YORKSHIRE posted their first score of 500 or more in the Specsavers County Championship since 2016 and made early inroads with the ball after tea on day two as they search for victory against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. Gary Ballance completed
DRUGS worth more than £10,000 and £1,000 in cash were seized by police from one house this week. Humberside Police executed a drugs warrant at a house in Marshall Avenue, Bridlington, on Friday, April 12. A spokesman for the force said police
A NEW research and development partnership for Yorkshire's screen industries, called XR Stories, will be launched at King's Manor and The Hospitium in York's Museum Gardens on May 1. The event will include a series of talks and panel discussions
A NATURE reserve in York holds an annual Easter planting and egg hunt community day tomorrow. The event, which takes place between 2 and 4pm at St Nick's Environment Centre, will involve planting wildflowers, craft-making and an Easter egg hunt,
A NEW multi-million pound hotel set to open in the city centre has been told it must employ bouncers on the door on race days. The 118-room Moxy Hotel, set to be built on the former Haymarket Car Park behind the Black Swan pub and next to the Hiscox
POLICE have now identified the woman at the centre of this appeal. .............................. POLICE are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman whose body was recovered from the River Ouse in York city centre. North Yorkshire
POP sensation Ronan Keating will take to the stage near York this summer. The Boyzone star who also enjoyed huge success as a solo artist will be headlining at Castle Howard during a musical weekend of August 3 and 4. The annoucnement follows
THE former toilet block in St Sampson’s Square is being demolished - at a cost of nearly £63,000. Councillors agreed plans to remove the structure at a meeting last April and a spokesman for City of York Council said when the work is complete,
A DRINK driver has finally faced justice – more than a year after he was caught driving at twice the legal alcohol limit. Simone Russo, 26, went back to Italy after his arrest on February 25 last year and after he was told to attend court on April
NESTLÉ is urging York residents not to throw away the foil from their Easter eggs but to recycle them to help a local charity. The confectionery giant has joined forces with The Snappy Trust York, which is dedicated to empowering children and young
YORK City incurred operating losses in the region of £900,000 during the 2017/18 season. The figures account for the club’s first campaign of National League North football when Martin Gray succeeded Gary Mills as manager two months into the season
A pregnancy club has been fined £400,000 for illegally sharing the personal information of more than 14 million people in an "unprecedented" case. Bounty UK, which offers advice to new parents, unlawfully shared its members' data with marketing
JACK Leaning passed 50 and Jonny Tattersall is close to the same landmark as Yorkshire move towards 550 and an evening declaration against Hampshire. The White Rose will declare at some point during the second evening of the ongoing Specsavers County
A MAN who was arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire devastated a house near York has been released by police. Emergency services were called to Alne Road in Tollerton in the early hours of Thursday, where three people - including an elderly
A SELBY College student has been offered a place at Oxford University. Emily Morbey, 17, who also studied at Holy Family School, has been offered a place to study Human Sciences at Oxford University’s Keble College. Emily is currently studying
GARY Ballance completed a superb 148 during another profitable session for Yorkshire against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl this morning. Yorkshire’s grip on their Specsavers County Championship match was strengthened during the second morning as they
A LOCAL training provider is celebrating ten years in the business. The Skills Network, in Selby, was founded by Mick Cox and Eliot Grant, initially operating out of a small rented office near Howden with just three members of staff. Over the
A WOMAN from North Yorkshire has been found dead in a hotel room in Switzerland. Local police are investigating how the 22-year-old died in the room she was allegedly sharing with her boyfriend. Anna Florence Reed was found on Tuesday at the
AN independent jewellery shop just 60 metres from York Minster is set to be turned into a holiday rental. The owners of the former Monkey Puzzle store at 19, High Petergate, next door to Cafe Concerto, have applied for permission to turn the building
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers are still in the hunt for a Fastpack York Sunday Morning Football League double. Jamie Willstrop scored a brace in a 4-1 League Cup last-eight victory over Kings Head United, with Matthew Mulhearn and Stephen Jarvis adding
YORK'S two LK Bennett stores have been hit following the sale of the brand to a new owner. Nationally, more than a third of the UK stores will shut, resulting in around 110 job losses. Rebecca Feng, who runs the brand’s Chinese franchises,
