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  • Firefighters tackle blaze in York flat

    FIREFIGHTERS have tackled a blaze in a flat in York city centre. The fire started in a second floor flat of a four storey house in Bootham Terrace and was reported at 7.15pm. The occupier of the flat alerted emergency services. It was initially

  • 8 great events to enjoy in York this weekend

    Looking for something to do this weekend in York? Here are 8 ideas....    1) York's biggest ever beer festival continues on Knavesmire on Friday and Saturday. There are more than 450 beers - see the list here. __________ 2

  • The Princess And The Pea, York Theatre Royal, until October 4

    JOANNA Brown should have been attending her graduation ceremony from Rose Bruford College on September 12, but she had a prior commitment in York. Joanna, 23, was deep into rehearsals for her professional theatre debut in Tutti Frutti Productions

  • Terry Brett celebrates Pyramid Gallery's 20th anniversary

    Terry Brett is celebrating 20 years of running Pyramid Gallery in York. He tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON about the art of giving. TERRY Brett is celebrating his 20th year as owner of Pyramid Gallery with a party at Clements Hall, in Nunthorpe Road,

  • National Centre for Early Music's autumn season

    THE atmosphere will be very Chile at the National Centre for Early Music in York this autumn when Pascuala Ilabaca & Fauna perform under the Making Tracks scheme that allows you to buy tickets for one show and see another for free. Pascuala

  • Sir Roger Moore, Grand Opera House, York, September 24

    SIR Roger Moore chats with biographer Gareth Owen about his life and career in film and television at the Grand Opera House, York, on Wednesday night. Expect inside stories and exclusive anecdotes from a life on screen that has included the television

  • 1984, York Theatre Royal until September 20

    Only One Question for... Headlong actor Matthew Spencer, who plays the diary-writing rebel Winston Smith, Comrade 6079, in George Orwell's 1984 at York Theatre Royal this week. What is the message of George Orwell's vision of the future, 1984,

  • Sister Act, Grand Opera House, York, until September 20

    ACTOR and dancer AJ Powell is known in York for his performances as the "lovely Brummie" in the Theatre Royal pantomime but this summer he has had another string to his bow in the city. He has choreographed the York Stage Musicals cast for the

  • Jazz notes

    THE Thursday jazz session, late of 20 years at the Old White Swan, Goodramgate, continues tonight with Bejazzled at the Red Lion, Poppleton. Led by Don Lodge's Gypsy jazz guitar and Tim New (saxophones and flute), they have bagged the expert services

  • Keith Harris withdraws from Hull New Theatre pantomime

    VETERAN ventriloquist Keith Harris has withdrawn from the Hull New Theatre pantomime to continue with his on-going hospital treatment. Additional casting is now in place for Aladdin, in the form of chaotic comedy duo The Grumbleweeds in the roles

  • Kate Tempest, Pocklington Arts Centre, October 21

    LONDON poet, rapper, playwright and performance artist Kate Tempest will perform her poetry at Pocklington Arts Centre on October 21, buoyed by her nomination for the 2014 Barclays Mercury Music Prize for her hip-hop album Everybody Down and her naming

  • Comedy highlights of Pocklington Arts Centre's new season

    BE warned! Mark Steel is on his way to turn Pocklington from a market town to a mock-it town. If you have heard the Swanley socialist columnist, author, comedian and presenter's BBC Radio 4 series Mark Steel's In Town, then here is the live version

  • A chance to play Lip Service at the Stephen Joseph Theatre

    SATIRICAL duo Lip Service are seeking willing members of the Scarborough community to perform live on stage and on film in a new play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding are regular visitors to the SJT with their often bizarre

  • The Kooks, Listen (Virgin) ****

    GOSPEL singers? Keyboard solos? Is this really The Kooks, the darlings of the indie scene? I always suspected singer Luke Pritchard had been born ten years too late – that he would have been more comfortable nattering with Echobelly, Sleeper and

