YORK City Knights stepped up their bid for survival in the Co-operative Championship with a 18-10 home win over high-flying Batley Bulldogs. Ryan Esders touched down for the Knights in the first half, and Nathan Freer and Duane Straugheir added
YORK City Knights reserves gave arguably their worst performance of the season when losing 42-18 at Keighley. Mick Ramsden’s men trailed only 22-18 at half-time of last night’s match – with tries by Dan Mole, who added three conversions, Lee
PAUL Taylor-Mills is so busy that the young director had to leave the opening night of Much Ado before the close to return to London. Birmingham-born Paul has just spent a year as Cameron Mackintosh’s assistant on Hair in the West End and Les
UPSTAGE Centre Youth Theatre will mount a Shakespeare play in two weeks this summer under the direction of Mel Cook, former assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. “If you are between eight and 25 years old, this is your chance to spend
The Drifters are in concert at the Grand Opera House, York, on Sunday night. The legendary American R&B, disco and soul group is in its sixth decade and in that time more than 60 vocalists have passed through the ranks of harmony singers. The 7.30pm
THE Chinese Calendar unfolds in the York Late Music family concert on Saturday night, performed by Panoply at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York. Christopher Gander’s magical music theatre work is based on the characters in the Chinese calendar
WHAT strikes you immediately about the new Focus is its sporty, sleeker silhouette. It looks like a cross between a coupé and five-door hatchback. But Britain’s best-selling car of the past decade has had a whole lot more than a makeover for
THIS exhibition is so long overdue, it is a wonder the statue of William Etty has not upped sticks and left Exhibition Square in a huff. Etty (1787-1849) is York’s most famous artist – which some might argue is no greater status than Shed Seven
COPMANTHORPE Carnival has assembled its biggest ever line-up of live music, dance and circus entertainment for tomorrow at Copmanthorpe Recreation Centre, Barons Crescent, Copmanthorpe York. In past years, North Yorkshire’s chart acts One Night Only
COMEDIAN and musician Bill Bailey will play York Barbican on Saturday, November 12, as one of eight extra dates added to his Dandelion Mind tour this autumn. Already performed in the Scottish Highlands and northern Britain, Australia and New Zealand
HOUNDED out! Originally this weekend’s Edinburgh Preview at the Hyena Lounge was to have featured Rufus Hound, the comedian, television presenter and 2010 winner of BBC1’s Let’s Dance For Comic Relief. Sadly, filming commitments render him unable to
YORK Railway Institute Band’s promotional performance this afternoon (SAT) for this month’s Rotary Dragonboat Races has been cancelled as a result of unforeseen circumstances. The brass band had been due to play in St Sampson’s Square, York, between
DEBUT novelist William Ryan has made this year’s shortlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, for his thriller, The Holy Thief. Also on the shortlist, announced this morning, are Mark Billingham, Lee Child, Stuart MacBride
THIS is batch number three of Nick Cave’s Collector’s Edition re-issues, this time spanning 1994 to 2001, when wrought gothic drama gradually made way for calmer, reflective waters. The last-man-standing raucous blues of his Grinderman albums would
The 46th Harrogate International Festival is under way, under the title of the Harrogate Summer Festival. The festival opened last night with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s concert at the Royal Hall, and the first weekend diary kicks off
Apart from the mud, probably the most famous appearances at Glastonbury over the past few years have been Tony Bennett, Rolf Harris and Dame Shirley Bassey. But many were surprised to see that the badge of honour of headlining this year’s event was awarded
DEATH Cab For Cutie are the classic example of a band that haven’t particularly travelled well – and what a shame that is. The Washington State-based group have flown largely under the radar in the United Kingdom, in sharp contrast to their home
RAISING Sand, the Grammy-winning collaboration with Robert Plant, brought Alison Krauss to a wider audience. Her crystalline vocals melded nicely with Plant’s surprisingly sweet rasp, and suggested that she could push herself in different directions
THE Basildon synth kings have always been the sort of outfit you’d guess would lend themselves to the occasional remixing, so with Depeche between albums, a combination of their earlier and more recent work has come in for attention. The one-disc
ALISTAIR Griffin has not released an album since his post-Fame Academy debut in 2004, but now a song called Just Drive has put the North Yorkshire singer-songwriter back on the right track. “It’s a long time since the last one and I would have liked
The Ebor Singers present a French double bill tomorrow and Saturday in York, turning the spotlight on Charpentier each night to mark the release of their latest recording of music by the Baroque composer. “The choir has greatly enjoyed exploring works
