PLANS to bring an historic community building back into use have taken a leap forward after nearly £1million of Lottery funding was rubber-stamped by the Government. Confirmation of the cash means that a major revamp of St Clement’s Hall, in Moss Street
A COMMUNITY centre will open its doors to the people of Acomb on Saturday for the first time since a £760,000 extension was completed. The Gateway Centre – housed in the former Acomb County Primary School in Front Street – now has a new multi-purpose
AN EX-pub landlady who attributes her longevity to cod liver oil has celebrated her 104th birthday. Alice Leaf is a former landlady of the Phoenix Pub, in George Street, York. She was born in Heworth on January 21, 1905, and lived with her family in
POLICE have appealed for help to trace a man who has been reported missing from home in York. The family of Christopher Wheatley, of Earlsborough Terrace, raised the alarm after he failed to return home after last being seen by his wife near Haxby
PENSIONERS are being forced to wait for their bus in the wind and rain after their stop was moved to a new location without a shelter. Passengers using the number 24 and number 26 bus services between York city centre and Fulford are angry that they
Private enterprise is responsible for great progress, as are our universities, but when things gets beyond them, as it has with bankers, we all need government support. The young need it to help with a home of their own to progress in life. The lowest
FURTHER information has been released about a man who was killed when he was hit by a high-speed train on a York railway track. As reported earlier this week, the man was struck by a National Express train on Monday, at Moor Lane Bridge, Dringhouses
A BOGUS caller tricked his way into a 96-year-old woman's home before stealing cash from her handbag. Police branded it a “despicable crime” and warned other residents in the Thirsk area to be on their guard. Posing as a water board
SHOPS which allow under-age smokers to buy cigarettes face being exposed as a new blitz on tobacco sales is launched in York. Residents throughout the city will be encouraged to blow the whistle on traders who break the law – and any businesses caught
ANYONE feeling strapped for cash? Got several unopened envelopes staring at you reproachfully with their gloomy content – bills, overspends – just bursting to leap out and hit you on the nose? You are not alone, my friend, and that’s the first
CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL finds family living in mature surroundings. COUNTYSIDE views and convenience are just two of the things that could attract families and commuters to this four bedroom home near York. Temple Garth, in Copmathorpe, was built
CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL finds some DIY projects for the year ahead. IT’S nice to move home and put your feet up, but sometimes you want something you can sink your teeth into. These homes each need modernisation or a bit of DIY, providing a great
One subject which Barack Obama did not mention in his speech yesterday was world population in relation to the danger of climate change and habitable space. You can’t blame him. Most of the trouble in the world was and is about space, both nationally
A TEACHING union has said it will bring a college to a standstill in a row over pay. The University and College Union (UCU) has said all classes will be cancelled on Thursday February 5 because of the failure of Askham Bryan College to honour a pay deal
THE inquest into the death of a York brain-injury patient heard how he choked to death while on a trip to a hamburger restaurant. Peter Manley, a patient at York House, in Heslington Road, became unconscious after choking on a hamburger while at McDonalds
DEALS with a transaction value of more than £50 million have been completed by York-based accountants and business advisers JWPCreers over the past year, in spite of the slowdown in the economy. The success has sparked a pep-talk from Tony Farmer, partner
NEW ventures in York – prepare for rescue from The Whyte Knight. The Whyte Knight is the new tag for what was the York 4 Business Enterprise Fund, which now offers £300,000-worth of match-funded loans to people willing and able to strike out on their
THE cream of the crop of York sixth formers will be heading to top flight universities. York College has eight students who have received conditional offers to go to Cambridge University, dependant on their summer exam results. The college is the largest
THE University of York is to award three experts in their fields with honorary degrees. York graduate Professor Tanya Byron, who is popularly known for presenting television programmes on child behaviour, including House of Tiny Tearaways; David Atkinson
MORE than 60 motorists on North Yorkshire’s roads were arrested during the latest police crackdown on festive drink-drivers. North Yorkshire Police stopped 3,791 drivers between December 1, 2008, and January 1, 2009, of which 62 were arrested either
MORE than 150 Selby council tenants are set to benefit from the next stage of the local authority’s drive to bring their properties up to the Government’s “decent homes” standard. Multi-million pound work is now about to start in villages including Burn
A YOUNGSTER has been hailed a hero following an attack by a gang of youths in a York village after he disturbed them breaking into his dad’s car. Police are appealing for witnesses and information after three youths went on an early- morning
SCHOOLS across Ryedale are celebrating their success as the latest GCSE league tables are published. Ampleforth College came joint third in the league tables, out of all 37 secondary schools in North Yorkshire. Eighty-nine per cent of pupils
As Malton Bacon Factory announces the loss of 200 jobs, CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL speaks to farmer Grant Burton about how this will affect his business and the pig industry. GRUNTING angrily and stomping her feet in the mud, the temperamental new
Jonathan Ross returns with his Friday Night show on BBC 1 tomorrow night. Will you be watching? Should he be banned? Or is he so talented he should be cut some slack? Join the debate....
