THERE is major traffic disruption in York this afternoon, leading to delays on bus services. First York say there are higher than average levels of traffic on certain key routes. There are severe delays on Fulford Road and there have been problems
THE locations for North Yorkshire Police's safety camera vans have been announced for the next week. The cameras will be at the following locations from tomorrow. For more information go to northyorkshire.police.uk • A65 Clapham by-pass
SEVERAL factors distinguished Nina Krisofferson's Billie Holiday Story from the standard tribute show. First there was the equal prominence of Nina and Billie's names in the show title, indicative of Kristofferson's valuation of her worth as a
THE number of people killed on North Yorkshire’s roads has reached its highest level in seven years. Fifty-one peopled died last year, up by 60 per cent on 2012, partly due to an increase in the number of motorcycle fatalities, which more than
A TEENAGE girl was head-butted by a stranger while walking in a York street, police have said today. The 14-year-old girl was walking in Monkton Road at about 9.15pm on Monday, April 7, when she was struck in the side of her face by the man, who
MINERS at a North Yorkshire colliery have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a phased rundown of the doomed mine. UK Coal said that of the miners who voted at Kellingley Colliery, 575 accepted Government proposals for a managed closure of the pit
YORK City manager Nigel Worthington hailed an "exceptional" Easter after his team moved to within one win of securing a Sky Bet League Two play-off place. Keith Lowe's fifth-minute goal - his first for the Minstermen - secured a 1-0 home victory
YORK City kept their 21st clean sheet of the season to set a new club record and move to within one win of snaring a play-off place. Never in the club’s 92-year history has a side managed more shut-outs during a league programme of fixtures following
A MAN has appeared in front of a crown court judge today over the knifepoint robbery of an elderly woman and her daughter at a house in York on Mothering Sunday. Scott Nevision, 38, of Moore Avenue Osbaldwick, appeared at York Crown Court via a
THE remarkable Tony McCoy, who will be crowned champion jump jockey for a 19th consecutive time when the season draws to a close on Saturday, graces Wetherby with his presence this afternoon and is unlikely to return home empty-handed. McCoy has
YORK Acorn ARLC 'A' produced a second-half comeback but were unable to stave off defeat against Skirlaugh 'A' in the Yorkshire Men's League. The Blue and Golds trailed 30-4 just after the break, but battled back to lose only 30-20 in the game at
JACK BROOKS believes his performance with bat and ball and Yorkshire’s winning position in their ongoing LV= County Championship match against his former county Northamptonshire has helped to justify his decision to leave Wantage Road in late 2012.
YOU'VE done it! A York charity today issued a huge thank you to readers of The Press, after an incredible response to an Easter appeal for help. We teamed up with anti-poverty charity Acts 435, to highlight 20 local people's stories and appeal
Organisers of the Tour de France's visit to Yorkshire have insisted they are not aiming to tone down the county's identity after it emerged volunteers were being asked to avoid traditional northern greetings like "love". Thousands of "Tour Makers
HOUSING bosses are on a collision course with residents over moves to build flats on green space in York. City of York Council wants to build the eight two-bedroom flats to accommodate pensioners downsizing due to the so-called "bedroom tax".
COMMUNITY groups in Hambleton can now apply for a share of £70,000. Hambleton District Council’s Investing in Communites Grant scheme has been renewed this year, after last year awarding 15 community projects more than £27,000. Grants are available
A LONG weekend of chocolate-themed celebrations came to an end in York yesterday. The city's biggest ever Chocolate Festival saw thousands of visitors flock to the chocolate market in Parliament Street, while other events around York included Easter
THE next stage in the bid to bring the HS2 Rail College to York is being staged with a call to businesses to unite for the city's rail industry. Businesses and skills providers are being invited to an event on Tuesday 22 to find out how they can
POLICE officers and Highways Agency officials are to meet political leaders today to discuss improving safety on the A64 at Bilbrough Top, between York and Tadcaster. The meeting was called by Selby and Ainsty MP Nigel Adams and local councillor
Thirteen cyclists completed the Way of the Roses cycle route to raise money for the Young Epilepsy charity. As well as turning 40 over the weekend, the organiser of the event, Al Birch from Holgate Road, successfully completed the coast to coast
THE annual Cliffe Scarecrow Festival will take place on Sunday, between 11am and 2pm. This year’s theme is occupations, and visitors can follow the clues around the village to solve a puzzle and win a prize. There will also be a locally-sourced
