RESOLUTIONS to sell a majority share of bus manufacturer Optare to Indian investors, were agreed at the company’s general meeting today. Ashok Leyland and associated companies, a $2.5 billion-turnover Indian commercial vehicle company, which already
YORK City striker Liam Henderson has rejoined Forest Green Rovers on loan until the end of the season. Henderson has started the Minstermen's last two league games after returning from a one-month loan spell with the Gloucestershire club.
YORK City have signed Fleetwood Town midfielder Scott Brown until the end of the season. Brown, 26, will go straight into the squad for tomorrow's Blue Square Bet Premier clash at Lincoln City. * Don't miss The Press on Saturday for full story and
OUTDOOR retailer Blacks Leisure Group has said it is about to appoint administrators. The business said it had been in talks with a number of parties about selling the trade, assets and brands of the group, but said it had been decided that it should
YORK City Knights general manager Ian Wilson has defended the club’s price increase for 2012 ahead of Sunday’s opening friendly – saying admission to Huntington Stadium remains among the cheapest throughout the Co-operative Championship. He also believes
YORK City manager Gary Mills is hoping to unveil a couple of new signings ahead of tomorrow’s Blue Square Bet Premier trip to Lincoln City. There could also be a departure from Bootham Crescent but it will not be injured 15-goal top scorer
Council chiefs in York spent more than £400,000 on consultants over a controversial waste incinerator last year. The money was used to pay legal, technical and financial experts for preparing the ground for the £900 million incinerator
The A64 has re-opened following an earlier accident in which a car crashed through the central reservation. Emergency services were called to the A64 and the eastbound was closed while the fire service worked to help free the male driver from
A GANG of cannabis farmers have been ordered to hand over more than £6,000 of their criminal profits. Jonathan Crampton, from Strensall, Steven Lester Bradshaw, from Huntington, Christopher Nicholson, and Daniel Richard Arthur, both from
LIKE Sinatra, this is pretty classy, with wonderfully-detailed track-by-track sleevenotes by Frank Sinatra Jr and great studio photos, and pretty much anything you’ve heard him sing is here – Come Fly With Me, My Way, In Other Words. There are
WAKEFIELD Jazz begins the new year with a big name sitting at the club’s grand piano in the shape of Julian Joseph (01977 680542). Having moved into the world of opera composition, Julian still keeps a foot in the jazz club world with his trio, featuring
VIOLIN virtuoso Nigel Kennedy will play the Grand Opera House, York, on January 14 on his extensive British tour. The dual focus of his 7.30pm performance will be a return to his thrilling take on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the world premiere of
Just A Quickie with… David Juritz, who will conduct the Johann Strauss Orchestra from the violin at York Barbican next Friday THE stage is set for the magic of the Viennese Ball when the Johann Strauss Gala waltzes into York Barbican.
AFTER years of knock-backs and being second best on The X Factor, the time for Rebecca Ferguson to shine has arrived. Almost a year since she was pipped at the post by Matt Cardle in the ITV1 talent show, the Liverpool soul singer and songwriter
A FEMALE plumber from North Yorkshire has spent Christmas in India, leading a group of Girl Guides on a life- changing charity trip. Liz Laughton, 22, who works for Willmott Dixon Partnerships, which works with Yorkshire Coast Homes on a £3.2 million
CIVIL engineering and construction business S&B Utilities has been awarded a health and safety standard accreditation. The business, based in Scotton, near Knaresborough, has created 24 new jobs in the last 12 months after the company secured two major
FORMER York City striker Richard Pacquette is expected to be handed his Lincoln debut against his old team at Sincil Bank tomorrow. Pacquette, 28, made Lincoln the 18th club of his career this week after ending a second spell with Maidenhead United
WILL it be third time lucky for Tadcaster Albion as they bid to top the Northern Counties East League premier division table? The Brewers host leaders Retford in a first versus second showdown at Ings Lane without the services of leading goalscorer Carl
CHRIS THORMAN heads into his first match as a player-coach adamant that friendly results will be “no pointer at all” to how the Championship season will pan out. York City Knights, with 31-year-old half-back Thorman now at the helm, begin their quartet
On-loan midfielder Paul Bolland could make his debut as Harrogate Town entertain Histon at Wetherby Road in Blue Square Bet North. The 32-year-old has joined Town from Mansfield on a month’s loan and may feature as Harrogate, whose game at Guiseley
NEW kid on the Leeds United block, Andros Townsend, cannot wait for Monday night’s FA Cup showdown against Arsenal. The third round tie, televised live from the Emirates, returns the 19-year-old winger to his North London stamping ground as he prepares
Selby Warriors are expanding their junior section by putting an under-12s team into this summer season’s Yorkshire League – with ex-Wakefield Trinity Wildcats scholarship coach George Cookson leading the team. Their first training session will be on
