COUNCILLORS have backed proposed changes to a 650-home development in York - but a parish council is to seek a barrister's advice on whether it can challenge the decision in the High Court. City of York Council's planning committee voted 12-3 tonight
Review: Dave Gorman, With Great PowerPoint Comes Great ResponsibilityPoint, York Barbican, October 10 DAVE Gorman is not your standard stand-up comedian. He is more scientist than artist, he loves the minutest minutiae, theories and statistics
THERE's Room on the Broom at RHS Harlow Carr this half-term. Families can go on an adventure trail, based on the bestselling book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, to help the witch find animals to take a ride on her broomstick. Also on
DESCRIPTIONS have been released of two suspects following an attack in York. North Yorkshire Police said the assault happened between 1pm and 1.30pm on Wednesday near McColl's in Gale Lane, Acomb. The first suspect was a white man, six feet tall
A SCHOOL in East Yorkshire is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and former pupils and staff are invited to attend a workshop to share their memories of their time there. Woldgate School in Pocklington opened its doors for the first time
THIS is what a pop-up Viking hall venue in York city centre could look like if City of York Council gives the project the go-ahead. Bifrost Entertainment is planning to build a Viking-themed theatre, featuring a great hall and courtyard performance
ALISTAIR Griffin's songs have soundtracked some of the nation's biggest sporting moments and even a royal wedding. Now the York singer -songwriter is to take his uplifting anthems on tour . "With sell-out shows in Manchester, London and Bristol
THE Art Of Protest Gallery, in York, is bringing Scarborough duo Static back to their northern roots for their first solo exhibition in their home county. On show from October 19 to October 31 at the Little Stonegate art space, their Born &
A FREE event to provide support and information for people diagnosed with the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma is to be held at a York hotel. The cancer patient information event, hosted by law firm Irwin Mitchell, Mesothelioma Support Yorkshire
A YORK shop owner was victim of his own success, when he was injured by his business award while preparing his new shop. Phil Pinder, who owns Cuffs & Co, was moving goods from his shop in Shambles to his new, bigger shop in Goodramgate on
THE telephone service to a York GP practice is working again after a fault at a local telephone exchange was fixed. A spokesman for Unity Health said patients struggled to get through to its surgeries earlier this week because of phone problems
MORE than 150,000 bulbs are set to be planted near Hull Road. Residents are invited to get involved by helping plant some of the bulbs near Badger Hill Primary School on Saturday morning. Many of the flowers will also be planted along the verges
A SHERBURN schoolboy had his hair cut to raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Dominic Sutton, 10, had his long locks shaved in an assembly at Hungate School, Sherburn-in-Elmet, last month. His mother, Claire, said: “Dominic started
HE may have been there, Dunn that, but York actor Andrew Dunn could not resist the invitation to strip again for "the final ever ever ever UK and Ireland tour" of The Full Monty. He returned to Sheffield Theatres' touring production of Simon Beaufoy's
HERE is a show you should not be missing. Suffolk physical theatre company Gecko make their Yorkshire debut at York Theatre Royal with a four-day run of artistic director Amit Lahav's play Missing from October 17 to 20, promising "visual, visceral
HARROGATE District Hospital is taking an eye-catching approach to promoting the organ donor scheme. To encourage people to join the donor register, lifts in the main entrance have been decorated with a striking message. The lift 'wraps' have
THE ever-evolving York gallery According To McGee has undergone a particularly colourful transition for its latest exhibition, Smash! Visual Art ReGrooved. UK urban art, contemporary ceramics and, most glaringly, a bright yellow facade herald the
Take a step back in time with a look through our gallery of photos of past and present pupils at Headlands Primary School in Haxby.
