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VETERAN BBC regional news presenter Harry Gration, who lived in York, has died suddenly. Mr Gration, 71, became a Yorkshire institution after fronting the BBC’s Look North programme for 38 years. Mr Gration announced he was retiring after more

Sky has revealed the content coming to its channels and the streaming service NOW for July 2022. With a variety of new and returning content named in the list, July could be a busy month of TV for Sky viewers. Here’s a list of some of the Sky

JAMES FORD has labelled York City Knights’ 30-year draught at Whitehaven as "irrelevant" as his side prepare to visit the Recreation Ground on Sunday (3pm). York have failed to come away with a victory from any of their last 10 trips to Whitehaven

Love Island stars Jacques and Luca have set pulses racing in the same pre-loved varsity jacket. Earlier this month, the ITV dating show announced its first-ever pre-loved fashion provider, eBay. Since then we've been eyeing the islanders' outfits

Victoria's Secret has launched its summer sale and there's up to 50% off across its range.  The luxurious American lingerie brand has slashed the prices of its sought-after bras, pants, sleepwear and PINK range. Writing on its website, the

A NORTH Yorkshire Police chief has warned that more drug dealers involved in 'county lines' offences will be sent to jail. Det Insp Steve Menzies, of the Major Investigation Team, was speaking after county lines drug dealer Brooklyn Bell was jailed

NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE has issued advice ahead of tomorrow's (June 25) Armed Forces Day celebrations in Scarborough. The event will see thousand’s flock to Scarborough for a full day of celebrations including air shows, a naval beach landing and

RYAN WHITLEY has emphasised that earning the number one shirt at York City is “down to him” after signing a two-year extension with the club. Whitley will be staying at the LNER Community Stadium until 2024, having signed his first professional

SINCE Whitehaven and York City Knights last met at the Recreation Ground, the two sides could scarcely have stepped down more divergent paths. From the 11 matches played since they dumped York out of the Betfred Challenge Cup through a 38-12 victory

FIREFIGHTERS were called in to deal with a house fire in a popular York village. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called out at 1.37pm today to a house in Sim Balk Lane in Bishopthorpe. A spokesman for the service said:

THE full line-up has been announced for the Yorkshire Balloon Fiesta this year. Heading up the bill will be Scouting for Girls, Craig Charles, Gabrielle, Heather Small, BoyzLife, DJ Howard Donald, Symphonic Ibiza and York’s very own party band

GLASTONBURY? Out of sight, out of mind, out of pocket, Charles Hutchinson prefers to stay up north for arts and crafts aplenty. Curioso gigs of the week: Larkhall, Micklegate Social, Micklegate, York, tonight, 8pm; Brudenell Piano Sessions, Howard

A NORTH Yorkshire cricket club has been sponsored by its local care home. The Alba Rose care home, Middleton Road, Pickering, has become training sponsor for Pickering Cricket Club, as part of its latest long-standing support of local sport, currently

MATTY MARSH insists that York City Knights' three-decade winless streak at Whitehaven has not crossed his mind ahead of Sunday's trip to the Recreation Ground (3pm). York have not won at Whitehaven since 1992, when Ryedale-York beat the Cumbrian

HIGHWAYS bosses are being urged to use a 'once in a lifetime opportunity' to make a key York city centre junction more pedestrian friendly. York Civic Trust says the congested junction of Pavement, Piccadilly, High Ousegate, Coppergate and Parliament

UPDATED 4.50PM: The road has now reopened and the earlier accident has been cleared.   REPORTS are coming in of a crash between a car and a bus that's shut one lane of a major road in North Yorkshire. The A1(M) in North Yorkshire currently

POLICE doing spot checks on drivers this morning (June 24) got an unexpected visit from some four-legged friends. Officers were out in force in Scarborough talking to members of the public as part of Project Servator or 'unpredictable policing'

YORKSHIRE kept the destiny of their Vitality Blast qualification hopes in their own hands as they comfortably overcame bottom-placed Worcestershire Rapids by five wickets at New Road, writes John Curtis. The Vikings moved to within one point of