A HARD-hitting crime crackdown on North Yorkshire's most wanted now has its own dedicated team of police officers. A team of seven officers will work solely on initiatives under the Operation Drystone, the force’s current year long campaign targeting
THE world’s first confectionery centre dedicated to understanding how shoppers shop has opened at Nestlé’s factory in York. The £1 million Insight And Learning Centre features recreations of supermarkets, convenience stores, independent shops
FLT Lt Jon Dunn knows more than most how the Airbus captain must have felt when a bird strike caused his aircraft’s engines to fail in New York. The flying instructor, who is based at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, found himself in a similar position 18 months
IN THIS country, we mostly belittle our politicians. They are, so the theory runs, “all the same” and worthy of scorn or suspicion. It puzzles me why anyone would want to be one, considering the aggressive scrutiny the job attracts. Power and the potential
A FEMALE York corner shop worker was left seriously distressed after a robber threatened her during a raid last night. Police said a man went in to Donaldson’s Convenience Store & Off Licence, in Lawrence Street, and issued threats to the member of staff
I HAVE read your report on the closure of Dormary Court Residential Home at Huntington Road. I would like to express my grave concern over this decision taken by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and all the consequences resulting from this closure.
ONE sees that this Government is to allocate another £20 billion to banks so that they can loan small businesses money to keep going. Fine, but is this going to work? The massive amount of money pumped into banks so they could lend people money who wanted
WITH reference to Maxine Gordon’s article in The Press of January 13, about anti-ageing treatment. For fear of antagonising my peers, beauty is only skin deep and the many cosmetics and anti-ageing creams that are on offer these days are a waste
IN LIGHT of the Government announcing the third runway will be built at Heathrow, my appraisal of said Government using the “global-warming” cosh to frighten people into making massive lifestyle changes as being a cynical ploy of the highest order,
IN HIS farewell speech ex-President Bush claimed as an achievement to have installed a democratically-chosen government in Afghanistan. Really. Consider the facts. When the Taliban regime was deposed by the UN forces there was hardly any person capable
IT IS just what we need to cheer us all up: a rise in the cost of parking. The city council is proposing across-the-board increases in parking charges – whether it is outside your own home, or in city centre car parks. ResPark permits would go up from
What we need in these difficult times is a slice of good luck to cheer us all up. So why has the city council risked bad luck instead by leaving its Christmas decorations up after Twelfth Night? Questions must be asked. Well, they have been. The reason
WHY are people so shocked to see pubs all over the country shutting down? I am just surprised there aren’t more of them closing their doors for good. Let’s face it, for the last five or ten years or so pubs have been raising the price of a pint
IN response to The Press article about 20 drivers a day being caught speeding, (January 7), I would say there’s no excuse for speeding, the drinking of alcohol, driving while using a mobile phone or drinking a Coke. In my view speeding is not only
THE Barbican farce does not surprise me in the slightest. It seems to me that any major project in York is too much to handle for City of York Council and it ends up out of its depth and wasting millions of pounds that belong to the taxpayer. The
WOW! What a rant from Ken Holmes (Leaky argument?, Letters, January 17) about fox hunting. Can I please start with Ken’s first points – how would I deal with a cuckoo throwing young from a robin’s nest and a lamb being taken from its mother. It
MANY of your readers will have diabetes. Both types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, rely on the person with diabetes being able to manage the condition themselves. The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Trust (IDDT) can help by supplying free information
Updated: STUNNED residents watched as a gun-wielding police squad swooped on a quiet York street to arrest two men. The drama unfolded in the Clementhorpe area of the city yesterday morning, as teams of officers surrounded a car and ordered
York Acorn ARLC boss Alfie Hill reckons if his side play like they did last week they should return to winning ways. The Blue and Golds, third in the National Conference premier division, travel to Oulton Raiders, one of several mid-table teams with
YORK City Knights’ friendly at home to Castleford Tigers a week tomorrow will be held in memory of former academy boss Paul Higgins. The match will also see the launch of a charitable rugby league fund set up in honour of the 56-year-old grandfather
YORK City Knights were today ready to pull off a massive coup by bringing Mark Applegarth back to the club. The Press learned that the 24-year-old former Wakefield forward was set to attend Huntington Stadium tonight to put pen to paper on a new deal
