A PAEDOPHILE has been jailed for 11 years for voyeurism and child abuse committed over seven years. John Burns was caught after two children revealed how he had used them for his own purposes. The younger was seven when he started years of
A MAN has been charged over a serious car crash in York. John Paul Harris, 34, is charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving while unfit through drugs, driving with no insurance and driving with no licence. He is due
HUNDREDS of litres of diesel were stolen from lorries parked on the outskirts of a North Yorkshire town. The theft occurred overnight between Sunday, April 27 and Monday , April 28, from two lorries parked on the B1257 on the outskirts of Helmsley
LEEDS sonic rock force Pulled Apart By Horses play the York YO1 Festival on Knavesmire on Sunday, as well as the Live At Leeds event the day before. “After spending most of 2013 writing the new album, we're now so close to finishing it that we
THE University of York Opera Society will re-imagine Jules Massenet’s fairytale, Cendrillon, through the eyes of a Second World War veteran at the Grand Opera House, York, on June 20. Directed, produced and performed by members of the university
GENIAL North Easterner Martin Stephenson And The Daintees are on tour playing their classic second album, 1988’s Gladsome Humour And Blue, in its entirety. “It might even be in the right order,” promises Martin, who brings his band to The Duchess
THE annual Malton and Norton Folk Festival runs this weekend with events extended to an extra day. Starting tomorrow with a meet-and-greet session at the Union Inn in Norton from 7.30pm, the music and entertainment runs through until Sunday.
YORK hillbilly band King Courgette – or Le Roi Courgette for a day – are taking part in Friargate Theatre's series of French Fries events to celebrate Le Grand Depart in York. In the lead-up to the Tour de France, Riding Lights Theatre will mount
SONGWRITING is an addiction, says Kathryn Williams, who has had the addiction for 15 years and ten albums now. "When I sit down and write a song, it just makes sense," says the Newcastle folk musician, who turns 40 this year. "It's about having
YORK Theatre Royal artistic director Damian Cruden has fond memories of Noel Coward's ghostly tale Blithe Spirit, stretching back to his Scottish childhood. "I've always wanted to do this play as it's the first play I remember seeing as a child
FATHER and son George and Niall Costigan have appeared in a film together, playing father and son Bob and Simon as it happens, in Rita, Sue And Bob Too in 1987. However, they have never a shared a stage, until tonight, 27 years later, in Juliet
YORK City's players have been told to keep their discipline during Saturday's final game of the regular season at title-chasing Scunthorpe. The Minstermen will travel to Glanford Park already assured of a Sky Bet League Two play-off place and,
EXTRAORDINARY choral opportunities have always been the aspiration behind Millegro and Prima Vocal Ensemble, but this year marks a concert season unlike any other for York's two largest community choirs. More than 40 members from Prima flew to
MARTIN Barrass will be joined in this summer's revival of The Wind In The Willows by fellow York Theatre Royal pantomime star Jonathan Race, while Michael Lambourne completes a trio of actors returning to their roles from the August 2010 show.Martin
EVERGREEN York dance teacher and choreographer Evelyn Witcombe will present 60 of her students in The Joy Of Dance at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, later this month. This display of many forms of dance, including jazz, tap, ballet and modern
A WARNING has been issued after potentially deadly drugs have been stolen from a vet's surgery. North Yorkshire Police have issued a warning after the controlled drugs were stolen during a burglary at a rural surgery near Easingwold during a raid
TWELVE artists from in and around Pocklington are showing their work at an Artists' Open Studios event this weekend to mark Craft and Design Month. Jill Ford, ceramics, and Avril Cheetham, jewellery and enamel, will be exhibiting at Providence
YORK artist Lesley Seeger opens her spring exhibition of paintings at Pyramid Gallery, Stonegate, York, at tomorrow evening's 6.30pm to 8.30pm preview. The show also features the ceramics of Hannah Arnup, a member of the Arnup artistic dynasty
THE Donderdag Collective’s spring exhibition in York opens tomorrow at Mermaid & Miller, in Swinegate, with a private view by invitation from 7pm to 9pm. The show, From Life: Expressing The Human Form, will run until May 31, open Monday to Saturday
SOMETIMES an album just doesn’t click with the reviewer. This is one of those disjointed meetings. Fiona Bevan is a bit folky, a bit jazzy and to these ears a bit annoying too. This maybe unfair and perhaps others will drawn to her strong, high-pitched
MAKE no bones about it, Eels’ Mark Everett is one of the more troubled men in show business. A sometimes suicidal alternative Prince. Fortunately also one of the most gifted and prolific. Dogged by a devil of a childhood and his family’s well-documented
KELIS Rogers certainly has staying power. Few thought that the originator of Caught Out There (I Hate You So Much Right Now), surely the most irritating hit record of 1999, would see out the season, yet alone still be responsible for delivering
