UPDATED 4.45PM, APRIL 28: A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said Mr Whenman was found safe today and is receiving support. The spokesman thanked the public for their assistance. ---------------------------------------------------------
ROMESH Ranganathan and Suzi Ruffell, two rising stars of the stand-up circuit, play the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York tonight as they embark on their first double-header British tour. Fresh from supporting the likes of Ricky Gervais, Alan Carr
SOMETIMES you just know a house is going to be a little different – and while the saying says you should never judge a book by its cover, it is quite often how houses look from the outside that gives you a clue as to what is to come inside. And
THE quality of Yorkshire’s Academy production line is storing up a selection headache for the county’s hierarchy. The reigning county champions have six players in the Caribbean with England, but youngsters Matt Fisher, Will Rhodes, Jack Leaning
THREE men arrested on suspicion of murdering York chef Claudia Lawrence have been released on police bail. The men - who are all aged in their fifties and from the York area - were arrested on Wednesday morning by North Yorkshire Police, as part
THIS week we are heading out to the village of Stillingfleet where we have encountered a small but very select collection of new homes on The Green. The development consists of three properties – with another on the way – built by NHBC award-winners
CONGRATULATIONS to two York actors, Samuel Edward-Cook and Toby Gordon, for landing roles alongside the French star of stage and screen Juliette Binoche in Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone at the Barbican in London. Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s production
AT 12, John McCullagh wrote his first songs. At 15, he became an early signing to music industry mogul Alan McGee’s label, 359 Music, releasing his debut album North South Divide in 2013. Now the Doncaster teenage troubadour has album number two, New
THE York Spring Festival of New Music kicks off on Wednesday with a night of Middle Eastern music at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York. The Lyre Ensemble present selections from their album The Flood, complemented by composer
THE Kunsthuis gallery at Dutch House, Crayke, marks its first anniversary with A Yorkshire Bike Ride Through The Netherlands, a celebration of cycling and sights seen during country and city bike rides, to coincide with the Tour de Yorkshire. Kunsthuis
DUTCH jazz-pop chanteuse Caro Emerald will accompany the autumn release of her third album with a 16-date November and December tour. Emerald, the Amsterdam Conservatory jazz-trained vocalist with the retro look of a vintage Hollywood icon, will
THE Village Vanguard in New York is one of the most iconic jazz venues in the world. Seeing the words ‘Live at The Village Vanguard’ stamped on CDs and vinyl will be familiar to jazz fans who listen to artists such as Bill Evans and John Coltrane.
YORK City boss Russ Wilcox has admitted that a couple of players’ Bootham Crescent futures remain in the balance prior to the final two games of the season. Michael Ingham, Tom Platt and Lewis Montrose are all out of contract this summer, along
WHAT’S On has three CD copies of Paul Simon’s The Ultimate Collection: Paul Simon to be won, courtesy of Sony Commercial Music Group. Question: What was the name of Paul Simon’s 1986 South African album? Send your answer, with your name, address
TWO Yorkshire derby duels will sign off Leeds United’s campaign, with the men from Elland Road determined to display renewed grit. United make the short trip to Sheffield Wednesday tomorrow for their penultimate outing before wrapping up an ill-starred
IN 1984, the miners were defeated, their families were torn apart and the media circus went home. Upton miner’s son John Godber traces what happened to miner Harry and his wife Dot in the 30 years after the strike in his epic new play, Shafted,
TODAY is William Shakespeare’s 451st birthday, so what better day to launch the first York International Shakespeare Festival in What’s On. The cast of the Flanagan Collective’s Romeo And Juliet have assembled at St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York
PICK Me Up Theatre’s cast for the York premiere of Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters is in place following auditions on April 12. North Eastern playwright Lee Hall’s award-winning play tells the true story of a group of miners in Ashington, Northumberland
INNOVATIVE pianist, conductor, composer, festival curator and academic Joanna MacGregor OBE presents a musical sketch of her life at the National Centre for Early Music in York tomorrow night. Her 7.30pm programme will take the Head of Piano at
DETECTIVES searching for a missing convicted murderer will make a fresh television appeal tonight. North Yorkshire Police have been searching for William Kerr, 53, since he absconded from court-approved premises in Hull on Thursday, March 26.
