A MAN has been arrested after he was found carrying a knife. A police van and two police BMWs were parked outside the York Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (YACRO) building in Walmgate at 8pm today. Officers could be seen
ACOMB Men I needed a last-gasp penalty to earn a 4-4 draw and maintain their unbeaten record in a gripping game at Sheffield Hallam V in Yorkshire League division two.The visitors took time to adjust to the water-based pitch, but, against the run of play
CITY of York Ladies I remain undefeated in the North Hockey Women’s League division one, twice coming from behind to earn a 2-2 draw at Newcastle University I.York started strongly, making good turnovers in the attacking 25, but it was Newcastle who opened
CITY of York Men IV gave up a three-goal lead, suffering a third successive defeat in Yorkshire League division two, losing 4-3 at Halifax II.David Catteral scored an early goal after rounding the keeper, and netted his second soon after, with a reverse
YORK Indoor Bowls club’s ‘B’ team claimed an impressive win over Doncaster in division two, as the divisions one and three teams suffered defeats.The ‘A’ team faced fellow relegation-dodgers from last season, Redcar, who overturned a 70-66 deficit to
A GROUP of student ambassadors are heading to Malawi to help supply teenage girls with feminine hygiene packs.Year 11 girls from Manor Church of England Academy in York, are to travel to Malawi as Ambassadors for the Days for Girls project at the end
FAIRFAX House will host its fifth Symposium in Georgian Studies on October 19 and 20.The event will examine York’s role in shaping the legacy of the Georgian period.Crafting an Enlightened World: Patronage and Pioneers, will look at the roots and legacy
A MUM and founder of a popular website will be the guest speak at the Entrepreneurs’ Business Breakfast next month. Mum-of-two Emily Pickard, the founder of https://york.mumbler.co.uk, gives advice on a range of issues to York’s parents. The
Six people have been arrested during a protest over fracking at Kirby Misperton, including one man for allegedly carrying a bullet. The 53-year-old was arrested at 2.25pm today in Habton Road, Kirby Misperton, on suspicion of possessing ammunition
A SHERBURN woman is playing Mother Christmas to 20 children at Peter Pan Nursery in the village.Laura Burgess-Monks, whose husband Darren owns Monks' Doors Systems, answered a Facebook appeal to provide a toy for each child in the nursery.Laura, who
A PROJECT to tackle organised crime will see emergency services work alongside local authorities and health professionals.Project Alliance aims to disrupt and prevent a range of organised crime groups, involved in drugs, human trafficking, modern slavery
A NORTH Yorkshire petrol station forecourt has scooped a national industry award.JET’s Abbeyside Service Station in Selby took the top awards for Best Forecourt Innovation and Best Car Care & Lubricants at the petrol retailing industry’s national awards
A DETERMINED group of men from York have taken on a 40-mile trek for charity in support of their friend who has testicular cancer.The group of 12 men have completed the Lyke Wake Walk across the North Yorkshire Moors, from Osmotherley, north of Thirsk
BACK in the 60s our then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, coined the phrase “a week is a long time in politics”. Sometimes an hour can feel like an eternity. Anyone who watched Theresa May’s leader’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference last week
A SENIOR solicitor at York law firm Rollits has become a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) after successfully passing her exams. Sarah Adams, who works as a lawyer in the Private Capital Department at Rollits, specialises
AN explosive night of fun and entertainment in York, organised by North Yorkshire fire service for charity, is expected to be bigger and better than ever this year. The bonfire and fireworks display at Rawcliffe Country Park will take place on
TWO motorcyclists were taken to hospital with leg injuries after a crash on York's outer ring road. The riders, a man and a woman aged in their 40s, were involved in a collision with a red Mercedes 220 on the Tesco roundabout, A1237, Cliftonmoorgate
A ‘MAN with a van’ who dumped domestic waste in the gateway of a field near York is facing a total bill of more than £1,000 after being caught by council investigators. Fly-tipper Adam Winterburn, 29, of Kingsmoor Road, Stockton-on-the-Forest,
CAMPAIGNERS and others held a minute’s silence at a York rally to remember those who die on the city’s streets. And they cheered and clapped when Big Issue seller Liam Bigiss said: “There should be no more deaths on our streets in York.” Liam
