"INTERIM plans" have been announced for patients at Bootham Park Hospital while a new mental health facility is built. Wards at the hospital will be altered to make them more suitable and ward six and the electroconvulsive therapy suite will
YORK householders could face higher charges for rubbish collection as the city council struggles to balance its books. City of York Council currently charges only for extra garden waste collections and gives homes in York a free fortnightly collection
A FEW weeks ago we introduced you to a fine period home in Bootham, York, which we suggested might be the best home to have come on to the rental market for some considerable time. Well, the team at Ashtons Lettings, never people to duck a challenge
LINDEN Homes are preparing to make a lot of noise about their Pilgrims Rest development – with lots of razzamatazz and all that jazz… To help celebrate the official opening of the site’s showhome, Linden are rolling out a jazz band and providing
WHAT do you want from a Morrissey solo album in 2014? A title to make others jealous. Tick. A reactivated legendary label name, Harvest, to link him with rock history, just as he insisted his cussed autobiography should be published by Penguin
NAMED after the line squealed by the furry character Gizmo in the 1984 movie Gremlins, Bright Light Bright Light is actually a very accomplished nu-disco synthpop artist, Rod Thomas. The Welsh-born musician actually worked as a busker on the London
IT’S a scarcely believable 37 years since Tom Petty released Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll and began his scorching journey into the heart of that elusive American dream. There have been plenty of highs on the way, with tracks like I Won’t Back
ADMIT it, Sheffield duo Slow Club have largely passed you by. Two EPs, two albums – both employing widely contrasting musical styles - have seen Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson move seamlessly across genres but, aside from the nodding few, largely
AT A glance, this latest Richard Thompson album doesn’t seem much, just a compilation of favourite songs. Yet one listen dispels such doubts, as Thompson pulls 14 songs from his capacious song suitcase, dust them off and offers new, reinvigorated versions
This has been a long time coming. 13 years to be exact since Motherland, Merchant’s last offering, so has it been worth the wait? At times, yes. She’s certainly come a long way since her days with 10,000 Maniacs. This is mature body of work; strong
MIKE Scott and The Waterboys so enjoyed their York Barbican gig last December that they return there on Wednesday. That show was a triumphant celebration of the 25th anniversary of their Fisherman's Blues magnum opus in 2013, when Scottish band
THE Yorkshire Art Trail will paint a picture of life in the Broad Acres at Helmsley’s Summer Celebration on Saturday (August 2). Nine artists, including painters and sculptors, will set up residence across the town that day to demonstrate their
THE 21st anniversary International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate will feature more than 200 events. “We've been preparing for over a year,” says Ian Smith, the festival chairman and artistic director. “It’s our most ambitious programme
STEVE Harley, the original Cockney Rebel, tours the world with A Closer Look – An Acoustic Set, a show that combines musical intimacy with improvisation. He will be joined for his brace of Pocklington shows in October by long-standing Cockney Rebel
HULL actress Amy Thompson made her York Theatre Royal repertory debut in Beauty And The Beast while still a drama student at the University of Hull in April 2003. She will return to the city on August 22 as a presenter in Milkshake! Live Party Party
THE Dunnington Players are heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Three Peaks, a new play written and directed by Dunnington doctor David Mazza. This year's successful premiere in Dunnington prompted the production team to embark on
THE shock news of the end of jazz at Middleton`s Hotel, Skeldergate, reaches a closing chapter tonight with the final session by the Mardi Gras Band at 8.30pm. Previously the band shared a 20-year residency at the Old White Swan, Goodramgate, with
THE Pop Group may have been the supreme British post-punk pioneers in the late 1970s, but only now are they mounting their first-ever tour. The discordant Bristol innovators are to play seven autumn dates, among them the Leeds Brudenell Social
LIAM Tims and Adam Elms first clicked as a partnership when playing Holmes and Watson in Theatre Mill’s Sherlock Holmes And The Speckled Band last November at the Treasurer’s House in York. Artistic director Samuel Wood now pairs them together
A HUGE fire has broken out at Ferrybridge Power Station, causing the partial collapse of a tower at the site. Fifteen fire engines and two aerial ladder platforms are were in attendance at the blaze at the power station next to the A1, this afternoon
