ELGAR'S Sospiri provided the title for the festival’s latest adventure, which was built around song-cycles by Britten, Tippett and Elgar himself. But it opened fittingly with Elgar’s only Violin Sonata, written exactly a century ago. The Swiss
IT’S pot luck time again. You know the programme in advance – this year, the festival’s 10th, British music rules – though you only find out the performers on arrival. But in this festival everyone’s a winner. So the events have a title, here Janus
AMERICAN country singer Dawn Landes returns to her Southern roots on her September 14 album Meet Me At The River on the Yep Roc label. After a wide-ranging career wherein Landes has toured the world in Sufjan Stevens' band, worked as a producer
GLAISDALE is beyond the back of beyond in the land of deep purple heather, and yet the Full House Tonight sign was up once more for Mark Stratton and Sheila Carter's moorland company on Tuesday's press night. Such is Esk Valley Theatre's reputation
THE ancient Egyptians developed embalming treatments earlier than previously thought, according to research by the University of York. Scientists from universities in York, Macquarie, Oxford, Warwick, Trento and Turin carried out forensic tests
THERE’S a distinctly watery theme to today’s selection of photos from The Press Camera Club. That may just have something to do with the fact that the theme for this month’s camera club competition is #water. We couldn’t possibly say... Even
A-LEVEL results in North Yorkshire are set to be among the top ten per cent in the country. North Yorkshire County Council said while the full picture in the county was not yet known, "it appears that overall performance has risen again this year
BRADFORD Alhambra pantomime legend Billy Pearce, Tommy Cannon, from comedy double act Cannon and Ball, and Benidorm star Crissy Rock will appear in the comedy musical Seriously Dead at the Grand Opera House, York, on October 4. This uplifting new
RECORDS were broken across York, North and East Yorkshire on A-level day 2018 - despite huge changes to the exam system and concerns over data protection. City of York Council said sixth forms - All Saints RC, Archbishop Holgate’s CE, Fulford,
Soul singer Aretha Franklin has died aged 76, her publicist has said. The long-reigning “Queen of Soul” who sang with matchless style on such classics as Think and her signature song, Respect, died at her home in Detroit. She had been suffering
THUNDERING Blue has today been supplemented for next Wednesday’s Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes at York. Winner of last month’s Sky Bet York Stakes over course and distance, he joins 10 other horses that stood their ground at the latest
THE great nephew of English writer and eccentric Edith Sitwell will present an unconventional composition on which she collaborated with Sir William Walton to conclude the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival. On August 25, food writer and critic
A BURGLAR was confronted by a homeowner in York. North Yorkshire Police were called at 12.15pm on Wednesday, August 15, after the owner of a property in Station Road, Upper Poppleton, reported an attempted burglary. A spokeswoman said the homeowner
YORK City boss Martin Gray is backing goal-less strikers Jordan Burrow and Jake Wright to hit the back of the net sooner rather than later. Wright netted three times in pre-season when Burrow also converted a penalty, but the pair are still waiting
TEAM GB rower and Huntington School pupil Lucy Edmunds is off to study at Yale University. Lucy, who rows for York City Rowing Club, got an A* in history, A in biology and A in maths. Lucy is looking to study ethics, politics and economics
RECORD producer and engineer Ken Scott, who worked with The Beatles and David Bowie, will be in conversation with Charm gig promoter and Harrogate journalist Graham Chalmers at Hampsthwaite Memorial Hall, near Harrogate, on September 7. This 7.30pm
ST AIDAN'S School in Harrogate is to host a Buddhist teaching event on Saturday, September 8. Buddhist teacher Lampa Jampa Thaye, who has written several books on Tibetan Buddhism, will be conducting a session for people of all levels of experience
FOODIES are being promised a mouth-watering treat at this year’s York Food and Drink Festival. Tickets are now available for the annual celebration, which will take place from September 21 to 30 in the city centre. This year, the festival organisers
EMMERDALE's Mark Charnock, aka chef Marlon Dingle, is to try out his real-life culinary skills at a Thirsk care home this weekend. Mark is heading to Hambleton Grange, on Station Road, Thirsk, for the care home's summer fair on Saturday afternoon
TRAINER John Gosden is set to bring a team brimming with stars to next week’s Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor Festival at York. He put several of his key contenders through their paces on the Newmarket gallops this week ahead of the four-day meeting,
VIKINGS are set to moor up in Selby for the first time in a thousand years. As part of a new art project in the town, a sculpture entitled Sailing Through Time, will highlight Selby's maritime past and offer new seating outside the Town Hall.
