George Wilkinson enjoys a Ryedale roam from Castle Howard to Hovingham. The Moorsbus we boarded at Hovingham is running frequently for the next six weeks and provides a window of opportunity for a linear route from Castle Howard to Hovingham on the Howardian
A STATELY HOME near York which has ancient regal links and a place in racing history is to play its part in welcoming visitors to Royal Ascot in the city. Aldby Park, at Buttercrambe, which is owned by Mark and Alice Winn, will be available to let to
YORK City Knights head coach Richard Agar appears in line to leave Huntington Stadium at the end of the season to take up the assistant's role at Hull FC. Agar told the Evening Press ten days ago he had had no contact with the Super League outfit but
Richard Edwards finds that the now confident city of Berlin has plenty to offer the visitor interested in culture, history and beer. A STRANGE relationship exists between Germany and Britain. While there is a long and deep-seated history of mutual antagonism
IT is always sad when someone shows his ignorance in public. If Mr Jeffrey (Evening Press, July 22) had come to the Minster on Sunday, he would have found the veterans enjoying the company of a naval officer who had had a very hard and dangerous war.
WE would like to thank everyone who supported our open garden last weekend. We raised more than £1,300 for Candlelighters and Sargent children's cancer charities. Our grateful thanks also to all friends and family who worked so hard to make it a success
GINA PARKINSON has advice on how to grow your own herbs. WE have been enjoying the harvest from our herbs over the past few weeks. Most are planted in a new bed created last summer and filled with plants earlier this year. The soil is light and the area
An unpleasant encounter on the banks of the Ouse reminds Richard Foster that we should safeguard the right to roam. NEVER take footpaths for granted. The right to walk along them has had to be fought for. I was reminded of this when I took my two daughters
York chef JAMES LOWE, owner of Villa Italia, reaches I and J in his alphabet of food and cooking. TO BE honest, this month's letters proved a little tricky, so I had to make a couple of unusual choices. First up then is Italian food, which perhaps is
PENSIONS chiefs in Whitehall axed more than 300 York jobs knowing they would be fined if they pulled out of the York office before 2008, Ryedale MP John Greenway has revealed. But it has emerged that if the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) finds
THREE York graduates are enlisting the help of a London-based independent film company to make its first short film. Emma Clover, Sheena Holliday and Adam Greenwood, who are all aged 21, are filming a 13-minute short story at locations around York in
A STATELY HOME near York which has ancient regal links and a place in racing history is to play its part in welcoming visitors to Royal Ascot in the city. Aldby Park, at Buttercrambe, which is owned by Mark and Alice Winn, will be available to let to
DIRECTOR of Cricket David Byas described Yorkshire's performance as "absolute rubbish" after it took them only 100 minutes on Friday morning to slump to a ten-wicket defeat against Somerset at Scarborough. But Byas said he was still confident that Yorkshire
TRAGIC twin Diane Sanderson may have driven to her own death after a telephone call from wanted man Mark Hobson, police revealed today. Detective Superintendent Javad Ali, the man leading North Yorkshire's biggest murder investigation, said Diane had
THEY say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Betrayal of any kind is pretty unpalatable, but public betrayal and the humiliation that follows must be the hardest to stomach. Being of Mediterranean temperament, my own immediate reaction would be somewhat
RICHARD Blakey's unexpected chance of playing in a Lord's final 17 years after his first was snuffed out by Gloucestershire who proved far too strong for Yorkshire in the semi-final of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy at Bristol. The 37-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman
MEET York Union of Golf Clubs' junior squad. The 12 teenagers are flying the flag for young golf in the York area by pitting their talents against youngsters from other unions across the region. Their latest outing at The Oaks on Monday resulted in defeat
BAR Talk likes a night on the nosh as much as the next man, but one thing always spoils it. When you wave away the six-page wine list and ask for a beer, the waiter inevitably replies: "Certainly sir. John Smith's or Kronenberg?" Why is it that restaurants
ASCOT is definitely coming to York next June. The Berkshire racecourse today formally confirmed the dates for its Royal Ascot fixture will be June 14 to 18, and that there will be a history-making Royal procession on Knavesmire on all five days. But it
Saturday, July 24, 2004 100 years ago: Developments had been taking place in the neighbourhood of Selby which pointed to the probability of boring operations being commenced for coal. The particular locality was at the old brickyard, near the village
In Tipping's Tipples this week, Mike Tipping checks out some supermarket bargains. I've been humming and hawing for the past few days. All over one bottle of wine and whether or not I should give it a Tipping's Tipples maximum rating of five stars. It