A STUNNING collage made up of postcards created by pupils from one York school to welcome Ukrainian families is now on display at a popular city attraction. Youngsters at Clifton Green Primary School have been busy making the artwork for the entrance

YORK Knavesmire Harriers Ladies have been crowned Yorkshire fell champions. Their coronation came at the conclusion of the Buckden Pike fell race which runs for 3.7 miles. Rose Mather won an individual bronze medal as she placed ninth overall

DEFENDANTS got restraining and banning orders in recent cases at York Magistrates Court. Joshua Anthony Strickland was jailed for 20 weeks and banned from driving for eight months. The 27-year-old from Hawthorn Street, Layerthorpe pleaded guilty

Asda customers are being forced to ask staff to stop scanning items half way through checkout according the supermarket’s boss. Food prices are just one of many things on the rise accumulating to the current cost of living crisis in the UK and

DOCTORS in a North Yorkshire town are working hard to ensure patients stay warm and well. Patients in Selby living with health conditions that are impacted by cold homes are being supported by local GP practices through a new project in the town

CITY of York Council is hosting another joint event with NatWest to help support female entrepreneurs and businesses leaders in York. Following the success of the ‘Break the Bias’ networking event in March, the council is again partnering with

PATIENTS in Selby living with health conditions that are impacted by cold homes are being supported by local GP practices through a new project. More than 1,400 people who have dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and severe mental

THE Play What I Wrote is both a dissection of double acts and a celebration of Morecambe and Wise. Written by The Right Size comic coupling of Sean Foley and Hamish McColl in tandem with Eddie Braben, the chap what wrote little Ern's plays, the

MANY readers - and visitors - will have enjoyed the spectacle of York's historic Mystery Plays being enacted in the city centre again this week. The York Mystery Plays are a theatrical spectacle performed by local communities and have been staged

CITY of York Council has opened its unaudited accounts for public inspection until Monday August 1. The annual inspection gives members of the public and local government electors certain rights in the audit process. Any person may inspect

THERE were celebrations galore at a much-loved York pub earlier this week. Up to 150 turned up to The Blue Bell in Fossgate on Wednesday evening as it received its Pub of the Year Award from York area CAMRA. Landlord John Pybus said: "The evening

IN YORK, more than £8.3 million has been so far paid to 55,000 residents as part of the Government’s Council Tax energy rebate programme. But 18,000 have yet to claim. In Spring this year, the Government announced that residents living in a Council

RESIDENTS in a popular York suburb have been raising money for the people of Ukraine. People living in The Groves and Monkgate area of the city joined much of the rest of the nation celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The team at local

A MAN had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. A 40-year-old was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of children, aged 11 and 10, following an incident in Beckwithshaw, near Harrogate, on Monday, June 20. The man was also

FORMER York City goalkeeper Nick Pope has credited his past loan spells as "massive" after securing a move to Newcastle United. Pope signed a four-year deal with the Premier League giants for a reported £10m fee on Thursday, ending a six-season

TRAINS bound for Edinburgh are cancelled today after a lorry landed on the railway line. Yesterday (Thursday, June 23), a heavy goods vehicle nine miles east of Edinburgh, left the roadway, collided with a wall and went down an embankment, landing

A HOLIDAY club will provide fun for all children. The FEAST programme provides sports and outdoor activities along with creative workshops for children in North Yorkshire over the school summer break. Activities are open to all children and

YORK Central MP Rachael Maskell has raised the prospect that further flooding measures may be needed to protect the city in the future. The MP on Thursday quizzed Rebecca Pow MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for

JOBS are up for grabs at a popular street food and drinks venue in York city centre. On Monday (June 27) Spark:York, the venue created out of shipping containers in Piccadilly, is running an event which aims to replenish the teams of the businesses

A COUNCIL's leadership has spoken of its confidence that a group of firms it established five years ago partly to generate funding for frontline services will start to generate a profit after reporting successive losses. Trading figures for the

