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CALAN, the revivalist sound of Welsh traditional music, make their National Centre for Early Music debut in York on Wednesday on their biggest tour to date. York will be one of 26 destinations on a tour built around the May 12 release of their fourth

DUTCHMAN Dylan Groenewegen edged out Caleb Ewan to win stage one of the Tour de Yorkshire after a huge crash on the final approach in Scarborough.LottoNL Jumbo's Groenewegen, winner of stage one of this race last year, just hung on to beat Australian

TRIBUTES were paid to an author described as ‘a Yorkshireman to the end’ whose writing inspired the popular television series Heartbeat. It was standing room only at the funeral of Peter Walker at Our Lady and St Benedicts Church in Ampleforth

IF York artist Malcolm Ludvigsen has an even bigger smile than usual at the second weekend of York Open Studios, the reason lies with the United States. "A surprising thing happened last week," says the university mathematics professor and plein-air

THE Yamato Drummers of Japan are "pushing themselves to their absolute limits with their most visually spectacular, highly energetic and explosive show yet", The Challengers. Visiting the Grand Opera House, in York, tonight as part of a 22-city British

HOW about taking The Clifton Trail at the second weekend of York Open Studios? "There's a group of artists around Burton Stone Lane who are all taking part in this year's Open Studios that reflects this part of town becoming more interesting and creative

NORTH Eastern gypsy folk rock seven-piece Holy Moly & The Crackers are on the road on an April tour that arrives at The Crescent Community Venue in York tonight. They will be showcasing this month's single, Cold Comfort Lane, the first to be lifted

AND now they are three. Take That tribute act Rule The World rule the Barbican for one night only when playing York on Saturday night. Band members Dan Maines, Matt Hall and Gabriel Keogh are professionally trained singers, musicians and actors

FILM director Ken Loach has spoken out in York in support of health and safety in the workplace - claiming that those who deride it have safe jobs. He also spoke of his fears that Brexit and a Tory General Election victory could lead to the further

GARETH Gates had such a blast in his first comedy performance last year, he is reprising the role on the 2017 international tour of Footloose, The Musical, playing York from Tuesday. "We toured for the whole of last year, when 160,000 people saw the

HAMPSHIRE twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas have been doing cartwheels ever since their album of that name entered the charts at number one last September. "It still sounds very strange: a number one album!" says 23-year-old Catherine, as

APRIL 29, 1942, is a date Alan Amour will never forget. In the early hours, about 40 German bombers flew over the city of York, raining 84 tonnes of high explosives and incendiary bombs over the historic centre. During the two-hour attack,

YORK Theatre Royal is running a season programmed by a panel of women, featuring work by female writers, directors, designers and actors under the title Of Woman Born. In yesterday's edition of The Press, playwright Deborah McAndrew was, on the

THE annual York Community Carol Concert is another local institution. It marks its 60th year this year. During that time it has raised tens of thousands of pounds for good causes. Last year’s event alone raised £5,000 – money which was shared between

MALCOLM Huntington was a legend in York sporting circles. A journalist of the old school – always scrupulous about details and deadlines – he rose from copy boy to become the Yorkshire Evening Press’s sports editor, winning the MBE for services to

DANNY Baker bounds on to the stage towards the end of an extended tour which began in Leeds in February and never planned to come to York. Each night takes a slightly different direction - tonight starts with his beloved Millwall FC buying their very

DRINGHOUSES are set to retain the York FA Under-19s Football League crown. They put themselves on the verge of the title with a 4-1 win at Poppleton thanks to doubles from Charlie Squires and Tom Rushworth. Paul Dodd replied. With one game to go

BREAKING up is hard to do – and divorce can cost couples dear, not just in terms of bitter arguments but in hefty lawyers’ fees. Which is why Divorce Hotel has opened in the UK – offering couples the chance to uncouple in comfortable civility at

A MAJOR campaign has been launched by police in York to protect the city’s cycles, and make them easier to trace if they go missing. So far this month, 46 bikes have been reported stolen in York, down by almost 50 per cent from the same period in April

A POTASH firm behind a 1,000-job fertiliser development has completed a stock market switch it says will raise its global profile.   Sirius Minerals is now trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market.   The business announced its intention

IMAGES have just been released after a series of thefts at a York hotel. North Yorkshire Police said several changing room lockers at the Marriott Hotel in York were broken into last month. A spokeswoman said the thefts happened between 4.15pm

UPDATED: 3.30PM She's been found safe and well. A SEARCH is underway for a missing woman from North Yorkshire. Kelly Ann Whiteley, 27, has been missing from her home in in Valley Road, Scarborough since the early hours of yesterday morning.

A CAR fire in North Yorkshire was started deliberately, police and firefighters believe. North Yorkshire Police says it is investigating the fire, which happened near High Eastfield Farm, Eastfield, close to Scarborough. Fire crews from Scarborough

RYEDALE-BASED Brian Hughes has been crowned Stobart Northern Jump Jockey of the Year for a second consecutive year.The Ulsterman, whose partnership with Malton trainer Malcolm Jefferson has been notably successful, has eclipsed his nearest rivals after

BEN JONES and Helen Cross claimed the spoils in the opening York and District Road Race League fixture at a wet and windy Pocklington. Jones (University of York) held off Phil Elliott-Dick (York Knavesmire Harriers) by four seconds to take first

TADCASTER Magnets assured their York Minster Engineering League premier division status for next season with a surprise 2-1 defeat of champions Wigginton Grasshoppers in midweek.The result leaves Copmanthorpe and Riccall United to fight out the second

A NEW gelato parlour has opened its doors in Ryedale.Dottie’s Gelato and Vintage Tea Roomis based in what was formerly an outbuilding in Champley’s Mews off the Market Place in Pickering.The parlour sells gelato - ice-cream made in the Italian style -

