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  • Review: Josie Long, Cara Josephine, The Duchess, York

    JOSIE Long started performing stand-up professionally in 2005 and hasn't stopped since. She's taken seven solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe and her credits also include writing for Skins and running a monthly comedy club in Camden Town. Despite

  • Archive pictures stir readers' memories

    Several readers have been in touch about a photograph we featured a couple of weeks ago which showed a double decker bus looming through thick fog in York. It was dated December 27, 1962: but could anyone tell exactly where it was, we asked?

  • Cancer survivor sets up support group for other patients

    A befriending scheme has been set up at York Hospital to support people living with blood cancer. Its organiser, leukaemia survivor Carol Miller, speaks to health reporter Kate Liptrot. CAROL Miller has beaten cancer twice. She was first diagnosed

  • Body, Mind & Soul: Antibiotics can be wrong option

    The great antibiotic overuse debate raises its head every year come flu season. This year has been no exception with reports of a new mutation in the flu virus making flu vaccination only three per cent effective. Of course flu is a viral illness

  • Hairdresser opens salon named after his grandfather

    A HAIRDRESSER has opened his first salon in York and named the business after his late grandfather. Steven Metcalfe, 35, has taken a five-year lease on the property in Gillygate, trading as ‘Thomas Frederick’ – the first names of his grandfather

  • Fears for 150 jobs at North Yorkshire insurance company

    A NORTH Yorkshire insurance company has revealed it will be moving its operations to Brighton following a merger deal putting more than 150 jobs at risk. Engage Mutual said over the next two to three years up to 163 Harrogate jobs may be lost following

  • GBUK adds to its growing specialist team

    A SPECIALIST manufacturer and distributor of medical devices has appointed five new team members across the growing business. GBUK has welcomed Harriet Adkin and Dulcie Brooke as new customer service assistants after they both recently graduated

  • Own goal over Wakefield store's rhubarb

    NOW that’s what I call sacrilege. Dutch rhubarb on sale in a supermarket less than a mile from where the annual Yorkshire rhubarb festival was in full swing… This was in Wakefield, a city that’s on the apex of the Yorkshire rhubarb triangle where

  • Driving ban for motorist who was twice the legal limit

    DRIVERS have been warned they can still be over the drink-drive limit the morning after the night before. Brendan Shane Carlyle, 46, was more than twice the drink-drive limit when he was stopped by police in Stonebow, York, on February 7, York

  • Job club celebrates as members find work

    A YORK job club is celebrating a successful year in which its members have found employment and started education courses. CAP Job Club, run at Gateway Church in Acomb, is a weekly drop-in club which combines one-to-one consultations, group support

  • Snow expected with severe weather warnings

    SNOW is expected to continue in some areas of North Yorkshire for the next 24 hours. The Met Office has put a number of severe weather warnings in place for the region, with temperatures expected to fall below freezing tonight, and snow and ice

  • Volunteer force to snare fast drivers

    IT seems speed bumps, Gatso cameras and shock TV adverts are not enough to deter motorists from driving too fast. Now a pilot scheme is to be introduced in North Yorkshire that may finally provide the solution. From today, volunteers with radar

  • Stable relationship

    ROSEMARY Setts may sound like a character from Poirot, but the reality is no less exotic. Otherwise known as Stable Paviours they are colourful double hexagon shaped tiles that once adorned York's back alleys. Now, more than 300 of these setts

  • Living quarters fear for stable staff

    IT WAS nice of the Princess Royal to visit Malton to open the new Racing Welfare abode (The Press, February 18). The building may be ideal for the office staff of Racing Welfare, but it is the worst imaginable situation for the lads and lasses

  • Candidate was chosen fairly

    SO the Conservative candidate for York Central really does exist (Letter from Robert McIlveen, Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for York Central, February 21). I was thinking he was a figment of Conservative Head Office imagination

  • Council is really switched on

    CITY of York Council should be congratulated for supporting the big community switch, where individual households group together to switch their energy supplier. I somewhat sceptically signed up over the internet after reading about it in The Press

  • Education shouldn’t be political football

    THE five papers in John Tomsett’s A Great Education for All manifesto (The Press, February 21) chimed strongly with key aspects of Green Party policies. These policies support a curriculum to broaden school education by including subjects such

  • Parking on kerbs puts people at risk

    I TOTALLY agree with Mrs J Dawson of Butcher Terrace (Letters, February 18) about cars parking over dropped pavements. As a wheelchair user, I know how she feels. In some roads parking over dropped kerbs is putting lives at risk, because we then

  • Aggressive US puts Russia in the shade

    WHAT hope our descendants when the arming of Ukrainian separatists by Russia can be seen by so many as an excuse for European intervention at the behest of the USA? The US has invaded, bombed or otherwise destabilised militarily over 30 independent

  • Memories of York City’s glorious FA Cup run

    Hoping to rejuvenate York City FC's lack of form a reminder of their football achievements during their FA Cup run 1954/55 season reaching a semi-final replay against Newcastle United. This has history repeating itself for during the year I was

