ATTACKER Michael Coulson could operate in a variety of roles in York City’s new 3-4-1-2 formation according to manager Russ Wilcox. Coulson is available for tomorrow afternoon’s vital home match with fellow strugglers Cheltenham after recovering
WORLD SNOOKER boss Barry Hearn said he was looking forward to “seeing record crowds again” at the York Barbican after bookmaker Betway was announced as the new title sponsor of the UK Championship. The tournament, which will be staged at the Fishergate
THERE is something rather grand about The Brockets, a detached home in Main Street, Appleton Roebuck. It’s high and handsome to look at from the outside and absolutely brimming with character inside. That is in no small part due to the manner in
IT WAS quite a nostalgic return. Many years ago, when our children were small, we lived in Hopgrove Lane North, York. It was a splendid place to raise a family. Then, as today, it was a quiet cul-de-sac off Malton Road, a private lane where a mix
TICKETS are selling quick as a flash for Sarah Millican’s two Outsider shows at York Barbican in September... September 2016, that is . In seven years, the storytelling South Shields stand-up has risen from winning the Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer
BLUES veteran Seasick Steve opens his first British tour for four years on Wednesday on the back of the spring release of his seventh and most ambitious album to date, Sonic Soul Surfer. Steve, who turns 74 this year, had not foreseen his longevity
THERE’S a lot to enjoy about Seasick Steve. For a start he looks like the coolest grandfather ever, with his eyes squinting under that cap, and the wizard straggle of beard. And all that’s before he even picks up one of his guitars, which he may well
IT’S been a good 12 months to be Bella Hardy. Named BBC Radio 2’s folk singer of the year in 2014 and part of the acclaimed Elizabethan Session project, you’d think she was on top of the world. So why does opening track The Only Thing To Do ask: “Should
AS spiders have webs, so does British music have troubadours. The difficulty involved in standing out from the crowd may explain why James Bay wears a hat, and a very fetching hat it is as well. Unfortunately, natty headgear is about the only thing
AS THEY throw around terms like “afrobeat”, “dub”, “fusion” and “abstract lyricism”, one could easily be put off by Nubiyan Twist. However, such words are a crude way of describing music that stands out as refreshing amid thousands of identikit bands
So very nearly perfect, Homage will hopefully encourage the former Bronski Beat and Communards singer to explore a new chapter in his colourful career as a writer and producer. With partner in crime John Winfield, Somerville’s sixth solo album
THE Go! Team have become The Gone! Team, as main man Ian Parton cuts the chains with his band members and resumes full control as composer, recording auteur and hyper-active producer for the first time since 2004 debut, Thunder, Lightning, Strike.
VETERAN blues guitarist Robin Trower marked his 70th birthday on March 9 by releasing his latest studio album, Something’s About To Change, that day. “I can’t remember ever being so happy with a finished album before,” says the Southend-born septuagenarian
IF YOU’RE a fan of jazz vocalist Georgina Barr, this is your lucky week. Her tour of the city’s venues begins at The Pavilion Hotel, Fulford Road, at 7pm this evening. She will be performing as a duo with pianist Mike Conliffe. The hotel has a lovely
STEVE THOMPSON, assistant coach at Leeds United, has been suspended. A statement this afternoon from the Elland Road club said: "The Director of Football, Nicola Salerno, has today (April 2) suspended the assistant coach Steve Thompson from his
JORVIK Gilbert and Sullivan Company return to the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, on April 11 to present Cox & Box and a selection of G&S favourites at 7.30pm. Adapted from John Madison Morton’s farce Box And Cox, Cox & Box was Sir Arthur
THERE are two rules in the life of Wakefield stand-up comedian and character actress Nalika de Silva. “Drink tea,” tips her carefree Sri Lankan father. “Make lists,” advises her outspoken Yorkshire mother. Armed with this parental wisdom, Nalika
SUZANNE Mooney is going places. Japan, York. Chicago. All in the airspace of a few days. The Irish artist and photographer stopped over in North Yorkshire for the climax of the 2014 Aesthetica Art Prize last Wednesday, en route from her Tokyo home
