YORK City boss Russ Wilcox hailed a tremendous away performance after watching his ten-man team win 4-1 at Mansfield. Following early goals by Keith Lowe and Shaq Coulthirst, keeper Bobby Olejnik was sent off for handling outside his area on 31
WITH a vital Easter programme up next, York City have already breathed new life into their fight for Football League survival. The Minstermen had taken just two points from a possible 12 prior to their trip to Mansfield but made an amazing
A WOMAN was taken to hospital last night after police were called to a York property. North Yorkshire Police and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service were called to a property in Acomb Road at just before 8pm on Friday. A police spokeswoman said
A WOMAN suffered a serious sexual assault at a North Yorkshire nature reserve. North Yorkshire Police said the assault took place at the Quarry Moor Nature Reserve in Ripon on Tuesday morning. Anyone who was at the nature reserve between 9am
NORTH Duffield Dragons junior Football Club’s under-11s team is celebrating after receiving a stylish new look from their local McDonald’s restaurant. The restaurant in Selby has donated kit to the team as part of the new McDonald’s FA Charter
PUPILS at Tadcaster Grammar School are up for the cup. Students got a glimpse of the Women’s Rugby Union World Cup trophy when it visited the school as part of a nationwide tour. England won the trophy in Paris last year, beating Canada 21-
HEWORTH ARLC Under-12s are hoping to kick on after being re-categorised into division two of the Yorkshire Junior League. The Villagers took on highly-rated title hopefuls East Leeds last time out, suffering a third defeat this term in three outings
BRACKENFIELD Primary School did York City proud before missing out on a Wembley final appearance following a 1-0 defeat to their Accrington Stanley opponents. The Harrogate pupils earned the right to represent the Minstermen at the regional finals
CHARITY begins at home for York RI Under-12s girls. The reigning City of York Girls’ League champions and cup holders are wearing a new kit emblazoned with the name and logo of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Nestlé provided the girls with a new kit
YORK Schoolboy Under-11s closed out their league programme in fine style with a 4-2 home victory against Hull. The win overturned York’s defeat to the same opposition in the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Cup a fortnight earlier. York started
WITHOUT kicking a ball, Dringhouses retained their York FA Sunday Under-19s League title, writes Bob Stuart. The crown was secured after Wigginton, who could only field seven players, still eked out a 1-1 draw at Stillington. Rich Hopwood scored
YORK Mitchell Football League outfit Wigginton Grasshoppers under-eights enjoyed a great day’s hospitality from Championship outfit Sheffield Wednesday. A total of 19 of the Grasshoppers’ squad toured Wednesday’s Hillsborough ground, had a training
The arrival of the daffodils truly celebrates the passing of winter, writes GINA PARKINSON. EARLY spring plants abound in gardens and countryside by the end of March, but for many people a sure sign that winter has left is the sight of daffodils
5 POINTS are, you guessed it, a relatively new brewery from London. No surprises there, then. What might be of interest, however, is that their sister-brewery, Four Thorns, is based in York. Four Thorns are, as you might know, a one-barrel brewery
Food blogger ELLY McCAUSLAND shares her recipe for French toast THE French call this pain perdu, ‘lost bread’, and I love the idea of saving tragic lost bread by bathing it in milk, eggs and vanilla before caramelising it in a little butter, sugar
GAVIN AITCHISON brings news of how home brewers can now pick up tips from the experts. THE pub is prime breeding ground for weird and wonderful ideas. Most of us, I’m sure, have sat down with a pint and a pal and come up over the course of the
GRETCHEN Peters surveyed the ornately decorative Royal Hall, the re-polished jewel in Harrogate’s crown. “Pretty fancy,” she said. “First thing I thought, ‘S**t, I can’t cuss in here’!” Such humour was to pepper the two sets by the newest inductee
York’s former Army and Navy Stores has been transformed into a new bar and restaurant with a quirky war theme. MAXINE GORDON marches there in quick time for an inspection. ABOUT turn, and take a detour to Fossgate to find the latest offensive in
This year’s Aesthetica Art Prize has been won by John Keane for his images drawn from Stalinist terror. CHARLES HUTCHINSON introduces the winner. JOHN Keane has won the main prize in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 competition in York. His winning
A MAN was arrested on suspicion of drug offences after police raided a house in Heworth, York. Officers raided the property, in Elmfield Avenue, on Tuesday and took the 23-year-old into custody before releasing him on bail. A spokesman for