BY way of introduction, American émigré singer-songwriter Josh Rouse sums up his new album The Embers Of Time as “my surreal expat therapy record”. Released this month on Yep Roc Records, the Nebraskan’s 11th studio set draws on his “bouts with
GRAYS Court, in Chapter House Street,York, will present The Guitar, The Heart Of Spain, an evening of Spanish and Flamenco music with guitarists Samuel Moore and Michael Christian Durrant on Thursday, May 28. Doors will open at 6.30pm for the first
SIMON Barry’s New Pantomime Productions will return to the Grand Opera House, York, for the 17th winter in a row. The cast will be announced at a later date for Jack And The Beanstalk, last presented by Barry in York from December 2008 to January
YOU will be left in limbo waiting for this show, but nevertheless tickets go on sale tomorrow for Bill Bailey’s Limboland gig at Leeds First Direct Arena on May 28 next year. Bailey’s topic for discussion will be “the perception gap between how
SOUTH African blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Dan Patlansky will play Fibbers in York next Thursday as one of six dates on his spring tour to promote the British release of his album Dear Silence Thieves. Approved personally by Bruce
EAST Yorkshire played its part in the creation of Irish comic Dylan Moran’s new tour show, Off The Hook, which heads to Harrogate and York this week. The garrulous and gloriously grumpy Moran spent three nights at Pocklington Arts Centre last November
SCHOOLBOY Oscar Hughes packed a lot into his short life. He was a keen footballer who got to be team mascot for his Manchester United heroes, and a cancer sufferer who never lost his winning smile and who completed the final lap of a fundraising
LANDLORDS across Ryedale are calling time on violent dunks. Members of three Pubwatch schemes – in Malton/ Norton, Helmsley/ Kirkbymoorside and Pickering – have pledged to work together to crack down on rowdy behaviour. Anyone using violent or
WHY, I wonder, is it necessary to prevent the free movement of a huge number of people for almost a whole day? I’m talking about the Tour de Yorkshire race. It seems there is some laziness involved in the thinking. The organisers must know
WHILE I have no particular feeling or thoughts about the shiny letter Y trophy for the winner of the Tour de Yorkshire this year, I cannot help but wonder why the trophy isn’t a white rose and the rose doesn’t appear anywhere (as far as I can see).
I READ with interest your article of April 21 headlined: Judges digest chocolate quest. That was until I read the remark by Monica Meschini from Italy that York did not produce the best chocolates in the world. If Monica had ever received a
READING letters on the Haxby station issue, I was reminded of a rail link in Scotland called the Shepherds Line from Inverness to the Kyle of Lochalsh. At some of the stations you just put your hand up and the driver will pick you up and alert
NETWORK Rail and police have been working at crossings to help prevent accidents. But these are not accidents, they incidents are caused by stupidity, by people jumping the lights going over barriers. The people who do this are putting their lives
IT BEGGARS belief that a relatively short section of cycle path can have a £600,000 overspend and a completion a year late to boot and using poor ground conditions as an excuse (The Press, April 18). Before the project started didn’t council get
YORK’S interim director of city and environmental services is quoted as saying permanent restrictions have been in place in Coppergate for more than 50 years. Not so. I passed my driving test on two wheels in 1967 and four wheels in 1968. It was
INCONSIDERATE idiots who put other motorist’s lives at stake, whilst texting and/or using a mobile phone when driving should not be given a chance of going on a drivers awareness course, but should be salutary made aware of how dangerous they are by
A NEW programme about the history of York – presented by Michael Portillo – is to be screened for free in the city tomorrow evening. York: Historic Capital of the North, will be shown at the Yorkshire Museum’s Tempest Anderson Hall at 5.30pm, 6.30pm
I AM so looking forward to the re-opening of York Art Gallery, admission charges or no admission charges. But I do hope that the William Etty statue will be cleaned up before the grand opening in August. He really looks the worse for wear. Barbara
I WOULD like to ask readers to be part of something amazing by joining Team Diabetes UK and running at this year’s Plusnet Yorkshire Marathon, taking place on Sunday, October 11. In the Vale of York there are 15,070 people living with diabetes,
I READ your report about the man who took an air pistol into a night club (The Press, April 21) and wondered if you had it wrong. You state that if it was a real air gun, it carries a maximum sentence of six months, but an imitation gun 12 months
THAT York Minster’s only royal tomb is empty surely baffles many residents of the city and its multitude of visitors when they learn that the rightful occupant of the tomb is buried somewhere nearby. Given opportunity, the seeming magic of our
PERHAPS I’m getting old, but I remember my children enjoying bedtime stories, playing make-believe and being innocent. Now at a very young age they are introduced not just to sexual activity but trans-gender politics. They know more about pop
CITY of York Council’s website states that the council aims to remove offensive graffiti within 24 hours and non-offensive in four working days. Unfortunately this service only applies to public property, such as street furniture. Businesses and
