LEALHOLM have retained the newitts.com Beckett League crown. The reigning champions won 6-0 at Rosedale in their final game of the league campaign to finish with 13 wins and two draws from 16 fixtures. Second-placed Kirkbymoorside thrashed Snainton
YORK is the best city in the UK for mobile phone coverage, according to a new app. The yboo app was set up to offer "personalised network recommendations to ensure users can access the best signal strength", by analysing data on usage of minutes
A NEW fleet of electric, double decker buses is set to arrive in York this year. City of York Council and First York announced on Monday that the city would "soon be home to one of the biggest fleets of double deck electric buses outside of London
YORK City assistant-manager Micky Cummins has insisted nobody at the club should be thinking about their beach holidays yet. The 14th-placed Minstermen currently lie 16 points above the National League North relegation zone, but eight adrift of
TWO masked men stole items from a delivery vehicle. North Yorkshire Police said the theft happened in Crab Lane, Harrogate, at 7.45am on Monday, March 18, and involved two men who wore balaclavas. One was described as a white man in his twenties
STORYTELLER, poet and scriptwriter John Osborne will perform two shows in one night at Pocklington Arts Centre on Wednesday as he celebrates radio, records and the Radio Times. The BBC Radio 4 regular will combine John Peel's Shed, his tribute
ACHIEVING the best in teaching and learning through the use of innovative technology will be the focus of a free conference hosted by a York-based education technology company on Wednesday. Vital York Limited, who are based in Huntington, are inviting
A CAMPAIGN to raise money to help treat a sick child has reached the halfway mark. Last September Freddie Thompson, three, was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that affects 100 children a year. Freddie’s Fight is celebrating
YORK City trio Jon Parkin, David Mirfin and Kallum Griffiths will all need late fitness tests ahead of tomorrow night’s trip to FC United of Manchester. The players all started Saturday’s 2-2 home draw against Boston United, with Parkin lasting
THIEVES stole a quad bike from a farm near Selby. North Yorkshire Police said the Suzuki Eiger 400 all-terrain vehicle was stolen from the garage of a farm in Balne Moor Road, Balne, overnight on Sunday, March 24. The stolen bike was red and
A NEW service has been launched in York and North Yorkshire, offering businesses and organisations coloured waste bins designed to blend in with their surroundings. York Minster has become the first organisation to sign up to the ‘Heritage Bins
MARK ARTHUR has told Yorkshire’s members he expects the Hundred to be a “roaring success”. The county’s chief executive revealed some interesting details about the ECB’s new competition, which starts next summer, at the county’s annual general meeting
THIEVES broke into a house in Bishopthorpe Road. The break-in happened overnight on Sunday, March 24, and the thieves stole a blue Skoda Yeti, registration YL65 MXT, as well as a television and an iMac computer. Anyone who saw anything suspicious
POLICE want to speak to these men after a bank card was stolen in Selby. North Yorkshire Police said a card was stolen from a car belonging to a woman in her seventies as she returned her trolley in the car park of Morrisons on Friday, March 1,
A MAN suffered a broken leg in a serious assault. North Yorkshire Police said an ambulance was called to assist the victim in Foss Island Road, near the former Carpet Right store in York. The 47-year-old needed extensive hospital treatment,
HEAD coach James Ford reckons York City Knights have bounced back "pretty well" from previous defeats - and can do so again this time. The Knights' five-match winning streak in the Betfred Championship ended on Sunday in a 24-16 home defeat to
A LOCAL charitable trust has donated £5,000 to a charity close to one of its employee's hearts. Pancreatic Cancer UK is among the first wave of good causes to receive a grant from The Pavers Foundation, which was set up by family-owned shoe retailer
SHEFFIELD poet Genevieve Carver and her band The Unsung will headline Say Owt's Poetry and Music Fusion bill at The Fulford Arms, York, on April 11. Originally from York, Genevieve will perform A Beautiful Way To Be Crazy, for which she interviewed
A 40-year-old man has appeared before York magistrates charged with starting a fireball that destroyed a fish and chip shop. Lubos Filek, of Barlby Road, Selby, was not asked to enter a plea to a charge of arson with intent to endanger life or being
A FORMER finance manager at the University of York has appeared before the city’s magistrates charged with stealing from his ex-employers. Adam Gyrth Regis, 51, is alleged to have stolen items worth together £15,853 while looking after the finances
CHURCH Fenton will meet Old Malton St Mary’s in the final of the York FA Saturday Senior Cup after beating Dunnington 4-3 in a thrilling semi-final. Dunnington, who sit sixth in the York Minster Engineering League premier division, went 1-0 up on
HUNTINGTON Rovers beat Dringhouses 3-0 in the tie of the York Minster Engineering League Senior Cup third round. Rovers, second in the premier division but now well behind leaders Old Malton St Mary's, enjoyed a return to form against the side
Late last year, BOB ADAMS set out to walk the length of the River Foss, starting from York's Blue Bridge. Here, we catch up with the second two legs of his journey, from Haxby to Sheriff Hutton... Haxby to Strensall. Walked October 2017. Distance
