YORK City boss Gary Mills was left cursing the late finishing of strikers Jon Parkin and Michael Rankine as National League North strugglers Gainsborough escaped with a point from Bootham Crescent. Jonathan Wafula gave Gainsborough the lead midway
WITH a record of 24 goals conceded in ten games, Gainsborough painted a picture of defensive frailty prior to their arrival at Bootham Crescent. But, against an away team happy to leave Bradley Wells alone in attack and position everybody else
YORKSHIRE endured a nightmare opening day of their Specsavers County Championship match against Surrey at the Kia Oval as Mark Stoneman enhanced his case for Ashes selection this winter.Stoneman’s 131 off 171 balls underpinned Surrey’s 398-3 from 96 overs
PART of a historic city centre street had to close today (Tuesday, September 12) after a bit of an old building crashed onto the pavement. Material that appeared to be render fell from above a first floor window at the Fudge Kitchen at 58 Low Petergate
STORM Aileen will close Yorkshire Museum Gardens tomorrow morning. York Museums Trust, who runs the botanic park, has announced it will not open as usual. The Trust tweeted: “Due to high winds forecast overnight, York Museum Gardens will remain
EASILY bored in his early acting days in Scarborough, Alan Ayckbourn liked to scare himself to keep matters interesting on stage. Not ideal for his fellow cast members maybe, as he later acknowledged, but it led him to finding more fulfilment in writing
The record breaking Tornado steam locomotive will be pulling trains on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway next Spring. Earlier this year, she became the first steam engine in 50 years to reach 100 mph on a main line railway when she completed a dawn test
REPRESENTATIVES of rank and file police officers have dismissed a proposed pay rise as “just not good enough”.Yesterday, the Government announced a pay rise for officers which would see local forces required to fund a one per cent rise in basic pay, along
YORK City legend Andy McMillan has unveiled major upgrades at a community football club in the city. Mr McMillan, the former academy coach for York City who also holds second place in the club’s all time appearance list, was on hand on Saturday
A DIABETIC teenager is leaving her weight problems behind after a personal trainer gave her £2,000 of free coaching. Sophie Mainprize, 17, from Boroughbridge Road, had suffered with weight issues throughout her life and her mum, Lucy, had been
TWO new executive members have been appointed to replace senior Liberal Democrats suspended nearly two weeks ago. Cllrs Keith Aspden and Nigel Ayre were required to stand down by the Conservative council boss David Carr on Wednesday, August 30.
THE game of the day in Hunters York & District Senior League division one took place at Norwood Park – where visitors Hornsea ensured their survival and condemned hosts Beverley Town to life in division two next season. Victory in their previous two matches
RESIDENTS in York have been urged to have their say on plans by North Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner to take over the running of the region’s fire service.Julia Mulligan’s plans to have overall control of the service have already been opposed
SURREY remain in the box seat against Yorkshire at The Oval, although the visitors at least managed to strike three times during the opening afternoon.This is Yorkshire's 12th of 14 Specsavers County Championship matches and they have a mountain to
TWO children who died in a car crash on the M62 near Eggborough have been named by police.Ahmadeesaa Motara, who was two-months-old, was killed along with his sister, 19-month-old Asmaa Motara.The children were in a Honda Jazz car with their mother and
ENGLAND Test opener Mark Stoneman put Yorkshire under the cosh at The Oval, with Surrey making a superb start to the Specsavers County Championship match between the sides.Surrey reached lunch at 126 without loss from 30 overs after winning the toss in
LIQUID on a road near Selby is thought to have caused a motorcycle to crash. Police were called at about 5.40pm yesterday to reports of a collision on the A19 at Barlby, near Selby, involving a motorcycle. A police spokesman said: "It is believed
ALL frontline staff at North Yorkshire Police will be given specialist training in mental health issues following a trial carried out by researchers at the University of York. A randomised controlled trial was run by researchers in the university's
GAINSBOROUGH Trinity will visit York City with the National League North’s leakiest defence.The Lincolnshire outfit have shipped 24 goals this term, which is four more than any other side in the division with Harrogate putting five past them and Darlington
A RYEDALE business is to reopen this week following a £750,000 redevelopment. Thomas the Baker has refurbished its Helmsley deli to incorporate a bakery and wider range of products. The work has also lead to a consolidation of the two Thomas
NORTH Yorkshire County Council has today confirmed that it has fully signed off the planning conditions for fracking at Kirby Misperton in Ryedale. Details of traffic management, prevention of mud on roads and the site's owners financial responsibility
A CONSULTANT for solicitors Ware & Kay has retired after 47 years.Having qualified in 1970, Peter Lawrence - who is the father of Missing York chef, Claudia Lawrence, moved to North Yorkshire in 1972 and was a partner in a country town practice for 30
DIVERS who carried out underwater inspections on the main bridges over the River Ouse have given them the all-clear. The inspections were carried out in the wake of the 2015 floods to check for signs of ‘scour’ - the phenomenon which undermined
