MEMBERS of the public calling York Police were faced with delays before their calls were answered after a fault was believed to have developed in the control room phone system. Inspector Peter Gold, of North Yorkshire Police Force control room, said
LEEDS United remain outside the Coca-Cola League One play-off places after a 1-1 draw at Northampton Town. Jonny Howson put the Whites in front after 38 minutes at Sixfields, but Adebayo Akinfenwa netted a 75th minute equaliser to thwart Gary McAllister's
VETERAN striker Leo Fortune-West scored on his debut to help York City to a 2-0 home victory over Grays Athletic in the Blue Square Premier. The well-travelled frontman, who was a half-time replacement for Richard Brodie, slotted the ball past 'keeper
A burglar who scaled and raided three-storey buildings in York has failed to persuade Appeal Court judges his six-year jail term was too harsh. Jonathan Peter Paylor, 28, snatched over £8,000 in jewellery, cash and computer gear in successive nocturnal
TITLE-CHASING Thorpe United Under-15s were held to a goalless draw by visitors Copmanthorpe in the York FA Minor League U15s division one. Copmanthorpe survived a late onslaught from their hosts to claim a hard-earned point. Thorpe created a host of
HEWORTH moved into third place in the York FA Under-19s League with a 5-3 victory over Huntington. Heworth took the lead after 25 minutes with a cracking volley from Luke Laverack and, five minutes later, captain Jack Sullivan netted following a corner
TITLE rivals Nestlé Rowntree and Wigginton Grasshoppers played out a thrilling 3-3 draw in their York FA Minor League under-14s division one clash. The teams are both pretenders to the crown held by Bishopthorpe White Rose, with Nestlé top and Grasshoppers
WIGGINTON Grasshoppers reached the semi-finals of the York Mitchell League Under-11s Cup with a 4-3 victory over Rawcliffe Tigers. The city's top two teams at the U11s age group produced a top quality quarter-final at Bootham Junior School. Grasshoppers
CITY of York Hockey Club boy's A' were crowned North Yorkshire Under-11s champions after a majestic display at the Mini Championships in Pickering. York will now go forward to the Yorkshire Championships in March. The A' team opened up with a 5-0 win
City Of York Hockey Club's girls had a mixed day at the North Yorkshire Mini Championships at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering. The U11s A' team beat Harrogate 1-0 in their opening game before they held eventual winners Cundall Manor to a 0-0 draw.
CUP glory awaits York RUFC's Under-12s after they won through to the final of Yorkshire's premier competition. The Clifton Parkers produced a dogged display to beat Otley 12-0 at Shipton Road in the semi-final of the Yorkshire Cup. Both tries, one in
THE North Riding County Football Association will be running a coaching course during next week's February half-term holiday in Canon Lee School's Sports Hall. It is aimed at five to 11-year-olds and will take place from February 12 to February 14.
YORK Squash Club is playing host to junior coaching sessions during the half-term break. Coach Matt Bridson is running the squash sessions from Monday, February 11 to Friday, February 15 at the Clifton Park club. The courses run from 10am to 1pm each
NETBALLERS from Huntington School in York are aiming to be queens of England. The school's under-14s team have won through the regional rounds to reach the national final of the English Schools' netball tournament. Having won the York and county rounds
YORK College student Alice Leake is plotting a course to the World Schools' Orienteering Championships. The Selby-based teenager came through the selection trials in Dorset to earn her place in the five-strong England team for the event, which will
HOSTS New Earswick Swimming Club were edged out by Pocklington in a friendly gala staged at the York club. Pocklington won with 131 points, with New Earswick second on 122, South Holderness third on 110 and Ryedale fourth with 93 points. New Earswick's
York College's rugby league team continued their winning run as a good defensive display against bigger opponents brought a 26-4 victory at Outwood Grange College. This was a Champion Colleges Plate knockout competition and, as such, college players
Stuart Leeke popped up in the dying seconds to score a try and give York Acorn ARLC under-16s a 10-10 draw at Castleford Lock Lane. Acorn were denied victory last week because of a late score but this time it was their turn to steal a share of the spoils
Saturday, 9th Feb. a fine day so we made a start at tidying up a bit. A bit of digging, some pruning and trimming, shaping and opening up here and there. It is nice to see the newly turned soil. Sylvia has always enjoyed digging; don't know why. http
Centre Jordan Potter was in try-scoring form as Heworth U13s marched into the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Junior League Challenge Cup with a 44-4 win over Crigglestone. The opening exchanges were even before Elliot Bulmer drove down the right
