CONTROVERSIAL proposals to formally scrap a replacement swimming pool at York's Barbican Centre are set to win the go-ahead, despite almost 100 objections. Councillors have been warned that, if they continue to insist on a new pool being built nearby
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PILOT Theatre and York Theatre Royal are staging the first production of Roy Williams's Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads since its debut at the National Theatre in 2002. This account of racism, violence, national identity and the lad culture surrounding
VANDALS have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage after going on a tyre slashing rampage in east York. Furious motorists woke up to discover their tyres cut in a number of streets in the Tang Hall area. The damage has been blamed on a group
WHY do you paint so many bottoms, Cathy? "I suppose I find the human form attractive in every way. Organic forms. Curved forms. That's what I really see in most images. That's what I pick out, " says Cathy Denford, York artist and theatre director, introducing
DOCTORS treating Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond said today his condition had improved and he had been moved out of intensive care. Mr Hammond is now said to be in a "stable" condition following a horrific high-speed crash in a jet-powered car at
LAST weekend's Scarborough Jazz Festival followed a national trend by attracting around the same numbers as last year, rather than more. However, the spectacular Spa venue seemed near capacity. Opening the proceedings was Big Band Byrne, an 18-piece
EDDIE and Frank Thomas's debut at the Deep Blues Club in York on Thursday throws up something different from the brothers from Iuka, Mississippi. Not only will there be live music, but a film too. On graduating from university, they formed a production
NICK Atkinson is back from his honeymoon - an African safari followed by "liquefying on the beach" - and into his stride the very next day to boost the return of Rooster. The London foursome with the Oasis swagger and the Aerosmith riffs play a sold-out
THE Wu String Trio, best known for playing at Prince Edward's 40th birthday bash, perform at Helmsley Arts Centre tomorrow at 7.30pm. The trio of Qian Wu, violin, Matthew Kettle, viola, and Timothy Lowe, cello, were semi-finalists in the Royal Overseas
THE race is on to choose a name for York's new secondary school. Lowfield and Oaklands schools are set to be replaced by a new state-of-the-art secondary school in 2007, and a name needs to be decided ahead of an open night for parents on October 2.
THE Locrian Ensemble presents Happy Birthday Mozart, an evening of classics by candlelight at the Grand Opera House, York, 23 September 2006, to mark the composer's 250th anniversary. Performing in lavish period costume, the Locrian chamber group starts
TOM Wanless and David Humphries are the artists of the month at the Blake Gallery, Blake Street, York, until next Saturday. Tom, who has lived in Wetherby for 35 years, is exhibiting landscapes, seascapes and still life works in oil. "I tend to
MIKEY and MICKEY take the mic at the Other Side Comedy Club in York on Sunday. "Two of our favourite acts are making their much-anticipated return to the club this weekend: Rob Rouse, who is best known to millions as Mikey on the BBC's hit show Grownups
THE West Yorkshire Playhouse is to stage the world premiere of Colin Teevan's How Many Miles To Basra? from tomorrow. Originally written as a radio play for BBC Radio 3, the stage version has been developed by Teevan, who examines how definitions of
JAZZ singer Juliet Roberts likes to spread her wings, from Working Week to Jazz Jamaica. This autumn she is partaking in the World Sound programme at the National Centre For Early Music and Much More Besides. Juliet, right, returns to the former St
Charles Hutchinson talks to Kate Rusby, the Best Live Act winner in the BBC 2 Folk Awards 2006. What made you say yes to recording All Over Again this year with Irish charmer Ronan Keating? "His manager phoned up and asked me if I would be interested
TOMORROW will be a special night for singer-songwriter Liam Frost when he leads The Slowdown Family at Fibbers, York. "It'll be the first time that I've played York, but my dad lived in the Acomb area from the mid1930s till he married my mum and moved
THE Archbishop of York dramatically spoke out today in the wake of the latest shock news of 645 job losses at Nestle Rowntree. Dr John Sentamu issued a hard-hitting statement aimed not just at the confectioners, but also Norwich Union and British Sugar
THE iconic KitKats and Aeros have not escaped the axe as some will no longer be made in York under Nestle Rowntree's radical restructuring plans. The company said on Wednesday that, while production of some iconic brands such as Smarties and Black Magic
A NEW taskforce is being launched in York to help the 1,100 workers who have been made redundant in the past week. The dedicated Redundancy Support Group is intended to ensure that efforts to assist 645 jobless Nestle Rowntree staff and 450 ex-Norwich
WHY is Cerys Matthews, onetime wild woman of Catatonia turned Nashville country queen, playing a very low-key gig at The Band Room, Low Mill Farndale, tomorrow night? "The real reason she's coming is that. . . we love her, " says concert organiser
JANE McDonald, Yorkshire's down-to-earth diva, wants to bring glamour, sophistication and elegance back to the concert stage. "Glamour is so sorely neglected in many of today's concert tours, but I can promise my show will have it in abundance, " says
