SCARBOROUGH Open Air Theatre will step back in time on August 1 to present six acts from the Eighties and Nineties Rick Astley will be returning to the East Coast for a second summer, joined by Sinitta, ABC, Go West, Five Star and Undercover for
Dan Bean... Album of the Year: St Vincent, St Vincent (Loma Vista/Caroline International): Despite a cover that looks like a Lady Gaga knock-off, this was a refreshing, gritty and hugely enjoyable album. All guitars and synth, and all over the
JAMES will make their Scarborough Open Air Theatre debut in May. Led by Boston Spa singer Tim Booth, the Manchester indie band with 20 Top 40 hits, will perform songs from their 33-year career plus material from last year's La Petite Mort, their
PICTURE GALLERY: Photos from the celebrations outside York Minster>> THOUSANDS of revellers gathered in York to see in the New Year. Despite cold weather and the results of a recent survey suggesting most people were planning to celebrate
YORK City boss Russ Wilcox is casting his eye over potential goalkeeping targets should on-loan shot-stopper Alex Cisak return to Burnley next week. Cisak’s current loan deal at Bootham Crescent expires after Saturday’s home game against Plymouth
WHERE does art meet real life in Birdman, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's wild and weird slice of blackly comic magic realism? In the air, of course. Michael Keaton played Batman at the outset of the new age of superhero movies heralded
THE Decemberists will follow up the January 19 release of their seventh studio album, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World, by touring Britain in February. Colin Meloy's American indie folk-rock band from Portland, Oregon, will play Leeds
BARBARA Dickson will play Leeds Town Hall on the penultimate night of her 24-date tour on March 6. The Scottish singer, songwriter, folk musician and Olivier Award-winning actress will set out with her band on February 1 to perform material old
Introducing... another side to The Press's jazz columnist, John Marley, the bass and electric guitarist in the York Theatre Royal pantomime band How does a musician make a living in the modern day and age? Commonly it includes a combination
JOAN Armatrading will play Leeds Grand Theatre on March 22 on the spring leg of her last world tour after 42 years on the road. Rehearsed and premiered at Pocklington Arts Centre last September, the show is a solo performance, the first tour of
NORTH Eastern folk sisters The Unthanks are to release a new album, Mount The Air, on February 9. This will be followed by Rachel and Becky's longest British and Irish tour, whose 21 dates will include two Yorkshire gigs: Sheffield City Hall on
JORVIK Gilbert and Sullivan Company will start rehearsals on Monday for their spring production of Cox & Box and a selection of G & S favourites. Auditions for principal parts in Cox & Box and solo roles in the selection were held in
VOTED the nation’s favourite play, Alan Bennett’s The History Boys will be top of the class again in 2015 when it heads out on a new British tour. Sell A Door Theatre's production will visit the Grand Opera House, York, from June 8 to 13, preceded
OLLY Murs is to play Leeds First Direct Arena on April 20 on his Never Been Better Tour, adding a third Yorkshire gig to an itinerary that already includes Sheffield Motorpoint Arena on March 31 and April 1. "To all the fans out there, I'm going
SINGER-SONGWRITER Lucy Rose will play Leeds Brudenell Social Club on March 15 this year on her first headline tour in 18 months. Lucy, 25, will be taking her five-piece band out on the road for 15 dates to play new material from her second album
Vintage concert of the year: Old-school crooner Tony Bennett, York Barbican, singing a cappella without a microphone at 88 in September. Also commended: The Seekers, York Barbican, May; Prince, Hit And Run tour, Leeds First Direct Arena, May. Acting
YORK artist Emily Sutton has won a place in our hearts for her magical picture-book scenes of the world we see around us everyday. Her paintings, designs, prints and illustrations delight in the streets and the shops, the markets, homes and countryside
THE York chamber ensemble, the Academy of St Olave’s, will give its first concert of the New Year on January 24 at St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York.In an 8pm programme of works from three eras of the classical genre, the orchestra will lead off with
AFTER 21 years and nine albums, Brett and Rennie Sparks, otherwise known as The Handsome Family, finally had their reward for their distinctive songwriting and ceaseless touring. In early 2014, T Bone Burnett chose their song Far From Any Road
TENOR Alfie Boe will take centre stage in a Last Night Of The Proms concert, organised to coincide with Armed Forces Day, at Scarborough Open Air Theatre on June 27 this summer. Boe is part way through his British arena tour to mark the autumn
