UPDATED: North Yorkshire Police now say the man was seen acting suspiciously to the rear of a building at the site, but they do not now believe it was an attempted robbery. However, they still want to speak to anyone with information about the
A LORRY driver has been jailed for killing a teenager in a head-on collision earlier this month. Stoyan Andonov Stoyanov, 56, was on the wrong side of the road when he hit a Renault Clio driven by Callum Wark, 19, on the A1246 near the Selby Fork
NORTH Yorkshire is to get more than £3 million of Government cash to help pay for repairing potholes - and council chiefs say they are hoping for more funding. The Department for Transport has confirmed the region's share of a £183 million "exceptional
A VICTORY in the battle to cut VAT from fuel used by air ambulances is being celebrated by campaigners. In this week's Budget, Chancellor George Osborne brought about a successful end to a two year campaign by relieving the five per cent VAT paid
ACCORDING To McGee is exhibiting the work of "one one of the most crucial but overlooked artists of the past 50 years" as part of the York gallery's tenth anniversary celebrations. "It's not just us who make that claim for Dave Pearson," says co-director
DO YOU believe in love at first sight? The kind of love that strikes like a lightning bolt, makes your heart beat a little faster and has you reaching out in desire… Well, I do…Or at least I do when it comes to the property market. Because
The sun is warming its way through early morning mist, promising a pretty blue sky day. From where we are standing you can see the first early buds peeking out shyly on a row of cherry blossom trees. Spring, it seems, has sprung… And we’ve come
Name: Gabrielle. Full name: Louise Gabrielle Bobb. Occupation: Enduring, ten million-selling British soul, R&B, blues and jazz singer and songwriter. Born: Hackney, London. Age: 43. Breakthrough: Debut single Dreams topped charts
NEIL Sedaka will match the piano-and-voice acoustic format of his latest album, The Real Neil, when he plays York Barbican this autumn. “I have seven cities on this tour, starting with the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
FAIRPORT Convention will welcome the return of long-serving member Dave Pegg on bass guitar when the veteran Oxfordshire folk-rock pioneers head out on tour in May and June. Earlier in the year, his son Matt had to stand in when Pegg senior injured
LOVE Beyond Measure: The Legend Of Sohni And Mahiwal, one of the world’s most enduring love stories, begins its Yorkshire tour tonight at the National Centre for Early Music, York. This new stage and digital project has been inspired by the paintings
THE Woman Who Silenced Simon Cowell makes her sold-out York Barbican debut this weekend as part of her first ever British tour. All tickets for Sunday’s show went in double quick time, testament to the impact Susan Boyle has made in selling 20
YORK’S newest jazz venture featured a debut in York for the four-piece version of Frank Brooker’s Happy Chappies band, last Sunday at Plonker’s Wine Bar, Cumberland Street. True to the name, the band sounded great in the room and some of the city’s
CONDENSED Shakespeare fills the York Theatre Royal Studio from today until Saturday when short versions of The Tempest, Macbeth and Julius Ceasar will be staged, two plays per night. These double bills of Shakespeare’s tales of supernatural events
YORK Railway Institute Band have swept to victory in the North of England Brass Band Championships, clinching a place in September’s National Finals. Newly promoted to the First Section contest following their success in last year’s Second Section
NOW working on new material following his critically acclaimed second album, Don't Forget Who You Are, indie rocker Miles Kane is quickly making a name for himself as a solo artist. After leaving The Rascals in early 2009, he has gone on to play
AT the end of the loose 1997 remake of The Day Of The Jackal, Sidney Poitier’s character explains why he’s cutting Richard Gere’s Irish terrorist free, saying he’s so highly-regarded that he could mess everything up for the rest of his life and still
HAS Joan Wasser finally struck gold? The title suggests so, as does the album cover, which features a gilded Joan sporting a Harry Potter magic scar on her finger. But the real alchemy is a metamorphosis from beguiling torch singer coming to terms
Even the most loyal of fans will be disappointed that after a decade’s wait, the new George Michael album is a recording of one of his London concerts from 2011, albeit a rather special concert . Performed with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra
A LEEDS band with rock guitars, screamed vocals and boundless energy? No, it’s not Kaiser Chiefs. Eagulls’ debut album does have those highlights in common with Ricky Wilson’s band, but they are a darker five piece altogether. Echoes of The Cure
