HEADINGLEY is set for a bumper summer of international cricket in 2019, including a first Ashes Test there for ten years.The England and Wales Cricket Board have confirmed their major match allocation from 2017 to 2019, the last year of Yorkshire’s existing
THE latest locations for North Yorkshire Police's speed camera vans have been announced. The cameras will be at the following locations at various times for the next seven days. A162 Sherburn by-pass
York is one of the worst housing blackspots in England, with only three per cent of its homes classed as affordable. MATT CLARK meets the head of an organisation that offers an alternative to buying. FIFTY years ago, from a small room in King's
THE Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York is to play host to a New Year's Eve Special that will leave plenty of time to join the midnight celebrations. "This is the first time the Hyena Lounge has ever been able to run a show on December 31," says promoter
YOUNGSTERS at a York primary school have used their new cook zone to lend a helping hand to Mrs Claus this Christmas. The 30 young chefs in the reception class at St Aelred’s RC School in Tang Hall have given Santa's wife a helping hand and spent
STUDENTS in York are playing a part in the growth of the city's newest brewing business following an allocation of funding from the Yorkshire Innovation Fund. Throughout the autumn term business and marketing students at York St John University
A TEAM of York accountants are celebrating after their firm topped a national league for services offered to the charitable sector. BHP Barron & Barron came out top of the league table in the Charity Audit Survey 2014. The national survey
A FATHER and son duo are celebrating a hat-trick of award wins to round off their first year in business. Having launched their Meatball bar and restaurant in Harrogate's Station Bridge in March this year, David and Gareth Atkinson have gone on
A NEW survey has revealed that leaders of small businesses in Yorkshire are just as likely to seek business advice from family and friends as they are from professionals. The research found an equal amount of decision makers in Yorkshire’s small
A £350 investment in new computer operated machinery has been made by Ripon-based Latham Logging. The business, which operates felling and time extraction services, has made the six-figured investment as it prepares to expand its operations across
A YORK businesswoman is in the running to be named Entrepreneur of the Year at a national awards. Kate Lovett, who is company director of EDGE Services, which offers moving and handling training, is a finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year category
AS winters go, this one doesn’t get any bigger for ex-Yorkshire fast bowler Iain Wardlaw. Wardlaw is preparing to spearhead Scotland’s bid to spring a surprise at the one-day World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, starting in mid-February.
RYEDALE runner Cape Tribulation is aiming to make it two wins in three years at Wetherby's showpiece Boxing Day meeting. The Malcolm Jefferson-trained ten-year-old is on course for a third successive appearance in the £40,000 Grade 3 William Hill
THIRSK & Sowerby Harriers member Dan Holdsworth finished second out of 209 runners at the Harrogate Park Run. Holdsworth clocked a new personal best time of 20 minutes 43 seconds. Graham Robinson took part in the Park Run at Albert Park
THE third York City Official Golf Day will take place at Forest Park in Stockton-on-the-Forest on Thursday, October 10. City legends Andy McMillan and Richard Cresswell took part in this year’s event, alongside current favourite Michael Coulson
ACOMB 'A' kept up their impressive form in the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League with a 5-2 win at Heworth 'A'. Acomb's Dan Potter (31 break) beat Adam Scaife in the opening frame, only for Heworth skipper Steve Burdett to come
CITY of York Hockey Club are hoping to make 2015 a champion year, The top four City of York men's sides are aiming for promotion, with the first team and fourth team topping their divisions heading into the Christmas break. The first team are yet
HIGH-FLYING City of York Hockey Club men's IV are aiming for the perfect season in Yorkshire League division three. The club head into the Christmas and New Year break after recording 12 consecutive wins, making them one of only two teams out of
BRIAN HUGHES, the leading northern jockey over jumps this season, and currently fifth in the championship table, travels to Newbury today with good prospects of adding to his 60-plus winners this season. Hughes, who rides for Malcolm Jefferson
POLICE were called after three cars and a van crashed in York at rush hour. The collision happened outside the Bay Horse pub at around 5.40pm on Monday. Nobody was injured.
