SHERIFF Hutton Bridge are the early pacesetters in dvision one of the York & District Junior Cricket Association Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire Under-15 Championship, writes Paul Wilkinson. SHB racked up an impressive 151-4 against Ovington
CHAMPIONS Acomb ‘A’ maintained the defence of their division one title with a win over Heworth ‘A’ in the York & District Junior Cricket Association Quality Solicitors Burn & Company Under-11 Championship. Harry Watkinson topped the scoring
TEAM Jorvik won 21 ‘A’ Grade medals and 18 ‘B’ Grade medals from 101 swims at Harrogate Swimming Club’s Annual Spa Town meet. Maximus Mawle entered three events, winning medals in all three with personal best times, while Heidi Fothergill, in her
HEWORTH ARLC Under-12s paid for a below-par first-half performance at home to Stanley Rangers - despite a second-half comeback. Sporting a brand new kit, the home team looked smart but did not start as brightly as their new colours, allowing Rangers
LUCAS BURDEN starred with five tries as Heworth ARLC Under-10s made it five wins on the bounce in a 34-26 victory amid blustery conditions at Hunslet Warriors. Burden was the coaches’ man of the match and also top tackler for some superb defensive
LONDESBOROUGH Park have established an early lead with two wins out of two in zone ‘B’ of the York & District Junior Cricket Association Quality Solicitors Burn & Company Under-9 Championship. Park’s latest win came at Heworth thanks to
TEENAGER Georgia Cutt is on tour with the England Students rugby league squad. The 17-year-old Huntington School sixth-former was a member of the squad that flew out to Hungary this week for national duty. England are due to take on the Hungarian
WOLDGATE College’s Under-15 footballers were beaten 3-2 by Didcot Girls’ School in the final of the English Schools’ FA PlayStation U15 Schools’ Cup for Girls. Woldgate opened the scoring midway through the first half at Reading’s Madejski Stadium
Breaking up the concrete in your front garden brings many benefits to plants and wildlife, finds GINA PARKINSON. CHELSEA Flower Show has been making its annual appearance on TV this week with its customary display of amazing gardens and fabulous
DAVE FLETT finds that you can fit an awful lot in when visiting the National Science Museum, including a quick trip to the moon. LOOKING for ideas on how to entertain the kids during the school holidays? Well, how does visiting the moon, embarking
A FISH and chip shop in Whitby has been hit by a fire. Firefighters were called to the business in New Quay Road this morning following reports of flames from the roof. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said the blaze
Work by graduating fine art students at York St John University is on show at two sites in the city. CHARLES HUTCHINSON drops by for a look. YORK St John University’s Fine Art degree show may be called Bungalow, but it is presented on two floors
WHO says Yorkshire and Lancashire, Leeds and Manchester, can’t work together? The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s burgeoning creative partnership with the Royal Exchange Theatre is in full bloom in the White and Red Rose liaison for two plays: the WYP
LERVIG brewery first came to the shelves of the Trembling Madness in the guise of a collaboration brew they made with Huddersfield’s Magic Rock – a farmhouse ale that had been hopped like an American style IPA. They also now provide much of Mikkeller
I’VE been making these for about five years now, and it’s still one of my absolute favourite brunch dishes. Soft, fluffy, squidgy pancakes, slightly crisp on the outside, filled with juicy chunks of fragrant pear and the caramel-scented crunch
AS I write, Ming the Merciless has his evil icy wind destructor ray pointed at the British Isles. By the time you read this, I’m hoping Flash Gordon will have saved every one of us and we will be basking in hot weather. Especially since it is the Spring
MAGICIANS, eh? You wait for ages, then three come along at once... No sooner has the BBC brought us its adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell – featuring two ‘practical magicians’ – than a York author has launched his own
