Archive

A MOTORCYCLIST has suffered serious injuries in a crash near York. The collision between a blue and white Suzuki bike and a white panel van, which were both heading towards Boroughbridge, happened on the B6265 near Green Hammerton at about 9am today

PART of York's outer ring road has been closed due to a fire in a lorry. The fire began in a silver Mercedes lorry at about 2.30pm, near the junction of the A64 and A1237 near Copmanthorpe. The driver of the lorry, believed to be from

The York Marriott Hotel provides the perfect Christmas setting at York’s finest backdrop, overlooking the Knavesmire Parkland and York Racecourse. Whether you want to host a Christmas Lunch, join a fun filled party night or celebrate at the fabulous

Burn Hall is delighted to present Christmas and New Year 2011. Whether you wish to enjoy Santa's carvery lunch with your family, a party night with your work colleagues, a traditional Christmas lunch with loved ones or celebrate the New Year with

EVERY so often a car comes along that changes your whole perception of a brand. The Fiat 500 did it with its retro styling, and so, too, did Citroen’s DS3, which gushed flair and imaginative styling. Now Citroen is asking the question again: Why

YORK City top scorer Jason Walker is losing his battle to be fit for tomorrow’s FA Cup clash at Wrexham and he might not be the only change manager Gary Mills makes to his starting line-up. Mills is ready to rotate his squad for the fourth qualifying

Yorkshire has some of the most stunning scenery in Britain if not the world. And Yorkshire Landscapes book produced by Newsquest in Bradford, proves that with the help of those who know best the people who live here. They launched a

ANY notion of Coldplay being a rock band can be safely laid to rest with their fifth album. Chris Martin’s outfit have always been more in thrall to pop than the grubbier stuff, right down to the falsetto ‘woh-oh-ohs’ which litter their songs, and

YOU would have thought that Jason Joel Desrouleaux was an exotic enough name, without requiring a change by deed pole. Regardless, Mr Derulo is undoubtedly the most exciting R&B male act of recent years. Although JD’s debut album including the Grammy

IF you’ve heard a major youth-oriented national or local commercial radio station recently, chances are you’ve heard at least one offering from Cobra Starship’s latest album. It’s the kind of bland, identikit dance-tinged pop that was created for

IT IS likely that every single person who voted for Matt Cardle to win last year’s X-Factor finale will enjoy Letters. Actually this is not a given, lest we forget efforts from the likes of Geordie Joe McElderry or Leon Jackson. Anyway, Matt

BEST known for their ground-breaking Trinity Session album, the Junkies have held cult status for a quarter of a century. To celebrate the milestone anniversary the band is releasing a rapid-fire four-album project called the Nomad Series. This

Reintroducing... the “world’s most offensive comedian and close-up magician” Jerry Sadowitz, who plays the Grand Opera House, York, for the first time since 2001 on Tuesday. The last time Glaswegian comic Jerry Sadowitz blitzed the Grand Opera

HYENA Lounge Comedy Club promoter Toby Clouston Jones has signed up his ever-loyal Welsh buddy Rhod Gilbert for a pair of low-key gigs in The Basement at City Screen, York, on Sunday and Monday at 7.30pm. “We’re delighted to bring you Rhod Gilbert

STEVE Earle has gone back to his old habits. No, not the booze and the drugs and the days in jail, but after many years of solo acoustic tours, alt country’s premium rabble-rouser is reactivating his electric live band, The Dukes. Or more precisely

York pays tribute to one of its sons – and one of the musical greats – on Sunday. STEPHEN LEWIS reports. WHAT better title could there be for a tribute song to the late, great John Barry than The Music Man? For decades, the Oscar-winning composer

JUST as you thought there couldn’t be room for another comedy club, a new one opens tonight at Burn Hall Hotel, in Huby, with a notable debut bill. Headliner is show business legend and Edinburgh Fringe award-winning Sol Bernstein, the comic creation

