MORE than £2.5 million in council tax was uncollected in York in the past financial year, but city chiefs have still welcomed a near £500,000 improvement. New figures from the GMB union have revealed that a total of £2,605,000 went uncollected in 2005
A HEAD teacher, a chef called Taffline Tough, two chief executives, a team of firearms officers and a giant millipede - those are just some of York and North Yorkshire's entries in the Great North Run. Up to 50,000 people will take part in the charity
A GOLDEN arm band discovered in York has been saved for the city by the Yorkshire Museum. The pure gold ring, weighing 750g, is only the third of its kind ever to be found in Britain and Ireland. It would have been owned by one of the richest and most
A SWIMMING pool at York's Barbican Centre was formally scrapped - despite a 1,100-signature petition and an eleventh-hour political manoeuvre to save it. After a stormy four-hour meeting last night, councillors voted to change a crucial legal agreement
FIRST they endured the death of their loved one in a vicious street attack, then they saw his killer jailed for only three years, now grieving relatives of Michael Williams have seen the henchmen walk free. Michael, a dad-of-four, died in hospital, five
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was laughing and smiling as he took a trip in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance helicopter for the second time in as many weeks. The 36-year-old TV star was discharged from Leeds General Infirmary yesterday, and transferred
DISGRACED former Tory cabinet minster Jonathan Aitken spoke at York Minster to tell how he went from "power to prison to peace". Leaders at St Michael-le-Belfrey Church, in Minster Yard, invited him to talk to coincide with the launch of their new season
A modern-day Roman "legionary" has spoken of his relief after a jury acquitted him of violence towards a father and a daughter. The jury at York Crown Court cleared Keith Andrew Mulhearn, 40, of affray and causing actual bodily harm. Claire Harris
Slight delays are possible on the A180 between Brocklesby and Barnetby due to the work to renew road studs and road markings. The westbound carriageway will be closed overnight between 10pm and 5.30am from 2-5 October. A diversion will operate via
Slight delays are possible at Lofthouse Interchange (junction 29 M62/Junction 42 M1), due to work to replace bridge parapets and install new safety fences. There will be various lane closures on the top deck roundabout and all approaches from 29 September
THE nights may be darkening but next Friday will be Light Night in York. In the finale to the Illuminate festival's year-long celebration of culture in Yorkshire, the five cities of York, Bradford, Hull, Leeds and Sheffield will "link the region's creativity
TWO acts from the opposite ends of the comedy spectrum, Brendon Burns and Dougie Dunlop, find common ground at the Other Side Comedy Club, York, on Sunday night. Brendon Burns ticks all the boxes on your Aussie-man sheet. "He's loud, brash, acerbic and
ASPIRING York comedian James Christopher is setting up a new monthly comedy night, in response to The Other Side Comedy Club axing its open spot from this season. "Recently, the Other Side at City Screen changed management and new promoter Toby Clouston-Jones
NORTHERN Soul devotees could be flocking to Joseph Rowntree Theatre next week, and all because Rowntree Players are presenting the North Yorkshire amateur premiere of On A Night Like This. First staged at Hull Truck by writer-director John Godber in
AN inquest on a 54-year-old father-of-five who died in a railway crash has been opened and adjourned. John Power, of St George's Place, off Tadcaster Road, York, died instantly when a Virgin CrossCountry express train travelling at more than 100mph struck
Miles Cain returns to the Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green, York, tomorrow to lead a triple bill of local songwriters. The 8pm gig also features original acoustic artists Alex Wilmott, who released his debut album earlier this year, and Oliver J Brooke
Just A Very Quickie with David Essex, singer, actor, diamond geezer. You've been busy in the West End playing the Reverend Moore in Footloose at the Novello Theatre until September 9, and this week you're opening your first tour for two years. How
PERSIL Town! "The only chocolate you'll find in York is at the sweet factories!" York has heard all the accusations of being a racist city, dating back to the burning of the Jewish community huddled inside Clifford's Tower in 1190. This perception
