HOW'S this for evidence of the demand for space in York? Developers want to convert an office and flat near the city centre into a huge student house - with 12 bedrooms. An application has been submitted to City of York Council, to revitalise 32 Lord
THEY know where they're going at Lady Lumley's School - that's for sure. A clutch of medals was seized by more than 20 boys and girls pupils at the Pickering-based school who competed in the Yorkshire and Humberside orienteering championships near Wakefield
JAVELIN ace Paul Allsopp claimed a bronze medal at the English Schools' Athletics Finals, in Birmingham. The 16-year-old Lady Lumley's School pupil went into the finals ranked fifth in the country but managed to come away with third place after a throw
ALL-CONQUERING Westfield Primary School girls' football team have stormed to a third consecutive league and cup double. Westfield booked their cup finals day place alongside Clifton-with-Rawcliffe and Bishopthorpe by securing a resounding 7-0 victory
OSBALDWICK and Selby will go head-to-head in the final of the Hirepoint Under-13s Cricket Plate competition. Osbaldwick, who fielded five under-11s in their side, reached the final with an impressive victory over Wilberfoss. Osbaldwick made 56-9, with
POCKLINGTON secured the Hirepoint Under-9s West Zone cricket title with a win against York B'. There was some economical bowling and runs came from T Loten (24), J Atkinson (19), B Singles (16), M Fairey (14) and J Shingles (13). For York, Kay took
YORK A' must win all of their remaining games to overhaul leaders Selby in the Hirepoint Under-11s Cricket League's West Zone. Selby completed their fixtures with a 130-run win over Hemingbrough, bowling their opponents out for 176 after making 306.
ST PETER'S School pupil Rory MacLeod has been selected to row in the Great Britain Junior (Under-18) eight - the flagship event of the World Rowing Junior Championships. Rory will be competing with rowers from more than 50 nations in the World Championships
ENGLAND all-rounder Andrew Freddie' Flintoff passed on some top tips to youngsters from York at the ASDA Kwik Cricket national finals. Pupils from Archbishop of York Junior School, in Bishopthorpe, met the Test star at Headingley Carnegie after winning
A SUCCESSFUL year meant a host of gongs were handed out at New Earswick All Blacks Rugby League Club's end of season awards for the club's junior sections. Players from Under-8s to U13s packed into the White Rose Avenue Sports Clubs to see awards
Nigel Moore extended his championship lead in the Playstation Ginetta Junior sportscar championship with two great wins at Silverstone, the first after spinning down the field. The 15-year-old, from Long Marston, was awarded the official BRDC Stars
GOALKEEPER Dominic McGregor and utility man Tom Parker shared Rawcliffe under 14s' Players' Player of the Year award for last season. McGregor kept ten clean sheets in 21 games for the York Minor League champions, while Parker filled several positions
THE rapid growth of junior football at Easingwold Town Football Club has helped to propel the move to a bold new future after it officially opened its new clubhouse. Officials and youngsters, left, gathered at the opening of the new clubhouse and dressing
YORK City will welcome back two old boys during this afternoon's home friendly against Bradford City. The Bantams, relegated to League Two last season, will include ex-Minstermen Barry Conlon and Darren Williams in their squad for the KitKat Crescent
MILES JOHNSTON'S Mitsubishi Evolution Cup Championships aspirations took a turn for the worse in severe weather conditions. Johnston was trapped overnight on the M5 due to the severe floods which hit Worcestershire and Gloucestershire and was unable
DEFENDING champion Eric Wilkinson has reached the semi-final stage of the York Open Bowls Tournament. Wilkinson has enjoyed three comfortable victories during his passage into the last four and will now meet Bolton's Gordon Niven, who finished strongly
IT was just a flippant remark between colleagues - but au contraire as to how they warble in France, now I do have regrets. The conversation between myself and a work-mate regarding the latest drug scandal to besmirch the Tour de France went along the
HE'S a York man of Chinese descent who has never lived in Wales. But David Chan, who started studying Welsh for fun after becoming entranced when he heard a friend speaking it, has now become so fluent that he has reached the finals of a Welsh Learner
HE was once said to be the second most powerful person in England - and yesterday he was in York, running alongside the River Ouse to the sounds of Dancing Queen. Alastair Campbell, a self-confessed Abba fan and the former press secretary to Tony Blair
POLICEMEN fled in fear of their lives when this knifeman ran amok on the streets of York. But today Craig Michael Owston is behind bars indefinitely after a career of drink-fuelled violence that includes breaking a father's skull and breaking
FOUR booze-related violent crimes are taking place in York every day, The Press can reveal. New figures show there were 357 violent crimes - such as fights, assaults and affray - committed by people under the influence of alcohol or drugs in the city
YORK'S British Sugar factory has moved a step closer to closure with the departure of 57 workers. The sugar beet factory in Boroughbridge Road is due to shut down at the end of the year, after processing beet for the past 80 years. Some workers left
WE TRAVELLED to Cheshire last Saturday afternoon, going over the M62 in driving rain and wondering if the journey was going to be a waste of time. This route can be bleak at the best of times. Even though we know it well, having relatives north and south
