A MULTI-MILLION-POUND question surrounding York’s dream of a new community stadium has been raised by opposition councillors. The issue of a new home for York City FC and York City Knights will be on the agenda at a crunch City of York Council meeting
AFTER two summers at the National Railway Museum in York, York Theatre Royal’s production of The Railway Children opens its London run on platform 24 at the old Eurostar terminal at Waterloo International station on Sunday. Directed once
Aviva is generating strong cash and capital it said today at a briefing with investors. Chief executive Andrew Moss said the business, which employs 3,000 people in York, was generating “very significant” levels of cash and capital, which he
THE cast is in place for the brace of Alan Ayckbourn plays at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough this summer. Sir Alan’s revival of his 1994 thriller Communicating Doors and the world premiere of his 74th play Life Of Riley will star Liza Goddard
YORK Early Music Festival is taking the theme of Musical Marriages as the inspiration for the 2010 programme. Running from next Friday until July 17, the 30 or so events that make up the festival are designed to celebrate marriage in all senses
Maggie Steed will be familiar to many as Eileen in two BBC1 series of Jennifer Saunders’ comedy Jam And Jerusalem. Now this prolific theatre, television and film actress is playing one of the juiciest of all female roles: the high-spirited, eccentric,
The first Fringe is being held as part of the 2010 Harrogate International Festival, now in its 45th year. Legendary music broadcaster Bob Harris and Mercury Prize winners The Magic Numbers feature in a two-week programme that mixes music and art with
Perform presents sensational vocals and explosive dances to music from favourite West End productions in this weekend’s annual show by the Emma Bassett School of Performing Arts in York. Tomorrow afternoon and evening, Emma’s young dancers will be
IMAGINE the chance to be loud this summer holiday without being told off, kids. Birmingham Stage Company needs two screaming Shrunken Grannies for the York run of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine next month, and the roles must go to
PIERRE and Francois Lamoureux filmed The Pretenders in their natural habitat, at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in July 2009, and the result is a no-frills, no-overdubs concert film and accompanying CD. “This is a rock concert, and the music is in your
FIRE With Fire is without a doubt one of the strongest singles of the year. Just as instant and twice as infectious as I Don’t Feel Like Dancing, Fire With Fire is the best possible advertisement for the Scissor Sisters third official LP. This lead
Nearly 15 years on from Crispian Mills’s Tantra-infused heyday in the mid-late 90s, the music scene may have changed, but Kula Shaker’s sound remains reassuringly familiar. Pilgrim’s Progress maintains the Sixties’ psychedelia that made their name
IT’S A scarcely believable 33 years since Tom Petty released Anything That’s Rock’n’Roll and began his scorching journey into the heart of that elusive American dream. There have been plenty of highs on the way, with I Won’t Back Down, Free Fallin
ALTHOUGH new to this reviewer, Alejandro Escovedo has been round the dusty block a few times in a career notching up three decades. The Texan poet-rocker is apparently much admired by assorted noted backers such as Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams,
London-born rapper Elliott Gleave, better known as Example, is back with his second album, now employing the services of top producers Calvin Harris, Chase & Status and Bjorn Yttling. Gone are the hip-hop sounds of his debut, What We Made, to be
THE National Centre for Early Music (NCEM) has linked up with Jazz Services to present the award-winning Curios trio tonight at 7.30pm (01904 658338). Winner of Best Band at the BBC Jazz awards, the group share an empathy within their niche of intricate
Whitby student Jack Cook will exhibit his wild and witty work for a fortnight at The ArtSpace, in Tower Street, York, as his reward for winning the York St John University fine arts department’s ArtSpace Prize. The annual prize, formerly known as the
SERENA Partridge has always worked on a small scale, as if living in a Lilliputian world. “I used to make miniature gardens as a child, and yes, I used to win! We entered lots of horticultural shows that we went round in Devon,” she says. “But I didn’
A SEEMINGLY permanent member of the UK top-ten selling cars club, the Peugeot 207 is now ingrained in the British psyche as a good-value, low-cost, stylish hatchback. Make any journey and you are almost guaranteed to see one, or if not, at least its
A GROUP of York mums are pulling together to raise funds to start a pre-school which they say their area badly needs. Six mothers from Osbaldwick want to start a new scheme to provide care for the area’s children aged between three and five. Sue Coates
TWO charities have received a welcome boost – thanks to a fundraising dinner at a York curry house. Bombay Spice, in Goodramgate, York, hosted the event in aid of Cruse Bereavement Care and Macmillan Cancer Support, raising £1,760. Staff served up
