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  • Rising costs create challenging environment for businesses

    RISING commodity prices pushing up inflation is creating a challenging time for businesses, a report by Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber has said. In the chamber’s Quarterly Economic Survey, 65 per cent of businesses said they margins were being

  • York City hit out at Luton boss

    OFFICIALS at York City FC have hit out at the behaviour of Luton Town’s manager, after two stewards were injured during the teams’ match at Bootham Crescent. One steward reportedly broke a finger and another was apparently elbowed as they

  • Injured mayor remains in hospital after accident

    THE MAYOR of Pocklington, who has been injured in an industrial accident, will stay in hospital for another week. Coun Martin Cooper, of Barmby Road in Pocklington, had hoped to be released following a skin graft at Leeds General Infirmary

  • Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire - Day 1 lunch

    Ryan Sidebottom has taken three wickets against his former county during a fabulous opening morning for Yorkshire at Headingley. Defending champions Nottinghamshire, whose captain Chris Read won the toss and elected to bat, slumped to 56-6 before

  • Royally done in York

    Fifty years ago, York had its own royal wedding, on June 8, 1961, reports STEPHEN LEWIS. ALL eyes will be on Westminster Abbey on April 29. But as Prince William and his Kate bind their lives together before the eyes of the watching world

  • Wootton Bassett’s 2000 Guineas blow

    WOOTTON BASSETT has been pulled out of the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Malton trainer Richard Fahey has admitted he can’t get his unbeaten colt ready in time for the season’s first Classic, held at headquarters on April 30. The Musley Bank handler had

  • York City boss Gary Mills thrilled by Luton Town victory

    YORK City manager Gary Mills hailed a great night as the club were propelled back into the Blue Square Bet Premier play-off frame after beating Luton Town 1-0 last night. Jamie Reed’s 65th-minute goal gave maximum points to a City team reduced to ten

  • York City and Knights clash after Challenge Cup request

    RELATIONS between York’s two leading sports clubs have hit a new low following a text-message row between the respective figureheads. York City chairman Jason McGill and York City Knights chief John Guildford are at loggerheads over a request from

  • Yorkshire Building Society grows through third acquisition

    YORKSHIRE Building Society has confirmed plans to merge with smaller rival Norwich & Peterborough (N&P) in a move that will create a mutual with three million members and 224 branches. Yorkshire, the UK’s second-biggest building society, has

  • Politics and law no good for finances

    ANOTHER reason why decisions on the nation’s finances should be subject to more scrutiny and checks, than left to a bunch of maverick people. Last month, Britain’s national debt passed the trillion mark, as it continues to rise by £7,000 a second.

  • Protect green belt

    Lib Dem Councillor Nigel Ayre says Liberal Democrat councillors have been fighting to protect the green belt from development for many years (Letters, April 13). I am sure residents who live near Derwenthorpe, Heslington East and Germany Beck would

  • York needs all jobs

    James Alexander, the local Labour leader (The Press, 15 April), stated that “we want York to be the number one destination for economic growth” and added “the biggest barrier to this happening is [a] lack of entrepreneurs and congestion (sic)”.

  • The only gas answer for Ryedale

    CAMPAIGNING for the pending elections has reawakened questions about the apparent delay by the local authority in rejecting the unpopular application for the Ryedale gas development. However, it seems that Moorlands is being given more time

  • Benefits of ‘junk’ mail

    LIZ EDGE may well complain about junk mail (Letters, April 15), but is up to you what you do with junk mail. Royal Mail is obliged to deliver this mail and receives a small amount from junk mail; the postmen on delivery get a small percentage from

  • Terry Smith on crime

    IN reply to Owain Gardner, Labour candidate for Fulford (Letters, April 12), under Labour the police were being crushed by paperwork and pointless targets. Police officers don’t sign up to spend 14 per cent of their time on patrol and spend most of

  • A critic of Terry Smith

    HEAR, hear to John Thompson (Letters, April 12) – it is an eyesore seeing Terry Smith’s homemade signs advertising his aptly named hair salon, Classic Cutz – gotta be a Tory boy now! He must be making his own signs due to the cut-backs. The local

  • Thanks for helping...

    I WOULD like to thank the kind man, woman and young girl who helped my mother when she suffered a bad fall on the morning of April 15. She fell by the book shop at the corner of Petergate and Goodramgate. Their help and care on that day is very

  • Going against the crowd

    TRAVELLING by train from Micklefield, near Sherburn-in-Elmet, to Ilkley, I showed my OAP pass and the fare was only £1 return (50p each way). Sitting back relaxed, I avoided the congested roads and traffic jams. On leaving Ilkley at tea time, all

  • York City 1, Luton Town 0

    TEN-MAN York City won a combustible encounter with Luton Town thanks to Jamie Reed’s ninth goal of the season. Reed’s goal midway through the half reignited City’s play-off push despite Scott Kerr’s dismissal for two bookable offences shortly