PLAYWRIGHT Roy Williams was delighted when his long-standing friend, Pilot artistic director Marcus Romer, asked him if his company could perform Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads in York. "Apart from getting a play on in the first place, what playwrights
TRADERS threw a massive street party in an effort to entice more shoppers. Shops in Low Petergate, York, hope the regular events will generate renewed interest in the road and ultimately turn it into the "Covent Garden of the north". Ewan Allinson,
LOOK for Cullercoats on the road map and you will find the village on the Tyneside coast. The name crops up on the pages of yorktwnety4seven because this coastal location is home to Cloud 9, the latest theatre company to establish a partnership with
ANDREW Dunn, from the BBC1 series of 55 Degrees North and Dinnerladies, will lead the cast in Damian Cruden's production of Art at York Theatre Royal. Rehearsals have begun in the Walmgate studios this week for the October 20 to November 11 run of Yasmina
THE coolest of the cool from Norway, Denmark and Iceland and the hottest of the hot of European jazz, folk, blues, country and contemporary classical music fuse in The Shed's 14th autumn programme at Hovingham Village Hall. Blues one-off Billy Jenkins
Play on! Haydn Lewis finds the food of love at Cafe Concerto in York. CONSISTENCY is so important for restaurants wanting to attract custom and keep it. There is nothing worse than having a near-perfect meal out at a restaurant the first time you
REFRESHMENT was called for during a recent shopping expedition. As we were at the top of Stonegate it was convenient to call into Starbucks. We had not been in this particular branch before but are familiar with the other two outlets in the city. Access
INTERNATIONAL soprano Lynne Dawson is holding a singing and performance masterclass at St Olave's Church, Marygate, York, tomorrow at 7pm. Arranged by the North East Yorkshire Area of the Royal School of Church Music, Find Your Voice takes the form of
STEVE Gillette and Cindy Mangsen, one of America's premier folk music duos, play the Black Swan Folk Club in York on Thursday as part of their first British tour. Gillette is best known as a songwriter, whose songs have been covered by Garth Brooks,
CHECKED out from rehab at the Priory, Pete Doherty is back on the road with his band Babyshambles. Supermodel lover Kate Moss by his side, Pete played Irish dates in Carlow, Dublin and Belfast this week before starting his English travels in Birmingham
BETTYS tearooms in York continues its regular jazz dinners programme tonight with music from Some Like It Hot. The band will play memorable jazz songs associated with the likes of with Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller. The dinner will
WE ALL believed it was true, but now it's official - York is the country's favourite city. Tourism bosses are celebrating after the city was named the best in the UK at a national awards ceremony. The prestigious award was announced at the Group Leisure
BLINK and you could miss the Chapel Exhibition at York Cemetery Chapel, the beautiful Hellenic temple in the middle of the cemetery in Cemetery Road, York. On view tomorrow and Sunday, from 10am to 4.30pm, will be paintings by Simon Wallace and Malcolm
CLAYTON Donaldson has never experienced racism first-hand on the football pitch. The nearest the in-form York City striker came was when he was still with Hull City. He and a fellow black player had been left out of the team and were sitting in the
"It's Good But Is It Art?" asks the ArtSpace in its spikiest exhibition so far. Launching the show for six provocative weeks from this weekend, gallery co-manager Greg McGee says: "Basically, we're unleashing different genres from different Yorkshire
York City boss Billy McEwan is calling on his boys to play like men tomorrow - whether they are fully fit or not. Several players and members of the coaching staff have been laid low by bugs in the last couple of weeks and others are carrying knocks
YORK City Knights have jumped in to fill the city's Boxing Day sporting void by arranging a pre-season friendly against Hunslet Hawks. As revealed in The Press on Wednesday, York City have brought forward their Boxing Day Conference clash with Halifax
Non-league legend Jim Collis has decided to call time on more than 40 years of leading teams in the York area after stepping down as Tadcaster Albion boss. The man who once tipped a teenage Steve McClaren for stardom has handed over control at the
