BOB LITT remembers walking round the block a few times before steeling himself to step over the threshold of his first FNT meeting. FNT is the 50+ York Social Club, and it was recommended to Bob after he split from his wife and was going through
JOHN GUILDFORD has reiterated York City Knights will see out the season despite the bombshell news that takeover talks had ended - but he still intends to walk away at the end of term.The club's future was thrown into new doubt after prospective buyer
OUR nostalgia series on local schools takes us this week to The Mount School. We have 242 photos spanning from 1952 to 2008. You can scroll through the photos above, or by clicking on the image below: If you missed the previous galleries
A CONSISTENT all-round display saw City of York Athletic Club earn promotion to Northern League division one by finishing runners-up in their play-off at Doncaster. Having secured the division two east title in the track and field league two weeks previously
AN HISTORIC church in York city centre has been handed £49,900 to help fund urgent roof repairs. Central Methodist Church in St Saviourgate received the grant from the Government-funded Listed Places of Worship: Roof Repair Fund. Project manager
YORKSHIRE continued their domination of the County Championship clash with Nottinghamshire as they looked to build on a substantial advantage at Scarborough.Having secured a first-innings lead of 188 by bowling Nottinghamshire out for just 94 in the morning
GOALKEEPER Scott Flinders has been suspended by York City after he was found guilty by the Football Association of racial abuse during a match. The club suspension - the 30-year-old has to stay away from the club completely - follows on from a
YORKSHIRE moved into a commanding position after securing a big first-innings lead in the County Championship contest against Nottinghamshire at Scarborough.The visitors were bowled out for just 94 on the second morning, conceding a deficit of 188 runs
SANTA Claus will have a magical new grotto to fly to in York city centre this Christmas. The weather may currently be warm and sunny but a nursery is already drawing up plans to give children a suitably special visit to Father Christmas during
TRIBUTES have been paid to much-loved racing journalist Tom O'Ryan, who died on Tuesday at the age of 61. Tom, who was a former jockey, racing correspondent for The Press and sister paper The Gazette and Herald, was also a presenter on Racing UK
AN ENTERPRISE which aims “to bring the enjoyment of cycling to everyone” has grown from being a home-based business to exporting all around the world. York-based Jorvik Tricycles, which is in the running for the Exporter and Small Business of the
YORK accountancy firm Garbutt + Elliott is celebrating after 20 of its employees raised more than £1,500 for its chosen charities, The Haven and the Special Stars Foundation, at two of this year’s Asda Foundation 10K races.The Leeds and York races were
A NEW production of a popular touring cabaret show is coming to a venue in East Yorkshire next month. The Lady Boys of Bangkok’s ‘Forever Yours....X’ is a unique and energetic show, which will be performed at The Spa in Bridlington on September
A FIRM whose parent company has its headquarters in York and provides packaging print and design services to some of the world’s biggest household brands has set up a new facility and invested in state-of-the-art equipment with support from Yorkshire
A WOMAN from York has described the moment she woke as a major earthquake hit central Italy in the early hours of this morning. Simona Manni lives in York, but had yesterday arrived in her home village of Acquasparta about 80km from the epicentre
A LONE yachtsman had to be rescued from his stricken craft in a 14-hour operation off the Yorkshire coast this week. Humber Coastguard were called out from their Lifeboat base at Spurn Point at about 4pm on Monday, along with the rescue helicopter
A YORK charity that has raised more than £14 million since it was founded three decades ago has announced a fundraising dinner in the city to help start celebrations for its 30th anniversary.York Against Cancer, which counts establishing the Cancer Care
TWO men have each been jailed for ten years after a court heard their victim suffered brain damage in a violent confrontation in Sherburn-in-Elmet. Victim Scott Priestley, 27 and his girlfriend Toni Rawnsley had been drinking together on Boxing
RAISE your glasses! – There’s a Bank Holiday on the horizon and York publicans are set to make it one to savour. Get ready for one long weekend of two hugely tempting festivals in three tremendous pubs over four lazy days. Let’s start in Holgate
A RURAL venture whose reach stretches from farmers’ markets to sales in London is aiming to triumph in the Small Business of the Year category in The Press Business Awards 2016.Adam Palmer took over the 134-hectare family farm at Thixendale, near Malton
York famously has a housing crisis, but there is just as much need for residential care homes. Now, after many months in the planning, council officials are looking for a company to build a new one on the former Burnholme Community College site.
