A MOTHER-OF-FOUR who walked last year’s Race For Life just weeks after finishing her treatment for breast cancer aims to return to York’s Knavesmire next month to run the event. Rachel Smith, of Strensall, near York, was diagnosed with breast cancer
The last ever visit of Ellen Kent's opera company to York did what every professional performer aspires to: it left us wanting more. A harsh critic of previous performances, this time I was glued to my seat, bitterly resenting the members of
York Stage Musicals are searching for boys who look between seven and 14 years old to audition for September’s full-scale production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at the Grand Opera House, York. Auditions for the roles of Oliver, the Artful Dodger and
SCHOOL pupils have been listening to war stories from veterans to help them with their studies. The youngsters, from St Oswald’s Primary School, in Fulford, York, visited RAF Linton-on-Ouse to meet present-day pilots and to learn from 1940s crews about
A TEAM of police officers will swap their batons for brushes next month when they treat a children’s centre in York to a 60-minute makeover. Led by Sergeant Martin Metcalfe, the Clifton safer neighbourhood team aim to spruce up the home of
TWO famous Yorkshire battles from 1066 will be re-enacted in an historical drama to be screened on prime time TV tonight. 1066: The Battle For Middle Earth will reveal the untold story of the Norman Conquest from the viewpoint of ordinary people caught
Does anyone else feel like Boxer, the loyal horse in Animal Farm? Working away doing your bit in the simple belief that we are all on the same side and we are all playing fair. Clearly we are not all on the same side and a set of ludicrous rules
YORK’S outgoing culture chief today admitted his party had botched the sale and redevelopment of the Barbican Centre, and slammed his colleagues for failing to apologise. Coun Christian Vassie said the then newly-elected Liberal Democrats were
THE latest legacy of John Cooper's contribution to nurturing York's acting talent is a plaque that denotes his name being given to the theatre he created from scratch at Holy Trinity in Monkgate. Four actors who have benefited from his tutelage
LAST week, in Yesterday Once More, we focused on the celebrations that broke out in York in 1945 to mark Victory in Europe. Today, with the help of a unique collection of wartime posters kept at the National Railway Museum, we look at how the
The Live Nation Stage Experience is on the hunt for an actor aged 16 to 21 to play the leading role of talented but truculent black dancer Tyrone in Fame, The Musical at the Grand Opera House, York, this summer. “The auditions held in March were very
A TOP northern corporate recovery lawyer based in York has come to the defence of the embattled banks. Azher Quyoom, a solicitor at the York office of law firm Dickinson Dees LLP, believes the banks have been unfairly made scapegoats as the recession
BUSINESSES and organisations in York and North Yorkshire are being taught how to guffaw their way through the gruesome recession. Laughter therapist Terry Anne Scholes is teaching them to “go the extra smile” and reward their hilarity with higher productivity
TWO directors from the award winning e-commerce specialist PureNet, based at the IT Centre at York Science Park, have just completed a gruelling 178 mile bike challenge, raising more than £1,000 for Cancer Research UK. Dr Paul Gibson and Ian Lawton
PRIVATE equity investment in Yorkshire had a sluggish start to 2009 in line with the rest of the UK, according to new data from the Centre for Management Buy-Out Research. Deal value in the first quarter of the year only managed to reach £44.6 million
THE entrepreneur behind the restoration of York’s last traditional picturehouse revealed today he may also open a hotel in the city. Kailash Suri said he was actively considering creating a new “three-star hotel with five-star service” along
WHEN was the last time you pinched a pen from the stationery cupboard? Or lifted a notebook? And how often have you spent work time surfing the net on your office computer to book your holiday or pay your bills? What, never? I don’t believe it. For
SORRY used to be the hardest word, but everyone is apologising these days. Certainly our MPs are being forced to say sorry rather more often than they might wish; and London’s newspaper has run an advertisement campaign saying sorry for losing touch
DETERMINATION and fighting spirit have been key factors in the life of Strensall’s Rachel Smith during the last two years. The 45-year-old mother-of-four was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2007 and, only nine weeks after finishing radiotherapy
DURING the weekend of May 8 to 10, I visited York with a party of rather elderly ladies – some with slight disabilities. We had a most enjoyable time. The city is delightful and very interesting, a good place to visit. Our stay was made even more enjoyable
Jane Addison recently wrote in and said that the three most important facilities to attract tourists to a town are clean toilets, free car parking and a bus station (plus and minus points for visits, Letters, April 13). While these are desirable,
I am amazed and saddened to witness the hysteria surrounding the right of Nepalese mercenaries to reside in the UK. Others seeking residence here could benefit from such public sympathy and celebrity. Just three weeks ago a damning report by the Children
I am looking for Arthur E Leak (ex-RAF) and his wife Shirley (née Trembling), whom I believe live somewhere in the York area, quite probably Acomb. We are all now in our seventies and I would very much like to meet up and chat about past times at