INJURY-HIT Selby RUFC Under-14s were forced to settle for second best to York in the North Yorkshire Cup at Whitby. The Swans travelled with a squad of 18 for the four-team tournament, which was a round-robin format of ten minutes each way. The Sandhill
OUTDOOR and indoor, nine-year-old York speedster Alfie Mountford is revving to success. The tough of the track journeys from his Appleton Roebuck home south to London's O2 Arena later this month for the fourth and final round of the British Supercross
YORK City Knights boss Paul March has called on his brother, David, to help control the team on the field for tomorrow's Northern Rail Cup fixture at big rivals Featherstone (3pm). He also wants captain Scott Rhodes to quickly find the form that made
YORK City's new youth-team coach Neil Redfearn believes the standard of the club's junior players is "excellent". Apprentice left-winger Liam Shepherd made his first-team debut as an extra-time substitute in Wednesday night's Setanta Shield penalty
YORK City in the Community will celebrate their first anniversary next week having provided free coaching to 42 schools in the York area over the last 12 months. The department, launched last February, also fully funds itself now and has launched out-of-school
IS there any sport Chris McTurk isn't good at? The 16-year-old St Peter's School pupil has starred at football for Wigginton Grasshoppers, has played hockey for City of York boys and wields a cricket bat in anger for Acomb. But it is in the rugby union
IT has received its fair share of praise recently, and it is probably set for more now that the fruits of labour are beginning to ripen. We are talking here about the York City Knights scholarship scheme, which, as reported by The Press, received a boost
THE last quarter-final place in the York Squash Open went to number five seed Chris Rusling. Rusling was a 3-2 winner over Yorkshire League team-mate and number four seed Simon Middleton. Middleton won the first game 10-8 but Rusling stormed the next
Fossway A' have reclaimed the leadership of the York John Smith's Bulmers Original Sunday Pool League after a comfortable victory over Dringhouses B'. Wins from Shane Kelly, Mick Watson, Danny Bhanvra and Dean Scaife put them 4-0 up and they ran out
FULFORD A' replaced Heworth A' as joint leaders of the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg UK Snooker League by defeating them 5-2. Bootham A' joined Fulford A' as joint leaders with a 5-2 win over Acomb 'A'. Bootham B' held onto fourth place after
There was a major shock in the York and District Table Tennis League division four as relegation-threatened Norwich Union A' won 6-4 at BT B', who have been knocked off the top of the table. The insurance side followed up with a 7-3 win over Shepherds
RYEDALE businessman Charles Corner has become a national motorcycle racing champion at the age of 50. Corner, managing director of industrial metalworking specialists Malton Laser, snatched the British ACU Clubman's Open Championship in a dramatic
You won't find Carry On Sheriff Hutton in the back catalogue of any of those ribald British comedy films from the sixties, but if you'd attended Sheriff's village hall on Friday night you would have been treated to a marvellous performance of My Fat Friend
Group Captain, a smart Flat performer, who contested the Ebor Handicap at York last August, is fast developing into a classy hurdler and the gelding can further his reputation at Exeter tomorrow. The six-year-old lines up for the £20,000 toteexacta Novices
FOREIGN fields - don't ya just love 'em? If you don't, well the Premier League does and you better get used to it. In a week when British Grand Prix racing ace Lewis Hamilton was racially abused as he tested McLaren's new car in Barcelona, England's
UP-AND-COMING North Yorkshire band One Night Only have gone back to school - for one day only. The Helmsley group took time out from their assault on the charts with latest single Just For Tonight to pay a special visit to Ryedale School in Nawton, where
ROSALIND Kerven knows what makes children tick. After all, you don't write more than 50 children's books without understanding a thing or two about sword fights, treasure and villainy. Which is why these are all key ingredients in her new book, Viking
WHEN consultant anaesthetist Moira Farrell is found stabbed to death in her comfortable West Yorkshire home, suspicion initially falls on her husband and fellow medic, Professor Rajesh Patel. But things are not as simple as they seem. First, a pair
WHAT makes a convicted killer kill again? True crime writer Charles Rickell sets out to find out in this oddly addictive book. Rickell has uncovered 24 cases of multiple killers with Yorkshire connections (not including the Yorkshire Ripper, who
WE HAVE had a mixed bag of weather during the first week of February, with icy winds and snow for some gardeners, contrasting with one or two mild days. In our sheltered town garden, plants are sprouting with abandon as they do when daylight begins to
