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THE family of 21-year-old Sam Wilson, who died following a violent disturbance in York, have thanked everyone who has supported them. Sam, from Haxby, was hit by a taxi shortly after the incident in Haxby Road, near the Nuffield Hospital, in the

It may seem like Christmas is still a long way off, but the truth is that if it’s your turn to host the family and friends it’s getting to the time when you need to start planning. Top of the list will surely be what you’re going to serve for the all-important

A BODY has been found on an East Yorkshire beach. Humberside Police and Humber Coastguard were called to Flamborough by a member of the public at just after 8am today, where the body of a man had been found on the beach. A spokesman for the

Anger is growing over council proposals to lease part of the bank of the River Ouse near the Millennium Bridge to the York Motor Yacht Club. In an about-turn yesterday, the council appeared to rule out the deal. But protesters will still gather on

1) ACOMB Parish Church is running its annual Autumn Fayre at Acomb Parish Hall in Front Street this Saturday. The event will run from 10am to 1pm and will include stalls, games and refreshments. 2) THIEVES stole an undisclosed amount of scrap

WHEN Anything Goes turned into Anything Goes West, York Musical Theatre Company director Paul Laidlaw had a a quick decision to make. Several company members had dropped out of the Cole Porter show through unavoidable cicumstances, but Paul spotted

"IT'S getting a bit warm, isn’t it – I almost wore a jumper,” says George Ezra, as he moves on to the solo section of his hour-long set. Warm is an understatement in the sold-out Leeds Beckett University Union, where Ezra and his three-piece band rattle

DOES York collectively have the weakest bladder in Britain or is the constant flow to the ladies and gents the result of exposure to Ross Noble's humour of the stream-of-consciousness variety? Short of a medical emergency, it was once considered

ACCORDING To McGee is collaborating with the 2014 Illuminating York festival for a gallery showcase of work by people who have experienced homelessness and by youngsters in wheelchairs on October 31 and November 1. Greg and Ails McGee, directors

WHAT do we know of of Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn? Born February 2 1650, died November 14 1687. Mother ruined on gin. Occupation: comic actress, prostitute. Bosomy Royal whore/ long-time mistress of King Charles II, bearing him two sons. Folk heroine of

SO KEVIN Pietersen's account of what he may or may not have texted about the England cricket team and who may or may not have said what when and to whom in the England dressing room is finally available for all to read, just in time for the Christmas

YORK veterinary medicine and animal chipping specialist Animalcare is “well positioned” for future growth as the now debt free business reports sales of £12.9 million. While revenue rose to a record high, 6.3 per cent up from 2013, the Group, based

MEMBERS of the public have been given an exclusive behind the scenes look at the science behind the food they eat as the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) celebrated its centenary. Visitors were able to explore what makes food safe

THE Chamber of Commerce has voiced its disappointment over news that York's Local Plan has been stalled. The Local Plan, which is set to shape the future of York for the next 20 years, has been pushed back after political shifts in City of York

FOUR successful micro-businesses will be at a special panel event in the East Riding on Tuesday, October 28. The event will give people the chance to find out about how each of them became business’ journey to successful, and ask questions of representatives

A YORK law firm is growing its staff development programme with the appointment of two new apprentices. Lauren Almond and Annabel Charlton are the newest apprentices to be taken on by Coles Solicitors, which employs 45 staff across eight practices

RETAILERS in York are calling for more to be done to promote the city’s offering during key events off the back of slow trade over the marathon weekend. During the latest meeting of the York Retail Forum, members reported mixed trading performance

NEWLY-APPOINTED York City boss Russ Wilcox has demanded that his inherited team re-establish Bootham Crescent as a place to be feared. The Minstermen have gone eight home games without a win ahead of hosting Shrewsbury tomorrow for Wilcox's first

NEW York City Knights skipper Pat Smith will not be involved as Ireland kick off their European Championship campaign - but fellow York-born ace Ben Johnston is poised to play. Smith, who a week ago was named the Knights' club captain for 2015

YORK City's new manager Russ Wilcox has admitted his surprise at how Minstermen skipper Russell Penn has reinvented himself as a midfield enforcer. Penn, 28, was released by Scunthorpe in the summer of 2005 when Wilcox was the assistant manager

ITALIAN under-20 international Diego de Girolamo is keen to stay at York City beyond his initial one-month loan spell. The Sheffield United attacker marked his Minstermen debut with a goal in last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Newport. It was a game