POLICE and paramedics were called to the riverside in York to treat a man who had fallen down steps. The 33-year-old man, who was believed to have been drinking, fell down the steps at Kings Staith next to the Slug and Lettuce at around 4.30pm
SELBY Abbey’s annual Carols by Candlelight service will take place this Sunday, December 21, starting at 6.30pm. The traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols will be followed by mulled wine and mince pies and admission is free to all. Doors
MONTHLY coffee mornings by the Salvation Army in Selby raised £1,398 this year. This total includes £583, which was raised at the December Christmas Bazaar. The funding will be used to secure items needed for the new Salvation Army Centre on
A NUMBER of households in East Yorkshire will get their council tax collected later than usual this month. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has said that it had experienced a technical problem when attempting to collect direct debit payments from
POCKLINGTON ward councillors on East Riding of Yorkshire Council Kay West, Stephen Lane and Claude Mole will not be holding a surgery on the last Saturday in December. They will resume the monthly surgeries on Saturday, January 31, 2015. They
EAST Riding of Yorkshire Council is backing a campaign, Think B4U Drink, to encourage people to drink responsibly during the party season. A spokesman said that in line with national trends, alcohol consumption in East Yorkshire had increased significantly
GENEROUS readers of The Press have until this Friday morning to donate items to our annual Toys & Tins Appeal. Donations of toys and non-perishable food will be given to less fortunate children and adults over the festive period by the Salvation
A SCHEME aimed at helping York adults recover from poor mental health has won a major lottery boost. St Nicks Ecotherapy Centre has received £152,565 from the Big Lottery Fund to support it with a mentoring and ecotherapy programme. A variety
YORK City Knights owner John Guildford is still seeking assurances that the community stadium will be completed on schedule before fully committing to the project. Guildford claims the terms of the Knights’ move to Bootham Crescent, while a new
YORK'S economy is now estimated to have been given an £8 million boost from hosting the Tour De France Grand Depart, councillors were told last night. The figure, considerably more than was originally anticipated, relates to the direct economic
SENIOR councillors have agreed to press ahead with new temporary homeless hostel accommodation in York. Cabinet member Tracey Simpson-Laing said last night that City of York Council had a moral as well as a statutory duty to replace the crumbling
WORRIED residents have handed over scores of letters of objection to draft Local Plan proposals for their village. The villagers have formed an action group to fight plans which they are worried will damage the green belt in Naburn and Fulford,
LEGAL action is being taken against a bar with York connections, which left a teenager needing emergency surgery following a nitrogen-laced drink. Gaby Scanlon, 18, from Heysham, Lancashire, was celebrating her birthday at Oscar’s Wine Bar in Lancaster
IF Cinderella can have her dreams come true, then why not wish that the Grand Opera House pantomime might reach for the stars one day. What's more, as standards rise all around it, from the touring West End hits to premieres of new thrillers, from
THE Church of England's first woman bishop will be consecrated in a historic service at York Minster next month. The Rev Libby Lane, currently Vicar of St Peter's, Hale, and St Elizabeth's, Ashley, has today been named as Bishop of Stockport.
A 26-YEAR-OLD man is recovering in hospital after a street assault left him with a broken jaw. The man was attacked in George Hudson Street at about 1.45am yesterday, and was taken to York Hospital for treatment. Now detectives are appealing
THE Liberal Democrats in York have announced a local activist and pub campaigner as their candidate for the York Central seat at the next general election. The party on Monday night selected Nick Love to be their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate
SIXTY-five years of marriage are being celebrated by a York couple who first met at a friend's 21st birthday party, and married in Fulford Parish Church. Audrey and Alan Thornton, of Heslington Lane, both worked in the War Office in the younger
A SEX offender who abducted an under- age girl only days after magistrates cleared him of committing a sexual offence with her, has been jailed. Police served Liam Hawes, 19, with a formal order to have no contact at all with the 15-year-old girl
YORK desperately needs new homes – especially ones ordinary local people can afford. So it is excellent news that Associated British Foods (ABF) has submitted plans for the redevelopment of the old British Sugar factory off Boroughbridge Road.
