THIS season's Juddmonte International at York Racecourse promises to be a vintage renewal.Here, The Press remembers five other epic encounters in the big race on the Knavesmire....ROBERTO (1972) – The inaugural running of the race, then known as the
THORPE Willoughby's Stuart Limbert reached the 2017 final of the Streamline Taxis York Open Darts Championships before succumbing 7-2 to Mike Atkinson, of Howden.Atkinson was one of three new champions at the event, which is staged in association
RUFFORTH will return to division one of the of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League after David Lloyd lost their final division two match at York by just eight games to miss out by one point. York had earlier lost to champions Wetherby Castlegarth, new pairing
WIGGINGTON 2 have claimed the division five title in the Fulford Ladies' Invitation Tennis League.Su Watson and Nicky Browne bagged 28 games for opponents Fulford but Wiggy claimed a 56-52 victory to take the title ahead of fellow promoted team Riccall
POLICE are looking for a man wanted for making a threat to kill and repeatedly breaking a court order aimed at protecting another person. Matthew Alan Stanley, 27, is originally from Selby but North Yorkshire Police believe he may be in South Yorkshire
THE Grand Opera House, York, has raised a spectacular £2,036 from bucket collections at this summer's Stage Experience show, Fame, The Musical, in the first week of August. The money is being donated to the renal unit at York Hospital and Martin
ST LEONARD'S Hospice opened its first city centre charity shop and 12th outlet across York in Fossgate today. Serenaded by music from Ken Stamp on trombone, a crowd gathered outside at 11am and one minute later the shop was packed with bargain
NORTH Yorkshire police this morning at about 11.30am received reports of two men in a small white van in North Lane, Huntington, purporting to be nearby road workers with leftover materials.It was reported they were canvassing residents to see if they
THE widow of a former Lord Mayor, Sheriff and Honorary Alderman of York is planning another charity concert after raising £4,000 through her first three such events.Doris Bell, whose husband Bernard died in 2014, aged 91, staged her first concert in his
A TRY and conversion two minutes from time by loose-forward and man of the match Joe Deighton earned Heworth a draw with Yorkshire Men's League division one leaders New Earswick All Blacks in a hard-fought derby at Elmpark Way. In blustery conditions
THE COMPANY aiming to build a new care home on the site of a former York city council home has revealed its plans.Octopus Healthcare bought the site of Fordlands House care home in Fulford from City of York Council earlier this year, with plans to build
A NEW band of volunteer bell ringers has been recruited for York Minster, almost ten months after the previous band was controversially axed. A Minster spokeswoman said that more than 40 applications to join the team had been received from bell
MEMBERS of the public have the chance to meet the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire at Huntington Community Centre next week.Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan is holding a public surgery at the community centre on Thursday August
BUSINESS leaders in York have joined counterparts across the region in urgent calls for Government not to derail investment in trains and infrastructure in the North. Three major Chambers of Commerce from across the North, and members of the Northern
A ringleader of drugs gang has been arrested after going on the run in February. Sonny Elms, 24, from Greater Manchester, and Paul Daniel Heaton, 26, both gave police the slip after they failed to appear at York Crown Court on February 1 to be
A TRIATHLETE from York has completed one of his toughest challenges - the Ironman UK 2017 in Bolton - in just over 14 gruelling hours. Stephen Phillips swam 2.4 miles in a little over an hour and a half, then cycled 112 miles in more than seven
POLICE have appealed for witnesses and information after a house was vandalised in Selby.Vandals struck at the home in Millgate between 10pm on Saturday, August 19 and 6.30am the following morning.The incident involved a bathroom window being smashed
THE Lord Mayor of York has joined forces with Yorkshire Water to encourage residents to try and reduce the amount of water they use and claim their free water saving pack. Councillor Barbara Boyce, together with the Lady Mayoress, Val Clark, and
YORK based house builder Persimmon says it is well placed to respond to changing market conditions as it reports a 30 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £457.4 million.The Fulford-based business achieved revenues of £1.66 billion during the six months
ADRENALINE junkies have taken part in a daring World Record attempt in Elvington to show off their skills on one wheel.The World Wheelie Championship saw bikers try to complete a kilometre on one wheel in the fastest time.Ted Brady from Ireland set a
A YORK community foundation which handed grants to hundreds of victims of the 2015 floods has itself been awarded a £100,000 grant.The money has been given by Goldsmiths’ Company Charity to Two Ridings Community Foundation, which says it will use it to
A MAN has died after being hit by a train in North Yorkshire. British Transport Police said officers were called at 9.36 pm last night to Hambleton north junction, near Selby, following reports of a person being struck by a train. "Officers
PARENTS, grandparents and carers in York have been urged to take responsibility for young people causing problems in the city.Superintendent Adam Thomson is North Yorkshire Police’s Neighbourhood Policing Commander for York and Selby, and his comments
A HOLIDAY in York took a turn for the worse when a mobile home became wedged under Skeldergate bridge. Police were called to Terry Avenue to help the stricken motorists on Tuesday morning. Despite a sign informing motorists the bridge is not
ARE you lacking the confidence to follow your dreams? Well meet your fairy godmother. York mum-of-two Gemma Stow knows at first hand how to turn passions into reality – and has made it her business to share that knowledge with others. She runs
YORK residents are invited to get together to enjoy some good food while helping local community projects, when a fundraising dinner returns to the city next month.York Soup will hold an event in a marquee in St Sampson’s Square on the evening of Monday
A HIGH visibility operation to prevent terrorism in North Yorkshire has marked its 50th deployment with a short film. North Yorkshire Police's Project Servator has used the short video to show how the project, which launched in April 2017, deploys
PENSIONER Dave Huffen picked up his gardening shears and sculpted his holly bush to bring cheer to motorists stuck in traffic in Strensall Road, Earswick. “The drivers all look so miserable that I wanted to put a smile on their faces,” he said.