PROMOTION hopefuls Shrewsbury will be looking to end a 14-game run without an away league win at York City tomorrow. That sorry sequence stretches back to a 3-2 triumph at Notts County back in February and the Shrews have lost their last five matches

TADCASTER Albion chief Paul Marshall is hoping goalkeeper Tom Morgan will be okay to don the gloves again as the Northern Counties East League premier division table-toppers go to Athersley Recreation tomorrow. The Brewers’ custodian was forced

SELBY TOWN manager Dave Ricardo has urged his side to “kick on” as they look to build on a four-match unbeaten run against Hallam in Northern Counties East League division one. The Robins saw off Knaresborough Town 4-2 in midweek, thanks to a Danny

LEEDS United boss Darko Milanic has admitted he had hardly heard of Rotherham before arriving in England late last month - but added he now has the utmost respect for his club’s Yorkshire rivals. Leeds go to New York Stadium tonight (7.45pm) for

YORK Nomads booked their place in round two of the York Sunday Morning League Cup with a 4-3 victory at Thorpe United. James Wye gave the hosts an early lead, rolling the ball into an empty net from 20 yards with the keeper stranded near a corner

ANDREW GALE has revealed that even Prince Philip is backing Yorkshire to build on this summer’s LV= County Championship title success. Gale and first-team coach Jason Gillespie led a White Rose trip to the Palace, where a number of the squad were

PAUL HANAGAN can push his biggest-ever prize money haul for the season through the £3 million mark at Newmarket this afternoon by notching his fourth Group 1 success in what has proved a golden year for the former Malton-based jockey. Hanagan,

IT took 12 long years - and eight as a breeder - but owner Reg Bond is now getting the taste for Group 1 winners. Whenever pressed, the Pocklington tyre magnate could pinpoint his one big ambition as one of North Yorkshire's most high-profile horsemen

THE owner of the Blue Bicycle restaurant faces an £8,662 court bill because he broke fire safety laws for years in two flats above the business. Six people lived in the accommodation when fire broke out there on April 6, 2013, Karen Galloway for

An employee was “extremely lucky” to survive a blaze at a takeaway whose management “totally disregarded” fire safety regulations, York magistrates heard. One exit of Bilash Tandoori was blocked up and the worker suffered a burnt hand as he fled

AN alleged member of a bank van robbers’ gang has told a jury he knew nothing of two York raids until after they happened. Kieran Guildford, 21, told Sheffield Crown Court he travelled to Liverpool and back with three men, two of whom have since

TOPPLING the unbeatable - that's the aim of Selby RUFC as they face a formidable journey to Doncaster Phoenix in Yorkshire One tomorrow. The South Yorkshire outfit have enjoyed a perfect six for six start to the new season as they have opened up

FIREFIGHTERS are urging owners of business premises to check they are properly protected against fire. The call comes after a property developer was ordered to pay more than £8,000 in fines, prosecution and other costs over fire safety breaches

CONTROVERSIAL plans by a motor yacht club to buy a section of York's riverbank look set to be sunk by City of York Council. Earlier this month, the authority sparked protests when it advertised it was proposing to dispose of land alongside the

PEOPLE who stopped to help a woman who was knocked off her bike in York are being urged to contact police. The 46-year-old local woman was travelling along Field Lane in Heslington towards the University of York at about 3pm last Friday when she

FIRE safety regulations are there for a reason. That reason has nothing to do with petty red tape, and it isn’t a health-and-safety box-ticking exercise. It is about saving lives. York landlord Lawrence Stephenson has now found to his cost that failing

THE unassuming village of Burn near Selby might seem a far cry from the palatial Cheshire pads favoured by Manchester United’s footballing stars. But the village does have a connection with one of the club’s best-known players. Colombian striker

OVER the past week, my staff have found three valid passports during the early morning clean-up. None of the passports have the emergency details section at the back filled in. If they had, I would be able to send them by recorded post to the people

IT SEEMS likely that further decades will pass without our city having a local plan to inform long-term development. This demonstrates the repeated failure of party politics, and I mean all the parties. With York split between an urban (Labour/

HOW good to read about yet another teenager saving someone’s life. This 14-year-old girl, Liz Cooper, was with her parents and younger sister in North Street, the family were on their way for a birthday meal for her dad (The Press, October 6).

