A HUGE crowd will be in attendance at York for the 59th John Smith's Cup.This extended 10-furlong handicap is one of the highlights of the season on the Knavesmire and another fiercely competitive renewal is in store.Following impressive wins on Derby
THE organiser of a musical show which is being staged in York on Sunday says it will provide a pleasant alternative to the Wimbledon men's tennis final and the World Cup final for those who aren't into sport. The Bev Jones Music Company is performing
YORKSHIRE fought back superbly with the ball and in the field to secure a crucial come from behind Vitality Blast win over Durham by 10 runs at Emirates Riverside as they successfully defended a 158 target.The Vikings, inspired by Tim Bresnan, have now
RICHARD Fahey was fighting back the tears after Zap came from last to first to claim a poignant victory in the bet365-sponsored Silver Bunbury Cup at Newmarket.Earlier today it emerged the trainer's former apprentice Laura Barry had sadly lost her
RAVEN'S Lady put up a career-best performance to take Group Three honours in the William Hill Summer Stakes at York.Beaten at Listed level in her two previous races, Raven's Lady enjoyed the straight six furlongs on the Knavesmire to reverse Nottingham
Review: The Great Gatsby, The Guild Of Misrule, Castle Howard, tonight, Saturday and Sunday; party invitation for 7pm. Box office: at castlehoward.co.ukBACK in student-day 1981, you might have dreamed of joining Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder at a
IT was so hot, Josh Rouse was wearing his shades inside The Crescent! The doors stayed open, more in hope than expectation of cooling Sunday's ceaseless summer heat, but the ex-pat Nebraskan’s mellow, sundowner songs suited the balmy air. “
HEAD teacher Andrew Galbraith is moving on after three years in post at Ebor Academy Filey. In a letter of farewell to parents, Mr Galbraith, who leaves at the end of this term, praised the hard of work of staff and the achievements of students
YORK Central MP Rachael Maskell has presented two giant birthday cards to acting chief executive Mark Proctor and members of staff at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to celebrate the 70 years of the NHS.She said the cards marked the invaluable
FIREFIGHTERS went to the aid of two distressed animals in Ryedale today.During the morning rush hour, crews from Huntington, York, Malton and Ripon, combined forces to pull a cow out of the River Derwent at Buttercrambe using a boat and ropes. The animal
YORKSHIRE-BASED media artists are being invited to propose ideas for installations they would like to present in York city centre as part of York Mediale, the new international media arts festival taking place this autumn.Up to four local artists are
A TEAM of police officers, PCSOs and volunteers have begun to deliver a roadshow of 80 fraud prevention talks across the county.The Take Five North Yorkshire campaign will reach out to the heart of communities, in a bid to take fraud prevention advice
REVIEWING commitments elsewhere have led to the tardiness of this notice, so apologies to director Robert Readman, his cast and you, dear reader, for the delay. Thankfully, Readman’s production has been playing to good houses – Wednesday’s postponement
NON-STOP sunshine, soaring temperatures and a Royal visit were among the reasons organisers say made this year's Great Yorkshire show among the best ever More than 134,000 visitors, up from last year's 133,542 crowds, thronged the Harrogate showground
A NEW community cafe will be launched at Hull Road Park today as part of a family fun day.The event takes place between 1pm and 4pm tomorrow, Saturday, and as well as the cafe launch there will be an assault, climbing wall, crazy golf and other activities
YORK City are set to welcome back Jordan Burrow, Kallum Griffiths and Macaulay Langstaff for tomorrow’s pre-season home clash against Bradford City (kick-off 1pm). Burrow is back following a bee sting, Griffiths has recovered from an ankle problem
GRAVES at Selby Cemetery were "desecrated" by vandals this week. Selby Town Council said on Friday "several" graves were vandalised at the cemetery, including a fresh plot, with tributes and flowers scattered around the grounds. A spokeswoman
TRIBUTES have been paid to former advertising rep Nancy Buckley, who has died aged 91. Nancy spent 53 years in the newspaper industry. Initially working for the Pontefract and Castleford Express, she joined Newsquest, publishers of the Gazette
