TWO new zip wires are among the state-of-the-art play facilities that children in Ryedale will have access to, after council chiefs scooped a £200,000 funding jackpot. Play facilities across the area are set for an overhaul, following the successful
THIS war veteran claims he is being driven barking mad by his neighbour's pesky pooch. George Beal, 83, moved into his home in Walmgate, York, in September and said that since then his life had been made a misery by his neighbour's dog. Mr Beal, who
A TEENAGER will be nearly on top of the world with her head in the clouds if her next challenge is successful. Rebecca Triffitt, a 17-year-old air cadet with 2487 (Easingwold) Squadron, has been selected to embark on an expedition to Everest base camp
THE daughter of a York man who miraculously survived a terrifying aerial platform lift accident has helped raise £200 for charity. Ten-year-old Maddie Cook and her classmates at Bootham School, in York, have raised the cash for head injuries charity
WHERE has my street gone? That is the question of a confused pensioner, who says the street she has lived on for nearly 50 years has disappeared. Betty Windass, who is registered blind, said that according to the latest road maps and SatNav systems,
AN AMPUTEE soldier and fellow Iraq War veterans have taken part in a marathon row to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund. Private Chris Herbert, who lost a leg in a roadside bombing in Basra last year, together with fellow soldiers of the 4th Battalion
We are careering out of control, for third world status at the mercy of crime and religious fanaticism from abroad, and our political system is hastening its arrival. Our politicians who presided over these developments are busy feathering their nests
IT'S full steam ahead for Thomas The Tank Engine in York this year - despite bureaucrats derailing him elsewhere in our region. Last week, the North York Moors Railway (NYMR) announced its popular Thomas weekend was being cancelled this year, after being
YORK City's FA Trophy third round tie at Farsley Celtic has been put back 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday, kick-off 3pm. The change has been made on the advice of West Yorkshire Police who are unable to patrol the tie with resources stretched to cover
RESIDENTS have reacted angrily over moves to build a new office block in a York village. Developers have submitted plans for the new block in Millfield Business Centre, Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton. The applicant, London Ebor Developments, says
TEENAGERS at four York schools have been finding out that money matters, thanks to a new partnership with one of York's largest employers. Education reporter Haydn Lewis called in at Burnholme Community College to meet some of the pupils taking part.
AN UNNAMED major organisation in York is considering getting The Edge. It is interested in occupying all of The Edge, the newly-completed top grade £3.5 million speculative office development in York. The organisation wants the offices as an extension
IT is too late for Rose Harrison, who has been given only weeks to live. But the brave mother-of-two has vowed to fight on so that other cancer patients living in North Yorkshire do not have to go through the same exhausting battle for NHS funding.
A YORK band has given its first live performance of its new single, which has been dedicated to our Guardian Angels Appeal. Members of the band Comfort Zone are donating every penny from every sale of the single to our appeal - which aims to raise life-saving
YORK City today released striker Paul Brayson who is now free to join another club. The former Newcastle United, Reading and Cardiff City striker's contract was terminated by mutual consent after he dropped down the pecking order during the club's current
THE consultation on public service cuts in York has degenerated into a "farce", opposition councillors have said. David Scott, leader of the Labour group on City of York Council, said failure to deliver information leaflets to many households was "unacceptable
NOBODY with cancer should have to pay for the drugs they need. It's just not fair. Not our words, but those of mother-of-two Rose Harrison, whose kidney cancer has left her with only weeks to live. A plight which makes her words all the more powerful
BETTY Windass has lived on Chestnut Grove for nearly 50 years. So it came as a shock when the 83-year-old discovered her street doesn't exist. Having been closed to traffic in the 1970s, it no longer shows up on road maps or SatNav systems - meaning
I TRIED to enjoy York Residents First weekend. On Saturday, I went to the Castle Museum. Great fun was had by my family and I, until we found two major sections of the museum were shut for refurbishment. On Sunday, we tried the Jorvik Centre. We were
