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A FORMER Home Guard volunteer was given a huge shock this week when he read in The Press that he should have been killed 65 years ago. Dennis Joseph Durkin, of Bad Bargain Lane, York, made the frightening discovery that the tower he was standing on during
A DOCTOR who worked at York Hospital after hiding the fact he had hepatitis B has been jailed for 18 months. Daniel Mutunda, 43, worked at York and eight other accident and emergency wards across Britain - defrauding the NHS out of more than
DOCTORS across North Yorkshire are split over whether to run a controversial computer program designed to give patients more choice - with some refusing to operate the system. The Government's Choose And Book system is an IT programme that means patients
FLOODING bosses have been handed a petition signed by more than 600 York residents, calling for flood defences in the city to be ugraded. The petition was organised after proposals to strengthen and raise the flood embankments in the Leeman Road area
PUPILS from schools around the region converged on University of York for a day of colourful chemistry. More than 56 students from 14 schools around the region had a fun-filled day of chemistry at the Salters' Festival Of Chemistry at the University
HAVE you noticed how more and more people driving on the roads seem much taller these days? No, I don't mean that the drivers and their passengers look like they have suffered on the rack for an hour. But the trend towards cars with greater ground clearance
Photograph by Jessica Flanagan © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Jessica Flanagan © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
CRIME reduction chiefs say they are winning the war on car crime in York at last. The Press told in October how vehicle crime in the city had reached its highest level in three years, with the number of offences rocketing by nearly 600 per cent in just
After a gruelling test like running the London Marathon, how your body recovers can be as important as how you prepare for the ordeal, as Nicola Fifield discovers. DOZENS of runners from York will join more than 30,000 other nervous people on Sunday
TRIBUTES have poured in to a leading farming campaigner in York and North Yorkshire. The funeral of Mike Blacker, aged 65, who fought the corner of sugar beet growers nationally and in the region at a crucial time in the sector's history, takes place
No more waiting until Monday. No more delays. No more looking for the perfect diet. No more fad diets that don't work. It's time to start losing weight by complementing exercise with a solid nutritional programme. It's coming up to summer, and chances
ANY Americans planning to visit York would be wise not to take their directions from Google's new Maps service, unless they have their trunks to hand. On the search engine's Maps option, people can type where they are travelling from, their destination
THE conservation and restoration specialist, William Anelay Ltd of Osbaldwick, has started work on the £150,000 third phase of the refurbishment of St Laurence's Church in York. The 22-week project has so far involved removing part of the roof in order
IT WAS with depressing inevitability that in the week the much-lauded TV series Life On Mars came to an end, a leather-elbowed teachers' union apparatchik should crawl out of the woodwork and lambast the Gene Hunt character for being a bad example to
THE latest York Community Pride nominee may be young, but he has no shortage of courage. Nathan Johnston, 15, has been nominated for the Spirit Of Youth award by St John Ambulance after helping out at the scene of a horror road accident. The St John
A fingers-crossed approach to health care that "approaches criminal negligence". That is the charge levelled at health bosses today. Not by us, but by a York Hospital consultant. The comments, contained in an email leaked to The Press, amount to the
OVER the last few years we have withdrawn the rights for parents and teachers to discipline children. We are now installing police into schools to act as a deterrent to achieve the same aims (Bobbies in our schools, The Press, April 18). This seems
Today is a sad, yet very special day. It is the first anniversary of the crash in which teenagers Joel Corner and Daniel Wright and Press van driver Peter Alexander died. Our hearts go out to the grieving families of all three. But it is also a day
THE search for New Labour's new leader gathers momentum. Like a parody of reality television shows such as Any Dream Will Do, their rising star will be revealed. The New Labour kingmakers, rather than the electorate, will decide who will be the serving
GODFREY Bloom (UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire) opines that, after numerous scares which didn't quite turn out as feared, global warming is the latest and he is "going up the pub" (Global warming, letters, April 10). I suggest he stays
IN response to the Cutting Edge show shown on Channel 4 on April 16, I was appalled to see how urban foxes were victimised in certain London boroughs. In one garden there was a person who was trying kill them at every opportunity. He went to such lengths
D.K.Marsh (I hate PC brigade and their ban on handguns, Soapbox, April 18) illustrates perfectly what a meaningless expression is "PC", or "political correctness". S/he takes a number of unrelated things s/he doesn't like and lumps them together as
WITH reference to your recent letter (Magic roundabout, April 16), I also remember the portable roundabout visiting Heworth, York, in the early 1950s. It used to arrive on the back of a lorry. The sides dropped down and the roundabout was ready for
IAIN Simpson-Laing (Labour) has got excited that the European Union is going to attempt to control iniquitous mobile phone charges (Done roaming, Letters, April 14). Well, Mussolini did "make the trains run on time", so even the worst of politicians
I HAVE recently had cause to use the National Health Service for what was described as major surgery. I am happy to report that the operation was done with skill and professional excellence. After what I felt was a dubious beginning, the nursing was
CAN anyone tell me where I can take used postage stamps? Do charities still take them? As I don't like to throw them away, I have some that I would like to give, preferably to a worthy cause. Thank you. Rebecca Boldry, Fulford, York.
