A HORSE has died after being struck by a car in York. North Yorkshire Police said the animal was hit by a silver Vauxhall Corsa in Murton Way, Osbaldwick, at about 7.40pm tonight and died at the scene. Police have closed the road to allow for
A MOTORCYCLIST has suffered a number of injuries in a crash with a car in York. The collision happened at about 5.40pm in Heslington Road, and is believed to have only involved the two vehicles. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said the
A MAJOR power cut has left hundreds of homes without electricity in York today. The cut happened in the YO31 area, and is thought to have affected more than 360 homes in and around the Stockton Lane area. Incidents have also been reported in
A DECISION on whether York City stalwart Dan Parslow extends his loan stay at Grimsby or makes a permanent move to Blundell Park will be made early next week. City boss Russ Wilcox is also refusing to rule out a return to Bootham Crescent for the
THOUSANDS of bookworms took part in a reading challenge to build their literacy skills. New figures show City of York Council is hosting events attended by more than 3,000 children in an attempt to improve the standard of reading at schools in
ENGLAND’S chief inspector of hospitals is inviting members of the public to tell his inspectors what they think of the services provided by Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Their views and experiences will help inspectors decide what to look
GOOLE Police station is undergoing building work to accommodate more staff, vehicles and equipment. It will be one of the five main policing hubs across the Humberside Force where emergency response functions will be based, with an increase in
A NEW charity in memory of Oscar Hughes has raised £120,000 - and has now been named after the tragic York schoolboy. Marie and Ian Hughes, of Dunnington, want to help other children who are suffering from a brain tumour like the one which killed
BUDDING civil engineers at a North Yorkshire primary school have seen their creativity rewarded. They took the top honours in a prestigious national competition run by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The school at North Stainley,
FLY-TIPPERS are being warned they face prosecution as concern grows over the countryside being ruined by rubbish dumped in laybys and on roadsides. In the latest incident near Bedale, a vanload of household rubbish including a double bed and mattress
Starting any business from scratch is hard, but farming must be a Herculean task. MATT CLARK meets a first generation sheep farmer who bought a flock by selling his Xbox. SINCE the millennium, life for sheep farmers has been a roller coaster ride
A DANCE café with a difference is looking for new members in York. People with dementia and their carers are invited to the Dance Café held at the city’s Tramways Club in Mill Street which has so far been a great success as many people with dementia
ANOTHER year over, a new one just begun, but what kind of start do we have and where can we look forward to being come the beginning of 2016? I can’t see into the future – I can barely remember what I had for breakfast. However, it’s fun to speculate
LUCKY for York, The Waterboys are to play the Barbican for a third year in succession. “People should expect the unexpected from The Waterboys,” says band leader Mike Scott, but they should definitely expect to hear songs from new album Modern
SUPERMARKET staff raised thousands of pounds for an emergency service during various bag packs at Asda. Youngsters from 110 (City of York) Squadron Air Training Corps helped to donate £5,600 to Yorkshire Air Ambulance during events throughout 2014
A GROUP which supports families with children who have Down Syndrome hopes to create more specialist support to help children in York fulfil their full potential. The York Down Syndrome Support Group (YDSSG), which also wants to reach out to more
TWO teenagers who carried out a two-day shoplifting spree in Selby have appeared in court. Staff at Morrison’s in Market Cross spotted the pair behaving suspiciously on November 19 but were unable to prevent them getting away with razor blades
A FORMER Lord Mayor and Sheriff of York has died, just days after his 91st birthday. Alderman Bernard Bell was a Labour councillor in York for more than three decades after first being elected in 1971. He represented wards including Heworth, Walmgate
