KEN Condon reflected on the biggest success of his training career to date after seeing his stable star Success Days get back on the winning trail in in the Sky Bet York Stakes on Saturday.The son of Jeremy looked a serious Classic contender after winning
THE disappointment was plain to see for James Wilby as his World Championships debut failed to take off in Hungary.After being hampered by illness for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, former York City Baths star Wilby looked to be returning to his best as he
ON ARRIVAL at Rockliffe Hall, I was curious - and rapidly became curiouser. Why were there sculptures of white rabbits and march hares in the reception area? Why was a Mad Hatter’s afternoon tea being planned in the orangery restaurant? And what on
Firefighters are investigating a blaze that spread to a home in the centre of Malton this afternoon. The fire started in a commercial premises in Yorkersgate, Malton, shortly after 3pm. Before firefighters could bring it until control it spread
SCOUTS are planning more adventures in the great outside after they took delivery of new camping equipment. Dringhouses (PC) Scout Group were able to buy the tents, event shelters and catering shelter with the help of a grant from the Dringhouses and
VINTAGE motorcycles from the “golden era”take centre stage at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York, tomorrow. Organised by the North East Section of the Vintage Motorcycle Club, the nostalgic gathering is open only to pre 1931 motorcycles
IF YOU are interested in a history lecture and discovering everything that has ever happened about alcohol since the beginning of time, shaken up with a cocktail of excruciatingly bad puns, then this might be the show for you. Drinks journalists
ACOMB will be offering Yorkshire hospitality in style all week as the county celebrates its day. Businesses and organisations in the area have dressed their windows in displays featuring the Yorkshire White Rose and Yorkshire blue to mark Yorkshire
IT'S a simple set-up - a man, some soapy water, and a collection of increasingly impressive bubbles - but it works brilliantly. The Amazing Bubble Man - also known as Louis Pearl- and his assistant take to the stage in silence, pulling poses until
The show had to go on both on and off the race track at Knavesmire last night despite the weather. York's annual evening race card went ahead as planned as the heavens opened and the rain poured down. Racegoers vanished under a sea of umbrellas
THE building replacing Castlegate youth service has opened after a £326,000 overhaul. The old Sycamore House has reopened as 30 Clarence Street, and will be the new city centre facility providing a range of services for both young and older people
A new anthology of poetry manages to capture the many faces of Yorkshire. STEPHEN LEWIS reports THE first question that occurs to you, on opening a new book of Yorkshire poetry, is: what precisely is Yorkshire poetry? Is it different from, say,
VIRTUALLY every car manufacturer is upping its game in the burgeoning world of sport utility vehicles.But perhaps none more so than Mazda, which has introduced a new version of its CX-5 that raises the bar in virtually every area and pushes it to within
As Theresa May strides out on her hols in style, MAXINE GORDON looks at how to get shirty for summerFASHION writers have been divided over the Prime Minister's choice of outfit for the start of her summer holiday in Italy.The object of controversy
YORK City Knights boss James Ford has backed his troops to have "a right crack at" Toronto Wolfpack as the Super 8s kick off tomorrow - saying there are no excuses this time.Ford was a vocal critic of the disadvantages his side faced when travelling
I OFTEN walk through the edible garden at the back of the Art Gallery and into the Museum Gardens on my pram pushing duty. The plants are really coming on strong and filling out the beds, but the other day I was pleasantly surprised to see a rabbit
“GARDENING keeps us fit and healthy” claims Maureen Robinson in her letter (The Press, July 24). I’ve just been out in my garden and shredded my hands picking gooseberries, got a bad shoulder through pulling up weeds, hurt my leg when I slipped
IN response to the article citing the best and worst GP surgeries (The Press, July 18), I wonder which group of people respond to such surveys and whether it’s time for more balanced canvassing of patient experience. Since registering with Beech
BEVERLEY Art Gallery is hosting “meeting the artist” sessions with painter Susan Beaulah today and next Saturday.Ms Beaulah’s work is currently on a show called in “Red Earth and Blue Water: Studies of Indian Life” at the Treasure House, and she will
A SPECIAL educational needs and disabilities coordinator at a York school has been nominated for a prestigious award for the support she has given to local families.Lisa Solanki, the SENDCO at Fishergate Primary School has been put forward for a Community
MAXINE GORDON checks out the art of fine dining at Arras in York THERE are works of art on the wall as well as on the plate at Arras, the smart new restaurant in Peasholme Green in York. Anyone turning up expecting to find Le Langhe, the popular
POLICE were waiting as a two-time drink driver pulled up at his home address, York magistrates heard. They had tracked Cihan Atkas' journey through the city after a tip-off that he was drink driving. said Cathy Turnbull, prosecuting. He
ENGLAND’S gung ho approach to Test cricket, led by the ECB’s director of cricket and chairman of selectors James Whitaker, supported by coach Trevor Bayliss, was finally exposed in a pathetic performance against the South Africans at Trent Bridge.
