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THE man who was murdered in a Yorkshire seaside town has been named by police as 39-year-old Graham White. Mr White was found at an address in Sewerby Road with a serious injury at about 4.25am on Wednesday, and despite the efforts of paramedics

A PETITION against York being only area in the UK not to fund fertility treatment has been signed by nearly 800 people. Today a petition containing 786 names was sent to the Vale of York CCG in protest of its U-turn on offering one cycle of IVF

JOAN Armatrading will not only play the opening night of her first solo tour at Pocklington Arts Centre, she also will rehearse there for a week. She already has announced that the Joan alone shows in the year ahead will be her last major travelling

POCKLINGTON Arts Centre introduces the art of Miriam Laville in its September exhibition. Miriam works from her studio in Leeds, where she specialises in mixed-media 2D artwork and printmaking, taking her inspiration from natural forms and their

AFTER five years in New York and Las Vegas and three on London's West End stage, the Broadway rock comedy Rock Of Ages will place its tongue in its cheek in York from Tuesday. Ben Richards and Noel Sullivan will lead the cast at the Grand Opera

Mad Man star John Hamm is quite the gentleman actor when it comes to interviews, as STEVE PRATT discovers when asking about the sporting film Million Dollar Arm. THERE are actors who submit themselves reluctantly for interview because it’s in their

SALTBURN artist and musician Andy Broderick will host an evening of music and conversation at the Inspired by… Gallery at The Moors National Park Centre, Danby, on September 6. Andy’s watercolours of the animals and birds of the North York Moors

THERE is a claim I have yet to get in recent popular music. The pop puzzle teasing the Kelly grey matter is how American band The Killers were greeted and feted as the natural successors to Manchester 90s marvels New Order. Okay there are four

THE debut album by FKA Twigs is much hyped. Until recently, 26-year-old dancer Tahliah Barnett’s primary brush with fame was from appearing in Jessie J videos, but the release of two EPs and the cultivation of a very distinctive look, has seen her

ALTHOUGH Charlie Simpson parted company from Busted well over a decade ago, long term fans would have been besides themselves had the former Uppingham schoolboy joined his old class mates for the high profile reunion McBusted show at the Scarborough

THE man behind Hot Chip returns to the solo scene with a reflective second individual record. Synth-laden, quiet and calm, the approach is about as far away from Taylor’s day job as it’s possible to get and, as a result, it takes some getting used

THE Vena Portae, should you have failed to keep up with your medical studies homework, is the short vein that carries blood into the liver. Memorable band name, memorable music too, here it symbolises how people connect with places in wintry and

A FORMER Miss York and Miss England contestant has become the latest personality to take part in an international internet craze. Georgia Horsley, from Norton, took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge moments after she poured four buckets of cold

  THE Kooks follow up the September 1 release, Listen, with a 13-date autumn tour. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am for an itinerary that includes Leeds O2 Academy on November 13 and Sheffield O2 Academy the next night. Bookings can be made

IT’S probably a coincidence, but this Sparks has much in common with the band of the same name during its Lil’ Beethoven era. Dense, complex, music, often uncomfortable and challenging, hard to categorise, but ultimately rewarding. That said, there

YORKSHIRE teenagers with a passion for cinema are being offered the chance to sign up for a film school next year. The BFI Film Academy Leeds will run for three months from January 2015 to train the next generation of British filmmakers, enabling

CITY Screen, York, is collaborating with The Retreat, in Lamel Hill, to pay tribute to actor Robin Williams with a 6.15pm screening of Dead Poets Society (PG) on Monday . Williams died in tragic circumstances on August 11, in the eye of the storm

MEET the Songbirds, a line-up of television stars and rising singing talent that will come together at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, on September 6 to raise funds for the charity Educate The World. Six light classical and crossover acts from

THE Felice Brothers are on the road, promoting their fifth studio album, Favorite Waitress, at the Leeds Irish Centre tomorrow night. Released in June by their new label Dualtone, it is available digitally and on CD and 180 gram vinyl, with the

THE timetable is in place for the first Music On Rails festival at the National Railway Museum in York on September 6. Organised by Lynne O'Dea of MOR Music, off Fossgate, the festival will be divided between two stages. The Director's Saloon,

Brian Page offers a round-up of properties to rent in around york – from a period family home to a town house in the heart of the city. “THIS property is finished to the highest of standards,” the team from Linley and Simpson say of a rather splendid