IZZY wizzy, let's get busy, The Sooty Show! is heading for the Grand Opera House, York, on April 8. Joining Sooty will be Sweep, Soo and Sooty's television partner, Richard Cadell, who will attempt to keep Sooty from falling into mischief at his
TALL Stories' family show Room On The Broom will fly into the Grand Opera House, York, on January 26 and 27, delivering a witch, her cat, a dragon, a few friendly animals and more besides. This magical musical adaptation of the book by Children
AS the festivities draw to a close and life returns to normal, we can all look forward to a year of great live jazz events in the region. If you’ve overspent through the holiday season and are nursing a damaged bank account, you can be thankful
"LET'S do it for Ady." That was the message from New Earswick All Blacks ARLC player-boss Jack Stearman as his side, reeling from the death of popular team-mate Ady Robinson, resume their Pennine League championship one campaign at second-placed Dewsbury
BRIAN ELLISON can make a flying start to 2015 by completing a double at Catterick today. The Norton trainer, equally adept at turning out winners on the Flat and over jumps, saddles two potentially useful hurdlers in Definitly Red and Racing Europe
YORKSHIRE Ambulance Service received 1,570 emergency calls in just 12 hours over New Year's Eve - about two each minute. The service said 897 of them were received between midnight and 6am, and their busiest time was between midnight and 3am, when
MOTORISTS are facing an unhappy New Year of delays and diversions when a section of York's inner ring road shuts for up to three weeks. A vital upgrade to the city's ageing gas mains will mean the closure of one lane of Nunnery Lane - heading north-west
1) A man caught with two types of drugs in a van on Penley’s Grove Street in The Groves has been given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay a £15 statutory surcharge and £85 prosecution costs by York magistrates. Benjamin George Alexander
DETECTIVES searching for a missing York woman said she has been found safe and well. Coleen Finnegan, 51, was reported missing from the city on Monday, December 15, from The Peasholme Centre in Fishergate. Coleen was found safe and well in
HUNDREDS of walkers took part in an annual Boxing Day pilgrimage from Ripon Cathedral to Fountains Abbey. The four-mile pilgrimage, led by the Bishop of Knaresborough, the Rt Rev James Bell, followed a service at the cathedral. The walk took
A NATIONAL charity which works to prevent young suicide has seen "a considerable rise" in the number of young people contacting it. PAPYRUS has urged young people in York and North Yorkshire to try and relax this festive period, and try not to
AS 2015 begins, let's look ahead to some of the events to look forward to in York this year. The very first female bishop in the Church of England - Reverend Libby Lane - will be consecrated at York Minster on January 26. More historic work
THE family of a moped rider who died following a crash on the A64 have paid tribute to him. Robert Andrew Crick, 21, from Rillington, was riding on the A64 close to West Knapton, near Malton, at just before 8am on Tuesday, December 23, when he
THE motorist who collided with traffic lights in York on Tuesday has died, police have said. The 70-year-old man was driving a Ford Mondeo which crashed into traffic lights in Foss Islands Road, near Morrisons supermarket, at about 11.55am on Tuesday
THE family of missing man Alan Wilkinson have released a new picture of him in the hope someone can provide information on his whereabouts. Mr Wilkinson, 65, of Cayton near Scarborough, was reported missing on Monday, December 8, and and has not
MEN who received razors from Santa are being urged to exchange them for vitamins and fish oil, as Norse experts from JORVIK Viking Festival declare war on hair removal. Time is running out for people to prepare for the festival’s Best Beard Contest
THIEVES stole a light-up reindeer from a house in York.The £80 illumination was taken from the garden of the home of Lynne and Mark Dunning in Bramble Dene, Woodthorpe, in the early hours of Wednesday.Lynne said the reindeer which lit up in red, white
A CHARITY set up in memory of a musical little York girl who died of a brain tumour will mark its 20th anniversary this year by staging 20 concerts and other events. Jessie's Fund's programme will culminate with a £90-a-head five course banquet
BRITAIN’S information watchdog has had to order City of York Council to respond to a resident’s request for information, after hearing it had failed to meet its legal obligations. The council received a request last January under the Freedom of
A SHOPPER was able to fend off an attacker as he tried to snatch her bag. The 43-year-old woman was about to get into her car at 3.30pm on December 29 when a man came up behind her near Curry’s store on the Bessingby Retail Park, Bridlington.
