TONIGHT'S THE Night is The Rod Stewart Musical, but it is not the Rod Stewart story. Instead, Ben Elton has repeated the "jukebox musical formula" from his Queen liaison, We Will Rock You, that grafts a tenuous, even tacky storyline on
NO more refunds of fines for using York's Lendal Bridge will be issued until a legal wrangle has been resolved. City of York Council has emailed about 150 drivers who had appealed against penalty charge notices given for using the bridge and also
One of North Yorkshire’s finest villages lies not far from York city centre. Matt Clark spent a morning there. BISHOPTHORPE isn’t really a place for atheists. The church dominates its flat landscape, many of the roads are named after past Archbishops
YORK High School has celebrated a landmark event choosing its first ever head boy and head girl. From the start of the new summer term the school has created a Junior Leadership Team (JLT) comprised of head boy, Liam Cates, head girl, Sasha Green
A YORK cake baking business has expanded with the opening of its first retail operation. Yorkshire Icing has opened its doors at the Bull Commercial Centre, in Stockton Lane, selling cake baking and decorating supplies as well as hosting a range
THE Yorkshire Business Market celebrated its tenth anniversary with an event attracting 1,500 visitors.The market, held at Pavilions of Harrogate, saw more than 100 organisations exhibiting and a programme of seminars and networking events.The event,
YORK'S dedicated centre for biorenewable projects welcomes its 100th assignment as it launches the second phase of its £1 million capital grants scheme. The first quarter of 2014 has seen the Bio Renewables Development Centre (BDC), based at York
AN event dedicated to small business is being organised by a new group in the East Riding. Pro.verb (The Professional Voice of East Riding Businesses), a newly formed group representing small businesses in the East Riding, will host a Bizweek event
YORK company Six Lips Theatre are running a crowd-funding campaign in aid of taking their one big project for 2014, House Of Tragic She, to the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. An appeal video by Tony Hipwell, of York independent film company
IN modern Britain it sometimes feels we are being spied on at every moment. CCTV cameras track our movements; businesses monitor our online spending; smartphones send out signals revealing where we are. The constant snooping can become oppressive
JUST 66 days to go and counting until Yorkshire hosts the world’s largest annual sporting event. The Tour de France promises to bring a huge economic boost, but the Grand Départ will only last a couple of days, so it’s the legacy that really matters
WHY do we need a spur to York causing more environmental damage? After the proposed introduction of the Pendolino trains on the East Coast Line and the Parliamentary Environmental Committee’s recommendation to run the HS2 trains slower to reduce
THE newly appointed Treasury Minister has called for a dramatic rethink of the High Speed project, warning the £50 billion scheme is not value for taxpayers’ money. It is a historical fact that the costs will rise considerably during the construction
THE spectacle of Alex Salmond threatening to block off Scottish waters if an independent Scotland were not allowed to join the EU leaves me more certain than ever that he and Nigel Farage are alternate sides of the same coin. Two isolationists,
I VISITED a sign-writer’s premises on the Peasey Hill Industrial Estate at Malton requesting a sign to be made up for me hang on my gate. I gave them my phone number and they said they would phone me when the work was completed and ready for collection
I WAS surprised by the letter of April 30 from Huntington and New Earswick Lib Dem councillors Runciman, Hyman and Orrell, as it suggests they do not communicate with their own group members, councillors Reid and Ayre, who sit on the local plan group
RICHARD HIND (Letters, April 24) asks me to explain how the decision to impose an £8.5 million penalty on York Hospital will help to improve NHS services in York. I can’t answer on behalf of the Government who imposed the penalty, but I share his
I ENJOYED the reminiscences of Kenneth Bowker’s visits to Leeds in the 1940s and 195Os (Letters, April 26). However, may I be permitted to correct him on the store in question? Lewis’s of Leeds, situated in the Headrow, was a department store built
I VISITED the new John Lewis store at the weekend. Beautiful, well laid out, a joy to the eye. Just one slight niggle. We had a coffee at the Hotel Chocolat Café. Now I have no doubt the presentation is bang up to date, but I would prefer my coffee
WITH regard to the Hurricane aircraft on display in York, I think I should point out one or two inaccuracies which have appeared in The Press and on the radio. First of all, an attack by some 40 or so bombers over one night can hardly be called
THAT was an interesting feature about Keith Massey (The Press, April 28). I remember that name from 1969 when we got a soccer team together from Press reporters, John Pick’s reporters and myself when I was despatch manager at the Yorkshire Post
ACCORDING to the third and final report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, although the world is warming rapidly due to greenhouse gas emissions, the solution may be surprisingly cheap. The report recommends a rapid switch from
