Malory Towers, Wise Children/York Theatre Royal, at York Theatre Royal, school term ends on Saturday. Box office: 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk EMMA Rice’s new company Wise Children made their York debut in March with Angela Carter’s
YORKSHIRE are staring down the barrel after a chastening second day of their Specsavers County Championship clash with Somerset at Taunton. The White Rose suffered with bat and ball against a side who are on course for their maiden four-day title
A BURGLAR who tried to hide from police was caught when officers spotted his feet - sticking out from under a canoe. Colin Sean Richardson, 32, was today (Wednesday) jailed for more than two years following a break-in in which a large quantity of
A NORTH Yorkshire-based mental health organisation is hosting a fire walk to celebrate its first birthday. The I Choose Life Foundation (ICL), based in Harrogate, is organising a fire walk on Friday, October 4. The event will see master fire
A YORK kids’ club has celebrated its latest Ofsted report. Hempland Kids’ Club was rated ‘outstanding’ in its latest inspection, retaining the score it attained in 2015. Ofsted inspectors carried out a full inspection of the club in August
PUPILS at two York schools have helped to prepare a 'Manifesto for Change' in a bid to create a cleaner and safer environment Children at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Primary School and Acomb Primary School, which are on neighbouring streets, in Acomb
TADCASTER has received a major boost after the Government pledged £9 million to better protect the town from flooding. The funding will go towards the Tadcaster Flood Alleviation Scheme, which Nigel Adams, the town’s MP, has hailed as “fantastic
YORK City's youth team today kicked off their National League Football Academy season with a 2-1 defeat to Chester. The visitors opened the scoring at Wigginton Road through Tom Ruffer before Nathan Dyer equalised with a half-volley 53 minutes
A YORK based theatre group will perform a fairytale with a wicked and humourous twist. The York Settlement Community Players (YSCP) will perform the ‘Red Shoes’ story written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Harri Marshall, director
A SPECTACULAR light show is returning to York Minster next month - after attracting sell-out audiences last year. ‘Northern Lights’, a sound and light installation by Ross Ashton and Karen Monid, will be on display in late October. The show will
Chicken shops are proving so popular on the high street that they were one of only three store types, along with pet shops and gyms, to see more openings than closures in the last six months, according to new research. Our insatiable appetite for
SCIENTISTS from the University of York have managed to extract the largest ever sample of genetic data from an object more than a million years old. The new research involved extracting proteins from an ancient rhino tooth, dating back 1.77 million
YORK composer, pianist, busker, tutor and Buster Keaton aficionado Kieran White will be Breaking The Silents at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre on Saturday. Accompanied by White’s expressive, playful, gag-driven piano score, two Stoneface silent classics
WHEN York Stage Musicals successfully pitched for the rights to stage Shrek The Musical, artistic director Nik Briggs was asked one question repeatedly. “Are you going to play Shrek?” Well, Nik, are you? Given that you are tall, comfortably well
ROWNTREE Players have taken to the high seas to launch their 2019 pantomime, Sinbad. Dressed to the nines in piratical garb, the cast departed Bridlington Harbour on a pirate ship to grab their production snaps. The Players will set sail with
Defiant brides, a miners’ gala documentary, an Arthur Miller classic, a chair, Frank Skinner’s return to stand-up, origami, music in a library, brass band music in Pock and Mikron’s Wrens play jostle for CHARLES HUTCHINSON’S attention Invitation
A FESTIVAL of films based on the plays of Alan Ayckbourn will be screened at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next week as part of his 80th birthday celebrations. French director Alan Resnais’ Smoking and No Smoking, on September 20 and September
DAVID Lloyd York 1 have retained their Tyke Petroleum York Men’s Tennis League title following their 70-38 triumph over visiting Harrogate Racquets 1. A 26-game haul from Ed Barker-Wyatt/Jan Dyl, backed up by 25 from Dale Fawcett/Jack Bachelor
STAFF from pubs, clubs and restaurants along the River Ouse in York are being offered water safety training to help save lives. The RNLI is joining forces with North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and York Rescue Boat for the Waterside Community
