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DAVE Winfield has been hailed as a “colossus” after securing a vital 1-0 home win for York City against relegation rivals Cheltenham. The 27-year-old defender scored a 73rd-minute header to move City seven points clear of their bottom-of-the-table

YORK City have confirmed that Josh Carson was not involved in today's 1-0 home victory over Cheltenham due to an incident last Saturday night.   Carson was admitted to hospital on Sunday morning, as a result, with what has now been determined as

DAVE Winfield’s second-half header earned York City a vital 1-0 home win over relegation rivals Cheltenham. The centre back’s 73rd-minute goal saw Russ Wilcox’s men move seven points clear of the bottom-of-the-table Robins in the fight for Football

A COMEDIAN visited Selby Abbey to once again fulfil a centuries-old tradition. Tim FitzHigham took up the role of Pittancer in 2005 to commemorate Maundy Thursday, a role not previously filled since 1517. A pittance is a small amount of money.

MEMBERS of the York Rescue Boat have taken to the water for the first time. Volunteers led by Dave Benson took to the Ouse at Acaster Malbis today, to try out their new boat and kit. Locals and camera crews gathered to watch as the team put

AFTER their debut last year with Thirty Little Plays About Life, the York Theatre Royal's Adult Theatre Workshop participants return with new company members, new plays and new playwrights (and some actors and writers from last time). Ebullient

NORTH West company Postcard Theatre have crossed the Pennine border line for the first time to stage a show in York. Playwright Ruby Clarke, former artistic director of York Theatre Royal's TakeOver festival and now directing York Shakespeare Project's

OUR love affair with the Volkswagen Golf seems to know no bounds. Last month it became the second biggest-selling car in the UK, tucked in behind the Ford Fiesta. With a winning combination of top quality – both in the cabin and in the body-build

SUZUKI is winning over more and more fans with its choice of small, cheap and reliable cars. And now there’s another good reason to look to the Japanese brand. With record UK sales of 37,395 last year, the company is shaking up the mix of its products

ONLY a few years ago Jeep was virtually dead and buried in the UK. Given one last chance, it has come back to life and achieved some remarkable results: 18 months of consecutive growth, a jump in the number of dealers from 50 to 76 and heading

NEARLY 900 bikers from Squires Milk Bar, near Sherburn-in-Elmet, took part in the annual Easter Egg Ride to deliver chocolate eggs to children’s centres, homes and hospices. One of the riders said: “It rained all the way there, but we got a good

A COUPLE who met as teenagers in the Swinging Sixties are today celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Judy and David Reynolds, of Haxby, who put their long-lasting marriage down to “love, laughter, tolerance and trust” will be toasting

EASTER arrived for patients on the children’s ward at York Hospital thanks to customers at a city supermarket. The Sainsbury's store in Bishopthorpe Road collected Easter eggs to donate to the ward after asking customers to give an egg or £1 to

It’s Easter and that means one thing; eggs, dozens of them, and you can learn how to make your own at this weekend’s chocolate festival in York. MATT CLARK offers a taste of what to expect. THESE days the Minster is York’s biggest claim to fame

AN APTLY-NAMED general manager has been appointed to run a new hotel in York. The Splendid Hospitality Group has appointed Mike Sweeting as manager at Hotel Indigo York, which is being built on the former Infinity motorcycle showrooms site in Walmgate

INTREPID fundraiser Darren Hodgson is really going that extra mile in memory of his father. The 41-year-old from Thirsk is preparing to run the Greater Manchester Marathon in Trafford later this month. His dad, Tom, died at the Lambert Memorial

EASTER Sunday may be approaching but Carol Partington has no intention of eating this particular egg. Mrs Partington, of Poppleton, York, says the handcrafted egg is about 70 years old, having been made in the Czech Republic in the 1940s. She

GOOD Neighbour schemes are to be introduced across North Yorkshire to offer practical support to people in rural areas. The schemes will be run by volunteers, and help and support to get them started is available from Rural Action Yorkshire (RAY

A PHOTOGRAPHY student at York College is capturing the development of a new building. Sam Dennis, a former pupil at Barlby High School, is studying photography at A Level, and recording the progress of the college’s Construction Skills Centre.