Small but most definitely select… Brian Page takes a look at a three-house development promising top quality family homes in Copmanthorpe. WHEN it comes to new home developments Manor House Gardens, at Copmanthorpe, is not one of the biggest presently

Steve Patterson and Rich Pyrah shared seven wickets as Durham were bowled out for 237 in today’s Royal London one-day Cup quarter-final at Headingley. Captain Mark Stoneman’s 120-ball 102 had helped the Jets build an excellent platform at 178-3

VICTORIAN fruit enthusiast Robert Hogg always reckoned the Ribston Pippin Apple was in "greatest perfection during November and December". Yesterday , though, the original tree's grandchild was groaning under the weight of autumn fruit, and on

A WOMAN from North Yorkshire says she is ill with worry after her husband was left fighting against deportation. Natalie Stafford met Michael Engel in South Africa in 2009, and they lived together there until they returned to Natalie's home in

Emergency services have moved to back their staff after selfies of firefighters, police and paramedics at a crash appeared online. A police officer responsible for taking the pictures has apologised for posting the images, which were taken when

THIEVES tried to steal a gun dog from a property in Hensall, North Yorkshire Police have said. The incident occurred between 3pm and 4pm on Tuesday, August 12, when a man tried to call the dog’s name. When the owner of the dog appeared, the

A POST mortem examination has confirmed equalities campaigner and city councillor Lynn Jeffries died from natural causes. The 58-year-old was found to have died by police on Friday when work colleagues became concerned about her whereabouts and

TWO academics from the University of York have been elected to a select Europe-wide group of top academics. Geoff Bailey, anniversary professor of archaeology, and James Walvin, Emeritus professor of history, become members of the Academia Europaea

A STRATEGIC development plan has seen a York software solutions provider return to its roots as it launches a recruitment drive. StarCompliance, which is looking to take on four new employees to increase its team to 20, has relocated from its base

The new code of practice on sky lanterns doesn’t go far enough, say event organisers, who are calling for a national ban. The National Outdoor Events Association has already branded sky lanterns as dangerous to the public, livestock and buildings

MORE than 20 young carers attended a curry night arranged by the Lord Mayor's charity committee at the Jinnah Restaurant in York. Kirsten Ovenden, chairman of the committee said: “We have a great appreciation of all carers, particularly those who

THE public are being given the chance to quiz doctors and health bosses at the first annual meeting of the new clinical commissioning group for the Hambleton and Richmondshire areas. It will be held at The Station in Richmond on September 18 from

POLICE officers in North Yorkshire will take part in major national research to discover how badly they are affected by fatigue in their roles. The research is the first of its kind in the UK, and will look at the root causes of stress and fatigue

A NEW walking tour will be launched next month to encourage people to find out more about a North Yorkshire market town. Swanning Around Selby is a new guide to the heritage of the town, which provides a history of the area, invites visitors to

A woman and her dog suffered serious injuries when a Staffordshire bull terrier attacked them. The 44-year-old victim and her four-year-old Lhasa Apso dog, were on a grassed area off Byland Avenue, towards Monkton Road, around 4pm on Friday when

JAMES FORD insists he is to hang up his boots at the end of this season - and is desperate to go out on a promotion high. York City Knights' veteran centre, who turns 32 next month, currently doubles up as Gary Thornton's number two at Huntington

THINK you know about wine? Think again. Timi Kerekes can teach you a thing or two. The restaurant manager at Tykes, attached to Sandburn Hall Golf Club, in Flaxton, can certainly tell the difference between a Bordeaux and a Beaujolais. The

THE WOW SIGNAL is in the frame to land horseracing's equivalent of an Oscar. The two-year-old, trained at Norton by John Quinn, stormed to Group 1 glory when taking the prestigious Prix Morny at Deauville, in France, last Sunday. That victory

A LOCAL Post Office has received a special delivery to provide that should help for smoother services for customers in the area. The Ripon office has been given a brand new Mercedes Sprinter van, kitted out to provide a walk-in post office on wheels

THE University of York’s oldest campus newspaper, Nouse, will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a gala ball. The newspaper is inviting past contributors, along with the present Nouse team, to celebrate its first half at the Hilton Hotel, York

OVINGTON remain favourites to retain their HPH York Vale Cricket League crown despite losing at Bishopthorpe on Saturday. They took enough bonus points at Ferry Lane to know they will take the title if they win their final two games because leaders

