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A 21-year-old student has been giving evidence against the man she says kidnapped her from a York street then raped her three times in a van with blacked-out windows. The girl had left a Hallowe'en party at a club where she worked behind a bar,

DETECTIVES searching for a wanted York man have urged anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact them. Daniel Pullman, 23, was sentenced to four years imprisonment in 2011 for arson, and released on parole in 2012 but was arrested

JENNY Eden and fellow York contemporary artist Joy Simpson are to hold an exhibition in an unused office space at 11 Little Stonegate, York. "East Street Arts, from Leeds, rent the first floor of this office building between Laura Ashley and Browns

IAN McCulloch is finally facing up to his demons on Echo & The Bunnymen's new album, Meteorites, their first since The Fountain five years ago. “For me, this is a whole new approach. It’s more edgy than anything I’ve ever done,” says McCulloch

AFTER 20 years in Everything But The Girl, and ten years as a DJ and record label boss of Buzzin' Fly, Ben Watt decided last year to "park everything" to complete two long-planned solo projects. The first was his second book, Romany and Tom, a

THE link here is A New England. “I was 21 years when I wrote this song; I’m 22 now but I won’t be long,” wrote former squaddie Bragg, who is 56 now and still going strong. Kirsty MacColl covered it, extra Bragg female verse and all, going on to chart

AUSTRIAN rock acts are about as rare as famous Belgians, which is odd considering Vienna was home to Beethoven, Strauss and Mozart. We’ll gloss over Falco the one-hit-wonder, perhaps, but now here comes the Sohn. Can this Viennese multi instrumentalist

IT’S BEEN 16 years since the last Afghan Whigs album, but frontman Greg Dulli is typically bullish from its first note. On crunching opener Parked Outside, he bellows: “If they want something more, give ‘em something new.” A reinvention is

PAUL Thomas Saunders is a young artist who thinks big. His sound is sweeping, windswept and elemental, with spacey song titles to match, such as Starless State of The Moonless Barrow or Santa Meurte’s Lightning & Flare. Don’t let any of

LOOKING back, none of the Kids from Fame graduated on to become adult pop acts. But expectations for the Glee cast are so much higher. Lest we forget, thanks to digital downloads, the Glee cast have scored more than 200 US Billboard hits, just

FALLING somewhere between girly pop and moody shoe-gazing music, September Girls are a pleasant change from homogenised chart music. Throughout the album you’ll hear throwbacks to all kinds of musical styles, but most noticeable (particularly on

LIZ Green, the wistful Liverpool singer-songwriter with the jazz-era cabaret sound, is touring with a full band, much to the delight of Please Please You gig promoter Joe Coates. "Three years since she recorded her debut album,O, Devotion!, at

ALREADY Jade Ewen has starred in the West End by the age of ten, represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest and been a member of The Sugababes. Now she is appearing in the national tour of Tonight's The Night, The Rod Stewart Musical, bringing

JENNY Sealey, co-director of the London 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony, is now holding the same post for an anarchic new version of The Threepenny Opera at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. The Playhouse has teamed up not only with Graeae

THE Discover Tuesdays slot at City Screen, York, will be filled by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Plazza's ingenious Italian art-house gangster movie Salvo (12A) on Tuesday at 6.20pm. After saving his employer from assassination, cold-blooded Mafia

THERE are a number of possible reactions to David Cameron telling us that he is evangelical about Christianity. At least one of them requires a side-order of scepticism. Religion and politics mix uneasily in this country. That strikes this religiously

TUESDAY night was Clwyd Theatre Cymru's first performance of their 60th anniversary production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood outside his homeland, and afterwards rather endearingly the cast was enquiring whether it had been too Welsh. What

YORK railwayman Charles Hudson fought in two world wars. He survived the first ... but his luck ran out in the second, as this special Press report reveals. As the nation focusses on those lost to the First World War, spare a moment for the veterans

A FIFTH generation building and restoration contractor which survived both World Wars is celebrating its 140th anniversary in York. Osbaldwick-based William Birch & Sons was founded in 1874 by William Birch, with early construction projects

DRAX Power Station has confirmed it is taking legal action against the Government after it backed out of biomass conversion funding. In December last year the Government advised that conversions of the second and third units from coal into biomass

