A YORK pensioner has been defrauded of almost £300,000 through a telephone banking scam - and a Ryedale couple in their 80s have lost more than £300,000. North Yorkshire Police said detectives were investigating a number of incidents in which elderly
YORK joined in with worldwide tributes to murdered Yorkshire MP Jo Cox. Crowds of about 200 people gathered on Millennium Bridge today, the day Mrs Cox should have celebrated her 42nd birthday, to pay tribute to the mother of two and former aid
A YORK councillor has said he feels "thrilled and humbled" to have been awarded an MBE by the Queen. Cllr Johnny Hayes was awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours list for services to the community. He attended yesterday's ceremony at Buckingham
PROPOSED cuts to bus subsidies are set to be scaled back by senior York councillors to ensure some key services continue to run after all. City of York Council's executive says that following a public consultation - to which more than 1,000 people
GUESTS who were evacuated from a hotel near York Minster after a small fire broke out in a kitchen have been allowed back inside. North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said it was called to the Dean Court Hotel in Duncombe Place just after
THESE are the proposed new designs for Tadcaster Bridge. North Yorkshire County Council has released the images of the new bridge - complete with wider footpaths and more lighting - subject to planning permission. The council is engaged in
DETECTIVES are appealing for the public's help in finding a missing York man who has a "history of violence." Stephen Kenny Ashes, 34, is wanted for breaching the terms of his prison licence and on suspicion of committing driving and drug offences
SCOTT Clapham made the most of an early escape to thrash a century as Bishopthorpe powered into the semi-finals of the HPH Cup.Bish were on the ropes at 38-4 after 20 overs against Kelfield who then dropped Clapham.He cashed in by passing 50 in 51 balls
YORK'S Little Festival of Live Music will host more than 24 hours of musical entertainment from September 23 to October 1 at this year’s York Food and Drink Festival. Organiser Ellen Cole received just under 800 applications from acts seeking to
AN unused older people's home is to become temporary accommodation for up to 15 homeless families and individuals. Oakhaven Older People’s Home in Acomb Road was closed in March and has not been used since. As workmen arrived to tidy up the
DUNNINGTON tennis starlet Jack Batchelor has narrowly missed out on a dream appearance at Wimbledon.The youngster, a pupil at Fulford School, took part in the HSBC 'Road to Wimbledon' North Regional Qualifier at Ilkley Tennis Club.Each year over
CHILDREN are our future. They are also desperately vulnerable. It is deeply worrying, therefore, to see further evidence that child abuse or neglect may be on the rise. Figures in North Yorkshire suggest such offences increased by seven per
IT TAKES a brave person to raise their head above the parapet in the present climate and speak out about the dangers posed by right wing ‘neo-fascists’. The Dean of York, however, has just done exactly that. The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull used
THE world's greatest TV naturalist started with a mischievous put-down when he came north last week to help the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust celebrate its 70th anniversary. "Thank you very much for inviting me to join your birthday party," Sir David
SCOTTISH singer-songwriter K T Tunstall will play York Barbican on November 5 as part of a 13-date tour in the wake of the September release of her as-yet-untitled new album. Tunstall, who turns 41 tomorrow, sees the record "in spirit as the follow-up
INNOVATIVE technology from a North Yorkshire firm has been used in a major rail project in London.ABB has used the Cable Guide Clamp created by Rillington-based Ellis to install high-voltage (HV) cables in the Kensal Green section of National Grid’s Crossrail
YORK Science Park has announced that Ally Hales is its new conference co-ordinator, having previously been front office assistant manager at the York Marriott Hotel. She will be handling all inquiries for conferencing and meeting space at the science
MY referendum vote is for my children, for their future, the future wellbeing of our planet and the amazing biodiversity it contains, and for internationalism. As David Beckham writes, while explaining his decision to vote Remain, “we live in a
I SEE that the EU threats have been winging their way across the Channel with great regularity. The most recent have been to browbeat us with the thought of all the bureaucracy coming our way after Brexit. If that is the way they choose, then
VERY nice of Mr Obama to say remain. Perhaps he would enjoy us advising him on many current problems in the USA. Mr Juncker, of the EU Commission, threatens us if we vote to leave. That’s not very nice given his excessively overpaid, unelected
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Well this old scoundrel is unashamedly patriotic. Having seen senior Tory Remain politicians deliberately run down our country for short term political gains, and use any low trick and
WILL we really have Britain’s future in our own hands if we vote to leave in the EU referendum? Foreigners have £1 trillion invested in our businesses. Over half of our railway, water, gas and electricity companies are foreign owned. We
IT’S clearly evident from all the fuss and commotion re the EU Brexit/Remain hyperbole that the only people in favour of Remain have a financial interest in the maintenance of this non-democratic EU pretence. They stand to benefit by related means
WE have lift-off. Apollo Festival is back for its fourth year at York Sports Club, at Clifton Park, in Shipton Road, on Saturday when more than 40 acts will be spread over four stages. John Power's Liverpool band Cast are the headline act on the
HUNDREDS of thousands of our young men and women gave their lives so that we should be free to rule and govern ourselves. Now it is our duty, in their memory, to vote to leave the European Union, an organisation that was formed by Germany and its
A PRINTING firm which closed its North Yorkshire operation with the loss of about 200 jobs made a loss of £14.2 million in its final year of operations, its accounts have revealed.RR Donnelley UK Directory Ltd, which once counted the Yellow Pages as one
REGARDING the referendum to be held tomorrow, why did David Cameron call an opt in or out referendum and then tell us all to vote to stay in? I am absolutely fed up with the Chancellor and all of his forecasts of how the economy will collapse.
