LEEDS United were dumped out of the FA Cup as Arsenal won their third round replay 3-1 at Elland Road. Samir Nasri gave the Gunners the lead on five minutes and Bacary Sagna scored the second on 35 minutes. Bradley Johnson netted two minutes later
A RISE in unemployment in York and North Yorkshire means the region must support projects such as the re-opened Barbican, said the leader of City of York Council. New figures for December show a month-on-month rise of 93 people in York claiming Job Seeker
POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a woman was killed when she was hit by two cars on a North Yorkshire road. The tragedy happened at about 7.05pm yesterday on the old A1 road at Brotherton, near Selby, as the victim walked along the slip road
Luton Town failed in their attempt to ban the Press’ York City reporter Dave Flett from covering last night’s game. City’s Blue Square Bet Premier rivals told Flett on Monday he would not be welcome because of the tone of his report following
CAST aside all doubts - the doomed Yorkshire Forward WILL maintain its annual £10 million funding for Welcome To Yorkshire right up to its demise at the end of March 2012. The regional development agency's decision is good news for Yorkshire's tourism
NORTH Yorkshire’s leading professional Simon Dyson returns for his first 2011 competitive clash tomorrow. The 33-year-old Dyson, who was married in the last week of December, has not played on the Tour since the 2010 season’s conclusion in the Dubai
York City manager Gary Mills’ policy of not naming a goalkeeper on the substitutes’ bench backfired in horrible fashion at Luton Town last night. The Minstermen were thrashed 5-0 at Kenilworth Road after goalkeeper Michael Ingham was sent
RUDDING Park of Harrogate has been crowned "Number One Hotel in the UK" for the second year running, triumphing over some of the UK's finest hotels in the Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2011. Judgement of the hotel which has hosted
Clifton ‘A’ are still undefeated in ladies division one of the York Badminton League after a good team display toppled St John’s 9-0 in straight sets. Karen Broster and Lucy Smith, in particular, were in great form for the St Peter’s-based club with
YORK’S John Quantock came within a win of earning a place on the 2011 PDC ProTour. On the qualifying school’s second day, the Mitre ace beat John Smith (6-3), Ron Atwill (6-4), Matt Jackson (6-5) and Mark Jones (6-5) before a final hurdle fall to Brian
THE creators of some of the city’s most inspired images have the chance to take their talent onto a national stage. The annual York College Hair and Beauty Competition, held at York racecourse’s Knavesmire Stand, involved about 250 full and
Battling back from a nasty car accident, York rugby league prospect Sam Orange is on the brink of living his professional dream as he tells The Press’ York City Knights reporter Peter Martini. IT might sound like a paradox, but a bad car crash at
THEY lived a very good life in a grade one listed mansion near York – but today The Press can reveal the extraordinary downfall of Pamela Palmer and her son, Joseph. When RSPCA inspectors visited the estate at Sheriff Hutton Hall, they found dead sheep
A REWARD of £1,000 has been offered for information which could help track down a thug who injured a train guard from York. The reward has been put up by First TransPennine Express, after the 43-year-old guard was assaulted at Manchester Piccadilly station
WHEN Jason Diprose’s weight topped 21 stone and he started having palpitations, he decided the time had come for action. Jason decided to launch an intensive exercise and dieting regime and managed to lose a remarkable ten stone in ten months. Now his
POLICE hunting vandals who damaged five cars in Tadcaster have reissued an appeal for information. Windows were smashed in five vehicles in Bridge Street and Leeds Road in an overnight spree earlier this month. The vehicles damaged were a blue
A HOME care service which was recently privatised by City of York Council is at the centre of a series of complaints from sick and elderly patients. The Press has seen copies of letters from families of patients who were released from York Hospital into
A HAIRDRESSER who shattered her jaw after cycling into a pothole in York has won £7,360 damages from council bosses. Lauren Wilkinson, then 17, was travelling to work at a salon in Whitby Drive, Heworth, in May 2006, when her front wheel went into the
A WOMAN was pulled through the roof of her car by firefighters after the vehicle overturned on a country lane near Tadcaster. Two crews and an officer were called to Wighill Lane shortly before 7am yesterday, after a Suzuki Jimny rolled on to its
FRAUDSTERS claiming to work for council tax teams are targeting York residents in telephone and doorstep scams. City of York Council has received complaints from people approached by hoaxers offering to obtain council tax rebates for them and helping
THE Star Inn at Harome has lost its Michelin Star in this year’s guide. Run by Andrew and Jacquie Pern, the pub and restaurant near Helmsley has held the fine-dining accolade since 2002. Jacquie said they were very disappointed and had only found
A POWER station worker has been jailed for eight months for a head-on smash that injured four people including a young girl. Gareth Leighton overtook a line of cars on a blind bend on the Selby bypass before a 60mph manoeuvre that caused three cars to
POLICE have urged people not to speculate on the circumstances of a York schoolboy’s death after he was found hanging at his home. As reported yesterday, 12-year-old Liam Cole, a pupil at York High School, was discovered unconscious at the property
