PLANS to upgrade or replace a York swimming pool have been delayed, following hold-ups in selling off land at the Barbican Centre. City of York Council announced earlier this year that it wanted to build a new pool on the Oaklands School site to replace
A GOLF day at York's Pike Hills course raised more than £7,000 for St Leonard's Hospice. The event was organised by vice-captain David Impey and his wife, Celia, who is the lady vice captain and a volunteer at the hospice shop in Scarcroft Road. More
YOU'VE heard of the Karate Kid - now meet the karate grannie. York ace Josie Wynn has gained her 4th Dan Black belt, at the age of 59. She is one of only 44 members of the Karate Union Of Great Britain to achieve the honour, out of a total of 9,000
HE didn't do anything special, Nathan Johnston insists. "Just what I was trained to do." We beg to differ. The 14-year-old, from Stamford Bridge, didn't panic or stand gawping uselessly when he witnessed a crash outside York last week. Instead, he jumped
SOMEONE else who is clearly made of the Right Stuff is Andy Smith. Just weeks after being named The Press's 2005 Community Pride Person Of The Year, in recognition of his community work and his battle with cancer, the father of two and sports science
I HAVE just read the letter in The Press by K Marsh (Cycles of abuse, October 5) and felt compelled to respond as a mother of a six-year-old pavement cyclist. My daughter is one of those children who cycles to school, as the Government is trying to encourage
I FEEL it is important to write following the coverage of the Lib Dems' recent relaunch of their York Pride initiative (Revamp for pride scheme, The Press, October 5) to raise the issue of using council-taxpayers' money to run a series of publicity
BRITISH Gas telesales rang me the other evening. I am on the Telephone Preference List, but hey, who cares? When I refused to put my husband on the line, the salesman got quite stroppy - without asking why he couldn't speak to my husband. I'm afraid
IN her letter (Can we remember without the religion? October 4), Lesley Lickley asked the question: "Can we attend a Remembrance event without being preached at about the love of God?'." She goes on to ask: "Where was this god during the wars that
NORTH Korea's nuclear bomb test poses a grave threat to peace, stability and respect for international law, not just in Asia but globally. But the North Korean regime has been encouraged in its nuclear ambitions by the actions of the very nations
THE Government has revealed that its flawed ID card scheme will cost £5.4 billion to set up. This estimate is likely to rise - some are estimating the true cost to be closer to £20 billion. It is disappointing that the Government has not listened to
PLANS are gathering pace for one of the top social gatherings of the autumn - the Angel Aid charity event. The gig, in aid of our Guardian Angels appeal, is being held at the Tap & Spile in Monkgate next month. But while regulars will be digging deep
We've got rid of the clock: the one that always seemed to read 3.17am, largely because it always was 3.17am when we woke with a start to the maddening thought that this would be yet another sleepless night. We had hoped ditching this clock might stop
A TRAIN awaits farmers in York and North Yorkshire who want to transport their beet to a Norfolk refinery once British Sugar closes next year - if someone is prepared to foot the bill Derrick Potter, head of the Potter group logistics empire, says he
SAVILLS of York, the property agency, has doubled its residential property sales compared to last year, according to Ben Pridden, head of residential in York. He said: "The first three-quarters of 2006 have proved to be excellent. The team in York has
A HEALTH minister has called on people to change their lifestyles as obesity levels have risen to the highest in Europe. Public Health Minister Caroline Flint said she wanted to see an NHS geared as much towards preventive work as a Government report
BRITISH Food Fortnight is the biggest national celebration of the diverse range of food that the country produces and is now in its fifth year. The event, which ended at the weekend, has grown enormously since it began in 2002 as a response to the foot
CARLA Tracey's eyesight was so bad she could have registered herself as officially blind. Without glasses or contact lenses, she could not even recognise another person at only a foot away. But Carla had resigned herself to believing what opticians
Richard Fahey, who went through the £1million prize money barrier for the season at York last weekend, can add to his haul at Newmarket tomorrow with two of his stable stars. Fahey saddles recent Ascot winner Anna Pavlova in the £28,000 Lanwades Stud
PICKERING snooker ace Paul Davison has paid a moving tribute to Yorkshire's most famous cueman, Paul Hunter, writes Peter Martini. Three-time former Masters champion Hunter lost his battle with cancer on Monday night. Davison, a friend and practice
PAUL Robertson, whose brother Adam is a Welsh international, has had an outstanding start to the NEDL York and District Table Tennis League season and is unbeaten so far in division one. He beat Malton's Brian Quinn in a tense five-game set with all
YORK Acorn ARLC half-back Andy Gargan has again been named in the BARLA representative team that takes on a touring Manly Sea Eagles select side tonight. Gargan was a substitute as BARLA beat The Army 40-16 in the Skanska Cup final last Wednesday.