ALL the world’s a stage for 11 budding York performers as they participate in a two-week Shakespeare project that began earlier this week at the Upstage Centre Youth Theatre at 41 Monkgate. The summer school will conclude with three performances of
PYRAMID Gallery will play host to a Meet The Artists evening from 6pm tomorrow at the Summer Exhibition launch at Terry Brett's art space in Stonegate, York. Wensleydale artist Piers Browne, York sculptors Jonathan Newdick and Ann Baxter, mixed-media
AFTER chorus roles in three Stage Experience summer school productions at the Grand Opera House, Lizzie Nunn has graduated to the female lead in the York premiere of Our House, the London love story with the Madness songbook. From tonight until
DAVE Johns opens Saturday’s 8pm line-up at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York before popping over to Leeds to headline at The Hi-Fi Club. Johns began performing in his native Newcastle in the late 1980s, later setting up the Comedy Café, and
WELCOME to a new Sherlock Holmes story, as told by The Flanagan Collective, the York company best known for their boutique musical plays. Like Some Small Love Story, Beulah and Babylon, the script will be written by Coxwold playwright Alexander
STRICTLY Come Dancing stars Anton du Beke & Erin Boag reunite for their 2015 show at York Barbican, That's Entertainment.. Erin was unavailable for Anton's last York dancing date, as she had the more pressing matter of being pregnant., and
THE British and European premiere travels of the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular will make a stop at Leeds First Direct Arena next spring. Tickets for the May 27 2015 show go on sale at 9am tomorrow at £20 on 0844 248 1585 or at firstdirectarena.com
ROBERT Plant will release his new album, Lullaby And...The Ceaseless Roar, on September 8 in his label debut for Nonesuch/East West Records. Produced by the Led Zeppelin frontman, it features 11 new recordings, nine of them original songs written
HOLGATE marched towards a York Amateur Bowling Association League and Cup double in their centenary year by beating RI Amateurs 84-53 in the Williamson Cup final. They took control early in the final, with the rinks of Phil Emmerson and Tex Stevens pulling
AFTER his triumphant spring tour, Alan Davies returns with more Little Victories this autumn. One of those occasions will be at Leeds Town Hall on October 30, his nearest date to York. Explaining the show's title, the 48-year-old Essex comedian
NEW Earswick Musical Society’s autumn show will be Mack And Mabel at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from November 12 to 15 at 7.30pm nightly plus a 2.30pm Saturday matinee. Rehearsals are under way, leading to auditions for principal roles
JOHN GRAHAM, Madge Cooper and Sarah Agg were the winners of Wigginton Bowls Club's Chairman and Captain's Day Shield. The competition attracted 26 entries in a bowls drive format, with the winning team (+17) just beating runners-up Doreen Wadsworth
IF you have never heard Shed Seven’s early song Kennel, Polydor’s re-issue of the York band’s three Top 20 albums as double-disc packages on Monday will give you that opportunity. Lead singer Rick Witter and bass player Thomas Gladwin have been
IN the 1850s, market traders in York were not happy. A new street - Parliament Street - had been built to accommodate them 20 years earlier. But now they wanted protection from the weather as well. Proposals were put forward for a huge covered
FOR years a life-sized photo of the Great East Window has stood as a reminder at York Minster but soon we will see the real thing again, following one of the most ambitious conservation projects in Europe. Known as the Sistine Chapel of the stained-glass
HOW much longer are the authorities in York going to pussy-foot around the hordes of drunken louts who descend on the city every weekend (and particularly race weekends)? It was absolutely disgraceful that Dr Gaur and the staff at York A&E
FURTHER to your article and comment on the gap between the educational achievement of York’s most disadvantaged children and their peers (Education fear over rich and poor gap, July28), I would like to reassure readers that I am absolutely committed
IN response to Keith Chapman’s remarks about The Press’s political reporter (Letters, July 29). I fear he is a little out of date. It is in fact a woman, not a man. Whatever next? Nick Wharton, Fourth Avenue, York.
SO the council has decided to refund the many tourists and general public who were fined during the Lendal Bridge fiasco. How very gallant. But only if the unlucky people go through the proper channels to claim so as to ensure there won’t be any
I SUSPECT Keith Chapman’s No Party idea (Letters, July 29) will bring him only disappointment. What makes me think that? In 1979 I was elected to Basildon District Council as a candidate for Billericay District Residents Association (BDRA).
