A CYSTIC fibrosis sufferer from near York has told how a new drug could transform her life - as MPs today (Monday, March 19) debated calls for it to be made available on the NHS.Lynsey Beswick, 35, of Wheldrake, said she feared she might die before she
A GINGER cat has been found on a coach at the end of the vehicle's journey from Pickering to Newcastle. The moggy, who has been named Wendall by staff at Cats Protection, is being looked after by the charity. A spokeswoman said it was not known
HUNTINGTON Rovers’ striker Liam Flanagan hit an extra-time hat-trick to fire the York Minster Engineering League’s representative side into the national final of the FA Inter-League Cup.Super-sub Flanagan’s treble secured a 4-1 victory in their semi-final
A POPULAR primary school which was asked to expand by the council is looking forward to getting a new playground. Scarcroft Primary School was asked to take on 15 extra pupils a year by the City of York Council. The project included plans to fit
A PUBLIC meeting is being held this week about the future of a key bus services linking villages south of York to the city.The 18 and 18A services are run by East Yorkshire Motor Services, and link nine villages between Market Weighton and York to the
TREBLE-SEEKING Old Malton St Mary's enjoyed a super start to a potentially big week as they beat York Railway Institute to keep their title hopes alive.St Mary's will look to defend their North Riding County FA Saturday County Cup on Wednesday
TWO hundred and fifty people have signed a petition asking council bosses to rethink plans to move a bus stop. Transport chiefs have drawn up plans to move the bus stop on Acomb Green to make space for a new pedestrian crossing further up Wetherby
A COMMUNITY café in a Selby district village is celebrating its successful first anniversary.The Fairburn Community Pop-In Café was started up with funding by the district's Western area community engagement forum (CEF), and is a welcoming meeting
MORE people miss their hospital appointments when the clocks go forward according to research by the University of York and Lancaster University.Figures show there is a five per cent increase in missed appointments when the clocks change. NHS data shows
ONE of Claudia Lawrence's closest friends and her father have both made emotional appeals for anyone who knows what happened to the missing York chef to finally come forward. Jen King and Peter Lawrence spoke out at a press conference outside Claudia's
CHILDREN have been charged with 4,515 crimes since 2015 and youngsters aged 10 and under were responsible for 70 of them. Figures obtained by The Press under the Freedom of Information Act show that while juvenile crime in North Yorkshire has dropped
COMMUNITY housing group YorSpace is holding an Annual General Meeting this weekend.The event will take place on Saturday, March 24 from 11am to 1pm at the Gateway Centre, Front Street, Acomb and places can be reserved online via Eventbrite.co.uk.In its
YOUNGSTERS at a York village primary school took part in a sponsored triathlon event today. About 25 pupils at Long Marston CE School tried to cover as much distance as they could by running laps of the school field and playground, cycling on static
YORK City's National League North trip to Nuneaton, planned for Saturday, has been rearranged due to international call-ups for the host team. The mid-table Warwickshire outfit have three players away representing their country this weekend and
THE OLD School House care home in Beverley needs help to get Tesco cash to create a sensory garden for people with dementia.The care home is one of three groups in its area shortlisted in the Tesco Bags of Help scheme. This means it could get a grant
LUCY Worsley, "the undisputed queen of TV history" swaps the screen for the stage at York Theatre Royal to present her York Literature Festival talk, Jane Austen At Home, on Wednesday night. The festival event is prompted by Dr Worsley’s new biography
POLICE are continuing to investigate a serious assault at a York nightclub, which left a man with several fractures to the jaw. It happened around the front doors of Club Jalou on Micklegate, North Yorkshire Police said. At about midnight on
YORK City vice-presidents’ chairman Richard Adams has claimed a ‘No’ vote at Thursday’s Supporters Trust special general meeting will plunge the club into “even more turmoil” than in 2003. Back then, the Minstermen were recused at the 11th hour
A CONCRETE breaker, fan, pliers and grips were stolen from a building supplies warehouse on Osbaldwick Link Road. Police are appealing for information about two thefts from Selco which took place on February 25 and 26. At around 1.30pm on February
TWO local clubs are involved in a new campaign being launched to encourage more people to discover gliding.York Gliding Centre, based at Rufforth Airfield, and Burn Gliding Club, based at Burn, near Selby, are two of 11 gliding clubs across the UK to
CHILDREN and parents braved the weekend's Siberian snow and ice-cold conditions to attend the audition day at Manor C of E Academy for York Musical Theatre Company’s Stage Experience summer school production of the Broadway teenage musical 13.
