THE festival which last year bathed York Minster in a myriad of colours is back and this time the city is to play its part in a county-wide phenomenon. City chiefs have teamed up with councils across the whole of Yorkshire to brand October 6 Light Night
"YOU would have been champion next year - but you will always be champion in my eyes." That was just one of the tributes to superbike crash victim Ashley Martin, as friends and relatives continued to pay their respects to the teenager. Ashley, of Shiptonthorpe
POLICE were on standby ahead of today's planned day of action by anti-climate change protesters.
A SINGLE mum says her council house is a "death trap" thanks to council incompetence.
It is not so much a goodbye from him, as an au revoir after half a lifetime. But while he looks forward to spending more time with his wife, Christine, John will continue as a director of Garbutt & Elliott and act as business adviser to several clients
IF York City don't get promotion this season there will be a financial silver lining for the Minstermen. Conference football is set to be given the star treatment from next season after the signing of a big-money television deal with Setanta Sports.
IAN KERR has resigned from his position as York City's head of youth due to health reasons. Kerr was taken ill with heart problems in the close season and has been off work since recuperating with his family. Youth development director Steve Beck
Nick Oliveri's pseudonym when playing with veteran punk-rockers Dwarves has always seemed so appropriate - Rex Everything. As a member of the vastly influential Kyuss and the mainstream-subverting Queens Of The Stone Age his reputation preceded
Recorded on a cold late-summer's evening at Scarborough Castle last year, the re-formed Geordie punk rockers the Wildhearts rattle through their underground hits. The September 17 gig saw frontman Ginger back on stage with original bassist Danny McCormack
THE Football Association and the Premier League are teaming up to investigate Leeds' complaints about Chelsea's conduct in the transfer of two of their players. Nearly a month ago Leeds made a formal complaint to the Football League about Chelsea
HEWORTH ARLC's youthful squad head into the new National Conference season a year older and a year wiser - and optimistic of a more fruitful campaign. That was the verdict of club spokesman Ken Sykes, who did not make any pre-season boasts but reckoned
YOU may remember Allison Moorer as the barn singer in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, but the Alabama gal is hardly a household name in the UK. Like her sister, Shelby Lynne, Moorer is an old-school country star, reliant upon good old-fashioned
IF you're expecting innovation from these hip-hop stalwarts, you'll be disappointed. Jurassic-5's fourth record is more of the slick, polished, rap-by-numbers sound which has been this outfit's trademark. There's a strict formula to be followed
The best album in ages. Fact. If you like to luxuriate in wonderful, harmonic, honey-coated, savvy pop music, then this is for you. While so many new indie bands are intent on stealing ideas from the post-punk era, Captain seem determined to distance
Feted as the next in a long line of quintessentially English bands, punk-pop trio The Young Knives wear their influences on their sleeves. But they are not The Kinks and lead singer Henry Dartnall is no Jarvis Cocker, despite his charity shop get-up
YORK Railway Institute Amateurs, the 2005 Yorkshire County Bowls club champions, will meet rivals Holgate at Helmsley in this year's semi-finals on Sunday (10am). The other semi-final between Holderness and Springhead Park, is at Malton at the same
LANGTOFT have been crowned Yorkshire County Bowls Association Zone 3 Triples Flat Green League champions. Last year's winners Stamford Bridge finished second place in what has been a two-horse race all season. The Zone Club Knock-Out Final between
DOCTORS today warned that patients could soon find no help in giving up cigarettes at their surgeries, thanks to a cash crisis. Belt-tightening in the NHS means GP surgeries in York might have to stop offering services like quit smoking advice and blood
LAMBCHOP, pictured, always have a sense of place, a stillness to assuage the broken hearts in Kurt Wagner's whimsical vignettes. Wagner originally split time between his day job as a sander and his nocturnal pursuits leading his forever mutating
Askham Bryan YPO retained the Mitchell Cup after a thrilling final, which ebbed and flowed throughout. The bowling of David Knight and Rich Hollingsworth ensured North Duffield were in trouble at 31-4, but thanks to Trevor Britain (46) and John
HEMINGBROUGH romped to a 128-run win over Bishopthorpe IIs in the final of the HPH Vale Cricket League's Scothern Construction Cup. Bishopthorpe seconds, fielding six juniors, made Hemingbrough were work hard for their runs and the breakthrough came
DESPITE Drax's annihilation of British Sugar in division one of the HPH York Vale Cricket League, they failed to gain any batting bonus points so their lead over North Duffield is now just 12 points. And both face each other in what should be the title