BRITISH siblings Kitty, Daisy and Lewis apparently count Chris Martin and Amy Winehouse among their celebrity fans, and while there’s nothing on Smoking In Heaven to remind the listener of Coldplay, the majority of the album has a Winehouse-like 40s
WAKEFIELD Jazz brings its summer season to a hard-hitting climax tonight with the Nick Svrac Trio. Nick is a guitarist in the Jon Scofield style. The autumn series begins in September and early booking is recommended for the Tommy Smith Quartet on October
KATIE Posner briefly contemplated Caryl Churchill’s Far Away when Damian Cruden asked her to pick a play to direct in the York Theatre Royal ensemble season, but that thought soon went further away. Instead, Katie, the associate director of Pilot Theatre
AS the evening sun began to set over York, hundreds of film lovers descended on Museum Gardens for the first Orillo Outdoor Cinema. Hosted by York film production company Orillo Productions, made up of five York St John University graduates, the
YORK soprano Rebecca Newman set herself the target of raising £5,000 for Childline when she launched her CD Cantare in October 2008. Come Sunday’s 7pm concert at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, she will announce she has reached her goal for a charity
ON Monday, the debut album by York singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich takes its place in the CD racks across the country. Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm carries rather more of a media vibe than usual for a York musician, trailed by radio
Updated: FORMER Newcastle United midfielder Patrick McLaughlin is happy to turn his back on the Premier League to kick start his career at York City. McLaughlin, 20, has spent the last four years at St James’ Park but, despite being a regular
THE battle in the halves could be crucial when York City Knights tackle high-fliers Batley Bulldogs at Huntington Stadium tonight – and boss Dave Woods believes his boys can come out on top. Batley stand-off Paul Handforth and scrum-h alf Paul Mennell
SKIPPER Marcus Wood is expecting a very tough day tomorrow as his York Cricket Club team travel to nearest challengers Rotherham in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. The Clifton Parkers have a narrow four-point lead at the
Director of professional cricket Martyn Moxon admits Yorkshire face a mountainous task to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20. But the ex-England opening batsman has urged his players not to throw the towel in just yet. The White
A NEW ‘eastern conference’ will come under the umbrella of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League in 2012, writes Steve Carroll. Part of the league’s plans to form a number of ‘conference sections’, the 22-team ladder has been kick-started
YORK’S greens giant Simon Dyson received a specialist nod to start a two-pronged challenge to squeeze into next month’s 140th Open Championship. Dyson yesterday posted a three-over par 74 in the French Open at Le Golf National course in Paris after
JAMES FORD reckons more is to come from both himself and the team as York City Knights head into the Championship run-in – despite the loss of organiser-in-chief Chris Thorman to injury. Ford has played in all eight games since arriving at York from
In Parliament the “Lothian Question” which queried whether Scottish MPs should vote on English only matters has never been resolved. Scottish MPs in the UK Parliament have always argues that THEY SHOULD BE involved in voting on English matters because
Sandown may have Workforce and So You Think tomorrow, but Beverley have Polish World and Noodles Blue Boy, two North Yorkshire horses with major chances of enhancing their course records. Polish World was twice a winner on the Westwood last
EVEN as the second anniversary approaches, the sense of loss at the tragic deaths of apprentice jockeys Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson still remains incredibly raw. Paul Lodge knows this only too well. As one of Norton’s Racing Welfare officers, he is dealing
Dave Taylor set the early pace in the Leeds Summer Angling League on Sunday with a solid 20lb 4oz taken on the feeder and caster at peg 12 on the Nun Monkton stretch of the Ouse. He banked an 8lb barbel and three bream to hold off Dave Miles who had
THE daughter of murdered York businessman Geoffrey Leeming may be jailed after admitting driving while three-and-a-half times the legal limit before crashing into a bungalow. The bungalow in Wheatfield Lane, Haxby, was a “scene of devastation
GRIEVING relatives said farewell to a York mum who collapsed and died while in police custody. Dozens of family and friends filled St Philip’s and St James’s Church, in Clifton, yesterday for the funeral of Toni Emma Speck, of Huntington, who
YORK Cats Protection Centre is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an open day tomorrow. The centre – and the cats – will play host to a tombola, fete stalls and produce tables. Organisers hope to raise funds and the profile of the charity.
