A BROKEN down car is causing traffic problems in York this afternoon. The red Peugeot has apparently broken down in the York-bound lane on Skeldergate Bridge, causing heavy queues of traffic to back up into Bishopthorpe Road. A recovery vehicle
HEAD coach James Ford has lauded the try that put York City Knights into the hat for Tuesday morning's Challenge Cup fifth-round draw as a play straight off the training ground. York City Knights shocked Championship club Rochdale 26-20 at
JAMES FORD is to tell Hull KR that dual-reg youngster Liam Harris was “awful” in York City Knights’ shock Challenge Cup win over Rochdale. Harris, 19, was a surprise call-up at full-back but he went on to give an assured display on his debut, helping
YORK Badgers clinched the Development League title with a hard fought 1-1 draw away against Harrogate. Midfield trio Jasper Richardson, Harry Jenner and Emil Waites controlled play early on.But Harrogate could have taken the lead but for good closing
ACOMB Ladies are celebrating promotion after sealing the division two title in the Yorkshire Women’s Hockey League. Georgie Wood scored a hat-trick in this weekend’s decisive 7-1 victory over Thirsk. The win finally secured top spot after a gripping
CITY of York Ladies will want to forget this season as quickly as possible after failing to win a single game in the North Hockey Women’s League premier division. Already relegated, COY ended the campaign with a 6-2 defeat against fifth-placed
CITY of York II took a massive step towards survival in the Yorkshire Men’s Hockey League premier division with a 5-2 victory over Leeds IV. The game was a showdown between two clubs in serious danger of the drop and defeat would have plunged COY
YORK City have signed left-back Sam Muggleton from National League rivals Eastleigh. The 21-year-old defender is eligible to face bottom-of-the-table Southport tomorrow night and could get his chance with Alex Whittle still suffering from a tight hamstring
IMPRESARIO Bill Kenwright is mounting the first ever British tour of Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman's Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical La Cage Aux Folles, visiting Leeds this week and York in early May. John Partridge, last seen at the Leeds
By Emma Clayton I WILL never forget the winter’s night a knock at the door brought a ray of light into my darkest hours. Snow was falling when she arrived. She was a stranger, yet I felt I knew her as soon as I opened the door. She chatted
FIREFIGHTERS freed two women who were trapped in a car after it left a road and ended up upside down in a ditch.Emergency services were called to the crash, involving one car- a black Seat Ibiza - in Burniston Road, Scarborough, at about 7.40pm on Sunday.A
THE Jacksons will play Scarborough Open Air Theatre on June 17 as the soul brothers from Gary, Indiana mark the 50th anniversary of signing their first record contract. Tickets will go on sale on Friday at 9am on 01723 818111, 01723 383636 and
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC took the bragging rights in their 36-24 Yorkshire Men's League's Forty20 Cup victory over local rivals Heworth. All Blacks followed up their wins over York Acorn 'A' and Featherstone Lions 'A' with
A TRAINEE soldier who stabbed a knife into the bed of a comrade who was allegedly bullying him has been jailed for six years for attempted murder. Private James Farrell, 18, lashed out at the "ringleader" of a group of fellow trainees who were
THE price of a property coming to market is close to hitting a new all-time high, a website has reported. Across England and Wales, the average asking price in March was £310,108, marking a 1.3% or £3,877 month-on-month increase, Rightmove said.
THE Selby Town Enterprise Partnership (STEP) is holding a special event to promote its work and help develop new links between local businesses.The open event will be a chance for businesses find out about the STEP and what can be achieved for the town
YORK City are poised to sign a left back ahead of tomorrow night’s home game with bottom-of-the-table Southport. With Alex Whittle still ruled out due to a tight hamstring, City chief Gary Mills has decided to bolster his squad and could also make
THE focus is on Pavement and Clifton in this latest selection of photos from Explore York’s Imagine York website. First up, Pavement, and two photographs taken in the early 1900s before a way was cut through for Piccadilly. The photos show:
MARK Arthur says a financial agreement must be reached “in the next few weeks” with regards to the construction of the new Football Stand in order for Yorkshire to secure international cricket at Headingley beyond 2019.Yorkshire’s chief executive revealed
NEW YORK has its own fashion week – and now York is poised to have its own. Fashion City York has announced it will be launching seven days of events in 2018 with its inaugural fashion week. This has been a long-term aim of the annual style
IS there a more generous act than to give someone the gift of life? That is in effect what happens when someone makes an organ donation. Whether the individual signs up to the NHS Organ Donor Register, or their family choose to donate their organs
MAXINE GORDON reports on how the city's style jamboree is going from strength to strength and picks out highlights not to miss THOSE of us with long-ish enough memories may remember how Fashion City York (FCY) burst on the scene back in 2011 promising
1 Scott Fenwick has nerves of steel In terms of make-or-break moments for a York City career, they don’t come much bigger than that which was played out in the final throes of the first period of extra-time at Sincil Bank. Fenwick had only been
JAMES FORD hailed the “fight and togetherness” in his York City Knights side after they shocked Championship side Rochdale 26-20 in a Challenge Cup thriller at Bootham Crescent. Veteran half-back Jonny Presley, back in the line-up after deciding
A NEW exhibition has opened at York’s Chocolate Story in King’s Square to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of one of York’s most important companies, Terry’s. No more excuse is needed to run a series of old photos showing what life was
York City Knights 26 Rochdale 20 York: Harris 8, B Dent 8, Morrison 7, Haynes 7, Saxton 8, Presley 9, H Tyson-Wilson 9, Dixon 7, Ellis 9, Robinson 9, E Smith 9, Batchelor 9, Spears 9. Subs (all used): Carter 7, B Tyson-Wilson 8, Moran 7, Porter 8.