  • Pulled Apart By Horses, Blood (Sony Music) **

    THERE is a raw energy to Pulled Apart By Horses and it’s always nice to hear a Yorkshire band coming through. The problem is that while the music put out by the Leeds quartet is good, it is so strongly influenced by older acts there’s little to

  • Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams (Paxam Records/Sony Music) ***

    LEAVING behind the Americana folk-rock of 2011’s Ashes & Fire, this is Ryan Adams in classic American songwriter mode. It is almost as if the letter ‘B’ has slipped off the front of his name because a whole heap of songs could belong on the

  • Biggest book fair in Europe opens in York tomorrow

    THE annual York National Book Fair - which is the largest in Europe and now marking its 40th anniversary in the city  - opens at noon tomorrow in the Knavesmire Suite at York Racecourse. About 150,000 books will be available following the arrival

  • Manhunt launched for missing offender

    A MANHUNT has been launched to find a missing offender. Paul Michael Dougan, 27, of Albermarle Back Road, Scarborough, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for wounding in 2011, but released on licence in April. Police said Dougan is wanted

  • York City defender Dan Parslow loaned to Grimsby

    YORK City defender Daniel Parslow has joined Conference side Grimsby Town on a month's loan. The 29-year-old, who has only ever played for the Minstermen in a career spanning 316 games, has joined the Blundell Park outfit in a bid to build up his

  • The history of York's Duncombe Place

    BACK in the 1850s the then Dean of York, Augustus William Duncombe, had an idea. He wanted to build a wide new road leading up to the West Front of York Minster so as to create a clear open space in front of the great cathedral. The aim was to

  • Being dazzled by the majority

    A FEW years ago I had a meeting in the Yorkshire Terrier pub in Stonegate. As we settled into the upstairs room, all the leading players on the council walked in. It was interesting to see who sat next to whom, and to see who sat alone in the busy

  • Knights captain targets quick passage to Grand Final

    CAPTAIN marvel Jack Lee is determined York City Knights reach the Championship One Grand Final at the first attempt this weekend - and not have to do it the hard way like in 2010. Lee is one of only three survivors from the Knights side of four

  • Simon Dyson eyes Welsh wow

    SIMON DYSON bids to go one better when he tees off today in the ISPS Handa Welsh Open. The York-born European Tour ace is paired with Scotland’s Marc Warren and Dutchman Joost Luiten for the first two rounds at Celtic Manor. Dyson, right, comes

  • Senior ranks topple Vale in Hedley Memorial Cup

    THE York and District Senior Cricket League retained the Hedley Memorial Cup by beating the HPH York Vale Cricket League representative side at Beverley. Both sides found scoring difficult on a moist track but a sixth-wicket stand of 75 between

  • Vale Cricket League: Lock picks up season's best

    MALTON & Old Malton’s Nick Lock saved the best until last. His analysis of 5.2-3-4-7 on the final day of the season was the best in the HPH York Vale Cricket League this summer. Of the four runs he conceded, three were wides as division

  • Dan Woods quits York Cricket Club to take Cheshire captaincy

    THEY have lost the league following a seven year reign as champions and now York Cricket Club are losing their captain as well. Dan Woods, whose successful six-year tenure at the Clifton Park club has included playing a major role in a side that

  • Yorkshire's Rich Pyrah awarded benefit year

    ALL-ROUNDER Rich Pyrah has been granted a benefit year in 2015 by Yorkshire. The player who took the catch which sealed LV= County Championship glory against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge on Friday has been rewarded for 13 years of service to

  • Bowls: Holgate Clubbers in Super 7 treble

    HOLGATE CLUBBERS became the first team to win the Super 7 three years in a row after beating 7 Deadly Sinners in the final at Railway Institute. Clubbers had to dig deep in both the semi-final and final and also overcome Top Cops in an elimination

  • Bowls: Executive action prevails in conclusion of YABA term

    THE York Veterans bowling season came to a close with the annual league champions’ game against the the executive committee played at Wigginton Bowls Club. In game played in a keen but friendly way the executive committee line-up beat the divisional

