YORK'S outgoing MP has spoken of his astonishment at receiving a knighthood. In his first interview since the coveted accolade was announced, Sir Hugh Bayley, the long-serving York Central MP, told of his delight after he was recognised for his
YORK City boss Russ Wilcox is hoping loan quartet Diego De Girolamo, Alex Cisak, Stephane Zubar and Carlton Morris will still be at Bootham Crescent next week. The four players' current temporary terms come to an end after Saturday's home match
JOSH CARSON has revealed he was grateful for the Boxing Day clattering he received from Accrington Stanley’s Lee Molyneux. The York City winger was poleaxed by Molyneux following a stoppage-time challenge that saw many home fans baying for a red
RYEDALE'S Chris Jones has lifted the lid on life behind the scenes at Twickenham, the home of English rugby union. Jones, who helps to coach Malton & Norton RUFC Under-14s, has covered England’s fluctuating fortunes for 30 years as the rugby
INDOOR golf is returning to York on Monday. City of York Council are starting a second indoor golf course at Burnholme Community Sports Hub. The sessions are aimed at adults who are new to golf or returning to the sport after a break and who
NEWLY-FORMED Stillington Sports & Social Club are settling in to life in the newitts.com Beckett Football League. The club was formed in the summer, becoming affiliated to the North Riding County FA, and they joined the Beckett League ranks
HARROGATE TOWN are hoping a five-game run without a win ends at Guiseley in Conference North tomorrow. The Wetherby Roaders prevented Barrow going top of the division when taking a 1-1 draw from Cumbria on Sunday, but they haven’t won in the league
DRINGHOUSES head into 2015 as leaders of the York FA Under-19s Football League. Houses stayed a point clear of Haxby Town with two games in hand after an 8-1 win at home to York RI. Joe Galloway bagged a hat-trick, Matty Mulhearn and Tom Hawksby
CAPTAINING England Under-25s will be the highlight of Zoe Eagles' burgeoning international bowls career. The highly-rated York player described it as a "great honour" to be chosen to lead her country in the U25s International Series at Erewash
DAVE DALE and Tony Moore notched their first victory in the York Indoor Bowls Club Tom Forbes Pairs competition. The tournament proved to be one of the most popular in its history as 20 teams started off with a round-robin format, which culminated
AS Christmas is done for another year and the days begin to brighten, the National Trust has published its listings to inspire family days out in the New Year. The January and February listings for Yorkshire encourage visitors to explore some of
ADAM KIRBY - the most prolific Flat jockey in Britain this year - is aiming to add to his tally of winners on the last day of 2014. From January 1 through to December 31, Adam Kirby has plied his trade relentlessly on home soil. He has ridden
BUDGET cuts mean that the year ahead is not going to be easy for education and children's services in York according to the councillor in charge of the brief. Cllr Janet Looker, cabinet member for education children and young people, said the depth
CHARITABLE students at Rossett School have done their bit to support the Band Aid 30 appeal raising money to fight the ebola crisis in West Africa. However, far from just buying the single, the students collaborated to recreate the song at the
IF the shoe fits, Amy Morris will fill the title role in Cinderella for the final week of the Grand Opera House pantomime in York. "I am thrilled to be a part of this winter's Opera House pantomime and cannot wait to step into Cinderella’s shoes
A ROAD safety campaigner, Girl Guide leaders, a science professor and charitable volunteers are among regional stalwarts honoured in the New Year's Honours for their tireless work. Janet Warin, 67, will be made an MBE after campaigning to save
THREE men have pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of 21-year-old Sam Wilson in York. Robbie Mark McHale, 19, and Jack David Alexander, 21, appeared over a video link from Hull Prison yesterday for the plea and case-management hearing at Leeds
WORKERS at a recycling plant tackled a fire which broke out in a compost heap on Monday night. Yorwaste's Harewood Whin site reported the fire started on Monday evening but it will take staff days to extinguish the blaze by breaking up the farming
A PUBLIC appeal to people NOT to come into A&E unless they absolutely have to is hardly the way hospital bosses will have wanted to end 2014. But clearly they feel they have no choice. York, like other hospitals across the country, has been
A ROAD safety campaigner, Girl Guide leaders, charity volunteers and a University of York academic are among local people recognised in the New Year’s Honours. They join the usual galaxy of TV stars, sporting heroes, artists and writers – not to
CITY of York Council is now expected to sell York Theatre Royal for £1 to the York Conservation Trust (The Press, December 27). This may well be the only solution to keep this building viable, but surely the council has a duty to put the Theatre
CAN it really be that City of York Council is selling York Theatre Royal; even if only for £1, isn’t this a departure from the usual script? Surely the building should be demolished and replaced at Monks Cross with an expensive new structure at
I HAVE to say how angry I was with Heather Causnett’s letter in The Press of December 24. I am one of the people she calls “fatties”, but I can assure her I am not “someone whose huge appetite has taken over from common sense” or someone who lives
MATTHEW Laverack (Letters, December 23) is right to warn about the possible early demolition of the Waterworld swimming pool. City of York Council has previous history of this – many years ago the fantastic Barbican pool was demolished, leaving
WITH all the Americanisms and Continental-isms creeping into our language, including the latest French term “de”, isn’t it about time that we regained our national identity?. The forthcoming Tour ‘de’ Yorkshire should be correctly titled the Tour
ON December 23, my parents had their car ‘keyed’ by a woman in Aldi car park. A couple witnessed this happen, but they did not leave contact details at the time. If it was you, thank you for your assistance. Could you please contact York police
IN ALL the furore about the Lendal Bridge scheme, it’s easy to forget that the idea was a sound one supported by evidence from a trial period. The impact on congestion in the city was mainly positive. The scheme wasn’t pulled because it didn’t