THIEVES broke into the changing rooms at the White Rose Sports Club in Sherburn-in-Elmet between 2.25pm and 3.40pm on Saturday. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said property belonging to the football teams had been stolen but could not confirm
GUNS thundered over the ancient capital of the North as the military paid a birthday tribute to the Queen. To mark the monarch’s 88th birthday a 21-gun salute was fired in York’s Museum Gardens, one of only 12 official saluting stations in the
A York student has beaten hundreds of other hopefuls to be nominated for Female Undergraduate of the Year. Bronwyn O’Neill, a second year English Literature student at York University, is one of the top ten finalists for this year’s contest, which
WHAT are the odds of this? More than a trillion to one, reckons Rob Clayton, who says he cracked open no fewer than 15 eggs and found they all contained double yolks. Mr Clayton, who runs the Deighton Lodge bed and breakfast south of York, was
Cancer sufferers in the Harrogate area have been helped by a £400,000 windfall following the launch of a specialist advice service for victims. It is feared that many grants and benefits may be going unclaimed because those devastated by news they
STAFF at a city centre opticians went all out for Easter to raise funds for an eye cancer charity. Workers at Vision Express York, on Parliament Street, sported bunny ears for the day on Easter Saturday, April 19, and welcomed performing magician
A YORK based charity which helps the victims of rape and sexual abuse has received a cash boost from the Ministry of Justice. Survive, which was founded in 1990, supports women and men who have survived child sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault
A SEARCH to find an apprentice has been launched at BBC Radio York. The broadcaster is offering one fixed-term contract for 15 months, with the trainee earning a Level 3 qualification in Journalism certified by the National Council for the Training
THE pop-up restaurant Chateau Marmot will return to North Yorkshire with a weekend of dining as part of the Malton Food Lovers Festival. The team will be serving in Malton on May 23 to 25, as part of this year's Food Lovers Festival on May 24 and
DON’T let anyone tell you that we live in a wholly selfish, me-first age. Press readers have proved the spirit of charitable giving is alive and well. On Thursday last week, we teamed up with Acts 435, the anti-poverty charity founded by the
FROM an Easter appeal to an Easter mystery. The chances of finding a double-yolked egg are said to be less than one in a thousand. So what are the chances of finding 15 of them on the trot? Pretty astronomical, we’d have thought. Yet that’s what
A FORMER intensive care nurse who rose to fame cooking dishes on Masterchef has had one of her dishes named as the best in the show's history. Sara Danesin Medio gave up nursing to run a dining club and cookery class from her York home, after finishing
THANK YOU to The Press for telling us about Mummy Duck and her latest offspring in the Merchant Adventurer’s beautiful garden. I found the cuties – all together cuddled up in Mother Nature’s feather quilt. What a glorious sight! Then off to witness
QUESTION time. Like many people I am intrigued as to why there are no gambling casinos in York. The demand must be absolutely huge. Every Tuesday there is a disappearance of people travelling to Leeds, Bradford, also Manchester to have their perfectly
BRIAN ROGERS asks why if recycling was ‘sold’ as saving money, council tax has risen since its introduction. City of York Council has a strategic objective to deliver effective and efficient waste-management services, which includes diverting as
COMMUNITIES secretary Eric Pickles has successfully stopped council “bullies” from fining homeowners from renting out their driveways. Mr Pickles recently announced his campaign to defend UK homeowners against what he described as “a back-door
NOW that the council has lost all that revenue from opening up Lendal Bridge, why don’t they buy some hand-held speed cameras and catch all those vehicles exceeding the 20mph limit they are introducing in York streets? Just think of the revenue
WHEN all is said and done about Lendal Bridge, most people would agree how much better it has been around the bridge, the railway station, the Minster and The Theatre Royal, during the closure. The mismanagement of it all was mainly in the signage
HERE we go (Press, April 18): £2 million extra for road and path repairs is the first of the popular schemes that our council will be casting our way to get back in our good books after three years of profligacy and ignoring what the residents wanted
THE cabinet reshuffle at City of York Council is another example of “rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic”. But will the captain and his first mate, who have steered the vessel into the iceberg, go down with the ship or be first in the queue
AS MY opinion, for some reason, has been sought by a number of journalists on MEPs’ expenses may I re-state my view in full so there can be no misunderstanding? EU rules should be significantly tightened and there should be an independent audit
WILL Councillor Levene also be setting up a York Pedestrians’ Forum to balance the views of the recently announced Motorist User Forum? Rod Bell, Askham Lane, Acomb, York.