  • Bowls: Handicap Double Triples joy for Clarence Ladies

    CLARENCE Ladies snatched the 2014 Clarence Gardens Handicap Double Triples with a dramatic win over Haxby Road in the final round of matches in the end of season competition. The Ladies went into the decider four points behind Haxby Road, who required

  • Big-guns boost as New Earswick All Blacks KO

    NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC are refusing to set end-of-year targets for the new Pennine League season - other than continued improvement. That's the message from player-coach Jack Stearman as he hopes the return of some old All Blacks big-guns

  • Richard Fahey targeting a flying start at Ayr

    IT may be a muted start to the Ayr Western Meeting, with no fewer than five Class 5 races on today’s opening card, but Richard Fahey won’t care if, as expected, he makes a flying start to one of his favourite gatherings of the year. The Malton

  • Yorkshire in Bloom awards winners announced

    GARDENS around Yorkshire are celebrating after being named as winners in the Yorkshire in Bloom awards. Middlethorpe Hall and Spa in York won the prestigious gold award in the large hotel category. Head gardener David Barker who has worked

  • Dead man named

    A man who died suddenly at a house in York has been named by police as Darren Shaun Brown. Mr Brown was 49 and from the Acomb area, when he died at an address in Jubilee Terrace just before 5.30am on Wednesday, September 10. A 50-year-old man

  • Man accused of Knaresborough bomb hoax appears in court

    THE suspect accused of a bomb hoax which shut down a North Yorkshire town for several hours has appeared in court. Armed police and tactical officers locked down a large area of Knaresborough on October 16 last year, after a number of phone calls

  • More arrests as part of Operation Hawk

    FIVE men were arrested as part of Operation Hawk, the crackdown on travelling criminals, after police were alerted to a fish and chip shop burglary. North Yorkshire Police were called to Bridge Street, Helmsley, at 3am on Sunday, and arrested two

  • Invictus Games winners celebrate sporting success back home

    HEROES in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games have returned to show off their medals. Nine veterans and serving personnel who have been supported by the rehabiliation centre, Phoenix House at Catterick Garrison, are celebrating their success. The

  • Council’s eXtra factor nominations

    CITY of York Council is looking for nominations for its eXtra factor staff award. The awards go to staff for their dedication, diligence and enterprise and the authority is asking for nominations to be sent via www.york.gov.uk/extrafactor or by

  • York criminal attacks his former solicitor

    A PROLIFIC York criminal attacked his former solicitor when they found themselves in a police custody suite together. Ethan Wharton, 34, hit lawyer Craig Robertson from behind unexpectedly when both were at Fulford Road Police Station, said Alison

  • Community challenge for centre make-over

    A CHALLENGE is being thrown down to firms and organisations in York to help transform a community centre in just three days. Employees and their bosses can show how they care for their local area in this year’s Big Community Challenge. York

  • Nigel Worthington to meet York City fans tonight

    YORK City manager Nigel Worthington will answer supporters' questions at the Pitchside Bar tonight. Worthington is a guest of York Minstermen with doors opening at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Everyone is welcome to attend, but children under 18

  • RAF and Ripon remember Battle of Britain

    RAF servicemen and women paraded through Ripon as the city and RAF Leeming remembered the Battle of Britain. The parade through the Market Square to music played by the Band of the RAF Regiment was preceded by a memorial service at the Ripon Spa

  • A persuasive case for electrification

    NOW here’s something you don’t see too often in York: politicians of all persuasions agreeing with each other. The leaders of all four political parties on the city council have made a joint plea to Whitehall to electrify the railway line from York

  • Leaving bitter taste

    ACCORDING to a poll of visitors, York’s chocolate doesn’t quite cut the mustard, which we think is quite extraordinary considering this city was built on confectionery expertise. Families at York’s Chocolate Story in King’s Square dropped this

  • Pool will stay

    IN RESPONSE to Fiona Evans on the subject of Yearsley Pool (Letters, September 16), the council has made it clear on several occasions, including when Yearsley Pool Action Group met the council leader and I earlier this month, that there are no plans

  • Is this what we want the world to see?

