TEN-MAN York City reignited their Blue Square Bet Premier play-off challenge with a superb 1-0 victory over Luton Town. With Kidderminster losing 2-1 to Darlington, City moved into sixth place, three points behind fifth-placed Fleetwood with three
A MOTORCYCLIST was taken to hospital with serious injuries after his vehicle collided with two cars in a crash on a North Yorkshire road. The crash, involving a black Ford Ka, a black Vauxhall Corsa and a black-coloured motorcycle, happened
BREWERY giant Heineken has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 after it admitted breaching an environmental permit at its Tadcaster brewery. A court heard more than 110,000 pints of beer and cider were accidentally sent from its John Smith
THE mother of murder victim Diana Garbutt says her cherished memories of her daughter will never fade as killer Robin Garbutt is found guilty of her death. Agnes Gaylor spoke minutes after postmaster Robin Garbutt was jailed for 20 years after
Police have welcomed the conviction of murderer Robin Garbutt. Speaking after today's verdict at Teesside Crown Court, Detective Superintendent Lewis Raw, the senior investigating officer, said: “It is satisfying that we have been able to secure
A SHOPKEEPER who bludgeoned his postmistress wife to death as she slept has been jailed for life, after a jury found him guilty of murder today. Robin Garbutt, 45, formerly of York and Huby, attacked Diana with a metal bar in the living quarters
YORK City striker Leon Constantine is poised for a recall ahead of tonight’s crucial home match with Luton Town as manager Gary Mills looks to boost his side’s goal power. Constantine, 33, scored his eighth goal of the season after coming on
GOALKEEPER Michael Ingham is hoping for a hat-trick of atonement when Luton Town come to call tonight. After the dismay of fortress Bootham Crescent being breached by Tamworth for the first time under Gary Mills’ reign, it’s the Hatters who visit York
ERIC Woolley, chief executive of York-based CPP, has sprung to the defence of its identity protection products, urging people not to underestimate the damage that can be caused by ID theft. According to the National Fraud Authority, no fewer than 1.8
KATE Mellor has brought a bit of Twitter-patter to her parents’ award-winning brewery. The 24-year-old is helping Wold Top Brewery, in Wold Newton, near Bridlington, to embrace the social media revolution by launching its new interactive website, incorporating
FIFTEEN jobs have been secured after a North Yorkshire bulk haulage company acquired a long-standing competitor business. M Kettlewell (Melmerby) Ltd, which transports raw materials, such as wheat and barley, for animal feed processors nationally, has
LOWERY Roofing LLP of York has completed works at St Wilfred’s Church, Harrogate, with Pearce Bottomley Architects. The £90,000 project lasted ten weeks, and included a new stainless steel roof to the north tower and the full re-roofing of the south
SIMON Spinks, managing director of Bolton Percy-based luxury bed manufacturer Harrison Spinks, has been elected president of the National Bed Federation (NBF). The £25 million turnover Harrison Spinks employs about 300 people and operates from
LUTON Town will not be able to call on the services of former York City midfielder Alex Lawless for tonight’s Blue Square Bet Premier clash between the two teams. Lawless, who has started the Hatters’ last five matches, is ruled out due to a clause
GIANTKILLERS Tadcaster Magnets are still blazing a trail in the York Minster Engineering Football League Reserve Cup. Reserve ‘D’ Magnets collected their second reserve ‘A’ scalp as they followed up their win over Haxby United with a 4-2 success against
Jonny Bairstow will get his first career hundred sooner rather than later, according to Yorkshire director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon. The 21-year-old England Lions wicketkeeper from York has recorded 16 fifties in his first-class career
IT is in Leeds’ own hands – and boss Simon Grayson wants to make sure the Whites’ Championship play-off hopes remain that way following the Easter weekend. Leeds host Reading on Good Friday (kick off 7.45pm) before travelling to Crystal Palace on Easter
New Earswick All Blacks ARLC ‘A’ narrowly failed to pull off a shock home win over Pennine League division four leaders Oulton Raiders ‘B’, going down 26-20. The defeat leaves All Blacks ‘A’ third from bottom, seven points ahead of second-bottom Siddal
A NINE-A-SIDE adult and veterans charity tag rugby festival will be held at Heworth ARLC this summer – with corporate teams, pub sides and groups of friends all encouraged to enter. The family event – which it is hoped will help to raise funds
BURNHOLME hit top form as they beat Flag ‘B’ 9-2 in York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League division one. Caroline Whittaker closed 64 for a 24-dart leg for Burnholme and that was followed by a 22-dart pairs leg from colleagues Marj Pearson and Toni
SKIPPER Steve Burdett led from the front as Woodhouse Grange beat Dunnington in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League’s curtainraiser, the President’s Challenge Trophy. Premier League Cup winners Grange beat premier division champions Dunnington
EAST Yorkshire racer Guy Smith continues to lead the American Le Mans Series after finishing runner-up in second round of the season at Long Beach. Smith, of Beverley, who claimed sixth in the opening race at Sebring last month, netted the latest
Racing returns to the home of the Derby tomorrow for the first time this year and Musawama is fancied to land the race designed to be a stepping stone to the premier Classic. While it is probably doubtful that the £30,000 Investec Derby Trial will have
FORMER Altrincham boss Graham Heathcote has been putting players from New Earswick-based Fox Football Club through their paces. Heathcote took charge of a session with the York Minster Engineering League division four strugglers after they won a
THREE masked burglars with more than 150 offences between them have been jailed after a bungled raid on a York department store. Jason Stewart, Jordan Both and Anthony Vipas, all high on drink and drugs, used a manhole cover to break a window of Fenwick
PLANS are being drawn up for a York concert to celebrate the life and music of John Barry. Organisers want to stage the event in the autumn at York Barbican, just a short distance from the former Rialto where the Oscar-winning composer started his
THIS eye-catching mosaic has been unveiled at a York nature reserve. St Nicholas’ Fields’ new piece of artwork depicts the nature reserve, the Environment Centre and its wind turbine and pond. The mosaic, which has been created by Jamie Vaughan as
MY HUSBAND and I, my two daughters and their families (11 people in total) have just spent an afternoon applying for tickets for the 2012 Olympics, but the information given by Lord Coe regarding ticket prices and availability is totally misleading.
