ANDREW Gale is targeting a Roses victory at Headingley in 12 days’ time as Yorkshire look to ignite their Specsavers County Championship title bid.Coach Gale was content with his side’s performance in their draw with Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford
SHAKESPEARE'S most performed history play is in turn weaved indelibly into the history of Northern Broadsides, the outsider king and the outsider Yorkshire company in union. Broadsides, now of Halifax, began 25 years ago in a Hull boat shed, performing
A MAN who was badly beaten during an assault in York has been left with life-changing injuries, police say. The man was attacked at an address in Landalewood Road, Clifton Moor, at about 9pm on Friday, February 3, by a gang of youths, and suffered
POLICE want to speak to this man in connection with a racially aggravated attack in York. North Yorkshire Police said a 27-year-old Asian man was verbally and physically abused in Blossom Street in what they considered a racially aggravated incident
MARCIA’s Linda Penrose gamed in 23 arrows as they went 3-0 up at York John Smith’s Ladies League division one hosts Burnholme.Chris Hayward and Faye Hawksby added to their landlady's effort.However, the wheels fell off as ‘Holme had Claire Murphy,
YORK Acorn made it three wins in a row with arguably their best second-half home performance of the season, when they scored 20 unanswered points to beat National Conference League division one high flyers Normanton 36-16.After a bright opening, Acorn
1 Big players (literally and figuratively) win big games Just as against Forest Green on the final day of the National League campaign, Macclesfield players passed the ball with greater confidence and purpose than City for large periods under
YORK and North Yorkshire look set to enjoy warm sunshine right up to the Spring Bank Holiday weekend. Temperatures are forecast by the Met Office to peak at 24 C, or 75F, in York on Saturday, with long periods of sunshine as high pressure dominates
A MAN has been charged with assaulting a female police officer at York railway station. British Transport Police said two men were allegedly acting drunk and disorderly at about 10.45pm on Saturday, and were asked by a British Transport Police
IT was 50 years ago on June 1 that The Beatles released their psychedelic rock masterwork, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and it was next month's anniversary that prompted Pocklington Arts Centre to mount a Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Arts Club exhibition
THE weird and wonderful, the imagined and the exaggerated make up The Mind Eye's, the vivid new exhibition at Lotte Inch Gallery, Bootham, York. On show until June 17 are prints and original paintings by Welsh artist, illustrator and designer Clive
LONDON Grammar will open their autumn tour at the Leeds O2 Academy on October 18 after a summer of British and European festival engagements that begins with BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Hull on May 27. From a standing start while studying at Nottingham
A DELIVERY man was held up at knifepoint in North Yorkshire. Police in Scarborough said the incident happened in Frairs Way, Scarborough, at about 8.15pm on Friday May 19, opposite the council car park. The victim, an 18-year-old man, was working
YORK Shakespeare Project is seeking a director for this autumn's production of The Winter’s Tale. Dedicated to performing all of Shakespeare’s plays by the end of 2020, roughly in chronological order, YSP has staged 31 so far, the latest being
THE Charlatans will follow up the May 26 release of their Different Days album with an 11-date late-autumn tour with two Yorkshire gigs: Sheffield O2 Academy on November 30 and Leeds O2 Academy on December 7. Already the Manchester indie rock stalwarts
WHAT do Pink Floyd, Ed Balls, Donald Trump and the man who created Wallace and Gromit have in common? They'll all be featuring, in one way or another, at this year's York Festival of Ideas which kicks off next month, that's what. Balls, the
SOFT Cell frontman Marc Almond is to undertake a 17-date orchestral tour this autumn, performing songs from his 36-year career, to accompany his upcoming new album Shadows And Reflections. The tour and album will feature new orchestral arrangements
“THERE’S no point us looking back – we have to look forward and crack on, and this was a good way to start that.” So declared big Jon Parkin as he helped York City win the FA Trophy in a Wembley thriller to soften the blow of relegation into National
ERASURE will play support on the forthcoming Robbie Williams tour. Frustratingly, our closest venue is Manchester's Etihad Stadium on June 2,but the cross-Pennines journey should be worth it. Consistently a pop power-house, Erasure have in their
SHOULD we revisit younger dreams as adults? How does this help? Ray Davies has only himself to compete with in the songwriting laureate stakes, but has always been susceptible to a concept. Unlike the village greens on which his reputation rests
Jean Frost (Letters, May 16) is right to say that we should think carefully before casting our votes, but she is wrong to blame the Tories for supporting an elite few. History shows us that the elite few are very often socialists, many of whom
