TWO people arrested after a double stabbing in York have been released on bail. A 44-year-old man and 51-year-old woman were taken into custody and questioned by police after they both suffered stab wounds in a “domestic-related incident” in Gale Lane
After opening in York Minster the previous night, the festival moved from prayer to passion, as the English Concert - effectively a Baroque chamber orchestra, under Harry Bicket - trumpeted Handel’s arrival in London. For a musician on the make, London
IAN Birkinshaw is not usually to be found in the spotlight on stage. He is more likely to be handling the lighting, just as he first did in 1977 as a “relatively shy sixth-former” when he joined the National Youth Theatre for one season in London
CONTROVERSIAL plans to sell one of York’s main coach and car parks have been shelved, as the public backlash against the move gathers pace. The Labour cabinet on City of York Council was set to agree next week to sell Union Terrace car park
DAVE WOODS warned his York City Knights players there would be some “floggings” in training this week as punishment for their woeful defeat to Toulouse. The Knights went into the game on a high after two consecutive Co-operative Championship wins
YORK City manager Gary Mills is hoping his new players’ scoring start to pre-season will signal better fortunes in front of goal during 2011/12. Despite only missing out on a play-off place in the penultimate fixture of last season, City had the sixth-lowest
WITH reference to the article about the bus driver (July 7), for many working in public transport stress levels are starting to show, and we in the community unfortunately feel the result. Congested roads, punctuality, and general conduct between
Your July 1 feature about the traffic options for York city centre’s vehicle restricted area contained some interesting observations by Coun Gillies. He was highly critical of the large number of pedal cycles currently parked in Parliament Street
ADAM Beschizza became the sixth apprentice in a row to win the £150,000 John Smith’s Cup at York Racecourse. The 18-year-old followed Adam Kirby, Jamie Moriarty, Freddie Tylicki, Neil Brown and Martin Lane in scooping the one mile, two furlong heritage
ON Thursday last I drove from Haxby to Woodthorpe via the outer ring road. I was surprised to find that the roadworks at Rawcliffe roundabout were still ongoing. Why is it taking so long to lay a few extra yards of tarmac and paint some new white
I dread driving through Gate Helmsley, etc, and seeing upturned, empty plastic buckets near thirsty, tethered horses. As a reader pointed out (July 6), fresh water is vital to a horse’s diet. They drink from five to ten gallons a day.
FOUR items of news in The Press recently have given me cause for concern and I hope that you will be able to get answers from Coun Alexander, who now heads the city council. They are: 1. If the city council presses ahead with the ill-advised
What depressing reading was the article on City of York’s ruling Labour group’s Local Development Framework plans for the city over the next 20 years (Labour sets “sites” on 9,000 homes, June 30). York councils past and present make a habit of creating
I SUPPORT Matthew Laverack, architect (Letters, July 14) on this issue of the Labour-supported 50 per cent affordable housing policy in York. I think that Labour’s 50 per cent affordable housing policy is catastrophic and a monumental failure in
I READ with interest the fact that York’s Normandy veterans look set to be awarded the city’s highest honour (Freedom of city plan for war heroes, July 2). Whenever I see any reference to the Normandy Veterans Association (NVA), I see the date
COUN Alexander has repeatedly told all who will listen that his party is busy delivering on the promises it made in its manifesto. I was amazed then, at his first meeting of full council, to hear him and the cabinet member for strategy repeat
I would recommend anyone interested in the future of our health service to read the special report on NHS whistleblowers in the current issue of Private Eye. As a city councillor, I saw evidence of how difficult it can be to blow the whistle on
I am, I believe, a fairly tolerant sort of bloke, but I am afraid my tolerance was pushed to its limit last Thursday (June 30). At about 10.25 am I was driving along Heslington Lane when I observed six, yes, six cyclists, all adults, riding close
World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) is giving people the chance to remember lost loved ones with a living memorial of wild flowers. The annual Wildflower Appeal sees the charity provide packs of Heartsease – a member of the pansy family – to those
The paper is faded and discoloured by time. But the headlines leap out as vividly today as they would have 66 years ago. “Total surrender likely at any hour” screams the one on the front page of the May 4, 1945 edition of the Yorkshire Evening Press.