SKY Ferreira wants to be a real artist. She ticks the boxes: a disdain of the press, drug arrests while riding in cars with boys and a failed recording contract. By 21 she had already been abandoned by Parlophone, who had created an eerie Lolita, seductive
MORRISSEY’S quixotic trawl through his back passages has reached 1992’s Your Arsenal, his third post-Smiths album. This reissue is the Definitive Master of his definitive solo record, the one that gave him his American breakthrough. Ever the traditionalist
THE “slow cooking” philosophy is spreading to craft makers in an exhibition with the message that the traditional processes behind their contemporary art cannot be hurried. Make It Slow is making a leisurely journey across a network of small-scale
THE West Country comes to North Yorkshire on April 1 after Bils & Rye Gallery owners Nick and Kate Bentley took time out in February to visit Cornwall. “It was a bit of a busman’s holiday really,” says Nick. “We came back with some wonderful
JOSH CARSON will carry on trying his luck from long range after scoring his fifth goal of the season - all from outside the penalty box. The York City winger netted his side’s second goal in Saturday’s 2-0 home win over Wycombe after his 25-yard
JANE McDonald could not be happier at the decision to turn the tide by returning to the Grand Opera House for her latest York concert on March 29. Plenty of musicians, from Kate Rusby to The Waterboys, have made the reverse switch to York Barbican
INTERNATIONAL by name and international by nature - the winners of York Racecourse’s flagship race will now be guaranteed an entry to one of the world’s richest contests. Chiefs at Knavesmire have extended their partnership with the American Breeders
WINGER Josh Carson hailed a "fantastic" transformation in York City's form in Sky Bet League Two. The Minstermen have surged up the table since the turn of the year, climbing from just above the relegation spots to the fringes of the play-off zone
LANTERNS On The Lake, the elegiac, meditative sound of Newcastle and the North East coast, will play The Duchess in York on April 7 and the Adelphi in Hull on April 17 on next month’s tour. They will be re-promoting Until The Colours Run, last
JOE ROOT is targeting Yorkshire's LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Lord's for his return from a broken right thumb. Root suffered the injury whilst batting in the one-day series against the West Indies at Antigua earlier this
THE Original Theatre Company is remounting last year’s tour of Birdsong to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, adding even more poignancy to the play. “There was something about approaching the rehearsals this year
NIGHTSHADE Productions and ReStage Theatre are to hold open auditions next month for their joint show project The Three Musketeers. “The show will be an immersive promenade theatre piece on the streets of York in July and requires a cast of 30
BOSS Scott Rhodes is hoping York Acorn ARLC's form and luck change sharply and quickly - starting this weekend.Acorn, with two defeats from two in National Conference League division one, host a Mayfield side who have lost just once in 18 games stretching
AUDITIONS for Rowntree Players’ June production of Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should will take place at the Groves rehearsal rooms, Door 84, Lowther Street, York, on Thursday at 7.30pm. Keatley’s 1985 play follows the lives, loves
EXCUSE his pun, but Neil Simone is calling his first show of 2014 the “Easel”y Unlike Any Other Exhibition. The Whixley artist has created a series of oil-painted free-standing “easel paintings” that turn out to be painted on a flat piece of wood
YORK Lokomotive ARLC may be big underdogs but they will visit New Earswick All Blacks on Saturday in good heart and hopeful of pulling off a shock. The two sides meet in the first tie of this year's York & District Cup at White Rose Avenue
SPIERS & Boden are to concentrate on their folk big band Bellowhead for the foreseeable future after the curtain falls on the dextrous duo’s spring tour. Not surprisingly, Sunday’s 8pm show at Pocklington Arts Centre by the two-time winners
THE Lady Boys Of Bangkok are to return to York on April 15, this time in a “sizzling and seductive” new production, Red Hot Kisses. Previously, the 16 glamorous Lady Boys from Thailand have played the Grand Opera, but next month’s show will be
OLIVIER Award-winning actress Tracie Bennett is joining the WestEnders musical theatre company line-up for The West Enders with Tracie Bennett at the Grand Opera House, York, on April 18. Tracie, who has appeared in Coronation Street and such shows
