COUNCILLORS are due to launch a fight for York to opt out of Right to Buy laws. In a heated final full council meeting before the election, the Labour party has this evening been successful in its bid to address the city’s escalating housing crisis
POLICE are concerned for a missing man they believe may be in North Yorkshire. Michael Bell, 57, is from Finchingfield, Essex, but was last seen at the Life Boot Inn at Thornham, Norfolk, on Tuesday. He has not returned to his Finchingfield
YORK City boss Russ Wilcox believes deadline-day loan signings Shaun Miller and Josh O'Hanlon can fire the club to Football League safety. Miller, who has been recruited from Coventry, has netted 57 goals during 179 games as a professional, including
YORK City have signed Bournemouth striker Josh O’Hanlon on loan until the end of the season. The 19-year-old, who has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Championship promotion hopefuls, was signed from Longford Town in January 2014 after
McCarthy and stone have launched a new development. Brian Page went along to find out what attracts older people to community living. THE room is packed. There are well over 60 people present, mostly couples but with singletons dotted around.
YORK company Riding Lights is on tour with its Passion Play for Lent 2015, Inheritance by Bridget Foreman. Playing churches, cathedrals and community centres in England and Wales since February 27, the production returns home this weekend for a
THE final nail in the coffin has been dealt to Kellingley Colliery after the Government announced it will not provide funding to keep the coal pit open for a further three years. The last remaining deep coal pit in North Yorkshire will now close
SHAPPI Khorsandi reflects on the good things and celebrates her haphazard zigzag towards her dreams in her latest tour show, Because I'm Shappi, a title you will note that riffs on a line from a ubiquitous Pharrell Williams hit. After launching
IN 1741, George Frederick Handel wrote two masterpieces. One was Messiah; the other, Samson. Last December, Wetherby Choral Society performed the first; now, musical director John Dunford and the members of this choir are rehearsing the second
JOE Lycett opens the Saturday Night Lounge line-up at The Duchess, York, this weekend, fresh from his appearance on BBC1's Live At The Apollo. "Behind him he has a Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe to add to
ENGLAND cricketer, one-off boxer, radio presenter, television game show team captain and now fish-and-chip van expert Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff has a new live show heading for York. Freddie, star of Sky 1's Lord Of The Fries, is teaming up with
NORTH Yorkshire Police have spoken to potential witnesses to the fracas which cost Jeremy Clarkson his job at the BBC, saying they "have a duty to investigate" what happened. Clarkson's Top Gear contract has not been renewed by the BBC after an
Clarinettist Emma Johnson tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON why she has always been happy to play in Yorkshire ever since her debut here in 1984 after she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year. CLARINETTIST Emma Johnson MBE will always have fond memories
THE Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will celebrate 30 Plucking Years on tour at the Grand Opera House, York, on June 17 at 7.30pm. Eight ukuleles, 16 hands, 32 strings, 30 years, come this summer the orchestra will have clocked up 16 million
AL Murray, The Pub Landlord, comedy heavyweight and putative MP for South Thanet, is to be the star attraction on the opening night of the Great Yorkshire Fringe in York. The nation’s favourite pub philosopher will star in Al Murray: The Pub Landlord
PADDY McGuinness will be going out on his Daddy McGuinness travels in 2016 as well as in 2015 after adding seven new dates including York and Leeds. The Farnworth comedian, host of ITV'1's love-match cattle market Take Me Out, will be returning
NEW Earswick Musical Society's rehearsals are progressing well for next month's production of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York. After auditions in January, director Ann McCreadie and musical director Tom Marlow
WHAT better show for the start of the Easter school holidays than Hairspray's burst of teenage exuberance? York Stage Musicals follow up the equally effervescent Sister Act by staging the Broadway and West End musical for the first time on a professional
YORK City have signed Coventry striker Shaun Miller on loan until the end of the season. The 27-year-old forward has made 18 appearances for the Sky Blues this term and scored twice against Cardiff City and Bristol City. Miller also had a loan
Just A Quckie with... Dani Harmer, the former Tracy Beaker and Dani's House star now playing Beauty in the Easter pantomime at York Barbican. DANI Harmer is returning to York Barbican for one day only in the Easter pantomime Beauty And The Beast
