at Monks Cross next month. Construction company Bowmer & Kirkland is hosting a Changing Places Day when cyclists can sit
AN apprentice at a North Yorkshire business has topped the shortlist for a major national competition. Henry Weemes, from Dunnington Electricals, based in Ripley, near Harrogate, has won the north-west regional round of the Megger National Apprentice
A TRAFFIC adjudicator has visited York to assess controversial traffic restrictions in a city-centre street, saying he wanted to see them for himself because of the number of appeals he has received. Stephen Knapp, of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal
The search is on to find the “best of the best” among York’s tourism businesses before the spotlight is turned on the city’s tourism stars at this year’s York Tourism Awards in May. If you provide a great visitor experience, have high quality accommodation
A FOUR-YEAR scheme designed to improve key routes into East Yorkshire towns and tourist areas will see new artworks installed on four roundabouts. Projects are planned in Carnaby, Hedon, Goole and Beverley, following schemes to produce a racehorse
COUNCIL tax bills in a North Yorkshire district have been frozen for the fourth year in a row. Hambleton District Council has agreed not to impose a £2.24 annual rise on residents, choosing instead to accept a Government “freeze” grant. The
PUPILS across North Yorkshire got the chance to have a go at a range of different jobs as part of a North Yorkshire Takeover Week 2014. North Yorkshire County Council has organised activities as part of Children’s Commissioner’s Takeover Week,
AN apprenticeship recruitment event is to be held in York next Thursday, from 5pm to 8pm. The event, at the council’s West Offices, will give young people information on apprenticeships with a chance to meet 15 employers offering more than 40 apprenticeships
The audience sit at tea-light scattered tables, with a dimly-lit and sparsely-decorated set in front of us. This setting is all that director, Chantelle Thornley, needs in order to tell Irena Gut’s true story with sincerity and force, in the European
A £12.4 MILLION housing development next to a York common could be given the go-ahead today, despite intense local opposition. The plans by Linden Homes North for 102 homes on grassland at Brecks Lane, in Strensall, have been recommended for approval
A FATHER and son stepped back in time at the Yorkshire Air Museum to get themselves into the right frame of mind for a series of wartime challenges. Second World War re-enactors Jack Bramwell and his 16-year-old-son Alex will raise money for two
YORK’S Conservatives would freeze council tax and keep free parking passes for residents through their budget plans, they have said. City of York Council’s 2014/15 budget will be debated next Thursday, and the Tories want to accept a £778,000 Government
RESIDENTS could benefit from the creation of a new wind turbine near York, a local group have claimed. At a number of sites around the UK, local communities have gathered to build a wind turbine and benefit from the sale of renewable energy. Local
HIGH winds have caused damage worth tens of thousands of pounds to a stained-glass window at a York church. A large chunk of the central window over the altar at St Lawrence’s Church, Lawrence Street, was blown out last week, leaving shattered
