FORMER York City favourite Matty Blair believes the right decision was made in postponing the League Two semi-final first leg clash with Fleetwood Town at Bootham Crescent. The double Wembley winner with York two years ago, who now plies his trade
REFEREE Carl Boyeson said he didn't want the League Two play-off semi-final first leg between York City and Fleetwood to be "down to chance" when making the decision to postpone Saturday's match at Bootham Crescent. The Hull-based official called
YORK CITY'S League Two play-off semi-final first leg clash with Fleetwood Town has been postponed because of an unplayable pitch. Referee Carl Boyeson took the decision after initially delaying the 7.30pm kick off at Bootham Crescent for 30 minutes
TWIN brothers who trying to retrace Sir Ernest Shackleton's trek across Greenland's polar ice cap to raise money for a paralysed Harrogate girl have been forced to end their challenge. Hugo and Ross Turner, 25, started the trek to raise funds to
DRINGHOUSES secured the York FA Under-19s Cup with a 1-0 victory over Wigginton Grasshoppers in the final at Tockwith. Substitute Joe Galloway scored the only goal of the game as the York FA U19s League champions completed a trophy double.
York karate star Carly Pringle won gold at the KUGB National Karate Championships in Birmingham's National Indoor Arena in the Girl’s 10-11 Kumite. The competition covered competitors from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pringle
Fine weather meant that the Junior Cricket season got off to the perfect start. 24 clubs will field 107 teams in five age groups with Walton CC fielding junior teams in the York Association for the first time. This year also marks a new Under 18’s
York Railway Institute Girls Under 11’s football team were crowned champions of the City of York Girls Under 11’s Football League with the team playing 22 league games, winning 20, drawing two and losing none. They were the top scorers in the league
YORK City Baths Club was represented by ten swimmers in the Youth & Seniors North East Regional Championships at Sunderland Aquatics Centre. Annie Johnston came seventh in the women's 200 metres butterfly in a time of two minutes and 25.52
New Earswick All Blacks Under-12s, sponsored by Futurestyle Personal Training, Malis hair salon, Morrison's, Beat Box Promotions, and Duke of York pub in Gate Helmsley IN-FORM New Earswick All Blacks Under-12s won their eighth Yorkshire Junior
Rawcliffe JFC concluded their season with a fantastic haul of seven trophies in just seven days for the club. The trophy trail started when the Under 13’s won the League Cup with a 2-1 victory over Poppleton Tigers. The Under 11’s collected two
POCKLINGTON RUFC Colts rounded off their 2013/14 campaign in style with a 50-5 home triumph over Darlington.The Colts, who received a new strip before kick off from new sponsors Brooks Macdonald Asset Management, laid down a marker for next season with
IT was "lovely to be back in The Pock", said singer-songwriter and poet Kathryn Williams, such is her familiarity with Pocklington Arts Centre. She was returning to Yorkshire with a different configuration from her Selby Town Hall show last October
GINA PARKINSON sings the praises of a May plant that might seem ordinary but which has its own beauty. THE May garden is so full of interesting things to talk about that it is hard to choose, but one thing that has shone in our garden over the
I GOT into a conversation about wine the other day; it’s not a rare occurrence for me. It concerned vino and food and how the two go hand in hand. Indeed, in my house anyway, the two are almost inseparable. I rarely drink wine without food, other
GAVIN AITCHISON is glad to take a second look at a city pub with a village feel. OKAY, I’ll hold my hands up. In all the years we have been ambling around York’s beer scene, this has been my most glaring omission. Despite living and working
IF the concept of a jasmine green tea India pale ale sounds familiar, it might be because you had this beer in its previous incarnation. Once upon a time, this beer was sold under the brewery's 'Outlaw' sub-label of experimental beers, but it clearly
ANITA TASKER shares a retro recipe from the 1970s. A LOT of you will be familiar with these delicious little cakes, they were the sort of things made in cookery schools in the 1960s and 1970s. This is an easy recipe to make in a hurry. They
NEANDERTHALS versus Homo sapiens. We all know who won that particular contest. But what set the two species apart and why did modern day human beings triumph? Such questions are explored in Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, a fascinating
With the Brazilian World Cup looming, JENNIFER KEE tries her hand at shaking up a few Brazil-inspired cocktails. THE World Cup is heading to a pub in York in the shape of a summer range of Carnival Cocktails. To get into the Brazilian spirit
ACCORDING to Demos, the independent think tank, Britain’s economy is being held back because of a “woeful lack of apprenticeships”, with fewer than seven per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds in training schemes. This is one of the lowest levels in western
ENGLAND will kick off its World Cup challenge in a few weeks, but with Italy and Uruguay in the same group, most expect the players to be on the first flight out of Rio just ten days later. Some supporters are more optimistic, though, and none
WHAT a way to treat a stalwart of the party after 34 years of service! The de-selection of Brian Watson as a Labour candidate reminds me of George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm. The workhorse Boxer gave everything for the cause; toiling on long
I WISH to thank whoever found my bus pass which I lost on the Number 6 bus last week. It is nice to know there are still a lot of good people about. Brian Webster, Rowntree Avenue, York.