Glasvegas have fond memories of their York gigs, even their debut. “The first time we played, there were two people, in a really small, old pub, and the promoter offered us £30 for the petrol. That was when no one knew us,” says Rab Allan, the Glasgow

Environmental Glass is the name of the first solo display by York artist Suzanne Dekker at Dutch House in Crayke. Her exhibition of work made during the past two years focuses on recycling and reusing glass, a material that never breaks down in the ground

JOHN McNeil’s exhibition at Pocklington Arts Centre is in two parts. On the lower level of the gallery is a retrospective collection of drawings, sketches, watercolours and oil paintings. On the upper level is more recent work, including his exploration

Flying Ducks Youth Theatre will present the “hottest musical” of 2012 in York: Summer Holiday. The York company’s exuberant show will run from March 29 to 31 with a cast of 40 talented performers, aged between 12 and 17. More immediately, Flying Ducks

KENTMERE House Gallery in York will be open for an additional weekend tomorrow and on Sunday, from 11am to 5pm each day. This is the result of a collaboration with local publication The Fulford Flyer, which is organising an Over The Bridge

YOUR first gig of the week is tonight, worth the travel when Wakefield Jazz presents American drummer Robert Castelli with his Boom Quartet (01977 680542), featuring Mornington Lockett (saxophone) and Nicholas Meier (guitar). Diversity is the theme tomorrow

Middle age hasn’t withered Billy Bragg, as MATT CLARK discovers. POLITICS and music have always been essential bedfellows for Billy Bragg. In the 1980s he was a member of Red Wedge, a left-wing collective of musicians that included Paul Weller

artist Emma Bateman has started up an exhibition space for fellow artists in Bridgegate, Howden. Cloud 9 Gallery has been opened in conjunction with Blue Sky Gifts and Interiors, an existing business run by Sarah Colclough. “I’ve owned Blue Sky for

ROBERT Sharpe, director of music at York Minster, will lead York Musical Society’s Come and Sing choral workshop of Haydn’s Nelson Mass on Saturday, November 12 from 10am to 3.30pm. Guest soloists will be participating in the day’s singing at Central

Noah And The Whale will make their York Barbican debut next spring. Their March 24 concert will be their first in York since 2008 and comes on the back of the success of their third album, Last Night On Earth. At present on tour in Britain, Charlie

COMEDY was as much to the fore as music in the baggy heyday of Madness. When the band’s frontman and all round diamond-geezer, Suggs, delivered his lines with glint of mischief and a hint of vaudeville, you always knew he could teach many a stand-up

MILTON Jones, often fondly referred to, mainly by himself, as “the weird bloke with the shirts from Mock the Week”, is once again bringing his surreal one-liners to York. On Sunday he returns to the Grand Opera House, York with his Lion Whisperer

YORK singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich has added a second night at the National Centre for Early Music after tomorrow’s concert sold out. “I kind of wanted to finish the tour off in York and the record company suggested it too,” says

FOLLOWING your item “Council concerned over Whitehall cuts” (The Press, October 24), the hype about cuts to North Yorkshire Police, especially from Labour councillors, is getting out of hand. In 2000, the number of police officers stood at 1,284,

NO ONE seems sure what the future price of oil will be, but many commentators are worried. Easy-to-reach oil has gone. It is not cheap to drill down as much as ten kilometres or drill in seas one kilometre deep, but that’s what’s necessary to feed

I FEEL I should write to complain about the gratuitous display on Page 3 (The Press, October 24). What direction is this paper heading in? I know times are hard and money must be made wherever it can be, but Page 3 boobs? And two girls? Please

SADNESS and pleasure on the same day. I only met Peter Rhodes a few times, when, as a young rookie rugby league referee in the 1970s, our paths would cross on a Sunday morning on Knavesmire. On the long lonely walk back to the changing rooms, after

SO DAVE’S possible new idea is to let companies sack workers with no rights if they don’t work well enough. Does this mean we can finally get rid of him? Where does this man get his ideas from? He must sit alone somewhere thinking: “What can I