BRODY DALLE has assembled an all-star cast to help her navigate through the waters of her first solo record. The former Distillers frontwoman links up with Garbage’s Shirley Manson, The Strokes’ Nick Valensi and Queen of the Stone Age’s Michael
CHRISSIE Hynde, chanteuse of The Pretenders, memorably said “it’s all about the riff” when talking of classic rock and roll. Well, there are riffs here in the Pixies’ first studio album for 13 years that are riff-it-up, raspberry riffle and riff-roaring
EVERYDAY Robots is the first solo album from Blur polymath Damon Albarn, although he has long been a lone voice. On the 20th anniversary of the birth of Britpop, Oasis are tarting up debut album Definitely Maybe for a triple-disc deluxe and super-deluxe
CANADIAN stand-up Craig Campbell brings his new tour show to the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in the City Screen Basement bar in York on Bank Holiday Monday. Campbell has supported Frankie Boyle on his past two national tours, performed on Dave’s One
GREAT excitement greets the return after 24 years of iconoclastic big band Loose Tubes. Heavily featured in this month's Jazzwise magazine, four members of the band explain why they again ready to “stir up more musical mayhem.” They are unlike
YORK Late Music welcomes the La Mer Trio for the first time this weekend. Formed in London in 2010, the trio comprises three award-winning soloists who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Renate Sokolovska
JOAN Armatrading's first solo concert series will be the end of her touring days too. As chance would have it, the first night will be in Pocklington. "'I will never retire, but this will be the last major tour that I will undertake," says Joan
BLUE Ruin is one of those indie American films that should always be the preserve of City Screen. You won't find this 90-minute slacker thriller at York's other cinemas, but you will find it on the cover of the latest Picturehouse York brochure
THE window is a sort of stage and the performance runs most nights. At some godforsaken hour, the light in the spare room will come on and a man dressed only in pyjama trousers will stumble into view and lower the blind. The man then reads whatever
YORK singing soloists Graham and Richard Kay are joining forces again on Sunday to perform Like Father, Like Son, Another Evening Of Song at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York.“We were pleased to raise £850 for York Against Cancer last April
British Pathé recently uploaded 85,000 historic newsreels to YouTube. STEPHEN LEWIS enjoys watching York City in training during their 1938 cup run - and York sea scouts setting sail in their new boat the Catherine Rose in 1939. LIFE on the ocean
YORK'S visitor market from the Far East is set to grow following a new industry chartermark being awarded to the city's tourism agency. Visit York is one of just six tourism organisations in the country to have this month been honoured with the
THE successful contribution made by a North Yorkshire manufacturer to the UK bus building industry has been recognised by a royal visit. Sherburn in Elmet-based bus builder Optare recently played host to a visit from The Duke of Gloucester.
YORK is today hosting its first major dedicated digital conference. DotYork, which has been dubbed "a digital conference for curious minds" is being held at City Screen York throughout the day. Founded by two digital creatives living and working
INSURANCE giant Aviva has become the latest employer in York to sign up to the Living Wage. Aviva confirmed yesterday it has committed to paying at least the Living wage to its entire workforce across the UK, including its York headquartered Life
A YORK ice cream manufacturer is celebrating after winning a contract to supply York Races for the seventh consecutive year. Yorvale, York's only dairy ice cream maker, has been chosen to supply the hospitality areas at the racecourse with a range
GEORGE Hudson would have approved. It was the ‘Railway King’ who, in Victorian times, ensured York was one of the great rail centres of the age. Now the city is bidding to host the new, national high speed rail college. If successful, the city
OSCAR Hughes is a huge Manchester United fan, He was even the club’s mascot at Old Trafford last autumn. When the team learned that Oscar’s parents Ian and Marie needed to raise £150,000 to fund much-needed treatment for their son, they agreed
WOULD Christian Vassie concede (The Press, April 23) that, without the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Kiev, the situation we see now in eastern Ukraine would not exist? Would he also allow that the uprising in Kiev was encouraged
THE inevitable failure of the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was reported as follows in the Haaretz newspaper of April 29: “In the nine months when Israeli-Palestinian negotiations were officially under way, the Netanyahu government advanced
LAST Saturday evening, YKSoul came out of retirement to host a charity soul night in Guildhall, York. The dance floor was a hive of activity throughout the evening and the event was supported by around 120 people and raised more than £400 for the
