POLICE have issued a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to following the theft of fuel from a service station near Tadcaster. North Yorkshire Police said that the incident happened at Bilborough last October. In a statement, the force said
ONE of York’s oldest Scout groups is set to celebrate its centenary this year with a series of activities, including camping, holding a party, planting a tree and burying a time capsule. 1st Heworth Scouts was formed in 1919, when a group of children
GURKHA soldiers in York are preparing to host a charity curry night. The soldiers, based at Fulford, will host the event at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall to raise funds for the Lord Mayor’s Charities, on Monday, March 25. The event will see
A FIRM of chartered accountants with offices in York and across Yorkshire has been named in the Sunday Times 100 best companies to work for list. BHP, one of the largest independent firms of chartered accountants in the North East, has more than
BERWICK Kaler is returning to the York Theatre Royal pantomime. Oh no he isn't. Well, no, he will not be on stage, but the newly retired dame will be writing the script for Sleeping Beauty. Oh yes he is. Dame Berwick, who hung up his boots
A FORMER York College apprentice will join team UK in the WorldSkills competition 2019. Lewis Greenwood 21, who went to Tadcaster Grammar School, has been selected to join Team UK at the ‘Skills Olympics' in Russia in bricklaying. Another former
MPS from York and North Yorkshire have called for steps to ensure mobile phone coverage in rural areas is improved as promised. More than 40 MPs from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Business, chaired by York Outer Tory MP Julian Sturdy
A SCHOOL has warned parents to be "extra vigilant" after a van approached a child in York. A text was sent out by Poppleton Road Primary School after a parent reported the incident on Friday evening. The text message to parents read: "A pupil
A 70-year-old man who collected and categorised the largest hauls of indecent images of children ever found in North Yorkshire has been jailed. Judge Andrew Stubbs QC told Geoffrey Crossland, the "scale of the depravity" depicted in the 2.2 million
ACOMB Cons Club are hanging onto a slender lead in division one of the York John Smith’s Ladies' Darts League after a clean sweep in the pairs saw them beat visitors Acorn Rugby 7-2. Tracey Farmeary starred with four tons. Burnholme are only
OBESITY levels among York children double between reception and Year 6, latest figures show. A report by City of York Council Health and Well being Board shows that more than eight per cent of school children in reception, aged four or five, are
A THIEF who crossed the country to target York people in pubs on New Year's Eve is now serving 30 weeks in jail. Nirix Stanescu, 19, of Oldham in Lancashire worked with a 17-year-old girl to distract pubgoers and snatch their mobile phones, York
1 Sean Newton is finding redemption since his positional switch On-loan Mansfield centre-back David Mirfin has rightly merited widespread recognition for the part he has played in transforming the club’s defensive fortunes. But, alongside The Press
A NEW organisation is in the process of registering as a charity to bid for the Hungate Community Centre. Originally set up in 2002 as a “voice for the Hungate community’’, before the first brick was laid in the Hungate development, it later became
ORCHESTRAL Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) will play York Barbican on October 27 on their 40th anniversary world tour. The Liverpool electronic duo of Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys will be joined by Martin Cooper and Stuart Kershaw on their travels
FOR somebody who has struggled to erect dolls’ houses in the past, building an igloo on the side of an Alpine mountain seemed a tad ambitious. But the reality of needing to provide an overnight shelter more than 2,000 metres above sea level amid
A CLIMATE emergency should be declared in York, according to the city’s Green Party councillors. The group will also call on council bosses to commit to making the city carbon neutral by 2030 at a meeting next Thursday. Cllr Andy D’Agorne said
Review: University of York Symphony Orchestra/Stringer, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York, March 9 AN UNUSUAL programme linked five songs for baritone and piano with one of the longest symphonies in the repertory. The common denominator was the
