YORK City manager Nigel Worthington has insisted that his side’s qualification for the play-offs with one game left to play has come as no surprise. The Minstermen kicked off 2014 only outside the Sky Bet League Two relegation zone on goal difference
JOHN Scott very nearly never became a journalist. If he hadn't been colour blind, a career as a railway engineer might have beckoned. He went for an interview, and was shown to a darkened room where lights were flashed. "What colour's that?
A MAN accused of kidnapping and raping a York student told her he was a gangster and would send his friends after her if she contacted police, a court has been told. Mark Thompson, 36, is accused of nine charges relating to four women, dating back
Having started out on a tiny one barrel brew kit (producing only four casks of ale per brew), Brass Castle made a name for themselves in the local area with their rich, sweet vanilla porter Bad Kitty, and this beer, their India Pale Ale Sunshine.
GAVIN AITCHISON heads off down a steep little road and finds a delightful pub at Kirkham Priory TWO pubs, separated by 20 miles but united by one enchanting theme. That was the idea behind this piece. With spring in the air and bank holidays
York foodies won't have to wait until September for this years culinary festival. MATT CLARK discovers why THIS year marks York's 18th annual food and drink festival and for the first and perhaps only time, it will be a game of two halves.
RHUBARB season is in full swing, and if you’re lucky enough to have an allotment or to know someone that does, chances are you’re being inundated with bags full of the stuff. My favourite way to deal with a glut of rhubarb is to simmer it into
On a family-run farm in York, some of the region’s finest ice cream is lovingly produced. JENNIFER KEE meets the couple who run this chilly business EACH day, four staff members busy themselves with potting some 1,700 litres of ice cream, at the
Most of us have a fixed view on furniture, but MATT CLARK meets a craftsman who has torn up the rule book MARK LAYCOCK doesn’t make furniture from wood; he makes furniture from trees. That may sound like a fine distinction, but it’s not – it’s
YOU have got to admire the optimism of some folks. Returning home from work at teatime on Easter Monday, I caught a sniff of burning charcoal nearby. The sun had been shining for most of the day but then the clouds arrived and the threat of rain
RETIRING centre-back David McGurk is dreaming of ending his York City career as a Wembley winner.The 31-year-old defender does not want anybody to get ahead of themselves at Bootham Crescent with a Sky Bet League Two play-off place yet to be secured ahead
ONE of York’s most famous sons is being commemorated in a way he would surely have appreciated. Airbrush artist Dave Earl has created a giant mural depicting the Gunpowder Plot in the courtyard of ... wait for it ... the Guy Fawkes Inn. It
HEALTH bosses have been talking about the need to build a new psychiatric unit in York for years. As long ago as 2005 they were planning to relocate psychiatric inpatient services from ageing Bootham Park to a new, purpose-built hospital. The
A TAXING finale rebounded on York’s Simon Dyson after the second day of the Volvo China Open was plundered by a Levy. Dyson followed up his superb five-under-par 67 on the first day with a 71 yesterday as he found the Genzon club more difficult
POCKLINGTON RUFC’s senior season may be over but there is a weekend double bill for both the Pilgrims and Pocklington under-14s. Chris Mudd’s Pilgrims hit top spot in the East Yorkshire division two merit table just after Christmas and stayed there
RICCALL and Huntington Rovers both consolidated their respective second and third place finishes with midweek victories in the York Minster Engineering Football League premier division, writes Graham Ireton. Riccall were 2-0 winners over Dringhouses
DAVID McGurk will end his York City career a little disappointed that he did not become only the fourth player to rack up 400 outings for the club. But the 31-year-old centre-back, who this week announced his plans to retire from the full-time
JOHN McCombe has picked up his second Press Player of the Month award of the season. The former Mansfield centre back, who received the February accolade having arrived at Bootham Crescent the previous month, has now taken the honours for April
SO, we have another weekend off - but will it be good for York City Knights. Much has been made this year of the need to keep everyone fit and fresh and peaking at the business end of the season - namely the Championship One play-offs - so much
THE jumps season draws to a close with an excellent campaign at Sandown today, while Haydock plays host to some classy Flat action, but Yorkshire racegoers need look nowhere else but their home county with good meetings lined up at Ripon this afternoon
ARMED police used a stinger to stop a suspected drunk driver in the early hours of Good Friday, The Press has learned. North Yorkshire Police were contacted by a member of the public who saw a man leave the Puss In Boots pub in Hamilton Drive and
Two young men have denied being the robbers who allegedly held up staff at a newsagent’s at knifepoint. Luke Aaron Russell, 21, and Jake Nolan, 18, both of Cromer Street, are accused of taking £1,897 in cash from McColl’s store on Crichton Avenue
A WOMAN was airlifted to hospital with injuries to her arm and leg following a head-on crash in North Yorkshire yesterday. Two other people were injured in the crash. One was taken to York Hospital by road ambulance and the other was treated at