THE only jams on one York street this Sunday will be firmly contained within sandwiches and cakes. Queues of teapots will replace vehicles of all kinds in Sandringham Street and the road will be covered with tables, chairs and everything needed for a
THE LORD Mayor of York is putting out a call for the city's smaller community groups - so she can help raise their profile during her year in office. Each year, the Lord Mayor of York leaves their unique stamp on the city and this year Lord Mayor
AMERICAN singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews opens her 12-date British and Irish tour tomorrow night at Leeds Brudenell Social Club, tipped to be country music's new star. Ryan Adams calls the Phoenix, Arizona musician "a phenomenal songwriter
WOULD you like to see your photographs on this page? More than 400 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
A WOMAN has been talked down from a bridge in York after threatening to jump. Emergency crews were called to Scarborough Bridge at 3am to speak with the woman. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescuse sent a boat crew to the scene from York and two
THE 21st York Food and Drink Festival takes place next month, featuring hands-on cookery sessions for both adults and children.Visitors will be able to learn practical skills such as how to make chocolates, bread or pasta at a new 'Food Hub' in
POLITICIANS in York have added their voices to calls for better gender representation in local government, after newly-published research about the imbalance. The IPPR North report, published on Monday, highlighted gender imbalance in local authorities
THE COMPANY behind a new fertiliser mine, set to bring a thousand new jobs to the north, says the project is currently "on time and on budget".Sirius Minerals also said the company is talking to potential customers around the world about the
HELEN MEAD’S interesting column on class (The Press, August 17) says all her shopping habits etc make her working class. She says her husband is upper class for calling their evening meal “supper”, while she calls it “dinner”, which is surely a
WHEN I saw an otter on the River Derwent some 50 years ago, while fishing, it made my day. I also enjoyed seeing otters in a Norfolk sanctuary as well and I loved the film Ring Of Bright Water. Nowadays the thing I would most dread while fishing
LETTER writer Mr Martin said that Scarborough Bridge is going to be “prettified” as though the proposed alterations are purely cosmetic (The Press, August 17). However, the plans I’ve seen show quite major structural changes which will make crossing
GOING to university is a choice. It’s now an expensive one, but still a choice. I did my first degree with the OU in my 30s while raising my son. It cost about £1,000 per annum. Great camaraderie. I did my second degree in York in my 40s, still
VINCE CABLE speaks of the “old” people in this country “shafting” the future of the young by voting for Brexit. He conveniently forgets the EU has been “shafting” the young in southern Europe for many years. Unemployment levels of those under
I WRITE in response to Dave Barker’s letter (The Press, August 10) regarding the funding of pensions after Brexit. Clearly the pension payments to those who worked in Brussels/Strasbourg are the responsibility of the EU. Having worked for Vauxhall
REGARDING the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, it would seem that the bureaucrats’ attitude to us is to put as many obstacles in the way as they possibly can. If it were Greece that had decided to leave the Union, they would
LAST week was a funny and at the same time tragic sort of week. We started by welcoming home our largest navy vessel - an aircraft carrier, with no aircraft, well not until 2020 that is, but it seems the American and French have the aircraft and
ONLY 532 years to the day have passed since Richard III lost the Bosworth vote and the chaos of the Tudor victory is already evident. Soldiers were frightened into backing the wrong side, there’s a 40 per cent rise in reported discrimination against
From our archives: 85 years ago Saturday was a day of shows at Tang Hall, York, and of the three held on different parts of the estate most interest had centred at the annual exhibition of the Tang Hall Estate Tenants’ and Allotments’
York mum of four Tracie Gledhill talks about living with cancer in her 30s and why we should get to know our breastsPEOPLE in their 30s don't get breast cancer. That's the thought that played through Tracie Gledhill's mind when she found a
I WISH to apologise for ending my previous letter by lumping all Tories together with Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox. This was exactly the kind of generalisation I often criticise. I have plenty of Conservative friends who are as concerned
SIR TITAN appears to have really hit his stride this term and can keep up the good work with a third victory of the year in the Matchbook Traders Conference Handicap at Kempton.Out of the reckoning in two juvenile starts, Sir Titan was gelded over the
THE York Minster Engineering League premier division kicked off on Saturday.And it didn't take long for the first shock result to be registered as Old Malton St Mary's, champions in three of the last six seasons, were put to the sword by a new-look
A FORMER Royal Navy sailor who served in the Gulf wars and in the former Yugoslavia and Cambodia has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence after being found with 300 extreme pornographic images and a total of 428 indecent and 40 prohibited
A COMMUNITY champion who received the MBE and won York’s first Community Pride Person of the Year award for his work with young people has died, aged 82. Eddie Benson was Haxby Youth Club leader for 36 years, and in 1998, following a spate of antisocial
A GOVERNMENT minister dropped in at a York school as part of a national tour of academy trusts. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, Lord Nash, visited Millthorpe secondary, part of the South Bank Multi Academy Trust
A SEX offender is likely to be deported after he admitted molesting a woman in the city centre. Mohammed Hussein Abdulyazed Ali, 33, may be an illegal immigrant, York magistrates heard, when he made his first court appearance before them last month
TRAINER Richard Hannon believes stable star Barney Roy “will take all the beating” in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York tomorrow.The extended mile and a quarter Group 1 feature race – the first at York to comprise £1million in prize money – is
