Gary Ballance posted his first hundred of the summer as Yorkshire enjoyed an impressive opening day against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl.The former captain hit 109 off 186 balls and led the recovery from 21-3 as the White Rose started their sixth Specsavers
ENGLAND head coach Wayne Bennett has named debutants Jake Connor and Tommy Makinson in his team to face New Zealand but there is no place for Luke Thompson.With Wigan half-back George Williams already ruled out of Saturday's historic Test match in
HEALTH bosses tonight faced questioning by City of York councillors over the use of a phone system which left patients on hold for hours to make GP appointments. The “online triage” system adopted at Unity Health’s Kimberlow Hill surgery led to
MARCUS Rashford says the England squad are relishing this opportunity to show people how far they have come – saying Gareth Southgate's World Cup group "really is a team" compared to Euro 2016.Harry Kane's late heroics in Volgograd saw
Gary Ballance posted his first hundred of the season and his third in three innings at the Ageas Bowl this afternoon.The former Yorkshire captain has led his side’s recovery from 21-3 on day one of their Specsavers County Championship match against Hampshire
A YORK catering firm showed its creations to the wedding world as it hosted an industry showcase evening.The business, founded by husband and wife team Ashley and Matthew Hyde at their kitchen table with a £200 loan, now employs a team 18 staff.Wedding
A WOMAN was rescued from a house fire in York. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said crews from York, Acomb and Huntington were called to a terraced house in the Layerthorpe area at about 1.20pm. A spokesman for the fire service said
Gary Ballance and Harry Brook are leading the fightback for Yorkshire following the loss of three early wickets during the opening session against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl.Steve Patterson won his first toss in charge of the White Rose’s Specsavers
LOCAL performers are pulling together to raise funds for a York nature reserve.St Nicks' summer concert will take place on June 30 at St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel, the oldest surviving nonconformist chapel in the city.As well as raising money,
VANDALS threw a brick through the window of a jeweller's shop.North Yorkshire Police said the attack happened between 5.45pm on Friday, June 15, and 8.20am on Saturday, June 16, at Ogden's in James Street, Harrogate.Police could not confirm whether
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help marshal the York 10k.The run will be held on Sunday, August 5, with hundreds of people running around the city when there will be a number of road closures.York Mind is one of the official partner charities providing 20 marshals
FIRE crews were called to reports of a fire at a petrol station in York.North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said they were called at just after 10pm on Tuesday to the petrol station in Boroughbridge Road, YorkCrews found a supervised burn was taking
A MEDIEVAL alchemist is set to walk visitors along the fine line between science and magic at York’s Barley Hall this weekend. A new exhibition called Magic & Mystery is to be held at the medieval hall off Stonegate, exploring how magic played an important
MOTORISTS have been advised to expect delays in an area of York due to roadworks. Work is being carried out at the corner of Scarcroft Road and Bishopthorpe Road, with heavy traffic building up in both directions this afternoon as a result of the
DISTANT London-based landlords are behind many of York’s empty city centre shops, a councillor has complained.Empty shop units in York cluster around a few areas – including Coney Street – but many of the properties are owned by London-based companies
TEMPERATURES are set to soar as high as 26C in York by early next week after a good weekend for barbecues and sunbathing. Forecasters say high pressure is set to dominate the weather in York and North Yorkshire over the next ten days, with very
Review: Sophie Willan, Branded, York Theatre Royal StudioIN a nutshell, Sophie Willan is a northern working-class comic who doesn't hold truck with being branded a northern, working-class comic.That makes the job of a reviewer a tad more difficult
A council has dismissed claims it has "jumped the gun" by announcing it had saved a former hospital for community use. NHS Property Services, which is seeking to sell the Lambert Memorial Hospital, in Sowerby, Thirsk, said a final decision on which
SCARBOROUGH Open Air Theatre kicked off a record-breaking summer season with a sold-out show from Lionel Richie.The former Commodore packed in the hits on Tuesday night, with a set that included chart-toppers All Night Long, Hello and Say You, Say Me,
A HEADTEACHER has praised the hard work of her staff, pupils and governors after Ofsted said her York school continued to be ‘good’.Debbie Glover, head of Poppleton Road Primary School, spoke of her delight at the ‘extremely positive’ report provided
YORK singer Jessa Liversidge will explore the link between Oscar Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim in Some Enchanted Sondheim, an evening of song and revelations at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, on Sunday. "Not many people know that while
TWO property developments in York have scooped top awards. Groves Chapel and Holgate Mews won coveted titles at the North and East Yorkshire Yorkshire’s Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Excellence Awards. The title of Best Refurbishment
POLICE have cordoned off a street in York city centre following the discovery of a suspicious device. The Blue Moon and neighbouring premises in Goodramgate have been evacuated, said North Yorkshire Police. "It is not believed there is a threat
REGIONAL law firm Andrew Jackson Solicitors LLP has announced the appointment of Nick Wilson who joins the firm as a partner.Mr Wilson’s particular expertise in employment law makes him a key addition to the firm’s York office, He has advised both public
A FUNDRAISER which has raised thousands of pounds for a local charity is looking to break all records this year.The Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Challenge, which supports Ryedale Special Families (RSF), has the highest number of entries since the event was launched
AN AWARD-WINNING group of York youngsters have raised £600 for charity with their latest pop-up cafe.Team Lifestyle Cafe (TLC), which was formed three years ago when they won a major award in North Yorkshire Police’s Lifestyle contest, raised the money