BUSINESSES in York have been invited to apply for £2,000 in grant funding to support apprentice recruitment. Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has launched a new Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (AGE) to boost apprenticeships across
A VISUALLY impaired York man who uses a wheelchair is set to take on a triathlon to thank a charity for helping him. Ian Wood, 40, of Acomb, will take part in the Superhero Triathlon in Windsor on Saturday, along with his sighted friend Sara Fleming
THE annual Rosedale Show is set to take place on Saturday. The show, which has been run since 1871 by the Rosedale and District Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society, will be held on the Milburn Arms Field at Rosedale Abbey, and will
THIEVES stole two mountain bikes from a cycle rack in York. North Yorkshire Police said the thefts both happened between 3pm and 7.30pm on Tuesday, August 14, at the cycle rack in St Andrews Gate. One of the bikes was a blue BMC Sports Elite
THE family and friends of 48-year-old woman who died from cancer just weeks after marrying her long-term partner have raised nearly £9,000 for the hospice which cared for her. Claire Rooke, from Nunnington, died in September 2016, just six months
Recent news pictures of Brits sunning themselves by the seaside or in parks during the heatwave shocked me. None of those I could see were wearing a hat. In Australia and for ‘ex-pats’ in Africa the safety code for hot weather is simple: suncream
Whatever happens after Brexit, I hope that everyone rallies around and supports our local hard-working farmers and butchers. They supply us with the best of British, and without them we could be down on our hands and knees one day. Ken Holmes,
I would like to think that everyone in the city of York has realised by now what a mess the council is making of running this city. King’s Square, Lendal Bridge, Leeman Road, Stonebow and Piccadilly are just a few of the insane ideas on traffic
TWO news reports in The Press on August 8 leave readers with a problem of what or who to actually believe. The first, ‘Fall in rural crime across North Yorkshire’, gives the impression that, while welcoming the reduction in rural crime, the police
YOUR correspondent Mike Huffington (Letters, August 14) rightly draws attention to the Laffer Curve, the phenomenon well known to economists but seemingly less so to those who imagine that increasing taxes is the answer to every Chancellor’s prayer
AN East Yorkshire chicken business has seen two of its staff join an exclusive club that places them in the top one per cent of the UK poultry industry. Soanes Poultry’s farms’ manager Mark Ireland and assistant farms’ manager, Keith Edeson, were
3:56pm That's it for today folks, but look out for full coverage of the GCSE results on our live blog next week.
RAM-raiders smashed into a kiosk and stole a cash machine at a petrol station near Selby early this morning (August 16). North Yorkshire Police said the incident at the Tesco Express petrol station, on Doncaster Road, in Brayton, was reported to
A WOMAN was taken to hospital after a chip pan caught fire at a house in North Yorkshire. Fire crews from Lythe and Robins Hoods Bay were called to the scene in Briggswath near Whitby at around 6.30pm yesterday (August 15). The occupants were
A WOMAN had two teeth knocked out when she was allegedly struck in the face by a man outside a restaurant in North Yorkshire. It happened between 1.30am and 1.40am on July 29 on St Thomas Street outside Cowshed in Scarborough, North Yorkshire Police
Between you and me (or should that be you and I?) the scandal revealed a conflict of interest among members of congress (or should that be between members of congress?). Let me start again. This week a national newspaper highlighted a grammar test
YORKSHIRE have signed leg-spinner Josh Poysden on a three-year-deal from Warwickshire. Leg-spinner Poysden, who recorded figures of 1-37 while representing the White Rose in the Specsavers County Championship victory over Lancashire at Emirates
A YORK web company founded as the UK economy balanced on the brink of recession is celebrating ten years in business. See Green is run by husband and wife duo Dan and Anne Taylor, and after a decade in businesses now boasts a team of six staff
CHOCOHOLICS will love the theme for this year’s Harrogate Flower Show. Plants that have given people pleasure for millennia will be featured and will include a centrepiece made from real chocolate. The heart of the Tempered Garden will take
YORK Acorn ARLC coach Leigh Paul-Rientoul has admitted that any losses now will make his side’s bid for the play-offs less likely. The Blue and Golds had been looking good on a three-match winning run in the National Conference League division one
DEMOLITION work at the Hudson House site in York city centre is almost complete, with work due to begin soon on the next stage of the development. Specialists have been working to demolish the 1960s building, which was formerly used as railway
TARGETS to build new homes in York have been missed for more than a decade. Figures released by the BBC’s shared data unit showed that in England in 2016-17 - the last full year of data available for overall new homes supply rates - 217,000 new
BOSSES of one of York’s biggest nightclubs have applied for planning permission to convert it into a restaurant and apartments - but insist it is NOT closing down. They say they may instead need to relocate Club Salvation if it finds itself “unsupported
PASSENGERS are “feeling the pain” over plans to increase rail fares by 3.2 per cent next year according to York MP Rachael Maskell. Under the fare hike, the cost of a season ticket between York and Leeds would rise to £2,386 in 2019, a price increase
DETECTIVES are continuing to investigate the death of Claire Lucas - as her heartbroken family have described her as being “happy, fun and loving”. Claire, 25, was found to have died on July 2 after officers gained entry to a flat in Fourth Avenue
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 The sluice boards at Norby’s waterfall and the constant flooding problem had been finally addressed at a meeting by Thirsk Parish Council. Presiding over the proceedings was Mr J Hall, who had brought to the attention