RECYCLING facilities in North Yorkshire are to be upgraded, thanks to an £80,000 investment by council bosses. North Yorkshire County Council is to spend the money on a programme of improvements to the Household Waste Recycling Centre, at Malton. Work
I DO not make a habit of reading Julian Cole's column, having realised years ago that it is usually a left-wing rant. Last week, he really plumbed the depths with his "dance on your grave" at Mrs Thatcher's expense (The Press, January 24). He has a
WE CAN'T let Allan Charles-worth's letter (January 23) go unchallenged - even if it does feel like rehearsing an old argument. For the record, the average sickness absence among council staff is 12.9 days per full-time employee, not four weeks. Even
MORE than a thousand posties across York and North Yorkshire are set to receive a £400 bonus in April - if unions and Royal Mail management can reach agreement on new flexible working arrangements. Union leaders held their first meeting with the company
HUNDREDS of young scientists are set to converge on a North Yorkshire secondary school next week. Tadcaster Grammar School is to host a Science and Engineering Club (SEC) workshop aimed at capturing and sharing good practice among the network of smaller
POLICE have today named the young cyclist killed after colliding with a car on a busy bridge in York. The dead man is 22-year-old Adam Lapinski, of Ancress Walk, York, a Polish national who only moved to the city with his family within the last year
I WOULD like to reply to Collin S Jeffery (Readers' Letters, January 20). I believe our Royal Family is a very important part of Britain; this is mainly due to Queen Elizabeth II being a fantastic head of state. The fact that our monarchy dates back
I WAS horrified to read Donald Coverdale's comments on the actions of Ted and Nan Bedell, the elderly couple who had planned their joint suicide (Suicide pact, The Press, January 24). He condemned the manual that they had consulted, and further stated
York man Philip Nicholson refused to pay his council tax because he said the authority was failing in its duty of care to him. But is withholding tax a legitimate form of protest? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. WE HAVE a long and honourable tradition in this
THE basis of Mr Scaife's tilt at the church is that it has power, influence and wealth (Readers' Letters, January 25). I invite Mr Scaife to our deanery synod so he can give details to churchgoers of that power, influence and wealth. They will be fascinated
TOP-LEVEL services are to be delivered for York's old and young people alike, councillors have vowed. At a meeting yesterday, City of York Council's ruling executive considered making York an "age friendly city", while also rubber-stamping plans for
AROUND 1,000 people die each year waiting for organ transplants. The news that Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to register everyone automatically as an organ donor unless they opt out has all the hallmarks of a major spin operation
I WAS surprised and perturbed to read in the ward newsletter the proposal to move the bus stop in Earswick village. I strongly oppose such action. I have lived in the village for more than 23 years; the bus stop has been in that position all those
I FIND this astonishing - the sum of £28 million to revamp DEFRA offices in Peasholme Green, as reported by The Press. These buildings were only constructed in 1994 and were being revamped to make them more sustainable'. The work quoted will save 15
WITH reference to Coun Horton's letter of January 18, what a lot of political claptrap. It was the people who use the Moor Lane junction who kept asking for something to be done about that dangerous place. There are not a few dozen cars use the junction
WELCOME to the final part of this series - and the real beginning of your path of adventure to your new career. Some of you might have stopped reading by now because all of the focus and activity that you have been putting into parts one to six
A CYCLIST has died after suffering serious head injuries in a road accident in York. The accident happened at 2.20pm yesterday on Holgate Road bridge - known locally as the Iron Bridge. Police said the victim was a local man in his early 20s who was
SHOUTS of "Judas" greeted a Government minister as disabled workers from a York factory whose fate was sealed by her department let her know what they think about their jobs being axed. A 25-strong group of employees from the city's Remploy plant travelled
FOR a pastime which is supposed to reward strategy and acumen, The Diary finds that playing board games tend to be a rather vicious activity. At least, that was certainly the case the last time we had a no-holds-barred, high stakes Monopoly session
