THE central Post Offices in York and Selby have avoided the axe in a cost-cutting exercise which will see more than 70 high street branches close. Post Office Ltd operates almost 500 Crown Post Offices - larger branches not owned by the resident subpostmaster
A COMMUNITY leader has been hailed a hero after his quick thinking helped save his neighbour. Former Nunnery Lane Residents Association chairman Keith Chapman realised his frail 82-year-old neighbour had suffered a bad fall at her home after seeing her
IT'S official - for the time being at least. North Yorkshire is the safest place to live in the country. Latest figures from the Home Office show that the county had the lowest crime rate of anywhere in England for the first three months of this year
If I was to advise Gordon Brown, and I don't know why I should, he devalued my pension, I would tell him what I would tell anybody else; be yourself. Take no notice of the image experts. How can you be sincere and honest when you are playing a part. you
IT just wasn't his night for a burglar who was caught by police "swaying on a bicycle with a squeak, and a screwdriver in his mouth". Trevor Lee Howson - in a vain attempt to quieten the squeaky bicycle - had even stolen a can of oil. But he had also
DOG owners who refuse to scoop up their pooch's poop must clean up their act or face prosecution. This was the stark warning issued by City of York Council at yesterday's launch of a new hard-hitting campaign to crack down on irresponsible dog owners
OUR Guardian Angels appeal has now crashed through its half-way mark after a memorial race night raised thousands of pounds. With the support of our readers, we are raising £300,000 to create a new high-dependency unit at York Hospital children's ward
A survey has raised the idea of cancer patients contributing to the cost of expensive new medicines. STEPHEN LEWIS looks into this vexed issue. THE NHS was supposed to offer free health care from the cradle to the grave, irrespective of our ability
"WHEN your son dies it's not the sort of thing you can imagine - it's the worst of all your fears." Those were the words of York dad Russell Marden whose 18-year-old son, Mark, died of sudden heart failure while he was studying at university in Canterbury
A head teacher at a top private school in North Yorkshire has announced her retirement. Dr Margaret Hustler, who has been headmistress of Harrogate Ladies' College for 11 years, will leave at the end of August. During her time at the College, Dr Hustler
BITING, spitting, swearing and hair-pulling. These are some of the abuses courageous council staff endure in their day to day jobs. The information came to light after The Press used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details of attacks on City
HUNDREDS of Nestlé Rowntree workers in York are being balloted on radical proposals for new terms and conditions of work. The package includes a two-year pay freeze unless inflation rises above 3.75 per cent, but also special performance incentive payments
CHAMPIONS York were the biggest winners of the week in the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League as they crushed Fulford III 86-22. Gareth Adams and Louise Marshman led the way for York by winning 31 games. Fulford I gained revenge for their club the following
TRAVELLERS have moved on after setting up home in the car park of York's Barbican Centre. It had lain empty for several months, since the UK Snooker Tournament was staged there last December. A dozen vans and caravans had set up camp in the car park
YORK City Knights have repelled an approach for birthday boy Toby Williams - saying they want to bring in front-rowers rather than lose another. Keighley player-coach Barry Eaton was keen to take the promising prop back to Cougar Park and was even prepared
STRIKER Craig Farrell has vowed to increase his goal tally if he is still a York City player next season. Farrell is out of contract at KitKat Crescent but has signalled his desire to kick off the 2007/2008 campaign with the Minstermen and, should he
The House of Commons; just 650 people, with more than half of them in one political group, whipped in to vote against their conscience, common sense, common interest, and a sizeable anti vote too, when they decide, and the others unable to do anything
Duncan Revie has confirmed he wants to open takeover talks with Leeds United chairman Ken Bates. Revie, son of legendary former manager Don Revie who moulded Leeds into one of Europe's most feared teams during the 1960s and 70s, declared his interest
Heworth A' just failed to upset the odds when they lost 18-13 at Hunslet Warriors A' in a pulsating Yorkshire League division three top-four play-off semi-final. The league winners finally sealed the game in the last minute when Dean Sampson, the former
FULFORD put an early dent in York's Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League crown. Eleanor Crooks and Jill Rounce won 24 games and were well backed up by Jackie Heels and Jill McCreedy and new pairing Faye Garland and Helen Couzens as champions York
THE first round of fixtures in the new Pilmoor Evening Cricket League season was badly hit by rain. This season seven teams are competing in the first division, following the withdrawal of Stillington, and eight teams are competing in the second division
