NORMANDY Veterans hoping to return to the scene of the D-Day landings have had to go out with collecting tins in York to help raise the necessary funds. Members of the York branch of the Normandy Veterans Association (NVA) collected from shoppers
DOZENS of officers took part in an operation that targeted motorists travelling in York and North Yorkshire suspected of being involved in crime. As part of Operation Drystone, more than 300 vehicles were stopped during an eight-hour period
A NEW community mouthpiece aimed at improving health and social care services in York will be officially launched this week. York Local Involvement Network (LINk) has been set up to replace the Patient and Public Involvement in Health (PPI)
THERE’S a joke in there, of course, and like all jokes it has a serious point. I heard someone approaching retirement age make it recently and it made me smile, because it was pretty obvious that he loved his work and simply felt like it was
Askham Bryan College’s annual lambing day has proved another success, with about 1,200 people turning out to this year’s event. Ann Winduss, marketing manager at the college, said: “Lambing takes place over a month-long period and the college open their
PARAMEDICS have been praised by health chiefs after their turnaround times at York Hospital were virtually sliced in half. The average time it takes for an ambulance to deliver patients to the Wigginton Road site before leaving to answer further emergency
A RECYCLING company is doubling the amount of electricity it generates from a landfill site near York. Yorwaste is increasing the amount of electricity it generates from its Harewood Whin landfill site, in Rufforth, to six mega watts, enough to power
TODDLERS at a York nursery have been stretching the point as part of a national event Busy Bees, at Rawcliffe, marked the National Day Nurseries Association’s Healthy Body, Happy Me campaign with a yoga session for children, staff and parents.
LANDLORDS and tenants of business properties in York are being urged to act now and prepare to fight anticipated hikes in the rates they pay for their premises. Teams of Government surveyors have been running the rule over commercial property throughout
A YORK-BASED multilingual search agency is hoping to translate a new acquisition into success. WebCertain, whose head offices are at Poppleton, has snapped up Leeds firm Multidicta Translations Ltd, which provides translation, interpreting and multilingual
AS any paramedic knows, when dealing with an emergency speed can make the difference between life and death. Therefore hospital and ambulance staff alike deserve real credit for slashing the length of time it takes to prepare ambulances between calls.
FRIENDS of missing Claudia Lawrence say they are convinced that the 35-year-old was abducted on her way to work. Claudia, who worked as a chef at the University of York, had been due to start her shift at 6am last Thursday – but never turned
THE hunt for Claudia Lawrence continued yesterday, with police officers painstakingly searching every inch of her route to work – looking for any clue to her disappearance. More than 40 officers spent the day combing land in and around St Nicholas
HUNDREDS of people have joined a group on the social networking website Facebook aimed at finding Claudia Lawrence. “Missing Person- Claudia Lawrence” was set up by friends of the missing 35-year-old in a bid to spread the word about her disappearance
Updated: THE father of Claudia Lawrence has been handing out posters of his missing daughter while retracing her route to work in a desperate appeal for information. Peter Lawrence yesterday walked along Melrosegate with his close friend, Martin
IN THE wake of York City’s procession to Wembley for the FA Trophy final, the Minstermen’s fans could be forgiven for getting carried away. But the euphoria surrounding KitKat Crescent at the moment – until you remember the club’s iffy league position
FINANCIAL auditors could investigate the millions of pounds spent on City of York Council’s headquarters project. Labour opposition leader David Scott says his party may refer the saga to the District Auditor, if the council’s internal scrutiny
ARE WE really too idle to roast a chicken in this country? I must be blind as well as daft, because in all the years I’ve been trotting around Sainsbury’s, I’ve somehow failed to spot the enormous queues slugging it out to get to the front at the hot-food
THE D-Day landings marked the beginning of the end for a dictator who had threatened to bring tyranny to much of the western world. Young men died in countless numbers on the beaches of Normandy. They gave their lives to help make the world a
I agree with Susan Wade Weeks that full-price rail fares to London are expensive (Rail “scandal”, Letters, March 19), but she is wrong if she imagines that most people turn up on the day without pre-booking, and pay these high prices. When National
Judging by the discussions being held behind the walls of the City of York Council (Site proposal for new city station, The Press, March 19), one would be forgiven for assuming that the planned opening of a city station at Haxby is now almost a foregone
I do wish history would not keep repeating itself. It makes me feel quite anxious, what with slump-like downturns, wars that don’t go exactly according to plan and botched operations. I would therefore urge all readers to give wholehearted support
