The response to my proposal about the Nestle site for York people has been most noticeable by its absence. Nobody has spoken against it and only one for it. Thank you, but there are an awful lot who would benefit more than I would at my age. REMINDER
SCORES of indoor bowlers at a club near York are set to stage a 24-hour bowls marathon next month in a bid to raise £1,000 for two important causes. The event at New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club will involve 54 bowlers, with three continuous triples matches
PINOTAGE is one grape variety that provokes snorts of derision from a large part of the wine trade. One wine correspondent I was travelling with last week described the aromas she associated with the grape as "fine, if you like sitting next to roadworks
LAST week's story about the last gas-lit pub in York certainly sparked your memories. As we recalled last week, the Slip Inn, on Malton Road, was built in Victorian times, but when it was demolished in 1968 it still had gas light. The pub was legendary
PRIDE in the Poppy Appeal has seen it gain a new recruit - who might just be its oldest York collector. Jane McKinnon's admiration for the annual fundraising effort to help those who fought for their country and their families encouraged her to play
JACK DAVIES netted a last minute penalty as Poppleton A' beat visitors Old Malton St Mary's 4-3 in round two of the York FA Acaster Steel Cup, writes Bob Grainger. Poppleton who took the lead after ten minutes through an overhead kick from James Gonzalbes
STICKABILITY was to the fore for City of York Hockey Club's two Under-10 boys' teams when the latest round of the Yorkshire Youth League was staged at Huntington School. York's A'-team finished joint runners-up in their group with the B'-team joint top
City of York HC U16 girls made hard work of their three games in their Yorkshire Youth League programme. With LA Carnegie fielding a weak side, York had 90 per cent of the play in the opposition 25 but were unable to get a clean strike at goal. Beth
POCKET rocket Liam Senior made a stunning start to his amateur boxing career with a unanimous points victory. The 11-year-old York Amateur Boxing Club fighter beat Doncaster Plant's Neil McCarry over three one-and-a-half minute rounds at Grimethorpe
MEET Selby RUFC's magnificent seven. Hooker Jamie Skelton, prop Jack O'Hara, flanker Grant Nicholson, centre Adam Brown, number eight Jacob Robinson, fly-half Josh Cruise and scrum-half Mikey Naylor have all been plucked from Selby's Under-14s team
York RUFC Under-8s swept the board in a series of five fixtures against Otley and Wensleydale. The U8s turned out three teams to play in five matches - and the Clifton Park youngsters won all five. Following their success at Morley Festival, the squads
New Earswick Girls Under-14s got off to a cracking start to their season by beating Rochdale Hillside 44-10. Tries in a great team performance came from Emily Hatfield, Lauren Banyard, Demi Benson (2), Jade Waudby (2), Tanya Boyes, player of the match
YORK College rugby league team made a slow start to their first away fixture at New College Pontefract - but they turned on the boosters to win 62-0. Winger Danny Lee opened the scoring in the corner and hard-working scrum-half Ross White doubled the
HEWORTH ARLC Under-11s will be appearing on the big stage this evening as they play in a curtain-raiser to the second Test between Great Britain and New Zealand. The young Villagers were invited to feature in the big match appetiser and will take on
A van driver who killed a family of four in a horrific crash on the A1 in North Yorkshire was jailed for seven years. Delivery driver Scott Easton, 23, had been at a party the evening before the smash, and was unfit to drive through a combination of
A LANDMARK York hotel has been sold by the family which has run it for the past 22 years. Graham and Beverley Blythe have sold the Beechwood Close Hotel, in Shipton Road, for an undisclosed sum to the Jinnah group, who intend to keep it as a traditional
Steve Tearle returns to the stage after a nine-year hiatus to lead the New Earswick Musical Society cast in Fiddler On The Roof at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from Tuesday to Saturday. "Stevie is no novice when it comes to leading roles and
York band Idle Jack & The Big Sleep are releasing their second full-length album, Stone Tape Theory: Volume II, in an initial print run of 300 copies. "The album is a double with 16 tracks, and it took us a year to make it at the Steelworks in Sheffield
The York Branch of the Royal British Legion stages its 17th York Festival of Remembrance at York Barbican Centre on Sunday, immediately before the refurbishment of the Barbican building. Producer Brian Coates reports high advance ticket sales. "They
York rock'n'roll promoter Dave Williamson presents The Johnny Storm Band at The Crescent WMC, Blossom Street, York, on November 3. "Anyone from up north in the Seventies or Eighties who was into rock'n'roll would have seen or heard of a Leeds band
Barnardo's is using a song by York songwriter Stan Graham on the children's charity's website. Doors Ever Open also can be heard on his newly-released third album, Along The Way. Former soldier Stan, who retired from the Army in 2001 after 36 years
American pianist Kirk Lightsey was a sideman with Chet Baker and Sonny Stitt in the 1960s, but came to wider notice during his four or five years with Dexter Gordon in the early 1980s. Tonight he brings his own trio to Wakefield Jazz (01977 680542)
York will play host to Paul Heaton's first gig since the demise of The Beautiful South. The Hull band split last year "due to musical similarities", whereupon the sardonic Birkenhead-born singer took a well-deserved break, for all of ten minutes.