A CELEBRATION of Victory in Europe will be the theme of this year’s Railway in Wartime weekend Run by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), the event will run from Friday to Sunday. During the three-day event, each station along the NYMR
PLANS to build a large-scale housing development in East Yorkshire have moved a step closer to receiving the green light. A reserved matters application was submitted to East Riding of Yorkshire Council by Linden Limited, JG Hatcliffe Associates
A FUNDRAISING evening is being held on Friday to raise funds for Hovingham village clock. The clock was built in Leeds by W Potts and Son in 1879 and currently has to be wound up by hand every six days. Murray Stewart, one of the clock winders
A YORK GP practice has won a national award for the work its done to improve end of life care. Priory Medical Group has been working to improve the end of life care for its patients - increasing by a third the number of patients fulfilling their
ACOMB Bowling Club members have played the last game at the club’s home of more than a century. The club – which was founded in 1900 and is thought to be the oldest in York – has been struggling for membership and has sold off its land to a property
A YORK mother whose daughter regularly skips school has claimed education staff and social workers don't help her. Victoria Waudby, prosecuting, said the 13-year-old girl only attended a quarter of the sessions she should have done at her school
YORK City boss Sam Collins is looking for his team to improve their defensive standards at Southport on Saturday. The Minstermen only conceded five goals in their opening eight matches of the campaign but have shipped seven in their last three
POLICE are concerned for the welfare of two teenagers missing in North Yorkshire. Sophie Thornton, 16, and Darren-Lee Wilkinson, 17, have been missing from Scarborough since this morning. A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said Sophie was last
MAXINE GORDON visits a York hotel as it marks its 30th anniversary WHEN Irene and Andrew Cossins opened the Pavilion Hotel in York 30 years ago they were entering a new chapter in the history of this site on Fulford Road that dates back to 1785.
A MOTORCYCLIST has been taken to hospital following a crash in York. North Yorkshire Police were called to the roundabout at Monks Cross Drive where a motorcyclist had crashed, close to the junction with Jockey Lane. A police spokesman
RESIDENTS in Selby have been invited to meet their local PCSO on Friday. PCSO Elise Breeze, from North Yorkshire Police's Selby Town Neighbourhood Policing Team will meet the public at the Chatterbox Community Café in Finkle Street between 8.30pm
IT is a feature of Brexit that most Leave voters, and a few Remainers, prefer parading emotions to engaging with factual information. No surprise therefore that Trevor Scott (“It is clear why 17 million voted leave”, Letters, October 3) ignored
Stories are often reported in the papers about bad care homes. I would like to report a good care home. My mother-in-law went into Birchlands Care Home in Haxby 18 months ago, following a small stroke which left her unable to care for herself.
ON Monday, the experts at the IPCC made it extremely clear that there is no time to lose to drastically cut our carbon emissions, or risk leaving a dreadful mess for our children to try to deal with. Back in the 1980s I started studying waste and
TWO people have died in a light aircraft crash in East Yorkshire. Humberside Police said a search was launched on Wednesday evening after reports a plane had come down one mile short of the runway at Beverley Airfield at 7.30pm. In an initial
“What was I talking about before?” I had been discussing something with my friend, but had suddenly gone off on a tangent and then forgotten the original topic. This is something I do regularly, and is probably as frustrating to anyone on the receiving
IT IS little wonder that autumn is the season which most inspires poets, artists and all those with a sensitive soul to the heights of rapture. Just look at the colours on show in these photographs from members of The Press Camera Club. Keats put
CITY of York men's first team are still looking for their first win of term after slipping to ninth in the North Hockey League premier division following defeat to Deeside Ramblers. The promoted Minster city outfit failed to build on last week's
THE Holgate Clubbers team won the York Super 7s Bowls tournament for a fifth time by beating Railway Institute Locos 6-2 in the final at the Institute Green. The annual end-of-outdoor-season competition is open to members of recognised clubs playing
A RETIRED taxi driver claimed he “hasn’t a clue” why he has been accused of abusing four girls of the same extended family, a court heard. Keith Ryman said three of the girls were lying when they gave evidence against him at York Crown Court.
THE Charity Commission has launched a probe into two charities which help fund pupils at a private school near York – and stripped trustees of their duties. The commission said there were "clear and ongoing serious regulatory issues relating to
ONLY seven per cent of homes in the York Central development will be truly affordable for people on low and moderate incomes, a retired town planner has claimed. Richard Clark said that while 20 per cent of homes planned for the massive site behind
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 A new record had been set up by the Graf Zeppelin which had arrived at Friedrichshaven from South America after its latest crossing of the Atlantic. The famous airship had only taken 71 hours, less than three days
