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AFRICAN-BORN printmaker Amanda Roseveare celebrates jazz and blues greats, BB King, Muddy Waters et al, in her debut Pocklington Arts Centre show. Her work once featured in the stage backdrop at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert at Wembley

YORK Inset Scooter Club held a quiz evening at a Heworth pub to raise funds for the York Normandy Veterans to support performances of the play ‘Bomb Happy,' about their wartime experiences. "The evening at the Walnut Tree raised £170 for our honorary

YORK City Knights gave one of their best performances in recent times last week in walloping "bogey team" Barrow Raiders - but it hasn't stopped head coach James Ford tweaking his team for Sunday's big test at Bradford Bulls. Ford says second-row

YORK youth homelessness charity SASH is calling on local residents and businesses to support its annual sleepout, which takes place this year in the grounds of Bootham School on Friday April 5. Community fundraiser Jenna Goodridge says the event

A NEW 143-bedroom hotel and a six-storey apartment block will be built on Piccadilly after plans were given the green light. The former Infinity Motorcycles shop and car park opposite Spark:York will be demolished and a Hampton By Hilton hotel

Review: An Evening With Sir Michael Parkinson, Grand Opera House, York, February 19 SIR Michael Parkinson is 85 not out, a score that would have delighted him in his days opening the Barnsley batting against York with Dickie Bird. Parky and Dickie

PLANS for 77 homes on the former Del Monte site in Skelton were given the go-ahead - despite councillors’ fears that residents will have to cross the A19 without a signalled pedestrian crossing. Barratt and David Wilson Homes has applied for planning

A MAN has denied breaking a cyclist’s wrist by deliberately driving at him and knocking him off his bike. William Status Heslop, 32, is accused of causing serious injury to the cyclist by dangerous driving. He was charged following an incident

CONSTRUCTION vehicles are endangering schoolchildren’s lives, destroying the road and damaging people’s cars, according to residents living near a development site. The council’s planning committee discussed proposals for 40 new homes to be built

STEVE Harley knows how to make an impact. "You know I'm nursing a broken hip?" says the Cockney Rebel leader at the outset of his latest catch-up with The Press. "I completely broke it in half." Ouch. "You know what they do?" he asks. No? "They

YORK’S Bootham Park Hospital is to be sold by the Government, despite the huge campaign to develop an alternative plan for the site. York Central Labour MP Rachael Maskell said it was ‘unforgivable’ that more than 8,000 people who signed a petition

WORK is still on-going as part of a £1.1million upgrade to The Stonebow, Fossgate and Pavement in the centre of York. The diggers moved in this week and City of York Council said the street will be closed for a further five weeks to improve

YOUNGSTERS can improve their football skills and enjoy free food and refreshments this half-term as part of efforts to combat food poverty in York. Tackling food poverty and isolation has become a key priority for York City Football Club (YCFC)

YORK & District Schoolboys Under-14s lost a sixth consecutive game, going down 4-0 at Sheffield in their regional league. The visitors had a tough time in the first half, going two down playing uphill and against the wind, before twice being

NETWORK Rail has apologised after wrongly warning that a Selby level crossing will be closed to traffic and pedestrians for four days next week and again in March. The organisation wrote to local residents earlier this month to say it needed to

A NEW cafe and community space could be created in the pavilion in Hull Road Park. Cllr Hilary Shepherd is inviting residents to have their say on the plans, which she says could see an under-used building turned into a much-needed centre for people

CALUM GOODWIN was on top form for University ‘A’ against Topspin ‘B’ in division one of the Red Goat York & District Table Tennis League. Though Topspin’s Adam Ridley secured an excellent victory over York Closed men’s singles champion Tsz Tang

PLANS to revamp a North Yorkshire airfield have been given the go-ahead by Hambleton District Council. Proposals were approved to refurbish and replace ageing hangers, develop a clubhouse with bedrooms and catering facilities, and create new taxiways

Ariana Grande, thank u, next (Republic) ***** ON release, thank u, next (kindly note the lower-case styling) is well on the way to becoming a greatest hits collection. As of this week, not only have the album’s first three singles have all reached

ALDI stores across the city are donating surplus food to York-based charities as part of a trial to help support vulnerable people. Each store will focus on giving its stock to specific charity working in a similar area, with the store on Fulford

Review: Jimeoin, Result!, York Barbican, February 16 JIMEOIN likes to crack on with his gigs and gags. No warm-up act at 7.30, instead two sets for ex-pat Irishman Jim, long settled in Australia, where he arrived as a gardener but soon found everything

