AN ENTERTAINMENT retailer with branches in York has declared its intention to appoint administrators. The announcement comes just over a week after computer games retailer Game, which has branches in Spurriergate, York, and Monk’s Cross, put itself
TODAY’S Budget is good news for York’s science and technology, Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber has said. Len Cruddas, interim-chief executive at Leeds, York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, said it was an ambitious budget in terms
IN an attempt to simplify tax for small businesses, the Government has announced a new cash basis for calculating tax for small unincorporated businesses with a turnover of up to £77,000. Ashley Mason founder of YorMed Independent Ambulance
BUSINESSES had been hoping for a delay in the 3p increase in fuel duty planned for August. But they were disappointed. Ashley Mason, owner of independent ambulance service, YorMed, said the increase would now cost the small company thousands of pounds
UNIVERSITY spinout companies could benefit from measures to promote innovative new businesses. Adrian Widdowson, tax consultant at Garbutt & Elliott Chartered Accountants, said the Budget contained plans for a Patent Box, which from 2013, would
A YORK landlord has accused the Government of glossing over increases in alcohol duty, which could cripple some pubs, in the Budget. Steve Bradley, landlord of the Fulford Arms, said that the announcement of “no change” to alcohol duty was
A BRITISH man killed in a skiing accident in France had recently graduated from the University of York, it has been reported. Thomas Lynch, 22, from Leicestershire, collided with a snow-making cannon in the resort of Val D'Isere, where he was working
Computer games retailer GAME, which has branches in Spurriergate and Monks Cross in York, has declared its intention to appoint administrators. Trading of shares in the company was suspended today, before the board announced its discussions with stakeholders
TAX credits for the computer games industry are a significant step forward for the industry, the owner of a successful York games business has said. Charles Cecil, managing director of Revolution Software, which created the Broken Sword games
THE LEADER of City of York Council has welcomed infrastructure announcements made in the Budget today. But he has hit out at the decision not to reduce VAT for the tourism industry. Coun James Alexander, Labour leader of the council, said: “There are
BUSINESSES in York will not be celebrating the reduction of corporation tax from 26 per cent to 24 per cent as fuel duty threatens to overshadow the benefits. Mike Pullon, managing director of Varlink, a £9 million-turnover mobile technology
POLICE are set to distribute leaflets and posters tonight in an appeal for residents to come forward and help catch the “cowardly” arsonists responsible for petrol-bombing an elderly couple out of their York home. Officers from York Safer
CRIMEWATCH received eight calls following their renewed appeal for information about the disappearance of York chef Claudia Lawrence. The BBC programme repeated its previous appeal last night, as police continue to seek information about the
Now in its 30th anniversary year, Phoenix can look back with pride on the huge strides it has made in that time. The range and variety of its work was amply mirrored in the four-part programme it brought to York this week, under the apt title Reflected
Flowers add a beautiful dimension to any wedding and it's important to make sure that your floral arrangements are designed to your expectations and standards. Julia Proctor, owner and head floral designer at Buzzy Bees Flowers, a family-run business
Cedar Court Grand Hotel & Spa, York – which in November 2011 became York's first-ever five-star hotel – makes for a unique venue for a wedding. Originally built as a 'palace of business' for The North Eastern Railway company in the Edwardian era,
Chancellor George Osborne has said today's Budget will simplify tax for businesses. He said it would reward work, supporting working families and those looking for work. "Britain is going to earn its way in the world," he said.
YORK City Knights are likely to be without their dual-registered starlets for Sunday’s Carnegie Challenge Cup tie at the behest of the players’ parent clubs. Hull have already stated Chris Green, who has three tries in four appearances for York, and
LEFT-BACK Jamal Fyfield has saluted the “late goal” habit that has taken York City to Wembley. Fyfield delivered the cross that saw Matty Blair head in the decisive goal as extra-time beckoned during Saturday’s FA Trophy semi-final, second leg tie
MUSICIANS young and old joined forces to make music in a special event at the Priory Centre in York, writes Nick Duquemin. Students from Millthorpe School, in South Bank, entertained more than 50 care home residents in a concert – and the older people
Community musician Sam Dunkley and students from Tadcaster Grammar School lead singing workshops for pupils from Riverside School in Tadcaster as part of a Young Leaders project. The Year 6 pupils from Riverside were taught by Year 7, 8 and 9 students
A YOUNG Middlesbrough side lifted the North Riding Senior Cup by beating York City 1-0 in contentious circumstances in the final at Bootham Crescent last night. Adam Reach’s goal proved the only difference between the two teams, although there
LEEDS United conceded four goals in 13 minutes either side of half-time as they crashed to a 7-3 home Championship defeat by Nottingham Forest. Robert Snodgrass (pen), Luciano Becchio and Michael Brown scored for the hosts.