A GROUP of men boarded a train at York and racially abused two Asian women in a “despicable” attack, say police. About 20 men got on the Kings Cross to Sunderland Grand Central train service at 6.40pm in York on Saturday, June 18. The incident happened
A BARMAN has denied raping a student three times in a York alleyway. Simon Christopher Nunns said in his evidence to police: “At no point did she say to me, ‘no, stop’ or ‘I do not want to do this’.” It is alleged that Nunns, 29, of Hampden Street,
Harrogate Police want to speak to a woman in connection with a suspected theft from a store. The woman’s image was captured on CCTV, above, when she entered the Co-op in Leeds Road at 6.45pm on Wednesday before filling a hand basket with £40-worth
TEACHERS and public-sector workers gathered in their hundreds in York City centre as part of a mass day of strikes and protests. Picket lines formed yesterday morning outside schools and public offices in York as angry civil servants demanded
THE search is on for community heroes in East Yorkshire. Humberside Fire and Rescue Service is asking members of the public to nominate their local hero. The winner, who will be chosen following the result of a public vote, will then be honoured at
A MAJOR review of York’s care homes has been launched – with Labour councillors saying it should lead to modernisation but unions concerned that one or more might close. Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing, Labour’s cabinet member for adult social services
A NEW blueprint for the future of development in York which envisages building 16,000 new homes over the next 20 years has been approved. Proposals by City of York Council’s ruling Labour group to amend the Local Development Framework (LDF) core strategy
PARKING charges in the centre of Selby are set to rise by 20 per cent in a move which has angered traders. Motorists face higher fees for the town’s long and short-stay car parks under proposals being discussed by Selby District Council’s executive
A DISTRESSED man who went missing in York was found after a search through the night by 35 police officers and PCSOs. The man, aged 54, was reported missing at 9.25pm on Tuesday after last being seen that afternoon at Clifton Moor Gate. Officers
YORK and Selby councils have had their hopes dashed of increasing budgets by millions of pounds through the localisation of business rates. Coun James Alexander, leader of City of York Council, said they had hoped that the Government’s plans to localise
FUNDRAISING for the care of a nine-year-old girl left paralysed after falling off a climbing frame has been boosted by the efforts of a North Yorkshire schoolboy. Bel Young needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the incident in a neighbour’s garden
A CANCER survivor from York has told how she took up volunteering at her children’s school to ensure they had fond memories of her. Sally Gatus, of Dringhouses, is the mother of Angus, nine, and Laura, six, and first realised she was ill shortly before
IT may be the height of summer, but tickets have gone on sale for York’s 54th Annual Community Carol Concert at the Barbican box office. Organiser Graham Bradbury said the event, which takes place at 2.30pm on Sunday December 18, was a traditional
THE proposed development of 2,500 new homes on so-called green-belt land in York will, and already has, generated protests from some quarters. It is very easy to protest about new developments when you already have a home yourself, but many of today
WITH regard to your article headlined “York GP hits out over NHS changes” (The Press, June 15). GPs do not work as hospital doctors – they work in GP practices around York and refer patients to York Hospital. Dr Chan cannot be a GP – so your article
FAME Academy star Alistair Griffin and ex-Middlesbrough player Craig Hignett were setting off on the first leg of their charity coast-to-coast bike ride today. The pair are among 60 cyclists tackling the 150-mile trip in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care
THE top children’s heart surgeon in Yorkshire has made an 11th-hour plea for people to support the future of child heart surgery in our region. Today is the final day people can give their views on controversial NHS plans to close the paediatric heart
I WOULD like to add my support to your readers who have demonstrated their disapproval at City of York Council’s intention to sell off the Union Terrace car and coach park. The car park serves the Bootham Conservative Club and the Clarence Club, both
HAVING just driven from Easingwold to Paris, it is a shame that the worst road I had to drive on was just a few miles from home on the A19 just north of Shipton-by-Benningbrough. It has to be said that the road surface almost resembles a lunar landscape
