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  • Boom time for York traders

    IT'S boom-town York. Despite today's bad news on the jobs front at printers Donnelley's, new figures indicate the city's economy is generally strong, with the number of businesses having risen by more than a fifth in the past decade. Councillors have

  • Puppy Storm finds new home

    A PUPPY at the centre of one of the worst animal cruelty cases in York has found a new home near Selby. In May, The Press reported how Storm, a German shepherd puppy, was found bleeding and in desperate need of treatment in a garden in Chapelfields Road

  • Stars in their ice

    IT NEEDED a lot of faith and optimism to sell ice-cream through the rain and cloud of July. But a cockney Cypriot managed to keep chirpy after setting up his wagon in Deans Park, behind York Minster. And after a much better weekend, he can now look forward

  • Family pair open up for victory

    It was a memorable day for the Elvidge family as father and son, Neil and Ben, shared their first century opening stand, which enabled Folkton & Flixton to defeat York II by eight wickets in division one at Clifton Park. Brendon Ledgway made 30 and Dave

  • Hall's haul hits Crayke

    The shock result of the day saw division two leaders Crayke lose their unbeaten record when they were toppled by bottom placed Osbaldwick, whose Andy Hall had a fine all-round game. He claimed 4-65 as Crayke were bowled out for 141, with Dave Thomas

  • Dun stunner foils Malton

    PREMIER division sides Dunnington and Sessay created a bit of quirky history in the Hunters York & District Senior League when they played two games in one day. The unusual situation arose as the two teams had made a number of attempts to play their

  • Sessay eye promotion

    Division six leaders Sessay beat fellow promotion hopefuls Goole by eight wickets, thanks to an unbroken stand between John Flintoff (63no) and James Watson (39no). Goole's earlier score of 129-6 had seen runs from James Mahoney (34) and Steve Foster

  • High five is Noble gesture

    YOUNG Dunnington paceman Mike Noble produced an unbelievable over in the division five clash with Bolton Percy - claiming five wickets. Noble's feat totally devastated Bolton Percy and had them out for the season's lowest total of 25. Noble's over saw

  • York bowlers unite to see off Sheffield threat

    YORK stretched their lead at the top of the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League to 13 points with a 14-run victory at Sheffield United. A complete victory gave York eight points, while title rivals Barnsley could only garner six points from

  • Younus hits the max

    A DOUBLE century by Pakistan Test star Younus Khan made sure Yorkshire took maximum bonus points from their rain-hit Championship draw with Kent at Scarborough. Strong in both attack and defence, Younus stroked an elegant 217 not out as Yorkshire cantered

  • Gough's double rattles sabres

    Two wickets for Darren Gough in the penultimate over brought Yorkshire Phoenix a dramatic nine-run victory over Somerset Sabres in their opening NatWest Pro40 League game of the season at Scarborough. A sensational 127 from Jacques Rudolph guided Yorkshire

  • Poor hygiene at care home

    A CARE home in York was so dirty and damaged that managers had to be hauled before top council bosses. Hygiene inspectors published a Care Home, in Gale Lane, Acomb, after visiting the premises last autumn. Trisha Haswell, senior environmental health

  • Cadets on the march

    LEFT, right, left, right, left, right. A dozen members of Yorkshire Army Cadets will be taking part in the annual Airborne March in Holland on September 1, in remembrance of the Battle of Arnhem. As well as remembering those who gave their lives that

  • Animals team’s £1,000 feat

    FOUR animal-lovers braved hail and gale-force winds to conquer the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. The four - Helen and John Yeomans and Stephen and Tracy Logan - who all live in Strensall, climbed Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough to raise cash

  • Charity golf day ready to tee off

    IT'S time for tee. Entries are continuing to pour in for The Press Golf Day, but we are still looking for more teams to help us reach our £5,000 charity appeal target. Since its foundation last year, we've been thrilled by the support of golfers, teams

  • York City 1, Bradford 0

    A GOOD workout seems the cliched staple requirement from any pre-season friendly these days and Mr Motivator or Mad Lizzie would be hard pressed to provide Football League clubs with more strenuous exercise than that offered by York City this summer.