JOYCE Pickard was truly one of life’s originals - a Quaker, pacifist and right-to-die campaigner who continued speaking out against all forms of inequality and injustice right to the end of her long life. Even into her 80s, the former Mount School
A MAN has been arrested after he was stopped by police but then drove off and crashed into an officer's van. Police received a call on Sunday about a Transit van acting suspiciously on the A171, and it was found and stopped near Burniston, close
Meet the York mum of four breaking the glass ceiling in the world of Rugby LeagueAS the new director of York City Knights rugby league club, Joanne Dickenson knows what it is like to be a woman in a man's world."It doesn't faze me; I don&
LATE on Saturday evening two weeks ago I had to ring an ambulance for my elderly mother and ended up in a cubicle at York A&E from 11.30pm until 8am Sunday when she was admitted to a ward. It’s my first time experiencing first hand just what
JOINT-TOP scorer Amari Morgan-Smith has admitted he should be out on his own at the head of York City’s goal charts, but also feels he has strong competition for this season’s golden boot.Morgan-Smith claimed his third goal of the season during Saturday
Regular readers may recall that in August 2015, I was astonished by my ability to complete the Dalby Forest Go Ape course with my grandsons. When I returned this year, I left the long, high course for my son and boys, while I took my granddaughter
HAVING recently attended the York Central consultation event, it is clear the process is at best fundamentally flawed. I gave serious consideration to not responding as doing so may be interpreted as legitimising the process. There has been
A FORMER trout farm manager who carved out a new career for himself supplying sticks to the stars is celebrating 18 years in business.He made the famous magical stick held by Emma Thompson’s Nanny McPhee, he’s provided walking sticks for stars, sportspeople
GEOFF ROBB says he doesn’t remember the Remainers saying before the Brexit referendum that it was only advisory (Letters, September 5). Well, it was. That’s what the Act of Parliament said. Legally, it is within the Government’s powers to ignore
DAVID DAVIS is playing a blinder in his Brexit negotiations. In asking the EU to provide the factual evidence on each claim that we owe them money, he has shown their bluster and intransigence to have no substance in law. By being calm, pragmatic
PRESSURE from her family led Debbie Hogarth to shed almost half her body weight and hit the gym five times a week.Debbie, 43, a support worker from Norton, near Malton, has lost almost ten stone and slimmed down from a dress size 32 to a 14/16 – enabling
DAVID QUARRIE asks what is the cause of current spate of disputes between nations, which I take to include that between North Korea and the United States (Letters, September 8). I imagine that for the many in this country who are convinced of the
TRACEY Farmeary was named Player of the Tournament at the York John Smith's Ladies League's finals night after winning the individual and captain/vice-captain's trophies.The Tramways A skipper defeated her Fulfordgate counterpart Michelle
IT seems to me that some of your anti-EU correspondents make sweeping statements with no actual knowledge of the facts. On the subject of European accounting standards, Mary Kendall took the trouble of looking up the facts, to refute those lazy
IT is nice to know that Mary Kendall (Letters, September 9) was fascinated to find the EU accounts online for all to read, but can one believe what you read? The European Court of Auditors, to whom she refers, obviously do not give much attention
From our archives: 85 years ago It was good news all round as plans to extend York College had been revealed during a reunion of students from St John’s Training College. During the announcement the President Mr Whitehead commented
IF you are a Remoaner, perhaps today you should be holding your head down in utter shame at the outburst of Michel Barnier and Jean-Claude Juncker with regard to David Davis. The comments were undiplomatic and disgraceful from so-called diplomats
KACHY can land an overdue success in the EBF Stallions Prestwold Conditions Stakes at Leicester.Tom Dascombe's speedster should finally get the conditions which will allow him to run to the best of his ability. He has run in several big sprints this
A YORK-BASED school academy trust has grown to more than double the size in a year. Ebor Academy Trust has started the new school year with 11 schools which in York includes Robert Wilkinson, Haxby Road and Park Grove, with Tockwith, Hob Moor,
A WOMAN slashed her partner with a samurai sword so deeply she exposed his spine. Anika Victoria Medley, 35, had bought the weapon for the man with whom she had been in a relationship for some months, said Andrew Semple, prosecuting at York Crown
A BULLY on steroids used an under-age girl for his sexual gratification, York Crown Court heard. Mehran Nassiri, prosecuting, said Kieran Ira Phillips, then 20, wanted the 15-year-old and a 16-year-old to take part in a threesome with him but they
CAMPAIGNERS have branded the consultation over an access road into the York Central site a "shameful sham" - and called for the deadline for comments to be extended. York Central Action, a coalition of community groups, claimed people had been
THE YORKSHIRE coast's only four star hotel has been bought by a hospitality chain which runs UK hotels for Far East purchasers. The Crown Spa Hotel in Scarborough has been sold off by the Frank family - who have owned the hotel for 17 years - for
DIVERS have given York’s big bridges over the River Ouse the all-clear in the wake of the 2015 floods. Underwater inspections have been carried out on the river bed and bridges to check for ‘scour’ - the phenomenon which in the River Wharfe led
