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THREE men have been charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine after being arrested in York. Richard Littlechild, 29, of Cromer Street, Dylan Bell, 19, of Burnholme Avenue, and Ben Ives, 18, of Wetherby Road, Tadcaster, appeared at York Magistrates

FIRE crews and staff have been praised for their actions which limited the damage when a large blaze broke out at a landmark power station. Firefighters worked in difficult conditions when an absorber tower at the Ferrybridge C power station beside

I AM by no means alone among motoring journalists in bemoaning claimed fuel economy figures that come no where near the actual figure achieved on road tests. With annoying regularity, the real world figure achieved is usually about 15 per cent

THE previous generation Honda Jazz was something of a dark horse. Despite me and most of the motoring press telling you and anyone else who would listen that it was pretty much spot on in almost every department, it remained a second favourite to some

THERE'S a great deal that's new about the M4, not least the name. Previously you could have an M3 in coupé, saloon and convertible formats, but now the M3 is saloon only. It's the M4 takes on the mantle as the coupé, the most popular model

ENKELIT will perform a cappella music from Finland on Sunday at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, at 3pm. The singers are British but use the Finnish word for “angels” as their name to reflect the content of their concerts, as York member

The news about the zombie apocalypse in Brighton and Hove has not, I feel, been given the attention it deserves. You’d have thought that real live – well, undead – zombies lurching through the streets on the south coast would have caused a bit of a

National flower judges will be in North Yorkshire today. MATT CLARK went to see the final preparations ahead of their visit. DUNNINGTON is looking blooming marvellous again, not that Roy Freer has time to stop and admire it all. He's on the lookout

A LOGISTICS firm has extended the rail terminal at its Selby site in a bid to accommodate longer freight trains. Potter Logistics is now able to welcome 775m freight trains from UK ports after increasing the size of its on site head shunt, which

A SOFTWARE engineering firm is looking to create up to 50 new jobs in York as it opens a new research and development centre in the city off the back of "snowballing demand" for its products. Anaplan, which provides businesses with a digital platform

YORK-based attraction creator Paragon Entertainment has won a contract to bring to life an award winning children's television show. The licensing and distribution division of the Elvington-based firm has entered into an agreement to create the

A RETAIL venture set up to celebrate Yorkshire's brewing industry is expanding as it celebrates its second year in business. Yorkshire Ales opened in Snaith in 2012, selling a selection of beers from the region, sourced by owners Vicky and Adrian

TOM PLATT is in line to kick off the new season in York City's midfield unless Luke Summerfield shakes off a knee injury. The 20-year-old, former youth-team captain has started each of the last two friendlies alongside skipper Russell Penn in the

RETURNING York City centre-back Dan Parslow has vowed to win back his starting place despite the formidable form of Keith Lowe and John McCombe during his long absence. Former Wales under-21 international Parslow suffered cruciate knee ligament

YORK CITY will sport their new look away kit during Saturday's final pre-season friendly against Sheffield United at Bootham Crescent. The shirt features a white ‘double-chevron’ on a sky blue body and the kit is complete with sky blue shorts and

SELBY Abbey will play host this autumn to three performances of Not About Heroes, Stephen Macdonald’s play based on the meeting of First World War poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital. Sassoon was a decorated war

MALTON trainer Richard Fahey has three bullets to fire at tomorrow’s 32Red Cup at Glorious Goodwood. The Musley Bank handler will be represented by Alben Star, Ballesteros and Flyman - but has warned rain will be needed for two of them to be at

VICE-CAPTAIN Tom Pringle will lead York Cricket Club in their Royal London ECB National Club Championship quarter-final at Chorley in the absence of skipper Dan Woods. Woods will be representing Cheshire in a three-day match on Sunday, but the

ADIL RASHID took four wickets to continue his fine run of form yesterday, but an inexperienced Yorkshire side slipped to a 26-run one-day friendly defeat against Sri Lanka A at Headingley. The leg-spinning all-rounder returned 4-57 from ten overs

WOODHOUSE Grange have one eye on a Lord's final as they count down to Sunday's Davidstow National Village Cup semi-final. The Hunters York & District Senior League premier division leaders travel to Milford Hall hoping to clinch their sixth

YORK Vale Veterans were edged out of the Grey Fox Trophy in their first foray in the competition at Fishlake on Sunday. The Doncaster area team won with an over to spare after the Vale side scored 134-4 on a decent strip. Ray Adamson top scored

