RYEDALE golfer David Hague just missed out on Home International glory as his England side were edged out by the narrowest of margins in the four-way competition.England and Ireland had both won their earlier two matches against Scotland and Wales before
BURNLEY have announced the signing of Chris Wood from Leeds on a four-year deal for a club-record fee.The New Zealand striker rose to prominence by finishing as the Championship's leading scorer with 27 goals last season and will now get his chance
FROM Argentina to York, via North America, Asia, Australia and Africa - a South American family who have been on the road for 17 years made it to York this week. The Zapp family - Herman and Candelaria, and children Pampa, Tehue, Paloma and Wallaby
A CHILDREN'S TV show has been filming in York. Degree students at York College featured on the CBBC programme Marrying Mum and Dad after a film crew descended on the media make-up studio to watch students working on witch and wizard designs.
A COMPANY’S plan to become the go to brand for quality and ethically-sourced ingredients in the North has seen them acquire S Clift Grimsby Limited in a deal that could eventually be worth £500,000.Scarborough-based Stuart’s Foods, which now serves in
THE ORIGINAL "Domestic Goddess" is heading to York this autumn.Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson - who rose to fame with her second book "How to be a Domestic Goddess". will be in the city of Thursday, October 26, signing copies of her
THE owner of a dog which almost drowned in the River Ouse has shared her thoughts on the work of the York Rescue Boat. Caroline Wright is the engagement committee manager and volunteer with the team, and was taking pictures of the boat crew in
YORKSHIRE people are being urged to think about home security before they post on social media while on holiday.Research by home security company UAP found that nearly a quarter of Yorkshire homeowners have posted on social media about their holidays,
Emirates FA Cup: Tadcaster Albion 0 Colne 1TADCASTER Albion crashed out of the Emirates FA Cup after a one-goal defeat to Colne at the i2i stadium.Daniel Wilkins netted the only goal of the game midway through the second half after firing into the bottom
Five public and regulatory bodies will hold a drop-in event about fracking at Kirby Misperton Village Hall on September 7.The Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, the Oil and Gas Authority, Public Health England and Ryedale District Council
HENRY Howard, the 4th Earl of Carlisle, was obviously a man with a taste for exotic things. In 1738, having recently inherited Castle Howard from his father, the 3rd Earl, he embarked on a 12 month Grand Tour of Italy. Henry was a wealthy man
PEOPLE in Hambleton are being reminded that their bin collections will change because of this weekend's Bank Holiday.Black bins and recycling collections will be one day late across Hambleton district next week.Collections roll forward one day to
DRIVERS of two vans are being investigated by police after they received reports of them acting suspiciously.Humberside Police would like to hear from anyone who saw the white panel vans in Rawcliffe Road at 9.40pm on Friday after a woman and three men
A WOMAN who beat death twice and won international sporting medals is preparing for her latest challenge. Jannine Church, from Nether Poppleton, survived a fall of 1,300 feet from a mountain in Scotland in 2000, and suffered a broken back, and
MIDFIELDER Simon Heslop feels York City’s switch to 4-3-3 will help him become a regular on the scoresheet. The York-born, 30-year-old netted five times last term, equalling his best tally for a single campaign with former clubs Halifax and Oxford
A MAN has been fined £500 after pleading guilty to possessing crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis, criminal damage and assaulting a police officer in Scarborough.Riccardo Nathaniel Donalds, 29, of Creed Way, West Bromwich, was caught despite trying to
A FLEAMARKET and gift fair will be open for four days over the coming bank holiday weekend.The market will be held at the Liberal Club, in Smiddy Hill, Pickering, from Saturday, August 26.Market stalls will be open each day from 10am to 4pm each day until
HUNTERS York & District Senior League division one leaders Hull Zingari moved a step closer to an immediate return to the Premier Division as they won for the fourth week in a row.Victory at home to Harrogate means the side which were relegated at the
IT WAS a day of surprises at the head of the Hunters York & District Senior League premier division, where none of the teams which began the day in the top three places managed to win.In contrast, at the foot of the table it was an all-too-familiar story
CENTURION Rachel Priest and captain Heather Knight led Western Storm to a record-breaking Kia Super League win over Yorkshire Diamonds at York as they chased down 161 to win by ten wickets with three overs to spare.New Zealander Priest led the way with
