KARL Burke has enjoyed another excellent season peppered with Group One triumphs and while Unwritten is not of that calibre yet, he can show he is one to watch next term with victory at Pontefract.The Poet's Voice colt will be having just his third
THE Sheriff Hutton Jumblies latest event raised £2,400 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA).The Jumblies work alongside many groups to raise money for village organisations, as well as local and national charities, through their jumble sales.Penny Bean
RESIDENTS of Fountains Abbey have been moved to a new home away from American cousins who could destroy them. The National Trust and the Environment Agency combined forces to move native white-clawed crayfish from the River Skell at the ruins to water
ENORMOUS pumpkins from across the UK made their way to Elvington attraction for York Maze's annual pumpkin weigh-in. The largest specimen will now be hollowed and a face carved into it in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the largest
RYEDALE Cameras in Action (RCIA) has welcomed the decision by the district council to provide funding towards updating the CCTV system for Malton, Norton and Pickering. Members of Ryedale District Council (RDC) agreed to award £22,000 to the scheme
IT’S been a long time between Love & Hate making number one in July last year and Michael Kiwanuka promoting the chart topper on his autumn tour in 2017, but the wait for a York show was worth it. The British Ugandan Londoner arrived in the
THE Archbishop of York has called for the Government to reduce “grotesque” delays for people claiming universal credit. Dr John Sentamu said it is punishing the poor who have “nothing left to fall back on”. Writing in the Sunday Times, he attacked
PICKERING Town were dumped out of the FA Vase by visiting Northern League side Newcastle Benfield, who turned around a two-goal deficit to win 4-3 after extra-time.Russ Parker and Danny Gray goals – both from Ryan Blott assists – put the Pikes ahead,
BUILDING improvements continue apace at Salford’s Moor Lane but, on the pitch, it was Martin Gray’s York City that still looked a work in progress. Construction on the Ammies’ new Main Stand had moved forward impressively since the Minstermen’s
A YORK headteacher has spoken of his frustration with the education system in England as he prepares to leave the profession. Rupert Griffiths, who has been a teacher for nearly 30 years, criticised the way test results dominate the way the quality
YORK Acorn’s promotion dream is over after a heated 25-18 defeat at Milford Marlins in the Kingstone Press National Conference League division one play-off semi-final.The game was turned on its head during a decisive ten-minute spell midway through the
TADCASTER Albion lost only their second home game in the Evo-Stik North this season, as they were beaten 2-1 by Skelmersdale United. Josh Greening’s sumptuous chip cancelled out Alaster Redmayne’s first-half opener, before Andrew Owens found himself the
A REVAMPED building will now house the city’s mental health team for older people. Painters and decorators have moved out of Acomb Health Centre, in Beech Grove, following a project to modernise outpatient accommodation, create a more comfortable
BIG names from the BBC will descend on York next month, as the History Magazine’s History Weekend returns to the city.Talks from more than 30 popular historians, including Dan Jones, Michael Wood and Tracy Borman, will be held in the city between Friday
THOMAS Christiansen saw the confidence flood back into his Leeds United team with a thumping 3-0 victory at Bristol City.Going into the game on a three-match Championship losing streak, the visitors dominated from the first whistle and fully deserved
ROAD works will start around the A19 junction with Wheldrake Lane, at Crockey Hill this week.The work will not interrupt traffic but is needed before a £1 million government funded road widening project to ease congestion in the area can start.Work starting
CHILDREN borrowed nearly 100,000 books from North Yorkshire libraries over the summer, the county council has revealed. Among them were more than 9,600 children who tackled the annual summer challenge of reading at least six library books - and almost
Bailey Peacock-Farrell 5 – should have done better with Salford’s second and third goals Josh Law 7 – kept Allen relatively quiet and good deliveries from dead balls Hamza Bencherif 6 – given few problems in general play and blameless for goals
A GROUP running nine GP surgeries in York has been nominated for four awards.Priory Medical Group, which was formed in 1946 and includes practices in Fulford and Heworth Green, is in the running for a handful of General Practice Awards.They are nominated
GARDENERS have praised offenders for the way they have sorted out part of a York allotment site. Courts had ordered the offenders to do unpaid work under the community payback scheme as punishment for their crimes.North Yorkshire's community rehabilitation
YORK’S libraries are among the best in the country and deserve to be protected, according to some councillors. The city’s facilities are “popular and well used”, according to Liberal Democrat councillor Ian Cuthbertson, putting the area in the