THE Rotary Club of York has handed £1,150 to Yorchestra, a registered charity run by volunteers to help young people develop their musical talents. Club president John Lacy, accompanied by Graham Todd and Fred Anderson from the club, presented
YORK has the lowest number of empty homes of any authority across North Yorkshire, new figures have revealed. Empty homes often become derelict and create havens for anti social behaviour and have proved to be a nuisance to the neighbourhoods they
IT'S a case of damsons in distress in North Yorkshire as an artisan liqueur maker takes action to tackle a nationwide shortage of the British fruit. With stocks of English damsons hitting an all-time low, local liqueur producer Raisthorpe Manor
A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy's generosity helped save Christmas for women and children at York's refuge. Riley Watson told his mother he had enough toys, and asked if could she give some to the children at the refuge who didn't have enough. Friends
RUGBY players in Uganda are enjoying a bright new era thanks to the generosity of York residents and Press readers. Last autumn, we published an appeal by Robert Powell, a Poppleton ex-pat coaching teams in Entebbe on the shores of Lake Victoria
PLANS are underway for York's International Women's Week in 2015 - and a wide range of further events are welcomed. The festival will run from Saturday, March 7 to Saturday, March 14, and has received full sponsorship from the Centre for Women's
A YOUNG farmer is to present a new show about farming on BBC Radio York. Yorkshire Farming, a one-hour show which will be launched at 6am on Sunday, will be fronted by Gareth Barlow, who had no family connection to farming but bought six rare breed
DAME Judi Dench has clarified she was not referring to her York secondary school when she disclosed how poor teaching nearly put her off Shakespeare for life. Towards the end of last year the Oscar-winning actress, who attended The Mount School
A heroin addict caught shoplifting twice in York city centre in the run-up to Christmas while on a court order has received a conditional discharge. Emma Jane Kasiuk, 29, was on bail for the first theft when she committed the second theft, and
THE Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police said 2015 will see further changes to how the force operates. Looking back at the year, Dave Jones said the Tour de France was his highlight of 2014 from a policing and planning point of view. Mr
THE motorist who died in a crash on Boxing Day has been named as Robert Arthur Henry. Mr Henry, 72, from Whitby Way, Darlington, was driving a red Ford Focus on the A1(M) near Scotch Corner at about 7.40am on December 26. North Yorkshire Police
STUDENTS hoping to save money on bills by skipping payments have been fined thousands of pounds for doing so in the last 12 months. Those studying for degrees in the city and choosing to live in flats and houses must pay for a TV Licence, but 55
A drinker who defied a court order within an hour of police showing her mercy spent 36 hours in custody, York magistrates heard. Martin Butterworth, prosecuting, told them Karen Bulmer, 47, who has a long history of drink-related offences, is banned
A TEENAGER has appeared before York magistrates charged with assault with intent to resist arrest after an East Yorkshire businessman was allegedly run over by a van. Peter Rigal of Rigal Chemical and Process Plant Ltd of Whitley, near Goole, spent
SHEENA Wrigley is leaving the chief executive's post at the West Yorkshire Playhouse after six years to join Manchester’s new cultural venue, HOME, as its executive director. Wrigley, who joined the Playhouse in 2008, has navigated the organisation
PATRICK Monahan, the Irish-Iranian comedian from Teesside, launches his 2015 British tour, Adventures In Monahan Land next month. Adventures In Monahan Land, an energetically witty and charming family show, will be on the road from February 6 to
HOW'S the sore head? Not too bad, we hope. Today's the day when we traditionally start looking ahead to what the new year will hold. But we're all still a bit hung over for that. So instead, we'll take one last, gentle look back at the year which
A NORTH Yorkshire bakeware supplier has had many wide-ranging commissions in its century-long history but has never before supplied tins to build a space rocket - until now.Pickering-based Invicta Bakeware is helping to create a rocket to transport a
LOOK at what you hold today. Turn this thing over, lift it to the light, test its weight, the shape unknowable and yet the same. Grasp this lump of newness, sigh and then utter a magical incantation suitable to such a moment: “Bloody hell, another
CITY hairdressers have bared all in a 2015 calendar to raise money for local mental health charity York Mind. Strategically placed hairdryers, clippers and combs preserve the modesty of staff from Hair Flicks in Tang Hall Lane, run by Caroline
100 years ago A British soldier who had only recently been brought back from the trenches near Ypres, suffering from a combination of pneumonia and frostbite, had dived into the Seine on Christmas Eve and rescued a young woman who had jumped into
The Freedom of Information Act came into force ten years ago today. GAVIN AITCHISON looks at how it has given the public and the media unique access to official information. CAMPAIGNERS who fought to make public authorities more accountable are