TRAINER Sir Mark Prescott says his ante-post favourite for the £285,000 Betfred Ebor will require the word "soft" in the ground description to ensure he line ups at York next Saturday (August 26).Prescott’s charge, Flymetothestars, has won three
GENEROUS supporters have handed over more than £600 to help a York family get back on its feet after a devastating house fire. Fire broke out in their home on Tostig Avenue, Acomb, on Thursday evening, and the flames soon took hold on the first
A MALTON logistics firm has scored a top industry award and joined an elite group of transport companies.Ward Bros Ltd, part of Europe’s palletised freight network Palletways, has received a coveted Platinum Club Award for delivering “fantastic levels
POLICE are appealing for help in identifying three people captured on CCTV after the theft of a drill from a York B&Q store.The two men and one woman were seen entering the store in Hurricane Way shortly after 3.30pm on Monday June 12, said North Yorkshire
TWO Ryedale School students have been named Scarborough and District Sportsman and Sportswomen.Sportsman of the year Jacob Head played for the under 15s England rugby union development squad, and represented Yorkshire in the 2016/17 season. He was 18th
TICKETS are still available to York's Big City Read events that see some of the country's best crime writers head to the city's libraries. Authors like Val McDermid, Cath Staincliffe, AD Garrett, Alison Weir, Sophie Hannah, Kate Ellis, Mark Billingham
WHITBY lifeboat coxswain Mike Russell is hanging up his wellies for the last time after 30 years loyal service to the RNLI.Mike, who recently turned 60, joined the charity back in 1987 while he was working on a fishing boat, and became coxswain in 2002
SERENDIPITY brings together two major events on the York arts calendar this autumn. The first is York Art Gallery's ongoing retrospective of the works of the late-Victorian, York-born painter Albert Moore, entitled Of Beauty and Aesthetics. The
POLICE are warning people in Elvington of a recent spate of vehicle crime in their area.Van doors have been drilled open, and items stolen from inside the vehicles. Officers are reminding people take any tools out of their vehicles at night to keep them
A BOY has had to undergo plastic surgery to his face after being bitten by a dog in North Yorkshire. The 11-year-old was attacked by a Boxer dog outside the fish and chip shop in Albion Road, Robin Hood's Bay at about 6.10pm on Thursday. North
A MAN appeared in court for breaking a 19th Century law - of being drunk in charge of a horse. Robin Milner, 49, was spotted by a police officer who suspected he was drunk while holding the reins to a horse and cart. Milner had been horsing
1 Michael Rankine is typically forcing his way into starting XI reckoning The 32-year-old is no stranger to a selection battle at Bootham Crescent. When he was first recruited by the Minstermen in 2009, it was expected that he might play second
A COMMUNITY homes group is on the cusp of signing an exclusivity agreement with City of York Council, bringing its dream of co-owned housing a step closer. Yorspace has been working hard on its hopes for a corner of Lowfield Green - the old Lowfield
TOURISM is big business in York. And it is more than that. It is one of the pillars of the city’s economy. In 2015, the last year for which full figures are available, Make It York estimates that almost seven million people visited the city. Between
WHILE we have watched on TV the plight of refugees fleeing war zones and seeking sanctuary in Europe, few of us can begin to imagine what it is like to embark on such a journey. Which was why the Cornish family from York took part in a 180-mile
A MAN who was arrested at York city centre licensed premises in connection with sexual assault allegations has been released without charge. North Yorkshire Police's Firearms Unit tweeted on Saturday that officers had arrested a male for a 'serious
WE need to look at new and innovative ways to tackle our housing crisis. Community homes group YorSpace is one such project that deserves a chance. YorSpace wants to build low-cost, cooperatively owned, environmentally sustainable homes but has
WHEN I first learned to write, I started at the right-hand side of the page and worked my way across to the left. It was perfectly natural to me, as a left-handed child, yet I was told I was “writing backwards”. At school I was soon taught to write
CREATING a place like home was what Magdalena Chavez wanted to do when she moved to York from Granada in 1997 with her three teenage children.El Piano in Grape Lane was what she created, and a decade later eight members of the family now work with the
A BREWERY which started life in a garage in Pocklington has opened Malton’s first new pub in many years and started on a journey to become a TransAtlantic craft beer business.Entering the Business Innovation of the Year, and Socially Responsible Business
