PATIENTS and visitors at York Hospital are facing further delays before their parking nightmare is over. Hospital bosses who have long been hoping to build a new multi-storey car park revealed today they have had to reapply for planning permission.
YORKSHIRE faced a mounting fast bowling injury crisis as they went into their Liverpool Victoria Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl today. Tim Bresnan was unable to make the trip because of a back problem which caused him to miss
After more than six weeks of claims and counter-claims about two controversial York housing schemes, a public inquiry at the Guildhall has finally finished. But the arguments were heard all over again for one last time during closing speeches by supporters
A full-house crowd at Stamford Bridge saw Yorkshire Seconds' attack toil in baking heat on the first day of the Second XI Championship three-day game against Warwickshire yesterday. The visitors won the toss, batted first and were 318-7 at close of play
NIGEL Goscinski (Obri Coaching) won the tenth event in Clifton Cycling Club's evening time-trial series. He clocked 31 minutes 25 seconds over a 12.5 mile course to finish about a minute ahead of Steve Savage (Clifton), who did enough to retain his overall
VAL Thornton and Eric Wilkinson pulled off an remarkable victory on their way to the mixed pairs quarter-finals in the 39th York Open Bowls Tournament. They looked to be down and out in the blazing heat in their first round match against Sandra Grantham
MIDDLESBROUGH rising star James Morrison scored the only goal of the game in last night's KitKat Crescent friendly, but York City gave an encouraging account against their Premiership visitors. Right-winger Morrison was one of seven players in Boro's
YORK City will run the rule over three new trialists at Stocksbridge Park Steels tonight (7.30pm). Former Sheffield United midfielder Adrian Harper, who spent a month on loan at Scarborough last season, will play for the Minstermen, as will Jake Richardson
Schools may be out for summer, but for some talented York youngsters term did not end with the last bell on Friday. Education reporter HAYDN LEWIS spoke to a student who has enrolled in a summer school and his parents who are keen for him to carry on
A BOOMING railway consultancy has moved into its fourth successive York base in three years, having outgrown its last three offices. Now it plans to take on 24 more jobs. Scott Wilson Railways (SWR), which launched its York office in Tower House, Fishergate
YORK City Knights Rugby League Club's assistant coach Paul Broadbent has gone to Wakefield Trinity, it was announced today. The Wildcats' new coach John Kear has appointed the former Great Britain prop as his assistant. Broadbent, who famously captained
Leeds United's sale of joint leading scorer Rob Hulse to newly promoted Sheffield United for £2.2million has been done with manager Kevin Blackwell's backing. The Blades have been chasing Hulse (pictured left) for some time and the chance to play in
ARCHBISHOP Holgate's School might have to invest in a new trophy cabinet after winning a dozen sporting competitions in 2005-06. Despite being one of the smallest high schools in the region, with about 800 pupils, they have triumphed in football, basketball
AFTER two months of the sternest competition culminating in a creditable joint 48th finish in The Open, Simon Dyson has opted to take a week's break. The North Yorkshire golf star is currently on a week's holiday after deciding not to play in the
THE PRESS is launching a new free weekly pull-out on Saturdays for schools and junior sport. Park Life, which is being sponsored by Norwich Union, will be launched on Saturday, August 5, is specifically aimed at grassroots sport in York and surrounding
ONE of North Yorkshire's guardians of ancient building expertise retires this month after 45 years with the same company. Lyn Letby, 65, retires as masonry manager at award-winning conservation and restoration specialists, Wm Anelay, York, which was
ARCHBISHOP of York lifted the York Primary Schools Cricket Shield for the fourth time in ten years with a ten-run victory over Clifton Federation. Four-over partnerships of 23 from Sam Davies and Alex Jubb and 20 from Jacob Green and Peter Boxall helped