MAY I suggest to readers of this newspaper that in the Referendum our vote to Leave gives us our last chance to express in a nobility of spirit a wish to regain from Brussels our freedom of the kind we had before we joined the EU. We would again
DESPITE David Cameron’s claim that he will seek restrictions on migrants coming to the UK, the simple fact is that the EU will not allow it. Angela Merkel, in particular, has made this abundantly clear on several occasions. Unless we are able
Are women 'shying away' from careers in a crucial sector of the economy? Ahead of tomorrow's National Women in Engineering Day, we speak to a former apprentice about to start a full-time job at Drax Power Station who says engineering is her
A BUILDING site supervisor had admitted that he had behaved inappropriately when he took part in what he called a practical joke on a joiner apprentice. The prosecution alleges that Alex Puchir made the cross for a mock crucifixion and taped the
THE Dean of York has used a sermon at York Minster to wade into the referendum debate, accusing Brexit politicians of being ‘care-less of truth.’ The Very Reverend Vivienne Faull also spoke about the recent gathering of ‘neo-fascists’ near the
THIS year is a landmark for one York secondary school and they plan to celebrate in style. At Huntington School the year 1966 is special not just because it's the last time England won the World Cup, but because it's the year the school opened.
THIRSK and Malton MP Kevin Hollinrake’s urging of young people to vote in the EU Referendum (Letters, June 20) is commendable. What a pity, however, that it didn’t extend to his vote on the EU Referendum Bill, on December 8, 2015, when he voted
By Zach Gray, commercial director at DE Ford Insurance BrokersYOU don’t have to be a large business to suffer a cyber attack. In fact, if you are a smaller business or organisation you can often be a more appealing target for a cyber criminal.No matter
CAN anyone from the Labour Party or trade union movement please show me examples of how the EU has ever helped or protected the workers in the UK in there fight for better working conditions or workers’ rights? Maggie Thatcher declared her intention
DEMOCRACY is the worst of political systems, except for all the others. It is, or sometimes seems, simply the tyranny of the majority. But, if you do not vote on Thursday, please do not complain on Friday. Malcolm Glover, Lindsey Avenue, York
SALISBURY and Carlisle serve up a veritable feast of midweek action, with COMBATIVE taken to defy his relative inexperience with victory in the feature Whitsbury Manor Stud Bibury Cup at the first-named venue.Trained by Amanda Perrett, this son of Sinndar
RICHARD Mansell is the general manager of the Royal York Hotel, taking over earlier this year at the iconic building which has recently had a multimillion-pound makeover and won two prizes at the 2016 VisitYork Tourism Awards. Originally from Cheshire
A clay shooting competition held near Malton proved a big hit by raising funds for a campaign to build a new art and design technology centre at an East Yorkshire school. Pocklington School welcomed more than 70 guests to Raisthorpe Manor recently
BY 10pm on Thursday, the touting for votes and the propaganda will all be over, to the relief of many of us, no doubt. It’s a terrible shame that there has been so little room for any acknowledgement of what the EU still represents across almost
YORK racers Rich Sharp and Jess Bacon are targeting British Cycling National Time Trial Championships glory after enjoying their best seasons in the saddle so far.Sharp is also wanting to become one of the UK's top ten fastest-ever club time trial
A YORK MP has been awarded an honour by the RSPCA for his work to tackle fly-grazing horses. Julian Sturdy, the MP for York Outer, has won the RSPCA’s Arthur Broome Award for pushing to introduce a new law in England to tackle fly-grazing, where
THE new owners of a York technology company which has been bought for £57 million say they plan to expand the business “substantially over the next five years”.Capita announced yesterday that it had acquired Monks Cross-based Trustmarque Solutions Ltd
OPEN air cooking over a fire and thatching are part of the curriculum at a central York school after the Lord Mayor, Cllr Dave Taylor officially opened its Forest School. Every child at Fishergate Primary School has planted a sapling to make a hedge of
FLY tippers in the York area will now face hefty on-the-spot fines, as part of efforts to help combat the problem.City of York Council’s neighbourhood enforcement team has been given new powers to issue £400 penalty charge notices, reducing to £240 for
MENTAL health bosses at York council have been told they need to make rapid improvements to some services. Auditors have criticised the way City of York Council runs the aftercare services it has to provide for people who have been detained under
LANDOWNERS have been told to cut back hedges and trees that could be endangering drivers and pedestrians. Overgrown vegetation is obscuring important road signs and blocking pavements, and the problems are getting worse, says North Yorkshire County
A VIOLENT man who threatened to kill a grandfather with terminal cancer has been jailed for 18 months. Jack Hester-Wox was awaiting sentence at the time for assaulting a security guard at York County Court. He was also defying a curfew and
SUBSIDISED bus services in the East Riding, including some that run to and from York, could be cut or scaled back under budget-cutting proposals. East Riding of Yorkshire Council says it would save about £600,000 if the proposals went ahead.
A MUSIC shop in York has had to restart its flood repairs and scrap the reopening date - but owners have used the delay to improve their online presence. MOR Music, in Franklin's Yard, off Fossgate, was badly affected by the Boxing Day floods,
NESTLÉ has commissioned a new wind farm to meet half the power demand of its factories in the UK and Ireland, including the giant York confectionery site. The nine-turbine farm is to open in Dumfries and Galloway in the first half of next year,
