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  • French-style bread rolls

    JULIAN COLE has offered a few recipes for bread rolls in this column, and he finishes with a French take on this old favourite. THESE French-style bread rolls are made with milk and are winningly easy to make. Some recipes contain sugar, and

  • Lilley and Backhouse excel for York ‘A’

    ALEX LILLEY and Tom Backhouse excelled for York ‘A’ in the first division of Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire under-15 championship in the York & District Junior Cricket Association. Batting first, York ran up a total of 102-7 at home to Heworth

  • Cricket: York East School Sports final

    TWO primary schools booked their places in the final of the York East School Sports Schools stage of this year’s Drax Cup, the biggest cricket competition for under-9s in the country. Robert Wilkinson Primary Academy finished top in a three-way

  • Cricket: Selby U9s defeat Pocklington

    SELBY racked up another win in the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company U9 Development League. In beating Pocklington, there were splendid contributions from Max Adamson (34), Jonathon Green (24), Jamie Hudson (19), Adam Steen (15) and Joss Brown

  • Cricket: Arch-foes York edge out Acomb

    PERENNIAL rivals York and Acomb ‘A’ shared in a tight tussle in zone ‘A’ of the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company U9 championship. York prevailed by only seven runs with Noah Watson compiling 18 not out and 1-4, while Harrison Harrand also

  • Cricket summer coaching camps

    YORK Cricket Club are staging a series of summer coaching camps for juniors. The sessions are open to boys and girls of all abilities aged from seven to 13 and will be supervised by ECB-qualified coaches at York’s Clifton Park base in Shipton Road

  • Tempest Brewery, UK, Unforgiven, £2.55, 5.4 per cent

    TEMPEST Brewery’s Unforgiven has long been one of my favourites from their range of beers. It is an oak-smoked juniper ale in the same vein as a Scandinavian Sahti or Gottlandsdricke. These traditional styles containing a mix of cereals, normally

  • York 'A' claim Under-9s League finals title

    IT was a case of better late than never as York ‘A’ won the much-delayed 2014 York & District Junior Cricket Association Under-9s League finals day. The competition finale was rained off at the back end of the 2014 season and rescheduled for

  • Bowling trio help Ovington to Sheriff Hutton Bridge victory

    OVINGTON took the Quality Solicitors Burn & Company Under-11 Championship division one points at Sheriff Hutton Bridge thanks to a trio of bowlers - Finn Baqai, Jack Walmsley and Charlie Tighe who took 2-2. Baqai also hit 14 when his side batted

  • Hall mark of class as Terrington lift rounders trophy

    UNBEATEN Terrington Hall under-13 rounders team conjured a home win at the school’s nine-team tournament. In the group stages, Terrington beat Scarborough College 15½-2½, Easingwold 21½-4, Mowden Hall ‘B’ 8½-4 and Queen Mary’s 13-9½, before a convincing

  • Goalkeeper plea

    FULFORD Football Club’s under-14s are looking for a new goalkeeper to join their squad for next season. The squad is for boys going into school Year 9 in September. Training will resume soon at Fulford School on Wednesdays from 6pm. Further

  • St Olave’s serve up a home win

    PUPILS from host school St Olave’s narrowly missed out on a home double in their annual tennis tournament. The competition included categories for under-13 and U12 players and was contested by teams from St Olave’s, Terrington Hall, St Martin’s

  • Country walk at Bilton, near Harrogate

    GEORGE WILKINSON follows in the footsteps of Rob Cowen’s new book Common Ground as he walks around Bilton, a suburb of Harrogate. BILTON, a suburb of Harrogate, is the location of Common Ground, an ace book by Rob Cowen published by Hutchinson

  • Yorkshire Vikings fall to six-run defeat at Durham Jets

    THEY used their permanent floodlights for the first time at the Emirates ICG and by the end of the evening it was Yorkshire Vikings who were in the dark after they lost to the Durham Jets by six runs in the NatWest T20 Blast. Needing 183 to win

  • York City Knights suffer 32-14 defeat at Newcastle Thunder

    HEAD coach James Ford had said pre-match that York City Knights’ trip to Kingston Park would give a good indication of how far they had come in the past ten weeks. As it was, it suggested they had regressed in the space of seven days. They

  • Controlled explosion on York street - PICTURES

    THE bomb squad was called to York on Friday afternoon when an old shell was found in a residential street. North Yorkshire Police have confirmed that a controlled explosion was carried out to dispose of the shell, found on Spalding Avenue in Clifton

  • 3 arrested over Dyson thefts from Sainsbury's

    POLICE stopped a car containing two stolen vacuum cleaners near York on Thursday. North Yorkshire Police were on patrol at about 6pm when they were informed about thefts of Dyson equipment from Sainsbury's stores in Whitby and Scarborough that

  • Why I’m sweet on woodruff

    GINA PARKINSON has nothing but praise for a dainty plant that quietly goes about covering the soil in a shady spot. IN AN inhospitable dry shady spot in our garden grows a dainty plant, stealthily covering the soil with its starry foliage. There

  • Suzuki Vitara 1.6 SZ5 Allgrip

    VITARA is hardly a new name in the Suzuki stable – it has been with us since 1988 – but the latest incarnation is a million miles away from the rugged off-roader that first introduced a lot of drivers to the brand. There has been a steady evolvement

  • Infiniti QX70 S Design

    IF YOU are the new kid on the block and want to make a statement, then you might as well be bold. That appears to be the premise for the latest offering from the Infiniti stable, the QX70 S Design, which had its premiere at the Paris Motor Show