THE horrific murders of Claire and Diane Sanderson, and of James and Joan Britton, have rightly and understandably shocked us all. Murder is the most serious crime. But it is also one of the rarest in England, and especially so in this part of the country
MIKE LAYCOCK and family donned helmets before heading beneath the Yorkshire Dales. VICTORIA was apparently not amused when she heard what explorers had dubbed one of the formations in Ingleborough Cave: "Queen Victoria's Knickers" was hardly the respect
ON the up side it would be good to win a grand final. The downside is that that now seems to be York City Knights' only probable chance for gaining promotion from LHF Healthplan National League Two. Further on the downside, success in the play-offs hardly
STUART Wise has revealed that he turned down the chance to return to York City this season because he felt unliked. The Minstermen released 11 players at the end of last season but Wise was told by player-manager Chris Brass that he could earn a new deal
Everest, currently performing at the peak of his powers, bids to complete a notable hat-trick for Norton trainer Brian Ellison at Pontefract tomorrow. After valuable wins in recent weeks at Newmarket and Newbury, both gained in photo-finishes, the seven-year-old
YORK'S Community Carol Concert will be staged at a new venue this year after losing its traditional home - the Barbican Centre - to redevelopment. But the organisers say the new location has one massive advantage over the city centre leisure centre -
AN UNUSUAL signpost is pointing the way to a contemporary art exhibition in York on the theme of light. A piece of neon work created by West Yorkshire artist Shaun Pickard has been attached to a tree at the edge of the city's Coppergate shopping centre
THE parents of a motorised scooter rider have hit out at the law after York magistrates gave their son a year's driving ban for riding the vehicle while over the alcohol limit and without insurance. Janet and David Mitchell, of Tollerton, said they were
DUNNINGTON and Stillington are celebrating York and District Junior Cricket Association doubles this season. Dunnington won the Hirepoint Under-13 championship when they also added the title to their cup triumph. They captured the league crown, presented
MEET York Union of Golf Clubs' junior squad. The 12 teenagers are flying the flag for young golf in the York area by pitting their talents against youngsters from other unions across the region. Their latest outing at The Oaks on Monday resulted in defeat
A BANNED driver who smashed into three cars during a 70 mph police chase through a York housing estate has been jailed for 18 months. Sean Morris, prosecuting, said Luke Watson, 22, tried to evade police by pulling into a side street in the early hours
ASCOT is definitely coming to York next June. The Berkshire racecourse today formally confirmed the dates for its Royal Ascot fixture will be June 14 to 18, and that there will be a history-making Royal procession on Knavesmire on all five days. But it
PENSIONS chiefs in Whitehall axed more than 300 York jobs knowing they would be fined if they pulled out of the York office before 2008, Ryedale MP John Greenway has revealed. But it has emerged that if the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) finds
STUART Wise has revealed that he turned down the chance to return to York City this season because he felt unliked. The Minstermen released 11 players at the end of last season but Wise was told by player-manager Chris Brass that he could earn a new deal
THE mother of a man knifed five times by Britain's most wanted man said today that he should have been jailed for the attack. Margaret Brace, of Denison Road, Selby, said she had been "very angry" at the sentence handed out to Mark Hobson after he was
YORK City Knights head coach Richard Agar appears in line to leave Huntington Stadium at the end of the season to take up the assistant's role at Hull FC. Agar told the Evening Press ten days ago he had had no contact with the Super League outfit but
DIRECTOR of Cricket David Byas described Yorkshire's performance as "absolute rubbish" after it took them only 100 minutes yesterday morning to slump to a ten-wicket defeat against Somerset at Scarborough. But Byas said he was still confident that Yorkshire
Lucy Stephens is spoilt for choice at a York restaurant. SOMETIMES you can definitely have too much of a good thing. That was the feeling I had when studying the evening menu of the intriguing looking Michael's Brasserie, in Low Petergate, York. I say
NEWCOMER to the Audi showroom is the S line range of A6 saloons. There are five models in the range, powered by either V6 or V8 engines and ranging in price from £27,145 t0o £44,485 on the road. There is nothing actually new about the engines, they are
CITROEN's new C4 coup and hatchback range provides its own in-built scented air freshener. It is just one of several innovations expected when the new range of models is unveiled to the public for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in September, and
WHO else thinks that the punishment handed down to Alex Godfrey by a Rugby Football League disciplinary tribunal was way too harsh? As Evening Press readers will know, the 25-year-old saw his appeal against a two-year ban dismissed last week, the player