THE long wait for motorists is almost over. From Monday, York residents will be able to park for free in the city in the evenings. The two main opposition groups on City of York Council forced a change in the controversial charges, in a move that marks
STAITHES is a village of two halves. Visitors normally park at the top half, which is the less picturesque, then the habit is to descend and disappear into the nooky old fishing village. But not for us, not yet. After a word with a couple of walkers
Mike Laycock dives into a magical marine world on the Yorkshire Coast Where? Scarborough Sea Life and Marine Sanctuary, Scalby Mills, Scarborough. Why? This complex, situated by the sea at the top end of Scarborough's North Bay, offers everything
HEARTLESS bureaucrats have sent a "cruel" letter to the grieving family of the late Gulf War veteran Terry Walker demanding a refund of his last pension payment - after an administrative blunder. When Mr Walker died following a failed heart transplant
YORK City Knights Supporters' Club are to set up a fund for local international players after coming to the aid of the three academy aces picked for the upcoming BARLA Great Britain Under-21s tour. As reported by The Press, Heworth ARLC starlet Leigh
It is excellent news that Yorkshire can hold on to Adil Rashid, but what does the future hold for his leg-spin twin', Mark Lawson? Both of them were included in the game against Kent at Scarborough, where the pitch often aids slow bowlers as was the
If the monsoons depart, and barring other unforeseen circumstances, then Yorkshire's 19-year-old leg-spin sensation Adil Rashid should stand every chance of taking at least 50 Championship wickets in his first full season of first-class cricket. But
IT'S little wonder Raymond Blanc has secured top billing at this year's York Festival Of Food And Drink. For several years, cash-conscious organisers have given up booking the big cheeses of the culinary world, focusing instead on showcasing local talent
WE all know enjoying your job is only part of being happy at work - the rest of it is down to the people. Luckily for Karina Reed, her colleagues at Ben Johnson printers in York became some of her best friends. Karina enjoyed her 21st birthday while
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (Bloomsbury, £17.99) EVER since JK Rowling announced this would be the last tale in the Harry Potter series, fans have been desperate to find out what happens the world's most famous boy wizard. The
FANS of Girl With A Pearl Earring will have two chances next week to hear author Tracy Chevalier read from her new novel, Burning Bright. As the novel's title suggests, it is about the great 18th century poet, mystic, artist and religious visionary William
It is October, 1918. For London undertaker Henry Speake, the job of laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the front to die has become grimly familiar. As autumn deepens, the bodies increase. These are not the broken, maimed
JURASSIC Park creator Crichton brings the world of genetic engineering close to home in his latest techno thriller. He imagines a world in which corporations are patenting human genes; in which a court can order the children of a man who has an inbuilt
FOLLOWING the announcement that the "ring of steel" has started going up around Clifton (which is all of half a dozen gates), I thought I'd share one resident's quest (mine) for... information. Firstly, I am not against the gates in principle, but when
THE future of dozens of jobs at a York car dealer hangs in the balance. Dixon Motors, one of the UK's biggest car dealerships - which has Renault and Nissan dealerships at Clifton Moor and a Kia dealership at Monk's Cross in York - has gone into administration
It has hardly been a vintage year so far for Shiekh Mohammed's Godolphin stable, but the powerful Newmarket outfit are aiming to dominate tomorrow's feature race at Pontefract and look set to take the honours. Blue Ksar and Tam Lin represent the stable
YORK Racecourse chiefs are confident the Knavesmire track will have recovered from the effects of the summer's appalling weather in time for next month's Ebor Festival. Ahead of today's Music Showcase meeting, William Derby, York Racecourse chief executive
ALMOST four years after plans for a £60 million shopping mall near Clifford's Tower, in York, were thrown out, developers have still not decided whether to come back with fresh proposals. Property giant Land Securities says it is continuing to "consider
TO reply to various letters about council staff fitness in the new Hungate offices and the issue of swimming at Hungate. There are many ways of promoting fitness in the new offices. I have been pushing to ensure adequate showering facilities, for example
YORK is a very different city, with twice the number of people, with more needs than we once had. It needs more from government in terms of services and infrastructure than we did. The same applies to most large British cities, and most of the world's
MY letter (My Generation, Readers' Letters, 16) seems to have set up a lively debate. Mr Roe in his reply (Don't stereotype, July 21) puts the age of young people in the mid-20s to mid-30s - not my idea of young people. Also, not the idea of Coun Gunnell
A LITTLE poser for you. If a bus driver consumed half a bottle of whisky, went through the traffic lights at red, smoking a cigar and on his mobile phone, how many traffic offences would he be committing? Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.
