YORKSHIRE are in danger of ending a special season with a second defeat of term against Somerset at Headingley. The LV= County Championship winners are under the cosh against a team placed mid-table in division one having seen them reply to 253
A TEN-year battle over a £1.4bn waste scheme involving an incinerator the size of Wembley Stadium has ended with councillors approving the plan. An extraordinary meeting of North Yorkshire County Council saw a group of 38 members approve its 25
A WOMAN has been airlifted to hospital from Whitby after a fall left her with a serious leg injury. The ambulance service and the Great North Air Ambulance were both called to Salt Pan Well Steps, Church Street, Whitby, just before 1pm today.
A 10-year-old boy was approached by a suspicious van driver as he walked home from school. The child was spoken to by the man from the drivers seat of the blue vehicle and was touched on his arm as he went past, but the driver did not get out of
QUEUES have formed on the A64 and the A19 Fulford Road after an accident earlier this afternoon. Police confirmed they were called at 3pm when a car spun on the road and was left facing the wrong direction. No one was injured, but an ambulance
IF York City Knights are to reach their end goal this year, they will have to take the long route as in 2010. Gary Thornton's men, with only one other match since August 17, looked rusty, off the pace and disjointed, and they were duly beaten 31
Yorkshire are under the cosh against Somerset at Headingley at tea on day two. Nick Compton and Marcus Trescothick have both hit half-centuries in a commanding reply of 196-2 from 57 overs to 253. While Trescothick made 66, Compton is 85 not
THE motorcyclist who died in a crash in the Yorkshire Dales has been named as Martin John Young. Mr Young, 48, from York, was riding with another man on the B6479 close to Horton in Ribblesdale on Monday, when their bikes left the road on a bend
A NORTH YORKSHIRE interior design business is set for further expansion following a £100,000 investment to house its latest joint venture.Richard Grafton Interiors is expanding its Harrogate showroom to include display space for its joint venture
A NORTH Yorkshire sawmill was the supplier of choice when fashion designer Stella McCartney needed a handmade larch gate for the launch of her latest collection. Joiners at Helmsley’s Duncombe Sawmill have seen their craftsmanship showcased at
A COMMITMENT to sustainability by Portakabin Group has seen the York firm receive a Gold Award in the Business in the Community Environment Index 2014. This is the second consecutive year Portakabin, based in Huntington, has achieved the accolade
TWENTY years in business is being celebrated at a South Milford hotel with record occupancy levels and a 21 per cent rise in annual room sales. The Best Western Plus Milford Hotel has seen 50 per cent growth in room sales over the last five years
THE company which took over Malton bacon factory says its operations are on track to generate profit for the first time in "many years". Karro Food Group has described its full results for the year ending December 31, 2013, as a "milestone" in
A REFINANCE deal involving a six-party syndicate to the sum of the £245 million has been agreed by the parent company of York travel business Superbreak. The Eboracum Way based business has operated out of York since 1990 and now employs a team
YOUNGSTERS at a York school are going for gold. Knavesmire Primary School School has been given a Games Gold Award and British Council International Schools Full Award - the first gold awarded to a York primary school and the only gold award in
Have you got what it takes to Go Sober and do something amazing for people with cancer? That’s 31 days with no lager, no wine... not even a shandy - all to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support’s vital work. Whether you’re motivated by the challenge
King Richard III may be staying in Leicester. But a small parish church north of York has its own connections to the last Yorkist king - and plans to celebrate them next month. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on Sheriff Hutton's Richard III Flower Festival
IT was to have been Anything Goes but it became Anything Went when York Musical Theatre Company decided to change their October show at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre ever so slightly. "To mark the 50th anniversary of Cole Porter’s death, it’s now
"IT'S become 'An Audience With' all of a sudden'," said Jason Manford, commenting on the impact that the audience's quips and questions were having on Wednesday's show. Although the tour is entitled First World Problems, it was not the prepared
CHILDHOOD obesity is becoming a serious problem. Overprotective parents reluctant to let their children play outside, combined with computer games, social media and schools that find it difficult to squeeze enough sports and physical exercise into
WE all need a source of strength when times get tough. For many, it will be loved ones. For others friends. For some, it may be simply a refusal to give in, or a conviction that things will get better. For Luke Smith, it was faith. The father
