DAVE WOODS reckoned the fact York City Knights have only one player facing a Rugby Football League charge following the all-in brawl at Widnes showed his side had good discipline. And he rejected claims that it suggested his side lacked fighting spirit
HUNDREDS of new jobs could be created at a York shopping centre. The trustees of Monks Cross Shopping Park are drawing up a masterplan which could pave the way for the arrival of three big-name “anchor” stores and 300 jobs at the out-of-town
WHEN you see fully laden trolleys at supermarkets (hence all the obesity), you can understand why cars are parked in forwards for access to the boot: many also choose not to reverse. It is virtually impossible to drive in square and equally
I WAS intrigued by Martin Smith’s description of the EU as “the United (Socialist) States of Europe”. By my reckoning, of the 27 members of the EU, only four have left-of-centre governments. Ten countries have right-of-centre governments,
CAN I assure J Taylor (Letters, April 7) that council workers were not responsible for painting flower tubs and railings. You saw hard-working volunteers who form the Dunnington In Bloom team. Its activities are funded by various fundraising events
A MORE accurate protest placard sign would be “Labour Overspending” (they called it investment), rather than Tory cuts. The investment was massive borrowings on private finance initiatives for schools and hospitals – a good cause with arguable improvement
SEVERAL months ago, the Arriva bus company decided to cut all buses that run through Escrick. This would have a devastating effect on the 1,000 or so villagers. A petition was put in the local post office and stores, and hundreds of signatures were
THE United Nations’ reason for the “no-fly zone” (with extras) was to prevent the massacre of many innocent rebels and families when Gaddafi’s forces were about to advance on Benghazi. That particular assault did its job, but what has happened since
PAMELA Frankland and Geoff Rudd, both from Dunnington, attack me for my exposure of Julian Sturdy for claiming his farming subsidies to the full, while posing as an Europhobe through his rhetoric in his maiden speech in the Commons (Letters, March 30)
DAVID Cameron on his visit to Pakistan decided to give away £650 million for school projects in Pakistan. How can he do this when we are having to tighten our belts? This is totally wrong. This amount of money is needed in this country, not overseas
WHEN I put my cross against the name of our local Conservative MP, I genuinely believed David Cameron would be a brilliant Prime Minister. How mistaken could I have been? We are being hit with hammer-blow after hammer-blow of cutbacks
IT IS interesting that the piece in the education section (The Press, April 6) from Coun Carol Runciman fails to point out that her party, as part of the coalition, has decimated capital funding to schools. The local authority only been allocated £2.8
HOW wonderful. City of York politics now has its very own schoolkid joke: “What’s yellow, nearly rhymes with York and runs down something blue?” Answer: the egg on the face of Tory candidates for wards in the city council elections, who messed
Yorkshire now has its own Rough Guide, reports STEPHEN LEWIS. YORKSHIRE, according to the new Rough Guide to, yes, Yorkshire, is a ‘country in a county’. “Its countryside and coast can compete with anywhere in Britain for beauty, its cities with any
LITTLE can Mr Hopkinson at R.Yates & Sons in Malton have known what lay in store when he loaned a shovel to Mr Thackray of The Shed in Hovingham. Or perhaps he did, given the media-savvy deeds of this caution-to-the-wind Ryedale arts impresario.
LOVE Love Love puts the boot into the baby-boomer generation whose world began with their parents being told by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that “most of our people have never had it so good”. Playwright Mike Bartlett paints a humorously
Blossom lifts the spirits at this time of year, writes GINA PARKINSON. BLOSSOM trees are saturating our senses with numerous species and varieties filling our gardens and public spaces. It is a joy to walk around the streets admiring specimens
In this week’s Tipping’s Tipples, MIKE TIPPING recommends three reds for Easter lamb. EASTER is just around the corner. With that in mind, I considered suggesting wines to go with chocolate, but I can’t help thinking that is a bad idea.
