YORK Acorn star Johnny Waldron has been lauded a "little guy with a massive heart" after collecting one of the top accolades in amateur rugby league. The young Yorkshire flier was named the British Amateur Rugby League Association's open age Player of
THERE is plenty of good racing to look forward to at York tomorrow and also at Newbury, where a horse who shone on Knavesmire last month is poised to take centre-stage in Britain's most prestigious all-aged middle-distance race. Azamour, trained in Ireland
A NEW national headquarters in Thirsk has been completed and handed over to Zyro Ltd, the cycle clothing and outdoor accessory distributor. The new £1.4 million purpose-designed base at Thirsk Industrial Park has been officially handed over after being
TWO business ventures are enjoying success in a Ryedale market town. Tui's caf bar and Thai restaurant, Yorkersgate, Malton, has attracted 9,000 diners in only six months. It has been so successful that it now employs 15 full and part-time staff. Manager
Solicitor Nick Sheppard has been appointed head of employment law at the York office of Langleys. Mr Sheppard, previously of Pinsent Masons in Leeds, brings to the job his experience in all major areas of employment law, including industrial relations
YORKSHIRE began and ended the day brightly at Scarborough yesterday where they were fired out for 187 by Leicestershire who picked up a first innings lead of 179 and then declined to enforce the follow-on. At Grace Road in mid-May, Yorkshire pulled off
Singer Laura Cantrell tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON how signing to a new label has allowed her to look at her music in a different way. JOHN Peel could spot a talent. Not only the well-catalogued The Fall and The Undertones or the rushing blood of thrash metal
CHARLES HUTCHINSON introduces the festival line-up at Harrogate. Youssou N'Dour and Van Morrison lead the line-up for 40th Harrogate International Festival. The festival opens today with director William Culver-Dodds assembling old and new faces in classical
THE Hunters York Senior League Joe Lumb XI continued their good form, defeating the Bradford League by 14 runs, at Undercliffe. Captain Stephen Sacks gave York a good start with a stylish 34. Michael Linsley held the innings together scoring 29, while
YORK Cricket Club's unremitting programme commits them to another double header this weekend. Tomorrow they are at home to lowly Rotherham in the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. The Clifton Park side will be keen to return to winning ways
RAY Galton eventually let his curiosity get the better of him. Steptoe & Son, his treasured comic creation with Alan Simpson, is to be revived this autumn not on television but on the stage of York Theatre Royal in the world premiere of Steptoe &
NORTH Ferriby ballet dancer Xander Parish takes up his six-month probationary contract with the Royal Ballet on August 25. Before then, York dance enthusiasts can enjoy seeing 19-year-old Xander in action at the Yorkshire Ballet Seminar's Summer Gala
JOHN Godber brought real sports to the theatre, Rugby League in Up'n'Under, and judo in Blood Sweat And Tears, and gave them a newly choreographed clout on stage. For his 50th play, after a run of adult dramas full of wistful reflection, writer-director
IMAGINE being so scared of life outside your front door that leaving the house could cause you to become breathless, frightened, and in tears. For 21-year-old Helen Cobley, who sufferers from panic attacks and acute agoraphobia, that life is a reality
A CALLOUS dog owner has escaped going to jail after making his pet's life a living hell of prolonged torment. In the week that saw shocking new figures on animal cruelty in North Yorkshire, the city's magistrates heard how Dekker Ashton threw his terrified
HELLISH neighbour Jane Elcock has been ordered to leave her home after two years of obnoxious behaviour. The young mum will be evicted from her Imperial Court house, at Clifton, York, after a court heard of how she made other residents' lives miserable
A PROMINENT furniture store in York city centre is to close in September because of "a combination of steep car parking charges and out-of-town competition". Peter Green, 65, and his wife, June, plan to shut the doors of Greens Furniture World, the branch
BEACHES are great places for the family, but just a day baking in the sunshine could have serious repercussions. Health chiefs believe that for every 200 children playing on the beach, four will suffer melanoma at some point in their lives and one will
GLASGOW-born left-back Stephen Crainey returns to Celtic Park with Leeds United on Sunday, looking to put one over his former Southampton boss Gordon Strachan. It was Strachan who signed Crainey from Celtic for the Saints, but only a few weeks later he
LITTLE Daniel Barker has good reason to smile - and its all thanks to a herd of goats. From the day he was born, Daniel, aged two, was constantly sick, suffered terrible tummy aches and never slept through the night. His troubled mother, Jayne, of Badger