WHEN a correspondent confidently identifies the Liberal Party’s preferred voting system as the alternative vote (Letters, April 24 ), it’s a fair indication that the party is “not getting its message across”. I expect they’re too busy worrying
MY FATHER was recently admitted as an emergency, to York Hospital via A&E, taken initially to ward 24, with a transfer to ward 22 and then eventually on to ward 21. Myself and my family would like to thank everyone involved in his care. From
WE WANT to thank the Poppy Road Project team for bringing together the community in Holgate to create a remembrance meadow along Poppleton Road for the centenary of the First World War. We enjoyed our time helping out with planting and we have
I’M SORRY but if Alistair Cook needs to refer to his previous coach, Andy Flower, as well as a sports psychologist on how to captain a cricket team, he’s definitely the wrong man to lead England. Good captains perform through instinct; poor ones
100 years ago IT WAS stated that the programme for the forthcoming Fleet exercises of the Home Fleet, which were to take place the following month in the North Sea, would incidentally include the visit of a strong Battle Squadron to Scarborough
ADAM REED wants York City to carry momentum into the Sky Bet League Two play-offs by getting a result at title hopefuls Scunthorpe on Saturday. The Minstermen visit Glanford Park without a defeat in their last 16 fixtures and Reed reckons extending
YORK CITY will be roared on by a huge travelling army when they go to Scunthorpe United on Saturday. The Minstermen may have already booked their Sky Bet League Two play-off berth thanks to their win over Newport County last weekend, but that hasn't
A NAILBITING final was decided by spot kicks as York City Ladies won the North Riding Country Cup. The Minsterbelles and Middlesbrough Ladies were locked at 2-2 at the end of the game and it was Ashlee Brack who was the penalty hero, scoring the
YORK College under-19 girls’ bid for national glory at St George’s Park was wrecked by Chelsea Ladies’ striker Millie Farrow. The Sim Balk Lane side had already created history by becoming the first football team from York to compete in an English
MATCHES in the first division of the County Championship can take an awful lot of winning. As evidence of this, Yorkshire supporters need do no more than consider events at Lord’s in the last half of yesterday’s game against Middlesex. And
HEWORTH 'A' showed that the previous week's 5-2 win over Acomb 'A' in the league was no fluke as they produced the same scoreline in the York Conservative Clubs' Kutters & Shannons Team Cup Final. The final was held at Fuflord as part of the
UPCOMING apprentice Rachel Richardson, who has won two valuable handicaps this month on Fast Shot, heads to Pontefract today in a bid to add to her growing tally aboard stablemate Maven, likewise trained by her boss, Tim Easterby. Richardson, 23
A MARTIAL arts instructor has denied abducting a woman in York and repeatedly raping her. Mark Anthony Thompson, 37, claimed the student, whom he had not met before, willingly got into his car and initiated sex sessions in Hungate and James Street
SOUVENIR Postcards featuring watercolour sketches by York artist PB Rennison have been reproduced to commemorate the forthcoming Yorkshire Grand Depart of the Tour de France.Each pack contains 20 postcards featuring scenes of Yorkshire towns, villages
YORK'S new TV station has distanced itself from speculation of a funding crisis for local channels after reports of such problems elsewhere. It has emerged that the BBC Trust has delayed paying out the latest installment of £25 million to fund
A dispute has flared over money raised to help a York boy being treated for cancer in the United States. Four-year-old Harvey Thompson, from Foxwood, is undergoing potentially lifesaving radiotherapy treatment in Oklahoma as part of a fight against
JAMES, aged four, handles a white barn owl, one of the birds of prey which are part of a new permanent attraction for summer in York’s Museum Gardens. Visitors will be able to see the birds of prey display until August 31. Head falconer Ryan
FORMER Pocklington School pupils turned well known classical performers will return to perform at the school. The Rotary Club of Pocklington and Market Weighton and Pocklington School are staging the concert on May 11.The first part of the evening will
CROWDS of people queued into the street to see crime novelist Jo Nesbo at the newly opened Waterstones in York. Nesbo - the creator of the Norwegian crime series centred around detective Harry Hole - attended the signing in Coney Street. He
BELL RINGERS at a North Yorkshire church have been awarded £56,000 for a new project. All Saints Church in Thirkleby, near Thirsk, has been awarded the grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Bell & Tower project, focusing on the art of
Keen cyclists in York are invited to get on their bikes to raise vital funds for Parkinson’s UK. Pedal for Parkinson’s is due to take place in York on Sunday 22 June, starting at 9am. Starting at York Racecourse on Knavesmire Road, the route
AN 85 year old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after his mobility scooter was trapped under a lorry in a crash in Harrogate. The man's scooter was in a collision on Wetherby Road, close to Sainsbury's, at about 2.40pm yesterday.
