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  • York City Knights bag friendly victory at Hunslet Hawks

    YORK City Knights maintained their winning start to pre-season with a 20-14 victory over Hunslet Hawks at the John Charles Stadium. The Knights’ try-scorers were winger Tom Stancliffe, scrum-half Danny Grimshaw, centre Sam Blaney and centre Adam Jones

  • York City pitch inspection

    YORK City’s hosts Eastbourne are holding a pitch inspection at 10am tomorrow to determine if the Blue Square Premier game will go on. There was standing water on the pitch today, but with a favourable forecast for drying conditions, Eastbourne were ‘

  • York boxing club's £8,000 delight

    YOUNG boxing champs can now punch above their weight after a battle-scarred ring has been replaced and new equipment bought – thanks to two charitable donations. Gannett Foundation – the arm of The Press’s parent company – gave £5,000 for new equipment

  • ‘Drunk’ actors wanted by North Yorkshire Police

    IT MIGHT not make you the next Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet – but budding actors are being given the chance to take on a role with a difference. North Yorkshire Police is looking for volunteers to play their part in training schemes aimed

  • Reward offered for information on York armed robbery

    A REWARD of £1,000 has been offered for information following an armed robbery at a card shop in York. Stephen Kane, the owner of Cardland on Allerton Drive, Nether Poppleton, has put up the reward in a bid to help York Police following the incident

  • ‘Frock tactics’ at York clothes swap event

    BAGGING a designer outfit at a knockdown price and raising money for a good cause were the twin aims of a recession-busting event in York. The latest way for the fashion-conscious to update their wardrobe without putting a strain on their purses is known

  • Preview: Hyena Lounge Comedy Club, City Screen, York

    ROBIN Ince’s Bleeding Heart Liberal show on Sunday leads off a new strand of solo nights at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in The Basement at City Screen, York. “The big new thing this year is the slightly different tack we’re taking,” says promoter Toby

  • York GPs’ surgery to get facelift

    A DOCTOR’S surgery in York is to undergo a major refurbishment after plans to build a new surgery on the former Terry’s site were scuppered by planners. The Jorvik Medical Practice’s South Bank Surgery, in Bishopthorpe Road, will close for between ten

  • Minster School’s plea to York buskers

    BUSKERS performing in the shadows of York Minster are being asked to pack up their instruments, as their music is disturbing children in nearby classrooms. Minster School has told street performers to stay away during school hours, because pupils cannot

  • Dog is shot dead by police in Selby village

    ARMED police shot a dog dead after it attacked a man in a village near Selby. The victim suffered injuries to his arm and leg before police arrived and took the decision to kill the German shepherd dog, which was described as “extremely aggressive”.

  • Start-ups can win places at 'enterprise incubator'

    AN £80,000 pioneering project for an “incubator” to foster a new generation of creation and digital businesses in the region is being launched in York today. The initiative led by Science City York and funded by Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development

  • Car salvage firm sets up second-hand parts business

    A HUGE car salvage firm based near York which was sold to a US company in a multi-million pound deal last year is branching out. US chain Copart Inc bought out the £11.5 million turnover Simpson Bros Auto Salvage, on its 42-acre site at Full Sutton

  • SEAT unveils hybrid

    A radical new SEAT, conceived to run on electric power or a conventional petrol engine, has been unveiled in Spain. The green-minded Leon Twin Drive Ecomotive prototype made its debut at the SEAT Technical Centre in Martorell, near Barcelona. As

  • Preview: The Only Ones, The Duchess, York, January 23

    OH, the power of advertising. Prompted by Vodafone building a ubiquitous ad campaign around cult punk classic Another Girl Another Planet, the original line-up of The Only Ones reformed in 2007 after a quarter of a century’s hiatus, surprising everyone

  • Antony And The Johnsons, The Crying Light (Rough Trade) ****

    ANTONY Hegarty is a mass of insoluble contradictions. After all, how many more six-foot plus, hefty transgender, British-born New Yorkers who sing with a gloomy vibrato can you think of? Antony And The Johnsons came to general attention after winning

  • Can Motorid motor for Walford?

    TIM Walford reckons Motorid is going to have to drive to victory at Doncaster this afternoon if he's to go to Cheltenham in March. The Sherriff Hutton trainer's four-year-old runs in the St Leger Tickets on Sale 2nd February Juvenile Novices' Hurdle

  • Kylie Minogue, X2008 (Fremantle) *****

    KYLIE is to star in the new AR Rahman Bollywood extravaganza. Despite her cameo in Baz Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge and as the ever sunny Charlene Robinson, Kylie has yet to become a bona fide movie star. Which is surprising. She has always been be the

  • When will the bullying stop?

