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AN ARGUMENT over stick insects has caused North Yorkshire Police to urge the public to think before phoning the emergency services. Paul Richardson, deployment manager with the Force Control Room in Fulford, said the call came in at about 4pm on

HERE'S a festive treat for you. No, nothing to do with Christmas. Instead, it is a look back to one of the biggest festivals in York's long history – that held in 1971 to mark the city's nineteen hundredth anniversary. Yes, we know, it's a bit

A WOMAN from the York area has been spoken to by police after making an insensitive social media post about the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy. The woman posted a comment on Facebook on Tuesday, referring to the lorry picking up "trash". Six people

THE company planning to build a billion pound mine in North Yorkshire says it will address the "relatively few" issue surrounding its planning application in the new year. Sirius Minerals has released an update on its planning application to build

THE most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever discovered is on display in London standing atop a plinth made by a York-based attraction specialist. Paragon Creative, in Elvington, made the display for the Natural History Museum to showcase the dinosaur

EMPLOYMENT law experts are hosting a seminar to examine the management of long-term sickness absence from work. The team from Langleys Solicitors, York, will discuss some of the common issues relating to sickness absence such as how it impacts

THE Flanagan Collective's boisterous, interactive A Christmas Carol keeps setting up new homes, like a forgetful squirrel gathering the nut harvest. After fitting snugly into the Lamb & Lion Inn and The Gillygate in past years, Coxwold playwright

THE fight to close the learning gap between the most disadvantaged school pupils in York and the rest is high on the agenda for 2015. According to City of York Council's cabinet member for education, Cllr Janet Looker, for a city where the quality

TEACHERS at a York school have been rewarded for their efforts raising attainment levels. This summer saw Manor CE Academy’s best ever GCSE, when 80 per cent gained A'-C including English and maths, and the efforts of staff have now been rewarded

NEIL GULLIVER has left his job with City of York Council to return to his rugby league roots and become the new manager of the York City Knights Foundation. Gulliver, a former amateur RL player, previously worked alongside the Knights' community

DEPARTED Tadcaster Albion midfielder Jonathan Greening was hailed by boss Paul Marshall for his role in helping the club reach the Northern Counties East League premier division summit. The former Manchester United, Middlesbrough and West Brom

EAGLE-EYED children may be able to catch a glimpse of Santa flying over York tonight. Experts say the shimmering light of his sleigh will be visible briefly as he flies around the world. Our sources say that if the sky is clear, the shining

ONCE upon a time, dreaming of a White Christmas might have had a very different meaning for Darren Day. Those days when the tabloid headlines blazed “Day left bankrupt by cocaine addiction” are now a browning memory and the Day you see in Irving

BROADWAY BUFFALO travels to Wetherby on Boxing Day to bid for an audacious double on behalf of trainer David Pipe. Just six days after coming from last to first to win the featured Tommy Whittle Chase at Haydock, the six-year-old aims to follow

THE Bottomley Trophy will be up for grabs when Pocklington RUFC stage their annual Town v Gown Boxing Day match against the Pocklington School old boys side, Old Pocklingtonians. The challenge game began in the 1980s and the prize is now the Bottomley

ROB LICKLEY was the first Thirsk & Sowerby Harrier home in the annual Loftus and Whitby Poultry Run. Staged over an eight-mile course, conditions were testing as strong winds blasted the competitors. Lickley finished 119th in 59 minutes

THE year ended on a losing note for New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club as they went down to Harrogate in the Yorkshire Over-55s League. The Huntington Road side's poor season continued as they took only four points to Harrogate's 12 points. In

A LAST-32 tie against Hartlepool awaits York Indoor Bowls Club in the Egham Trophy after a victory over Harrogate. At home, Neal Macdonald, Carol Banks, Helen Walker and Adam Liddell were in great form, scoring a four on the first and fifth ends

JUST like The Queen's speech and Top of The Pops, Christmas just isn't complete without a festive countdown. It's been a cracking year on the sporting front in York and North Yorkshire and we've boiled down all the highlights to bring you our best

RESIDENTS around York and North Yorkshire have gotten into the Christmas spirit with houses around the region boasting thousands of festive lights. Neil Puckering has illuminated his Stamford Bridge home with thousands of lights for more than 20

WHILE you and your family are enjoying Christmas at home or with loved ones, spare a thought for the emergency services. Deputy Sister Bridget Wilson is looking forward to her usual Christmas routine – working on the Children’s Ward at York Hospital

A MAN accused of stabbing his brother in the back is unfit to stand trial, a judge has ruled. But a jury will still decide whether Craig Elmer, 46, did put a knife into Benjamin Elmer. York Crown Court heard that two psychiatrists, after examining

MILLIONS of pounds will be spent fixing a blight on York's road users. The Government is to invest £11.8million to tackle potholes around the city as part of The Department for Transport's £6billion scheme to improve roads between 2015 and 2021

A DONATION of more than five trolley loads of food and festive treats has been made to York Food Bank following a Christmas giving campaign at one of the city's business parks. Local businesses and their staff at York Science park have spent a

THE great British pub can sometimes seem an endangered institution. If it isn't the smoking ban or tough licensing conditions, it is cheap supermarket booze. Recently, there has been a new threat – and again, it comes from supermarkets. The Corner

DETECTIVES have released an E-fit of a man wanted in connection with an attempted dog theft. Police are investigating the attempted theft in Dalton, near Thirsk, when a woman was walking near the Oaks with her dog when a blue van containing two

POTHOLES are the bane of every driver, cyclists too, so it is good that over the next six years almost £12 million will be spent repairing the ones in York. After a recent spate of bad winters, there are still plenty to catch out the unwary, especially

