A YORK College construction tutor has received an MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list. Stephanie Stead received the award for her services to the Architecture and Construction industry. She said: “I am absolutely thrilled to have received
A CAT who was shot on two separate occasions has died. Police are investigating after the animal was believed to have been shot by an air rifle on January 7 in Eggborough. The cat was found at the bottom of Greenacres near council land. Police
THE FULL line-up of speakers for the Visit York annual tourism conference has been revealed. The 2019 conference will be held on Thursday, January 24 at York Racecourse, where 300 delegates from across the tourism sector in York, Yorkshire and beyond
A HISTORIC church in York is set to undergo a £3.5 million renovation - including a new roof and rebuilt bell tower. St Michael Le Belfrey, in High Petergate, opposite the Minster, is now looking for architects to take on the ambitious brief and
A POSSIBLE merger of coroner's offices will be considered by councils. North Yorkshire County Council and City of York Council say the proposed merger from three to two offices would improve standards, and the Executives of both will look at options
SKATERS enjoyed their final pirouette on the ice rink last weekend as Yorkshire Winter Wonderland closed for another year. Now in its fourteenth year, the seven week-long event remained as popular as ever, welcoming 51,000 skaters over the Christmas
AMERICAN songwriter, guitarist and bluesman Chris Smither invites you to beat the winter blues at Pocklington Arts Centre on January 29 on his Call Me Lucky Tour. Smither will perform songs from his2018 album of that title, as well as digging deep
YORK band The Howl & The Hum will follow up Saturday''s home-city headline set at the Fulford Arms's fifth anniversary grassroots music week with their biggest tour to date. Among the 16 shows from January 17 to February 5 will be Yorkshire
HE may be famous for his television interviews with the great and the good, but Sir Michael Parkinson will talk about himself instead at the Grand Opera House, York, on February 19. What’s more, keeping it in the family, he will be interviewed
A MAN who was found with injuries on the A19 near the York Designer Outlet is being dealt with by the Home Office. North Yorkshire Police arrested the man, thought to be in his thirties, on suspicion of entering the UK illegally, following reports
A POWER cut at Vangarde shopping centre is set to last until 6pm tonight. A spokeswoman for Northern powergrid said a company accidentally damaged an underground cable at the site. In a statement they said: "Just after 11am today a power cut
DOZENS of concerned residents met with representatives from City of York Council and North Yorkshire Police over vandalism by youths. The Press reported last week that sheds, structures and plants had been destroyed or burned in Scarcroft Allotments
YORK musician Lucy Castro and her band Coldharbourstores are to release their latest album, Vesta, on March 1. "Having lived away from York for some years, I'm now back living and working in the city, teaching voice and singing for individuals
A YORK charity is challenging local people to take on an Apprentice-style challenge in February to raise vital funds. The fourth annual St Leonard’s Hospice Accumulator Challenge begins on February 2 and teams are being encouraged to sign up now
YORK City’s new manager Steve Watson will start work at Bootham Crescent on Monday after resigning from his position in charge of Gateshead. The former Newcastle and Everton right-back, who played under the likes of Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish
DETECTIVES have appealed to garages, body shops and mechanics for information after a hit and run left a motorcyclist with serious injuries. North Yorkshire Police want to speak to anyone who has repaired a silver car with no rear bumper since Sunday
THIEVES broke into a York house. North Yorkshire Police said the burglary happened between 3.30pm and 6pm on Wednesday, January 9, at a house in The Link, Copmanthorpe. A spokesman said a small amount of cash was stolen, and urged residents to
IN the 1950s when television became available to most households, we youngsters were told that if we watched too much TV we would end up with “square eyes”. Will our present youth generation be afflicted with “digital finger” in the future? Geoff
Well said A V Martin on the recalcitrant rail unions causing the mess the railways are in today (Is cash for rail network a priority?, Letters, January 8). Just think of how much money the fat cats would have enjoyed without these pesky unions.
HOMEGROWN favourite Kriss Brining could yet be on his way "back home" to York City Knights - if finances and fitness allow. It was reported two months ago that the 25-year-old hooker was more likely to stay in the full-time arena following his
What a boring world it would be if everyone fulfilled their New Year resolutions. Exercising regularly, everyone would be super-fit, slim and trim. We would all be jogging daily and making the most of gym memberships. Eating healthily, people
SHERIFF Hutton’s Mick Easterby will host the first fixture of the 2019 Yorkshire Point-to-Point season on Sunday. The Yorkshire Area Point-to-Point Club will donate a proportion of the day’s profits to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, having raised
NEW Year, new start. So what else could we possibly set as the theme for the January Press Camera Club competition than... #newbeginnings. It is a theme that can be interpreted many ways - and camera club members have been doing just that. Entries
YORK Indoor Bowls Club progressed into the national Yetton Trophy quarter-finals after beating Houghton 108-56 courtesy of three winning rinks. York now play Barwell at the neutral venue of Newark IBC a week on Saturday. At Thanet Road, Dot Kennelly
A CHILDREN’S charity has called for hundreds of children in York to be recognised as victims of domestic violence. The NSPCC said up to 22,609 children around Yorkshire and Humberside - including 261 living under City of York Council and 319 under
RESIDENTS are invited to have their say on parking in the city at a meeting tomorrow. A task group will meet at West Offices at 4.30pm for informal discussions about residents’ parking schemes. Councillors are planning to look at how the current
YORK Hospital has re-advertised for a chief executive in an ongoing search for a permanent boss which has so far taken eight months. The trust has circulated an advert seeking a replacement for former chief executive Patrick Crowley, who stepped
A HISTORIC railway station could be reopened as a park and ride station after being bought by a development company. Goldsborough railway station would be reopened as Flaxby Parkway Station, after developers Flaxby Park Ltd bought Goldsborough’
A DRUG-driver who led police on a high-speed chase on the A64 and through York has been jailed by a judge - who said it was “incredible no-one was injured or killed”. Waqar Hussain, 25, failed to stop for police when driving a Toyota Auris on the
