AFTER enjoying a 100 per cent sell-out on Monday with her first hour-long show in the 100-seat Gillygate Shed, Amy Gledhill will be making a second show of herself on Thursday at the Great Yorkshire Fringe in York. The Hull-born comic, who has
THE Hyena Lounge Comedy Club has its last ever laugh in York this weekend, presenting its farewell shows in the White Rose Rotunda spiegeltent at the Great Yorkshire Fringe. Headlining Friday night's bill is Bethany Black, latterly seen starring
York City 1, Doncaster Rovers 2SIR Alex Ferguson looked on from the York City directors' box just three days after watching his horse Nautical Haven win at York races.Ferguson was in attendance to support his son Darren – the manager of Doncaster
WOLF whistling will not be reclassified as a hate crime in North Yorkshire. Earlier this month, Nottinghamshire Police began to classify unwanted sexual or verbal advances to women, including catcalling and wolf whistling, as hate crimes, in a
SEVERAL York City Baths Club swimmers have been invited to compete at this year’s British Summer Championships and ASA Summer Championships.The competitions, held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield, began this week and run until August 5.To be eligible to race
A MAJOR boutique hotel chain plans to take over a former office building in the centre of York, it has been revealed. Malmaison could soon be opening a hotel in Yorkshire House, on Rougier Street - one of York's most prominent office blocks over
A MAN who was arrested after a police chase ended in a three-vehicle crash in York has been released on bail. The crash happened at the junction of Barbican Road and Paragon Street, near the Barbican Centre, at about 3.30pm on Monday.
YORK stormed into the final of the Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions Trophy with a super six-wicket win over Yorkshire Academy at Weetwood.Liam McKendry turned in an excellent all-round performance as a side missing several first-teamers still proved too
YORK City have confirmed their squad numbers for the new National League season.Scott Flinders retains the number one jersey with new goalkeeper Luke Simpson wearing number 13.Striker Richard Brodie has reclaimed the number nine jersey from Vadaine Oliver
A WANTED burglar who had been missing for more than two weeks has been arrested. Stephen Queen, 44, was released from prison on July 8, partway through a three year prison sentence for burglaries at hotels in Whitby and Scarborough. Queen,
AT the end of each performance of next week's Stage Experience summer-school production of Oklahoma! in York, the Grand Opera House will be collecting donations on behalf of Kidney Research UK and Parkinson's UK. Producer Clare O'Connor explained
A CYCLIST has suffered 'serious but not life-threatening injuries' in a crash in York city centre. The bike was in collision with a delivery lorry in Piccadilly at about 10am on Tuesday. The accident happened near the road's junction with Dixon
YORK Minster has been handed half a million pounds towards the next phase of conservation and repair work. The grant, which is coming from the government sponsored First World War Centenary Repairs Fund, will help pay for work on the 11 bays of
SCULPTOR John W Mills's new exhibition of bronzes, watercolours and etchings at Pyramid Gallery in York is inspired by his favourite sport of springboard diving. "I started to enjoy the sport in 1948 when I was swimming competitively, competing
AUSTRALIAN comedy icons Sammy J and Randy are quite the successful man-puppet-musical-comedy duo: nominated for a host of awards worldwide, last year knocking out a smash-hit performance at the Sydney Opera House and debuting their own TV sitcom.