Proving that studies and football success can go hand in hand, Sam Slocombe tells DAVE FLETT of his route to a pro contract. SAM Slocombe has hailed the “massive” role played by York College in his pathway to becoming Scunthorpe United’s first-team
MEMBERS of York Triathlon Club celebrated the club’s first birthday in style, writes Samuel Burton. David Thomas and Sean McDermott demonstrated how their winter training paid off by booking their Great Britain team age group slot for the World Duathlon
EAST Yorkshire racer Guy Smith made a great start to his defence of the American Le Mans Series title when he claimed maximum points in the Sebring 12 Hours in Florida. While the Welton-based race ace took the chequered flag in eighth place, Smith was
THIRSK and Sowerby Harriers’ annual 10 Road Race takes place on Sunday with the usual high-class field. Entries can be taken on the day. The main race, based at Thirsk Racecourse, begins at 11am and runners over the age of 16 and of all abilities
YORK & District Senior Cricket League champions Woodhouse Grange open their season with a pre-season game at home to Ilkley on Saturday, April 7. The Sutton-on-Derwent club are building up to their President’s Trophy clash at home to Sessay on Sunday
MALTON snooker ace Lee Taylor lifted the York Conservative Clubs’ Renaissance Windows Scruton Cup after a 3-0 final win over Heworth’s Clive Whyte. Taylor, entering the competition for the first time, fired in breaks of 34 and 22 to win the opening
North Yorkshire trainer Tom Tate sends Flamingo Cay to Haydock this afternoon seeking for quick compensation. The gelding was sent off favourite on his debut at Newcastle a couple of weeks ago, but, in a messy race, he had to settle for the runner-up
The 2012 Flat racing season is under starter’s orders. Here STEVE CARROLL looks forward to a mouth-watering season of action at York Racecourse. YORK RACECOURSE are hoping super horse Frankel will prove the star attraction of a sparkling
KEEP fit and raise funds this week at a series of sporting challenge in aid of Sports Relief. Community Leisure, which has gyms at Derwent Pool in Norton and the Northern Ryedale Sports Centre in Pickering, is hosting a Coast to Coast challenge
The Press racing tipster Tom O’Ryan scours the North Yorkshire yards to bring you his selection of ten potential stars of the 2012 Flat season. CROWN CHOICE (Paul Midgley) Paul Midgley has a knack of finding a tune with horses he gets from other
RACING memorabilia will be unveiled when the new season gets under way at Ripon, Yorkshire’s Garden Racecourse, next month. During the winter months, the course’s club enclosure bar and restaurant has been renovated and renamed the Silks & Saddles Bar
THE Press Family Raceday has been handed a significant boost this year with the addition of a Listed contest to the programme. The Garrowby Stakes, worth £33,000 and held over the Ebor distance of a mile-and-three-quarters, will be the highlight
THERE could be a new name on the trophy for Yorkshire’s leading jockey this year. Once again, the SkyBet prizes for the county’s leading trainer and rider will be presented at the annual Go Racing In Yorkshire Awards Lunch, held at York Racecourse in
Go Racing In Yorkshire are gearing up for the start of the 2012 Flat campaign. Here STEVE CARROLL talks to Graham Orange about the season ahead. THE Yorkshire Racing Summer Festival should be five star this year. Held from July 21 to 29, it
TOP North Yorkshire female jockey Julie Burke has given her support to the latest Back A Winner By Train campaign from rail companies First TransPennine Express (FTPE) and Northern Rail. Now in its 26th year, the promotion rewards racegoers travelling
BEVERLEY Racecourse will be awash with pink at an award- winning race night in May. Lucky In Love is now an established date in the region’s social calendar and tickets are expected to be snapped up after recently going on sale. The event will
A DECISION on York’s landmark community stadium project could be delayed for up to six months after transport bosses raised concerns over the impact on local roads. The Highways Agency has written to City of York Council to say “outstanding matters”
DAVID CAMERON assuring us “there will be no selling-off of our roads!” fills me with apprehension because that’s exactly what will happen. This is doomed to be another ill-thought-out scheme. Our road system will fall into disrepair. The private companies
SO, THE egregious Sun newspaper is calling for its equally egregious new columnist the Archbishop of York to be appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury. I find myself agreeing with the Sun for the first time. The good doctor has lost all credibility