Forget all those ultra-violent computer games and action movies. We’re much less violent today than we used to be, a York academic claims in his latest book. STEPHEN LEWIS spoke to him. WE’VE just lived through a century that is often described
VOCAL Flourish – York’s first dementia choir – is holding its debut concert this weekend, which comes after Dementia Awareness Week. Despite only having started four months ago, Vocal Flourish are already set to give their first performance this
ROBBERS have kicked a man in the head and ribs after punching him to the ground in Acomb. Detectives are appealing for witnesses and information about the attack, which happened on a cycle path at about 4.50pm yesterday. The victim, a local
GEOFF DEIGHTON, the doyen of York area cricket, is showing no sign of hanging up his batting gloves. Amazingly, the HPH York Vale League seasoned campaigner celebrated his 80th birthday this week. He’s been opening the batting for Bishopthorpe
ANDREW GALE’S half-century ensured Yorkshire Vikings maintained their perfect start to the NatWest T20 Blast with a six-wicket win over Nottinghamshire. The captain became the first man to surpass 2,000 T20 runs for the county as he finished unbeaten
JONNY BAIRSTOW and Andrew Gale have warned against rising expectations surrounding Yorkshire’s teenage sensation Matthew Fisher after a sparkling start to his county career has got tongues wagging. Fisher has played in all three forms of first-team
SHE only donned the gloves less than five years ago - and is now all set to fight for England. Kirsty Hill, Acomb born and bred, is to take part in a Tri-Nations boxing match against Scotland and Wales in Rotherham this weekend, after coming through
COULD this be the moment you’ve all been waiting for? Well, here goes. This, dear reader, is the final TKO column (cue rejoicing, if not on a national scale, then surely on a city and North Yorkshire-wide scale). Three months away from celebrating
NORTH Yorkshire’s star sprinter G Force is set to cross the Pennines today to return to the scene of his finest victory as he rejoins the action for the first time in 2015. Trained at Nawton near Helmsley by David O’Meara, G Force began last season
UNDER-FIRE York City Knights director John Guildford has been fined £500 by the Rugby Football League for posting inappropriate material on social media. As reported by The Press last month, Guildford caused controversy when he called two Knights
A LIFESAVING charity has received its largest ever single donation totalling almost £1 million. Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) plans to put the £944,254 from Yorkshire Building Society towards a new helicopter, after it was collected from the customers
DOZENS of parents picnicked on the green in Scarcroft Road to discuss the South Bank schools academies plan. About 70 parents met to talk over plans to unite South Bank school Millthorpe secondary with two of its feeder primaries, Scarcroft and
RESIDENTS living in more than 6,000 homes in the Acomb and Poppleton areas of York are set to benefit from free travel advice. A team of i-Travel York travel advisers is continuing one of the biggest door-to-door exercises undertaken in York by
DRIVERS are being warned that there will be an overnight closure of the A1 in North Yorkshire on May 28. The A1 northbound between Catterick South and Catterick North junctions will be closed from 8pm to 6am as part of ongoing improvement work
A BABY has been struck down with an illness affecting only one in every 40,000 children. Katie Brundrett is suffering from Cornelia De Lange Syndrome, a condition characterised by slow mental and physical development, and faces an uncertain future
THE owner of a wildlife organisation which is set to close this week says she hopes she can start a registered charity to help educate children about animals. Annette Pyrah set up Selby Wildlife in 2012, initially running it from her conservatory
A RARE autobiography has been handed to the owners of a York bookshop – and is set to cost the buyer a small fortune. T.E. Lawrence’s 1926 first edition of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is on sale through Ken Spelman Rare Books, of Micklegate.
