HAVING narrowly missed performing in a thunder storm that briefly took the electricity, a fulsome few were treated to a wonderful evening’s music and bonhomie at this house concert. Wes Finch hails from Coventry, but his worldview tilts towards
YORKSHIRE captain Andrew Gale scored an unbeaten century during the third day of their LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Scarborough to put his side on course for victory.Gale posted his second ton of 2014, a season’s best 126 not
A MAN has been airlifted to hospital after falling through the roof of a farm building this afternoon. Paramedics and fire crews were called to Tockwith Road in Long Marston at 1.42pm. A Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the man
A MAN suffered serious injuries and was knocked unconscious in an assault in York this weekend. The 33-year-old man, from Scotland, was attacked in North Street at about 11.35pm on Saturday, and suffered a broken nose and a fractured cheek bone
READERS of a certain age may still remember the days when York's riverside wharves were busy with river cargo. Those days weren't actually that long ago. The picture above shows Queen's Staith in 1973, with barges clustered two or three
Six glorious weeks. Six weeks of busily not doing very much at all where the days blend into one long adventure broken only by having to go in for your tea. How we used to love the school holidays. Maybe our mams didn't, what with us kids milling
Friday’s concert was a showcase of improvisation, extemporisation and virtuosic flair. The Spanish brothers – Daniel, Pablo and Aarón Zapico on theorbo, Baroque guitar and harpsichord respectively – presented a programme of southern European music
Morning coffee concerts are popular social events, usually oversubscribed, where music also brings to life some of Ryedale’s most beautiful corners. Two recently have been further illuminated by talks given by composers introducing newly-commissioned
You don’t need to head for the sticks to find the quintessential English village. MATT CLARK spent the morning in one, just north of York. IT'S ALWAYS fun trying to work out how somewhere would have looked 100 years ago. Sometimes the changes are
HAVING found her weight an embarrassment for a lot of her life, her sister's wedding spurred Frankie Ruttledge on to lose six stones and to become a slimming club leader. She tells health reporter Kate Liptrot how she did it. WHEN she was asked
MAXINE GORDON tries a new hi-tech beauty treatment billed as the closest thing to cosmetic surgery without going under the knife IS there any combination of words quite so unappealing as "bingo" and "wings"? Ladies of a certain age will know
RESEARCH led by the University of York has highlighted the potential cancer risk in non-smokers — particularly young children — of tobacco smoke gases and particles deposited to surfaces and dust in the home, known as ‘third-hand tobacco smoke’.
How many people in Huntington have a degree? What proportion of people in Micklegate don't own a car? Take this quiz and test your knowledge of your local area. Statistics can give a rich and surprising view of the everyday world around us.
THIS simple but packed with flavour slice can be knocked up in 15 minutes due to their being no pre cooking of ingredients before baking. Add to a summer salad and you are set for a scrummy tea. Fig and goats cheese puff pastry slice with
AFTER years developing websites and marketing campaigns for customers Harrogate-based digital agency 9xb has created its own content management system. For the past two years the company, which employs a team of 38 staff, has been building Peracto
AN AWARD winning restaurant which has built a reputation for its plant-based gluten free "food for all" is looking to reclaim its title of Tourism and Hospitality Business of the Year. After winning the award in 2012, El Piano is hoping once again
Simply Devine specialist hat shop inTadcaster is this year celebrating ten years in business. In its anniversary year the venture is vying for two titles in the Press Business Awards; Retailer of the Year and Small Business of the Year. Simply
A YOUNG entrepreneur has returned to her roots to bring her interior and antiques business to York. Holly Box, 26, has opened Grey Bear in Bridge Street, four years after creating the vintage homeware venture in Newcastle. Originally from York
A YORK-based business is positioning itself to develop and supply appetite suppressing compounds to a global market using £3.3 million raised via a reverse takeover. OptiBiotix, based in the Innovation Centre at York Science Park, is set to list
A RIPON based business which uses an old department store to rent space to new, small independent businesses has received national recognition. Wren's has been named by collaborative small business network and advice hub Ingenious Britain as one
YORK based building specialist William Anelay has completed the restoration of the UK’s last working Victorian pottery. The £9 million programme of works at the Grade II listed Middleport Pottery site in Stoke-on-Trent was completed recently with