AFTER the inaugural Thirty Little Plays About Life, here comes Thirty Little Plays About Love And Death, the results of the spring term's adult theatre workshops run by actor Michael Lambourne at York Theatre Royal. Now that the theatre is closed
STEVE Padfield directs a cast of more than 40 young performers, many of them appearing on stage for the first time, in Flying Ducks Youth Theatre’s production of The Wiz at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, this week. In this modern, urban version
ACCORDING To McGee are exhibiting the work of the late Dave Pearson for a second time. He died in 2008, leaving behind a legacy of £1 million worth of paintings and sketches, and Greg and Ails McGee have liaised again with the Dave Pearson Trust
THE innovative Yorkshire-made teen drama The Knife That Killed Me returns to City Screen on Sunday as part of the York Literature Festival. In attendance for a 5.45pm introduction and a post-screening question-and-answer session will be co-director
GASPS of delight rippled through a Dales village hall when Gary Barlow arrived as a surprise guest. The Take That frontman was in Burnsall last Sunday to reveal details of The Girls, his new musical based on the story of the Calendar Girls, which
HOPE & Social are the latest addition to the Lord Mayor of York's Charity Gala Concert at York Barbican on Sunday, after a little encouragement from the Lord Mayor himself, Councillor Ian Gillies. More precisely, two members of the Leeds band
IT is surprising to learn that in Easingwold Players’ 26-year history, they have never taken on the challenge of producing a Shakespeare play. As the resident amateur theatre company at the Galtres Centre, the Players put on two plays a year, ranging
Twins Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas are the toast of the country world at the age of 20. CHARLES HUTCHINSON reports. AFTER winning the UK Album Of The Year at the British Country Music Awards with their debut release, From Where We Stand, Ward
ON a night in late February, Gareth Thomas – former captain of the Welsh Rugby Union team and the most famous gay team sportsman in the world – took his family and friends to a theatre press night. He is no stranger, now, to shiny showbiz events
CAN a middle-aged woman have it all, asks South London comedian, actress, presenter and novelist Helen Lederer in her Losing It appearance at York Literature Festival on Saturday night. Helen will be in conversation with BBC Radio York presenter
AFTER a brief break, jazz at The Pavilion Hotel on Fulford Road begins again tonight at 7pm. Vocalist Georgina Barr is studying towards her jazz degree at Leeds College of Music and is quickly developing in to an accomplished performer. She is
MATT CLARK looks around the Arts & Craft house in York that was once home to the Terry family, and discovers how a young volunteer came up with the Art of Design theme running until June. WALTER Brierley knew a thing or two about building houses
THE Queen paid tribute to the “great national and international significance” of Richard III’s reburial, which took place in Leicester yesterday. The reinterment service in the city’s cathedral began at 11.30am, two years after the Plantagenet
A NEW company which is being created to boost economic development in York is being tasked with creating 700 jobs, supporting 500 businesses and attracting 250 investment enquiries over a three year period. Make it York will come into force as
A BOUTIQUE hostel in York's city centre has been voted the best hostel in the UK for a second consecutive year. The Fort, in Stonegate, won the accolade after being voted in at the top spot by users of hostel website Hostelworld.com. Karen
A TADCASTER-based first aid training provider says it is on course to double its turnover this year. First Rescue Training & Supplies, which was formed in 2003 and has national blue chip companies amongst its clientele, as well as local authorities
THE planning team of a Yorkshire wind turbine specialist is celebrating after securing consent for three separate farm-scale installations worth more than £1 million in just one week. Earthmill, which has grown from a one-man operation that started
A YORK based estate agency group which has grown to be the sixth largest in the UK has added a property management firm to its portfolio. Hunters has announced it has joined forces with Dickinson Harrison RBM, the managing agent for more than120
A MENTORING scheme will be on offer for the first time at Yorkshire Business Market this year. A team of business mentors will be offering one-to-one sessions to support people who have launched a new business in the last year, or are planning