ANDREW GALE says Yorkshire are very lucky to have Adil Rashid in their ranks as the leg-spinning all-rounder continues to press for an England recall. Rashid has enjoyed an excellent summer, particularly with the ball, with 68 wickets in all competitive

THE York Amateur Bowling Association finals day produced tremendous sport with some tense and exciting finishes. In the Consolation Singles, Pete Waddington (Clifton) made it into the final after a convincing 21-10 semi-final win over Graham Patrick

COPMANTHORPE Ladies bowls team have won the Yorkshire Ladies Janet Harrow competition for the first time. They convincingly beat Driffield Town Ladies in the semi-finals followed by a further impressive win over Marske Ladies in the final to hoist

PLANS on how Yorkshire Water aim to work in the next 25 years have been published online. The organisation's new Water Resources Management Plan was drafted after consultation with the Government, the Environment Agency, energy watchdog Ofwat,

LAST week’s feature on Abdullah Ibrahim and the previous week on Hugh Masekela serve as curtain-raisers to focus on another, even greater South African hero. The Hull Freedom Festival will open on Friday, September 5, with a stunning light trail

CONTROVERSY careered around York's Coliseum II martial arts show which ended in an horrific injury and a 'U'-turn on a decision. The drama centred on the eighth bout of the 13-contest show run by T-Bone Promotions owner and masters world kick-boxing

YORK Lokomotive resume their quest for maiden silverware as they host Castleford Panthers ‘A’ tomorrow night (7pm). A surprise defeat for title rivals Bradford Dudley Hill ‘A’ to Normanton ‘A’ last Thursday means the Lokos will lift the Yorkshire

IT'S a round-trip of around 620 miles from Brian Ellison's Norton yard to Ffos Las racecourse in South Wales. Bearing that in mind, it is to be hoped that the trainer's only runner at the hideaway track can hit the target this afternoon. Ellison

YORK’S Monks Cross Shopping Park is holding a big butterfly roadshow on Saturday, September 6 to celebrate its new butterfly gardens. In partnership with Askham Bryan College and Butterfly Conservation, centre staff have worked with six local primary

A COUPLE providing vital care to women in Sierra Leone have returned home following the outbreak of deadly Ebola. Paul Robinson and his wife Andrea are now living in a motorhome in a Linton-on-Ouse field as they come to terms with losing friends

The Archbishop of York has described the response to his week long campaign for world peace as “breath-taking”. Dr John Sentamu started his vigil of Hope and Trust for the Peace of the World on Sunday at 6am inside York Minster, and is praying

THIEVES stole a silver Ford Transit, registration NJ07 SNK, and a white Volvo Heavy Tractor Unit, registration YC61 WNA, with their keys from a large commercial farmyard in Kellington overnight on August 15. Anyone with information should phone

A NORTH Yorkshire digital marketing agency has been shortlisted for seven national awards for digital excellence. The nomination's for Harrogate-based 9xb come as the firm is shortlisted in the Press Business Award for Technology Business of the

YORK busker turned TV talent show star Beth McCarthy is growing used to being known as "Beth from The Voice". She was at the Galtres Parklands Festival at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, last weekend with a group of friends and "everybody who walked past

Only One Question for...Barnsley folk singer Kate Rusby What inspired the title for your new album, Ghost, Kate? "I called it Ghost after the final song on the album. We have a ghost in our house, in the music room in fact. It's a friendly

A RISE in the popularity of baking is transpiring into a rise in sales for James Potter Yorkshire Free Range Eggs. The Thirsk-based business, which was last year named Family Business of the Year at the Press Business Awards, has reported a 30

PLACES are still available to to take part in Upstage Centre Youth Theatre's winter musical, The Snow Queen, at 41 Monkgate, York. The musical is open to eight to 18-year-olds and is a fully inclusive project with no auditions in advance. "

LEEDS Grand Theatre will host a one-off First World War exhibition at its annual Heritage Open Day on September 14. Developed in partnership with the University of Leeds and West Yorkshire Archive Service, Theatres At War has been curated by two

REGULAR partners York Theatre Royal and Leeds children's theatre company Tutti Frutti are teaming up once more for the opening production of the autumn and winter season in the Theatre Royal Studio. Tutti Frutti director Wendy Harris will be directing

