BELLRINGERS from Leeds Minster have been asked to come and ring York Minster's bells at Christmas, following the axing of York's own ringers. Andrew Aspland, who is understood to be tower captain at Leeds as well as president of the Yorkshire Association
THE latest ‘door’ on York’s biggest ever advent calendar is based on The Legend of Zelda - a Nintendo video game. It was opened oN Thursday at ...give the dog a bone, a shop in Fossgate. Assistant manager Hannah Wallace said it was based on
A SCHOOL bus driver went through two road closed signs and one stretch of floodwater before getting his vehicle stuck in a river over its banks, York Crown Court heard. Graham Stanley Jones, 43, was taking 23 children to Easingwold School along
EXCITED shoppers finally set foot in York’s newest Primark store when it opened its doors for the first time on Thursday. An expectant pack of bargain-hunters queued up outside the Coppergate Centre shop in pouring rain as they waited for a first
Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has been banned for 18 months – effective from February 1, 2017 – for breaking the Football Association's agent regulations, the governing body has announced.Announcing the ban today, the FA also confirmed Cellino had been
THE York Minster Engineering League representative team lost their grip on the Ernie Fairclough Memorial Trophy as they fell 1-0 to their Yorkshire Amateur League counterparts at Pocklington.YMEL were the better team in the first half but without creating
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers closed in on top spot in division one of The Fastpack Ltd York Sunday Morning League after gaining three points against Cliffe.A brace for Harry Clapham saw Wigginton 2-0 up at the break, and further goals were added by Tom Metcalfe
TOURING with his incredible live band and dancers, Ben Bowman pays homage to the late, great Michael Jackson with a stunning live show. Drawing from almost five decades of Jackson’s ground-breaking music, Bowman recreates the experience of seeing
YORK City boss Gary Mills has urged all supporters to wear the club’s colours with pride to help the team turn their season around. The Minstermen dropped to the bottom of the National League table last weekend following an unlucky 1-0 defeat to
North Yorkshire Police have recorded and produced a Christmas video. To the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", officers and staff instead team up to sing "We'll help you be safe this Christmas... But help us help you." You can watch the
RESEARCH suggests that Yorkshire people rank happiness as a greater benchmark of success than wealthThe study by accounting firm Mazars showed six out of ten people in the region put happiness first, while about one in five said being a millionaire defined
ALL they want for Christmas is... a Number One hit. Children at York’s Manor School have penned a Christmas album to raise money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. The helicopter heroes rescued Manor School pupil Euan Kindelan, 13, when he fell from
FOR shopaholics, it’s perfect timing. York’s long-awaited city centre Primark store officially opens in Coppergate today in time for the Christmas rush. Expect a crush - but also some great seasonal bargains. The value fashion retailer opened
A SMALL business owner from North Yorkshire was one of 100 from around the country invited to Downing Street for a reception to mark the UK’s fourth annual Small Business Saturday.Emma Woods, of Duncombe Sawmill in Helmsley, joined other owners at a reception
BEER enthusiasts will have another venue to aim for in York from Friday, when the city's newest bar opens in Micklegate. Scottish pub chain and brewing giant BrewDog has converted 130-134 Micklegate, which was for many years the Shouksmith's shop
ARMED police have converged on the A64 near Tadcaster - but the public has been reassured it is just a training exercise. A driver contacted The Press to say he had seen police officers armed with sub-machine guns, who had sealed off a bridge on
NEW owner Jon Flatman says the three-year aim at York City Knights is to become a fully-fledged Championship club playing "exciting rugby league". He has also confirmed, as mooted in The Press, that Featherstone Rovers chairman Mark Campbell is
YORK Indoor Bowls Club stayed top of the Yorkshire Ladies League after victory in a tough encounter against Harrogate.The aggregate score was 51-51 with six ends left but York then picked up 20 shots while dropping only seven over the following three
A UNIT for men with dementia is set to close down by the end of the year - two months earlier than planned - after a watchdog raised concerns about staffing. Inpatient assessment and treatment services services currently provided at Worsley Court
THE last time you may have seen Suzanne Shaw at the Grand Opera House in York, boisterous audience members were calling her a slut! Or rather they were calling her character Janet a slut, as is the custom whenever devotees of The Rocky Horror Show
WHEN a top-order batsman is injured in cricket, everyone moves up one for the next innings. The same applies to this winter's York Theatre Royal where Martin Barrass's motorcycle crash has necessitated a re-jig that requires AJ Powell to take over