Once again the Lib-Dem leader of City of York Council, Coun Andrew Waller, claims that the vast sums spent by his administration on buying up land at Hungate, for his failed council headquarters project (not to mention the sums spent on the unnecessary
I noted the recent report that the Arctic will be free of ice in only 20 years. This struck a chill through my heart. Ice reflects 80 per cent of sunlight but water only 20 per cent. This means the Arctic is going to absorb extra heat from the sun. The
In response to M J Natt’s letter (Road deaths and the role of justice, May 12) in relation to the trial and conviction of Idoya Leon over an accident in which pensioner Margaret Dickinson died. As a member of Mrs Dickinson’s family I, along
To compare City of York Council with apartheid South Africa is both hurtful and grossly misplaced. Ron Godfrey (In the deep end over race, The Press, May 8) is presumably piqued because he’s lost his tan. There is something nightmarish in the way statistics
A VANDAL twice ran amok in a hairdressers salon because “voices in his head” told him to, York magistrates heard. Nigel Tate caused £1,000 damage by breaking into Classic Cutz and smashing mirrors and windows, said Cathy Turnbull for the Crown Prosecution
FRANK Waller knows all too well how serious having a bad temper can be. He realised he had anger issues in his late 20s, during a tempestuous relationship. Heated arguments led to his ex-girlfriend throwing cups at him, and he admits to spitting in
DIRECTOR of rugby James Ratcliffe has warned his York City Knights side they cannot afford to lose again this season if they are to achieve the dream of promotion. The Knights missed the chance to go clear in third place in the Championship One table
SIMON Dyson bounced back from a round of 80 to shoot a closing 68 in The 3 Irish Open at Baltray. Dyson was literally blown off course on Saturday as high winds played havoc with the tournament schedule on day three. Play was suspended for five hours
TEN minutes in and York City Knights were enjoying a cakewalk at Spotland. They were 18-0 up, in total control and destined for third place in Championship One. But bottom club Rochdale effected a turnaround as stunning as it was unexpected
TWO months since Heworth chef Claudia Lawrence was last seen alive, a reconstruction of her disappearance is to be made for BBC TV’s Crimewatch. Police hope the reconstruction, to be filmed tomorrow, will jog the memory of someone who knows
THIRSK lead the way from Clifton Alliance and Woodhouse Grange at the head of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League premier division. Thirsk took over the leadership in week four of the campaign after gaining an advantage draw at Acomb.
A MAMMOTH total of 521 runs were scored at Sheriff Hutton Bridge for the loss of only eight wickets in division one. A fine century from home batsman Paul Scaling was eclipsed by an even better three-figure score from Heworth’s Chris Mead. Ian Clish
Scarborough’s Ashisa Kundi was denied a deserved century by a miscalculation which left him stranded on 99 not out in a 44-over division two game at Carlton Towers. The visitors made 161-7, while home spinner Will Brown claimed 3-40. Carlton’s successful
SPINNER Adil Rashid believes Yorkshire will be able to draw upon experience as they go for broke in the Friends Provident Trophy at Sussex today. The Tykes know they must win their two remaining Group ‘D’ 50-over matches against Sussex at Hove and then
A FINE century from Australian run-machine Dan Wilson laid the foundations for York Cricket Club’s 150-run victory over Appleby Frodingham. Wilson smashed 110 from 155 balls to propel York to 262-8 from 55 overs in the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier
Jamie Kyne rode the first double of his career at Beverley last week and has good prospects of repeating the feat at Musselburgh tomorrow. The Norton-based teenager, who is attached to John Quinn’s Norton yard, teams up with Solis and Master
A sound installation in the foyer of the music research centre at the University of York proved a big attraction for visitors and concert-goers. Part of the Spring Festival Of New Music, the installation was accessible during the day and before and after
TORY MP Greg Knight has become the first politician from the York area to have his expenses published in full. The MP, whose East Yorkshire constituency includes Pocklington and Stamford Bridge, claimed a total of £78,569 for the upkeep of his second
THIS group of student volunteers from York visited the Mansion House to collect their awards as part of the Higher York Awards for Student Volunteering. Among the work recognised was that by University of York students to bring the Castle Museum’s collections
ORNITHOLOGISTS should avoid Huntington at the end of this month when the village holds its annual scarecrow festival. At least 60 scarecrows in all manner of poses will be scattered around the village on Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31, all of them
Residents can do their bit for the environment and cut their energy bills through a new energy efficiency scheme from City of York Council and the Energy Partnership. The Able To Pay scheme means home-owners, owner occupiers and private rented tenants
YORK’S second Fiesta festival hit the city’s streets with an array of musicians, actors, dancers and entertainers on show. The event, on Saturday, was designed as a festival of community and voluntary arts. Residents and visitors were given the chance