THOUSANDS of bees swarmed outside a York man’s home – then started dropping dead and dying on the pavement. Ian Jameson, of Osbdaldwick Lane, said he was in his garage yesterday afternoon when he noticed bees flying in. He said: “I looked out and
A PROJECT to catalogue noises on the streets of the UK has so far included a handful of recordings from York and Selby. The UK SoundMap is a 12-month project to map and preserve the “acoustic landscape” of the UK. The project has already
YORK Residential Landlords’ Association opposes the proposed ‘Article 4 direction’ giving City of York Council powers to limit conversion of family houses to student lets (The Press, April 16). Yet this proposal has come about in response to a real
A MAN has died following a crash between a car and a coach in North Yorkshire. The accident happened at 5.30pm on Monday on the A19, at the Easingwold bypass. Police said it involved a blue Seat Leon travelling south, and a National
A PUB in York has created a Braille copy of its menu to help customers who have sight problems. The Black Swan Inn, in Peasholme Green, is thought to be the first and only pub in the city to provide such a menu. Stephanie Macklewain-Cross
York St John University has revealed plans to charge £8,500 a year for a degree – just below the £9,000 ceiling permitted under the Government’s higher education reforms. The university has notified the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) that
WHILE enjoying a cycle ride on the solar system cycle path with two of my grand-kids, we suffered a burst tyre. Although I had a pump, I wasn’t carrying a repair kit and it looked like we would have to walk the five miles back to York. Luckily
STUDENT numbers at York’s two universities will fall sharply over the coming decade because of soaring tuition fees, researchers claim. They say hiked costs will force more youngsters to live at home, resulting in a 28 per cent drop in the number of
WITH all the media comment about raising the price of alcohol in supermarkets to try and deter those who abuse it, how about this for a solution? Raise the price in the retail outlets but reduce them in our local pubs accordingly, encouraging people
FEES aside (Letters, April 11), I’d just like to add my experience of the shining example of classic modernist architecture that is the new car park at York Hospital. Being a wheelchair user, I looked out for the sign for the blue badge parking
NIGEL AYRE has deliberately set out to misrepresent both what I said at full council last week and Labour’s position on housing targets (Letters, April 13). No surprise there, coming from a Liberal Democrat. I did not say that residents’
A CAR and a trailer ploughed into a field following a collision on the A19 north of York. Police and the ambulance service were called after the Mitsubishi Colt and the trailer it was towing were involved in a collision with a Volkswagen van and
IT seems strange that Labour are belatedly making a fuss about the NHS and shortages of dentists, now there is less funding available. They had 12 long years to improve medical care. Some people may remember their disease-ridden hospitals, frequent
THE tension at York Central Library between certain groups of library users could be resolved were one simple step taken: return the children’s section to the annexe it occupied prior to the recent refurbishment. This is nothing to do with marginalising
A DOORMAN in York city centre said his colleagues and the public are being put in danger by a shortage of CCTV operators. His concerns came after it emerged that on a number of occasions last week, including Friday and Saturday evening, the CCTV control
WHAT a pathetic error made on the polling cards for the election and referendum in Haxby and Wigginton ward, i.e. a ‘minor error’ showing the polling station at a private house instead of the Scout HQ. Most voters know exactly where to vote, so
ANDREW Collingwood (Letters, April 15) ignores the fact that in Heslington at the last election, the Greens came second, marginally ahead of Labour. The fact is we elect our councillors and not our council. With the Lib Dems likely to suffer and
A YORK doctor hopes to have raised as much as £2,000 for charity after completing the London marathon in under four hours. John Lockett, 53, of Acomb, who works at Jorvik Medical Practice, said: “I’m pleased to say I survived and completed the marathon
VISITORS to the National Railway Museum could be forgiven for thinking the Mallard has returned for a flying visit. However, the LNER A4 Class locomotive in the museum’s car park is actually No. 4462 Bittern, renamed and numbered to represent No. 4492
VARIOUS telephone directories (e.g. Yellow Pages, Thomson Local, etc), use different headings for the same category – confusing! One has “auto electricians”, another has “car electrics”; “garage services” – “car repairs”; “joiners” – “carpenters
DO NOT ever let the Liberal Democrats or Labour con you about the referendum re changing the voting system – you just can’t trust any of them. Vote first-past-the-post on May 5 – any other system would ruin the country for ever. Just look what the
CAMPAIGNERS are today celebrating after winning their fight to retain the Selby War Memorial Hospital name. Moee than 1,700 people who took part in a referendum voted for the Doncaster Road facility to be called the New Selby War Memorial Hospital
