Hello again and please accept my apologies for not updating my blog sooner. The last few weeks have been hectic and I literally have not had the time to sit down and put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). The Raffle draw at York City
Dave Budgen and Julie Thompson aka Donna & Anthony have a new album out. They tell V Stage it was a collaboration with DJ Andy Duguid. The track is called My Number and will be released on November 16. It has already had plays on Radio One
HUNDREDS of children packed into York Minster to prepare for one of the biggest events of their lives. About 500 pupils from local primary schools gave a preview concert in the Minster yesterday, ahead of their trip to the Royal Albert Hall in London
Malton & Norton RUFC legend Chris Creber has returned to The Gannock to find the club languishing near the foot of Yorkshire One. The Australian fly-half talks to STUART MARTEL about the fight for survival. THE name ‘Chris Creber’ is writ large across
THERE was plenty of monkeying around in York as this band of gorillas went bananas. The 21 apes were staff from the 1331 café bar, in Grape Lane, who were enjoying an early Christmas party. The stunt was also a chance to promote the bar’s charity quiz
“IT’S like heaven. Thank you very much.” That was the reaction of a grateful pensioner after a noisy boiler in her home was finally repaired. The Press reported last week how disabled Beryl Dixon, 72, of Eastholme Drive, Rawcliffe, was being driven to
BANK lending is returning for commercial property deals in York and North and East Yorkshire although the market is hampered by a shortage of stock. Property consultancy King Sturge, which covers the whole of North Yorkshire, claims that “significantly
HIGH-POWERED business brains will converge on York to take part in a questions session next week. Lord Digby Jones, former Minister of Trade and Investment as well as former Secretary General of the CBI; Dennis Turner, the chief economist of HSBC and
HE was more used to clutching a wrench than a scroll when he starred in Coronation Street – but now a York actor’s stage and screen work is to be honoured by one of his home town’s universities. Andrew Dunn, who became familiar to millions through his
King of the Decks 2009 is very simply a U.K. wide search for new, young DJ talent! Luminar Leisure PLC are organising the event that offers the chance for unsigned DJ’s to make themselves known. Three heats took place in October and Liam Mayled
BOOM! What a celebration for the work of a North Yorkshire firm to change the top of London’s BT Tower. In its biggest contract to date, Scarborough sign engineering firm Setech UK designed and installed a 3.6-tonne circular LED screen 625 ft above
STAFF at a York fashion store got into the spirit of things for Hallowe’en to raise cash for St Leonard’s Hospice. Shop assistants at Gap’s York Designer Outlet’s store dressed in ghoulish outfits over the weekend and encouraged customers to donate
Hudson Homes managing director Brendan Hudson has an interesting acid test for the properties he builds. “The test is simple,” he says. “Could I live in a house like this? If the answer is no then I will not build it.” I suspect that it will not just
After a century of heading out of town, are home buyers rediscovering the townhouse? Access to city centre shopping and evening entertainment that doesn’t involve getting the car out again are two reasons to consider a townhouse in the city centre.
It’s not often you will highlight a home costing over £300,000 as something of a bargain but we reckon a new home in Springwood Grove, York might just be a snip. It’s a detached family home with not only four bedrooms but three bathrooms. It has a decent
Easingwold in many ways is the perfect North Yorkshire town. Superbly situated in the commuter’s “golden triangle” between Teesside, Leeds and York it also has a multitude of benefits in its own right… good shops, pubs and restaurants and decent transport
Interesting to see that there is an open viewing this weekend at the last remaining home in the prestige Hogg development at The Sidings in Strensall. It seems a good while ago now since I first caught a glimpse of this project when it was almost
Winter is setting in, the winds and the rain already upon us – and snow is sure to come, say weather forecasters. Blimey! Not much fun in store for commuters, then… so the attractions of living, working and playing in the city centre suddenly seem a lot
I WOULD just like to congratulate Anne Stamp, the project manager for SNAPPY in York, who got the Community Pride Award for Person Of The Year. Extremely well deserved. In contrast, I would like to condemn the mindless moron who stole from the SNAPPY
Trick or treat has grown rapidly and you can understand why. Little children get to dress up, wave glow wands and rush excitedly from house to house gathering bucketfuls of sweets, chocolates and lollies. It’s a “no brainer”. While most people seem to
On Monday, while out shopping, I bought a CD called The Soldiers – Coming Home. It is a CD with all the songs being sung by three soldiers who have served on the front line abroad. Their voices are just great. The songs such as He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My
CHRIS THORMAN has urged his York City Knights team-mates to get stuck into pre-season training with gusto – and is delighted with the enthusiasm shown so far. The Knights had their first get-together on Sunday over at Leeds Rhinos’ Kirkstall complex
I’d just like to say a big thank-you to the organisers of a community bonfire and firework display at Christ Church, Stockton Lane, which took place on Saturday evening. There was obviously a great deal of careful thought, work and organisation
I get so confused these days. I can’t tell whether it’s Guy Fawkes Fortnight, Remembrance Month or Christmas Quarter. William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.
