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  • Family travel around the world in 15 years

    AN ARGENTINIAN couple who are travelling around the world in 15 years with their four children in an 85-year-old vehicle will be in York on Monday and keen to meet the public. Herman and Candelaria Zapp have travelled across South and North America

  • Firefighters rescue cow from river

    FIRE crews from Boroughbridge and Malton assisted a farmer in rescuing his cow after it had fallen into a river and become tangled amongst branches in Aldwark yesterday afternoon. The farmer and crews used a variety of saws and animal rescue equipment

  • In the mood for jazz fest

    NEW York Marching Band will be setting the mood on Friday afternoon at the Scarborough Jazz festival when the band inspired by contemporary New Orleans musicians and recently seen at Glastonbury and Le Tour de France, open the event at 12.30pm.

  • Traffic slow on A64 and York outer ring road

    THERE is traffic queueing traffic on the A64 eastbound between A1237 York outer ring road (Hopgrove roundabout) and Barr Lane, congestion on the A64 York Bypass to A166 / A1079 Hull Road (Grimston Bar Interchange). This is likely to be caused by holiday

  • Work to start on old fire station site

    WORK is due to begin on Monday on the £15m development to create 14 luxury homes and a restaurant at the site of York's old fire station. The scheme spearheaded by Monks Cross property developer The Helmsley Group is expected to complete by Christmas

  • Lord Mayor to open fair

    HEWORTH Community Summer Fair will be opened by the Lord Mayor Cllr Barbara Boyce at the Shoulder of Mutton on Heworth Green at 2pm on Saturday, August 26. The Lord Mayor and Sheriff Jill Brian will attend and open the free event. It includes

  • Road Test: Vauxhall Crossland X

    BUOYED by the success of its Mokka X sports utility vehicle, Vauxhall has dipped another toe into the SUV market with the launch of a slightly smaller vehicle in the same mould.The Crossland X will, in effect, be Vauxhall’s entry model in the SUV sector

  • EATING OUT REVIEW: Valentinos, York

    GAVIN AITCHISON reports on a new Italian restaurant in York UNDERSTATED, this certainly is not. The restaurant is bright, the chairs and faux marble tables are loud, and the confidence is abundant. “Valentinos - The regions finest Italian

  • MP to meet business secretary

    RACHAEL Maskell, MP for York Central, has called for a meeting with the Business Secretary, Greg Clarke and this will take place in September. The meeting is to highlight the importance of investing in York’s economy. Investing in good secure jobs

  • Manfords back one-day York festival

    A POP-UP comedy club, organised by Jason Manford, will appear at a one-day festival in York next month. The organisers of Yorfest, which runs on Knavesmire on Saturday, September 23, confirmed today that Jason Manford’s Comedy Club - set up by

  • TRAVEL: Taking the slowboat through France

    Novice sailor DAVE FLETT takes his family for a boating holiday on the canals and rivers of France WITH my family heritage deeply rooted in the Orkney Islands, sailing really should run in the blood. Much to my wife’s horror, I even inherited

  • We all need to look out for slavery signs (letter)

    RECENT headlines have raised awareness that modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK is much more prevalent than previously thought, with cases affecting every large town and city in the country, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

  • Cricket fixtures need a complete rethink (letter)

    GEOFF ROBB (Letters, July 20) is perfectly right, the current ECB fixture list is completely unbalanced and does not encourage people to invest in county cricket club membership. Today’s directors of cricket, coaches regularly complain of an overcrowded

  • I don’t experience left-handed misery (letter)

    I READ the article headlined “Misery of being left-handed” (The Press, August 13). As a left-hander my handwriting slants to the left, I do upside down ticks when filling in forms, I look through a book from back to front. When I was young,

  • EXHIBITION: The young unknowns who became legends of rock

    YOU have a week left to catch an extraordinary exhibition of photos of the young Beatles, Jagger and Hendrix before they were famous. Paul Berriff's Rock Legends is at Pocklington Arts Centre until August 29. Don't miss it, says STEPHEN LEWIS AS

  • Last chance to stop fracking in its tracks (letter)

    CUADRILLA has started drilling in Lancashire, hoping to frack in December if it obtains final permission from the Secretary of State for Energy. Nobody doubts that, then, well proliferation will follow if Cuadrilla (as well as Third Energy and

  • Double yellow lines are not the answer (letter)

    I WROTE back in March about what the council would do if people continue parking on the road instead of their driveways, and right on cue its happening (Letters, March 14). In my area, along Moorcroft Road and Acorn Way, cars do indeed act like

  • Battle of Syrah v Shiraz with four discount wines

    OOH which is better – Syrah or Shiraz? That may or may not be a trick question. They are of course the same grape, the difference generally being where they come from, with Syrah the traditional French tipple and Shiraz the New World version most commonly

  • The Press Camera Club - August 19

    WOULD you like to see your photographs on this page? More than 380 readers have already joined The Press Camera Club, which launched in June and brings together talented amateur photographers from across York and North and East Yorkshire to share

  • ON THIS DAY IN OUR ARCHIVES: August 19

    From our archives:   85 years ago The two youngest members of the Royal Family were both celebrating their birthdays at the weekend. Princess Margaret Rose was celebrating her second birthday, while her cousin, Master Gerald David Lascelles

  • Flyover solution to York's traffic woes (letter)

    I TOTALLY agree with B Norrie (Letters, August 14) in his/her advocating flyovers on the York outer ring road. However, I would say one flyover urgently needed would be one at the Hopgrove roundabout where the A64 and the A1237 join. The traffic

  • Plea to save historic York railway building

    NETWORK Rail is being urged not to demolish a 19th century building which forms part of York’s railway history. Alliance House was built in the late 1800s in the north-eastern corner of the York Carriageworks off Holgate Road, which closed down in the

  • Waiting lists for bowel cancer revealed

    A WAITING list for bowel cancer screening has topped 117 people, new figures have revealed. Bowel Cancer UK has highlighted how many people are on the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s list for a flexible sigmoidoscopy, with five people

  • Restaurant confirms its York opening date

    AN UPMARKET restaurant company has started work on the York building it plans to move into. The Ivy Collection has confirmed it plans to open in York in November, and workmen have now started the project to transform the old Blacks shop in St Helen