LEEDS United will be hoping the lure of Wembley may distract tomorrow’s Elland Road visitors Blackburn Rovers. The Lancashire side will arrive in Leeds only four days away from an FA Cup quarter-final replay at home to Liverpool against whom victory
THE public could soon be able to enjoy coffee on the roof of York’s Walmgate Bar, as its massive restoration project nears completion. Experts from City of York Council’s archaeology team have been working at the medieval gateway since January,
BARRIE Rutter is not playing King Lear for the first time. He did so originally in 1999, but the stars have aligned once more for the Northern Broadsides actor-manager/artistic director to play the seventh age of Shakespeare’s man in a touring
NO sooner has what’s left of Richard III been buried in Leicester Cathedral than his resurrection comes in a Swedish Rick’n’roll opera in London’s East End. Viper Island Production, in tandem with London producers From Sweden Productions, will
EASTER is a special time for many people and, for followers of York City, the period between Good Friday and Easter Monday has also produced some memorable moments. Let's take a stroll down memory lane... April 4, 1958 - Billy Fenton plays his
STUDENTS from Ryedale School are exhibiting their GCSE coursework at Nunnington Hall, Nunnington, near York, until May 10. The work covers myriad styles and demonstrates the use of diverse media, such as acrylic paint, pastels, mixed media, watercolours
NEW work by Kentmere House favourite John Thornton is on show at the York gallery under the title of Horizons until June. Gallery owner Ann Petherick first discovered John’s work in an open exhibition in Hull ten years ago. Using her well-honed
A German company bringing a comedy to York is keen to see what English audiences think, writes Charles Hutchinson. GERMAN theatre company Landesbühnen Sachsen will perform their comedy Adam’s Apples outside their homeland for the first time – in
TWO sisters plot the murder of their mistress – but it has to be right, it has to be perfect – in Jean Genet’s French drama The Maids, staged in a new adaptation by York company Hedgepig Theatre this spring. “Ritual turns to compulsion, compulsion
HAMPSHIRE folk singer Marika Hackman had her songs ready for release on her debut album when she last played York in November, but she is more than happy that We Slept At Last has only emerged in the spring. Like a daffodil. “A lot of it’s up to
CLAIRE Sweeney, star of Brookside and stage musicals, has turned her hand to co-writing as well as starring in Sex In Suburbia, an uplifting comedy that appropriately carries the support of Ann Summers. Premiered at the Liverpool Royal Court last
YORK Spring Festival of New Music, the University of York music department’s annual celebration of new artists, will run from April 29 to May 3. The festival celebrates the best of new music in a way that is both accessible and fun, featuring premieres
SUPPORTERS threw flares into the crowd at a football match in North Yorkshire this week. North Yorkshire Police are investigating after what they called "significant disorder" during Wednesday night’s match between Whitby Town and FC United of
THE 2015 York Late Music concert series at the St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel is celebrating the music of Judith Weir, the first female Master of the Queen’s Music. Weir’s works feature in five of the eight concerts, including Saturday’s 7.30pm
SEVEN months of painting travels in America feed into York artist Kate Kenney’s new exhibition, Inspired By The Journey, at York Hospital. “David and I lived in Washington DC last year – yes, how lucky were we – while David worked there and I painted
MOSCOW City Ballet returns to York Barbican tomorrow to perform Swan Lake for the first time in York since February 2012. From Russia with a dynamic orchestra come the refined young dancers from Moscow, who will present the story of Prince Siegfried
GLASS Caves began by busking on the streets of York in their student days. Now they are playing live on Dermot O’Leary’s Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 2. “We only found out we were doing a live session on Dermot’s primetime show two days
CHILDREN at Martin House hospice in Wetherby are in for an Easter treat thanks to generous customers from a York travel agency. The Cooperative travel shop on Clifton Moor have donated more than 40 chocolate eggs to be given to the children and
RAY Quinn, singer, songwriter, The X Factor runner-up and Dancing On Ice winner, is joining the UK touring cast for Judy – The Songbook Of Judy Garland. He will be appearing alongside Judy’s daughter, Lorna Luft, and West End musical theatre stars
