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  • Yorkshire sack all-rounder Robinson

    YORKSHIRE have sacked bowling all-rounder Oliver Robinson for what they describe as “a number of unprofessional actions”. Kent-born Robinson’s contract as a junior pro at Headingley has been terminated with immediate effect, although there has

  • A close encounter with Flamingo Land’s Sumatran tiger cubs

    Flamingo Land's three Sumatran tiger cubs are now more than four months old. STEPHEN LEWIS went to meet them - and their formidable mother. THERE'S something very unsettling about the smell of tiger. It's musky, potent, primal - and it makes the

  • Teachers bid farewell to Joseph Rowntree School

    THE start of the school summer holidays saw Joseph Rowntree School bid a fond farewell to a number of its long serving teachers. Barbara Reagan, Gillian Bond, Phil Armstrong, Alison Taylor and Chris Wyman are all moving on. Barbara has taught

  • Detectamet

    SUPPLYING global food and pharmaceutical industries with metal detectable plastics has seen Detectamet grow its export sales to 65 per cent of its turnover. Founded in 2003, the Pocklington-based business employs a team of 43 people, and hoping

  • Muddy Souls Events

    A FARM diversification business has resulted in a second off-shoot enterprise for a Yorkshire Wolds family. After transforming their farm Hunmanby Grange into Wold Top Brewery, Tom and Gill Mellor found themselves hosting a series of events at

  • Holly Box

    AFTER graduating with a degree in graphic design while harbouring a love of antiques and collectables Holly Box left university with a desire to set up her own business. The York youngster opened her first Greybear shop in Newcastle, where she

  • Welders rewarded for approach to health and safety

    A FIRM of fabrication engineers in Tadcaster has received a 2014 Gold Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. The RoSPA Awards, which date back 58 years, awarded their top Occupational Health & Safety Award to Tadweld.

  • Fletcher battling to prove fitness for York City kick off

    WES FLETCHER is losing his race to be fit for the start of the new Sky Bet League Two season. York City’s 13-goal top scorer last term has still not returned to full training following the medial ligament injury he suffered at Portsmouth in March

  • New tenants at seaside shopping centre

    A SHOPPING centre on the North Yorkshire coast is welcoming four new tenants after a £1 million investment. M&G Real Estate has completed a string of lettings at Brunswick Shopping Centre, in Scarborough. Select, Roman Originals, Retail

  • Bubwith clinch Foss League promotion with Vikings victory

    UNBEATEN Bubwith have clinched promotion back to division two at the first attempt in the Foss Evening Cricket League. Connaire Brattan (4-13) and Stu Rushton (3-25) shared seven wickets as Bubwith restricted Aviva Vikings to 94-9, Ali Khan (33

  • Sixth place for Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers' Gary Dunn

    THIRSK & Sowerby Harriers runner Gary Dunn finished sixth in the Harrogate Town Centre 10k. There were six Harriers among the 403 finishers and Dunn clocked a time of 33 minutes 42 seconds, winning the prize for first place in the M45 category

  • Studley Royal to face Fenner in Premier Cup final

    STUDLEY Royal will face Fenner in the final of the Hunters York & District Senior League Premier Cup. Batting first in their semi-final against Stamford Bridge, Studley made 184-8 thanks to R Nicholson's 88 and 33 by R Mackle. Bridge slumped

  • Billiards champion David Causier on cue for York outing

    WORLD billiards champion David Causier will be demonstrating his skills in York this weekend. The billiards exhibition with Causier, who won the world crown by defeating India’s Alok Kumar 6-1 in Leeds last October, will be hosted by Heworth Conservative

  • Dutch students in cricket tips plea

    A GROUP of Dutch students are looking for a club to give them top tips on cricket when they visit York later this year. The students, aged 13 and 14, plus two teachers from Einstein Lyceum, Hoogvliet in Rotterdam, will be in the city on Wednesday

  • Supporters’ coach for Woodhouse Grange semi-final

    WOODHOUSE Grange will be running a supporters’ coach to their Davidstow National Village Cup semi-final at Milford Hall. The Sutton-on-Derwent-based club travel to Hall’s Staffordshire home on Sunday, with the prize a final at cricket’s headquarters

