ABOUT 180,000 visitors are expected to flock to York when it hosts the Tour de France this summer. The influx is only slightly less than the city’s entire population of 200,000 people, and City of York Council says managing the route, traffic and
DEACON Blue are to play Dalby Forest, near Pickering, on June 28 as the third signing for the Forestry Commission’s summer of concerts in the North Yorkshire woodland. English singer-songwriter James Blunt and the Modfather, Paul Weller, are confirmed
A CYCLIST is in hospital with a head injury after a hit-and-run crash in York. The accident happened at the traffic lights at the junction of Rougier Street and Station Road at 6.15pm on Sunday, police said today. The cyclist, a 33-year-old
ST Andrewgate, which links King’s Square with Aldwark, has been a part of York’s network of ancient streets for a very long time. According to Press reader Peter A Jackson, who grew up there, the earliest record of it dates from 1175, when it was
AS healthy new year resolutions start to lose their appeal, a York ice cream manufacturer says it has come to the rescue with a new frozen yogurt brand with less than 3.3 per cent fat. Yoryog frozen yogurt has been developed by awarding-winning
A NEW one–off group exercise and information session called BUMP has been launched for women in the York and Selby area who are more than 20 weeks pregnant. Pregnant women are invited to attend the session where an obstetric physiotherapist will
AN appeal has been launched to help trace a missing man who may be in York. Stuart McCulloch, from Walthamstow in London, has not been seen since leaving his home at 12:30pm last Monday, February 17. His family are now very concerned for his
As the team in the eating disorder unit at The Retreat in York receive national acclaim, health reporter Kate Liptrot learns how the work being done there is changing lives. A SUNNY painting of a woman sitting on a bench outside The Retreat would
As well as being the month for Valentine’s fun, February is also National Heart Month, with lots of fundraising activities taking place to raise awareness of the fact that cardiovascular disease is our biggest killer here in the UK, accounting for
York's beer scene is booming, with new pubs, new breweries and hundreds of new beers. But it hasn't all been good news. Like all cities and towns, York has also seen many closures over the years. Here, in no particular order, are 20 of the most
York’s zen cook FLORENCIA CLIFFORD explains how to make the perfect miso soup. Miso is a paste made from a fermented grain (usually soya) salt and kojikin, a brewing fungus that has been used in Japan, Korea and China for more than 2,000 years.
YORK Stage Musicals are to stage the York premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s epic musical The Phantom Of The Opera from Wednesday. Joe Wawrzyniak has stepped out of the actor’s spotlight and into the director’s chair to bring the show to life at
POVERTY can happen to anyone. You’ve only got to talk to the wonderful people at York Food Bank to know that. Time was when it first began that we had some people of a certain political persuasion in this city saying there was no such thing as
ANDY Clay and Rob Sadler of Begbies Traynor in York have been appointed as joint administrators of York-based MSS Clean Technology. Established in 1982 and based in Sheriff Hutton, MSS specialises in the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning
A COMPANY aiming to build a £1.5 billion mine in a national park has denied it intends to scale back the plans. Sirius Minerals says it still wants to extract up to 15 million tonnes of polyhalite every year from under the North York Moors National
YORK-based firm Guest Walker & Co has started the year with an expansion of its offices in the city centre. The business has also appointed a new commercial property solicitor, launched a new website and confirmation from The Law Society that
WHEN the Coalition Government gave Job Centres powers to hand out tougher sanctions to benefits claimants who weren’t “doing enough” to find work, the implication was clear. We’re going to get tough on the workshy and force them to look harder for
IF YOU’RE reading this it’s safe to say the world didn’t end on Saturday. February 22, 2014 was the day predicted in Viking mythology as Ragnarok, when a final bloody battle would herald the splitting open of the earth. Happily, this date coincided
PROMISING loose-forward Ryan Backhouse is to leave York City Knights without playing a competitive match – making the proposed return of big-hitting Joe Pickets more imperative. Backhouse is to head out to Australia after his visa application proved
IN RESPONSE to Rose Berl (Letters, February 7), I have to say it’s weird to walk out of the library these days. I step out of the revamped building and it’s peaceful. No longer having to face the onslaught of noise, I can hold on to my precious
