HART Stopper can secure his own little piece of racing history by landing the Diomed Developments Optional Claiming Handicap at Yarmouth.The six-furlong event is the first of its type to be run in this country, with the British Horseracing Authority hoping
LIGHTS, camera, action. Not quite what you expect in opera, but Nina Brazier’s new production of Così introduced a reel-to-reel camera during the overture and all the paraphernalia of a film set. It subtly indicated that we were in the 1950s, which
B-FEST, York's independent beer, blues and folk festival, returns to York Barbican on August 17 and 18 for a second year.Organised by the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) and York Barbican, the festival brings together 200 real ales and ciders
WELSH rock band Stereophonics are in Scarborough on Thursday night after promoters Cuffe and Taylor responded to fans' demands to bring Kelly Jones and co to the Yorkshire coast. They play Europe’s largest open-air arena on the back of their tenth
SOUTH Shields comedian Chris Ramsey makes the first of two visits to York this year with his new show, The Just Happy To Get Out Of The House Tour, on Saturday at York Barbican at 7.30pm. He will return on September 22 to play the Grand Opera House
YORK Central MP Rachael Maskell will meet Health Minister Steve Barclay on Wednesday to press for public land at Bootham Park Hospital to be used for affordable and social housing for NHS staff.She will argue that the grounds of the former psychiatric
A MAN was cut free by firefighters after being trapped in a car following a crash on the A19 between York and Easingwold.A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said the collision involved a BMW and a Fiesta van, and happened at Shipton
YOU can’t stop the heat this mad summer, and you can't stop the beat either at the Grand Opera House where Hairspray, the feelbest of all the feelgood musicals, will be playing to big houses all week. Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman's Sixties pastiche
A PLAQUE has been planted in the garden of a York theatre in honour of renowned York musician Bev Jones.Mr Jones, 75, of Copmanthorpe, who sang as a schoolboy at the Queen’s Coronation and became a leading singer, composer, arranger, teacher and musical
A TEENAGE boy has been arrested on suspicion of assault following a disturbance outside Selby High School. North Yorkshire Police said the incident happened at about 3.30pm yesterday in Leeds Road and urged anyone who witnessed it or events surrounding
THIS spectacular image of a bolt of lightning crossing the sky was captured in a North Yorkshire village by Press Camera Club member Linda Ullathorne. The photo was taken in Ampleforth as thunderstorms swept across a swathe of the county on Monday
TWO plays by Alan Bennett, Northern Broadsides in a political satire set in Brexit Britain and Phoenix Dance Theatre’s new Windrush work stand out in York Theatre Royal’s autumn and winter line-up. Award-winning actor Matthew Kelly returns to York
YORKSHIRE and the Humber has seen the largest regional quarterly fall in unemployment in the country - with the rate down by 19,000 to 122,000. The regional rate has more than halved since 2010, according to official figures released by the Office for
RESIDENTS in the Selby area have been urged to ensure their vote counts and look out for their voter registration details in the post.Annual canvass forms have recently been sent out by Selby District Council ahead of district and parish council elections
AUSTRALIAN soap star, pop icon and musical actor Jason Donovan is having an another Amazing Midlife Crisis at Pocklington Arts Centre.In response to "phenomenal demand" for tickets for his February 5 show next year, Donovan has decided to spend
THE NHS 111 service is now available online to residents in the Vale of York.Residents can receive medical help or advice from NHS 111 online using their smartphone, tablet, laptop or other digital device, at 111.nhs.ukThe service helps users determine
ROYAL Ascot winners Calyx and Soldiers Call are both among the first entries for the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival’s Group Two Al Basti Equiworld Gimcrack.The York Racecourse meeting’s famous two-year-old races often unearth future equine greats
THE York Helmet - the best surviving Anglian Helmet in Europe- has come back home after going on tour to Nottingham and Southport.The helmet was discovered when it was struck by the claw of a mechanical digger during an archaeological dig in Coppergate.It
WAS Richard III a hero or villain?You may hear Shakespeare's character assassination in his hatchet-job History play, Richard III, at Shakespeare's Rose Theatre on the Castle car park until September 1, or experience a more balanced account in
