NATHAN DYER believes competition for places is keeping York City players at their best. The right-back knows a thing or two about competing for a starting berth, with his preferred position usually occupied by wing-back Kallum Griffiths. Thus
YORK City club captain Steve McNulty is set to be named again in the team heading down to AFC Telford United tomorrow. McNulty’s return to the York squad for Saturday “is good news for everybody,” Watson says, and has indicated other positive updates
PEOPLE in York took time out to help get people talking on World Mental Health Day. Time to Change (TC) is a growing movement of people changing how people think and act about mental health problems and a host of champions took to the city streets
TRAFFIC is heavy on the A64 after a car caught fire. There are queues on the eastbound side of the road between the A162 junction near Tadcaster and the A659 junction. The road was closed for emergency services to attend the scene but has since
WHAT’S in a poster? If you have seen the ones around York with the baby with the smudge of a Hitler moustache, then this is the show it’s promoting. It started in France, translated to 30 countries so far, became a hit film, Le Prenom, and had
WHATEVS, it’s time to chillax! It doesn’t sound like a real sentence, but as of this month, it is... at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The slang is among hundreds of new entries in the respected dictionary's annual update,
DANIEL PARSLOW has praised those that helped support his benefit match and an “incredible night that I’ll never forget”. Long-serving York defender Parslow, pictured, held his benefit game at Bootham Crescent on Wednesday night featuring a ‘Parslow
A MAN has been ordered to pay over £3,000 after he failed to microchip his dogs and keep them under control. Lloyd Hunter, 37, of Boroughbridge Road, York was convicted at York Magistrates Court on Tuesday for failing to correctly microchip two
PICKERING Town boss Denny Ingram was frustrated with his side’s fortunes during last weekend's 3-2 defeat to Clitheroe - but will not accept any of his players “feeling sorry for themselves”. And they have a chance to pick themselves up on Saturday
AN EXTRA train service is being planned to run from the North East to the capital. Grand Central has received approval to operate an additional daily return service between Sunderland and London King's Cross, passing through North Yorkshire, until
The RSPCA has issued a warning to dog owners after a sausage laced with suspected rat poison was found in a popular dog walking route in York. The animal welfare charity was contacted by a member of the public on Monday, October 7, after finding
NORTH Yorkshire residents have left more than £1.5 million in gifts to a national charity as bequests in their wills. These donations are today helping the British Heart Foundation (BHF) fund life saving research into heart and circulatory diseases
FIRE crews from Selby were called to a crash yesterday near York. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service said that a crew from Selby were called to the scene of a minor road traffic collision involving a car which had left the road and ended in
WITH news that footfall in the city centre has dropped by more than 750,000 visits in the last nine months - we've taken a look through our archives to find pictures of some of York's closed shops. New businesses have since opened in many of these
CHRISTMAS has come early to Costa Coffee customers with some festive favourites already available in store. Costa Coffee revealed that fans can get their hands on a gingerbread latte, hazelnut praline latte or a black forest hot chocolate right
The Press has highlighted the closure of several Sam Smith pubs. I would like to draw attention to a success story down Nunnery Lane: the Trafalgar Bay. Phil and Sarah, who run the pub, always give their customers, a warm friendly welcome and with
Reading Emma Clayton’s column (Sorry, Harry, but you can’t have it both ways, October 3) about Prince Harry, can I say that Emma should be grateful not to have be born into the Royal family. They are spied on all the time and are dammed if they
A MUM of three is running her first marathon later this month to raise awareness of motor neurone disease (MND). Emma Watson, 42, who lives in Malton, decided to take on the challenge of running the Yorkshire Marathon after her mother-in-law, who
WHAT is it they say? Dance like there’s nobody watching? Thankfully there was nobody watching the other night when I was attempting a step ball change-into-sideways slide, while clutching a top hat that was frankly more of a nuisance than a showbiz
MOTORISTS suffered severe delays on the A64 near Tadcaster after a seven-vehicle crash this morning. North Yorkshire Police said the accident happened at 7.21am on the westbound carriageway. "A woman received an injury that did not require
A YORK-based luxury leather company is donating 10 per cent of sales today to York Mind for World Mental Health Day. As well as the pledge Maxwell-Scott is also hosting a community coffee morning from 11am to 2pm at its headquarters in Dunnington
THE architects enlisted to help build 600 new homes across York have won a prestigious national award. Design firm Mikhail Riches won the Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Their
PASSENGERS of all ages will be transported back to the 1940s for a weekend filled with the camaraderie and community spirit of the Second World War, when North Yorkshire Moors Railway hosts its Railway in Wartime event. The charity's event, from
MENTAL health champions will take to the streets of York in a bid to encourage people to speak about their wellbeing. As part of World Mental Health Day today, City of York Council is supporting a campaign to offer practical tools to help people
PATIENTS and their families “feel let down” by plans to possibly shut down a mental health treatment service - according to a health body. The decision to look at closing down York’s Primary Care Mental Health Team - which is the first point of
NORTH Yorkshire Police will receive more than 50 new recruits in the first wave of the Government’s drive to boost police officer numbers. Yesterday, the Home Office announced the officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and
CAMPAIGNERS have handed over a petition with around 370 signatures calling for 20mph speed limits to be rolled out in York city centre. The petition was handed over yesterday by Anna Semlyen, chair of the 20’s Plenty group, to Councillor Fiona
AGENTS behind a significant development of coveted office space in York city centre say early interest has been positive. The Palace Capital plc site opposite York railway station includes 35,000 sq ft of high-quality, air-conditioned office space
YORK’S struggling high street has suffered a further blow after it emerged that footfall in the city centre in the last nine months has plummeted by more than 750,000 visits. And traders yesterday blamed a fall in consumer confidence, uncertainty
