GIRLS’ football is booming at Poppleton Tigers. The girls’ section at the Millfield Lane club is one of the largest in the North Riding County FA area, with more than 60 youngsters signed up. The Tigers field teams in the City of York Girls’ League
TODAY is cup finals day in the City of York Girls’ Football League. A total of six trophies will be up for grabs at The Balk, Pocklington Town’s ground, with the action starting at 10am. Among the first teams to take the field will be the under-10s,
DUNNINGTON Magpies Football Club Under-18s inched closer to the Hull Boys League title with a 7-0 victory over North Ferriby United Gold. The York side are now seven points clear at the top with two games remaining, although closest rivals Brandesburton
CHAMPIONS Fulford are one win away from retaining their York FA Under-19s League crown. Fulford beat struggling Wigginton Grasshoppers 5-0 to record their 15th win of the campaign and move six points clear at the top with three games left. Second-placed
Tadcaster Albion Under-12s won the York FA Acaster Steel Cup after a nail-biting 1-0 victory against Thorpe United, writes Shaun Wathey. Played at Pocklington Town, the match was tightly contested as players struggled on the larger pitch. The best
Easingwold Town Under-16s fought back from a 1-0 half-time deficit to win 3-2 against Thorpe United. Thorpe had gone into the lead after good work from Tom Littlewood saw Jordon Lodge open the scoring for the visitors. After half-time, however, Easingwold
Dunnington Primary School lifted this year’s CPP Challenge Cup after a tight match at KitKat Crescent. The game was a curtain-raiser to the York City Blue Square Premier duel against Eastbourne Borough and saw eventual champions Dunnington face up
A 74-8 victory at East Leeds ensured Heworth ARLC Under-14s completed their division two fixtures with a 100 per cent winning record. Jordan Potter, Jack Stewart and man of the match Billy Legg ran in three tries apiece. There were also scores for
A LATE try earned New Earswick All Blacks ARLC Under-13s a crucial 28-26 victory over promotion-chasing Hunslet Warriors. The All Blacks went into the game knowing they had to win to avoid relegation from the second division. The Warriors started
Easingwold Town Under-16s fought back from a 1-0 half-time deficit to win 3-2 against Thorpe United. Thorpe had gone into the lead after good work from Tom Littlewood saw Jordon Lodge open the scoring for the visitors. After half-time, however, Easingwold
YORK Schoolboys Under-13s saw their league title hopes all but dashed as they lost 3-0 at Hull in midweek. The East Riding side’s victory is likely to see them crowned champions, snatching the crown from York’s grasp. The potential title decider
Heworth ARLC Under-13s took on Smawthorne for the second time in ten days and came away with an 8-8 draw. Top tackler Kenny Penrose and centre partner Tommy Hields kept Smawthorne at bay in the early stages, but the hosts eventually took the lead. Heworth
YOUNGSTERS at Ryedale Phoenix Gymnastics Club are celebrating the award of a £10,000 grant by entering their first tournament. The money was donated by the Awards For All scheme, which is funded by the National Lottery. Sharon Edens, head coach, said
Tadcaster duo Lilly Carlisle and Becky Wallbank admitted they had learned some crucial lessons on their way to RYA Volvo youth nationals 29er class gold on Scotland’s west coast. The 2008 RYA youth nationals girls’ 29er bronze medallists, both aged 17
CITY of York Athletics Club javelin thrower Rebecca Tunnicliffe stole the show at the Malta International. The 14-year-old returned from the competition with three gold medals and a stadium record. The trip was organised by City of York throws coach
CLIFTON Boys and Rock Church were the winners of PlayFootball’s Quid-a-kid Young People’s Service tournament. Clifton won the Under-15s event and Rock Church took the Over-15s title at the third annual five-a-side. More than 100 youngsters took part
FORMER double British Touring Car champion James Thompson returns to the competition this weekend after a three-year absence. The York-born speedster is back in the national competition after his team in the World Touring Car Championship, N.Technology
IT is full steam ahead for York Racecourse and the May Meeting after their all-new racing surface was given a unanimous thumbs up. Malton trainer Richard Fahey worked seven horses on the Knavesmire turf for the first time since a £2.5 million track-work
