A MISSING man who has not been seen for a week may be living rough around Brayton near Selby, police believe. Richard Taylor, 30, was reported missing from his home in South Milford last Thursday, October 12, and police have been searching for
YORK City bowed out of the FA Youth Cup following a 1-0 third qualifying round tie against Salford at Bootham Crescent.Mani Ogunrinde, who has been a member of the Ammies’ first-team squad in the past, grabbed the only goal of the game on 40 minutes.For
YOU could peruse the classifieds in The Press just to be sure, but you are unlikely to spot: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October the twenty ninth, at Little Paddocks – at six-thirty pm". Such an advert, however, appears
AN ABNORMAL load will be travelling through York with a police escort tomorrow, and drivers are being warned of possible delays. The lorry is leaving Portastor on Jockey Lane at around 9.30am, and is expected to get to Dunnington by 10.30am, on
HULL'S UK City of Culture celebrations will make it to York next month, with a special event to be held at the city centre library.The venue it so host a sneak preview of Hull Noir, with bestselling writers Nick Quantrill, Louise Beech, David Mark
....Here's chart-topping London soul singer Michael Kiwanuka, popping into Penny's Bespoke Foodhouse, in Walmgate, York, earlier today. The British Ugandan musician is in town to play a sold-out show at York Barbican tomorrow, performing songs
A THIEF stole an elderly woman’s handbag from her as she walked along a street. Humberside Police say the woman, who is in her 80s, was on Adeline Street, Goole, at 12.30pm on Saturday when she was targeted. Anyone who has not already spoken
ACID Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Kawabata Makoto's legendary Japanese psychedelic rock five-piece, play The Crescent in York on Tuesday night. In 1995, the quartet of Kawabata Makoto, Koizumi Hajime, Suhara Keizo and Cotton
CHRISTMAS learning courses are about the launch for adults and families in the East Riding.The 2017 Christmas courses run in Beverley, Bridlington, Cottingham and Goole and include subjects, such as festive sewing, handmade Christmas crafts, festive creations
STAFF at Barnardo’s shop in Acomb are asking people to have a pre-Christmas sort-out and donate winter woollies to their local shop. Stocks of winter clothes such as jumpers and coats, are flying off the rails as the weather turns colder - and
STRIKING partnerships might be a dying breed in football, but Amari Morgan-Smith is relishing playing alongside Jon Parkin in an orthodox front two. With former York City boss Gary Mills preferring the fashionable 3-4-3 and 4-3-3 formations, centre-forward
ANOTHER new care home has been given permission in York.Care company Ashley House were granted planning permission yesterday to build a new 80 bed care home on the old Burnholme Community College site.Councillors on the planning committee voted unanimously
YORK City boss Martin Gray insists his team must pass a greater examination of their set-piece solidity at Salford on Saturday. The Minstermen were undone by a free kick and a throw-in last weekend as they surrendered a 2-0 lead by conceding twice
A REPORT run by Solace Women’s Adi in 2014 found that 95 per cent of domestic abuse survivors experienced coercive control, a form of abuse that was only included in UK law as recently as 2015. This insidious, often less noticeable form of domestic
A MANAGER at a York hospital has proven his pedal power after completing a gruelling 250-mile bike ride in Africa. Richard Vanson, sales and services manager at Nuffield Health York Hospital, in Haxby Road, pedalled along part of Lake Malawi, located
YORK City Knights boss James Ford did not feel that it was “right and proper” to make a bid for dual-registered half-back Liam Harris.The 20-year-old left Hull KR to sign a two-year deal with Kingstone Press League One side Doncaster for an undisclosed
A BURGLAR who stole a car and led police on a chase at twice the speed limit through a North Yorkshire village has been jailed for five years. Paul Marcus Young appeared by video link from prison, where he has been held since his arrest in August
A BELOVED resident of Sealife Scarborough has died from kidney failure.Bubbles, a 21-year-old seal, had lived at the attraction since 2006, but was born in captivity in Colchester 1996 and moved to Sealife Weymouth in 2004.He was a very mischievous but
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help families of disabled children in North Yorkshire.Thirsk Community Care is urgently seeking volunteers who can spare one evening per month to spend time with a disabled child.This gives families with disabled children regular
