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  • Crash at North Yorkshire roundabout

    EMERGENCY services have now left the site of a crash near Selby. The incident happened close to the Wishingwell hotel on the A63 roundabout between Selby and Camblesforth. In a tweet Station Manger for Scarborough District Fire and Rescue,

  • 'Women Helping Women' raises £700 for local organisation

    WOMEN of the Rotary Club of York came together last week to celebrate International Women’s Day and raised over £700 support local organisations. The event, entitled Women helping Women, was organised between the Rotary Club of York and the Two

  • Six schools compete in York Chocolate Challenge

    SIX schools and colleges from the York area competed in the first York Chocolate Challenge. The event, hosted by York Cocoa Works, was held in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week. The challenge, run by local business Time2Resources, saw

  • Homes will be built on York school playing fields

    PLANS for 12 homes to be built on part of the playing field at a top York independent school have been given the green light - despite opposition from neighbours. The Mount School wants to dispose of an unused portion of land at the bottom of its

  • Historic Waterloo display to raise money for charity

    THERE is still time visit the Battle of Waterloo in miniature which finishes today. The display at St Olave's Church in Marygate Lane, which is recreation the Battle of Waterloo by using over 5000 painted figures, is being held to help raise funds

  • CAMERA CLUB: Your pictures

    WOULD you like to see your photographs on this page? More than 1,400 readers of The Press have now joined our Camera Club, which we launched in June 2017 and which brings together talented amateur photographers from across York and North and East Yorkshire

  • Plan to create new community garden in York

    PLANS are afoot to turn a forgotten corner of a York neighbourhood in to a community garden. The Lanes Community Garden is a bid by a group in Clifton to transform a triangle of derelict land at the end of Pembroke Street in to a green oasis for

  • York St John University launch 2019 lecture series

    A NEW series of lectures will launch on next week on the about the wonders of science from a theological perspective. This year’s Ebor lectures at York St John University will take the theme of ‘Science: Wonder, Gift and Challenge'. Now in their

  • York City 2 Boston United 2 report, stats and player ratings

    IT took an on-loan Mariner to all but sink York City’s hopes of snatching a National League north play-off place. In truth, though, Steve Watson merits gratitude for having already navigated the Minstermen away from choppy waters this season and

  • Chilton stars as Acorn storm up to third

    YORK Acorn made it two wins out of two on home soil as they overcame a spirited youthful unbeaten Stanningley side, when running out worthy 36-22 winners in NCL Division One. The Leeds side started the contest like a house on fire and a feature

  • Marks out of 10 for York City's 2-2 draw with Boston United

    Adam Bartlett 6 – bystander for long periods of the game and only able to keep out two of three on-target shots Kallum Griffiths 7 – made a potentially goal-saving tackle and always looked to play ball forward David Mirfin 6 – caught out a

  • Banned driver was 'lucky to survive crash'

    A DISQUALIFIED driver who was drink and drug driving four days after he was banned from the roads has escaped a prison sentence. Daniel Peter Webster, 31, "was very lucky to survive" when he crashed a car on Beckfield Lane, Acomb, on October 29