I WRITE in response to your article “£2m set aside to fix roads and footpaths in York” (The Press, May 8). The funds allocated to Woodthorpe and Dringhouses are nothing more than a Labour pre-election bribe, coming almost 12 months to the day of
A FEW weeks ago I had a letter from my sister, who told me she and her husband were on a holiday to a cottage in Shropshire. Then when they come back they are going on a cruise for 14 days. Then in June a tour of the battlefields of France. I did
I NORMALLY follow the writings of Matthew Laverack with interest and some pleasure. However, his letter of May 6 worries me. Mr Laverack suggests that City of York Council should refund all the fines imposed on drivers who drove over Lendal Bridge
ALAN Park of Poppleton commented (Letters, May 8) on the new cycle and pedestrian underpass being built on the east side of the A59/A1237 roundabout, which is undergoing a major upgrade for the new Park&Ride scheme. He claimed that workmen
MANY thanks, as always, to all of you who entered the Yorkatt & Eric competition on the Big Wheel saga. Lots of entries and every one really good! Mrs J Rambridge, P J Harwick and Jean Samuel all linked the Big Wheel to all those little wheels
THE EU election candidates are very quiet on the topic of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the current incumbents mystified or in denial. Those concerned with preserving the NHS would like to know the candidates’ stance
ON SATURDAY, May 3, members of the York Actionaid Group held a collection at Monk’s Cross shopping centre. It was not very busy with shoppers, but we managed to collect £163.93 for which we are most grateful. The money will go to help stop children
JAMES Alexander just cannot help himself in resorting to spin (Letters, May 8). In front of me I have the breakdown statistics that came with our new council tax bill. These are council figures, not mine. The government grant is £28.7 million
LANRE Oyebanjo wants to reward York City's "unbelievable" supporters by giving them League One football for the first time in 15 years. The Minstermen last tasted life in the Football League's third-highest echelon in 1999 when a final-day 4-0
JACK PICKLES will make his long-awaited return to the York City Knights line-up as Hemel Stags become the latest expansion club to visit Huntington Stadium. Pickles began being troubled by a groin complaint on the eve of the Championship One season
YORK City will be roared on by more than a thousand fans during their Sky Bet League Two play-off, semi-final second leg at Fleetwood. The Minstermen sold the last of their 1,056 allocation of tickets for next Friday night's clash at 10.45am yesterday
York manager Nigel Worthington's success has come as no surprise to Fleetwood striker Iain Hume who goes head-to-head with his former boss in the Sky Bet League Two play-off semi-finals on Saturday night. Worthington, in his first full season at
YORK golfer George Forder may have lost out on the main prize, but he still emblazoned his name across the pages of the city's golf history. The Fulford Golf Club ace, York Union champion two years ago, came agonisingly close to lifting the York
IF York City boss Nigel Worthington has been seeking advice on how to negotiate a play-off semi-final this week, he need have looked no further than the club's development consultant. Richard Cresswell is a veteran of four play-off campaigns at
AFTER just two outings as a professional Naburn teenager Brad Jackson is seeking a place at the summit of European drag racing. The 17-year-old, who this spring launched himself into the pro circuit after four trophy-laden seasons as a junior,
BRITANNIA Tadcaster collected their third piece of silverware after beating Snaith 4-3 after extra time in the Ian’s Cars of Barlby York Sunday Morning Football League Junior Trophy final. Fourth division champions Snaith started brightly and took
YORKSHIRE director of cricket Martyn Moxon expects the unpredictability in the early stages of the LV= County Championship to continue and contribute to a thrilling title race. There have been a number of weird and wonderful results through Division
HEMEL Stags will arrive at Huntington Stadium tomorrow with enough dangerous players and dogged determination to cause York City Knights plenty of problems - as they proved against Oldham.That was the view of Knights boss Gary Thornton, who reckons the
YORK City Knights reserves' winning run came to an end against a Leigh Centurions side featuring a few former Super League stars - but the club might just have unearthed another gem. Mick Ramsden's young charges had not lost since their opening
SCOTT RHODES reckons rugby league in the Minster city could receive a two-way boost if more York City Knights reserve players turned out in the local amateur arena. York Acorn ARLC boss Rhodes, a former Knights skipper, has recently bemoaned a
KIERAN FALLON, fresh from his shock 40-1 success on Night Of Thunder in last Saturday's 2,000 Guineas, is set to be firmly in the spotlight at York next week when he teams-up with live Derby hope True Story in the Dante Stakes. This evening, though
THERE have been some scatter-brained ideas in sport, but the one unveiled by the Football Association's pompously-named commission takes the veritable prawn sandwich or grisly burger - depending where you chow down at a football match. One of the
