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  • York City still without a home win after 3-2 Southend defeat

    STRUGGLING York City are still searching for their first home win of the season following a 3-2 defeat against Southend. Skipper Russell Pennn scored his first goal for the Minstermen in first-half stoppage time to cancel out Myles Weston's penalty

  • Pedestrian hit by a car in York

    A PEDESTRIAN has suffered minor injuries after being hit by a car in York this morning.  The man in his late fifties was involved in the collision at 11.40am at Nessgate Corner.  The police were called after the crash, North Yorkshire

  • Updated: Armed robbers tie up staff in bank raid

    BANK staff have been threatened and tied up in an armed robbery. Two masked men went into the TSB bank in Manor Street in Bridlington and threatened four staff members before tying them up and demanding cash as the staff prepared to open up at

  • Missing man found in North Yorkshire

    POLICE have found a missing man in North Yorkshire. Keith Kennedy, 52, was reported missing from his home in Hartlepool and police yesterday said they were concerned for his welfare.  He had been sighted in Whitby and he was later found

  • Game on for seasonal dishes

    ANDREW PERN of Star Inn The City suggests more recipes for readers, this time with game in mind WITH the game season upon us, grouse have been flying out of our Harome kitchens, served traditionally roast and garnished, although we will serve them

  • British Museum’s finest Roman treasures come to Yorkshire

    Some of the British Museum’s finest Roman treasures have come to Leeds as part of a touring exhibition examining the lives of Romans in Yorkshire. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. THE Romans are coming. Actually, no, ignore that. By the time you read this

  • Festival says ‘yes’ to bitter together

    GAVIN AITCHISON finds out what’s top of the hops at this year’s York festival of beer. TODAY’S the day. If you’ve not yet been to Knavesmire, then get yourself there. Forget the independence referendum and “better together”. Try bitter together

  • Sonnet 43, Steam Beer – UK, 3.8 per cent, £2.99

    WE first started getting Sonnet 43’s beer on our bar a year ago, but it’s only recently we’ve found space on our shelves for their bottles. Situated in Coxhoe, Sonnet 43 take their name from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem How Do I Love Thee?

  • Review: Steven James Adams, The Basement, City Screen, York

    STEVEN James Adams is the best type of humorist: funny sad. He happens to be a singer-songwriter but he would stand up as a stand-up too and so you have the best of both worlds, especially now that he has shed a band and is all alone on stage.

  • Geraniums - the hardy flower that adds colour for months

    GINA PARKINSON is happy to sing the praises of geraniums, the hardy species that can bloom for months. GERANIUMS are a great family of plants that will grace the beds of any garden. We are talking here about the hardy species rather than the bright

  • Gold for York Athletic Club’s Lucy Hadaway

    A STORMING five-star show was made by City of York Athletic Club’s Lucy Hadaway. She powered to the gold medal in the pentathlon event in the Yorkshire under-15s championships staged at Cleckheaton. The triumph was one of the most emphatic

  • Wigginton motorcyclist Josh Harland reigns in Spain

    MOTORCYCLIST Josh Harland is celebrating Superbike success. The 20-year-old Wigginton racer won the seventh round of the European Junior Cup at Jerez, in Spain, earlier in the month. A track of which Harland, who recovered from a broken neck

  • Terrington Hall School retain trophy for fourth year

    FOR the fourth year in succession Terrington Hall School retained the trophy at its under-13 XV-a-side rugby union tournament for local schools. Terrington prevailed in the seventh year the event has been held having beaten Malton School 10-0,

  • Knights set fair for semi-final showdown

    GARY THORNTON has warned fans not to expect another rout when Oldham return to Huntington Stadium this time with a Grand Final place up for grabs - though he still reckons his vibrant York City Knights side will prevail. The Roughyeds were hammered

  • Straker has no regrets over leaving Southend for York City

    SOUTHEND old boy Anthony Straker feels no remorse at leaving the Essex club for York City in the summer. Straker will be a member of the Minstermen squad that takes on the Shrimpers at Bootham Crescent this afternoon, having decided to swap one