MANY readers may be living in the private rented sector. Most of those properties will be of good quality and have landlords who respect their tenants’ living conditions and rights; unfortunately, a small percentage do not. If you are living in

TWO people confront each other across a strewn space. It is a staff room and litter is everywhere, overflowing from bins, scattered across tables and fallen on to the floor. The man is older, heading towards 60 perhaps; the woman much younger. The

ANYONE reading the city’s 20-year transport plan must agree with at least two words in its title: “movement” and “accessibility”. So if York already has congestion and air quality problems caused by traffic, why have the Leeds consultants who have devised

I HAVE just arrived back from a holiday in Benidorm; not everybody’s cup of tea, but it was lovely with plenty of sun, etc. Catching up on the letters page in The Press, I noticed two letters written by David Quarrie. On October 22, he again commented

LAST Monday the country was refused by our so-called Government the right to hold a referendum on withdrawal from the EU. The majority of the people backed this referendum, but were once again turned down. There could be various reasons for this

FOLLOWING my return from holiday, I scanned The Press, attempting to catch up. To my amazement, I noted a letter from a reader who supports Liam Fox (Letters, October 18). I started my Civil Service career in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and later

I SUGGEST there is at least one person in Yorkshire who knows more than Mr Holmes about the fate of retired greyhounds – the woman who runs Tia Greyhound Rescue, near Hebden Bridge (Letters, October 26) I suggest he visits the Tia website and addresses

AS WINTER beckons, with weather forecasters predicting another harsh one, it may be a good time to stock up on salt. Last year, when the big freeze hit England, there was limited salt, causing the price in local stores to rise. Temperatures plummeted

SO CHRISTIAN Vassie thinks they looked at all the data again (Letters, October 25). US warplanes that made an emergency landing in Greenland at the beginning of the war could not take off again and were abandoned. In recent years, one was recovered

IT hasn’t been a great couple of weeks for David Cameron, what with one of his mates having to resign and people not doing what they’re told over this pesky Europe business. Rumour has it the bloke still hasn’t turned up to fix the Downing Street central

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 66 years ago was the only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to a York RAF veteran who visited Hiroshima a year after the bomb fell. THE first view Ernest

BLUE Square Bet Premier table-toppers Wrexham will be without influential skipper Dean Keates for their FA Cup fourth qualifying round home tie against York City tomorrow. Keates is also likely to be joined on the sidelines by fellow midfielders Lee

DEFENDER Angie Pattinson’s late goal earned York City Ladies a 3-3 draw at Peterlee. But it was a case of two points dropped rather than one gained with City, who had won their last three games to move a point behind table-topping Barnsley, playing

Acomb Celtic ran riot against hosts at Skelton to soar to third spot in division one of the Ian’s Cars of Barlby Sunday Morning Football League. The Celtic crackshots triumphed 8-1 with the plunder led by Adam Osguthorpe with a hat-trick. Also on the

THE power of ten will be sharp in the focus of Tadcaster Albion as they seek more net-rippling force. One week on from the single-goal triumph over Lincoln Moorlands Railway that extended their undefeated run to nine games, Albion entertain

EXPLOSIVE finishing from Al Graham was not enough to save Woolpack from defeat in the LNS York Sunday Mixed Darts League. Graham fired a treble 20, bull checkout for a 23-dart leg against Five Lions but Kev Thomson (100, 121 for 26 darts) led Lions

Cunning Clarets, winner of the controversial void race at Wetherby earlier this month, returns to the same course this afternoon seeking deserved compensation. The Richard Fahey-trained gelding got the better of a thrilling duel with Kings Counsel

INJURY-HIT Malton & Norton RUFC will need to rediscover improved form if they are to take the spoils when Percy Park visit The Gannock tomorrow. Inconsistent Malton followed their fantastic win over high-flying Old Brodleians a fortnight ago with a