Bootham ‘A’ beat Fulford ‘B’ in the final of the York Conservative Clubs’ Kutters and Shannons Team Cup in a tense battle which went to a respotted black in the final frame. In the first game, Fulford’s Andy Hurley (+6 h/c) beat Mark Darley (+8) 69-30
TIME to forget this year’s FA Cup final. Indeed, let’s just erase Saturday, May 30 from the footballing calendar completely, utterly and indisputably. Now this is not a dig at either Chelsea or Everton, the two all-blue protagonists destined to
YORK RUFC Under-9s are celebrating victories at the Driffield Mini-Festival and the Harrogate Festival – just days after securing an appearance at Twickenham. The Clifton Park club fielded a mixed squad of 12 boys and girls in the Driffield tournament
RYDER Cup ace Lee Westwood has been lined up as the new professional of the Flaxby Country Resort, near Harrogate. Westwood, the world number 15, has entered into a partnership with property and investment company, the Skelwith Group. His remit
MANBOW, a popular performer at Wetherby, returns to his favourite course tomorrow with good prospect of bagging the feature race. Trained at Middleham by Micky Hammond, whose horses are in good form, Manbow lines up for the £10,000 21st May Is Ladies
Yorkshire must bat all day today at the Riverside against Durham if they are to avoid defeat. Michael Di Venuto helped the hosts cruise clear of the Tykes with a powerfully made and rapidly struck century. The Australian was in imperious form, putting
RECALLED right-winger Adam Smith could celebrate the end of the season with his first York City Press Player of the Month award. Smith led the April standings going into the Minstermen’s last two league fixtures at Weymouth last night and Lewes tomorrow
YORK City stumbled to safety at Weymouth last night after an extremely nervous 2-1 win. The Minstermen appeared to be cruising to victory after a dominant opening first half-hour in which Richard Brodie scored his 23rd goal of the season. But a determined
YORK City manager Martin Foyle admitted he was disappointed with his side’s display at Weymouth despite a 2-1 victory guaranteeing Blue Square Premier survival. Adam Boyes scored the winning goal on 77 minutes after home striker Cliff Akurang had cancelled
A NEW pitch will be laid at Wembley Stadium in time for York City’s FA Trophy final clash with Stevenage on May 9. The controversial surface, which came under fire after last weekend’s FA Cup semi-finals, is to be dug up. After Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger
YORK City Knights are confident their latest special arrangement with Leeds Rhinos will prove to be a win-win-win situation. The Knights have joined lottery forces with Super League champions Leeds, whereby York’s Lancealotto initiative merges
YORK City Knights must see off Workington Town in Championship One tomorrow if they are to be considered true contenders for promotion. Player coach Paul March reckons his developing side have to win in difficult places like Cumbria to establish
THE hunt for missing chef Claudia Lawrence took a dramatic new twist yesterday. Police, who are now treating the case as suspected murder, say that a significant new witness has come forward with a potential sighting of 35-year-old Claudia on the morning
THE head of a controversial travelling family faces 15 weeks in jail if he continues to break a court order aimed at protecting residents from his relatives’ activities. Hundreds of complaints about squalor, mess, abandoned caravans, written-off cars
THE father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has hit out at claims by a Labour councillor that praying for his daughter is futile. In an interview published yesterday in the Church Times, Peter Lawrence said City of York councillor Paul Blanchard
YORK Minster was bathed in pink light last night in an appeal to women to sign up for this summer’s Race For Life. Meanwhile, the fountain in Exhibition Square will remain pink for the next month in a show of support for Cancer Research UK. Organisers
TRANSPORT officials are to spend an extra £2 million improving a roundabout on York’s northern ring road. A move by Labour opposition councillors to spend the money on a range of smaller schemes around the city failed, meaning the cash will instead go
POLICE cordoned off this road in York city centre after a fight left a man unconscious and bleeding. The incident happened early yesterday morning in Station Rise. Police and ambulances were called to the scene after a passer-by raised the alarm.