FOUR men have been charged with cockfighting offences in North Yorkshire following a joint investigation by police and the RSPCA. North Yorkshire Police said officers from its rural taskforce and the animal charity went to an undisclosed rural
THREE days of free comedy will be on the bill at The Burning Duck Comedy Club's first ever Big Egg Comedy Festival at The Basement, City Screen, York. Running from June 29 to July 1, this new festival curated by Burning Duck promoter Al Greaves
As a local history enthusiast I enjoy reading the Yesterday Once More feature by Stephen Lewis and seeing the archive photographs of York in former days. However, I would like to point out an error in the June 18 edition in which a photograph is
A solution to qualified doctors leaving the NHS shortly after costing the taxpayer half a million pounds to be trained is simple. They could be obliged to commit to a minimum time span of service to the NHS. Failure to honour their contract would mean
THERE has been so much publicity recently about waste plastic and shops telling us they are cutting down on the carriers. The trouble is that it seems the shops are now predetermining the amount of food we have to buy and packing it in plastic bags, also
A YORK graduate has won a competition for his start-up business which targets plastic waste management in developing nations. Matt Barrie who graduated from the University of York with a Philosophy, Politics and Economics degree in 2017, won
I refer to your recent article “700 lose disability benefits” (The Press, May 29).Although I am not one of the 700 you mention, as I live in the Ryedale area, even after appeal I also lost all of my Disability Living Allowance, which I was awarded indefinitely
Most employers are currently getting their houses in order when it comes to reporting employee benefits and expenses ahead of the 6 July 2018 deadline. At the end of the tax year, employers may need to inform HMRC if any taxable benefits were handed out
A COMMERCIAL partnership between two waste management companies is resulting in £500,000 being spent on the upgrade of a liquid waste treatment facility on the outskirts of York.Yorwaste, which employs 320 people and is the largest waste management company
WICKED is the untold story of the Witches of Oz, in other words what happened before The Wizard Of Oz. Actors like to come up with a back story for their characters, but here novelist Gregory Maguire has done their work for them in Wicked: The
For many people summer means holidays. And for York, holidays – or to be more accurate, visitors – keep the place ticking over.The statistics make interesting reading. According to the York Visitor Survey 2015, every year we welcome 6.9 million visitors
STING'S musical The Last Ship docks at York Theatre Royal from Monday for a week on its return to Yorkshire after its early May run at Leeds Grand Theatre. Such was the reaction to this agit-prop piece of musical theatre in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt
REIGNING champions Holgate WMC moved to the top of the York Amateur Bowls League on a night of whitewashes in the first division. Holgate took full advantage of RI Amateurs’ bye with a convincing 8-0 win over Haxby Road, which moved them half-a-point
A NORTH Yorkshire producer of meat based snacks is set to report record sales this month as it launches three new product ranges.York based, New World Foods (Europe), which manufacturers biltong and jerky under its flagship brand Kings Elite Snacks, has
YORK City Knights' dual-registered players have four games left in which to tally up the necessary number of appearances to be able to feature at the business end of the season - and boss James Ford has admitted this may play a part in his team selection.In
PICKERING Town will be relying on team spirit rather than big money during their first season of Evo-Stik League football.Experienced manager Paul Marshall believes that the Pikes will be operating with the smallest budget in the Northern Premier League
YORKSHIRE have drafted in Grant Flower to work with their batsmen this week.Flower, the former Zimbabwe batsman and currently the batting coach of Pakistan, linked up with the squad during training yesterday ahead of their Specsavers County Championship
YORK enjoyed the fastest consumer sector employment growth in the UK in the final months of last year, according to a new report.Produced by national law firm Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), the Consumer Powerhouse
A 71-YEAR-OLD York man extradited from Spain to face charges of abusing three children in the 1970s and 1980s has died. Dennis Batty of Vesper Walk, Huntington was charged with three charges of indecent assault and one of gross indecency after
POLICE are investigating after the alleged attempted abduction of a toddler from a coffee shop in York. A York mum, who asked not to be named, said she and her two-year-old son were sitting in the coffee shop in Museum Street last week, when the
A RACIST who once tried to evade justice by fleeing to America has been jailed for nine months for a hate crime against his neighbour. Judge Paul Worsley QC told Simon Guy Sheppard, who has several convictions for hate crimes, he had expressed
WOULD you like to see your photographs on this page?More than 1,000 readers have joined The Press Camera Club, which launched in June 2017 and brings together talented amateur photographers from across York and North and East Yorkshire to share their
A COMMUNITY interest company which runs telecare alarms for older and disabled people in York could go into administration if council bosses don’t step in. Be Independent runs alarm systems and specialist equipment hire for disabled and elderly
From our archives:80 years agoYork City Council had taken on board the recommendation that the proposed new Technical School, Day School of Commerce, and School of Art should be erected in Hungate, a recently cleared area of the city, an alternative suggestion
SHE feared she would never have a baby after undergoing four heart operations as a child. But Kerry Hodges overcame the odds to give birth to her son Luke in 1996 - and now she’s about to become ‘the proudest woman in York’ as he prepares to get
EMINENT can spring a surprise on the second day of Royal Ascot by overturning hot favourite Cracksman in the Prince of Wales's Stakes today.Cracksman will obviously be tough to top as he arrives unbeaten in his last five starts, most recently landing
