YORK has been rated the best city in the UK to go out for a date night. As Valentine’s Day approaches, child care firm Care.com has compared the country's 45 biggest cities, looking at the amount of restaurants and cinemas, variety of romantic gift
YORK Acorn ARLC missed out on a plum tie in the Coral Challenge Cup third round draw – but they have been handed a home game and the potential to reach round four. Round three sees Betfred League One clubs enter the competition along with the community
THE company behind plans to build 2,750 homes on a site between York and Knaresborough has revealed that it could heat the development using energy generated by a huge incinerator. Flaxby Park Ltd says its district heating scheme would take steam
AN APPEAL has been launched to help protect an autistic boy who has a compulsion to chew things, including electrical cables around the house. Kai King, eight, of Pocklington, who has no understanding of danger and severe learning difficulties,
POLICE are warning people suspected of committing a crime in East Yorkshire that they won't avoid justice by failing to turn up to court. Humberside Police says its 'small but dedicated team' swings into action when a warrant is issued for a suspect's
THE Burning Duck Comedy Club welcomes Alfie Brown to York on Saturday with his Lunatic show. Brown is on his first British tour after a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe stretch last summer and a November and December run at the Soho Theatre, London
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers moved back into third place in the York Minster Engineering League premier division following a 5-3 win at Kirkbymoorside. Only three top-tier fixtures were played at the weekend because of county FA cup ties - including
POLICE are appealing for information following a burglary that occurred in Acomb, York. North Yorkshire Police said that the incident happened on Holgate Road, at 4.45am on Monday 4 February 2019, and involved an offender throwing a brick into the
FROM new starters to school plays - here are some of our best photos of Scarcroft Primary School through the years.
IRISH stand-up Jimeoin takes an unpredictable route to landing a laugh but ends up with a show called Result!, a positive prediction for his night at York Barbican on Saturday. "The opposite of being slick is my angle," he says. "To look vulnerable
A YORK primary school is doing its bit to help the environment by collecting items that are typically hard to recycle. Poppleton Road Primary School's pupils and staff are bringing in their crisp packets, biscuit and cracker wrappers and oral care
LEEMAN Road is to close near Memorial Gardens for flood defence work to take place. The road will be shut overnight between February 18 and March 1 between its junction with Station Avenue and The Esplanade car park, before closing from April 29
A DRIVER who used a 'laser jammer' to block speed cameras has been jailed for three months and fined £1,500. Michael Twizell, 58, from Dewsbury, was driving a BMW on the A658 near Harrogate when he passed a police camera van last February.
YORK Hospital has lifted visitor restrictions imposed after an outbreak of norovirus. Most visitors were banned from visiting the hospital, with some exceptions, in rules introduced at the end of January in order to contain the virus . Beverley
HUNTINGTON Rovers Reserves were knocked out of the North Riding County FA Challenge Cup after a bizarre quarter-final away at Helperby. The York Minster Engineering League reserve 'A' division team scored six times yet ended up as the losers, going
1 Steve Watson is prepared to be tactically flexible A strict adherence to certain systems has proven the downfall of certain City managers in the past, encompassing Gary Mills’ attachment to 4-3-3 during the club’s first campaign back in the Football
A MALTON firefighter is aiming to run more than 1,000 miles along the America coast in aid of charity. Watch manager Justin Rowe will set off on August 2 from Bar Harbor, Maine, running over 44 days pulling a Burley Nomad Trailer carrying all of
THE scale of the operation to remove an old footbridge across York's River Ouse is revealed in these pictures, released this afternoon by City of York Council. A rail crane was used to lift the old pedestrian and cycle section of Scarborough Bridge
A FAMILY-FRIENDLY forest school based at Millthorpe School in York has bagged two gongs at this year’s Little Viking Awards. Wild Things Family Forest School walked away with awards for best active class and best place for hot chocolate. Wild
MICHELLE BRITTON gamed in 22 darts in vain as her Fulfordgate side lost 5-4 at York John Smith's Ladies' Darts League division one rivals Acomb. Muriel Britton also gamed in 24 for Gate but they were undone by replies from Lauren Farmeary, Jayne
HEAD coach James Ford lauded the impact of "old stager" Graeme Horne in York City Knights' stunning comeback victory on Sunday. The Knights trailed 16-0 at Dewsbury Rams and, having had a couple of tries disallowed, it looked like being one of
YORK Shakespeare Project is looking for performers to take part in Sonnet Walks 2019 in and around the city centre from May 10 to 18 as part of the York Shakespeare International Festival. The walks will be directed by Mick Taylor, who will hold
PLANS for 80 homes to be built on York City's Bootham Crescent stadium have been submitted to the council for consideration. Persimmon Homes is planning to develop the site after York City Football Club moves to the new Community Stadium at Monks
SEARCHES for the missing student teacher, Nicholas Harper, are continuing today. Nicholas, 50, was last seen when he left home in Pickering for his work placement in York on Thursday morning. He did not arrive and his friends, family and colleagues
POLICE have been forced to defend a wanted man - after he was ridiculed online about his haircut Humberside Police want to speak to Emilio Romana in connection with a burglary. Mr Romana's mugshot was uploaded to Twitter and Facebook and attracted
Even the most ardent of Remainers must have cringed when they heard the latest outpourings from Donald Tusk and Guy Verhofstadt. These two, along with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, are surely the best examples of why we should
I read with interest the piece about the closure of the Harewood Whin landfill site and the role of Allerton Park in terms of waste processing (Landfill site to be a flower meadow, February 8). I have visited Allerton Park. The most impressive aspect
A TUMBLE dryer was in flames outside a house in Haxby last night, Sunday. The dryer had overheated, so the owner moved it outside where it then caught fire. Firefighters from Huntington were called to the scene at about 9.20pm and put out the
EMERGENCY services were called to help a man who was reported to be in distress on Millennium Bridge last night, Sunday. Police were called to the scene at about 8.20pm and officers were on the scene within minutes. A spokeswoman for North
AN elderly man was rescued from the river by firefighters. Crews from York and Acomb fire stations were called at about 12.30pm on Saturday to Ferry Lane in Bishopthorpe. A spokesman said the man's boat had broken down in the middle of the
IT was wrestling, but not as I knew it. Watching TV with my nephews a few years ago, I was transfixed, and irked, by the WWE Superstars. “Er, he’s hitting him with a chair. Surely that can’t be allowed!” I cried. “It is allowed. It’s TLC - Tables
WE continue our journey upstream along the River Foss in old photographs from the Explore York collection today, as we promised to do in Yesterday Once More a week ago. Last week we focussed on photographs of the lower reaches of the Foss, around
A group of volunteers are researching new walking trails in Fishergate that aim to get people out and about and meeting each-other. STEPHEN LEWIS joined them "Please pick up your dog poo," says the note scrawled in a child's wobbly handwriting
THERE must be something in the air in York. Because we have some brilliant local historians: volunteers who dig into the city's past and tell people all about it just for the sheer love of it. There are local history groups in just about every corner
PROGRESS is being made on building the new mental health hospital in York. But concerns have emerged that the possible loss of inpatient beds in Harrogate could mean patients who would have gone to that site will have to come to York, leaving fewer
A FORMER councillor has repeated warnings over an accident blackspot on the main road between York and Selby. John Duggan, a former Riccall Parish Councillor, said the most recent accident on the A19 close to Riccall - which saw two people hospitalised
A STALKING victim has spoken out to urge people to report harassment to the police - even low-level complaints. Judith - not her real name - started to be bombarded with unwanted messages after meeting a man at a York social group. She has