I AM pleased that The Press has picked up on my call for additional flood defence works in Fulford. The 2015 floods once again led to the Fordlands Road community being cut off. We have to get the right organisations together to make sure that

THE South Bank Academy Trust is appointing Trevor Burton as executive head to lead two secondary schools, leading to a vacant headship at Millthorpe School (salary £70,000 plus). The trust will also soon appoint a trust principal as head of the

SO York is a new City of Human Rights, as we’ve been told by the University of York. Good bit of marketing that. I agree with Carole Tucker’s letter (April 22) and so do many in the UK. Well, I’d just like to ask, in view of the city’s new status

WHILE any job losses are tragic and all efforts should be made to save them, I think it is a lack of understanding to blame Brexit for job losses at Nestle (The Press, April 26). Both Nestle and Terry’s to name but two were exporting jobs to Europe

FROM your archive on May 23, 2016, under a headline “Boris Johnson in York: Cheers and jeers as Brexit battlebus comes to town”, The Press reported: “He also claimed Brexit would benefit York manufacturers such as confectioners Nestlé and Tangerine

RACHAEL MASKELL is quite right to raise concerns about job losses at Nestle and other places in York (The Press, April 27). A multinational like Nestle wants to protect access to wider European markets when Britain leaves, not something that the

From our archives:   85 years ago Enormous interest had been aroused by the Automobile Association’s endeavour to discover remote villages around the county, after a member had advertised that he wished “to get off the beaten track” and

YORK City manager Gary Mills is ready to 'go loopy' if his players secure victory tomorrow and avoid the drop.The Minstermen host play-off qualifiers Forest Green Rovers knowing that defeat will signal relegation to National League North.Even

CHARLIE Cooper is on target for National League promotion with Forest Green Rovers after failing to land a permanent deal with York City.Cooper, the son of Rovers manager Mark, returns to Bootham Crescent tomorrow for the first time since an unspectacular

FINAL game of the season. Futures hanging in the balance. Sean Newton knows the score.Four years ago, the York City utility man was playing for Stockport County in the Blue Square Premier League.His club was relegated after losing 4-0 to Kidderminster

THERE will be no brotherly love on show at Trent Bridge tomorrow, with Joe and Billy Root set to go head to head in the Royal London Cup.Yorkshire face Nottinghamshire in their North Group one-day opener, with all England players available.Joe will play

AUSSIE Big Bash star Sam Rainbird has landed in England and is ready to tear up the Yorkshire Premier League North with Sheriff Hutton Bridge.The 24-year-old left-arm fast bowler becomes SHB's first overseas player in over 10 years and, having arrived

CITY council bosses have pushed ahead with service changes which will see people with learning disabilities given money to manage their own transport, rather than rely on council buses. Last night the council’s executive waved through plans, despite

HEALTH bosses will not confirm whether the delays in announcing the location of York’s new psychiatric hospital will have a knock on effect on the project. The location of a replacement for Bootham Park Hospital was expected to be announced this week,

A 29-YEAR-OLD man arrested after a knifeman threatened a police community support officer has appeared in court. Curtis Turpin, of Scaife Mews, Scaife Street, off Wigginton Road, York, pleaded guilty to affray and using a knife in a threatening manner

A CARVERY restaurant in York is supporting the Royal British Legion in a national push to raise £100,000 for the charity.   The Toby Carvery at the Hopgrove is among five of the restaurant’s chains in Yorkshire to be joining in with a national

ORGANISERS of York’s Community Carol Concert have handed over £5,000 to charities - as they prepare for the event’s diamond jubilee later this year. The concert at York Barbican in December will see John Warburton conduct his final community carol

NEWLY crowned champions Malt Shovel ended their Fastpack Ltd York Sunday Morning League division one season in fitting fashion by beating NUR 5-1 and Wigginton Grasshoppers 2-1. It meant they completed the season unbeaten.The game with NUR was goalless

MONDIALISTE can put his fruitless trip to Dubai behind him by returning to winning ways in the bet365 Mile at Sandown.David O'Meara probably knew the fate of his stable star before the gates opened at Meydan for the Dubai Turf as continuous rain had

A FORMER pupil at a York independent school avoided jail after being found with an arsenal of weapons and expressed an interest in high profile massacres. Denis Dautovic, 18, had talked to a pupil about the Columbine school massacre in America

A BUS firm has defended its service diversions in the wake of the closure of a York city centre street, following criticism from an elderly York Hospital outpatient. Gillygate, the main route from the city centre to the hospital, closed on Monday

A NEIGHBOUR'S dispute culminated with one man biting off part of another man's nose in the street where they both lived, York Crown Court heard. Martin Kenneth Lunn, 36, will have to pay £2,000 compensation to his former neighbour for the injury

A THIEF has been jailed for three years to deter others who target farmers, rural residents and businesses. Farmers and police have welcomed the sentence handed out to car dealer Anthony Gray for stealing a JCB and trailer at midnight from a North

FORMER Press sports editor and international tennis umpire Malcolm Huntington has died after a short illness, aged 82. Malcolm, of Heslington, leaves a widow Gina, a daughter Alex Jane and son John, and four grandchildren. His son-in-law Robert

YORK’S city walls will soon see work start on £1.5 million worth or repairs and improvements. The city council already puts around £100,000 a year into routine monitoring and inspection. The extra cash was agreed in February this year, for a five

REMEMBER when Toyota churned out cars that in terms of reliability were the envy of the world but were, erm, rather staid in appearance?Models such as the Corolla were never going to make the heart beat faster, but you knew they would get you from A to