A GOVERNMENT MInister has praised the 'vision and determination' of a York housing trust in creating Derwenthorpe. Housing Minister Kris Hopkins MP visited the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust's 500-home development on York's eastern outskirts yesterday
A TEENAGER raped a woman in Knaresborough while on bail for the attempted rape of another girl in West Yorkshire. Steven Whitaker, now 19, of Wells Court, Yeadon, Leeds, admitted the attempted rape on May 6 and the rape on September 14 last year
A SERIES of exhibitions will be held at Holgate Windmill next month, including celebrations for National Mills Weekend. The windmill will be open on Sunday, May 5, the National Mills Weekend of May 10 and 11, and Saturday to Monday, May 24 to 26
A NEW ‘outreach centre’ is opening at the University of York. The York Science Outreach Centre, which opens next month in the Department of Chemistry, will be equipped with modern laboratories and will cater for up to 100 visitors at a time. It
A MUSIC showcase event at The Duchess in York raised more than £500 for charity.The gig, in aid of the Education Partnerships Africa, featured York prodigy Benjamin Francis Leftwich among others, and raised £550 for the charity which is a
SCOUTS and Guides will hold their annual St George’s Day parade through York tomorrow. Around 2,000 people are to parade along Tower Street, Clifford Street, High Ousegate, Davygate, Parliament Street, St Helen’s Square, Duncombe Place and Blake
TOUGH times are ahead in North Yorkshire as authorities fight to keep crime rates low, the Police and Crime Commissioner has said. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed a fall in crime for the 12 months to December of two
ONE of York's youngest entrepreneurs has cooked up a storm with her business acumen and baking talent. Ten-year-old Ruby McCarthy met York Central MP Hugh Bayley yesterday to show him her business plan for her venture Blossom's Bakery, which she
AN airbrush artist's latest work should ensure that gun powder treason will never be forgotten by patrons at a York inn. The colourful masterpiece in the courtyard at the Guy Fawkes Inn in Low Petergate is 30 feet by 20 feet and took Dave Earl,
STAFF at BBC Radio York are celebrating after the station's appeal in aid of a children's hospice reached the £100,000 milestone. The Good Night’s Sleep Appeal aims to fund a five night respite stay at Martin House Hospice in Boston Spa for every
VILLAGERS are being urged to wear vintage clothes when Copmanthorpe stages its annual street fair next month. The event will be staged at Low Green, at the centre of the village near York, from noon until 4pm on the May Day bank holiday on Monday
AN MP claims the latest proposal to ensure new sites for travellers’ sites are created in York would ‘hold developers to ransom’. York Outer MP Julian Sturdy also claims the city’s estimated shortfall of 59 travellers’ pitches is vastly overinflated
A BENEFIT fraudster who cheated the taxpayer out of nearly £20,000 by not telling officers she was working has been ordered to do 40 hours of unpaid work. An anonymous tip-off led City of York Council fraud investigators to uncover Muriel Hunter
A WOMAN with such severe anorexia she has not eaten in over a year is in a fight to receive life-saving treatment in York. Emma Duffy, 24, relies on liquid nutrition to survive and has tried to kill herself nine times. The former student has been
YORK’S bid to become the home of the High Speed Rail college has got the official backing of the city council. The bid, which will be submitted by Network Rail as owners of the York Central site which could host the college, got council cabinet
THIEVES stole two motocross bikes worth £11,000 from a shed in Thirsk. The bikes were taken from the shed of a property in Barbeck at about 11.30pm on Easter Monday after thieves climbed over a back wall then left through the courtyard’s gate towards
A FISH restaurant and takeaway looks set to raise more than £1,000 for the appeal for York schoolboy Oscar Hughes, launched after a relapse in his recovery from a brain tumour. Tritons, on the A64 between York and Tadcaster at Bilbrough Top, is
PRINCESS Diana’s last official letter – written to a North Yorkshire humanitarian campaigner who was hijacked by armed paramilitaries – is to go under the hammer. Diana sent the hand-signed note on Kensington Palace paper to Dilys Cheetham, of
RESIDENTS in Hambleton have been urged to look out for a red Peugeot 207, registration YH10 JJO, which has been involved in a suspicious incident in the area. Witnesses said a male from the car was reported looking through windows of a property
A YORK woman has completed the millionth blind taste test for national supermarket brand Asda. The brand came to York to host a taste testing session for its Chosen By You range, giving members of the public the opportunity to sample some of its
A MAJOR council document, planning house building and employment land in York for the next 15 years, will open for public consultation in the next step of its progression towards becoming official policy. Residents will have a chance to put forward
FEMALE brewers will take over the taps at some of York’s oldest pubs this weekend. As part of Award Winning Ales week, the cask ale festival at Ye Olde Starre Inne in Stonegate and the Golden Lion in Church Street will have a series of beers from