  • Gold Cup joy for teenage motorcyclist Joe Thompson

    MOTORCYCLE ace Joe Thompson became the youngest winner of a road race in Scarborough after storming to victory on his Repli-Cast UK Racing Honda Moto3 debut at the Steve Henshaw Gold Cup. The 16-year-old, of Cliffe, scored at the Oliver’s Mount

  • Selby Town seeking programme editor

    NORTHERN Countes East League division one high-fliers Selby Town are in need of a programme editor to help them move forward with a promising start to the season. Currently match secretary Mark Aldred is helping to put together the programme but

  • Tennis: Promotion for Poppleton ladies

    POPPLETON Tennis Club ladies tennis team squad have successfully completed the season gaining promotion to division three of the Fulford Ladies Invitation League. Their squad, who put a run together of winning all but one match in the summer, comprised

  • Semi-final play-off: Oldham boss sticks with underdog tag

    OLDHAM boss Scott Naylor insists York and Hunslet remain the favourites to reach the Championship One Grand Final - despite the Roughyeds’ fine form and compelling win over the Hawks last week. The Lancastrians come to York tomorrow high in confidence

  • Knights need you to roar them to glory

    THE call has well and truly gone out for the good folk of York to get behind the Knights this weekend as their push for promotion reaches fever pitch. All the great work in the regular season - lifting the Championship One league leaders’ trophy

  • Tadcaster Albion owners become FA licensed football agents

    JUST when you thought you had seen it all in football - now the owners of a North Yorkshire club have branched out into agency. i2i Sports, who control Northern Counties East League premier division high-fliers Tadcaster Albion, have become FA

  • Jonathan Greening: Benched at Nou Camp and now at Ings Lane

    HE might have a Champions League medal to his name but former York City midfielder Jonathan Greening is only expecting to make the bench, ahead of new club Tadcaster Albion’s home match with Maltby Main today. Greening, who was on the bench when

  • Bresnan hopes fans will turn out for Yorkshire's finale

    TIM BRESNAN is hoping Yorkshire’s supporters turn out in force to cheer on the champions in their final LV= County Championship match of the season against Somerset at Headingley, starting on Tuesday. Bresnan will miss out due to injury, although

  • Win Geoffrey Boycott’s The Corridor Of Certainty

    THE Press has five copies of Geoffrey Boycott’s The Corridor Of Certainty, My Life Beyond Cricket to be won, courtesy of Simon & Schuster. Question: In which years was Geoffrey Boycott president of Yorkshire County Cricket Club? Send your

  • Richard Fahey's Alben Star set to claim the Ayr Gold Cup

    ALBEN STAR, one of six Richard Fahey-trained runners in today’s Ayr Gold Cup, can lift the William Hill-sponsored showpiece after a series of near-misses in similar major handicaps this season. Tough and admirably consistent, Alben Star won a valuable

  • European Cup winner joins Tadcaster Albion

    TADCASTER Albion’s new star signing Jonathan Greening offered his playing services to York City after being released by Nottingham Forest at the end of last season. Greening, 35, contacted Nigel Worthington to alert the Minstermen chief of his

  • New safety measures for York rivers

    “HE THOUGHT he was Superman, thought he could conquer the world”. Those were the words of the grieving father of an 18-year-old soldier who died in the River Ouse in York. Steve Pearson spoke out about the loss of his son Tyler, at the launch

  • Trial date set for murder case pair

    A PROVISIONAL trial date has been fixed for next year for two people accused of murdering a man in York who died two years after an alleged attack. Andrew Fowler, 42 of Monkton Road, off Malton Road, York, and Amanda Jane Moran, 28, of St John’

  • Pupils in fine voice at York recording studios

    THESE pupils from Razzamataz York Inters group (nine-11 years) had an exciting afternoon with a trip to the recording studios at Access To Music College & The Jam Factory Recording studios in York. The girls are gearing up for their performance

  • York man wanted on suspicion of assaulting woman

    POLICE are hunting for this man on suspicion of assaulting a woman in York. Christopher Bell, 35, of Seventh Avenue, is wanted on suspicion of assaulting a 22-year-old woman in the Walmgate area of the city. He is described as 5ft 10in tall

  • Teenager is injured in crash on A59

    A 19-YEAR-OLD woman has been injured in a crash on the A59 near Harrogate. The woman was driving a white Seat Ibiza towards Harrogate when it left the road and rolled down an embankment several times. She was taken to Airedale Hospital with

