FORMER soap star Roxanne Pallett is among the contestants taking part in this year's Celebrity Big Brother. The Minster FM breakfast show host, who formerly starred in Emmerdale, will join ex-Arsenal and Liverpool footballer Jermaine Pennant, Look
THE wait is over. Brit Award nominee Beth Rowley has finally released her second album, Gota Fria, fully ten years since her 100,00-selling debut Little Dreamer. In that time, soul, gospel, jazz and blues singer/songwriter Beth has become a fixture
THE first in a series of 'Conservation Days' has been held to celebrate the collection of a historical York house. Treasurer’s House hosted its first event on Monday, to give the public chance to get a closer look at its collection of antiques
AN 18-month-old Staffordshire bull terrier is looking for her forever home after being abandoned on Boxing Day with a broken leg. Tilly was taken to Minster Veterinary Practice, on York’s Salisbury Road, just after Christmas after being found with
MORE than a thousand people have signed a petition over access concerns at York Central. The landmark number of signatures on the petition follows an outline planning submission by York Central Partnership - a partnership between Homes England,
MACAULAY Langstaff has stressed that he is at York City to score more goals than he creates. The 21-year-old forward has been involved in both of the Minstermen’s only two goals so far this season, creating the first for midweek matchwinner Wes
A MOTHER has told how a York charity has saved her sanity – and saved her family from ‘total breakdown.’ The woman has written to thank SASH, which works to prevent youth homelessness in York and North and East Yorkshire by offering a room in the
KEVIN Hollinrake, MP for Thirsk and Malton, was one of the signatories in a letter calling for £100 billion of Government funding to transform northern England’s transport network. The demand comes at a time of significant problems on the region
THIEVES stole three medals from a house in Scarborough. North Yorkshire Police said a Pacific Star, a Second World War Star and a Second World War medal were stolen in a burglary in the town, and belonged to the homeowner's late father. Police
A MAN has been arrested in connection with a rape investigation. North Yorkshire Police said the incident happened at about 3am on Sunday in the alley between the Black Lion public house and the NCP car park on North Street, Scarborough, when the
HEWORTH ARLC stayed top of Yorkshire Men’s League division one after a 40-10 success at fellow promotion-seekers Hunslet Parkside ‘A’ - despite not being at their best. Playing on a narrow pitch, the Villagers trailed 10-6 at the break after a poor
YORK City boss Martin Gray expects tomorrow night’s trip to Ashton United to present his team with their “toughest game” so far this season. The Minstermen have kicked off the campaign with a couple of defeats to last season’s National League North
VICTIMS of revenge porn are still being urged to take part in an anonymous, online survey to try and change the law. Currently, victims have no protection in law which means anyone can name them in newspapers, social media and online. Police
POLICE found what is believed to be an imitation gun in a car after stopping an 18-year-old in Selby. Police stopped the car as it was being driven along Bawtry Road at around 8pm on Sunday. The suspected imitation gun was found under a seat
1 The Minstermen look more likely to score with Jon Parkin and Macaulay Langstaff on the pitch Jordan Burrow and Jake Wright have now started each of the opening three matches of the season up front in Martin Gray’s favoured 4-4-2 formation. But
A YORK restaurateur has opened a new bistro above a bar in the city centre. Michael Hjort, who founded Melton’s restaurant on Scarcroft Road in York, is also the proprietor of Walmgate Ale House. He has now launched the ‘Chopping Block’ restaurant
HEAD coach James Ford believes York City Knights are well prepared to cover the loss of Colton Roche. As reported by The Press, on-loan prop Roche was due to play against West Wales on Saturday only to be recalled by parent club Huddersfield Giants
THE York Minster Engineering League premier division returned with a bang as Dringhouses upset defending champions Wigginton Grasshoppers in some style to cause an opening-day upset. The visitors dominated much of the game and deservedly won with
THE Joseph Rowntree Theatre Company is to stage a three-night run of Kiss Me Kate from February 7 to 9 to raise money for building improvements at the Haxby Road theatre in York. Auditions for principal and ensemble roles in Cole Porter’s musical
A HUSBAND and wife who have both had organ transplants are celebrating a new haul of medals after competing in the British Transplant Games. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Richard Caulkin from Clifton spent three years on the transplant list – and was