HARROGATE Spring Water has signed a deal with Yorkshire County Cricket Club to become the team’s official bottled water partner.The business, owned by Harrogate Water Brands, will provide the club's players with bottled water at every home match

BUS manufacturer Optare has won its second £3 million plus order this month after being tasked with supplying 17 electric vehicles fo Nottingham City Council. The Sherburn in Elmet-based business has previously suplied 28 electric buses to the

YORKSHIRE captain Andrew Gale is considering leaving himself out of Sunday’s LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Lord’s with England batsman Joe Root set to return to the side. Gale revealed the news after yesterday’s innings and

THE busy stretch of the A64 near Bilbrough Top has been a death trap for far too long. Big improvements were made several years ago when a flyover was built and gaps in the central reservation closed. That prevented cars turning across the

SINCE 2003, the conflict in Afghanistan has made front-page news, on most days, and often for all the wrong reasons. But one story that rarely made the headlines has been the behind-the-scenes work at Strensall Barracks, where thousands of regular

WHAT a mess this country has become since 2010. The Con/Lib coalition is not only conning the Liberals, but they think they are conning us all. The Press (April 16) reports that “poverty leads to 163 per cent more food bank users.” Your article

OVER the past few weeks, I have become a martyr to my bad back. During this time I started to wonder how the new treatment perceived a few years ago as the Holy Grail of bad backs was proceeding. This involved a mercury implant and, as far

CITY of York Council has chosen to reinstate the “no right turn” from Lendal into Museum Street after capitulating over Lendal Bridge. I am not sure why the council bothered because it is now generally ignored. Is this another “success” for

Does Peter Rickaby have subjective dyslexia concerning my observation of robotics replacing humans at work? (Letters, April 19) He should relax his unhealthy obsession with Red Robbo and Machiavellian complexities of the 1970s and consider the impact

I AM completely against the reopening of Lendal Bridge. The car is a menace and is killing off our planet. If Lendal Bridge isn’t working then how about giving Ouse Bridge a try? By the number of people stepping on and off the road on that

SPEAKING as a cyclist I thought the closure of Lendal Bridge was a great idea, it’s just a pity it was handled so badly by the council. However, now that we’re back to the normal gridlock, I was wondering whether the council would consider erecting

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Ms Brader regarding the change to the exit from the A166 onto the Grimston Bar Roundabout (Letters, April 18). I am in the fortunate position that I do not now use this junction as much as I used to, as it appears to

WITH the Scottish vote on independence fast approaching, little thought or debate has taken place as to what will happen to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. If Scotland votes “Yes”, Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose a total of 52 seats

THE planning application for council homes at Fenwick Street is on land owned by the council’s housing department (Resident fury over park flats proposal, The Press, April 22). It is not a park nor is it part of Rowntree Park, but it is ‘unallocated

FENWICK Street Park is parkland? Since when has parkland been part of brownfield site? Also the council want to build eight two-bedroom flats for pensioners down-sizing, so why two bedrooms; surely a one-bedroom flat would suffice? The council

LORD Mayor Cllr Julie Gunnell is in a predicament as she equivocates over the proposed building of eight new flats near to a park in her ward (The Press, April 22). Does she follow her party’s policy of building or does she represent the views

I WOULD like to comment on Hazel Ward’s letter of April 19 on the growth of the University of York and affordable housing. The City of York Council Labour group strongly objected to the lack of student accommodation on site when outline planning

NOT for the first time, I have paid £4 for just over an hour’s parking at York Hospital. I arrived at noon for a 12.15 appointment, which was on time and went according to plan. I returned straight away to the car park at just after 1 pm and

100 years ago There was a popular fallacy that the climatic conditions on the north-east coast rendered it impossible for any but the hardiest trees and shrubs to succeed, but, said the “Agricultural Economist and Horticultural Review,” one has

YORK City boss Nigel Worthington has applauded the double impact of striker Calvin Andrew. Having not played a game for three months when he joined the Minstermen four weeks ago, the front-man completed a whole match at home to Bury a mere three

YORK golf ace Simon Dyson was today on the trail of seizing an early advantage in the Volvo China Open today. Dyson was one of the earlier starters in the event which is played at the Genzon course in the Shenzhen province. The North Yorkshireman