DID you receive some new jewellery or a watch for Christmas? Would you like to help local deaf babies and children by donating your old items? I collect unwanted things to raise vital funds for the Ear Trust. Every penny goes towards their needs
TORY employment minister Esther McVey could always write jokes for Christmas crackers if she were to be booted out of Wirral West next May. Esther recently quipped that "50 is the new 30" as the Tories hilariously use misinformation to dismiss
I WALKED into town for some last-minute Christmas shopping and entered Parliament Street to be greeted by the very unChristmas vision of something resembling a correctional facility (love these Americanisms). The wooden huts were surrounded by
LETTERS editor Julian Cole has done us all proud by keeping our letters page active in every sense. For some time now, he has built up many letter writers who have become local celebrities and continue to supply comments, never mind how many letters
I NOTE that you have had several letters regarding rubbish collections, or should I say collections which are rubbish. I experienced this rubbish service and feel justified in complaining, although I also note in your Letters page that Paul Hepworth
I TOTALLY agree with the letter from Matthew Laverack regarding his condemnation of the Labour Party in their short-sighted policy of insisting that the next candidate for York at the general election must be a woman, regardless of whether she be the
IT’S good to see that pantomime season is in full swing in York and the lights are on (The Press, December 19). The police are handing out lights to cyclists. Next page two large articles, one about how difficult it is for the police to maintain
100 years ago WRITING to friends in North Wales a gentleman who was serving at the front stated: “It was a memorable Christmas Day in our trenches, as we had a truce with the enemy from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day morning, not a shot being fired
LORD Mayor Ian Gillies navigates York’s historic city walls with the help of Simon Mattam’s walking guide. The book, titled A Walking Guide to York’s City Walls, was originally published in the summer for the Friends of York Walls. But – walkers
A VIOLENT man will start 2015 with a six-month prison sentence — after he was arrested over the Christmas holiday. James Gibb, aged 25, assaulted two police officers and a woman and committed other offences. Gibb failed to attend court and
A THIEF faces a £600 bill for taking a new bicycle for a ride about and abandoning it near Millennium Bridge. Martin Butterworth, prosecuting, said the bike’s owner left it in the bicycle shelter near the Arc Light shelter for the homeless in Union
THINGS are pointing in the right direction for a York primary school after Ofsted said it requires improvement following a merger. In their report inspectors made clear that Osbaldwick Primary School had made “strong steps” already to achieve progress
A MOTORIST who crashed into traffic lights near a York supermarket yesterday is thought to have suffered a heart attack. North Yorkshire Police said officers were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service to a collision on Foss Islands Road, near Morrison's
The man in charge of North Yorkshire's prosecutors has given six reasons why festive drinking can lead to a court appearance and prison. Martin Goldman, chief crown prosecutor for Yorkshire and Humber, urged residents and revellers not to over
IT can’t be often that North Yorkshire appears on NASA’s radar, but in January thousands of tonnes of tyres at a recycling centre in Sherburn-in-Elmet caught fire and the resulting 6,000 foot pall of smoke was visible from space. Public Health
CASTLE Howard hosted the annual Lamb National for woolly jumpers. The Lendal Bridge trial ended early in the wake of controversy, but city leaders still hailed the experiment a success that “met most of its objectives”. In the wake of more
The month began with colour. The sixth York 10K was the biggest and most colourful yet. More than 6,000 entrants raised tens of thousands of pounds for good causes – and had a great time doing so. A few days later, however, the mood turned
THE National Railway Museum turned music venue when it teamed up with York’s Mor Music for the MOR Music Festival. York Hospital patients were waiting too long to be assessed for emergency care, national inspectors said. Former army dog handler
THE million British soldiers who lost their lives in the First World War were remembered at a poignant Festival of Remembrance at the York Barbican. A day later The Royal British Legion’s Ted Griffiths – who had earned the nickname Mr Poppy for
January blues may have passed but the bad weather continued into February and penguins at Scarborough Sea Life Centre were so fed up with the relentless wind and rain, that staff prescribed them anti-depressant pills. Gales ripped up trees and
JEFFREY, believed to be Britain’s only pet camel and an avid ale tippler, was pictured at home in Easingwold celebrating a penny off a pint of beer in the budget. In other animal news, Pickering pecker Charlie the macaw won the coveted post of
EBOR Morris dancers celebrated the group’s 40th anniversary on May Day. Pocklington Flying Man festival commemorated Thomas Pelling, who in 1733 attempted to leap from the parish church steeple. Huntington School teachers Ian Wilson and Robin Parmitter
APRIL Fool’s day seemed two months late when Masham residents were told to take down Tour de France jersey bunting in case the wool became wet and caused steel lamp posts to bend. Motorists were equally bemused to learn that a huge spillage of
ONE event dominated in July – the arrival of the Tour de France. An estimated 100,000 people lined the streets of York on Sunday, July 6, as riders set off for the second leg of the race – 20,000 spectators were at Knavesmire alone, and countless
The Press revealed how youngsters were risking their lives walking to school beside the busy York outer ring road because a £1.3 million path for cyclists and walkers between the Wigginton Road and Haxby Road roundabouts had been delayed. York
The new leader of York’s Labour group on the city council, Dafydd Williams, pledged that all motorists who had been fined during the controversial Lendal Bridge closure were to be refunded. It later emerged this could cost £150,000. Hundreds of
