MICHAEL FAFERA has made the perfect start to life as a professional boxer. York's newest pro pugilist, light heavyweight prospect Fafera won his debut bout on Friday night against Zac Thompson at the Elland Road banqueting suite in Leeds. Thompson
POLICE searching for a missing sex offender say he could be in North Yorkshire. Norman Ormerod is wanted for recall to prison after he went missing from an address in Clitheroe on August 2, and failed to attend probation appointments. He was last
THE family of a nine-year-old girl who died in North Yorkshire have raised almost £5,000 in her memory. Harriet Forster, from Bicester, died when she was struck by crumbling rocks in Staithes in August, while on holiday. Her funeral was held
TRANSPORT leaders have called on the Government to keep their promises over £3bn improvements to railways in the north. The Transport for the North Board met in Sheffield this week to discuss the Government’s five-year plan to upgrade the Transpennine
ANDREW Gale hailed the fighting spirit shown by his Yorkshire side as they bounced back from early strife in the Roses match at Emerald Headingley to secure a huge victory in their fight against Specsavers County Championship relegation. Yorkshire
JUNIOR football players from local league clubs will get free admission at York City’s Junior League Day this Saturday. The club is staging the event as part of a series of initiatives designed to strengthen bonds with the community and attract
CLEOPATRA herself is getting ready for a major event in North Yorkshire, as preparations for the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show get underway. The Plants Of Pleasure exhibition at this year's event will explore 'love potions' and their floral ingredients
WATCHING whales, fish and even sharks is good for health and wellbeing, according to researchers from the University of York. And scientists from the institution will be using technology to test the effects of watching marine life on visitors to
OPPORTUNITIES for budding interior designers are still up for grabs at an upcoming annual event for York’s art lovers. The Art& show is billed as an accessible and affordable art show and offers collectors and amateur art lovers alike chance
CONSERVATIVE councillors in York have opposed Government plans to speed up the planning process for fracking. The Conservative group replied to a national consultation on the issue, calling the plans "wholly inappropriate" and saying they may "damage
A 22-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before York Magistrates' Court on Thursday, September 13, accused of attacking a 71-year-old woman in the street. Jack Slater, of no fixed address, and formerly of north York, is charged with causing actual bodily
A NEW store is set to open at York Designer Outlet tomorrow - with free goody bags for the first 100 customers. A branch of accessories and clothing brand Kate Spade is due to open at the shopping mall on Friday. And McArthur Glen, which runs
WORK has begun on a new 150-bedroom “high-end” hotel next door to the Grand Hotel in York city centre. The former Aviva building, Yorkshire House on Rougier Street, will be converted to a Malmaison hotel featuring a sky bar on the top floor with
NHS staff will hold a two-day strike in York later this month. More than 200 members of union Unite were balloted over whether to hold action due to an ongoing dispute. The ballot was set up after disputes over the trust’s move to form a Limited
SELBY Leisure Centre is looking for new teams to join their Monday night six-a-side league, starting in October. Teams of all standards are welcome as there are different divisions on offer. The 40-minute games will be played on the large pitches
THE next phase of upgrade works to York's outer ring road is set to go ahead after it was approved at a council meeting. Improvement works will take place at Monks Cross roundabout as part of the £38 million scheme to reduce traffic jams. It will
A CHURCH facing potential closure is holding a harvest Flower Festival as part of its fundraising push to stay open. The church of St Mary and St Lawrence in Rosedale Abbey in the North York Moors needs £90,000 to secure its future. As part of
A BLOCK of toilets could be converted into offices for a coach company. Plans have been submitted for part of the public toilet block in Union Terrace car park on Clarence Street to become offices for Acklams Coaches. The toilets closed in
We've rummaged through our archives to update the Millthorpe School photo gallery. A further 71 photos from 2014-2018 have been added and the gallery now contains 186 photos from the 1980s to now.
