UPDATE: THREE people have been taken to hospital after a three-vehicle crash on the A64 in North Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Ambulance Service said two men and a woman were taken to Scarborough Hospital, following the accident at Staxton at 3pm today
A GIGANTIC yellow jersey has been placed on the roof of York Minster to celebrate the Tour de France coming to the city. Those watching the Grand Départ of the Tour de France on the streets of York this weekend will miss out on what is probably
STAFF at schools, hospitals, councils and fire stations across York, North and East Yorkshire look set to take part in a day of strike national action on Thursday. The day could be the largest one-day strike over pay by public sector workers since
IT will not have escaped you that Tour de France fever is gripping North Yorkshire this weekend. But for anyone experiencing indifference over the Grand Depart, never fear, people have organised other things to do this weekend. Here's a selection
POLICE are searching for Wayne Richard Porter, who is wanted for recall to prison. Porter, 28, from Boroughbridge, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2013 for possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, but has failed to comply with his
SUCH WAS the original Qashqai’s success that global sales have continued to increase every year it’s been on sale, defying the expectations and predictions of experts everywhere. The problem is that there isn’t much room for improvement - in sales
DETECTIVES hunting a man wanted in connection with two incidents of indecent exposure have released an e-Fit of the suspect. The incidents took place in Bedale at 3.30pm on Saturday, June 28, and at 12.25pm on Sunday June 29, in Catterick.
THE crisis kicked off a week ago. "OK, I give in," I posted on Facebook. "Where does one buy yellow bunting round here?" Responses came in thick and fast: yellow T-shirts were proffered as material (I don’t sew); "Cut up yellow bedsheets" (ditto
York mum of three and keen amateur photographer CLARE TASKER captured these photographs in the Farne Islands. There is still just time to see puffins closer to home too. YOU can almost hear the squalling and screeching of seabirds when you look
STRAIGHT out of school, and with mission to revolutionise the health food market "one salad at a time" Joe Carnell created UGOT. Now the business has a team of ten staff and is eight months in to trading from a new site a York Station, with plans
WINNING at the Press Business Awards would be the icing on the cake for husband and wife team Angela and Robert Webster.The pair are entering the New Business of the Year category with their venture Iced Yorkshire, a specialist sugarcraft supplier selling
A GLOBAL economic crash wasn't the best time to start in business, especially in the property sector, but Preston Baker lived to tell the tale and is looking to grow its increasing list of award wins.Preston Baker has just won the Best Small Northern
BACK in April, mental health bosses in York announced that the city was, finally, to get a new psychiatric hospital. The decision was made after Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors said Bootham Park was no longer up to the job of providing
I TOTALLY agree with Ann Gray (Letters, July 2) about the dreadful state of the streets in the centre of York. Covered with a layer of wrappings, general junk and food, they are a sad blot on what is regarded as one of Britain’s premier tourist
I SUPPORT Ann Gray on the state of York streets. I have never seen them so bad. All the flowers and bunting in the world cannot hide the fact that they are a disgrace to our city. I get tired of all the self-congratulatory spin put out by the
WITH regard to the recently published road closures for the Tour De France, on the map printed in The Press on June 30, the key shows the A1237 closed from the Millfield Lane roundabout to the B1224 Wetherby Road roundabout. Since Monday of this
YORK is ready to welcome the largest annual sporting event in the world this weekend – but whether the world is ready to see how beautiful York is, is another matter. It is great to see so many yellow bikes popping up in and around York. I
I DROVE through York on Sunday and noticed after years of neglect at St Leonard’s Place, French flags now adorn it. After a number of years letting this beautiful parade go to rack and ruin, the council now try and improve it with a pathetic row
WHILE walking round our beautiful city on a few occasions recently, I have noticed just how many green areas are not being maintained by the council and are being allowed to go to rack and ruin. It only takes a walk past any section of our Bar
IF tourists look up when strolling through our beautiful city, they will be impressed with the bunting, flags etc. But if they look down the situation will be very different. The pavements are filthy. I saw a street cleaner in King’s Square using
WHY does every new public space or building have to look like an airport or an airport lounge? Philip Johnson, Greencliffe Drive, Clifton, York.
