A YORK girl born more than ten weeks prematurely weighing less than a bag of sugar has battled all the odds - and even achieved a black belt in kick-boxing. When Laura Fallowfield was born 14 years ago, she weighed only 1lb 12oz, and faced a desperate
A COUNCILLOR has stepped in to help residents find out who has installed a mystery new fence on deserted land in Acomb, York. Residents in Runswick Avenue contacted Coun Tracey Simpson-Laing about the grassed area near to the junction with Beckfield
A RETIRED couple who have "never owed anyone a penny" were terrified to receive a letter from debt collectors. Leslie and Margaret Ford were shocked when they were told the debt was due to someone else moving into their property - which they have no
"I FEEL proud to have been successful in one of Britain's most historical and beautiful cities." Those were the words today of York restaurateur Giovanni Delrio, who had no idea when he came to the city on a work placement from Italy nearly 30 years
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THIEVES are breaking into five cars a day in York. Police are warning car owners to be on their guard after 46 cars were broken into across the city in the last ten days. But officers say many could have been prevented - because property had been left
YORK is set to get a £1 million grant to tackle crime in the city. City of York Council was set a series of crime reduction targets to achieve by the end of this year and the Government offered a potential reward grant of up to £1.6 million in return
They're a happy bunch at Skoda, and with good reason. Away from the baking sessions that produced that wonderful life-sized Fabia cake for its advertising campaign, the Czech firm now has all the ingredients for a cracking line-up of cars. In May, it
Honda has practically swept the board in this year's Which? Car reliability survey, the biggest-ever owner satisfaction survey in the UK with almost 100,000 cars rated. The Honda Jazz is the most reliable new car, with a reliability rating of 96 per
JUDGES have announced the winner of this month's photography competition, run by The Press. Lewis Outing's Come On In The Water's Fine was picked out as the best image sent in by our readers. The prize is a visit to FNS Photography's state-of-the-art
THE MAN in charge of the day to day running of the Minster will "not be returning to his post". The Press revealed on Wednesday that chapter steward Stephen Anderson has been given a leave of absence. Then, Minster bosses refused to explain the reasons
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I WISH people would stop whinging about recycling and waste collections. I voted for the fortnightly collection unlike, it seems, pretty much everyone else, who completely ignored it. If your black bin is attracting vermin, buy less food, then you'll
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If Philip Crowe thinks it is easy to build houses and make "vast profits" why doesn't he do it himself? (Free market fault, Letters, June 27). I challenge Mr Crowe to remortgage his house, cash in his pension, throw in his life savings and borrow whatever
FOR all the undoubted good it does, the NHS does get itself in some dreadful tangles. Physiotherapists are being trained for three years at a cost to the NHS of £30,000 per student, only for there to be very few jobs waiting for them when they qualify
YOU don't need to compete in the Tour de France to enjoy the benefits of cycling. Just look at Alan Waddilove. The 73-year-old took up cycling again in his 70s after a period of illness - and his health has improved dramatically. His chest problems
PHILIP Crowe (Free market fault, Readers' letters, June 27) fails to understand the basic principles of supply and demand. Neither is it the private sector's responsibility to provide subsidised housing, Mr Crowe, that is down to the Government, as
FINE words - great headline (Social care "revolution", The Press, June 27). But what was Coun Chris Metcalfe's real message to the elderly in the constituency he represents? I could not find any message. Having read and reread Mike Laycock's report
A GRADUATE from York who thought she might "not be good enough" to read a degree at Cambridge is now an ambassador for the university. Charlotte Richer, 21, has become a Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) access officer. Charlotte was brought
OH dear Andrew Collingwood (Simply not funny, Readers' letters, June 28) you have obviously not been taught to understand the driving forces of a society and time but your own very narrow one. Presumably, your judgement of the 1960s and 1970s is based
IT WAS a super picture in The Press of all the smiling happy faces of the Mount School sixth-form students at their end-of-term Strawberry Ball (Sixth-formers put on style for Strawberry Ball, The Press. June 25). I wish I could have been with them.