TWO men suffered serious facial injuries in an attack at York railway station. The men, aged 23 and 32, both from Leeds, were assaulted outside the Duke of York pub between 9pm and 9.30pm on Easter Sunday (APRIL 20). One suffered multiple fractures

YORK Lokomotive ARLC kick off their new season on Saturday with coach Simon Moat espousing a new philosophy. The Lokos began life in 2008 as a joint venture between the former York Groves rugby league team and the York Railway Institute sporting

TIM RUMFORD wants Elmpark Way to remain a "lovely place" as described by former Super League star Jamie Rooney - but he doesn't want it to be so nice for opposing teams. Rumford was left smarting after his Heworth ARLC side succumbed meekly to

YORK Ladies rugby league team ended their season on a disappointing note - but coach Andy Fletcher still had high praise for his charges. York lost 54-0 to Bradford Thunderbirds in the final of the Women's Amateur Rugby League Association (WARLA

by Ian CloughHISTORY-MAKING York Indoor Bowls Club ladies capped an amazing season by adding the Yetton Trophy to their Vivienne Trophy triumph.The team are the first to record the double in the Thanet Road outfit's 41-year history, beating Egham

On Friday 16th May, friends in Yorkshire will be swapping a night out on the town for a Night In with their favourite people – all in the name of Macmillan Cancer Support. Night In is great fun and so simple. Whether it’s a girly night on the

HPH York Vale League cricketers will be hitting out for charity this season. Martin House Hospice for children will benefit from every run scored by Vale League batsmen on June 14 and 15. Clubs will pledge 10p for each run scored in the league

YORKSHIRE dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on a comprehensive LV= County Championship innings win over Northamptonshire at Headingley yesterday to get up and running for 2014. The White Rose county claimed 23 points to go with the 11 they secured

THANET Road staged a hugely successful Planet Bowls York Open, with Egham's Steve Tuohy beating City of Ely's Andy Ware in the final.Ware led 4-3 in the first set before dropping two twos to lose 7-4. He was 4-1 up in the second, but drew 5-5

PROFESIONAL debuts could hardly have been more dramatic or daring than that of Naburn tough of the drag-racing track Brad Jackson. His first experience as a contestant on the Super Pro circuit almost very nearly evaporated for the 17-year-old,

STRENSALL swimmer James Wilby will have to wait until Wednesday, May 7 to learn if he has earned a place in England’s squad for the Commonwealth Games. The 20-year-old York City Baths Club star finished fourth in both the 200 metres and 100m breaststroke

A GROUP of York City fans have stretched their support across the sporting spectrum by backing one of Yorkshire’s rising cricket stars. The Derwent Reds – followers of the Minstermen who take their name from their local pub, the Derwent Arms in

PAUL HANAGAN may not be quite as familiar a face at Beverley since he moved to Newmarket as he was when he was stable jockey to Richard Fahey and ruled the roost at the Westwood, but he is sure to have plenty of support on the course this afternoon

HUGE housing schemes in York could be blocked unless developers agree to include travellers' sites in their plans. A report has warned that York’s Local Plan risks being delayed by a planning inspector unless new sites are identified to meet a

PHOTOGRAPHER John Williamson is exhibiting at Harrogate Spring Flower Show at the Great Yorkshire Showground until Sunday.His work is being shown in the art and craft marquee, where his images of life and landscapes are available as limited and open-edition

AT 14 foot tall, "Bigger Bertie" rocks into view bigger than the average rocking horse, and most families would struggle to fit him in their homes. Instead, the hand carved horse billed as Yorkshire's biggest is about to take up residence in his

UP to 400 musicians and performers will take part in a major charity concert at the Royal Hall, Harrogate in May to celebrate in music and song the arrival of the Tour de France.The Chairman's Charity Concert is the culmination of a year-long programme

STAFF at York’s biggest bus operator First will swap places with a group of blind and partially-sighted people in the city this Saturday - to experience the challenges they face when travelling on buses. The event, which will be held at First’s

HIGHWAYS bosses have given a cool reception to calls for a 50 mph limit on a stretch of the A64 between York and Tadcaster. Local Selby district councillor Richard Musgrave called for a reduction in the 70 mph limit at Bilbrough Top after the latest

