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CITY of York Athletics Club runner Richard Buck finished fourth in the 400 metres at the Aviva Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham. The 24-year-old, who was bidding to book his place at next month's European Indoor Championships in Paris, clocked a season's

YORK City remain in ninth place in the Blue Square Bet Premier despite having no fixture this weekend. Rushden and Mansfield Town could have overtaken City, but Rushden's game with Bath was postponed and Mansfield drew 2-2 at Barrow. The Minstermen

A 12-YEAR-OLD boy has been airlifted to hospital and is in a critical condition after a two-car crash on a North Yorkshire road today. Police have sent out an appeal for witnesses following the collision, which happened at about 10.05am on

ARSONISTS are believed to have started fires which destroyed a barn, a tractor and 650 bales of hay and straw on farmland in North Yorkshire. Fire crews were called to a blazing barn at Barton-le-Willows, between York and Malton, just after

YOU may recall Old Bomb Theatre marking the death of Anthony Minghella with a series of his short plays under the umbrella title of Cigarettes And Chocolate last February. A quietly rising force on the York theatre scene, this bright and challenging

A PHOTOGRAPHER who specialises in food and drink has now produced a book of Yorkshire recipes and stories. Sue Hiscoe trawled the entire county looking for meals to make and tales to tell. Her book, Recipes & Rascals: Food and Funny Goings-on in Yorkshire

BE honest, you must have wondered, sometimes. You must have thought – when your keys went missing, only to turn up in a place they couldn’t possibly be; or your passport disappeared just as you were about to go off on holiday; or you got in trouble for

OUR snowdrops have at last arrived and are dotted about the garden, filling spaces with their white, nodding heads. What a pleasure it is to see these little patches of light appearing in the dead leaves from autumn or among carpeting evergreens such

DESPITE what my friends might think, I’m not difficult to buy for at Christmas. “Surely you don’t want a bottle of wine?” they enquire. “Umm, yes please,” I reply without hesitation. My friends think I have enough wine already, but this simply

WE’RE used to seeing the occasional blood-spattered Viking wandering the streets of York. But for nine days you won’t be able to move for axe-wielding Norsemen, even when you are doing the weekly shop in Monks Cross. Next weekend they will even be rampaging

MASTERBAKER Paul Merry taught me this recipe years ago. Paul, who also builds wood-fired ovens, is still teaching aspirant bakers on his Panary courses (panary.co.uk). The key to the success of this very good loaf lies in fermentation, the technical

SO much news, so little space. I hope you don’t mind but we need to step up the pace, as there are a fair few pubs to get round this week. First stop on the pub crawl is The Waggon and Horses in Lawrence Street, the only boozer in York owned by

THE historic county of which the Welsh town of Brecon was formerly the capital was called, not Breconshire, but slightly perversely Brecknockshire. Nevertheless, when local drinks wholesalers CH Marlow decided to add brewing to their activities

ANYONE who watched Michel Roux Jnr’s Service, will know that first impressions count – particularly in the cut-throat restaurant trade. No diner wants to be met by a surly hostess or a waiter struggling to find their booking in the diary; or be ignored

POLICE are hunting an “abhorrent” robber who snatched a pensioner’s handbag as she left a post office in York. The 86-year-old victim had walked out of Regent Buildings in Acomb at about 9.30am yesterday and was heading back to her car after

NATIONAL Plate glory is beckoning for City of York Hockey Club’s under-16 boys after they stormed into the quarter-finals with a 5-1 victory over Bowdon. The Cheshire side were dismissed in the round three tie at Huntington School as City of York

BOWLS is a game for all ages in York. New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club have welcomed their youngest member – six-year-old Felicity Bell. Felicity bowls with her nine-year-old brother, Alex, after they were introduced to the Huntington Road club by

TWELVE teams are set to take part in the annual Under-12s rugby union sevens tournament at York’s St Olave’s School. The hosts have entered two sides and they will be joined by schools around the region, including Easingwold, Pocklington and Terrington

BATTLING City of York Hockey Club’s under-10s boys put up a fight in their Yorkshire Youth League division two fixtures. York were 3-0 down after three minutes against Hull in their opening game, but Zack Pierson tucked away two well taken goals to

