Having just seen the York Amateur Operatic and Drama Society's excellent performance of South Pacific at the Theatre Royal, I was drawn into the comparison with the similarly fine show put on recently by the York Light Operetta Society and the York Musical
I wish to add my voice to concerns raised about the proposals to close the playroom at York District Hospital. As one of the founder members of the playroom I vividly recall the first weekend voluntary sessions we used to run in the old County Hospital
It will pain all Yorkshire football fans to do it but we should unite behind United tonight. The rest of the country will be supporting Manchester United's bid to win an historic treble by defeating Bayern Munich in the European Champions League Cup final
Racecourse rumour can often be a misleading source of fact, but if Break The Code is even half as good as he is reputed to be then the Red Ransom colt should make a winning debut at Newcastle tomorrow. For the last couple of weeks, whispers have grown
Raw potential to regain premier sporting status in the city convinced businessman Richard Collier to team up with York Rugby League Club. New Wasps' director Richard Collier at Huntington Stadium. Picture: Paul Baker The 53-year-old Collier, has been
Stonemason David Patterson at work at Rievaulx Abbey Picture by Richard Doughty The scaffolding is finally coming down at Rievaulx Abbey following one of the biggest conservation projects in the history of the 850-year-old monument. Over the past four
A York hostel is to be the place exhausted refugees from Kosovo will call their home when they first arrive in the city. Howe Hill Hostel, in Acomb, is one of two to be converted into "reception centres" which will house the refugees for between three
Jackie Black, of the Tower Street Pantry, muses over the sign pointing to the defunct Museum of Automata Baffled Japanese tourists are being lured to York to visit a museum of mechanical models - only to find it has been closed for two years and its contents
A former RAF pilot and a gunner who survived the most dangerous bombing raid of the Second World War have visited a museum near York to see a reconstruction of their plane. Joe Hitchman, 76, and his rear gunner Fred Tunstall, 77, were members of the first
I suppose someone must have designed that new layout at the junction of Beckfield Lane and Boroughbridge Road. By off-setting the roundabout they have created confusion and a potential hazard for motorists (or cyclists) travelling out of York and wishing
Dally dillys right into honey trap Bless his woolly rugby socks. He was just trying to secure sponsorship from a razor company. But in the event he got well and truly nicked by a cut-throat tabloid newspaper. We must feel sorry for poor Lawrence Dallaglio
York City Boys Under-15 team won the Yorkshire Trophy Plate football competition, beating Rotherham 2-1 in the final played at New Earswick. Liam Gargan, back row with cups, and St Aelred's School team-mates who are winners of the Primary Cup, Middlesbrough
The closure of the central reservation gap on the A64 at Colton Lane End is designed to make the road safer. And it will, when motorists stop treating the dual carriageway as some sort of arcade game. Our survey and pictures tonight will leave all sensible
Ex-York City star Jonathan Greening is poised for a dramatic intervention in Manchester United's Euro summit as they chase a treble dream. Greening may well get a bench-mark for tonight's European Champions' League showdown with Bayern Munich in front
Soldier Benjamin Johnson has been jailed for nine months for shooting painter and decorator Mark Piercy in the eye with an airgun. It had been an ordinary day for Mark Piercy. He'd been out with his friend, Bill Robinson and, as it neared 10 o'clock on
The renovation of a group of historic buildings has turned back the centuries in one of York's oldest and busiest streets, restoring timber-framed glories from the Tudor age. The interior of one shop, a house in the days of Shakespeare, will by the end
The woman who spent a night in comedian Lenny Henry's hotel room in York today said nothing happened between them. Blonde Merri Cheyne, who met Henry, 40, after his one-man show at the city's Barbican Centre earlier this month, said: "We didn't have sex
The closure of a notorious gap on the A64 has sparked another motoring menace - illegal U-turns through a different gap. The gap in the central reservation at Colton Lane End, between York and Tadcaster, was shut on Monday night for an experimental 12