BRIAN Cantor crows about the "8,000 new jobs" an enlarged University of York will bring (Benefits from a bigger university, Readers' Letters, July 21). How many of these "new jobs" will go to existing York residents? On past form very few, and then only
Emma Darley, 17, says she is resentful of the Beckhams because their children have things her own (unborn) son will never have. She also describes herself as very poor, as a single mum-to-be and says she can't go on holidays, can't go shopping, can't
I AM concerned that I have not seen, or heard, of any appeals for aid for the flood-stricken people, in various places, many of whom have lost all their possessions. When a disaster happens abroad, there are appeals on the TV and in shops for aid, surely
WITH the average operational police officer costing the taxpayer £27,000 per annum, we certainly do not want to see these people undertaking routine paperwork and mundane office chores (Anger as red tape ties cops to desks, The Press, July 23). Coppers
THE Labour Government has just announced the biggest consultation ever over drug abuse in this country and, given this is probably the main fear of parents of teenage children throughout Britain, it is obviously a huge concern. As a parent, my question
A LIFELINE charity is calling on York businesses to help celebrate its 40th anniversary. York Samaritans aims to raise thousands of pounds when it holds an auction of promises this autumn, but is looking for donations from local firms to help make the
POLICE have arrested three people as part of a crackdown on car crime in parts of York. Operation Canola was launched in Huntington and Heworth and has led to a 38.5 per cent drop in car crime since the end of May. The aim of the operation was to reduce
WELCOME to a war zone - and a land of contrasts. The huge Kandahar Airfield is home to thousands of servicemen and women from a host of different nations - not just Americans and British, but Canadians, Australians, Dutch and French, to name but a few
Anthony McGrath once again showed his fondness for Kent bowling by stroking a masterly century off them in the LV Championship match at Scarborough yesterday. It was his second ton in consecutive innings against the county - he made one at Tunbridge
IAN BROWN is aiming to return reinvigorated to reinforce York City Knights' replenished play-off credentials. The second-row centre has recovered from a calf injury, and a niggling elbow problem, and will be back in the 17 tomorrow as York host Oldham
A CAMPAIGN by McDonalds campaign to boot the definition of "McJob" out of the dictionary has come to York - and it has met with opposition from the Green Party. The restaurant says the definition of McJob - "an un-stimulating, low-paid job with few prospects
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has written to Remploy chairman Ian Russell, concerning the closure of the York factory. The MP challenged the decision to close the factory in Redeness Street, which was announced in May. The factory is part of the textiles division
EMERGENCY services from across the country will converge on York for a conference looking at patient transfer in the wake of the Richard Hammond crash at Elvington airfield. When the Yorkshire Air Ambulance flew Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond from
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build two new homes have been given the go-ahead - despite fierce objections from neighbours. A total of 18 letters from residents were sent to Selby District Council in protest at the plans to build two large detached houses and
THINK of air shows and chances are that sky divers, state of the art jets and the Red Arrows will spring to mind. But at York's RAF Linton-on-Ouse an open day is an altogether more intimate and low-key affair. Although the RAF's newest fighter the Typhoon
At the recent ward meeting I saw the glossy magazine produced by young people in Clifton Without, YORKIDS, brilliant!!! I am well aware of the imagination and ability of the young; with three children, six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren
