A MOTORCYCLIST died when he collided with a car in North Yorkshire, police have revealed. The 41-year-old man from Sherburn-in-Elmet was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened at about 4pm yesterday on the B1222 near Newthorpe
YORK City striker Wes Fletcher is expected to remain on bench duty at Exeter City. Last season's 13-goal top scorer has been used as a 71st-minute substitute in each of the Minstermen's last two matches after returning from the medial knee ligament
BENJAMIN Till, composer of the award-winning A Symphony For Yorkshire and Ebor Vox, a choral work performed for York’s 800th anniversary of the royal charter in 2012, commemorates the centenary of the First World War from a uniquely Yorkshire perspective
SUPER filly Taghrooda was turned over as Tapestry (8-1) sprang a huge shock to triumph in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks at the Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival. The Aidan O’Brien-trained three-year-old wore down her top class rival inside the final
BRIAN ELLISON is thrilled Top Notch Tonto is “back” in business – despite his stable star being robbed with victory in his grasp at the conclusion of the Clipper Logistics Stakes at the Ebor Festival. On Knavesmire ground faster than he would have
TIGGY WIGGY broke the two-year-old track record at York Racecourse by a third of a second as she led from pillar to post in winning the Pinsent Masons Lowther Stakes. The juvenile justified her 15-8 favouritism by blasting out of the stalls in
YES, that is Sinead O'Connor in Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman leathers and Uma Thurman's Pulp Fiction wig on the sleeve of her tenth studio album, I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss. This is the same Sinead O'Connor who shaved off her hair to defy any
YOU have to give James Yorkston time. It's always been that way and remains so on his eighth studio album. A cursory listen might suggest that Yorkston, with his half-spoken vocals and gently meandering songs, lost his way on the musical flatlands
CATEGORIZE this lot if you dare. Some have tried, calling the Manchester band's music North Country and Western, which is a clever play on words, but it's still a country mile short of the mark. Perhaps knowing that the Travelling Band is fond
IS going acoustic for someone ingrained in rock music the equivalent of a decathlete opting to concentrate on say, just the high jump? The lesser of parts and participation certainly seems the overall impression given by the first foray into the world
YOU are not listening to The Darling Buds or The Shop Assistants, pretty much forgotten names now from the 1980s days of girl-fronted indie pop, but the Canadian fuzz-pop quartet Alvvays most assuredly must have done so. And a good thing too, because
ON a Bank Holiday weekend, what better way of celebrating the extra day off work than with a night of laughter? Headlining Saturday's bill at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club will be Dom Woodward, back in York at the double. Didn't he play there last
THE fifth studio album for the rockers, Get Hurt continues on a similar path of howling vocals and anthemic guitars. Having teamed up with The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys producer Mike Crossley, the New Jersey outfit have managed to resist efforts
CANADIAN comedian Pete Johansson examines his various fears and faults that enlighten the spirit and educate the soul in his anecdotal new show, Several Jokes, on tour from late September to November. Themes under the Johansson spotlight will be
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM will celebrate his 80th birthday in Leeds, to perform a solo concert at the Howard Assembly Rooms. In the early 1960s, as Dollar Brand, he led the Jazz Epistles, the first black group to record an LP in South Africa, before coming
YORK promoter Joe Coates has lined up three more gigs in quick succession for his Please Please You nights in the City Screen Basement bar. Mazes will play there on September 23, Magik Markers, Neuschlaufen and Mouth Water on September 24 and Tom
OVINGTON’S battle to retain their HPH York Vale Cricket League division one title looks like going down to the wire. Victory at Burn on Saturday saw them leapfrog Bishopthorpe into second place just ten points behind leaders North Cave who have
SIX Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers were among the 215 finishers at the Fountains Abbey Park Run headed by Rob Burn who was 17th in 20 minutes and 20 seconds. The other Harriers who followed Burn home were Bryan Miller 23rd in a new personal best
TAGHROODA will go for an Oaks double at York Racecourse today. The unbeaten John Gosden-trained filly, ridden by former Malton jockey Paul Hanagan, will line up in the £330,000 Darley Yorkshire Oaks. After scalping Telescope and Coral Eclipse
NEW Zealand star Kane Williamson could still end the season with Yorkshire. As things stand, the White Rose's overseas batsman is set to miss the last two LV= County Championship matches against Nottinghamshire and Somerset and a potential Royal
ANDREW GALE believes Matthew Fisher has taken to first-team cricket like a duck to water. The 16-year-old fast bowler, currently on duty with England under-19s for their one-day series with world champions South Africa, has taken two wickets in
CLARENCE have been crowned York C&IU Bowls Evening League champions with 117 points. The club retained the trophy they have won in the previous two years, going through the season unbeaten and drawing only three of their games. Burton Lane