A KNOCKOUT performance from Bugthorpe Primary School’s girls earned them a stunning third place in the Humberside Football Finals. Having come through the Pocklington/Market Weighton area competition and the East Riding regional section, they punched

SECOND-PLACED New Earswick All Blacks ARLC Under-15s avenged a defeat earlier in the season as they fought from 10-0 down to beat third-placed Harehills 22-17 in a key Yorkshire League division two clash. In a first half against the wind, the consistent

A HOST of York RUFC juniors have made the cut for the Yorkshire ‘A’ and ‘B’ squads. Having come through Yorkshire County Under-15 trials, three representatives of the Clifton Parkers – Charlie Elliot, Tom Slater and Daniel Tai – have been selected

TOM BUSH is being lined up for his competitive York City Knights debut tomorrow – although boss Dave Woods has resisted the temptation to tinker with his team too much. Bush, the 21-year-old off-season recruit from Leeds, is set to start at full-back

A NORTON one-two will see both Recession Proof and Bothy head to the Cheltenham Festival next month. Recession Proof, trained by John Quinn, held off neighbour Brian Ellison’s Bothy by a short-head in the re-arranged Grade 3 totesport Trophy Hurdle

YORK City’s 1-0 win over Fleetwood Town on Tuesday may have reignited their Blue Square Bet Premier play-off hopes but is not the only thing that needs lighting up. Since the appointment of Gary Mills as Minstermen manager in October, City have been

DAVE WOODS has this week faced an added element to his selection dilemma which arises from part-time status and which can be classed as unique to managers of part-time teams. After two tough games against top Championship rivals in Barrow and Featherstone

HPH York Vale Cricket League champions Hemingbrough will begin the defence of their title with a home game against 2008 winners Barmby Moor. The season starts on Saturday, April 23 and other first division fixtures that day include both promoted

HEWORTH Golf Club captain Peter Ferguson was almost left shell-shocked by a double delight on his course. Playing in a club competition, he was in a match in which 18-handicapper Keith Orrell bagged a hole in one on the par-three 17th hole thanks

NEIL THORMAN goes up against big brother Chris tomorrow with a ringing endorsement from his oldest sibling – but with no doubts on who is number one in the family. Thorman junior, now 26, is the new London Skolars captain, having taken over the armband

RI ‘E’ extended their lead at the top of division two of the CE Electric York and District Table Tennis League as they inflicted Shepherds ‘B’s biggest defeat of the season, writes John Temple. RI won 9-1 thanks to maximum hauls from Filip Wojtkowiak

VARSITY clashes are back on the agenda at the University of York. After months of talks with his counterparts at various universities in and around Yorkshire, York Sport president Sam Asfahani has put Varsity back on the sporting calendar. The White

NUMBER one seed Louise Cotter beat second seed Emma Pearson 3-1 to win the York & District Ladies Open Squash Championships. York’s Cotter took the first set 9-2 and, although club-mate Pearson levelled with a 9-1 success in the second, wrapped

KEEP the faith is a clichéd mantra frequently repeated and trotted out with almost monotonous regularity in the tunnel-visioned world of football fandom. It is a parroted phrase which is far from extinct or pushing up the daisies. Indeed, it resonates

Cape Tribulation, who found only the Cheltenham Festival-bound Wayward Prince too strong in the Towton Novices’ Chase at Wetherby a couple of weeks ago, can resume winning ways at Market Rasen tomorrow. Success for Cape Tribulation could crown a lucrative

CLUBS are being invited to sign up for the York City in the Community junior football tournament. The competition will be at City’s Wigginton Road training ground, with a fun day for under-7s and U8s on Saturday, June 18, and a separate event

CUP kings York Cubs Under-12s are closing in on their own slice of footballing history. The York youngsters are bidding to become the first side from the city to reach the final of the North Riding County FA Junior U12s Cup after booking a semi-final

A driver who caused the death of a popular York pub landlord by driving on the wrong side of the road has been spared jail. Alyson Jane Cammish, 47, killed Phil Cain, who had been licensee of The Beeswing in Hull Road for 23 years, in a head-on collision