SCOTTISH comedian Susan Calman's York gig is on the move to the Tempest Anderson Hall on May 19 as a result of ongoing work on the Central Methodist Church roof. In her 11th year in comedy after quitting her career as a corporate lawyer with Dundas
Cuadrilla’s fracking pad or drill site in Lancashire is about double the size of a football field. They clearly anticipate production at this site. In Ryedale, Third Energy plan about ten production pads with ten wells on each. They currently have
I WILL always be grateful to the late Peter Rhodes, local professional football referee. He brought together all the sporting groups that played on the Knavesmire in the mid-1960s; amateur rugby league, football and hockey to successfully stop York
I was annoyed when I heard the news that Virgin were planning to close the excellent staffed ticket office at York railway station and to put in wall mounted machines, have a “Customer zone” and alter the appearance of the railway station buildings
YORK Men’s Shed is a well-deserved recipient of a cash award from the Asda Foundation. The community organisation was set up to help men facing loneliness, illness, unemployment or bereavement find new hobbies, friends and to feel part of the community
YORK College Level 2 music students and other York College bands will take part in Rhythm ‘N’ Ouse, a music collaboration for one night only in The Basement, City Screen, York, on Tuesday. The 8.15pm gig has been organised and promoted by the students
ALMOST everyone of a certain generation loves Debbie Harry and Blondie. What is not to like? Blondie have always excelled at great melodic pop songs expertly performed and Debbie, now 71, has maintained that elusive mystique straddling high glamour
AFTER Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton, George Jones & Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash & June Carter, Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris, and latterly Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell, here comes another "country coupling", this time between American
Nick Love, Parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats in York Central, here sets out his vision for the future of the city. How lucky are we to live here – this glittering jewel in not just Yorkshire but the UK. I’ve lived in York for 32
Rachael Maskell, Labour’s election candidate in York Central, looks at the issues which have taken up most of her time as the constituency’s MP. It has been an honour to have represented you as the Member of Parliament for York Central over the
THERE have been clear winners and losers from the temporary closure of Gillygate in York. The one-week closure for water mains repairs caused traffic delays elsewhere in the city as drivers had to find new routes to their destinations. Monitoring
SCOTTISH comedian Susan Calman's York gig is on the move to the Tempest Anderson Hall on May 19 as a result of ongoing work on the Central Methodist Church roof. In her 11th year in comedy after quitting her career as a corporate lawyer with Dundas
A WOMAN'S handbag has been snatched from her as she was walking along a cycle path to work in York. North Yorkshire Police said the woman was walking along the path from Crichton Avenue towards Haxby Road at about 5pm last Friday when the theft happened
BREAKING: Mark Anthony Ainsley has been arrested at an address in Harrogate this afternoon. North Yorkshire Police have just confirmed the news, that Ainsley was arrested at about 3.30pm today. ----------------------------------------------
BARBARA Marten joins the rehearsals from Monday as the one professional actor in the 150-strong company for York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre's latest large-scale community production this summer. Performing in the premiere of Bridget Foreman's
THE 2015 floods are still all-too-fresh in the memory of those who lived through them. Not so the high waters depicted in these photographs. They date from 125 years ago, and show the floods which inundated the city in October 1892, long before
THE National Theatre comes to York today for a week-long run of one of the great productions on the London stage of recent times, Sally Cookson's energetic and imaginative adaptation of Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë’s story returns to Yorkshire turf
MAT Fraser was feeling a little hoarse. He had just rehearsed the climactic battlefield scene in Richard III, as presented by Northern Broadsides and Hull Truck Theatre with drums and clogs. "Richard talks a lot, and we did the scenes yesterday
THE Press today unveils a new reward scheme that will save readers hundreds of pounds at major high street stores. Readers who have the paper home delivered through our Press Direct home delivery service will be eligible to join the Reader Rewards
YOU may have noted the proliferation of Strictly spin-offs at the Grand Opera House and York Barbican as dance becomes an ever hotter ticket. York Theatre Royal, meanwhile, is steadily expanding its dance programme, adding first the Rosie Kay Dance
