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FOUR members of a "professional" crime gang that brought cocaine worth more than £210,000 to York have been given jail sentences totalling more than 21 years. Ringleader Richard Malcolm Littlechild, 29, was jailed for nine and a half years and

YORK'S new Labour MP has accused Conservative council bosses of "bottling it" by backing away from a £135,000 congestion probe. Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central, yesterday used her first question in the House of Commons to ask for a debate

>>> GALLERY: 34 photos of Clementhorpe Maltings YORK residents were given a rare chance to view a remarkable Victorian maltings that has been locked up and barely seen for decades. Clementhorpe Community Association organised tours

SIMON DYSON’s European Tour season is over. The York-born ace bowed to the pain of a tendon injury in his wrist after he confirmed his withdrawal from the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open after completing a troublesome first round yesterday. Despite

MAYBE it is the summer sunshine, maybe a time of life thing, a yearning for the idea of village living… or it could just be a spot of serendipity. Having discovered one superb country cottage as featured on this week’s front page, we promptly tumbled

THERE is something quite glorious about tootling along country lanes in the sparkle of an early summer’s day, sun twinkling in a blue, blue sky and the trees a riot of green and gold. And while the trip out to Kelfield is a short one it still makes

ICONIC Yorkshire indie music night Charm returns to Harrogate’s coolest bar, Major Tom’s Social, in The Ginnel, for a night of summer pop, 60s-influenced classic British guitar rock and psychedelia on Thursday, June 11. Noted for bringing Wild

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Jackie Oates will play Selby Town Hall with her band, including Nizlopi double bassist John Parker, in support of her sixth studio album, last month’s The Spyglass And The Herringbone. “Jackie is one of the more trad

ELIZA Carthy and Tim Eriksen have been "accidentally meeting on stage every 400-500 years", as Eliza puts it. More truthfully, the Robin Hood's Bay singer and fiddler from England's foremost folk family and the American traditional musician have known

THIS evening, you have a chance to hear teacher and student perform in the city. At the Pavilion Hotel, Fulford Road, York, vocalist Georgina Barr will perform three sets of classic standards. Georgina is studying towards her degree in jazz at Leeds

AUSTRALIAN star of stage and screen Jason Donovan is returning to the musical Priscilla Queen Of The Desert – Our Journey in the role of Sydney drag queen Tick, visiting the Grand Opera House, York, from November 30 to December 5. Based on the

VOTED the nation’s favourite play, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys begins a new term at the Grand Opera House, York, on June 8 as part of a nationwide tour. Winner of more than 30 major awards, Bennett’s 2004 play is the story of a group of bright

HEDGEPIG Theatre’s spring tour of Jean Genet’s French drama The Maids concludes on home turf in York this week. The York company’s new adaptation of this 1947 French drama is being staged at The Fleeting Arms, the temporary community arts space

DANIEL Triscott has made a funny move, leaving his native Cornwall for York, where he is setting up The Duke’s Comedy Night, a monthly open-mic session at the Duke of York pub in King’s Square that he will launch on June 4. “I’d been to the pub

ROY “Chubby” Brown returns with his meatiest show yet on his Don’t Get Fit Get Fat tour, prompted by the North Eastern blue comedian starting a controversial exercise regime. On the horizon is his York Barbican date on Friday, December 11. Still

HENRY Blofeld and Peter Baxter, alias the Beeb’s cricket commentary box duo of Blowers and Backers, are back with a new show, Rogues On The Road. Bastions of the beloved Test Match Special with more than 80 years’ service to the BBC at home and

A RETIRED vicar from York has been jailed for indecently assaulting a young girl more than forty years ago. Graham Gregory, 79 of Brockfield Park Drive, Huntington, York was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Kingston Crown Court, having

THE Ebor Singers look to the past and present in their New Horizons concert on Saturday at the National Centre for Early Music, York. In the 7.30pm programme of sacred music will be works by Elizabethan composer William Byrd and contemporary composers

THE premiere of Elaine Pechacek’s new musical, The Lady Juliana, will bring together American and British actors at the York New Musical Festival this weekend. The American composer arrived in York on Tuesday to work with her transatlantic cast

YORK’S newish alternative comedy solution, The Burning Duck Comedy Club, is to present an extra show on Wednesday to complement the regular nights every second Tuesday in the month at The Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green. At 8pm, Al Greaves’s club

I HAD little idea what to expect from Wednesday's show but it was clear this was a family reunion. Almost all of the crowd were repeat offenders. “Are you ready to be entertained?” came a voice from off stage. Tonight John Barrowman was leaning