    AS I wander through my beloved city, I cannot help but be appalled by the state of the streets. Cigarette butts, little splodges of hard black mess that was once chewing gum, bottles, food cartoons, stains, graffiti and basically grime everywhere

  • Plan abandoned

    IT IS important to correct something in your report on the Draft Local Plan (The Press, September 13). The previous local plan, the local development framework (LDF), was not abandoned in 2012 after changes in national planning rules. It was

  • That’s truly rich

    PAUL GLEDHILL in his letter of September 13 mentions Conservative tax cuts for the rich. Which tax cuts would that be exactly? This standard Labour line is not borne out by reality. Since coming to power, the Coalition has increased the personal

  • This church cafe is open for everyone

    IT WAS good to see the photograph of Maureen Patrick and her team and customers celebrating the tenth birthday of Coffee and Co at St Paul’s Church (The Press, September 13). However, the impression may have been given that this welcoming group

  • Cycle of danger

    READING the article in The Press of September 15 headlined “Cyclist in hit and run” made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. For this has happened just a week short of a year since my wife, Julia, was knocked off her cycle in the same road

  • Broad: the true facts

    ONCE again, may I, through the columns of the Letters page, dispute Cynthia Glasby’s claim that Chris Broad, Stuart Broad’s father, captained England (with reference to her letter of July 24, 2013, my letter of July 31 and a further letter from Cynthia

  • Begging to differ

    IN REPLY to the letter ‘Beggars belief’ by P Long in The Press of September 10, I wonder what good the writer thinks that “removing these individuals” will do. Unless they are doing something wrong there is no cause, and in fact no legal reason

  • Good move, Helen

    CAN I add my delight at the decision of Councillor Helen Douglas to quit the Labour Party and join York Conservatives? Amongst many reasons, she cited her lack of confidence in Labour’s Local Plan and points to the need to “protect communities

  • Right of reply

    JANET S Kitchen-Cooper (Letters, September 10) is right that there should be a letters page exclusively for councillors, but this should be restricted to their petty abuse of each other and their playing of party politics (when their missives resemble

  • Scotch froth

    IN the 1970s Scotland wouldn’t allow an English train driver to take his train into Scotland, so he got out this side of Berwick-on-Tweed. A Scottish train driver got on and took the train into Scotland. Also hospitals in Scotland wouldn’t

  • September 18

    100 years ago Lord Kitchener had made some important announcements in the House of Lords. “In response to the call for troops for the new army,” he said, “we have had a most remarkable demonstration of patriotism from the young men of this country

  • Police hunt suspicious vehicle

    RESIDENTS have been urged to report any sightings of a green Subaru Legacy, registration R89 NTY. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said two men had been seen with lurcher dogs in the South Milford area after leaving the vehicle. Any sightings

  • Campaign to restore the reputation of a forgotten hero

    THE campaign to restore the reputation of one of Yorkshire’s most maligned First World War naval figures steps up a gear this month when author Steve Dunn visits the county to help spread the word. Steve, who has written the first ever biography

  • Samurai sword man gets unpaid work

    A MAN who brandished a samurai sword on the streets of Scarborough has been spared jail. Elliot Bray, 25, of Ramshill Road, Scarborough, appeared before York Crown Court yesterday, after he was convicted by Scarborough Magistrates’ Court of affray

  • Yorkshire coastline clean up this weekend

    VOLUNTEERS are needed to help clean up the Yorkshire coastline this weekend. Spurn National Nature Reserve, South Landing and North Landing, Flamborough will all be cleaned thanks to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and willing members of the public