JULIAN Sturdy is surely taking the Michael by stating the budget rewards people who have worked all their lives with a private pension tax cut (‘People who have worked all lives deserve pension tax cut,’ The Press, April 11). No Mr Sturdy, it is
IN RESPONSE to the article headlined ‘Diver’s appeal for stray dogs’ (The Press, April 15), how can anybody want to bring every stray dog in Romania to England? All she has to do is travel a couple of miles to the RSPCA centre in Landing Lane and
I agree with much of John Cossham’s sentiments (Letters, April 19) about the minority of silly cyclists in York. However, I would like to point out that those countries which have tried to introduce a bike licensing scheme have eventually scrapped
HAVING a great interest in Australia, I was baffled by the protesters who unveiled their banner on Clifford’s Tower. In seeking to make a point about immigration policy, one would have thought it important to get the facts right. The first
JULIAN Cole (April 17) should not despair. The following rule applies to cameras as to anything. “What’s lost in-house will be found later when you’re looking for something else”. William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York
DOES Stonebow House deserve “a new lease of life”? We unfortunately live in a throwaway society: if it does not suit, we throw it away. That sometimes also applies to buildings. I was at the Stonebow House Inquiry recently with over 50 other people
A MAN with a passion for fishing has made been able to make his hobby a full-time job after the coaching business he ran in his spare time was snapped up by a regional country pursuits company. Olly Shepherd, 31, from Felixkirk, near Thirsk, has
THE Selby Moving Targets Scooter Club will host a day of live music and events to celebrate its tenth anniversary this weekend. Throughout Saturday, live bands and DJs will be performing, with covers bands playing classic British rock from the
A TEENAGER from York has made her national radio debut this Easter. Megan Williamson, 14, who is a pupil at Archbishop Holgate's School in York, had the chance to participate in the Good Friday meditation broadcast on Radio 4 by Archbishop John
A new kitchen led to a York woman having a starring role on BBC television and a two-year dispute. In 2012, Shirley Hughes, 63, spent her redundancy money on achieving her lifelong dream of a new kitchen for her house in Barkston Avenue, Chapelfields
DEAN Elliott never intended to become Paul Simon, although the performer who played Buddy Holly for two years in London and on tour in Buddy - The Musical did come up with the idea of developing a show about Simon and Garfunkel. "I was doing Buddy
IT started out as a 50th birthday treat. Jules Watson wanted to mark her half-century and looked for a residential yoga retreat. On the advice of her yoga teacher she booked in to one run by renowned London based teacher Billy Doyle in Goldalming
Young North Yorkshire designer Charlotte Hazell makes clothes to cherish. MAXINE GORDON reports on her new collection ONLY the softest silk, the finest wool and most crisp cotton will suffice for Charlotte Hazell. Under her label, Charlotte
100 years ago Mr F Carl, Fleet Street, London wrote: “For the past five years we have, through the medium of your widely circulated journal, succeeded in collecting a very large number of new-laid eggs for the hospitals during Hospital Egg Week
BANK holidays – you either love them or hate them. I suppose I fall into both camps. There are good elements and there are bad. But does one outweigh the other? Let’s have a look: First the downside: • Out-of-town shopping centre madness
A WORKER at building preservation specialist from Acomb has been awarded the first ever Employee of the Year award from a national industry organisation. Fraser Rafton, a remedial technician and joiner at Dryfix Preservation, is the first recipient
TWO York chocolate businesses are combining their entrepreneurial skills to help launch new enterprises in Africa. Chocolate producer Choc Affair, based in Yorvale Business Park off James Street, and York Cocoa House in Blake Street are sponsoring
WILDLIFE enthusiasts are being asked to record sightings of local wildlife in a bid to support Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s conservation efforts. WildWalks is a new online recording tool established by The Wildlife Trusts in partnership with the
SEVEN weeks have passed since the 2014 Community Pride awards launched and inspirational tales of dedicated and selfless people in York have been flooding in. Nominations opened for the thirteen categories of the Press's annual community awards
THE number of firms in the region showing signs of business distress has hit a record low, according to new figures. The figure for businesses in Yorkshire and the North East has dropped to 18 per cent, according the latest Business Distress Index
Artist Penny de Corte has found a way of really turning visitor's heads at her local art gallery. The sculptor who specialises in ceramics of birds and animals and shapes inspired by nature has taken up sculpting the human face. Over the past
A MAN has been charged in connection with a stabbing outside a North Yorkshire pub. North Yorkshire Police arrested the 31-year-old man from the Whitby area yesterday on suspicion of attempted murder, over an incident outside the Hare and Hounds
HUNDREDS of runners took part in the annual Helmsley 10k at the weekend. Held on Easter Sunday, about 400 competitors took part in the fifth annual event, which raises money towards the refurbishment of Helmsley Sports and Social Club. Carol
St Leonard’s Hospice supporter Tom Hair has mobilised his mates to take part for the charity in the Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon on 12 October – and is encouraging others to join him. Tom and his family have close links with the Hospice – both his
TWO students from North Yorkshire have been awarded scholarships through Harper Adams University. Miles Metcalfe, 23, a fifth year Agricultural Engineering student originally from Northallerton, and spent a year at German farm machinery company
A FORMER RAF pilot from North Yorkshire has pledged to raise £10,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association after his best friend, Paul Hopkins, was diagnosed with the disease. Chris Burwell, from Richmond, is planning a number of fundraising
YORKSHIRE has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with malignant melanoma, new figures from Cancer Research UK reveal today. Over the last 20 years the rates of people diagnosed with malignant melanoma, the most serious form
A COUNCILLOR has welcomed news that pre-emptive action is to be taken to prevent horses damaging newly planted trees in a layby near York. Osbaldwick councillor Mark Warters said horses had regularly been tethered by travellers in the layby on