A BUSINESSMAN has died from serious head injuries after falling from a ladder in a village near York. David Elks was flown by Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopter from the village green in Upper Poppleton to Leeds General Infirmary, but died later
100 years ago THE new Cunard liner Aquitania, Britain’s largest steamer, had successfully moved from the basin of the yard of Messrs John Brown and Co, Clydebank, and been towed to the tail of the bank off Greenock, 20 miles down the Clyde, whence
York adventurer Mike Fletcher has been reunited with his family after spending a month as castaway on an uninhabited Pacific island for a TV reality programme. Mike, whose family runs a business on the outskirts of York, was one of 13 British blokes
YORK’S city leaders have been accused of manipulating a key report on the Lendal Bridge trial, after a leaked earlier draft emerged. Ruth Stephenson, City of York Council’s major transport projects manager, was in the process of writing her report
One of York’s oldest residents celebrates her 100th birthday today – and is still living in her own home. Gladys Thompson, of Stockton Lane, was born on May 10 1914 and met husband Leslie while they were both working at Rowntrees. She spent
A YOUNG team of engineers has won recognition for their success on a work placement.The lower sixth students from Ripon Grammar School - David Stone, Zach Mudge, team leader James Walker and Zak O'Brien - took part in the Engineering Education Scheme
DISABLED people in York told of the difficulties they have faced in an investigation into discrimination in the city. Wheelchair users have told how bus drivers have not let them on if there are pushchairs onboard and one person said when they
A FRAUDSTER who cheated an elderly woman out of thousands of pounds has been jailed for three years. James Stuart Richmond, 33, used two women to help him sell stolen property for cash and to buy goods from shops, said Robert Stevenson, prosecuting
ROADS will be closed overnight for the next two weeks for works on the new Poppleton Road Park & Ride site. The A59 will be open east-west normally but there will be no access to the ring road A1237 between Wetherby Road (B1224) and the York
A PAIR of teenagers who filmed themselves breaking into and burning down a caravan have avoided a custodial sentence. The youths - who cannot be named - appeared before magistrates in York this week after they pleaded guilty to arson of the 40-
AMID the giant engines of the National Railway Museum, staff have turned their attention to trains on smaller scale. The museum has a collection of railway toys, and wants to track down the country's favourite in time for a major exhibition on
Britain’s biggest book of Great War remembrance has gone on show at York Minster – telling the story of the local man who was last British soldier to die at the front. Although the Armistice was signed at 5am on November 11 1918, the ceasefire
FOUR members of staff have been suspended at a York care home after a whistleblower raised concerns about the care of residents. City of York Council says it is working with Minster Grange Care Home in Haxby Road to investigate allegations relating
A BUSKER accidentally drowned in York’s River Foss after consuming a considerable amount of alcohol, a coroner has ruled. Kingsley Geoffrey Hoffman, 48, of Feversham Crescent, was found dead on New Year’s Day, 2008, in the river upstream of Heworth
A THOUSAND year old gold ring which turned up mysteriously on a York building site 80 years will be on public display tomorrow. The Fishergate Ring will be at the Novotel from 2.30-4pm giving visitors a rare chance to see and handle the ornately
CLIENTS of York Foodbank will receive news with their stews and brews, after The Press teamed up with the charity organisers. A free copy of The Press will now be included with each food parcel distributed by the foodbanks in Clifton, Acomb, Tang
A jobs boost is on the cards in the York construction trade after plans were unveiled for a multi-million pound centre to equip new talent to join the industry. York College is seeking planning consent to build a £6 million Construction Centre
INTERNATIONAL Coaching Week (ICW) is coming to York for its tenth event. Organisers plan to bring coaching and its benefits to people in York with a week of events in the city launching on May 19 at City of York Council’s west offices. Council
THE brother of a North Yorkshire woman who was murdered by her partner has praised York's efforts to tackle domestic abuse. Andrew Overton said it was a 'pleasure and an honour' to be at a Mansion House ceremony yesterday which confirmed York's
A NEW campaign to increase safety in coastal towns has been launched by North Yorkshire Police. Project Kraken is a week of engagement in towns including Whitby, Filey and Scarborough to increase vigilance and help protect coastal neighbourhoods
Success is on the cards for under-threat Yorkshire nature reserves which have benefitted from a lottery boost of more than £425,500. Nearly 100 Yorkshire Wildlife Trust sites can look forward to a brighter future following the investment since