AGGRIEVED at getting nought from their midweek excursion to the Midlands, Leeds United boss Simon Grayson is looking to blot out a second successive spot of Blues bother. Leeds’ seven-game undefeated run crashed at the home of Birmingham City’s the Blues

YORK-BORN Ross Divorty is praying he gets the nod to play against the country of his birth tomorrow in what would be the “biggest game of his life” so far. Divorty, the former New Earswick ARLC junior, is part of the 24-man Wales party for

NEW Earswick & District Indoor Bowls Club are hosting a Bring A Friend free taster session as part of a national campaign to introduce more people to the sport. The session will be held tomorrow from 10am to noon, and woods and shoes will be provided

HOME discomfort beckons for Harrogate Town tomorrow if they do not rid themselves of defensive frailty. Simon Weaver’s men forged into an early lead in their midweek Blue Square Bet North outing to Workington Town through a Peter Bore goal, but the

ANGLERS will converge on York on Sunday for the York and District Amalgamation of Anglers Championship of the Yorkshire Ouse. The contest will be held on all waters above York, except Widdrington, with the draw scheduled for St Clement’s Working Men

A CONTROVERSIAL euthanasia campaigner is coming to York to host a seminar discussing ways that people can commit suicide. Australian campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke, who dropped a plan in 2008 to come to the UK, is now set to carry out a UK tour talking

HALF-TERM and the fascinating Illuminating York festival have ensured York has been packed with tourists this week. This year’s show, called Envisions, which aims to tell the story of some of York’s most colourful characters such as Guy Fawkes and Dick

THE blood-stained jacket of a man accused of murdering a father-of-five was washed by his fellow defendant, a court has heard. York man Brian Cox, 29, has denied murdering Mark Webb, 40, in the Acomb area in March, and is currently on trial at Leeds

DRIVERS who parked their cars in a York street returned to discover double yellow lines had been painted around them – and they had been fined. The no-parking measures were introduced on the city-centre commuter hotspot Eboracum Way by City

THIS lucky black cat which was trapped in a hedge for two weeks is looking for a new home. Mags, who is 18 months old, was discovered in a field near Easingwold with her front leg stuck in her elasticated collar, unable to move. She was severely

POLICE are appealing for a witness to come forward following a North Yorkshire crash. On 4.20pm on Thursday, October 6, on the B1249, near Staxton, a green Suzuki Vitara was overtaken by a dark coloured minivan. The female Vitara driver swerved

A HIGHER percentage of domestic abuse offenders are being brought to justice in North Yorkshire than anywhere else in the UK, new figures have revealed. The MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements) report for the region has shown more than

SOLDIERS and Spiderman were among the characters at a school near York when children were challenged to dress as their heroes. The fundraising day at Kirk Hammerton CE Primary School was in aid of Help for Heroes, and inspired the pupils to think

PLANS for 87 new homes near Selby have been submitted to Selby District Council by housebuilder Persimmon Homes. If successful, the homes would be built at the Staynor Hall housing scheme, where developers aim to build up to 1,200 new properties. Thompson

UP TO 45 new jobs could be created at the site of a former colliery near Selby after plans for a tyre recycling centre were given the go-ahead. The proposals to convert the Gascoigne Wood Mine, in Lennerton Lane, Sherburn-in-Elmet, were submitted to

POLICE have released an image of a man wanted in connection with an assault in which a Selby man had his eye socket and jaw broken. The incident took place on Saturday, September 15, outside the taxi rank in James Street at about 1.25am, when a 24-

YORK City Knights officials are rallying round to help the family of player Jordan Rice after his father was taken ill and died while on holiday abroad. Frank Rice, from Castleford, developed pneumonia in the Dominican Republic and was put into an induced

A BIZARRE bid for a Hallowe’en world record is being made at a York adventure park – after nearly being scuppered by red tape. The owners of The Farmer’s Cart, at Towthorpe, have set up a giant catapult, known as a trebuchet, and crowds have been gathering

