YORK City boss Russ Wilcox has told his players they must start taking advantage of their high corner counts. The Minstermen forced 13 flag kicks compared to Exeter’s one during today’s 0-0 home draw at Bootham Crescent but managed just a single
A 22-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to kill in a disturbance in a residential area of York today. Armed police are understood to have been dispatched to the domestic incident in Fourth Avenue, Tang Hall at about 12pm
YORK City fought out a stale 0-0 draw with Exeter at Bootham Crescent. The hosts’ best chances fell to Wes Fletcher, who forced a near-post save from visiting keeper James Hamon and headed over from a Marvin McCoy cross after the break.
CAMPAIGNERS have taken to York city centre today to petition for greater support of the NHS. The petition calls on politicians standing in May’s general election, to commit to protect the NHS from privatisation and to make sure it has the funding
GINA PARKINSON says it is time to make the most of the new season. THE garden is beckoning us outside as spring begins, the pace quickening as the days pass into March. Spring fever has already begun in our house, with me waking in the early
MOTHER’S Day on Sunday, March 15 is an ideal occasion for those budding young Hestons to give Mum a day off, even though she will probably need the following week to get the kitchen back to normal. These two recipes are both pretty straightforward
THIS week we’re returning to Macclesfield’s Red Willow brewery so that we might have our cake and eat it. Soulless is rich, dark, and velvety smooth, but is also assertively hopped. So yes, you caught me, it’s another black IPA, a style whose name
Gavin Aitchison gives some German beers the thumbs-up. THERE were steins all round on Toft Green last week. I had headed to the German-style bar in the old Tokyo nightclub site, but when I stopped at York Brewery, I found the theme had spread
THERE are lots of lovely plums around in the shops and markets at the moment. Take advantage of this and try them on your breakfast: I like to roast plums in the oven with lots of ginger, spice and brown sugar until they caramelize deliciously
ALWAYS wear your reading glasses, they could save you several thousands of pounds. If you are dining in a swanky Knightsbridge eatery that is. I received an email yesterday from Keith Massey, well known to readers of this journal as a regular contributor
MATT CLARK spends the day with North Yorkshire’s newest swineherd at Carlton Towers – and reports on a venture to produce the finest pork for its cookery school. AT Blandings Castle, Lord Emsworth may have pampered his beloved Empress, but at Carlton
LIFE is never dull for Lucy Beaumont from Hull. So much so that the erstwhile Hull Truck actress switched to stand-up comedy, telling stories from her own life with just an ounce of exaggeration, like the time a crow landed on her head. Or when
A COUPLE are challenging runners to enter a race to honour a 36-year-old champion athlete who died suddenly last month. Nicky Fearn and John Withinshaw, of JDW Fitness, Thirsk, said they would stage the inaugural fundraising Ben Campbell 5k and
A LEADING rail union is to stage a series of protests to mark the final day of a train company being run in the public sector. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will organise demonstrations along the East Coast Main Line today at London
THE York-based Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has defended its funding of the campaign group Cage after it blamed MI5 for radicalising ‘Jihadi John.’ Earlier this week, Cage leader Asim Qureshi accused the security services of radicalising Mohammed
INCREASED parking charges and less money than expected for winter road repairs will pay for the budget deal struck by Labour councillors. Season ticket parking charges are to go up by four per cent, while on-street car parking, short stay and standard
AN EXHIBITION that focuses on the costume, art and archaeology of York’s museums and galleries has won £200,000 in funding from the Government. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Foundation’s £200,000 grant will see York
NEW Government figures released yesterday could radically change housing plans for York, councillors have said. The Local Plan – which has provoked fierce disagreement over how many new houses York needs and where they should be built – may need
ONE person was behind a report that suggested “fudging” the finances as a £13.4 million care home project ran into difficulties, the chief executive of City of York Council has said. A council document was drawn up with options including whether
CASTLE Howard was illuminated in spectacular style to mark an international tourism seminar in York. VisitBritain’s seminar, which was held at York Racecourse, focused on how Yorkshire could attract an even greater share of the country’s growing
THE organisers of a summer fundraising concert in the grounds of of an 18th century manor will mark its tenth anniversary this year by staging its grandest event yet. Thirsk Action Group said Robbie Williams and Blues Brothers tribute acts and
