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  • Dringhouses go wild against leaders Rovers

    DRINGHOUSES provided the shock result of the day in the York Minster Engineering Premier Division as they threw the formbook out of the window to defeat league leaders Huntington Rovers 4-0. Liam Robertson gave the home side the perfect start after just

  • York chuch throws harvest party

    A CHURCH in York has celebrated the joys of food. St Denys, in Walmgate, held a weekend of music and dance to highlight the gifts of food that many enjoy from the county’s farmers and producers - and remember those who are less fortunate. The

  • Pikes rout Maltby in second-half siege

    Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division: Pickering Town 6 Maltby main 0PICKERING Town allowed their car park to be used for anyone who wanted to go to Pickering War Weekend on Saturday, whose venue was only five minutes' walk away.However

  • Easy afternoon for keepers as Brewers earn useful point

    Evo-Stik Division One North: Bamber Bridge 0 Tadcaster Albion 0IN A game of few chances, Tadcaster Albion and Bamber Bridge played out a goalless draw at the Sir Tom Finney Stadium as both sides consolidated their play-off places.The Brewers made just

  • Crisp finish puts Selby Town up to eighth

    Toolstation Northern Counties East League Division One: Selby Town 1 Winterton Rangers 0SELBY Town stretched their unbeaten run to four matches, three of which have been won, with this victory, while they are putting down to their injection of new blood

  • 1,000+ gather for art and craft show in York

    THOUSANDS of people attended the largest public art and craft show in Yorkshire when it was held in York this weekend. The Art Market ran for three days at York Racecourse, with works by 120 artists on display and many for sale and artists available

  • Stories and portraits galore at stately home exhibition

    STORIES were told at a North Yorkshire stately home this weekend, as part of a portrait exhibition. Beningbrough Hall and Gardens hosted the Portraits Untold event on Saturday, in partnership with Arts Council England and The Big Draw, and disabled

  • Car overturns in York crash

    A CAR has overturned in a crash in York. North Yorkshire Police were called to the crash, which took place in Water End at about 1.30pm, close to the junction with Landing Lane, where a vehicle had overturned. A spokesman said nobody had been

  • York need greater commitment and more settled side

    Yorkshire Division One: Bridlington 21 York 8YORK, beaten 20-17 at Scarborough last month, made their second trip to the seaside this season, and lost again.However, fielding the 34th and 35th players to wear a first-team shirt this season, York were

  • Home win is tonic but Malton must use ball better

    North One East: Malton & Norton 12 Driffield 6DERBY matches between these two are normally open and exciting, with plenty for the large following of both sides to savour. However, this was a rather dull affair, with the Malton pack dominating territory

  • 8 cows killed on East Coast mainline

    8 cows were killed when they were struck by a train travelling on the East Coast mainline today. A train hit nine animals at Huntingdon, and only one survived. @vitosauras The train hit 9 cows actually. 8 of them unfortunately died.

  • Power cut hits 150 homes and properties in YO32

    MORE than a hundred homes and properties are without power in York today, in a cut expected to last 12 hours. Northern Powergrid has confirmed that power to 150 properties in the Haxby area was switched off at 9.30am today. A spokesman said

  • New board chair for Yorkshire Housing

    A CHARTERED accountant has been appointed as the new board chair at Yorkshire Housing. Will Lifford, former head of audit at Grant Thornton, will lead the 18,000 home housing association, along with Sue Hall, who has been appointed as Vice Chair

  • Protest held in York over grammar school plans

    A YORK MP joined a protest in the city, to oppose the Government’s plans to open new grammar schools. Rachael Maskell MP, joined the York Labour Party in St Helens Square on Saturday, as part of the national Education not Segregation campaign day

  • Closed York pub should reopen this month

    A YORK pub that closed suddenly should be open again this month, its owners have said. The Deramore Arms in Heslington Main Street closed in August, when leaseholders Ed Mason and Pete Atkinson said they were losing too much money and could not

  • Warehouse in York to become 3 flats

    DEVELOPERS want to convert an empty warehouse off Lawrence Street into three flats. A planning application has gone in to City of York Council to convert the building on Granville Street, which was used in 2014 as a props store for York Theatre

  • 2 injured after car overturns

    TWO people had to be cut free from a car following a crash in a North Yorkshire village this weekend. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to the single-vehicle crash in Clay Lane, Camblesforth, at about 1.15am on Sunday. A spokesman

  • RACING TIPS: Hamada sure to be suited by step up in trip

    HAMADA will surely come good at the third time of asking in the racinguk.com/British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes at Pontefract.The Godolphin-owned Cape Cross colt shaped with abundant promise when third on his debut at Newmarket in August, with the

  • Huge revamp for famous York building set to get green light

    A MAJOR overhaul of York’s most controversial buildings - once described as “sheer visual misery” - is likely to go ahead. The upper floors of Stonebow House will become luxury apartments while the ground floor shop and restaurant units will get

  • JAILED: Gang of 4 who terrorised couple in their own home

    A GANG who stabbed and robbed a North Yorkshire man in his own home has been jailed for more than 60 years. Joel Richard Hutchinson, 30, Lewis Jordan Walker, 29, Jason Henriques, 25, and Shelby Bruce, 24, threw a boulder through the window of a

  • New restaurant in York to add outdoor area

    ONE of York's newest restaurants has been allowed to add an outdoor seating area. The owners of Las Iguanas, which replaced La Tasca in Back Swinegate at the end of March, has been granted planning permission by City of York Council for an area

  • 45 photos of York in the 1940s (more added today)

    Here are 45 photos from our archives, showing York in the 1940s. The gallery above doesn't include the 1942 Baedeker raids, and includes only one photo of the 1947 York floods. For more photos of those events, see these galleries: >>&

  • Husband & wife jailed over huge fraud and money-laundering

    A CROOKED solicitor who plundered his elderly clients’ accounts of more than £500,000 in what was described as “robbing Peter to pay Paul” was jailed on Friday for four years. Two of Giles Scott’s four victims - over whom he had power of attorney