As the time to gorge on Easter eggs looms again, MATT CLARK meets a man who makes them by hand in York. RAY Cardy is a chocoholic. He loves nothing better than going to the Continent and spending hours in the sweet shops. But a few years ago
GEORGE WILKINSON introduces the first of two walks from Richmond Richmond’s Low Moor is no such thing, it’s right on the top northern edge of the town, Swaledale and its river runs steep and deep below. And, in the 18th and 19th centuries
DAVE STANFORD brings out his slow cooker for a tasty pork and apple recipe. This has been another family favourite over winter using my trusty slow cooker. It’s another dish that ticks all the boxes – it’s quick and easy to prepare,
GAVIN AITCHISON returns to old favourites. FOR most, it was a surprise. For me, it was devastating. Even with the current rate of pub closures, few expected two of York’s best-known to suffer. That’s what happened last November though
Bamberg in the Bavarian region of Franconia is best known for its speciality smoked beers, several versions of which have graced this column over the years. However, the town (pop. 85,000) is blessed with ten breweries, and its more conventional beers
BIG FELLA THANKS, Character Building and King Fontaine are charged with ending North Yorkshire’s half-century wait for a Grand National winner today. The trio, trained by West Witton’s Ferdy Murphy and Norton duo John Quinn and Malcolm Jefferson
YORK City’s bid to break a new club record for consecutive home league wins might have ended with Tuesday night’s 1-1 draw against champions-elect Crawley. But the Minstermen can still write their place in the history books by targeting another
YORKSHIRE’S Adil Rashid picked the perfect moment to turn on the style as the Tykes began the 2011 season with a bang against Worcestershire. The leg spinner took 6-77 at New Road, in front of the watching National selector Geoff Miller, to put the Tykes
HUGGATE rally driver Jonny Milner’s first round of the Toyota Sprint Series Championship literally went off with a bang after he suffered technical problems with his Merlin International ‘Xtreme’ 700 BHP Toyota Celica GT4 at Rockingham. Despite the
Jane Cohen was promoted to the Railway Institute ‘A’ team for their trip to Holgate ‘A’ in division one of the CE Electric Table Tennis League – and justified the call-up by winning all of her singles. Aided by Mick Wilcockson, Cohen helped her side
ALTITUDE training is next up for Pocklington Rocket Harry Matthews as he bids to ascend to a British title belt. The 22-year-old is to jet out to the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canaries off the coast of Africa to find an extra edge in his battle
Knavesmire Harriers have enjoyed a strong start to spring. Emma Yates was second lady and first lady 40 in the re-run of the Jolly Holly Jog at Ripon on the 10-kilometre course. Yates finished in 40 minutes 58 seconds, with Kate Nelson second lady
DUNNINGTON met with mixed fortunes when they played Yorkshire Squash League premier division champions Abbeydale, from Sheffield, in successive matches. They lost 3-2 in their away fixture, with Lawrence Delasaux and Gareth Lumsden their winners, but
Paul Nicholls, who has enjoyed a bumper Aintree meeting so far, highlighted by Big Buck’s gaining his 12th successive victory in imperious style and proving himself one of the outstanding staying hurdlers of all time, can continue his winning run tomorrow
THERE was a phone call to the sports-desk this week in which a reader wanted to sound off about Wayne Rooney, football’s knuckle-headed man of the moment. The call was neither rabid, nor rancorous, nor angry – unlike Rooney’s rant of expletives at
TODAY’S back page story in a way poses the tricky question of whether events at Widnes showed York City Knights either have discipline in the face of adversity – or lack fighting spirit. Forget the actual scoreline, if there is a melee in
HUNDREDS of residents crammed into a York meeting last night to discuss the next steps in their fight against plans which could see a controversial wind farm built near their homes. Green energy firm Banks Renewables is expecting to make a
A MAN was taken to York Hospital with neck and back injuries after a crash near Bishopthorpe. The accident happened at the crossroads of Acaster Lane and Cowper Lane. The 26-year-old Wetherby man, who has not been named, was in a Vauxhall Vectra
A 17-YEAR-OLD youth has been arrested after a string of assaults in York. Detectives are appealing for witnesses following the attacks in Tang Hall, York, between 11pm and midnight on Thursday. The first happened at 11.30pm on Seventh Avenue when