I am saddened that Coun Joe Watt (“We would hate to move house”, Letters, March 23) cannot take the trouble to find out the details behind the York private sector housing strategy 2008/13. The Government requires the council to produce a strategy
When I read the article “3,400 unemployed in York (The Press, March 19), it prompted me to have a say on the issue. On the national news it was said that unemployment was 2.25 million. However, Tessa Jowell said 250,000 came off Jobseekers Allowance
HERE is the big financial shock of the week – and no, it is nothing to do with another failed banker walking off with a massive pension. Inflation, which was expected to fall sharply, has risen instead. Experts had expected the Consumer Price Index (
Yet another Government Minister spending lavishly on his relatives’ house under the rules which allow him to do it as a legitimate second home. It would be eye watering to see what other fiddles are being signed off with the likes of John Lewis
YORK City manager Martin Foyle paid tribute to centre-backs Daniel Parslow and Shaun Pejic after last night’s 0-0 home draw with play-off contenders Kettering. Pejic has now enjoyed five clean sheets playing alongside Parslow in eight games
THE FA Trophy Final between York City and Stevenage at Wembley will kick off at 2pm on May 9 so the game can be televised, the Football Association have told the Minstermen. No further information about tickets is expected to be revealed until the finalists
YORK City Knights have breathed a sigh of relief after tests showed neither Danny Ratcliffe nor Scott Woodcock suffered serious injury in the defeat at Dewsbury Rams. It was feared that Sunday’s 28-2 Co-operative Championship One opening day loss at
AN INVESTIGATION is under way after a toddler squeezed through railings and fell 12 ft on to a concrete staircase in a York council flat. The 20-month-old escaped serious injury after managing to climb through the nine-inch gap in railings at flats in
YORK City are still to beat a top-ten team since the opening week of the season but came extremely close at KitKat Crescent last night. Play-off chasing Kettering were fortunate to escape with a point after teenage forward Adam Boyes struck
PICKERING Town and Selby Town both romped to impressive cup conquests, but the Northern Counties East League night belonged to Scarborough. As the Pikes pounded hosts Rainworth Miners Welfare 3-0 in the League Cup third round, and Selby hammered
AMBULANCE crews were called to a rush-hour crash involving two cars on a busy road near York this morning. The collision happened just before 8am on the A1079 at Kexby, with police, fire crews and paramedics all attending the incident. It involved
MORE than a third of licensed hackney carriage and private hire vehicle drivers in Ryedale have objected to plans to increase licence fees by ten per cent. Councillors will be asked to decide whether to recommend that the proposed fees and charges for
Chris Evans was one of York City’s centurion champions. Now he operates in the whirl of the Premier League with several ex-Minstermen team-mates also among the elite as he tells DAVE FLETT. FORMER York City legend Chris Evans believes it is no
Martyn Moxon will at least have some idea of what it is like to play at Sharjah, although his Yorkshire players will step into the unknown today for their third place play-off game against neighbours Lancashire in the Pro ARCH Trophy. Yorkshire
Huntington ‘B’ entertained St John’s and lost 6-3 in a hard-fought match in ladies division two of the York Badminton League. Lorraine Gregory and Chiara Secchi took three home wins for 127-94, but the students kept their grip on the top place when
YORK Next Generation maintained their fine run in the Yorkshire Squash League first division with a 5-0 (19-3) win at Phoenix, of Huddersfield, to consolidate second position.
Selby Warriors ARLFC play New Earswick All Blacks at Featherstone Rovers’ ground tonight in the York & District Cup semi-final. Warriors rested several players for the tie in their 32-28 Pennine League division four win over Stainland Stags in which
FOLLOW a certain North Yorkshire jockey tomorrow and there’s every chance there could be not one or two, but five winners as the reward. Joe Fanning has a whole host of fancied mounts at Southwell, where he is selected to complete a four-timer, before
A WIFE left her husband and will not have anything to do with him after police found his huge library of computer porn. Robert Smith had 180,000 sexual or erotic pictures on two home computers, mostly of adults, York Crown Court heard. David Garnett
TEENAGERS and their parents are being invited to an open evening at York College tomorrow to find out about careers in the construction industry. The building industry has been hard hit by the recession, but college bosses point out that unless young
A WORKER needed skin grafts on his fingers after getting a hand trapped in an inking roller at a North Yorkshire factory, magistrates were told. Rigid Containers Ltd of Selby was fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £2,111 in prosecution costs after admitting
Updated: HUNDREDS of motorists were caught in rush-hour delays on the A19 after the installation of upgraded traffic lights in York was delayed. Motorist Jack Leahy, 58, said it took him 90 minutes to get from his home in Thorpe Willoughby,