STOCKTON Lane Playgroup is preparing to mark "50 years of fun" and is looking for past members to join the celebrations. The playgroup started half a century ago after a group of mums met in a hut to form a committee of parents. It began running
THE French Ambassador is to visit York this week to honour the heroic free French pilot who saved York from the Luftwaffe 72 years ago. The ambassador, Bernard Emie, will be in the city on Friday, May 2, to unveil a plaque commemorating Yves Mahé
BUSINESSES across York and North Yorkshire are being urged to go head-to-head in a nationwide workplace fitness initiative. The “North Yorkshire Sport Workplace Challenge” programme was launched by the area’s MPs in Westminster. The programme
A MALTON man has launched an online petition calling for a terminally-ill teenager who has raised more than £3 million for charity to be given a knighthood. John Millar said he had been inspired by the actions of 19-year-old Stephen Sutton, from
A NEW inspector has joined Selby police station.Inspector Vicky Taylor, who will be covering the rural district, has served with North Yorkshire Police since 2001. She has worked across the force in front line roles at Harrogate, Ripon and York, as
A NEW political party campaigning for greater autonomy for Yorkshire is to field candidates in the upcoming European elections. Yorkshire First aims to secure a parliament for Yorkshire and rebalance the UK economy away from the South East.
RUGBY stars from York Knights paid the ever-present children of Hob Moor Community Primary School a visit, writes Kris McGee.The school’s attendance scheme rewards children for being In School Every Day On Time. Children who achieved 100 per cent
LOCAL healthcare commissioners have said they are working to improve care for people with multiple sclerosis. NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said it is supporting the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society this week in its campaign
AN ANIMAL charity is calling on organisers of the York Food Festival this summer not to have foie gras on the menu.Viva says the festival in June - just before the Tour De France Grand Depart in Yorkshire - will have a French theme but it should still
A PICKERING couple are celebrating their first baby's Christening by raising funds for the charity which supported them when their daughter fell ill. Patryk Zoremba and Charlene Taylor are hosting a fun day on Sunday in aid The Sick Children’s
A NEW brochure designed to help people get into cycling in York ahead of the city's Tour de France visit this summer has been launched today. The "York: Experience the Race" booklet sets out a programme of cycling and fitness activities over the
A SPECIAL bus service for people going through cancer treatment brings light into their lives as a difficult time and deserves the city's praise, according to one grateful patient. Breast cancer survivor Grace Rutherford has nominated York Against
OH my cod! Diners traditionally have a choice of fish and chips or pie and chips. But now a North Yorkshire bakery has created a combination of the two - with the first ever fish and chip pie. The Yorkshire Baker's pie, which has gone on sale at
NORTH Yorkshire's County Record Office is throwing its doors open to the public next month. The offices will be opening as part of the fourth Archives at Dusk event - part of Museums at Night, an annual UK-wide festival which encourages visitors
PAPERS left unattended on a halogen hob caught fire at a house in Acomb on Monday, and left the home with smoke damage. Firefighters from Acomb station were called to the house on Trenchard Road at about 5.45pm. They removed the papers and
PUPILS at a York primary school took part in a mountain biking day as part of a national event. The children from St Oswald’s CE Primary School in Fulford finished first in York and second in Yorkshire and Humber in the Big Pedal event, which encourages
A leading York family law solicitor and mediators have welcomed major changes to divorce and child care proceedings that came into effect earlier this week. Before Easter, three different courts handled the legal part of family break-ups. Now the
A PUB talent contest which helped launch York singer Beth McCarthy has held the first round of this year's heats, writes Kris McGee. The Ainsty’s Got Talent competition, in which York teenager Beth was a runner-up last year before appearing on
YORK'S transport bosses have come under fresh fire, over the use of their controversial camera-car. The CCTV car, launched to tackle irresponsible parking outside schools, is also being used to crack down on other motorists nowhere near schools
POLICE have discovered a cannabis factory inside a former Goole social club. Police made the discovery at the former club in Chapel Street late last Friday. A force spokesman said more than 1,000 cannabis plants were discovered and the area