D'ARTAGNAN was brave, fearless and quick with a sword - but you never caught him turning pirouettes. That is until now. Next Saturday, Northern Ballet Theatre will unveil its new production, The Three Musketeers, at Bradford Alhambra Theatre. Alongside
Written and performed by Sophie Woolley, When To Run tells the compelling story of four women runners and a man who looks a bit like Tony Soprano. Sophie flits between characters in a series of interwoven monologues as she plays a neurotic professional
REHEARSALS start for Stagecoach Youth Theatre York's winter production of Into The Woods on Sunday afternoon. The open session at Stagecoach Studio Theatre, Monkgate, York, will be hosted by director Robert Readman and musical director Clive Wass,
LESLEY Jones, spokesperson of the Northern Musical Theatre Company Youth Section, would like to apologise unreservedly for a misleading statement she made on September 15. She confirms that the theatre company does not have permission to stage Les
SINCE our last visit to the railway station the concourse has been upgraded. Indeed it has won more than one prize for the changes. Before reaching the ticket office there are three snacking options. We chose Upper Crust because it was an enclosed
TOP Gear presenter Richard Hammond suffered a "significant brain injury" in his horrific 280mph smash at Elvington Airfield, medics have revealed. A spokesman for Leeds General Infirmary said: "Mr Hammond has suffered a significant brain injury. It
IT was the middle of September, but felt like the height of summer. We grabbed our sunglasses and headed for Sutton-on-the-Forest with plans to dine outside in the stylish new gazebo at the village's gastro pub, The Rose & Crown. Over the years this
As a new series of stamps celebrates our war heroes, STEPHEN LEWIS and CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL investigate why we should never forget. THEY are the men whose courage helped shape our nation. Without them, our history and the lives of all of us would
VERA McHugh and her old school pals want to keep their old-style education alive. She was one of the old girls of Mill Mount Grammar School who met recently for lunch at Holgate Hill Hotel, as they have done annually since 1986. There are 58 on the
HOW quickly another production comes around; how slowly lessons are learnt. Four years ago to the month at the Playhouse, Clwyd Theatre Cymru presented To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee's study of race relations. Now, prejudices remain aflame the world
IT has been a grim week. This city has been rocked by a double jobs blow, a fatal road accident and the horrific crash at Elvington Airfield involving Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond. Yet even in such a week, the news that children as young as 12
WHILE I am glad to see that the issue of global warming is again making headlines nationally and locally, it is lamentable that your feature (Global warming? Let's talk about it, September 20) overlooks the single most important step people could
HUGH Bayley is much mistaken if he believes sugar production will increase in this country (Sugar expending, Letters, September 20). The factories left will not be able to process the present crop, especially Newark, which is supposed to take York
THERE is a human cost to recent job losses in York, the Archbishop of York reminded us today, one that doesn't show up on balance sheets. Each job lost means a family or individual facing misery. How right he is to tell bosses that. Nestle is, after
WHEN Anna Wragg found a lump in her left breast, she hoped it would just go away. The pea-sized swelling appeared last December - but Anna did not go to her doctor about it for at least two months. She didn't even mention it to her parents. It was her
WE know how much we treasure owning and driving our own car and the independent freedom of movement this affords at a price. That price involves car repairs, tax, petrol, insurance and the like. However, road congestion and accidents would be much
I CAN'T believe Norwich Union in York can be so insensitive as to announce 450 jobs in York to go, and then they announce three top big-wig directors are to start work at their office. They are even refusing to disclose their salaries (Salary shocker
I AM not a political animal; never have been, never will be. At 71, I do not intend to change. I do care about the future of the children of Wheldrake. The revamp of the village primary scholl is long overdue, and we rejoiced when the Diocesan Council
HOW much I agree with the woman who suggested the Government stops funding the abysmal lifestyles of teenage and unmarried mothers (Stop all support for teenage mothers, Soapbox, September 18). These girls believe they have the right to bring children
WE hear all the bad news about old people being put on the back boiler - not my mum. At 93 she was very ill in Ward 23, York Hospital. The care was wonderful. Unfortunately, she had to give up her flat. Her social worker manager, Denise Rothwell,
BUSINESS leaders from across York turned up for a glittering ceremony to formally launch The Press's latest supplement. Our new Business Monthly tabloid was published earlier in September, serving as a focal point for the varied economy of York and
THREE courses covering various aspects of financial management will be staged in York over the next three months. The courses, each costing £540 are being organised at The Holiday Inn in Tadcaster Road by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Marks & Spencer today announced that it plans to take on hundreds of extra temporary staff in North Yorkshire to work over Christmas and the New Year - the bulk of them in York. It wants extra people at its store in Pavement, York, including customer