WELL done to Hazel Ward from Badger Hill for replying to Cllr Tracey Simpson Laing’s comments to her earlier letter on student lets (Letters, April 28). Neither this Labour-run council nor the previous Lib-Dem administration wanted to do anything
I READ that Bootham Hospital will be closed and a new hospital will be built (The Press, April 25). Bootham Park Hospital was opened in 1777, one of only two buildings in the country still used today for its original purpose. The building is
THE closure of Bootham Hospital will not bring back those who have died because change was resisted and postponed till the last possible moment. They stay dead. They deserved better. More important than simply a replacement hospital will be a recognition
THERE used to be a good bus service down Station Road, Poppleton, until First transferred it to Millfield Lane. Now it’s only the No 20 on week days or the train. May I suggest a bus service every ten minutes to Poppleton (Lord Nelson), which includes
IT IS perhaps predictable but nevertheless depressing to hear David Cameron running scared from engaging in pre-election debates in 2015. After the debacle of backing Maria Miller, this would surely be a perfect opportunity for him to improve the
MATTHEW LAVERACK states he has never heard of bicycles being licensed. In the 1950s and on Jersey in the Channel Islands, I remember my dad going to the parish hall every year to renew his bike licence. Every licence had a number of each parish
AS secretary/treasurer of the York Branch of the Royal Marine Association (RMA), I was intending to use your paper to once again appeal for more members from the Royal Marines. However, after reading your edition of April 25, I must first record
THE plan by City of York Council to buy 14 new flats from a developer at the Pack of Cards pub site (The Press, April 26) will help in the supply of smaller housing for council tenants down-sizing, but it is an expensive way of doing it. Why aren
GOOD Morning Britain, our new early morning TV news programme reminds me of the old adage “too many cooks spoil the broth”. Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.
AS a member of the Co-operative Movement, and former employee, I am appalled at the mess our mutual society is now in. One would hope the members of the board are not all as amateur as Mr Flowers (who made him chairman?) but they seem to be behaving
I NOTICED the other day how the council had removed one of the dog-waste bins from the side of the Foss, upstream from the Monkgate roundabout. This footpath is used a lot, especially by people with dogs. I asked why a well-used bin had been
A PODIUM finish for Sandiva in Sunday's 1,000 Guineas will thrill Malton trainer Richard Fahey. The Musley Bank handler takes his three-year-old filly to Newmarket in optimistic mood following her victory at headquarters in the Nell Gwyn Stakes
IT was only three weeks ago that Jason Golden's career was in doubt - but now he is poised to return to York City Knights action. Recurring shoulder problems - repeated dislocations since undergoing his latest round of complicated surgery last
AN amazing innings by Giles Smith went unrewarded as Stockton & Hopgrove crashed to defeat at North Cave on the opening day of the HPH York Vale Cricket League season. In the only first division game to beat the rain, Stockton looked well-placed
YORKSHIRE coach Jason Gillespie admitted his players had paid the price for their poor bowling on Tuesday evening after Middlesex completed their astonishing seven-wicket defeat of Joe Root’s team yesterday afternoon. Led by skipper Chris Rogers
YORK Indoor Bowls Club’s domestic season came to an end with some thrilling finals.None was more dramatic than the last one where Paul Humphreys' team were playing John Stroughair's in the men's triples league play-off final.Humphreys
THE York Club & Institute Union Bowls League will play their annual challenge match against a York Amateur Bowls Association representative side at York Railway Institute's green in Ashton Lane on Saturday May 3, at 2pm. The C&IU team is
HEAD coach Tim Rumford has begun bringing new blood into Heworth ARLC from outside of York - in a bid to change the "losing culture" at Elmpark Way and help the local starlets in the ranks. The Villagers, after several years in the doldrums, were
YORK Lokomotive ARLC have a club trip to Magaluf this weekend to play in an international beach rugby tournament - boosted by a team talk from Super League legend Stanley Gene. Lokos players have flown to Majorca for a tournament featuring 160
Sheriff Of Nawton, who got off the mark at Catterick last week, can complete a quick double at Redcar today. Trained at Nawton near Helmsley by David O'Meara, the three-year-old got on top late on last week, but scored with a little bit to spare
100 years ago “Dear Joe, - Sorry to tell you Aunt Jane is dead Burnley, 1; Liverpool, 0.” A letter couched in these terms had been received at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, addressed to a prisoner there. It was the duty of the chaplain
THE appeal for sick York schoolboy Oscar Hughes has raised £40,000 in a week after winning powerful backing from Manchester United. Fans from around the world have made donations after the Premier League champions agreed to promote the fundraising