  • Prize guy Quinn picks up a dashing victory

    MALTON trainer John Quinn picked up another big race prize after Zomerlust took victory in the £50,000 Skybet Dash at York Racecourse. The 8-1 shot was well placed midway on the rail before finding a gap with a furlong-and-a-half to travel and striding

  • Latest insult to brave Terry

    NEVER again let it be said that the Ministry of Defence doesn't look after its own. OK, so it refused for years to recognise Gulf War Syndrome - the condition that left many of this country's finest young soldiers physically and emotionally shattered

  • Sombre reading

    RR Donnelley's job losses make sombre reading. The company may have moved along the A59 in recent years, but many of its employees are York people with families to support. It is ironic that its struggles should emerge just as reports suggest other

  • RR Donnelley workers in jobs misery

    PRINTING giant RR Donnelley is axing a third of its workforce after losing two major contracts, according to reliable sources. The American-owned company, most of whose workers come from the York area, is understood to be making about 110 people redundant

  • Buck in frame

    CITY of York Athletics club runner Richard Buck finished third in the 400 metres last night at the Norwich Union World Trials and UK Championships in Manchester. Buck won his Saturday semi-final in a personal best time of 46.13 seconds, having won his

  • United misery

    LEEDS UNITED were left to rue their missed chances after a 2-0 friendly defeat by Burnley at Turf Moor. The visitors created a string of opportunities which fell to Jermaine Beckford and Tresor Kandol, but the pair were thwarted by Burnley 'keeper Gabor

  • Top Brit status for hero Charlie

    Charlie Wegelius was the highest ranked British finisher when the Tour de France rolled into Paris after 23 gruelling days. The Liquigas rider, who took up cycling in York, finished the race in 45th position, one hour, 46 minutes behind winner Alberto

  • Knights 14, Oldham 15

    HE might have nightmares about it. Tom Burton, the young Leeds Rhinos winger, marred his month-long loan spell at York City Knights when his blunder gifted Oldham a late equaliser yesterday, before much-travelled forward Rob Roberts - who had a brief

  • Thousands raised at York charity market

    THOUSANDS of pounds were raised at York's annual charity market. About 30 stalls were set up in Parliament Street at the weekend, benefiting charities including York Deaf Society and Martin House Hospice. The event was organised by City of York Council

  • 2,000 call sex abuse hotline

    A TELEPHONE hotline for victims of childhood sexual abuse in York received nearly 2,000 calls last year. The news comes as the York-based charity, Survive, gets ready to launch a ten-week free course for women whose lives have been destroyed by the traumatic

  • Swedish spotlight for photographer

    YORK photographer Rob Cook hit the headlines in Sweden while attending the Big Power Meet American Car show in Vasteras. The event held in Vasteras is, perhaps bizarrely the Diary suggests, the largest gathering of American cars in Europe. Rob was on

  • Sex? We were just clueless

    MY friend Sarah thought you couldn't get pregnant the first time you did it. Sally, another learned chum, thought it didn't count if you did it standing up. And Caroline, who I know on pretty good authority has left the area and will never read this,

  • Boer War memory

    POMP and circumstance does not come much grander than this. It will be exactly 102 years ago on Friday that Lord Roberts of Kandahar, the celebrated war hero and former commander of British troops in the Boer War, unveiled the South African war memorial

  • Five-star hotel hope for York site

    YORK'S tourism chief has called for landmark buildings in St Leonard's Place to be transformed into the city's first five-star hotel. As reported in The Press on Friday, City of York Council's offices in the street, and in nearby Museum Street, have

  • Dangers of a true sport

    ERNEST Hemingway once famously declared: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor-racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." The element of danger involved in mountaineering is all too apparent, following the death on Mont Blanc

  • Hunters league results

    Premier Division Acomb (3) lost to Thirsk (30) by 8 wickets. Acomb 136-7 (S Nicholls 31, F R Sykes 31no; A D Towse 3-56), Thirsk 139-2 (D C Wyrill 70no). Clifton Alliance (30) beat Sessay (2) by 142 runs. Clifton Alliance 227-5 (S Corley 37, R F T

  • Workers’ three peaks feat for hospice

    FIVE workers at York company Gamestation have tackled the Yorkshire Three Peaks walk to raise money for St Leonard's Hospice. And they were helped by colleague Joe Tidball, whose grandfather Gerald Peacock was one of the hospice's first patients more

  • Selby Lion receives top award

    ONE of Selby Lions' longest serving members has been honoured with a top award from the group's international body. David Jones, of Cawood, has been a Lion for 25 years and has now been presented with the Melvin Jones award for his services to the organisation

  • Sharks and mosquitoes.

