HAXBY United and Sheriff Hutton are to merge in next season's Leeper Hare York and District Football League. The league's annual meeting agreed that they should play under the guise of Haxby United in division one next season. It means a late reprieve
There were mixed fortunes on the opening weekend of the new coarse fishing season. Despite excellent conditions, especially on Sunday, the expected bream bonanza did not materialise on the York match. The turnout of 81, while not quite a return to the
England duo Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard were both helping Yorkshire try to pull off their first Championship win of the season in the match against Division One high-fliers Sussex, which started at Arundel today. But out-of-form Matthew Wood
STALKER victim Theresa Helstrip said her tormentor Stephen Moss should never be allowed to return to York when he gets out of prison. Her plea came as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) revealed they were set to review the case which could result in
A BLIND club with more than 80 years of history behind it could have to fold if volunteer drivers do not come forward. The Melrose Club for the blind and partially-sighted has been running in York since 1924, providing welcome weekend entertainment for
CITY of York Council's record in protecting the natural environment and in attracting new employers to the city has come under fire at the public inquiry into two major housing proposals. Barry Potter, vice-chairman of the York Natural Environment
MEMORIES of a much-loved mum-of-five, who died unexpectedly from cancer on the eve of York's Race For Life, have inspired her family to support the event every year. Sylvia Try, who lived at Clifton Moor, York, died without warning at the age of 74
HUNDREDS of teenage girls under the age of 16 are being given contraception and morning after pills without their parents' knowledge. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that from across York and Selby, 170 youngsters under 16
BILL Gates, the world's richest man, has given plant scientists in York nearly $14million to help in their race to develop better and cheaper treatments for malaria. The researchers at the University Of York's Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (
England cricket heroes of yesteryear will come face-to-face with Yorkshire stars of today in a special challenge match at Harrogate Cricket Club on Sunday, July 2 in the aid of the Dickie Bird Foundation. Yorkshire's entire first team squad have agreed
YORK City are expected to unveil several summer signings in the near future following Billy McEwan's return from holiday today. The Minstermen have recruited former loan defender Darren Craddock from Hartlepool since the end of last season and McEwan
SUPERFAST Jim MacDairmid became the first winner of the Keith Pattison Memorial Trophy at a spring meeting organised by York Motor Club at Elvington airfield. He clocked 69 seconds over one-and-a-half miles in a single seat race car powered by a 1,000cc
Up-and-coming Nestl Rowntree sprinter Richard Buck has got his first gold of the track season after winning the northern championships. The 19-year-old 400m runner eased down in the heats to win in a comfortable 47.45seconds before going on to claim
A CAMPAIGN to improve the quality of life in York is to be revamped, the city's council leader has announced. Coun Steve Galloway said the York Pride project was to be "reinvigorated", with a focus on reducing departmental barriers to efficiency. The
The Press revealed yesterday how lap dancing clubs could soon be set up in York city centre. But what would be the impact on the historic city's hugely important tourist economy? MIKE LAYCOCK reports. Tourism boss Gillian Cruddas said the majority
A RETIRED police inspector has been jailed for two years for robbing two men of their lives in an horrific car crash. Ralph Desmond Parnaby, 67, caused the four-vehicle smash on the York outer ring road just minutes before he was due to take his medication
IN LIVING rooms and pubs across York, football fans gathered to roar England's lions into the World Cup second round. Supporters packed into The Windmill pub, in Blossom Street, to watch the team cruise through their final group game with a 2-2 draw
Sister Anthony, of St Joseph's Convent in York, an avid football fan at the age of 94, cheers England on against Sweden. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
Kevin Booth, editor of The Press congratulates John Burrows, who represented Mark Dixon, owner and breeder of Prowess, winner of The Press Maiden Stakes © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
He'd been the victim of persistent vandalism to his home and property until one day David Scholes simply snapped. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
A computer game dreamed up by a former drugs dealer while in Askham Grange open prison is set to take the education world by storm. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
A snake found slithering across York Hospital car park has still not been reunited with its owner. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
The beautiful people of York were out in force last night as the city crowned its Miss York 2006. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
A charity day at York Golf Club raised thousands of pounds for York Against Cancer. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
Neigbours gave chase when a speeding motorist fled the scene after losing control of his car and ploughing through a brick wall. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