A TRIBUTE to an iconic Mini made famous by The Beatles’ Penny Lane promotional film will go under the hammer in North Yorkshire this summer. Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn will auction a Penny Mini – covered with old English pennies – in the automobilia
INSURANCE scammers are among those being blamed for thousands of hoax calls to the emergency services across North Yorkshire. Freedom of Information requests from fire, police and ambulance services reveal that almost 21,000 hoax calls were received
WE all know that drink-driving is wrong. But how many of us realise that driving under the influence of drugs can be just as dangerous? And we’re not talking only about illegal drugs – some medicines can make you drowsy and unfit to drive. A new
OUR front page story today about a hooded man trying to mug two women at Clifton Backies is deeply saddening and yet also in its own way inspiring. Saddening, because for one of the women, Clifton Backies had very special memories. Carol Riddell
THE redevelopment of the former British Sugar site is the biggest development in Acomb for many years, and it’s essential the plans are right. The site, including the old Manor School, is one of York’s largest brownfield sites, and while I support
RICHARD Lane (Letters, February 26) paints an idyllic Tellytubbyland of wind turbines, but has he considered whether the birds find these blades welcoming? I read that the White Throated Needletail, a beautiful and extremely rare bird flew into
IS Britain to slide back into the 1970s mess with trade unions calling the shots on national political policy and going on strike at the drop of a hat? I refer now to the demands from Unite boss Red Len McClusky to Milliband to bring home the bacon
HAVING worked on wards at York District Hospital I saw for myself at first hand the hard work and dedication each day of the nursing staff and the care they showed to all patients regardless of personal sacrifice. I therefore believe very strongly
IN reply to Heather Causnett’s letter re Valentine’s Day. She seems to have misunderstood Ken’s letter. He was illustrating the ridiculous prices, charged for inferior foreign roses, just because it was Valentine’s Day. I am Ken’s partner and I
NOW the blame game has started as to how the three girls got into Syria. To my mind the girls themselves are to blame. They have been brought up in loving families, had a good education and live in a free society but they decided to leave and join
THE point Mr Westmoreland was making by comparing the bombing of Dresden and the current wars in the Middle East is the futility of organised killing of “the enemy”. Your readers W.J . Drummond, J. Beisly and P.Roe (Letters, February 24) are unwilling
I, LIKE many others, honour and salute the memory of those heroic men from the British/Commonwealth and allied airforces, who bombed Germany and Japan. This gave us the freedom to express our opinions (however jaundiced) in a free press. Perhaps
AS an exasperated member of the Church of England, since when did the senior Bishops themselves surrounded by pomp and comfort, glean the knowledge to comment on matters of which they have very little experience? The empty pews in churches throughout
WE WISH to thank the residents of York in the areas we visited with the Father Christmas Sleigh last December. The amount that was raised was around £6,000, which will be used to help local charities and Rotary’s own charities. The generous
READING the Civic Trust’s recommendations on how to clean up the city (The Press, February 26) one section of the report baffled me. I refer to the statement that “the exit from York Station for pedestrians is awful”. I would have thought that
100 years ago It was now the time for the little man with a big heart to do something for his country, the War Office having reduced the height standard of recruits for certain regiments to 5ft 1 inch. The age remained the same, 19 to 38, and
RAIL users are being offered help to save money thanks to a computer code which finds cut-price fares normally hidden from the public. Founders of TrainSplit.com are helping passengers buy cheaper split tickets, where they can break their journey
AN AIR ambulance helicopter caused a stir at a York primary school when it landed on the playing field. The Clifton School and Nursery at St Peter’s School have been fundraising for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) and hope to raise £3,000.
POLICE in North Yorkshire have new powers to stop motorists driving under the influence of drugs. The new law comes into force on Monday, and will make it easier for police to prosecute motorists caught driving while under the influence of any
SIXTH form students from Tadcaster Grammar School have completed a five-hour football marathon, raising more than £700 for charity. The students were aiming to get more people talking about prostate cancer by taking part in the epic game. It
BEER-lovers are getting the chance to raise a few pints and boost charity coffers at the same time. The annual Harrogate Charity Beer Festival, organised by the local Round Table, is being held at the town’s Crown Hotel from March 12 to 14.