BREAKFAST like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper - we all know the saying. But according to new research, it looks as though people in Yorkshire are beginning to take it seriously. The research, by Alpro soya, has found out that nearly
A HI-TECH laser measurement technology business has invested in a multi-million pound expansion, including a move into new premises in York. Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL) has re-located its European, African and Asian sales and technical support office
Northern Counties East League premier division equivalents Curzon Ashton have banana skin written all over them for last year's cup killers Harrogate Town. Curzon Ashton are currently fifth in division one of the North West Counties League but have
HE was left screaming in agony after an unusual accident - now his story is being used to help other children. Earlier this year, we exclusively reported the story of three-year-old Daniel Barker, who suffered a badly burned tongue after a battery
Yorkshire have not renewed the playing contract of long-serving wicketkeeper-batsman Richard Blakey. The 39-year-old made his debut in 1985 and went on to play in 339 first-class matches for the county, scoring 14,150 runs and taking 768 catches, plus
HANDS up all those reading this who are dead! Come on, be honest. On Page 9 of North Yorkshire County Council's pensions magazine, imaginatively entitled Pension Focus, there is a section explaining that the council is obliged to take part in the National
CUSTOMERS of a York financial advisor, who may have been sold unsuitable investments, could be entitled to compensation of up to £48,000. People who bought products like endowments from Joseph M Dow and may have lost money as a result could apply to
IT'S derby day in rugby union's Yorkshire Two tomorrow as high-flying Pocklington come head to head with York RI in a much-anticipated clash. Pocklington are currently fourth in the table, with two wins from three matches, while RI are bottom and struggling
I SAID goodbye this week to one of York's great characters - Dringhouses butcher Ged Bell. His death still came as a shock despite its sad inevitability in the end. Everything about this master butcher was big - his personality, his generosity, his forearms
A single structure management team is to be set up at Headingley Carnegie Stadium to run cricket and rugby combined, and it should be in place by January. It will help to unite Yorkshire CCC and the rugby ground's owners, Leeds Cricket, Football and
IT is just over a year since the Great North Run was marred by tragedy. Four people died in the cruel heat that accompanied last year's half marathon - the highest number of deaths in the race's history. Among them was York civil engineer David Mahaffey
It was Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond's second trip in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance in as many weeks. But this time it was a much happier journey. The 36-year-old star was discharged from Leeds General Infirmary and transferred to a hospital nearer
The East Yorkshire Referees' Society has joined forces with Pocklington RUFC, Pocklington School and the school's old boys' association to commission a new trophy in memory of popular East Yorkshire rugby union referee Terry Hardaker, who died last year
I MUST reply to the letter by R Hutchinson, of the York & District Amalgamation Of Anglers ("It's not our lead", The Press, September 26). Only certain sizes of lead fishing weights were banned in 1987. Lead weights from sizes 0.06 grams or below
THE Employers Forum On Age has found most workers believe being discriminated against on grounds of age is rife. On October 1, new legislation gives us all new rights at work. We must not be treated less favourably than others simply because of our age
IT WAS interesting to read Janet Rowntree's story of how much her family had cared for the workers. (The Press, September 26). I well remember the change over to Nestl as I would pop down to the dining block once a week to rattle the old piano for the
I READ Leo Enticknap's letter about population control (Too many people, September 26) with total disbelief. I was waiting all the way through for the punch line which never came, so sure was I that it was a wind-up response to Heather Causnett's
LEO Enticknap was right to state that "over-population is the environmental and economic crisis that dare not speak its name". However, he is wrong to state that "politicians are too scared to address it". The Green Party does indeed address it.