  • Yorkshire veterans through to ECB 50+ quarter-finals

    YORKSHIRE Over-50s beat Cambridgeshire by 81 runs at Acomb to reach the ECB 50+ County Championship quarter-finals. The Tykes will now face Essex in the last eight, after the 2013 losing finalists beat Oxfordshire by five wickets with two overs

  • York canoe star Tom Quinn set for World Championships

    THE countdown to the World Championships are in full flow for York canoe star Tom Quinn. The Bishopthorpe-based Lower Wharfe Canoe Club paddler will head to Deep Creek in Maryland in September aiming to win his first senior world medal. Nottingham-Trent

  • Fourth place for York triathlete Kathryn Lazenby

    YORK firefighter Kathryn Lazenby claimed fourth place at the European Cross-triathlon Age Group Championships. The Terrington-based 37-year-old posted a time of three hours 38 minutes and 56 seconds in Sardinia to finish just outside the medals

  • Ryedale jockey Jake Butterfield tipped to extend purple patch

    JAKE BUTTERFIELD, who has ridden three winners in the last week, has good prospects of adding to his tally at Redcar this afternoon. The Norton-based apprentice teams-up with Jacbequick, trained by his boss Ollie Pears, in the Racing UK Straight-Mile

  • Bus window shatters over passengers in York collision

    THE moment the window of a crowded bus smashed, showering passengers with broken glass, was "like a bomb going off". Shop worker Dominic Bamber was on the number five bus on Huntington Road just after 9.30 this morning. He has described the loud

  • Discrimination is rife in York, say disabled

    NEARLY 70 per cent of people with a disability in York have experienced discrimination, a Healthwatch York investigation has found. Of the respondents to the investigation, 68.2 per cent had experienced discrimination when accessing or trying to

  • Fresh development plans for historic Terry’s site

    THE next phase of a major redevelopment of a York landmark is taking shape with a planning application submitted for hundreds of new homes at the formers Terry's chocolate factory. House builder David Wilson Homes has applied for detailed planning

  • Acomb play park set to receive big makeover

    AN Acomb play park looks likely to be revamped by October. Hugh Bayley, MP for York Central, met with Cllr Steve Burton to discuss plans to revamp the play area near Cornlands Road and build a new play area. Mr Bayley said: “It is fantastic

  • East Riding local plan set to be discussed

    FORMAL hearings on a council document that could determine how building are developed in East Riding over the next 15 years will take place in Autumn. Planning inspector Simon Berkeley has been appointed by the Government to examine the East Riding

  • Woman airlifted to hospital after falling from horse

    A WOMAN is seriously ill with severe spinal injuries after falling from her horse in North Yorkshire. The Great North Air Ambulance Service said the 43-year-old woman had been missing for five hours before being found at 1.45 pm yesterday at Stearsby

  • Refurbished Beverley museum reopens

    THE refurbished Beverley Community Museum in the Guildhall has been officially opened. The project was funded by a £20,000 grant from Arts Council England and has paid for the installation of new LED lighting in the museum, along with new bespoke

  • Railway already planning for Santa special excursions

    WHILE most of us are making the most of the British summer, preparations are already underway for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Santa Specials services. Tickets go on sale for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Santa Specials services on

  • Opticians focuses on fundraising day to mark re-opening

    BOOTS in York's Coney Street has marked the re-opening of its optician's department with a day of charitable fundraising. The department, which has undergone a major refurbishment, hosted a raffle and tombola, and gave away food and drink on Monday

  • Hunt for York's new sports champion

    COUNCIL bosses in York are looking for a new Older People’s Champion for sport and active leisure. This annual award is made to an active and inspirational person and now people are invited to send in their own nominations. The role was set

  • Selby burglars jailed for 14 years

    TWO men who committed ten burglaries around Selby have been jailed for a total of 14 years. James John Burke, 28, and Simon Robert Bellwood, 36, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, July 23