Brownies from the 2nd Poppleton Group have been learning all about composting and recycling. The Brownies have been taught Compost – The Mini-Musical written by local poet and composer Anneliese Emmans Dean, from the Big Buzz. Over the last couple
THESE youngsters from Tadcaster East Primary School had fun creating art materspieces. Each class chose the work of an artist as their inspiration. Head eacher Donna Bedford said: “It was one of the busiest and most enjoyable weeks we’ve had
CHILDREN and staff are celebrating 125 years of education at English Martyrs’ RC Primary School, in York. The Bishop of Middlesbrough, Terence Patrick Drainey, started off the celebrations with a mass on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, to which
BEER drinkers in York have been set a summer challenge, in the shape of York’s annual Ale Trail. The York branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) will launch its 2010 trail tonight at The Slip Inn in Clementhorpe. Drinkers can collect a card and
THE next steps in creating an orbital cycle route across York are expected to be taken next week. Three more sections of the scheme, aimed at providing a cross-city travel network for cyclists, have still to be completed, with the estimated cost put
A YORK lorry driver was convicted today of trying to sell London’s Ritz Hotel for £250 million in an audacious scam. Anthony Lee, 49, of Broad Lane, Beal, Goole, but formerly of Whixley, was found guilty of obtaining £1 million by deception following
THE Joseph Rowntree Theatre 75th Anniversary Ball will be held at St Peter’s School, Bootham, York, on Saturday, July 17 from 7.30pm to 1am. This black-tie event will feature two Yorkshire dance bands, Alison Jane’s Chequers and The Steve Love Band,
Eve Selis, the queen of road house rock, returns to Britain for a 13-date tour this month, playing Fibbers in York on Thursday night. Eve will be accompanied by her four-piece rocking band, including long-time guitarist and song-writing partner Marc
OPEN auditions for male adult roles in the West End production of Billy Elliot The Musical will be held at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, tomorrow. “We’re seeking Geordie and northern male character actors – playing age late 20s to 60s – who
Paintings by Ann Kilvington, Margaret Shields and Anne Lamb go on show at Kentmere House Gallery, York, this weekend under the exhibition title of Inspired By Colour. Ann Kilvington is an exponent of the principle of more is less. “All her paintings
IN between headlining the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury last weekend and the Festival Republic Stage at Leeds Festival at Bramham Park on August 27, Ash will play The Duchess in York on Sunday. The three-piece from Downpatrick, County Down, in Northern
MENDELSSOHN considered his overture to The Fair Melusine to be his finest work. Hear why tomorrow night when York Symphony Orchestra performs a piece that alternates between the beauty of calm water and fairytale terrors and woes. Pianist Alexandra
AFTER a late withdrawal by Phil Nichol, his place at Sunday’s Edinburgh Preview night at City Screen, York, will be filled by Gordon Southern, who joins Justin Moorhouse on the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club double bill. Manchester born and bred, Moorhouse
The Micklegate Singers set One Foot In Eden at tomorrow’s concert in the Chapter House of York Minster. The 8pm programme of contemplative a cappella music spans the fall of Adam to our redemption, offering “the perfect way to relax body and soul on
TOMORROW’S line-up of live music and dance on the Copmanthorpe Carnival stage will be headlined by iCallShotGun. Number one in the unsigned MySpace charts for electro, powerpop and disco house and number ten in the overall unsigned chart, iCallShotGun
YORK singer/songwriter Suzy Bradley and her band The Morning After present a night of live music at The Basement, City Screen, York, tonight. Suzy is known on the region’s acoustic scene as a solo artist and for her time as the singer in the rock band
THE Sunday Special at City Screen, York, will be a one-off screening of Peter Greenaway’s Nightwatching (18) at 2.10pm. Made in 2007, the film is set in 1642 when revered Dutch painter Rembrandt has just completed his masterpiece, The Night Watch, a
A QUARTER of former British soldiers sleep rough on returning home. Their plight is highlighted in the new documentary film Isolation, an impressionistic portrait of the emotional and physical aftermath of war that follows photographer and ex-soldier
York’s own vigilante movie, CrimeFighters, returns triumphantly from its world premiere at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival to make the streets of York safe from crime. Writer-director Miles Watts’s second feature garnered a warm response
THESE pupils from Bootham Junior School have staged the intergalactic musical First Kids In Space. The production involved about 60 pupils from years four, five and six and was directed by Clive Marshall and Judith Campbell. Head teacher Sue Ratcliffe
The Oxfam BookFest will run from tomorrow until July 17 in hundreds of venues across Britain. The festival celebrates the nation’s passion for books and the Oxfam shop mission of fighting poverty through a love of reading, while helping to keep enthusiasm