HERE we go again, another reunion. Who on earth persuaded the Spice Girls to reform? Their "farewell tour" will net each girl £10 million and yet they say they aren't doing it for the money. Add to that a private jet for each of them to fly them to each
Litter is a modern-day scourge and those flouting common decency need to be punished. Full marks for Francine Clee (column, June 27) for speaking plainly and getting it right. Sadly, we are now paying the price for raising a generation who have no
HUNDREDS of York College learners graduated at a ceremony at York's Theatre Royal. Higher National Diploma (HND), Higher National Certificate (HNC), degree, access and foundation degree learners graduated in subjects ranging from construction studies
I'M A non-smoker but not an anti-smoker - but I do agree with the new smoking laws. My mother-in-law died of smoking-related diseases, aged only 57. My father-in-law never smoked, but has a very bad chest which was caused by passive smoking. On a
THREE brave members of the public came to the rescue of a pensioner when a thief jumped into a his car and mowed him down. Police are appealing for information about the incident, which happened in Piccadilly, York, at about midday on Wednesday. The
VICTOR Bell's hilarious letter in The Press (Time for crackdown on city's pavements, July 3) took me right back to my childhood (a very long time ago). I honestly cannot remember who had told me or if I had read it, but I would never ever walk along
WITH reference to the article "Tesco refused to sell me booze even when I showed my passport to prove that I was 22" (The Press, July 4), I was more than disappointed with Tesco's approach to this customer. The law, as I understand it, is that no shop
WITH reference to your article "Hospital writes off £100K debt" (June 27), this is no reflection on one man's plight, but a significant lesson on how our NHS is abused. The fault lies solely at the seat of power, the Government. We, as British citizens
YOUNG musicians from across the city show off their talents at the York Schools' Music Festival at the Grand Opera House on Sunday from 2pm. Organised by the City of York Council's arts education team, the festival features diverse vocal and instrumental
York Shakespeare Project has adapted Shakespeare's three early, rarely performed Henry VI plays into two parts, The Occupation and Civil War, for staging on consecutive performances from Thursday. In part one, war hero Henry V has died and the occupied
RIDING Lights Youth Theatre's contribution to a double bill of plays on the theme of slavery today is Shelf Life. Directed by Paul Birch, it will be performed today and tomorrow alongside York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre's Send In The Clowns in the
THE York Early Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary with "a quite remarkable birthday party, " as administrative director Delma Tomlin puts it. "Only rarely do we hear such a wealth of music in and this year is particularly special with so
THE Ebor Singers' latest album, Dusk Songs, is the first release on Boreas Music, a newly launched classical label in York. Operating from Clifford House in Clifford Street, the label is committed to supporting not only dynamic performances of established
JASON Hart used to play guitar in the ultra-psychedelic Spirtualized. Paul Tucker was the keyboard player and principal singer writer in the smoothest of soul acts, The Lighthouse Family. Now the Midlander and the North Easterner have united to form
YOU may be in for a long wait for the next Midlake album. For their Leeds Irish Centre gig on Tuesday, Tim Smith's band from the small Texan town of Denton will concentrate on last year's album, The Trials Of Van Occupanther. "We've not really started
A KNIFEMAN walked into a York supermarket and demanded cash - in the seventh armed robbery in the city in a month. The man was brandishing a knife when he walked in to the Costcutter store in Barley Rise, Strensall, at about 2.06pm yesterday and demanded
LOOK at the face closely. Those of you with a long memory and an ability to add years to a visage may recall seeing Andy Hockley in his York Theatre Royal debut in a neighbourhood tour of the mining play One Big Blow. The year was 1989, and the following
BIG, forty and past their prime they may be, but the fun and games are only beginning for the three brothers who form their own 'boy' band, Wilde Boyz. Written by North Eastern playwright Gordon Steel, this romping comedy follows the brothers as they
The Tour de France is one of the world's most gruelling sporting events - now an event styled on it is coming to York and will be open to all. LUCY STEPHENS finds out about pedal power and why it's good for your health. TOMORROW, some of the world's
CORONATION Street star Suranne Jones is to join the cast for the world-premiere stage version of Terms Of Endearment at York Theatre Royal next month. Suranne, who played Karen McDonald in the long-running ITV soap before leaving to pursue other projects
THEY say good things come to those who wait. So with that in mind, my friends and I were greatly relishing our trip to the Red Lion, in Knapton. We had turned up enthusiastically seven days earlier, only to find that we could not get a table.
