George Wilkinson goes in search of the Badger Stone, from Chop Gate in Bilsdale. Harry Mead put on his countryside historian hat recently when he wrote an article in which he complained that the Badger Stone at the head of Bransdale had disappeared
Gilling East is a place I've never started from before. There hadn't seemed a good circuit from the village, but I have just discovered a permissive path that makes for a nice and easy walk. The first couple of miles are beside Holbeck, a stream that
George Wilkinson takes the high road to experience glorious views of the Cleveland Hills at Bank Foot. Bank Foot is one of those straightforward names, go east from the farm there and you go straight up, up an escarpment of the Cleveland Hills and
George Wilkinson by passes Bolton Abbey to enjoy the reservoirs of Barden Moor. Barden Moor is new territory for me, have sampled many of the pleasures of the Bolton Abbey Estate, but never this zone a mile to the west of the River Wharfe, despite
NEWLY-APPOINTED Supporters' Trust board member Malcolm Slinger has assured fans that JM Packaging cannot make any profit from the sale of KitKat Crescent if a motion is passed to make the Malton-based company majority shareholders of the club. Slinger
YORK City's Supporters' Trust board have given their explanation as to why the repayment conditions of JM Packaging's £300,000 loan needed to change. The loan, which was facilitated for the club by the Malton-based company in January 2005 to provide essential
We have hot news just in from abroad. Well from Red Deer, Alberta to be precise - the great charity junk giveaway is not confined to the fair city of York. Last week, The Press reported how St Leonard's Hospice charity shops in the city were being deluged
Eee bah gumboots - what a rural bride. But if Heather Dobson, posing in bridal outfit at Moorlands Farm, Wigginton, wanted to find daintier footwear for the big day, she would have had instant help from a host of other North Yorkshire rural women. They
A TALENT contest for youngsters is being held in North Yorkshire. The Big Big Boogie event is being staged by the county council's youth arm, Connecting Youth Culture. Auditions are being held across the county, with the best performers going on to perform
DRIVERS who speed down streets in an area of York are seeing the brakes applied - thanks to the work of police and councillors. Officers have been carrying out speed enforcement measures in Heworth, after residents raised their concerns with ward councillors
VICTIMS of crime should get a say on whether offenders are freed from jail, according to a York woman whose son was brutally murdered. Home Secretary John Reid raised the idea of giving victims a say in a speech to the Parole Board for England and Wales
A BUSINESSMAN is calling for community action to stem the tide of vandalism which is "tarnishing" part of York. Graham Carver has coupled his appeal with the offer of a cash reward for information, after his firm's window was deliberately smashed. The
MEMBERS of York's music scene have paid tribute to Ken Southwell, who found fame as a winner of the first National Lottery draw. Mr Southwell, 46, died on Thursday after a long battle against a brain tumour. He gained celebrity status in November 1994
TRAIN giant GNER has launched a legal challenge against a decision by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) to give a rival company a foothold on the tracks. The York-based firm has issued proceedings for a judicial review on the basis that the ORR's decision
PROPOSALS to slash York Hospital's income by £14 million will be discussed at a top-level health meeting today, The Press can reveal. Board members of the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) were due to discuss a financial recovery plan, with proposals
Sun Inn have opened a four-point lead at the top of York Phoenix Monday Darts League division one after a 7-2 win against Mitre. Jon O'Mara put in a 180 for 17 plus a 21-darter as Sun took all the singles with Gary Scott (18), Chris Thompson (19) and
IT is a sickening craze which combines modern camera phones with old-fashioned bullying - and now "happy slapping" has reached York. A 15-year-old York girl was slapped repeatedly in a busy McDonald's restaurant at Clifton Moor while the attacker's friend
YORK City's Supporters' Trust board are "strongly recommending" the motion to make JM Packaging 75 per cent - plus one share - owners of the KitKat Crescent-based football club. In fact, in a letter to its 1,250 members, Trust chairman Steve Beck has
A 29-year-old Acomb woman kissed a 14-year-old boy on the lips after too many vodkas and was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register. Yet a clearly dangerous man who tried to abduct a young girl at a bus stop and who, we reveal today, has also made an approach
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 100 years ago In St Deny's School, Walmgate, York, a meeting was held in connection with the St Deny's and St Margaret's Churches to protest against certain clauses in the proposed Education Bill which appeared to be unfair and unjust
POCKLINGTON RUFC's mini and midi rugby section celebrated another highly successful season with its annual awards day at Percy Road. England Under-21 winger Tom Biggs, Leeds Tykes' player of the year, made presentations to each team's player of the year
I AM dismayed by the state the National Health Service (NHS) is getting into. If this is the best that we can hope for under a Labour Government, then heaven help us under any other administration. I think the question to be asked is not when will Tony
IN his letter to The Press Nothing Must Get In The Way Of ftr (May 18), Mr Simons may have left the impression that a parking fine would have to be paid by someone who stopped on yellow lines to give assistance to a person who had been taken ill. This
WITH reference to the article Lip Service, (The Press, May 10), I find it very difficult to get my head around the attitudes schools have when it comes to piercings. A piercing doesn't make someone's attitude or personality change, so why do schools insist
DO the people who are obviously sick in the mind by donating rubbish to charities (What Rubbish!, The Press, May 20), ever stop to think that maybe some time in the future when their bodies are sick, they may need the services of the charities they presently
CITY of York Council shoots itself in the other foot. After the complete chaos which the council got itself into over the relocation of the Arc Light Centre, you would have thought it would have learned something. Oh, well, "where there's no sense, there's
IT seems as if there may have been a change in the law without my realising it, and I'm worried about the consequences. Old and young, often with helmets (very sensible), now seem to ride their cycles on the pavement. This must be a serious problem for
FOR years people have been seeking to kill the monster that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Defenders say that it is ironic and not to be taken seriously, but it is also not entertaining in its predictable awfulness, and I watched only the last half hour
A judge said he was a "danger" to youngsters after he tried to abduct a girl at a York bus stop, yet Terry Delaney is still free to mix with children on his release from jail. Today it can be revealed that the authorities have spurned a chance to place
YORK City's Supporters' Trust board insist they have explored all options in their attempts to find a financial and managerial way forward for the football club, writes Dave Flett. But, having considered the possibility of a loan finance scheme, public
FINAL rival bids of around £47,000 are being considered for the lease of The Deramore public house in Heslington, York. Punch Taverns has started talks with two separate bidders for the ten-year tenure lease on the pub frequented by locals, students from
THEY come in every shape and colour. Some are designed to resemble bumble bees or ladybirds, others have Winnie The Pooh and Tigger on them. There's even one with the England flag emblazoned on the front, no doubt a limited edition for the World Cup.