EDUCATION chief, Cllr Janet Looker dropped in at a York secondary school to look at the site of a new modern languages block.City of York Council's cabinet member for education, Cllr Looker, was at Huntington School to meet the head teacher, John
THE builders, electricians, painters and decorators of the future were celebrated at a ceremony in York.At York College's annual construction awards students were honoured for achieving excellence in carpentry and joinery, brickwork, stonemasonry,
TWO new exhibitions will open at the University of York. A film installation by Roman Sheppard Dawson will run from April 28-May 9 in the university’s Norman Rea Gallery, Derwent College, and is curated by Lily Grant, a history of art undergraduate
Two university friends are to cycle around 1000 miles through France and northern Spain to raise funds for St Leonard’s Hospice, which cared for a family friend. Matthew Pownall, from Nether Poppleton, decided to raise funds in memory of Mark Halliday
YORKSHIRE Wildlife Trust experts are leading a guided walk about the Wassand Estate near Hornsea in the East Riding on Monday, April 28. The two hour walk will give people a chance to learn about birds and what attracts them to the area, use the
RESIDENTS across North Yorkshire have been urged to give blood this spring. NHS Blood and Transplant needs more than 7,000 people to donate every day to collect the amount of blood needed by hospitals across England and North Wales – with O negative
COMMUNITY groups across North Yorkshire are to benefit from their share of more than £90,000 raised through the Localgiving.com match fund campaign. Localgiving.com has helped rural charities in North Yorkshire raise the cash over the last 12 months
A RECENT article had the headline ‘Piggy in the middle’. I was shocked and stunned to read that a pig had “gotten” loose. Please, no more Americanisms. M Wilson, Main Street, Kelfield, York.
FOLLOWING years of campaigning, the council has finally recognised the desperate need for resurfacing of our road here in Wheldrake. The council has now confirmed the work “will take place in July. Residents will be notified in writing seven days
KEITH MASSEY is mistaken (‘Lives ruined’, Letters, April 21). It is not necessary for an accused person to prove their innocence: everyone is innocent until proved guilty. The defence only has to establish a reasonable doubt of the evidence
I WONDER why it was considered newsworthy to give over the centrefold of The Press of April 9 to the upbringing of James Alexander. It seemed to be one long whinge about how hard his mother worked, single-handedly, to bring him up and the things
RE ARTICLE The Press, page 49, Thursday, April 3, about junk mail. Delivering leaflets, paper pamphlets, adverts is often the only light form of “stop gap” employment available for some. I believe they are bona fide, vetted fellow human beings
OVINGTON will be bidding to become the first team to retain the HPH York Vale Cricket League title for ten years. No club has won the crown in successive years since the now defunct Norwich Union completed a hat-trick of first division triumphs
ALL-CONQUERING Clarence WMC have completed the CIU York & District Indoor Mat Bowling League and Cup double. A team of Steve Cain, Peter Jackson, Jeff Dobbin, Geoff Lane, Arthur Stockton, Barry Newbold, Dennis Horsley, Brian White, Phil Reeves
WHELDRAKE Under-16s rounded off their junior football careers with a third place finish in York F1 Racing Minor League division one. Wheldrake’s David Willis said: “Pavers Shoes have donated our jackets this season and we would like to thank them
SELBY & District League football champions Monk Fryston Under-15s have conquered Europe. The youngsters were cup winners at the International Youth Festival of Football 2014, staged in Paris, in conjunction with Disneyland Paris. After
HEWORTH ARLC Under-10s had a great result at Meltham in one of the few junior games played over the Easter weekend. A good team effort saw some excellent passing moves and nice rugby league which created several good tries. Those to cross the
NORTH of England basketball champions Fulford School are heading for the National Schools Finals in London. The York school’s under-19s team beat Stockport College 76-73 in a nail-biting match at the University of York to book their place in the
STAMFORD Bridge Under-14s put basement side Brooklyn to the sword with a 6-0 triumph in the City of York Girls’ Football League. Bridge forged ahead in the ninth minute with a fantastic goal from player of the match Poppy Clancey, who turned provider
BROOKLYN Under-16s retained the Scarborough & District FA Junior Cup after a 2-1 victory over Fishburn Park in the final at Whitby Town’s Turnbull Road ground. Brooklyn started brightly with a high tempo pressing game and the pressure paid
GINA PARKINSON finds the year is racing ahead as we approach the end of April IT’S STRANGE how time seems slow at the beginning of the year, yet by the time we get to April the days are whizzing by and before we know it yet another month has passed
ALTHOUGH pesticides can increase food production and crop yields, they can also have a devastating effect on bee populations. For example, in early May 2008, half a billion bees were killed in Western Germany by the introduction of a neonicotinoid
DOES anyone agree with me that Last Monday’s ITV Tommy Cooper “biopic” was one of the most powerful, best acted and performed productions we have seen for a long time? What a supporting cast. More please. D McTernan, Fossway, York.