A £500,000 fund to help small enterprises in Yorkshire affected by flooding has been launched by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The fund has been set up by the FSB, which has 16,000 member businesses in the region, to grant short-term, interest-free
WE ENTERED Browns by the door at the corner of Davygate and St Sampson's Square. Then immediately up the stairs. From there we had to ask directions to the restaurant. Had we used the door in Davygate itself, we should have no difficulty following
TOUCH WOOD is the 100th new play to be premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre since its relocation to the old Odeon in 1996, and the landmark is more significant than the play itself. Nick Warburton has written for the radio, amateur stage and twice
THE Grimethorpe Colliery Band, the South Yorkshire musical stars of Mark Herman's hit film Brassed Off, will play favourite classics in a Sunday afternoon concert at the Grand Opera House, York, on July 15. Tickets for the 3pm show cost £16.50 or £15
THE chart-topping Editors will play Leeds University on October 17 and Sheffield Octagon on October 22 as the two Yorkshire shows on their 18-date autumn tour. The Birmingham band's second album, An End Has A Start, entered the charts at number one
HELEN Spath and her team at Tullivers' Health Store, advise on herbal remedies. Q: I am a keen tennis player, but a nasty sprain last summer means my knee tends to ache following prolonged activity. What do you recommend? A: Pain like this
Police are getting tough with drivers who are putting their own and others' lives at risk. Stephen Lewis reports on Operation Capable. JULIAN Pearson has seen his fair share of horrific road accidents in his years as a traffic policeman. One that
BIRMINGHAM Stage Company returns to the Grand Opera House, York, with more gory stories from Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books. After the success of last year 's Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians, director John-Paul Cherington has adapted The
THE Tuesday Jazz Suppers at the Dean Court Hotel, Duncombe Place, is a new addition to the York jazz diary and the first one opened with a near-full house last Tuesday. Standing in for the Andy Hillier Trio was Martin Boyd (saxophone/clarinet), Bob
JUSTIN Moorhouse and Rob Deering preview their Edinburgh Fringe shows with one-hour spots at the Other Side Comedy Club, York, on Sunday evening. Moorhouse is known to millions as Young Kenny from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, where he appeared for virtually
THE blaze which hit York Racecourse was started by a cigarette being dropped - just four days after smoking indoors was banned. Firefighters have concluded that the fire was caused by "discarded smoking material". And they believe a staff member was
EDINBURGH lassie and one-time York resident Sian Bevan makes an appearance at Tuesday's Black Comedy @ The Black Swan night in the run-up to her Edinburgh Fringe show. James Harris, of Saltburn, performs his first solo set, but although he is new to
KATE Bramley plays her first solo booking at the Black Swan Folk Club on Thursday, after earlier appearances at the York pub with the bands Freewheelin' and Sweetgrass and the Canadian singer Tim Readman. "Although she's based just outside York, Kate
PROTEST singer, poet and social commentator Joan Baez plays Harrogate International Centre, on Sunday, at 8pm. The face of folk music in the early Sixties, alongside former beau Bob Dylan, Baez has inspired and reflected the growing social conscience
THE Best of Northern Potters show opens at the Lund Gallery, near Easingwold, on Sunday. More than 30 members from the Northern Potters' Association have been invited to join in a showcase for a group formed in 1977. The exhibition also will feature
THIS STUNNING piece of sculpture, by the artist Janis Ridley, has gone on display at York Minster. Called Unfolding Love, the bronze cast sculpture will be shown in the Eastern Crypt from the June 4 until July 6. "This sculpture tells us a story of
THE Diary always enjoys a good pun or two, so we were amused to receive an email from church insurers Congregational And General. The company has spent the past few months perusing church signs, looking for particularly witty or saintly slogans in their
Julia Burns and Jennifer Tetlow are exhibiting at Saltbox Gallery and Workshop, Helmsley. Julia, who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, produces paintings composed of large, vibrant fields of colour. She likens her method of painting to making