WHAT an excellent letter by Matthew Clements about student housing. My main complaint is that none of these students pay council tax, thereby not only taking housing that our own young people could occupy but also “robbing” the Exchequer of much
THANK YOU for drawing attention to the meeting about licensing Monk Stray for events, especially a Tour de France spectator hub (The Press, February 15). Following this well-attended meeting, I emailed James Alexander, two local councillors and
Green sky thinking gone mad. Six charging points across the city for electric cars (The Press, February 17) were used fewer than 60 times in a full year. Why doesn’t City of York Council react to demand rather than wasting money trying to create
BEFORE Christmas the bus stop posts, signs and timetables in Low Ousegate, York, were replaced with posts without timetables or bus stop signs. I asked our local councillor last month to investigate. Apparently, underground cables couldn’t
Perhaps the Lib/Dem MEPs who wrote to your paper claiming (rightly or wrongly) that withdrawing from the EU would cost thousands of jobs should have a word with the Lib/Dem Secretary of State for Energy, Ed Davey, about jobs. His policies look
FOLLOWING comments from Christian Vassie in reply to my letter regarding human rights, I would like this country to leave the EU (Letters, February 8). He also knows that the two are closely linked, as without signing up to the convention we could
I DON’T know the age of P Lovering but I would suspect he hasn’t worked in the age when the union was all-powerful and held a stranglehold on many large employers (Letters, February 14). When the trade unions first came into being they did a wonderful
YOU can’t beat the British weather: rain, snow, wind, gales and sunshine all in one day. With the recent gales and rainfall, the only people I know who are really cheerful are the directors and chairman of Yorkshire Water; kite manufacturers, and
WHAT a wonderful, kind woman we have in York by the name Jane Hood (Letters, February 18). I was once like her, generous to a fault, until one day, just having started work in the mid-1960s and walking up Micklegate, I was accosted by a tramp wanting
I WOULD like to thank everyone who was involved in raising £340 for the Martin House Hospice Goodnight Sleep Appeal during the recent charity launch for Quadblox on January 29. Special thanks go to the Severus Social club, for allowing us to use
100 years ago “An Old Citizen”, recalled the days when on Shrove Tuesday all apprentices were let off at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the ringing of the Pancake Bell, which hung in the gable end of the Merchants' Hall, Fossgate, facing the
FRIDAY’S soul revue show meant just that little bit more to David Gest, now that York has become the adopted home city of the Taiwanese/American music mogul, with his love for its hog roast restaurants and liquorice from the local sweet shop. He
YORK City manager Nigel Worthington has told his players to use their “imagination” to end a run of four home games without a goal. The Minstermen drew 0-0 for the third time in four Bootham Crescent outings against play-off hopefuls Southend at
NIGEL Worthington’s York City side equalled an inauspicious club record against Southend United after failing to score for a fourth successive home game. This term’s team joined four others in the Bootham Crescent history books with Gary Mills’
LEEDS United boss Brian McDermott was happy to escape with a point from his side’s goalless draw at Middlesbrough in the Sky Bet Championship. Boro enjoyed the best chances at the Riverside Stadium but failed to beat an in-form Jack Butland and
PICKERING Town cruised to a 6-0 victory at home to Glasshoughton Welfare in the Northern Counties East League premier division. Tony Hackworth opened the scoring with a 21st minute tap-in from Joe Danby’s cross and two minutes before the break
THE premier division title race swung in favour of Old Malton St Mary’s in the York Minster Engineering Football League. The Ryedale side beat reigning champions Dunnington 3-1 while rivals Riccall United suffered a second consecutive home defeat
A CRAZY game at Wetherby Road saw Harrogate Town win 4-0 as visitors Boston United finished the game with only seven men. United were hit by two red cards in the first 16 minutes in the Conference North clash and, with Town in total control of
HESLINGTON moved to the top of York Minster Engineering League division two with a tremendous 3-1 win at previous leaders Rawcliffe. Martin Pepper, Gareth Fisher and Stuart Dickinson hit the target for the hosts, with Johnny Moss bagging Rawcliffe
North Yorkshire apprentice Connor Beasley, who made a big impression last season in his first full year of riding, has been conspicuous by his absence during the winter, but returns to the fray at Wolverhampton this afternoon with a winning chance.