Barmby Moor's nine-wicket victory over Burton Salmon ensured that they are promoted from division three. University Staff will join them after Craig Ronaldson hit 71 not out and Brian Donnelly took 5-32 as Thorpe Willoughby collapsed to 86. Hirst are
THE argument rages on over who has the greater claim to the power of Seventies punk and new wave, America or Britain? The Press arbitration panel will sit on the fence between both camps, but only because we are delighted to throw fuel on the fire
Askham Bryan II's division three promotion hopes were dented as they went down by four wickets to promoted Melbourne. Selby will now fight with Askham for promotion after beating Copmanthorpe II on the last ball of the game, Liam Elliker grabbing 5-35
Fullandby, who was so close to winning the historic Great St Wilfrid Handicap at Ripon on his latest outing, can gain compensation for that defeat at Haydock tomorrow. The gelding, trained at Norton by Tim Etherington, crosses the Pennines for his
POCKLINGTON Karate Centre quartet Simon Durrant, Jamie Discroll, Henry Smith and Callum Stewart have all gained first-class grading passes. The four PKC members received the recognition after performing at a Northern Karate Association Kyu grading
HEAD coach Alfie Hill admits York Acorn ARLC have not got the easiest of starts to the season - but has stressed the importance of beginning well. The Blue and Golds' Thanet Road pitch is being reseeded so they will have play their first five games of
YORK has some of the best street cleaning and waste collection services in the country - and that's official. City of York Council's StreetScene, Waste Collection and Cleaning Services, have been awarded Charter Mark Standard - the Government's national
A REVIEW of care services at a psychiatric hospital near York may lead to job losses, managers have said. The owners of Stockton Hall, at Stockton-on-the-Forest, say they are considering changes, in an attempt to improve services. But they say staff
A FAMILY-RUN recycling centre could create more than 200 jobs once it is fully operational. Mytum & Selby Waste Recycling is working with scientists at the University of Hull to create a recycling plant, composting organic household waste. The project
TWO teenagers have been arrested following an alleged assault in a North Yorkshire car park which left the victim with injuries to his face, arms and ribs. The first suspect was arrested last Saturday, the day after a 22-year-old man was allegedly attacked
NEW Earswick All Blacks' start in the Pennine League top flight will be delayed until September 9 when they entertain last year's fourth-placed side Keighley Albion. The All Blacks were due to face old rivals Halifax Irish on Saturday but, with several
Yorkshire paceman Deon Kruis will long remember yesterday as being the day on which he bowled well enough to dismiss both Hutton and Compton. Not the legendary Len and Denis, of course, but their grandsons, Ben Hutton and Nick Compton, who opened
Road closure due to sewer maintenance between Saturday, 2 September and Sunday, 3, September 2006. A local alternative route will be signed.
Road closed for emergency maintenance of level crossing. Works will take place between 04:00 to 23:00 on the 31st August and between 18:30 2nd September to 14:00 3rd September. An alternative local route will be signed.
A 5.5km (3.5-mile) stretch will be closed overnight in both directions between junctions 31 and 32 this weekend (2-3 September), so that Yorkshire Electricity Distribution Limited (YEDL) can upgrade overhead power lines safely. At the same time Highways
Drivers in Yorkshire and the Humber are being advised by the Highways Agency to allow extra time when travelling on five major routes on 31 August as the national Tour of Britain cycle race comes to the region. From 11am, police will close several
YORK has produced some unusual stars of stage and screen, some who have gone on to bigger and much better things. Take Frankie Howerd, the classic comedian of Up Pompeii fame, or maybe Dame Judi Dench, who hasn't exactly done bad for herself. Or indeed
A COUPLE from York holidaying in Turkey are staying on despite bomb blasts close to their resort. The couple, who are on a fortnight's break in Olu Deniz, near the bomb-hit resort of Marmaris, were given the option to come home by their travel agent,
THERE may still be 116 days until Christmas, but preparations are already under way for a carol concert in aid of our Guardian Angels campaign. The community concert - now in its 49th year - is an annual festive fixture for more than 1,000 York residents
PARENTS in York and Selby are being urged to make sure their children get a new jab which is being offered for the first time from next week. Earlier this year the Government announced it would be offering children the new vaccine against pneumococcal
IT'S that time of year again. Hordes of students pack their laptops and pint glasses and move into their shared pad somewhere in York. If you're looking to buy a property where they can work, rest and party, have a look at these. Students love to