    AS THOUSANDS of people lose their jobs every week in the private sector, Wee Gordie Broon’s Turkey Army marches on in double time, with eight out of ten local councils announcing that they have no plans to cut back on planned recruitment. Thus we have

  • Should Jonathan Ross be back on TV?

    Jonathan Ross returns to TV tonight after a three-month ban for making lewd comments on a radio show. But will we be glad to see him? CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL reports. LOVE him or loathe him, shamed presenter Jonathan Ross will be back on our screens tonight

  • White Lies, To Lose My Life (Fiction Records) ****

    MAYBE it’s my age, but I was expecting this to be another dirge of depressing misery by a trio of 20-something London boys. As easy mistake, with the first two songs being entitled Death and To Lose My Life. But how wrong can you be. I love the title

  • Aidan O’Rourke, An Tobar (Navigator Records) ***

    AIDAN O’Rourke plays fiddle for folk group Blazin’ Fiddles and alongside Kris Drever and Martin Green, in the acclaimed trio Lau. Inspired by the Isle of Mull, his new album celebrates the tenth anniversary of An Tobar, the Tobermory Arts Centre.

  • Motorcyclists banned for four years

    A party of motorcyclists have today been banned from the roads for four years but have escaped jail, following a 145-mile ride which ended in the tragic death of one of their group. Martin Firth aged 33 of Beal, near Goole, died when the motorcycle

  • Great day for world citizens

    I believe Obama’s inauguration was a great day for Americans and citizens of the world to close a chapter on a painful eight years, marred with economic incompetence and trigger-happy diplomacy. Instead, we open a new chapter of hope. However

  • Baskery, Fall Among Thieves (Glitterhouse Records) ****

    BASKERY sing of Atlantic City, Milwaukee and drowning in a one-horse town; their musical weapons of choice are the six-stringed banjo, slap bass, slide guitar and stomping kick drum; and they are smeared in the soil of old country, hillbilly blues and

  • Jazz notes

    TIM Garland must be one of the most hardworking musicians in the UK, in demand as a performer, educator and composer. His years with the Chick Corea Band in the USA widened his reputation and his new double CD, Libra, has the Royal Philharmonic

  • Get serious about obesity

    THERE is a certain kind of person who likes to snigger when they see someone who is overweight. How cruel and petty that attitude is. Obesity is a serious problem, carrying serious health implications. It leads to an increased risk of heart attack, stroke

  • Residents ‘wishes’

    I READ with interest the item in The Press on January 15 and the two letters on January 19 and totally agree with the views expressed by James Lund and his sister, Brenda Drummond, over the future of their sister and other residents at Dormary Court

  • Now Showing, The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

    THE Mercer Art Gallery is introducing a new format for its latest touring exhibition, a series of film and video works from the Arts Council Collection. Now Showing features a different projection by a different artist for each of its six weeks

  • Generating solar support

    YORK City footballers might not be too happy when the hot water in the showers runs out after five minutes. Given the Yorkshire climate, that can almost be guaranteed. But in every other respect, making York’s new community stadium solar-powered

  • ‘Barbican should be run by a trust’

    THE PRESS informs us that the Green Party is now proposing the Barbican should be run by a trust. This is welcome news to the Save Our Barbican (SOB) group, which has been campaigning hard for such a move for three years. Less welcome are the opinions

  • Attaching strings

    IT IS surely time for the Government to change the way it deals with the banking crisis. Having pumped billions of public money in to prop up the banking industry, to the point where the Government now controls, for example, 70 per cent of the Royal

  • Circus hits town

    JUDGING by the string of light bulbs that adorn the surrounding ancient properties of Sarah Coggles shops in Low Petergate, one would think the circus had come to town. What a hideous illumination of these prominent buildings. This lovely street

  • Airfield errors

    IN ALL the arguments about Elvington Airfield, a few misconceptions need to be corrected: * Elvington was not an emergency airfield for the Space Shuttle. It was, I believe, an emergency field for Concorde while it was being tested over the Irish Sea

  • Shoots aplenty

    BUSINESS minister Baroness Vaderas isn’t the only one that has seen green shoots. I have seen plenty, the only difference being, mine are real ones in my garden. Incidentally, am I the only one in Yorkshire with daffs in full bloom? They are on show