THE parents of the first baby born in York Hospital in 2015 have said it is the best start to the New Year they could have hoped for. Jessica Sophia Sharp was born at 3.06am yesterday weighing 6lbs8oz following a 24 hour labour for her mum Kerry
A MOTHER says she is heartbroken after planners blocked proposals to install a lift at their York home for her quadriplegic son. Lisa Parker said the blow came after she raised more than £5,000 towards a £10,000 fundraising target to help meet
A ROW between two councillors has resulted in one leaving his party with immediate effect. Conservative Cllr Joe Watt, of Skelton, Rawcliffe and Clifton ward is considering standing independently in this year's local election after falling out
YORK City's free-scoring midfielder Luke Summerfield has warned Sky Bet League Two teams that it is only a matter of time before Wes Fletcher and Jake Hyde hit the goal trail. Summerfield has netted twice in his last three outings and the Minstermen
CHRISTMAS has been a time of training for Selby RUFC - and head coach Richard Nicholson is hoping his team will get their rewards tomorrow. The Swans entertain Wath-on- Dearne in Yorkshire One having tried to avoid indulging in the more unhealthy
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MANAGER Tony Hackworth has hailed a January of home comforts at Pickering Town - but has resisted the temptation to set his team a points target for the month. The Pikes, who saw their Northern Counties East League premier division fixture at Retford
TADCASTER Albion boss Paul Marshall will happily take another cliffhanger if it means his team pick up a vital three points. Josh Greening’s 90th minute goal ensured the Brewers took a 3-2 victory and a three point haul from Bridlington Town last
PLYMOUTH are expected to welcome back centre-halves Curtis Nelson and Peter Hartley for tomorrow’s Sky Bet League Two clash at York City. Skipper Nelson and Hartley have missed the last three matches with their respective elbow and hip injuries
FURIOUS Selby Town chief Dave Ricardo branded Lincoln Moorlands Railway a “disgrace” after alleging they forced the cancellation of a game because their players “refused to travel”. The Robins make the return journey to Lincolnshire tomorrow with
Footage of York in 1988 discovered in a time capsule at The Press's Walmgate site. Full article and further videos>>
REGULARS of the Angel Inn in Easingwold will be keeping a closer eye than usual on the opening race at Southwell today. Red Tide, trained at nearby Stillington, carries the colours of Jo McHugh, proprietor of the Angel, and is a horse who gets
A HOARD of memorabilia from the 1980s has been unearthed with the discovery of a time capsule at The Press’s former headquarters in Walmgate, York. The box was placed below the building when it was constructed in the late 1980s to replace the newspaper
DOWN Syndrome is much misunderstood. Children who have it are not ill; they do not “suffer” from the condition, neither is it a disease. Indeed most people with Down Syndrome will walk and talk, many will read and write, go to ordinary schools
IT'S not often a politician is lost for words, but when long-serving York Central MP Hugh Bayley, became Sir Hugh in the New Year's Honours list, all he could say to us was "I'm flabbergasted." Once the news had sunk in Sir Hugh went on to tell
THE NHS tells us that a good percentage of A&E intake at weekends is drink-related. Therefore has the time not come for those persons requiring expensive medical attention, brought about by their own fault, to be suitably charged? With the
GEOFF ROBB of Dunnington (Letters, December 19) believes the economy is in good hands. He says George Osborne is on the right track to get government spending down to 35 per cent of GDP – as, according to him, last achieved in the 1930s. An interesting
IN the earlier part of this year while waiting to pick someone up in Eboracum Way, I noticed two of the street lights were out. This part of Heworth is connected by a busy pathway from Layerthorpe. It carries school children, students, shoppers
THERE has been much in the press concerning the truce of Christmas 1914, about which the top brass were so indignant. Fraternisation was not unknown during the Second World War either, at least with civilians, and was equally the subject of official
THE Queen’s Speech this year had a theme of reconciliation and the community coming together for this year. We do see many angry and hurt people facing the most difficult times in their lives, with little in the way of being forward focused.
