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  • It's back! - York will host 2015 UK Snooker Championship

    WORLD-CLASS snooker will return to York Barbican in November. World Snooker has confirmed the Fishergate venue will again host the UK Snooker Championship, the second biggest tournament in the sport, for the fifth consecutive year after the game

  • Man airlifted to hospital after taking ill on moors

    AN elderly man was airlifted to hospital after falling ill on steep ground in North Yorkshire. The man was near Darnholme, Goathland, when he took ill on Sunday. Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue had a team training nearby at the time

  • Food for thought: Banana, coconut and oat smoothie

    Food blogger Mary Sweeting mixes up her favourite breakfast smoothie. This breakfast smoothie is packed full of healthy prebiotic fibres and beta glucans to help regulate your digestion and energy levels throughout the day. Try soaking the

  • New Home Bargains shop opens in York

    DISCOUNT retail chain Home Bargains has opened its second shop in York. The firm has opened in Foss Islands Retail Park, in the shop that was formerly Dreams. As reported in The Press previously, the company has said the shop will create 50

  • Why is it that everyone loves playing trains?

    MATT CLARK explores an exhibition that should appeal to young and old alike. GO on, admit it – you secretly love trains, we all do. Not in a collecting numbers way, but who wouldn't stop in their tracks if the Flying Scotsman flew by in a hiss

  • Gyles Brandreth entertains guests at Chamber annual dinner

    HUNDREDS of businessmen and women descended upon the National Railway Museum for York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner. The black-tie event featured an after dinner speech from former politician and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth

  • Law firm's managing partner voted back in for another term

    Langleys Solicitors has announced that David Thompson has been unanimously re-elected as the firm’s managing partner. Mr Thompson has been managing partner of the law firm for six years and will continue in this role for a further period of three

  • Dentists takes testimonial award at national competition

    A YORK-based dental surgeon at cosmetic dentistry practice Andrea Ubhi has won a national industry award. Dr Adam Glassford was selected from a shortlist of finalists from across the UK to win the Patient Choice Restorative Case Award at the 2015

  • PR firm branches out into franchise recruitment

    A NEW franchisee recruitment service has been launched by East Yorkshire public relations and marketing consultancy Verrill PR. Verrill PR, founded in Market Weighton 15 years ago, has welcomed franchisee recruitment specialist Ron Hutton to its

  • Chocolate manufacturer plays part in wheat research programme

    A PROJECT to improve the quality of grains and wheat is being undertaken by Nestlé's Product Technology Centre. The team at the York-based centre have received Government funding to work alongside KWS UK Ltd, The Scotch Whisky Research Institute

  • Man hurt in A170 crash

    A MAN was taken to hospital after his car crashed and rolled on the A170 in North Yorkshire. The accident happened near the junction with the B1257, near Sproxton, at about 6.50pm on Sunday. The car was a Seat Ibiza. These photographs were

  • Dog-walker warning: Keep your pets on leads

    A LANDOWNER has urged dog walkers to be more careful after sheep on his property were mauled or killed in recent months. Charlie Forbes Adam, who owns and co-manages Skipwith Common Nature Reserve, near Selby, with Natural England, said ten sheep

  • New homes in the green belt are ruled out by Ukip pledge

    NEW homes in the greenbelt should be completely ruled out, UKIP candidates for City of York Council have said. The party has launched its manifesto for York for the council election in May, and it includes a complete ban on any building in the

  • Road rage: Don’t look back in anger

    HOW’s this for a life lesson – when the going gets tough, don’t take it out on others by losing your blob with a complete stranger… There I was, minding my own business, negotiating the roundabout by the Tesco store at Askham Bar the other day

  • Review: Vintage Trouble, Fibbers, York

    Vintage Trouble blend blues, rock and soul into a heady brew that delivers a real kick. The effects of this potent mixture were evident on Friday. “In Europe they’re dubbed the heirs of rhythm and blues – in America they’re the new protocol of

  • Selby Town on a roll after Teversal win

    A GOAL from striker Chris Jackson made it back-to-back wins for Selby Town in Northern Counties East League division one. Former Cliffe and Riccall United frontman Jackson broke the deadlock against struggling Teversal on 58 minutes at Flaxley

  • Review: Champions of Magic, York Barbican

    Magic shows are curious things. Crowds pay to be skilfully duped and are happy to revel in perplexity so long as the methods behind the duping remain inexplicable under their keen, watchful eyes. ‘Champions of Magic’ managed this with spectacular

  • Paying the price for intolerant parking

    MOTORISTS often see themselves as cash cows; an easy target for speed guns, not to mention the Lendal Bridge trial. So they will doubtless have something to say about our revelation that over the last three years £1.4 million has been racked up

  • Ruthless York RUFC's derby shutout of Malton & Norton

    YORK RUFC hit top form to inflict Malton & Norton’s first home defeat of the Yorkshire One campaign. The Clifton Parkers produced the complete performance to win 24-0 at The Gannock against a Malton side ravaged by injuries in recent weeks.

