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  • York MP's wife fined and banned after admitting drink driving

    THE wife of a York MP has been fined £398 and banned from driving for 15 months by York Magistrates after admitting drink driving. Victoria Sturdy, the wife of York Outer Conservative MP Julian Sturdy, was more than one and a half times the drink

  • Sir Gary to reveal secrets of global success

    THE man who made the name Yorkshire synonymous with top-class cycling across the world will reveal the secrets of his success on Wednesday. Sir Gary Verity brought the 2014 Tour de France, the annual Tour de Yorkshire, and the 2019 cycling world

  • Wigginton Grasshoppers celebrate North Riding FA award

    WIGGINTON Grasshoppers FC are celebrating receiving the North Riding County FA's Community Charter Standard Club of the Year award. The North Riding FA hailed Grasshoppers as a "truly a community club", and praised their "progressive attitude" -

  • Bridlington evacuation

    BUILDINGS in Bridlington were evacuated and roads closed yesterday afternoon after workmen found a suspicious package. A bomb disposal team dealt with the item which was in an empty house on West Street. During the incident, Humberside Police

  • Plan for beacon and community singing on village green

    A VILLAGE near York is planning a special event to commemorate the Armistice which ended the First World War. Upper and Nether Poppleton Parish Councils are joining together to hold events on the Village Green at Upper Poppleton on both Sunday morning

  • BBC presenter drops in at York college

    A BBC presenter and film crew dropped in at a York college to learn about it’s role in shaping the future of rural life. Anita Rani and the Countryfile team visited Askham Bryan College on Tuesday to learn about how they are teaching students to

  • Road test: VW Arteon

    LOOK around a Volkswagen showroom and you are sure to find something that meets conservative tastes. Even the celebrated Golf in its more extreme forms is hardly trying to poke you in the eye. But VW will occasionally produce a car that is leftfield

  • York pub beer garden makeover plan

    A POPULAR York pub’s beer garden is set to get a makeover. The owners of the Lamb and Lion on High Petergate have applied for planning permission to take down a timber fence and extend their existing patio area, as well as installing new planters

  • Remembrance events in and around York

    YORK is gearing up for events this weekend to help mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Starting on Friday morning, the Ex-Railways Servicemen Association of York is holding a wreath laying service at the Eastern Railways

  • Labour and Lib Dems criticise fire authority takeover plan

    PLANS for Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan to take over the governance of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service have been criticised for a lack of transparency. Cllr Danny Myers, said he is keen to know how much money the PCC is spending

  • GALLERY: York Business Awards: 2017 award winners

    The 26th annual Press Business Awards attracted scores of entries from business of all shapes and sizes, covering a broad spectrum on industries. After many deliberations the core panel of judges whittled the extensive list of entries down to just

  • Police in near-miss drama

    POLICE want to speak to witnesses after a near-miss head-on collision involving two North Yorkshire Police cars and a blue Suzuki Swift. The two marked police vehicles were travelling from Scarborough to an incident in Filey along the A165 at about

  • Bridge repairs 'on track'

    REPAIRS to two major bridges in the Selby area have progressed to the halfway mark and are running to schedule. Repairs to Cawood swing bridge began on October 8, and the bridge is unable to swing for river traffic until the project is complete.

  • Man jailed after sexually assaulting victim in a shed

    A MAN who sexually assaulted a vulnerable woman in a shed has been jailed for eight years. Joshua Barton, 24, from Harrogate, was sentenced at York Crown Court on Monday, November 5, following a four day trial. North Yorkshire Police said Barton

  • York shop giving away 100 books to children

    A YORK shop will give away 100 free copies of a book to the first 100 children to visit on Friday. The Amnesty Bookshop in Goodramgate says it is offering My Little Book of Big Freedoms, an acclaimed children’s picture book featuring illustrations

  • Plaque unveiled in York to game-changing writer

    YORK Civic Trust has unveiled a stained glass plaque in the city centre to the writer Laurence Sterne, 250 years after his birth. The commemorative plaque has gone up in Stonegate, where Sterne’s ‘game-changing novel Tristram Shandy exploded into