The last time Kurt Wagner was in York, in March 2004, he was fronting his Nashville country-soul revue band Lambchop and encouraging audience members to join him in smoking on stage at the Barbican Centre. Now, the Barbican Centre is shut (for all
Are you brave enough to join the pimpernel's league when York Musical Theatre Company presents the Broadway musical The Scarlet Pimpernel at York Theatre Royal next spring? Already working on the company's biggest production since The Titanic in 2005
ALE drinkers turned out in numbers for the start of a three-day beer extravaganza in York. The annual York Camra Beer Festival started last night, and saw the launch of the new guide to the city's pubs. The book, Real Ale In York, has details of all
Ten years of the Pied Piper Project educational music workshops and concerts in Ryedale will be celebrated with a birthday party tomorrow evening at Hovingham Village Hall. Taking part in this sold-out event will be the Annie Whitehead Band and Endless
Wall To Wall brings together the arts, the church and the people of Palestine in a day of engagement and reflection in York on Sunday. The programme starts at 1.30pm with Visit Palestine, Katie Barlow's film at City Screen, York (tickets £7), followed
Some restaurants make you feel welcome even before you cross the threshold. Singers, in Tadcaster, is one such place. Candlelight flickers inside the large windows of the cream oldeworlde building in Westgate, drawing you in from the dark autumn night
Situated between branches of three major fast food firms, our objective was to see how this venue differed from its neighbours. All four cafés had tables outside, mostly occupied by smokers. We chose to sit within this spacious and well appointed café
"YOU do not need to shout, " says the discreet sign, inviting you to hum, sing, clap or even whisper in the presence of Evoke. It was 8pm, in the first chill of autumnal dark nights on Monday, and inquisitive passers-by were taking the chance to make
Graduates from the University of York St John are lighting up Gillygate after dark with their mini-festival of light, Lux. As part of the Illuminating York programme, they have converted this historic York gateway into a temporary "gallery" for contemporary
Greg and Ails McGee, coowners of The ArtSpace gallery and workshop in Tower Street, York, are celebrating the delivery of their latest piece of artwork: the birth of daughter Isla Euphemia McGee, who weighed in at 6lb 9oz this week. As you may have
Mostly Autumn are to play their home city of York for the first time since the release of their Heart Full Of Sky album, kickstarting their tour at the Grand Opera House next Friday at 8pm. Angela Gordon, the band's flute, clarinet and recorder player
The Young Knives began the year with a Nationwide Mercury Music Prize nomination for their 2006 album Voices Of Animals And Men and enter autumn with a new single, Terra Firma, and a tour. Tomorrow, the trio play their jagged disco-punk chronicles
Playing the Grand Opera House in York on Sunday will bring the memories flooding back for Dewey Bunnell, the songwriter behind America's hit A Horse With No Name. "My mother is originally from Harrogate; my sister and her husband live in Ilkley and
FIRST he tormented doctors and nurses with his obsession with surgical masks - now unstoppable pest Norman Hutchins has turned his attention to betting shop staff. Counter assistant Deborah Bell didn't respond quickly enough for the 56-year-old when
You recently published responses to news that City of York Council is planning measures to address increasing congestion on the A19 Fulford Road corridor (Meltdown by 2021, The Press, October 23). Your respondents seem to believe these measures must
AUDI has unveiled its concept rival to BMW's MINI. Its metroproject quattro design study, revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show, measures less than four metres and provides clues to the look and packaging of a future Audi sub-compact production car. Power
I would like to congratulate everyone involved with the production of Brassed Off performed at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre last week. It was an outstanding production which, for me, excelled in two ways. First, the Yorkshire accents (far superior
Charlie Lloyd suggests more research is needed regarding the relation of cannabis use to unemployment, educational under achievement, homelessness and motivation (More study needed into cannabis impact, Readers' Letters, October 27). There has been
Regarding the article in The Press on October 24 (Garage sell-off), I felt the local councillor had legitimate concerns about the historic Bar Walls. So I was appalled when the leader of the council, Steve Galloway, said any objection would be mischievous
CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL and STEPHEN LEWIS report on Mischief Night - a Yorkshire tradition that is getting out of hand. IT IS a Yorkshire tradition that children have enjoyed for generations. But increasingly Mischief Night seems to be getting out of hand
When Nissan set about designing its rather unconventional Note family car, it not only asked potential owners for their opinions, but also their passengers. In a vehicle of this type, those passengers would more likely than not be children, and so groups
MEDIA around the world are sniggering at York - because the home of Guy Fawkes hasn't got the gumption to organise a decent bonfire night. Journalists from across the globe have been contacting the city's tourism bureau to ask why York can't get its
A FEW weeks ago, Sir Menzies Campbell resigned from his post as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Apparently, some people had asked him to resign because they thought he was too old. It has long been my belief that retirement from any paid employment
I WOULD like to respond to the many contributions in The Press (Short-changed over swimming?, Readers' Letters, Ocotber 30) on swimming provision in York. Many of your writers have taken only a cursory glance at the facts. Mr Sweeney makes some valid
CAN someone explain the need for clocks to move back or forward during the year? This practice was formed during and just after the war years. Dark or light make no difference to one's biological clock; my dog, for instance, does not know any different
THE future of a major industrial site has been secured for an undisclosed sum in a move which is likely to see hundreds of jobs created over the next decade. After months of wrangling and uncertainty, a deal has finally been struck for the Tate & Lyle
I WAS born and brought up at Severus Avenue, in Acomb, from where we looked out on to open fields. We camped and played there, walked our dogs there and, at this time of year, had pitched battles with the Poppy Roaders who tried to pinch our bonfire
Yet another report has warned that certain foods could put us in danger - so what exactly can we eat? Mark Stead tries to pick his way through the diet minefield. IF you're confused about what is and isn't safe to eat, you're probably not the only
VANDALS have destroyed a tree memorial to murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle. The flowering pear tree was planted by Caroline's mum, Marjorie, five years ago. Whoever ripped it up knew what they were doing. The tree stood next to a plaque explaining
Getting a good night's sleep is vital to our health, but millions of Britons are missing out, as Nicola Fifield reports. A MASSIVE 75 per cent of us wake up every morning feeling exhausted, according to new research. Dr Chris Idzikowsk, from the Edinburgh
On the cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan's new album is a picture of a piano transformed into a plug about to be applied to the socket. Does it feel like that, as if you have a current of electricity passing through you, every time you sit at the piano stool
A MIXED-USE commercial building in the heart of York city centre has been sold for £1.6 million. Developer-investor Rushbond plc has acquired 11 Little Stonegate from Standard Life. The building's tenants include Laura Ashley, the Bank of Scotland and
A YORK driver has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by reckless driving following a fatal smash last night. A 20-year-old male passenger, from the York area, was killed in the incident, which happened just outside the village of Sheriff Hutton
Christian Fox is a personal trainer, sports massage therapist and nutritional advisor working in and around York. This week he discusses avoiding cancer. There is so much you can do to manage your health and lifestyle and minimise the risk of developing
SEVEN of North Yorkshire's best-loved shops have been shortlisted for a prestigious national award. Barker Butchers, Nether Poppleton, York; Highside Butchers, Ripon; Ainsty Farm Shop, Green Hammerton; Skelton-on-Ure Post Office; Adventure Toys, Northallerton
A WORRIED dog-owner today told how her pet collapsed and became violently sick, after a possible case of poisoning on York's Knavesmire. Emma Headland, 27, said her seven-year-old boxer Ruby nearly died, after eating a mystery substance among some bushes
A MARKETING masterclass entitled Building Brand Through Customer Experience will be held at the Holiday Inn, York, this month. Richard Groom, of Groom Associates, will be making the presentation at the event, organised by The Chartered Institute Of Marketing
Kevin Tomlinson is contemplating first love, first achievements, leaving home and the fate of the universe in his improvised one-man comedy show On The Edge! in The Studio, York Theatre Royal, from Thursday to Saturday. When was the first time you