PRESCRIPTION charges are a little like car tax – it’s just one of those things in life that you begrudge handing over your hard-earned money for. In the case of taxing your car, it’s probably because you pay something like £120 and all you get is a
ALICE Coulthard and Paul Nicholas will star in Keeler, the “sensational inside story of the infamous Profumo affair”, at the Grand Opera House, York, from October 17 to 22. Based on Christine Keeler’s 2001 autobiography, The Truth At Last, the play
TELEVISION superheroes Numberjacks are switching from the BBC to the stage in 2011, starting their debut tour at the Grand Opera House, York, on September 6 and 7. As the Numberjacks leave the sofa and embark on their first live adventure, audiences
THEY gave us rock and roll, rubbish telly, fast food, and shopping malls. And now, it seems, in response to decades of largesse from the US, we’re given the Americans something back. Roundabouts. Soon there will be roundabouts in every state of the
YORK City Knights followed their best performance of the season with arguably their worst and in doing so put themselves right back in relegation peril. They had been warned the wins over Dewsbury and high-riding Batley would count for little
LEADERS York Cricket Club cruised to a ten-wicket victory over Driffield Town in the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. Spinner Dan Woods took five wickets as the Clifton Park visitors succumbed to defeat in only 55 overs after being
Rich Pyrah became the first man to take five wickets for Yorkshire in t20 cricket as the hosts scrambled to a three-wicket win over Durham at Scarborough yesterday. The 28-year-old all-rounder finished with excellent figures of 5-16 from his four
A BLEMISH-FREE closing round of 67 at the Scottish Open proved Simon Dyson’s game is in fine shape ahead of this week’s Open Championship. The 33-year-old York golfer fired a five-under par finale to complete the three-round, storm-lashed Inverness tournament
THE top two moved further clear of the pack with comfortable victories in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League premier division. Leaders Woodhouse Grange notched their seventh win of the season, beating champions Dunnington by six wickets
MALTON & Old Malton remain on course for promotion from division two of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League, despite drawing with Ripon. The Ryedale side took 26 points from the match after reducing their hosts to 136-7 in reply to their
A KNOCK of 94 from Richard Tuite was not enough to stave off defeat for Rowntrees against Whitkirk in division five. Tuite helped basement side Rowntrees to 233-6, but Simon Wood’s unbeaten 112 saw Whitkirk to a five-wicket win. Stamford Bridge II
YORK City Rowing Club star Tom Ransley and his Great Britain eight crew-mates signed off this season’s World Cup series with a bronze medal in Lucerne. After narrowly missing out in their heat, the eight were handed a difficult lane draw for yesterday
A SUPERB century from Mark Shepherd helped Pickering to gain the better of a draw with division one leaders Selby in the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League. Shepherd hit 110 and Simon King struck an unbeaten 85 in an opening stand of 186
PROLIFIC Duncombe Park batsman Brian Leckenby smashed his fifth century of the season in a division three draw with Hovingham. Leckenby’s 109 led Park to 243-6, with Paul Deverell taking 3-61 for Hovingham, and hosts Hov managed to cling on
Norton trainer John Quinn, who hit the heights at Newmarket on Saturday, can continue his winning run in much lowlier class at Beverley tomorrow. Quinn won the Group 2 Superlative Stakes at the weekend with Red Duke, whose high-class victory under
KEVIN RYAN is making York’s big sprint races his own private property this season. The Hambleton trainer won his third of the campaign when Masamah (9-2) defeated a talented field to take the Listed John Smith’s City Walls Stakes. The five-year-old
Updated: A MAN and a woman were last night in custody after a double stabbing in York. The pair both suffered stab wounds in what police called a “domestic-related incident” near to the Premier Shop in Gale Lane, Acomb, on Saturday night.
UP to 20 jobs are being created through the return of railway industry to a depot on the York Central site. Wagons and locomotives will undergo maintenance work at a former Jarvis shed on land behind York Station and off Leeman Road.
SPECTATORS and supporters lined the banks of the River Ouse for York’s annual Dragon Boat Challenge. The races, organised by the York Rotary, involved 36 teams from businesses and organisations in the city. The teams were dressed as jungle animals
A SCHOOLGIRL from York who was adopted from an orphanage in China as a baby is now one of the leading junior squash players in the UK. Poppie Jaram, of Acomb, has been playing squash for only three years, but, under the guidance of Dunnington-based
An ambitious installation of mosaics by Gloucestershire-based artist Cleo Mussi will go on display at Beverley Art Gallery from Saturday, July 23. Pharma’s Market was inspired by the traditional agricultural show, with its prizes for livestock, fruit
PROPOSALS to revamp the site of a former Little Chef restaurant in North Yorkshire have been withdrawn. Church House Pension Trustees Ltd had submitted plans to Selby District Council to change the use of the outlet next to Bramham crossroads on
BROCKFIELD Park Drive, Huntington, will be closed between its junctions with Kestrel Wood Way and Heather Croft, between 8am and 4pm from July 18 to 29, while footway repairs are made. Traffic will be diverted via Kestrel Wood Way, Doriam Drive,
THE new head teacher at a York secondary school is calling on the public to help shape its future. Trevor Burton – who joined Millthorpe School in May from Harrogate Grammar School – is keen to find out from local parents and residents the features
YORK health-care business Avacta is moving its York laboratories to Thorp Arch in Wetherby next month as the business consolidates on one site. Alastair Smith, chief executive of the company, which is listed on the AIM investment market, said the move
Struggling care home provider Southern Cross has confirmed it is to close. The embattled company which is Britain's largest care home provider and has seven homes in North Yorkshire including York has said it is working on the "orderly closure
PLANS to create nine flats at a former charity shop in the centre of York have been revealed. Part of the Piccadilly site formerly occupied by the British Heart Foundation’s furniture and electrical store is to be turned into a Tesco outlet
COUNCIL chiefs have increased the cost of car-parking in a North Yorkshire town by 20 per cent. The rise, which covers long and short-stay pay-and-display facilities, will be the first in three years and could lead to Selby District Council
A RESIDENTIAL letting agent in York is playing a key role in a national drive to prevent tenants being scammed. Linley & Simpson has become an inaugural member of a ground-breaking client money protection scheme – after playing a national role in its
FOR a never-say-die attitude, always say Di. For Di Burton is one of only two Yorkshire people listed in PR Week’s Power List of the most influential people in public relations. Strictly speaking she is South African, but has earned the Yorkshirewoman
YORK’S entrepreneurs and enterprising employees are to inspire the city’s children to get involved with York Business Week on November 14 to 18. Enterprise ambassadors, including Simon Long and Phil Benson, co-founders of “good food” company Xing,
LEGAL firm Denison Till, of York, has launched a new interactive website. Denisontill.com has been redesigned with users in mind, with new features added to help users get some initial thoughts and guidance on a range of common issues and
A MAN was charged after eight people were involved in a drink-fuelled disturbance in Finkle Street, Selby, on Saturday. Fighting broke out and glasses were thrown at the Elizabethan Inn, but no-one was hurt. The 43-year-old man, from
BEING a good parent is tough work and good parents need support and recognition, a director of a well-loved local family business has said. That’s why York family business Barnitts is sponsoring the Parent Of The Year Award at The Press’s Community
THERE was fun for all ages as Haxby held its largest-ever carnival on Saturday. The annual event, held at the Ethel Ward Memorial Playing Fields, attracted more stalls and activities than ever before, said organiser Margaret Moran, of Haxby Town Council
Performances of William Byrd’s Great Service are not as frequent as you might expect. Especially not in the shape it took at the splendid opening concert of this year's festival, given by the Gabrieli Consort under Paul McCreesh. The “Great”
THE cousin of a York Royal Marine who died in Afghanistan walked 42 miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity. Gavin Butler, 33, carried out the challenge to mark the first anniversary of the death of David Hart, 23, of Poppleton, who
ANYONE with an interest in health issues affecting East Yorkshire is invited to the AGM of the region’s NHS Trust. NHS East Riding of Yorkshire is holding the meeting at 6pm on Thursday at the Darby and Joan Club, in Finkle Street, Cottingham. As
DISNEY was the theme of Thorpe Willoughby annual carnival. The event started off with a parade through the village, led by the carnival queen Hannah Hawkins, to the village green, where there were various activities, including a bouncy castle, tombola
ELVINGTON-BASED pub company Pivovar has been granted a licence for its planned new bar at York Station. The York Tap, which will showcase Yorkshire real ale and international bottled beers, will be in the former Tea Rooms at the north end of the station
A SCHOOLBOY was joined by his grandfather who is suffering from cancer in a fundraising walk around York’s Bar Walls. Danny Aitken, 12, of Beckfield Lane in Acomb, walked the length of the city walls five times to raise money for The Prostate
