READERS of The Press have named Peter Jameson as their stand-out new recruit from the Leeds United match. Yesterday, we asked York City fans to name their most impressive performer among the Minstermen's five midweek debutants. With 42 per cent of
JAMES FORD vowed that York City Knights remain grounded despite now being the outright second placed side in the Betfred Championship, ahead of Sunday’s clash away to Batley. Last weekend’s 23-16 victory away to fellow play-off hopefuls Sheffield
THREE generations of the same family with links to Copmanthorpe Primary were among the visitors to the school during its 150th anniversary celebrations this week. The school has held a range of activities to mark the milestone. Sarah Hudson and
Review: Bill Jones, The Black Swan Folk Club, York, July 11 A MOST unexpected and welcome return. Bill (Belinda) Jones was one of the very finest folk singers to emerge with the new Millennium, but semi-retired from music to raise her three boys
A PERVERT who peeped over changing room doors to spy on women in breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention order has been locked up for three years. Connor Atkinson, 20, who moved across Yorkshire committing sexual offences, deliberately sneaked into Keighley
GET set to walk through the plains of Africa as York Maze opens today - with a theme celebrating the 25th anniversary of Disney classic The Lion King. The 15-acres of maize plants are thought to make up the largest maze in Europe - and now also
A MAN suffered facial injuries after a fight involving a large number of people broke out at a holiday park. Police were called to Reighton Sands Holiday Park, near Filey, just before midnight on Saturday, July 6, after reports of a fight involving
Review: York Early Music Festival, Elin Manahan Thomas/Steve Devine; Elizabeth Kenny, July 11 THE first of two musical treats featured soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and Steven Devine playing harpsichord at the St Lawrence Church. The title of
STEVE WATSON believes York City will go into the pre-season game against Bolton Wanderers better off thanks to lessons learnt in defeat to Leeds United. The Minstermen boss also indicated that most of Wednesday's squad will be available for Sunday
THE £19 million upgrade to York’s Foss Barrier pumping station has reached another milestone with the removal of 550 concrete blocks, each weighing more than two tonnes. The Environment Agency installed the concrete blocks in the St George’s Field
A PRACTICE manager has been jailed for running a £596,940 fraud at a GP surgery to support an expensive lifestyle for her family, York Crown Court heard. Carolyn Lightwing used her position at Elvington Medical Centre to forge invoices for prescription
COUNCILLORS are calling on the Government to consider specific investment in the railway infrastructure to improve services between East Yorkshire and other towns and cities on the East Coast mainline. At a recent meeting of East Riding of Yorkshire
A POLICE force has been told of rural residents’ frustration at seeing speed camera vans on A-roads rather than in speeding hotspot villages. North Yorkshire County Council’s Thirsk and Malton constituency committee chairman Councillor Caroline
A PATIENT who attacked an ambulance man after taking a “cocktail of drink and drugs” must pay him £100. The victim was called out to Elliott Dawson’s Nether Poppleton home on June 17, said Alison Wilson, prosecuting. But when the crew arrived
YOUTH homelessness charity SASH has said a huge thank you and goodbye to Jess Popplewell, who has supported more than 20 young people in the past four years as a volunteer host and is now moving to London. SASH provides safe and sound homes to
A PRIMARY school near York is raising funds to improve its outdoor area, and has received a cash boost to help with the project. Long Marston CE Primary School, situated between York and Wetherby, has been presented with a cheque for £672 from
YORK Outer MP Julian Sturdy has told of his delight at City of York Council's decision to turn down plans to build more than 500 homes on land near Askham Bog. The MP said he wrote to all residents in Moor Lane last December to make clear his strong
A BID to bring a community garden to a derelict patch of land amid terrace streets in York, and the woman behind it, have been nominated for three awards. The Lanes Community Garden in Clifton and organiser Hatti McKenzie have been put up for Best
NESTLÉ has launched a new version of its old favourite choc bar KitKat - with a green tea flavour. The York-based confectioner says KitKat Green Tea Matcha is inspired by one of the most popular of more than 350 KitKat varieties that have been available
WHAT can you do with a decrepit former railway wagon which was originally used in the 1930s for carrying bananas? Yorkshire Wolds Glamping at Weaverthorpe, near Malton, restored this banana wagon and turned it into glamping accommodation, boasting
A BUSY road east of York was partially blocked after a crash this morning (July 12). The collision involved two vehicles and happened on the A1079 on the stretch of road between the Grimston Bar roundabout and Dunnington. It caused queuing
The stupidity of MPs never ceases to amaze me. Labour are now openly committed to a second referendum and campaigning for Remain at the order of trade unions, seemingly oblivious to the fact it will kill any hope they have of winning an election.