North Yorkshire trainer Mark Johnston, who has already sent out 34 winners this year, can add to his tally at Wolverhampton this afternoon. The Middleham handler can score with Loud and Watersmeet, both mounts of Joe Fanning, Johnston's number-one
VIVA COLONIA will bid to get over his Cheltenham Festival blues when going for glory in the Topham Chase at Aintree next month. Norton trainer Brian Ellison has targeted the nine-year-old for the £120,000 contest, on April 4, after he finished
TADCASTER Theatre Company’s celebration of songs from the shows, Cabaret, will feature arrangements by York’s Man of the Musicals, Bev Jones. The show will run from tonight to Saturday at the Riley Smith Hall, Tadcaster, at 7.30pm nightly plus
IF you missed Shelagh Stephenson’s big-hearted, bittersweet play The Memory Of Water when it won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2000 and UK Play of the Year in 2001, here is another chance more than a decade later. North Yorkshire director
BRIAN Poole and The Tremeloes are reuniting for 29th year of The Solid Silver 60s Show, whose 43-date tour opens on Wednesday. Night number two will be at the Grand Opera House, York, on Thursday when the 7.30pm line-up also features blues and
THE first stage of a £5 million redvelopment of York Racecourse is on track to be completed by the start of the new racing season in May. Constructors have been hard at work over the winter creating a new, larger, pre-parade ring along with modern
10CC’s Graham Gouldman presents his Heat Full Of Songs show at Pocklington Arts Centre on May 13. A month later, he is to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on June 12 Inspired by The Beatles
HIGH-FLYING York Eagles under-14s wrapped up their English Basketball North U14 Conference campaign with a beating of hosts Barrow. They saw off the Cumbrians 82-52 winning three quarters but losing the other as they toiled against the absence
JOAN As Policewoman will play The Belgrave in Leeds on April 19 on her 12-date tour in support of her new album, The Classic. “I’m in the best place I’ve ever been in my life,” says soul and torch singer Joan Wasser, reflecting on her fourth album
MUCH is made of postcode lotteries and York and Scarborough have fallen foul of another; with new figures showing they have some of the highest rates of diabetic patients having amputations in England. According to the All Party Parliamentary Group
THERE were a few surprise sweeteners in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget. No doubt with half an eye on next year’s election, he raised the threshold at which we start paying income tax to £10,500 – meaning more low-paid people will be free of
YORK Indoor Bowls Club ladies went into their last Yorkshire League game with a slim chance of winning the title - but they ended up being relegated despite beating Harrogate 98-78. It was York's third win out of four games this season, but they
YORK 'A' ended a fantastic season by claiming their seventh consecutive win in Yorkshire Over-55s League division one when they beat New Earswick. The Thanet Road outfit won 83-66 on aggregate, picking up 16 out of the 18 points at stake, but the
AS A visitor to York, I had a fine issued for crossing Lendal Bridge in November. This scheme is a disaster and probably not legal. I appealed my fine first to the council and then to the independent adjudicator, which was not contested by
WITH all the talk lately about bad driving, yes, there are some bad drivers out there. But I seem to be encountering more cyclists lately who do not bother to look back when pulling out to pass parked cars or when moving to the middle of the road to
WHAT a nice surprise we had on Thursday when the postie delivered our council tax details for the year 2014 to 2015. We had been told that the increase would be 1.9 per cent. How did Mr Alexander come to this amount? He must have looked into his
WITH reference to article, U-turn on Selby cobble street plans (The Press, March 17), Coun Shaw-Wright says: “This is a conservation area – we doubt if it would be suggested for Shambles in York.” Don’t be so sure on that. Considering what York
WITH reference to the letter in Monday’s Press from William Dixon Smith of Acomb, (The Press, March 17) may I thank him for “pointing me in the right direction” on this matter (“The idea of Joseph Stalin chatting to the Pope about military matters
Business leaders and organisation representatives across York have today been giving more reaction to Chancellor George Osborne's 2014 Budget. Coun James Alexander, leader of City of York Council, said: “I welcome Government’s investment and measures
I HAVE become aware over recent months that train drivers on the York to Scarborough line are sounding their horns from morning to late evening, at intervals of about half an hour. This occurs when they are passing the New Earswick sports field