THE first big event of the UK gardening calendar swings into action today. More than 1,000 exhibitors have spent the last few days preparing their displays for the Harrogate Spring Flower Show which runs until Sunday, including an eye-catching

A MOTORIST has been given an eight-week suspended prison sentence after he was caught driving at nearly four times the drink-drive limit. Gary Clough, 58, has also been banned from driving any vehicle for three years. He gave a reading of 133

THE public are to be transported to the land of the rising sun – in the very heart of North Yorkshire.Northallerton is to play host to Japanese performing group Kimono World on May 17 as part of a Japan Day at the Forum.Between 11am and 3pm visitors

ALMOST 100 years ago the wreck of the Rohilla sparked one of the most dramatic sea rescues ever to take place off the Yorkshire coast. A First World War hospital ship, she was on her way to Dunkirk to pick up wounded soldiers when she ran aground

From May 9-11 York will be taken over by music of every style with The York Spring Festival of New Music. With a bigger programme, it will include everything from pop, rock, jazz, musical theatre and classical to world music and theme of "Carnival

HUNDREDS of businessmen and women will battle it out to be the fastest firm in the city as part of the York 10K corporate challenge. This year's event was launched yesterday outside York Minster and organisers hope to build on the success of last

VOLUNTEERS are leading the first community-based archive project , exploring the 150-year history of a York primary school. Lord Deramore’s School, is creating the archive as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Gateway to History project run by

A MAN was killed by falling bales of straw as he performed a routine farm task, an inquest heard. Stephen Wilson, 49, of Cote Hill Farm, near Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, died on November 27, 2013, from subdural haemorrhage and a fractured

A York bike shop has decided to give away the children’s bikes it receives as part of an effort to encourage cycling across the city. Recycle York, run by brothers Bradley and Casey Want, have donated bikes to Long Marston Playgroup and Pre-school

A FLOURISHING Brownie group near York is in danger of closing unless a new leader can be found. Strensall Brownies, which has been going for almost 60 years, runs during school term time on Thursdays and also takes girls on outings and activities

NEXT time you’re in the York branch of Waitrose try a little eavesdropping in the aisles - because the Facebook page ‘Overheard in Waitrose’ has become an Internet hit. Implying that Waitrose customers are slightly better-off than other supermarket

COMPETITORS are gearing up for the 12th annual Beadlam charity tractor run. Raising money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, competitors driving both vintage and classic tractors will cover about 50 miles, starting and ending at Beadlam Grange Farm

YORK has reached the finals of a European competition intended to inspire innovative solutions to urban challenges. The city has joined 20 other major European cities including Barcelona, Amsterdam and Athens as a finalist in 'Bloomberg Philanthropies

MEDICS in York who will be taking the last shift at Britain’s military hospital in Afghanistan before its closure later this year have been passed fit for duty. About 350 personnel, Regular and Reserve, have undergone their final training and assessment

AS children across York go back to class for the last few months before the summer holidays, The Press is on the hunt for the city's best primary school project. Once again, the Community Pride awards include a Primary School Project of the Year

STAFF at an agricultural machinery retailer are set to cycle the Coast to Coast route to raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Julie Williamson, of Ripon Farm Services, said she would be joined by colleagues Becky Brown, Lucy Townend, Graham

A YORK kitchenware retailer has brought home the silverware after being named Britain’s Best Cookshop in the North. Frankie and Johnny’s Cookshop won the title at the Housewares Conference and Innovation Awards, held at Wokefield Park in Berkshire

A WAR bride who emigrated to Canada more than half a century ago has been reunited with her family in York. Dot Ford, who celebrated her 91st birthday on Tuesday, grew up in York and met her husband, Flying Officer Lawrence Ford, during World War

MICAH P. Hinson, the idiosyncratic Americana singer and songwriter, plays his skewed, weary songs of angst, fate and love in Leeds this evening in the only Yorkshire show on his nine-date tour. Hinson is touring in support of his March studio album

MIDDLETON’S Hotel, Skeldergate, York, sponsors two nights of jazz each week on Thursday and Friday. Thursday regulars are the Mardi Gras Band and Bejazzled with Mike Riley, alternating each week. Tonight’s band will be the Mardi Gras, from 8.30pm