NINE thousand square metres of undergrowth has been on fire alongside the North Yorkshire Moors Railway line near Levisham Station. Firefighters from Pickering, Kirbymoorside, Whitby and Malton have been tackling the blaze this afternoon, using
CITY of York Council has been shortlisted for three national awards. The authority is up for Best Council Service Team, Trading Standards and Environmental Health and Digital City UK in the MJ awards. They recognise and praise innovation in
A PHILANDERING husband is living in fear of being caught with his trousers down after a sex tape of him with his mistress was accidentally left on a North Yorkshire bus. The cheating husband begged a bus company to help him find the footage left
AS ONE who was “incarcerated” by the Tour de Yorkshire, may I pass on my hearty congratulations to all involved, what a great day and a coup for Yorkshire. As to the vexed question of “who profits?” I think we all do. For every business that lost
IN a letter of May 14, a number of points were made regarding advice offered by Diabetes UK. It is vital for people living with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes that the correct and most up to date information is available to them in order to manage
I CAN never praise enough our York Hospital and once again I speak from personal experience. On April 23 a cancer was removed from the lower lid of my only seeing eye. This was not as unpleasant as it might have been, as the friendly theatre
I WENT to a meeting the council had arranged about building houses on green belt land in Potter Lane, Heworth. What a waste of time as the councillor present and an architect just kept saying they had the right to build on green belt land.
CITY of York Council’s laudable aim to get recycling above 50 per cent can easily be attained, even though the rate has stubbornly remained in the mid forties. Councillors should go out with recycling collection vehicles and visit every household
IN HIS letter of May 18, Keith Thornton attempts to debunk my correspondence of May 15. Mr Thornton falls into the trap of using cheap political jibes to support the unsupportable posh politics of the Tory party, whose cabinet is made up almost
HEAD coach James Ford paid tribute to York City Knights stalwart Mick Ramsden following tonight’s big win over South Wales Scorpions – after it was announced the York rugby league legend was leaving the club. Ramsden played the bulk of his career
I AM pleased DM Dale found the article about my family pilgrimage to a war cemetery interesting. The Harry Laverack on that trip was my brother and not the person DM Dale is thinking about (Letters, May 21). However, I can confirm that the Harry
YOUR photograph Here Comes the Judge – York Assizes in 1913, showing the arrival of the Assize Judge in 1913, was by no means the last such occasion in York. There was an account in the Yorkshire Herald of June 26,1924, describing how the High
NEW chocolatiers have joined a city attraction. Creative and highly skilled pair Andrew Carnall and Bryony Jepson are the latest artistic minds to join York’s Chocolate Story. Mr Carnall has relocated to York from Sheffield where he was head
NORTH Yorkshire County Council is introducing evening and Sunday parking charges in Harrogate. The council said the proposal is intended to ensure on-street spaces are available for short-stay shoppers on Sundays and night-time visitors to Harrogate
THE man in charge of York’s Bar Convent is going the extra mile to raise funds to help transform the building and help secure its future. General manager James Foster is cycling from coast to coast – 140 miles from Whitehaven, in the west, to Tynemouth
THESE students got the chance to dress up in their finery for their end of school leaver’s ball. The Year 13 cohort from Joseph Rowntree School sixth form in New Earswick celebrated the end of school with their leavers’ ball at The Parsonage Hotel
FAMILIES looking for half-term activities have a rich choice of options across York, North and East Yorkshire. Adventure days, sword fighting, snail racing and dog displays are among the events being put on to appeal to fun-seekers. Special
A Belgian choir joined forces with local groups to raise awareness of dementia for the Alzheimers Society. The event took place at All Saints, Pavement, in York, during Dementia Awareness Week.
A SITE office and community facility has finally opened at a York travellers site and is now in daily use. City of York Council has installed a portable building at the Osbaldwick site after abandoning its original attempt last year to build a
THE two beers could scarcely have been more different yet they complemented each other superbly, and suddenly my palate and imagination were bamboozled. Was this a Eureka moment, or mid-afternoon madness? Truth be told, I'm still not sure, but
>>> GALLERY: 7 new photos of the dig site THE "staggering" discovery of the medieval foundations of St Leonard's Hospital in the archaeological excavations at York Theatre Royal will force Berwick Kaler's pantomime into a temporary new
St Leonard’s Hospice has launched an appeal to celebrate 30 years of caring for local people. The appeal titled ‘St Leonard’s Care Everywhere’ encourages donors to help raise £30,000 in the Hospice’s 30th year for 3 Hospice@Home support vehicles