HARTLEPOOL United have offered to send out-of-favour players and promising youngsters to York City next season. The League One outfit visit KitKat Crescent for a friendly tomorrow (3pm) armed with a collection of Minstermen old boys. Lee Bullock, Michael
Peugeot says that its new 1007 is designed to make life easier, and will write a new chapter in the design and safety standards of small family cars. Motoring Editor Malcolm Baylis checks it out. PEUGEOT has a tremendous record when it comes to revolutionising
CINEMA hot property Gael Garcia Bernal found early fame in Mexican TV soap El Abuelo Y Yo, and Salma Hayek dazzled in the Eighties series Teresa and Un Nuevo Amanecer. Now, in an international exhibition premiere at Impressions Gallery in York, Mexican
Introducing...YUMI York Unifying and Multicultural Initiative and Expressions!, its multicultural food and arts festival which takes place this weekend. YORK has a predilection for celebrating the dead - the Romans, the Vikings and early classical music
RICKY Gervais smarmed and sneered his way through his much anticipated new comedy Extras on BBC2 last night. He plays Andy Millman, a wannabe actor condemned to play walk-on roles or merge into crowd scenes, all the while grumbling about the stars. But
MY reaction when I saw the proposed plan for cycle and footpaths along the A1237, was exactly opposed to that of Philip Robinson. Good! I said. About time too. If Mr Robinson has never seen a cyclist on the A1237, he doesn't use the road as often as I
BILL Hearld's columns are always enjoyable and none more than the one about magic - the Harry Potter variety (July 19). I have tremendous admiration for Miss Rowling. From her unenviable position of bringing up a young daughter alone, she decided that
IN reply to Bill Hearld's column "Evil? oh not Potter..." (July 19), I say: "Evil? Oh yes, Potter." The recent bombings in London had a satanic signature, because the atrocities were carried out in conjunction with the important occultist number, 777.
FOR those of us who can be bothered to recycle plastics, there is only one point in York where there is a collection point and it is bottles only. Last weekend I trudged down to Foss Islands with two bags of plastics only to find that both the bins were
HARTLEPOOL United have offered to send out-of-favour players and promising youngsters to York City next season. The League One outfit visit KitKat Crescent for a friendly tomorrow (3pm) armed with a collection of Minstermen old boys. Lee Bullock, Michael
We've gone from floods to a fire risk on the North York Moors in the space of a month. What's going on? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. IT IS scarcely a month since areas of the North York Moors were hit by devastating flash floods. Yet now, national park chiefs
STAMFORD Bridge batting sensation Lorenzo Ingram is hoping to break a Hunters York and District Cricket League record set by fellow West Indian Collis King. Ingram, 22, is also dreaming of matching his Caribbean compatriot on the international stage by
SALES from the Yorktest group leapt by nearly 40 per cent in the first six months of this year, its new managing director Robert Whitemore revealed today. By winning the Queens Award For Innovation last year, the York organisation, which has perfected
ALFIE, those roguish proponents of sunshine pop from the rain town of Manchester, have struck regal form on their new album on the aptly named Regal label. York has an early chance to hear the pick of Crying At Teatime on Monday, ahead of its August 15
...Gwyneth Herbert, the 23-year-old jazz singer with Hampshire and Surrey village roots and a Durham University degree in English Literature. Do you like the intimacy of cabaret performances? "I do actually. I've played all sorts of venues over the last
QUEEN fans need no reminder that Freddie and co released the bombastic but fantastic album A Day At The Races in 1976. Tomorrow evening, appropriately, tribute act Killer Queen play after the races at York Racecourse as part of the Music Showcase Weekend
AT the very last minute, even as the Ryedale Festival programme book was going to print, Duo di Bassi had to cancel their performance at Botton on July 29, because of a repetitive strain injury to double bass player Jiri Hudec. The Wihan Quartet will
PAUL Laidlaw presents an evening of music, anecdotes and more from his career as a professional actor and director on Sunday (24th) at the National Centre of Early Music, York. Paul, York Musical Theatre Company's artistic and musical director, will be
Lunasa visit Pocklington Arts Centre on Tuesday (26th) at 8pm in their first show in the York area since selling out the National Centre for Early Music in April 2004. Named after an ancient Celtic festival in honour of the Irish god Lugh, the quintet