TADCASTER Albion suffered a knockout blow in Tuesday night's FA Cup replay, losing 4-2 at Ashton United, writes John Clothier. Defender Ioan Evans scored for the third time in as many games to put the Brewers in front but they could not prevent
A £200 MILLION rail manufacturing site in East Yorkshire which has the potential to create almost 1,000 jobs has won planning permission. Siemens plans to build trains for the London Underground at their new 67-acre facility on the Goole 36 enterprise
COACH James Ford believes a "nine out of 10" performance will give York City Knights a shot at Betfred Championship play-off glory at Toulouse Olympique. The third-placed Knights travel to second-placed Toulouse in Saturday's qualifying final, with
If my memory serves me correctly, the referendum ballot paper said ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ the EU. It did not say ‘leave the EU without a deal’. In fact, the people who led the Leave campaign, including our unelected PM and many members of his cabinet
For some time I have known of the weekly £6 TV Licence payment plan. It recently came to my attention again that the weekly fee pays for more than two years payments, presently £154.50, it was also this fee way back in 2009. This raised the question
Next June the Government will require all nine-year-olds to sit a new test to prove their knowledge of times tables. While being able to recall tables does help with more complicated maths problems, schools already teach and assess this ability
SOCIAL media is full of amusing videos: cats meowing like opera singers, squirrels doing high wire somersaults. But sometimes you come across a gem that opens your eyes very wide indeed. Recently I discovered just such a clip. It was a report by
It’s far too early to tell if we will see a return of the Beast from the East, say forecasters. Following reports this week that Britain faces a new big freeze this winter, experts say it cannot be predicted this far ahead. Scientists from
ONGOING political uncertainty surrounding Brexit has failed to stop York and North Yorkshire business leaders in their bid for success. The county's biggest businesses created 11,300 jobs over the last year and delivered double-digit growth, according
by Zach Gray, of D E Ford ON Monday, August 5, the ‘Ogden Discount Rate’ was adjusted from -0.75 per cent to -0.25 per cent. The statutory rate was reset by the current Lord Chancellor David Gauke and forms part of the Criminal Damages Act 1996
AN ELDERLY woman suffered smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in a kitchen at a bungalow in York. Fire crews were called to the incident off Hamilton Drive shortly after 8pm yesterday (September 10) and put out a small fire on a kitchen worktop
A WOMAN was freed by firefighters and taken to hospital after a car overturned in York yesterday evening (September 10). North Yorkshire fire service said two of its crews from Acomb were called to a single vehicle collision involving a Ford Focus
This extraordinary photograph, taken by the eminent photographer William Hayes in the early 1900s, shows some children playing near Monk Bridge, which at the time carried the main road to Scarborough (and Heworth) over the River Foss. A horse and
CHILD grooming offences in North Yorkshire have risen by more than 50 per cent in the last year, according to new data. A Freedom of Information Request by the NSPCC has revealed that between April 2018 and April 2019, 22 grooming offences were
A NEW terrace of eight ‘upside down’ houses could be built near York city centre. Plans have been submitted for the family homes to be constructed off Lawrence Street, on the site currently occupied by WLD Textiles at the end of Lansdowne Terrace
A YORK museum has launched a competition to design a new £16.5 million building to "showcase the future of rail engineering". The National Railway Museum (NRM) is looking for an architect to plan the ambitious new site as part of its £55 million
STAFF from city Starbucks stores joined forces to make a £3,000 donation to York-based youth homelessness charity SASH. Employees at Starbucks branches in Coney Street, McArthurGlen Designer Outlet and Monks Cross Shopping Centre made the donation
IN THE three decades since it launched, ISF has grown to be a market leader in materials handling and process engineering specialising in the animal feed sector. The company which is in the running for the Small Business of the Year and Employer
A PSYCHIATRIC patient who climbed on the roof of York Hospital must learn that others need medical help just as much as he does, York Magistrates Court heard. District judge Adrian Lower was sentencing a mentally ill knifeman who climbed onto the
A CITY centre nightclub is set to become a restaurant and block of holiday flats. The owners of Club Salvation, in George Hudson Street, applied for planning permission to turn the site into a restaurant on the ground floor and basement, with 17