A POWER cut has closed a primary school and given children the day off. Stockton-on-the-Forest Primary School is shut for the day after a lack of electricity turned off the school's heating system. Staff hope to have power back on by 10am but are
NOTHING is Mysterious about Marti Pellow's spring tour, except for the new album of that title that he will be promoting at York Barbican on Tuesday. "There'll be some new songs, some old songs, some borrowed songs, then if you shout loud enough
WITH reference to the story “So, who is responsible for alleys?” (The Press, February 20), parking in any back lane has always meant to be for a reasonable length of time, is to deliver or take away items. The back lanes were designed as access
I WAS doing the ironing the other day and noticed just how many of our clothes had been purchased from British Home Stores. Oh, how I miss it. Jenny Hilton, Holgate Lodge Drive, York
TO solve the problem of late night revellers urinating in public places, why don’t City of York Council look at using portable urinals (pee-pods) as used in other cities, and maybe give out some she-wees too? Lynne Lea, Ivy Place, New Earswick,
NATIONWIDE Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, are daily deeming more and more schools “inadequate”. Regularly the reasons being “insufficient teaching of a high enough quality”, sadly the casualties always being the children. Do the teachers
IN her column (The Press, March 17), Megi Rychlikova carries on her Project Fear campaign by implying that EU nurses currently here are not secure. To my knowledge, not one Government minister has ever said, or even intimated, that any EU nationals
PHILLIP ROE’S letter (The Press, March 17) is a perfect example of why so many of us are unsettled and unhappy about the Leave campaign and result based on fallacy, lies and scaremongering. Mr Roe writes about: “...an illustration of (many EU countries
READING the article about housing problems (The Press, March 15), in the 1950s when my husband’s brother bought a house priced £900, his father said he was putting a millstone round his neck. I don’t know what he would say now at the obscene price
WITH the stepping down of Cllr Julie Gunnell, the most respected councillor in the ward, through my door I have been getting the party leaflets. Personally, I think Julie will be a hard act to follow. Her caring attitude towards her constituents
IS Julian Sturdy frightened of holding a public meeting? Last week The Press covered our Stop the Silence campaign, where we presented Mr Sturdy with a letter outlining our concerns about “hard” Brexit. At the time Julian Sturdy agreed to hold a
MY husband, John, and I were recently reminiscing about wartime radio shows during the Second World War years. We were only children then, aged four years old up to 10 years old. We both enjoyed these moments, especially on a Sunday lunchtime
IN part I agree with the comments printed in The Press regarding the lack of opportunity for youngsters by Robert Greaves (Letters, March 16) and Tim Murgatroyd (The Press, March 8). However, I suspect both gentlemen are of my generation when most
From our archives: 85 years ago The Queen’s fascination with a stationary stall turned a planned 15-minute shopping trip to a low-priced bazaar in Oxford Street, London, into a full three-quarters of an hour. Thanks to Her Majesty
A FEW years ago, I remember allowing a slight smile to spread across my face as the then Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the caravan tax and the pasty tax. Several weeks later the slight smile turned into a huge grin as the proposals were
SHERBURN Community Gymnastic Club, which started in 2007, has moved into its own building on the Blackburn Industrial Estate in the village. Since its formation, it has used facilities at the village high school and also Barlby High School. With
STARS from the West End will appear at Scarborough Spa’s theatre later this year in Beyond The Barricade.The show contains some of the greatest songs in Musical Theatre, and will come to the Spa Theatre on Saturday, October 7.Performers from Les Misérables
YORK College has been given the green light to deliver apprenticeship training.The college has passed the application for the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP).Nikki Davis, assistant principal at the college, said: "The new apprenticeships
RESEARCHERS have developed a mathematical formula based on the movement of a sperm’s head and tail, which significantly reduces the complexities of understanding and predicting how sperm fertilise an egg. Staff at the Universities of York