The truth is out thanks to the whistleblower, Andrew Neather, who worked for Tony Blair and Jack Straw on a think tank in the cabinet office, which made the case for mass immigration in 2001. They opened up Britain’s borders, while pretending to control
THE flagship East Coast Main Line will be nationalised next week, the Department for Transport has announced. York-based National Express East Coast will hand over control to a publicly-controlled company at one minute before midnight on Friday November
YORK City Knights can expect to kick off New Year pre-season preparations in “tasty” fashion when they entertain arch-rivals Hunslet – to whom the player exodus has now reached double figures. The Hawks have labelled the match, confirmed for January
Immigration is a sensitive issue and some politicians do not want to talk about it. Such a point of view allows false claims to be made. I read with disdain Tom Mitchell’s recent letter regarding immigration (No more room, October 30). He claimed
Now that the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified it is hoped that the people of Yorkshire will now embrace and exercise their rights under the new treaty. They might recognise that, for the first time, children across Europe will be protected in law, a
YORK City old boy Steve Davis insists Crewe Alexandra should not be intimidated by a partisan home crowd at Bootham Crescent on Saturday. Davis, who spent a month on loan with City in 1997, is now Dario Gradi’s assistant at Gresty Road and the pair are
I MAY occasionally twitter, but I don’t Twitter. I may often have my face in a book, but I’m not on Facebook. Email I am familiar with – all too horribly familiar – but who isn’t? Actually, the Facebook line isn’t quite true because a friend who knows
IF ever the force was with York and District Indoor Bowls Club it was this week. The club advanced in no fewer than four national competitions. York IBC beat Harrogate 85-64 in the Yetton Trophy, then ousted the same opposition 56-25 in the Mason Trophy
IT might not quite be at the must-win stage just yet, but York Acorn ARLC face a game of major importance on Saturday. That is the view of coach Alfie Hill, who says defeat to sixth-placed Wigan St Jude’s could open up a gap to the play-off places in
THIS was the scene when old team-mates of the former York amateur rugby league team West Yorkshire got back together at a reunion dinner held at New Earswick Bowls Club. The event was organised by Mick Clark. More than 50 players and friends who represented
HERE, there and everywhere this autumn in York, artistic all-rounder Rory Motion will be juggling four hats as artist, compere, poetic musician and bingo caller in the week ahead. From tomorrow morning, he contributes to Smile!, an exhibition
Fortune deserted New Earswick as their interest in the national team competitions disappeared for the season. They tumbled out of the Yetton Trophy 88-79 to Hornsea, despite winning three rinks. At home both rinks came from behind to win, Moyra Headley
YORK Knavesmire Harriers star Kim Critchley maintained his fine form with a third place finish in the second West Yorkshire Cross Country League race in Leeds. Cross country specialist Critchley seemed to lose places in mid-race, but he ran well and
North Yorkshire’s junior riding sensation, Freddie Tylicki, two ahead of David Probert in the race for the apprentices’ championship, can nail the title by completing a successful double-header at Southwell and Wolverhampton tomorrow, which is Probert
A NEW badminton club is to open in Easingwold. The club will be run on a Friday from 10am to 11am at the Galtres Sports Centre in Market Place. Opened earlier this year by the Princess Royal, the facility comprises a sprung wooden floor containing
The Flare Contemporary Art and Craft markets will be held in Poppleton, York and Ripley in the countdown to Christmas, beginning this weekend. Flare was started in 2006 by Lousie Gee, from Poppleton, Kathryn Hick, from York, and Helen Knaggs and Sarah
A TURKISH woman today claimed she and her husband had been forced out of their York home by a racially-motivated campaign of vandalism that ended in her car being torched. Burcu Kaya-Gurer, who is married to Hasan Gurer, said she feared for her life