A MAJOR inquiry into the alleged abuse of teenage Army recruits at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, has collapsed after the Royal Military Police bungled the investigation. A judge branded the three-year police probe "
THE Furrow Collective, holders of folk music’s most prestigious award, play Selby Town Hall on Saturday with a line-up of Alasdair Roberts, Emily Portman, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton. "We have one of the most coveted folk outfits in the country
ST LEONARD'S hospice is to receive a huge boost from a local housebuilder.Barratt Developments East Yorkshire will undertake fundraising initiatives across the region throughout 2018.St Leonard's hospice is an independent charity that provides
AN award-winning young entrepreneur is expanding his business.Ben Lawson, owner of No Limits Cycling, is opening a new bike shop in Malton on Saturday, March 24.The 21-year-old, who won Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Ryedale Business Awards 2018
CHILDREN'S educational needs in rural India will receive a boost from a York academy.The Ebor multi-academy trust has pledged support for Project Mala, which enables poor children in India to access quality education in well-equipped schools.The trust
DOMESTIC abuse services in North Yorkshire are to get £12,300 a month in funding from City of York Council.The deal was agreed by senior councillors last week, adding up to £738,000 over the next five years. The money will be paid to North Yorkshire'
NFU president Minette Batters is calling on the British public to get behind Great British Beef Week, which returns for the eighth consecutive year between April 23 and 30.Ms Batters is a champion of British beef and a co-founder of Ladies in Beef - the
THE Demon Barbers XL will headline the Saturday night main stage at the 35th anniversary Beverley Folk Festival on June 16 at Beverley Racecourse. Praised by folk legend, radio presenter and festival patron Mike Harding as "one of the best live
A THIEF went on a shoplifting spree when she was released partway through a prison sentence for shoplifting, York Magistrates Court, heard. Karma Louise Brown, 25, admitted four charges of theft committed between December 18 and February 16 and was banned
CELEBRITIES have teamed up to support a fundraiser for residents diagnosed with cancer.Cricketer Sir Geoffrey Boycott, vet Julian Norton and Look North presenter Harry Gration have all posed for photographer David Charles, who is putting together an album
TOP York landmarks will be plunged into darkness this weekend, in support of Earth Hour.On Saturday the lights will go out at York Minster's Central Tower, York Bar Walls, York Mansion House, City of York Council’s West Offices and Cliffords Tower
THE opening date for an innovative business start-up and social space made from shipping containers in York city centre has been revealed. Spark:York will open to the public on May 4 at 4pm. The project is the first of its kind in the North
A thief who faked paying at self service tills has been banned from the city centre shops he pilfered. Simon Ostler, prosecuting, said Andrew Philip Horsman, 36, pretended to pay with a bank card before walking out with large amounts of shopping on five
York City Knights 26 Swinton Lions 12 (At Post Office Road, Featherstone) Knights: Moss 7, Robson 7, Normington 8, Hey 9, Mazive 7, Cockayne 9, C Robinson 9, Hawksworth 7, Ellis 8, Horne 9, Batchelor 7, Scott 9, Spears 9. Subs (all used): Jubb
RODDY Woomble will not only be airing songs from his fourth solo album, The Deluder, at The Crescent in York, tomorrow night (March 20) but also previewing new material for his band Idlewild. "I'll be performing as a duo, just with Andrew Mitchell
A NUMBER of bomb threats have been made to schools in York and North Yorkshire - sparking an investigation by cybercrime detectives. The threats are not believed to be credible and appear to be part of a national issue, according to police.