YORK Parliamentary candidates were grilled by students and members of the public on how they would improve mental health provision in the city, at the University of York on Tuesday night. York Central candidates Conservative Robert Mcllveen, Labour
100 years ago The grave statements which eyewitnesses had made in a recent dispatch regarding the privations of prisoners in the hands of Germans were confirmed by communications which the parents of Private JF Drake of the First West Yorkshire
SO IS this election thrilling you, boring you half to death or passing you by? This contest more than most seems to have generated an amazing amount of heat and noise as it struts and frets across on the political stage. For all of the coverage
SALON North, the revolutionary London’ speakers’ night brought north by Harrogate International Festivals, will open its new Innovate, Create, Motivate series tonight at the Masonic Hall, Harrogate. Each night delivers stimulating ideas in art,
THE rules have been changed at a York mental hospital after a patient took his own life while on overnight leave. Carsten Armstrong, 26, of Hillbeck Grove in Heworth, died after being allowed to go home from Bootham Park Hospital, an inquest at
An 1857 escape attempt from York Castle prison, a catalogue of weapons held in Clifford’s Tower after the civil war and details of the Archbishop of York’s underwear in the 1870s: it’s all there in recently catalogued material in York’s city archives
YORK cosmetic dentistry practice Andrea Ubhi has been named Team of the Year North at a national industry awards. The Stonegate-based business took the title at the Dental Awards 2015, which took place last week. Andrea Ubhi Cosmetic Dentistry
A GRADE II listed building in York which was extensively damaged by floods 15 years ago has been named as one of the best workplaces in the north of England. The Bonding Warehouse, next to Skeldergate Bridge, was recognised at the annual British
RURAL and residential property services provider Smiths Gore, founded in 1847 and specialising in the management of rural property for private clients, institutions and the public sector, has been acquired by Savills. Following the deal the firm
WORK has started on putting up the 1,000-seat purpose-built theatre at the National Railway Museum, in York. The structure is being set up for York Theatre Royal's summer residency, which will feature productions of In Fog And Falling Snow and
A RETURNING expat couple are reporting “thriving” trade after taking over a York café. Terence and Rebecca Wensley took a lease on the former Dickinson’s Café, in Tower Street, with help from Langleys Solicitors. The couple, originally from
St George wasn't English. He may never have even existed, but if he did he was probably born in what is now modern-day Turkey, to a Turkish father serving in the Roman army and a Palestinian mother. He almost certainly didn't slay a dragon. This
A BOYFRIEND who punched and kicked his girlfriend in the street when she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant wants to rebuild their relationship, magistrates heard. Hilary Reece, prosecuting, said a security staff member at York St John’s University
THE charity set up in memory of York schoolboy Oscar Hughes is to help fund a research project giving hope to other young people with brain tumours. Almost a year after the Dunnington nine-year-old died from medulloblastoma, OSCAR’s Paediatric
CCTV images have been released after a vandal sprayed graffiti on trains, platforms and pillars at York station. British Transport Police (BTP) officers released the images of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident, which took
Happy St George's Day everyone! To celebrate, here are 9 fantastic old photos of York, all with a George or St George theme.... St George's Cinema in Castlegate in 1965 The same building in 1972 St George's
ON-LOAN Coventry striker Shaun Miller would like to hold talks about his future with York City at the end of the season. Miller, 27, is out of contract at the Ricoh Stadium in the summer and, having not played for the Sky Blues since October, his
ASKHAM Bryan Cricket Club has been booted out of its home of nearly half a century to make way for football. Just weeks before the start of the season the village club was officially told that its ground at Askham Bryan College was required for
ENDING the season on a high - and putting down a marker for next year - is what New Earswick All Blacks boss Jack Stearman wants when this side finish off their league campaign at King Cross Park. Third place in the Pennine League Championship
YORK Indoor Bowls Club lost their grip on the Yetton Trophy after being downed 73-71 in a semi-final against Desborough. York impressed initially to lead 45-30, but were overhauled at 56-49 before they levelled at 59-59. They then managed to
NABURN speedster Brad Jackson is revving up for his next drag racing outing - the national championship’s round at Shakespeare County raceway. The May 2 meeting in Stratford upon Avon will hopefully see an extension of the solid form the 18-year-old
YORK racer Mick Smith got his BTRDA Rally First Championship assault back on track with a fine second in class on the Somerset Stages in Minehead. Setting off from the seafront, Smith had high hopes for the event having topped stage times in the
THE booking of Kieren Fallon for Itlaaq today could prove significant for the chances of the Mick Easterby-trained gelding as he makes the journey from Sheriff Hutton to Beverley. Fallon has ridden the nine-year-old only once before, at York last
A BLOODSTAINED man with a cricket bat chased his brother along a major road leading out of York in broad daylight, magistrates heard. Two passing drivers were so alarmed by the two Wharton brothers running on the A1079 at Kexby that they called