A POLITICAL challenge to York’s housing targets for the next 20 years has been thwarted. City of York Council’s Labour group launched a bid to increase the new-homes figure within the city’s Local Development Framework, which outlines how future building
ANTIQUES Roadshow star Eric Knowles was in sparkling form at a York street party to celebrate the royal wedding. Billed as “York’s only royal wedding street party in the city centre”, yesterday’s event, hosted by Mulberry Hall and Kennedy’s in Little
YORK and Selby have been identified as some of the worst areas in the UK for residents risking their health by drinking too much at home. NHS figures reveal that as well as York and Selby, the top 25 areas where drinking too much at home is a serious
ALLOTMENT holders in York were showcasing their produce at their annual spring open day today. Heworth ward councillors will be in attendance to see how ward funding has been spent after the ward committee agreed to create some raised beds
A POTHOLE which has been branded the most expensive in York has been fixed after years of waiting. Problems originally arose in the alleyway between Scarcroft Hill and Mill Mount, near All Saints RC School, when work on nearby buildings led to the road
YORK’S council chief executive has appealed to voters not to waste their chance to vote. All 47 City of York Council seats will be contested on May 5 and residents are being reminded that they have until 5pm on Thursday to register for a
THE legal world was in mourning today for Gilbert Gray QC, the North Yorkshire magistrate’s son who rose to be a “towering figure” in the law. The eminent barrister and head of York Chambers practised at the top of his profession for 40 years
WELL-WISHERS helping to raise money to save the life of a desperately ill child have passed the £30,000 mark. The parents of three-year-old William Rhodes, who suffers from a rare from of anaemia, hope to raise more than £60,000 to fund genetic
A NORTH Yorkshire secondary school is considering whether to become an academy. Ripon College says it is looking into opting out of a council control and has held talks with a potential sponsor, the Wakefield-based Outwood Grange group. “The governors
THE leader of Selby District Council has responded to accusations that controversial plans for new traveller sites were “unrealistic” and “incompetent”. Councillor John McCartney asked council leader Mark Crane at a full council meeting this week whether
RUNNERS, riders and racegoers are making their final preparations for what promises to be a fantastic Grand National day. With three North Yorkshire horses to cheer on at Aintree this afternoon, bookmakers in our region say they are seeing
THE famous Tornado steam locomotive is back in one piece today after the completion of extensive repair works. The huge boiler was carefully lowered back in to place at the National Railway Museum (NRM) yesterday and everything is now on track for Tornado
THE ‘force’ is well and truly with Tadcaster Grammar School’s splash-happy swimmers. For the fourth year running, Tadcaster Grammar School’s swimming squad seized top honours to bring home the shield from the Leeds and District swimming gala. More than
GRAND Central Rail has cancelled two services between York and London and will run a special timetable on Sunday because engineers will be working on the East Coast main line between Peterborough and Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Trains to London will
FOUR York City Baths Club swimmers, including three sisters, shone at Crystal Palace in the Schools’ Biathlon final. Ellen Suddes (Year 8, of Huntington School) and Jess Isaacs (Year 8, Fulford School ) ran 1,000 metres on the track and swam 100m freestyle
A PASTOR has complained to City of York Council over planners’ handling of proposals to convert a redundant York pub into a church. The Rev David Lavery, of the Living Word Church, claims the public and the planning committee have been misled over its
BREAST cancer patients in North Yorkshire are being invited to an innovative focus group which aims to find the views of patients in a relaxed setting. Anyone who has undergone surgery at Scarborough Hospital is to receive an invite to attend the
A LATE Liam Lowson drop goal saw York Acorn ARLC Under-15s overcome Yorkshire U15s League division one leaders Stanley Rangers 23-22 after a tremendous performance in a memorable game. After a tight opening, Acorn went in front with a well-worked
York Schoolboys Under-15s wrapped up their Yorkshire League matches with a resounding 2-1 victory over leaders East Riding to grab second place and advance to the semi-final knockout stages. In their best display to date, York excelled across the
THE Yorkshire Air Museum has launched its newly refurbished Astra digital cinema 70 years after RAF personnel watched a simple television screen at the base. Saville Audio Visual of York, which provided the original equipment to York airbases during