I’D like Tesco to answer this one. Why is unleaded petrol 128.9p per litre one day, then 129.9 the following day? And, lo and behold, a couple of days later it has risen once again to 130.9p. That’s 2p per litre in two days. On asking the cashier
RESIDENTS in a York community are being given political backing in their attempt to block a housing development near their homes. A decision on a scheme to demolish a bungalow in Whitby Drive, in Heworth Without, and create five new properties on the
I WISH to comment on the state of the mound surrounding Clifford’s Tower. The numerous signs that say “Keep off the grass” go completely ignored by children and parents. Passing recently, parents were taking pictures of children clambering up people-made
THE artistic vision of Hull Truck Theatre now rests with chief executive Andrew Smaje, whose mission statement leads off the programme. Acknowledging the past contributions of Alan Plater, Anthony Minghella, John Godber, Richard Bean and Amanda
I DON’T know exactly what I was doing on July 29, 1981, but I certainly wasn’t watching the “fairytale” wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Di. Some farm work needed doing, and I was happy to escape the televised pageantry. I did go to a wedding-related
This morning I put three loads in the washing machine. One dark colours and two whites. The laundry basket is still not empty, and in a couple of days time it will once again be full to the brim. I seem to spend half my life keeping on top of it, so
A YORK playground has been given a spruce-up by offenders in a graffiti-busting exercise organised by local councillors. Residents in the Holgate area appealed for assistance after hearing about a similar clean-up drive elsewhere in the ward, which led
ELECTION fraudsters have been warned they will come under the gaze of the law as voters across North Yorkshire prepare to go to the polls. Police in the region, together with councils, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Electoral Commission, have
A SELBY business has decided to close its warehouse in the town, to ensure the survival of its main store. The Furniture Warehouse, in New Lane, Selby, will close within months, with the loss of one permanent and one part-time position. Tony Norton,
YORK’S athletics chief has warned the sport’s future in the city could be threatened within two years if wrangles over the community stadium scheme are not resolved. City of York Athletics Club is earmarked for a move to purpose-built facilities at
A SPATE of charity box thefts in the Selby area has been described by investigating police officers as “beyond belief”. Thieves have smashed church windows and grabbed collection bottles, and in one case three boxes were taken from the counter
PAVING slabs have been stolen from two streets in York. The stones were taken from St George’s Place and St Paul’s Terrace, in Holgate, over the weekend, and neighbourhood services teams from City of York Council were called in to make the pavements
THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed one of the largest hauls of live ammunition ever found in the UK was discovered near a village between York and Selby. In documents released exclusively to The Press, the MoD confirmed an area at Thorganby had
A REWARD of £1,000 is being offered by the family of a York woman who was left “devastated” by the theft of her two dogs. The worried relatives of 57-year-old Tina Hughes have rallied round to raise the cash, which they say will go to the person who
PEOPLE living near a Strensall play park say a new climbing frame has ruined their privacy because it overlooks their bedrooms and living rooms. The 11 foot climbing frame was officially unveiled by York Outer MP Julian Sturdy at the weekend
THE relatives of a York airman who died in a Second World War bomber crash are being urged to come forward after a memorial was set up to the crew. Sergeant Peter Edward James Jenkins, who is buried at Fulford Cemetery, was one of seven crew members
A STRING of under-threat bakeries in North and East Yorkshire have been sold after a rescue bid was launched. Scarborough-based Woodhead Bakery went into administration at the end of March, leaving a question mark hanging over the future of its stores
THREE teenagers have “climbed” almost two Mount Everests in their bid to raise hundreds of pounds for York Hospital’s Special Care Baby Unit. Christopher Ross, Ben Rule and Sam Woodcock, all Year 11 pupils at Archbishop Holgate School, York, had been
A HYPNOTHERAPIST from Selby has become one of the first in the country to achieve a new national accreditation. Nicola Whitehead has been registered by the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), a national standard of excellence.
FIREFIGHTERS in Bridlington were called out to a garage fire in Kingfisher Drive. Humberside Fire & Rescue Service said the contents of the garage were destroyed and the adjoining home suffered light smoke damage.
RESIDENTS in some villages in the York area are facing a 33 per cent hike in payments to their parish council, The Press can reveal. Strensall with Towthorpe Parish Council has increased its precept on residents from £15,000 to £20,000, leaving a Band