A WOMAN at the heart of major projects in her community has been nominated for an award. Proud peers of Pauline Buchanan have put her name forward for a Community Pride gong to recognise her efforts to revive St Clements' church hall, which now
SCIENTISTS in York have taken a vital step towards developing treatments for dementia after researching brain activity in fruit flies. The research, conducted by biologists at the University of York, uncovered what occurs in the brain to drive
SUPPORT for residents and workers at a North Yorkshire community for learning disabled adults is mounting as local churches and businesses chip in to give financial and emotional support. Botton village, in Danby Dale, is facing major changes to
THIS Easter will see thousands of visitors enjoy cocoa-themed treats on the streets of York as a festival celebrating chocolate gets underway. Organisers are promising a chocolate lovers heaven, as the fourth annual York Chocolate Festival is held
THE embattled Yearsley Pool costs an average of £121 per hour to run, but makes an average of just £75 per hour, campaigners and councillors were told. Details of the current finance and usage figures for the pool were shared with the Yearsley
THE proposed £9.3 million redevelopment of York's historic Guildhall is moving forward as architects are invited to bid for the project. City of York Council has issued a notice to tender for the work as the authority seeks to transform the 15th
THESE students will be racing against the clock to demonstrate how to build a garden in only 60 minutes. The countdown has started for students from Askham Bryan College to take on the challenge at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show, which runs from
YORK has some of the healthiest high streets in the UK, according to a new report by the Royal Society for Public Health. The city has fewer businesses classed as "unhealthy", like bookmakers, fast food takeaways and tanning shops, than other areas
GEORGE Osborne says Britain is walking tall and the sun is shining. Feeling rather buoyed by this, I open my wallet. Inside this leather pouch, worn smooth from use and being sat on, I am disappointed to find one £10 note, two bank cards, one over-burdened
THE Aesthetica Short Film Festival is looking for new film-making talent from across the world to take part in the York festival's biggest event yet. Entries are open for the fifth year of the BAFTA Qualifying ASFF, which will take place from November
WITH the Tour de France in North Yorkshire, we expected visitor numbers to increase last year and new figures from Visit York reveal the city to have enjoyed a record year for hotel occupancy. Best of all, the momentum continued to close with a
THIS has been a week for controversial characters, with Jeremy Clarkson fired by the BBC and Nigel Farage forced to flee his local pub by anti-Ukip protesters. But these two pale into insignificance when compared to one of this country's most pilloried
YORK and its outer areas are a variation of character based on a multitude of villages. We are in grave danger of blurring them into one as York’s green and pleasant boundaries are gobbled up by the housing beast. I read the concerns of Richard
THE proposal to establish an academy trust in South Bank seems to be a creative response to the difficult situation resulting from the 2011 Education Act and cuts in council budgets (The Press, March 23). Headteachers in South Bank recognise the
RICHARD Bridge (Letters, March 23) is right to highlight the huge concern over the under-representation of women in Parliament, with only 23 percent female MPs in the House of Commons. Any of the 148 female MPs in Westminster have my honest respect
RICHARD Bridge is right that we need more women in politics (Letters, March 23). At council level the imbalance is not as great as in Parliament, but it is still well short of the 50 per cent that would reasonably be expected – sometimes it will
I READ the article about travellers horses on land owned by the Joseph Rowntree Trust. This trust respects Gipsy people and their horses. Cllr Mark Waters is always trying to get rid of these horses, a tradition going back hundreds of years.
HAVING ventured forth from my cave-like existence, on the morning of the eclipse, during gardening duties, before the phenomenon proceeded on its course, it was noticeable that an eerie silence ensued from our animal and feathered friends, domestic
ON BBC Radio York I heard a councillor announcing the big spring clean up to improve the look of the city. How ironic then that 30 minutes earlier I had seen a council employee cutting a grass verge in Heworth and as normal left grass and mud all
LAST weekend I took three of my great-grandchildren to Askham Bryan College for lambing Sunday. A great time was had by all of us, so a big thank-you to all involved for a great day. Mr W Poole, Falcon Close, Haxby, York.