PICK Me Up Theatre kicks off its Monkgate summer season in York with Assassins, Stephen Sondheim's provocative musical that turns the American Dream into a sleepless night. “Someone tell the story, someone sing the song. Every now and then the
A BURGLAR broke into a college in York and stole money. The break-in happened at Melton College in Holgate Road at the weekend. North Yorkshire Police were called at 1.40am on Sunday. A wooden-framed sash window had been smashed by an intruder
IT is estimated that if everyone in the world lived like the average American - consumed as much, drove gas-guzzling cars and used as much fuel for heating and air-conditioning - we’d need five whole Earths to support us. Before you get too smug
WE may, for a second time in our history, have a woman prime minister. But that doesn’t mean the glass ceiling is a thing of the past. Nationally, the pay gap between men and women narrowed between 2014 and 2015. Sadly, in York the reverse was
A lorry driver has been banned from the roads and is facing a jail sentence for killing a East Yorkshire cyclist at a roundabout. Richard Walters, prosecuting, told York Crown Court that Mervyn John White, 64, pulled out of a motorway slip road
A PASSENGER in a van has been seriously injured in a single vehicle crash in North Yorkshire this morning. The van left the A1 and finished up on the A168, close to Allerton Park and Walshford, between York and Harrogate. Sgt Paul Cording,
COMEDIAN and actor Omid Djalili will undertake no fewer than 108 dates on the 2016-2017 tour of his new show, Schmuck For A Night, after adding new shows to the itinerary. Among the gigs will be the Grand Opera House, York, on February 5 2017;
YORK City Knights chairman John Guildford says he is handing over the club to former director Gary Dickenson, subject to contracts. A statement posted on the club website at 10.30pm last night said Guildford was handing the League One outfit over
A YORK solicitor has said local businesses should seek advice if they are uncertain of employment rights following a tribunal launched against cab service Uber.Uber is being taken to a London Employment Tribunal by two of its drivers, who claim the company
ICONIC sets from the world’s long-running TV soap opera are being taken around the country by a York company. Continuum Attractions is taking Coronation Street’s sets on tour, starting at the SECC in Glasgow from August 27.A bespoke 2,000-square metre
A RECENT executive decision on private sector housing demonstrates the unwillingness of the current council leader and executive to take decisions to improve the lives of those living in York’s worst quality housing. The highest percentage of homes
WHAT economic expertise does Ukip have? Judith Morris (Letters, July 22) claims that Brexit has not damaged the UK’s economy. Consider: 1 Brexit has not yet happened; international firms are watching what kind of deal Theresa May can clinch
WE were told last week that children who follow the Shanghai Method in Mathematics are, on average, three years ahead of their British counterparts by the age of 15. The UK intends to adopt this method at selective schools. As a Kumon instructor
ON Friday night on the TV news there was a man standing on the podium in a huge arena packed with people, spouting what he would do if he became President of USA. He would get rid of crime and violence in the country, and the band played. Believe
CAN The Press or any sleuth reader give me an answer to the following? A few years ago I travelled regularly down the A64 westbound and sometimes used a petrol station near Tadcaster. Like so many, it closed, but then came back to life after
YORK 1 have one hand on the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League division one trophy.Fay Chapman and Jill Le Pla scored 25 games in their 66-42 victory over Pocklington to maintain their unbeaten record. Dunnington remain second, mum and daughter Karen
I AM absolutely appalled about the treatment of York City Knights by York City Council and York City to deny the Knights the use of Bootham Crescent because of three “friendly” football matches in eight days. It is beyond belief when the Knights
A RYEDALE farm shop and cafe has proved it is the ‘best of British’. Karl and Mandy Avison and their daughter Chloe, from Cedarbarn in Pickering, joined more than 350 business leaders at the Red Ribbon Awards, celebrating the achievements of Britain
WE at the UK Yorkshire Socialist Alliance Party do not believe in the term a political class. It is offensive to the most vulnerable in society and we don’t believe it should exist. The political class is a decisive division in a tribal country
I WAS dismayed to read that Virgin Trains East Coast is planning to replace travel centres with open plan “customer zones” (The Press, July 23). This seems to mean that we will be buying our tickets from machines, albeit with some staff to help