EAST Yorkshire’s Guy Smith will race a British-built Lola sportscar in the 2009 American Le Mans Series. The 34-year-old British motorsport ace, who won the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours title, is set to drive a Lola Coupé B09/86 powered by a two-litre turbo-charged
YORK City reserves were well beaten by a Hartlepool side who made the most of their chances at KitKat Crescent yesterday. Although a young City side was never totally outclassed, they failed to make many inroads and Hartlepool capitalised on their
YORK City have signed Wrexham midfielder Levi Mackin on loan until the end of the season. Mackin, 22, will be eligible to play in Saturday's away match at Eastbourne, but is cup-tied for the FA Trophy. The 6ft midfielder last played for Wrexham on November
LEADER Daz Uttley was toppled by third-placed Neil Hart in the latest round of matches in the Clifton Hotel group of the Clifton Hotel/Crescent WMC Individual Darts League. Uttley, who threw an 18-dart leg and had a three-dart average of 65.82, was
RJF Homes Beckett Football League leaders Bagby and Balk threw away a 3-0 lead to share the spoils in an eight-goal thriller against Thornton-le-Dale. An Andrew Parkinson brace, after Darren Bell had opened the scoring, saw Bagby three up after just
A COUNCILLOR has criticised City of York Council for refusing to look into the possibility of buying new land to transform into football pitches. Coun John Galvin wrote to the council’s chief executive, Bill McCarthy, on January 7, urging council officers
THE Underdogs failed to live up to their name in the York Monday Leisure Six-a-side Football League as they bagged a 3-0 victory over Barmy Army. They have four games remaining and could yet clinch the runners-up spot, and with it qualification to
A cracking ladies’ division one duel saw University Staff Club beat Huntington 5-4 in the York Badminton League. Jayne Colley and Sheila Mackarel were the campus mainstays with three wins for 147-108, including a vital 21-23, 21-12, 21-19 success over
A FIELD of 58 players will be competing for 18 trophies at the York & District Table Tennis Closed Championships at York RI this weekend. Seedings have been confirmed for the GMB-sponsored tournament, which takes place at the Queen Street gym on Saturday
York Indoor Bowls Club ‘A’ remain top of the Yorkshire Over-55s League after 14 points were collected from a 94-58 conquest of South Leeds. Geoff Walker’s away team did well. Despite a late scare they won 18-16. However, it was damage
York Indoor Bowls Club moved into the last 16 of the Yetton Plate with an emphatic 118-40 victory over Blackpool Borough with all four rinks winning. At home, Linda Harrison’s team only lost four ends in an easy 33-5 win. Similarly Melanie Brooke’s
THE number of parking tickets issued in York has fallen by a quarter, after trigger-happy traffic wardens were told to be more lenient. In 2007/8, wardens issued 21,256 penalty charge notices (PCNs) in the city’s streets and car parks, down from 28,467
IN the Yorkshire League first division, York were hammered 107-65 by Thornaby with only one winning rink – that of Malcolm Thompson, who scored twos on the last two ends to win 21-16. The Hebden team were surprisingly well beaten 90-62 by Scarborough
York’s North Eastern League push suffered a blow as they lost 80-74 to Hornsea, though they picked up four valuable points thanks to the two home winning rinks. Joyce Gee’s team had been pegged back after leading 17-8 with six ends to play, but recovered
MOTORISTS could have to pay more to park in York from this spring, as the city’s cash-strapped transport authority tries to balance its books. Under new proposals from City of York Council, householders’ ResPark permits would rise from £90
PAY problems are plaguing mental health staff in York, with morale sinking to new levels according to one nurse. The nurse, who has years of experience, but did not want to be named, said some of her colleagues working over Christmas and expecting to
TWELFTH Night has long gone, but City of York Council is risking bad luck by leaving its Christmas decorations up. The council installed 200 small trees on brackets attached to buildings in seven city centre streets in the run-up to Christmas. But with
CALLS were made today for a big wheel to be brought back to York, and placed at the Hungate site. Ian Gillies, leader of York Conservatives and a director of Visit York, said it was important to try to find a site for the wheel, proposed by World Tourist
Updated: THE Government has backed down over moves to keep politicians’ expenses secret, after York and Selby’s MPs threatened to spearhead a national rebellion. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced into an embarrassing U-turn yesterday, scrapping
A BRITISH icon of the days of steam could be put back on the tracks – but only with the help of the public. The Flying Scotsman is currently housed at the National Railway Museum, which has now launched a £250,000 Save Our Steam restoration
Updated: MORE than 1,000 people joined the dole queue in a month in York and North Yorkshire, new figures have revealed. A total of 2,697 people claimed Job Seekers Allowance in the City of York Council area in December, or 2.1 per cent of those