POLICE who staged an armed siege of a York house after a knifeman had barricaded himself inside – and then broke in later to find him hanging – have been cleared of blame for his death. An inquest jury decided that police officers did everything possible
A bully’s baseball bat violence forced a fellow student to abandon his course, York Crown Court heard. The student feared for his safety after his 17-year-old tormentor threatened him with the weapon and orchestrated a raid on the victim’s room in which
TWO new exhibitions opened today at York’s Quilt Museum And Gallery, in Peasholme Green. Pearls, Pearls, Pearls will feature work celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. New quilts on show include hand-dyed and
The 70 members of the Escape Lines Memorial Society (ELMS) gathered at the Yorkshire Air Museum for the unveiling of a bench dedicated to all those who aided wartime escapees. A rose and plaque were also unveiled in memory of flying officer
PLANS for a new £40 million council HQ at Hungate were variously described as a monstrosity, a carbuncle and “ugly and offensive”. They were scrapped without a brick being laid – but not before council bosses had already spent nearly £5 million of local
A STAR-studded emotive film highlighting the hardship of family illnesses has pushed an aspiring York film-maker in to the limelight after he scooped a top national award. Written, directed and filmed in York by David Johnson, Day In Day Out stars Stuart
A CANCER charity has been given a £2,300 boost after this fearless fundraiser swallowed his pride to swim five kilometres dressed in drag. Lee Quickmire, of Woodthorpe, York, completed the sponsored stunt wearing a woman’s swimming costume and a pink
Firefighters in North Yorkshire have reminded people to take exta care while visiting the countryside over the weekend, with the recent period of dry weather hugely increasing the risk of fires breaking out. Every year, thousand of acres of countryside
YORK’S all-new racing surface has passed its first major test with flying colours. Malton trainer Richard Fahey had seven horses running out on the Knavesmire turf for the first time since a new £2.5 million drainage project was completed. The jockeys
I commend The Press’s recent coverage of the 100 per cent increase in staff parking charges at York Hospital (Hospital staff’s parking anger, April 23). I would further urge the newspaper to launch a campaign on behalf of the workers at the hospital
I write to clarify some points concerning the article regarding overpayments made to some City of York Council staff (58 council staff keep error cash, The Press, April 20). No staff have, or will be, allowed to keep the allowance they have been
I WAS surprised to read Mr Barton’s comments regarding TG Ryder’s tirade against Gordon Brown’s premiership and the effect upon future generations (This is no time to “change horses”, Letters, April 16). Isn’t Mr Barton aware that TJ Ryder is
I witnessed pupils of a local school doing their best to wreck a weeping willow tree on Monk Stray, forcibly breaking branches and swinging; all this while in the presence of their teachers. Is having a respect for nature no longer on this particular
It is a disgrace that City of York Council, in a cost-cutting exercise, has decided to axe the meagre bus service along Temple Lane, Copmanthorpe, a schedule which operated for just three days a week. It stopped on Friday. Admittedly, few folk used
DOOR staff thought something was wrong when window cleaner Daniel Andrew Wray spent too long in the toilet of a York nightspot, York magistrates heard. So they investigated and caught the 28-year-old with his birthday present of cocaine, said Steven
A FLAGSHIP £7.5 million primary school in York has attributed improving pupil behaviour to the work of an innovative theatre company. According to Ofsted, Hob Moor Community Primary School, in Acomb, has shown a “rapid improvement” since the regulatory
WITH reference to Ken Holmes’s letter of April 18 (On the slide?), it appears that he doesn’t pay much attention to Malton when he visits it. Otherwise he would have noticed that, in fact, we have both a brewery and a cinema; the fine establishments
Although understanding the importance of news of violence and having very great sympathy for the victims of violence (having being such myself), it was sad to see that the death of Robin Guthrie was excluded from the headlines of The Press on April
THE new Government scheme to sell or scrap your car, with the added incentive of a voucher trade-in, on the face of it seems a good idea, especially to boost our ailing car manufacturers, even though the taxpayer will pay in the end. But there is
IT was the year that brought a woman Prime Minister to Downing Street, Nottingham Forest to European glory, and music to the masses through the invention of the Sony Walkman. But 1979 will be remembered for another reason altogether next week when one
YORK is proving to be a city of heroes, with nominations coming in thick and fast for The Press’s sixth annual Community Pride Awards. But we still need your entries to recognise those who are a credit to the city but who rarely receive the praise they
A MALTON sailor is preparing to take on pirates as he sails through some of the most dangerous seas in the world. Petty Officer Colin Clayton, 35, is on HMS Bulwark, part of the Royal Navy’s Taurus 09 deployment, currently heading for the Far East.