  • Racing tips: Flat out in Britain

    THE Flat season opened over the weekend, highlighted by Doncaster’s two-day meeting and a one-two for North Yorkshire in the £100,000 Betway Lincoln Handicap by Richard Fahey’s Gabrial and the David O’Meara-trained Mondialiste. Bizarrely, there

  • Police help patients

    FLASHING blue police lights aren't always a welcome sight, but for one group of people it was a sight for sore eyes. Patients whose bus broke down as they were heading to hospital for treatment were given the red carpet treatment by PC Nick Rookes

  • Sadness over loss of stonemasons

    THANK you for all the work you have achieved to give the Minster and the city such a glorious legacy of the east window. My 8am daily walk to work takes me past the Minster and for five years the masons have been chipping away at great heights

  • Housing has to be transformed for city

    THE city council has to grasp the nettle of transforming housing. As I have previously argued, we need to learn from other cities and take charge of providing affordable, energy-efficient social housing in York. It is wrong that young people

  • Vote to save the NHS in May poll

    DISILLUSIONED with politics? Fed up to the back teeth of political parties? Thinking about not voting on May 7? Please think again. This General Election could be one of the most crucial in our lifetime. Crucial if you want to save the

  • No short memories over economics

    HAVING appraised the comments made by the Opposition Treasury spokesman regarding the Government’s budget proposals, one can only conclude were they to understand the concept of sound economics then they wouldn’t represent the parties they do – or

  • Don’t build on our green belt spaces

    I AGREE with the comments from Nigel Ayre (Letters, March 20) regarding the likely impact of the excessively high housing targets in Labour’s proposed local plan. The high targets mean large allocations of green belt land which developers will

  • Keeping a firm lid on election door callers

    AS THE elections draw near, my friend Don has started to keep his “hat and coat on in the house”. When asked for the reason behind his hat and coat fetish, he said: “When there’s a knock on the door, if the caller is welcome I say “I’ve just arrived

  • Thanks after an eye operation success

    I WISH to address the recent issues within the NHS. People complain about the delays and the service provided by different hospitals. I have just had cataracts removed from both eyes at York Hospital and the operation was a complete success

  • Really bright idea about planting bulbs

    I AGREE with Rebecca Boldry about the gaps in the daffodils on the walls (Letters, March 27). There is an easy answer to the problem, and I don't mean we have to go out with a spade. The council run a scheme where we can buy bulbs, which they

  • Political shake-up could be good news

    THE Lib Dems proposal to overhaul the way York is run (“Call for city rules shake-up”, The Press, March 24) does not sound very exciting news. However, their desire to return to a committee system of governance and ditch the leader and cabinet

  • River fencing looks totally inadequate

    WHILE any measures to prevent people falling into York’s rivers are welcome, the picture of councillor Tracey Simpson-Laing standing next to posts with chains loosely attached to them is totally inadequate. (The Press, March 20). Anyone falling

  • Education is best way for river safety

    AFTER reading in The Press and online about the spending on river safety, anything that can save lives is a great idea. But putting up fences, railings and walls will not stop someone who’s drunk from going into the river. The boat and lifebelts

  • Waited in vain for independent reply

    VIGILANT readers of the letters page may recall that AP Cox helpfully named and claimed that Holgate’s Labour councillors, once unmasked, would gallop to my aid like the sheriff’s posse in a vintage U certificate movie (Letters, December 8). Alas!

  • Council needs to earn its powers

    LET it be a salutary lesson to all those “economic growth” fanatics within York council who are bent on concreting over our green belt that, having positioned York as a dormitory town for the new super authority of the Northern Powerhouse centred on

  • March 30

    100 years ago Much excitement had prevailed when two bullocks found their way into the hardware shop of Mr A Burrows, 31, Nunnery Lane and caused a great deal of damage before they were ejected. The bullocks, the property of Mr F Davison, butcher

  • Man to pay ex-girlfriend £1,500 for breaking her nose

    A MAN must pay £1,500 to his former girlfriend for breaking her nose during a birthday celebration. Mark Carter and Cheryl Bellerby went for a meal and drinks in York city centre to mark her approaching birthday, said Michael Cahill, prosecuting

  • Primary pupils take part in community litter pick

    THOUGHTFUL children at at York primary school have taken part in a community litter pick. Year 6 pupils at Carr Junior School in Ostman Road have been taking part in York's Big Spring Clean - gathering 51kg of rubbish from the grounds and the area

  • Police officers rescue cancer patients

    CANCER patients whose bus broke down as they were heading for treatment have been rescued by police officers. Patients from York and Selby were heading to have radiotherapy treatment at St James' University Hospital in the York Against Cancer minibus

  • Firefighters help to pump up funds with charity car wash

    FIREFIGHTERS in York helped raise money for a pair of charities with a car wash this weekend. Volunteers from the day watch at the Kent Street fire station washed dozens of vehicles on Saturday - including a double decker bus - and collected donations

  • Murderers become first gay pair to marry in jail

    TWO murderers have become the first gay prisoners to get married behind bars. Mikhail Gallatinov and Marc Goodwin were married at Full Sutton prison on Friday, in a 15-minute ceremony, but will not be allowed to share a cell under Prison Service

  • Charity for the blind praised by veteran

    A BLIND veteran from Yorkshire has paid tribute to a military charity that has supported him. Blind Veterans UK celebrated its centenary by re-uniting Ben Smith, 82, from Whitby, with several other veterans helped by the charity. Mr Smith served

  • Friends pay tribute to ‘funny, loving’ student, 14

    TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular and much-loved teenager who has died after suffering from leukaemia. Matthew Gillespie, 14, a pupil at Tadcaster Grammar School, passed away after being diagnosed with leukaemia which doctors discovered as he

  • Tourism receives £10m boost

    A NEW £10m fund to encourage international tourists to visit the North of England, has been announced by government. Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and culture secretary Sajid Javid said £10m of government funding would be used to attract visitors

  • Armed police called to disturbance in Clifton street

    ARMED police were called to a domestic disturbance at a house in York yesterday. Officers were called to Spalding Avenue, Clifton, at 12.34pm, where residents had reported a 17-year-old youth who was believed to be armed with a knife banging on

  • Sex offender jailed for grooming young girls

    A SEX offender who “wormed” his way into families of underage girls as he repeatedly flouted a court order has been jailed for three years. Martin Kidd, 24, targeted three girls aged 14 and 15 through social media and tried to persuade one to have