Is tagging elderly dementia sufferers the stuff of a Big Brother nightmare, or a sensible suggestion to give relatives peace of mind? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. STUART Watts' mother, Freda, began showing the first signs of Alzheimer's Disease about ten
HIT and run victim Darryl Holland was 16 years old and doing everything right as he rode home on his moped alongside friends. Serial drink driver Scott Jackson, 33, first tailgated him, then tried to overtake him where overtaking was forbidden, and finally
A recent world power with consequential international interests, we cannot totally withdraw inside our home borders in these troubled times. We do have legitimate responsibilities to face and need to be fully engaged with the world community as it develops
Dave Budgen is a member of the UK breaks act The Freestylers, best known for the cuts Push Up, In Love With You and Painkiller. Fresh from touring commitments, he has relocated from London to his home city of York, where he surveyed the club scene
THIS IS the man who attacked a teenage girl as she walked home in York. The Press told yesterday how police are appealing for information after the 16-year-old girl, from Acomb, was knocked down at the junction of Green Lane and Dijon Avenue at about
Hollywood actress Faith Brook tells Charles Hutchinson about her stage debut in York. What do poet W H Auden, comedy legend Frankie Howerd and Hollywood actress Faith Brook have in common? Each was born in York but made their name elsewhere.
A vaudeville double act is back on the stage, reports Charles Hutchinson. OFF stage, Willie Clark and Al Lewis hated each other's guts, yet on stage they were one of the most successful comedy double acts of the vaudeville era, performing their sketches
LAST Night's Fun are adding more fun. Virtuoso bodhran player Ciaran Boyle has joined the regular trio of concertina maestro Chris Sherburn, singer and guitarist Denny Bartley and Uilleann piper Nick Scott. The new line-up will play in York on Monday
THE plays may be called Ladies' Day and now Ladies Down Under, but among the quartet of Hessle fish-filleting women, Martin Barrass is playing the laddies. First time around, in Amanda Whittington's play set on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot at York, the
Dance director Javier de Frutos tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON about the most controversial ballet the York stage has seen. IT'S the most violent, carnal ballet ever to hit the York Theatre Royal stage. Men strike women, women thump men, and their knackered
TRANSPORT Minister Stephen Ladyman has backed The Press's pioneering moves to highlight the deadly dangers of joyriding. Speaking on a visit to York, he hailed our Live Now, Drive Later campaign and stressed the importance of raising awareness among
FATE as much as a fete plays its hand in A Garden Fete, one of the octet of interlinking plays that make up Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges. Just to remind you, all eight with their 16 different endings, ten characters and only two actors are running
THE first anniversary of a shocking triple fatal crash in York was marked today by a massive boost for The Press' campaign to prevent a repeat of the tragedy. A top York film producer has agreed to help create a powerful, hard-hitting film aimed at deterring
Marty Wilde fact file. Born: April 15, 1939 in Blackheath, south east London. Real name: Reginald Leonard Smith. Occupation: Long-term rock and roll singer-songwriter. Why and where is he playing in Yorkshire? On his 50th anniversary tour,
HARVILLES in York is rapidly becoming a legend in its own lunchtime. Newly-opened on Fossgate, York's fine-dining heartland, Harvilles is doing a roaring trade in the middle of the day with its £6.95 express menu, arguably the best deal in town.