THE race for the York FA Under-19s Football League title looks like a two-horse race between Huntington and Dringhouses. Dringhouses kept the pressure on with a 4- 1 win at Easingwold, where Callam Robertson’s goal was wiped out by Marco Shepherd

YORK Schoolboys Under-13s opened their Carnegie League campaign with a 2-1 victory at Leeds. Leeds dominated the early stages and took the lead on six minutes. Liam Neale and Rob Cooney went closest in the first half for the visitors. Matty Parker

OUT-OF-SORTS Thorpe United were toppled 4-1 at Heworth in their top of the table clash in York Mitchell Sports Football League under-12s division one. Heworth dominated the game and replaced their visitors at the top of the table. The home side

AFTER a three-month break, York Schoolboys under-12s made a welcome return to beat Leeds for the third time this season 2-1 away in a friendly fixture. York hit the ground running and were outstanding football in a one-sided first half with

THE Vikings have invaded! To help launch the 26th annual York Viking Festival, school children in York wore costumes and marched through the city. After processing from Coppergate to the Guildhall, the children from Haxby Road Primary School

POLICE searching for an elderly woman missing from her home near Malton have found a body in a river. Detectives appealed for information yesterday morning to help them trace 76-year-old Patricia Blundell, who had last been seen by her family at her

YORK-BASED rail operator East Coast saw its punctuality record deteriorate in January, despite improved weather conditions. The firm had 8.8 per cent fewer trains on time than in January last year. There was a similar trend across the industry

A Bulgarian lorry driver has been banned from driving and fined after pleading guilty to causing a serious collision in Barlby, which closed the A19 for six hours. Emil Atahacob Stoyanov, aged 50, was charged with driving without due care and attention

TERRINGTON Hall pupil Matthew Wilson has won a place in the Under-13 North-East Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) squad. Wilson came through final trials at Sunderland High School and will represent the North-East at the ISFA

SPIRITED Woodleigh School stepped up to the Plate at the Lyndhurst Under-9 Football Tournament. The Ryedale school won the Plate competition with a 2-0 victory over Wilberfoss Primary School in the final, with top marksman Freddie Bradley grabbing

UNIVERSITY chiefs say York’s sports scene will reach “a new level” after plans for the city’s new £9 million swimming pool were given the go-ahead. The state-of-the-art facility at the University of York’s Heslington East campus is set to open in July

BEST-selling children’s author Jacqueline Wilson visited York for a sell-out book reading at the Yorkshire Museum. Tickets to see the hugely popular writer, probably best known for her Tracy Beaker stories, sold out two weeks ago. Jacqueline, who

A SCHEME which will see 300 homes created on the site of a former Selby industrial estate has cleared a major hurdle. Planners have rubber-stamped crucial details of a development which will allow Bovis Homes to transform land on Holme Lane

THERE will soon be sweeping changes to the way disabled people can receive financial help via the Disability Living Allowance (DLA). Having waded through the DLA reform document, what concerns me most is the way these so-called reforms are nothing

THE driver of a Maserati car was taken to hospital following a collision near Aldwalk Manor, north of York. The 49-year-old local man, who has not been named, was taken from the car by paramedics after firefighters used cutting equipment to remove the

WE SHOULD be grateful to Gary Flakes (Letters, February 14) for the valuable information he provides regarding foreign nationals languishing in British jails. Only 14 per cent of the total of 85,000? Well that’s all right then: only 12,000 people being

THEY proclaimed to be the only party of change at the General Election, yet last week the Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister gave his clearest commitment yet to reinstate one of the most shameful and barbaric pastimes of this country; to repeal

OF THE cases featured in Richard Catton’s article (The Press, February 14), only one, Heather Millard, who says she was diagnosed with ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), has recovered and, so far, seems not to have relapsed. The way she says she has

IN VIEW of the continuing Wheel saga and problems of finding a suitable location, I wonder if a more prominent site has been considered. This picture was taken on a trip to Ostend late last year and shows a big wheel in all its glory in front of the