IT WAS interesting to read the letter from David Meek regarding the Mystery Plays being set in 1940/1950 period (Letters, March 20). Unlike Mr Meek, I found out just in time before I purchased my tickets. A friend was going to be one the actors
HAVING been nearly forced off the road by the No. 20 bus driving too close to me while cycling, and then verbally abused by the driver for hogging the road on the mini-roundabout on Melrosegate, I thought I’d register a complaint with the operators
DAVID Quarrie states that the Conservative Party has suddenly brought the subject of legal marriage to the political stage (Letters, March 19). However, it was as long ago as May, 2010 that Theresa May launched the Conservatives’ equalities manifesto
I HAVE been reading the letters about people’s memories of Wrights with interest on my trip to York for my mother’s 90th birthday. Like others, my family had a long history of working at Wrights, starting with my father George Johnson, who worked
THE Government is announcing a scheme whereby we will all receive a breakdown of how it spends money raised through taxation. On the face of it this is a good idea; very democratic, we might think. But what will we learn from these headline figures
FOLLOWING the coverage on York’s Core Strategy, I thought it would be helpful to clarify the situation. The inspector’s overall role is to challenge and test the planning strategy through an examination process. At the moment the inspector is seeking
COUNCILLOR Simpson-Laing is confusing reasons with excuses (Letters, March 16). I am not a Lib-Dem or any other colour of activist, but I have sat on enough management committees to know how they operate and what their defects are. The tip workers
thieves stole £50,000-worth of copper from a York construction site where a new £10 million hotel is being built. Burglars broke into the Hilton Express building site at Toft Green, which hotel operator Hampton By Hilton is developing, between 3pm
HAVING arrived back from my holidays in Torquay, I went through the letters pages for the past week. I would like to reply to Joyce Pickard (Letters, March 10), who commented on my letter about the replacement of our Trident nuclear submarines
WHAT attracts people to football? An attacking style of play, entertainment and good value for money. That is why York City FC moved from Fulford to Bootham to be nearer their supporters. We have now had a leaflet and a power-point presentation about
A SPEED camera vehicle which has already snared thousands of motorists is to have its time on the roads extended – and it could become a permanent fixture. North Yorkshire Police’s speed-camera van was introduced, initially on a six-month trial
NEVER has a show been more rubbish than Stomp and yet surely the best recycling project of all time. For 20 years now, Brighton percussionist Luke Cresswell and Yorkshireman Steve McNicholas’s impromptu percussion, dance and loose-limbed comedy
AN inquest has been opened into the death of a teenager whose body was found in the River Ouse. Jordan Paul Louis Sullivan, 19, of Acomb, went missing on February 14, sparking a huge police search. York coroner Donald Coverdale told the inquest
BYE-BYE beautiful ftrs. We all either loved or hated you. I was a lover – but I am not a motorist. One thing does puzzle me – I have never heard any complaint about the size of the double-length Park&Ride buses, so why have you drawn all the fury
THE number of people killed or seriously injured on North Yorkshire’s roads has fallen – and police and safety campaigners say it proves their hard-hitting message is working. New figures have revealed there were 445 victims last year, 108
A MOTORCYCLIST suffered leg injuries in an accident involving a car in York. The male rider was taken to hospital following the collision which happened on Hull Road at about 8.50am yesterday. It caused traffic tailbacks and a stretch of the road
THE former home of Terry’s chocolate company owner Noel Goddard Terry is to be opened up to visitors. The National Trust has applied to City of York Council for planning permission to open part of Goddards to the public from Wednesdays to Sundays between
DETECTIVES are appealing for witnesses after a £40,000 JCB was stolen from a farm in Malton. The yellow loader was taken some time between 7pm on March 17 and 9.30am on March 18. Officers believe the loader, which carries a 60 registration plate,
This year marks an important milestone in the history of one of Yorkshire’s most coveted assets. NATALYA WILSON and MATT CLARK report on 60 years of the North York Moors. AUSTERE beauty, genuine wilderness and some of our county’s most
A DOG which suffered horrific facial injuries may have been involved in illegal fighting before being abandoned in a Selby back garden, according to animal welfare officers. An RSPCA investigation is under way to find the owner of the one-year-old
