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26th July 2015    28th July 2015

  • York City draw 1-1 at Darlington 1883

    YORK CITY have drawn 1-1 at Darlington 1883 in their latest pre-season friendly. Fielding a starting eleven which saw George Swan and Eddie Nolan make their playing returns after injury, Gary Brown gave the home side the lead in the 69th minute

  • Green light given to plan for former White Swan Hotel

    A BOARDED-UP building will be given a new lease of life after councillors gave ambitious plans the green light.City of York Council's licensing committee granted Elvington-based Pivovar the documents they need to transform the White Swan building in Pavement.Despite

  • More rain tomorrow before drier weather arrives

    SUMMER holidaymakers in York and North Yorkshire will have to endure another cool and wet day tomorrow before drier weather arrives for the second half of the week. Temperatures are expected to to rise no higher than 14 Centigrade or 57 Fahrenheit

  • Amazing scenes as Willow opens for last time

    HUGE queues snaked along a York street early today as a legendary nightspot held its final disco. Hundreds of people - mostly in their teens or early 20s - turned up for the last night of The Willow in Coney Street.   The mood was boisterous

  • Woman suffers serious injury in York attack

    A WOMAN suffered a serious eye injury in an attack in York this weekend. The 26-year-old local woman was assaulted in Rougier Street between 12.30am and 12.45am in the early hours of Sunday, and was treated at York Hospital over the weekend but

  • "You can live well with dementia"

    Diagnosed with early onset dementia, Wendy Mitchell has become well known for speaking out about the condition. She tells Kate Liptrot about her determination to raise awareness ALTHOUGH Wendy Mitchell didn’t set out to become a spokeswoman for

  • 20 NHS jobs at risk as work moves to private firm

    TWENTY jobs are believed to be at risk in York after NHS work has been awarded to a private firm.  The Primary Care Support employees at Alpha Court in Monks Cross will be made redundant after private firm Capita won the contract, Unison said.

  • WANTED: Riders for York 100 cycling challenge

    THE charity Action Medical Research is calling for riders to sign up to the York 100 cycling challenge. The route, which starts at the University of York on Sunday, August 16, passes through the Vale of York and the Yorkshire Wolds and passes the

  • Suspected arson attack at North Yorkshire house

    THREE people escaped without injury after a North Yorkshire house was targeted in a suspected arson attack. North Yorkshire Fire Service were called to reports of a fire at a house in Howden Road, Barlby, near Selby, at about 2.45am today.

  • Garritty will still be walking on Ayr tonight

    JACK Garritty, who has enjoyed a fabulous weekend, can continue his winning run at Ayr this afternoon.The talented North Yorkshire apprentice won a £150,000 handicap at Ascot on Saturday aboard Heaven's Guest and followed-up for his boss Richard Fahey

  • LETTERS: If you can't stand the heat, don't mention the kitchen

    JUST what is this country coming to with its ever-more baffling diktats? I’ve just read, “BBC apologised for ‘sexist’ Open gaffe by Allis”. American golfer Zach Johnson was lining up a putt which could, if he was successful, win him £1.15 million

  • LETTER: Labour just don't get it

    LABOUR councillors and their supporters seem to find the new Con/Lib Dem’s focus on basic services very funny, with their constant derogatory quips about green bins, or alternately, as Cllr Neil Barnes grumpily comments, that we are “prioritis(ing)

  • LETTER: Is this a bar too far?

    I FOUND the heading of “Threat to bar plan” a bit of a misleading comment (The Press, July 21), when in actual fact the establishment of another bar in the cumulative impact zone is both a threat to the CIZ and residents in the city centre. I fought

  • Businesses hold talks on enhancing city centre area

    BUSINESSES on a city centre street have begun talks on a joint plan to try and improve the outlook for their neighbourhood. Traders from Micklegate met last week to talk about working together to deal with worrying and growing problems in the area

  • HOT TOPIC: Charging for art gallery admission is "wrong"

    THE proposal to charge for the Art Gallery is wrong (The Press, July 22). Why again do we all have to pay towards the £8 million refurbishment? The reason for the Art Gallery in the past was to show collections that had been given by gentlemen

  • Tadcaster through time

    BEER and Tadcaster have been as synonymous as fish and chips since 1341 and with good reason, the springs around the Wharfe yield some of the best brewing water in the country. But there is more to this town than ale, as Paul Chrystal and Mark Sunderland's