POLICE say their inquiries at the scene of a tragic house fire in a North Yorkshire village have now concluded. Two people were killed in the fire at a property in Camblesforth, near Selby, in the early hours of Sunday, but a man managed to escape

Facebook users have been warned over a reported cyber attack which has put five million accounts at risk. Nick Ascoli of PIXM, an anti-phishing browser extension, has issued the warning after millions of accounts were reportedly "stolen and breached

AT one time, councils took pride in their towns and cities with high municipal standards. City of York Council have taken a different viewpoint in my village of Bishopthorpe. The grasses are up to a metre in height and really vicious weeds

MAINTAINING North Yorkshire roads is going greener after eco-friendly power supplies were installed at two council highways depots. North Yorkshire County Council says the off-grid power units harness wind and solar power to store energy that will

A TEENAGER was assaulted by a group of 15 teenagers in a park. North Yorkshire Police reported that a group of 15 teenagers, both male and female, physically attacked a teenage boy, causing bruising and scratches as well as damaging his bicycle

YORK is at risk of thunderstorms later today, forecasters have warned. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for thunderstorms in York and North Yorkshire, between 1pm and 10pm. It says showers and thunderstorms are likely to bring periods

Oliver Dowden has resigned as chairman of the Conservative Party after it suffered two by-election defeats, saying in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson that “someone must take responsibility”. In Tiverton and Honiton the Liberal Democrats

Motoring experts have urged UK drivers to make two simple changes to help save hundreds every year on car costs as petrol prices soar. Earlier this week, motorists were warned the average price of diesel is “perilously close” to £2 per litre, in

A REFUGEE from the Ukraine aims to help English hosts in York who have accommodating refugees to communicate better with them. The University of York is running the beginners courses in Ukranian starting tomorrow (Tuesday). The short eight-week

LONG-STANDING Bishopthorpe councillor and gardening enthusiast John Galvin has achieved something of a horticultural marvel. John, who is a former secretary of the Ancient Society of York Florists, snapped this photo of his 8-year-old next door

Business leaders will today make a call for more organisations to join and raise the bar on responsible business behaviour York’s commitment to good growth will be celebrated in style on today's closing day of York Festival of Ideas 2022. The

A YORK attraction is hosting a weekend of fun to celebrate its 40th birthday. This year marks 40 years of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, based at Murton Park, near York - and a string of events are planned over Saturday and Sunday to mark the

POLICE are at an ongoing incident in a North Yorkshire town. North Yorkshire Police say their officers are currently in attendance at a property on Byland Road in Harrogate following an incident last night (June 23). A spokesman said: "The

AN Investigation is underway after a fire at a house in York this morning. Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at at 2am to a bungalow in the city. A spokesman said: "York, Huntington and the aerial ladder from Harrogate

THE publication of the proposed Human Rights Bill is a shameful day for Britain. The European Convention on Human Rights preceded the Common Market and European Union by many years and has nothing to do with European bureaucracy. It was established

BACK in January 2022, I will always remember receiving a text message from a close family member. It was a photo of their home in flames (The Press, January 19, 2022). And it was the full-time crew at Huntington that were the first responders. We are

Council chiefs vowed to “vociferously chase” the insurance company of the HGV driver who knocked over an historic lamppost – as they agreed to spend £33,000 replacing it. Repairing the lamp column between High Petergate and Minster Gates will cost

'EXCITING' new community care centres are set to make a big impact on the health and wellbeing of York residents and help to tackle the city's health inequalities. So says Professor Mike Holmes, of primary care services provider Nimbuscare, which

YORK MP Rachael Maskell has made a parliamentary move to help councils tackle problems she says are caused by the city’s growing numbers of short term holiday-lets. Ms Maskell this week introduced a bill to licence such properties, which would

“CUTS to the fire service risk lives.” Luke Charters knows only too well the important job done by firefighters at Huntington Fire Station and across York. Back in January this year The Press reported how crews worked through the night to save