WORK has started on the former Homebase store in York. The major DIY and gardening retailer closed its shop on Foss Islands Road retail park earlier this month, following a final closing down sale with signs saying 'everything must go'. The
A NEW drinks festival celebrating the magic of Yorkshire is being held in Malton later this month. Taste The Magic of Yorkshire Beer, Wine and Gin Festival will be held at the Milton Rooms on Saturday, July 21, from 3pm to 11pm. Organiser Howard
FREE sexual health drop-in sessions are being held at Spark:York. Kate Allen, director of the Polarized Youth Group, is holding the ‘Let’s Talk Sex’ sessions from 7.30pm to 10pm on Wednesdays in July at the new business start-up and social space
PLANS have been unveiled to extend speed limit zones through Rillington in a bid to improve safety for pedestrians and drivers.Highways England is to prioritise reducing speeds through the village on the A64 following several meetings with Ryedale MP
A BRICKLAYER staged a grocery shoplifting expedition to York because he had no money in the run-up to Christmas, the city’s magistrates heard. Robert Page, 40, and a woman filled a trolley with items worth £289.09 at ASDA’s Jockey Lane store on
DUCKS are at the ready for the annual Slingsby Duck Race, which takes place on Saturday. The event is part of a family fun day, organised by the Friends of Slingsby School (FOSS) to raise funds for the school. The fun day takes place from 11am
PICKERING Rotary Club is to hold its third annual art exhibition in Pickering Memorial Hall, from Saturday, July 14 to Sunday, July 22.Opening from 10am to 5pm with free entry, it will showcase more than 40 local artists working in a wide variety of mediums.It
NORTH Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) will be swinging into the 1960s this weekend.The annual 60s Fest takes place on Saturday and Sunday. Visitors can enjoy live singing at Grosmont Station and see classic cars and live music at Goathland. Visitors can
YORK City Rowing Club's Junior Quadruple Scull team put on a gutsy performance in the Fawley Challenge Cup but lost out to the eventual winners in the second round.They were knocked out by the Windsor Boys' School, who went on to retain their
YORK City Rowing Club members did their club proud home and away at both the Summer Regatta on the Ouse and the prestigious Henley Women's Regatta on the Thames.The York Summer Regatta saw nearly 200 crews from clubs from as far afield as Cambridge
FIXTURES have been released for the 2018 Evo-Stik League east division.Pickering Town will kick off their first season at Step 4 against the familiar faces of AFC Mansfield and Pontefract Collieries, both of whom were in the Northern Counties East League
TWO police vehicles were involved in a crash with another vehicle after a pursuit in North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire Police said the collision happened at 9.20pm on Thursday on the B1261 Scarborough Road, at Seamer, near Scarborough. All of
A TEACHER and North Yorkshire town clerk has been jailed for 17 years for raping and indecently assaulting one of his pupils. James Andrew Husband, 68, of Wigginton, York, is the fifth teacher from leading independent school Christ’s Hospital School
THE latest New Earswick Angling Club match at Overton was won by Dave Humble with 5lb exactly. With the bream proving elusive, it was mixed bags of fish with some quality roach and perch that won on the day.Steve Baxter was second with 4lb and Dave Dyson
DETECTIVES want to find this man who allegedly drove a quad bike at two police officers.Lewis Matthew Berkley, 19, was the first person in York to be made subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order after aggressive and abusive behaviour which intimidated communities
THE world’s biggest image of a dinosaur has been created at York Maze to mark the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park. Farmer Tom Pearcy has cut the giant picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex attacking a Triceratops in his 15-acre field of maize plants
ON Thursday night, the Hathor Consort joined forces with vocalist Uday Bhawalkar and pakhawaj player Jasdeep Singh for an inspired bringing together of 16th-century polyphony and Dhrupad, an ancient classical vocal tradition centred on Hindustani raga-based