YORK Guildhall Orchestra’s concert opened with the first performance of Dick Blackford’s atmospheric tone poem, Cruachan. The work drew its inspiration not only from the landscape dominated by Ben Cruachan in Argyll but also composers from the
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have hit out against Conservative manifesto pledges which they say will pave the way for “fast-track fracking”. The party plans to let companies carry out test drills without planning permission - instead considering them
A YORK dental practice has clenched the title of Team of the Year UK for a second consecutive year in the national dentistry awards.Andrea Ubhi Dentistry, based in Goodramgate, followed up 2016’s win by retaining its crown in this years Dental Awards,
A TEAM of three Year 8 students from a school in Selby fought off tough competition from hundreds of entries across the country to win a national schools award and £1,500. Youngsters from The Read School were the overall winners in the Yorkshire
A YORK headquartered apart-hotel operator is expanding its portfolio following a £2.8 million investment in a former office building.The Lawrance Luxury Apart-Hotel group has acquired 45 Tanner Row, off Micklegate, and has already started work converting
THERE’S a new head teacher at a North Yorkshire secondary school. Julie Caddell has taken up the role of head teacher at Barlby High School. She was previously vice principal: training and teaching school at Manor CE Academy in York. Julie
AIDAN Connolly insists that he won't be giving his Wembley winner to the Beast!Scottish winger Connolly is now in the record books as the player who scored York City's winning goal in the 3-2 FA Trophy victory over Macclesfield Town at Wembley.But
POLICE have taken part in an operation to disrupt cross border criminals.Officers from North Yorkshire Police and local Rural Watch volunteers took part in the 14th Operation Checkpoint - along with colleagues from Cleveland, Durham, Northumbria, Lancashire
YOUNGSTERS braved wet weather for a chance to see a variety of creatures at a pond dipping session in York.The session, held by the Friends of Clifton Backies Nature Reserve, took place at the reserve’s pond on Saturday afternoon.The group organised the
A COMMUNITY group in York has been awarded funding for their community shed space.York Men's Shed is an organisation which helps people come together to take part in practical skills and activities, and has been awarded £920 by the Asda Foundation
DEVASTATED siblings are raising money for their baby brother who was injured in a horrifying car crash. Josh Cusick, 15, is taking part in a 3.5km Colour Run this summer to fundraise for Martin House Children's Hospice, near Boston Spa, which took
RECORDS have been broken by renewable energy sources in the UK in the last year.A new report looking at data from January to March 2017 showed carbon emissions from the electricity sector are lower than in recent years.Imperial College London produced
A COMPANY which is hoping to open an upmarket bar and restaurant in Malton’s old town hall will showcase its plans at the town’s food lovers festival.Stew and Oyster Ltd, which operates four bars in the Leeds area, has been granted a licence for the building
ANGRY residents have slated work to lay fibre optic cables in a village near York after garden hedges were burnt. Villagers in Copmanthorpe have also criticised the blocking and reinstatement of pavements by Virgin Media. Resident Graham
A COUNCILLOR is calling for a full or partial closure of Gillygate in York to be considered after new statistics showed a ‘significant’ drop in pollution levels during last month’s temporary closure. The figures from a City of York Council pollution
VOLUNTEERS are needed to check on the welfare of people in police cells around North Yorkshire. Independent Custody Visitors (ICVs) check on the treatment of detainees in police custody to ensure their rights and entitlements are met and they are
A PHYSIOTHERAPIST is organising a cycle challenge to raise funds for charity and help inspire people to get active.Scott Caul, who works in the Ryedale Community Response Team at Malton Hospital, is raising money for Cancer Research UK, the Stroke Association
GARDEN waste and recycling collections will be one day late across the Hambleton district next week because of the Bank Holiday.Collections roll forward one day to cope with the Bank Holiday next Monday, with Friday collections taking place on June 3.
RACING fans and music lovers have plenty to look forward to at York racecourse this year, with its 2017 season up and running after last week's action-packed Dante Festival. About 35,000 people descended on the racecourse during the three-day festival
NORTH Yorkshire County Council is supporting World No Tobacco Day and is highlighting the link between tobacco and poverty across the globe. World No Tobacco day is on May 31 this year and its theme, ‘Tobacco – A Threat to Development’’, emphasises its
A WILDLIFE rescue centre near Selby is appealing for donations of food to help cope with the influx of little patients and injured animals.Every spring and summer the The Wildlife Orphanage and hedgehog hospital, in Barlby is flooded with hundreds of