MARTIN Lettin and Luke Redhead team up as father and cheeky son, Jerry and Nathan, in Shipton Theatre Company's British amateur premiere of The Full Monty at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, next week. This show is the stage musical offshoot of the
SIGNS that the flat York and North Yorkshire housing market is beginning to pick up again have been reported by market experts. The number of new buyer inquiries in the region rose in June for the third month in succession, according to the Royal Institution
POLICE have welcomed a decision to force an identity pirate to hand back his "treasure trove" of goods. Joseph Ashby, 31, must sell off goods he acquired as part of a crime spree or face a further 12 months in prison. The former York resident is serving
The Hungate redevelopment scheme is set to spark York's biggest archaeological project since the flagship Coppergate dig. Mike Laycock looks back at that excavation - and ahead to what hidden secrets may be uncovered in Hungate. TONY Robinson and his
York City Rowing Club squad ended their competitive season on a high note by finishing fourth in the country at the National Rowing Championships. The men's coxed four of Charlie Heise, Dan Beaumont, Tom Ransley, Andy Wilkinson and Helena Smalman-Smith
PARAMEDIC Jean Beavers saved the life of a tiny weasel - and has now adopted him as a pet. Jean, 55, from Clifton Moor, York, was alerted to the animal's faint squeaks on her small plot of farm land in Wigginton. She noticed he was barely breathing so
YORKSHIRE began and ended the day brightly at Scarborough yesterday where they were fired out for 187 by Leicestershire who picked up a first innings lead of 179 and then declined to enforce the follow-on. At Grace Road in mid-May, Yorkshire pulled off
FEARS are growing that in-form prop David Bates may have to sit out the bulk of York City Knights' run-in. The Ireland international suffered a hamstring problem five minutes after coming on as substitute in the win at Swinton two weeks ago and, having
JUST after lunch London's worst fears were realised. July 7 was not a one-off. If yesterday's bombs had been detonated properly, dozens more dead would be in the capital's morgues today. This time Londoners were lucky. They will now be wondering: will
MERCEDES-Benz unveils its new all-purpose people carrier tonight ... in fact, during the advertising break midway through ITV's Coronation Street. But potential customers, Coro fans or not, must wait until September before being able to buy one. Meanwhile
THERE's lots of movement and changes going on within the Vauxhall range: new Vectra and Signum models are on the way, and a new hot Astra is pulling on the leash for its September debut. With Vauxhall's marketing gurus exclaiming that the Vectra and Signum
FEARS are growing that in-form prop David Bates may have to sit out the bulk of York City Knights' run-in. The Ireland international suffered a hamstring problem five minutes after coming on as substitute in the win at Swinton two weeks ago and, having
I DIDN'T bother to read the entire report on the Local Transport Plan in the Evening Press (July 16). It was obvious to anyone who had looked through the original, so-called, consultation document that the questions were worded in such a way that it could
IN support of Philip Robinson's letter (July 19), it is time City of York Council was told what the people who use the city's roads think. There are several problem areas that need attention to relieve congestion. Why place bus stops and pedestrian crossings
HEAR, hear, Mr Robinson, and well said. Look at the letter from Coun Ann Reid in which she states people are leaving their cars at home, then says 40 per cent of parking is at Park & Ride sites ('York transport is on the right road', July 18). Come
PHILIP Robinson complained about the transport infrastructure improvements being planned for York, under the 2006-10 Local Transport Plan (Letters, July 19). Readers may be unaware that Whitehall actually makes the rules on what kind of improvements will
I CANNOT understand why some people are praising the late Tory MP and PM Edward Heath. He tricked the population, the Labour Party and the TUC (helped by Roy Jenkins) into voting for the UK joining the EEC. Heath acted almost like a traitor - he is responsible
I HOPE Mr Robertson will not mind my adding a postscript to his Quick Eats (July 16). In his penultimate paragraph he referred to Tadcaster's Tyke Tearooms as being converted from a house. True. However, those of us of a certain age in this town of malt
MILITARY service seems to have affected Robert Waite's sense of reality. I mean, who hasn't heard of the royal family's private problems and marital breakdowns etc ('Long live our own first lady', July 14)? It is surely common knowledge that the monarchy
I KEEP reading that Hillards supermarket opened on Hull Road, York in 1968. I can remember going shopping there in March 1966 with my mother. Can anybody else remember it being open then? Another question. Now that Royal Ascot is a memory, is the racecourse