AS WE are at the start a Bank Holiday weekend, I guarantee that at some stage it will rain between now and Tuesday. But surely I can be more inventive with my words than that. The Sami people of northern Europe have 20 or so ways of saying “snow

CROUCH Touch Pause Engage – a Rugby Union referee’s instruction to opposing teams at a scrum-down – is the story of Gareth “Alfie” Thomas, the flying, lying Welsh winger, and of his hometown of Bridgend too. The lying Welsh winger? Well, at one

YORK will hopefully be heaving with people over the long bank holiday weekend. With luck, they won’t have their enjoyment spoiled by drunken, boorish behaviour. Following the success of last weekend’s police crackdown on drunk and disorderly behaviour

EMOTIONAL distress as the result of a crime is perhaps the most difficult thing to deal with. Possessions can be replaced, scars eventually heal, but trauma is a recurring theme for most victims. So anything that helps people recover and get on

AS A long-standing York City supporter, I recently attended the England v Germany under 21 match at the Riverside Stadium. Tickets for my nine-year-old son and myself cost £11. A very good game ensued before a crowd of 30,000 plus in dreadful weather

GEOFF Robb’s assertion that the BBC is left-leaning and unlikely to be unbiased in its election coverage, does not stand scrutiny. (Letters, March 27). Political editor Nick Robinson was a prominent young Conservative. Easily their best interviewer

 ENSCONCED here in leafy Cheshire, helping to look after grandchild number six while number seven was entering the world, I must be at least 50 miles from the nearest copy of The Press. Thanks to the wonders of modern science, my wife’s iPad and

YOUR letter writer of March 27, S Garnham, tells us that Councillor Mark Crane has allowed SDC to spend more than a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers’ money by sending each home in the district a newspaper. I just wondered if the council

I WAS deeply saddened when it was announced that one of Yorkshire’s all-time greatest cricket legends, Bob Appleyard, had died. The greatest compliments ever bestowed on Bob came from two more Yorkshire legends, during Bob’s playing career. Fred

WHO is responsible for the dreadful signage, at the top of Shambles, directing people to Shambles Market? Sited above a Georgian property it is totally out of place, offensive to the eye and quite unnecessary in that the actual market is almost

I MUST apologise to William Dixon Smith for quoting that he described the cycle racks outside York station as “inconvenient and unsightly” (Letters, March 12). I have checked his letter and the term used was “unsightly and inconvenient”. I regret

I USUALLY ignore what is posted online when my name appears in The Press, but when others are wrongly accused I feel obliged to put the record straight. A commentator with the user-name DarrenMiles claims, among insults, that I am a liberal employing

WHILE the open letter to the Daily Telegraph from 100 business leaders was unsurprisingly welcomed by George Osborne, it serves to provide a clear dividing line between the two mainstream parties. The letter, by focusing only on cutting corporation

CAN somebody please explain to me why at 7.30pm on Monday, March 30 all the toilets, including the 24-hour toilet, at St George’s Field car park, were closed? Fortunately the front-of-house ladies of the Grand Opera House let me use the theatre

THE Press is to be congratulated on its decisions to not carry correspondence from candidates in the local and Parliamentary elections from April 13, and no letters regarding the election from April 23. This is something that I have been advocating

IT’S unusual in York these days to praise politicians but I should like to break that mould. It’s not actually for his political role, but civic role as York’s leading citizen as Lord Mayor of York. Cllr Ian Gillies together with the Lady Mayoress

100 years ago THE Coroner for York and District, Mr J R Wood held two inquests in connection with fatal boating accidents on the River Ouse. In one of these accidents the occupants of the boats were two young soldiers, who had had very little experience

ED Miliband’s promise to bring back a minister for Yorkshire in a Labour Government would play a vital role in giving the region a powerful voice, the party’s prospective party candidate for York Central said. On Wednesday, the Labour leader promised

MP hopefuls in York Central have clashed over the extent of the “cost of living crisis” in the city. Labour’s Rachael Maskell has written to businesses in the city, urging them to sign up the Living Wage saying that with a real term fall in wages

THE Yorkshire First party has marked its first birthday. Leader Richard Carter, who formed the party to campaign for devolution for the county, said: “This week marks one year since the formation of Yorkshire First. In that time we’ve grown beyond

A POPULAR father was driving his sister’s BMW when it overturned and landed in a ditch, an inquest has heard. Lee Lyons, 27, died on Sunday when he lost control of the vehicle in Towthorpe Moor Lane, Strensall, York, at 9.20pm, as he returned home