YORK Cricket Club's hopes of appearing at Lord's this season could depend on the toss of a coin. Their second round Cockspur Cup visit to Huddersfield League side Kirkburton fell victim to rain on Sunday. The ground had been drenched over night and
THIS was the mangled wreckage following a road accident in a village near York. Emergency services were called to the two-car crash at Fangfoss, near Wilberfoss, at 7.45am yesterday. Four crews from Humberside Fire & Rescue Service attended the scene
TRIBUTES have come in for local football stalwart Ken Bainbridge. Bainbridge, who was in his mid-80s and lived in Haxby, died in York Hospital after kidney failure. He had dedicated much of his life to local youth football. He was president of the
KEVIN Fairclough and Sally Ward amassed 32 games as Sheriff Hutton thumped Civil Service 77-31 in division nine of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League. Heworth only dropped one set in their win against Cliffe with Tony Gudgeon and Anne Gray top scoring
Sutton Upon Derwent Tennis Club is going from strength to strength. They have just opened two new Astroturf courts and in charge of ribbon-cutting duties was Ron Twining, club treasurer and long time club member. He was part of a group who worked
YORK and District Netball League division one champions Haxby 1 have won a new invitation tournament. They dropped just one point in a round robin event devised by the newly-formed North Yorkshire Netball County Management Board. Each of the 11
LEEDS United's legendary winger and former manager Eddie Gray will be the guest at a sportsman's supper at Tadcaster Albion FC on Thursday. Gray will give a talk at the event at Albion's Ings Lane ground, starting at 7.30pm, and will be available
THERE was an exciting finish to the Fulford Cycles Evening Time Trial League with a tie for first place. York rider Nigel Goscinski (Clifton CC) and Harrogate's Craig Stevenson (Boneshakers) both recorded 22 minutes 44 seconds for the ten-mile course
ANGELA Lancaster closed on 116 (treble 20, 20, double 18) in her singles as Jubilee won their York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division four match against Mitre. Lancaster went on to win the final pairs with Heather Bulmer to secure overall victory
A cast-iron defence helped Dunnington Reserves win the Leeper Hare York Football League Reserve A' championship trophy. Captain Tony Downing and his team were presented with their silverware by Bryan Shearer on behalf of the York FA prior to their
Stand by for lift-off. York's eagerly-awaited 2007 campaign gets underway tomorrow, with the start of the three-day May Festival, and some of the best sprinters in Europe locking horns in the feature race on the card. The Duke Of York Stakes - sponsored
YORK Minstermen will hold their annual general meeting in the KitKat Crescent Social Club on Thursday, May 31. The supporters' group are also running a trip to Sunderland Greyhound Stadium on Saturday, June 23. A coach will leave the social club
WHEN Mike Scott writes the biggest of his "Big Music" songs, he can crack open the skies. As if on cue on Sunday, the rains turned biblical for The Waterboys' return to a sold-out Grand Opera House. At 48, Scott remains as lank haired as he was
YORK'S political leaders will today hold another round of crunch talks to try to thrash out a way of running the city. The heads of the city's Labour, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Green Parties were set to meet at The Guildhall this morning.
THE problem with a bill that features a double headliner is that one band inevitably comes out on top. This was the case at Fibbers, when Tiny Dancers and Ghosts shared the slot. The fact that the fabulously inventive, infectious Tiny Dancers were
YOU do not anticipate a genuinely fulfilling experience at an orchestral concert in York Minster; the acoustic swallows up too much detail. Still less do you expect Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs On The Death Of Children) to be the catalyst for
Maxine Gordon reports on a group of York mums spreading the word that breast is best'. PARLIAMENT may be buzzing with speculation over the Labour leadership challenge, but tomorrow, MPs will be confronted by a quite different matter. An army of
We like to watch a good scrap as long as it is fair (no cheating), evenly matched (no ganging up) and stops when an opponent has had enough. Even when small we had a go. When older, we substituted games and sport, with rules and referees, but still had
STRESS, anxiety, trauma... This week many parents across the country will be displaying symptoms of all three, mostly at the same time. Stress, anxiety, trauma: or, to use the generic term for the condition, SATs. Named after the Government's national
A RECYCLING firm at Breighton, near Selby, is proving its £150,000 upgrading investment has teeth. In five years since the £12 million turnover Credential Environmental established its 23-tonne shredding plant at its Yorkshire depot on ten acres
A SERIES of seminars and workshops to help women entrepreneurs are being organised throughout York and North Yorkshire by Women in Enterprise (WiE). The launch of the programme of events and workshops, which will run until the end of the year, follows
