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THIS is a story of three partnerships, on and off stage. South Yorkshire playwright Nick Lane and touring company Reform Theatre have enjoyed a fruitful relationship under director Keith Hukin, one that will now expand as Lane oversees a series

YORK golfer Simon Dyson is eight shots off the lead after the first round of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.Dyson parred the first 11 holes before hitting two birdies and four bogies on the next six holes.He finished his round with pars on the

SAM Fielding has been offered a new deal at York City, but fellow teenagers Tyler Walton and Alex Bruton have been released.All three players made their senior debuts during City’s 2016/17 National League campaign, with Fielding starting former boss Jackie

A TEENAGE girl from Harrogate injured in the Manchester blast was visited by the Queen in hospital today. Evie Mills, 14, is recovering at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, where a number of victims were taken after the blast. The monarch

UP-AND-COMING Malton & Norton Golf Club star David Hague ended just one shot short of a championship record as he stormed to the Lagonda Trophy title at Gog Magog GC.The amateur ace did set a new course record, though, as he finished the four rounds 12

THE heatwave is set to end with a deluge in York and North Yorkshire - just as the Spring Bank Holiday weekend is getting underway. Temperatures, which hit 24 or 25 C today, are set to rise again to 25C, or 77F, tomorrow, with long sunny periods

GARRY Monk has resigned as manager of Leeds United, the Sky Bet Championship club have announced. A statement issued by Leeds this afternoon said the club was "shocked and disappointed" by Monk's decision but that his resignation was "reluctantly

A NEW era has dawned at York's Guildhall with the arrival of City of York Council's first all-female civic party -and its first humanist celebrant as chaplain to the Lord Mayor. Council leader David Carr said it was a "huge expression of womenpower

JONNY’S Bairstow omission from England’s first-choice ODI XI, despite his fine form, is proof of the side’s current strength according to former England batsman Ian Bell.Bairstow has been used sparingly in England’s ODI set-up with just 25 appearances

CREATIVE Cow, the company that began in a Devon cowshed under the doleful gaze of passing cows, will make their York Theatre Royal debut in Graham Greene's spy thriller Our Man In Havana from Wednesday to Saturday. In a co-production with Malvern

JOHN Partridge hardly had time to draw breath between playing slick lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago and star drag act Zaza in La Cage Aux Folles. "I finished Chicago on New Year's Eve, only four days before La Cage opened, so I thought I wouldn't

SATURDAY’S orchestral concert by The Cranberries at York Barbican now comes with new strings attached. On Wednesday afternoon, the sold-out show was postponed after Dolores O’Riordan’s doctors instructed the Irish singer to cease work immediately

FIVE Norwegian choirs will be in York from tomorrow to Sunday for the free Scandinavian Choral Festival. First up for the Solheimkoret, Ha dur Moll, Harmony Singers, Fredheim Blandede Kor and Ledaal Vokalensemble choirs will be a choral singing

STAGING the world-famous York Mystery Plays last year cost York Minster almost £600,000 after smaller than expected audiences turned up, the annual accounts and report have revealed. The report says that the staging of the Plays last summer was

A KIND Revolution comes just a few weeks after The Modfather's first movie soundtrack - the excellent Jawbone - which was a departure from his usual style. Where Paul Weller's work on Jawbone involved folk and sombre, extended dark blues jams,

READING the messages from parents desperate to find their children after the bombing in Manchester was heart-rending. ‘Please come home Lucy and let us know you’re safe’, said one. ‘If anyone sees Olivia contact me. Give her your phone and let

IT DOESN'T seem like 16 years since the revolutionary 'virtual band' Gorillaz were first thrust upon the world, but, amazingly, it is. Humanz marks the cartoon supergroup's first release in seven years, since 2010's The Fall, and while the style

THERE will no doubt be plenty of grumbles at the prospect of Micklegate being closed to traffic this summer. It will be one-way only for two months, and for short periods both before and after that, the road will be closed to traffic altogether. But

IT IS not pleasant seeing armed police patrolling our streets. That’s not how things are supposed to be, here. British bobbies are friendly, helpful people who shouldn’t be carrying guns. The sight of them walking around York with semi-automatic

THE daughter of a couple killed in the Manchester attack has thanked wellwishers for their support - as floral tributes have been laid in York.  Marcin and Angelika Klis (pictured below) are believed to have been killed as they waited to pick their

A MAN has been arrested on drug, knife and poison charged after a man was found in critical condition in a York street.  The 44-year-old man was found unconscious on the corner of Micklegate and George Hudson Street, outside the Nisbets catering supply

A YORK software firm specialising in till technology for the bakery industry has appointed the former managing director of a partner company.RedBlack Software has appointed industry veteran Steve Boyes to the new role of lead business strategist.Mr Boyes

JANET LOOKER and Labour still don’t get it (Letters, May 16). With the country’s finances still unsettled and families thinking hard about what they spend, Labour still insists that government, whether national or local, be all things to all people