WIGGINTON are celebrating back-to-back titles in the York Amateur Bowling Association League. The club were crowned champions of division two this season, following up their division three success of the previous campaign. They closed out their
YORK police are appealing for information after a minor crash in the city. A small silver car - around the size of a Fiesta - reversed out of a car park at the Woodman pub in Bishopthorpe and collided with a white VW Polo, but the driver left the
ESCRICK Bowls Club are in need of new members for the forthcoming campaign. Their indoor short mat bowls team maintained their position in the Selby League first division last term so will compete again in the forthcoming season, from October until
VETERAN comic Roy 'Chubby' Brown has been fined for reading The Sun while driving on the A19. The 69-year-old comedian - whose real name is Royston Vasey - of East Harlsey, near Northallerton, was fined £30 by Northallerton Magistrates and received
You won’t see Anthony Head in his latest film role, but you will certainly hear him, finds STEVE PRATT. HOME, says actor Anthony Head, has always been Britain. "We have a very lovely place in Bath and I find it immensely grounding when I come home
YORK'S Little Festival of Live Music: Unplugged will play host to ten hours of family-friendly music at the Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green, on September 27 and 28. Held to mark the Little Festival of Live Music's first birthday, Unplugged will
Just A Quickie with... Leeds Festival main stage star Jake Bugg. Even before he released his self-titled debut album in October 2012, Nottingham singer-songwriter Jake Bugg had already made his Leeds Festival debut that summer on the Festival Republic
THE 2014 Leeds Festival will see more than 200 acts take to the multitude of stages at Bramham Park, near Wetherby, in a bill topped by Blink-182 tomorrow, Paramore and Queens Of The Stone Age on Saturday and Arctic Monkeys on Sunday. Weather forecasters
This season at York Theatre Royal will be the last before the theatre shuts for a £4.1 million redevelopment. CHARLES HUTCHINSON outlines what’s coming up. IT is all about balance. On the one hand, York Theatre Royal's season ahead features
NATIONAL Youth Music Theatre’s summer season culminates with this week's premiere of Brass, a specially commissioned new musical by Yorkshireman Benjamin Till to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. Brass is based on the
THE Russian State Ballet and Opera House will present Giuseppe Verdi's 19th century opera Rigoletto at York Barbican on Sunday, February 15 next year. Singing in Italian, to the accompaniment of English subtitles, the cast will be joined by an
A MOTHER has told of her heartbreak after discovering her baby son has an ultra-rare genetic condition that will cost him his life. Louise Knaggs, of Huntington, York, said her first child, Blake, appeared fit and well when he was born at York
MILES Salter, York writer, musician and storyteller, will be most familiar to readers of The Press from his sterling work running the York Literature Festival. In another string to his bow, he will be fronting York punk-folk-acoustic cowboys Root 64
SIR Alex Ferguson was among a crowd of about 18,000 at York Racecourse when the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival got under way yesterday. The former Manchester United boss turned up to see Telescope - which he part-owns - compete in the richest
Long-time fan JULIAN COLE fails to get an interview with Richard Thompson (blame the BBC for that). Instead he introduces the latest acoustic outing from the guitar great and singer-songwriter RICHARD Thompson does things with the six strings of
AMERICAN virtuoso guitarist, pianist and songwriter Nils Lofgren is to play Leeds City Varieties Music Hall on January 22 next year. Lofgren is a long-time member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, joining up with The Boss most recently for
SHARING senior health and safety staff with a neighbouring council could save York tens of thousands of pounds a year, a council report says. The city's local authority has decided that instead of taking someone on to fill an open managerial post
SHERLOCK Holmes needs a new Doctor Watson in York after illness struck actor George Williams. York company The Flanagan Collective had completed the first week of their six-week run of Sherlock Holmes: A Working Hypothesis in the York Guildhall
YORK Tennis Club women’s team followed an opening 8-1 defeat at home to Rawdon in the Yorkshire League with six points from three matches. They beat last year’s champions Huddersfield 5-4 away, had a walk-over against visiting Rastrick and then
FORWARD Theatre Project take to the country air at the Galtres Parklands Festival at Duncombe Park tomorrow with Bird, a piece of outdoor theatre about flight, freedom and the relationship between man and nature. Written by Ben Ellis and Nikki
YOUNG performers from 15 schools across the York district and beyond are giving up their summer holidays to perform in York Theatre Royal’s summer show The Wind In The Willows. The 24 children, all aged ten to 15, are members of the Theatre Royal
A RARE black and white silent film of Shakespeare’s Richard III from 1910 will be shown in the last Plantagenet king’s childhood home, Middleham Castle, brought to "voice" by a cast of actors from York Theatre Royal on Saturday and Sunday night .