AS THE future of York takes shape at York's Hungate site, one Diary spy wonders precisely what that will hold. Workmen have recently been putting up corporate-branded hoardings around the site next to Peasholme Green. They are replete with logos and
THOSE of a queasy disposition should switch off now. Taboo topic coming up. It's sex, rearing its ugly head again. According to yet another survey, older folk are having a whale of a time in the bedroom. Or on the hearthrug. Or in the garden. So much
IT has long caused delays for motorists - but workmen have now won a race against time to get a York bridge reopened in time for racegoers. Network Rail has confirmed the opening of Holgate Bridge happened days ahead of schedule. The bridge had been
The fear of crime can be crippling. Constant worry about burglars, rapists, conmen and drug-dealers can ruin our quality of life almost as much as actually becoming a crime victim. So the news that in York and North Yorkshire we officially live in
OUR Guardian Angels appeal passes a huge milestone today. We have soared past £150,000, thanks to a York pub charity night in memory of Natalie Strickson, who died from a heart condition in 2005 aged 20. That means we are now halfway to our £300,000
IF a person is heavily in debt, the very last thing they should do is to pay someone else for advice on how to solve the problem. There is plenty of free help available through such organisations as the Citizens Advice Bureau. So I despair when I
A WELCOME pat on the back from Andrew Waller, the Lib Dem councillor, for York's 39,760 tonnes of recycled domestic waste (40 per cent of waste recycled, The Press, May 8). But surely more could be done. While it is probably quite difficult for hospitals
IF foxes could talk, I'm sure they wouldn't thank Tony Blair and the likes of Heather Causnett for all their furry friends and relatives that are now being part-shot, trapped, gassed and poisoned, many dying horrible, gangrenous deaths. No goodbyes
I UNDERSTAND Coun Paul Blanchard's concerns about foie gras (Bid to ban foie gras continues, The Press, May 9), but the problems about that are as nothing compared with the way chickens are raised in this country. Coun Blanchard seems to have shown
MANY people have jumped to the wrong conclusion, that the EU and Britain are doing a complete U-turn on using metric scales and prices (Mixed Response to U-turn over Metric System, The Press, May 10). Today traders are required by law to: * Weigh
AS your readers are always quick to criticise City of York Council when things go wrong, I thought I would try to redress the balance. On Tuesday afternoon, I telephoned the York Pride number (01904 551551) to report a defect in the footpath outside
ARE you awake? We are going to get an ear and eye-bashing for the next two months. Tony will be saying his worldwide goodbyes, and Gordon his hellos. You may even be on the eyeball-to-eyeball or hand-to-hand end of them. If you're not, you will be
RETURNING home from babysitting after midnight on Sunday (quite sober, I might add) we were surprised by the sight of a fully-grown badger crossing Field Lane just after the junction with Hull Road. He stopped in the road, turned his head to look
I THINK the real reason that Tony Blair has resigned is that he's simply run out of ideas and has absolutely no clue what to do next. No muddle-headed buffoon can ever remain Prime Minister. That is a fact of life. Aled Jones, Mount Crescent,
RECENT letters have criticised the new cycle access gates at the entrances to Hob Moor (Who designed these Hob Moor gates? May 3; Badly designed, May 10). Of course, cyclists would prefer unimpeded access to cycle tracks, and we shouldn't block people
THERE has been double cause for celebration at one York councillor's home. Only a few days after being re-elected to City of York Council for Acomb, Tracey Simpson-Laing has collected an MA in Social Policy and Criminology from the Open University
POLICE motorcyclists have raised thousands of pounds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance after teaming up with a former World Superbike champion. Thirteen riders from North Yorkshire Police's off-road motorcycle section last week completed an off-road coast-to-coast
THESE CCTV images show two youths stealing a bike from outside The Press offices in Walmgate. The bike, belonging to feature writer Maxine Gordon, was locked up against railings at the side of the building at around 3.30pm on Saturday and within ten
RESIDENTS across North Yorkshire and York will learn within days whether their local post offices are set to close. Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary, is set to publish the Government's response to a consultation on controversial branch
A PUBLIC inquiry into the future of a former mine in the district continues today. Planning inspector Edward Simpson is set to hear from representatives of UK Coal at this morning's session of the company's appeal against Selby District Council. Paul
AN alleged sex offender has cleared his name of molesting a woman late at night in York city centre. Andrew David Lee, 40, had no convictions before York magistrates convicted him, after a trial, of going up to a 21-year-old woman and touching her breasts