WHAT a sorry state the former Lawrence Street Working Men’s Club is in. It was once the home of the Tuke family, who founded the Retreat and did so much to help the Irish people in Walmgate. A once elegant building is falling to pieces – so
NO, NO, NO – Jeremy Clarkson should not be sacked (Soap Box, March 20). He is one of the last bastions of people not toeing the PC line. He says what a lot of people think but dare not say. Yes he is totally over the top and upsets a lot
IN REPLY to Cllr Dave Taylor’s letter of March 21, I mentioned celebrities, which, by the way, I have no time for, because that is what the article was about. I feel sorry for the young student who was betrayed by her boyfriend and, yes, you can
HOW often do you have concerns about a branded product you have bought; not very often, I would think. Recent legislation changes to the way tobacco products are to be marked (plain packaging) really is cause for concern. The likelihood of
I SEE that George Cheek (Letters, March 19) asserts that “William Dixon Smith complains, in his letter of March 12, that the cycle racks outside York station are inconvenient and unsightly”. No he doesn’t; as anyone who read his letter of March
100 years ago The “Echo de Paris” said: “During the last few days some German prisoners have met all questions which have been put to them with an obstinate silence, only replying that they would not break their oaths. There is no doubt that
COUNCILLORS in York will meet this evening for the last time before the election in May, in a meeting likely to be dominated by debates over housing and the cost of living. Motions will be put to City of York Council calling for reforms to Right
HERE are 12 images of Huntington from The Press archives, dating back to the 1970s. This part of a series of galleries featuring archive photographs from areas around York which featured in The Press over the years, and we want to know what you
FORMER Premier League star Clarke Carlisle has said he felt “no shame” about his recent suicide attempt. The 35-year-old ex-York City footballer said he was “incredibly unwell” when he tried to take his own life in December, but he now had a “very
A COUNCIL has revealed the Tour de France generated £19.2m for a district as moves to mark the event with a mass ride across the route emerged. Harrogate Borough Council said a study had found the world’s largest annual sporting event had produced
POLICE in North Yorkshire will begin a new way of working from next week, with the introduction of Investigation Hubs. The hubs will focus on so-called 'volume crime' - the crimes most commonly dealt with by police, including burglary, criminal
AN HISTORIC York attraction has won a multi-million pound funding deal. The official home of the Lord Mayor of York, the Mansion House will see its biggest investment since it was built in the 18th century after the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
YORK and Leicester are today marking the reburial of Richard III, two years after his remains were discovered buried under a council car park. As the Plantagenet king is re-interned in Leicester cathedral, commemorations in York are set to begin
DETECTIVES investigating the suspected murder of York chef Claudia Lawrence are continuing their investigations after a man in his 50s was released on bail. North Yorkshire Police arrested the man in the York area on Monday morning on suspicion
A MAN has denied attacking a 15-year-old girl in the grounds of her school as she walked home. James Thomas Colby, 28, claimed he spent the day of the alleged attack wandering around the streets of York drinking and getting lost. He alleged
A WITNESS told a jury how a man who was lying in the road when he was run over by a taxi was trying to speak when he first knelt by him. Simon Foy said he was driving behind the taxi when the incident happened in Haxby Road, York, in the early
ONE unbeaten record will end when York Acorn ARLC visit Ince Rose Bridge on Saturday - and Blue and Golds boss Scott Rhodes is confident it won’t be theirs. The Wiganers have won all three games this term, while Acorn maintained their undefeated
ENGLAND Test hopeful Adil Rashid is determined to maintain the attacking mindset which has served him so well for Yorkshire over the last 12 months when he gets to the West Indies next week. Rashid’s exceptional form in county cricket last summer
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC boss Jack Stearman says that having some of the club’s former aces back training again has been a huge fillip for the current first team. New Earswick and neighbours Heworth are to stage an eagerly anticipated over-
NEW Earswick Bowls Club’s Yorkshire League division two season came to an end with a return to early fine form. The New Earswick ‘A’ team downed Doncaster 90-59 to amass 16 points to only two by their rivals. At home, Dave Kermode, Colin Ellis
NORTH Yorkshire trainer Kevin Ryan, who is poised to take the wraps off his star colt The Grey Gatsby in Dubai on Saturday, has smaller fish to fry at Wolverhampton today with a horse who had a tall reputation last season. Mighty Zip had only one