THE Shepherd Group Concert and the Shepherd Group Academy Brass Bands will swarm at The Hive Theatre at Manor CE Academy, Millfield Lane, Poppleton, York, on May 16 to entertain a 7.30pm audience with their musical nectar. This spring concert follows
AUDITIONS for three Pick Me Up Theatre productions will take place at the Joseph Rowntree School Faraday Cluster, in York, on Sunday, April 12. The Addams Family audition sessions will be held from 11am to 3pm and the Buddy and Dogfight sessions
RUBY Wax warns “we are not equipped for this century” in her 2015 tour show, Sane New World, whose pins on the Britcomedy map include the Grand Opera House, York, on September 14 “It’s too hard, too fast, and too full of fear; we just don’t have the
A MEMORIAL has been designed to remember those who died when a plane crashed into a North Yorkshire village. Tockwith Parish Council have been given permission to build a monument to mark the 70th anniversary of a Stirling Bomber crashing into
PRIMA Vox, York’s new chamber choir, will give their debut concert at St Helen’s Church, St Helen’s Square, York, on April 13 under the direction of Ewa Salecka. This intimate evening of sacred and secular music also will feature a visiting University
THE sledging accident which left Alek Malinka in a coma is every parent’s worst nightmare. Seeing their five-year-old unconscious in a hospital bed was bad enough. What makes the situation even worse for Alek’s family is that he was hurt while
KEEP calm and carry on; that’s how Britons coped during the Second World War. It must also explain why there is no public memorial in Tockwith to those who died on the fateful night of October 9, 1945. Stirling bomber LJ622 was returning to Marston
EASTER egg hunts, storytelling workshops and sword-fighting sessions are among the activities being held to entice visitors to attractions over the Easter break. In York, the Yorkshire Museum Gardens will showcase how Easter was celebrated throughout
WHICH aspect of the re-interment service for Richard III does Mary Morton (Letters, March 31) consider to have been a pantomime? The version of Psalm 150 arranged by Philip Moore, Organist Emeritus of York Minster? The Bishop of Leicester in his
WOULD-BE MP for York Central Rachael Maskell says she is a strong voice for York Central. If so, I hope it will be an accurate one. Her leaflets say she has spent her working life in the NHS, though of course her last job was head of health at
IT SEEMS that the Labour Candidate for outer York is following the strategy of his leader in that he is making pledges with not a hope in hell of them being deliverable by him. I refer to his recent missive delivered, I assume, to all electors
WE would like to say thank you to all the volunteers from Badger Hill who took part in a litter pick last Saturday. The session had been organised by local councillors and the Badger Hill residents’ community group as part of City of York Council’s
THE Fulford and District Branch of the Royal British Legion will hold its next meeting on Thursday, April 9 at 7.30pm in the Sergeants Mess, Imphal Barracks, York, and all are welcome. Members are also reminded of the comedy evening in the Fulfordgate
I WAS dismayed by your headline to the “Speeds increase despite 20mph rule across York” report of March 31. The text of the article clears states that the average speed decreased, in contradiction to the headline. Further you refer to three roads
A PAIR of seal pups which crossed the North Sea from Germany have been rescued. Grey seal pup Matilda and common seal Augustus were both wearing numbered flipper tags when they were rescued by Scarborough Sea Life Sanctuary within two weeks of
I RESPOND to a letter about the proposed reopening of Haxby station (Letters, March 31). Train stations don’t necessarily need car parks. The letter writer points out that York has some excellent public transport links, but our roads are at capacity
WHAT do you get if you cast the spotlight on Bobby Davro in chequered dungarees, singing Steps’ version of Tragedy alongside a hunchbacked beast, a fairy and an outlandish Dame? The York Barbican Easter panto, of course. From the same team
THIS isn’t about Nigel, not really. That man needs no encouragement from me. But it is about something Nigel Farage said in an interview – “I don’t listen to music, I don’t watch television, I don’t read.” Now that’s quite a statement, isn’t it?