THE father of York chef Claudia Lawrence hosted a tea party to raise money for a charity which helps people whose loved ones have disappeared. Peter Lawrence took part in the Everything Stops For Tea event last Friday, only days before police arrested
A RETAIL park has scooped one of the biggest customer service awards on the eve of its first anniversary. Vangarde Shopping Park will celebrate the anniversary next month and has more than one reason to celebrate after picking up the British Council
IT’S been delayed by newts, rows and wrangles but finally the new community stadium looks set to come to fruition. After a decade of talks it took councillors just three and half hours to vote overwhelmingly in favour of the scheme. The future
BRAVEST of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had country more faithful friends than you. So wrote Sir Ralph Lilley Turner about his Gurkha soldiers during the First World War. The long relationship between the fearless Nepalese and
WHEN this coalition government was formed in 2010, David Cameron and Nick Clegg stood in the rose garden of 10 Downing Street and said the budget deficit would be gone by the time of the next election. Has this happened? No. Official statements
MERVYN JONES (Letters, March 25) raises the important and complex housing crisis facing us all. Nationally, 1.8 million people are on social housing waiting lists and 3,739 households were on York’s council housing waiting list in 2013. Decent
I’M confused. An unexpected addition to York’s failed local development plan was the green-field site bounded by Stockton Lane, Pasture Lane, Heworth Rugby Club, and Christ Church, for house building. Recently mechanical excavators and a drilling
THE death of Bob Appleyard, the Yorkshire and England spin bowler, brings to mind the most thrilling hour of my cricket watching life in 1951 when my father took me to Scarborough for the Scarborough Cricket Festival. Appleyard needed four wickets
YORK’S health overview and scrutiny committee (OSC) has a legal duty to scrutinise health and social care services and to be informed of changes to the delivery of those services. Health OSCs are non-political, so it regrettable that the present
AFTER the indignity of being unearthed in a short-stay car park, latter-day friends of Richard III, “this son of York”, will doubtless view his re-interment in Leicester with the same eye as one forced to look on as their pride and joy is clamped.
THE students living in my ward would be appalled to see Mr Ayres’ letter to the press on Thursday. It’s symptomatic of a wider problem in many university cities where an inaccurate view that students do not care about the city they reside in for
I WOULD like to thank everyone who looked after me when I was taken ill delivering The Press on Holgate Road on March 12, at around 7.30am. Thank you to those who stayed with me until the ambulance arrived. It was due to high blood pressure and
100 years ago A telegram to the “Matin” stated during the last few days detachments of German prisoners from the camps at Boutheon (Loire) and at St Genest Serpt (near St Etienne) had arrived in Auvergne where they were working draining the marshes
A FISH and chip restaurant chain has raised £4,000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Customers at Wetherby Whaler’s five branches across Yorkshire – including York – have donated their loose change in collection tins at the restaurants, and a cheque
MEMBERS of the Queen’s Gurkha Signals are celebrating after being granted the Freedom of the City of York. Councillors voted to confer the honour on the 116-strong unit based at Imphal Barracks. It will be the first time that a Gurkha unit
SOME rail services into York will be alcohol-free zones today. British Transport Police were monitoring services into York from Middlesbrough this morning, to ensure they were “dry”, following complaints from passengers in recent weeks. BTP
RESIDENTS from York care homes have taken part in a singing event. Students from York St John University performed to more than 80 care home residents, sheltered housing tenants and their friends and relatives as part of the Big Sing event, and
VOLUNTEERS have created a new bee-keeping facility with the help of City of York Council. The council’s first apiary is being created at Bootham Stray allotments, with beekeepers and volunteers installing the first hive earlier this week. The apiary
A MAN was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and other offences following a police pursuit through York. Officers from North Yorkshire Police’s Road Crime Team saw a black Ford Fiesta in Danebury Drive at about 6.10pm on Thursday and, acting