  • Two are cut from car in Whixley

    FIREFIGHTERS were called after a car which rolled on to its side and crashed. The Skoda Roadster swerved and rolled on to its side in Clockhill Field Lane in Whixley, trapping the male driver and female passenger. Crews released them using

  • Man left with black eye after street attack

    A MAN has been left with a black eye after an attack in York. A 20-year-old local victim was assaulted by a man outside the Spar shop in Bad Bargain Lane at around 1.45am on August 30. He was left with a black eye and sore ribs but did not

  • Fears over community stadium plan - UPDATED

    YORK'S community stadium project could be jeopardised by a political shake-up on the city council, it has been warned. York City FC chairman Jason McGill has used today's programme notes for the match against Southend United to issue a rallying

  • Chef gets taste of Yorkshire on gastro-tour

    GOURMET trail company Yorkshire Food Finder teamed up with tourism agencies Visit Britain and Welcome to Yorkshire to organise a three-day gastro tour for an international TV cookery show, thanks to its renowned, expert knowledge of local producers

  • York loses out on Euro cities innovation prize

    YORK has missed out on millions of pounds of prize money in a European competition for innovation in cities. The city had been shortlisted for a Bloomberg Philosophies Mayor's Challenge - run by millionaire former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg

  • Ton-up Mini Cooper driver keeps licence

    A PHOTOGRAPHER who sped at more than 100 mph in a Mini Cooper along the A1M near South Milford has kept his licence. Keith John Heppell was trying to get out of the way of a motorbike coming up fast behind him, said Colin Byrne, mitigating.

  • Archbishop of York to join church celebrations

    THE Archbishop of York will visit St Hilda’s Church in Tang Hall tomorrow to celebrate its 80th anniversary. Dr John Sentamu, who will preach at the 11am service, to which all are welcome, said St Hilda’s had been at the heart of Tang Hall for

  • Bubwith off-licence shortlisted for UK cider award

    AN INDEPENDENT off-licence near Selby has been shortlisted for a national award. The Jug And Bottle in Bubwith is a finalist for the Independent Cider Retailer of the Year at the 2015 Drinks Retailing Awards for the third time in six years.

  • What can the matter be?

    A WOMAN had to be freed by firefighters after accidentally becoming locked in a toilet. The woman became trapped in the toilet in Brett Street in Bridlington on Thursday morning.

  • Barn burns down in Scalby

    A BARN has been destroyed by fire in Scarborough. The large barn in Beacon Brow Road in Scalby, had been housing livestock which were rescued before the fire spread. The barn was completely destroyed.

  • Macmillan seeking collectors

    MACMILLAN Cancer Support is looking for volunteers to help bucket collecting at the Monks Cross Marks & Spencer store between Monday, and Saturday, September 27, from noon to 2pm each day. Macmillan Cancer Support provides expert care and emotional

  • Hearing Dogs for Deaf People launch latest appeal

    HEARING Dogs for Deaf People are launching their latest appeal ‘Let’s Hear it for Deaf Children this Winter’ in York. The event encourages young people to make as much noise as possible for as long as possible, all to raise money for the training

  • Trio to tackle charity cycle challenge

    THREE friends from York are embarking on a challenge to cycle 856 miles in just five days to raise money for a children's hospice. Henry Richardson, aged 29, Joe Tuohy, 32, and Duncan Sleigh, 30, will set off from Land’s End later this month and

  • Playground group in bid to secure funding

    A COMMUNITY group in York wants your help to secure much-needed funding to improve a play area. The Wigginton Playground Play For All project has been shortlisted for a Lloyds Bank Community Fund grant of up to £3,000, but they need votes to make

  • Farmland earmarked for travellers’ pitches

    A FARM that was to have become a high-tech farming training centre has been earmarked for conversion into a gypsy and traveller site in the draft local plan, it has emerged. Acres Farm, Naburn, which is owned by City of York Council and lies just

  • Elderly woman injured in Beverley

    AN ELDERLY woman suffered facial injuries in an alleged assault in East Yorkshire. The woman was walking in Goths Lane at about 3pm on Tuesday, and was allegedly assaulted by a woman in her twenties, who then left by Cherry Tree Lane. The suspect

  • Northallerton beer festival - September 26 to 28

    THE fourth annual Northallerton beer festival will be held in Northallerton town hall from September 26 to 28. The event was first launched by the Wall’s Brewing Company in 2011, but this year it will be run by events company Beer Hops. An

  • Show call goes out to home-grown gardeners

    GARDENERS are being encouraged to take part in today’s annual Kirkbymoorside Horticultural Society show. Show secretary Jill Hugill said that although the show received a good number of entries, the majority were from outside the town itself.

