THE Rowntree Players’ 2009 pantomime is all their own work, from a new script and set design by director Howard Ella and exuberant dame Barry Benson to the costumes and set painting that took six weekends of dedicated work by committee members.
Nature is in ultimate command, but people shape their places and places shape their people. People and places change with time, for better or worse. The nations of the British Isles are unique in their own language, history, character,culture, folk
POLICE forces are stepping up their fight against drink and drug drivers in the run-up to Christmas. In an attempt to beat the scourge of the festive season, officers across North Yorkshire are increasing the use of roadside breath tests and
TWO more wards have reopened at York Hospital as health staff continue to fight the return of a crippling winter bug. The highly-contagious norovirus reappeared at the Wigginton Road site over the weekend and led to managers closing seven wards
DAVID Mazza’s new play about living, loving and shopping takes place in a large Scandinavian household superstore which may or may not be IKEA. Definitely the world premiere of Circling will be staged by the Dunnington Players in the Dunnington
STAFF at the York branch of the Yorkshire Building Society have been wearing their hearts on their sleeves. The Heart To Heart Appeal is the building society’s annual fundraising push that will raise money to help fund the British Heart Foundation’s
A team of York College law students have been pitting their wits against other legal eagles in a national competition. The students travelled to Leeds Combined Court Centre to compete in the Bar national mock trial competition. Students from the competing
Mount School sixth former Andrea Garner will attend a UK-German Connection Youth seminar in Bonn this month. Funded by the UK and German foreign offices, UK-German Connection brings young people together to increase contact and understanding between
Kyle Room, a National Diploma Hospitality student at York College, reached the final of a national cookery competition organised by Sainsbury’s. To enter, Kyle sent Sainsbury’s his recipe for fillet of seabass on a tomato and basil tartlet with
THESE youngsters were tuning up ahead of The Press’s Absent Friends carol service at noon tomorrow. Members of the senior choir at St Lawrence’s CE Primary School will be leading the singing at the service in St Denys’ Church, Walmgate.
THE INTIMATE, almost exclusive setting of a house concert is the perfect venue to savour an up and coming artist of the calibre of Catherine Feeny. Sitting within a few feet of the performer, you could hear every note played, and fully appreciate
EMERGENCY service workers were today embarking on a 12-hour bowling challenge to raise funds for a York children’s charity. Police officers and PCSOs based at Fulford Road police station, York paramedics and staff working in Accident & Emergency at
VISITORS to the Castle Museum have been serenaded with carols by a group of York youngsters. Pupils from Carr Infant School, in Ostman Road, Acomb, were dressed in choir gowns while teachers wore traditional festive costumes at the event. Parents
POLICE in York are appealing for witnesses after two women were approached by a man in Fulford. At about 9.50pm on Sunday, a woman was walking along Broadway when a man in a dark-coloured saloon or estate car pulled alongside her and offered her a lift
A HOME care services business based in Escrick is expanding, with the acquisition of another care firm. The Domus Healthcare Group has bought family-owned TLC Homecare Services (Yorkshire) Ltd in Kirklees for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will
LEADING business figures are passing on the benefits of their experience to management students at the University of York through a new series of guest lectures and masterclasses. The business experts include Jonson Cox, group chief executive of Anglian
SELBY Town's home game against Yorkshire Amateur in round two of the West Riding County Cup has been postponed. The Flaxley Road pitch is still waterlogged and the game has been rearranged for Tuesday, December 15 (7.45pm).
MANSFIELD Town defender Luke Graham is hoping to extend his loan stay at York City to a further month before considering his options in the January transfer window. Blue Square Premier rivals Mansfield are ready to allow the former Forest Green and Kettering
THE biggest draw in domestic football awaits – and that’s the incentive that could inflame or deflate Leeds United tonight. Well out in front of the Coca-Cola One rankings, Leeds can forget all about their promotion push to focus on tonight’s FA Cup
YORK soprano Rebecca Newman is to give a concert in aid of ChildLine tomorrow evening at 7pm at the Bar Convent, Micklegate. Already she has raised £1,800 for the charity from 2,500 sales of her albums, 2008’s Cantare and this year’s Memory. “This
WE ALL know the expression “a dog is for life, not just for Christmas”. But here at the PDSA we find that some people still buy pets as gifts at this time of year. Our advice is simple: don’t. Pets bought as presents can be a recipe for disaster.
