NEW Earswick All Blacks finished their first season in the Yorkshire Men’s League by claiming a clean sweep at the Yorkshire Men’s Awards Dinner. Finishing top of the league and winning the 40/20 cup, All Blacks won the Yorkshire Men’s League Team of
FREE advice and support about cancer will be available in York when a charity’s mobile service rolls up in the city.Macmillan Cancer Support’s bus will be visiting Parliament Street on Wednesday, with cancer information specialists on hand to answer questions
TWO members of a professional ram-raiding gang have been jailed for nearly 10 years. Horse dealer Robert Harker, 35, and car salesman Asa Dominic Smith, 23, were among four men in balaclavas who partially demolished a Dunnington petrol station
CITY of York Council has fined 15 people a total of more than £3000 for dumping rubbish in one year.Figures revealed by the authority show that 15 fines totalling £3,400 were given out in York between May 2016 and May this year.The Government gave councils
FORMER York City favourite David McGurk expects his old youth-team coach Martin Gray to be a disciplinarian who will demand high standards at Bootham Crescent.New City chief Gray was one of McGurk’s earliest mentors, overseeing the latter’s transition
PEOPLE in Fishergate are being invited to hear about flood defences, community resilience and ward budgets at a meeting on Monday.The ward committee is meeting on Monday, October 16 from 6.30pm at The Christian Science Church on Kilburn Road. A drop-in
THE curtain will begin to come down on the city’s racing season tomorrow when the last two-day meeting gets underway at York Racecourse.York’s final meeting of the year, worth a record £465,000, starts at 2.10pm, and features the £100,000 Unibet Handicap
A CANCER patient’s fundraising drive to pay for complementary treatment in Spain has surged past its £20,000 target, following a friend’s sponsored head shave.Dawn Watts’ appeal was given a £2,200 boost by her friend Lisa Harrison’s dramatic haircut at
RUTH Rendell is often hailed as Agatha Christie's successor, but she beats the Queen of Crime in a thrilling race in York next week. Rendell's A Judgement In Stone opens at the Grand Opera House on Monday, whereas Middle Ground Theatre Company
YORK has scooped the title of ‘Best UK Destination’ at a national group travel awards ceremony.The city fought off competition from London, Manchester, Eastbourne and Birmingham at the Group Leisure & Travel Awards 2017 in Birmingham.The awards aimed
A NEW bee bank has been created at a York nature reserve to help local wildlife to thrive and encourage natural biodiversity. Employees from Lend Lease’s Hungate development site took part in an annual community day, aimed at promoting health and
A HIGHLY regarded professor of endocrinology will be giving a public lecture in York at the weekend. Professor John Wass’ lecture, entitled Music and The Mind, will take place at the York Medical Society Rooms, at 23 Stonegate, on Saturday at 2pm
LEEDS United keeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell had joined York City on a one-month loan deal. Peacock-Farrell, 20, was called-up to the full Northern Ireland squad in August and has also played in the Championship for Leeds. He goes straight into
MORE than 150 children from 11 York schools will be in audience when the York Guildhall Orchestra stages its first concert of its new season on Saturday evening at York Barbican. A spokesman said that to develop talented young players’ playing
PREGNANT women, young children and people aged 65 and over are being urged to get a free flu vaccination by the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group.Dr Andrew Phillips, a joint medical director at the CCG, said: “If you are eligible for the flu vaccine
IT may be time to get out the barbecue for one final meal this weekend, as a mid-October mini-heatwave arrives in York and North Yorkshire. Temperatures look set to soar as high as 19 or 20 Centigrade, or the upper 60s Fahrenheit, from tomorow
NEW safety measures are being brought in at a danger junction in Tadcaster.There have been four crashes at the Rudgate crossroads on Toulson Lane since November 2014 - one of them fatal.North Yorkshire County Council bosses have now struck a deal with
TWO fish and chip shops in Whitby have been named in the UK’s top 20.The Fisherman’s Wife and Trenchers Restaurant have been named in the list as part of the National Fish & Chip Awards.Shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the Fish and Chip Restaurant of
A NORTH Yorkshire agricultural machinery supplier is set to plough on with growth plans after securing a £5 million funding package.Ripon Farm Services is using the finance from HSBC to redevelop its main site in Dallamires Lane by adding two new buildings
A LAND Rover has been crushed after its owner was found guilty of criminal damage. On November 12 last year, the Land Rover Discovery was driven on to a field at Topcliffe, near Thirsk, and got stuck and buried into the mud to axle depth, police
MONEY from a wind farm fund has helped Humberside Police get extra number plate cameras to tackle rural crime.Some £13,200 from the Lissett Airfield Wind Farm Fund has enabled the force to deploy more automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras
POLICE have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a car crashed into a garden pond and seriously injured two men. The crash took place on Sandy Lane, in Stockton-on-the-Forest, at around 12.05am on Wednesday and involved a blue Mini Cooper with
A YORK based estate agent brand has appeared in a national industry guide after taking multiple titles in the recent EA Master.Preston Baker’s York branch has been named in the UK’s Top 100 of estate agents for best lettings as well as in the top 20 per