TRANSPORT bosses in York could get hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Government, to help fund free bus travel for pensioners and disabled people. The Department For Transport yesterday announced plans to redistribute grants to councils
AN EX-SERVICEMAN has admitted threatening to kill Nick Clegg, the day before the Liberal Democrat leader visited York. James Mayo, who spent six years in the Parachute Regiment, had been drinking before he went to the Friends’ Meeting House, claiming
MISCHIEF night appeared to have passed off without serious incident in York and North Yorkshire last night. There were more reports of rowdiness than the previous night, but Inspector Bob Mowat of North Yorkshire Police said there was no serious disorder
A WOMAN who suffers from a debilitating illness claims she’s been left housebound after burglars stole her car during a break-in at her York home. Angela Schofield, 54, and her family were in bed upstairs when the raiders staged what police
A PROJECT aimed at tackling youth crime and child poverty in York has been given a six-figure boost. The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) has allocated City of York Council £300,000 to run a scheme which will provide intensive help
A FEMALE motorcyclist is fighting for her life after a crash near the North York Moors. The crash happened at 11.30am on Monday on the B1257 at Great Broughton, when a 51-year-old Honda motorbike rider heading towards Helmsley was in a collision with
PEACOCKS, beavers and wolves were on the loose in Museum Gardens yesterday as the refurbishment of a top York attraction began. The Yorkshire Museum closed its doors to the public on Sunday for the start of a £2 million refurbishment that will totally
THERE are no further plans for job cuts at Aviva Life in York – at least not this year. That Christmas present assurance to the insurance giant’s more than 3,000 employees in the city has come from David Barral, Aviva’s UK Life marketing director
THE last local obstacle to the construction of a new green power station at Drax and the creation of hundreds of jobs has been cleared. North Yorkshire County Council’s planning committee voted unanimously to approve the plans for the £700 million power
SELBY people are getting greener by the day, with more waste than ever being recycled. Since the new bin collections came in, almost 1,000 residents have asked for extra recycling boxes. Selby District Council said this indicates that more and more people
YORK’S popular Christmas ice rink could move to the Museum Gardens next year after losing its traditional home in the Eye of York. The Ice Factor’s skating rink is currently being set up for the fifth year running in the Eye, against a picturesque backdrop
THE long and colourful history of one of York’s most famous factories and its workforce is the subject of a book to be launched in the city tomorrow evening. The Story Of Terry’s, by Van Wilson, looks back to the humble beginnings in Bootham of the confectionery
YORK’S Roman Catholic diocese may appeal against a High Court decision which could leave it facing a bill for millions of pounds. Judge Simon Hawkesworth QC, sitting in Leeds, ruled that the Middlesbrough Diocese, which includes the York area, was liable
SERVICEMEN and veterans will honour their fallen comrades this Sunday across York and North and East Yorkshire. The nation will come together to mark Remembrance Sunday, 90 years after the first two-minute silence. And thousands of people
FREEMASONS are throwing open their doors to the public in a bid to raise funds for charity. The open day, aimed at raising as much money as possible in aid of a prostate cancer appeal, takes place at the Minster Lodge’s Masonic Hall in St Saviourgate
THE “hidden killer” which has claimed the lives of more than 100 York men is the subject of a new information campaign by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Between 1981 and 2005, 114 men in the area, many of them former workers at the York Carriageworks
PEOPLE in Tadcaster are being asked if they feel safer at night following the introduction of night marshals and mobile CCTV patrols. In January, police, licensees and Selby District Council formed a group to try to do something about what
The Tories are moving in to asset strip again, with Murdoch on board, and the NHS the prime target "on day one" if they get in. Retired people will provide much of the profits from the value of their homes as they rely increasingly on their NHS