THREE people were arrested for growing cannabis and money laundering when police hit the streets to tackle antisocial behaviour.Teams of officers from the Neighbourhood Policing Teams, Firearms Support Unit and the Dogs Section visited Harrogate, Ripon
YORK Minster is hosting a meet the author event.Author, journalist, broadcaster and leading Catholic commentator Catherine Pepinster will be at the cathedral on at 6.30pm on November 1.The event focuses on the launch of Catherine's new book The Keys
THOUSANDS of people are expected to flock to the Yorkshire showground for Countryside Live this weekend. TV vets Julian Norton and Peter Wright will headline The Yorkshire Vet at Countryside Live as visitors head to the Harrogate showground this
FOR most of us, getting out and about around York isn’t much of a challenge. Yes, the traffic can be a pain. And the rowdy behaviour in parts of the city centre on a Friday and Saturday can be off-putting. But these are comparatively minor gripes
TOM Robinson has returned to live work after a relatively sedate period as a BBC 6 Music presenter. This autumn, he’s touring in celebration of 40 years since his seminal 1977 debut single 2-4-6-8 Motorway and its accompanying 1978 album Power
EVERY year, on November 5, an effigy of one of York’s most famous - or infamous - sons gets ritually burned on bonfires across the country. It is Guy Fawkes whose name is most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot. But Fawkes wasn’t the ringleader
THIRTY years ago this week, on the morning of October 16, 1987, my husband and I woke up to a scene of eerie stillness. The night before, we had been roused from our sleep by a noise like a jet engine. We sat up in bed and were amazed to see the carpet
ANTI-FRACKING campaigners have been arrested after they blocked a North Yorkshire road this morning, and created what police call "significant traffic disruption". North Yorkshire Police said four people locked themselves into two concrete and
IT has been a productive summer for York Musical Theatre Company, judging by their four-night residency of Something Wonderful, a celebration of one of the greatest collaborations in American musical theatre, at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre. Faced
THIEVES tried to steal a cash machine from a North Yorkshire supermarket. North Yorkshire Police said a group of three or four men used a telehandler tractor unit to try and break the ATM free from the wall of Sainsbury's in Stainsacre Lane, Whitby
STUNNING costumes showcasing the work of students at a college in York are going on display. They will be on show at the Northern College of Costume, on the top floor of 26 Market Street, tomorrow and Saturday. Eight talented students from
A MOPED rider has been injured and taken to hospital after a crash with a heavy goods vehicle in York this morning. It happened at about 8.05am on the A1237 outer ring road at Upper Poppleton, on the roundabout near the junction to the A59.
WERE Labour to win the next General Election a famous headline from the 1990s will be very applicable. “Will the last person to leave the country please turn out the light.” The under-40s may think this funny. Not so, they should ask their
SEEING the black and white photos in The Press of Malton cattle market brought back happy memories (The Press, October 9). As a child, we lived off Heslington Road and the cattle market was in Kent Street, with the abattoir conveniently across
Lobster pots stacked high at Scarborough; a glimpse of the River Foss through the stone balustrades of Foss Bridge; and a very unusual view of Museum Gardens. Just some of the scores of photographs posted by members of The Press Camera Club in the last
I READ the letter by Fen Terbitt (The Press, October 9). Parking charges are not forcing shoppers away from the city to the out of town shopping parks. Small shops and businesses just cannot sustain the high rates and rents. Asking for
WOULD-BE burglars tried to break into a number of garages in York this week. The criminal damage and attempted burglary happened in the garage yard, just off Clifton Green between 10pm on Sunday and 7am on Monday. Police said the offenders
TOD BRADBURY, Animal Aid campaign manager, asks if we can rise to the vegan challenge (Letters, October 6). Why should we? I queried in my previous letter what would we do with the land? Put it down to housing and roads? On a recent five-day
SURELY the obvious answer to problems associated with the proposed demolition of the Carlton Tavern is not to affect the building in any way, but to demolish the Oakhaven old folks home and build the proposed 79-bedroom care home on a site that is