CONTRACTORS have finally been appointed to build York's new community stadium, City of York Council has revealed. The authority says Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd have been appointed by Greenwich Leisure Ltd to be their new building contractor
THE owner of a dangerous dog which attacked other dogs in a park and killed a neighbour’s cat is facing a £320 legal bill after repeatedly breaching an order to keep it under control. Leanne Wyrill, aged 27 of James Backhouse Place, York, was ordered
A FRANCHISEE who brought estate agency business EweMove to York has been appointed as managing director of the national operation.Nick Neill was one of the business’s first franchisees when he opened the York operation in 2014.Now based in Cleckheaton
PRINCESS Anne dropped into Malton on Friday to attend a legendary racehorse trainer’s 80th birthday.A burgundy helicopter landed on the fields at Malton School just before noon.The Princess Royal was greeted by the school’s head teacher Rob Williams and
THE newly-reopened Thomas of Helmsley will be running the first in a series of tasting events on Saturday.From 10.30am, there will be a selection of cheeses and related items available to try, along with experts to help customers find the perfect product
NORTH Yorkshire-based baler provider Riverside Waste Machinery has recruited Mic Harrison as lead service engineer. With a varied career, he initially trained to become a Navy marine mechanic at HMS Sultan, Plymouth, where he remained for five years.
A NEW pipeline built under the railway line in Norton will mean emergency pumps can be deployed more easily during flooding.The pipeline, built by Yorkshire Water, has been welcomed by local councillors.Currently, when the pumps are deployed as part of
ORGANISERS of this year’s Railway in Wartime event in Pickering say the event will be bigger and better than ever.The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) said that after a review of last year, and in collaboration with Pickering in Business (PiB), they
PICKERING Town FC junior teams have netted sponsorship from a leisure operator for the next two seasons.The partnership between Everyone Active and the club will provide the U13, U14, U15 and U16 teams with new kits. Jon Cooper, chairman of Pickering
THERE have been two crashes in York this morning, one in Tang Hall and another in Acomb. Police said the collision in Tang Hall, which involved three vehicles, happened in Melrosegate at about 8.25am and no-one was injured. The scene was clear
NORTH Yorkshire power station operator Drax is working with academics in a bid to revolutionise the future of the UK’s energy industry.Drax Group is working with the University of Sheffield on research aimed at investigating ways to meet the UK’s changing
AN extraordinary evening of stunningly beautiful music graced the acoustically near-perfect environment of the beautiful medieval Chapter House of York Minster last Saturday. Ewa Salecka, musical director of Prima Choral Artists, brought together
A MAN has been arrested after a car rammed a police vehicle and led officers on a chase along the Yorkshire coast. Police said the chase began after a car failed to stop for Humberside Police near Bridlington yesterday evening. A spokesman
A VAN has been destroyed in a suspected arson attack in North Yorkshire. Fire crews were called to the blaze, involving a Mercedes van, in Bishopdyke Road, Sherburn in Elmet, at about 3.45am today. A spokesman for North Yorkshire fire service
CALLING all residents of Nether Poppleton: your village pub needs YOU. The Lord Nelson, on Main Street, has been an inn for centuries. According to locals, it was built in the 17th century, served as a makeshift hospital during the Battle of
A YORK rail apprentice has won her third award this year and is now looking to encourage more women into the profession.Rebecca Munro, a rail engineer with Mott MacDonald in York, has won the Apprentice of the Year category at this year’s RailStaff Awards.A
I SIMPLY cannot believe the number of people complaining about the “inconvenience” the Yorkshire Marathon caused on Sunday. So what if some people were inconvenienced for one day. Do all those selfish people complaining realise that many thousands
FEW bands could dream of selling out the Barbican two nights on the bounce but it's easy if you have been ever present since having the country feel for you as a wronged husband in Marion & Geoff. With TV hits like Gavin & Stacey, The Trip
I HAD the privilege to attend the opening night of Helena Fox’s Bomb Happy and wish to encourage anyone to travel to the other locations in Yorkshire to experience first-hand the moving stories of the five York Normandy veterans. Sadly two have
