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FORMER Pocklington School pupil Kyle Edmund advanced to the quarter-finals of the BB&T Atlanta Open with a come-from-behind victory over Peter Gojowczyk.Edmund, from Beverley, lost the the first set but he recovered to come out on top with a 2-6 6-4 7

YORK City Knights will be without captain Ed Smith for their big Super 8s opener against mega-rich League One leaders Toronto Wolfpack on Sunday as fears grow over his knee injury. Smith, helped off during the win over Workington a fortnight ago

YORK'S Barley Hall has become a tranquil oasis of calm this summer, allowing visitors to escape the hurly-burly of modern life by exploring the calming qualities of lavender, says visitor services manager Paul Ruxton.He said lavender had been liberally

THE M&S store at Vangarde Monks Cross is set to celebrate Yorkshire Day by hosting a summer showcase event to 'celebrate everything great about the region.'A spokeswoman said the event on Tuesday evening will feature a 'fantastic range of

A DEVOLUTION summit in York saw "positive discussions" over the future of Yorkshire, the city's council leader has said.A meeting at City of York Council HQ this afternoon involved most Yorkshire councils - including York and North and East

TWO pairs of Georgian candlesticks that vanished mysteriously from a castle have been returned - possibly by resident ghosts.The owners of Ripley Castle have returned £8,500 to a specialist insurer after the candlesticks - believed to be lost - reappeared

THREE members of the Osmond family are to spend an evening at a York church, telling their personal stories and entertaining people with their musical talents. Jay and Merrill Osmond, part of the legendary 70s pop group will appear at The Church

THE Executive of City of York Council have approved plans to take over a space in the city centre. At a meeting on Thursday evening, the Executive voted unanimously to buy the freehold of Swinegate Court, which is currently home to a mix of shops

"IN a world full of mystery and deceit, the truth of who Sherlock Holmes really was will finally be revealed," promises Damian Freddi, Nightshade Productions' writer, director, narrator, fight choreographer and actor. Holmes has found many homes

A TALENTED pianist, who grew up near York, is launching a music summer school next month at his alma mater. Emmanuel Vass, born and brought up at Melbourne, near Pocklington, will run the music performance and music business summer school at his

A MAN who commutes from York to London is off the road for three years after he was caught driving at four times the drink drive limit. Ramanan Nathan, 38, gave a reading of 142 millilitres of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath after police arrested

Review: Great Yorkshire Fringe, The Scarecrow's Wedding, White Rose Rotunda, Parliament Street, York. ENTERING the White Rose Rotunda to birdsong and a simple-yet-effective green pasture hillside stage, it's clear the kids are going to enter the

CHURCH leaders representing several different faiths have met with Third Energy to question the company about the fracking operation at Kirby Misperton. The group of faith leaders working in Ryedale made a request to the company after director of operations

A ONCE distinctive feature of Yorkshire’s rural landscape is to be revived in a new project.Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), over the next two years the Wolds Water project will see Yorkshire Wildlife Trust working with local farmers to restore

POLICE believe a missing Doncaster man may currently be in North Yorkshire. Geoffrey Bull was last seen at about 9am on Thursday, July 27, leaving his home address in the Woodlands area of Doncaster. Officers say they are increasingly concerned

RYAN Gibson will not play for Yorkshire again following a verbal altercation with an umpire in Bradford Premier League cricket earlier this month.The incident occurred while the former England under-19s all-rounder was playing for Pudsey Congs against

Review: Great Yorkshire Fringe, George Egg DIY Chef, The Shed, York, July 26 LIVE cooking involving a plumber's blowtorch, a massive drill and other power tools. delivered by a comedian who boasts he doesn't have liability insurance - what could

YORK City Ladies have re-signed former winger Jazz Whitwell from Women's Premier League northern division one club Hull City.Speed-merchant Whitwell scored six goals in 19 games while helping the Minsterbelles to another County Cup triumph and third

TRANSPORT bosses are set to tackle polluting fumes from coaches, buses and lorries in York with a two-point action plan. City of York Council is considering launching the city's first Air Quality Zone (AQZ) to try to deter larger diesel vehicles

RHYS Morgan, from Caerphilly, and Robert West, from London, are time-travelling magicians and all-round spiffing late-Victorian chaps, who must have felt at home in the mirrored magnificence of the White Rose Rotunda spiegeltent. The impeccably