WE all need green open spaces. They’re places to walk the dog, get some fresh air, or play a game of cricket or football with the children. In cities, such green spaces are often in short supply. York, with its ings and green ‘corridors’ reaching
A MAJOR event takes place today for young people to find out about hundreds of apprenticeship vacancies across York. The week after A-level results came out and the day before students learn how their GCSEs went, City of York Council will hold its
YORK-BASED tourism attraction group Continuum Attractions has appointed Jules Ozbek as group head of sales and marketing.She spent four years with English Heritage as marketing manager for the north of England, having previously worked for Northern Film
with Ed Reid, owner of The Alternative BoardWE’VE all been on holiday and experienced it. For me, it comes around lunchtime on the third day when you feel the muscles in your back relax. Stress? What stress? But holidays end. You go back to work and,
A NORTH Yorkshire firm which specialises in high-quality portable cabins and modular buildings is a contender in The Press Business Awards. Britcab was launched only eight years ago “huddled around a home desk and with a small piece of land for our portable
I CANNOT believe that City of York Council is considering wasting money on this goose pooper machine, another few thousand pounds to be wasted (The Press, August 19). Cllr Nigel Ayres has said the problem will not go away overnight and he is right
MAY I just reply to Philip Roe’s letter “Trump and May will help West rise again” (Letters, August 19)? Americans will always think their country is the greatest in the world even if Peter Rabbit was president and we will just have to wait and
COMPANIES from York and North Yorkshire have been named among the 100 ventures to be celebrated by Small Business Saturday, the campaign that culminates in the UK’s dedicated day for small businesses on December 3.They are Duncombe Sawmill, a 120-year
A DELIVERY with a difference could only be made by removing part of the facade of a building at York Science Park The park’s Bio Centre is the new home of 67 specialist wall panels, weighing in at four tonnes, which will be used to create a state-of-the-art
I’M prone to a spot of bird watching and a member of the RSPB. I’m naturally intrigued by recent news of a scheme to bring back from extinction the Great Auk, whose very “aukwardness” contributed to its demise. It was flightless, a distinct
THE north’s largest and most diverse buyers’ art and contemporary craft show is coming to York.Following last year’s success, the 2016 Art Market, at York Racecourse from September 30 to October 2, will give visitors the chance to view work from more
CATTERICK punters should adopt a philosophical view on the racing by lending their support to Nietzsche.The three-year-old son of Poet's Voice has been well tried this season but now looks as good a time as ever to get back involved.Brian Ellison&
LAST Thursday afternoon, I was referred to A&E at York Hospital, where staff went through a detailed assessment process, located a bleed on my brain and arranged urgent ambulance transfer to the neurological unit at Hull. I had an operation
WHAT wonderful coverage we have had from the 125 reporters and back-up crews for the Olympics. We have been helped to understand each event and our GB team have been a credit to their country in so many sports. The red (and indeed the blue)
GARY Brothers is the managing partner of Independent Tax, a specialist HMRC disputes and tax investigation business based on the Brackenholme Business Park, near Selby. Independent Tax, which also has offices in London and Spain, works with a broad range
A MAN was arrested after an alleged assault in North Yorkshire, but he has since been released without charge. Police were called shortly after 2.30am yesterday to reports of an assault in Cayton near Scarborough. A 35-year-old man was arrested
EVERYONE should read the letter from the Planning Inspectorate on the appeal by Sainsbury on the B&Q site. The inspector has taken apart the traffic assessment used to support the planning permission and torn it to shreds. It would be wonderful
WE realise YorSpace have been a lot quieter after last year’s exploits but rest assured we haven’t given up or gone away. After a bit of a break last summer, we have been pushing things forward and wanted to drop everyone a quick update on what