WHILE it is always terrible when a young person loses their life, I think some perspective is required when considering closing riverside drinking areas and gating off access to the rivers at night (Alexander Ogilvy and Nick Fletcher, Letters, July
IT’S all change at the top of division one of the HPH York Vale Cricket League after Ovington lost for the first time this season. Coupled with the suspension of Thixendale, whose record has been expunged, it saw a reshuffle of the leading positions
I WOULD like to add my fourpenn’orth to the debate about the cleanliness of the streets in York. I think the street cleaners have a difficult task with all the people who visit and live in York making a mess because let’s face it the litter/mess
IN June, I walked along Holgate Road to have a look at the newly planted/sown wildflower beds behind The Fox Inn I had read about in The Press and was disappointed when I saw just a handful of poppies and weeds. Wildflower meadow - where? But this
WITH the Scottish referendum looming fast, I wonder how many of our current English Members of Parliament who stem from or reside in Scotland are worried about their own future? If we turn back the clock to 1603 when James VI of Scotland came to
HER Majesty the Queen's Estimate, who sensationally failed a dope test after finishing second in last month's Ascot Gold Cup, turns out in today's Artemis Goodwood Cup and will be the subject of close attention. The five-year-old, trained by Sir
IS the latest exercise claim, no doubt aimed at couch potatoes, merely another health scam doing the rounds or sound advice? Some boffins now say running is good for everyone reducing certain health risks, yet previous research discovered that
Naming names JEN WAKE (Letters, July 29) is perfectly correct that Mike is a corruption or abbreviation for Michael. I prefer to be addressed as “Mike”, but anybody calling me “Mick” would sharply be told that people who call me “Mick” would call
DRAGONFLY or damselfly, how to tell? When they are in the air it is very difficult to know which is which but, when they settle, all becomes clear. A dragonfly rests with its wings outstretched whereas a damselfly rests with its wings folded above
A FORMER Selby school girl has graduated top of her year at university. Charlotte Gaunt gained the highest average mark of 89.33 per cent in primary education at the University of Huddersfield, qualifying for a Chancellor's Prize from the university's
THE Rotary Club of York Vikings has raised thousands of pounds for a York refuge for victims of domestic abuse to help fund a series of summer treats. Club president Peter Acaster presented a cheque for £2,855 to Corrina Dobson, of the Independent
YORKSHIRE Water has warned people not to swim in its reservoirs during warm weather, saying a quick dip can turn to tragedy. Recreation and catchment manager Geoff Lomas said reservoirs were extremely dangerous due to the chilling temperatures
YORK Minster has become the first building in the UK to use new state-of-the-art protective glazing to ensure its restored Great East Window will survive the ravages of time. The use of the innovative UV-resistant glass marks a significant milestone
AN OLD converted bus will be the setting for a Marie Curie Blooming Great Tea Party. Karen Kemp, of Melbourne, York, is organising the event at Monks Cross Shopping Centre on Wednesday August 6 to help fund vital extra hours of Marie Curie nursing
ESK Valley Theatre has picked Willy Russell's One For The Road as the Yorkshire moorland company's tenth anniversary production. Past shows invariably have been restricted by financial constraints to a cast of two, but director Mark Stratton and
100 years ago “WE are ready.” In these words one of his Majesty’s Ministers had referred to the current condition of the forces of the Crown, and the various services on which their efficiency would depend in the event of war. “We are united
A MAN has appeared in court charged with the murder of an East Yorkshire hotel landlady. John Heald, 53, of Foljambe Road, Rotherham, is accused of murdering Bei Carter, 49, who was found dead at the Morayland Guest House in Bridlington on July
A FORMER parish council chairman and Scout worker from East Yorkshire has been jailed for seven years for sexually abusing two teenage boys. Christopher Worrall, 46, was chairman of Holme-on-Spalding Moor parish council and a household name in
HE has dealt with nearly 25,000 deaths and held about 3,000 inquests - but now York Coroner Donald Coverdale has retired after more than 26 years in the post. Assistant Coroner Jonathan Leach has taken over as Acting Senior Coroner but, under national
Visitors to York Castle Museum are being given a chance to discover more of life in 1914 with their new exhibition marking the centenary of the First World War. 1914: When the World Changed Forever will enable people to experience life on the front
Newgate Market is temporarily back in its original home while Newgate is refurbished. STEPHEN LEWIS looks back at the history of the Parliament Street market - and discovers plans from the 1860s for an extraordinary covered market made of glass
A SOLDIER sits pensively before the altar at a village church near York in July 1914, as the First World War approaches. This poignant scene has been created at Holy Trinity Church in Stockton-on-the-Forest as part of an exhibition to be staged
A WOMAN was punched three times in the face when she came home to find burglars on her property, a court heard. Householder Susan Connor and a neighbour who had come to her aid then had a terrifying rush to lock themselves inside the house.