LUKE Simpson is looking to become York City's first choice goalkeeper after signing a two year deal at Bootham Crescent.The former Watford goalkeeper joined the Minstermen yesterday after impressing on trial in a pre-season friendly against Bolton
NICK Turnbull and Nikki Rohlfing narrowly edged Academy aces Adam Rider and Mat Parry – returning 3-27 as defending champions Poppleton extended their lead at the top of the Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League to 20 points. With three regulars missing,
A CONSCIOUS effort to clear the ropes in limited-overs cricket has been key to Jack Leaning's upturn in form for Yorkshire.The middle-order batsman had struggled for runs this year.Before Sunday's Royal London One-Day Cup century against Leicestershire
SHERBURN defeated promotion chasing Cliffe to seal the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League division three title.However, with just two weeks of the season to go, the final destinations of the other league trophies are still unknown.Top scorers Tristan Gretton
A NATIONAL hospitality group has acquired its fourth hotel in York.The Splendid Hospitality Group has purchased the Ibis York Centre Hotel to add to its three other properties in the city - the Grand Hotel & Spa, Hotel Indigo York and Holiday Inn Express
CHILDREN from a York school have taken part in a six-mile run for charity. George and Harry Burt and Finlay Dunn organised and ran the event to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research on Thursday. Caroline Burt, George and Harry’s mother,
TWO organisations are competing for £100,000 from a planning agreement for York’s Hungate scheme to help fund new community services. Bids for funding have been submitted to City of York Council by: Hungate Community Development Trust (HCDT) ,
A GYM in York has undergone a £650,000 makeover.The Bannatyne Health Club, in White Rose Close, Nether Poppleton, has seen new state of the art equipment installed on its gym floor, with the creation of a new functional training area.Among the new devices
A MOTHER and son have taken over the Vine House Café at Helmsley Walled Garden.Sue and Sam Chapman said they were attracted to the cafe after seeing its potential.Sam said: “I persuaded mum that we should buy a cafe as I wanted a bricks and mortar base
A TEAM of pupils from a York girls school cycled 170 miles to raise cash for a project in India. The 13 Year 9 girls and 9 staff from Queen Margaret’s School, Escrick, and one boy from a Project Mala school in India, cycled the 170 mile, Coast
A DRUNK man who hurled a wine glass at a former Pop Idol contestant as he rowed with his wife has been locked up for 17 months. Sean McDermott, 28, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, left singer Chris Tame, from Thirsk, bleeding profusely after striking
NEW houses built on the York Central site could share an eco-friendly communal “district heating” system. City of York Council is using a £50,000 grant to look into the feasibility of putting in such a system, which could serve both the homes and
When writing last month’s column on managing our emotions after life events, little did I realise how prescient I was being. Within days, the English football supporters were grieving their loss, quickly followed by the result of the Referendum, which
"It says on her headstone that she was 'an inspiration to all', and she was," Glynis Ashford says about her daughter. Tanith Butters was 35 when she lost her long fight against breast cancer while on a family skiing trip in France in 2009. She
A FUNDRAISING appeal to help a disabled child whose home was destroyed is closer to reaching its target.Emily Lewin, 30, was travelling in Kathmandu when an earthquake struck last April.Ms Lewin is trying to raise £4,500 to rebuild the home of Rajan,
FUNDRAISERS in a Selby village have raised £430 for charity.Steve Brown, from Rock Choir in Selby collected the funds from the village of Burn, which will go to the Alzheimer’s Society.The money was raised over Rock Choir’s twelve months as Burn’s Freemen
OVER 100 children who supported those affected by the Boxing Day floods will today receive a special thanks by the Lord Mayor of York. The youngsters, many of whom gave up their Christmas holidays to get stuck in with the clean-up project, have
A CONSTRUCTION worker who was paid 100 times more than intended squandered tens of thousands then walked free from court. Steven Burke was paid £44,660 for a week's work, instead of £446.60, after his boss Paul Gledhall put the decimal point in
FORMER York City FC chairman Douglas Craig has blasted the club’s decision to prevent York City Knights playing at Bootham Crescent on Sunday - and the way current chairman Jason McGill has been running the club. Mr Craig contacted The Press to
THE gender pay gap has widened in York at a time when it has narrowed nationally and regionally. Latest figures show there has been a 6.45 per cent increase in the gap between average pay for men and women in the city. York’s average gap of