STONEMASONS responsible for maintaining York Minster are facing redundancy. A month-long consultation process ended yesterday after bosses at the cathedral announced they had to consider the “long-term sustainability” of its 45-strong works department
THE trial of a livery centre boss accused of shooting a woman’s horse before dumping it in a garden has dramatically collapsed, after the main witness failed to attend court. Liz King, the owner of former racehorse War Kitty, which was shot at
A NABURN water treatment plant poured 10,000 cubic metres of raw sewage into the River Ouse on one day because it did not have a working stand-by pump, York magistrates heard. It is the latest in a series of occasions in recent years when Yorkshire
THE people responsible for a catalogue of fire safety breaches that could have started a “cataclysmic” fire in the heart of York have received suspended prison sentences. Immigration officers found illegal workers living above American Nails in
THE Government has defended the use of probation hostels to house violent offenders on prison parole. It comes after it emerged that James Colby was staying at a York hostel, also known as “approved premises”, when he attacked a 15-year-old girl
A TWENTY-WEEK programme of work costing nearly £2 million is due to begin on the A19 to address severe congestion. From next month until late summer, the first phase of work will be carried out at the A19 interchange at the Designer Outlet, south
A JUDGE had to delay his sentencing of a sex offender who had confessed to his crimes because the prosecution and police did not provide any details about the case, York Crown Court heard. Leigh Henry Smith, 35, had admitted his guilt a month earlier
THE new High Sheriff of North Yorkshire will put rehabilitation of addicts and the town of Selby at the heart of his work in office. Several former High Sheriffs, including the Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Peter Scrope, attended the
YORK’S voluntary sector has seen an increase in demand for its services but many organisations have also seen a drop in income, a new report has shown. A State Of The Sector report by York CVS has shown a quarter of the city’s voluntary sector
AN APPEAL is being made for people to share their memories of a York area as part of plans to celebrate its heritage. Former employees at the Backhouse Nurseries, in Acomb, are being urged to help build an archive for a heritage centre and café
MOST children would choose to spend their pocket money on toys or sweets. But they are not the priority for eight-year-old Vahri Watson, who prefers to donate the cash she receives from her mum and dad to charity. The kind-hearted schoolgirl
NEW owners are being urged to come forward to rehome horses, ponies and donkeys. In the last three years the RSPCA received 69,410 calls about such animals in England alone – with more than 22,000 calls last year. The RSPCA says it is at capacity
AFTER more than a decade of waiting York’s Community Stadium has been given the go-ahead. A detailed planning application for the new stadium and sports complex was today given the green light by the City of York Council’s planning committee.
YORK City centre-back John McCombe is determined to avoid his first-ever relegation as a professional. The experienced defender made his Football League debut at the age of 17 back in 2003, having been called up from the youth team at first club
YORK’S Rich Corner has won his first PDC title at the age of 52. Corner emerged triumphant from a field of 204 players, including former world champion John Walton, ex-World Championship finalists Peter Manley and Kirk Shepherd and 1996 World Matchplay
THIS column today is going to put aside all the latest controversy and politics surrounding York City Knights after another tumultuous week off the field, and instead focus on a positive - the Hall of Fame dinner. Indeed, organiser Gary Hall was
YORK RI ‘C’ were confirmed as division two champions in the SLT FM Solutions Ltd York and District Table Tennis League following a 9-1 hammering of Bootham ‘B’. Philippe Leopold, Jeff Cohen and Andy Fletcher were all undefeated. Club-mates
DEAFLYMPIC gold medallist Andrea Hardwick has launched York’s first deaf badminton club. Hardwick showed off her Deaflympics gold and silver medals and gave tips to players at the first session of the new club at York Railway Institute in Queen
ASKHAM Bryan College becomes the newest venue on the Yorkshire Point-to-Point circuit tomorrow when a pristine course holds the Badsworth and Bramham Moor Hunt meeting. For their first foray into the racing world, despite holding British Equestrian
GABRIAL’S KAKA, the mount of crack North Yorkshire apprentice Jack Garritty, can come out on top in today’s £100,000 Betway Lincoln Handicap, the traditional Doncaster curtain-raiser on the opening day of the Flat Turf season. Malton trainer Richard