WELCOME To Yorkshire’s nomination for a prestigious tourism award has been supported by City of York Council. Coun Sonja Crisp, the council’s cabinet member for leisure, culture and social inclusion, said she was delighted to be offering her full support

ANIMALCARE Group has achieved its aim of launching four new products per year in just its first quarter, it will tell shareholders at its annual general meeting today. The supplier of veterinary medicines, said trading in the first quarter has been satisfactory

THE boss of a steel fencing firm has spoken out against current laws which he says make it too easy for thieves to sell scrap metal. Joe Cook, managing director of Derwent Valley Forge in Crambe, said they had been burgled eight times in the

WORK to improve a junction on the A64 near Malton – which should reduce congestion in the market town – will start in January. The upgrade of the Brambling Fields junction will allow through traffic to bypass the congested town centre, said a Ryedale

YORK is to host a huge railway celebration featuring some of Britain’s most famous train locomotives next summer. Railfest 2012 will be run by the National Railway Museum from June 2 to 10 and will cover a space the size of 11 football pitches. Museum

A TATTOO shop in York is to fundraise in a special way for Breast Cancer Awareness Month – by offering pink ribbon tattoos. The tattoos, which will cost £25, with all money going to charity, will be the highlight of Killer INKstinct’s charity

A YORK MP has welcomed Government plans to take a tougher line on tackling knife crime. Julian Sturdy, who represents York Outer, was one of several MPs who backed an amendment to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, which has

THE parents of a four-year-old girl from York who underwent life-saving heart surgery have raised hundreds of pounds for the British Heart Foundation after completing a 100-mile running challenge. Vicky and Chris Hearson, of Southbank, began the challenge

MULTI-PLATINUM selling mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins is set to perform in York next year. The Welsh classical singer is just one of several new acts which have been booked to appear at York Barbican – from the Moscow City Ballet to Peppa Pig. She

A FAMILY electrical business which has faced down competition from large corporates celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend. Herbert Todd & Son started in 1936 when Herbert Todd started to run an electrical contracting business from his home in

CABLE cleat manufacturer Ellis Patents has invested £30,000 in overhauling its brand, including shortening its name to Ellis. The company, based at Rillington near Malton, started the process when it was invited to participate in the Labour Government

A £50,000 appeal is being launched by a York-based charity to help mountain tribespeople in Thailand who were hit by the worst flooding in half a century. Penelope Worsley, of Heslington, founder of the Karen Hilltribes Trust, says the Karen people

A COUPLE deceived by a bogus surrogate mother have told how heartache turned to joy when they had their own child a year after being conned out of their savings. They describe the baby as “our beautiful ray of sunshine – a silver lining” after the trauma

A NORTH Yorkshire restaurant has been named the best place to eat in the whole of the county – and has also earned a place at the UK’s top table. The Yorke Arms in Ramsgill, near Pateley Bridge, was awarded an average score of 9.57 out of ten by diners

PUPILS have been enjoying half-term events at Riverside Community Primary School, in Tadcaster. Excited youngsters gathered at the school, in Wetherby Road, on Monday to try their hand at martial arts, or for the more historically inclined, to re-enact

THIEVES stole about 30 metres of lead strips from the roof of the Selby Indoor Bowling Club. A wheelbarrow was also stolen from the club and police said the incidents may be linked. Police have urged residents to remain vigilant with home security

A JOURNALIST from Stamford Bridge who reported on farming in the North East for several decades has died aged 83. Alan Barker, who formerly lived in Osbaldwick, covered the Great Yorkshire Show for half a century, the last 43 in his job as a reporter

ART lover Emma-Jane Whelan is opening an independent art gallery in Pocklington to showcase Yorkshire artists. Fine art graduate Emma-Jane, from Nunburnholme, near Pocklington, will launch ART&ROSE Gallery, in the town’s Market Street, with an opening

ONE of York's biggest employers is increasing its salaries in a move to attract people looking for longer term careers in customer sales and service. CPP Group the card protection and insurance business, which employs about 1,000 people in