HAVING travelled around Russia during the Cold War period, a prominent memory along with the beauty of cities like St Petersburg (Leningrad) was the multitude of people hustling around at all times of day, even in working hours. Now, having not been
The division three top of the table clash in the York Minster Engineering Football League between hosts Civil Service and Strensall was virtually resolved inside the first ten minutes. Both sides were defending an unbeaten run of nine games
THERE have been many incidents recorded in recent years with regard to dangerous dogs and injuries inflicted on the unsuspecting victim, with a great deal of emphasis placed on the dog and no responsibility on the owners for their behaviour. Most dogs
New Earswick All Blacks pulled off a shock 20-16 win in the Pennine League premier division with an impressive display against third-placed Siddal ‘A’ at White Rose Avenue. All Blacks welcomed back into their ranks Tom Hodgson, the former York City Knights
York Acorn ‘A’ racked up a record 130-0 victory over Whinmoor in CMS Yorkshire League division two. Joint man of the match Craig Fox kicked a club record 21 goals and scored two tries for a personal tally of 50 points. Two-try Matt Withers shared the
WHAT a strange use of the adjective “lucky” applied to Workington by Clive Tiney writing about the new railway station there (Readers’ Letters, December 3). My brother has to make a one-hour detour to buy basic food essentials instead of the normal
MY CAR has now been broken into for the third time. The first time they got away with a game console my daughter had forgotten to take out of the car. A week later it happened again, but I’d completely emptied the car so they left with nothing.
A SUPERB 18-dart leg from Toni Smallwood went unrewarded as Burnholme were beaten 7-4 by Slip ‘B’ in division one of the York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League. Smallwood closed 126 with a bull finish to give Burnholme a 4-2 advantage, but Slip ‘B’ woke
HAVING had numerous carers over two years, I am troubled at this time of year when we discuss families. People say to me: “Oh, the old people we visit with large families who never visit”, some adding “it makes me cry”. I’m lucky, I have two sons who
Flooding in the Yorkshire area, in cities, towns and villages, is the neglect of Yorkshire Water. We need a pumping station in the Selby area, and linking various rivers, Ouse, Calder etc, and a large pipeline into the Humber estuary. This is essential
A QUARTET of York cricketers starred for Yorkshire Over-50s as the White Rose county won the 15th Sir Garry Sobers Masters Festival in Barbados. The Tykes finished as the top overseas team, edging out Warwickshire on run-rate. The Yorkshire team included
ON BEHALF of a friend, I am seeking information about relatives who lived in the York and Darlington area between 1938 and 1940. They are Joseph Murgatroyd, who married Betty Gates and James Murgatroyd, who married Alice Gail. Both were railway workers
WOODHOUSE Grange Cricket Club celebrated a successful season on and off the field at their annual general meeting. The Sutton-on-Derwent club’s first and third teams finished as champions of their respective divisions, while the highly promising intermediate
AFTER reading in The Press about the 12-year-old boy who was injured in a road traffic accident outside Archbishop Holgate School recently on the Hull Road, it is time to consider necessary road improvements, such as a 20mph zone, zebra crossing, speed
The draw has been made for the first round of the York and District Table Tennis Shepherd Trophy. The full draw: Monday, December 14: Railway ‘F’ v Shepherds ‘B’, Aviva v Coneysthorpe ‘B’, NEDL/Bootham v Shepherds ‘E’; Tuesday, December 15: Hartrigg
YORK City are calling on supporters to donate gifts for families in need as part of the Minstermen Christmas Appeal. The Bootham Crescent clubs are looking for presents suitable for children up to the age of 11, as well as food parcels. Donations
NORTH Yorkshire teenager Adam Parsley is intent on carving out a career in motorsport. The up and coming racer first climbed into a kart at York’s F1 Racing six years ago and since then the 16-year-old has been pitting his skills against the best in
THE final decision on the council’s new HQ reported in The Press (December 5) brings a welcome conclusion to this saga closer. Hopefully, the final number of hoops to be negotiated will be completed and this Edwardian building (with additions) will
HIGH-FLYING City of York Hockey Club Men’s I are on the fringes of the North League division one promotion race after a 3-0 home win over Sheffield University Bankers II. City seized the early initiative at Oaklands to pile pressure on the
City of York Ladies I were held to a 0-0 draw by hosts Wigan in their penultimate match of the North League division one season. York started well and immediately applied pressure on the Wigan defence. The visitors created chances in the first half
PLAYER of the match Vanessa Walker scored the winner as Nestlé Ladies Hockey Club beat Stamford Bridge 2-1. Bridge, with only nine players, had converted a penalty corner to take an early lead in the first half. Nestlé then applied the pressure
IS DEMOCRACY really the best method of dealing with our everyday dilemmas? Winston Churchill is supposed to have said democracy was the worst form of government, until you compared it with the others. For a slightly different view one can turn to
‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.’ The famous quotation could have been applied to my home village when, a few days ago, the heavens were open, but our taps were dry. Did I panic? No – because, as I keep reminding my husband
BURGINS is a York landmark, nestled at the top of Coney Street, just a perfume spray away from the historic Mansion House. “Burgins’ Corner” has been a meeting point for generations, dating back to when the shop first opened as Mark F Burgin’s pharmacy
A CHILD rapist who forced two young girls at knifepoint to film him sexually attacking them has been warned to expect a very long prison sentence. Antonio Domingo Baraken, 53, smirked in the dock as a jury at York Crown Court returned its guilty verdict
A MAN who was left in a critical condition after being hit by a car while walking on the A64 had been stopped by police from doing the same thing on the same night. A North Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said before the accident happened at about 9.35pm
A TAIWANESE man charged in connection with a double fatal crash on the A64 near Tadcaster last month has appeared before York Crown Court. Tien Cheng, 28, of Redcliffe Parade West, Bristol, did not enter a plea at the brief preliminary hearing
DEMOLITION work has started on one of the largest buildings at York’s Nestlé factory, prior to the site’s redevelopment. The side of a former office block near Wigginton Road, built in 1914, has been removed, exposing the interior to passers-by
A PLEA for traffic islands to improve road safety at a junction where a 73-year-old motorcyclist was killed have been turned down. Peter Lee, of Bull Lane, off Lawrence Street, York, died when his Honda bike was in collision with a Kia Carens at the
FIRE chiefs are on target to stick to their budget after making more than £500,000 of savings – but they have warned there may be tough times ahead on the financial front. Figures which were today being presented to the North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
A PARKING ticket issued to a community bus driver as he waited for an elderly woman to be freed from her flood-hit home will not be withdrawn, says City of York Council. During last week’s flooding in the Skeldergate area, 87-year-old Mildred Baker and
A DIRECT daily link from York to New York in the next five years is the ambition of bosses at Leeds/Bradford International Airport (LBIA). As airport bosses launch their Project America campaign, the search now on to find an operator to take on the transatlantic
RESIDENTS of a village near York celebrated the countdown to the festive season by lighting up a communal Christmas tree – which they had contributed towards. Illuminations on the 25ft tall tree, sited on the village green in Naburn, were switched on
MORE than £220,000-worth of cannabis has been seized by four police forces in a purge against drug crime. Police from West, North and South Yorkshire and Humberside worked together during the month-long blitz dubbed Operation Yorkshire. Detective Inspector
ALLOTMENT holders in the Fishergate area of York will be able to get their tools and other items security marked next week. York police are planning to hold a crime prevention event at Low Moor allotments, in Kilburn Road, from 10am to 2pm on Sunday.
ABOUT 175 jobs will be created in Selby if Tesco’s plan to replace its store with a bigger one is approved. Selby District Council’s planning committee is expected to give permission at a meeting tomorrow, a decision that would pave the way
RICHARD HARRIS joined police on patrol around Selby’s pubs and clubs. POLICE in Selby are determined that the festive season in the town’s pubs and clubs will be a peaceful one. The Press went out with officers patrolling the town to see how they
A DITCHED scheme to create an outdoor adventure centre in York could be resurrected after the owners of the land where it would have been based vowed not to give up on the project. Plans to build an extreme rope course for adventure-seekers on the edge
OVER the years, she worked as a cook for York’s former Terry’s restaurant, for a Harley Street consultant, for the sister of the Terry’s chocolate factory boss and for a York school. Now Elsie Hall, who celebrates her 100th birthday today, still cooks
RAIL-WORKERS in York have been given a boost after the Government indicated it may force future East Coast Main Line operators to be based in the city. The Government has previously refused to interfere in franchisee’s wishes, but Transport Minister
THE village with the dubious honour of having the country’s worst Christmas tree has turned down an offer from a York woman to help them spruce up their seasonal decorations. Despite being needled by criticism in national newspapers about the
WAYS of opening York’s outdoor market at night in a bid to boost its business and raise its profile are set to be analysed by the city’s political heads. City of York Council is today expected to approve launching a review of Newgate Market
A NIECE told an inquest of the fatal fall in a Tesco car park that killed her elderly aunt. Elizabeth Holding was putting Evelyn Smith’s shopping in the back seat of a car while her 82-year-old relative caught her breath after a trip round the supermarket
