Every opera company’s nightmare is to have one of its principals struck down by tonsillitis: the acid test is how they cope. York Opera had an ace up its sleeve in Carl Reiff, who stepped confidently into the breach, singing stage-side when Hamish Brown
A CHARITY gig to raise awareness of the search for Claudia Lawrence will be held at the missing York chef’s local pub tomorrow night. The event at the Nag’s Head, in Heworth, will feature The Dunwells – a band that Claudia loves. It has been organised
A SHAKE-UP of jobs at York Minster has left 32 part-time visitor reception staff facing possible redundancy. The news comes following a decision to introduce a new visitor welcome team for the hundreds of thousands of sightseers who visit the cathedral
A LANDLORD is facing a bill of more than £2,000 after an old beech tree in the grounds of his York pub had to be felled. The costs – which include £330 from City of York Council for a road closure order – have shocked Kevin Flintoft, who runs the Walnut
A DEAL which will pave the way for work to start on a £1.4 million facelift for a village near Selby is close to being struck. But landowners who have not yet signed up to an agreement which will ensure the Sherburn-in-Elmet strand of the district-wide
UTMOST Respect came fast and late to give Malton trainer Richard Fahey victory in the £106,650 Duke of York Stakes at York Racecourse. The 16-1 shot, ridden by Paul Hanagan, defied concerns about the ground to pass King's Apostle and Tax Free
SARISKA powered to a comprehensive victory in the Tattersalls Musidora Stakes at York Racecourse. The 3-1 shot, ridden by Jamie Spencer, was kept in touch throughout the 1m 2f Group 3 contest before being produced at the two furlong pole. She swept
BRAVE and dedicated police officers have been honoured for their outstanding work. Area commander Chief Superintendent Alison Higgins, Superintendent Lisa Winward and Chief Inspector Dai Malyn hosted an awards ceremony at York’s Guildhall yesterday.
MISS York has been given an official deputy, meaning two local girls will be representing the area in the Miss England contest. Miss York 2009 was won by Helen Lawal, but she is currently having to concentrate on her studies as a fourth year medical
The asbestos timebomb has claimed the lives of two more people – retired York Carriageworks manager Alf Sturdy and former coal engineer Dennis Healy. Mike Laycock reports. HE saw friends who worked alongside him at York Carriageworks die from asbestos
AN ALERT Castle Howard employee ended a disabled tourist’s long weekend of crime in stately houses when he spotted the visitor in an out-of-bounds area, York Crown Court heard. Assistant caretaker David Phillips stopped Andrew Shannon, 45,
After what seems like an eternity away from the limelight, perennial party band the Sunshine Underground returned to York on Friday. Their radio silence over the past couple of years doesn’t seem to have dented their popularity any, with tickets
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen in North and East Yorkshire, in sharp contrast to the bleak picture of just three months ago. In York and the Selby district, the number of jobless is still rising but the rate of increase has slowed since early 2009. Latest
THE sister of a Tadcaster Grammar School pupil who died while caving with classmates in Upper Nidderdale has helped raise funds to boost rescue services in the Yorkshire Dales. Laura Lister joined the school’s Big Band to perform to a full house at
TWO York hotels have gone into administration, after one of the city’s most well-known businessmen lost another wing of his empire. Nationwide building society yesterday took control of the Guy Fawkes Inn and Marmadukes Hotel, two of David Hattersley
A primary school in York is building on the success of its breakfast club by offering pupils the chance to start the day with some brain food before they sit their SATs tests, as Lucy Coleman reports. DERWENT School in Tang Hall has been offering its
IF REVOLUTION comes in cycles, then the one in York is about to end after just a few months. Cycle Republic, a cycle store which opened in Coppergate in January with the fanfare that it would “revolutionise bike buying in the UK”, will soon
A TOP independent North Yorkshire brickmaker has been praised for its “thoroughly professional and tremendously successful” work at the Galtres Centre in Easingwold. The award-winning York Handmade Brick Company, based at Alne, provided 50,000 bricks
And they’re off! The familiar thunder of hooves on turf returns to York today. Well over 30,000 punters are expected to descend on the city over the three days of the May Festival. Colour, excitement, glamour and fashion: they’re all part of the racing
AFTER more than three years preparing, Organic Planet will come into being this week, with 12 new jobs. Environmentalist and clothing specialist Peter Turner will formally launch the venture with Wendy Smeeton, his managing director, at the Market Weighton
IT is a chance to see York Minster as you have never seen it before. Visitors are to be allowed to scale walkways high above the Five Sisters Window and explore previously unseen crypt passages. They will be able to go into the bell tower – and even
I WOULD like to thank all readers who replied to my letter regarding the wartime plane crash at Crockey Hill. They have put my mind at rest. I often wondered how a pilot could have flown a plane along the Wheldrake Road and missed the house on the
Late in September 1939 I was living in Southampton and was awakened one morning by the noise of an aircraft. Having already an interest in aviation, I looked out of the window to observe a Heinkel 111 circling over the docks area at about 1,000 feet
Minster Lions would like to thank the landlords, staff and customers of the following York public houses: the Bluebell, Cross Keys, Golden Fleece, Golden Lion, Kings Arms, Last Drop Inn, Oscars, Royal Oak, Three Cranes and Three Legged Mare.