IRISH rock guitarist Bernie Tormé will make an in-store appearance at MOR Music, in Franklins, Yard, Fossgate, York, this afternoon ahead of his evening show at Fibbers, Toft Green. Dublin-born Tormé, guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, Dee Snider and

FOR quite a while I noticed that one of the twin lanterns on Fossgate bridge was leaning slightly, then bent further and finally – you guessed it – gone. Only the lamp-post now remains. Is the lamp, the crowning glory of that lovely old bridge,

LET’S hope and pray there are no more tragedies in York’s rivers. I have mixed feelings about the value of the proposed rescue boat as this could lull people into a further false sense of security, as these incidents can be over and done with very

I WAS delighted to see in The Press on Thursday, October 9 a photograph of Burnholme School’s cup-winning football team from 1953-54. I have a similar one of the rugby team of the same year when they won the equivalent cup. I was honoured to

I WAS concerned to read your article about the council’s chief executive and her role as a charity trustee of Nesta. The law is crystal clear. A charity trustee has fiduciary duties to a charity and only to the charity. A trustee can have no regard

YOU recently reported that a York PCSO has to walk for six hours of his eight-hour shift, between his base and patrol area. There was some incredulous public reaction to the news that he cannot cycle this distance until he has passed a police cycling

I AM pleased that thanks to a Liberal Democrat motion, Labour-run City of York Council’s draft Local Plan will now be reconsidered (The Press, October 11). We have consistently argued that Labour’s housing plans are misguided and have ignored the

LAST week Terry Smith gave us a good round-up of the present government’s achievements (Letters, October 7). It’s good to be reminded of success. I do think, however, there were one or two omissions. Can I therefore add to his list... The Tories

REGARDING relationships with fellow players, Kevin Pieterson is trying to defend the indefensible. Since arriving in England from his native South Africa, when he was warmly welcomed into the arms of cricket, he has subsequently been “sacked” by

100 years ago Escrick, although only a small village, had responded nobly to the call for men to defend King and Country, and the ladies had not failed to do their part. Up to the present 39 men had responded to the call. While the men were

A YORK University lecturer will have her work broadcast on this year’s series of Autumnwatch. Dr. Kathryn Arnold, a bird biologist who lectures at the university, spent a day with presenter Michaela Strachan filming starlings following the lecturers

IF you are wondering what to do with your now-useless car tax disc holder, police have come up with an ingenious and potentially life-saving idea. As of this month, paper tax discs will not be issued to motorists, leaving the thin plastic holder

A FAMILY has launched an appeal to raise £10,000 to help ensure their quadriplegic son can get upstairs at their York home. Max Parker, four, of Campleshon Road, South Bank, has cerebral palsy and dystonia after being born 13 weeks prematurely.

A TEAM from Market Weighton has won the East Riding's Inter Village Games. The Market Weighton Wonders triumphed in the competition which included boccia, new age kurling, seated aerobics, indoor archery and skittles. There are now over 35

VILLAGERS fighting council proposals for a massive housing development on greenfield land near their homes have pledged £10,000 to a "fighting fund". The Earswick Action Group met on Monday evening - with more than 100 villagers as well as parish

INDEPENDENT bathroom retailer Better Bathrooms will open a new showroom in York this month. The new 19,772 square foot showroom, at Clifton Moor, will be the company's first outlet in Yorkshire, and will open on Monday, October 27. Area manager

HIDDEN behind the doors at one of York's most distinctive institutions are rooms which have been left untouched for a generation. Kate Liptrot goes on a tour behind the scenes at The Retreat. THEY are sights which could have been frozen in time

Local children were not the only ones to go back to school this September. They were joined by 20 employee-volunteers on the Right To Read programme, which aims to instil a love of reading and increase literacy levels among primary school children

While many will see UKIP’s victory in the Clacton by-election as a political earthquake, for me the most important seismic shift that day happened right here in York. As the polling officers in Essex were looking forward to getting home for a late

RESIDENTS in a York village are celebrating winning gold in Britain in Bloom. Dunnington won the small town category at the 50th UK final of the awards with Dunnington's Roy Freer receiving the RHS Britain in Bloom Community Champion award for

A HEAD teacher from York took to two wheels to set an example to her pupils. This week, pupils across the country have been asked to walk, ‘scoot’ or cycle to school and at New Earswick primary in York the head, Carole Dickson, decided to take

NEARLY 500 people in York have signed up to a community energy switching project which could help them save as much as £200 on the gas and electricity bills. City of York Council has announced that 480 people registered for the second Big Community

A MOTHER from York has today told of her distress after the horse she had leased was shot dead and dumped in her garden. Beckie Warner, 26, said she had just put her daughters to bed on Wednesday night when she heard a JCB and went outside and