THE headline and story in The Press of December 16 (“Charity slams council’s lack of mental health cash”) presents a misleading picture of what North Yorkshire County Council does and spends to support people with mental-health issues. Having taken
IT IS welcoming news that the Government is to invest £11.8m to repair York’s pot-holed roads, that have been left to go to virtual ruin by the Labour council in York over the past three and a half years (The Press, December 24). As Conservative
YOU ask what is so special about Israel (Letters, December 24). Well, they can bomb, kill and maim Gazean civilians with impunity, steal land from the Arabs living on the West Bank and build settlements on it, thus defying UN resolutions. And
IT’S ALL well and good for the powers that be to upgrade the A64 into a dual carriageway, but unless they propose driving the traffic straight into the North Sea, the traffic will form into one gigantic queue as it approaches Scarborough as the build-up
AS THE festive season draws to a close, did anyone notice the the lack of carol singers spreading their festive cheer this year? Also, going back to November another tradition that seems to have disappeared – Penny For The Guy, both of which were
100 years ago A lively Paris contemporary, “Le Journal,” had “discovered” an elephant - presumably not a white one - at the British headquarters in Northern France. This imposing reinforcement to Sir John French and his staff was said to be
YORKSHIRE’S cricket captain has led the protests over a New Year honours snub for the man responsible for bringing the Tour De France to the county. The event, which brought the world’s greatest cyclists to Yorkshire over three days in July, saw
A WOMAN whose disappearance sparked a major police search in North Yorkshire has been found safe and well. Jane Hartley, 49, from Pickering, was reported missing in the early hours of this morning, sparking an urgent police appeal. Officers
A BUSINESSMAN is to launch commercial flying from a former RAF base in North Yorkshire after buying it from the Ministry of Defence. Chris Makin says his plans for RAF Church Fenton, which also include opening a flying training school, should create
ONE 16-year-old girl has received a 12-month custodial sentence and a second a punishment “worse than prison” for their part in a terrifying robbery in York city centre. The first tried to grab one handbag from a student who was out with friends
MORE than 50 older people tucked into a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings thanks to big-hearted local groups. The treat for older residents of East Thirsk has become an annual tradition at the community hall in Hambleton Place. Local
YOUNG rugby players turned out in force as part of a sponsored run to pay for their new kit. The York Acorn ARL Team under-15s and under-11s are raising money to pay for matching team wear they can use throughout the year as they currently play
A BAKE-OFF by council officers was one of a number of fundraising initiatives that has raised hundreds for local charities over the festive period. A total of 25 officers at Hambleton District Council donned their pinnies to create show-stopping
POLICE said an elderly woman found in a serious condition at a house in East Yorkshire was not the victim of a crime. Humberside Police were called to the address in The Close, Little Weighton, near Beverley, at just after 8am on Tuesday, where
POLICE were called to check on a New Year’s reveller in York who had slept in a car that wasn’t his. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said the man, believed to be a local man in his twenties, had been out celebrating, and climbed into what
A NEW campaign to highlight how smoking damages the body has been backed by City of York Council. The campaign claims smoking causes a steady decline in a process similar to rotting, with a 25 per cent increased risk of bone fractures, slower healing
A SERIAL hoax caller in North Yorkshire could have put lives at risk, police have said. The North Yorkshire Police control room said the same man had made four 999 emergency calls to the force between 9.15pm and 9.25pm last night. The Press
MORE than 100 people in York and North and East Yorkshire fear this New Year could be their last, if they do not get vital organ transplant in time. Across the region, 125 people are awaiting a life-changing organ transplant, and now the NHS Blood
THE traditional New Year’s Day meeting of the Derwent Hunt was held yesterday. Riders turned out in force to meet for the Derwent Hunt which went across the Ryedale countryside from outside The Hall in Thornton-le-Dale. Speaking to The Press
A SPECIAL Constable killed himself after he believed “fabricated” allegations against him would shatter his life-long dream of becoming a police officer, an inquest was told. David Spencer Briggs, 26, who served as a Special Constable with
REAL-TERM average earnings have plummeted in York over the past six years, according to a new survey. The GMB union’s study of official earnings data showed that average earnings in the city fell between 2008 and 2014, from £24,813 to £24,307.
TWO people were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A and B drugs in York. North Yorkshire Police officers carried out a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act at a house in Gale Lane, Acomb, just before 9am on Tuesday
DOZENS of people took part in a chilly annual tradition at a North Yorkshire seaside town to see in the New Year. The Scarborough New Year's Day Dip is an annual event which has been running for 23 years, and is organised by the Scarborough Lions
Footage of the Yorkshire Evening Press Coney Street and Walmgate buildings discovered in a time capsule buried at the Walmgate site in 1988. Full article and further videos>>
