YORKSHIRE remain under pressure in their penultimate round Specsavers County Championship clash with Kent at Emerald Headingley after the visitors had the better of a hard-fought second day. Replying to a first-innings 482-8, with Kent’s declaration
A FORMER vicar from Heworth , who's working life was based predominantly in Yorkshire, has died aged 92. Reverend Neill Mackay, vicar at Huntington from 1976 to 1993, died peacefully on Tuesday September 3. Born in Beverley in 1927, Neill grew
WIGGINTON 2 have secured their spot in the top division of the Tyke’s men’s tennis league despite losing in their trip to Fulford 1. In a battle of second against third, the latter, Fulford, emerged victorious via a 61-47 scoreline thanks to a
BRITAIN'S Got Talent is staging auditions in York on Wednesday. The initial phase of auditions for next year’s hit ITV show will take place at York Barbican, the biggest music and arts venue in the city, between 11am and 4pm on Wednesday, September
A YORK primary school was closed today (September 17) and part of yesterday after a water pipe burst. Yearsley Grove Primary in Huntington was left with no water following the burst to the pipe. It is due to reopen again tomorrow. Nigel
YORK has beaten the competition to be crowned the best city in the UK in a vote of almost 75,000 people. The city beat Edinburgh and London, which were second and third respectively, to be named Best UK City in the 2019 Luxury Lifestyle Magazine
YORK City Knights coach James Ford has been named as one of the three nominees for the Betfred Championship coach of the year for 2019. Ford has led York to a third-placed finish in the Championship this season, the first time since their reformation
A CYCLIST will take on the challenge of riding across the country to raise funds for a heart disease charity. Rogan Dixon,who is a photo archivist and librarian for the Evening Standard in London, will ride from London to York to raise money for
FOLLOWING on from acclaimed short plays, a North Yorkshire playwright will release their debut full length play. Rachael Halliwell, who wrote short plays 'Deirdre and Me', 'Room 253' and 'Project Juno', will premiere her new play in Harrogate in
THE last North Yorkshire fireman who helped save York Minster in 1984 has hung up his firefighting gear for the last time. York Fire Station has said goodbye to two long-serving firefighters who between them had clocked up 72 years protecting their
YORK boxer Michael Fafera has set out his next professional contest, less than a fortnight after securing his fifth straight win. Fafera moved his record to 5-0 after winning a 40-37 points verdict over the former Central Area champion Darryl Sharp
A LAST minute penalty consigned York RUFC to an 18-17 defeat at home to Morley in North One East. York enjoyed territorial advantage early in the game, but were unable to force the ball over the line for a score. Morley took advantage of a
YORK CITY midfielder Paddy McLaughlin has described the "bittersweet" feeling of having to watch the Minstermen's unbeaten start to the season whilst out injured for the majority of the term. McLaughlin marked his return from injury with the second
POLICE are appealing for information after a woman in her 20s was sexually assaulted in York. Detectives say the incident occurred in the Hull Road area on August 31. The force added that the victim - who is in her 20s - was dropped off in
YORK University has paid tribute to a popular student who died after being found injured on a street in Huddersfield last Thursday. Bethany Fields had just finished her second year of an environmental geography degree at the university. A man
A YOUNG lawyer isn't letting her full-time career stop her giving her sister the selfless care that won her a Child of the Year Community Pride Award. Pupil barrister Chloe Branton spends her days working in courts around North-East England and
MARIE Curie nurse, Caroline Leslie, and her friend, Sandra Wilkinson, both from York, reeled in more than £1,000 during a 24-hour fishathon that they staged on the riverbank of the Ouse. Caroline’s husband, Mark Leslie, and friend Phil Potter, who
SELBY has received a £430,000 boost to help the town's people and businesses "bring new life to their historic high street." It follows a successful bid for government money from Selby District Council. The money is part of a £95million fund
A CHILD on a bike was involved in a collision with a truck on a busy road in York this morning (September 17). The collision happened on Hull Road around Tang Hall Lane. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said the child was "knocked off
YORKSHIRE-based equine physiotherapist Katie Bloom will be signing copies of her new autobiography at an equestrian and country store near Selby this week. She will be at R&R Country in Hemingbrough on Thursday between 5pm and 7pm for the book
TWO people were taken to hospital after a crash between a tractor and a car in a village in Ryedale. Fire crews from Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside were called to the collision in Ampleforth at about 7.30pm yesterday (September 16). North Yorkshire
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a fire at a flat in student accommodation in York last night. Crews from York, Acomb and Huntington were called to the fire at a second floor flat in Carmelite Street, off The Stonebow, at about 11.30pm. A spokesperson
I WAS playing snakes and ladders with my granddaughter and suddenly I knew what I was going to write about this month. It was a particularly ludicrous game on an Australian board with probably too many squares with various Australian creatures ready
MAXINE GORDON finds her voice at Lucy's Pop Choir in York IF, like me, you like singing in the shower and have been known to prance around the house with a hairbrush as a mic, then joining a choir could strike just the right note. But if, also
COMMUNITY pharmacy teams in York are offering flu jabs as part of a national vaccination service. York Central MP, Rachael Maskell, visited MJ Roberts Chemists Ltd, in Boroughbridge Road, to see first-hand how pharmacies are providing the flu vaccination
THE Post Office building in Lendal - which has been empty since the branch closed earlier this year - will not be listed as an asset of community value. The Guildhall branch of York Labour party applied for the Crown Post Office to become an asset
A PRIMARY school teacher has been chosen for a new national programme which will see her become a maths mastery specialist. Gemma Woodall, from Holme-on-Spalding Moor Primary School, will represent the Yorkshire Ridings region and is the only primary
A HOTEL burglar who stole a tourist’s suitcase from her room as she slept has been jailed for three years and six months. Lee Kenneth Moore, 37, already had convictions for burgling hotels when he walked into The Principal Hotel next to York Railway
A MAN who was homeless for more than three decades will have his struggle remembered in York for generations to come - after a new Minster grotesque was carved in his honour. Norbert Lawrie has been selling the Big Issue magazine in York since
A FANTASIST who for months stalked a woman he didn’t know after creating an "alternative reality" has been warned he could be jailed. Alan James Fagan, 46, “bombarded” the victim with letters, cards, emails and messages via Facebook from February