  • Trips to the moon

    IN view of Aled Jones’s desire to emigrate to the moon (Letters, April 15), may I remind him that in the near future, the bearded wonder Sir Richard Branson, is contemplating running a public flights service to outer space, and the moon. Perhaps Aled

  • Dringhouses made to wait for title

    LEADERS Dringhouses were forced to put the champagne on ice as they lost 1-0 to Copmanthorpe in the York Minster Engineering League premier division. ’Houses will now travel to York St John tonight (6.15pm) looking to clinch the title after a late

  • No collusion here

    WITH regards to councillor Sandy Frazer’s attack on Julian Sturdy’s farm subsidy entitlement (Letters, April 2), may I state I do not know Geoff Robb so did not collude with him in any way. His letter seems to have been co-incidental as far as I am

  • We love St George

    EVERY year we read that the English don’t celebrate St George’s Day. This will be the tenth year that we have held a party for about 40-plus friends which includes everyone wearing red and white clothes. We also serve typical English food such as

  • Reverse cruel cut

    THROUGHOUT the 2010 General Election campaign, David Cameron said Labour was trying to scare older voters by saying that his party would cut the Winter Fuel Allowance. Labour ensured that the older residents could afford to heat their homes in the

  • My sunny lifestyle

    It’s sunny. Hooray. I like to help people understand solar power. My Victorian end terrace has solar electricity and hot water. I’ve made more than 1,700 KWhrs of electricity on my roof in a year. This is worth more than a ten per cent return on

  • Please don’t mention Elton John again

    BBC Radio York’s phone-in programme last Friday from 9am to noon discussed the selling of tickets on the internet for Elton John’s performance to take place in the Open Air Theatre at Scarborough later this year. The point being made that the tickets

  • Westow mourn passing of stalwart cricketer Peter Coverdale

    WESTOW Cricket Club stalwart Peter Coverdale peacefully passed away at York Hospital. He was 69. He was a player for many years in the York Vale League from when Westow joined in 1982 through to his last game in 2001. Peter whose sons play for the

  • Kieren Fallon on board Newmarket juvenile at Folkestone

    IT was back at 1994 at York that Kieren Fallon won the Gimcrack Stakes on Chilly Billy for Thirsk trainer Lynda Ramsden. Tomorrow at Folkestone, Fallon teams-up with the new generation Chillie Billie and can guide the Newmarket juvenile to victory.

  • The Big Interview with Eric Sleightholme

    It has been 70 years since farmer Eric Sleightholme first stepped up to the oche to play local league darts in the York area. DAVE FLETT talks to the 84-year-old about his many successes in the sport. SEMI-RETIRED farmer Eric Sleightholme is still

  • Yorkshire opener takes Darren Lehmann’s tips on board

    Joe Root has revealed a determination to relax as he aims to make his mark as an opener in Yorkshire’s first team. Having batted at number three in the opening LV= County Championship match against Worcestershire, the ex-England under-19s right-hander

  • Public spending cuts begin to bite

    YORK has been cushioned from some of the worst effects of the national programme of public spending cuts that kicked in on April 1. That is partly because this city, being relatively prosperous, relies less on central government funding than many

  • 122 compulsory redundancies at local authorities

    MORE than 100 members of staff have been made compulsorily redundant at three major councils in York and North and East Yorkshire, The Press can reveal. The axe has been falling as local authorities try to save millions of pounds, despite efforts

  • Music festival honour for Lily-Mai

    THE mother of an extremely premature baby said she is touched that a York music festival is being organised in her daughter’s honour. Laura Jackson, 21, whose daughter Lily-Mai was born 12 weeks prematurely, said she is delighted that Dudestock 2011

  • Police in hunt for missing woman

    A WOMAN has been missing from her North Yorkshire home for nearly a fortnight – sparking a police plea for help. Detectives are appealing for the public’s help in tracing Leanna Jane Robson, 33, of Strawberry Dale, in Harrogate, who has not been seen

  • York pub closure

    A YORK pub has closed suddenly, but its owners say it will re-open. The Britannia Inn, in The Green, Acomb, was boarded up earlier this week. Andrew Buchanan, director of pub operations at Daniel Thwaites brewery, said the pub would re-open.

  • Green Party in fight for clean air

    AIR quality in York has blown into the city’s election battle as Green Party campaigners staged a masked call for action to cut pollution. Candidates standing for the party in next month’s poll to decide who controls City of York Council donned mouthguards

  • Biker dies in A661 smash at Plumpton

    A MOTORCYCLIST died after he 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 shortly after 4pm yesterday on the A661 at Plumpton,

  • Hall goes back on market with £5m price tag

    ONE of North Yorkshire’s most magnificent properties has come back on the market after its sale fell through at the last minute – and now the price has dropped by £1 million. The Press reported in 2009 that Grade I listed Howsham Hall, near Malton, which

  • Gliding club in land battle

    A GLIDING club in North Yorkshire is to bid for the land it uses, to avoid potentially being left homeless. Burn Gliding Club unanimously resolved at an Extraordinary General Meeting to bid for Burn Airfield, which is owned by Yorkshire Forward but which