A SUSPECTED shoplifter who tried to evade police on a bicycle injured a member of the public and a police officer. North Yorkshire Police said officers responded to reports of a theft from Boots in Coney Street at about 11am on Friday, and pursued
MODFATHER Paul Weller will release his 14th album, True Meanings, on September 14 on Parlophone Records, and York fans will be hoping he previews new songs at his sold-out York Barbican gig on August 23.The 26th studio set of Weller's career with
GLAMOROUS women, posh frocks - and one or two breathtaking hats.It can only be a day at York races. From Friday, tens of thousands of people will be heading to York Racecourse for the John Smith’s 2018 meeting.To mark the event, we looked through the
I AM ashamed to admit that the whole World Cup triumph of 1966 passed me by. The only thing I remember was thinking how pretty Bobby Moore’s wife Tina looked. My excuse is that, being only 24-years-old at the time and having two small sons aged three
THE approval of Burton Stone Lane sheltered housing is another example of double standards in the planning system (“Support for new homes and community centre”, July 9).If that application had not been for the council itself but lodged by a private individual
YOU know when you’re a child and you want something you can’t have? That time when you asked Father Christmas for a real fire engine or a trip to the moon? What if Brexit turns out to be like that? What if it turns out that the rest of the EU did not
THE nerve of Cllr Anne Reid appears to have no bounds. She should know better than to put pen to paper to our local paper in her attempt to call for York to “receive fair funding” for public services (The Press, July 2).She is the deputy leader of a local
I AM really surprised it has taken so long for the York Museums Trust and English Heritage to start talking to each other about collaborating over the future of the York Castle site (“New tie-up for tower revealed”, July 5). I have been suggesting for
SOME people say that everything is cyclical. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about news, politics, fashion or history, over a long enough timeline, it becomes easy to see trends repeat themselves - as regular readers of my columns for the last
A MAN was pushed into a rock pool during an altercation in Scarborough.North Yorkshire Police said the incident happened on the South Bay on Tuesday, June 26, and the suspect was white, about 5ft 8in tall and very tanned. A spokeswoman said he was about
COLLEGE friends who reunited to create an online fashion site for women in their 40s have opened a summer pop-up shop in York.Hannah Roberts and Kari Owers are bringing their online brand Watson & White to Grape Lane until the end of July.They will be
A WELL-KNOWN vegan restaurant in York is closing at the end of next month, but the premises will reopen as a restaurant under new ownership. The award-winning El Piano, on Grape Lane, which has been serving vegan and vegetarian food to residents
The touring Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition returns to Beverley Art Gallery tomorrow. STEPHEN LEWIS reportsIF you haven't been to Beverley for a while, then here's the perfect excuse...The hugely popular touring Wildlife Photographer
A WOMAN in an electric wheelchair was verbally and physically abused in York.North Yorkshire Police said the woman and her husband were in The Village, Haxby, at about 2.15pm on Thursday, July 12, when they were verbally abused by two men in the street
A £2.45 MILLION scheme for a new public gym and sports centre on York's former Burnholme College site has been approved by City of York Council's executive.The new health and wellbeing campus will have facilities open for 75 hours a week, up by
A CCTV image has been released of man police want to speak to after a shoplifting offence at a store in North Yorkshire.Two bottles of vodka were stolen from Asda in Harrogate on May 28.Anyone who can identify the man in the CCTV is asked to phone North
TWENTY five new jobs are being created in Selby as £17 million green construction firm relocates its head office from Leeds. Planet Holdings has described the decision to leave the city in favour of Selby as a “natural business moved”. The
YORKSHIRE trainer Les Eyre will be aiming to upset the odds in the Group 3 William Hill Summer Stakes at York this afternoon – just like he did 21 years ago in the Sky Bet Ebor Handicap.East Riding-based Eyre will be on the Knavesmire to saddle his stable