FOOTBALL minnows St Aelred's came within touching distance of cementing a York Primary Cup fairytale but fell at the final hurdle. The school had finished second bottom in League D' but proved to be the surprise package in the cup as they despatched
WESTFIELD Primary School had a double end of term delight after taking a league and cup York Area Girls Football double. Their A' team were found themselves locked in a late challenge for the south division title when Copmanthorpe rallied but the
LADY Lumley's Sports College, Pickering, mapped out a winning path to take the Ebor Schools' Orienteering League Secondary Boys title for the third successive year. The team members were Stephen Clark, Matthew Clark, Thomas Clark, Simon Percy, Daniel
Sessay still have hopes of retaining their Pilmoor Evening Cricket League title after beating Sheriff Hutton Bridge in a close finish, but Bridge remain the favourites as they hold a two-point lead with just two games remaining. Sessay took on SHB
NORTH Yorkshire fitness fanatics Chris Short and Campbell Watt are steeling themselves for the ultimate test of rowing the English Channel. The duo will make the daring bid of rowing the 23 miles of one of the world's busiest shipping routes on August
The front pond at Carpvale dominated proceedings in Sunday's second round of the North Central League. Daiwa Goldthorpe star Darrell Taylor, making a guest appearance for Knaresborough, scored a decisive victory from peg 71. After beginning on meat
Middleham trainer Mark Johnston, who is sending out winners galore at present, can score at Sandown tonight when Old Romney bids to fulfil earlier promise. The two-year-old made his debut at Newmarket a fortnight ago and ran a fine first race to finish
LEGEND has it that the fire in the bar must never be allowed to go out. But for travellers driving past a landmark pub on the North York Moors, it looks ominously as if the golden rule has been broken. The legendary Saltersgate Inn is normally a good
IT was a big day in our house when Dad bought our family's first phone. It was so long ago, dear readers, that we only had a four-figure number, and Yorkshire regional phone codes had but two digits. It wasn't quite Bakelite, and you didn't have to
ABSOLUTELY Frank began life 15 years ago as a lunchtime show in the refectory at the old Stephen Joseph Theatre. Novice playwright Tim Firth had thought he would be competing with the clatter of cutlery, so his original concept was to place two men high
I'M afraid it's First York's Peter Edwards who is wide of the mark in trying to counter Sue Wallace's and Richard Greaves's valid points (Letters, July 20). The ftr may indeed be physically the same width as other buses, but being longer and bendier
SOME of you may recall my letter of June 8 criticising the North Yorkshire Police Authority's decision to back the amalgamation of the four police forces. It was followed in The Press by a vehement defence of the decision by certain people who should
ANDREW Collingwood (Letters, July 20) does not appear to have a real grasp of why we are now in this dreadful situation in the Middle East. All parties involved have badly miscalculated and all must bear the blame. The Hamas leadership in Gaza
MURIEL Parsons, of the Campaign For An Independent Britain (Letters, July 19) fails to point out the difference, under the treaty, between extradition to EU countries and extradition to the United States. Because the US Congress has not ratified
IN reply to C E Brown and Sue Wallace (Letters, July 15), there is a company based in Leeds that produces a slimline bus, namely The Solo. First York already operates a number of "wide" version Solos. The Solo vehicle comes in various lengths from
HOW nostalgia for the 1960s awakens a smile in so many of us. I played guitar and sang in The Grid for a couple of years, alongside Rich Fern, Pete Gordon and John Hornsby. It was a bit of a roundabout really, with all the groups following each other
THE 1960s and early-1970s certainly was a brilliant era in and around York, though my pocket money in 1963, when I was aged 13, did not stretch to going to see The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at the Rialto in Fishergate. Some gigs I have not
COUNCILLOR Merrett's letter (Dinner Money Issue In A Spin, July 22) talks about "putting the record straight". Let me set the record straight for your readers. Nothing was "slipped through an officer on the quiet hoping that no one would notice".