STOCKTON & Hopgrove and North Cave will contest the final of the Guy Mitchell Cup at Acomb on Sunday, August 17 after comfortable semi-final victories. New recruit Lloyd Marshall made an instant impact for Stockton with 6-30 against York Vale

HARRY'S DANCER, who gained a wide margin win on her debut at Thirsk in May, returns to same course this afternoon aiming for an encore. Trained by John Quinn at Norton, the two-year-old daughter of Kodiac is only tiny, but she is a real pocket-rocket

WITH the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival just three weeks away, Turf Talk looks at how a selection of the races are shaping up and asked York Racecourse head of marketing James Brennan for his view. Juddmonte International, Wednesday, August

THE Marston Moor Villages Darts (Doubles Board) and Dominoes League are looking for new teams for the forthcoming season. The campaign is due to start at the end of September and will run through to April. Any teams interested in joining the

A FORMER York head girl who is working on a supermarket checkout because she cannot afford university fees will miss out on her course after judges threw out her human rights case. “Hard-working and high-achieving” Beaurish Tigere was head girl

NESTLÉ is set to become the first major confectionery company in the UK to source 100 per cent sustainable cocoa by the end of next year. The York-based confectioner's managing director Andrew McIver said that reaching this landmark goal would

RYEDALE is again staging the very popular annual Pickering Traction Engine rally. Now in its 62nd year, the event is billed as the north's biggest steam event and will also include over 1000 vintage and classic cars and motorcycles. Running

A MOTHER, her partner and teenage son have been jailed for what police called a “despicable” burglary in York. Tammy Wharton, 38, denied burgling an Acomb house with Steven Gledhill, 32, and her 18-year-old son Oliver, just hours after the teenager

A NEW team of cycling police officers have taken to the streets of North Yorkshire. The Cycle Response Team began work earlier this month but were officially launched yesterday, and will be used throughout the force area to help with searches for

PLANS for new multimillion-pound super care homes in York were flawed and failed to make £600,000 of savings, a report has found. Newly released reports by external auditors Mazars have sparked further concerns about City of York Council's adult

RUNNER Joel Hewitt's plans to take part in the Asda Foundation York 10K this weekend were shattered when he came off his motorbike two weeks ago and fractured his pelvis. But now his sister Emily has stepped into the breach and will run in his

FOUR brothers with a combined age of 275 are planning to take part in the race this Sunday. Pensioners David, Peter Ray and Richard Sheppard - aged between 66 and 73 - have signed up for the York 10K to celebrate eldest brother David’s successful

THE Honey Monster will lead a group of runners from a York-based charity in Sunday's race. The Guy Francis Bone Cancer Research Fund, founded by Guy Francis, of Wheldrake, in 2002, shortly before his death, has entered a team of runners in the

HOUSEHOLDERS in York could be charged for having their garden clippings and other green waste collected. At the moment, the city council provides a single free garden waste collection every fortnight - only charging households if they want to put

ANAPLAN is a real digital success story. Pioneered by York software engineer Michael Gould from his Yearsley barn, the company – which provides businesses with a digital platform for financial planning – went global in 2011. Its headquarters are

I AM pleased to see Julia Mulligan is “absolutely committed to improving road safety in our region” (More mobile speed cameras for roads of North Yorkshire, July 30). But how can the doubling of speed cameras be justified when there has been a

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with you on your views expressed in the Comments column of the press (Are speed cameras a necessary evil?, July 30). But these vans should be looking out for motorists who are really speeding, not motorists who are driving

I NOTICE the head of marketing at York Racecourse blames “wider society problems” for the violence in York at the weekend (Drunks put A&E under pressure, July 29). He does not have to look too far to prove his point - the horse racing industry

THE British Government has just launched a new bidding round for fracking licences which covers around half of the UK, and has smoothed the legal regulation and reduced the potential for costly legal challenges. It has even created an undefined

ON Saturday I attended a meeting about Stonebow House at the Central Methodist Church. There was a speaker who was an architect and liked the buildings, which was his choice. He called it “brutal” which is a good word. I would describe it as ugly

ONCE again Cllr James Alexander bleats on about the luck of people who are home owners. In the olden days a couple got engaged, lived with their parents, saved for a deposit, got married and moved into the house they worked for, continued working