    It’s the summer that Sir Paul Hudson forecast for today; warm and sunny and yesterday was likewise. Sylvia was working in the front garden while I slaved away in the back. When I joined her to report all the work I had done, she was deep in a gossip with

  • Veterans' Terry Walker fury

    A WAR veterans' association has blasted the Government's treatment of Terry Walker's grieving family - and called for a full inquiry. Shaun Rusling, of the Veterans and Families Benevolent Association, said he was "disgusted" with the Ministry of Defence's

  • Captain Marvel

    Captain Gerrard, winner of his last two races, is napped to make it three tomorrow for Hambleton trainer Bryan Smart on the opening day of Glorious Goodwood. The £50,000 Betfair Molecomb Stakes is the target for this son of Oasis Dream, who will be partnered

  • So lucky to give birth in this city

    THERE is so much bad press regarding the state of maternity units and unprofessional staff, I hope that you will print this letter - because, for once, I would like to show that we in York are lucky. Being a first-time mum, I found reading reports in

  • Don’t deregulate

    I OBTAINED my hackney licence in 1956. Between 1956 and 1962, York hackney carriages were deregulated. Rowntree, Terry's and Holgate carriageworks car parks were full of taxis parked up while the drivers were doing a shift. After work, the drivers came

  • Eyesore point

    REGARDING the recent report on the confirmation of a planning application for turning the former public house, the Bay Horse, Marygate, into offices and flats, with a planner stating the premises "have been empty for four years" (Time called for Boozer

  • Time to defend

    THE recent floods of the north east, south and south west have shown what devastation can occur to property and businesses, and there is no idea as to what the total cost will be in restoring everything. Surely any sum of money necessary to strengthen

  • Pulling together

    THIS country has been no stranger to terrorism and bomb outrages over the years from Guy Fawkes and the Fenian uprisings in the middle of the 19th century, which in turn was followed by the First and Second World Wars, in particular the Blitz, which affected

  • Love rival’s fight shame

    A FATHER who went for his love rival with a pickaxe handle has escaped a jail term. Trevor Mark Wrigglesworth, 37, was "humiliated" by Matthew Frary outside his home in the presence of his former partner of 16 years, York Crown Court heard. So he fetched

  • My lost content

    I had the good fortune to be brought up in a village outside York. My friends and I used to cycle miles around the country lanes, with no fears that anything would happen to us. I wonder if modern-day parents in my village are too frightened to allow

  • BBC is acting like a private eye

    THE BBC and the television licensing department seem to be far more interested in spending the public's money on developing sophisticated hi-tech equipment than in providing quality broadcasting (Crackdown on TV Cheats, The Press, July 23). If the money

  • Child centres plan for city

    CHILDREN'S centres will be available to every child in York by 2010. Government minister Beverley Hughes has announced the services would be available to all the city's youngsters within three years. The Sure Start York Local Programme, now in its sixth

  • Billy rails at rookie ref’s call

    YORK City boss Billy McEwan labelled rookie referee Ross Joyce "facetious" after he refused to allow midfielder Stuart Elliott back on to the pitch following his substitution during Saturday's 1-0 home win over Bradford City. Elliott was replaced by

  • Gone for a Burton

    HEAD coach Mick Cook refused to criticise Tom Burton after his blooper all but ended York City Knights' hopes of finishing in the top five. The on-loan Leeds Rhinos winger dropped a routine chip in his in-goal area and the ball was pounced on for Oldham

  • Sledgehammer to gate threat

    A PARISH councillor has threatened to take a sledgehammer to a gate blocking a public footpath in the Selby area if it is not removed. Villagers in Sherburn-in-Elmet were incensed after GMS Rawfield Developments blocked off the footpath between Beech

  • Schools get flooding aid

    FLOOD-DAMAGED schools in North Yorkshire are to get a £50,000 share of a Government flood recovery fund. Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls announced which areas will benefit from the initial £10 million funding package for