York Cricket Club's Cockspur Cup victory over Cleethorpes will give them a home tie on July 2 against either Doncaster or Scholes from the Central Yorkshire League. York, meanwhile, will entertain Castleford in the second round of The Yorkshire ECB Premier
Lady Lumley's School excelled in the North Yorkshire area athletics championships against schools from the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale areas, with six pupils finishing first in their events, seven second and nine in third place. Rhian Parkin finished
NEW Earswick Primary School emerged victorious from the 21st Haxby Netball Club Trophy competition. The new champions edged out last year's winners Wigginton by a point with teams from St George's, Headlands and Skelton also taking part. The tournament
City Of Tribes, who made an impressive debut at Tipperary last month, can strike first blood for the Irish at Royal Ascot tomorrow. Success for the two-year-old colt in the Norfolk Stakes will also be a feather in the cap of former northern jump jockey
SPRITE Productions take a flying leap forward with a Romeo And Juliet that has the heart pounding with its originality and audacity. Last year, company founders Hester Evans and Liam Evans-Ford made the pragmatic choice of A Midsummer Night's Dream for
RUNAWAY favourites Cohesion stormed to victory in the latest Fibbers/The Press Battle of the Bands 2006 semi-final, with a rip-roaring performance that set a packed dance floor buzzing. With their tight blues-rock sound, and lead singer Paul Clark's
HI-tech Saffron Scientific Equipment Limited, of Knaresborough, has appointed Phil Evans as business development director. Saffron, a member of Knaresborough's GSPK group of companies, specialises in the design, development and manufacture of standard
A FAST-GROWING estate agency based in York has signed its first deal to franchise its brand across the country. Hunters Property Group, which has a turnover of £9 million and employs about 200 people across its northern offices, will add its name to
NORWICH Union Life, the York-based insurance specialist, which has donated more than 11,000 volunteering hours to help boost social and career opportunities for young people, has been shortlisted for a national honour. The organisation, which is sponsoring
A LITTLE while ago we reported the shock news that a faithful customer actually went into Barnitts, the we-sell-everything store in York's Colliergate, and for the first time in his life asked for something they did not have. He left the Aladdin's Cave
THE wasp is a very useful garden insect. I know that, because I read it on the City of York Council website as my Other Half was frantically running around the house shutting windows, stuffing kitchen paper into the vents behind the gas fire and exterminating
IT is difficult to know whether to be more shocked or encouraged by the statistics we report today on teenage sex. Hundreds of girls under 16 in the York and Selby area are being given contraception and morning-after pills by the family planning service
BILL Gates has put his money where his mouth is. The $13.6million grant to York researchers battling to develop cheaper, better malaria vaccines could save millions of lives. It is a gesture worthy of one of the world's great philanthropists. It is
THERE certainly have been some column inches devoted to ftr' in The Press, even from before the day it hit the streets; and the quite diverse range of technical issues that has arisen since the launch has ensured a steady stream of letters to the editor
ACCORDING to expert Dr Laurence Shaw "teenage girls who get pregnant behind the bike sheds' are only obeying nature's law" (Natural' pregnancy, June 19). And that, "female humans had been programmed by two million years of evolution to have babies
I MUST protest about the cavalier attitude of the council officers who failed entirely in their duty properly to organise and conduct the "consultation" meeting described by your reporter (Residents' homeless centre move fury, June 15). Officers concerned
THEY see him here, they see him there, the self-appointed Messiah Tony (carbon-frugal) Blair. Yes, our hero has been spotted, strutting the global stage as he battles his nemesis, the evil Global Warming. With messianic zeal, he steps into his gas-guzzler
FOR once, I have common ground with Aled Jones (Facing extinction, Readers' Letters, June 19), regarding the destruction of many species by business greed in feeding our daily lives with junk food and poisonous packaging, along with the destruction
YOUR article (Railway station parking charges increase, June 19) has highlighted once again the problems associated with a lack of competition in the rail industry. I hope passengers will welcome the news that as part of Grand Central's new rail services
REGARDING Saturday Soundoff (Oh, the dangers that lie in a cake, June 10), I wish to clarify that the level of the licence fee and the availability of concessions is a matter for Government and not for TV Licensing. To confirm the policy, if someone
READING Saturday Soundoff ("The police had to do something, June 17"), I wonder how many will know from the picture of Dixon of Dock Green, what the armlet on his left sleeve means? I also noticed his army service bar showing his service in the
Learning to swim has got to be one of the most important lessons of childhood, but getting kids booked on a course can often be frustrated by long waiting lists. Education reporter Haydn Lewis spoke to a York swimming club to find out what's on offer.