THE hacking into Sony Pictures’ confidential data and now even more serious, South Korea’s nuclear reactor plants, raises serious doubts about the safety of computer-led technology and the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the internet inventor, must

YET another expensive outside consultants’ report from Arup (The Press, December 20) on York’s future population growth. Another dollop of ratepayers’ money down the consultants’ drain. The report details the city’s population in 2037, and the

I AGREE with Maureen Robinson (Letters, December 15) that God will judge the goings-on in the Holy Land but people ignore the basis of that judgement. From Genesis chapter 12, verse three onwards the curse is pronounced on all who think or do evil

THANK you, Matthew Laverack (Letters, December 20), for the biggest laugh of 2014. I haven’t stopped yet. Fancy asking the people at the head of our councils to agree to a pay cut of 1.8 per cent, matching the cut in grant from the Government What

I TAKE my hat off to David Connolly for volunteering to travel to Ghana to set up a life-saving lab that will protect local staff from the diseases they analyse (The Press, December 16). The lab, ex-Gateshead’s Queen Elizabeth hospital, has been

RECENTLY the MP for Hartlepool has made passionate statements on TV and in the local media as to why Ched Evans should not be allowed to sign for Hartlepool or any other football club and carry on his chosen profession as a footballer. His reasons

WHEN I was at school there was a girl in my class – let's call her Alice – who was the only one who was in any way overweight; not enormous, but simply fat, and in those days lack of money, and hardly any junk food, meant that Alice was quite unique

JULIAN Sturdy (The Press, December 20) denies the NHS is being sold off. There are already parts of the NHS that have already been privatised and the TTIP will be the last straw in the coffin of the NHS as we all know it. The TTIP will only be

JULIAN Sturdy MP believes there is ‘nothing to fear’ from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). However, he prefers to ignore the quiet dismantling of the NHS since his ConDem Government came to power, starting with the Health

I AM angry at the suggestion from some York councillors that the green belt is under threat from immigration. Will Cllrs Warters (Independent) and Cllr Ayre (Lib-Dem) be campaigning to save the green belt by banning immigration? The truth on the

REMEMBER the flurry of letters some time ago regarding npower? Seems like things have not improved. A week ago, a notification dated December 8, 2014, was received, stating that they would renew our gas meter the following day. Fine, except

STEPHEN Lewis’ profile of Hugh Bayley (The Press, December 19) was generous but, in truth, overly charitable. I heard Bayley at a hustings in York for the General Election of 2002. He was remarkable only in his inability to speak with conviction

100 years ago The Bridlington Town Council has considered the question of the possibility of a German raid on the seafront. Bridlington was entirely unfortified, but on the seafront gardens there were three or four dummy volunteer artillery

IN a festive message to Press readers, the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu calls for compassion. Last month, I was privileged to preach to two thousand people in Blackpool Tower Ballroom at a mission event called ‘Light in Darkness’. It

PUPILS from a York primary school have been on a mission to bring some festive cheer to commuters in the city. Staff and children at Clifton Green primary school decided that they wanted to do something for their community and the city as the Christmas

A NEW unit is being created at a York primary school to help to keep deaf children in mainstream education. The plan is for a new classroom to be built at Hempland School in Heworth next year so that children from across the city who have profound

CAT lovers have been urged not to overfeed their pets this Christmas. James Hodgkison, York Cats Protection adoption centre manager, said: “Everyone loves to indulge a little more at Christmas, but overfeeding your cat or giving them some foods

THE life of a tireless charity fundraiser will be commemorated in a two-month exhibition in her East Yorkshire town. Goole Museum will show the Charity Begins at Home exhibition in honour of the late Olive Hunt from January 23 to March 31.

TRANSPORT plans in an area of York should be called in by the council, opposition councillors have said. City of York Council agreed a new scheme for Jockey Lane, Huntington earlier this month, which will see a new pedestrian crossing, road surface

A MAN will have to sign on the sex offenders’ register and take part in a sex offenders’ treatment programme after police found indecent photos of children on his home Macbook. Peter Hill, of Little Ribston, near Wetherby pleaded guilty to eight

IT'S panto time and across Yorkshire it's certain up on an array of glittering performances. Here's a list of what's on offer from around the region: Old Mother Goose at York Theatre Royal - [Review] York's legendary panto dame Berwick

MUCH Loved Productions’ Viennese Strauss Christmas Gala brought the British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra to York on Monday, ready to usher in the festive season with the much- loved music of old Vienna, along with a few other Christmas treats.

YORK'S Lord Mayor is urging residents and visitors to join him during an annual carol service. The audience will be encourage to sing-a-long when the Salvation Army plays a variety of festive songs in St Helen's Square from 7.30pm today. The

THE new president of the Tockwith and District Agricultural Society Show has been appointed. The Society is in its 70th year, and Stuart Coggrave has been handed the ceremonial crook by outgoing president Sam Blacker. Mr Blacker thanked the

DETECTIVES are investigating an arson attack on St Williams School Farm in Market Weighton. Humberside Police said an unknown person was believed to have approached the central barn of three on the site between 9pm and 10.30pm on Friday and started

THERE are few shops in York city centre where you can walk in with £100,000 in your pocket and leave with just one Christmas present and no change. But venture into Fossgate and you'll find a Santa's Grotto of rare finds collected from around the

A REVAMPED historic building could open its doors to the public next month. Plans to turn the Red Tower, in Foss Island Road, into a cafe and kitchen are taking shape after the group behind the scheme won the backing of community leaders. The