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  • York hospital car park scheme shelved

    PLANS for a £5million multi-storey car park at York Hospital have been shelved indefinitely. Building work on the new 420-space car park had been due to start last September – but The Press can today reveal that the project has become the latest

  • de Silva lining

    York footballer Josh de Silva declared his selection for the England Colleges’ Under-19 squad is the result of two years’ hard work. The 18-year-old will travel with the 18-man squad for international tournaments in Italy and Japan later this year,

  • Town U7s ready to take league plunge

    A NEW under-7s side at Haxby Town Junior Football Club get their first taste of action in the York Mitchell Sports League tomorrow. Haxby play host to Wigginton Grasshoppers as the Fair Play League gets underway for U7s and U8s. Junior secretary Neil

  • Canon Lee crowned champions

    CANON Lee School came out on top as a trio of teams battled it out in the York and Selby School Sports Association five-a-side football finals. The Canon Lee side got the better of Archbishop Holgate’s School and Tadcaster Grammar School in the three-way

  • Volley good

    YOUNG “racqueteers” are being served up a treat at York Tennis Club. In only eight short years, the Clifton Park-based junior section of the club has come from nowhere to boasting 150 members – ranging in age from five to 18-years-old. Bev Cairns, head

  • Winter nets get under way at York

    WINTER cricket coaching for York Cricket Club’s juniors gets under way next week. The Clifton Park club will hold sessions for youngsters from Under-9s to U15s at St Olave’s School, Clifton. The U9s will be training on Mondays from January 12 to

  • A window of opportunity at Poppleton

    A RECRUITMENT drive has been launched by Poppleton Tigers Junior Football Club during the January transfer window. The York club are looking for new players at all age groups – from Under-13s to U16s – to sign up before the window closes on January 31

  • City’s fun football festivities

    PLAYERS at York City in the Community’s development centre entered the festive spirit during their final session of 2008. Children and staff dressed up as Santa, nativity characters and even gifts at the PlayFootball venue in Clifton Moor. The player

  • Break over

    FIXTURES in the City of York Girls’ Football League swing back into action today after a Christmas break. Clubs have not been in action since Saturday, December 20. League officials have organised a mid-season meeting of clubs at Poppleton Community

  • Boddy boost for Under-10s

    CITY of York Hockey Club Girls’ Under-10s ‘A’ team starred in their Yorkshire Youth League tournament against Kirklees, Ben Rhydding, Wakefield and Sheffield. Imogen Boddy scored twice as York beat Kirklees 2-1, and a 3-1 win over Ben Rhydding ‘A’

  • Bagging funds for a French tour

    Heworth ARLC Under-14s team bag packed at Tesco Clifton Moor for four hours on Christmas Eve and raised £861.61 to help fund a tour. The lads would like to thank the management and staff of Tesco for allowing them to conduct the bag pack, and to Tesco

  • Heworth Larkin about

    MAN-OF-THE-MATCH Dave Larkin scored a hat-trick as Heworth ARLC Under-13s returned to action with a 30-20 win at Townville Tigers. Townville got the better of the opening exchanges, with Heworth suffering from a lack of game-time over the last few weeks

  • Vikings’ rampage yields net gains

    York Vikings Under-13s basketball team returned full of pride from a triangular series of matches in the North East. The seven-player squad lost their opening game against Gateshead Tornadoes but came back strongly to notch an impressive victory over

  • Director Steve Beck quits York City board

    STEVE Beck has resigned from the board of York City. The youth development and fans’ liaison director, who was one of the key players in the fight to save the club six years ago, has stepped down with immediate effect. Beck has been a York City Supporters

  • A double act at Poppleton

    REBECCA Turnbull and Emily Hick were double winners at the annual Poppleton Lawn Tennis Club Christmas tournament. Turnbull won the Under-14s and U16s girls’ events, beating Hannah Chambers 10-5 in the U14s and Sophie Worsman 11-9 in the U16s. Meanwhile