Updated: YORK City chief Martin Foyle believes his impressive managerial record against Kidderminster will count for little when the two teams meet at Bootham Crescent on the opening day of the new season. Foyle has yet to finish on the
The Oxfam Bookshop on Low Petergate is organising its second annual Bookfest in York, and as part of this community festival of all things book related, Nicholas Hytner’s film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play, The History Boys (15), will be shown at
THEY are at the helm of services and schemes which make a difference to the lives of everybody in York – and the task ahead of them is a tough one. As the squeeze on public spending begins to hit home, the heads of the four directorates at a reshaped
A GRAPHIC design agency in York is doing its best to encourage young people to enter its industry. That is why United By Design, based in The Mount, is not only pitching for the Small Business of the Year title in The Press Business Awards 2010, but
SUCCESS for James Riley has been nothing short of explosive. In two years his Explosive Designs firm at Westminster Business Centre in Great North Way, York, has earned its claim to be one of the leading web design companies in the North. That is why
SOFTWARE Box Ltd (SBL), the Sutton-on-the-Forest-based value-added software reseller, hardware supplier and information assurance specialist has been awarded two public sector framework agreements. The contracts with Buying Solutions as well as Defence
YORK City goalkeeping coach Simon Miotto has left Bootham Crescent with manager Martin Foyle unable to offer him a full-time role. Miotto, 40, joined the Minstermen’s backroom staff during the second half of last season but budget constraints mean the
THERE’S no chance of complacency at York Cricket Club. They prepare to face Scarborough tomorrow in what club chiefs have branded their “toughest match of the season”. The Seasiders might be missing Adam Lyth, who is on his way to 1,000 runs at Yorkshire
Lancashire overcame a hostile three-wicket burst from Tino Best to prevent Yorkshire from claiming their fourth County Championship win of the season at Old Trafford. The White Rose county have moved one point clear of Nottinghamshire at the top of
FORMER Wales international winger Chris Smith is to stay in charge at Heworth ARLC next season. Smith, the former Super League and York City Knights winger-cum-full-back, took the Villagers up to the National Conference League first division
YORK-BORN Simon Dyson may well have declared “e-neuf” after a humbling first day in the French Open damaged his Ryder Cup ambitions. The 32-year-old returned to the European Tour at the Le Golf National course in Paris only to suffer an horrendous quintuple
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to an emergency on a York river when a boat began taking in water and sinking. The alarm was raised just before 10pm yesterday on a stretch of the River Ouse at Fulford Ings, with fire crews from York and Acomb using pumps
THE semi-finals of the Stephensons Junior Charity Cricket Cup will be held next week. Hemingbrough and Woodhouse Grange II will collide at Heworth in the first semi-final on Monday. In the final, they will meet the winners of Tuesday’s last four tie
HOME success was gleaned from Huntington Petanque Club’s seasonal ice-breaker random triples competition. With entrants from Brandesburton, Bridlington and Wigginton clubs, it was the hosts’ Mike Anderson who triumphed with four wins out of four and
THIRSK Falcons Juniors are holding their annual football fun day at the Athletics Club playing fields, Newsham Road, Thirsk, on Sunday. Registration will be at 10am, followed activities including penalty shoot-out, target practice, mini-World Cup
YORKSHIRE anglers are being offered the chance to get in on the action at Viking Fishery. The Pollington-based fishery are running Saturday Open matches every weekend. Tickets are £12 all-in and details and bookings can be obtained by phoning 01405
IN-FORM angler John Brain has been using his loaf at the Carpvale complex. Brain bagged both of the latest evening opens with his famed popped-up bread tactics. Offering the bread above a feeder packed with floating pellets has brought
Once again Drennan Team England have won the World Angling Championships, this time on the River Guadiana, Merida, Spain, continuing a spectacular run of results over the last 20 years, not just once every four years. Rather a shame that the other
Noodles Blue Boy returns to his favourite Beverley course tomorrow in a bid to gain revenge following a recent defeat at Carlisle. Trained by Ollie Pears, the four-year-old failed to beat Atlantic Beach on his latest outing, but he is now set to meet
YORK residents are living longer and remaining in their own homes for longer into old age. So York needs more homes for present and future workers. Coun Steve Galloway has long seen York Central, and more latterly the British Sugar site, as his
I NEARLY choked on my Horlicks the other day when a leaflet popped through my door from Cycling City York and City of York Council, telling me how to cross the road. It advised me to check the green man, look to the left, and look to the right.
