A 'KINDER surprise' awaited police making a drug arrest in Bridlington - a Kinder egg stuffed with 32 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine. Humberside Police said the egg, nearly £400 in cash and a 6 inch long lock knife were seized on Saturday morning
York Outer MP Julian Sturdy has urged the Home Secretary to remember the need of the region’s rural economy for seasonal workers from Europe as he designs the UK’s new post-Brexit immigration system. The government is currently piloting a seasonal
THE Scottish Fiddle Orchestra will return to York Barbican for the first time since 2013 for an evening of Scottish music, ranging from jigs, reels and tone poems to well-known songs and slow airs on October 26. Sharing the stage with the SFO's
DID you know that the Yorkshire Wolds is the site of a meteorite fall, the largest to be observed crashing to the Earth? Or that the Wolds plays host to the oldest horse race in the country, the Kiplingcotes Derby, a race run every year since 1519
TOURISTS could be asked to pay £1 a night to stay in York - with the money raised spent on tackling anti-social behaviour and cleaning up the city centre. The city's Labour group has put forward plans for a voluntary tourist levy. The fee would
THE YORK-BASED Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust have together been named as one of the most inclusive employers in Britain by the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall. They rank 67th in the charity's
POLICE are shocked after arresting a driver three times in three days for failing roadside test drugs tests. One officer tweeted after the arrests in Scarborough: "Unbelievable! The driver of this vehicle in Scarborough has now been arrested 3 times
A CASE of mistaken identity led to the boss of a North Yorkshire hospice being mistaken for the man appointed as the next Huddersfield Town boss on live television. Lifelong Manchester City fan Martin Warhurst - chief executive of Martin House,
A WOMAN suffered a suspected injury to her pelvis in a crash in an East Yorkshire town. Humberside Fire & Rescue Service said the single vehicle collision happened at 6.44am today in Pocklington. It said one female casualty was assisted
Review: Ahir Shah, Duffer, Burning Duck Comedy Club, The Basement, City Screen, York, January 18 AHIR Shah’s show Duffer wades through the messes we make, politically and personally, with an abundance of charm and easy-come (never easy-go) wit.
THE North York Moors National Park’s Inspired By...Gallery at Danby will be the only northern English venue for The Lost Words nature exhibition this summer. On tour from Compton Verney Art Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, from June 15 to July 29,
A COMMEMORATIVE plaque to the York Suffragettes will be unveiled in the city centre next week. The plaque is being installed at 36, Coney Street - now occupied by The Entertainer toy shop but once the headquarters for the York branch of the Women
POLICE are investigating a spate of thefts from vehicles in York. It happened overnight in the Clifton Green/Burton Stone Lane area, North Yorkshire Police said. Officers have been conducting targeted patrols today following the thefts.
THIS video was of this morning's eclipse was shot by Dmitry Purgalvis. Commonly known as a blood moon, the celestial event saw the moon temporarily change to a reddish colour which was visible across much of York and North Yorkshire between 3.33am
1 Steve Watson won’t accept players failing to follow instructions Any manager can abide certain individual imperfections if his players do all that is asked of them on the football pitch. Since his appointment, Steve Watson has regularly stressed
THE Royal Horticultural Society is seeking photos of wartime vegetable gardens as it prepares to mark 80 years since the outbreak of the Second World War and the Dig For Victory campaign launch. This autumn, at its library and gardens, such as
THREE wards at York Hospital have been closed to visitors. An outbreak of norovirus has led to the closure of two wards - wards 28 and 37, while ward 36 has been closed due to patients suffering from flu. The hospital has urged people with
WHITBY artist Kate Smith will be on hand at this evening's launch of exhibition at Village Gallery, Colliergate, York, from 5pm to 8pm. Refreshments will be served. Kate, an Art& Raw Talent finalist in 2018, works mainly in oils applied with
Tesco has rolled back the price of Freddo chocolate bars to just 10p for one week in response to calls from the public. The treat, which is made by Cadbury, will be reduced from 26p to 10p from Monday January 21 in Tesco stores. It follows repeated
HUNDREDS of lanterns and candles will illuminate York’s Rowntree Park and its lake in March - and people are invited to get involved by dedicating a light to a loved one. The special Lights on the Lake event replaces the Candles on the Ouse event
THE weather is cold, we're still waiting for pay day and all your New Year's resolutions have gone out of the window. Experts reckon these are the reasons why today is the most depressing day of the year also known as Blue Monday. But in a
A SECONDARY school in York has earned national recognition for its outstanding careers work. Vale of York Academy in Clifton, York - formerly Canon Lee - has been awarded the national Quality in Careers Standard by Prospects. The national Quality