  • Preview: The Summits, The Melbourne pub, York, January 24

    DO you remember funky rock band The Summits appealing to the people of York to keep them in the national talent competition, Last Band Standing? Your reward comes tomorrow. Based on an internet poll, the competition saw 700 to 800 bands battling

  • Preview: Teddy Thompson, The Duchess, York, January 25

    AFTER taking up the chance to tour with James Blunt, Teddy Thompson had to reschedule his sold-out gig at The Duchess in York from last September to Sunday night. Last autumn’s tickets remain valid for a date that now forms part of a January tour to

  • Carjacking terror of York teenager

    HOODED carjackers viciously attacked a petrified teenager in a York street. The horrified father of Martin West, of Fulford, has now appealed for any witnesses to come forward following the attack by a gang of six masked attackers. Martin, 19, was

  • Preview: Huge, Grand Opera House, York, January 24 and 31

    DARKNESS shrouds you when you go to work and come home, no one has any money and even the banks are skint. York needs a pick-me-up. Cue a couple of gigs on home turf by Huge at the Grand Opera House tomorrow and next Saturday night. “Our job is simple

  • Barbican blame game flares up

    YORK’S council leaders were heavily criticised as city politicians got their first chance to debate the future of the troubled Barbican Centre. In a stormy debate at Guildhall last night, city councillors reacted to the collapse of the proposed redevelopment

  • What a tuneful award

    CONGRATULATIONS to the Black Swan Folk Club in York on being selected as Folk Club of the Year in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009. As the BBC’s official announcement explains, the award is “voted for by professional folk musicians to honour

  • Frying high with £565 for Angels

    STAFF at a York fish and chip shop have boosted The Press’s Guardian Angels fund by nearly £600. Workers at the Poppleton Road Fish Bar held a Christmas raffle, raising £565 in memory of the great-nephew of owner Margaret Garnett, who is pictured, left

  • Review: Juan Martin, Grand Opera House, York, February 6

    VIRTUOSO guitarist, composer and choreographer Juan Martin leads a night of music and dance with his Flamenco Dance Ensemble at the Grand Opera House, York, on February 6. Direct from Spain, the show features the macho dance of Salvador Moreno (El Tigre

  • Preview: How Sweet It Is, Grand Opera House, York, January 29

    AT a time when Tamla Motown’s 50th anniversary celebrations are in soulful flow, How Sweet It Is pays tribute to The Four Tops and The Temptations at the Grand Opera House, York, on Thursday at 7.30pm. This touring show “recreates all the wonderful

  • Cost of treating obesity in North Yorkshire to soar

    SERIOUSLY overweight children in York and North Yorkshire are to be sent to an NHS-funded “fat camp”, as health chiefs step up their fight against obesity. Under new plans unveiled by NHS North Yorkshire and York, the fattest two per cent of children

  • Call for York supporters to own stadium run by solar energy

    “On me ’ead, sun” could be the cry at York’s new community stadium – after the city’s energy champion called for it to be solar-powered. Coun Christian Vassie wants York to follow the lead of Freiburg in Germany, where the local stadium has a solar power

  • Hunt for Lawrence Street armed robber

    AN ARMED robber told a shop assistant “see you” before calmly leaving a York store with a haul of goods. Carol Fowkes, the manager of Donaldson’s convenience store and off-licence, in Lawrence Street, said the part-time employee, Paula Law, was “very

  • Review: Milk; Running time: 128mins; Certificate: 15

    IN the second of this week’s award-nominated films rooted in real-life clashes, Gus Van Sant tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in the United States. Elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

  • Instant recall for York City trio Brodie, Brown and Smith

    RICHARD Brodie, Simon Brown and Christian Smith will earn instant recalls into the York City team for tomorrow’s Blue Square Premier clash at Eastbourne. All three players were ineligible for Tuesday night’s Setanta Shield trip to Barrow, but their replacements

  • Christmas is over in York

    IT’S official – Christmas is finally over in York. The Press reported yesterday that City of York Council was risking bad luck by leaving its Christmas decorations up well beyond the deadline of Twelfth Night. The council installed 200 small trees

  • York City praying for points at Eastbourne’s Priory

    YORK City will make the long trip to Eastbourne hoping to become the first team to take maximum points from Priory Lane for three and a half months. The Sports have taken 13 points from a possible 15 during their last five Blue Square Premier home games

