YORK swimmer James Wilby took silver in the men's 200m breaststroke this evening at the European Championships. The 24-year-old from Strensall added to his second place in Saturday's 100m breaststroke – behind fellow Brit Adam Peaty – with another
PLANS for the York Central development took a step forward today as two senior councillors backed the scheme. City of York Council leader councillor Ian Gillies and deputy leader councillor Andrew Waller were asked to endorse a design guide for
ST Vincent, alias the innovative, experimental, enigmatic American singer-songwriter Annie Clark, plays a headline show at Leeds O2 Academy on August 28. Last year she released her fifth long player, Masseduction, which entered the British charts
A YORK political group said it has made a last minute attempt to stop the construction of a self storage warehouse they call a ‘monstrosity’. Storage company MJ McCarthy’s has applied for permission to build a facility next door to Aldi in Water
AFTER 700 applications from bands and musicians across the country keen to play at York’s Little Festival of Live Music, the line-up is in place for next month's event. Festival curator Ellen Cole will present 28 hours of live music on September
OSTMAN Road in Acomb will be closed from tomorrow for emergency sewer works to take place. A City of York Council spokesman said the road will be shut from 8am tomorrow morning, Tuesday, until midnight on Friday. A diversion will be signposted
A CYCLIST crashed into two women in Pocklington. Humberside Police said the cyclist collided with the women as they crossed Market Place in Pocklington at 1.20pm on Monday, July 30. Officers said the cyclists initially stopped at the scene but
DETECTIVES want to speak to this man in connection with the violent robbery of an 83-year-old woman. North Yorkshire Police issued this CCTV image after the robbery, which happened in Wreyfield Drive, Scarborough, at about 11.20am on Saturday, August
GUIDED walks, talks and Lego building sessions will make part of the first ever York Walls Festival this week. Community groups including volunteers from the Red Tower Group, Friends of York Walls, Explore York library and archives, The Jorvik Group
UNTIL now, the two supporting players in Patrick Barlow's stage adaptation of The 39 Steps have always been Man 1 and Man 2. Not anymore, thanks to Stephen Joseph Theatre artistic director Paul Robinson, who has cast Laura Kirman as Woman, in her
A MAN has denied causing the death of a 12-year-old girl by driving after taking cocaine and alcohol. Gary Smith was charged following a hit and run near a school bus shortly after the end of school on October 6, 2017, in Byram west of Selby.
YORK City midfielder Russ Penn has been declared fit to start tomorrow’s home clash with Stockport. Penn, 32, picked up an injury during the 1-0 defeat at Chorley in Saturday’s National League North curtain-raiser and was withdrawn after an hour
POLICE have launched an appeal for witnesses after three men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Officers were called to reports of a stabbing outside a bar in Selby at about 2.36am yesterday morning, Sunday. Four men from Selby
A TEENAGE boy was assaulted after a row in Tadcaster. Police are appealing for information after the incident, which took place on the High Street, near the bus station, between 7.15pm and 7.45pm on July 31. Officers say two men got out of a vehicle
FOUR students from Norton College were chosen to join in the celebrations to mark the Royal Air Force’s 100th birthday in London recently. The trip of a lifetime was first prize for winning a national competition, organised by the Historical Association
THE Bishop of Whitby, the Right Reverend Paul Ferguson, officially opened the Goathland Centenary Walk along with the relatives and wider community of the 12 local men it has been established to remember. The two-mile circular walk has been founded
NORTH Eastern comic Ross Noble knows how to make an entrance. When he plays the Grand Opera House in York on October 21, there will be a giant inflatable skull on stage and its mouth will fill with smoke, whereupon Noble will walk out of it. "My
DRIVERS are experiencing heavy delays on the A64 today following a crash. Highways England said the A64 eastbound is blocked between A19 and A166/A1079 Hull Road near York, while North Yorkshire Police deal with a crash between a lorry and car.
TOM Robinson, campaigning musician and BBC 6 Music presenter, will play the Tom Robinson Band's 1978 debut album, Power In The Darkness, in its entirety at Leeds Brudenell Social Club on October 16 on his 19-date autumn tour. This highly political
NEW Earswick All Blacks ARLC will need to win their last two matches to have any chance of escaping the drop in the Yorkshire Men's League premier division. Their 40-18 defeat to high-flying East Hull left them two points from safety and needing
YORKSHIRE Diamonds coach Paul Grayson rued a missed opportunity after his side were beaten by seven wickets against Western Storm. Defending Kia Super League champions Storm, replying to 172 for five, were fired once more by Indian star Smriti Mandhana
ELECTRONIC devices were stolen in a burglary at a seaside hamlet. Humberside Police said the burglary happened at The Cliffs in Wilsthorpe, near Bridlington, at about 9.30am on Thursday, July 26. An iPod and Samsung mobile Phone were stolen.
