A DRIVER escaped major injury after her car hit a concrete pillar outside a supermarket this afternoon. Police were called to the Tesco store on Acomb Wood Drive in Woodthorpe just after 1.15pm today. No passengers or other people were injured
IT starts with grainy old promotional films, screened on a giant Fifties' television set, speaking of Scotland's tomorrow today. Industry, cars, new homes, new hopes, long before the 2015 SNP. Belle And Sebastian's sleeve artwork has long trodden
IT was made for escapism and hedonism, a place to wile away hot summer afternoons beside mirror-like ponds, gentle cascades and classical statues. But the key to Studley Royal Water Garden lies in its follies, whimsical buildings with nothing more
A COMMUNITY centre in York has managed to half its running costs and stave off financial ruin by canny renegotiations of its maintenance contracts. The volunteers behind Foxwood Community Centre have slashed £2,000 off their annual bills since
SUPERMARKET labelling is becoming ever more fanciful. Current examples include a “free-range sandwich” and “happy eggs.” Most bottled water is “natural” with one variety proclaiming it is “drawn from organic land”. You can buy a chicken, a
MUCH has been heard about climate change over in recent times, and it seems York now has its own microclimate. Suddenly the area is now a haven for vineyards producing copious amounts of grapes. The problem is they are of the bitterest of sour
THE recent Press coverage and the recent lead letter of May 21 (Let’s hope city’s coalition delivers) makes me think that some people are being misled by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s claim that they are setting up genuinely new cross-party committees
IT CAME as a bit of a shock to discover that Julian Cole, your sometimes insightful, often piquant, occasionally controversial but, most important, ever readable columnist, is about to leave The Press. Thank you, Julian, for graciously wishing
I AM sorry that we shall read no more of Julian Cole’s columns. Since I started reading The Press, he’s always managed a sensible take on the political scene, all too rare now in national papers that seem ever ready to push their proprietor’s pet
I APPRECIATE one swallow does not make a summer, but let us all hail the new young breed of English cricket, Stokes, Root, Butler and Ward after a fantastic victory over New Zealand at Lords and finally consign KP to history. Time to move on and
I HAVE worked at The Press for 14 very happy years, typing in sports results, news copy, readers’ letters, feature items, uploading events and photographs and various other admin bits ‘n’ bobs. Over the years I have seen some staff come and go,
CAN someone explain why it is that Janice Atkinson MEP is still sitting with Ukip colleagues in the European Parliament? She was supposedly expelled from Ukip as the direct result of expenses fraud, when a recording surfaced that appeared to show
SO DAVE Barker thinks Ukip holding 80-plus seats, representing 3.9 million voters, would be wrong (Letters, May 28). Well, it’s obvious that he has some strange ideas of democracy. D McTernan, Fossway, York.
IT regularly featured in the hit TV drama Heartbeat - and even had its windows blown out on one occasion - but now Aidensfield Stores has gone on the market for hundreds of thousands of pounds. The village shop, situated in Goathland at the heart
YORK’S newest street has been officially named and opened by the Lord Mayor. Le Tour Way has 27 new homes, just off Beckfield Lane in Acomb, and was named by Carr Junior School pupil Aimee Harrison. Yesterday, the new residents and the Lord
A QUESTION mark hangs over York’s future in a West Yorkshire council group in line to benefit from the government’s push for city devolution. Yesterday, the Government published its Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill – promising more powers
A LONG-SERVING parish clerk in a York village has stood down after 15 years of hard work for her community. Councillors in Fulford have thanked Jeanne Fletcher for her years of dedication and diligence to the area, including the crucial part she
HUNTINGTON councillors have spoken out against plans to build more than 100 new houses on greenfield land on the edge of York. A planning application for land between Avon Drive, Huntington, and the ring road was submitted by builders Pilcher Homes
TWIN brothers have been cleared of jointly raping a woman in a pub bedroom after a jury was told they hated the sight of each other. Pub boss Daryl Salt, 26, was also alleged to have raped a second victim 19 months later and to have suggested she
WHEN motorists pay by credit card to park in Bridlington, their banks end up thinking they’ve been to Luxembourg. A motorist told The Press he paid by card to park in the resort on Spring Bank Holiday Monday and then got a text message from his
AN elderly woman who was left outside a York care home and forgotten by carers has been admitted to hospital with pneumonia. Patty Longfield, 89, was taken outside in her wheelchair by carers at Woolnough House in Tang Hall, who forgot to bring
A CLUB-GOER has persuaded a judge to give him a chance after he was caught with an air pistol late at night. York Crown Court heard door staff spotted Lubos Filek with a 4.5 mm calibre Beeman model P17 (2004) in The Square Bar in Selby at 3.44am
FOSTER carers are wanted to help support children and young people in York. City of York Council is looking for interested individuals, couples or families to help look after children unable to live with their own families. Carers would undergo
THE customer is always right. If only that were true. We pub-goers know what annoys us - slow service, lousy beer, and quiz cheats perhaps. But what really gets under the skin of landlords? We asked some of York and North Yorkshire's landlords
POLICE are clamping down on troublemaking football supporters travelling to overseas matches this week. Currently, there are 16 people in North Yorkshire who have been issued Football Banning Orders, which means they have been banned from matches
TEN footballers were awarded a special tie to mark their ever-present service with York & District Schoolboys. The youngsters figuring in every season from under-11s level to U15s were Josh Rogerson, Joe Kilvington, Lucas Hindle, Zac Lawrence
Heworth Under-8s and New Earswick All Blacks U8s produced a great morning of rugby in an 9-9 draw. Heworth started well to seize a good half-time lead but were pegged back by a battling New Earswick side in the second half. All Blacks then
CITY of York Athletic Club hauled a fantastic 35 medals away from the Yorkshire Championships at Cudworth. Fifteen gold, seven silver and 13 bronze were claimed by the Heslington-based group thanks to some fantastic performances across all disciplines
YOUNGSTERS from Poppleton Junior Football Club are kitted out for a bright future. The Millfield Lane club’s under-9s and U10s teams have received new kits in their familiar orange livery as part of the McDonald’s FA Charter Standard Kit Scheme
SILVERWARE in triplicate - that’s the prized preserve of Dringhouses after they claimed the York Minster Engineering Football League Reserve Cup. The all-conquering Dringhouses, who won the Reserve ‘A’ championship and the Senior Cup, trebled up
YORK Union of Golf Clubs’ Inter-District Union team got their season off to a perfect start with a 25-11 victory over Teesside at Pike Hills Golf Club. Both teams were missing players and York captain Russ Chilton pulled on his shoes to complete
MARTIN BROWN - York’s most successful amateur golfer of the last decade - will bid for a great eight tomorrow. That’s when the first shots will be fired in the York Union of Golf Clubs’ amateur championship at The Oaks Golf Club in Aughton.
RAIN may be the last thing racegoers want as they prepare to go to York this afternoon, but North Yorkshire trainer Peter Niven is craving for a deluge on behalf of his mud-loving stable star. Clever Cookie won the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes at Chester
THE Vagina Monologues grew from small beginnings to become a global phenomenon, performed in 50 languages in 140 countries. Now Eve Ensler's short, shocking new play makes its low-key debut in a Leeds rehearsal studio as part of the West Yorkshire
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
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
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
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
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
WOODHOUSE Grange established an early lead at the top of the York & District Junior Cricket Association Hirepoint Plant & Tool Hire Under-13 championship first division table thanks to a win over Pocklington. Batting first, they scored
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’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
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
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
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
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
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
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
