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FIIREFIGHTERS have been called to a house fire in the Chapelfields area of York. Crews were called to Chapelfields Road at 4pm today. When the crews arrived at the smoke filled house they found the cause of the smoke was a pan left unattended

NORTH Yorkshire golfer Simon Dyson sneaked into the last two rounds of the Maybank Malaysian Open with a one under par second round of 71 in Kuala Lumpur. The 36-year-old, returning to the European Tour after a back injury, improved on his opening

 FINE Chisel's "adventurous theatrical event, bursting with live music", has taken over four Yorkshire towns this month. Already the Bristol theatre company and roistering folk band have spread their Icarus wings in Pocklington, Selby and Easingwold

THREE people have been arrested after a drugs raid in Acomb. Two men aged 40 and 19 and a 45-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply after the warrant was executed in Cornlands Road. Officers

"DO NOT take boring pictures," Tony Ray-Jones wrote to himself as he set out to photograph his now iconic images of the English. Over three years in the late 1960s, he travelled the length and breadth of the country in a VW camper van, photographing

100 years ago Some excitement had been caused in High Petergate about half-past eleven in the morning, by a horse rearing and putting its forefeet through the window of a boot shop. It appeared that a horse and cart belonging to Messrs Bell

THIS was a night to make organisers, performers and enthusiastic audience members alike extremely proud, prompting a review written with a heart full of love and a deep, renewed appreciation for this fair city and the wonderful people who call it home

PICK Me Up Theatre producer Robert Readman reckons everything adds up for Broadway teen musical 13 to “become popular bit by bit”. He’s playing his part by giving Jason Robert Brown’s “grown-up story about growing up” its York premiere. Chances

DEPENDING on what time of day it is if/as you read this, I’ll either be heading to completely the wrong departure gate at one airport, seeing if I can keep up my fairly impressive record of getting nabbed for the is-this-your-bag-sir treatment (one

WE got away with it this winter. Hardly any frost, next to no snow and thank goodness for that really, because the latest assessment of the state of York’s roads makes grim reading. Andy Binner, the city council’s head of highways, says the problem

LIVING in York is always a treat, but twice a year the city is without parallel. In December it is easily Britain’s most Christmassy and at Easter our confectionery heritage comes to the fore in the most mouthwatering way. This year the Chocolate

 BE AWARE that the new free three-hour car parking, coming into effect in May, does not apply to all council-owned car parks. I looked in vain in The Press of April 15 for Castle Car Park, but it isn’t there. Castle Mills is, but this is a completely

ONCE again, Gillygate traffic is backing up from Bootham Bar to Union Terrace car park by mid morning. Yet The Press of April 15 proclaimed free city-centre parking, while bemoaning the rising costs of a new cycle route. Last week a major Government

HOW can the council back free parking in the city car parks? Forgive my cynicism, but won’t that mean more cars coming into the city, even though the council has always maintained it was striving to find ways to cut down on traffic in the city,

I AGREE with Matthew Laverack on congestion (The Press, April 16). For years, successive councils have tried to solve traffic problems by discouraging and trying to rid the city of traffic, failing to understand that it’s the slowing down and stop

THERE have been letters written in before, but please can someone give me just one benefit from the alterations where the A166 Stamford Bridge Road meets Grimston Bar roundabout? The right-hand lane is always queued right back since it now feeds

I AM surprised that Mr Casperson needs to use Park & Ride (The Press, April 14) when there is a bus stop 200 yards from his house served during the day by a half- hourly bus service (no.10) which goes through the city centre, calling at York Railway

The trouble with previous incarnations of the Lexus GS range was that they were always attractive and exceedingly comfortable but no match for the German class leaders when it came to driving enjoyment. That has changed with the arrival of the

GARY THORNTON insists his York City Knights side will put to bed last Sunday's nightmare as they look to bounce back to winning form tonight. The Knights go to Gateshead Thunder (7.30pm) for their second Championship One assignment in five days

STAYING calm will be crucial if York City are to beat Oxford United today, believes manager Nigel Worthington.The Minstermen manager has stressed the importance of keeping focus, and not getting caught up in hype, as his side bid to get back into the

DAVE MERRETT’S move (Bridge saga boss moved on in council shape up, The Press, April 17) is much too little, far too late. Peter Newton, Montague Street, York.

YORK'S new transport boss is setting up a forum to give motorists a voice - and has confirmed that £300,000 will be spent on improving traffic flow. Cllr David Levene, who has just taken over Cabinet responsibility for transport from Dave Merrett

KEITH LOWE wants the Minstermen defence to go on another goal-stopping run. The York City centre-back and his back four colleagues only narrowly failed to equal a 29-year club record when Accrington Stanley fashioned a fortunate equaliser in stoppage

HOPES of an instant dividend on returning to golf’s European Tour failed to materialise for York’s Simon Dyson. Two weeks since his playing was curtailed by a back spasm in Spain, Dyson could only manage a one-over-par 73 in the opening round of

RICCALL United beat Copmanthorpe 3-2 to keep alive their slim premier division title hopes in the York Minster Engineering Football League, writes Graham Ireton. Riccall’s total came from an own goal and strikes by Andrew Best and Luke Crowther

DUNNINGTON staved off the threat of relegation with a 6-0 victory over Severus in division one of the Ian’s Cars of Barlby York Sunday Morning Football League, writes Dave Bailey. Rob Hart scored twice and there were also goals from Rob Chipps,