WE are very excited to be opening the very first St Leonard’s Hospice city centre charity shop in York next month. Based at 42 Fossgate, the shop officially opens to the public on Tuesday, August 22, at 11am. However, so far we are very short
THE electrification of the TransPennine route was part of the Department for Transport’s 2012 electrification programme which also included the Great Western and Midland routes long before the Northern Powerhouse initiative. The state-run Network
WHEN Chris Grayling as Justice Minister announced that he was to part privatise the Probation Service and the Court Interpreter Service, many including the judiciary said he was heading for trouble. And so it came to pass. The Probation Service
LIKE many that live in the villages affected, we feel that the council are riding roughshod over our wishes. We know that more houses are needed in every part of the country and at present there are houses being built or applications already submitted
THE residents of Green Hammerton and surrounding villages have every right to be angry about a proposal to build a 2,700-home settlement on valuable farmland in the Hammerton area. The officials for the development at a recent public meeting suggested
From our archives: 85 years ago News from the district consisted of Choir boys from Richmond Parish Church who had gone on their annual outing to Scarborough. A Darlington pig dealer, had been fined £5 and £5 6s costs, for offences
NOT for the first time, HIGHLAND REEL appears to have been underestimated as he prepares to defend his crown in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.While the five-year-old perhaps lacks the X-factor of some of the Ballydoyle superstars
BRIAN NOBLE is not surprised York City Knights have risen into the promotion reckoning in Kingstone Press League One – having predicted it some “seven or eight weeks ago”.The Super League legend, and now director of rugby at Toronto Wolfpack, who are
YORK City boss Gary Mills has suggested the line-up on show for today’s friendly with Notts County may resemble that which will kick off the new season seven days later.He also reckons a bit of needle - the Magpies are one of his former clubs - should
AH, low-alcohol wines. Or rather... Oh. Low-alcohol wines.Surely it kinda defeats the object, we hear you say, and weakens the tipple as well.Well, yes, in some cases it does. There are a few attempts at de-alcoholised wine, too, that ends up tasting
RESIDENTS who are worried about plans to move a community football club into a new home have suggested it could share facilities with a nearby rugby club. Woodthorpe Wanderers will have to leave its current home on the former Lowfields school fields
A MEMBER of staff at Stockton Hall no longer wants to work there because a patient tried to attack her with a screwdriver, York Crown Court heard. Bushrah Suleman, 28, is now considered so dangerous by the staff at the psychiatric unit just outside York
DUALLING the A64 west of Malton would cost between £30.5 million and £105 million - depending partly on whether the existing road is widened or a brand new road built. Those were the calculations of consultants who examined the feasibility of dualling
AN ESTRANGED husband threatened to "skin" his wife's new partner with a Stanley knife, a court heard. Nicholas Simon Dalton, 38, was ordered to leave the home of his new partner and live at his brother’s when he appeared at York Crown Court.