THE levels of severe business distress in Yorkshire is falling quicker than almost any other region in the UK according to research. The latest quarterly Begbies Traynor Red Flag Alert research, which monitors the financial health of UK businesses
LUKE Summerfield could miss the start of York City’s SkyBet League Two season with a knee injury. The summer signing did not feature in Saturday’s 0-0 draw at pre-season friendly hosts St Johnstone due to minor ligament trouble. City are hoping
HEWORTH ARLC failed to reproduce their winning form as they went down 22-6 at home to Coventry Bears in National Conference League division three. The Villagers were looking to back-up their second win of the season against Woolston Rovers from
ANTONY CHILTON kicked a last-gasp penalty as York Acorn ARLC snatched a 24-24 draw with Shaw Cross Sharks in National Conference League division one. The sides were locked at 12-12 at half-time at Thanet Road and they could not be separated in
TRISTAN ROBBINS won the National Junior Road Race Cycling Championships at the Ryedale Grand Prix weekend. Robbins sprinted clear of rivals Nathan Draper and Tom Bayliss to win in wet conditions on a circuit around the Ampleforth area on Saturday
POLICE are still searching for a convicted robber, who is wanted for recall to prison. Michael William Powell, 30, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for robbery in December, 2011 and was released in June 2014, but has displayed poor behaviour
CHAMPIONS Woodhouse Grange gained a couple of points over second-placed Easingwold with the best of a draw at Sewerby in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League premier division. The leaders scored 227-6 batting first thanks to Mike
PROLIFIC Duncombe Park batsman Brian Leckenby was out in the 90s for the second time this season in a rain-hit division two north game at home to Pocklington. His innings of 90 was the backbone of the home side’s 177-7 declared. Visitors Pocklington
RAIN ruined an intriguing contest between Sheriff Hutton II and Duncombe Park II in division four central of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League. Sheriff Hutton were all out for 83 batting first, with Wayne Fawcett hitting 36
NOODLES BLUE BOY, who is no stranger to success at Beverley, returns to the Westwood this evening with a sound chance of resuming winning ways. Trained at Norton by Ollie Pears, the gelding lines up in the Richard and Carol Hudson Handicap over
CHAMPIONS York took three points from their home fixture with Rotherham Town in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier Cricket League. Only 20 overs were possible at Clifton Park before a prolonged period of heavy rain forced the abandonment
A MAN has been arrested after a man died falling from a cliff in North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire Police have appealed to walkers who were in the Kettleness and Runswick Bay area on Friday, July 18, after a 51-year-old man fell from a cliff at
FEWER than one in 30 of the motorists fined by York's controversial "spy van" was parked near a school, new figures have revealed. The CCTV safety van, which has been operating in York since March, was introduced following calls from head teachers
THE 116th Bishop Wilton show went ahead in style this weekend, despite heavy rainstorms which threatened to put an early end to celebrations. The show was for the first time at its new venue on High Callis Wold Farm, high on Garrowby Hill, and
YORKSHIRE’S countryside will be back on the television as the backdrop to another sporting event when the cameras turn on the Castle Howard triathlon. Channel 4 is to film the race for an hour long programme with a helicopter taking aerial footage
THE next step has been taken toward the redevelopment of Huntington Stadium with legal documents sent to the current stadium’s tenants. Notices were sent to tenants York City Knights at the end of June, regarding vacant possession of the stadium
APPLICATIONS for grants of between £250 and £2,500 are being invited from community groups in Bridlington South. The Community First Foundation offers cash for local initiatives, and applications for the final year of funding close at the end of
A GROUP of MPs including York’s Julian Sturdy have published a report calling on the Government to hand control of the green belt from councils to local communities. Mr Sturdy is a vice chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the greenbelt
THE mother of a an exceptional young student who died from a heart attack has spoken of how her daughter's legacy has helped others. Eleanor Keeler, 20, from Copmanthorpe, died after suffering a heart attack while she was out jogging near her American
MORE than 100 people paddled through the storm on Saturday afternoon at the annual River Festival Canoe Races. The races started from the Millennium Bridge and involved three different races for beginners, kayakers and Canadian canoeists alike.