THE friends of Martin House Hospice for Children and Young People, would like to thank everyone who helped with time and support at St Crux, Pavement, on June 24. The sum of £1,536 was raised. Many thanks to all. E Cooper, treasurer, Windmill
I WRITE in disgust at the airfield losing its fight over noise (The Press, June 17). I am one of many Elvington residents who are disgusted to have been tarred with the same brush as those few residents who have lodged the complaint about the noise
THE excuses for England’s pathetic performance in the World Cup are starting to flow. The manager blames The Premier League for being too long; his players were possibly tired after a hard season and a winter break should be considered. If one
WWITH regards to the letter about BBC Radio York, we all have our favourite presenters (Letters, June 19). I wouldn’t like to single any one of them out, but I am sure some of them will know who they are, especially the lovely lass who collects ornamental
I SEE the troubles at the Water Lane junction “were not foreseen” (Letters, June 30). It is the job of our transport chiefs to foresee these sort of problems. In any case, had they asked the majority of the users of the junction (motorists) if
RE CORRESPONDENCE from Messrs Con, Warden and Hamer (Letters, June 17) – good on them for speaking out against the suggestion to create a private road for the residents of Westminster Road and The Avenue. There are many other streets in York that have
A NEW tree-lined boulevard between York Minster and the University of York St John is expected to be the centrepiece of York’s Renaissance masterplan. Prof Alan Simpson, an urban landscape expert and architect who was appointed by Yorkshire Forward to
ONE sees Brussels is to make another attempt to claw back the £3 billion a year European Union rebate won for Britain by Margaret Thatcher in 1984. The French have always wanted the three billion due to us to be scrapped. Now the EU’s Polish budget
A PRISONER serving an indeterminate sentence has been found dead in his cell at a maximum security jail near York. The discovery was made at about 6.50am yesterday at Full Sutton prison. A prison spokesman said: “A ligature was found attached around
EVEN in his wildest dreams, Paul Hanagan could not have thought it would turn out like this. The Malton-based jockey had a stunning 2009 campaign – a year which brought him his first century of winners during a calendar turf season from March to
A 30-year-old man was robbed in the early hours of Wednesday morning near the River Ouse in York. Police say the victim, a white male, was playing on his mobile phone as he walked along the path in Love Lane, Fulford, at about 1.30am when he was knocked
A1 Theatre Productions will stage this month’s production of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood in the Minster Residents Gardens in York. “We’ve been fortunate to find an idyllic setting, performing in the shadow of York Minster, beneath the backdrop of
THOUSANDS of people partied in a York street as a midsummer community celebration saw it become a car-free zone. Residents and traders in the Bishopthorpe Road area of the city joined forces to make the stretch of the route between Nunnery Lane and Scarcroft
RESIDENTS in Tadcaster were urged to be on their guard for an ash cloud heading in their direction following a massive fire which saw 24,000 litres of alcohol set ablaze. Homeowners were asked to close windows and doors yesterday amid fears that the
ALL LAST year I was in receipt of regular letters, emails and phone calls from a girl I shall call Magda. As the fervour of her letters mounted, she enlisted the help of a friend whom I shall call Nic. He wrote regularly, exhorting me to give Magda
THIS is the second world premiere of a Dennis Westgate musical by York Stars since the community company shed “Rising” from its name and left the Railway Institute after 13 years for a bigger stage. Newcastle writer and composer Westgate has created
IF THERE is one place you don’t want a cab driver to announce “Taxi for Lock”, it’s in a room full of delegates venting about gas-guzzling motor vehicles. This was my dilemma last week, when I had to get from the Towards Carfree Cities IX conference
A BIKER from York has died in a motorcycling tragedy in Switzerland. Paul Andrew Johnson, from Huntington, died while holidaying in a Swiss resort on June 24, at the age of 37. On his Facebook page Paul, son of Brian and Evelyn, described himself
A PENSIONER from Selby says he may launch a claim against health bosses for the £30,000 he has spent on his wife’s care after she was refused a drug on the NHS. Reg Wilkinson, 74, said he believed his wife, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, would
FOR Beaurish Tigere, assembly on the last day of summer term will be an emotional experience. There will be friends to say goodbye to and tears will certain. But come September, she and her friends will be back in class after a long and hopefully
Updated: PLANS for a huge waste incinerator in North Yorkshire have been condemned by the foundation which preserves the historic building it could be built alongside. The Allerton quarry and landfill site next to the A1(M) has been chosen as the potential
IT is news that local tennis fans must have craved – British hopeful Andy Murray not only has roots in England, but right here in York. The Scottish star, who today faces world number one Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, can be claimed
Updated: PARTY drug mephedrone is likely to have been a factor in the death of a 24-year-old from North Yorkshire, an inquest heard. Lois Waters, of Norton, died in March after taking the then legal high with her friend Sarah Ford. At
A NEW home and garden store will open in York next month, bringing 35 jobs to the city. HomeSense has signed a deal to move into one of the last remaining units at Foss Islands Retail Park and is due to open at the end of August. Work has already started
POLICE have apologised after a patrol car was snapped in a disabled bay at a York supermarket. Incensed Press reader Jo Willingham took a photograph of the vehicle parked outside Morrisons car park in Acomb. She said: “It seems it’s one rule for them
A YORK MP has broken his House of Commons duck by firing his first question to the new Prime Minister. Julian Sturdy, who was elected to represent the York Outer constituency at the General Election, asked David Cameron about the coalition Government
A WIDOW was threatened with bailiffs for failing to pay council tax on a property where she has not lived since last year. City of York Council apologised yesterday for the mix-up, which left Sylvia Smith first being summoned to court and then told bailiffs
A 42-YEAR battle to rebuild a footbridge which once linked two North Yorkshire villages has entered a new and crucial phase. Villagers from Tockwith and Kirk Hammerton, backed by rights-of-way campaigners, ramblers, cyclists and horse riders, have been
THE harmonious sound of a York choir at evensong is under threat if two new singers cannot be found. The Parish and Guild Church of All Saints Pavement, in High Ousegate, is the last in York city centre to hold a traditional weekly sung evensong service
A BUDDING bricklayer from Riccall is laying the foundations for a career in construction after a top three finish in an industry competition. Aaron Leaper, 17, beat experienced students from Yorkshire and the Humber area to win third place in the regional
A HAIRDRESSER who desperately tried to stop a drunken motorist setting off on a terrifying drive through a York suburb is the latest contender in our Community Pride Awards. When Terry Smith saw an intoxicated man fall over backwards on the pavement
STUDENTS in York have been getting an education of a different kind as they learn how to keep their bikes safe following a spate of thefts. Teams of police tagged dozens of bikes and offered tips on how owners can make life more difficult for thieves
Updated: SUBSTANTIAL repairs to roads in the East Riding are being promised after the local council secured a further £1million for highway maintenance. The windfall comes the day after East Riding of Yorkshire Council members approved an extra £2.6
THEY constantly go the extra mile to make York a safer place to live – and now they have been voted the city’s top police officers. Sergeant Andy Haigh, of the South East and Rural West Safer Neighbourhood Team, has been crowned Police Officer