Michael Flatley's Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games tour visits York Barbican for three nights, but without the leaping lord himself. What does Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games involve, Michael? “It’s a high-octane, high energy spectacular

TAKE a sleeping princess, her evil stepmother and a handsome prince, then add the spectacle and bright colours of India. Here comes Hima Sundari, a story similar to Snow White, that will be told through the ancient art of Kathakali at the National

WOULD you like appear in this winter’s Grand Opera House pantomime in York, Jack And The Beanstalk. Are you aged seven or above? If so, New Pantomime Productions will be holding children’s dance auditions on Thursday, September 24 at the Cumberland

THE University of York Opera Society present Mozart’s The Magic Flute on Saturday in their third venture at the Grand Opera House, York. For one night only, the student production will take you on a journey to a fantastical dreamland of magic and

BENJAMIN Britten’s War Requiem will be performed by the University of York Choir and Symphony Orchestra in York Minster on Wednesday, June 17, under the command of conductor Peter Seymour. The soloists will be soprano Wendy Goodison, tenor James

YORK Acorn ARLC have proven they can beat the best teams in National Conference League division one - now they have to do it on a regular basis. That’s the verdict of head coach Scott Rhodes ahead of Saturday’s trip to Normanton Knights (2.30pm

NORTH Yorkshire golf star Simon Dyson is to undergo career-saving surgery. The 37-year-old, who has been plagued most of this year by a crippling tendon injury, which re-surfaced less than two rounds into the Spanish Open in his comeback after

A PARENT who failed to ensure their two children attended school regularly has been fined £800 by York Magistrates. The court was told that their 11-year-old child had been absent for 45 out of a possible 169 sessions at their primary school between

INTERNATIONAL artist Sarah Güsten Marr is to hold a competition next year for blossoming Yorkshire artists at her Gallery GM at Dykelands Farm, Whenby, near York. “I’m very keen give what support I can to young people hoping to build a career

AS The Press reports on May 21, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, stood before the Police Federation National Conference this week and told them to work with her. Not reported in The Press, Theresa May went on to say that the Tories would be giving

A YORK woman is raising money for charity by wearing the same dress every day for a month. Caitlin Rushby, 25, is an analyst at York St John University and last year raised money for a national charity by wearing a black dress every day, and chose

DETAILS of the Labour “offer” (The Press, May 21) confirm the Lib Dems were right to choose a joint administration with the Conservatives. It is worth remembering that the Lib Dems backed a “rainbow coalition”. Only when other groups came out against

BISHOPTHORPE, bidding to become the first side to win a hat-trick of HPH Cup triumphs, made a comfortable start to the defence of their trophy in the opening round. They beat Vale Cricket League second division side Stillingfleet by six wickets

AND so apparently the York Liberal Democrats have learned little from their national collapse at this year’s election, having once again joined hands with the Tories. One last final fling or simply a thirst for power? At a national level we cannot

I ALWAYS had an ambivalent view about proportional representation being used as a voting system in a general election. Thanks to Dave McTernan (Letters May 22) pointing out that such a method would have delivered 80 seats to Ukip, I am wholeheartedly

I SAW and heard a cuckoo this morning. What a lovely change to some of the ones I saw and heard on the telly in the run up to the General Election. Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.

TWO close pals from Selby have made it to the final of a national competition to find the UK’s best friends. Rachel Richardson, 32, and Lauren Adams, 29, will be whisked off to London on June 8 - National Best Friend Day - on an all-expenses paid

FIRST-YEAR pro Callum Rzonca is a work in progress according to York City manager Russ Wilcox. The teenage attacker was handed a pro contract at the end of the season, but the Minstermen boss admits he is not yet ready to be thrust into the first-team

DETECTIVES from North Yorkshire who tracked down a convicted murderer to London have released video footage of his arrest. North Yorkshire Police launched a manhunt for William Kerr, 53, after he absconded from court-approved premises near Selby

AS the newly-elected councillors for Heworth ward, we want to say how much we enjoyed meeting so many residents during the campaign and hearing their concerns. We will continue to work hard to serve everyone in Heworth, as well as play a full role

LAST Saturday’s article in The Press about the Alzheimer’s Society’s event in York last week to mark Dementia Awareness Week at All Saint’s Pavement serves to highlight the opportunity and responsibility we all have to enable people in our community

NATALIE BENNETT, the leader of the Green Party for whom Mr Griffiths is clearly so proud to have voted, will obviously be distraught to learn that he regards her with “scepticism and disdain” as someone who was privately educated, for he is equally