  • Birch hits form for City of York

    KATIE Birch was in top scoring form as City of York Hockey Club Girls’ Under-12s ‘A’ team returned to action after their Christmas break. Birch was on target as they beat Harrogate 2-1 in the first fixture of their Yorkshire Youth League tournament

  • Try star Tom fires in victory

    YORK Rugby Union Club’s Under-17s dished out some punishment when they took on Stocksbridge. The young Clifton Parkers were totally dominant in the friendly game with man-of-the-match Tom Lineham running riot in the 47-0 victory. He scored a hat-trick

  • Luke has fishing force

    Of all 12-year-old Luke Robinson’s Christmas presents, entry into the Pool Bridge Farm fishing match was perhaps one he did not expect. The keen young fisherman was entered into the event by his father, Keith, and thrown in to competition with around

  • Foyle’s squad out in the cold

    MARTIN Foyle will have his players out on the KitKat Crescent pitch today as he continues his work to turn around York City’s football fortunes, writes Steve Carroll. The squad will be playing each other in a practice match as Foyle puts his players

  • Charity at heart of McTigue clash

    MONEY raised from next week’s challenge match between York City Knights and a York Select XIII will be going to charity – with the full backing of Lee McTigue’s widow, Lynne. The pre-season friendly, to be held at Huntington Stadium a week tomorrow,

  • Cougars hail signing of ex-Knight Lee

    LEE MAPALS has signed for Keighley Cougars just days after leaving Doncaster. The former York City Knights flier – and top try-scorer in the past two seasons – was frozen out of the first-team picture at Huntington Stadium from July onwards last year

  • Festive fortune for Farmery’s fighters

    A CHRISTMAS decoration played a crucial role in the outcome of the York and District Table Tennis League’s Shepherds Cup clash between Holgate ‘A’ and Coneysthorpe ‘B’. The match was level going into the final game between John Farmery, of Holgate ‘A

  • Hall to gain from members drive

    SANDBURN Hall Golf Club have reaped the benefit of a pre-festive initiative. The club announced last month a scheme whereby the normal joining fee of £300 would be waived for anyone who agreed to join the club just off the A64 on the road to Flaxton

  • It’s a hard Wey’s plight

    IT might only represent the flick of a page in an alphabetical encyclopaedia of full-time football teams but, in normal circumstances, Yeovil to York requires a 260-mile trek. Double that figure to 520 for a round trip and it must represent one of the

  • Mighty Mitre still on top

    MITRE ‘A’ maintained top position in the York John Smith’s Sunday Pool League with a 7-1 win at Crystal Palace ‘B’. The win included two-frame wins from Chris Leaf and Dave Catlow, who also had a seven-ball game in the first frame. Dave Richardson

  • Captain’s log for RAF pilot

    TEN years to the day he joined Selby Golf Club, Tony Steen, MBE, drove in as captain. The 15-handicap player served in the Royal Air Force for 33 years as a fighter pilot. His wife Susan is a former ladies captain at the Mill Lane-based club. During

  • Moore success for teenage racer

    YORK racing sensation Nigel Moore has been tipped as Britain’s hottest prospect for success by leading specialist publication Motorsport News. The 17-year-old Moore, pictured, who last year won the Ginetta G50 sports car championship in only his second

  • OAP Alan Atkinson’s parking fraud

    A MOTORIST who fraudulently used his dead wife’s disabled badge to get free parking has been prosecuted in a landmark case. Alan Atkinson, 73, was ordered to pay a total of £665 after admitting changing his late wife Jean’s permit and using it unlawfully

  • York ex-teacher’s ‘Oscar’ party

    FIRST she got an MBE in the New Year Honours list – now a retired teacher has been given an “Oscar”. Tina Wright – who spent 23 years as head of the performing arts faculty at Burnholme Community College – arrived in limo-driven style at a party to celebrate

  • Chick-lit writer Adele Parks for Acomb library

    CHICK-LIT fans are in for a treat when a best-selling author pops into a York library to promote her latest book. Adele Parks will be at Explore Acomb Library learning centre on Wednesday, February 4, to talk about her new novel, Tell Me Something.