WHAT a devil of a good idea! The York Mystery Plays ventured into new territory on Wednesday when taking over Shambles Market for the evening for the first time. At the invitation of Make It York, the York Festival Trust and the Guilds of York added
A SCHOOL’S involvement in a nationwide environmental project has contributed to a prestigious award win. Bishop Wilton primary was one of 260 schools across the UK chosen to take part in a three-year pollination project, Polli:Nation. The aim
THE Ocean Film Festival World Tour will return to York next month. A brand new selection of films have been selected for the event, which will take place at York Barbican on October 23, including seafaring adventurers rowing the oceans, surfers
AN INDEPENDENT brewery with a bar in York has extended its free beer scheme. BrewDog, which has a venue in Micklegate, is giving drinkers in York the chance to swap any mainstream lager for a pint of its new headliner beer, Lost Lager. Initially
QUEEN Victoria? Wasn't she a little old lady, spherical in shape, dressed in black, perpetually grumpy? Historian Lucy Worsley wants to make you think again in her illustrated talk at the Grand Opera House on Tuesday night. In Worsley's Queen Victoria
A NEW lavatory designed to support families and carers of disabled people who require the use of a hoist, changing bench and/or a centrally located toilet has opened at a York shopping centre. The Changing Places Facility is situated close to the
NORTH Yorkshire motorbike racer Sam Holme has enjoyed his "strongest race of the year" in the seventh round of the British Superbike championship. The Elvington speedster is currently 29th in the overall standings, having only recently gotten rid
JOSH Law has admitted he felt his York City career was over before Sam Collins took over as caretaker manager at Bootham Crescent. The 29-year-old utility man has played every minute of Collins’ temporary reign, having only managed two substitute
YORK CITY Knights is to stage a special charity masters game in aid of two brave siblings - and it’s a real family affair. Seven former players will be lining up for the charity match, including former forward Darren Crake and his three brothers
YORK City caretaker manager Sam Collins believes he has the better squad of players ahead of Saturday’s home clash with undefeated Kidderminster Harriers. The in-form visitors took four points from a possible six against the Minstermen last term
A COUPLE who met while working at the same bank have celebrated 60 years of marriage. Albert Langton, known as Chas, 89, and Marguerite, 86, worked together at Martin’s Bank in London. They married on August, 30, 1958, at St Barnabas Church,
SUNDAY is the second chance to see all 11 plays in the 2018 staging of the York Mystery Plays on pageant wagons, promenaded through the city streets in an age-old battle between good and evil. Last weekend's opening performances at The Green, The
A BID to reopen a Norton footpath which has been used by generations of people has been backed by the town council. The path, which is in a disused car park next to Karro Foods at the bottom of Parliament Street, was blocked off in July. However
SEVERAL valuable bikes have been stolen from a garage in Rawcliffe. Police said the theft took place from a home on Rosecroft Way between Sunday and Wednesday. Anyone who saw anything suspicious has been asked to call 101 and officers added
OUT of the Blue and into the Grand Opera House for a third time in his parallel acting career goes pop singer Antony Costa. He is to star in the lead role of Stacee Jaxx in Rock Of Ages, the musical comedy with “serious rock’n’roll debauchery”
A MAN was found collapsed in the ground of Bootham Park Hospital. Police officers said they discovered the man, who was "diabetic and in a bad way". Update to follow. Collapsed male found in the grounds of the old Bootham Hospital
MALTON’S Castle Garden is holding an open morning tomorrow, Saturday, to showcase work recently carried out. The event, from 10am to 1pm, will feature Fairtrade and environmentally-friendly goods, plant and book stalls run by volunteers from Norton
IMAGINE setting out on writing your 82nd play. Is there not a risk of running out of new ideas? Not in the world of Alan Ayckbourn, whose 82nd work, Better Off Dead, is concluding the the summer season at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre, the
PEOPLE are once again being given the chance to see behind the scenes at the yards of some of Malton’s best known racehorse trainers. As part of the Malton Festival of Racing on Sunday, leading figures in the northern racing industry, including
YORKSHIRE took a giant step towards safety in Division One by completing a come-from-behind Roses victory at Emerald Headingley. The White Rose county comfortably defended a target of 230 to beat Lancashire by 95 runs and leave their arch-rivals
RYEDALE District Council (RDC) has voted decisively for fracking planning decisions to be made at county level - and to reject Government proposals to automatically allow gas prospecting. The vote decided the authority’s response to a Government
NEWSFLASH DUE to unforeseen circumstances, An Evening with Aggers & Tuffers at the Grand Opera House, York, is being postponed from tomorrow until October 14 2019. "The producer, Aggers and Tuffers would like to apologise profusely for