Richard Cresswell will continue his comeback from injury when Leeds reserves take on Barnsley tonight. The former York City and Preston striker is hoping he can prove to stand-in boss John Carver that he is fit enough to earn a place on the bench
Kirkbymoorside Reserves dropped their first RJF Homes-Beckett Football League points of the season when they visited Heslerton. Ryan Rivis scored to put the Moorsiders into a second-minute lead, Heslerton's deserved equaliser was scored seven minutes
YORK City Knights are in talks with a new centre. The unnamed player, who can also operate in the second row, would effectively be a replacement for 31-year-old Neil Law, who was released by the club at the end of the season. The Press understands the
YORK City boss Billy McEwan saw his side robbed by poor defending and a failure to convert a raft of chances as they lost 2-1 to Cambridge United last night. The Minstermen went ahead in the 22nd minute and should have stayed in front for the duration
RUMOUR has it that Cambridge United fans once dubbed a misfiring Jon Parkin 'banjo'. Make that the strings section of an orchestra and you have an idea of the tribute the City team of 2006 paid to the Minsterman of old. York should have won last night's
The Ouse below York was carrying a foot of extra water for Sunday's John Smith's Hospital Cup and, as expected, a few bream and skimmers made a rare appearance to dominate the frame. John Cyrowski led from the Palace Ings bend where he employed feeder-fished
POLICE want to speak to these two women about a terrifying sexual attack on a York teenager. The 18-year-old victim was assaulted after she accepted a lift from a man she had befriended on a night out. The attacker ripped off her top and molested her
A POWER station near Pickering has had to install a bigger burner than expected - to the fury of nearby residents. The controversial plant burns waste biomass to generate electricity, but after an Environment Agency inspection, the company behind it
AIRPORT-style pay-on-foot barriers could be installed at York Station after GNER submitted plans to expand its long-stay car park. The Station Rise-based rail giant wants to put the barriers at the entrance to the short-stay car park in an effort to
THE film version of Alan Bennett's The History Boys opens on Friday, but here is a piece of schoolmasterly advice: see the National Theatre's stage production on its Yorkshire visit this week. The play is longer, stronger too, and the stage is the
A POSTAL watchdog has allayed fears in North Yorkshire, after reports that collection times were being drastically changed. Postcomm has launched a nationwide consultation to gauge customer satisfaction, following concerns about Royal Mail bringing forward
FRIENDS and family have paid tribute to a former York City money man who has died, aged 82. Fred Hollingsworth was the auditor at the city's football club for almost a quarter of a century before he retired in the mid-1980s. Born in York on December
TRADING standards bosses today warned York residents to steer clear of a kitchen firm which left customers in the city fuming. The Press was contacted by readers unhappy about the service they received from the Oldham-based company, called Kitchens.
CYCLING fast food bosses cycled nearly 260 miles across China to help raise money for York Hospital. Craig Dilnot and Matt Campbell struggled up mountains and past the Great Wall of China in aid of Ronald McDonald House Charities. The two managers,
A RETIRED nuclear physicist was killed after he put his head on a level crossing and waited for a train. Dr Peter Edward Cummins, of Castleside, Sheriff Hutton, near York, took his own life on June 30 this year after his wife said she was leaving him
A MOTHER has hit out at City of York Council for failing to repair cracks around her home as she steels herself for high fuel bills to fend off the winter chill. Sarah Ralls has bought plug-in radiators to keep her two-bedroom house cosy for her 14-month-old
A DAUGHTER today pleaded with cruel thieves to return her disabled mother's treasured gold wedding ring. Gillian Jenkins spoke out after revealing how the theft "nearly killed" her mum, Dorreen Ward. She said the stress of losing her treasured piece
A LONG-SERVING York police officer has been honoured for his work in the community. Councillors and residents in the Guildhall ward celebrated the work of local bobby PC Howard Smelt-Webb yesterday. PC Smelt-Webb was presented with an engraved tankard
YOUNGSTERS leaving primary schools in York are bucking a national downward trend in primary school test results. The latest figures show that children, especially boys, in York are achieving above-average results in their Key Stage 2 tests. Nationally
Drunken youths have been cutting down trees and throwing objects on to a main road in North Yorkshire. Now residents at Rawcliffe, near Selby, are being urged to help with a drive to combat antisocial and criminal behaviour in their village. Emma Grimshaw
A LORRY driver who stopped for a comfort break in a lay-by near York got the shock of his life when a huge snake came slithering out of undergrowth. The startled trucker watched in horror as the 8ft-long python weaved its way towards his feet after he
Identity theft is one of the world's fastest-growing crimes. STEPHEN LEWIS and NADIA JEFFERSON-BROWN take advice from the experts on how to beat the identity thieves. IT IS a fast-growing crime and you could be helping to fuel it by chatting around the
IT was the news York sports academic Professor Andy Smith had least expected, but most feared. Only weeks after being named The Press's 2005 community pride person of the year - in recognition of his fight to beat serious illness and inspirational community
A BRAVE teenager who rushed to help people injured after a horror crash is being nominated for a national award. Nathan Johnston, 14, jumped off a bus and gave first aid to three people after the smash between two lorries and two cars in Holtby, York
SELBY MP John Grogan has announced he will stand down at the next General Election. Mr Grogan, who became Selby's first ever non-Conservative MP in 1997, broke the news in a letter to his local party members. Boundary changes mean the Selby seat will
FOOTBALL supporters and shoppers dug deep into their pockets to help celebrate the first birthday of our Guardian Angels appeal. Yesterday was a year to the day since we launched our campaign to raise £300,000 for a new high-dependency unit at York Hospital's
THE owners of a York shop which is holding up a £40 million development will be "fairly compensated", council chiefs said today. Corporate services chief Quentin Macdonald told a meeting of City of York Council's ruling executive that a highways order
UP to 20 staff at a York Burger King restaurant are understood to have lost their jobs after the business suddenly closed down. A spokeswoman for Burger King said the restaurant at Monks Cross, which was operated by Cairnserve Ltd, shut yesterday.
ON-the-spot fines are set to be issued to people caught fly-posting and daubing graffiti as York today pledged to get tough on environmental crime. Councillors at City of York Council are to be asked to adopt a range of fixed-penalty notices in an effort
YORK MP Hugh Bayley presented awards to people from 25 different countries who learned English at York College. The learners, aged 18 to 56, were taking classes as part of the Government's Skills For Life initiative to prepare them for taking British
