YORK City Knights were unable to end Toulouse Olympique’s 100 per cent home record in a bruising encounter at Stade Ernest Argeles – the French side showing just why they are big favourites to go up from League One. James Ford’s men were well in
THE reaction of EU leaders over the referendum result shows we need a strong person to lead the Brexit negotiations. The senior Tories will now no doubt be too involved in their party’s leadership contest, and will be too easily distracted. We
MORE than a thousand people gathered in central York for an anti-Brexit rally today. The rally and march, which took place place around St Helen's Square, had been organised by Remain voters who were angry at the apparent lack of planning by Leave
A YORK man is to appear in court over historic sex offences dating back more than 50 years. Dennis Young, aged 89, of Burton Court, York, has been charged over alleged sexual offences at a Nottinghamshire school in the late 1950s and early 1960s
DANNY Galbraith has signed a new one-year deal to continue his career at York City. The partner of goalkeeper Michael Ingham, meanwhile, has released a social media statement announcing that the former Northern Ireland international will not be
NOW that the turkeys have voted for an early Christmas (to leave the EU), it is becoming clear, as I predicted some weeks ago, that the EU is not looking kindly on the result of our referendum. Other members are already calling for the UK to be
Ouse Bridge was closed for a period last night as emergency services dealt with a man who had climbed to the wrong side of the bridge walls. The man could be seen sitting on a ledge on the outside of the parapet, above the River Ouse. Around
IT is easy to panic after the unexpected outcome of last week’s referendum vote and to infer that the pillars of national life are shaking. This is not the case. Cast your minds back to October 2008 and the dreadful economic news we were facing
YORK City boss Jackie McNamara reckons his part-time converts will bring more hunger to the Bootham Crescent ranks next season.McNamara felt too many of last term's relegated players treated football as a profession, rather than a passion, but believes
I MISSED the June Remain campaign to babysit my 18 month old grandson in California. A friend placed my vote by proxy. Not for one moment did I believe Brexit would win, and anyway I was bored with the surreal lies. I was surprised by US awareness
IT'S been said many times already this week: to err once is human, twice is stupidity. To exit Europe once is unfortunate, twice is careless.Well, according to another saying, to do something daft three times makes it a habit, and so, instead of heading
I WAS shocked to hear that a rally is being planned to protest about Brexit. I would be guessing that this would be from the ill-informed under 35 group of voters who don’t remember when Great Britain was a great country without the need to suck
I AM appalled at the backlash that the Brexit vote has caused. The Remainers lost, so now they want another vote. Do we keep voting till they win like Ireland had to do? Is it their way or no way? Do they not understand democracy? I know that
THIS country is fast becoming a joke. Great Britain? More like Little Britain. We used to have two political parties shouting insults at each other across a room. Now they shout insults at their own side. There is a demonstration planned
DAVID CAMERON has been described by his Tory colleagues as an honourable gentleman. I find this hard to believe as at the start of the referendum campaign he said he would remain as Prime Minister, honour the result, and if it was to leave, invoke
TOULOUSE Olympique might be the free-scoring unbeaten moneybags boys of Kingstone Press League One - but York City Knights boss James Ford has a cunning plan to topple them. The flamboyant full-time French outfit not only sit pretty atop the table
THIS negative talk of Britain and the economy has to stop. To begin with there is more to life than holidays, though it may be the only thing that motivates a lot of people. Tom Bowler wrote for the online business column on BBC News that “
THE European referendum result has cast uncertainty over NHS recruitment, the chief executive of York Hospital trust has said. There are more than 250 employees from EU member countries known to be working at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation
ONE of York's best-loved historic pubs is to shut this weekend. The Minster Inn in Marygate will close on Saturday night. Its future is not yet clear. Licensees Dave and Sally Roberts have run the pub for nearly 15 years but Mr Roberts
WHATEVER people’s views on the EU referendum, failure to plan for the outcome by both sides has left the country as a whole, and Yorkshire in particular, in a very perilous position. Scotland, Wales and even London have the institutions to allow
I AM stunned by the arrogance and incompetence of this Conservative government. They call a referendum that can have only two outcomes and are arrogant enough to believe they can scare and bully the populace into voting the way they want them to
SOUTH Wales? Not a problem. Oxford? Gloucestershire? Hemel Hempstead? Nah, not a problem. Ah but Toulouse? Surely that's a problem? Nah, it's not a problem.York City Knights may have travelled to some far-flung new places in recent years, given
YORK golfer Simon Dyson is out of the French Open.The Malton and Norton ace missed the cut last night despite an improved second round performance at Le Golf National in Paris.Dyson had started the day on seven over par, after a disappointing first round
YORK City Knights boss James Ford has backed the appointment of young referee Callum Straw for tonight's top-of-the-table League One humdinger in Toulouse - but warned he'll face pressure from the locals.The rookie Wakefield whistler took charge
THE “sun, sea and sangria” generation of older people is being diagnosed with potentially deadly skin cancer at an alarming rate, a charity has warned. More than 10,000 people aged 55 and over have - for the first time - been diagnosed with the
A KIND-HEARTED friend who helps people struggling in her community has been nominated for a Community Pride Award.Beverly Thompson has been nominated by friends Kellie Jackson, 26, and her daughter Cady Brigham, eight, in the Good Neighbour of the Year
A NEW chemotherapy kit has been installed at Harrogate District Hospital after £22,000 of fundraising. The funding has allowed the installation of a second piece of equipment, which pharmacy staff use to prepare vital chemotherapy drugs for patients
Beer and pub column TAKE five of the region’s best breweries. Throw their brewers together. Mix up the ideas. And what happens? Well, we're about to find out... In just under a fortnight, York drinkers will get their first chance to try
THERE has been a rise in the number of hospital admissions in York due to drinking, data has shown. The city had 3,810 hospital admissions in 2014/15 linked to drinking, with 2,020 admissions per 100,000 of the population admitted for diseases
A PUNK rocker says he is focusing on getting his life back on track after he was sentenced to a 12-month community order for religiously aggravated assault. Steven Roberts, better known as the former UK Subs drummer Stevie ze Suicide, appeared
FOUR men and two women have appeared before York Crown Court accused of being part of a heroin and cocaine drugs ring connecting Bradford and York. The six were: Ethan Wharton, 36, of no fixed address Yasmin Biggs, 61, of Ayton House,
A BUS route used by school children and to get isolated older people out of their homes has been reprieved. City of York Council’s ruling executive agreed on Thursday night not to tweak subsidy cuts, which would have cut £350,000 from their bills