THEY’RE sidling in from the outskirts, the industrial estates, under cover of darkness onto our cobbles and spires: rival firms patrolling six til late from the gloom of Piccadilly, guns blazing over the Foss. Or stationed in Micklegate where girls
TWO teenagers attacked a man who refused to hand over his rucksack after they targeted him on a busy York street. The assault, which left the 43-year-old victim needing hospital treatment for an ear injury, happened at about 5.30pm yesterday on
A PIONEERING York cycling scheme has been praised at an awards ceremony. City of York Council’s Park and Pedal project, the UK’s first , was launched 11 months ago with York Designer Outlet, TSYS and First Bus, encouraging commuters to leave their
FURTHER to your coverage of the latest information published by Ofsted, Report good news for city schools (The Press, March 14), I’d like to add my congratulations to head teachers across the city. It is thanks to their dedication, and that of
LABOUR councillors are calling for action to tackle a “proliferation” of betting shops and payday lenders in York. Barbara Boyce and Steve Burton will argue at City of York Council for the Sustainable Communities Act to be used to push the government
THE eternal wrangle over the last resting place of Richard III remains, and will no doubt end up with an investigation by the cold-case detective squad, along with a sequel “Murder in the Tower” and London staking a claim! If only the ravens could
S MCCLAREN says that after a number of harebrained schemes City of York Council is now showing a modicum of sense by bidding for a railway college to reintroduce apprenticeships (Letters, March 15). As a parent and an employer, I know something
Kate Liptrot with pic being taken on Monday (March 10)ONE man’s trash is another man’s treasure, an event in York aims to prove. St Nicks Environment Centre, off Melrosegate, is hosting a picnic with a difference - after people have enjoyed
THE statistics indicating that out of 67 visitors to York Art Gallery 60 visitors had merely “gone to use the restroom” (Letters, March 13 and 15) are significant. Basic, really: nobody needs art, but everybody needs a loo. Moreover, in shunning
MATTHEW LAVERACK asserted (Letters, March 4) that the only way to end traffic congestion is to “let it flow” without artificial obstructions. If he is seriously suggesting a traffic free-for-all, then the recent experience of free evening parking
With reference to article “Safety summit in York after River Ouse tragedy” (Press March 17) maybe the first thing that could be done is every new intake of students be given a teaching about the dangers of drinking too much, although they are all intelligent
PERIOD features, plenty of parking, an extra bedroom - the list of most house hunters' requirements is long enough, but for one Yorkshire family their "must haves" include an unusual extra - room for their beloved pet camel. Jeffrey, a hardy Russian
100 years ago THE introduction of the new five-a-penny Life Ray Cigarettes probably affected a larger number of people than would be affected by any other new introduction. For the number of five-a-penny cigarettes smoked in the United Kingdom
BURGLARS raided three houses in Tofts Lane and Dunroyal, Helperby, between March 11 and 13. A gold brooch, gold chain with a cross pendant and gold and diamond set rings were stolen, along with a Toshiba laptop.
HARROGATE artist Anita Bowerman’s exhibition of paper cuts has opened at Weetons food hall, in West Park, Harrogate. Anita’s artwork takes hours to design and cut out, using a pencil, rubber, sharp scalpel and hours of patience. Hanging on
ALMOST 4,000 York children are living below the poverty line but the health of the city's youngsters is mostly better than the UK average, official figures have revealed. Child health statistics released by Public Health England show the city has
A GIANT “gold box” is to house 800 years of York’s history as part of a £1.6 million scheme to open up priceless documents. The state-of-the-art vault, which was being craned into place at the York Explore centre on Museum Street this week, will
WHEN it comes to HS2, some of us are still standing on the doubting platform, with the litter of political hyperbole blowing around our feet. The £50 billion rail link – well, that’s the latest figure; other wild estimates are available – is back
A MAN was racially abused in Fawcett Street, York, when a woman shouted from a passing car. The incident was at about 7.55pm on March 11 and was reported by another motorist. PC Tony Barnes, of York Police, said such abuse was “wholly unacceptable
A WOMAN was arrested in Fishergate on Monday night, after she allegedly threw pub beer garden furniture into the street. North Yorkshire Police were called to the Edinburgh Arms where the 40-year-old woman had been refused service by staff.