A RETIRED York vicar and her husband have set off on their 1,200-mile walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats. The former Vicar of Heslington, the Reverend Nancy Eckersley, 60, and her husband John, 68, are hoping to raise £45,000 for Christian Aid through
More than 20 children took part in a sponsored toddle to raise money for charity. Children from Burnholme Nursery, on Bad Bargain Lane, did the sponsored Toddle Waddle to raise money for the Meningitis Trust. Kerry Hay, 31, acting manager of the
AN EXHIBITION by the artist at the centre of one of the UK’s biggest art frauds is being displayed in York. John Myatt’s copies of world-famous paintings fooled top art experts. His story is now being made into a Hollywood film by the writers of The
POLICE in Pocklington are warning farmers after a spate of high-value farm equipment thefts. A £60,000 tractor and a trailer costing £10,000 were recently stolen, and another £10,000 trailer was also stolen from a different location on the same night
A WOMAN out walking her dog sparked a dramatic river rescue when they got trapped in the River Swale. The pair were unable to climb out of the river at Catton near Thirsk because the banks were too steep. North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service
PUPILS are celebrating after having their Healthy Schools Award renewed. Carr Infants School, in Ostman Road, York, was given the award by the Healthy Schools Co-ordinator for teaching the children what it means to have a healthy lifestyle. Sue Bell
TALENTED members of a York club are preparing for their moment in the spotlight as they bid to raise funds for the City of York Afghanistan Commemorative Appeal. Fulfordgate WMC, in Heslington Lane, Fulford, is staging a Fulfordgate’s Got Talent
RESIDENTS in Holgate could face disruption this summer when a new railway line is built in the area. Network Rail will begin work on the Holgate Junction site at the end of May, with the aim to complete by the end of October. The work will take place
THE full impact of job cuts at City of York Council has been revealed for the first time – with music teaching, children’s social care administration and libraries all taking a hit. The authority is set to shed more than 150 posts in its
WITH the Yorkshire Youth Hockey league title in the bag, City of York Hockey Club under-14 girls’ ‘A’ team competed in the U14 play-offs at Halifax. The girls dominated their group with three straight 2-0 wins against Hull (R Birch and T Davies
UNITY and teamwork was again to the fore as Heworth ARLC Under- 11s made it 13 wins out of 16 in a tough 28-16 victory at Oulton. The forwards worked their socks off to contain the Raiders’ large pack and drive the ball forward, though the difference
A HOST of York football-avid schoolchildren revelled in the third annual Tregelles football tournament. Some 17 primary schools competed in the event at The Mount School playing-fields just off Dalton Terrace, in York, to the delight of players, teachers
HUNTINGTON’S 100 per cent record in the York FA Under-19s Football League was finally cracked in a tough clash with title rivals Dringhouses. Visitors Dringhouses triumphed 2-1 with the plunder shared by Ben Lock and Callum Ward to wipe out the home
Stamford Bridge Scorpions produced a professional display to see off Fulford 2-0 in the semi-final of the U12 Girls League Cup. A single goal in each half was enough to win the tie but it could have been more as the Scorpions created several clear chances
HISTORY-MAKING York Under-13s footballers were deserved 1-0 victors at Barnsley to maintain their Yorkshire League title challenge. Against a strong Barnsley outfit, the English Schools’ national finalists started the livelier. Joe Wales created the
York U12s returned to league action when they travelled to cup final opponents Barnsley. York got off to the perfect start when Matty Roberts met a pin-point corner from Sam Fielding to bullet a header in off the crossbar. The visitors then pressed
A SCHOOL bus had to be evacuated on York ring road during the morning rush hour after a fire broke out in its engine compartment. The vehicle was taking pupils to Manor School from villages west of York, when the fire started yesterday morning shortly
WHITE ROSE under-11s football team need new players. Anyone interested should phone Nicola Bell on 07595 337930 or email oliverbell3@googlemail.com
STRONG defence and man-of-the- match Ben Atkin’s four tries helped York Acorn ARLC Under-10s beat Wibsey. Top tackler Ellie Henry led the way, well supported by the improving Ben Lumby. Tries at the other end, most of which were long-range