A SOCIAL enterprise in York is now supporting cyclists in Estonia. Get Cycling CiC is sending some of its try-out roadshow bikes to an Estonian charity, who will be learning Get Cycling’s techniques for promoting cycling in schools, workplaces and universities
A LARGE city centre pub close to York Minster has had a £225,000 spruce up much to the delight of customers. Mitchells & Butlers, the owners of The Cross Keys, on the corner of Goodramgate and Deangate planned the work to enhance the pub’s
THE county town of North Yorkshire will be hosting its second 10km run in May - and organisers have been overwhelmed by the response.The Northallerton 10K will start and finish on the town’s High Street on May 28 and follows the huge success of the inaugural
MORE hotels are being built, bought or developed in York than most other cities in the UK.York placed second in this year’s UK Hotels Market Index, released this week by Colliers International, which looks at 34 locations around the country and ranks
A SANDWICH shop in York has been sold. Uppercrust in Lendal, a recently refurbished ground-floor shop in the city centre, was sold by Barry Crux & Company. The business currently operates six days a week, selling hot and cold sandwiches
A SENIOR airman with strong links to Elvington-based Allied Air Forces Memorial has become Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, who is honorary president of the Allied Air Forces Memorial, has been announced as the new Lieutenant
DETAILED plans have emerged showing how a care company plans to demolish a York pub to make way for a new residential home. As The Press reported earlier this month, care company Crown Care has agreed to buy the Carlton Tavern in Acomb from
THE stresses and strains of married life are the subject of a play to be held at Farndale Village Hall.September In The Rain, written by John Godber and directed by Sheila Carter, will be staged in the hall by Esk Valley Theatre on Wednesday, March 29
A CAR mechanic’s business will collapse because he was caught drink driving at nearly twice the legal alcohol limit, York magistrates heard. Martin Butterworth, prosecuting, said police pulled Craig Andrew Clayton, 33, over outside his home because
YOUNGSTERS are being asked to give their views on what life is like in North Yorkshire.North Yorkshire County Council’s Children’s Trust Board is anxious to know as it prepares an updated edition of its Children and Young People’s plan, Young and Yorkshire.In
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help North Yorkshire Police in towns around the region.The force is recruiting Neighbourhood Support Volunteers in York, Harrogate, Scarborough, Ryedale, Hambleton and Richmondshire. As part of the role, volunteers work with local
A NEWLY re-opened pub has been granted an extra level of protection from developers. The Deramore Arms in Heslington has been listed as an Asset of Community Value (ACV) by City of York Council. Heslington Parish Council applied for the arrangement
A DRIVER’S frustration at being behind a slow moving tractor had “devastating” consequences when he pulled out to overtake, York Crown Court heard. Scott Maider, 26, hit motorcyclist Colin Young, 50, head-on on the A170 at Aislaby near Pickering
A WEEK-LONG cruise for two people is up for grabs in a silent auction which will raise vital funds for St Leonard’s Hospice in York. The top prize has been given to the hospice by a generous donor. The cruise on the P&O Azura departs from
POLICE joined forces with volunteers and groups like the Street Angels and York Rescue Boat, in a bid to reassure tourists and shopkeepers in York at the beginning of summer. Police teams in the centre of York were on duty as part of Operation
A ROBBER who subjected a retired teacher to a terrifying ordeal, beating him up before forcing him to hand over valuables in his own home, is today starting a 15-year extended prison sentence. Makevelli Anthony Claridge, 38, told the 63-year-old victim
A RETIRED York GP has told how he underwent a successful kidney transplant at the age of 75 - with kidneys from a 71-year-old woman. Walter Stockdale, who worked at the Jorvik Medical Practice for more than 30 years until he retired in 2000, spoke
CHANGES have been demanded in the way £1 million of council funds is handed out via local councillors. Ward funding was reintroduced in York when the joint Conservative and Lib Dem administration took over in 2015, giving ward committees and local
VOLUNTEERS behind a major redevelopment plan for a York community hall are appealing for help as they face a “mammoth” fundraising task to realise their dreams. Haxby Memorial Hall’s trustees have long had ambitions to give the historic building a