I WISH to thank The Press for the recent news item publicising my charity work for the Sparrow Schools Foundation in Soweto, South Africa (Nurse Gwen Is Soweto bound, July 6). Many people visited my car boot stall on the Saturday following the
I CELEBRATE a big birthday on July 26 and wrote a little verse. If it could be included on the letters page it would make my day. Today is my 60th birthday I'm feeling in the pink I've got a hot tub for the garden And plenty of Champers to drink
PLEASE could The Press start a campaign to overturn the ludicrous ban on importing New Zealand Anchor butter (Britain buttered up by the all-powerful EU, (Letters, July 20). Like Godfrey Bloom, this is also the favoured brand in our household.
A SCHOOL has banned pupils from making and flying paper aeroplanes on the grounds of danger. Over the years I have shown countless children how to build an aeroplane out of nothing more than a sheet of foolscap paper. I presume my arrest is now
I'VE been heartened recently to see a couple of editorials where The Press has attempted to tackle fear of crime. As you point out, behind the headlines, York is a comparably safe city. If we live in constant fear, we are likely to become more insular
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling on British Sugar to think again about its plans to close their York factory. It would be nice to think such a high profile act by a parliamentarian had a chance of shaming company
IT takes a special kind of man to be a special constable. Being a police officer full time is a dangerous and stressful enough job. But doing it as a volunteer, in your own spare time? That takes real dedication. Today, we report how Jerry Holland
THE Press Change It! campaign has shown just how important it is to close a legal loophole over child kidnap. Abuse victims' charity Phoenix Survivors revealed when it lobbied Government two years ago ministers said existing laws were working. But today
WORK on a multi-million pound venture to turn a listed medieval building into luxury homes and shops can now get under way after city planners backed the final phase of the scheme. Developers The Helmsley Group won support from City of York Council's
MAJOR changes are underway at York Hospital following an investigation into why a little boy's fractured skull went undiagnosed for 48 hours. Health chiefs say they want to prevent a repeat of the case involving six-year-old James Fletcher, who failed
A SPECTACULAR procession through the centre of York celebrated the life and work of one of York's most significant figures. Hundreds of people flocked to the Minster for the 1,700th anniversary of the proclamation in York of Constantine the Great as
You can ask Chief Constable Della Cannings why she favoured a super police force for North Yorkshire - just don't ask her when she plans to retire, advises STEPHEN LEWIS. NORTH Yorkshire's chief constable Della Cannings is not a woman you cross
FRIENDS and family gathered together to mark the 60th birthday of triplets from York. The Roberts triplets, Paul, Susan and Judith, were born five minutes apart on July 27, 1946, at York's former Nunthorpe Nursing Home to Betty and Roy Roberts. Paul
PLANT scientists in York, who were recently given nearly $14 million by Bill Gates to help them develop a better treatment for malaria, have received another multi-million dollar boost. This time, the researchers at the University of York's Centre For
THE future site for a York homeless centre has been decided by council chiefs, despite protests by residents. Council leaders voted at an executive committee meeting yesterday to relocate the Peasholme Centre to 4 Fishergate. The centre, currently
BRITISH Sugar has been urged in the Commons to think again about its decision to close York's sugar beet factory. York MP Hugh Bayley tabled a motion which also called on the company to minimise the number of redundancies, and treat any axed worker
THE 140-million-year-old skeleton of an extinct sea creature was being scrutinised by experts in North Yorkshire today. The plesiosaur fossil was discovered by collector Nigel Armstrong, of Doncaster, on the Yorkshire coast near Filey in 2002. The specimen
SHE fled war-torn Lebanon in fear of her life today a student from the University of York told of her ordeal. Christine Hamieh, a 32-year-old postgraduate politics student left the Shiite town of Karak on Thursday with about 50 members of her family
NATURISTS are set to be entertained by a York band playing in the buff at an eye-opening event this weekend. York Maze is hosting a special evening on Saturday for visitors who enjoy finding their way around the labyrinth in the nude. Rock group Slash