  • Sheep allowed in the cemetery is bad idea

    I READ in a local newspaper about plans to use Helmsley cemetery to graze sheep, saying it will save cash. The people who were laid to rest should not have to have sheep on the graves. The sheep will eat the flowers and destroy the cemetery

  • Help air museum idea to take off

    HAVING written to your column before, regarding the old Reynard’s Garage, I would like to support Cllr Dave Taylor and his views on the building’s future. I am co-ordinator of the York Branch of the Light Aircraft Association, a nationwide group

  • Dairy industry plight shouldn’t be ignored

    THE dairy industry is on its knees. Having been around retail, wholesale, contract packing and logistics all my life, the destruction of the agricultural industry seems deliberate. I can tell any hard working impoverished dairy farmer it is nothing

  • Misery of Mugabe is set to continue

    THE Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, will be feeling the cold round his neck, I fear, for quite a while longer. It is hard to believe it’s seven years since he caused a stir by cutting his dog collar into shreds live on the BBC Andrew Marr

  • Van bursts into flames in York

    THESE dramatic pictures show a Ford Transit van which burst into flames in York today. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to James Street at about 7.30am, where the van was already well alight. A spokesman said the van suffered

  • EU must shoulder blame in Ukraine

    BRUSSELS has attracted economically challenged countries to enlarge a power-orientated bloc. The tragedy of Ukraine is a part of this and no one should be surprised at the reaction of its neighbour. The need for fiscal union in this developing

  • March 2

    100 years ago Whilst travelling “somewhere in the British Isles” the King noticed a small encampment of soldiers about a quarter of a mile from a well-known station at which his train had stopped. The presence of the King in the neighbourhood

  • Motorbike crash man finds a new life in art

    A MAN who almost died in a motorbike crash has become an artist after turning his life around. Derek Stainthorpe, 51, from Kelfield, said goodbye to his family at his hospital bedside believing he might not make it through the night. He was

  • Review: Spectrum Choir & Sinfonia; St Wilfrid’s Church, York

    The season of Lent is the perfect time to schedule Handel’s Messiah. The work is mainly concerned with crucifixion and resurrection, despite its popularity at Christmas. So Spectrum’s performance on Saturday under its founder-director Ben Horden was

  • County council plans to expand care for the elderly

    NORTH Yorkshire County Council has announced a major expansion of facilities to provide purpose-built accommodation for people with health and social care needs. The council has begun a procurement process to find partner organisations to work

  • £3.8m sports centre plan set for approval

    A NEW sports centre for York St John University and a new building for Carr Infant School are both likely to get the go ahead this week. The university's sports centre plans will see a brick pavilion at the Haxby Road sports campus, which was bought

  • Man dies after GPs miss blood clot

    A MAN died because of a blood clot in a vein after two GPs in North Yorkshire failed to adequately assess him, an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found. The man, who has not been named, endured several weeks of pain

  • Couple's plea after thieves take treasured wedding photos

    A YORK couple are appealing for help after losing their wedding photographs in a burglary of their home in York. Sharon Lewis, 33, and Gareth Birbeck, 32, returned to their home in Cinder Mews in the Leeman Road area on Thursday to find a window

  • York man jailed for sexually abusing two under-age girls

    A YORK man who brought two under-age girls to the city so he could ply them with alcohol and sexually abuse them has been jailed for three and a half years. One of Gary Smithies’ victims later told police she had had two litres of cider, four cans

  • Residents given radar guns to catch speeding motorists

    VOLUNTEERS will now be responsible for catching speeding motorists in parts of York and North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire Police are today launching the Community Speed Watch pilot, which will see residents pick up RADAR guns to check the speed

  • Cooper nets brace as Pickering win Hands down

    RYAN COOPER netted twice as Pickering Town beat Handsworth Parramore 4-2 in the Northern Counties East League premier division. Cooper opened the scoring for the Pikes after 29 minutes at Mill Lane and Joe Danby made it 2-0 six minutes after the

  • Pocklington relieved as Driffield blow chance of derby draw

    POCKLINGTON RUFC recorded a deserved bonus-point 29-27 derby win at Driffield in North One East despite doing their best to hand the home side a share of the spoils. After 80 minutes, Pock looked in cruise control as they led 29-12. Even when Driffield

  • Late Selby surge ends Malton's unbeaten run

    THREE tries in the final quarter helped Selby RUFC end Malton & Norton’s 16-game winning run in Yorkshire One. The Swans triumphed 22-14 at Sandhill Lane to all-but secure their Yorkshire One status for next season, while Malton’s title hopes

  • Racing tips: Beasley revels in a Dream riding spell

    DARLINGTON-BASED jockey Connor Beasley, in action yesterday at Pisa in Italy, is back on home ground today and is fancied to land the opening two races at Wolverhampton. Beasley, who is attached to Michael Dods’ stable and who has notched just