AWARD-WINNING York pianist Sarah Beth Briggs releases her ninth album this month: a programme of Schumann and Brahms solo piano music for AVIE Records. "The disc also celebrates the centenary of the great scholar pianist Denis Matthews, who spent
A NEW campaign to highlight the dangers of stalking has been launched by North Yorkshire Police. According to the force's No Matter How Small campaign, 96 per cent of victims are stalked by someone they know, 55 per cent by former partners, and
YORK residents have the chance to remind themselves of the "consequences of unbridled bigotry" later this month in a series of events to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This year marks the the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda when between
CONDITIONS were near perfect in the skies over York this morning for viewing the total lunar eclipse. Commonly known as a blood moon, the celestial event saw the moon temporarily change to a reddish colour which was visible across much of York
A TEAM of North Yorkshire rowers have battled across the Atlantic in a gruelling race. Known collectively as team Row4Victory, they finished fifth in their epic 3000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic
THERE’S always been something a bit naff about the glossy Gillette adverts, but the message was clear. Use these shaving products and you too can be a strapping hunk in the boardroom and on the sports pitch. You can be athletic, smart, and sensitive
RESIDENTS are being asked to be vigilant after a man tried to get into a house in Tadcaster while pretending to be a police officer. North Yorkshire Police said the man went to a house on Stutton Road on Friday at around 5.20pm requesting access
A cafe with a difference has opened up in Hull Road Park LUXURY hot chocolate, teas and coffees, homemade soup, burgers and bacon butties are all on the menu at a little-known cafe in the middle of Hull Road Park in York. The cafe, in a temporary
THE fact that City of York Council is to build 600 new homes (The Press, January 17) is good news but not good enough. Only 240 of these homes will be affordable, and some of these will have shared ownership. All 600 should be council houses for
City of York Council considering ways to encourage loyalty to independent retailers is appropriate. It is amazing that, for every £1 spent in an indy shop, 70 pence is spent locally. This compares to 5 pence from chain stores (The Press, January 18
I believe that a fundamental difference between leave and remain lies in knowledge and interpretation of our history. To remainers it began 40 years ago; to leavers it stopped 40 years ago. As a leaver I am proud of the fact that, although our vast
IT had been suggested by City of York Council that they were going to look into problems created by the trees in Parliament Street – mainly the rise and fall of paving stones and the associated trip hazards caused by the ever expanding root balls of
A TOTAL lunar eclipse gave early risers a spectacular start to Monday. The "super blood wolf moon", as it is being referred to, saw the moon temporarily change to a reddish colour and was visible in York, as this picture by Lewis Outing shows,
YORK City’s new manager Steve Watson has challenged his players to give Bootham Crescent a “proper send-off”. After 87 years as the club’s home, the much-cherished venue is now scheduled to host just nine more Minstermen matches before this summer
ONE person was taken to hospital after a crash in York this morning (January 21). It happened on the A19 Shipton Road and involved a car and a motorcyclist, North Yorkshire Police said. The force was called to the collision at 7.10am. The
There has been a big response to the photograph of a 'mysterious wooden structure' near York Minster which we carried in Yesterday Once More last week. And it is safe to say the mystery is now solved. Several readers have been in touch to say that
This looks like fun... For 20 years or so, the annual raft race on the River Ouse was a highlight of the summer calendar. More than 50 craft would often take part, competing to see who could finish a designated course (which seems to have changed
A WOMAN described the moment she chose to drive when three times the drink drive limit as “the worst decision I ever made.” Abigail Brogan was swerving across the carriageway and went through a red light as she drove along Shipton Road at 2am on
LOUIS Moore looks like any other healthy seven-year-old, full of energy and rosy cheeked. But his mother revealed today that he owes his life and health to heart surgeons who operated on him both when he was a baby and in 2017. The Kirk Hammerton
THE family of a York brain tumour victim has launched a £30,000 appeal towards the cost of undergoing specialist treatment abroad. Emily Nicholson, 24, says her cancer has spread to a part of her brain which surgeons cannot reach, and her only
APPLICATIONS have been opened for civilians to join North Yorkshire Police at Inspector rank without having any previous police experience. Direct Entry was introduced by the Government in 2013 so members of the private or commercial sector could
IT might be Blue Monday, the bleakest day of the year, but these pictures might cheer you up. Among the photos taken by members of The Press Camera Club over the past few days is a beautiful image of snow falling over York on Friday night, a rainbow
A YORK woman has told how her life was transformed after teeth implants allowed her to smile again. Pamela Penney, 74, from Holgate, underwent extensive dental work to replace all of the teeth in her top jaw with implants after gradually losing