WHO would have thought that Tesco could be left on the shelf and in trouble with the city? My wife and I have been disillusioned for at least five years with them in York. That’s when we started using Aldi. We always thought the Tesco supermarket
PHEW! It was the highest turnout in UK history yet the people of Scotland finally gave a resounding no to Independence. I do not pretend to know the economic or political repercussions if Scotland had left the United Kingdom. To my mind the
REFERENCE to The Press article “Farmland” earmarked for travellers’ pitches” (The Press, September 20). It seems inappropriate for councils to place this on their agenda as a priority when there is an ever- increasing demand for affordable homes
YORK’S 2013 population was 201,200. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates this will increase by 20,000 in the next 15 years. David Levine has been quoted on a local website saying it is 40,000. Eh? The Local Plan has now reduced
THERE has been a lot of talk of litter and rubbish in York city centre. Have the city councillors been in Acomb shopping centre? There is litter everywhere. The council cuts the grass down Beckfield Lane, but no one picks up litter, therefore
CALLING all choirs, singers, and music groups in Harrogate, now is your chance to perform in your local community during the festive run-up to Christmas – and raise money for Heart Research UK in the process. Heart Research UK’s annual Sing for
SERENDIPITY Art Ltd is an arts organisation working with communities to help them tell their stories. We have been commissioned to put together a short DVD that tells the history of RAF Riccall and how that derelict site has now become a new national
AFTER reading The Press letters page on September 20 I have to agree with all the writers who say we don’t need a congestion commission. The problem with York is traffic lights. If I drive in to York and park at the Castle car park, which is a
PETER Boulton (Letters, September 20) claims that we’ll never cure York’s traffic problems, so there’s no point in bringing in consultants. He also says, by way of contradiction, that we simply have to re-adjust the traffic lights. This advice comes
GOOD news. York’s unemployment rate fell again last month to 1.1 per cent. We are at full employment. What York people need is better pay in both middle-income sectors and more high-value jobs. In research on increasing profitable local businesses
LAST Saturday I did something I never planned and have never done before. I bought goods from York Market. I was in town for lunch and happened to be walking down Parliament Street where strawberries were being sold off cheaply late in the afternoon
100 years ago Annie Constance Plumer wrote: “May I appeal through the columns of your newspaper to the women of the Empire residing in or about York to send socks or woollen belts to the soldiers at the front? I know well how generously the
SKIPPER Jack Lee is to face no action from Rugby Football League chiefs over allegations of biting - but it hasn't lessened the anger felt in the York City Knights camp over the accusation. Oldham half-back Lewis Palfrey claimed Lee bit his shoulder
RYAN JARVIS scored twice as York City reserves won 3-2 against a Loughborough Students team. The former Norwich and Torquay forward was joined on the scoresheet by 16-year-old striker Ben Hirst in the behind-closed-doors contest at the club’s Wigginton
NEWLY-CROWNED Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League champions Yorkshire Academy played their annual end of season game at Sheriff Hutton Bridge in memory of Bridge coach Philip Fisher and raised more than £1,000 for the fight against cancer
THIRSK & Sowerby Harriers fielded a strong relay team at Thirsk Flatts for the opening fixture for the North Yorkshire South Durham Cross Country season. The Harriers' first ladies team of Charlotte Sanderson (13 minutes 57 seconds), Charlotte
MELBOURNE skipper Harry Collins will be the big winner at the HPH York Vale Cricket League awards dinner on Saturday. He led his side to the division two title and also won the Les Kirby Trophy for most wickets in the season and the divisional
ACOMB have recorded back to back wins in the York Conservative Clubs' Faber Shield Billiards League. Acomb were 4-2 winners at Bootham 'B' and then followed up with a 4-2 victory over reigning champions Fulford. Hosts Bootham 'B' quickly slipped
LIFE begins at 40 for FC City of York Cosmos. The six-a-side football team, now in their 16th year together, are playing in a Football Mundial league for the 40th consecutive season. Manager Rodney Roper and his teammates have not missed a campaign
ALI Smith's brace saw top-of-the-table York City Ladies get back to winning ways at Whitley Bay. The visitors secured a 2-1 victory in the North East Regional Women's League contest to bounce back from a 2-0 defeat against Barnsley in their last