YORK City boss Steve Watson has argued that the new community stadium will prove a big attraction for potential summer signings even though it won’t now be ready for the start of next season. The Minstermen had been scheduled to receive the keys

FRANK Carter and The Rattlesnakes conclude their February tour at a sold-out Fibbers in York tomorrow night (doors, 7pm). This will be the first chance for Carter’s York fans to hear songs from this spring’s new album, End Of Suffering, his cri-de-coeur

TOURISM businesses with something to shout about are being urged to enter the Visit York Tourism Awards. Excellence within the industry will be recognised at a celebration evening on Thursday, June 20, rewarding outstanding service, innovation

STAFF from York’s Mecca bingo club will be donning trainers, dusting off bikes and digging out swimming costumes as part of a new initiative to mark the five-year partnership with charity, Carers Trust. The partnership between Carers Trust and the

A PICKERING firm has seen sales of one of its products go through the roof after it was featured on social media. The Dustpan and Brush Store, based on the Thornton Road Industrial Estate, specialises in supplying cleaning items. Tom Thorp,

DANIEL Pedras, Matt Overton and Robbie Bettson could not prevent York City Futsal from only sharing the FA Super League spoils against a Southend side, who hadn’t picked up a point all season. The Essex visitors took a surprise second-minute lead

THE Fastpack York Sunday Morning League division two leaders Thorpe United are into the semi-finals of the League Cup. Kieran Dinsdale, Kyle Hesling and Nathan Sedman were all on target as Thorpe knocked out division one outfit Hambleton, for whom

DUNNINGTON took a massive step towards a second successive Yorkshire Premier League squash title as their victory – and defeat for second-placed Hallamshire – opened up an imposing gap at the top. With four games of the season left, the York club

THE rebel MPs comprising the new Independent Group have yet to agree on what to call their new party. If they are true to the real reason for their breakaway, they will call themselves the European Union Party (EUP). The public will then say

I entirely agree with Keith Massey (Letters, February 20) about the diabolical way traffic is shunted around leaving York station. This congestion is worsened when commuter arrivals from west, east and north of York arrive almost simultaneously,

I never thought that I would say this, but well done City of York Council. By deciding to restore the Guildhall you are sharing the vision of the generations of public spirited citizens who made our city the global treasure that it is today (Guildhall

STAFF at Yorkshire Building Society in York are celebrating after helping to raise more than half a million pounds for its charity partnership with End Youth Homelessness (EYH). EYH is a national movement to end homelessness among 16 to 25-year-olds

THREE police officers were allegedly assaulted when they attended a disturbance in York this morning (February 22). North Yorkshire Police said it was called to the disturbance at about 6.45am in a pub on Lowther Street. Officers entered the

A MAN has died in a crash in North Yorkshire. Police were called to a two-vehicle collision on the A170 between Helmsley and Sutton Bank at around 7am today. The fire and ambulance services also attended the crash, which involved a Citroen

YORK City will entertain a Nuneaton Borough side in disarray on and off the pitch at Bootham Crescent tomorrow. Jimmy Ginnelly – Nuneaton’s third manager this season – has warned that the bottom-of-the-table club could go bust within weeks unless

NORTH Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan has raised concerns over Tory treatment of female politicians after failing to win automatic selection as the party's candidate for the role at the next election in 2020. Conservative

REPORTS on social media claim children have allegedly been approached by someone in a van in York. A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said the force received reports of a suspicious van in the Acomb area of York at around 6.45pm yesterday.

STEPHEN LEWIS delves into a treasure trove of architects' drawings and engineers' plans that reveal a York that was never built YOU will never have been to the stunning art deco municipal baths in Cromwell Road, nor to the equally impressive ones

The decision to deprive Shamimia Begum of her British citizenship has implications for every British citizen. It shows just how easy it is for a Home Secretary to take away rights which we regard as automatic, including the right to live in this

A KIND-HEARTED York boy will mark his 11th birthday by raising money to help fund a ground-breaking leisure and training centre for youngsters with disabilities. James Hall who has autism has invited dozens of disabled children to his party on

MAJOR improvement works are set to begin this summer at Clifton Moor and Wigginton Road roundabouts on the outer ring road - and residents are being invited to have their say on the designs. The £38 million scheme to improve the A1237 and reduce

THE longest-serving trader in the York street once dubbed ‘Britain’s best high street’ is retiring. After 54 years in business, Robin Wetherill of Bishopgate Antiques at the top of Bishopthorpe Road will retire next month. He’ll be sad to go

YORK rail passengers faced huge delays on the East Coast Mainline last night following a fatality on the tracks. Trains heading from London to York were halted for more than two hours at Newark after a person was hit by a train at Retford.