HERE we go again. The news has been full of the Iowa State caucus beginning to select candidates for the American presidential elections in November. Why should we have to have this stuffed down our throats for the next nine months as the circus
I AM amazed that the NHS is contemplating paying for the correction of faulty breast implants that some unfortunate women have been given. Let’s face the facts – these women opted to have this procedure of their own free will to satisfy their own
THE article on January 2 about yoga benefiting people with back pain was correct, but unfortunately the photo wasn’t suitable. Indeed, it was misleading and unrepresentative. Sitting on the floor with both feet on the thighs in full lotus position
AS A student living in York for the past year-and-a-half, I have noticed the lack of affordable accommodation for those who are struggling to get a job or have been on benefits during their time of education or while seeking employment. Looking through
North Yorkshire trainer David Barron sends just one runner on the long haul to Lingfield in Surrey tomorrow, and if that’s not significant, his booking of former champion jockey Jamie Spencer for Colonel Mak should ring some alarm bells. The shrewd Barron
AS we leave the Christmas and New Year spending frenzy behind, one set of TV ads sticks in my mind: the ones that advertise beauty products with the slogan “Because you’re worth it.” How exactly do you measure someone’s worth? A common way of valuing
HUNDREDS of York households at risk of flooding could be left without insurance when a deal between insurers and the Government expires. The national deal – agreed in 2000 to ensure high-risk homes could get flood insurance – finishes in April
SELBY Golf Club’s new captain is John Hurrion. The 69-year-old, who plays off a handicap of 14, was “piped” to the tee by Cameron Edgar and, after downing the traditional glass of whisky, performed the drive-in at the Brayton Barff-based club. Hurrion
Should it be legal to help a terminally-ill person end their own life? STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to those with strong feelings for and against, and asks a GP for a medical angle on the issue yes - The right-to-die campaigner At the age of 90, Joyce
MALTON & NORTON RUFC expect to be a very different proposition when North One East leaders Billingham arrive in Ryedale tomorrow. Woefully understrength and stripped to the bone by injury and unavailability, Malton were crushed 53-12 at the Teesside
A TOTAL of 414 runners competed in the Thirsk & Sowerby Harriers Jolly Holly Jog 10k in and around Studley Park. Julian Norton led the way for the club, finishing a fine eighth in 38 minutes and 36 seconds. Brett Edgeworth was next, 83rd in 45:44
THE Hands In The Earth exhibition in the City Screen’s café bar in York has another ten days to run. On show is work by seven photographers who are taking part in an arts project run by YUMI, the York Unifying and Multicultural Initiative, and their
COFFEE and culture come together in York in the refreshing liaison between Starbucks and the equally perky gallery According To McGee. “Our Red Dot Exhibitions have taken on a life of their own, so when Starbucks approached us and asked us to source
THE York & District Table Tennis Association will stage the York Closed Championships later this month. The Railway Institute gym in Queen Street, York, will host the competition on Saturday, January 28 and Sunday, January 29. Entry forms are printed
The Yorkshire v Hertfordshire Atherley Trophy bowls quarter-final will be played at the Charnwood Indoor Bowls Club in Loughborough this Sunday and not at Church Gresley as initially reported.
Fabric, threads and paintings will be on show in a York gallery in a celebration and appreciation of colour. Work by Sandra Middleton, Carol Coleman and Nadine Saupe can be seen at Grays Court from tomorrow until February 3. Sandra Middleton left a career
DOES anybody love anybody anyway? So asked Welsh poet-philosopher Howard Jones in 1983. Finally someone dares to answer. Having sorted out religion (Christ On A Bike), politics (Hitler Moustache) and penises (Talking Cock), the star of the
THIS year the spotlight will be on York playwright Mike Kenny like never before when his new adaptation of the York Mystery Plays is staged in the York Museum Gardens in August. Who knows what to expect from the first outdoor production of the Plays
ROBERT Harling’s heart-warming and bittersweet comedy Steel Magnolias is coming to Grand Opera House, York. This moving play celebrates the strength and value of humour and love in the midst of hardship. The play charts six friends who are
Our CD reviewers round up music highs and lows ... Charles Hutchinson’s choices Chameleons of the year: Bombay Bicycle Club, A Different Kind Of Fix (Island Records/Mmm Records) Jack Steadman’s quartet switch the guitar electricity back on,
THOUSANDS of people have already signed up to take part in Jane Tomlinson’s York 10K run this summer. About 2,000 of the 6,000 places for the popular race, which raises tens of thousands for charity, have already been snapped up. It is the fourth
A HOUSEHOLDER has slammed Hambleton District Council after “misleading” winter bin collection leaflets led to rubbish being strewn around villages in the strong winds. Crayke resident Andrew Tobin said villages north of York were given the wrong information
AN East Yorkshire steel company has made more than 50 staff redundant after appointing administrators. Pocklington Steel Structures, based in Lancaster Road, in Carnaby, near Bridlington, appointed administrators before Christmas. Administrators