FORMER Le Mans 24-hour race winner Guy Smith will help flag away over 160 cars when the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire roars into action at Pickering Showground on Friday evening. Beverley-born Smith, who won the famous French endurance race for Bentley
IAN Atkins missed out on a place at next month's York Darts Promotions' Pro-am Grand Finals when he lost 2-0 to Stuart Limbert in the stage seven final. Legs of 17 and 14 darts, including a 177 score, saw Thorpe Willoughby's Limbert claim the penultimate
PAUL HANAGAN bypasses the main Goodwood meeting today to travel to Redcar for two mounts for a trainer who dominated proceedings on Monday. Charlie Appleby, who operates under the Godolphin banner at Newmarket, sent out no fewer than six winners
DETECTIVES investigating the murder of an East Yorkshire man have renewed their appeal for information. Graham White, 39, suffered a fatal injury at an address in Sewerby Road, Bridlington, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 27. Humberside
A DAD-OF-TWO from York has told of his remarkable battle against cancer, after doctors were narrowly able to save his life. Luke Smith was 32 when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer and his surgeon at York Hospital told him it was caught just in
SEVEN University of York students will receive support during their degree thanks to four staff from the university branch of Santander. Led by branch manager Jack Marsh, the Santander team raised £3,500 in sponsorship when they cycled 50km as
Clutching her degree with a broad smile on her face - this is one day Shelly Vaughan feared may never come. The 32-year-old former Special Constable has had to battle Ulcerative Colitis, a debilitating illness characterised by inflamed intestines
YORK RI Girls Football Club are looking for new players to join their under-10s team. Training started earlier this month and sessions are held on Tuesdays from 5.45pm to 6.45pm at York Railway Institute sports ground in New Lane. Girls must
AN 85-year-old woman who was involved in a crash in York last month, has died in hospital. Doreen Myers, from Leeds, was a front seat passenger in a blue Skoda Fabia which was in collision with a black Toyota Yaris at the junction of Manor Heath
FAMILIES united by a common grief will come together at services in York and Northallerton. York Minster is among 19 cathedrals across the country taking part in the Saying Goodbye memorial services for people who have lost a baby through miscarriage
A CONVICTED murderer has been given a second life prison sentence for attacking a New Zealand rapist in the troubled Full Sutton high security prison, near York. John Mansfield, 52, stabbed John Orme, 50, seven times in a cold-blooded attack which
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched by the Health and Safety Executive after a woman was seriously injured by falling scaffolding in North Yorkshire. The 65-year-old woman was walking close to the HSBC branch in Kirkbymoorside while scaffolding
A FARMER has been left furious and out of pocket after more than a dozen sheep were killed or injured in a field outside York. Derek Johnson, 54, kept his flock on land close to Stockton on the Forest Golf Club, with the agreement of a local landowner
A CHRISTMAS fair which last year raised more than £40,000 for the NSPCC is being extended to a three-day event. The fundraiser, which is held at Castle Howard, will this year start with a preview evening on Thursday, November 6 and run through
A HEARTBROKEN couple who lost their first child three days after her birth have raised £12,000 during a ball held in her memory. Vicky and Alex Cornwell, both 36, of Scarcroft Road in York, lost their daughter Matilda in February after a difficult
TOTAL Theatre Award nominated Idle Motion will perform That Is All You Need To Know at the Pocklington Arts Centre on Friday. This devised piece of visual theatre tells the story of Bletchley Park and the untold secrets of the remarkable men and
COMEDIAN Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown had to see the funny side of it when he was given a parking ticket at a hospital where he was handing over a £5,000 charity donation to help cancer patients. The blue comic, who lives near Northallerton, had just presented
THE British Heart Foundation’s Bag it. Beat it. campaign was launched at the Clifton Moor Retail park. The registered charity has more than 700 shops across the United Kingdom selling a staggering 90,000 items every day and at the York shop on
VIDEOS by the loved ones of young people who have died in York's rivers have been viewed more than 4,000 times in just five days. Jackie Roberts, Steve Pearson and Rachel Peatfield all provided interviews for a hard-hitting new video campaign,
YORK City Supporters' Trust have echoed club chairman Jason McGill's plea for fans to show their backing for the community stadium project at a council meeting on Friday. Liberal Democrat trio Cllr Nigel Ayre, Cllr Keith Orrell and Cllr Phil Cuthbertson
GLORIOUS sunshine brought more than 17,000 people to the final show of the agricultural season. Organisers said it was one of the best Nidderdale Shows in recent memory. For farmers Jim and Heather Marks from Bishopton, near Darlington, it was