When I graduated from university, one of my more perceptive mates gave me a T-shirt printed with the University Challenge-style announcement: F. Clee, BA Hons, reading Cosmopolitan. I regret to say, taxpayers, that they had a point. My three-year degree
THE Press today launches a campaign calling on the Government to support York's planned bid for £160 million that could be used to dual parts of the city's congested outer ring road. We exclusively revealed how City of York Council leader Steve Galloway
NEW recycling facilities could be provided for some York residents, to help boost the city's environmental performance. Under a proposed pilot scheme, a series of recycling trials will be carried out in The Groves. Some communal collections will be
PUPILS at North Yorkshire primary schools have been making a drama out of healthy eating. Youngsters at four primary schools across North Yorkshire have been treated to a mystery drama by a professional London theatre troupe, learning about the wisdom
YORK City goalkeeper Josh Mimms is regarding his move from five-time European champions Liverpool as career progression. The 18-year-old stopper - son of former Spurs, Everton, Blackburn and Minstermen number one Bobby - has signed for the KitKat Crescent
SKIPPER Scott Rhodes is bursting with pride as he prepares to lead York City Knights into their 2008 campaign. Player-coach Paul March has handed York-born stand-off Rhodes the captain's armband and he will lead the side into their Northern Rail Cup
All-conquering Martin Lowe extended his domination of the York Closed Table Tennis Championship with a fourth consecutive final triumph. The Coneysthorpe player beat Richard Moss, of Sessions, in the men's singles final at York RI - the fourth successive
FORMER Elland Road skipper Gary McAllister is the new man at the helm at Leeds United. Chairman Ken Bates wasted little time in naming the 43-year-old as successor to Dennis Wise, who quit Elland Road to join Newcastle as executive director. Leeds technical
Selby/Drax Ladies completed the double with a 6-3 away win over Huntington in ladies division one of the York Badminton League. Michelle Hall and Lisa Ward set the standard once again for Selby with three wins for 143-76. Alison Dinsdale and Angie Spivey
THE motorist whose car smashed into an historic archway at Castle Howard has been named as Christian Hobbin, a York train driver. The 42-year-old worked for TransPennine Express, which operates passenger services between York and other northern cities
Especially goes in search of a hat-trick at Wolverhampton and she looks primed for a third win in the pontins.com Handicap. Bred to be a champion, being by Fantastic Light out of a top Argentinian filly, Especially has not really lived up to her pedigree
York City Knights captain Scott Rhodes reveals his World Cup ambition to The Press' Knights reporter Peter Martini. HE played in the last World Cup and now he would love to make it to the next. And York City Knights' new captain Scott Rhodes knows
To put it crudely, and it deserves no less, The Honorable Members for wherever at Westminster, and their families, have got us by the short and curlies and are screwing us for every penny they can get away with. What then? A slapped wrist and go home
POLICE closed a main road between York and Selby this morning after a lorry jackknifed and landed on top of a car. The accident happened just after 6am today on the A19 at Deighton, near the White Swan pub, with fire and ambulance crews also being called
A cross-county police search was continuing today for a gang of thieves who launched a Mission Impossible-style raid on a York industrial estate. As revealed by The Press yesterday, four raiders cut telephone lines to knock out burglar alarms at The
DAVE Windass has been a bricklayer, college lecturer, milkman, debt collector, theatre critic and freelance journalist. Put those together and you have a playwright who understands the working man and has a facility for reportage. His first two plays
FLOOD defence planners have come under fire from business owners in Tadcaster, who claim they were forgotten during last week's heavy rainfall. They say the Environment Agency, which has responsibility for maintaining flood defences across the country
A STALWART of Selby has died at the age of 93. Thomas Herbert Foster, who was known as Bert, of Laurie Backhouse Court, served in numerous positions in the town, particularly within the church. He also appeared in The Press on numerous occasions as
PLANS are afoot to merge two Bridlington primary schools due to falling numbers. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has decided to look at a proposal to merge Hilderthorpe Infant and Junior Schools to create a single primary school. The number of primary