FIVE men were arrested in an early morning drugs raid in York. North Yorkshire Police executed a search warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at the James Street Travellers Site at about 4.15am on Wednesday. During the search, officers found

JEWELLERY inspired by the architecture and design of a North Yorkshire stately home and its gardens is to go on sale at the house. The collection, designed exclusively for Castle Howard, has been influenced by the architectural detail and design

A SAFE haven for cats is to close its doors for three months to allow its largest revamp in 20 years to take place. The York Cats Protection Adoption Centre’s refurbishment will begin in mid-April to make sure the branch is able to meet the many

A WOMAN who crashed into petrol pump equipment while almost four-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit has received a suspended jail sentence. Estate agent Tina Knowles drove on to her local garage forecourt where her silver sports car slammed

COUNCILLORS have backed plans for gas extraction and a 14-kilometre pipeline through the North Yorkshire countryside – but national park bosses have still to give their approval. Third Energy and Moorland Energy want to extract natural gas from

A NEW campaign has been launched to promote cycling, car sharing, walking and travelling on public transport in and around York. City of York Council’s i-Travel York video campaign features York actor Andrew Dunn, who is known for his roles in

A NEW service has been launched to help victims of crime in North Yorkshire. Supporting Victims North Yorkshire is a dedicated phone service staffed by trained victim care coordinators who can refer callers to other services specialising in sexual

A BUSY footbridge across the River Ouse in York city centre will be closed for up to three days for new lights to be installed. City of York Council will be fitting new street lighting on Scarborough Bridge footbridge, which spans the Ouse between

POLICE will again monitor antisocial drinkers and problematic groups in and around York this Bank Holiday weekend. Last week, British Transport Police and North Yorkshire Police took part in a joint operation at York railway station and around

A LEGAL wrangle over the death of York cyclist Ruby Milnes has finally come to an end at York Crown Court - almost seven years after the tragedy. The 17-year-old York College student was killed in May 2008 while she was cycling home along the York

A YORK man who fell 130ft in an accident in the Lake District has been named as renowned scientist Professor Sir John Holman. Sir John, 65, was walking in Sour Milk Ghyll, Borrowdale, on Monday, when he fell about 40 metres, or 131ft. He was

ONE of the men accused of killing Sam Wilson in York has said he punched him in the street and saw him go to the ground before he was run over by a taxi. Jack Alexander, who had drunk about ten pints that night, said he did not see what happened

NEW loan signing Shaun Miller reckons he can hit the goal trail at York City like he did for Shrewsbury this time last year. Miller grabbed the 90th-minute winner on his debut for the Shrews during a 2-1 triumph over Bradford City 12 months ago

YORK City have revealed that the poor condition of the Bootham Crescent playing surface this year has been caused by a condition called “black layer”. The club’s home pitch has cut up in chunks regularly during games over recent months but, having

CRISIS club Cheltenham Town will visit York having hit rock bottom for the first time in their 15-year Football League history. Since their Conference-winning title campaign of 1999 under Steve Cotterill, the Robins have never propped all other

TADCASTER ALBION are not yet prepared to give up on their dreams of league glory. The Brewers ended a frustrating run of seven games without a win by thumping Lincoln Moorlands Railway 4-1 in the quarter-finals of the League Cup in midweek.

SELBY TOWN go to Dronfield Town in Northern Counties East League division one tomorrow in their “best form of the season”. The Robins’ 1-0 win over Teversal last time out was their fourth in five games and manager Dave Ricardo is hopeful of continuing

YORKSHIRE batsman Adam Lyth is being tipped to star in Test cricket when his opportunity arises with England. Tykes Academy and Second XI director Ian Dews is backing the White Rose opener to shine when he gets down to business in the Caribbean

YORK Ladies ARLFC take to the big stage at Featherstone Rovers’ Post Office Road on Easter Sunday looking for a momentous first - lifting the Women’s Ama teur Rugby League Association’s Challenge Cup. Having formed in 2009, York have previously

WOMEN’S cycling is on the up in York. A total of 45 riders attended the launch of dedicated cycling sessions for women hosted by York Sport Village at the University of York in Heslington. The rider development day of skills coaching, group

ALL signs point to Scotland today for the resumption of the Flat Turf season. Having kicked off at Doncaster last weekend, the campaign, having died a death for much of this week, picks up again at Musselburgh this afternoon when Richard Fahey