SIR Alan Ayckbourn's 75th birthday present to himself is a confectionary assortment, otherwise known as his 78th play, Roundelay. Opening on Thursday at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, it comprises five related short plays, written to

SOUNDS In The Grounds brings together a Minster FM line-up of bands, family entertainment, games and food and drink stalls at Castle Howard, near York, on Saturday. Five hours of live music includes performances by The Y Street Band, Adam Dawson

STEVE Harley is switching his York Barbican show from September 11 to December 13 for what will now be billed as a "Christmas special". The set list is yet to be revealed but the Cockney Rebel leader has indicated his autumn tour will incorporate

JORVIK Gilbert and Sullivan Company will present Iolanthe at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from September 18 to 20. The production will be directed by Lucy Thomson-Smith, who joins the company fresh from directing Georges Bizet's Carmen as

YORK artist Patrick Smith is excited to be exhibiting his work again in his home city. The contemporary abstract painter and art tutor will be showing his new paintings and monoprints at the White Room Gallery, Priestley’s No.36, Bootham, from

CHRISTMAS With The Rat Pack: Live In Las Vegas is booked into York Barbican for December 17 when winter snow will meet the Sands. This tribute show will take a trip back in time to the glamorous, glitzy nights of Las Vegas in the early 1960s, when

SCOTT RHODES is demanding his York Acorn ARLC side stop the rot as they return to action - to avert any relegation danger. Four straight losses have seen the depleted Blue and Golds slip down the National Conference League division one table, still

THERE is nothing more quintessentially English than the sound of leather on willow, and the polite smattering of applause from the handful of spectators seated in front of the village cricket pavilion. Sadly, it is a slice of English life that

AFTER this month’s unseasonal downpours, it is tempting to take water for granted. But Yorkshire Water says in the long term climate change and population growth threaten to drain the county’s resources unless measures are taken to prepare for it.

CONGRATS for your supplement on the outstanding achievements obtained by the York College and students in 2014. The Ofsted report is superb and the overall A-level pass rate of 99.6 per cent and 100 per cent pass rate in 38 A-level subjects, speaks

FROM September, every child in the first three years of school will be able to enjoy a free healthy school lunch and we applaud the Government for their support of universal infant free school meals and the School Food Plan. With one in five children

IN reply to Roger Westmoreland’s letter of August 12, Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Its charter commits it not only to the destruction of Israel, but also to the genocide of the Jewish people wherever in the world they are. Hamas wants

WHETHER the NHS is being privatised depends on what you mean by privatisation. With limited facilities in NHS hospitals, anyone needing replacement knee surgery would probably have to wait about a year from referral by their GP to the operation

WITH regard to Keith Isaac’s letter of August 25, I was not referring to the Guildhall but to the council chamber, which is a separate and smaller room. The chamber was completed in July 1891. Due to the layout of the room, there is a restriction

I READ with interest the request by Cllr Keith Aspden for York citizens’ thoughts in the lead-up to the General Election (Letters, August 25). This is something that UKIP York have been doing since the last election. What is the difference,

READING Sue Nelson’s column of August 25 reminded me of the airport departure we had a few years ago from St Petersburg. We went through security with everything that involves, then into the departure area – but before we boarded the plane we had

FURTHER to the Lendal Bridge fiasco, it has now been decided to pay back all the fines received. City of York Council did not put up the cameras or do the administration for the collection of fines. It was a company in Northampton, I believe. So

IT is good to be reminded by Patrick Crowley, chief executive of York Hospital (The Press, August 19) that it is the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group commissioners who decided which medical services are to be paid for and provided in the Vale

THANKS to the very informed Keith Isaac (Letters, August 25) we now know that the excuse by Cllr Tracy Simpson-Laing regarding a fire certificate preventing people observing the last council meeting was wrong all along. It turns out that fire certificates

BETWEEN Sunday, November 8, and Thursday, November 13, I will be leading a group from the North of England to the Cenotaph ceremony in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday. We will then travel on to tour the First World War battlefields in Flanders

I READ K F Durkin’s letter of August 23 with interest and I rather think it is necessary to give the full facts on executions for cowardice and desertion in the First World War. John Terraine’s magnificent work on the RAF in the Second World War

AN internet craze involving freezing cold water and a bucket is spreading around York's pubs. Staff from the Punch Bowl, on Stonegate, were the first of the city's bars to take on the ice bucket challenge earlier this week, and nominated Harkers