NORMA Dale was murdered in September 1946 and not the early 1950s, as stated in the letter of April 4. This incident has always been known locally as the ‘Red Shoe Murder.’ Norma had been to her dancing class on the Saturday she disappeared, wearing
UNLESS pushed to the brink, I avoid writing about grammar. Grammar is like driving: other people do it so badly and simply won’t be told. Still, I am stumped by the return of former pupils to teach being described as “déjà vu on a grand scale (
ON MY own admission, I wasn’t born with many of life’s virtues, but the one I have is patience. I have on more than one occasion just recently had my patience sorely tested by ignorant, selfish motorists on garage forecourts. They put petrol
FROM the link in your article of April 10, I note that ‘Haxby Hall EPH’ has been recommended by City of York Council for residential redevelopment. No mention is made of its present use: EPH stands for Elderly People’s Home, and there are dozens
TO ALL Labour councillors, isn’t it time you gave up and fell on your sword? Owned up to your mistakes and took responsibility? York citizens have had enough. Your time in power has destroyed much of what was loved about this city and made congestion
DO ANY readers have memories of croquet in the York area, any diary entries or any photographs? York Croquet Club has just launched a new website and we are keen to learn more about croquet around York before the club began in 1988. This is
DOES society not care about the elderly any more? At 7.45 on an evening last month, half a dozen young hooligans aged about 14 taking photos of themselves dancing about on garage roofs, and on this occasion two of them went through the roof of
REFERENCE to the new John Lewis store opening on my doorstep reminds me during the 1940s and 50s around Christmas time the annual excursion by steam train from York to Leeds John Lewis store by my parents with me in tow. As a “Just William” lookalike
WHO IS right? (The Press, April 18 ‘Retail footfall increases’). Throughout the Lendal Bridge closure experiment, The Press continuously carried reports from local business owners stating that the closure had reduced city footfall. This message
100 years ago The Chief Constable, Mr J Burrow, had called attention to the prevalent practice of placing lead discs and other similar articles in automatic machines, instead of coins of the realm. It appeared that hundreds of bogus “coins”
MARTYN MOXON says facing England fast bowler Steven Finn will provide Yorkshire’s batsmen with the ideal opportunity to show they are ready to step up to international cricket. Finn will be part of the Middlesex attack for the LV= County Championship
IF ever a club needs a change of name it is the club who shabbily dispensed with the man they pursued, presented and paraded to be part of a new legacy. For Manchester United, read Mammon United, because when all the events of last weekend deteriorating
A TOTAL of 20 York schools will begin the country’s biggest under-9s cricket competition next week. The first fixture in the 2014 Drax Cup will take place at Manor School on Wednesday, April 30, at 4pm, involving schools from the York West School
POPPLETON Tigers Under-13s booked their place in the York F1 Racing Minor League Cup final with a 4-2 victory over Hamilton Panthers in the sem-finals. The Tigers will face Rawcliffe in the final at Pocklington Town’s The Balk base tomorrow, kick
YORK Schoolboys Under-11s missed the chance to clinch the West Yorkshire League title as they suffered their first home defeat of the season. York went into the game against Leeds ‘A’ top of the league but, without prolific striker Will Jarvis,
YORK City Baths Club ace Genna Suddes claimed fifth place at the British Schools Modern Biathlon Championships at the London Aquatics Centre. Genna was joined by her sisters Ellen and Carrie, all representing Huntington School, and York City Baths
YORK City Baths Club’s Samuel Pickup won the top ten-year-old boy trophy at Doncaster Dartes’ annual B/C Grade Sprint Gala in Beverley. Pickup out-swam the other 20 competitors in his age group, gaining medals in all five of his events. He
SELBY District Riding Club’s junior showcross team are through to the National Championships at the Festival of the Horse at Aston Le Walls on Sunday, June 1. The team qualified having won the novice showcross at the area qualifiers for British