A TRAINEE solicitor from York has raised more than £600 for the Alzheimer’s Society by taking part in a series of charity challenges. Cheryl Milner, who works for Langleys Solicitors LLP, was sponsored by family, friends and colleagues to complete
A LIST of city centre roads affected by the Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon have been released by organisers as the big race edges closer. Around 7,000 runners are expected to take to the streets of York and surrounding villages on October 12 to tackle
A COUNCIL is appealing for help in tracking down fly tippers who dumped waste on a popular Wolds Way walk. The waste included builders’ waste, carpets, broken tiles and a broken mirror as well as off-cuts from cardboard tubing for artificial grass
TWO new head teachers are settling in at Ampleforth College and St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School in North Yorkshire. The appointment of Mark O’Donnell at St Martin’s and David Lambon as the first lay headmaster in Ampleforth College
A BUS service from Acomb to York has been saved after City of York Council agreed to provide a £1,000 a week subsidy. The authority says First York had reviewed the operation of its hourly 13a bus service due to low usage and concluded there were
SCIENTISTS at one of the city's universities claim to be working on a "promising" new approach to tackle the second most common cause of cancer related death. The new method being studied by staff at the University of York works by silencing cancer
THE Mount Pre-School opened their new playground for the Early Years with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Funding for the playground has been supported by many Old Scholars of the UK’s only Quaker school for girls, including the late Sally Swindells
A MEETING will be held to discuss the arrival of superfast broadband in a Selby district village today. Members of the Superfast North Yorkshire team will be joined by Selby & Ainsty MP Nigel Adams at the White Horse pub, Church Fenton, between
A SPIRITUAL garden will be opened by the new Bishop of Selby, Dr John Thomson, at Cawood CE VA Primary School on Tuesday, September 30. The school has been raising money for the last two years to build the Peace Garden, which is intended to be
THE Black Swan in Helmsley is hosting a glamorous pre-festive make-over event on Tuesday, November 25. The focus for the evening will be on the timeless glamour of Hollywood with the creative hostess, the award-winning national make-up and hair-styling
RESIDENTS of the Selby district have been advised to report any sightings of a green Subaru Forester, which has been seen on country lanes and farmland with dogs in the rear. Sightings should be reported to North Yorkshire Police on 101.
A CYCLING app for riders willing to tackle Yorkshire's famous Tour de France routes has been nominated for a prestigious award. The Cycle Yorkshire – Ride the Routes programme is on the shortlist for the Digital Community Pioneer of the year category
A lorry driver must pay £1,000 compensation to a brewery employee for breaking his arm with a metal bar. Staff at the Heineken brewery in Tadcaster separated Clive Helliwell, 54, and Craig Low when the pair argued over Helliwell's driving in the
A YORK 'rock school' has won a massive boost with the donation of six studio quality guitar and bass amps from city centre studios. Tang Hall Rock School, part of the social enterprise Tang Hall SMART, received the unexpected gift from Melroseyard
RESIDENTS in the York suburb of Southbank are holding a community recycling event. More than 30 households have signed up to take part in Planet Southbank’s Street Re-Cycle, a one-day event in which Southbank residents will convert their front
SIX extra pitches at a York travellers' site have been created and occupied - months before a new site management office is completed. The construction of the office and associated community facility in Osbaldwick - intended to complement the controversial
STAFF at York's Wilberforce Trust decided to mark the start of National Eye Health Week by dressing in something bright - and pay for the privilege. Money raised will go towards activities in the Living&Learning Zone run by the charity, which
THE University of York has named the contractors for their new £9.9 million environment building. Construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall has been appointed to complete the building which will house the university’s environment department
ROMAN soldiers will be on parade at the Multangular Tower in York’s Museum Gardens on Saturday. The 6th Legion re-enactment group will be taking part in the filming of a new DVD on York by Unicorn Films, of Dublin. Michael Portillo will narrate
A CHARITY providing respite care and days out for disabled adults has issued a stark warning that its days could be numbered without a major funding boost. Breathing Space was launched in 1994 to enable people with learning difficulties and disabilities