AN INSTRUCTOR of martial arts who is accused of sex crimes against four women has admitted being an adulterer and taking drugs, but denies rape and abduction. Mark Anthony Thompson, 37, said he had done stupid things in his life such as taking
A YOUNG footballer from York is preparing to wave goodbye to his hair for charity after a friendly bet. Jarrad Benson, 15, who goes to Canon Lee School, had not scored for his team, York Schoolboys, in five years, and joked he would have his distinctive
A MAN who suffered a huge heart attack while refereeing a rugby match and survived after being given life-saving treatment on the pitch is making steady progress in hospital. Doug Skelton, 50, from Brayton, collapsed to the ground and stopped breathing
MAN’s best friend could soon be helping smooth the way to exam success for stressed out York students. As crunch exam time looms, they find themselves pining for home and worrying they will flunk crucial papers. The University of York is set
A WATCHDOG has criticised the recording of crime by a number of police forces including North Yorkshire. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, issuing an interim report following an inspection of the 13 forces, said it had found weak or absent management
PEOPLE in East Yorkshire are being urged not to make unnecessary emergency calls when firefighters stage their latest strike tomorrow and over the Bank Holiday weekend. Humberside Fire & Rescue said further strikes – which are being staged
YORK’S bid to host the national high speed rail college will be “the best offer on the table” thanks to the city’s “critical mass” of industry experts. The organisations behind York’s bid have spoken of their confidence in the city being the ideal
A MASSIVE £23.5 million renewable energy plant on a former mine site on York's southern edge has been approved after the government decided not to put it through a public inquiry. Controversial plans for a anaerobic waste digestion plant and horticultural
DETECTIVES are continuing to investigate the circumstances of a sexual assault in riverside gardens in York. North Yorkshire Police said the victim, a 20-year-old woman, was continuing to receive support from specially trained police officers.
A MOBILE police station will take up residence in Easingwold market place over the summer. A scheme to take police services into the centre of local towns started in Easingwold on Friday, April 25 and will see a PCSO and an civilian police worker
A CENTRE set up to provide support to victims of sexual crime has been used by more than 180 people since it opened a year ago. North Yorkshire Police’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is marking its first anniversary today, with staff hailing
Officers from British Transport Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed an assault on board a train travelling between York and Hull to get in touch A man, aged 42, and a woman, 34, both from Hull, were travelling home from a day out in York
A 65-year-old cancer survivor is gearing up to take part in York’s unique men-only 5K run for Yorkshire Cancer Research. Chris Sykes was inspired to take up running at the age of 59 after watching his wife and daughter complete the London Marathon
YORK's first partially electric buses have been launched as part of the drive to reduce pollution on the city's streets. Five Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are being put into service on the Number 4 route, which runs between Acomb and the University
REAL ale is Gold according to Spandau Ballet's front man Tony Hadley who has just brewed his first cask ale. Hadley Blonde was brewed for the first time yesterday along with the help of The Great Yorkshire Brewery, in Cropton who the singer has
PROTESTORS against proposals to build a supermarket on Wentworth Street car park, in Malton, have vowed that “this is not the end of the story” after plans were approved. Six members of Ryedale District Council’s planning committee voted to approve
AN 85-year-old man was taken to hospital on Tuesday 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
A York artist who died after losing a brave two-year battle against cancer carried on painting until the end, his widow revealed. Ray Fearn, 63, astonished his friends and family with his determination to carry on with his life’s work. For
A MAJOR York employer is supporting The Press's Community Pride awards and calling on people to put their local heroes forward for the recognition they deserve. Insurance giant Aviva are the sponsors behind the Volunteer of the Year category at
YORK Shakespeare Project will perform a Sonnet Walk in the run-up to Le Grand Depart for the Tour de France on the early evenings of June 25 to 29 and July 2 to 6. "We're seeking keen and confident actors and guides to bring Shakespeare's speeches
Gardeners are being treated to a wide selection of plants next month at St Leonard’s Hospice. Hospice gardeners have been hard at work potting up plants in anticipation for the event which takes place on Sunday, May 18. The site on Tadcaster
A RICH furniture-making tradition in North Yorkshire is being celebrated with the publication of new trail. Thirsk and its surrounding villages have become renowned for the number of independent furniture makers in the area, such as Robert Thompsons
