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  • York, North Yorks & East Yorks braced for snow and gales

    PLUMMETING temperatures and strong westerly winds are set to bring sleet and snow showers to York and North Yorkshire this evening. Weathermen have warned that significant snow accumulations are likely in places by the end of the night, particularly

  • York Light Youth to hold auditions for Honk!

    YORK Light Youth are looking for performers aged 11 and over to take part in its spring production of Honk! , along with seven to 11 year olds for the junior roles of ducklings. This musical comedy is a re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly

  • 9 wonderful old pictures of Petergate

    WELCOME to Petergate at the turn of the last century - about 1890 to 1910. As you can see from our pictures today it was a bustling thoroughfare, thronged with horse-drawn carts and carriages. There were plenty of interesting shops and businesses

  • Thankful-to-be-alive Henry asks public to become organ donors

    A 25-YEAR-OLD man who was so ill he was not expected to make Christmas, has told how a liver transplant has saved his life. Henry Steele, of Ampleforth, had suffered from liver disease since he was ten-years-old but last year his health had seriously

  • TV program that could finally end your dietary hell

    We are almost one month into the New Year – how are your New Year Resolutions holding up? If you made solemn promises to eat healthier and lose weight this year you may be intrigued by the recent Horizon series on BBC2 entitled “What’s The Right

  • Beyond Clueless (15), City Screen, York, January 27

    WHO better than director Charlie Lyne to clue you up on his found-footage documentary Beyond Clueless, the Discover Tuesday film choice at City Screen, York, tomorrow at 6.30pm? "It's an essay film about teen movies, and it's basically been a labour

  • Baring up to a marketing ploy

    I DON’T think banishing boobs on page three of The Sun ‘newspaper’ – and I use the word advisedly - is going to lead to many more people reading it, do you? There are those who think this is just a cynical marketing ploy on the part of the Murdoch

  • Bridlington road closure warning

    MARTON Road in Bridlington will be closed for five Sundays from February 15 for major repairs. The project will also see work Monday to Friday from 9.15am with traffic lights and a convoy system. Bus routes will be operating during the week

  • DFS eyes up £1 billion flotation

    YORKSHIRE based furniture retailer DFS is reported to be eyeing up a listing on the London stock market which would value the firm at £1 billion. DFS, which opened its first York store at Clifton Moor in September last year, was sold in 2010 by

  • Portakabin ranked for financial security

    A GLOBAL specialist in business information and financial risk analysis has awarded its highest ranking status to York-based Portakabin Group. The portable building firm, based in Huntington, is now in the top 15 per cent of all companies in the

  • Solicitor appointed to lead regional directors institute

    A LAWYER from a York firm of solicitors has been named as the new regional chairman for the Institute of Director's Yorkshire and Humber branch. Jonathan Oxley, director of corporate finance at Lupton Fawcett Denison Till, has been acting regional

  • Your chance to have a say on York health issues

    HEALTHWATCH York has introduced a new online feedback centre to enable people to let them know about their experiences of health and social care services in York. Giving feedback to Healthwatch York enables people to influence local health and

  • Tadcaster steal a march on rivals with Glasshoughton win

    TADCASTER Albion stole a march on their Northern Counties East League premier division title rivals with a 2-0 success at Glasshoughton. The leaders sealed maximum points with goals from Calum Ward and David Brown, valuable strikes considering

  • Police left bombs at station for 5 days

    ARTILLERY shells were left outside York Police Station for five days before an officer realised what they were and raised the alarm, The Press has learned. Last week Fulford Road police station was evacuated for more than two hours, and a 100 metre

  • Warning that ongoing heartburn can be a sign of cancer

    A CAMPAIGN across Yorkshire and the Humber aims to raise awareness that ongoing heartburn can be a sign of cancer. Latest data reveals around 1400 people across Yorkshire and The Humber are diagnosed with oesophago-gastric cancers each year.

  • Pocklington RUFC romp to whitewash win

    POCKLINGTON RUFC moved three places up the North One East table to seventh after a bonus point 31-0 home victory over bottom club Horden. Pocklington were expected to win against a side that has propped up the table all season. But this was a potential

  • Royal York Hotel owners plan major overhaul

    A HISTORIC York hotel is on track for a major overhaul taking it back to its Victorian heyday, if planning permission is granted. The owners of the Royal York hotel, next door to York Station, have applied for permission to make alterations to

  • Has our city turned posh and lifeless?

    IS YORK as dull as ditchwater ... or a city of stunning architecture and vibrant cultural life? Author Paul Furness claims the former, council and tourism bosses the latter. Mr Furness, in the introduction to a new “alternative” history of

  • Life-affirming story

    THE story of mum-of-four Caroline Kimberling, who has been reunited with those who saved her life after she suffered a heart attack while at the cinema, is truly life-affirming. Thankfully Caroline has made a full recovery now and those involved

  • Theatre sale was mismanagement

    KEITH Rozelle’s criticism of the Greens (Letters, January 22) for supporting Labour’s £500,000 plans for the Guildhall could equally be levelled at his leader, Tory Cllr Chris Steward, over his support at cabinet for the disposal of York Theatre Royal

  • Milk boycott of supermarkets

    HEAR, hear, Heather Causnett (Letters, January 22). I for one will not buy milk from a supermarket that continues to cut their prices. Surely they are cheap enough now. I want British milk on my breakfast. Hazel Ward, Badger Hill, York.