Oh dear, we finally see what everybody in York with any sense knew would happen – the begining of the end of the ftr (Off the road, The Press, May 9). This is the ftr being withdrawn from service at weekends and evenings. After all the money spent
I thought Press readers would be interested in a conversation held with a cyclist who pulled up beside my car in the middle lane of a busy Grimston Bar roundabout. I pointed out to him that there was a very good cycle lane adjacent, to which he replied
The story of Margaret Dennis (Vive la North Yorkshire!, The Press, May 8) visiting the grave of her late father, mid-upper air gunner Laurence Jakeman, who was shot down, in his Lancaster during the last war and is buried with all but one of his crewmates
I have been saying for a long time that until we have a deterrent this is what cowards do! Breaking into a guinea pigs' cage and killing the children’s pet they named George, then leaving it for the children to find, which is what they did (‘They
I have read with interest the recent letters regarding the car park charges at York Hospital. I am not sure if this is too obvious or not, or perhaps never been thought of before, but has anyone ever thought of a Park&Ride? Surely being located
ONCE again we are subjected to a tirade about the Royals coming from left-wing extremists. I am not a subservant Royalist by any means, but we have to look at the past. The Russian royal family was murdered by the Bolsheviks and Russia was ruled by
Coun Simpson-Laing (Growing concern, Letters, May 8) does have a bit of a bee in her bonnet when the subject of affordable housing raises its head (usually, it must be said, by her). I wonder if this might be an example of “the lady doth protest too
Can we afford a national minimum wage as the recession continues to bite? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. FIRST, the good news for low-paid workers. From October, the National Minimum Wage will increase. Now the bad news: it will go up by only 7p an hour,
TOP sprinters face off in the showpiece £100,000 Duke of York Stakes at York Racecourse today. The Group 2 six furlong contest is the highlight as the May Festival kicks off 17 days of action on Knavesmire and York Racecourse chief executive
YORK City have frozen their season-ticket prices for the 2009/10 campaign. Admission for individual matches will also remain at the same level with the cheapest adult prices £14 for a place on the David Longhurst terrace and £15 for a seat
Left-back Mark Robinson parted company with York City this week after two seasons at Bootham Crescent. The 27-year-old defender tells DAVE FLETT of his anguish after failing to figure in the FA Trophy final at Wembley. YORK City full-back
ESTATE agents claim there are tentative signs of the housing markets picking up in York, North and East Yorkshire. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) says inquiries by potential property buyers rose at their fastest pace in almost a
THREE could be the magic number for Simon Dyson as he relaunches his drive for success on the European Golf Tour. After two weeks out through injury, the 31-year-old North Yorkshire ace takes to The 3 Irish Open tomorrow, looking forward to getting
YORK City may have lost the FA Trophy final to Stevenage but newsagent Ian Simpson was a Wembley winner. Simpson, of Londons’ News and Toys, in Heworth, won The Press’ competition to find the best York City Goes To Wembley window display after finishing
LADIES are being advised to remember their hat pins before setting off to a blustery Knavesmire for the first day of racing in York this year. More than 30,000 people are expected to descend on the city for the three-day May Festival, bringing
CROWDED HOUSE, decisive winner of the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster last October, makes his eagerly awaited return to action at York tomorrow as he bids to confirm his prowess as a leading Derby contender. Trainer Brian Meehan is going down a tried-and-tested
YORK Racecourse chiefs declared they are “ready to go” as their £2.5 million trackwork project gets its first serious test today with the start of the May Festival. Racing resumes on Knavesmire following a ten-month break and it is a new surface which
YORK-BORN Tory MP David Davis has been plunged into the Westminster expenses controversy after it emerged he claimed £5,700 for a new portico at his East Yorkshire home. The former shadow home secretary has defended his actions after the Daily
YORK’S Netballability Club is on the move. The club, for young people with learning or physical disabilities, started more than a year ago at York RI before moving to All Saints’ School. The club will now become part of Rawcliffe Netball Club at Rawcliffe
Special Olympics City of York held a successful open day for more than 40 young people and adults with learning disabilities and their families. Committee members were on hand at the David Lloyd centre in Hull Road to talk about the work of the
Yorkshire must improve their batting if they are to have any chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident Trophy. That is the message from director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon, who believes his side will have to win
A HAT-TRICK from Mark Dobson earned Heworth’s senior team an opening round victory in the Foss Evening Cricket League. Dobson helped to restrict Dunnington to 83-6 after Paul Neal (61no) and Dan Walton (43) had led Heworth to 131-6. Champions Woodhouse
CHAMPIONS Thirsk opened their defence of the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League division one title with a victory over Newburgh. The highest scoring match of the opening round of fixtures saw Thirsk’s in-form batsman Liam McKendry make 48 and Ben England
LEADING campaigners have criticised fresh plans for ticket barriers at York Station, saying they are “ugly and unnecessary”. Verna Campbell, chairwoman of Campaign Against Barriers at York Station (CABYS), said the group remained opposed to the proposed
FRENCH war veterans returned to the North Yorkshire airfield they were based at during the Second World War to mark the 65th anniversary of their squadron’s formation. The five men belonged to the French Air Force units that were integrated into the
VISITORS to York Minster will soon be able to go from the deepest of depths to the highest of heights, after staff unveiled a range of new tours. Three new “hidden Minster” tours are being launched, offering access to previously unseen areas, including
THE decision to tear up the contract with a company wanting to redevelop the Barbican centre has been vindicated after the company called in the administrators. Absolute Leisure, which is based in Gateshead, had signed the papers in December to begin