AFFORDABILITY isn’t a word you hear very often when it comes to York property. This city has a housing crisis and when there are not enough homes to meet demand, the pressure on prices is acute. Which is why this new development at Nelson Parks

WITH the election approaching, sadly there does not seem to be much on offer or to look forward to for older people with increasing needs. They may well be facing a future fearful of the costs and accessibility of vital support. The role of the

LAST year, the public narrowly voted to leave the European Union. The 48 per cent of the public who voted to remain have been told that they should shut up and accept the result. Theresa May has said there is no chance of another vote. Three years

FOR the benefit of The Press and the avid readers of my letters and, in the famous words of Max Bygraves, “I wanna tell you a story”. In Yesterday Once More on May 22, there was a photograph of Hanover Street, Leeman Road, after the German air

QUITE clearly, like me, J C Potter (Letters, May 22) lived through the chaos of the so-called winter of discontent and all the problems that the powerful unions thrust upon the long suffering public during the 1978/79 winter. In everything that

SO Cllr Denise Craghill, green councillor for Gillygate, calls for public money to be wasted investigating a possible closure of Gillygate to cut pollution levels following the entirely predictable fall in pollution when the street was shut during

CLLR Peter Dew explains very clearly (“Closing Gillygate will not solve traffic woe”, Letters, May 24) how little Conservatives are doing to tackle the poor air quality that has been harming the health and killing people prematurely for years in York

IT is interesting to note the editorial comment on Denise Craghill’s proposals to permanently close Gillygate (The Press, May 22), especially in respect of drivers, taxis and bus passengers being the main losers. Yet among the beneficiaries of

CLLR Denise Craghill’s call for Gillygate’s closure to some vehicles has created predictions of chaos on alternative routes (The Press, May 22). Past closures have been short term and are insufficient to encourage long term changes in travel choices

From our archive:   85 years ago A Yorkshire Baronet was causing quite a stir in the gossip columns after marrying at the age of 82. Sir Griffith Boynton, Bt, of Driffield, was married very quietly, to Mrs Charles Whitham, a widow from

RAIN and waterlogged pitches played havoc with HPH York Vale Cricket League fixtures on Saturday with only five of the 17 scheduled first round ties in both cup competitions played to a conclusion.Of the games that were played, second division Hemingbrough

SO MI DAR may have had to bypass an intended run at York last week but can make up for lost time by winning the Matchbook Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown's evening meeting.The four-year-old's planned Knavesmire outing was scuppered by rain,

YORK golfer Simon Dyson will be rubbing shoulders with the game's elite when the BMW PGA Championship starts today at Wentworth.The event marks the launch of the European Tour’s new Rolex Series and has attracted a world-class field, featuring 10

VADAINE Oliver insists that he could yet stay with York City in National League North.The former Lincoln City striker was an FA Trophy final hero for the Minstermen on Sunday - bagging the second goal in a 3-2 victory over Macclesfield Town at Wembley.Manager

PICKERING's Paul Davison has become the first player in history to qualify three times for the World Snooker Tour.Davison, who first qualified in 1992, finished among the top four players in the ranking list at Q School - the annual event in Preston

HOLGATE WMC maintained the only 100 per cent record in the York Amateur Bowling Association League first division after a tough game against Bootham.WMC's Steve Lea and Gary Lewington had impressive wins, while Alan Smith's rink, having trailed

A MANUFACTURING company which makes ratchet tensioners for heavy goods vehicles has secured a foothold in Europe with a £25,000 contract win.Langver has won an order from Spanish logistics company Guillen in a deal which is set to boost the firm’s presence

THE two sons of a woman who died in an accident near their home have paid tribute to their “wonderful, amazing and beautiful” mother. Julie Gough, 52, and her partner, Dave Tinker, 50, had just got off a Coastliner double-decker bus and were crossing

A FIREFIGHTER is marking his 20th anniversary of fundraising by running almost 200 miles.Malton watch manager Justin Rowe and fellow firefighter Terrance Gregg, from York fire station, are planning to run 12 marathons from York to Chivenor in North Devon

SUPERMARKET chain Tesco has put plans on hold to raise funds to help replace equipment at a play park destroyed by an arson attack. Yesterday (see below), The Press revealed that Tesco stores in York and in Driffield and Market Weighton were planning

YORK Minster’s finances have enjoyed a ‘significant improvement’, according to the cathedral’s new report and annual accounts for 2016.A spokeswoman said total funds for the year were £46.2 million, up from £44 million in 2015, and income rose to £8.7

THE chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will visit York today to raise awareness of a project giving victims and survivors the chance to share their experiences. Professor Alexis Jay will meet more than 80 delegates from organisations

A MAN has been jailed for six-and-a-half years after hitting a man over the head with a knuckleduster outside a bank on Knaresborough High Street. Ryan Hunt, 25, from Ripon, hit his 57-year-old victim as he was withdrawing £30 from a cash machine outside

YORK’S Micklegate Bar will be repeatedly closed to traffic this summer to allow for major restoration work on the historic structure. The project is part of a £1.5 million scheme to preserve and protect York’s medieval city walls, announced last