THE Tea Street Band will follow up their Sunday appearance at Leeds Festival at Bramham Park by playing The Duchess in York on October 2 and the Leeds Cockpit on October 10. Timo Tierney, vox and guitar, Lee Smith, guitar, Nick Otageui, bass, Dom
A 61-YEAR-OLD York man with an artificial leg attacked a 72-year-old with his crutch in a brawl on Acomb Green. Terence Edward Exelby, known as Terry, objected to something he thought David Everard, 72, had said when the two met on a Sunday afternoon
LONDON soul singer Ella Eyre will play Leeds Stylus on October 3 on her second headline tour. The autumn show will coincide with that week's release of the BRIT Award winner's new single, Comeback, a fierce, brash, horn-led track with a heap of
PLANS for a £25 million transformation of St Leonard's Place into residential dwellings have been welcomed by neighbouring organisations and historians. The Press yesterday revealed that earlier plans for a hotel on the site of the former council
GLORIOUS Goodwood lived up to its name again this year, but that’s the thing about holding a meeting in July; the weather is, generally speaking, about as good as it gets in England. August, on the other hand, is summer’s wettest month. And having
THE day Louise Knaggs’s son Blake was born was the best day of her life. “My husband Paul and I had been trying for a baby for a couple of years and we were over the moon,” she said. How quickly that joy has turned to heartbreak. Blake
ANGLERS without licences are facing a Bank Holiday blitz by fisheries enforcement officers in Yorkshire. Environment Agency officials will be visiting lakes and river banks, looking for people fishing illegally, without a licence. The agency
ONCE again we see (Letter, Mr Hayden, August 19) how the public falls foul of the council’s propaganda. I thought the Press article to which he refers made it perfectly clear that there are 20mph zones and 20mph limits. Zones address roads where
YORK has the highest level of jobs growth in low-skilled and low-paid occupations in the country. Figures from the Office for National Statistics, compiled by Comparative Economies, reveal that out of all the jobs created in York over the past
WHERE have all the wise men gone? Have we no leaders with a mind of their own, a bit of spine, or at least some compassion? The whole of Europe as been led into this quagmire in Ukraine by America, which has nothing to do with the place. Obviously
APART from the well-run café and the excellent children’s play area, Rowntree Park appears to have now been abandoned and surrendered to the hordes of Canadian geese, denying pleasure to the public of this once-beautiful place. The park is a disgrace
THANK heaven for the Church of England. I’ve often thought it was a little bit woolly and ponderous, but now I am admiring these qualities as endearing and precious in a world of religious hatred. Rather this, than the IS barbaric murderers in
WITH regards to Israel and Palestine, I wish to add a few observations. 1. Emperor Hadrian renamed the area Syria Palaestina, after the Second Jewish Revolt in 135 AD, merging the Roman provinces of Syria and Judea with several other formerly nominally
I HAVE recently been in ward 32 of York Hospital, where I experienced such good care and attention. What angels they are. I have also had so many folk in York who are very kind to myself and others who are disabled. On Wednesday I visited my
LIKE Keith Massey (Letters, August 9), I too am disgusted at the amount paid to top footballers these days. But what I find even more annoying is that these clubs pay nothing whatsoever for the often massive police coverage some games require.