  • Thousands flock to national book fair in York

    MORE than 1,000 people visited the annual York National Book Fair yesterday - with a similar number expected to attend today. Janette Ray, one of the organisers of the two-day event at York Racecourse’s Knavesmire Suite, said people had come from

  • Call for devolution after Scottish referendum

    NORTH Yorkshire politicians have welcomed the moves to bring devolution to the top of the agenda in the wake of the Scottish referendum. MPs from across the region have welcomed the no vote, and the Prime Minister’s pledge of devolution for the

  • Fencing put up to stop trespassers getting on to rail lines

    NETWORK Rail has completed a line of steel fencing alongside railway tracks near York as it tries to prevent trespassers getting on to the lines. The company installed a series of metal fences at Copmanthorpe earlier this year, intending to prevent

  • Your chance to speak with local police team

    RESIDENTS in villages near Selby can meet their local police officers today. The mobile police office will be at Kellington Village Hall between 9am and 10am, Beal Jenny Wren car park between 10.30am and 11.30am, Chapel Haddlesey village hall between

  • Cattery in line for top prizes

    ONE of the Selby College’s first students has been shortlisted for a string of national business awards. Liz Burman went to Selby College between 1984 and 1986 and studied for a BTEC in business and finance. She now runs the successful Lea

  • Memorial hall plans for Selby district village

    A HALL in North Yorkshire could be transformed into a memorial to the fallen of the First World War. The hall, in Wighill Lane, Healaugh, near Tadcaster, was transformed from a small field barn in the early 1920s as a memorial to Stamp Brooksbank

  • Take a look around York's grisly past

    A NEW tour highlighting York’s grisly past is launched next week. The Bloody Tour of York will start from the garden of Treasurer’s House and will be led by guide ‘Mad Alice’, who will lead visitors through the snickelways of the city, telling

  • Don’t let politics block new stadium

    LABOUR’S loss of overall control on City of York Council could yet have “significant and serious consequences” for York’s long-awaited community stadium, the chairman of York City Football Club, Jason McGill, has warned. Mr McGill said Labour’s

  • Moving testimony

    THE words are heartbreaking: wrung from a mother who has experienced the worst loss imaginable. “It is like being in a horror story, it is torture,” says Jackie Roberts, whose daughter Megan drowned in the River Ouse earlier this year, in a poignant

  • Down with lights!

    WOW! Your front page piece of September 17 was really something: £86,000 to study the traffic congestion problem in York. I’d have thought a quick snapshot traffic census and recalibrating the traffic lights would suffice. And there’s some

  • Traffic nightmare

    THANK goodness for the latest revelation in The Press about City of York Council employing part-time consultants on £400 per day to try and solve an impossible problem, namely traffic congestion in York. Yet again it beggars belief that anyone

  • Take politics out

    WHEN I cycled across Lendal Bridge last after a council meeting, I feared being hit and injured by vehicles. The congestion was as bad as ever. Following the debacle of the bridge closure, I am convinced no political party will have the courage

  • Get cars moving

    SO WE’RE to have a “congestion commission” to alleviate our traffic problems (The Press, September 17). This will be four councillors and five “external” experts. It is to be hoped the councillors aren’t members of the anti-car brigade or nothing

  • Reopen our roads

    I COULD not believe City of York Council is to set up a “congestion commission” with members receiving £400 a day; and councillors (already paid) receiving further remuneration for attending this pointless talking shop. There is no need for outside

  • No complacency over local plan move

    I AM pleased that the immediate housing plans for Moor Lane in Woodthorpe have been dropped as part of Labour’s Local Plan rethink (The Press, September 12). I have long worked with residents to oppose development on this site, and I am sure that