  • Ford Fiesta Red Edition

    THE Ford Fiesta continues to dominate the UK sales chart, even outselling the full ranges of all but four rival manufacturers. It has been a phenomenal success story, with the car not only winning award after award but also getting better and better

  • Taxed but with nothing to show for it

    FROM October of last year, the DVLA did not issue tax discs. No surprise perhaps, but it was still a surreal experience walking down the street to the Post Office to tax my car. Nearly every parked vehicle displayed an out-of-date tax disc. How

  • Put market back in centre for people

    EVERYONE makes mistakes – the last council made several, but the one on everyone’s lips at the moment is the market. Firstly the ridiculous amount of money spent on revamping and secondly not listening to the general public, people who live here

  • Most benefits don’t go to the jobless

    YOUR correspondent Hazel Ward is quite right that “not everyone is angry about benefits cuts” (Letters, May 26). However, if she thinks that most benefits go to unemployed people, she is mistaken. Only about seven per cent of the UK welfare budget

  • Making life difficult again for the driver

    I FIND it incredible that someone with the obvious intelligence of Paul Hepworth can believe the “statistical” balderdash that building new roads increases car usage. Not being a car driver, he doesn’t understand that a car owner won’t just get

  • Head the right way over traffic chaos

    YET again we hear the same old anti-car rubbish from Paul Hepworth. Once again he says you can’t build your way out of chaos, but the truth is the council has built its way into chaos. It has done this through restricting the flow of traffic with

  • Disturbed by attack from ‘hooded scum’

    DISTURBING is how I would describe the latest reported attack on a pedestrian by yobs on cycles on the path leading from Danebury Drive to Woodlea Avenue, Acomb. It is disturbing because no one is immune from such cowardly actions by hooded scum

  • Thank you all for great hospital care

    I WOULD just like to say a big thank-you to all the doctors and nurses at York Hospital in the intensive care unit for all their care and attention I received during my stay there. Everyone was so helpful and caring and also thanks to Archways

  • We were treated well on that cruise

    I refer to Mrs Causnett’s letter of May 18, in which I assume she refers to The Balmoral which returned one day early because of a high incidence of gastric enteritis. My wife and I were passengers on that cruise, and in the three days after our

  • Farage right to force these serious issues

    I FEEL that now is the time to congratulate Nigel Farage, MEP and Ukip leader, on spreading the word regarding many serious issues concerning the United Kingdom and the EU. By being the voice of the general public and bringing matters to the notice

  • I will be keeping up pressure on parking

    I’D like to firstly thank local residents in Fulford and Heslington for re-electing me as a local councillor, and I am looking forward to working with them over the next four years. The Press letter of May 25, “Time for action over traffic chaos

  • Not nice, but nature must take its course

    ON READING B Welburn’s letter of May 26, I was, in my head at least, immediately starting to compose a response in defence of this attractive bird, the magpie, even though I fully understand his reaction. How strange indeed then that I too witnessed

  • Robber's drunken quest to find dumped cash lands him in court

    A CONVICTED robber went on a drunken mission to recover his illgotten gains in a village near South Milford, two years after he ditched the cash to avoid police. Carl Hibbert, 30, pleaded guilty to attempted burglary and an offence under the vagrancy

  • Theatre defied Canadian winter freeze

    I WAS concerned to read the letter of May 27 from Peter Newton regarding the move of the panto from York Theatre Royal to The Signal Box Theatre at the National Railway Museum. I would like assure Mr Newton and all ticket holders that this purpose-built

  • England needs a new attitude

    I’VE a message for everyone who thinks the FIFA arrests could lead to England getting the 2022 or 2018 World Cup – they won’t. Even if the voting processes for both were reopened and everyone who took part in the initial votes were disqualified

  • York charities united in one church

    St Columba’s United Reformed Church in Priory Street is more than a church: it is also a centre of operations for several York charities. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. FINDING the right church can be a bit like joining a dating agency, says Alison Micklem

  • People aren’t ‘wired’ to look after money

    PEOPLE are not “wired” to handle money well and should be given more help to overcome behaviour patterns such as over-buying, a report argues. Simply arming people with more knowledge about financial matters is not enough to meaningfully improve

  • Small businesses to share experiences

    SMALL business champions will share their experiences about customers, collaboration and what keeps them going, during a panel discussion in York next week. The Inspire Series event, which takes place at York Cocoa House in Blake Street at 6.30pm

  • Ryedale freight firm expands in Europe

    A RYEDALE-based freight company has expanded its services into another four more European countries. Membership of Palletways, the European express palletised freight network, means that Ward Bros will in June launch its latest services in Poland

  • Celebrations as superfast broadband's first phase completed

    SUPERFAST North Yorkshire celebrated the completion of its first phase with the ceremonial switching on of a fibre broadband cabinet in Masham. The cabinet is the 1,000th to be installed across the county and is one of four serving the 800 homes

  • Two more claim they were abused by ex-clergyman

    TWO more people have come forward to say they were abused at the hands of a retired York vicar. The Press reported earlier this month how the Church of England had made a six-figure payout to a man who said he suffered years of physical and psychological

  • Tributes paid to racehorse trainer Mel Brittain

    A RENOWNED racehorse trainer and businessman described as a "gentleman" and "wonderfully loyal" by those who worked alongside him has died. Warthill trainer Mel Brittain, 71, passed away at his Northgate Lodge Stables yesterday morning (thurs)

  • Racing tips: Paul mulling over top treble thriller

    PAUL MULRENNAN, fifth in the jockeys’ table and flying high following a Hilary Needler Trophy win at Beverley and a Zetland Gold Cup triumph at Redcar within the last week, can play a starring role at Catterick this evening. The North Yorkshire