PLANS for a new supermarket on Malton’s Wentworth Street car park have been criticised in an open letter to Ryedale District Council. The letter, from Roddy Bushell, agent for the Fitzwilliam (Malton) Estate, suggests the proposed store would not
A FAMILY have told how a conwoman’s lies over the horse they loved have left them devastated. Tom Iveson, 26, wanted to give his wife Lisa, 28, a mare as a wedding gift. But unknown to him, when he paid £1,400 to Deborah Cooper for the piebald cob
IT’S a busy working life for Wayne Barrett who has just been awarded a five-year long service award by North Yorkshire County Council for his job as the crossing patrol warden at Barlby County Primary School. After seeing the children safely across
A NEW climbing wall at a college near York presented no trouble to record-breaker Alan Hinkes as he joined staff and students for the official launch. Dr Hinkes, who was the first Briton to climb all of the world’s highest mountains, officially
PEOPLE living near to a controversial York housing development have said tensions are rising between residents and those working at the site. Residents living in Holgate’s Holly Bank Grove, where in 2009 planning permission was given to develop garages
100 years ago Mr JJ Coulson, Vyner Street, wrote: “I think if small flat boxes were fixed at each end of the tramcars for the disposal of discarded tickets, it would be an advantage. Not only would the boxes tend to keep the cars clean and tidy,
A FORMER “inspirational” editor of The Press has died of a heart attack while holidaying in Morocco. Richard Wooldridge died on Sunday, aged 69, during an activity holiday with his wife Lynda, daughter Henrietta and son Christopher.
THREE people are now understood to have fallen down a manhole in a badly-lit York street, within a day of each other. Last week, The Press reported how Siobhan Taylor, 21, had been walking along Alcuin Avenue on her way to Tang Hall Working Men’s Club
COLLEAGUES and friends of a murdered policewoman from York are set to take part in a mammoth charity trek to boost a fund set up to help her two young children. Heather Cooper, 33, who grew up in Acomb, was killed in October and her body was
WORK is still under way on the demolition of York’s Splash Palace in Parliament Street, as workers dismantle the public toilet block. The block was built 21 years ago but closed in 2010, when new facilities opened in Silver Street, off Newgate
YORK’S council leader, James Alexander, has come under fresh fire over controversial plans for decisions to be made behind closed doors. The ruling Labour cabinet at City of York Council intends to scrap publicly accessible “decision sessions” for individual
MARKET traders in York have paid warm tributes to a fellow stallholder who died following a long battle with cancer. Diane Gray, 46, was a familiar face on Newgate Market for almost three decades, where she ran a nightwear and underwear stall with her
THE Press will be covering Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget from 12.30pm today. Follow developments online at yorkpress.co.uk/business and on Twitter @yorkbusiness. To give your views on how the announcements affect your business,
YOUNG movie-makers are being sought to make up the cast and crew of a new feature film to be made during the school summer holidays. The Co-operative British Youth Film Academy is embarking on an “epic” challenge to shoot a full-length feature film
TWO men from the Selby area have been given suspended jail sentences after they admitted trying to sell more than £1,000 worth of stolen goods. Michael James Middleton, 23, of Manor Garth, Kellington, and Clifford Ray Bradshaw, 18, both pleaded guilty
THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway has launched a “Cash for Coal” fundraising appeal to help with a doubling of coal costs over the last year. The railway, which is a registered charity, uses about 2,500 tonnes of coal each year to fuel its steam engines
BUSINESSES will be reminded of the laws of employing children during Child Employment Fortnight, from March 26 to April 6. The fortnight will highlight how young people benefit from part-time working and which laws exist to safeguard their education
A SPECIAL brass band and choir is to be created for the York Mystery Plays this summer, as organisers seek to create a musical as well as a theatrical spectacular. Craig Brown, who is already musical director of one of the Shepherd Group Brass Bands,
A YORK musical instrument retailer is ready to roll its business out across Europe after being backed by private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP). KCP has invested £3.4 million in a minority stake in Gear4music.com, which will enable the company