TWO inmates at an East Yorkshire prison will face extended prison sentences after posting crude bombs from their prison cells. Bret Atkins, 24, from Humberside, and Jamie Snow, 27, from Leeds, are in HMP Full Sutton, and appeared before Leeds Crown
YORK’S Civic Party will welcome the York Concert Band to the Mansion House today before the band’s journey to Paris to play at the end of the Tour de France. The band is to play in front of the Eiffel Tower as the riders pass over the finish line
FRIENDS of Rawcliffe Meadows will host their work party later this month to tackle weeding and complete seed collections. The group will meet at 10.30am on Sunday, July 27, near the New Meadow allotments in Clifton. The meeting will involve
HOMES and businesses across the East Riding of Yorkshire are set to benefit from the next phases of the multi-million pound Broadband East Riding project. More than 20,000 premises in the from Bridlington to Market Weighton, Pocklington and Stamford
ANOTHER French connection in York is the practice of placing padlocks on bridges to symbolise the everlasting bond between two people in love, just as they do in Paris. But clearly we are not as romantic as our Gallic cousins because the council
IT sounded like a good idea. Deploy a CCTV van near schools and film inconsiderate motorists who think they have a right to park where they want, however dangerous. But as is so often the way with these things someone decided the van was lying
HUNDREDS of padlocks - intended to symbolise the everlasting bond between two people in love - have been removed from York's Millennium Bridge City of York Council says it removed 300 of the 'lovelocks' last week because it feared such a suspension
AN ANTIQUE fishing boat has become the latest attraction at a Viking village near York. The boat is on display among Viking-style houses at Murton Park, where visitors can go and find out more about village life in the Dark Ages. Dave Thirlwall
The family of a man whose 1916 school leavers' report was found in second-hand furniture have spoken of their surprise after it turned up in York. Edward Batters was aged 14 when he left Park Grove School during the middle of World War One, where
THE wrongfulness of many Israeli practices, such as the repression of the Palestinians through building for Israeli habitation on the other state’s land, cannot be justified. Nor can the constant checking and delays at state borders be acceptable
IN REPLY to some recent letters regarding the Tour de France, not everyone is interested in cycle racing. The Tour de France race is very long and tedious, lasting many weeks and clearly belongs to another country. I suspect many people have lost
IF Heather Causnett (The Press, July 8) is so keen on keeping the city streets clean and free of litter, why doesn’t she become part of the big society and volunteer to sweep the streets herself with other like-minded folk? Once again we hear the
WHAT has happened to the York city council street grate cleaning system? We get two days and one night of rain and what happens? We have flooded roads (July 13). I had to drive down North Lane, Huntington village, only to be confronted by a hundred
HOW I agree with all the letters about the dirty and unkempt streets and verges of York. The grass growing a foot tall on the side of the footpath on Monks Stray. I have just spent three days in South Shields and the street cleaners were busy Saturday
ONE day last week you had a page full of letters from readers bemoaning the fact that York streets were dirty and full of litter. I was frankly appalled to read this as I’ve always rated York one of the cleanest and finest cities in the UK.
FROM within old mother York’s towering Minster came 90 minutes of celestial bliss. It took this scribe completely by surprise as he reached out to switch off the radio in down under Perth. A feature of York’s annual early music festival, the programme
THE problem for James Alexander and the Labour party is that the Lendal Bridge fiasco has taken on a life of its own and refuses to have a line drawn under it. It all reminds me of the eminent scientist who persuaded a volunteer to jump into a
I WAS recently given a card which says: “Help us to improve your street by reporting on telephone action line 551551”. I have done this three or four times but nothing has happened. In Haxby and Wigginton our gutters are full of clumps of weeds
RE the Tour de Yorkshire. We spent an enjoyable day in Bishop Auckland on Saturday, July 4, visiting our granddaughter. The icing on the cake for us was seeing the French Gendarmes and entourage being escorted into Yorkshire by our own police.
I’D like to say I was very sceptical about all the roads closed thinking it would never work and like many residents I imagined upheaval, but I’ve got to congratulate everyone involved in the organisation of the whole of the Tour de France race.
I ENTERED the competition to win a pair of tickets to York Racecourse for the Tour de France Grand Depart Stage 2. I was lucky enough to be successful and I just wanted to say thank you, we had a fantastic day and thoroughly enjoyed the event.
I HAVE visited Paris many times. No one had heard of Yorkshire but I always said there is a connection; the French Belle Epoch and the Yorkshire delicacy belly pork. I am expecting they will have heard of Yorkshire now. Barbara Humphries, Castlegate
I ALMOST had an accident in my car recently, because I was laughing so much at the “urban sprawl” notices at Earswick Chase. Earswick Chase is urban sprawl, built on good farmland – how dare they now complain? If it’s good enough for them it
WITH so many remembering the start of the Great War and the anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, may I remind folk of another, lesser-known anniversary. It is 60 years since British and American troops vacated Trieste and handed the city over
Business editor Laura Knowlson looks at the future of SCY (formerly Science City York). VOTES have been cast in favour of SCY falling under full council ownership as part of a shake-up of how York is marketed as a city. The board of SCY (formerly
100 years ago An interesting ceremony had been performed at Hull when a number of almshouses, erected and endowed by Mr Christopher Pickering and given to the Hull Corporation for the aged poor, were opened by Mrs Pickering. Mr Pickering started
HOTELIERS have objected to proposals to open a new lap dancing club in York, above an established night club. Representatives for both the Hampton by Hilton Hotel on Toft Green and Safestay Tourist Hostel on Micklegate have written to the council
Two passionate primary schools have been working had to do their bit for the environment. Children from Archbishop of York Junior School built bird boxes to protect wildlife while New Earswick Primary carried out litter picks to clean up their
TWO dedicated volunteers who spend their time making the world a better place for others have been praised by the people around them. Selfless hospital volunteer Diana Thomson has been nominated for the Community Pride Volunteer of the Year award
TUNEFUL youngsters from a York school have ensured they are a step closer to having a new music room. The musicality club at Archbishop of York's CE Junior School took over the cafe at St Crux parish hall to serve drinks and help raise £1,300.