  • Catching Turpin bus

    IT SEEMS many quarters and visitors are enthralled by the Dick Turpin, aka Richard story. However, it seems that certain groups don’t want visitors to track down and appreciate the history and related venues. The story goes that the outlaw

  • Food problems

    PAMELA Frankland’s wonderfully explicit letter highlighted the dreadful state of the food industry (Letters, September 15). The only thing I would disagree with is her final statement: it should be those who have to deal with the present state

  • September 20

    100 years ago The Postal and Telegraph Record, the weekly organ of the Postal Telegraph Service, in its current issue made grave charges of mismanagement at the Central Telegraph Office due, it was alleged, to the “chaotic staffing arrangements

  • New live music venue for Selby

    A NEW bar and live music venue is set to open in Selby next month. Transformation of the former Greens Furnishings shop in Ousegate into the new, 300-capacity The Venue, is almost complete, ahead of a soft opening in coming weeks. The Venue

  • Can you be smoke-free for 28 days?

    SMOKERS are urged to sign up to Stoptober, the 28-day stop smoking challenge which starts on October 1. East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s public health team is encouraging as many people as possible to sign up. This year’s campaign is using

  • Flowers set to delight at York Florists event

    JOHN GALVIN, show secretary of the Ancient Society of York Florists, checks his dahlias in his garden before tomorrow's show at Askham Bryan College. The show will held in the sports hall and is open to the public between 11am and 3pm. Admission

  • Rugby team getting on their bikes for charity

    THESE teenage rugby players are swapping their boots for bikes and running shoes to tackle a triathlon in aid of a vital emergency service. New Earswick All Blacks U13s are aiming to complete a 999-themed triathlon on Sunday by running nine laps

  • Hairdresser to take on triathlon in aid of leukaemia charity

    A HAIRDRESSER is set to line up alongside Olympic medallists Jonny and Alistair Brownlee to raise funds in memory of her father. Fiona Curry, 31, who co-owns Hairport, in Thirsk Market Place, will swim 750 metres, cycle 26 kms and run 5.5 kms in

  • Fresh insight into HMHS Rohilla rescue

    AN AUTHOR has unearthed fresh revelations about a legendary sea rescue from a hospital ship, which sank off the Yorkshire coast a century ago. The HMHS Rohilla had been on its way to Dunkirk to pick up wounded soldiers when it ran aground near

  • Review: Iolanthe, Joseph Rowntree Theatre

    GILBERT and Sullivan’s ‘Fairy Opera’, Iolanthe, is a delicious political satire, with a particular swipe at the House of Lords and the hereditary system. The evening got off to a good start with a delightfully assured orchestral overture, very

  • Last chance to walk around Fulford battlefield

    AN ARCHAEOLOGIST will lead an anniversary walk around a York battlefield tomorrow - warning this could be the last opportunity to appreciate the site. Chas Jones, who has been fighting a rearguard legal action against plans to build hundreds of

  • Sage, onion and apple rolls

    Finding an empty bread bin, JULIAN COLE rustles up flavoured rolls for lunch. THERE was nothing in the bread bin apart from crumbs and the ghost of a gone loaf. It was time to make some rolls, always the fun part of baking bread. You can try

  • Max effort secures win for Heworth ARLC

    A FANTASTIC last-ditch tackle by Max Hodgson at the death saved victory for Heworth ARLC Under-11s at Illingworth. Heworth led 16-12 but the hosts were pressing for a winner. Their full-back then looked destined to score - until Hodgson stepped

  • Country walk at Marske

    Grass coats the smooth slopes, trees line the stream and big old ash attend the tracks. GEORGE WILKINSON enjoys himself at Marske. MARSKE’S swallows were fidgeting on a line, readying for South Africa. We prepared for an unnamed Swaledale side

  • Mum leads meningitis awareness drive after tragic loss

    A MOTHER who lost her baby daughter to meningitis is leading an awareness drive in York. Claire Fox, 37, from Upper Poppleton, suffered the devastating loss of her ten-month-old daughter Clara in October 2010 after she contracted pneumococcal meningitis