SOME people like them, others don't. For Ann, they are a definite no, which explains how I came to be snacking alone this week. This is one of York's newest eating spots. It was not clear if it is a franchise operation or unique to the city. An
COMIC improviser, compere, stand-up and all-round Geordie surrealist John Cooper headlines Tuesday's line-up for Black Comedy @ The Black Swan in York. "John is a delightful act who never fails to win over a crowd with his wry wit and killer gags,
HAL Cruttenden makes one of his last British performances on Sunday at The Other Side Comedy Club before heading over to Canada to take part in the Just For Laughs Festival. "He's the perfect English gentleman and the epitome of middle class with a
MANAGER Billy McEwan has challenged his players to eclipse the achievements of any other York City side during the last 13 years. The Minstermen have not finished high enough to secure a play-off place in any league table since 1994 when Four Weddings
TIRELESS satirists Punt and Dennis are pondering what it means to be British on their latest tour, Stuff And Nonsense: Live 2007. At the Grand Opera House, York, on April 30, they will be "vaguely skirting around" questions such as What are our national
YORK band 98 Pages is headlining a gig at Cert 18 tonight. This trio have been infiltrating the York scene for some time, and recently recorded an EP at IMP-Hut Studios. They are mostly influenced by old rock and blues, with a sound described as
PERFECT Houseplants open the Jazz Weekend at the National Centre For Early Music in York on May 4 in a 7.30pm concert with recorder virtuoso Pamela Thorby. The weekend will continue with a sold-out performance by the Snake Davis Band on May 5 at 7.30pm
FAR from their name suggests, The Drones are set to entrance their York audience with an amalgam of ghostly calm and exhilarating mayhem. With hints of psychedelic punk and dark and dangerous blues, the foursome from Melbourne, Australia won the Australia
THE musings on jazz accordion by Don Lodge and myself last week have resulted in some interest from my reader Don Simpson, of Upper Poppleton (so he's the one). Mr Simpson writes that jazz accordion is a regular fixture at The Trumpet, Bilston, West
Thurs 19 April 07, The Voyager Concert Choir of Tucson, Arizona, sang their hearts out to a full audience of over 60s at St Sampson’s, accompanied by Norma Harmer on the piano and ably directed by Daryl Wonderly. The mixed sex group, over the age of 55
A SCORCHING run of form at the turn propelled North Yorkshire king of swing Simon Dyson well up the BMW Asian Open leader-board after the first day. Dyson posted a two-under-par 70 for the first round that left him tied for 14th place, four adrift
SO there is life after Life On Mars. Marshall Lancaster, who played DC Chris Skelton in the cult BBC1 cop drama, is to appear as Old Earnshaw, Joseph, Edgar Linton and Linton in Jane Thornton's adaptation of Wuthering Heights at York Theatre Royal
TIM Booth, the Clifford-born singer, is on the comeback trail with James, in the six-piece lineup from their Laid era. Playing together for the first time since December 2001, the reformed Manchester band took to the road on Wednesday at Carlisle for
SOUTHPORT centre-back Matt Hocking is hoping to avoid an unwanted double when he faces former club York City at Haig Avenue tomorrow. The 29-year-old defender has only been relegated once during his career - in 1999 when an unlikely set of results saw
METAL band RSJ are playing Fibbers on April 28.The York-based group, known for brutal and groove-laden metal, fluid rhythms, mammoth riffs and gut-punch drumming, played a full UK tour with grind masters The Berzerker and headlined a UK mini tour last
TODAY The Press can reveal details of the strongest warning yet from health leaders on the impact of drastic cost cuts that are being made to local NHS care. We have seen an internal email which has been circulated to doctors by a York Hospital consultant
THE Beethoven Story is the theme of the lunchtime concert at St Helen's Church, St Helen's Square, York, on April 30 at 1pm. Phillip Mindenhall is the narrator and BBC Radio 3 pianist Vincent Billington will play the Moonlight Sonata, the Pathetique
FISH have been embroiled in some frenzied spawning activity on still waters across the Vale of York this week. If the annual nuptials are finished for the weekend fish are likely to be somewhat peckish after their exertions. Reports indicate that it
VOLUNTEERS duo Mark Hartley and Paul Cooper were the stars of their victory at Crescent B' in the John Smith's Bulmer's Men's Darts League. Hartley (16, 18) and Cooper (20) partnered each other to a 21-dart 701. Crescent's only winner was John Dykes