MORE than 100 properties have had their water supply affected after a main burst in a North Yorkshire town. The burst happened on Finkle Street, in Thirsk, at around 4am today (July 13). A spokesperson for the company explained: “Water supplies
LONDON Skolars will be no pushovers tomorrow.That was the view of York City Knights boss James Ford ahead of his team's trip to New River Stadium (3pm).The Londoners were shocked 24-20 by Coventry Bears last week and lie 11th of 14 in Betfred League
YORK City will monitor five of their seven summer signings before deciding upon a squad for tomorrow’s third pre-season friendly against Bradford City.Tom Allan (knee), Jordan Burrow (calf), Kallum Griffiths (ankle) and Macaulay Langstaff (illness) all
THUNDERING Blue will bid for a course and distance repeat when he contests the 59th John Smith’s Cup at York tomorrow.The David Menuisier-trained five-year-old was impressive when winning a handicap over an extended mile and a quarter on the Knavesmire
A MAN who defrauded a scheme for the most needy has been given a community punishment. Paul Garratt, 49, cheated his way to a cooker and fridge freezer he didn't need from the York financial Assistance Scheme and then disposed of them, York magistrates
A VINEYARD on the outskirts of York is one of only four in the UK to receive Gold accreditation in a national awards scheme as it makes plans to expand next year.Yorkshire Heart Vineyard and Brewery, based at Nun Monkton, has been awarded a gold medal
A FORMER trainee teacher will never teach after police found images of babies and children being abused on his mobile phone. Simon Stanney, 27, had 257 sexual images of youngsters the youngest of whom appeared to be three-months-old, Jessica Lister
THE battle to prevent another devastating flood in York is set to be boosted by a new high tech early warning station being built upstream. The Environment Agency is building a new concrete lined channel under the River Nidd at Skipbridge to ensure
SHOES created by avant-garde British designer Vivienne Westwood have gone on display at York Castle Museum. Among the collection is the infamous Super-elevated Gillie platform heel of the 1990s – which caused supermodel Naomi Campbell to topple
TENS of thousands of people will be heading to York Racecourse over the next two days for the John Smith’s meeting. On Saturday, the richest ever running of the famous John Smith’s Cup raceday will see £385,000 on offer for the 59th staging of
A HUGE explosion at Bootham Crescent was the scenario presented to York Hospital medics in an exercise to prepare them for a major incident.Over 400 medics and support staff were told they were facing mass casualties from an explosion and set about treating
From our archives:80 years agoThe Lord Mayor Alderman C T Hutchinson, the City Sheriff, members and officials of York Corporation had all attended the funeral service at St Clément’s Church, York, for Alderman C W Shipley, who died at his home, Southlands
PEOPLE in York and Selby are more likely to be binge drinkers, according to a report into inequality in the city. While people within the Vale of York area can expect to live longer than the national average, York faces a number of 'health inequalities
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
LEICESTER dug up Bosworth-battered Richard III from beneath a car park. Now, avenging York, rejected as his rightful last resting place, has stuck him back in a car park for the summer. Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre reviewers had the longest wait
OMID Djalili's tour show may be called Schmuck For A Night, but he has been a schmuck for 110 nights already and has now added York's Great Yorkshire Fringe to his itinerary. After taking a break from touring last summer to play Tevye in Chichester
Charles Hutchinson chooses his pick of the 2018 Great Yorkshire Fringe in York THE Great Yorkshire Fringe is turning Parliament Street green again as York’s festival of comedy, theatre, music and family fun returns for a fourth successive year
MERCURY Prize nominee Nick Mulvey will make his Pocklington Arts Centre debut on October 9 on his 18-date acoustic tour this autumn. The Cambridge singer-songwriter will be playing solo in Britain and Ireland after performing in a trio when touring