HUNDREDS of rival businessmen and women are preparing to take on one of the region’s most popular corporate events. The contenders will pull on their trainers this Sunday for the Morrison Utility Services York 10K Corporate Challenge. But ahead
IRONIC isn’t it? As we approach the centenary of the war to end all wars, never, or at least not since the Cuban missile crisis, has the world been closer to the real war to end all wars; the one where everyone gets blown up. Far-fetched you may
TWO friends will stage a charity auction at a pub near York tomorrow night to help an autistic teenager travel to Peru to volunteer in a charitable project. Amy Hall and Joanne James are holding the event at the Cottage Inn, Haxby, in a bid to
HARROGATE-based Redcentric has won one of four places on a new UK government framework to provide procurement for data-centre space. NHS and public sector organisations can now purchase hosting services from Redcentric via the North of England
ST LEONARD’S Hospice and Martin House Children’s Hospice have joined forces to bring the Colour Me Happy Fun Run to Rawcliffe Country Park in autumn. The event, on Sunday, September 21, will see participants run, walk or dance around a 5km route
THE Woodland Trust wants people in North Yorkshire to urge their MP to help protect ancient woodland when planning for Phase 2 of HS2. Various options are currently being considered for the high-speed rail line, and with afinal announcement is
YORK medical-device specialist Tissue Regenix is moving closer to the commercialisation of its latest product after being granted approval for clinical trials. The York Science Park-based firm, which has been growing a sales base in the US for
A SELBY man from bus operator FirstGroup won two national engineering awards. Technician Peter Buckle, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, who works out of FirstGroup’s mobile training facility, represented his company at the IRTE Skills Challenge held at
RESEARCH has revealed a growing appetite for apprentices among businesses in the region. Two-thirds of companies which run apprenticeship schemes plan to give more young people in Yorkshire and Humber an opportunity to take their first steps into
A FIRM of York solicitors is in the running to be named Conveyancer of the Year at this year's National Conveyancing Conference. Langleys Solicitors, which has an off in Lincoln as well as its York office in Micklegate and conveyancing department
WITH 8,900 staff and more than 1.5 million people using its sites every year York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust faces a challenge managing its annual 4.7 million business miles. Through its continuous encouragement of greener and more
NESTLE UK, which has its confectionary headquarters in York, is turning to youth employment to tackle a skills gap in the industry. Off the back of a study, which revealed nine out of ten businesses felt young people left school ill-equipped for
STAFF at web and marketing agency See Green have recently found themselves evaluating future prospects after being tasked with coming up with a vision statement as part of the government’s Growth Accelerator scheme. See Green has worked with numerous
A 35-YEAR-OLD man has been taken to hospital after a crash involving a bike and a car. The cyclist was left with a back injury after the incident at around 7.10am today on North Moor Road. No one else was injured, and the road has now reopened
THE Yorkshire Building Society is set to embark on a bike race with a difference in celebration of its 150th anniversary. A bespoke penny farthing bicycle was at Shambles in York as part of a trip to historic landmarks and destinations in the UK
MORE than 450 people went to York Mosque when it held its first “Big Iftar”. The event was part of a national initiative to invite people from different faiths and ethnicities to mosques to experience and understand why Muslims fast, and to share
PEOPLE in Hambleton are being urged to turn out their lights for an hour on Friday, and take part in a nationwide act of reflection 100 years on from the First World War. The district council is encouraging people to take part in “Lights Out” and
ONE of Yorkshire’s most prominent chefs will play a key role in one of the region’s highest-profile food award schemes this year. Multi-award winning Stephanie Moon will be presenting the trophies to the winners of the Flavours of Herriot Country
AN ESTATE agent which opened its first office in York 22 years ago before growing to more than 100 branches has merged with another firm. Hunters Property Group, which has an office in Colliergate and 104 others nationwide, has merged with Hunters
THERE was rush-hour disruption in York when five cars crashed in Acomb yesterday evening. The accident happened at about 5.50pm in Carr Lane. The road was closed for about an hour near its junction with York Road and Rosedale Avenue. Initial
SAFETY improvements and a new cycle route are being proposed for a road at the University of York. City of York Council, in partnership with the university , wants to carry out the works in University Road to help make the area more accessible
A COUPLE who first met in the grand surroundings of Whitehall and Buckingham Palace are today celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary. Eighty-three year old Clive Grantham was a young Household Cavalry soldier when he first met wife Rose,
THE Government is pumping £40,000 into a new initiative to tackle crime in the countryside.The National Rural Crime Network was set up earlier this year as a collaborative think-tank to research and implement ways to reduce rural crime.Led by North
APPEALS to rethink cutbacks on cutting grass road verges across North Yorkshire have been thrown out by county council bosses, leaving many town and parish councils to foot the bills themselves. North Yorkshire County Council is set to save up
A BIKE advertising York's attractions will become a new fixture in around the city centre. The Visit York digiBike is a four-wheeled bicycle featuring two state-of-the-art smart TVs and onboard sound system. Throughout the year, the bike will
The Prince of Wales tried his hand at the famous Enigma code-breaking machine when he visited the world's oldest existing intercept station. Charles, who is patron of the intelligence services, was shown around GCHQ Scarborough to help celebrate
MULTI-million pound plans for new police headquarters in North Yorkshire have been dropped by the county's police and crime commissioner, amid plans to merge some functions with neighbouring Cleveland Police. Police and crime commissioner Julia