  • Tadcaster Albion eye up a Scarborough Athletic boost

    CASH-STRAPPED Tadcaster Albion are aiming for a positive result on and off the field when they host Scarborough Athletic tomorrow. The visit of the runaway Northern Counties East League division one leaders should attract the biggest crowd of the season

  • Jermaine Beckford returns to Leed United's attack

    LEEDS United’s promotion bid in Coca-Cola League One will boosted tomorrow by the return of top-scorer Jermaine Beckford. The 25-year-old striker has been on the sidelines since suffering a hamstring injury in the loss at Northampton at the end of November

  • Sensas edge to angling title win

    HONOURS in the Yorkshire Winter League went to Sensas Wibsey in a dramatic finish on a rising River Ouse around Hunters Lodge and Linton. A raging torrent from the Pennines decimated matches further upstream, but most anglers were able to bag

  • Hargreaves takes Lake honours

    KEVIN’S Lake proved the best of the bunch at Langwith Lakes as Chris Hargreaves emerged the winner. Drawn at peg three, the venue regular offered maggots down the middle line to find 48lb of carp to 3lb after a slow start. Discount Tackle-backed Chris

  • Huntington duo take darts pairs final

    HUNTINGTON pair Dave O’Hara and Tracey Farmeary are the new John Smith’s Mixed League Pairs champions. O’Hara and Farmeary first took out Cueball’s pairing of Steve Wade (180) and Michelle Britton, whose doubles let them down. They then beat team-mates

  • A Gallant showing as Bob-Co man wins top prize

    Weights were on the up at Carpvale, where the latest round of the Bob-Co Winter Series went to organiser Andy Gallant from peg eight on Cyprio. Offering corn on a straight bomb rig, the Bob-Co Tackle boss tempted nine carp to 6lb for a winning haul of

  • Brooks proves king of Selby Canal

    Dave Brooks junior took the honours at a canter in the Selby Canal angling match from peg 11. Fishing under the Cheshire Angling banner, Brooks used punch at six metres and 11m, taking roach to 4oz from each as he worked his way to a 12lb 12oz finish

  • More York shops close

    RECESSION doom and gloom continues to tighten its grip on the local economy as more city centre shops close. More jobs are forecast to be lost and more boarded shop windows look to face the cobbled streets of York as the credit crunch continues into

  • Motorists face delays during Lendal Bridge improvement work

    MOTORISTS on York’s Inner Ring Road are facing weeks of delays and diversions as engineers carry out improvements to footpaths near Lendal Bridge. City of York Council is set to impose a daytime contraflow on sections of Station Road and Museum Street

  • PlayFootball.net open day

    YORK-BASED PlayFootball.net are staging an open day next month. The Clifton Moor site will be open to the public on Saturday, February 7, from 10am to 2pm. There will be free to enter football tournaments for adults and juniors, starting

  • Yorkshire Squash League run continues for Next Generation

    YORK Next Generation maintained their winning run in division one of the Yorkshire Squash League with a 5-0 (20-4) home victory over Hallamshire II. York’s Matt Stephenson was a 3-1 winner over Steve Jones, and Alistair England then beat Tim Burton 3

  • York Closed Table Tennis Championships

    THE York Closed Table Tennis Championships will be held at York Railway Institute, in Queen Street, tomorrow and Sunday. Games will be held from 1.30pm to 7.30pm tomorrow and from 9am to 9.30pm on Sunday.

  • Linda’s a Five Star bargain shopper

    LINDA Stubbs has that precious commodity in horse racing – an eye for a bargain. Sometimes the Sport of Kings is aptly titled, with huge sums banded around and little more to guide the big spenders than promise and pedigree. But Norton handler Stubbs

  • Late birdies rescue Dyson

    SIMON DYSON needed a fight-back in the final five holes of the first round to bolster his hopes of making the cut in the Commercialbank Qatar Masters. The North Yorkshire golf ace was limping along at three under par after 13 holes before striking

  • Hungate ruled out as location for big wheel

    DEVELOPERS have shot down the idea of putting a big wheel on York’s Hungate site. The firm behind the redevelopment of the land, east of the city centre, said such an attraction would be unsuitable there. Ian Gillies, leader of York Conservatives and

  • Two men released on bail following Clementhorpe incident

    TWO men arrested during a dramatic armed swoop on a York street have been released on police bail. Teams of rifle-carrying officers surrounded a car and ordered the men to lie on the ground in Cherry Street, in the Clementhorpe area of the