  • Driver jailed after chase in his gran’s mobility car

    A DISQUALIFIED driver who stole his grandmother’s car and led police on a chase around a North Yorkshire town has been jailed for 15 months. Nathan Valvona, 22, pleaded guilty to a series of driving offences before Scarborough Magistrates’ Court

  • Student Max left seeing red over mohawk hairstyle

    A UNIVERSITY of York student said he was threatened with being fired from a supermarket job he desperately needs because his hair was inappropriate. Max Cole, a genetics student at the University of York, was sent home unpaid from his job at Tesco

  • Have your say on council services

    YORK people can have their say on council services in the city at a special engagement event tomorrow. The open "Rewiring" event takes place 9.30am-3.30pm in the council's West Offices and is the first of two exercises asking people for their ideas

  • Man held on suspicion of drugs offence

    A MAN was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class B drugs. The 28-year-old man was arrested at 7.40pm on Monday by police near Harrogate, after he failed to stop the Toyota Yaris he was driving. After a search of the

  • Are speed cameras a necessary evil?

    NORTH Yorkshire is one of the few English counties not to use fixed speed cameras, but we do have three of the mobile sort and their job is to cover the county’s 9,000km of road. Now research says this is giving the police fewer resources to combat

  • Helping the tigers

    THE three Sumatran tiger cubs at Flamingo Land are big favourites with visitors. Hundreds gather to watch them at play in the tiger enclosure, chasing each-other and their mum Surya or simply basking in the sun. There are those, however, who believe

  • Jobs hope from fracking schemes

    THE Government has given the green light to let firms submit contracts for the widespread exploration for underground shale oil and gas reserves. It’s a question of how many people would want pipe drilling under their houses to extract this type

  • Shifting views

    CITY of York has done it again. Why does it make things so difficult for small businesses that comprise the core of the city? I passed a couple of ladies recently and one of them said: “I love coming to York because of all the different shops”.

  • Time for a rethink

    HERE is the result of a good night out beside the river near Scarborough Bridge. Dog bin smashed up, cans, bottles and the remains of takeaways strewn around. Turf burned by numerous fires, trees damaged. It’s the work of drunken, oafish children

  • Lenient attitude

    RECENT revelations of criminals found guilty by a court of law and deemed recidivists, some of whom pose a threat to a law-abiding public, having been sentenced to what can only be described as a soft alternative must weigh heavily on the victims and

  • Helping humanity

    TAKING my dog out for her late night constitutional at 11pm, I came across a youth laid on the pavement. He was flat on his face arms outstretched clutching a near empty bottle of spirits and obviously drunk. Making sure he was okay I continued

  • Pit closure shame

    THE TUC should hang its head in shame. It would have only taken a few of their millions so that the workers buy-out at Kellingley Colliery would have prevailed (Colliery buy-out plans shelved, July 25). The outcome is that 720 miners will lose

  • Sounding out music at the races

    I WOULD like to congratulate James Brennan on the excellent new sound system installed at the racecourse. We were able to hear the Beach Boys on Friday night quite distinctly while sitting in our lounge on Askham Lane watching television (the patio

  • Wage claims

    MATTHEW Laverack continues his ideological crusade against the Living Wage, saying “Richard Bridge should know that statistics from various sources can be interpreted to support opposing views on the Minimum Wage” (Letters, July 26). I used the

  • Some home truths

    I READ with interest the letter from Geoffrey Searstone (Home truths, July 2). He asserts “many working-class people in York own their own homes – not because they’re privileged, but because they are being rewarded for doing two things: working hard

  • Disastrous policies

    I HEARTILY agree with Nick Love’s sentiments about the Lendal Bridge fiasco and Councillors Alexander and Merrett’s part in it (No Remorse, Letters, July 28). No shame, only secrecy all round and a desire to stay in power at any cost and inflict

  • Desperate measures

    TRACEY Simpson-Laing says the council was forced to receive the anti-fracking petition at the last council meeting (Right Procedures, Letters, July 24). They were not forced to put it first on the agenda or to allow so much time that more important

  • Destroying people

    “THERE are none as blind as those who don’t want to see.” This sentence certainly applies to Joyce Pickard and Roger Westmorland (The Press, July 11). The attempt by these two to excuse the Palestinian slaughter of three Israeli teenagers is