HAILSTONES the size of golf balls are bouncing off the car, the dog was herded outside for a wee and promptly blew over and the bloke next door is in tears at the thought of having to leave for his Lake District camping holiday tomorrow. Yes, folks,
LUCY Casson's latest selection of gently humorous tin sculptures is on show at Godfrey & Watt, her regular spot in Harrogate. The gallery in Westminster Arcade, Parliament Street has shown Lucy's work since the early 1990s, and in that time the London
A JOBS crisis is hitting junior doctors at York Hospital in the wake of a controversial national recruitment system branded "a fiasco". Now Wigginton Road is facing having up to ten vacant posts in specialist areas of the hospital on August 1 - which
THEY cost the NHS £30,000 each to put through university - but York physiotherapy students are facing an uphill struggle to get jobs. This week, 34 students will find out their results after completing a degree in physiotherapy at York St John University
FRET not! So many businesses have contacted us worried about today's deadline for The Press Business Of The Year 2007 that we have delayed the closing date until midday next Friday. That may be Friday 13th, but don't let that daunt you because from
LIBERAL Democrat leader Menzies Campbell is visiting York, to discuss local issues. Mr Campbell arrived in the city last night, and met with the Joseph Rowntree Trust. Today, he is to visit two schools to meet staff and pupils. He said he had recently
The photograph of a paedophile who has been on the run since February has been released by police in an effort to catch him. Stephen Burnell, who formerly lived in the South Bank area of York, went on the run during his trial at York Crown Court in February
SCOTT RHODES today admitted York City Knights have not enjoyed a good season so far - but reckons that can all change. Rhodes, captain in the absence of crocked skipper Dan Potter, acknowledged confidence in the camp was "not sky-high", but said
FIT-AGAIN York City full-back Darren Craddock has welcomed the addition of his former Hartlepool mentor Mark Robinson to next season's squad. Left-back Robinson helped Hartlepool to promotion from League Two in 2003 and Craddock, now fully recovered
YORK City right-back Darren Craddock has insisted he will shirk no challenges on his return to action after suffering a broken jaw. Craddock, 22, missed the final nine league matches of last season and the two play-off meetings with Morecambe after sustaining
A MAN has been killed in a car accident near Harrogate. The accident happened at around 9.45pm on Thursday and involved a red Nissan Micra and a red Honda Civic. Both cars are believed to have been travelling away from Harrogate on the A61 Harrogate
Apparently down and out in the first half of this season's Twenty20 Cup competition, Yorkshire Phoenix have picked themselves up off the floor. A fourth consecutive victory from tonight's match with Derbyshire Phantoms at Headingley Carnegie (5.30pm
AFTER being overhauled by a one-two combination that deprived them of the leadership of the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB Premier League, York face a double date this weekend. The biggest enemy could be rustiness for the Clifton Park outfit, who have not figured
YORK City fans' football team Red and Blue will represent the club in the Worldnet Sports Interactive Cup this month. The Minstermen supporters will compete with followers from 71 rival clubs in England, Scotland and France from July 13-15 at Leeds'
SIMON Dyson revelled in the long and short of it on the first day of the European Open at the K Club in County Kildare. The North Yorkshire golf ace, who got his first round off to a poor note with a bogey on his third hole, the 12th, made the turn
Two rival parties have stepped up their bids to take control of Leeds United as chairman Ken Bates' buy-back deal hangs in the balance. Bates' plans to regain power at Elland Road after placing the club in administration in early May have been legally
A PENSIONER told today how she has suffered sleepless nights for almost a year - because of a vibrating bed. Evelyn Cooper, who lives in council-owned sheltered housing, off Burton Stone Lane, York, said she first reported the problem to City of York
Knaresborough Racing Team's Oliver Pearce cemented his position at the top of the Fulford Cycles-sponsored evening Time Trial League with a dominant display of power riding in event eight, a 25-mile out and back race on the A168. He clocked a time