MOTORISTS are being warned to be on their guard after a number of vehicle break-ins in York. Police say they happened in the Hull Road area on Sunday and Monday night. They are urging people to remove all valuables from their vehicles and remain
YORKSHIRE wicketkeeper Andrew Hodd was glad to take the opportunity of batting slightly up the order as he led a superb fightback for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire at Scarborough.The former Sussex gloveman made an unbeaten 96 as the Tykes recovered
A WOMAN has been jailed for four years after she stabbed a man in York. Katie Millicent Craig, of Lowther Street, was locked up by Judge Sean Morris at Teesside Crown Court in Tuesday for leaving her 55-year-old victim with a two inch wound in
AN INDIAN restaurant in York has been named restaurant of the year at the English Curry Awards. Bombay Spice in Goodramgate won the accolade at a black tie ceremony held at a Manchester hotel, attended by more than 300 people and hosted by award
A SCHOOLBOY from York who was clinging to life before being given a lung transplant is now on the “greatest form of his life”, his father said. Charlie York, 12, has cystic fibrosis and had become desperately ill when the call came through that
A YORK band will be seen on thousands of computer screens from this month, as the new face of a major advertising campaign. The Grand Old Uke Of York were approached by Toyota to film an advert for a new social media campaign promoting the Verso
THOUSANDS of pounds has been raised for St Leonard’s Hospice during their annual golf day.The Pike Hills Golf Club event raised £12,000 for the charity, which will go towards helping the people who need the facility the most.Members have supported the
THE home-made potters wheel of a major 20th Century artist has gone on display in York.York Art Gallery is currently exhibiting Jans Coper’s wheel, which he made himself in 1959, and used to make many of his famous ceramic pieces.The German-born British
CAMPAIGNERS are fighting to get disused school fields in York opened to the public, to help plug a desperate need for more open space in their neighbourhood. Manor School moved in 2009, and the fields on the old site between Boroughbridge Road
YORK’S NHS is being dismembered and undermined by a Tory government intent on privatising the health service, according to veteran left-wing film-maker Ken Loach. The director and two-time Palme D’Or winner was in York for a screening of his film
POLICE and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan has supported a judge’s criticism of the Crown Prosecution Service. Recorder of York Judge Paul Batty QC slammed the CPS last week for accepting a plea to a lesser charge over the theft of a quad bike
YORKSHIRE Water has apologised for a stink created this summer by its sewage works in a York suburb. The company said it was currently dealing with a ‘number of operational issues’ at the waste water treatment works in Rawcliffe, near the Park
THE crowning glory of a North Yorkshire stately home will soon glisten in the sun and be visible from miles around.Scaffolding has gone up around the dome of Castle Howard, as maintenance workers start to re-gild the lantern which sits atop the house’
COUNCIL bosses have started the hunt for a company to build a new care home at a former York school. The next steps are being taken in the redevelopment at Burnholme Community College, and the council is looking for an investor who can fund, build
A MAJOR event takes place today where young people can find out about hundreds of apprenticeship vacancies across York.The week after A-level results came and the day before students learn how their GCSEs went, City of York Council will hold its sixth
DEVELOPERS are facing a three-year decontamination battle before work can start on one of York’s biggest ever housing developments. Up to 1,100 badly-needed new homes are being planned for British Sugar’s former factory site off Boroughbridge Road
PROPOSALS for two major housing developments that would see more than 440 new homes built east of York have moved a step closer to being given the go-ahead. Bellway Homes’ plan to build 323 houses and flats on land off Yapham Road in Pocklington