  • Middle East chaos

    THE current advice to Westerners in Libya following the latest attack on a car carrying Westerners is to leave the country. Both Libya and Iraq have now (post-invasion) descended completely into mayhem since their “liberation” by war-mongers Tony

  • July 30

    100 years ago IN an interview Mr W Banks, of Messrs Banks and Co, provision dealers, Nessgate said: “This morning we had dozens of sides of bacon and hundreds of hams, but now at 3 o’clock we have cleared out every ounce of bacon, with the exception

  • Cawood Players hold fundraising murder mystery event

    A NIGHT of mystery and murder has been staged in a North Yorkshire village. Cawood players, the village’s amateur dramatic group, held a fund raising murder mystery event at the Old Boy's School last weekend. The Abba-themed mystery centred

  • Council teams receive volunteering awards

    TWO York council teams won awards at the employee volunteering organisation York Cares Golden Moments Awards Ceremony held last week. The council’s Income Services and Smarter York teams as well as others across York were nominated for a total

  • MP supports campaign against domestic violence

    MP Hugh Bayley is speaking out in Parliament in support for campaigns against domestic violence. Mr Bayley has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons in support of the White Ribbon Campaign, which seeks to involve men in challenging

  • Free guided bicycle rides in the East Riding

    CYCLING fans in the East Riding are being urged to sign up to free guided rides around the county this summer. Sky Rides in Driffield, Beverley and Goole have already proved popular, but now organisers are encouraging people to take advantage of

  • Church events to mark First World War centenary

    CHURCHES across the York diocese are planning services, vigils and and exhibitions to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War next Monday. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said the centenary of the outbreak of

  • Gamers to experience Roman York in new videogame

    GAMERS can take to the streets of ancient York, thanks to a blockbuster release. Ryse: Son Of Rome allows players to take control of a General during the Roman occupation of Britain, along with his legion, and has received largely positive reviews

  • Partially sighted women running York 10k in aid of charity

    FOUR partially sighted women have decided to take part in this weekend's York 10K race - each accompanied for safety by a member of staff from a York accountancy firm. The women, Glynis Garner, Diane Roworth, Kate Collis and Teresa Mikola, are

  • East Riding pair in court over benefit fraud charge

    TWO East Yorkshire women have ended up with criminal records after being prosecuted for benefit fraud. Debra Byard, 48, of Manor Road, Goole, was taken to court when East Riding of Yorkshire Council found out she had failed to declare an increase

  • Bar set to celebrate its first birthday

    A LITTLE bit of Gatsby-style glamour is coming to York this Friday when a city centre bar celebrates its first birthday. Banyan Bar and Kitchen on Little Stonegate is marking the anniversary on Friday, August 1 with a Prohibition-themed party at

  • £6.3m school rebuild scheme begins in Driffield

    A MULTIMILLION-pound rebuilding scheme at a Driffield special school for pupils with learning difficulties is now under way. The first phase of a £6.3 million project to redevelop Kings Mill School will see a two-storey building housing classrooms

  • More mobile speed cameras for roads of North Yorkshire

    THE number of mobile speed cameras in North Yorkshire is set to double. The Executive Board of North Yorkshire Police yesterday gave the green light to a number of proposals to improve road safety across the region, which also included the development

  • Drinker banned from McDonald's in Blake Street

    YORK magistrates have barred a drinker from a city-centre fast food outlet where he assaulted another customer. Defence solicitor Richard Minion told them all the customers at McDonald’s Blake Street branch at 2am on Wednesday July 3, were drunk

  • Adoption register opens up for potential parents in York

    POTENTIAL adoptive parents in York will soon be able to search the national Adoption Register for the first time. City of York Council has this week been selected to pilot a scheme which allows approved adopters to learn more about the children

  • Work underway on £1.5m Newgate Market revamp

    Even the pavement has been removed as everything is cleared away for the £1.5 million refurbishment of Newgate Market. First the 85 stalls of the daily market moved back to their historical home in Parliament Street earlier this month. Then