In 1938 President Roosevelt appointed a politician and donor to be US Ambassador in London. Unfortunately, Irish-American Joseph Kennedy was anti Semitic, pro Hitler and virulently anti British (‘a decadent race’). Eventually he was told to resign
CLARE Teal, Yorkshire jazz vocalist and BBC Radio 2 presenter, celebrates the Great American and British Songbooks and contemporary composers alike in her Great Yorkshire Fringe show on July 19. Her 7.30pm set list at the Grand Opera House, in the
EXPECT music, magic and mayhem at Pocklington Arts Centre in the summer holidays when children’s theatre show Mr Shell’s Seaside Spells arrives on August 7. In this performance for children aged three to 11 and their families, Hull company Magic
YORK boxer Cam Shaw says he’s relishing the opportunity to make his professional debut when he features on the undercard to a world title fight next week. Shaw was originally set to feature on a show at the York RI sports hall on June 29, but a
REview: York Early Music Festival, Florilegium, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, July 10 WHILE it was vocal music that dominated Johann Sebastian Bach’s weekly schedule throughout his career, his six years as court music director
FIREFIGHTERS were called to two fires in the space of half an hour at a nature reserve in York yesterday evening. At about 6.35pm, a crew from York fire station responded to a report of fire in woods at St Nicholas Fields, which they put out using
DOGS of all shapes and sizes will be playing their part in raising vital funds for St Leonard's Hospice. The Tadcaster Road charity is inviting entries for its annual Paws for a Cause sponsored dog walk. The event will be at the Ron Cooke Hub at
As a musical production of Malory Towers heads for the Theatre Royal, MAXINE GORDON meets some real-life boarders in York to discover what life is like at a modern-day boarding school WHAT would Enid Blyton think of the teenage girls at a York
THIS year's York Maze is to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of The Lion King. Yorkshire farmer Tom Pear is paying tribute to the movie by carving a giant image of a lion and the other principal characters into his 15 acre field of maize
Summer is here, a time for festivals, Proms and riverside art markets, says weekend guide CHARLES HUTCHINSON, looking forward to July 12 to 14 Friday night is...country music night The Shires, Platform Festival, Old Station, Pocklington, tonight
A NEW cycling charity has been launched in York. After eleven years of working all over the UK, York-based Get Cycling is becoming a community benefit society to apply their resources to promoting pedal-power in their own city. Founded eleven
NOW into its second year of trading, Gentry Global Services is going from strength to strength. It is a dual revenue micro business that is split between marketing and business support. Gentry Global Services helps consultants and SMEs with effective
YORK Register Office has opened an account on Instagram to promote weddings in the city. The venue, in Bootham, reopened after a major £130,000 revamp last April. And the register office has seen a “significant improvement” in all areas during
AN extra £61 per resident would be spent by the government on public services in York if every council was funded fairly, according to a campaign. Councillors will call on the new Prime Minister - to be announced on July 23 - to narrow the North-South
AN annual summer fair will be buzzing with activities on Saturday. The Croft Community, in Highfield Road, Old Malton, is holding the event, from 10.30am to 2.30pm. A spokesman for The Croft, which supports adults with learning difficulties,
NORTH Yorkshire Police are looking to recruit volunteer police cadets. People aged between 14 and 16 are being invited to apply for the cadet scheme which includes Fulford Road, York, and the Harrogate area. It offers young people an opportunity
A MAN who worked as a scaffolder at York Minster groped two women at a party, the city’s magistrates court heard. Both were “vulnerable” women and they were assaulted separately, said prosecutor Katherine Smith. Both victims told the court
A WOMAN who openly sold heroin in a city centre pub on Boxing Day afternoon has been jailed. Gemma Joanne Ross, 28, had £1,000 of heroin either on her or at her Acomb home, York Crown Court heard. Rob Galley, prosecuting, said a member of the
THE University of York is to create a £35 million research centre aimed at ensuring robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are safe. Specialist laboratories and testing facilities will investigate everything from driverless cars to hospital