BURGLARS damaged gaming machines and stole cash after breaking into a casino in a North Yorkshire town. North Yorkshire Police said two men got in to Admiral Casino in Selby at 2.20am today and returned at 4.30am. A spokesperson said any witnesses
FRONTMAN Billy Mitchell and founder member and drummer Ray Laidlaw present The Lindisfarne Story, an affectionate and enthusiastic celebration of the long-running Geordie folk group, at Malton's Milton Rooms on April 2. Written and performed by
Review: The Ebor Singers, Tenebrae: Music For Holy Week From Rome, Chapter House, York Minster, March 23 AS the weather finally becomes warmer and we leave the long winter behind, York’s Ebor Singers presented a seasonal, if slightly early, concert
RELEGATION-THREATENED Sporting Knavesmire enjoyed a convincing 3-0 win over Kirkbymoorside in the weekend's only York Minster Engineering League premier division fixture. While cup competitions took centre stage in the league, Knavesmire continued
A VEHICLE has collided with two pedestrians in a North Yorkshire town. North Yorkshire Police appealed today for witnesses and information about the collision, which happened in Malton last Thursday. A spokesperson said the force received reports
A FOOTBALL team's recent appeal for support in The Press has prompted a local care home to take action. The appeal from Strensall Tigers was spotted by Gill Conroy, owner of Apple Tree Care Home. Gill said: "We have been in Strensall for many
1 City’s dearth of natural wingers is being exposed Steve Watson has previously alluded to the lopsided nature of his inherited squad with a disproportionate number of centre-backs in the building and another unimaginative display against Boston
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and failing to stop at the scene of a crash on the Selby bypass. North Yorkshire Police said that incident happened 3.20pm yesterday on the A63 Selby bypass, at the roundabout with the A1040,
CONGRATULATIONS are due to the organisers of Spark:York on their recent award (The Press, March 21). Would it be too much to ask that they use their financial gain to add the wood cladding to the unsightly and graffitied containers agreed as part
POLICE have released a CCTV image of a car they are trying to trace following an alleged hit and run crash in York, and are urging the driver to come forward immediately. North Yorkshire Police said the crash happened on Tadcaster Road, at the junction
ON Thursday, City of York councillors passed a Green Party motion to put York into a Climate Emergency. This was wholeheartedly supported by all the parties. In the Second World War, the UK was faced by a threat in the form of Nazi Germany. The
IT’S good the Brexit negotiations have been named after the most famous street in York: the Shambles! We have ended, as I feared, in this complete mess. What a travesty. Prime Minister Theresa May delivers an 11th hour broadcast to the nation
A few weeks ago, we carried in Yesterday Once More a series of photographs of the annual York Raft Race on the River Ouse. The race was staged to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI). Typically, more than 20 teams would take
DAMIAN Cruden may be leaving York Theatre Royal this summer but he is not leaving York. He will be signing off from his 22-year tenure as artistic director by co-directing Arthur Ransome's Swallows And Amazons's run from July 26 to August 24, while
A LANE was closed on the A1 northbound in North Yorkshire this morning following a crash. Highways England said the crash happened between junctions 48 (Boroughbridge) and 49 (Dishforth). It added that lane three was closed between the junctions
A MAN will appear in court today charged with arson in connection with a fire at a fish and chip shop in Selby. He will appear at York Magistrates Court this morning, charged with arson with intent at Abbey Fisheries, on Gowthorpe, on Thursday
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a fire to a farm vehicle in a village near York yesterday evening (March 24). Crews from Huntington and York were called to the incident in a field in Dunnington at 6.20pm and when they arrived they found a fork-lift teleporter
A YORK school is the first in the region to join a national trial to close school streets to cars. St Barnabas CE School in Jubilee Terrace will be car-free for one day as part of the two week cycling charity Sustrans' Big Pedal challenge, the
IT is “absolutely critical” that York Central gets planning permission at a meeting this afternoon, according to the leader of the council. Cllr Ian Gillies, speaking at a meeting on Thursday, said about £70 million of government funding for the
UNBELIEVABLE volunteers, hardworking residents and awe-inspiring young people will all be recognised at the 2019 York Community Pride Awards. The nominations are now open for the annual awards, which honour the city’s unsung heroes. The awards
A ‘FOR SALE’ sign has been put up at a York school - but all is not as it appears. The sign was put up at Lord Deramore’s School this week as part of a project for Year 6 students, who are studying newspaper writing. Teacher Helen Smith said
A DRINK driver who subjected his girlfriend to a terror ride that began with her half in and half out of the car and ended with a high-speed crash into a telegraph pole has been jailed. York Crown Court heard a recording of the woman screaming
THE winner of the 2018 Person of the Year award has been urging people to send their nominations in for this year’s York Community Pride Awards. Former surgeon Prof Steve Leveson, who co-founded the charity York Against Cancer in 1987, was handed