A SERIES of events to honour survivors of the Holocaust and other atrocities will be held by City of York Council this month. This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme is Untold Stories, and York’s programme reflects “a selection of thought provoking
A stable hand who was thrown from a horse while working for a top North Yorkshire trainer has agreed a £10,000 compensation settlement, according to lawyers. Johnathon Frazer said that while working at the yard of Tim Easterby, in May 2008, he raised
AN infertility centre in Yorkshire is looking for men in York to become sperm donors. The Centre for Reproductive Medicine, in Leeds, said new rules removing anonymity for sperm donors had seen a decline in the number of men willing to donatte. Dr Dave
Updated: THREE people were taken to hospital after a serious crash on the outskirts of York that left part of the outer ring-road closed for almost three hours. The collision, involving three vehicles, happened shortly after noon yesterday
RESIDENTS in East Yorkshire can take part in countryside access events later this month. Volunteers are needed to help cut down willow tress with the Friends of Oakhill Nature Reserve on Sunday, between 10am and 3pm. Booking is essential. Families
Photographer Emma Dodsworth When did you meet? At a mutual friend’s barbecue in London in August 2005. What attracted you to him? We got chatting and found out we had the same sense of humour. We had a lot of fun and decided to meet up
CITY centre traders in York have vowed to step up their fight against out-of-town shopping schemes unless council bosses meet their parking demands. York Chamber of Trade has thrown down the gauntlet over the city’s retail future after claiming a two-tier
A FREE event will take place on Friday, organised by the Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, designed to help business owners and managers take their first step to securing funding or investment. Titled Financing Growth 2011, speakers
THEY have notched up more than 500 years of service between them, but have now bid farewell to their Post Office colleagues at a big retirement bash. The Post Office Social Club was the setting for the send-off on Saturday afternoon of 14 former distribution
BENENDEN Healthcare Society, the York-based mutual, has linked up with Harrogate’s Engage Mutual to develop new products in its drive to double turnover in the next four years. The society, which won Large Business Of The Year at The Press
CAST and crew gathered at York’s Theatre Royal to launch a new production of a literary classic. Rehearsals began on Monday for the latest production of To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. The play tells the story
THE Tory NHS reforms apparently give GPs the budget to spend on their patients. I suspect this will cause administrative overloading with the GPs, unless they band together to share the budget. It seems to add bureaucracy rather than diminish it. I
NOT too long ago it was reported that due to severe overcrowding in our prisons tension was rising amongst prisoners and prison officials were put under great stress trying to alleviate this tension. The Government has now announced the closure
A PEDESTRIAN is critically ill in hospital after a collision with a car on an East Yorkshire road. The crash happened at about 4.45pm on Monday on the A1079 Market Weighton bypass, leaving a 62-year-old man from Driffield with serious head injuries
CITY of York council has recently sent out a document entitled “A supplementary planning document regarding the development of the former British Sugar /Manor School sites in the Northwest of York.” It takes the form of ten principles and asks residents
PLANS to bring a big wheel back to York city centre have been dealt another blow as the city’s civic trust announced its opposition. Trust director Peter Brown said it was concerned about the visual impact of the 53-metre wheel, pictured, for example
COUN John Galvin knows as much about medicine as he does the policies of his own party (Letters, January 7). In 2005, the Conservative Party manifesto pledged to match Labour’s public spending pound for pound. Just a year before the global economic
Sanatorium stars THE recent BBC TV drama about Morecambe and Wise reminded me of when I was a patient in Fairfield Sanatorium in about 1953/54. Morecambe and Wise, Dickie Valentine and I think Harry Worth visited the hospital, performed a show and toured
A MAN who stole a bag from a disabled woman in a wheelchair, while on police bail, will spend 14 further months in prison. Darren Plant, 32, no fixed address, pleaded guilty to stealing a bag containing £180 in cash from the 64-year-old in Mowbray
WITH reference to the recent article about the condition of some lampposts (The Press, January 10), perhaps you could look at the deplorable condition of some of the City of York litter bins with their broken front panels. I have seen for myself a
PARENTS are being asked to combine their weight loss resolutions with raising funds for their local school with a fundraising weight loss challenge. The 13-week programme, run by local personal wellness coach Renata Perini, takes place at Poppleton
SCHOOLS and residents in York are being urged to think yellow and recycle their old Yellow Pages this month. Schools can register their details at yellow-woods.org.uk to take part in the Yellow Woods recycling challenge and put themselves in with a
