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  • York club evacuated after fire

    A CLUB in York has been evacuated tonight due to a fire. About 50 people were evacuated from York Railway Institute in Queen Street at about 8.20pm after reports of a small fire, believed to be in an office on the first floor. One witness at

  • Thieves stole tractor and flat bed

    THIEVES stole a John Deere tractor from a North Yorkshire farm. The JD7530 tractor, in standard green and yellow, registration FX07NWY, was stolen in a break in at a rural location near Wighill, Tadcaster. Thieves also stole a blue Stewart flat

  • Car fire on A64

    A CAR fire is causing heavy traffic on the A64 tonight. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service are at the scene of the fire in a lay-by on the eastbound carriageway close to Middlethorpe. It is not yet clear whether anyone was injured in the

  • Review: The Nutcracker, Northern Ballet, Leeds Grand Theatre

    The Nutcracker, Northern Ballet, Leeds Grand Theatre, until December 16. Box office: 0844 848 2700 or at leedsgrandtheatre.com NORTHERN Ballet artistic director David Nixon has enjoyed a long relationship with Tchaikovsky’s ballet, well into a

  • Can you help identify this man?

    POLICE have released the image of a man they want to speak to following criminal damage in Harrogate. North Yorkshire Police said that a man damaged a vehicle, parked near to the restaurant William and Victoria, on Cold Bath Road on September 27

  • Burst lorry tyre causes A64 problems

    A LANE of traffic on the A64 was blocked after a lorry tyre burst. North Yorkshire Police were called to the eastbound carriageway at about 1.30pm on Thursday after a tyre on the Volvo articulated lorry burst, leaving it resting on its wheel rim

  • Children's author signing books in York

    CHILDREN'S author and poet Christina Gabbitas will be signing books in York this weekend. Christina, from Selby, created Triangular Trev and the Share Some Secrets book, used by the NSPCC to help protect young children by explaining the difference

  • Driver, 82, crashed into bus stop

    AN 82-year-old man passed out at the wheel of his 4x4 and hit a bus stop in York. North Yorkshire Police, paramedics and a North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service crew were rushed to the scene in Poppleton Road, Acomb, at about 11.45am on Thursday

  • On O2 and unable to get online? Here's why..

    MOBILE network O2 has said it is investigating a technical fault that has left thousands of mobile customers unable to get online. UK customers have reported not being able to use mobile data to access the internet and other services on the company's

  • Seagull 'mugs' councillor for his cheese straw

    A SCARBOROUGH councillor was attacked by a seagull while attempting to eat a cheese straw. Cllr Godfrey Allanson (Con) told Scarborough Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Board he and his granddaughter had twice been ‘mugged’ by birds in Westborough

  • SURVEY: How have changes to health services affected you?

    A HEALTH watchdog is conducting a survey to give local residents a chance to have their say on how changes to services have affected them. Earlier this year Healthwatch York asked people what they would like the watchdog to look at this year.

  • Review: Roy Wood Rock & Roll Band, Grand Opera House, York

    NOW playing across Britain on their 2018 tour, the Roy Wood Rock & Roll Band were in York on Tuesday to spread a little Christmas cheer. Inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in New York only last year, Roy Wood is widely known as a

  • Review: Canary at Visionari Studio Discoveries festival

    YORK Theatre Royal has had a very full diary this autumn, accommodating, for example, the annual TakeOver Festival and two new additions, The Lakes Season with Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake and the Visionari’s debut programme of Studio Discoveries

  • Teenager injured in accident near York

    A TEENAGE pedestrian has been injured in an accident involving a car near York this morning. North Yorkshire Police said it was contacted at 8.17am by the ambulance service to reports of a collision between a Renault Clio and a 17-year-old female

  • Rowntree Players ready to roll out rollicking panto

    HOWARD Ella returns for his tenth year of writing and producing Rowntree Players' rollicking romp of a York pantomime, working alongside regular co-writer and performer Andy Welch once more. However, in a change at the helm for 2018, another Rowntree

  • Appeal after tractor stolen from farm

    THIEVES stole a tractor from a farm near Selby. North Yorkshire Police has appealed for witnesses after a farm in Wistow Lordship, near Selby, was targeted at just after 9pm on Monday, December 3. A spokesman said the stolen tractor was a John

  • Raiders target cash machine in York

    POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a cash machine was damaged in York. The incident happened at the Co-op on Tang Hall Lane around 3.30am. In a statement, North Yorkshire Police said: "We were called to the Co-op shop on Tang Hall Lane

  • LETTER: Overpopulation is the root of our problems

    LETTER: Overpopulation is the root of our problems WE can go through all the same old patter again, and come up with ideas to combat global warming again. But the root problem is the same as with most of the world’s problems, one that seems to

  • Car ploughs through hedge at York primary school

    A CAR has driven into a hedge outside Elvington Primary School. In a statement, North Yorkshire Police said: "We received a report at 7.42am today that a car had driven into a ditch on Dauby Lane, Elvington." Yorkshire Ambulance service confirmed

  • LETTER: Pavement parking is a real problem

    Glad to read (York drivers could face stiff fines for parking on pavements, Press online, December 3) that the city council are in favour of making parking on the pavement illegal in York. Pavement parking is more than just an “inconvenience” -

  • AND THE WINNERS ARE: 7 classic modern black and white photos

    COLOUR is wonderful in a photograph. It adds warmth and flesh and tone. But black and white photographs have their own power, too. Leach away all the many shades of the rainbow, and you are left with something that is starker and more austere. It emphasises

  • COLUMN: We should leave this remote tribe alone

    It’s very sad that missionary John Chau was killed by a tribe cut off from the world for 30,000 years. But the American knew what he was getting into before he set off for the remote island of North Sentinel in the Bay of Bengal. Visitors are not

  • Big hearted youngsters help York Foodbank this Christmas

    YOUNGSTERS at a York school are helping to replenish supplies at a foodbank this Christmas. Pupils at Yearsley Grove Primary School have been bringing in food and Christmas treats for York Foodbank. Every child from all 15 classes has contributed

  • Investigation launched into York woman's hostel death

    A CHARITY has launched an investigation into the death of a woman at one of its York hostels, amidst claims that her life could have been saved. Changing Lives said it was working with police and conducting its own ‘serious and untoward review’