BOSS James Ford reckons the fact York City Knights were selected as the opponents for rugby league’s Magic Weekend curtain-raiser is another indicator of the club’s “enormous” potential. Tomorrow’s Kingstone Press League One encounter at Newcastle

FOODBANK demand in York and Selby has risen again, although less steeply than the national average. According to newly-released Trussell Trust figures, three days supply of food has been given out 3,524 times in York in the last financial year,

NORTH Yorkshire County Council is yet again looking to reduce bus subsidies, despite a massive £2 million cut in 2013/2014. If this affects you, or if you would like to voice your concerns, please visit the council website where you have the opportunity

HOWARD Perry (Letters, May 26) should perhaps get his facts straight about viruses and hospitals. The message is that if you have a virus you should not visit those already in hospital wards, as this spreads the infection. If you are ill, please

CONCERNING the query (Letters, May 8) as to the figures for remittances sent from the UK to developing countries by immigrants, my source is the estimates on global remittances in the report published by the World Bank in 2013. The report was commissioned

CUT THE CORNER, who just failed to hold off the flying finish of Chalk It Down at Wetherby last week, returns to the same course this evening seeking quick compensation. Trained by Dr Richard Newland, who will forever be remembered as the man who

THE exorbitant fees paid by City of York Council (The Press, May 26) to interim director Sarah Tanburn once again beg the question why we need directors and assistant directors, when we have councillors paid as cabinet/executive members running these

I NORMALLY try not to rise to the bait of the letters page, but B Welburn’s magpie letter of May 26 has to be addressed. Magpies are not murderers. No bird is, as murder is a human crime. Avoid anthropomorphising. Magpies, like any other predator

HOW can Poppleton Live surpass this spring’s festival when Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant was in the audience as Fairport Convention played the Poppleton Centre? “In our second year, the festival was a great success, selling more than 1,000 tickets

ONCE in the city of Bristol there was a boy of three years old. Early one morning he fell from a first-floor bedroom window, a window painted shut, so how it opened nobody ever could say. The boy stood up and rang the doorbell, blood dripping from

Last week it was announced that Ferrybridge power station will close, mainly because environmental legislation is about to make coal burning unsustainable. But, as MATT CLARK discovers, better news is being generated a few miles away. IMAGINE trying

AN ADVERT which will be seen by hundreds of thousands of students across the country is about to go live having been produced by a York film director. Nik Morris Associates was commissioned by the Higher Education Academy to produce an advert for

STAFF at a North Yorkshire brewery are celebrating after being shortlisted for two business awards. Hunmanby-based Wold Top Brewery has reached the final of the Best Small Family Business category in the Red Ribbon awards, the UK’s only national

BURGLARS spilled a man's ashes and stole money raised for a charity in his memory, when they broke into his mother's home. John Causer was a supporter of The Prince's Trust and died in 2011 at the age of 22. His family set up the John Causer Trust

YORK credit card and identity insurer CPP is to axe its airport lounge access division in a bid to increase focus on core operations. The Holgate-based firm, which employs 550 people in York, is to bring to an end its Airport Angel brand. CPP

A SUPER-FIT dad died from a heart attack while rowing two of his children in a boat in a seaside bay. Rugby trainer Keith Marshall, 46, collapsed and died in front of teenagers Joe and Annie, who made frantic attempts to revive him. Tragedy

A YORK law firm has brought together a multi-disciplinary legal team to support families living with dementia. Harrowells Solicitors, which has an office in St Saviourgate as well as branches in Thirsk, Easingwold and Pocklington, has created its

CITY of York Council’s Labour leader has announced a “gender balanced” new shadow executive. Cllr Dafydd Williams said that while the new Tory/Lib Dem coalition’s executive was dominated by men, four out of the shadow’s eight members were women

A TOURIST was assaulted by a man in York. The woman was walking in The Mount towards her hotel between 1.30am and 2am on Sunday when she was approached by a man wearing a grey jacket and jeans. North Yorkshire Police said the man attempted

HERE are 11 images of Dringhouses from The Press archives, dating back to the 1960s. This is part of a series of galleries featuring archive photographs from The Press. Share your memories of Dringhouses below - or visit our history section for

YORK'S housing boom is gathering pace with planners set to approve more than 350 new apartments on the Barbican and Terry's sites. Persimmon Homes wants to build 175 apartments on vacant land next to an aparthotel, which is already under construction

A YORK man has been jailed for two years after a series of “brutish” assaults on his girlfriend. Steven McShane, 42, grabbed and shook his girlfriend, pinned her to the ground by her neck, pulled her off the sofa by her hair, and even broke into