PUB-GOERS have helped revive a classic bar game in York - and say it is becoming ever-more popular. Regulars at The Phoenix in George Street, The Golden Ball in Cromwell Road and The Fulford Arms in Fulford Road have been competing in a bar billiards
FIVE hundred people gathered for a night of celebration as York shone the spotlight on its tourism industry successes. The annual Visit York Tourism Awards paid homage to a wide variety of business and individuals across the sector with 14 awards
A NEW £10 million secure unit for women will open in York on Monday. The 22-bed unit at Clifton House, off Shipton Road, will mean women aged from 18 and over with psychiatric problems and requiring a secure environment can be treated nearer to
THE TUC has called on the Government to apply for state aid to secure a future for UK coal mining, including a North Yorkshire pit which is set to shut with the loss of 700 jobs. Ministers are currently allowing the managed closure of Kellingley
A GANG who planned to flood Scarborough with drugs worth £275,000 has been sentenced to more than 12 years. North Yorkshire Police’s Organised Crime Unit began investigating the gang in July 2012, and recovered ecstasy, cannabis, cocaine and amphetamine
THERE'S something different on offer besides the usual at three York pubs this month. The Fulford Arms, Brigantes and Stonegate Yard are all getting ready to welcome scientists from the University of York for this year's Pints of Science festival
A WELL-established York dentist has retired, leaving the running of his practice to his daughter. Martin Bayne, 65, has worked as a dentist for 42 years, setting up practices in Strensall, Dunnington and Poppleton. He stopped working last year
CONTROVERSIAL plans for 14 new houses in Fulford have been approved by City of York Council. The detached four, five or six bedroom houses will be built within the grounds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute’s Connaught Court Care Home off
THE new chairman of of Jubilee Allotments has been announced as Richard Bentley. The site, in Bilton Hall Drive, is home to 86 rural plots for residents of Knaresborough and Starbeck, and was founded by Knaresborough Town Council. Mr Bilton
DEATH will be on the agenda in York next week as the city hosts the Before I Die Festival. The festival - which is being held to coincide with Dying Matters Awareness Week - is the first of its kind in York and has been set up to address a social
PEOPLE living and working in York officially need to lighten up. Ranked as one of the UK’s most serious cities, research by Wall’s Ice Cream said that people spend a shocking 227 days a year being serious instead of letting their hair down and
THERE were red faces among the blue lights, when an unmarked North Yorkshire Police vehicle was mistakenly fitted with a new number plate - which clearly identified it as a police vehicle. The mistake was spotted by officers before the vehicle
A TEAM of cyclists are preparing for a lengthy journey today to raise money for charity. Mark Howard and John Sanderson have organised the 60-mile ride, from Bridlington to Scalm Park Golf Club, near Selby, with about 30 cyclists taking part in
TUNEFUL East Coast train workers from York staged flash mobs on trains up and down the East Coast mainline yesterday as part of a charity fundraising drive. Six managers boarded trains between York and Retford, Doncaster and Darlington and took
A YORK academic has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences for his contribution to the advancement of medical science. Professor Gideon Davies, who is part of the Department of Chemistry at the University
A MAN was arrested following a burglary near York. Police were called to a burglary in progress at a property in Severn Green, Nether Poppleton, where a man was disturbed by the occupant and fled. Officers with police dogs arrested a 23-year-old
LEATHER and rubber built up in a cobbling machine caused a fire in a Malton shop. Firefighters were called to a cobblers on The Shambles, in Malton, at about 1.20pm yesterday, when a machine started smoking. Two crews went to the scene and
TICKETS are available for the annual Selby Town Council Beer Festival. The festival is from 4pm to 11pm on July 26, with live music from local bands. Entry, including a commemorative glass, programme and first drink, costs £7.50. To buy
TWO drivers escaped injury in a crash in South Drive, Harrogate. The 28-year-old male driver of a red Renault Clio has been reported to police for careless driving after his vehicle collided with a silver Vauxhall Corsa just after 4pm on Thursday
POCKLINGTON’S Flying Man Festival, which marks its tenth anniversary this year, launched last night with a special concert of local choirs at the town’s arts centre. The festival is based at All Saint’s Church all weekend, raising money for the
A MUSICIAN who helped create the Punk movement of the 1970s is set to appear at Selby Town Hall. Glen Matlock was the original bassist with the Sex Pistols and is credited as co-author on many of the tracks on the band's biggest album. Still
A SERIOUS crash closed the A19 north of Easingwold yesterday afternoon. The collision, which was between a motorbike and another vehicle, happened at around 4.30pm. The motorbike rider was taken to hospital by the air ambulance. The road