I DO not know of any political party in York that does not support more house building. Moreover, the Conservatives now support house building on a scale not too far off what was in Labour’s 2011 council manifesto. However, Cllr James Alexander

MY uncle, Squadron Leader James (Jimmie) Clark DFC, 460 Sqn RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force), was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber shot down in December 1944 killing all on board. His rear gunner was John Maxwell Scott DFM RAAF, who, I understand

ARE we going to be fooled into following the USA into the same trouble their lies got us into in Iraq? US hatred of Russia is almost unbelievable as they assume guilt without proof and think with sanctions they can bring Russia to its knees where

YOUR readers can say what they like about me missing the point about people complaining that York’s streets are in a mess (Derek Reed, Letters, July 25). But if they read the recent letter from Peter Willey who has limited staff, working antisocial

I WAS interested to read about Harold Larwood (Sports Log, The Press, July 22). If ever a man was the victim of his own success, that man was Harold Larwood. In my opinion he did nothing wrong on the 1932/33 tour, all he did was what his captain

IT IS astonishing that anyone could believe that condemning the massacre of civilians in Gaza is excusing the murder of teenagers in Israel (Letters, July 30). Just to get things in perspective: this year, prior to the present holocaust, Israel

WHILE the atrocities and war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza are self-evident from the pictures that we see on our televisions, British condemnation appears somewhat more muted. While the firing of rockets by Hamas seems unquestioned as

100 years ago A HULL trawler’s skipper had had the shock of his life. He had been out for six weeks, and was coming home, expecting to find things just as usual. Sixty or eighty miles out of Spurn he received the shock of his life. Suddenly

THE York Amateur Bowling Association singles tournament will be played at West Park tomorrow, starting at 9.30am. Entries are still being accepted by Graham Bell - who can be emailed at yaba.graham@aol.com - until 5pm today. The semi-finals

MEMORIES of World War One hospitals which treated tens of thousands of wounded soldiers are needed for a project to mark the conflict’s centenary. The project – Home Comforts: Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding 1914-19 – is aimed

A MEMBER of a York choir will join TV choirmaster Gareth Malone to perform at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend. Sarah Saunders, of the Military Wives Choir York, will travel to London to take part in a special Prom to mark the centenary of the

VOLUNTEERS at a York nature reserve have helped it win a prestigious Green Flag award for the fifth year running. The award is intended to recognise the best green spaces in the country, both for their wildlife and community value, and across the

NEW shops in Acomb are to get a cash boost in a council bid to reinvigorate the area's high street - but payday lenders and bookmakers will be excluded from the offer. The area has the highest rate of shops lying empty long-term - 17.6 percent

York MP Hugh Bayley celebrates victory in his campaign to have the Government publish figures on flood protection spending as official statistics and for them to be vetted by the UK Statistics Authority. I have won an important victory. After six

HARD work, clean living and a good family have been credited for helping a doting great great grandmother reach her 103rd birthday today. Hilda Floyd was born in Thorganby in 1911, a month after King George V was crowned king and when most of the

ENVIRONMENTALISTS from the University of York are to showcase winning entries from an East African school art competition organised to celebrate International Mountain Day. The drawing competition around the theme, My Mountain, My Home, attracted

AN IT worker who uses his skills and contacts to help children learn about computers is one of the final nominations for a Community Pride awards. Nominations for the 13 categories in the awards have now closed and shortlisted candidates will be

GRATEFUL patients and families have put the health service stars who helped them through difficult times forward for recognition. Specialist rehabilitation physiotherapist Vicky Pursey and a the coronary care team from York District Hospital have

A NEW project to improve parking on a busy bus route on a residential street could be about to start after pleas for help from local people. Next Thursday council cabinet member David Levene will decide whether to press ahead with a scheme to put

YORK Art Gallery is aiming to recreate its original look when it reopens next year. Gallery bosses have submitted plans for the new signage on the building, which is undergoing an £8m refurbishment. The proposed York Art Gallery sign will be

A MAN’S first appearance at Hull Crown Court on a charge of murdering an East Yorkshire hotel landlady has been adjourned for a week to next Friday. John Heald, 53, of Foljambe Road, Rotherham, is accused of murdering Bei Carter, 49, who was found

A REQUIEM Mass will be staged at St Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church in Duncombe Place, York, at 6pm on Monday to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Faure’s Requiem, sung by the Rudgate Singers, will be the musical setting

“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 temporarily