TOPSPIN 'A' have been crowned champions of the Red Goat Climbing York & District Table Tennis League title for the second successive year. Although they lost 6-4 to Shiyi Ling 'A', the points gained were enough to clinch the crown. Bryan
JAKE Wright believes his loan spell with Boston United helped him regain some of the self-belief he had lost at York City. The 22-year-old forward was recalled to the Minstermen’s starting line-up for Saturday’s 1-0 win over Southport in the first
YORK City Knights boss James Ford insists his line-up against Widnes Vikings tomorrow night does not amount to a weakened side - but rather a "different side". Ford has again rung the changes for the Coral Challenge Cup, with no fewer than NINE
I KNOW that many of you will be wondering what on earth is going on with Brexit. Despite all the divisions, most people I meet around the constituency are united in their frustration with the deadlock in Parliament and quite reasonably ask why
Race Across The World winners Tony and Elaine Teasdale have said the British could take lessons from the people they met on their travels - who all felt a deep pride for their country. The North Yorkshire couple, both 62, travelled from Greenwich
YORK vets are warning families to keep their pets away from Easter eggs, hot cross buns and other seasonal food. Tower Vets, who have six surgeries and bases in the city, are preparing for an increase of cases in the next couple of weeks. They
A CAR was destroyed by fire after it caught alight outside a fuel station in North Yorkshire. Fire crews from Thirsk and Boroughbridge were called to the incident on the A168 near Topcliffe at about 9.50pm yesterday (April 11). A spokeswoman
YORK City Football Club Foundation is continuing to help grow the female game with the support of a generous grant. The funding is from the National League Trust as part of a pilot programme funded by the Wembley National Stadium Trust. The grant
The rainforests of the world are burning. We are losing in excess of 20,000 square miles a year in the Amazon alone. This matters because it means we are also losing over 10,000 species of plants and animals every year. And that matters because
I think that all would agree with columnist Tim Murgatroyd that medieval York was not designed for the motor car (Tram-trains are the way forward, April 10). However, all of his suggested alternatives apart from the further increase of electric
TADCASTER Albion are not giving up on the dream of making the Evo-Stik League east division play-offs just yet. Just under a month ago, the Brewers were sitting pretty in fourth, but three consecutive defeats have left them two places worse off
AMBULANCE crews are being fined for driving in bus lanes, and banned from public transport lanes when not on a 999 emergency, according to their union. Unison claim many ambulance drivers have received penalties for using lanes in York and Bradford
THE body of a woman has been recovered from the River Ouse in York city centre this morning, police have confirmed. North Yorkshire Police said it was called to reports from a member of the public about a body in the river shortly before 7am
CHESTER will entertain York City tomorrow having suffered their heaviest home defeat for more than 19 years. The Deva Stadium side were thrashed 6-0 by new National League North leaders Stockport County on Tuesday night. Nyal Bell (2), Sam Walker
THEY say the 1970s were the decade that fashion forgot, but you only have to browse today's fashion rails to know that's nonsense. Flares, denim jackets, kaftans, floral prints and long skirts are still very much in vogue almost half a century
A play with magic tricks, a wild-eyed guitarist and a country singer with strings attached fill CHARLES HUTCHINSON’S diary for April 13 to 15 Friday night is...studio theatre night and so is Saturday The Trick, presented by Loose Tongue
A BURGLAR who used a 15-year-old boy “to do his dirty work” has been jailed for three years. Fabian Turcanu, 27, toured North Yorkshire streets posing as a scrap metal merchant while carrying out house raids, said Matthew Collins, prosecuting at
SPONSORED CONTENT CHRIS MYLES, Director, Head of Family Law Team and Family Mediator at Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors LLP, explains the law surrounding division of assets when a couple separate. THERE are very few hard and fast rules when it
ONE of only six surviving members of The Few - the RAF veterans of the Battle of Britain who helped avert a Nazi invasion - has celebrated his 100th birthday at a York care home. Terry Clark was sent a card and message from the Queen yesterday
A YORK prisoner whose death stopped an attempted murder trial died as a result of taking drugs including “spice”, a jury has concluded. They made their fact finding after hearing about the last days and hours of Paul Michael Brolly, 31, also known
A ‘SKILLED conman’ who posed as father of the bride at a five-star hotel wedding has been jailed for three years. Richard William Craig, 42, ran up a bill of £1,770 in two days at the Grand Hotel, York, by pretending to be the bride’s father at
YORK has been knocked off top spot as the best city in Britain - but retains its crown as best place to live in the North of England, according to a national newspaper. The city is one of 10 hot spots in the North and North-East that have been
