SIX-TIME European Tour title-winner Simon Dyson is “taking a step away from competitive golf” as he focuses on his new performance business. The North Yorkshire golfer has set up Elite Golf Performance to help players with the mental and technical
A LOYALTY scheme that rewards customers for shopping locally could be launched in York. For every £1 spent in independent shops and cafes, 70p stays in the local economy, but this falls to 5p for every pound spent online or at a chain store, according
ALEX Kempster has welcomed the opportunity to illustrate his versatility in front of York City’s new boss Steve Watson. The 23-year-old attacker played the first half of Tuesday night’s 6-1 North Riding Cup win against Redcar Athletic in an advanced
AS temperatures drop this week, many readers have shared concerns about people sleeping rough. But what can you do to help? Here's where you can turn to help those with nowhere else to go. Ask yourself first, does the person need emergency
THE four Yorkshiremen, known collectively as Row4Victory, have less than 500 nautical miles left to reach the finish line in their gruelling race across the Atlantic Ocean. The team are due to reach English Harbour in Antigua on Monday January
POLICE are appealing for information after more than £2000 was stolen from a shop on Coney Street. North Yorkshire Police said that the incident occurred between 6pm on Sunday, 23 December and 8am on Monday, 24 December after those responsible entered
YORK City’s new manager Steve Watson is unlikely to field a back three for his first senior game in charge at in-form Stockport on Saturday. The former Everton and Newcastle defender experimented with a defensive trio in the second half of Tuesday
ASTRONOMERS will be on the look out for a spectacle in the skies on Monday morning as a total lunar eclipse takes place. Commonly known as a blood moon, the celestial event will see the moon temporarily change to a reddish colour which should be
ON-LOAN Harrogate Town midfielder Liam Agnew will have more to prove than most York City players during tomorrow’s National League North clash at Stockport. Agnew’s one-month spell at Bootham Crescent will end after the Edgeley Park trip, meaning
POLICE are appealing for help in identifying a man they want to speak to after an engagement ring worth more than £6,000 was stolen from a jewellers in York. The theft happened at around 4.30pm on Saturday, December 15. A man is said to have entered
FISHERGATE Local History Society's first talk of the year will be looking at the historic connection between Fulford and writer Jane Austen. Society member Allan Francis will be giving an illustrated talk on the links he has researched between
TWO teenage burglars who threatened a pregnant woman with a knife have been jailed for more than three-and-half years each. The 16 and 17-year-old were sentenced to three years eight months each in a young offenders' institution at York Crown Court
A DATA analyst could one day manage a football club as tactical information becomes more sophisticated and relevant, it was claimed today. In the wake of the Spygate row, Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa called an impromptu media briefing
THE victim of an aggravated burglary has spoken of his family’s shock and distress over the terrifying incident. Mark Muankeaw, whose family own Tui’s restaurant in Malton, was at home on his own in Dickens Road, when a gang of four men carried
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted in York earlier today. The incident occurred at around 12.40am this morning on Coney Street. The woman, in her 30s, suffered a minor head injury as a result of the assault and was taken
MUMS, children and workers at a York refuge have thanked generous Press readers for giving them ‘real joy’ on Christmas Day by backing our Toys & Tins Appeal. Hundreds of toys, teddies, dolls, games, books and balls were donated to the annual
ONE of the country’s first police commissioners to take charge of the way a fire service is run has revealed how she intends to slash the salary of a leading role. North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan said the county
STRUGGLING with your New Year's resolutions and in need of a boost? Help inspire others by sending us your before and after weight loss pictures. Tell us your story - include your full name, where in York or North Yorkshire you live, how much
DAVE FLETT enjoys a week of Atlantic views, volcanoes and exercise during a family break to the Canary Islands I REALLY like exercising but enjoy food more. With a metabolism that has slowed down in my mid-40s, this has proven problematic when
SNOW has started falling in North Yorkshire and York today after temperatures plunged overnight. North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service station manager Tony Walker has tweeted a video of snow falling in Scarborough, adding: "Winter has arrived
WHO’D have thought a simple wooden railway carriage could make for such a powerful image? We all know what the carriage in Shane Harrison’s photograph represents, however. It comes freighted with horror, and with reminders of the worst that mankind
Stephen Lewis wrote like a classical poet with his article regarding the battle to save our Askham Bog (The battle to protect ‘irreplaceable’ Askham Bog, January 11). The increase in our population in one way or another has caused the hunger to
Whatever the result of the farcical Brexit proceedings, two aspects stand out; first, 17 million voters wish to leave the EU - no ifs and buts, just leave and regain our sovereignty. Secondly, our political class are appalled at the thought of sovereignty
“When are we going to get the house fixed up?” This is the number one question asked by both my daughters when they come home to visit. I am tired of hearing how their student digs are more comfortable than our home. “Soon,” I always answer, knowing
YORK Green Party’s Andy D’Agorne will give a talk to the Friends of St Lawrence tomorrow about his life as a York councillor. Cllr D’Agorne, one of two councillors for Fishergate ward, is the city’s longest-serving Green Party councillor and was
YORKSHIRE Ladies held their nerve in a thrilling Atherley Trophy quarter-final to beat Nottinghamshire 133-107. Playing at Gedling IBC, the White Rose picked up 24 shots while only dropping five over the last three ends to progress to the last four
A LANDLORD and his company have been ordered to pay nearly £5,000 after he was convicted for the second time of having a too-noisy pub. Paul Edward Harris, 50, told York magistrates in July 2016 he was leaving The Clockhouse, off Kingsway West,
A TEENAGER who relieved himself against a church gate faces a £514 bill. Osian Pickering, 19, of Tang Hall Lane, York, did not answer his summons to York Magistrates Court. He was convicted in his absence of urinating in public at Holy Trinity
POLICE, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan has refuted allegations made over inappropriate activity on social media. Mrs Mulligan is awaiting the findings of an inquiry by North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Panel following complaints
CUSTOMERS at a York restaurant have helped raise vital funds for a blood cancer charity by eating its chocolate bauble dessert. Skosh, on Micklegate, decided to raise funds for Myeloma UK, a charity close to the heart of the restaurant’s owner
THE boss of an unhygienic takeaway where staff had filthy aprons and prepared food in sweatshirts and jogging bottoms will learn his punishment next month. Conditions at New Bodrum on Bootham were so bad, environmental health officers gave zero
DID you welcome into the world a bouncing bundle of joy during 2018? We have been asking readers to send in pictures of their newborns - and we were inundated with pictures from proud mums and dads in York and the surrounding areas. Now we
A BUILDER who fly-tipped building waste near the house of a man who he had argued with has been given a court bill of nearly £2,000. Victoria Waudby, prosecuting for City of York Council, said council officers told Richard Michael Booth, 34, the
EVERYMAN is to operate a new four-screen cinema in Northallerton. The company, which already runs a cinema in York - the former Odeon and Reel cinema in Blossom Street - will be involved in the £17 million Treadmills development at the former Northallerton