IT is fast approaching time for the kids to go back to school. Many 11-year-olds will be taking the big step from junior schools to “The Big School”. This was something I was quite nervous about 55 years ago. Listening to a programme on BBC Radio

AS A member of the Society of Friends of King Richard III, I was pleased to learn that experts have finally proved beyond doubt that England’s last Plantagenet ruler was not the physically “weak” monarch with a hunchback and withered arm as vilely

YORK-BASED confectionery giant Nestlé UK has called in police over contamination on one its production lines. Staff found prescription pills among Jelly Tots at the firm's factory in Fawdon, Newcastle. The company stressed none of the affected

FIRST of all let’s qualify this thing. There is no way I would sit in a cinema and illegally record a film (too generally law-abiding/cowardly). Further, I am unlikely to ever watch Fast And Furious 6. Having sorted that out, let us consider a

York missed out on the industrial and manufacturing boom of the 18th century and instead became a fashionable centre of Georgian high society. But according to a new book, that's precisely why it was able to develop into the 'chocolate city' of Rowntrees

TODAY, we're winding the clock back almost 30 years, thanks to some old pictures we recently unearthed in our library.  The date is 22 September 1984, the venue is Knavesmire and the event is the York Rock Festival. Former Evening Press

CHARITY walkers have praised the manager of a remote pub on the North York Moors after staff went out of their way to provide early morning sustenance to keep them going during an attempt on the gruelling Lyke Wake Walk. Alex Waddington, 37, and

ABOUT 80 workers at York’s Waterworld swimming pool have been told they are being made redundant due to new plans for York’s Community Stadium, The Press has been told. Sources say staff including managers, administrators, reception staff, cleaners

100 years ago WITH regard to Army Reservists, Territorials, and Volunteers in the railway service who had joined the Colours, it was announced that the railway companies had arranged to supplement the Army pay and allowance in such a manner that

Delighted children met animals for the first time when a mobile farm was set up at their nursery.Pre-school children from the city's Happy Jays nursery were able to feed and pet piglets, lambs and calves from Purple Pig Farm.The 32 children, aged

WORK is under way on £1.2m of improvements at Beverley Leisure Complex. The work on the new Tone Zone health and fitness facility started yesterday (Wed Aug 27) and it will be double the size of the existing gym – with around 90 stations. It will

YORK estate agency William H Brown says there has’s been an increase in the number of home owners in putting their properties on the market across the UK. According to new figures released by William H Brown’s parent company, national estate agency

A YORK couple have returned from a two-week long 300 mile bike ride across Vietnam, raising money for a good cause. Rachael Vardy and boyfriend Patrick Davison have collected more than £10,000 in sponsorship money, all of which will go towards

CUSTOMERS who were mis-sold insurance by York firm CPP have just days to apply for compensation. Around seven million people have been invited to apply for payouts from the Holgate- based firm as part of a redress scheme thatwhich came into effect

RESIDENTS living in and around Whitby can address questions to their police force take part in anonline police webchat. Inspector Andrew Colbourne is hosting a live webchat to give residents an opportunity to ask any questions about crime and antisocial

MORE than 30 teams from around York are taking part in a charity It's A Knockout tournament. Up to 36 teams, including a team from The Press, will take part in the challenge in support of St Leonard's Hospice, cheered on by hospice mascot Lenny

PLANS have been submitted to create 17 new homes on the site of a former air force base in North Yorkshire. The development would see 16 residential houses built on just over five hectares of land in Broad Lane, Appleton Roebuck, on the former

A FRESH debate over the repayment of drivers fined for crossing York's Lendal Bridge during a controversial trial has concluded that motorists will not be refunded en masse. A senior scrutiny committee met last night to discuss the plan to offer

A MAN suffered cuts to his face and arm and suspected broken wibs after falling from his bicycle in Selby. The man, who is 76 and from Garforth, fell in Bawtry Road at about 12.35pm on Saturday, August 23, and police have urged anyone who saw the

THE MAJORITY of the region's small and medium sized enterprises are expecting to invest in their businesses this quarter, according to new research. Independent funder Bibby Financial Services surveyed 1,000 businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber

A PARENT, baby and toddler group is to be launched after volunteers landed a £46,000 grant. Charity East Thirsk Community Association said the People’s Health Trust funds will enable it to create a group to promote play and learning through fun