BETRAYED by his wife, a king decides to reap his revenge on womankind by bedding, then slaughtering, one virgin every night, but then he meets Sheharazade. So runs the story of The Crick Crack Club's One Thousand And One Nights, performed by Egyptian
THE Vale of Pickering Art Club’s annual exhibition is taking place this week at the town’s memorial hall. There will be a wide range of original art works for sale, which incorporate a variety of techniques and media. The exhibition is raising
Congratulations to all of the amazing runners who made this year’s Great North Run such a huge success, with a special thank you to the 370 brave runners who took part on behalf of Diabetes UK. Huge thanks also to the Team Diabetes UK supporters
Technology happiness came about when they gave you a TV remote, It can turn you on your favourite films and soaps on which you dote, But joy oh joy it can also switch off things you loath and despise, Like adverts, competitions and politicians
THERE has been so much publicity about Leeman Road and the way the National Rail Museum will take it over to expand, forcing vehicles to drive alternative routes and pedestrians and cyclists on a route around the museum. Surely Leeman Road is a
WITH the police being under such pressure that much crime as it has been historically understood - eg assault, burglary, theft - goes ignored, except for issuing a crime number for insurance purposes, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the definition
YORK City have reduced admission prices for the FA Cup second qualifying round home clash with Ashton Athletic a week on Saturday. Only the Main Stand and David Longhurst Stand will be open for the 3pm kick-off and entry will cost £10 for adults
FIREFIGHTERS have freed a man who was trapped in a car which overturned in a crash on the A64 this morning. North Yorkshire Police said it was called to the collision involving two cars near Sand Hutton at 8.20am, and fire crews and paramedics
THE time and location for a play due to be performed in East Yorkshire later this month has changed. A performance of Mikron Theatre Company’s Revolting Women, which celebrates the women who took a stand for the right to vote, was going to take
First we had ‘Tiger Mums’ - mothers who channel all their energies into raising a superchild. Now we have ‘Tiger Wives’, who focus all their drive upon their husbands, to ‘maximise their potential’. These women push their men by micro-managing their
THE eyes have it ... at least they do in four of our photos in today's selection of Press Camera Club offerings. The eyes of Graham Breeze's fox are intent; those of Andy Gordon's Mandarin duck seemingly unaware. Karen Gilks' barn owl seems oddly
CARETAKER boss Sam Collins has welcomed the battle for places on York City’s bench. With Sean Newton expected to return to the fold for this weekend’s home clash against Kidderminster after five games out with medial ligament damage and Alex Kempster
GREEN Party councillor Denise Craghill has urged City of York Council to reconsider plans to reduce its mental health support line provision by two thirds. Council service, 22 The Avenue, provides mental health support for adults, but the authority
A LICENSING hearing over a major new York restaurant has been cancelled just days before opening. Michelin Starred chef Tommy Banks, who runs The Black Swan at Oldstead - the world’s best restaurant, according to TripAdvisor - is due to open Roots
CAMPAIGNERS protested at York Hospital on Wednesday over the proposed transfer of NHS facilities staff to a subsidiary company. Members of unions Unite and Unison have been handing out flyers to staff and patients at the entrances to the hospital
A POPULAR Harry Potter-themed shop in York is doubling in size. The Shop That Must Not Be Named, in Shambles, has drawn so much interest since opening a year ago that visitors are often seen queuing outside the shop. Two further Harry Potter-themed
THOUSANDS of students could be left struggling to find a GP if a York healthcare provider is not taken out of special measures at a crucial review. Paula Tunbridge, the University of York's director of campus life and well-being, voiced concerns
AN AMATEUR boxer who broke a man’s jaw during a Christmas Eve family gathering has been jailed for 22 months. Christopher Lewis, 26, forced his way into the house where his former girlfriend was with other members of her family on December 24,
The CPS has dropped charges against three people arrested during anti-fracking protests near Kirby Misperton last autumn. Edward Charles Timothy Thornton, 34, of Middleton, near Pickering, was charged with obstructing a police officer and endangering
WORK is set to be begin on a multi-million-pound flood scheme in East Yorkshire. A ceremony will be held today to mark the start of construction on the Pocklington Flood Alleviation Scheme (PockFAS), which is designed to reduce the risk of flooding
WOULD you like to see your photographs on this page? More than 1,000 readers have joined The Press Camera Club, which launched in June 2017 and brings together talented amateur photographers from across York and North and East Yorkshire to share
From our archives: 85 years ago Two important decisions had been made at the Quarterly Court of Governors of York County Hospital. On recommendation of the House Committee it had been agreed that the building of the new out-patients ward should