A 102-year-old woman who never left Yorkshire was able to live in her own home until her death because of the huge support from the community, her family has said. Emily Ridsdill, nee Moll, – known as Em – had friends, relatives and local businesses
POLICE officers have a new office in a York village where they can base themselves before going out on patrol. The office, which is not open to the public, is based in the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust at The Garth, in White Rose Avenue, New Earswick
A WEEKEND of celebrations in honour of England’s patron saint got under way today with residents invited to an afternoon of rousing music with the Lord Mayor. The York Youth Brass Ensemble begins the St George’s Day celebrations at the Assembly Rooms
Ken Annakin, the East Yorkshire-born director whose credits included the Second World War epics Battle Of The Bulge and The Longest Day and the family classic Swiss Family Robinson, has died at the age of 94. Annakin, who was originally
Daughter-in-law chides me mercilessly. “Honoured father,” she says. “Why do you not wear the flannel shirt I sewed for you? Did I blunt my best needle so you wouldn’t wear it, heh?” She betrays her lack of breeding through this casual ‘heh’, and I wonder
LOCAL author John Baker is best known for his series of York-set thrillers featuring private eye Sam Turner. In Winged With Death, he makes a pretty radical departure. It is 1972 and 18-year-old seaman Frederick Boyle jumps ship in Uruguay. In the
THIS is the last bread book I will ever need. Then again, that’s been said before. Two years or so ago, Andrew Whitley’s Bread Matters was the book to end all bread books. A good and high-minded tome, a dough manifesto even, as suggested by its lengthy
THE people of Foxwood will bid farewell to one of the community’s hardest-working residents on Wednesday at the funeral of James Patrick Gumley. Mr Gumley’s death at the age of 73, on April 20 in York Hospital, means “a big piece of Foxwood has gone”
A FRUGAL friend, who would do a far better job as Chancellor than the present incumbent, selects a bottle of wine not only on price but on its abv too. Price is the priority, anything over £3 is off the radar, but the alcoholic strength is a deciding
A SWEET, sticky cake and a hot cup of tea is one of the greatest healers. “It is a bit like coming to the doctors,” says Sophie Smith, diehard afternoon tea fan, as she tucks into a huge lemon cupcake at Tea Hee Cheesemonger and Espresso bar, in Easingwold
TO some people, the Slug And Lettuce would not be their first choice for a snack. You can have a substantial and reasonably expensive meal in this eatery. However, with care, it is possible to have refreshments without breaking the bank. Tea and coffee
GOING out for lunch on a Saturday with a girlfriend is a treat to be treasured. Whenever I go home to Edinburgh, a get-together with my sister and best friends at a favourite restaurant is a highlight. So when my sister came to stay over Easter, I took
DON’T you hate it when you have a good idea only to find someone has got there before you. It’s said that nothing is new but really, I felt like taking my ball home last week. I had been bought an auricula by my mother when we visited a plant fair at
THE Cleveland Way is 40 this year so the North York Moors National Park Authority are organising celebrations and their Rachel McIntosh has asked me to do my favourite stretch. It was a pleasurable task and an excuse to tread old ground. But which