THE Company of Cordwainers was delighted with the number of people who visited Bedern Hall during the Residents First weekend (The Press, February 11). Many visitors showed an interest in both the hall and in the display of the history of our

I CAN’T thank the Community Payback team enough for the work that they did on February 15 in Fulford. They cleared the cycle path on Back Lane of leaves and picked litter from the field next to it that has been there for months. The service is

SUNDAY – walking across a deserted and rain-swept Exhibition Square with a sense of anticipation. I was going to see David Hockney’s Bigger Trees Near Warter. Inside, the gallery was as busy as a jumble sale. The main gallery was filled on

I’VE seen people struggling in hospitals to survive. My father and uncle are but two, my mother now has dementia and is in a home – this is most probably been brought on after losing her husband. I myself have had two strokes, but luckily I’ve had

THE bid to bring a big wheel back to York will be revived after bat fears put a spoke in the scheme. York Museums Trust withdrew a planning application for the 53-metre attraction to be in the Museum Gardens, less than a day before City of York Council

LOOK to the sky this weekend and if the clouds break you might catch a glimpse of the famed Northern Lights. Approximately every 11 years the sun enters into a period of increased activity, and on Tuesday our star unleashed its strongest solar flare

PROUD parents watched as hundreds of teenagers took part in their first military parade in North Yorkshire. More than 400 junior soldiers took part in the march yesterday to mark their passing-in to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate and the end

THE organiser of this year’s Miss York contest is appealing for local businesses to sponsor the competition – and says a hairdresser has already come forward. Naomi Smith said Ross Charles Hairdressing of Gillygate had generously offered to style all

COUNCILLORS in Selby have announced that the decision to freeze council tax will help taxpayers across the district. Selby District Council has agreed to keep its portion of council tax rates on hold, so families and individuals will see no increase

UNIONS have raised fresh fears about the pace of potential council job losses in York. City of York Council expects to shed 170 posts over the next year as it tries to save £21 million. The final budget for 2011/12 is due to be set next week. Proposals

A NEW exhibition opens today at Beningbrough Hall, near York, to celebrate Frederick, the Prince of Wales’s contribution to music. Frederick, the son of King George II and patron of music, instigated Rule Britannia among other operas and anthems.

THE friends and family of a York rock’n’roll fan gathered in 1950s-style dress to pay a musical farewell at his funeral. Andrew Tiplady, 31, died earlier this month following a life-long battle with cystic fibrosis. Yesterday, mourners filled York Crematorium

A MAN with more than 25 convictions claimed he had been fishing when found by police in the early hours of the morning carrying a torch, a screwdriver and wirecutters. Andrew James Minskip, 28, of Pentland Drive, Huntington, together with another man

THe family and friends of vanished York chef Claudia Lawrence are inviting people who have missing loved ones and those who wish to support them to a vigil at York Minster. Next Sunday, February 27, is the date of Claudia’s 37th birthday and her father

CROWDS of people queued to get into the opening of York’s newest bar. About 700 people attended the evening launch of All Bar One in New Street. The bar and restaurant, which has replaced Ha Ha Bar, has created more than 30 jobs for bar, kitchen

York pupils have come up with heaps of ideas to combat climate change. Two compost bins have been bought by the council of Derwent Schools Federation, the federated Derwent infant and junior school in Osbaldwick Lane. It is working with school cook

THERE has been a mixed reaction to a decision to stop automatically referring smokers and overweight people in North Yorkshire for routine hip and knee operations. NHS North Yorkshire and York, the area’s primary care trust, has said it will introduce

A PIONEERING acupuncture clinic is offering people in York treatment at a price based on what they can actually afford. The venture, which is the first of its type in the city, opened this month and is run by acupuncturist Christopher Pomfrett, who launched

HMS York set sail for South Atlantic today to conduct maritime security patrols. Currently based in Portsmouth, the Type 42 destroyer will spend the majority of her five-month deployment patrolling the British South Atlantic islands, including the

A BUSINESS leader is being sought who can drive forward the economy in York and North Yorkshire. The Government wants a new approach to supporting business expansion and removing barriers to growth by putting private business in the driving seat. Now