BISHOPTHORPE Road’s newest cafe is hoping to impress the judges in the New Business of the Year category.Robinsons Cafe opened its doors in April 2016 after being set up by Will Pearce and Rebecca Toppin with the aim of sourcing the very best in local
YORKSHIRE is the largest county in England, writes local historian Paul Chrystal in the introduction to his latest book Old Yorkshire Country Life. "It should come as no surprise, then, that Yorkshire has always had within its borders more countryside
COULD I just bring up a subject that has driven me insane for the last 30 years? My address. I live in Deramore Drive. There is also a corresponding house number in Deramore Drive West. Over the last 30 years, on occasions, I have taken their
THE next Prostate Cancer Support group will be on Monday, September 11 at 5.30pm to 7pm in the Cancer Care Centre, York Teaching Hospital. The guest speaker will be Jonathan Singh, manager of the Sunflower Centre at St Leonard’s Hospice. He
LONG service celebrations have been held at Riccall Care as the home care provider paid tribute to staff who have have been with them for over 10 years. Working with and supporting elderly and vulnerable adults in their own homes, the team at Riccall
THE poor train services, delays and overcrowding in the north have affected me badly this year in my business and personal life, and the latest rail fare increase is wholly unfair in asking me to pay more for what are already atrocious rail services
BET you've never seen the water treatments works at Acomb Landing looking quite like they do in our gallery. But when were these photographs, which clearly show major building works going on, actually taken? The treatment works were originally
I FEEL very angry over the Crossrail project in London being funded, instead of electrifying the north and ideally the rest of the UK rail network. I would like to point out that Crossrail doesn’t benefit anyone outside of London, no matter where
UPON returning to Parliament in October having enjoyed a long summer holiday, MPs may wonder what to do next. While they have been running short of suncream, their loyal constituents have been saddled with an extra cost of £112 per year for an
IT has become apparent that Harrogate County Council are not prepared to support the knowledgeable views of the local community by advising that the new settlement will be located in Green Hammerton. Objections to this proposal include that this
IT is a sad indictment of the planning regime in York when British Sugar deem it necessary to lodge an appeal for non-determination (The Press, August 17). This is not an isolated incident. As an architect and the proprietor of a plan copying business
CONTRIBUTORS to the interesting correspondence on the subject have assumed that future electric cars will need a battery which will be flat after a few hundred miles. Recharging will then take several hours. Most inconvenient; but that is today
POPPLETON residents can shape the future of their village by voting in the local referendum on Wednesday in favour of the Neighbourhood Plan for Poppleton. Do I hear you say “not another one”? This is different. A group of local residents backed
From our archives: 85 years ago Owing to the depression in agriculture and lack of support, Scalby show, had been reduced to a flower, vegetable and country produce exhibition. However there was still an excellent attendance and the
MARTYN Moxon has bemoaned Yorkshire's close losses in their NatWest T20 Blast campaign after they failed to reach the quarter-finals on Friday.Moxon described the competition as "hugely frustrating" but insisted the Vikings were not far
A NEW entrance building is set to be constructed at the back of York railway station as part of the York Central development, The Press can reveal. A new public square between the station and the National Railway Museum is also being suggested
A TEN-YEAR-OLD dog was was "scalped" in an horrific attack in York. Frances Burbidge was walking her whippet/Jack Russell cross Lily on land near Joseph Rowntree School last Sunday when she passed a man standing with a black Labrador. She said
A SELBY man who admitted three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and of meeting a female under 16 following grooming has been jailed for three and a half years. Jake Parry, 21, of Millgate, Selby will be placed on the sex
A DYING man who uses a wheelchair is being forced to live in a tent by the A64 after being unable to find a place to live in York. Sinbad, 48, who changed his name by deed poll, says he has been told by the City of York Council he made himself
UPSTAGING ran a screamer in the Stewards' Cup at Goodwood and can defy a big weight in the Sky Bet Windsor Sprint Series Finale Handicap.Paul Cole's five-year-old had won his previous start over this course and distance but racing off 6lb higher
HEAD coach James Ford reckons it is “only a matter of time” before York City Knights win at bogey team Barrow Raiders – with the next opportunity potentially coming in the play-offs.York have not won at Craven Park since 2004, with this latest 26-19 reverse