SEEKING out different bands meant heading to Fibbers on a blustery Sunday night to see Manchester’s The Slow Readers Club. Having heard a few BBC 6Music airplays, I was keen to find out how this band, who can sell out the 1,500-capacity Manchester
JULIA Mulligan has revealed that she will not stand for re-election as North Yorkshire's Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner next year. In a statement Mrs Mulligan said: "I have taken tough decisions which I firmly believe are the right ones, but
A 70-YEAR-OLD man who amassed one of the largest known collections of indecent images in England and Wales has admitted storing prohibited firearms in a secret underground bunker. When officers raided the home of Geoffrey Crossland in Padside Green
HEWORTH ARLC, after a much-improved performance, came agonisingly close to pulling off their first win of the National Conference League division three season before going down 20-16 to Woolston Rovers at Elmpark Way. The Villagers trailed 10-4
KIND-HEARTED businesses are rallying behind a York primary special school’s plea for sponsors to help fund a residential trip for its children with disabilities. This year Hob Moor Oaks’ Year 6 cohort of pupils is larger than previous years and
YORK’S annual dementia awareness concert, A Night To Remember, takes place at York Barbican on Wednesday, fronted by soul singer, author and campaigner Ian Donaghy. “Dementia used to be somebody else’s problem, but not any more,” he says. “The
ENGLAND Test captain Joe Root has been made available for Yorkshire’s first two Specsavers County Championship matches next month. In a huge boost to the county, Root will start a landmark summer, which includes a home World Cup and an Ashes series
GIVEN the state of the nation, another state-of-the-nation album wouldn’t necessarily be the last thing we all need, but neither would it be particularly welcome. Musicians have pretty much run out of road in terms of pontificating about Brexit
WE seem to have lost our sense of reality. How on earth can folk who live in the middle of the countryside possibly expect an ambulance to arrive in as few minutes as those who choose to live nearer to towns and cities? (Stark difference in 999
THE man at the top of one of York's first school academy trusts has announced he is going to retire. Richard Ludlow has been the chief executive of Ebor Academy Trust since its inception in 2013 and before that was the head teacher at Robert Wilkinson
MY wife Julia came home from work rather perplexed over an incident that happened as she cycled home the other evening along the cycle/footpath on the Clifton Backies. Cycling towards York and on the left hand side of the path she noticed a male
SO, MPs are to get a £2,000 pay rise while those on benefits get nothing. MPs also have credit cards to spend on a lot of stuff, and could buy a Mars bar and claim it back on their expenses. Benefit claimants have £73.10 a week, and this has been
A CAR ended up underneath a pick-up truck in a crash involving at least five vehicles near York this morning. The collision happened on the A19 York to Selby road at Crockey Hill. North Yorkshire Police said officers attended reports of a collision
IF anyone asks you the name of the barracks on Fulford Road, you know the answer, right? Imphal, of course. And very imposing they are, too. The MoD announced plans to sell off the barracks a couple of years ago - along with a host of other Ministry
RUMMAGING around in our archives at The Press, we came across a few old photographs of children playing at New Earswick Primary School. They showed children playing in the school garden; dancing around a maypole; and sitting in a classroom. There
MAXINE GORDON joins the York Rescue Boat team for a Saturday night shift FIREWORKS erupt from Clifford's Tower and light up the night sky as I cross Skeldergate Bridge. The river looks inky black and eerily empty, bar for a tiny light moving slowly
DONATIONS towards potentially life-saving treatment for a young boy are close to reaching £100,000. Compassionate members of the public who have been touched by Freddie Thompson’s fight against a rare form of Neuroblastoma cancer have been raising
YORK train operator LNER says it is working to bring its delayed new Azuma trains into service as soon as possible - but it still can’t say when they will be launched. LNER originally planned to introduce the new fleet of electric trains to the
RESIDENTS claimed new apartment blocks planned for York’s former gas works site are far too large and high - as developers unveiled the first artists’ impressions of the scheme for 700 homes. People living in homes near the derelict nine-acre site