My wife keeps saying we should get round to making wills. I don't know what sinister plot she's hatching, but I nod and go back to studying form in the Racing Post (which she hides under a carefully-placed Investors' Weekly). I'm hopeless with planning
A NEW children's centre based at a school in the Selby district has been officially unveiled by a Government Minister. Beverley Hughes, Minister For Children, Young People And Families, opened the new centre at Selby Community Primary School, in Flaxley
IT'S an all too familiar sight - vast pools of water in our streets, gardens, shops and schools. And the bad news is it's not going to get much better any time soon. Torrential rain brought more misery to York, North and East Yorkshire, only ten days
WHELDRAKE junior footballers are on cloud nine after retaining the Selby and District Junior Under-12 Cup. They beat Selby Olympia 3-2 in an exciting game with goals by Ben Reilly, Will Amesbury and Sam Martin, while at the other end, goalkeeper Sam Feathers
POCKLINGTON RUFC's mini and midi rugby section celebrated another highly successful season with its annual awards day at Percy Road. England Under-21 winger Tom Biggs, Leeds Tykes' player of the year, made presentations to each team's player of the year
York are still top of IT Sports Mixed Tennis League division three after a week clouded by rain interruptions. Despite the poor weather, almost all of the division's games were completed and a comprehensive win over Bubwith, where Wendy Shepherd and Neil
I'm not looking forward to summer. I thought I would try to struggle through the coming season with my head inside a paper bag, but a trip to my local Asda at the weekend convinced me that you can run but you cannot hide. There it all was, laid out before
It's the great misnomer: "Happy Slapping". What is happy about an attack on an innocent victim which is broadcast to a wide audience? The so-called happy slapping craze involves someone being assaulted while an observer films it on a mobile phone. The
Middleham trainer James Bethell, who sent out Strawberry Dale to win at York last week, will be hoping more than most that tonight's meeting at Leicester goes ahead as planned. Bethell is aiming to saddle Snowed Under, but it is rain and not snow which
LEEDS United are the latest team to be chucked out of football's last chance saloon after their 3-0 defeat to Watford on Sunday. Sports editor Martin Jarred looks at some of the play-off highs and lows over the years. TWENTY years of football play-offs
WHELDRAKE junior footballers are on cloud nine after retaining the Selby and District Junior Under-12 Cup. They beat Selby Olympia 3-2 in an exciting game with goals by Ben Reilly, Will Amesbury and Sam Martin, while at the other end, goalkeeper Sam Feathers
COUNCILLOR Sue Galloway is right to express her concerns about the implications for the citizens of York of creating a huge health care trust covering the whole of North Yorkshire. Not only will it be geographically remote from York, but it will also
FURTHER to Colin Clarke's informative letter (Time To Consider The Case For Cycle Helmets, May 19), we can already observe in York what happens when unwilling cyclists are forced to wear helmets. How many cycling postmen do you see with their helmets
IN reply to the letter Tony Blair Sleepwalks Into Nuclear Option (May 20), consider this: Nuclear power has been active in Britain for at least 50 years. It supplies 20/25 per cent of our electricity. How can that be replaced by alternatives which will
WHEN assessing the arguments for and against building new nuclear power stations, it is important to take into consideration the credibility of the people making the arguments. The latest zealot for more nuclear power stations, the Prime Minister Tony
It's an all too familiar sight - vast pools of water in our streets, gardens, shops and schools>> The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
A judge said he was a "danger" to youngsters after he tried to abduct a girl at a York bus stop, yet Terry Delaney is still free to mix with children on his release from jail. Today it can be revealed that the authorities have spurned a chance to place
A judge said he was a "danger" to youngsters after he tried to abduct a girl at a York bus stop, yet Terry Delaney is still free to mix with children on his release from jail. Today it can be revealed that the authorities have spurned a chance to place