HEREWITH my thoughts on the Archbishop of York's advice on recent job cuts in York (Think of the families, The Press, September 22). The few nonagenarians who are left will remember the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s and will give a sigh of
WITH regard to the proposals and MP intervention regarding the A1079 (MPs lead drive for safer road, The Press, September 27), can I point out that all roads are safe. It is the people who use them that aren't. PR Willey, Burnholme Drive, Heworth
I'VE lost count the amount of times I've heard of a "crackdown" on cannabis in the last 25 years of my adult life. A Government report details how since the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) no more than 20 per cent of the drugs in this country have ever
SINCE the French voted against the EU constitution, many people have assumed that it is "dead". It has certainly suited some British politicians to spread that idea. However that is far from the case. The Germans, especially, are still determined
I NOTE that Tory Party hopeful Julian Sturdy has taken a keen interest in York's traffic. I'm rather surprised that he has the time, given that in Harrogate, where he lives, he is the council's cabinet member for planning and transport. Having
YORK and Hull rugby league legend Tommy Harris has died aged 79. Mr Harris lived off Front Street in Acomb, having first moved to York in the 1960s. A former Great Britain hooker, he was York RL coach for over a decade before resigning in the early
I THINK it's brilliant that so much money has been donated since Top Gear star Richard Hammond's accident that the Yorkshire Air Ambulance will now be able to purchase another life-saving helicopter. But it's a sad reflection that it took an accident
All eyes at Newmarket tomorrow will be on the 35 runners thundering down the straight nine furlongs of the £150,000 Totesport Cambridgeshire Handicap. Alan Swinbank - trainer of my Nap selection Stevie Gee in Redcar's major event - has a wonderful chance
Last season's John Smith's Men's Darts League division one winners Acomb took on the runners-up Volunteers in a titanic tussle. The two rivals produced a flurry of ace darts culminating in a 56 ton-plus match. However, despite the sterling efforts of
NORRIS the Knight has bidden farewell to life as York City Knights' mascot after bowing out at the annual Mascot Grand National. But don't worry, kids, a reincarnated Norris will be back next season. Pete Miller, better known as Norris, has hung up
THERE is no angling column today - Darren Starkey's reports will resume in The Press next Wednesday. However, bookings for this weeknd are as follows: TOMORROW Howsham (opposite Hall) - York Railway Institute AS; Laybourne Lakes (Marley, pegs 33-53
I write having read your article on the decision of the York City FC board to move the scheduled Boxing Day match against Halifax forward to the last Saturday before Christmas. While appreciating the pounds, shillings and pence of the decision, I also
WORKERS losing their jobs at York's British Sugar factory have accepted an improved redundancy deal. The compensation package is considerably better than an "atrocious" offer which was originally made, said GMB union official John Kirk. He said it included
UNION and Nestle bosses said they had a "constructive" meeting to discuss the company's proposals to shed 645 jobs at the factory. Nestle representatives met officials from the GMB and Amicus yesterday afternoon to kick-off what is likely to be a long
Robert Winston steers away from Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting tomorrow in order to ride at Redcar's big day of the year and the York-based jockey is fancied to hit the jackpot. Winston teams up with Stevie Gee in the £200,000 Totepool Two-Year-Old
RESIDENTS in Strensall were without water yesterday morning after a leak caused flooding in the village centre. About 100 homes had their supplies cut off while Yorkshire Water workers tried to stop the flow. Anxious residents raised safety fears when
DETECTIVES are hunting two men following a terrifying sexual assault on a young woman on an isolated cycle path in York. The two offenders were disturbed by members of the public who spotted them on the path. The alleged assault on the local woman
IT SHOULD have been a five-minute bus journey home. But instead Tamsyn Quormby, 28, and her partner, Chris Gowland, 45, were forced to endure a four-mile trek along a dangerous road after a bus driver missed their stop. The couple, of Holmes Drive,
RESIDENTS will be told "as soon as possible" of the results of tests on samples taken from sites close to where toxic metals were found near two York schools. City of York Council chiefs today said analysis of a series of soil samples taken from a number
YORK jockey Robert Winston is set to face a Horseracing Regulatory Authority (HRA) hearing in January. The Osbaldwick-based rider, along with Fran Ferris, Robbie Fitzpatrick and Luke Fletcher, was charged with "the passing of information for reward
A MAN has been jailed for two years for assaulting his common-law wife in front of their eight-year-old son. Lee Michael Smith-Swallow, 32, and Stacey Clayton had a tempestuous relationship, York Crown Court heard. In June, she punched him once and