  • York insurance workers start to leave

    WORKERS at Norwich Union in York have started leaving the company as up to 500 job losses – announced by the insurance giant last summer – begin to bite. The company has revealed that 38 staff had left its Monks Cross offices by the end of December.

  • Dr John gets a science lesson

    IT WAS the place to “bee” for the Archbishop of York. Dr John Sentamu toured York’s National Bee Unit yesterday at The Central Science Laboratory, a purpose-built laboratory complex near Sand Hutton, with the Bishop of Selby, the Right Rev Martin Wallace

  • 42pc want wheel for North Street

    YORK residents have backed the idea of a new Yorkshire Wheel on the banks of the River Ouse. In a city-wide survey, 42.7 per cent supported the idea, while only 9.7 per cent opposed it. The rest expressed no view. The opinions were contained in the

  • Heworth man John Bibby fasts in Gaza protest

    AN ANTI-WAR protester has started a hunger strike in York Minster – and vowed not to eat until a ceasefire is called in Gaza. John Bibby has pledged to fast for as long as ten days to mark the deaths of more than 200 children in the conflict

  • Wheel wisdom

    WHEN a giant, London Eye-style wheel was first proposed for York, there were understandable concerns. Wouldn’t it ruin the historic skyline, and overshadow the Minster itself? Then it arrived, and became a massive hit. Since the wheel came down, the

  • Housing questions

    The Press recently invited readers to comment on the now abandoned plans to build some much-needed, low-cost housing in Mill Lane, at Tadcaster (Town fears “stagnation, The Press, December 6). There were also ambitious plans to build some specially

  • A signal failure

    ONE of the letters in The Press on Wednesday, December 24, was from Bob Waite of Holgate, York (Cameras won’t improve safety). He raised a point about drivers not indicating when turning. A few months ago, as a pedestrian, I was about to cross the

  • Bollywood steams in

    THE National Railway Museum (NRM) is hoping to turn the British winter into an Indian summer with the help of a new exhibition. The Leeman Road venue is turning east for a series of Indian-themed events which it will be staging throughout the first part

  • Tributes paid to Roman expert Vivian Swan

    THE funeral was taking place today of a York woman whose interest in archaeology and ancient Rome saw her rise to the top of her field and gain the respect of international scholars. Vivian Swan died on New Year’s Day following a two-year battle

  • Application for controversial station barriers submitted

    MORE than 120 people have voiced opposition to controversial plans to install automatic barriers at York Railway Station. The deadline for objections to the proposed scheme, put forward by the station’s operator, National Express East Coast (NXEC), passed

  • It’s gone on for too long

    YORK Hospital patients won’t know whether to groan or cheer today. We have all been braced for work to start on the new 420-space hospital car park, in the knowledge that while it is being built it will be virtually impossible to park there. Hospital

  • Pay rise timing is ‘diabolical’

    It is diabolical that York councillors have awarded themselves a handsome pay rise at a time when everybody else has to tighten their belts. Companies are being forced into liquidation and employees are being made redundant. There was a time when councillors

  • Taxi opportunity

    BAH, humbug! This is what the bosses of the First bus company think of their customers with this recent price hike in bus fares. With reduced petrol, diesel prices and reduced VAT, these increases are not justified. With the minimum wage also frozen

  • Think positively

    IT’S a great pity that one in ten young people think that life is not worth living. My message to them is, think positive, and when they reach my age, every day counts. Every day I wake up and am able to put my wellies on, I feel like a millionaire

  • A day for victims

    When, as City of York Council’s executive member for leisure, culture and social inclusion, I agreed last summer to the proposal that the City of York commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, in a few weeks’ time, I asked, and it was agreed, that the day

  • It’s time for an honours overhaul

    THE New Year’s Honours list makes one wonder how on earth the panel, or adjudicators, reach their conclusions as to who receives these awards; not unlike the lottery, when the punters' money is distributed, in some cases, to extreme organisations instead