A NEW policing scheme has seen more than a dozen people arrested in York city centre over issues raised by the local community.Operation Fisherman is a partnership between North Yorkshire Police and York BID's Street Rangers, which saw foot patrols
ESK Valley Theatre have chosen Noël Coward's Private Lives for their summer production at the Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, near Whitby, from August 9 to September 1. Director Mark Stratton and producer Sheila Carter are working with their biggest
YORK photographer Simon Palmour puts the undervalued Yorkshire Wolds in the frame in his Pocklington Arts Centre exhibition.Palmour has been a photographer for more than 35 years, with his work having been published and exhibited across the country, not
SO, our gallant football team return home as heroes from Russia. I think we’d have settled for a semi-final slot before the competition kicked off. But let’s put England’s run into perspective. We advanced from an easy group, past Columbia and Sweden,
IN the Traffic Notices (The Press, July 13) mention is made of the traffic restrictions in force outside the school in Hamilton Drive.I suppose it is just a coincidence that this notice is issued a week before the school breaks up for the summer break.During
LAST week I queried the motives of those orchestrating Brexit. With Trump’s visit we kiss goodbye to the ‘what ifs’ and see the face behind the mask.As far as Trump is concerned what awaits the UK are humiliation and servility. He doesn’t do democracy
THE York Dungeon is celebrating the reign of the Yorkist King, Richard III, this summer.The attraction is inviting guests to decide whether the controversial king was a hero or villain, as it takes some of its most popular shows back in time to the Wars
RESIDENTS looking for medical help can now use the NHS 111 service online.The resource means patients can ask questions about symptoms, discover where to get the most appropriate treatment and get advice.Dr Kevin Smith, from Vale of York Clinical Commissioning
MALTON & Norton Golf Club's David Hague was part of the England line-up which netted silver at the European amateur team championship for the second year in a row. The 21-year-old has become a mainstay of the men's team, who were aiming for a
THE popular British Open Darts Championship is returning to Bridlington with the cream of men’s and ladies’ darts from across the UK and Europe.Bridlington Spa will play host to the championship from September 21 to 23. The British Open involves a darts
FULFORD Golf Club has been chosen by England Golf as the host venue for the 78th edition of the Carris Trophy.The championship is open to male under-18 amateur golfers of all nationalities and is played over 72 holes of stroke play over four days.This
A MAN and two women have been arrested after a fight which involved at least five people in Selby. North Yorkshire Police said the fight began outside the Abbey Vaults in James Street at about 7.10pm on Friday, June 29, and continued into Portholme
ON STAGE Academy is seeking young performers, both experienced and beginners, to appear in The Railway Children at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre in August.The Leeds youth theatre academy, based at The Carriageworks Theatre, will present a potted and
RESIDENTS in a North Yorkshire town have been urged to ensure their homes are secure after a string of burglaries. North Yorkshire Police said there had been an increase in burglaries in and around Harrogate in recent weeks. A spokesman said
ANTIC Disposition are taking Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing to seven English churches this summer, including Beverley Minster tonight and Ripon Cathedral on Friday and Saturday.Set in a sun-drenched French village celebrating the new
YORK band The Howl & The Hum will perform at August 19's Lazy Sunday Afternoon at Leeds Wharf Chamber. The curators, Bradford’s cinematic alt-rock quartet Glass Mountain, first put on a Lazy Sunday line-up last summer and now return with Leeds
A STUDENT from a York university has been awarded an honour by the Duke of York.Lauren Hall graduated from York St John University, and was recognised by Prince Andrew for her entrepreneurial skills, after she launched her own production company.Lauren
POCKLINGTON Canal has gained a Green Flag Award, highlighting the 200-year-old waterway it as one of the country’s most attractive open spaces.Cared for by waterways and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust, the nine-and-a-half canal is known and enjoyed
AN AMBITIOUS startup owner will be taking the plunge and swimming across the second largest lake in the Lake District for a cancer charity. Alex Lester, 28, originally from Selby, will swim 7.5 miles across Ullswater in a bid to raise £1,000 for
FROM Arctic Monkeys and The Fall to York's own Battle of the Bands and...Blazin Squad, Fibbers has hosted some of the greats. As one of the country’s longest running and best loved live music venues, it continues to be central to some of the city's