THE spectre of Thatcherism is alive and kicking in York today. Our Tory planning committee councillors must be delighted in the mantra of closing down council-run residential homes and letting privateers step in. They must be even more pleased
I WONDER if anyone noticed the irony of the articles on housing in The Press recently. There was a picture of a local councillor promoting the cause for more low cost housing in York and directly below this article was a piece on how yet another
JOHN Gosden's team are gearing up for a big weekend, with Cracksman leading the charge on Champions Day – and ELDRITCH can give the yard a nice little boost with victory at Newcastle's evening meeting.Clearly the Bowburn Hotel Handicap is some
WHILE the debate continues about the number of new homes required in York over the next 15 years – important though that may be – the real issue is about affordability. It is little use arguing whether the figure included in the draft Local Plan
ACCORDING to The Press report (October 13), headlined “More time needed on Brexit divorce bill”, the Brexit talks appear to have Brexited or in other words have come to a grinding halt. I really must ask the question: Are Michel Barnier and David
From our archives: 85 years ago Proposals to complete a York ring road scheme had finally been submitted to the Ministry of Health during an inquiry at York Guildhall. Once the scheme was completed, York would have its very own ring
CITY of York Hockey Club men's sixth team comfortably dispatched bottom-side Bradford III 6-1 in Yorkshire League division four north to sit two points off the top.Joe Sumpner opened the scoring, tapping in at the back post, quickly followed by captain
YORK Acorn ARLC boss Leigh Paul-Rientoul is hoping Milford will have a false sense of security ahead of their National Conference League division one play-off showdown on Saturday.Not only have Acorn lost two of their last three games since securing their
NEW Earswick IBC crashed 92-57 to Hornsea in the Egham Trophy.Lynn Page, Kath Hardcastle, Bill Waldie and Colin Pickup were their only winning quartet.They got off to flier and led 10-4 after seven ends and, while they only notched two singles at the
CITY of York Ladies I suffered a 2-0 home defeat to Ben Rhydding II in their first reversal of the North Hockey Women's League division one campaign.After a strong start to the season, the side have now drawn one and lost one to leave them fifth in
MORE than 6,000 jobs across the North of England were supported by North Yorkshire power station Drax last year as a new report reveals the Group contributed more than £400 million to the region’s economy. Energy giant Drax Group, which operates
YORK Indoor Bowls Club started their North Eastern Ladies' League campaign with an excellent 81-58 derby victory over cross-city rivals New Earswick.York won all four rinks although the scoreline did not reflect the game, which was tight up to the
CITY of York Men's I hammered seventh-placed Chapeltown 10-2 at home to bounce back in style from last week’s North Hockey Men’s League division one defeat.York now sit third in the table, one point off the top after four matches.Man-of-the-match
PLANS to form a new company to provide maintenance services at York Hospital look to have been stepped up after staff were called into meetings this week. York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is “actively exploring” a new way in which its
TEN per cent of roadworks in North Yorkshire are below standard, the county council said.North Yorkshire County Council’s street works team has begun toughening up inspections of work on roads and footways by utility companies and individuals to ensure
DEVELOPERS have drawn up more detailed plans for a long-empty 70s built office block in York. Ryedale House, in Piccadilly, was built in 1972 but its eight storeys are currently empty and unused. It already has permission to be be converted into
VISITORS to York’s National Railway Museum this October half-term will be challenged to discover their hidden engineer. The attraction’s Future Engineers event returns for a second year on Saturday and runs for two weeks, featuring a series of
WORK will begin next week on improvements to bus stops in York city centre, closing them for up to a month. City of York Council confirmed the next phase of work on the stops in Rougier Street, which are among the most used in the city, will start
A SERIAL shoplifter’s year-long campaign against York shops is over as she starts a prison sentence. Gemma Christine Bradford, 35, carried out 20 thefts in stores of all kinds across the city, including the charity shop at York Hospital. York