Artisitic director Damian Cruden and new associate director Juliet Forster are teaming up to direct York Theatre Royal's repertory production of Enjoy, Alan Bennett's play made newly sharper for the age of Big Brother. "We thought it would be a good
Yellow Leaf Theatre Company returns to The Studio, York Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday with a new play by Yorkshire playwright James Robson, Scribbler & Spouse. Scribbler has been there, done it, survived the hangovers and carries the scars
Blood Brothers and the Nolan sisters go hand in hand. The role of Mrs Johnstone has become synonymous with assorted singing siblings from the Irish family, and sure enough Linda Nolan will be starring in Willy Russell's musical at the Futurist Theatre
November 4 is Mischief Night, and appropriately three of the cheekiest comedians on the circuit descend upon The Other Side Comedy Club in York on Sunday evening. Martin 'BigPig' Mor is blessed with uncanny comic improvisational skills and a fast mind
NO doubt choking on humble pie after England bashed up his Aussies at the World Cup rugby, Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson is rampaging across the old country with his new Karaoke Kev Tour show. Rested from his 60th birthday celebrations in Western Australia
A PASSER-BY rescued a York man from a burning building and then had to be rescued himself when he went back inside to check the property was empty. The drama unfolded in the early hours of this morning after a blaze broke out following the spontaneous
The show title has not changed from the last tour, but the material has changed as Lenny Henry asks Where You From? at the Grand Opera House, York. "The first tranche, as my accountant says, was about Lenny's Britain, the TV show, where I visited Blackpool
LOU Rhodes is on the roads in a tour that combines full-scale concerts with appearances at Borders book stores around the country. On Wednesday evening, the former Lamb singer will be in York, playing a short acoustic solo set and talking about her
THE mother of a York murder victim has hit out after vandals ripped out a tree planted in her daughter's memory. The flowering pear tree was planted in memory of murdered backpacker Caroline Stuttle at the city's Coppergate Centre in October 2002, by
IS York a city of train spotters? The Diary only asks after sifting through the results of what is said to be first national survey of the reading habits of two million UK magazine subscribers (well, someone had to do it). This reveals that people in
I CAN think of nothing more appropriate than turning on the television on Hallowe'en morning to find Lady Heather McCartney Mills and professional harridan Fiona Phillips huddled around the cauldron that is the GMTV coffee table. What on earth are
A MOTHER spoke today of her shock and horror after finally discovering why her York daughter's plane crashed in America, killing her instantly. An official report by American air investigators revealed that only five days before rookie pilot Lisa Knaggs
THIS year's bonfire night let down in York has achieved international status. The lack of public bonfires and fireworks displays in the city where Guy Fawkes was born and baptised has baffled people across the globe. Gillian Cruddas, chief executive
YORK City's cash-squeezed Centre of Excellence has netted a major boost to their appeal for funds from supermarket giants Asda. The company presented a cheque for £1,000 to the Centre which has been forced to try to raise an annual target of £20,000
A WHEELCHAIR- bound pensioner was left trapped in her flat because of a broken lift. Anne Bailey, of Glen Lodge sheltered housing complex in Sixth Avenue, Heworth, suffered a stroke seven years ago and was cared for in Alne Hall, in Easingwold. But she
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is insisting the FA Cup will provide no distraction ahead of his club's league trip to neighbours Farsley Celtic on Sunday night. The televised Blue Square Premier clash has been sandwiched in between City's fourth qualifying
YORK City Knights forward Dave Buckley was in Ireland's provisional 19-man squad for their crunch World Cup qualifier against Lebanon tonight - but his place in the team is under threat. Buckley was in the Irish side that beat Russia in a group match
AN UNCLE who beat up his niece has walked free from court, but faces the festive party season confined to his home. Paul Thornhill, 39, hit Sonia Bell in the face at her York home when a television programme on dogs sparked an argument, said prosecutor
NORTH Yorkshire racehorse trainer David Nicholls is a big winner with York City's youth academy. The Sessay-based ace heard of the plight of the Centre of Excellence which needs to self-fund itself to the tune of around £30,000 a year if it is to continue
HIGH-FLYING Pickering Town are looking for their ninth straight win tomorrow, knowing three points could put them top of the league. The Pikes entertain Mickleover Sports after a remarkable run of form that has taken them to within a point of top spot