ROAD safety initiative Learn And Live will target Year 12 students in the Harrogate district as the number of young people involved in serious traffic accidents continues to cause concern. Harrogate District Community Safety Partnership will launch
AL ROWNTREE is correct (Letters, January 10). The cost of giving inhuman beings human rights must well exceed the total national debt. Face it we are all suffering financially and otherwise due to our softly, softly approach. Minor offences are
THE announcement regarding the Government’s intention to bring greater ‘freedom’ to councillors could have a notable impact on the planning and development sector and individuals. (The Press, January 10). It introduces the possibility of councillors
AN MP has written to the Government to press for a £6.5 million upgrade of flood defences in the Leeman Road area of York to be reinstated. Hugh Bayley, the Labour MP for York Central, revealed last week that the Environment Agency had told him the project
A FORMER York council chief has taken on a new role at a troubled local authority. Simon Wiles, previously deputy chief executive and director of finance at City of York Council, will become director of finance and corporate services at Doncaster
NO ONE expects a straightforward Carmen these days. So Daniel Kramer’s capacity to shock in his new production for Leeds is probably limited: we (may) have seen it all before. Audiences have grown thick skins. Let’s start with the setting. The ambience
A GROUP of North Yorkshire nuns has banked £4.5 million from the sale of its former home. The Benedictine order had occupied Stanbrook Abbey, near Worcester, for more than 170 years before moving to a new eco-property in Wass, near Ripon. Now
A SURVEY by leading pollsters in 53 different countries puts people in China, India and Brazil as having the most proactive, positive attitudes for the future. Thousands were surveyed in each country. Near the bottom of the pile was Britain. No reasons
IT has been a pleasure over the years to follow Graeme and Anne Robertson’s adventures into the Quick Eats world. They will be sadly missed, but all good things come to an end. Graeme has on several occasions been to our Dunnington Ladies Group with
YORK could lose four pubs in the space of a few months after a developer unveiled plans to turn another one into houses. Suzanne Shaw, who bought The Cygnet in Price Street, off Nunnery Lane, 18 months ago, said it has not proved viable as
THE notorious highwayman Dick Turpin riding his beloved Black Bess could have hijacked and robbed the occupants of at least three stage coaches on his journey from London to York and still overtaken and beaten the much-publicised electric Mini. So
CHURCH leaders want to stop their local pub being turned into housing as they hope to make it a community centre instead. As reported in The Press last week, Punch Taverns wants to convert The Volunteer Arms in Watson Street, Holgate, York, into houses
Eight lifesavers from York and North and East Yorkshire have been honoured at a ceremony to recognise years of blood donations. They had all given blood at least 75 times, between them have giving hundreds of pints of blood. Malcolm Steel, of
“EH up, Billy!” says Peter Hemmerman with a grin, to a man passing him on Market Weighton’s High Street. “I’m being famous again!” Well, he’s being photographed for The Press, at least. And it is causing a bit of a stir. Peter, the town’s mayor
A RAIL firm has seen its plans to increase security at York Station derailed by planners. East Coast Mainline, which operates the rail route between London and Edinburgh through the city, applied to install a “public perception monitor” – a screen showing
A NORTH Yorkshire safety group is set to deliver a “short, sharp and shocking” message to 16 and 17-year-olds. Harrogate District Community Safety Partnership will launch its Learn and Live safety scheme by showing school pupils film footage and startling
REDUCING parking spaces on housing estates increases rather than decreases the number of car journeys, communities minister Greg Clark told Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Andrew Jones. The North Yorkshire MP wanted to know what the Government was
A new brass musical group has been formed for pupils of a North Yorkshire school. The youngsters, at Barlby Hill Top Community School, near Selby, are being taught to play by Michael Dodd, principal euphonium player with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band
DO more to deliver growth in rural communities. That is the plea to the coalition government from William Worsley, president of the Easingwold-based Country Land and Business Association (CLA), which has 36,000 members. It comes as the government proposes
THE Black Swan at Oldstead’s home-grown restaurant team has received a double helping of recognition for its food. Yesterday the pub found out it had retained its “Rising Star” status in the 2011 Michelin guide, just after being awarded three AA Rosettes
A SMALL minority of bosses may be able to compulsorily retire staff at 65 after new legislation takes effect this autumn, but most should assume it does not apply to them, a York employment law specialist has warned. A clause in Government plans to
A STRING of new houses at a city-centre development in York could be converted into flats less than two years after being built. The first phase of the £150 million Hungate scheme saw 163 properties completed in mid-2009, but a dip in the housing
WORKSHOPS on how “lean” processes in the office can deliver efficiencies will begin in March. Harrogate Borough Council has become the first local authority in Yorkshire to work with the Manufacturing Advisory Service to hold these workshops, which are