YORK Groves ARLC have started pre-season training and are keen for any potential new players to go along. The Terriers, who last season ended in the upper echelons of Pennine League division five, train on Knavesmire, on Wednesday evenings at 6.30pm
Shepherds moved joint top of division one in the John Smith's Bulmer's Men's Darts League. Heath Scaife posted a 116 finish for 15, 15, Chas Ramsden (19) and Kev Walton (14) to help Shepherds to a 7-2 win over Crescent A', whose best was Kel Frankel
TEENAGERS Zoe Eagles and Scott Burrell have been crowned Yorkshire Under-25 bowls pairs' champions. York RI's Eagles, 15, and 14-year-old Burrell, of Nafferton BC, defeated Middlesbrough duo Paul Mosley and Thomas Hall 10-8 in the final to emerge triumphant
The finals of the York Open £1,000 Individual Darts competition, sponsored by John Smith's, take place at the Crescent WMC on Friday, July 13 at 7.30pm. A total of 16 of the area's top players will compete for the prize money in what promises to be
ALL of our local rivers have maintained depressingly high levels for most of the week and, with further rain forecast, it is hardly surprising that a number of angling clubs have taken the wise precaution of switching their weekend fixtures from moving
YORK and North Yorkshire bookmakers who are worried about their livelihoods because of plans to "confiscate" their racecourse pitches have had their fears raised in Parliament. Ryedale MP John Greenway was among the speakers debating the concerns of
Authorized, who heralded his burgeoning ability at York in May when running away with the Dante Stakes, and who has since proved himself a top-notch performer by blitzing his rivals in the Derby, can continue on the crest of a wave in a not-to-be-missed
Old Malton St Mary's FC start pre-season training on Wednesday, July 11 at 6.30pm. The club runs four Saturday senior teams - in the York and District League premier division and reserve A', and in Ryedale Beckett League divisions one and two. All
Troublemakers are being invited to spend a night at the Lock Em Inn - courtesy of York Police. Booze-related antisocial behaviour will be targeted in a zero tolerance campaign this weekend. It follows on from a major crackdown on antisocial behaviour
A DISTRAUGHT mother has made a heartfelt plea to council chiefs not to shut a day care centre which she says saved her life. Marcus Gomez, 22, was left severely brain damaged after suffering a brain haemorrhage when he was only eight-months-old, and
A TRADITIONAL summer carnival hopes to become York's answer to Glastonbury. This year's Copmanthorpe Carnival being held tomorrow is different to all its predecessors. The event which began life 39 years ago has undergone a transformation and hopes
BURGER King has announced the closure of another of its York restaurants, while a new fast food retailer is set to move into its former city centre premises. The burger operator has confirmed its Bilborough Top outlet, on the A64, closed its doors to
AN EX-PATRIOT has returned to his home city to step up the campaign to bring justice to victims of York's asbestos timebomb. Michael Rogan, 65, a former coach-builder at the British Rail Carriageworks, in Holgate Road, said he wanted to speak out to
RESIDENTS are up in arms about a proposed York housing development they claim will increase the flood risk to their homes. People living in Lea Way and nearby streets, in Huntington, have lodged more than 100 objections with City of York Council. Under
FOR Noel Wilson, it has been a long time coming. The North Yorkshire trainer is looking at a bright future after settling into his own purpose built racing yard at Flaxton. Wilson, a leading amateur jockey for 20 years and trainer since 2000, had
HE'S the only horse to have conquered the Derby winner. But while Authorized has gone from strength to strength, life hasn't panned out in quite the same way for Teslin. It all looked so different in September last year when Teslin, as a two-year-old
IT doesn't take a scientist to realise Authorized has a superb chance in tomorrow's Coral-Eclipse. However, on the principles of value, it might be better to give the Derby winner a miss and have a small punt on George Washington in the Sandown showpiece
RYEDALE Festival will begin soon in a stunning array of venues homes and historic churches. Beginning next Friday, July 13, the festival will last for over a fortnight, culminating on July 29 with a final gala concert. Venues for the festival include
HOUSING in Selby is set for a boost with the introduction of a new board to attract more Government funding to the district. At the moment, individual district councils within North Yorkshire make bids to the Government and European Union for new social