NO-ONE could call this property a "run-of-the-mill" apartment. Steeped in history, 8 The Cornmill, in Stamford Bridge, is part of a Grade II listed building. Now on the market for £204,950, this two-bedroom second floor apartment enjoys stunning
A SOLUTION to parking problems caused by York Hospital staff outside a shopping parade could be one step closer. Council highways officers will put forward proposals to solve the wrangle in Intake Avenue, Clifton, York, after visiting the site earlier
Broody, but overweight? In some parts of the country, you won't get fertility treatment until you slim down - but try somewhere else, and you might be all right. Over 40? Sorry, you're too old for help. But lesbian? Single? Welcome aboard. Can there
LAST weekend, it was reported that a memorial to the dead of Bomber Command had been unveiled in Lincoln Cathedral. The BBC carried this report in bulletins during the day, both national and local. To my utter disgust, this report said the dead were
HEARTY congratulations to the talented trio at Fulford School who scooped three of the top five marks in the country for their work in the AQA examination board's English Literature GCSE. It is gratifying to see Eleanor Gibb, one of the group, give credit
BULLYING and harassment, by definition, is offensive to a majority of people, be it at school or work. However, there is another side of the coin. If you elect to serve in certain trades or professions, during your apprenticeship or probationary
HAS the Highway Code and the traffic order for York been changed recently? The reason I ask, firstly, is that disabled drivers have started to park in the section of Petergate between Bootham Bar and the Dean Court Hotel after 11am. Has Petergate
WITH reference to Hugh Bayley's letter about how this Government is helping the pensioners (Labour's done a lot for OAPs, August 28), they could help them if his friend Mr Brown would stop the tax on pension funds, which amounts to five billion
I AM writing to urgently ask for your readers help in ending the largest most brutal slaughter of marine mammals on the planet - the Canadian seal hunt. Over one-and-a-quarter million seal pups have been clubbed or shot to death over the last
I MUST confess to laughing when I read the diatribe that emanates from City of York Council on a regular basis over who is to blame for the loss of the Barbican swimming pool and the current delays: that is, an allegedly small group of protesters.
EARLIER this year, many Leeman Road residents who live near to Back Park signed a petition that read: "Save Back Park as an outdoor, dry-surface recreation area for Leeman Road's residents and children." The text of the petition also stated trees
BEING a visitor to your city, I was admitted to York Hospital on August 12 suffering from chest pains. I was transferred to Ward 21, where I remained for six days. Many hospitals and health professionals unfortunately receive a lot of bad press.
MATTHEW Handy (Low marks, Readers' Letters, August 26) may be happier knowing the GCSE maths paper in which students can get a C grade with only 14 per cent is the "higher" paper, taken by only the high fliers. In most schools, less than a quarter
AT the last funeral I went to, the deceased had left instructions for a collection to be made in aid of a donkey sanctuary where, Mike Bentley whines, "There, ageing donkeys with gold-encrusted hooves watch reruns of Black Beauty on plasma screens
A SINGLE mum says her council house is a "death trap" thanks to council incompetence. Young mum Sarah Shield, 27, claims she and her seven-year-old son, Soloman, have been forced to live in a house with live wires hanging from the walls for almost two
ANOTHER young girl, who bravely stood up to a man who tried to abduct her when she was only 11, has spoken about her ordeal for the first time. Rosie Braiden, now 15, boldly gave up her right to anonymity to back The Press' Change It! campaign so that
MOTHER Nature is a very unpredictable lady. As nice as it would be to know exactly when our children would arrive, health, circumstances and luck aren't always on our side. So when things go wrong, IVF can be a lifeline for parents that would otherwise
FOR decades, it has been seen as a "scar" on York's historical city centre. Now the bulldozers are set to move in as a planning application for the first phase of the Hungate development has been submitted. Hungate York Regeneration Ltd, a development
HOPES that a notorious York eyesore was finally to be renovated were dashed, when it emerged that work on the site was merely general maintenance. Workmen were spotted by scores of shoppers at the White Swan Hotel in Piccadilly, yesterday, carrying out
POLICE were on standby ahead of today's planned day of action by anti-climate change protesters. Chief Inspector Barry Smith, leading patrols at the Camp For Climate Action outside Drax Power Station yesterday, said police were prepared for any disorder
A PILOT was fighting for his life in York Hospital today after his glider crash-landed and spun 50ft down a steep bank. The 56-year-old's glider missed the landing site on Sutton Bank, near Thirsk, and crashed down an embankment yesterday evening. An