John Carver is looking to maintain his 100 per cent record as a caretaker-manager when Leeds take on Birmingham tomorrow. Carver, who was Kevin Blackwell's assistant and previously head coach, was put in temporary charge by chairman Ken Bates yesterday
Bench pressure from teenage striker James McGarry will be spurring on Harrogate Town's strikeforce at home to Vauxhall Motors in Nationwide North tomorrow. The 18-year-old forward came on as a substitute against Lancaster City last Saturday and turned
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is hoping the 500 supporters his team have lost since the start of the season will return for tomorrow's home match with Southport. The Minstermen averaged gates of 2,845 in the Conference throughout last season and the attendances
SOUTHPORT arrive at KitKat Crescent tomorrow having scored fewer goals on their travels than any other Conference side. The Sandgrounders have only netted twice in seven-and-a-half hours of football outside their Lancashire home and have suffered successive
Darren Lehmann's magical bat helped to smash all manner of records for Yorkshire on the second day of their Championship match against Durham at Headingley yesterday. But the biggest prize of all eluded the great Australian on his farewell appearance
Pace-setters Hounds continued their rich vein of form with a closely fought 3-2 victory over Nestl Volunteers in division one of the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Football League. Hounds took just five minutes to go ahead when Ryan Watson cut
Spencer Sutton put FTR Burnholme in front in the first round of the York and District League Sunday Afternoon League Cup after just 15 seconds - but Clifton Rangers rallied to win 5-1. Last week's league match-up ended in a 1-1 stalemate. But Dave
BUOYED by their last-minute win at Old Brodlieans, York RUFC will be hoping to continue their great start to the Yorkshire One season at home to Bridlington. That victory at the West Yorkshire club's difficult sloping ground means the Clifton Parkers
It's crunch-time for George Washington at Ascot tomorrow as Aidan O'Brien's brilliant, but quirky, colt bids to restore his reputation in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. Decisive winner of the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket in the spring, George Washington
Frankie Dettori will almost certainly not have the chance to equal his record seven wins at Ascot tomorrow. The popular Italian, who rode all seven winners on the Ascot card at odds of 25,095-1 at the corresponding meeting ten years ago on September
Tolley Dean became the first rider to win the Pontefract Apprentice Series twice in its 20-year history, although his mount River Logic finished last in the final round of the competition yesterday. His prize, like last year, is a two-week working holiday
Richard Fahey can continue his purple patch tomorrow at Haydock, where the great Lester Piggott is having a statue unveiled in his honour. Fahey (pictured) has good prospects with St Savarin (2.25), a winner on this course two outings ago and a creditable
Mike Percival (18) and Chas Ramsden gave a weakened Shepherd's team a 5-4 win over Acomb in the opening salvo of the John Smith's Men's Darts League. Cygnet's Dave Mason (111 finish and 20) and Craig Wedge (180 for 20) played well in their 6-3 win
THERE was double delight for North Yorkshire marathon international Darran Bilton when he triumphed in the first race involving runners taking part in a new scheme he has set up. Bilton, who early this year moved from York to live and work in Pickering
There was an incident at Hemingbrough Pond recently, which, despite the thoughtless actions of some anglers that could have ended in a tragedy, had a mercifully benign conclusion. An electricity cable that runs across the fishery was brought down in
CHILDREN as young as 12 are being caught selling drugs in North Yorkshire - and ten year-old school pupils are taking them, shocking new figures reveal. The number of playground drug pushers - under-16s selling drugs - has shot up by nearly 40 per
NEARLY all patients across Selby and York should be able to choose which hospital they go to within six months, health chiefs heard. The Government has spent millions on a new NHS system, called Choose And Book, that enables patients to select the
A SWAN that was seriously wounded after being shot in the head and neck has been released back into the wild. The bird, named Wurzel by his rescuers, made a full recovery at a swan hospital near York. Today, Wurzel is happily back in an estuary on the
TALKING newspapers in York are celebrating three decades of success. Cassette tapes in little yellow packages containing talking newspapers for the blind and partially sighted have been dropping through letter boxes across the city for 30 years. One
COUNCIL chiefs have moved to reassure developers that the future of one of York's landmark buildings is not already sewn up. Simon Wiles, City of York Council's director of resources, said as long as potential developers had a scheme which was commercially
CONTROVERSIAL plans to put a council "one-stop shop" in a town centre market have been refused by planning bosses. Dransfield Properties, which owns several units in the Market Cross centre, had applied to Selby District Council to change the use of