JOHN Tams and Barry Coope, from the trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson, are performing together at Pocklington Arts Centre on Wednesday at 8pm. Tams, the moustachioed Derbyshire singer, musician, songwriter and actor, has won five BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
RELEGATION-HAUNTED Southport have taken measures aimed at guaranteeing a big crowd for tomorrow's crucial home game with York City. The Sandgrounders remain two points adrift of a place outside the Conference drop zone with just two games left to play
YORK Schools Under 11 footballers play Nottingham tomorrow. The team is: Josh Archer, Alex Horsman, Chris Banks, Conner Ryan, Tom McDonald, Oliver Adamson, Sam Kitson, Jamie Barkway, Jordan Alderson, Joe Galloway, Dan Gallagher, Sam Thornhill, James
JIM Hawksby gamed in 20 darts in the John Smith's Mixed Darts League for Beeswing against Crescent. Team mates Neil Hayward and Sue Smith teamed up to win the decider. Huntington's Angie Hields gamed on 88 for a 21-dart finish against Bootham. Cygnet
THIS weekend is the last chance to see works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Lucian Freud in the Modern Art Now show at Nunnington Hall, near Helmsley. The exhibition showcases artwork by about 30 leading names, who add up to a Who's Who of contemporary
SUZI Booth will defend her York Ladies Veteran's Squash Championship title against second seed Ruth Bielby at Dunnington tonight. Booth eased past fourth seed Fiona Howell 9-3 9-3 9-4 in the semi-finals while Malton-based Bielby booked her place in
HAMBLETON trainer Kevin Ryan has good prospects of completing a notable across the card double tomorrow with Advanced at Thirsk and My Paris at Newbury. Advanced heads to Ryan's local course for the £12,000 Michael Foster Memorial Stakes, while My Paris
YORK artist Isabel Wakeman is exhibiting paintings at Treasurer's House, Minster Yard, York. Isabel began to paint in between bringing up her family and working as a social worker, and attended evening classes before studying fine art at York College
MANAGER Dennis Wise takes Leeds United to his old club Southampton tomorrow believing the pressure is kid's stuff compared with the anxiety he felt when his children were about to be born. Wise knows the final three matches of the season hold the key
THE highlight of Ayr's high-class jumping card is the £170,000 Coral Scottish Grand National. Settrington trainer John Quinn is set to be strongly represented in this four-mile showpiece by Character Building, who was narrowly beaten by Butler's Cabin
THE Mercer Gallery's Victorian art show by William Powell Frith has opened in Harrogate to a great fanfare. Normally an admission charge for visitors applies, but today entry is free from 10am to 5pm. Billed as "Harrogate's biggest ever exhibition"
YORK Union of Golf Clubs have a brace of events this Sunday - the Crossley Trophy at Malton & Norton GC and the Fletcher Trophy at York GC. The Crossley Trophy draw is: 8.00 S Parkin (MN), L Nesfield (KM), J Riley (FP); 8.08 S Stokell (PH), J Emmerson
IT IS win or bust for Scarborough tomorrow. The Seasiders will be relegated from Conference North if they fail to beat Leigh RMI at the McCain Stadium (kick-off 3pm). With only four teams now involved in the scrap to avoid life in the lower leagues,
HARROGATE Railway, fresh from a 2-0 win over Belper Town in midweek, entertain Skelmersdale United at Station View in UniBond League one. Vince Brockie's men have bagged wins in their last two games and will be hopeful of continuing the run tomorrow
POLICE have identified a body which was pulled from the River Foss. The Press told yesterday how the body of a man had been pulled from the river near the village of Towthorpe, on the outskirts of York, at about 12.30pm on Wednesday. A member of the
SELBY Town won the second leg of their President's Cup final 2-1 at home to Retford United last night to be beaten 5-3 on aggregate. Adam Russell scored after 51 and 57 minutes to give the Robins a chance but Mick Godber netted late on to clinch Retford's
SHARP- SHOOTING Severus underscored their intentions to cling on to top spot in the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday League first division by trouncing Acomb WMC 9-1. Mark Woodward hit four goals with Hutchinson smashing home a hat-trick augmented
CLIFTON stayed unbeaten for the season with an 8-2 York and District Sunday Afternoon League first division win at College of Law. Michael Clancy and John Gothard both bagged braces with Paul Bedingham, Kyle Butler, Michael Fox and Scott Stewart also