I WONDER if Prince Charles (or Mike Hookam of UKIP) or any of their offspring, having failed the 11-plus examinations would have been willing to take up their allocated place in the Secondary Modern school? Graham Williamson, Greenfield Park Drive
THE massed voices of a Welsh choir have great emotional power – never more so than later this month when a concert will be held in memory of a York boy whose fight against cancer moved many. Jamie Inglis died last year from an aggressive childhood
YORK City striker Ryan Bowman has left for Torquay with Bootham Crescent chief Nigel Worthington believing he found the step up to Football League level difficult. Worthington signed Bowman last summer after he plundered 19 goals for Hereford in
YORK City have been warned to guard against a play-off hangover by manager Nigel Worthington. The City chief has cited the examples of Cheltenham and Northampton last season, who spent long spells in the lower reaches of the Sky Bet League Two
JASON GILLESPIE believes panic has cost Yorkshire four points in NatWest T20 Blast cricket during the last week. The Vikings head into tonight’s clash with North Division co-leaders Worcestershire Rapids at New Road in danger of their campaign
YORK City manager Nigel Worthington is hoping old friends will help his summer signings bed in quickly at Bootham Crescent. The Minstermen's seventh close-season recruit Luke Summerfield played with fellow new boy Dave Winfield at Shrewsbury last
YORK’S Simon Dyson today faced an uphill battle to remain in the French Open after a dismal opening round. Dyson was lodged on two-over-par - nine shots shy of overnight leader America’s Kevin Stadler, who was one clear of the field after a seven-under
A SERIES of events are being held in North Yorkshire to mark National Fishing Month 2014. National Fishing Month runs from July 18 to August 31 with four free sessions being held at Pool Bridge Farm at Crockey Hill, near York. The venue will
YORK Tornadoes Basketball Club are preparing for life in the Yorkshire Premier Division next season by appointing two new coaches for the upcoming season. A year ago the club were known as Tadcaster Tornadoes and were getting ready for a seaosn
FAST-RISING Hamish McArthur hit the heights to win the British Youth Climbing Championships in Edinburgh.The 11-year-old Joseph Rowntree School pupil produced a near-faultless display, taking first place in the Youth 'C' age category without dropping
WHITWELL-ON-THE-HILL'S Terry Temple won the fourth Streamline Taxis York Open Darts Championship despite having initially failed to qualify for the grand finals. Temple finished 51st in the tournament's order of merit after ten qualifying stages
THE Press are promoting a competition with Britain’s favourite ale John Smith’s to celebrate the running of the 2014 John Smith’s Cup in York. This great race on Saturday, July 12, is the summer party highlight at York Racecourse and the support
FORMER winners Sessay and Woodhouse Grange are aiming for a quarter-final derby collision in cricket’s Davidstow National Village Cup. Sessay, who lifted the trophy at Lord’s in 2010, travel to Manchester side Woodhouses in the last 16 on Sunday
FREDDIE TYLICKI, successfully carving out a career for himself in Newmarket after taking the champion apprentice title when based in Malton with Richard Fahey, could be the jockey to follow at Doncaster today. Tylicki, pictured, has a trio of winning
A 'EWE-NIQUE' view of the Tour de France will be provided by sheep on a North Yorkshire farm after they were fitted with cameras. The five sheep at Harewell Hall in Harrogate were recruited by Sony to wear HD AS100VR ActionCams, which have features
AN ART exhibit has been installed at York’s City Screen. The Peloton is a 15-metre exhibit which includes 200 hand-cut painted paper cyclists, with other Tour-related items. The exhibition opens at 6pm tonight. The City Screen will also show cycle-related
BUS firm First will run extra Park&Ride services from 6am on Sunday, with Askham Bar, Grimston Bar and Rawcliffe Bar open from 4am. Extra city-centre buses are also planned. Residents are reminded that some buses will be diverted due to road-closures
SPECTATORS wanting to watch the Tour de France in York on Sunday have been advised on the best places to go. Spectator Hubs are situated at Huntington Stadium, Rowntree Park and the Designer Outlet at Fulford, and are all free and unticketed, said
Mothers-to-be hoping to have babies at home tomorrow (Saturday) face disappointment because of the Tour. NHS bosses have suspended the home delivery option for 24 hours because of congestion fears. York Teaching Hospitals trust says "in the
A York man who bequeathed his estate to York Museums Trust has inspired the latest art installation at St Mary’s church. The exhibition entitled ‘Finding the Value’ displays the work of five commissioned artists – Andrew Bracey, Alison Erika Forde