POLICE say protestors who locked themselves together and laid in the middle of a road near a fracking site in North Yorkshire have been cut free by a specially-trained police team and arrested. North Yorkshire Police said the two women were cut
I READ with great concern a new report by Breast Cancer Now, “Good Enough? Breast Cancer in the UK”, which highlights how much more needs to be done to save the lives of people with breast cancer. Although more women are surviving breast cancer
THE economic shallowness of the Labour party as a government in waiting was recently exposed when an MP, whose financial acumen if described as limited is being generous, invoked a spontaneous standing ovation simply by calling for the nation to “borrow
I’M not surprised people desperate for help with mental health issues are calling the police. To see an NHS counsellor in our area you first have to get an appointment with a doctor, ask for a referral, then wait two months to receive a letter
TWO men have been seriously injured after a major crash near York, with one car ending up in a pond and another bursting into flames. It happened on Sandy Lane, in Stockton-on-the-Forest, at around 12.05am today and involved a blue Mini Cooper
MAURICE VASSIE was surprised that I haven’t called for a referendum on the issue of fracking (Letters, October 9). The reason I haven’t is quite simple, I don’t think such an issue warrants one. I have been very clear in my letters on the subject
THE events in Manchester last week at the Tory party conference really beggar belief and lead to the question as to whether or not the Tories are on their last legs. First, a self-acclaimed comedian managed to gain access to the conference hall
From our archives: 85 years ago A court case against conductor Stanley Hepton employed by East Yorkshire Motor Services had been dismissed. According to his solicitor “there was not a single day when the overcrowding regulation was not
A WOMAN found to have a dangerously high level of cholesterol in her twenties has backed a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of high cholesterol.Kath Devlin, from Selby, was encouraged to have a cholesterol test because her father had a heart
SHIP OF THE FEN can finally get off the mark for trainer Martyn Meade as he switches to handicap company at Nottingham.The Champs Elysees colt has drawn a blank in three starts to date but his efforts in novice and maiden heats have at least demonstrated
TRAINER Owen Burrows insists promising two-year-old prospect Shabaaby is showing the right signs ahead of the Listed highlight of York’s Saturday card, the coral.co.uk Rockingham Stakes.The two-year-old colt, owned by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, is the
WHELDRAKE’S Will Dyrdal was never off the podium on his way to being crowned the 2017 National Junior Saloon Car champion.Dyrdal, 17, enjoyed eight wins and 14 second and third-placed finishes during nine rounds and 18 races from March to September.The
HEWORTH ‘A’ continued their perfect start to the York Conservative Clubs Faber Shield Snooker League season with a 5-2 win at home to second-placed Malton ‘A’. Kevin Gall and Richard Burdett put the hosts two frames to the good, but victories for
THE Black Swan at Oldstead has been named the world’s best rated restaurant, according to annual TripAdvisor awards announced today (Wednesday). It marks the first time a UK restaurant has topped the world category since the awards began in 2012
A TEENAGE smuggler who sold Class A drugs in a small North Yorkshire village has been jailed. Rob Galley, prosecuting, said police found illegal crystalline Ecstasy of a very high purity in a safe in a caravan in the garden of Thomas Allen’s family
CHANGES are on the way at next month’s Festival of Remembrance at York Barbican, with folk rock singers and an opera singer taking part as well as a military band.The event, which takes place on Sunday, November 5, will also start earlier than before,
A PUB could be saved from the bulldozer after an anonymous bidder stepped in to try and stop the Carlton Tavern site becoming a care home.The Press revealed in March how brewery giant Marstons confirmed an agreement to sell the Acomb Road watering hole
A PREDATORY paedophile who preyed on two young girls has been jailed for 15 years. Steven Anthony Jennings, 46, targeted two girls for his sex crimes and has permanently affected their lives, York Crown Court heard. DC Quita Passmore, of North
A PLAYGROUP on the outskirts of York has suffered a spate of vandalism recently, which is putting the safety of young children at risk, its manager said. Bishopthorpe Pre-School Playgroup's outdoor area has been blighted by graffiti and damage