POLICE are appealing for help to find a missing woman who boarded a train to Scarborough.Denise Birdsall, 52, left her home in Garforth at about 9.30am yesterday, Monday.She was last seen wearing pink tracksuit bottoms, a baggy lilac jumper and black
Yorkshire have signed Warwickshire leg-spinner Josh Poysden for just one match.The 26-year-old will join the White Rose on loan for the Specsavers County Championship Division One clash with Roses rivals Lancashire at Old Trafford from Sunday.Yorkshire
A DRINKER who caused problems at McDonald’s Blake Street branch in York has been fined. Jamie Adam Kendra, 34, was on a conditional discharge for his part in a fight at the fast food restaurant when he was obnoxious towards police called to deal with
THE Press headline shocked and saddened me. ‘York’s Spurriergate Centre has suddenly closed.’ Memories of February 1994 returned. I had moved to York from Buckinghamshire in January 1994 and remarried.I knew nowhere and no-one, other than my new husband
A TEENAGE boy is in a critical condition in hospital after he was involved in a collision with a car while riding his bike in the Selby district.A black Volkswagen Passat and a white BMX style bike being ridden by a 15-year-old boy collided on the A19
Two friends have set up a luxury handbag business from one of the best locations in York, reports MAXINE GORDON PICTURES: Suzanne Braithwaite FRANCESCA McClure is spoilt for choice when it comes to a room with a view at her home in York.
A MASSIVE clear-up operation is underway today at a school near York after severe flooding when thunderstorms swept the area last night. Outwood Academy Easingwold has been closed to all but Year 10 pupils today, and a summer concert planned for
THE Hunters York & District Senior League leaders left it late to secure their third straight win, scoring 120 inside the final 12 overs against Bolton Percy.Toby Giddings, with 63 off 29 balls, and an unbeaten half-century from Nick Brunner (51no) ensured
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge extended the lead over the chasing pack in Hunters York & District Senior League Division One with a four-wicket win over a Pocklington side who had won their previous two matches to finally climb out of the relegation places. Andrew
ANTONY Chilton’s towering penalty goal from the halfway line clinched a tense 16-14 win for York Acorn at National Conference League first division hosts Oulton Raiders. Having earlier converted tries from Matthew Woods and brother Matthew Chilton as
ACOMB Conservative Club saw off close division one rivals Fulfordgate 5-4 in their York John Smith's Ladies Darts League clash.'Gate's Dawn Exton snatched the opener with a 87 bull finish before Natalie Bosworth, Gina Whittaker and Tracey
YORK City Knights have warded off interest in sought-after head coach James Ford by giving him a new improved contract - and making him full-time.The club say the deal - which ties the 35-year-old to the Minster city for the next three seasons, until
TWO triathletes have vowed to press ahead with an Ironman challenge later this month despite coming off their bikes in a collision during a training ride. York man Stephen Phillips, 55, said he and John Bevan, 53, from Barlby, Selby, were lucky
A SCHOOLBOY who is recovering from his third heart operation hopes to celebrate his new lease of life by taking on the Jane Tomlinson Junior run 'to give something back'. Cameron Scott, who is 11, underwent emergency, lifesaving keyhole surgery
LANDLORDS of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) are facing tough new regulations in York in a bid to improve the standard of accommodation for tenants. City of York Council says smaller properties will have to be licensed as HMOs in future, irrespective
A MAN who feared becoming blind when he developed a disorder which had already claimed the vision in one eye has told how York Hospital saved his sight. Brian Webster, 76, of Clifton, lost the sight in his left eye due to complications from a detached
A MUM has been left “devastated” after a small silver love heart - a gift from her late daughter - was stolen in a burglary. Helen Race, 51, of York, took to social media to post a video pleading with the thieves to return the trinket, which bears
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
From our archives:80 years agoRadio’s colourful production “The Woman Between” had been brought to life by two of screen’s foremost dramatic artists together for the first time. Showing at Easingwold cinema Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins starred in the
HIGH ON LIGHT can shine brightly on her second start following a lengthy lay-off when she goes for staying honours in the 132nd Year Of The Watt Memorial Handicap at Beverley today.The five-year-old mare returned from a 284-day absence with an encouraging
