A RETIRED police inspector has been jailed for two years for causing a crash in which two men died. Ralph Desmond Parnaby, 67, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, caused four vehicles, including his own, to crash on the York outer ring road last
SCOTTISH reports that former Queen of the South captain Steve Bowey has signed for York City have been dismissed by club secretary Nick Bassett. The Scottish first division club's official website claims midfielder Bowey has joined the Minstermen but
DETECTIVES investigating the rape of a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who accepted a lift home from a stranger are appealing for more information. The teenager was raped in a car park off Bishopthorpe Road, behind Knavesmire racecourse, at about midnight
ECO-WARRIORS are to attempt to shut down Drax Power Station later this summer. The Camp For Climate Action group intend to set up camp in "megawatt valley" south of Selby, an area which is home to Eggborough and Ferrybridge power stations, as well
SHE has lost both her mother and husband to cancer within only 18 months and she admits she feels "robbed". But the double blow has left Ivy Attmere more determined than ever to take part in this year's Race For Life, especially as the York event falls
A FIRE authority member has hit back over claims firefighters are being forced to do jobs without proper training. Coun Ken King who represents City of York Council on North Yorkshire Fire Authority, said he is confident that public safety has not been
HE should be moved out of York permanently instead he could be back in the city within months. As exclusively revealed in The Press in April, stalker Stephen Moss, 52, turned Theresa Helstrip's life into a nightmare for seven years, prosecutor Rosemary
TWO teenagers have been kicked out of class at a York secondary school for cannabis dealing and possession. Fulford School has expelled a teenage boy for supplying cannabis and suspended a girl for 15-days for cannabis possession after an incident at
Homes planA controversial housing plan should be thrown out, according to council planners. The Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) looks likely to have to go back to the drawing board, after City of York Council planning officers recommended
FORMER York City goalkeeper Bob Ferguson has died aged 88. Bob, who was believed to be the Minstermen's oldest surviving player, suffered a heart attack while attending his grandson's wedding in Marlow, Buckinghamshire on Saturday. Having arrived at
CHIPPIES across York and North Yorkshire are being battered by the soaring price of fish and potatoes. Fish and chip shop owners said the cost of haddock had been pushed up because Icelandic fishermen were deserting British docks for America. Stateside
CONTROVERSIAL plans to merge North Yorkshire Police force have been delayed until the autumn by Home Secretary John Reid. He told MPs that moves for forced mergers would not be set in motion before Parliament's summer recess, which begins on July 25
LAP dancing could finally be on its way to York city centre. As a major conference, tourism and stag night destination, York is unusual in having no clubs offering adult entertainment. But licensing chief John Lacy revealed today he had received a number
TWO teenagers have been kicked out of class at a York secondary school for cannabis dealing and possession. Fulford School has expelled a teenage boy for supplying cannabis and suspended a girl for 15-days for cannabis possession after an incident at
Roxan, who made an eye-catching debut at Beverley, is aiming to fulfil that big impression at Royal Ascot tomorrow. Kevin Ryan's flying filly runs in the Queen Mary Stakes and is the ante-post favourite to bring this Group 2 prize back to North Yorkshire
WHELDRAKE are enjoying a fantastic season in the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League. With the campaign reaching the half-way stage, they are unbeaten in three divisions. Wheldrake's second-string top division seven after a win against title rivals Appleton
DUNNINGTON had revenge over Tyke Petroleum Men's Tennis League division one leaders Poppleton with a convincing 65-43 win. Despite winning all three sets 28 games John Moore and Etienne Duminil finished on the losing side. Dunnington's win hung on
STARBECK beat Bishopthorpe to make it six in a row in division six of the Fulford Ladies Invitation League. Diana Lang and Ann Dobson only dropped one game as they won 35 games in an emphatic 88-20 victory. Sheriff Hutton had two good wins to put
GOAL celebrations are a trademark of the modern World Cup era. The Press sports writer DAVE FLETT recalls five unforgettable routines. PETER Crouch has vowed not to demonstrate his robotic goal celebration unless England lift the World Cup but should
FREE-SCORING York Cricket Club advanced in style to the regional final of the Cockspur ECB National KO Trophy over fellow Oxbridge Yorkshire League rivals Cleethorpes. The Lincolnshire-based hosts could never get to grips with York, who sealed a comfortable
Sheriff Hutton Bridge's lead at the top of the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League's first division was trimmed when they tasted defeat for the first time. They lost a tight match at Newburgh, who made 98-6, Ben Walker top-scoring with 34. When Bridge replied
REIGNING champions Sheriff Hutton Bridge won the all-Hunters York Senior League Group Final in sensational fashion when they defeated Woodhouse Grange, also previous winners, by ten wickets. Premier division side Woodhouse Grange chose to bat first against
TONY Cooper hit 140, 100, 100, 123 and double 19 for a superb 13-darter for Sun in the York Phoenix Monday Darts League division one encounter with Cygnet B'. Cooper (180) added a 20-darter and was well supported by Chris Thompson (180 for 18 plus
BURNHOLME Club's Nikki Riley shot out on 103 with treble 19, treble two and double tops in their York John Smith's Ladies League division one match at Slip. Riley's heroics were in vain, however, as Babs Harrison secured the win for the home team
For seven years, stalker Stephen Moss has been turning Theresa Helstrip's life into a nightmare. His campaign of harassment began with a chance encounter at a York supermarket in 1998. The pair struck up a brief conversation. Since then, and despite
YOU invite us to opine on the National Health Service (NHS) it's like the curate's egg, good in parts. At 15 I was shot in the eye with an air rifle, rushed to York and the treatment could not have been better. Convalescing at Deighton Grove, with its
IT will be Ivy Attmere's birthday on June 28. The 51-year-old says she can't think of anything she would rather do than take part in the Race For Life. It is the kind of thing many of us might say about such a good cause. In Ivy's case, it has added
I HAVE read with great interest in The Press all the remarks from patients on how happy they were, and are, with the wonderful services provided by our York Hospital. I endorse all they say as a patient of the hospital and all their staff, from the
I FULLY agree with Mr Smith about the rubbish tax (Rubbish Tax Idea, Readers' Letters, June 16). Surely this will encourage people to fly-tip or to dump their rubbish carelessly? Mrs K Burton, Fountayne St, York.