OF course, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron is doing everything he can to delay our exit from the EU. He sees political gains for his party if the final exit can be delayed until 2020 when Brexit could be used as a general election tactic. His recent
SUPERSTA can show the benefit of a recent outing in the totepoolliveinfo.com For Racing Results Handicap at Chelmsford's evening meeting.Trained by Mick Appleby, having spent his early career with Ron Harris, he took his form to a whole new level
ALAN ROBINSON said the vote was “far from overwhelming” (Letters, November 28). I would submit it was not a majority at all, as barely 40 per cent of the eligible voters wanted to leave - 23 per cent (more than ten million) did not vote at all,
WE need divine intervention. Having had a Bishop and a Pope play for York City in the past, I think it is about time we had a Jesus. Jesus performed miracles and my God do we need one now at Bootham Crescent. Manchester City have a Jesus
IT was with a wry smile that I read the news that paving “flags” in Straylands Grove were to be replaced (The Press, December 2). A somewhat old-fashioned term today, and one which I wasn’t familiar with as a three-year-old boy back in the early
IN response to Keith Chapman’s letter (The Press, December 5) re NHS In Need. Some years ago, the Football League asked all professional footballers to donate a day’s wages into a fund to help nurses. Nearly all players from the Champonship
REGARDING Geoff Robb’s letter (The Press, December 5), I’m sure you’ll get plenty of replies, but just in case... One fact to clarify - universities don’t have selection examinations, except for Oxford and Cambridge. At 18 you can take A-levels
YORK needs to be afraid. Very afraid. Our MPs and councillors need to be afraid. Very afraid. We are in unchartered political times. York is becoming the graveyard of ambition and a very low wage economy. I am paranoid about the army closure
SOUGHT-AFTER scrum-half Harry Tyson-Wilson will be back in a York City Knights shirt next year – and big brother Bobby will be joining him. While the former player's return to the Minster city was predicted by The Press a month ago, head coach
NEW Earswick Ospreys fell 89-58 to North Cave Maroon in the Yorkshire Over-55s League, claiming only two points. Earswick's home rinks faired the better.Gary Stockton, Alan Price, Dave Moorhouse and Bob Barrett trailed 10-7 after 13 ends but won the
ONE of the winners of last month’s Press Business Awards has followed up that success by scooping two national accolades.Little Green Rascals Organic Day Nurseries, winner of Employer of the Year at The Press prizegiving, has taken the Green Nursery title
A MUSICIAN and teacher who ran a Saturday music centre in York has died aged 86.David Lloyd had Parkinson’s and passed away in York Hospital.Mr Lloyd was born in Norbury, in 1930, to bluestocking mother Betty Cornforth and Fleet Street journalist Frank
THE Friends of Norton Primary School are preparing for their grand Christmas draw.The draw will be made on Tuesday, December 13, at the school, and donations of prizes are welcome. Prizes include cash, hampers and bottles of drink.Caroline Shepherdson
A LUCKY cow, a chamber pot, and a secret cache of cash are among the bequests left by people around York hundreds of years ago. A fascinating store of centuries old wills is now available for researchers and family history buffs in York. More
A TEENAGER left a couple unable to work for months when he drove recklessly, but has been spared an immediate jail term. Alexander Doig, of Woodlands Park, Pickering, cried in the dock as York Crown Court heard he crossed double white lines in
A YORK-BASED specialist research company has been acquired by a New York-based global provider of information and advisory services. Counter Intelligence Retail (CiR), a travel retail market research and data analysis agency, will become part of
A UNION says a York confectionery firm has threatened to take a ‘grudging’ pay offer off the table unless it is accepted by tomorrow. The GMB said further strike action by its 90 members at Tangerine’s factory in Low Poppleton Lane was inevitable
CONCERNS have been raised about the Environment Agency’s £45 million plans for additional flood defences. Denise Craghill, Green Party councillor for Guildhall ward, has written to the Environment Agency to ask why the plans do not mention defences
THE Salvation Army says it is experiencing a dramatic surge in demand for its help as York families struggle to cope with the cost of Christmas. Major Andrew Dunkinson said it had seen an increase in the number of statutory agency referrals requesting
A WOMAN with motor neurone disease was ‘overwhelmed with joy’ after her marriage was blessed at a York church - followed by a ‘superb’ reception and complimentary honeymoon at a five star hotel. Janine Harris and her husband Stephen, of Derwenthorpe
PUPILS are aiming for the Christmas number one slot this year after releasing an album to support lifesaving heroes. Children of Manor Church of England Academy, in Millfield Road, Nether Poppleton, decided to pen the six-song festive collection
YORK’s retail sector is facing two major overhauls, as one high street giant opens in the city and another eyes a York outlet. Primark is opening its Coppergate store today, more than three years after its intentions for the York site were first