A FLORIST from York who has created a display for The Queen, will host an event in support of charity this weekend. Fiona Hogg will be the guest speaker at the Stunning Summer Evening of Flowers and Inspiration event in Dunnington, in aid of the
I write regarding Geoff Robb’s dig at the railways and unions (Letters, August 1). Many of the earlier problems stemmed from the war, when there was very little maintenance on 22,000 miles of track. Afterwards our country was bankrupt, we had the
THE Fulford and District branch of the Royal British Legion will hold its next meeting on Thursday August 9. The venue is the Fulfordgate WMC and the meeting starts at 7.30pm. All are welcome and further details may be obtained by phoning the
Let’s take a look at just one year in the suffering of our beautiful planet. Wars going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia and many more countries. Forest fires in Spain, Greece, Sweden, Florida and on Saddleworth Moor. Drought
YORK Acorn ARLC's hopes of reaching the National Conference League division one play-offs were dealt a huge blow when they lost 35-16 to their main rivals for sixth place, Pilkington Recs. Acorn's plight wasn't helped by the loss of in-form second-row
A while ago, waiting for a bus, I witnessed from a distance a collision between a car driven by a woman pulling out of a school exit road and a girl on a pushbike, on a designated cycle path which crossed the exit road. The girl, who finished up
A NEW, later train service is allowing theatre-goers from York and Malton to enjoy a trip to Scarborough, and in particular the Stephen Joseph Theatre, more often. No wonder this summer's cast for The 39 Steps – a play where a train journey is
IN Flaxton, we’ve had a leak outside our Village Hall since last autumn. Yorkshire Water’s contractors moved the water meter for the Village Hall to the other side of the leak in October, but did not fix the leak. The leak has been running ever
THIEVES stole leather riding saddles and other equipment last week. North Yorkshire Police said the theft happened overnight on Thursday, August 3, from a property in the Tadcaster area. The items stolen included a 17" Albion K2 GP black leather
KANE Williamson says Steve Patterson’s captaincy credentials have always been evident inside the Yorkshire dressing room. The New Zealand skipper’s early impressions of the White Rose seamer’s rise to the role in place of Gary Ballance have been
A WATCHDOG has rated every category of North Yorkshire County Council's social care 'outstanding'. Ofsted inspected the authority's children’s social care services, and North Yorkshire became the first and only authority nationally to have received
Bosses at York Castle Museum have decided that, after 80 years, it is time one of York's most popular attractions got a makeover. But first, they want to hear from the people of York about what they would like to see happen. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
WHILE having a rummage through old cupboards the other day, we stumbled across a battered white envelope shoved into the front of an old file. 'Precious pics - York wartime' said the writing scrawled on the front of the envelope.And precious pictures
IT goes without saying that summer and Saturday jobs prepare young people for careers in later life. This early experience of the workplace develops 'soft skills', particularly in areas such as customer service and time management, and builds
1 Brutish centre-backs can take you a long way in National League North City chief Martin Gray signalled his intention to assemble a “horrible” squad at the end of last season, as he looked to remedy a soft centre that saw the team keep just three
OVER the last four years, there have been an awful lot of books and memorials dedicated to the men (and some women) who gave their lives for their country in the First World War. And quite rightly, too.It is a relief for a change, however, to find a book
TWO North Yorkshire businesses in the food and drink industry are teaming up for a new collaboration.Michelin-starred restaurant, The Black Swan and Yorkshire’s self-built gin and whisky distillery, Cooper King Distillery, are working together on a new
ACOMB War Memorial is to be restored to its former glory by York Civic Trust in an £18,000 project. The move has delighted the sister of a York man whose name is on the memorial after being killed in the Second World War. Estra Eastwood, 91
PLANS for a self-storage warehouse next to a supermarket are set to be approved despite more than 65 people lodging objections to the building, calling it a “monstrosity”. Storage company MJ McCarthy’s has applied for permission to build a facility
A FUNDRAISING drive which started with a beer being named after a York restaurant’s assistant manager is to continue following his death from a brain tumour. Jon Moss, who worked at Walmgate Ale House, died in May, aged 39, two months after Jon
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