FORMER York City manager John Ward stands in the way of Leeds United's astonishing ascent of the Coca-Cola division one rankings. United travel north to the Brunton Park fortress of a Carlisle side, which, under the management of Ward, has captured top
A SECOND round of talks is set to take place today in a bid to avoid a walk-out by York Hospital's medical secretaries. GMB union chiefs will meet with hospital bosses in hope of achieving a settlement that would prevent severe disruption to hospital
HOLDERS Nestlé Flag live to fight another day in the York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup after producing a thrilling fight-back against York Nomads. Flag were in dire trouble after going three goals behind early in the tie. Despite replies from Wayne
COUNCIL workers in York have vowed to fight for a better pay deal next year, after reluctantly abandoning a proposed strike. A nationwide ballot of Unison members saw 51.6 per cent vote in favour of industrial action, in response to a below-inflation
LOWLY Cawood shocked title-chasing Wilberfoss by surging into a 1-0 half-time lead in their York FA Sunday Morning Junior Cup duel. It took more than an hour for Mark Bramell to take advantage of a goalkeeping fumble to level before Stuart Barker netted
CLUB class Simon Dyson was well in contention for an end of season swing kerching as he headed into the second round of the Volvo Masters in Valderrama today. The North Yorkshire golf ace posted a first round three-over par 74 at the Sotogrande course
YORK RUFC face arguably their toughest task yet in North 2 East - but they reckon they can pull off a shock. The Clifton Parkers travel north tomorrow to take on West Hartlepool, the clear leaders of the division, as massive underdogs. Second-bottom
The Yorkshire Ouse Championships drew a sell-out field of 144 to York waters between Beningbrough and Poppleton, where four adjacent pegs around the pipe hole at Poppleton provided record-breaking action. John Cyrowski (Barlby Village Stores) set a new
IN the opening qualifier of the Betwise £1,000 York Individual Open Darts competition John Quantock produced darts worthy of winning the final. He hit 17, 15 to defeat York's darts-maestro Chris Thompson 3-0, then fired 17, 15, 14 against Simon Yorke
Aces Four, who went from strength to strength last season over fences, can further advertise his burgeoning talent by making a successful comeback at Wetherby tomorrow in the prestigious bet365 Charlie Hall Chase. Trained at Middleham by Ferdy Murphy
THE statistics alone tell the story. Eighteen races, placed 13 times, a winner on four occasions and scooping more than £500,000 in prize money, only in his final contest did he fail to finish in the top four. Eleven starts in Group races, he was Europe's
Third-placed Pocklington face their toughest Yorkshire Two test so far when they travel to unbeaten league leaders Skipton. Pock have already visited Skipton this season when they were walloped on the first day in the Senior Vase knockout first round
Cornell Precedent is napped to come out on top of his four rivals in today's fascinating Wensleydale Hurdle at Wetherby. John Quinn's charge opened his account in pleasing style on this course a fortnight ago, beating Smugglers Bay, a winner since at
A DISUSED warehouse on the outskirts of York looks set to be converted into a new training centre for aspiring construction workers. York College is seeking planning permission to convert the old Wickes site in Lysander Close, Clifton Moor, into a centre
THE jewel in the crown of Wetherby Racecourse's most valuable meeting ever is tomorrow's £90,000 bet365 Charlie Hall Chase. A field of 16 runners is expected to go to post for the prestigious Grade 2 contest over three miles and one furlong, which is
A HUGE £125,000 project is under way at Fountains Abbey to give visitors a history of the World Heritage site and an insight into the lives of the medieval monks who lived there. The scheme is being funded by the European Union and will see a contemporary
PARENTS are being urged to set a good example to their children in an effort to cut road deaths in the Selby area. In the last three years nearly 20 children have been killed or seriously injured on the roads in the Selby district, while a further 83
POLICE are following up new lines of inquiry as a result of The Press's Crime Gallery. CCTV images of six suspected thieves were the first to be put in the frame by our new Crime Gallery feature yesterday. The images were featured exclusively in The
CRIMINALS in North Yorkshire carried out more than 142,000 hours of unpaid work in a year as part of their punishment. North Yorkshire Probation Area's annual report for 2006-2007 shows there was one of the highest ever amounts of unpaid work - previously