IN RELATION to the impact of minimum wages on employment levels, Richard Bridge (Letters, August 18) hasn’t taken notice of the resurrected quotation by his fellow Labour activist that there are lies, damn lies and statistics. It is immaterial
MAURICE VASSIE (Letters, August 19) condemns nationalism evoking an independent Scotland and elsewhere criticising political boundaries. Yet empires crush difference and dissent through cruelty, slavery and oppression by ruthless control on high
WITH all the present conflicts taking place around the world, most of which can be attributed to religious fervour, power and ambition, powered by greed to encroach on disputed territory over many centuries, the format by the United Nations assembly
RECENT letters about the apparent axing of both Barry Parker and Sharon Shortle by Radio York’s “powers that be” bring to mind how, a couple of seasons back, Barry P was moved from covering City’s games and was reporting on Harrogate Town instead,
YORK artist Jenny Eden is popping down to London to set up her first significant solo show outside her home city. The contemporary abstract painter and art tutor will be showing new paintings at The Frith Street Pop-up Space from today until until
WITH the recent, sad and premature death of Robin Williams (a great comic), I am reminded of the number of comics who die prematurely either by their own doing or through other means. I am also reminded of a 1970s song by Smokey Robinson and the
“WHO do you trust?” Four simple words, but what a lot of complication, obfuscation and bafflement this phrase has led us through. Yes, tonight sees the final episode of The Honourable Woman, the BBC2 political thriller that’s been the TV treat of the
One of the area's longest-serving clergymen, Canon Gwynne Richardson, has died after losing a battle with cancer. Canon Richardson, who retired in 2005, had been ill for some time and receiving treatment, but still had the Arch Bishop's permission
A YORK health boss has explained why he did not vote in a crucial decision over IVF - and has said he will oppose such a postcode lottery if elected as MP. Dr Mark Hayes, chief clinical officer of the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (
Staff at York Hospital are showing how multi-skilled they are in a display of their talents outside work. Their exhibition was the brainchild of cardiologist Sanjay Gupta, who has won awards for travel photography. He said: “I learnt photography
The twin cupolas of the York cattle market in Paragon Street were for many years almost as distinctive a part of the York skyline as the Minster or Clifford'sTower. Then, one day in November 1976, they were removed and put into storage. The aim
YORK-based short holiday specialist SuperBreak is on a mission to become the best provider of short break experiences in the UK. Based in Eboracum Way, SuperBreak has operated out of York since 1990 and now employs a team of 150 people. The
DO YOU remember this dramatic accident in York? It happened 30 years ago today, when a lorry carrying an excavator hit the footbridge outside St Peter’s School and brought it crashing down. A woman cyclist escaped being hit by the falling bridge
YORK is the only location in the world to feature a store from Danish watch and jewellery brand BERING. The boutique in Colliergate, which has entered Retailer of the Year and Small Business of the Year, is also the UK service centre for BERING
BUSINESS growth has seen a York-based marketing agency appoint its first employee with further expansion on the cards. Pick & Mix Marketing Solutions Ltd was founded in 2011 by Sally Trousdale, former head of Classified Advertising Sales at
A NORTH Yorkshire telecommunications specialist is developing a global client list after creating a solution to call compliance regulations. Thirsk-based TeleWare, which employs a team of 85 at its Yorkshire and London offices, works with high
AN exporting finalist from last year is back for 2014 with its eye on two awards after breaking in to new markets. Based in Whitby, Nature’s Laboratory researches, manufactures and distributes a range of natural health products to a variety of
AN epic athletic effort which will seen two men run more than 700 kilometres in about a week more than seven days for charity is due to come to York. Joe Williams and Jeff Weigh will be running seven “ultra marathons” in seven days, in aid of Epilepsy
WITH York's growing status as a science city a firm of patent and trade mark attorneys have found their niche protecting the intellectual assets of businesses in the sector. Secerna, which is hoping to be named Small Business of the Year, has its
100 years ago GREAT disappointment had been caused throughout the whole of the pigeon racing circles of the country by the action of the railway companies in refusing to carry fanciers’ birds to the race marking station at Birmingham, in view of
4:51pm East Riding Council say: Many schools in the East Riding are celebrating improved GCSE results, despite national changes which have seen a drop in results across the country. Indications are that 60 per
TEA and cake brought together two generations when young people from a York youth homelessness charity hosted an afternoon tea for older guests.The party, which took place at the charity SASH's offices in Walmgate, ended with the young people receiving
A MUM and daughter are having their long hair cut to help children with cancer. Eight-year-old Charla Banks decided to help the charity the Little Princess Trust after her grandfather became unwell with cancer. The Poppleton Road Primary School
THE amount of housing benefits paid out by City of York Council has almost doubled in less than a decade, new figures have revealed. The authority's total spend on the benefit rose from £23.43 million in 2003/04 to £45.29 million in 2012/13, according
A SERIES of Tour de France paintings by a York artist proved so popular that the gallery they were being shown in had to change the name of the exhibition once most of the works were sold. ‘Le Tour Yorkshire: Contemporary Paintings of the Northern
THE Yorkshire Youth Choir presents An Evening Of Choral Entertainment at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, tomorrow night. The choir takes young singers aged 10 to 21 from all over Yorkshire but, like many arts organisations, has had its funding
A REPORT claiming a controversial drilling technique would not be as visually intrusive as a wind farm or solar farm has been slammed by those against the process. Professor David McKay, the Government’s former chief scientific advisor, also said