LAST June, Masham residents were told to take down miniature jerseys, knitted as favours for the Tour de France, in case the wool became wet and caused the town’s steel lamp posts to bend under the weight. The story caused national bemusement because
IF as I was informed by an officer of City of York Council, the wishes of officers to delay the start of the Lendal Bridge scheme were overruled by councillors then is it not possible that but for that decision a lot of the problems and costs could
RECENT birthday greening and photographs of Dame Judi Dench sparked a trip switch in the memory box, back to the long hot summers of childhood days. Primary and junior school was good old Haxby Road, where discipline and love were just an extension
CAN anyone help me out? My boyfriend is a keen follower of football at all levels and collects official metal supporters club badges from every league, ex-league and non-league football club. He only needs a couple of badges to have at least one
IN Mike Laycock’s brief but excellent article for Judi Dench’s 80th birthday (The Press, December 9), he included a photograph of Judi as an angel in what was said to be the 1954 York Mystery Plays. I don’t think this photograph is from that production
IAN COLLINSON (Letters, December 11), replying to my letter about defecting Labour councillors, writes that taxpayers can only speculate what may be going on. Speculate means indulge in thought, rumours, and so forth. By speculating and the repetition
WHILE we are well aware of the savage cuts imposed on local councils by central government, the council has to explore every possible way of making good the shortfall. To continue making cuts to essential services such as refuse collections, social
THE “Sort out wastage” letter of December 15 was very revealing as to what is being proposed and is actually happening with regard to waste collection and recycling. Paul Hepworth correctly says that correspondents in The Press should refrain from
A MAN has been jailed for ten weeks for spitting at a shop worker at York railway station. Anthony Cornwell, 24, was also ordered to pay £100 in compensation to his victim, who was working at the Whistlestop in the station at about 5pm on Saturday
I WAS intrigued by your piece about the man who sold his wife but surprised there was no reference to the remarkable similarity between this story and the plot of Thomas Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. So I checked on Wikipedia which gives
COULD I thank all those who voted for me in the recent Rawcliffe Parish by-election. I would also like to include those wishes to those who voted for my opponent who won by just one vote. It was great to see that democracy on a cold and wet day
TRACEY SIMPSON-LAING seems to think that discolouration of chutes and some corrosion in a harsh swimming pool environment is justification to destroy Waterworld after only 17 years (Letters, December 11). It is not. It is a reason to implement
I SUSPECT Megi Rychlikova misjudges our medieval forebears (column, December 12). Having forgotten the art of concrete mixing, I imagine that the architects of our medieval cathedrals were probably thinking “thank goodness we won’t be around when
CHRISTIAN VASSIE’S views (Letters, December 11) of GM crops and Monsanto are misinformed. Monsanto is successful when farmers chose to buy our products. Farmers make this choice when the price and performance of our seeds or other products offers
100 years ago Mr George Shaw, the skipper of the Scarborough steam trawler St Cloud, told of how the Germans had come to Scarborough the previous day, and the terrible havoc he witnessed them create in the space of half-an-hour. “About half-past
YORK College hosted its A-Level Awards Evening at the National Centre for Early Music in York. The event, on Monday night, recognised students who excelled in their A-Level studies in the summer and included three new awards from the University
DISADVANTAGED children in the Balkans and Eastern Europe will receive special Christmas boxes, thanks to pupils at Tadcaster Grammar School. The annual shoebox appeal always touches the heartstrings of students at the school and this year, through
A MOTHER and daughter spoke of their “five years of hell” after a pensioner accused of harassing them – including hoovering in the middle of the night – was given an indefinite restraining order yesterday. Beverley Flowers, 51, and her student
Is your pet ready for Christmas? These days, it’s not just family members that put on their best bib and tucker: dogs, cats and even hamsters are getting in on the act as Christmas-loving owners splash out on outfits their pets can wear and treats
THE fight against fracking in Ryedale is gathering speed as town and district councillors call for public meetings to better inform residents on what fracking could mean for the area. Councillor Lindsay Burr has put forward a motion to Ryedale
NEIGHBOURS of a man who was attacked by masked burglars have spoken of their shock at the incident. The man, said to be in his 50's, was followed by three men wearing balaclavas as he returned to his home in Firthland Road, Pickering on Monday
A DAY of commemoration has marked 100 years since the bombardment of North Yorkshire seaside towns during the First World War. The civic ceremony started at Scarborough's Town Hall gardens at 7.55am to commemorate the time when German shells were
A FESTIVE yarn 'bomb ' has been removed from an ancient monument in Helmsley after fears the stonework could be damaged. Business owners and members of the community had created the display of knitted Christmas decorations as part of the seasonal
The Burning Duck Comedy Club started only a few months ago, but already has drawn in quite the crowd - and no wonder: their selection of alternative comedy is a delight. Located upstairs in the delightfully rickety Black Swan pub, it’s a perfect
YORK people can chase away the January blues when more than 50 attractions and events offer free entry during the 20th Residents' Festival next month. The festival, staged on Saturday January 31 and Sunday February 1, is intended to thank residents
MORE than 1,000 homes and a new primary school are to be built on the site of a former York factory, under new plans submitted to city leaders. British Sugar revealed yesterday that is has submitted planning applications for the development of