DEVELOPERS behind proposals to build an out-of-town shopping complex and community stadium in York say its city-centre economy could be boosted by £240 million in the space of four years if the scheme and two other shopping projects come to fruition
TANG Hall Lane, in York, is to be closed to traffic for essential road maintenance. The work is due to begin on Wednesday and is expected to take two weeks. The road will be closed on weekdays, between 9.15am and 4pm. Pedestrian
TWO brothers have become the first in the area to join the British Army in York in 2012. George and Joe Trotter, both of Selby and who went to Selby High School, swore their oaths of allegiance at the York Army Careers Information Office yesterday
A RETIRED midwife from Kirkbymoorside has been rewarded for her community work. June Cook, of Castlegate, has helped run clubs for the elderly, a Sunday school, helped children with their reading, and set up a local Marie Curie fundraising groups
HARRY HAYNES is the sort of name that could leap straight out of the pages of any action comic – like Clark Kent or Peter Parker. And as with that fictional pair, don’t be fooled to look at him. Like all jump jockeys, Haynes is a fully-fledged super
Updated: HEAVY winds and rain continued to cause problems in York and North and East Yorkshire, leading to fallen trees and overturned lorries on main roads. Two lanes of the southbound carriageway of the A1(M) were closed between junction
PHOTOGRAPHS which give a charming glimpse of Royal life behind the scenes are to go on show at a Yorkshire stately home. Harewood House, near Harrogate, is to stage two exhibitions celebrating the life of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family
YORK’S Barbican Centre ate up almost £138,000 of public money during its last year of standing empty. The Paragon Street venue finally reopened in May, when a deal was sealed between City of York Council and new operators SMG, after more than
A team of health professionals in Scarborough is appealing to people who want to improve their lifestyle in the New Year. Launched in November 2009, the Health Trainers Service is part of a project to help support, motivate and guide people in the resort
FRESH evidence has emerged about drunken disorder at a York nightclub ahead of a crucial licensing hearing next week. A report to councillors has revealed that clubbers on the Gallery’s smoking terrace regularly threw bottles into a taxi firm’s car park
100 years ago By the kind invitation of Mr Percy Hutchinson, the boys and girls of the Industrial Schools and the St Stephen’s Orphanage, York, numbering 300, with their teachers, had attended the last Matinee performance of Mr JP Elliston’s successful
GOVERNMENT funding of nearly £4 million has been granted to create new authorised pitches and better facilities for travellers in Ryedale and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The Department for Communities and Local Government has announced that £626,500
THE father of an inspirational young man who refused to allow his life-limiting health condition to stop him from travelling all over the world has paid tribute to his son. John Bellerby, 33, of Sandringham Close in Haxby, was known for his love of travelling
WHEN a jobless York woman bought a computer second-hand she got more than she bargained for, York magistrates heard. Janine Jade Harrison, 28, did not realise that inside the bag she was handed in the street was not only a laptop, but also a fob watch
A YOUNG man from a North Yorkshire village has been recognised for his extensive work with St John Ambulance. Chris Whitwood, from Riccall, near Selby, attended a reception at Buckingham Palace and led more than 100 Young Achievers to meet Princess Anne
A YORK scientist has won a national award for her undergraduate research into the use of yeast to help cancer research. Kate Clark carried out the work while completing the final year of her neuroscience degree at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan
A RARE white hart takes a break from grazing outside The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Ebberston, near Pickering, to pose for a photograph. Owned by the de Wend-Fenton family of the neighbouring Ebberston Hall – the smallest stately home in England
A NEW scheme from City of York Council aims to help residents improve the health of their hearts this year. The Healthy Hearts programme, funded by the British Heart Foundation, will help educate pople who worry about being overweight, having high blood
A YORK-BASED charity got a helping hand from a team of teenage volunteers. The members of a military preparation course with YH Training in York helped decorate rooms at the SNAPPY headquarters in Lowther Street, in a project that has saved the charity
A 47-year-old man has been arrested in Harrogate in connection with a series of incidents in the town which involved young girls. A 17-year-old girl was touched inappropriately by a man when she was out walking her dog in Wetherby Road on December
A MAN who attacked a van driver with by spraying an aerosol at him is being hunted by Humberside Police. The 26-year-old victim was sitting in the van when the attacker opened the driver’s side door before assaulting the driver and spraying the aerosol
A HARROGATE woman has urged people across the region to join in a sponsored swim for charity. The 25th annual Swimathon has joined forces with Marie Curie Cancer Care, BBC Sport Relief, and British Swimming’s Big Splash, to encourage hundreds of swimmers
