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  • Review: Our verdict on Rocketman

    IF you could strip it down to its component parts, Rocketman is 70 per cent Bohemian Rhapsody and 20  per cent The Greatest Showman. The other ten per cent is allocated to a sort of personal therapy session; indeed the film opens with Elton dressed

  • Drug dealer kingpin is still on run

    A DRUG kingpin still has a £5,000 reward out for his capture after more than six months on the run. Alfred Phillip Dear, 45, who has connections in York and Hull, failed to attend Leeds Crown Court in December, where he was due to be sentenced

  • Bank Holiday warning to rail passengers

    YORK trains are set to be 'incredibly busy' over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend because of a series of events taking place at the same time, TransPennine Express (TPE) is warning. The train operator says the events happening in the York, Scarborough

  • 999 services join forces for diversity

    THE emergency services will join forces in York on Sunday to celebrate diversity ahead of York and Harrogate Pride. Officers from North Yorkshire Police are to hold a community engagement event in Parliament Street between noon and 4pm. They

  • Will the fine weather last until Bank Holiday Monday?

    THE fine weather is set to break - just in time to ruin the Spring Bank Holiday. Forecasters say tomorrow and Saturday will be mostly dry in York, with some sunshine but also cloudy at times, and temperatures as high as 18 or 19C. But rain is

  • Traffic woe expected as 22m make bank holiday getaway

    Severe traffic congestion and rail closures will hamper this weekend’s bank holiday getaway. An RAC survey suggests 22 million leisure trips have been planned between Friday and Monday, leading to “some extensive jams”. This is eight million

  • Slow progress for online council services in North Yorkshire

    RESIDENTS will have no incentive to start accessing council services online if a local authority continues to improve its call answering times, a meeting has heard. North Yorkshire County Council’s executive was told while the last year had seen

  • Paul Carrack to return to York Barbican next February

    SHEFFIELD soul musician Paul Carrack will visit York Barbican on February 1 next year on his 30 date 20/20 Tour. Tickets go on sale this morning at 10am at yorkbarbican.co.uk, on 0203 356 5441 or in person from the Barbican box office. Joined

  • Review: Teechers, York Theatre Royal Studio

    Review: Teechers, Gala Theatre, Durham, at York Theatre Royal Studio, until June 1. Box office: 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk JOHN Godber’s 1984 play Teechers may be old enough now to work as a teacher at Whitewall high school, but that

  • York City ready to accept defeat in bid to sign Scott Burgess

    YORK City boss Steve Watson is close to conceding defeat in the quest for Scott Burgess’ signature. The 21-year-old midfielder finished last season on loan with the Minstermen from newly-promoted League One outfit Bury, netting once in 16 outings

  • Deaths and serious injuries on the rise in York

    THE number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) in York rose by just over four per cent last year. Figures from North Yorkshire Police showed there were 475 KSI incidents in York between April 2018 and March 2019; in Selby the figure rose

  • New bakery opens selling homemade cakes and breads

    EXPERIENCED North Yorkshire baker Anita Tasker has come out of retirement to start a new venture. Anita, 66, a former The Press cookery writer and founder of Pattacakes at Welburn and Dunnington, has opened Square Bakehouse, next to the Post Office

  • York students hold catwalk show at city centre hotel

    FASHION students at York College took to the catwalk at a city centre hotel to showcase their hard work. The event at Park Inn by Radisson showed off the work by students on BA (Hons) fashion design and product innovation and extended diploma Fashion

  • LETTER: We shouldn’t sacrifice trees to open up views

    Hurray for R Hutchinson (Environment should be at heart of our thinking, Letters, May 21). I too was disappointed to read the proposal that the large plane tree in front of the Minster and another in the War Memorial gardens will be cut down, and

  • York high street fashion shops could close within weeks

    A HIGH street fashion store in York is set to close - and become the latest casualty in the city's premier shopping street. The Dorothy Perkins and Burton shop in Coney Street has been earmarked for closure as Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia Group announced

  • COLUMN: You too may one day need a dementia friend

    ONE person develops dementia every three minutes in the UK. That person could be you. Or your parents. Or even one of your children. Thousands of people in Yorkshire live with dementia. Someone I know is still in their thirties. So don’t go thinking

  • LETTER: HS2 is going to be a £56 billion white elephant

    There is a prodigious white elephant presently stampeding and running amok all over the south of England’s rural splendour and fully intending to rampage north. This crazy voracious rogue elephant is totally out of control after stamping on several

  • Raiders target cash machine at York store

    RAIDERS have targeted a cash machine at a convenience store in York.   The Select Convenience store and Post Office in North Moor Lane in Huntington is behind police tape this morning following a break-in overnight.  North Yorkshire Police

  • HPH YORK VALE LEAGUE: Ovington secure first victory

    MYLIFE Sunuwar and Raja Thapa wreaked havoc with the ball to earn Ovington a first win in this season’s HPH York Vale League. Title-hopefuls Kelfield were defeated in the first-division contest after Ovington posted a decent 187-9 from their 40

  • TENNIS: Wigginton dominate across Tyke League

    WIGGINTON Tennis Club have made a superb start to the Tyke Petroleum Men’s League season, with three of their five teams topping their respective divisions. Their first team went top of division one with an excellent 83-25 away day victory at Racquets

  • 60 diamond years for Judy and Geoff

    A COUPLE will be raising a glass today as they celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary. Judy Philips and Geoff Pearce, who are both 79 and from Woodthorpe, York, met in June 1958 at a dance in Rowntree Park and married a year later at St James

  • 10 things to see next week

    ROD on Knavesmire, Acaster’s lingering lasagne, Butlin’s at an allotment, Young’s No Parlez revisited, Sloss’s X-rated comedy, Merton’s improv and Meat Loaf re-heated, what a week for CHARLES HUTCHINSON from May 27 to June 2 Bank Holiday Monday

  • BOWLS: RI Corinthians recover from Holgate WMC defeat

    EARLY Yorkshire Amateur Bowling Association division one pace-setters RI Corinthians got back to winning ways on Monday after an 8-0 home defeat by Holgate WMC. The Ashton Lane outfit remain five points clear at the summit, having won 6-2 at Selby

  • York shop not shutting for good - despite signs

    A CANDLE shop in York is displaying 'closing down sale' signs in its windows - but is set to shut for just days and then reopen. The 50 per cent off signs are currently on show in the shop window of Yankee Candle in Coppergate. However, a spokesman

  • Shakespeare rehearsals taking shape in York

    REHEARSALS are in full swing for a glorious summer of Shakespeare in York. The award-winning Shakespeare's Rose Theatre is returning to Clifford’s Tower this summer for three months from June 25. The company has started rehearsals at the Designer

  • £34k revamp for York club as it seeks to counter stadium move

    A CLUB has undergone a £34,000 refurbishment as it seeks to counter a loss of income when York City moves to the new community stadium later this year. The Burton Lane Club is also drawing up plans to try to keep some of the custom it has traditionally

  • Historic York convent to be transformed into new apartments

    A HISTORIC former convent is set to be turned into 10 modern apartments, with four houses also built on the surrounding land. Plans to revamp two disused buildings at the former St Joseph’s Convent in Lawrence Street, York, were given the go-ahead