A SPECIAL exhibition in memory of talented artist and much-loved mother and friend Julia Clutterbuck will be held at the Zillah Bell Gallery, Kirkgate, Thirsk, from Friday to March 31. Organised by Julia’s 19-year-old daughter Izzy, the Julia Clutterbuck
THERE was a crash on the outskirts of York this morning, which caused rush hour delays. It happened at the junction of the A1079 Hull Road and Elvington Lane. The scene has been cleared.
Towton was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. As the battle's anniversary approaches, HELEN MEAD walks the battlefield and remembers those who diedOn a bitterly cold day in March 1461 the longest and bloodiest battle ever fought on
FOR many years, what is now St Sampson's Square was known as Thursday Market. There was a good reason for that. It served as the home of one of York's two main city centre markets, along with Pavement.There was no Parliament Street in those days
Last week in Yesterday Once More we carried a postcard showing Gillygate in 1910. Tramlines were clearly visible - and one of them seemed to curve in the middle of the street. Could anyone explain why, we asked? Step forward reader Brian Johnson
A giant incinerator - sorry, 'energy from waste' plant - has opened at Allerton Park, to the west of York. It is touted as the answer to York and North Yorkshire's rubbish disposal problem for the next 25 years - and is also supposed to generate enough
WHEN I was asked to interview Ken Dodd a few years ago, I was a little apprehensive. He was in his 80s and, dialling his number, I braced myself for a tricky 20 minutes or so. I thought of my rather sad telephone interview with Norman Wisdom, who was
TWO people were taken to hospital following a house fire in Ryedale yesterday evening. Firefighters from Malton, Pickering and Huntington were called to the blaze at a property in Hambleton Road, Norton, at about 6.30pm. The crews used breathing
A MAN who threatened to shoot his own mother and burn down her house has been banned from contacting his family indefinitely or going into the street where they live. John Wilfred Donald Flanagan, 33, threatened to “get” his mother as she was walking
A CARE home where dementia patients are "at risk of harm" has been put in special measures by a healthcare watchdog. Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said they visited Amelia House Care Home on Coningham Avenue in Rawcliffe after
THE University of York says it has been taking significant steps to try to prevent student suicides after an inquest heard how an undergraduate killed himself at a student house in the city. The York inquest was told that physics student Jordan
CITY councillors have written to York health bosses, asking questions about a dermatology scheme some fear amounts to “cash for cuts”. Cllr Paul Doughty, the chairman of City of York’s health scrutiny committee, said they have asked questions,
From our archives: 85 years ago Two hundred and fifty boys from Archbishop Holgate’s Grammar School, York, paid a visit to London to see the sights. They came by train in the charge of a half-score of slightly harassed masters, and
DETECTIVES investigating the suspected murder of Claudia Lawrence still have one outstanding line of inquiry which could shed light on the case, The Press can reveal. Nine years after the York chef disappeared on March 18, 2009, police have confirmed
A RUGBY league professional is helping children in and out of schools in his native York to keep fit the safe way. Danny Allen has teamed up with teacher and amateur rugby league player Jonny Payne to provide training in keep fit techniques to children
YORK’S Respark schemes need a major overhaul to sort out the problem of commuter parking and long waits for communities which want restrictions, Green party councillors say. Blanket restrictions should be introduced on all terraced streets where
ANDREW Gale has hailed a successful pre-season training camp in Potchefstroom for his Yorkshire squad having finished their match schedule yesterday.The White Rose coach has been delighted with the progress made by both bowlers and batsmen, with six centurions
CLIFFS Of Dover was a ready winner last time out and can double up in the Betway Stayers Handicap at Lingfield.A very useful juvenile hurdler a couple of years ago, the Paul Nicholls-trained gelding was forced to miss the whole of 2017, returning at Wincanton