CYNICS who scoffed at the idea of York bidding to host group matches for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup on the grounds the city’s community stadium wouldn’t be built in time may just have to eat their words. The city council has confirmed that
A BIKER suffered serious injuries after coming off his motorcycle near York. Police said the crash happened on the B1246 between Pocklington and Barmby Moor at about 3.30pm on Tuesday. A spokesman for Humberside Police said the biker, a 25-
A canopy of trees reaching up into a blue autumn sky; a luridly-coloured fly agaric mushroom sprouting through soft grass; and a spray of berries glimpsed at Monks Cross. Just three of the many entries so far for this month's Press Camera Club competition.As
CAMPAIGNERS who are fighting plans to build a visitor centre into the side of the Clifford's Tower motte have been given renewed hope. Councillor Johnny Hayes is leading a legal fight against English Heritage’s plans for the historic tower, and
A POWER company has applied for planning permission to build a small-scale gas power plant on the outskirts of Malton. Green Frog Energy, which is based in Birmingham, has submitted plans to Ryedale District Council to build the station off Freehold Lane
ALWAYS on the alert to blame any bad news on Brexit, the Remainers have been quick to blame the collapse of Monarch Airlines on it. How come all the other airlines trading under the same conditions as Monarch are not in the same trouble? Geoff
ARE passengers going to get some replacement bus shelters now the scaffolding has come down in George Hudson Street? It would appear we will be singing in the rain. Keith Chapman, Custance Walk, York
I AGREE with letter writer Dr Julia Baines that animal experiments must stop, and with Jennifer White that monkeys need our help. All these animals need our help. More than 115 million animals a year are experimented on worldwide. In 2015,
HOLLY Willoughby has been talking about the pain of being blonde. “A lot of people look at the blonde hair and this and that and the other and have a massive judgement on you,” she says. All I can say is, she should try being ginger. Growing
A MAN impaled his thigh through a metal railing in York. Fire crews were called to the scene in Moore Avenue, in Tang Hall, at about 4.25am today. A spokesman for North Yorkshire fire service said the man had fallen while climbing a fence.
WHEN France eventually allowed us into the Common Market we naively believed that we were joining a purely comercial organisation. One Conservative statesman, however, was not so easily convinced. In his opinion, like the biblical Esau, we had
From our archives: 85 years ago Seventy-year-old Sir Herbert Nield, KC, who had been Recorder of York since April 1917, had died at his residence, Bishop Mead, London. Born and bred within sound of Bow Bells his death had come as
IN his reference to Jeremy Corbyn and his promises, D Cook answers his own question about an alternative to the Tories (Letters, October 7). He also doubts the policies that Corbyn advocates, yet Theresa May has hijacked three of them, ordering
BUONARROTI can seize advantage of a lenient handicap mark when he runs at Ayr.A lot of water has passed beneath the bridge since Aidan O'Brien thought him good enough to run in the Racing Post Trophy as a juvenile in 2013.Indeed, he has only won once
WILLIAM Haggas is aiming to fulfil a career ambition on Saturday by becoming top trainer at York Racecourse for the season.The Skipton-born, Newmarket-based, trainer has recorded 12 winners on the Knavesmire in 2017 – three more than his fellow Yorkshireman
A CAT named after one of Jane Austen’s classic romantic heroes has found a new home. Actor Matt Whtichurch, who plays Mr Darcy at York Theatre Royal’s production of Pride and Prejudice until Saturday, was invited to meet his character’s namesake
BOLDER Bob will bid to complete a three-timer when he contests the £100,000 Unibet Handicap at York Racecourse tomorrow.This three-year-olds only race, staged over almost a mile and three-quarters, has doubled in prize money and has attracted a field
YORK City Knights have snapped up two promising young forwards from Castleford Tigers on one-year deals.Prop Harvey Kear and Rory Dixon, who can slot in at either prop or second row, both come highly recommended from Tigers’ head of youth development,
BISHOPTHORPE White Rose Football Club are staging a “Run to Wembley” fundraising event on Saturday to help build new pitches and a clubhouse in the village.The challenge, which will be started by BBC Look North presenter Harry Gratian, will see players
PLANS to extend parking in a York city centre car park over the festive season will be considered by a councillor next week.Executive member for transport, Cllr Ian Gillies, will decide whether to extend the opening hours of the Piccadilly multi-storey
POPPLETON is set to be the first community in York to take greater power over local planning policies through a neighbourhood plan. City of York Council says that after 91.3 per cent of local people voted in a referendum that they wanted the council
ORGANISED criminals involved in activities in North Yorkshire ranging from drug-dealing, human trafficking and modern slavery to child sexual exploitation and firearms offences are to be tackled by a new partnership of crime fighters.Project Alliance
THE Government has vowed to hand out tougher sentences to drivers who kill or maim others - a year to the day since The Press launched The Road to Justice campaign. Our campaign called on ministers to re-write sentencing guidelines for reckless
THE last member of a gang that sold drugs on an “industrial” scale from a York council flat has been jailed. Undercover police counted up to 70 visitors a day going to the flat in Coxwold House, Lowther Street, The Groves, seeking heroin and cocaine