SELBY RUFC’S seven-match unbeaten run came to a sticky end as they lost 41-15 in the mud at Old Brodleians. The Swans have only beaten Brods four times in 18 meetings since the advent of league rugby union in 1987 and they paid the price for a
THE parents of a toddler born with a rare form of birthmark which covers much of his body are campaigning for research into the condition. Nineteen-month-old Ethan Wheller, from Huntington, was born with congenital melanocytic naevi (CMN) – a kind
THIEVES stole a green Land Rover Defender from a property on Escrick estate on February 9. A police spokesman said a black lurcher dog called Gem, with a white chest and a green collar, went missing from the same property at some point before February
FIRE crews were called to a shed fire in Dauby Lane, Kexby, at about 12.30pm yesterday. A North Yorkshire Fire Service spokeswoman said the fire had spread to the shed from a nearby bonfire. Nobody was hurt.
A DRIVER was arrested following a crash on the A19 early yesterday. Police were called to the scene, near Escrick, just after 3am after a red Fiat Ducato panel van left the road and damaged some street furniture, leaving debris in the road.
A DESCENDANT of Richard III will take part in a march through York next month to raise awareness of a judicial review on the king’s remains. The Plantagenet Alliance will be joined by Vanessa Roe – Richard’s 16th great-niece – for the parade on
FIRE crews were called to a small kitchen fire at a house in Haxby Road in the early hours of Saturday. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said the fire was caused by a pan left unattended, and was out on arrival. Nobody
FOUR people suffered injuries in a two-vehicle crash near Harrogate on Saturday morning. The crash happened at about 8.30am on the A59 near Kex Gill farm between Harrogate and Skipton. It involved a blue Volkswagen Bora travelling from Skipton
AN INDEPENDENT review of the benefits system in York has claimed Government sanctions have caused suffering to vulnerable claimants in the city. The review was carried out by Advice York – made up of Citizens Advice Bureau, York Food Bank, Castlegate
A SCHOOLBOY has been taken to hospital after a road accident in York this morning. The 12 year old boy came off his bike after a collision with a car on Cemetery Road, near the junction with Melbourne Street, this morning. Police say he was
ZOMBIES, dalmatians and superheroes took to the streets of York this weekend to raise money for charity. Students from the University of York took part in the annual Raising And Giving (RAG) parade through the city, with this year’s costumes themed
CHAMPION race walkers from around the country have visited York ahead of a major competition. Tom Bosworth, the UK’s top men’s 20km race walker was joined by fellow Great Britain and Northern Ireland competitors and coaches at the University of
TICKETS are available for the BBC Good Food Spring Show in Harrogate. The show, at the Harrogate International Centre, will include celebrities, chefs and experts along with food and drink producers and live cookery demonstrations, and runs between
THIEVES who stole pedigree pigeons worth more than a thousand pounds have left their owner “absolutely gutted”. William Shaw, 77, has kept pigeons at his Haxby home for more than 45 years, and said he believed thieves had targeted a breeding pair
A MAP of the Selby area which is more than 120 years old will go on display this week. Members of Eggborough Methodist Hall have rediscovered a very large Ordnance Survey map which dates back to the 1880s, measures seven feet by nine feet, and
COUNCILLORS from York Green Party have urged City of York Council to do more to protect jobs and services from Government cuts. The party has proposed a referendum on a council tax increase of 2.9 per cent, rather than Labour’s proposed 1.9 per
HUNDREDS of people gathered in York to count down to the end of the world this weekend. The Norse apocalypse Ragnarok was interpreted in a spectacular light and sound show and battle re-enactment at the Eye of York on Saturday, as the grand finale
THE biggest housing scheme in York has overcome another legal battle and is one step closer to work starting. The High Court has refused permission for a judicial review of City of York Council’s decision to grant “reserved matters” planning permission
HAVING donated his 100th pint of blood, Nigel Teasdale could have have helped save hundreds of lives. The dad-of-of one from Hull Road started donating blood in 1981 after learning about it from a work colleague and this month donated his 100th
EMERGENCY services were called to a two vehicle crash on the B1228 Elvington Lane yesterday. The crash happened between Common Lane and Halifax Way at about 12.45pm, and the road was closed while debris was cleared. A spokeswoman for North