  • York school creates tribute to the Fallen

    OLD school uniforms have been put to good use at one York primary school. Children at Dringhouses School marked the centenary of the end of the Great War by recycling school uniforms to create a montage. Pupils from every class in the school,

  • York public toilets to be demolished

    THE toilet block on St Sampson’s Square is set to be demolished. Work will begin to dismantle the building on January 2 2019 according to a planning application submitted by City of York Council. The disused block, which houses several payphones

  • Review: Sense & Sensibility, York Theatre Royal

    Review: Sense & Sensibility, Theatre by the Lake, at York Theatre Royal until Saturday. Box office: 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk THE Lakes Season is a new arrival on the York Theatre Royal calendar, one that hopefully will be repeated

  • Elmet Lions launch Christmas appeal

    ELMET Lions have launched their Christmas toy appeal for the second year. The toys, which must be new and unused, suitable for babies and children of all ages, can be dropped off - unwrapped - at the Spar store in Sherburn in Elmet until November

  • Claims police mental health is being put at risk

    THE mental health of police officers is being put at risk as they are increasingly sent out alone, the Federation has claimed. While support is available for officers within the force, some feel they cannot ask for help, and there are fewer officers

  • YESTERDAY ONCE MORE: Laying electric trams in York in 1910

    OUR picture today shows work being carried out in Station Avenue on one of York's new electric tram routes in 1910. Just one year earlier, the Corporation of York bought the assets of the York Tramways Company and began an immediate modernisation

  • Train station named among worst in the country

    MALTON railway station is one of the worst performing in the country, according to an online ranking site. OnTimeTrains.co.uk gives stations performance scores that are calculated on service punctuality and cancellation frequency. The site ranked

  • Jo Peel unwraps bittersweet history of chocolate in York

    JO Peel will launch her Kid In A Sweet Shop chocolate-city exhibition at the Art Of Protest Gallery in York with a question-and-answer session tomorrow evening from 7pm. The Sheffield urban landscape artist will be exhibiting 15 new original paintings

  • Man hurt in pub fight

    A MAN had to be taken to hospital after a fight at a York pub. North Yorkshire Police were called to "reports of a number of men fighting" at the Clifton Hotel, in Water Lane, at about 7.45pm on Friday, November 2. One man in his twenties was taken

  • The Unthanks go back to roots at Pocklington concert

    WHERE does a band go, after a symphonic journey that peaks with orchestral performances at the Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall? The answer, say North Eastern folk sisters The Unthanks, is back to the beginning...and to playing Pocklington

  • Cause of devastating York store fire revealed - with video

    THE DEVASTATING fire at a York store last month appears to have been caused by discarded smoking materials within the rear loading area, fire chiefs have revealed. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service said that a joint investigation into the

  • Controversial Persimmon CEO steps down

    THE controversial boss of York-based housebuilders Persimmon has stepped down, due to the "negative impact on the reputation of the business" following a £100m bonus. Jeff Fairburn hit the headlines earlier this year after uproar from politicians

  • RU: Comeback win lifts Nestle Rowntree out of bottom 2

    NESTLE Rowntree RUFC climbed out of the bottom two in Yorkshire Four (South East) thanks to a narrow 28-26 comeback victory at fellow strugglers Stanley Rodilians. Rowntree travelled hoping to avenge a one-point defeat to Stanley at home and they

  • Shop landlords warned over high rents in York's Coney Street

    RENTING a shop in Coney Street is three times more expensive than the cost of moving into a shop in Goodramgate, according to council officers, who said landlords will need to “adjust their expectations”. But they said a number of companies have

  • York set to become country's first 'gigabit city'

    AN INTERNET provider's ultra fast broadband has now reached 20,000 homes and businesses across York. Residents in Chapelfields, Foxwood, Dringhouses and Woodthorpe can now connect to 1 Gigabit per second internet speeds as TalkTalk ramps up the

  • ON THIS DAY: November 7

    From our archives: 85 years ago Mr E K Spiegelhalter, of Malton, had been made an honorary member of the council of the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians. Only two members in England had received the honour since the foundation of the Institute

  • The Press Camera Club: November 7

    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