York's St Sampson's Centre is 40 later this year. STEPHEN LEWIS reports THE story goes that it was the sight of so many elderly, retired men sitting on benches in the centre of York that helped prompt the conversion of a derelict church into a
In his latest monthly column, York Outer MP Julian Sturdy laments the city’s traffic woes and gives his verdict on George Osborne’s budget THE weekend before last, thousands of Trade Union Congress members and supporters from across the country
THIEVES stole distinctive antique items in a burglary in Scarborough. The house, in the old town area of Scarborough, was broken into while the owners were away between March 9 and 12, and items including two silver candelabras, two silver candle
SEVEN sheep worth about £1,000 have been stolen from a farm in North Yorkshire. The animals were taken from Craven Garth Farm, in the Rosedale area of Ryedale, between last Saturday and yesterday. Police have appealed for anybody who saw suspicious
A LENGTHY wrangle over whether an 18th century masterpiece at Castle Howard should be exempted from capital gains tax has ended in a test case court battle. Sir Joshua Reynolds' Omai was displayed at the stately home for more than 200 years before
OWNERS of small and medium-sized companies in the Selby district have been invited to a free workshop in the town. This is the business support workshop, organised by Selby District Council, which aims to provide help with marketing, finance and
A YORK-based property developer and hotel operator has signed up former Masterchef finalist Tom Rennolds as food consultant for the group. The Skelwith Group, which runs Raithwaite Estate near Whitby, and is currently developing the £100 million
THE success of enterprise in Hambleton is to be showcased at the second annual Hambleton Business Conference. Hosted by the Hambleton Strategic Business Forum, the event highlight some of the region's top performing local companies, and the routes
A CITY centre chocolatier is visiting Ghana in a bid to enrich his understanding of one York’s most famous products. Andrew Thwaite, head chocolatier at York’s CHOCOLATE Story, will next week travel to the African country, which is the second largest
More than 40 students will take to the stage for Tadcaster Grammar School’s 2014 musical production, Guys and Dolls.Following his success as Joseph in last year’s production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is Jesse Cook, who
WHAT a picture our lovely city of York looks with all the beautiful daffodils around everywhere. City walls, Clifford’s Tower, all dressed up to welcome spring and visitors to our historic city which I am proud to live in. Two years ago I paid
THE Government has set out plans which could see a "super-council", including York, established. If approved, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority will be able to co-ordinate as one body to attract greater investment in transport infrastructure
PUPILS and staff at a York school are celebrating after it was praised by inspectors.Ofsted rated Carr Junior School in Acomb as "a good school with outstanding features", praising the way children "thrive and feel exceptionally safe"
YORK and Scarborough have some of the highest rates of diabetic patients having amputations in England, figures have shown. Nationally thousands of patients may be facing unnecessary leg amputations because of variations in practice around the
The girlfriend of a burglar helped him to evade justice after he carried out a terrifying hammer attack on a defenceless woman, York Crown Court heard. Stephanie Knights, now 18, was with Liam Green, 21, as he set out to “go grafting” on the night
BUS drivers have swapped places with cyclists as part of a groundbreaking road safety trial at the University of York. The city has been picked as the first place in the UK to test out Cycle Alert, a tracking system alerting drivers to nearby cyclists
TEAMS of pupils from more than a dozen schools have taken part in a technology competition. The annual Rotary Technology Tournament was held at the National Rail Museum where 37 teams worked against the clock to design, build and demonstrate their
DESIGNS which may be used on the UK’s new high-speed rail link will go on display in York next month. The exhibition, opening at the National Railway Museum on April 1, will reveal ten shortlisted designs chosen from 62 entries from 14 countries
A YOUNG man who has sung with the same choir since he was at primary school is leaving to start an Army career. Tenor Sam Happs is leaving the Stamford Bridge Singers and is heading to Winchester to start training with the Royal Engineers.
A NEW bike ride has been launched which takes in the North Yorkshire coastline. Ride The BoS (Borough of Scarborough) includes the main resorts of Whitby, Scarborough and Filey. Taking in 94 towns and hamlets, the ride was developed by the Mayor
TWO mums who met after their children were born with Down's Syndrome are holding an event to raise awareness of the condition. Laura Massheder, 28, from Wintringham, and Emily Webster, 35, from Norton, became firm friends after meeting in a children's
HUNDREDS of people in the North East may have a common bone disorder and not know about it. Rheumatologists at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough have urged people to be more aware of Paget’s disease. Paget’s disease is characterised
UPDATED 7.35am: A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said 10 people had contacted them since the Crimewatch appeal, and 10 people got in touch following the release of the new information yesterday morning. He also said the new microsite had been