I AM writing this letter regarding Dawn Liddell’s death. Firstly, I would like to thank all the people who were involved with Dawn when she died. I would like to thank the church for a lovely reading about Dawn’s life and the people who attended
THE black hole faced by the city council (The Press, June 24) in its property services department has been explained in a report as “over ambitious” with delays in managing the project etc. Perhaps the more obvious answer is the over-ambitious process
THE recent story of Amy Winehouse turning up drunk at her latest gig abroad reminds me of the time I answered a Press appeal for a pianist to keep Pickering’s panto together. We had finished the Saturday matinee of the 15-day run when I asked if
The RSPCA is to investigate after a horse tethered on a verge near Monks Cross was found dead (The Press, June 29). Why has it taken the death of a horse to make them do something about a longstanding problem? The horse in question was
As a new councillor, I am increasingly aware of the importance of volunteering in sustaining community groups. These groups are improving life for local residents, and many want new recruits. A lot has been happening in recent years to promote
IN 1937, my parents had a telephone installed in our house in Southampton. In the instruction book which came with it, people were advised to answer the telephone with either their name or the telephone number. This has been my habit for all my life
COUNCIL leader James Alexander dismisses any form of criticism, be it personal with regard to his vanity project expenses, or as leader threatening to sell off the council’s “family silver” to finance his unidentified “Reinvigorate York” pipe-dream.
IT MIGHT be of interest to Philip Roe (Letter, June 15) that the American cut of Dambusters did feature American B-17s and that since 1999 the film when shown on TV has been edited at least three times to remove the original name of the unit’s dog.
THE new Lord Mayor and Sheriff of York have been drawing up plans for a busy year of fundraising for two worthy causes. Lord Mayor Coun David Horton said the Lord Mayor & Sheriff’s Charity Fund will support York & District Mind and York Against
TODAY and tomorrow will be the last chance to see the group show by Bar Lane Studios’ graduate artist interns, whose exhibition commemorates their year in residence at the York creative hub. The group, comprising five artists and a theatre company
I WAS at a conference at Newcastle University last week (Changing Behaviour, Changing Society: Responses To A Changing Climate) in my new capacity as an environmental researcher and feeling a bit of a fraud in the company of so many profs and PhDs.
IT IS 9.30am on a typically busy weekday in Colliergate. Delivery vans are parked half on, half off the narrow pavement, leaving little room for other vans and cars. Pedestrians regularly have to step into the road to get by. “I nearly got knocked over
ZANY aviator Gordon Martin is hoping to break records by flying a giant kestrel in the world’s craziest festival of flight. The 41-year-old Tadcaster man is 2nd Flight Engineer in a team taking part in a RedBull Flugtag event at Roundhay Park in Leeds
A WAVE of new businesses have set up in The Catalyst, the latest addition to York Science Park in the University of York’s £500 million campus extension. The Catalyst, an incubation centre for creative, IT, digital and media businesses, alongside the
A YORK web design business has gone into liquidation after credit card fraud left it hundreds of thousands of pounds in debt. WebMania was left with £250,000 of debt when it went into liquidation, including owing £44,133 in redundancy claims, £21,672
LOST revenue from suspending the phone sales of its identity protection product following investigation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) will hit CPP Group’s margin for the half year ended June 30. The York-based card and identity protection
A THIEF has stolen a bike from a German student who had stopped off in York city centre during a ride across the region. The 16-year-old from Wuppertal was among a group of cyclists pedaling from Hull to South Tyneside, where they will join in celebrations
A YORK couple who were today marking 50 years of married life have a triple family celebration lined up. Peter and Margaret Littlechild, of Huntington, first met as teenagers at the Petina dance school in Acomb and tied the knot six years later on
THIS couple from Wilberfoss are celebrating 60 years of happy marriage this week. Arthur Whatt, 86, and wife Betty, 80, met at a dance while Harry was serving as a police sergeant at RAF Sutton-on-Hull in 1947. After leaving the service in 1951
RESIDENTS using household waste recycling centres in North Yorkshire are being reminded they will be closed on Wednesdays from next week in a bid to cut costs. North Yorkshire County Council runs 19 centres at an annual cost of £5.1 million. The