ROB Kama couldn't do enough to prevent the British Amateur Rugby League Association side from keeping their 100 per cent record in the Skanska Cup with a 26-14 win over the Army at Heworth ARLC. The York RUFC and former York City Knights RL player
NORTH Yorkshire's new top cop says policing is his "family business". The county's police force has named Grahame Maxwell as the new chief constable to replace Della Cannings when she retires in May. Mr Maxwell, who is currently deputy chief constable
THOUGH Pocklington RUFC 1st XV completed their league programme last weekend by missing out on promotion by a whisker, Pocklington Panthers still have a chance of finishing the 2006-07 season with some silverware. The Panthers won their tenth successive
Malton & Norton RUFC has lost two key men behind the club's revival in recent years. Skipper Chris Creber is returning to Australia after seven years leading the side. Coach Richard John, who has managed the first team for the past five years and
YORKSHIRE leg-spin sensation Adil Rashid stunned Surrey by snatching four late wickets in a 15-ball spell on the second day of the LV Championship match at the Oval yesterday. The 19-year-old's heroics followed an epic Yorkshire ninth wicket stand of
Without shirking for 59 years I have voted for Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems, with considerable thought. This without loyalty to any of them or their biased philosophies. Proud of my nationality and our way of life, I am concerned for the future
SICK fascists were today slammed by a York councillor, after they tried to hijack his campaign to ban foie gras. The campaign - which includes an online petition - has already attracted thousands of signatures, and backing from major animal charities
AN ambulance crew escaped unscathed after a collision with a Porsche on the way to answer a 999 call to a house in York. The accident happened at about 11.33am yesterday in Haley's Terrace, off Haxby Road, York. The crew were answering a call to
A WAR of words has broken out between York's political parties over their candidate selections for next month's council election. Liberal Democrat leader Steve Galloway accused Labour and the Conservatives of fielding too many candidates who do not
ONLY seven of Ryedale's 115 parishes will have elections on May 3 - and three have no candidates. When nominations closed, three parishes - Foxholes, Nawton and Westow - failed to provide any nominations, while Amotherby, Barton-le-Willows and Cropton
WITH the election coming up, I felt it important to emphasise that the Official Monster Raving Loony Party is a serious party with strategies to cover any and every important issue thrown at us. For example, with regard to global warming, we have the
CAMPAIGNERS have launched a new "sports manifesto" calling for improved facilities throughout York. York Sport And Leisure Campaign has sent the document to all candidates in next month's City of York Council election, asking for their backing. Spokeswoman
LABOUR have vowed to invest in York's outer ring road if they win control of the city. Councillors and candidates met with Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman yesterday, at the junction of the A59 and A1237, to view congestion. Tracey Simpson-Laing,
STAFF have been celebrating 18 years on a groundbreaking ward at York Hospital. When Ward 37 was opened in 1989, it was one of the first in the country to care specifically for elderly patients with a combination of medical and mental health problems
THE granddaughter of the founder of York and Helmsley's Browns department stores has died, aged 87. Peggy Goldie, née Brown, was the granddaughter of Henry Rhodes Brown, the founder of Browns department store and the last surviving daughter of William
BUSINESS is booming. That is the message from Shambles shopkeepers, who have hit back at suggestions the historic street is struggling to survive. Retailers say they are enjoying positive trade from both York residents and visitors alike, and have hit
PLANNING officers have come under fire from a Government inspector after they failed to deal with complaints of unauthorised parking at a site in the district. Anne Seex, the area's Local Government Ombudsman, who investigates complaints of injustice
FORMULA ONE legend Nigel Mansell pulled up in a North Yorkshire village to back a charity art show. The former motor racing world champion opened an Art For Youth North display, at Queen Mary's School, Topcliffe, near Thirsk. He was there in his role
WEB surfing Ryedale residents clocked up a record-breaking number of hits on their council's website last month - topping the 10,000 mark for the first time ever. Ryedale District Council's website, www.ryedale.gov.uk, was visited by 10,170 different