  • Selby hospital name victory

    CAMPAIGNERS have won their battle to keep the Selby War Memorial Hospital name. Health chiefs have backed down over plans to drop the “war” reference from the title of the town’s new hospital, set to open in June, after a massive show of people power

  • Councillor to retire after 12 years

    A LONG-SERVING Selby councillor is set to retire after 12 years of district council work. Joyce Dyson, who has represented the Selby West ward on the area’s district council for the Conservatives since 1999, has also been a town councillor for 24 years

  • Anti-royal wedding bash at pub

    PEOPLE looking to get away from the royal wedding are invited to a York pub – which is officially ignoring the event. The Fulford Arms, in Fulford Road, is holding an anti-royal wedding party on the day, as part of its five-day beer festival which

  • Royal wedding live at City Screen

    THE royal wedding is being broadcast live at a themed event at City Screen in York. The cinema will show the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton from 10am on Friday, April 29. Those who watch the wedding will also be treated to a “garden party

  • Fresh police focus on bank holiday bikers

    POLICE are to step up patrols on popular motorbike routes on bank holidays, as part of a new no-nonsense road safety campaign. North Yorkshire Police has teamed up with the “95 Alive” campaign and other forces across Yorkshire and the Humber to try to

  • Butterfly study volunteers plea

    RESEARCHERS are seeking volunteers to help monitor butterfly populations in country parks. Postgraduate researcher Kevin Rich, of the University of York, is carrying out a survey at Fitzwilliam and Upton Country Parks, near Hemsworth, in West Yorkshire

  • Tadcaster brewery sent 110,000 pints to treatment plant

    DRINKS 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

  • Adventurers nominated for competition prize

    MEET two of the latest entrants to our contest to find York’s Adventurer Of The Year. The Press and York’s new outdoor equipment retailer, GO Outdoors of Fossbank, launched a competition last month to discover the city’s most adventurous person.

  • Parish council tax to increase in some York villages

    RESIDENTS in some York villages are paying more to their parish councils this year – despite the councils freezing their precept. Osbaldwick Parish Council chairman Mark Warters said its precept remained unchanged at £10,000, but residents were still

  • Baby baptised using broken copper piping

    A baby has been baptised at a York church with a piece of broken copper piping. The Rev Martin Baldock, vicar of St Edward the Confessor Church, in Dringhouses, said thought it would be “fun and memorable” to use the piece of piping that baby Izabella

  • Supermarket move to expand car park

    A SUPERMARKET giant is set to discover whether it can press ahead with controversial plans to expand the car park at one of its York stores. Morrisons is looking to provide 21 extra bays at its Acomb branch, saying its current size means some customers

  • “Business boot camp” at York St John University

    A NEW “business boot camp” is being organised by the York St John University Business School in September. It follows last week’s successful “boot camp” when ten fledgling Yorkshire companies were put through their paces. The event was part of The

  • School builds construction career foundations

    BUDDING builders and painters in York have received a boost after a new centre aimed at teaching them skills for their future careers was given the go-ahead. Permission has been granted by City of York Council for a purpose-built education base dedicated

  • Work experience initiative

    NORTH Yorkshire’s 2,560 young jobseekers – 980 of them in York – can now take part in work experience placements lasting up to eight weeks, without it affecting their benefits, under new Government rules. The introduction of the Work Experience Initiative

  • York City donation to Archbishop's Youth Trust

    THE Archbishop of York stepped on to the pitch at Bootham Crescent to accept a donation to his Youth Trust from York City FC chairman Jason McGill. Dr John Sentamu was handed a cheque on Saturday for the £1,875 raised during a charity match between

  • Students try out Alternative Vote (AV) system

    STUDENTS at Selby College got their first experience of the Alternative Vote (AV) system, as elections for next year’s Students’ Union took place. Steve Schofield, union president, said: “With the referendum on the AV system less than a month away

  • Mobile phone masts ‘could harm county’

    NEW mobile phone masts could harm North Yorkshire’s heritage, civic leaders have warned. Plans to build up to 14 masts across Harrogate and Knaresborough, up to 65ft tall, have sparked fierce opposition in the area, but the applicants have said they

  • Pupils rise to Easter art challenge

    EIGHT Primary Schools from across North Yorkshire are taking part in a competition for the Easter Gathering on Good Friday, writes Sarah Gilbank. Each primary school has produced an artistic scene from the Easter story in a bid to win £100, donated

  • Drug farmer's son avoids prison term

    A SON recruited by his father to help harvest a crop of cannabis has avoided a jail sentence. Lester Steven Bradshaw, 44, of Lea Way, Huntington, is serving three and a half years in jail for setting up and running a drug-growing factory in a remote

  • Holiday lettings firm bought

    A NORTH Yorkshire holiday letting business put up for sale at £1.85 million has found a buyer. Colliers International, acting on behalf of the retiring owners, Simon and Valerie Cranmer Gordon, has sold Paradise Lakeside Lodges in Storwood, near Wheldrake