A WOMAN who dishonestly claimed more than £4,750 in benefits “buried her head in the sand” rather than own up. Valerie Wright, 67, of Cherry Tree Court, Dunnington, pleaded guilty to making false claims to City of York Council and the Department
York Art Gallery has chosen Yorkshire Day for its long-awaited return. STEPHEN LEWIS takes a look at some of the stunning and important pieces we’ll be able to see for ourselves soon. SO now we know: York Art Gallery will open to the public again
100 years ago The Easter Holidays had started, and it could be said with truth that despite the difficulties connected with the war the beautiful weather prevailing had tempted a good many persons to leave York for various parts of the British
A YORK insolvency practitioner has sold his business to the same firm he left five years ago to co-found his own venture. Broadbents Business Recovery Services, which has an office at York Eco Business Centre at Clifton Moor and another in Hartlepool
A MAN forced his ex-girlfriend’s car off the road while she was driving after she confessed to sleeping with his best friend, a court heard. Aaron James Cooper, 24, started banging his fist on the dashboard when he heard the news before grabbing
A YORK-based small business owner has created a new venture to help microbusinesses in the region get noticed. The course, run by Campfire Communications, will teach business owners how to do their own PR in just one day so that they start to get
YORK’S status as the first UK City of Media Arts has helped it attract a national networking event organised by Shakespeare’s Globe. The annual event, called Interface, is staged in different venues outside London every year to bring together cultural
AN UNDER-threat York charity has had its future secured after it was offered a new home in the city centre. The Kyra Women's Project had been facing homelessness since January when staff learnt the tenancy on the rooms they shared with another
A MAN told a jury he never assaulted Sam Wilson in any way on the night the 21-year-old was run over by a taxi as he lay in the road. Linden Lee Smith said he was involved in a scuffle with Mr Wilson’s friend Henry Smith in Haxby Road in the early
A METHODIST preacher who has taken services at 70 churches has celebrated 50 years delivering sermons. Tony Service, 71, from Brayton, preached at his first service in Leeds, and now preaches regularly on the Selby and Goole circuit. To mark
MISSING murderer William Kerr is no longer believed to be in North Yorkshire, police have said. Kerr, 53, was jailed for life for murder in 1998, but released on licence in January. North Yorkshire Police were contacted by the National Offender
A MAN who assaulted two women on a York train has been jailed for 24 weeks. Christopher Neil Gregory, of St Stephens Road, York, admitted two counts of assault by beating and a charge of trespassing on railway property when he appeared at York
A WELL-known shopkeeper from York's booming Bishopthorpe Road has announced he is to fight for a seat on the city council. As chairman of Bishopthorpe Road's Traders Association, Johnny Hayes has been a driving force behind the street's renaissance
THE FAMILY of a pensioner found dead in a mental health hospital have described it as “the most avoidable of tragedies”, after the trust in charge admitted a ligature point she used should have been removed earlier. Sheila Jane Rusholme’s inquest
HERE are 14 images of Heworth from The Press archives, dating back to the 1960s. This is 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
Two York GP practices have joined forces after a four month local consultation, bringing six surgeries into the same hands. The plan to bring together the Haxby Group and Gale Farm was announced in August last year when patients and staff were
JAMES FORD has called on his York City Knights troops to keep emotions in check and “play like robots” when they kick off their League One campaign at a highly charged Cougar Park tomorrow. The Knights have endured stressful times off the field
MARK APPLEGARTH admits to being unsure of what to expect in League One this season ahead of tomorrow’s opener at Keighley Cougars - but reckons it will be a tough division to get out of regardless. The prop forward back with York City Knights as
YORK City Knights have released a statement which suggests community stadium talks are resuming with City of York Council. The situation was shrouded in confusion late last week when the council said it was seeking clarification on what it described
NEW Earswick ARLC face a tough task as they seek to sustain their 100 per cent home record in Pennine League championship one. The All Blacks, with seven wins at White Rose Avenue, welcome title hopefuls Morley Borough on Saturday - a team who
YORKSHIRE have replaced their early-season overseas batsman Younus Khan with India’s Cheteshwar Pujara. Pakistani Khan was due to fill in for Aaron Finch until the end of the Indian Premier League, and it had been agreed that he would not tour
YORKSHIRE’S oldest rugby union seven-a-side tournament will again take centre stage on Good Friday. The 57th John Smith’s Pock 7s will be staged at Percy Road and England coach Stuart Lancaster drew the Pocklington School old boys’ side, Old Pocklingtonians
PAUL MAHONEY produced the shock of the York Masters snooker tournament so far to blast into the last 16. The Clarence player beat Keith Thornhill 3-1 to reach the knockout stages - and eliminate his opponent from the competition. Mahoney won
ACES high - that’s York City Aces who have won the North Yorkshire Netball League in style. Crowned champions with two games still to play, the York side finished he campaign on a high by beating Harrogate-based Ferns, their principal rivals, by
YORK Tornadoes Ladies team have been crowned champions of the Yorkshire Local League premier division in their debut season. The title-clinching win came in their penultimate fixture at home to Sheffield Gems, their eight-point success giving them
RECORD-BREAKING York Indoor Bowls Club upset the form-book to win the Yorkshire League Challenge Cup. Not only did they oust county champions Featherstone 75-68 in the semi-final, they then edged past league runners-up Redcar in the final to become
LAMBOURN trainer Clive Cox has good prospects of a double at Wolverhampton this afternoon. Cox is fancied to score with nap selection Loaves And Fishes and Perfect Cracker with the former set to make her first appearance on a synthetic surface