CITIZENS Advice York (CAY) is inviting York residents to the latest in a series of meetings for people hit by the 2015 floods.The informal drop-in session is being held at the Quaker Meeting House on Friargate, on and Wednesday, August 2 from 6pm to 7.30pm

CITY Screen, York, is to present a Monday series of Alfred Hitchcock films under the title of Hitchcock Nights. The 8.30pm screenings will begin on Monday (July 31) with Vertigo (PG), followed by The Lady Vanishes (PG), August 7; The Birds (15)

VETERAN Leeds forward Jamie Jones-Buchanan says his old second-row partner Gareth Ellis could hold the key to tomorrow's Ladbrokes Challenge Cup semi-final against holders Hull.Ellis led Hull to their historic Wembley triumph over Warrington last

KNITTERS have taken over Micklegate, but their reign on the city centre street has only a few days remaining.Traders on the street launched a "yarn storm" earlier this month to bring some quirky brightness to their surroundings, but the knitted

THE SPEAKERS have been revealed by Make It York for the 2nd York Food and Drink Conference that takes place at York Principal Hotel on September 14.Themed around the Future of Food and Drink; Changes and Challenges, the audience will hear from experts

THE Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu is joining in part of a Holiday to Holy Day mission week in the Southern Ryedale Deanery this week.On Friday, Dr Sentamu will join the mission at Sand Hutton Village Hall, from 1.30pm, to experience Messy Church

THE 1967 law which, 50 years ago, began the process of decriminalising homosexual acts in the UK was opposed by the then Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey. Half a century on, things have changed. In a joint statement released to mark the

GET your flat caps at the ready for an afternoon of traditional Yorkshire fun. Norton Town Council has organised a Yorkshire Day event to celebrate with the local community, charities and churches. The celebration will be held on Sunday, at

GIVEN what happened to Tadcaster’s bridge in the 2015 floods, it was only sensible that, once the waters had subsided, City of York Council should commission a survey of the state of York’s bridges - particularly those over the Foss, which had been

A WACKY golf day is being held at Malton and Norton Golf Club on Sunday to raise funds for the Rob Stephenson Trust. Robert Stephenson died after being struck by a taxi on a night out in York in March 2016. The 21-year-old, from Pickering,

THE chief executive of Ryedale District Council has offered her resignation.Janet Waggott will leave the council on September 15 and start her new position as chief executive of Selby District Council and assistant chief executive of North Yorkshire County

THREE people with big debts stole household items worth more than £800 in a single day as they toured Clifton Moor and Monks Cross, York magistrates heard. Shaun Magson, 25, his partner Carys Lewis, 22, and his sister Chantelle Mill, 22, hid the

STAFF at a York garden centre raised £1,241 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA). Every year Dean’s Garden Centre at Stockton on the Forest nominates a charity of the year and this year it was the air ambulance. The charity holds a Yellow Yorkshire

THE global growth strategy of a US based software firm which has its development division in York, has been bolstered by a private equity investment.StarCompliance, which provides compliance and regulatory software solutions for the financial services

HOME And Away soap star Lynne McGranger will be away from home once more this Christmas, back in York for the pantomime season for Beauty And The Beast at the Grand Opera House. "I think it was six years ago [it was in fact 2009-2010] that I was

LYDIA Bradd could not more different from her troubled character, Carmen Diaz, in Fame: The Musical, the 2017 Stage Experience summer production at the Grand Opera House, York. Fame is the inspiring story of a group of diverse students that commit

REUNITED girl band All Saints will be entertaining the crowd at York Racecourse immediately after Saturday afternoon's race meeting Melanie Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and Natalie and Nicole Appleton, one of the most successful pop groups of the 1990s, will

WHERE would London pop star Jess Glynne rather be this evening? Nowhere but the only evening meeting of the racing season at York Racecourse, where Glynne will perform her Music Showcase gig immediately after the 8.30pm sixth race. "It's going

HARROGATE comedian Tom Taylor will precede his autumn tour of the first and second episodes of his series of Charlie Montague Mysteries with performances at the Great Yorkshire Fringe in York tonight. These delightfully silly murder mysteries for

THE numbers add up in alternative comedian Richard Herring's new show at the Great Yorkshire Fringe on Saturday and the Edinburgh Fringe next month. Oh Frig, I'm 50! marks the Pocklington-born comic, columnist and podcaster's 50th birthday and

ESCRICK Business Park’s warehouses are now fully occupied after developer S Harrison sold the last unit to a York electrical firm.TSL Electrical & Data Services has acquired a 1,760 sq ft unit to meet increasing demand for its services. The company, founded