THREE Labour councillors in York have been axed by their local party branch ahead of next May's local elections. Ken King, David Scott and Helen Douglas all lost out in a selection battle in Clifton, which all three currently represent. Boundary
TWO new bishops were consecrated by the Archbishop of York at the York Minster. The Ven Paul John Ferguson, Archdeacon of Cleveland, was consecrated as the Suffragan Bishop of Whitby, and the Rev Canon Dr John Bromilow Thomson, Director of Ministry
TWO people were arrested in Scarborough on suspicion of illegal money lending. A 38-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman were arrested in the Eastfield area of Scarborough yesterday, by North Yorkshire Police. Police were working with The England
AN 82-year-old man has been jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing a young girl “hundreds of times”. The child’s parents trusted John Robert Penistone, pictured, to babysit her while they were at work, York Crown Court heard. But for a period
SIXTY-NINE jobs are going at the York-based Higher Education Academy, following Government funding cutbacks. The academy, based at the York Science Park at Heslington, is set to lose its funding council money by 2017. Now chief executive Stephanie
The Grand Depart of the Tour De France has officially begun, with a spectacular multilingual evening of dance, music and sport with Yorkshire pride on show. Ten thousand people filled the Leeds Arena for the teams presentation, the ceremony that
VIPs were out in force for a sell-out event to welcome the Tour de France to Yorkshire - and got the red carpet treatment from Jan Leeming. The BBC presenter, actress, and past winner of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here was Master of Ceremonies
THE future of Bootham Park Hospital looks uncertain after health commissioners said they may be able to demolish and rebuild sections of it. It was stated in April that Bootham Park Hospital would have to be replaced after Care Quality Commission
PLANS to convert a city centre shop into a bar or restaurant have been refused by councillors worried about the loss of retail space in York. Landlords Rushbond Plc had applied for change of use permission to convert their unit at 11 little Stonegate
A YORK man who was made an MBE after working for nearly 50 years with young people in youth clubs across York and running activities for the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme has died, aged 82. Michael Hutchinson, husband of the late Pam and father to Andrew
100 years ago Sir Berkeley Moynihan, the well-known surgeon, opening a tuberculosis exhibition at the Leeds Town Hall under the auspices of the National Association for the Prevention of consumption, had recommended the boiling of milk intended
NANDO’S is to become the latest restaurant chain to open its doors at York's new Vangarde Shopping Centre as the brand launches its second site in the city. The new 145-seater restaurant, which has created 40 new jobs, is opening on July 9.
A SCHEME that has been offering emergency food parcels for the past 18 months will give people a chance to find out more about the project next week. The Hambleton Foodshare initiative is hosting its second Annual General Meeting Civic Centre,
AN Acomb barbershop chorus group is celebrating winning not one but five trophies at a recent competition. Main Street Sound Ladies Barbershop Chorus picked up the awards at the Cleethorpes and Grimsby Music Festival with their quartets and a vocal
PET OWNERS are being encouraged to enter their much-loved pet in to the fourth annual Thompsons' Pet Show for a chance to win a year's supply of pet food. The show, which is set to be bigger and better than previous years thanks to the introduction
COMMUNITIES are being invited to illuminate their homes with a single light to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. At 11pm on 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany, ushering in one of the darkest periods in our history, with
A CONCERT is being held to honour the life of a York school boy whose brave fight against cancer moved people around the world. Lord Deramore’s Primary School pupil Jamie Inglis died last year after suffering from the aggressive childhood cancer
Worshippers at a village near York are celebrating after raising money for restoration work on ancient church remains. Grade Two listed St Leonard’s at Sand Hutton traces it history back to the 12th century. But by 1824, the ruin seemed beyond
HUNDREDS of concerned residents turned out for a public meeting on development proposals for Haxby and Wigginton. Ward councillor Ian Cuthbertson and campaigner Martin Lewis Crosby organised the event at Haxby and Wigginton Methodist Church to