  • York Cycle Rally to return

    ORGANISERS of York’s historic cycle rally are pressing ahead with plans to revive the event next year after a two-year absence. The rally, which started in 1945, was cancelled in 2013 following terrible weather but will be held again on June 20

  • Warden appointed in dog fouling clampdown

    DOG owners who fail to clear up after their pets are being targeted in a new £40,000 clampdown following a wave of complaints from residents. Hambleton District Council has employed a dedicated dog warden to work in some of the worst dog fouling

  • Documentary on cyclists

    THE University of Hull Scarborough Campus was a welcome sight for a group of disabled cyclists completing the third day of their 150-mile coast-to-coast challenge. The 22 riders are all members of the EMpowered people charity, an organisation which

  • York student wins BAFTA scholarship

    A STUDENT from York has been awarded a BAFTA scholarship to fund her MA studies in computer animation at Bournemouth University. Emily Ellis, 26, said she felt completely overwhelmed by the support of the BAFTA panel and its belief in her creative

  • New legislation set to help victims of crime

    VICTIMS of crime will soon be allowed to confront their offenders in court, under new Government legislation. Since last year, victims have been given the opportunity to read a personal statement to the court and express how the crime had affected

  • Revival for Shiptonthorpe Raiders 15s

    SHIPTONTHORPE Raiders Under-15s football team are back in business thanks to a Pocklington aerosol business and a proud parent. LMA Services Ltd and Craig Hodgson have loaned their support to enable the relaunch of the former Shiptonthorpe Hawks

  • Haxby Town U13s show off new kit

    HAXBY Town Under-13s have started the season with a new kit sponsored by Little Green Rascals organic day nursery. And their York and District Minor League campaign has provided an unbeaten opening with the Town mites recording a brace of victories

  • Fab five selected for North Riding County side

    FIVE players from the York FA Under-19s Football League have been selected for the North Riding County FA U18s representative squad. Haxby duo Matty Day and Tom Barnes, Wigginton’s Jack Rudkin, Alex Robinson, of Dringhouses, and James Ash, who

  • Skilful surge to semi-finals steered by York U11s

    A BRAVE account was given by York under-11s schoolboy footballers at an 11-region tournament hosted in Leeds. York started with a 1-0 win over Sheffield with Elliot Heath scoring the only goal, though it was a fortunate outcome. Sheffield probably

  • Brayton turn up the heat to beat Tadcaster

    SECOND-HALF power was turned on by Brayton to beat Tadcaster Magnets Reds 4-0 in the York and District under-12s FA Cup. All the scoring came after the interval with a brace from Callum Featherstone and strikes by James Hymers and Max Seaman.

  • Quality and value at Majestic

    MIKE TIPPING finds three bargains on offer at Majestic, including an Italian white that makes for a brilliant aperitif. QUALITY and value are what I look for when buying vino. I have to say, that is just what I got when I tried out some wines new

  • Make time for a coffee morning that matters

    MAKE time for what matters in life by joining the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday, September 26, and help raise more than £20 million for Macmillan Cancer Support. It's Macmillan's biggest fundraising event, where the charity asks people

  • Raw best and a Raw deal

    RAWCLIFFE ran amok in the under-11s Junior Cup with a 16-0 success at York RI, but Rawcliffe Tigers perished 3-1 at home to Poppleton Stripes for whom Connor Farrar, Dan Myers and Jackson Cowl scored. Osbaldwick won 11-2 at Strensall Tigers Silvers

  • 'Man from the future' spotted in London

    A CRYOGENICALLY frozen man from the future has been spotted chilling outside China’s embassy in London. The eye-catching spectacle was arranged by former University of York professor and author, Richard Woolley, in a stunt to promote his latest

  • Historian visits Goole Academy

    AN HISTORIAN has visited an East Yorkshire school to explore its heritage. Goole Academy was open to the public as part of Heritage Open Day on Friday, September 12, and historian Ruth Harman visited the school as research for her work on an architectural

  • Head lice warning

    STAFF at Gale Farm Pharmacy in Acomb are reminding parents to remain vigilant about head lice after children began their new school term. Manager Hugh Lindsay said such lice were extremely contagious and would quite often go unnoticed and undetected