  • Garden arts and crafts exhibition at RHS Garden Harlow Carr

    A CREATIVE exhibition of garden arts and crafts is running until next Sunday. The British Association for Modern Mosaic in the Old Bath House at RHS Garden Harlow Carr, in Harrogate, is raising funds for the Horticap garden through the sale of

  • Artwork auction to raise funds for a little known cancer

    A CANCER survivor has created an online charity auction to raise vital funds for a little known cancer. Penny Coles, 41, from Holgate, got the all-clear from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in February. Whilst highly treatable and the most common cancer

  • University of York scientist elected a fellow

    A UNIVERSITY of York scientist has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Professor Pratibha Gai, Chair of Electron Microscopy, is one of 59 new Fellows. She is head of the York JEOL Nanocentre, a major long-term collaboration

  • National Railway Museum comes 6th in TripAdvisor award scheme

    THE National Railway Museum in York is the UK's sixth best-rated museum in a 'Travellers Choice' award scheme run by the travel site TripAdvisor. The museum in York is also 19th in Europe in this year’s awards, which honour top travel spots worldwide

  • Parachute Regiment recruits to star on new Forces TV channel

    RECRUITS hoping to join one of the world's most famous Army regiments are set to appear in a new documentary. Young soldiers training for a career with the Parachute Regiment at the Infantry Training Centre, in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire

  • Braveheart actress speaks out about depression

    A YOUNG York actress who starred alongside Mel Gibson in Braveheart has spoken for the first time about her battle with depression. Mhairi Calvey, who lives in York with her mother Dominique Calvey, was just six when she won the role of Young Murron

  • Barlby couple's diamond wedding celebrations

    It was love at first sight when well-known local sportsman Les Northern first saw his wife Kath as a leading lady in a local amateur dramatic production. Today the couple who live in Barlby are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.

  • 50-inch TV stolen in Sowerby raid

    POLICE are appealing for anyone who saw someone carrying a 50-inch television along a North Yorkshire village street to contact them. The television, along with a laptop and other electrical items was stolen in the early evening of Monday from

  • Escapologist plans bid to escape from Dick Turpin's cell

    AN ESCAPOLOGIST will attempt to outdo Houdini next month by escaping from Dick Turpin's cell at York's Castle Museum. British escape artist Weasel Dandaw will launch his bid on Hallowe'en at the condemned call, where the notorious highwayman is

  • £26,000 benefit fraud

    AN EAST Yorkshire woman has been given a six-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months on condition she does 100 hours’ unpaid work after she admitted benefit fraud involving council tax benefit and income support by concealing more than £16,000

  • Major revamp for Haxby Memorial Hall

    AMBITIOUS plans to transform a memorial hall in a York suburb have been unveiled. The trustees of a Haxby Memorial Hall have applied for planning permission for a major revamp including two extensions to replace an existing 1980s extension, five

  • Business support at free forum

    NORTH Yorkshire SMEs trading predominantly business-to-business are being invited to attend a free seminar next Wednesday. The session at the Springboard Business Centre in Stokesley between 2pm and 5pm, is being organised by the Superfast North

  • Unemployment in York falls to 1.1 per cent

    UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen again in York, with 1,000 fewer people claiming Jobseekers Allowance than a year ago. There have been similar falls in North Yorkshire, where the number of claimants has dropped by more than 2,500 in a year, and in East

  • What happens north of the border will affect all of us

    In his monthly column Hugh Bayley, Labour MP for Central York, calls on voters to say No to Scottish independence. TODAY I am in Scotland handing out leaflets, talking to shoppers and knocking on doors to encourage Scottish voters to vote ‘No’

  • New development to help vulnerable families

    HUNDREDS of York’s most vulnerable families are set to receive extra help in turning their lives around. City of York Council’s Family Focus Team has developed a new tool to help identify the strengths in families as well as the things for which

  • Battle of Britain pilots honoured in ceremony

    A CEREMONY to honour daring French pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain has taken place in Paris. Organised by the Yorkshire Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial, in Elvington, to award 41 newly minted British Second World War medals