REMEMBER when science-fiction writers spent their time trying to convince readers that the end of the human race would be caused by a robot uprising? Even if you’ve never read Asimov (and I’ll be honest, I haven’t), there have been enough TV shows

A MAN was freed from a car and taken to hospital after a crash in North Yorkshire this morning. Emergency services were called to the collision, involving a Honda Civic and a Volkswagen Passat, on the A19 near Eggborough Power Station, at about

A new exhibition at the York Castle Museum - and an accompanying theatrical performance - commemorate the wartime experiences of Lawrence Rowntree, grandson of the funder of York's great chocolate dynasty. STEPHEN LEWIS reports SOMETIME in the

A MAN has been arrested in York on suspicion of burglary. Police were called at around 10.30pm yesterday to Eldon Street, York, following reports of a man acting suspiciously in gardens. Officers found a man "hiding in someone's garden having

HELEN MEAD writes about the amount of litter in our towns and countryside and points out that in other countries the problem of littering isn’t as bad (The Press, July 27). This is down to our attitude in the country as when people see a problem

A DERELICT building in Selby is believed to have been deliberately set alight last night. Firefighters were called to a report of smoke coming from a building in Magazine Road at 9.35pm. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

IT is difficult to perform a rapid u-turn on a railway line: the curvature of the track limits such a move. Unless, that is, you are Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Transport. Mr Grayling seems to find it easy to perform u-turns regarding

THE Press contained a piece about an HS2 “parkway” station to the west of York (July 26). Parkway stations are a bad idea. But we must be realistic. If HS2 goes to Scotland via the east coast, the fastest services won’t pass through the existing

From our archives:   85 years ago More than 2,000 public school boys, all members of the Officers Training corps, were being housed in 400 tents at Bellerby Camp. All had to be fed for the next ten days, putting a strain on the “Naffy

A YORK film company which saw its last movie released on DVD around the world is starting work on its next project.Dark Rift Films is set to start filming Book of Monsters in September, shooting across locations in York and Leeds.The project is subject

BIG prop Adam Robinson insists York City Knights will not rest on their laurels heading into the Super 8s – but “really go for it” as the promotion race hots up.The Knights, having ended last year in crisis before having to play catch-up on and off the

TRAINER Roger Varian will have plenty of interest in today's evening meeting at York as AJMAN PRINCESS takes her chance in the Lyric Fillies' Stakes.The four-year-old must give away weight to the full field but last season's Ribblesdale Stakes

A DEBUT novelist from York has spoken of the moment when she heard she has been longlisted for one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes. Fiona Mozley, 29, had been for a walk with her lurcher Stringer when her editor called to tell her

PROUD York City Knights Ladies captain Carly Hilton reckons reaching the Women's Challenge Shield final in their home city can have a lasting impact on women’s rugby league in York.The Knights Ladies take on the Army Ladies in the final at Heworth

MORE big strides are afoot for York & District ARL with the return later this year of the East v West challenge match – to be followed by a representative clash against York City Knights.The inaugural “state of Yorigin” match between players from either

MARTYN Moxon is backing Yorkshire’s players to overcome the potential inconvenience of missing out on a home quarter-final in the NatWest T20 Blast.Yorkshire have confirmed that a scheduling clash with the Headingley Test Match next month means, should

DOCTORS are warning that financial plans faced by the health service in York are “shrouded in secrecy” and will “cause uproar”. The BMA, the doctors’ union, has revealed it is “deeply concerned” about the Capped Expenditure Process (CEP) which

A MAN has appeared before York Crown Court charged with attempting to rob a taxi driver at gunpoint. Mark Anthony Ainsley, 27, is alleged to have robbed or tried to rob five people on two different dates. All the robberies or attempted robberies

A YORK footbridge’s rotting timber walkway has still not been replaced, nine months after inspectors warned it was in a very poor condition and immediate action was needed. Many hundreds of pedestrians and cyclists use Blue Bridge every day to

YORK City boss Gary Mills is hoping an attacking injury crisis won't disrupt his side's build-up to the start of the National League North season.League Two Notts County visit Bootham Crescent tomorrow for the last official friendly of City'

AJMAN Princess' "high-cruising speed" can help her return to winning ways in this evening's feature race at York Racecourse.Trained by Roger Varian, for owner Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, Ajman Princess is the top-rated filly in an 11-strong