THOUSANDS of teenagers in York, North and East Yorkshire will be receiving their A-level exam results on Thursday. Statistically more than three quarters of students who want to go to university are likely to get into their first choice. But not
Yorkshire’s hopes of emerging from a “topsy-turvy” Vitality Blast North Group remain high, although Martyn Moxon admits they have to improve. Those quarter-final qualification hopes have been dented by back-to-back defeats against Lancashire and
I READ that under threat of a boycott, a spokesman for Walkers Crisps has promised that by 2025 they will have replaced their plastic packaging by material which is recyclable, compostable or bio-degradable. Some older readers may recall the original
A REPORT of the Government’s Air Quality Expert Group was given to ministers in 2015 but was not published for three years - when it quietly appeared on the library page of the air quality website. This was no oversight, as the report was released
A WRITER, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, once said: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” Well, it’s not quite that bad, but poor old Boris has managed to upset a lot of people just recently with his
ON the day Sports Direct bales out House of Fraser, I wonder if Tim Murgatroyd has made up his mind whether he wants the High Street to thrive or die. In his article (The Press, August 8) he began by writing “it is increasingly obvious that retail
WITH reference to the recent letters about cyclists, can anyone remember the last time an article appeared in The Press where a cyclist was prosecuted for any offence. Such as, riding on pavements, in pedestrian only zones, going through red lights
WITH regard to recent letters about the state of the railways, I read in the national press that nine out of 10 rail journeys made in the UK last year were on lines operated by foreign companies all partly state-owned. I cannot understand why this
SCOTT MARMION is half right in his latest letter. I agree that no-one voted for Julia Mulligan to take control of the fire service; a power grab if ever I saw one. However, there is more behind the separation of police and commissioner powers
A YORK design agency has welcomed the milestone of having taken on its 20th member of staff, just two years after the company almost folded. Mobile app agency The Distance has boosted its team number to 20, two years after having to cut back to
TWO fires involving bales of straw in Copmanthorpe are believed to have been started deliberately. Fire crews from Acomb and York were called to Temple Lane at around 6.35pm yesterday (August 12) where 80 straw bales were alight. The crews
We promised you more photos of wartime York: and here they are. As we explained last week, we came across a collection of old photographs showing life on the home front in York during the war when we were rummaging through some cupboards recently
We have various scenes of city life from the early part of last century for you in the second part of Yesterday Once More this week, courtesy of another trawl through Explore York's wonderful Imagine York archive. There's not much to link them,
STRIKE action may be looming at York Hospital over controversial proposals to transfer NHS staff to a subsidiary company. Members of the Unite union affected by the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s plans have voted overwhelmingly in
PARENTS and carers of adults with learning and physical disabilities have slated new daytime care arrangements in York. They were speaking out after the provision of care switched to Burnholme, following the closure of Burtonstone Community Centre
A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl from near York has been diagnosed with a chromosome condition so rare that only eight other cases are known in the world. The parents of Ellouise Thompson say their world has been turned upside down since doctors diagnosed the
NEIGHBOURS have rallied round an 82-year-old widow who was burgled by a cocaine addict as she slept, York Crown Court heard. The court heard that Peter Alan Johnson Deighton, 25, hooked the woman's handbag out of the kitchen window of her Acomb
PLANS for a five-storey apartment block to be built in the city centre have been approved, despite fears that some residents will lose their views of York Minster and that the scheme does not include enough affordable housing. The building, which
A YORK student who was sexually attacked while she slept has claimed the University of York does not support sex victims. The woman was in her third year when she woke to find a fellow undergraduate abusing her, Michael Collins, prosecuting, told
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
From our archives: 85 years ago Six hundred additional police officers were having to be drafted in to help with the King’s visit to Leeds, thanks to a rather lengthy procession route. The additional men from various centres would be used to