TADCASTER ALBION are offering free admission to all spectators for tomorrow's clash against Barton Town Old Boys. With York and Hull without matches, the Brewers owners i2i Sports are urging fans to come to Ings Lane and watch the sides who are

WINGER George Elliott has been handed a vote of confidence by coach Gary Thornton after being reinstated into the line-up. The former dual-code junior international had a personal nightmare a fortnight ago as the Knights were edged out by Swinton

IT IS Good Friday with a difference. Never before has the day hosted racing, and for many enthusiasts it's the opportunity to go behind the scenes at Open Days at Middleham and Lambourn. Those two events are still taking place, but there is opposition

TRIBUTES have been paid to the missing 18-year-old soldier Tyler Pearson whose body was found in the River Ouse. Police were called by a member of the public yesterday morning and fire crews helped recover a body, close to Terry Avenue, near Skeldergate

THE Archbishop of York has washed the feet of twelve people at York Minster at a service to commemorate Maundy Thursday. Dr John Sentamu took part in the ceremony to remember the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples before his crucifixion.

FLOOD defences in York could be improved to protect residents from increased risks posed by climate change. City of York Council is hoping a new study will be carried out to examine the case for upgrading and enhancing York’s defences for the future

ONE lane of the A64 will be closed next week as Northern PowerGrid install a new electric supply. The westbound carriageway near Bramham will be closed overnight on Thursday, April 24, and through Friday, April 25. More information is available

PLANS for this year’s Selby Town Council Family Fun Day are already under way, and will include a motorcycle rally. The annual event will include a fun run sponsored by Space Creative and organised by Selby Striders, which will leave Selby High

FRIENDS and former servicemen across York are being urged to give a suitable send-off to a Normandy Veteran and Royal British Legion stalwart who has died, aged 91. Widower Reg Clemmett, a founder member and former president of the Legion's Fulford

 THE second phase of works to spruce up Thirsk market place is going to plan, says Hambleton District Council. Contractors are nearly half way through individually re-laying parts of the cobbled and York stone paved areas, to the northern side

A CHARITY weekend in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support is being staged over Easter at the Crystal Palace pub in Holgate Road, York. Landlord Gerry Jackson said a raffle today had more than £500 worth of prizes donated by local businesses, while a

QUAYSIDE fish and chip shop and restaurant – named ‘Best in Britain’ in 2014 – will be divulging the secrets to its multi award-winning fish and chips on BBC Countryfile this month. Countryfile presenter and ecologist Ellie Harrison declared she

MOTORISTS have once again been banned from making a right turn out of Lendal, following the re-opening of Lendal Bridge to traffic. But transport bosses say the road network has operated well without the ban and they will now look into whether

THE owners of a farm shop and tea shop were stunned to find one of their two camels was giving birth – as they are both female. Farmer Andrew and Maria Henshaw had no idea that Doris the camel, who lives with her half-sister Delilah, was in the

A NEW permanent radio station has been given a licence to broadcast in East Yorkshire. The West Wolds Radio service will be dedicated to Pocklington and its surrounding villages, staffed by volunteers, and provide local programming every day.

YORK highways bosses are to spend an extra £2 million on repairing residential roads and footpaths damaged by the harsh weather of recent years.The money has been allocated by City of York Council to the highway maintenance budget to improve unclassified

YORKSHIRE’S Andrew Gale has been studying Michael Clarke’s captaincy in a bid to help him get the best out of fast bowler Liam Plunkett. The White Rose skipper spent some of his time during a winter Down Under watching how captain Clarke used Mitchell

STEVE BURDETT is targeting a record fourth successive Hunters York and District Senior Cricket League premier division title for Woodhouse Grange. The skipper of the Sutton-on- Derwent-based club leads his men into another campaign when they host

YORK’S city centre was more than ten per cent busier in March than the same month last year, pushing the city ahead of national and regional footfall increases. Figures taken from a camera situated in Parliament Street between March 3 and April

THE son of veterinary surgeon and writer North Yorkshire author Alf Wight recently attended the annual British Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress in Birmingham. Jim Wight and a team from The World of James Herriot, an attraction located

A COMEDIAN and regular visitor to Selby has returned to the town for a special Easter ceremony. Where traditionally the Queen offers alms to deserving members of the public, historically the Pittancer attended Selby Abbey to distribute eggs and

GIRLS Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh, Fame Academy contestant Alistair Griffin and a brass band immortalised by a movie have joined forces to record an anthem for Yorkshire’s Tour de France Grand Départ. Welcome to Yorkshire, which led the winning

BEATING Yorkshire Academy will give York Cricket Club a “huge amount of confidence” as they start their bid for an eighth successive Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League title, believes vice-captain Nick Kay. The Clifton Parkers open

CHOCOLATE Heaven was unveiled in York for Easter as a series of mouth-watering masterpieces went on show for the city’s biggest ever Chocolate Festival. As a taster, the city’s Chocolate Story’s team paid tribute to a proud history of confectionary-making

A NEW UK-based chartered body for forensic scientists around the world will be launched on April 29. The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, which will be headquartered in Harrogate, will seek to drive forward global standards in scientific

KEITH Lowe has hailed York City's first-half display against Wycombe Wanderers as "the most entertaining 45 minutes of football" he has ever been involved in. It is a statement that carries weight, coming from a man who has been involved in play-off