MISSING wheelie bins? Fines for not recycling? I can't even get a supply of bin bags for my terraced property, which we should receive every 13 weeks. I rang the council offices in April, as I hadn't seen a sign of any bags this year. I was told the
THE National Health Service (NHS) is a complete ill-organised affair. I was appalled at reading Rita Bennett's case about her current arthritis condition (The Press, June 5). Having to take 22 tablets a day must be awful, but then, on top of this,
I HAVE read with interest the development in proceedings regarding the proposed "Derwenthorpe". Having been brought up in Osbaldwick village and subsequently lived in New Earswick from 1981 to 1988, I can only say that members of the Joseph Rowntree
Saturday's Press reported on York primary schools' adoption of the World Cup as a theme for learning and fun. The report was accompanied by a photograph of pupils at Lakeside School accompanied by kitchen staff, their faces painted with the George Cross
AS A now-redundant member of the Businfo team, I hesitate to prolong the debate about the closure of the office in George Hudson Street, York, but recent statements from councillors Steve Galloway and Ann Reid call for a response. To assert that Businfo
COUNCILLOR Steve Galloway says the bus information centre closed because of Government limitation of council expenditure. Why, then, were his £29,854.25 expenses not affected by this limitation? W Arnott, Hob Moor Terrace, York.
What an excellent Saturday (June 17) Press headline was Mercury Rising. I almost thought that I was purchasing a thriller novel when I took my newspaper to the checkout. However, the article did highlight a bizarre price hike due to an environmental
E ba gum! So now we have to cough up another £15 to dispose of our late lamented (The Press, June 17). Executive member Andrew Waller, of City of York Council, states that 2,000 to 2,100 of our loved ones pass through the crematorium on the way to
I find it hard to believe that the cost of cremations may rise due to dental fillings. As there are so many people in York without a dentist, there should be no need for us to worry then. PR Willey Burnholme Drive Heworth, York
A YOUNG painter and decorator brushed off the competition to be named the country's top trainee. Leon Noble, 18, of Stillingfleet, near Selby, beat 30 other youngsters who were nominated for the national title. The teenager, who works for Bagnalls,
EVANS Easyspace has appointed Savills as letting agent for its £1.7 million business centre under construction in York, which will open this summer. The provider of flexible business space for small and growing businesses plans to open new 19,000 sq
ROWENA Kitchin, who has just been appointed investment manager by North Yorkshire-based financial strategy and systems specialist Planning For Life, is literally the girl next door. Formerly a medical statistician, mainly for a biotech company based
PLANS to increase taxes on second homes could devastate the housing market, a businessman has warned. Paul Rouse, chairman of the Association of Second Home Owners, said the tax hike being considered by a Government-sponsored review could ruin rural
ONLY two months after opening her new residential estate agents, Smilesallround, in York, Denise Howard has launched Let's-Smile, a specialised lettings service for landlords and tenants in the city. Mrs Howard's agency was her first big venture since
HAVING ranted and raved about cars with flags who is going to pick up all the grubby frayed ones lying at the roadside? I feel the time is right to move on to another type of road user: the topless kind. Not in the St Tropez sense, you understand,
As footballers' wives strut their stuff in Germany, CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL takes a look at the best way to survive a summer holiday with your girlfriends. FORGET the footballers the real summer tournament is being fought by women. While the players take
'Two days before we left, we found another girl was coming along' MAXINE GORDON tells how keeping it in the family might just be the answer to avoiding those holiday bust-ups. I'M going on holiday with my twin sister next month and I'm dead
The Diary has heard of odd goings-on in rural North Yorkshire over the years, but this was surely one of the odder sights to be recently reported to us. Linda, receptionist at The Press's Malton office, tells us of a particularly baffling sight even
If you ever get to Prague, make sure you use the trams, they're fantastic. But don't make the mistake we did. We're still haunted by the horror of it. We're just back from a short break in that beautiful city, featuring cheap flights from Doncaster's
DISPLAYING superb musicianship and an extraordinary voice, Clare Teal is a major star. Despite landing a Sony recording contract, Clare is still down-to-earth Yorkshire, achieving an instant rapport with the audience. Her band joined her in the
A previously law-abiding man threatened a group of York children with a gun because he mistakenly thought they were responsible for vandalising his home. Is it time to tighten our gun laws still further? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. DAVID Scholes