  • York City Knights boss James Ford: "We're not panicking"

    "WE'RE not panicking." That was the underlying message from York City Knights coach James Ford after his side lost 62-6 to Featherstone in their second outing of pre-season, following on from the 62-0 defeat to Hull. York conceded 11 tries

  • Christmas collection was just rubbish

    MAY I add my own experience of rubbish non collection over Christmas? We did not receive a gaily coloured calendar stating collection dates, so using our initiative we followed the calendar for 2014 and it was recycle box day on the Tuesday before

  • God was invented by man not vice versa

    PEOPLE are free to believe in whichever deity they wish. In the same way they may believe in the magic of crop circles and that UFOs are visits by aliens. The fact they ignore is that God(s) were created by man and not the other way round.

  • Halcyon days of the fireside bath night

    READING Helen Mead’s column “Bath time bliss” (The Press, January 20) I had to smile. When I was a child, Friday night was bath night and I and my younger sister had a bath together and our hair washed. When we got out, we were taken into the

  • Developers won’t take risk in our city

    THE council report claiming developers had been put off investing in York because of political uncertainty is absurd. In May 2010, Labour had a clear overall majority and five years to the next election. There was nothing uncertain about the political

  • Council will kill off our rugby league

    MAY I write in support of J W Moody’s letter. The present council are in danger of going down in history as the council that killed professional rugby league in York. York has always been known as a RL city, look at how many amateur clubs we have

  • A call for no more Tour ‘de’ Yorkshire

    IT HAS been announced that there is going to be an annual bike ride across Yorkshire, following on from the one last year. People don't ask for a cup de tea or a slice de cake so why does this bike ride, in a totally English county, have to be

  • Action needed to tackle parking

    I AM pleased that The Press of January 21 highlighted my petition to tackle dangerous parking on Heslington Lane opposite Fulford Golf Club. In just a week the petition has received nearly 300 signatures. Local residents and club members have reported

  • Blame the Coalition for bed blocking

    OLIVER House on Priory Street was a brilliantly run council care home, perfectly positioned and accessible to all. We are all aware of the chaotic scenes at numerous A&Es this Christmas. One of the prime reasons is what is known as bed blocking

  • Police not interested in road accident

    IN THE Press of January 21, Philip Roe asks what has happened to our police. I can tell him what has happened to some of them – they are resting in what is supposed to be Acomb Police Station. On the night January 13, I called at the station to

  • The best candidate for the job

    JULIE GUNNELL has my support as Labour’s candidate for York Central. Having met the three candidates so far declared (Julie, Jo Coles, Rachael Maskell), I believe she has the best credentials to represent York. Julie is a true local unassuming

  • January 26

    100 years ago The excellent arrangements made by the committee and secretary of the YMCA Club at the Exhibition Buildings, York, for the comfort and convenience of the soldiers in York, were being much appreciated, the attendances being about 1000

  • Gay history roadshow to be staged at York's Castle Museum

    A SPECIAL roadshow is coming to York's Castle Museum to tell the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history. Curators at the museum and archivists at York Explore are holding the Bringing History out of the Closet event on February 7

  • New chairwoman for NHS foundation trust

    SUE SYMINGTON has been appointed as the new chair of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. She will succeed Alan Rose when he reaches the end of his term of office on 31 March 2015. A former non-executive director and vice chairman of

  • Charity appeals for greater support for cancer patients

    SOME 4,300 people in Yorkshire and the Humber phoned a national cancer charity to ask for help last year. New figures from Macmillan Cancer Support show there were 143 callers in York - of these, 70 per cent of requests were for clinical information

  • Big garden bird watch at Museum Gardens

    VISITORS to the Museum Gardens at the weekend were encouraged to turn their attention to the varieties of bird that frequent the park. The RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch saw curators and the gardens team leading free tours on Saturday to try and count

  • Is York ‘horribly twee and as dull as ditchwater’?

    YORK is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - but it is also dull as ditchwater and horribly twee, according to the author of a new 'alternative' history of the city. The 'chippy Northerners' who were once York's heart and soul have been

  • York brothels were bankrolled by leading London architect

    A LEADING London architect provided the financial backing that enabled his Thai wife to set up and run two brothels in York, a court heard. Brian Reynolds, 53, who has worked on British embassies in Berlin and Moscow, benefited from the money passed

  • Holocaust victims honoured during candlelit vigil

    A SERIES of events have been held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. At Clifford's Tower last night there was a candlelit ceremony of remembrance of the massacre of the Jewish people in York

  • Student village plans criticised by residents

    DEVELOPERS planning to bring more student housing to Hull Road risk swamping and over-saturating the area, residents and councillors have warned. Vita Student have applied to convert the historic Poor Clare's convent on Lawrence Street into a 21st

  • Man hit student in row over loud music

    A MAN who lives next to a student house ended up in court when he protested about loud music being played by his neighbours. Owen Ronald Robson, 57, wanted the volume turning down. But his request led to a confrontation between him and one of the