A MAN has been arrested following a raid on a Chinese restaurant in York. The Regency Restaurant in Barbican Road was visited by immigration officials at 5.50pm today. A Home Office spokesman confirmed one Chinese national was detained on
YORK'S new Lord Mayor has today spoken of her pride that a working class daughter of a political refugee should have achieved such high office. Cllr Sonja Crisp, who was officially appointed at an annual City of York Council meeting at the Guildhall
YORK City Knights reserves' match at Dewsbury Rams tonight has been called off due to injuries in the Knights ranks. The club say that ten first-teamers are currently sidelined and call-ups from the reserves for tomorrow night's League One clash
HOPES that York City Knights are to be brought back into the community stadium project have been boosted after the club declared that "positive news will be in the public domain very soon". Talks between the club's new board of directors and project
A PLANNED rail strike over the Bank Holiday which would have crippled services and led to widespread travel chaos has been called off after Network Rail tabled a new pay offer. Commuters across York, North and East Yorkshire were braced for a 24
This is the moment a brave shopkeeper tackled a would-be thief - by hitting him over the head with a bottle of Champagne. Manager Neil Hanby leapt into action armed with the bottle of bubbles when he found the intruder in the cellars at the Costcutter
FORMER Scunthorpe assistant manager John Schofield has been reunited with Russ Wilcox as York City's new number two. The pair, who guided the Iron to promotion from Sky Bet League Two a year ago, will be working together again next term at Bootham
LONG-SERVING utility man Dan Parslow has not been offered a new contract at York City. The former Wales under-21 international leaves Bootham Crescent nine years after his arrival from Cardiff. Parslow made 316 appearances for City and scored
SHEPHERD Group has confirmed a further sell-off of its businesses as it offloads an entire division in a bid to focus investment on its profitable Portakabin operations. The historic, family-run York firm has today confirmed it is selling one of
I WOULD like to congratulate Cllr Chris Steward on his success in becoming leader of City of York Council. There is much to commend in the 12-point plan hammered out between the Tories and Lib Dems. A return to cross-party committee decision making
I DO hope that the new Government is going to be very sympathetic when dealing with the nursing profession. Last week I had to attend York Hospital’s ear department, which I do regularly, for treatment of an ear problem I have suffered with after
I WAS admitted to York Hospital for sinus surgery under the care of Andrew Coatesworth and his team. I felt it necessary to write and praise all the staff who were kind, caring and attended to everything I needed. I was in and out in seven hours to
THIS year marks 40 years since the very first Macmillan nurse was appointed. Macmillan nurses help people affected by cancer, their families and carers make informed decisions about treatment, and guide them through the maze of different services
I WOULD like to express my praise and thanks to the gentleman (knight of the road) and the lady from Molly Maid who stopped in torrential rain on Friday night to help me when my gear box suddenly went non-operational. Having manhandled the car
I HAVE just read the interesting article about Matthew Laverack’s family in The Press of May 18). In the article a Harry Laverack is mentioned. I wonder if he is the same man that started Laveracks industrial estate in Elvington. If he is he
A DRUG dealer caught in Selby town centre with cannabis worth £2,800 on the streets has persuaded a judge not to send him straight back to jail. Police smelt cannabis coming from James Robert Stephenson’s van when they encountered him in Micklegate
CONCERNED parents handed in hundreds of signatures calling for a council-run vote on plans for three York schools to become an academy trust. A group of parents met Micklegate ward councillor Julie Gunnell at City of York Council’s West Offices
BIRMINGHAM Royal Ballet's much anticipated inaugural visit to the Grand Opera House ended on a sour note, as the most dramatic moment was the fall of principal dancer Delia Mathews at the end of a polished performance in the first of what should have
A MASSIVE Christmas celebration is being planned in York to help combat loneliness and its effects. City musician and charity fundraiser Ian Donaghy is organising Xmas Presence for up to 80 people at Belfrey Hall in Stonegate. He said he was
LABOUR has revealed details of “progressive” power-sharing proposals it discussed for City of York Council before the Liberal Democrats decided to form a coalition with the Conservatives. Group leader Dafydd Williams said that after the recent
A MAN has been warned he faces jail after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a young girl. The jurors at York Crown Court heard that Jason Gordon Roy Sleight was an overnight guest in the child's house when he abused her and told her to
SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has pulled out of plans to take over a former York pub. Instead the old Corner House in Burton Stone Lane in Clifton could be set to get a new lease of life as a social club as members of Burton Lane Working Men's Club will
Businesses delay capital investment Almost two thirds of UK businesses generated a cash surplus in the last tax year, according to research by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). The survey of 500 businesses