  • More than 3,000 people on list for council home in city

    MORE THAN 3,100 people are on the waiting list for a council home in York, The Press has learned. Figures released by City of York Council show 2,459 non-council tenants are on the list, as well as another 624 existing council tenants who want to move

  • Woman sold fake Gucci jewellery

    A WOMAN who sold fake Gucci and Playboy jewellery on a stall in York Hospital has been ordered to do 60 hours of community service. Nadia Arsen Andonian, 51, admitted selling the fake goods after they were spotted by City of York Council trading standards

  • Factory fire probe launched

    AN INVESTIGATION into a huge blaze which destroyed an East Riding factory and took firefighters a day to bring under control was getting under way today. Crews were called to Tekno Ltd in Killingraves Lane, Bishop Burton, just after 2am yesterday after

  • York youth bid hires architect

    ATTEMPTS to improve facilities for young people in York are set to take a major leap forward. York’s education boss Carol Runciman says plans for a new youth centre for teenagers will be complete by the end of March. City of York Council wants money

  • York councillors throw out caravan site expansion bid

    THE owners of a caravan park near York have vowed to lodge an appeal after their plans to expand the site were thrown out by councillors. Members of City of York Council’s East Area Planning Sub-Committee rejected a bid to nearly double the size of Ashfield

  • Jobless shock

    UNEMPLOYMENT rates in North and East Yorkshire have shot up in the past year, according to the latest figures released by local authorities. The number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits increased by 37 per cent in North Yorkshire and 50

  • Learning how to shine

    A CLATTER of metal, whirring equipment and chatter descends on York School of Jewellery. Another class has begun and the students, spread between the two workshops, take out rings, necklaces and brooches and begin cutting, filing or setting while tutor

  • Lost seems to be the word

    I’M NOT graced with a fantastic sense of direction, but even I was mortified to get lost in a motorway service station. What’s worse is that I regularly stop at that particular one en route across the border, so I should be able to navigate it with my

  • Tidy up

    WHAT a frustrating start to the new year. I have been struck down by the winter virus that is doing the rounds – for the third time this winter – and have been cooped up indoors feeling very sorry for myself. Meanwhile, the garden has gone native.

  • Motown memories

    ONE of my best nights in York was five years ago at The Grand Opera House, where Motown veterans The Isley Brothers were headliners. As Ronald Isley – the last member of the original line-up – slunk on to stage in white suit and fedora, carrying a cane

  • Starbucks, Coppergate, York

    THE first time I visited a branch of Starbucks, a notice offered a ten pence discount if you brought your own mug. As a Scot living in Yorkshire, this quirky offer appealed. Hard as we looked, this discount doesn’t appear to be available now. There

  • The Codfather, 14 Goodramgate, York

    TOO many fast food joints get a bad name these days. I don’t just mean the relentless abuse they get from the healthy-eating brigade. I mean literally as well. Too many simply have lousy names. It really shouldn’t be that way. Fish and chip shops,

  • Sauvignon blanc

    DID YOU know there was such a thing as the World Sauvignon Congress? The 2008 meeting was held in Graz, Austria and spanned three days, with 30 international speakers booked to share their knowledge and experience of sauvignon blanc. Now that’s what

  • Brompton-by-Sawdon

    BROMPTON-BY-SAWDON was dull and cold, so I’m told by Victoria my navigator, certainly not the place for me suffering a particularly weakening version of man flu. By dull she meant the light, also complained of by her photographer for the day (thank

  • Kevern tries a new tune

    WHEN the credit crunch comes to the punch this year, the knock-out blow could take out any number of jobs. Whether prescient or not, Kevern Stafford has been ahead of the game of chance, in his own words “breaking out of the daily 9.05 to 4.55 grind

  • Wetherby off

    RACING at Wetherby this afternoon has fallen foul of the weather. Course chiefs have been forced to abandon the meeting after overnight temperatures plummeted. It dropped to as low as -4C and chief executive Jonjo Sanderson had planned to hold a 9am