A FLEET of luxury cars which were seized by a York-based Trading Standards team, will be auctioned to the public today. The cars, including five Bentleys and a Ferrari, were seized from a pair of rogue traders by the National Trading Standards
YOUNGSTERS from primary schools across York gathered to record a video for Red Nose Day. About 35 children from 14 schools turned up at Melrose Yard Studios in Walmgate to record a backing track to go on their own video montage. As reported
ARMED police officers have been deployed to more than 220 incidents in North Yorkshire in the last 12 months. Figures obtained by The Press show armed North Yorkshire Police officers fired their weapons 15 times during call-outs in the region between
YORK’S Lord Mayor Ian Gillies has attended a fair few functions over the last year. But it’s fair to say not many of them will have involved swapping tales about life on the streets with homeless people over a bacon sarnie. His neat dark suit
A DEVIOUS teenager who raped and sexually abused five young girls has been given a nine-year custodial sentence. The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, warned that Adrian Maynard, 17, was highly likely to re-offend when he is released and
HOLDERS Poppleton Tigers Under-15s are on course to retain their North Riding County FA U16s Girls Cup after a 5-1 semi-final win over Redcar Town U16s. In the final at county HQ in Stokesley the Tigers will face either York Railway Institute U16s
YORK City Knights stalwart Mick Ramsden has asked fans to get fully behind the players as they kick off their 2015 season. The long-running turmoil behind the scenes, with the Knights being excluded from the community stadium plan by project leaders
GETTING them early is a mantra applied to all manner of sports - but at Riccall each week there’s a buzz among the youngest generation. Rugbees - an initiative set up by former York Academy, Heworth and New Earswick All Blacks player Mark Tipping
STEP Into Sport has been hailed as a resounding success. A fun-packed schedule of half-term sports hosted by Tadcaster Grammar School included swimming, dodge ball, basketball, football, dance fitness and rugby league with Castleford Tigers coaches
WITH York FA Under-19s Football League leaders Dringhouses not playing, second and third played each other. And the honours went to third-placed Haxby United, who shaded hosts Tockwith 2-1 to go above them in the table. George Parkinson was
CITY of York Athletic Club youngsters sampled a series of successes at the final club race in the National Cross Country Championships. Josh Dickinson was first York runner home in the under-13 boys' section with a fine seventh place at Hampstead
NORTH Yorkshire schoolboy Jake Doyle claimed a sixth-placed finish in the giant slalom at the English Alpine Ski Championships in Bormio. The 14-year-old, from Topcliffe, was competing with more than 350 athletes at the Snowsport England event,
YORK Schoolboy under 13s were kept off the scoresheet for the first time this season by friendly opponents Hambleton & Richmond. A goal-less draw, though, proved a good test for the Minstermites prior to their challenging cup quarter-final
HEAD coach James Ford says York City Knights have an extra incentive ahead of tomorrow’s season opener - the desire to give fans a much-needed fillip. Ford admits the priority this year is promotion and to that end the early rounds of cup competitions
THIRSK Falcons under-15s football team have joined forces with local sports performance wear company Sub Sports, which will see the team supplied with base-layers as well as two-year kit sponsorship deal. The club fields more than 14 teams across
NORTHAMPTON'S Sky Bet League Two clash with York City turned into an easy ride for the home team. For the 12 visiting fans who cycled to the match in three days, however, it was anything but. Ian Jones, Dan Waterworth, Ben Nicholson, Adam Livingston
YORK City Knights reporter PETER MARTINI reveals the men to carry the Knights standard this season Head coach - James Ford. Dob: 29/9/82: Previously a prolific try-scorer with Sheffield and Super League player with Castleford, he joined York as
SIANAGH GALLAGHER dreams of one day winning Paralympic gold - but for now the York climber has set her sights on becoming the best in the world. The 18-year-old, last year named as the disabled sportsperson of the year and overall sportsperson
"MY BLOOD ran cold thinking what could have happened to her." Those were the words of Mandy Melka, after her mother Carol Riddell was threatened as she walked with a friend at a York beauty spot, just days after the death of her partner of 16 years
NIGHT IN MILAN can this afternoon enjoy a day at Doncaster - for the second successive year. Trained at Lingdale near Saltburn, close to the North York Moors, by Keith Reveley, the gelding is fancied to lift the historic £50,000 BetBright Grimthorpe
CAN there have been a more bewildering week in the turbulent history of York’s community stadium than the past five days? The fiasco of a project that is taking a painful length of time to achieve is descending into ever more farce. This week