THINK of The Evil Eye Lounge in Stonegate, York, and cocktail creations or varied beers may spring to mind. Yet the bar's Thai cuisine is not only reasonably priced, but authentic (they have two Thai chefs). It's delicious, too. Earlier this week,
IT was mid morning when we visited Monks Cross. This presented us with a problem. Should we have a second breakfast or try an early lunch? Good sense prevailed. We settled for a drink and a light bite but not before we had considered the alternatives
TERRINGTON was crusty after a hard and icy night. We crunched out from the village to its Mowthorpe Lane and that turned out to be a mile more of skidding and sliding rather than a brisk warm-up. But this lane is no thoroughfare, traffic was a recalcitrant
CELEBRATED as much for headlines as hemlines, London Fashion Week is a sure-fire talking point. Designers set out to grab the media spotlight as well as secure orders for their new collections. It's a frantic week of catwalk shows, media interviews,
I TRY to think "out of the box" when recommending wines for occasions. I can't help but go down the obvious route for Valentine's Day, however. It would be remiss of me not to suggest a few fizzy pinks to tickle your tastebuds, but I've included some
I AM one of the Facebook faithful. It's fair to say I spend a decent amount of time doing inane quizzes and superpoking various friends. And yes, I do realise it is a fruitless waste of my time, but the urge to take up such challenges as naming that
AS SHE carved her way through three careers, university courses and motherhood, Helen Cadbury made herself a promise. She had lived her dreams of being an actor, a drama teacher and a mother, but there was still one thing left to do - write. "When I
ENVIRONMENT chiefs came under fire today for spending £8,000 of taxpayers' money on a farewell party for staff - following a reorganisation aimed at saving money. The Environment Agency has hired out the Voltigeur Suite at York Racecourse for the £40
ANGER and dismay have greeted the decision to close dozens of post offices in York and North and East Yorkshire. Post Office Ltd has confirmed that almost all the proposed closures will go ahead. Local campaigners reacted with fury, especially in Fulford
WITH reference to "Elderly at risk of fuel poverty", (Letters, January 9). Chris Clayton's letter outlined the stark reality of what rising fuel bills mean to many people in York and the surrounding area. Last week, I took a formal complaint to the
THE MP Derek Conway says he did nothing wrong in paying his sons for work they never did. So if I was to claim incapacity benefit, while fit for work, that would be okay? The whining excuses trotted out by Conway for why he paid his sons from public
I read with disbelief that York Crown Court has sentenced Penny the rottweiler to be put to sleep for attacking another dog in the street. I wonder if the court are aware that dogs DO fight, sometimes even the best behaved canine can get into a
I would like to say thank-you to the people who assisted me when I had a nasty fall in Green Lane, Acomb. I had hit my face on a wall and and was bleeding badly also concussed. Two ladies stopped their car and one knelt on the ground talking to
At Christmas St Leonard's Hospice had its "Light up a life" Christmas tree in York city centre for the first time. Members of the public were invited to sponsor a light on it to honour loved ones and friends - and I am delighted to report that they
Ian Cuthbertson fails to understand my comments concerning patients and GPs (Watchdog's duty, Letters January 31). I provided factual information to encourage readers to make their views known about General Practice. As chair of the health
When will our politicians realise that there never has been and never will be, such a thing as "full" employment? Caroline Flint says that up to one million people in council accommodation can find work, yet the Government admits to only 600,000
I am afraid that I am in complete disagreement with David Quarrie on his stand regarding racism in York (Banging the Drum, The Press, February 2). For a start, referring to non-white people as "coloured" is very distasteful. Those among us who
To the person who had his driver door bashed on the evening of February 1 at B&Q. Please get in touch. I am so ashamed of myself for not doing anything at the time. Rita Crombleholme, Deramore Drive, Badger Hill, York. Phone: 01904 412034
There is much condemnation and criticism of our Royal Family, which I find very sad, because at no time am I more likely to kneel and thank God that this country still has royalty that goes back centuries than when suffering the hype and hysteria surrounding
DETAILS have been unveiled of new Park&Ride proposals that could ease congestions for thousands of York motorists. Plans produced by City of York Council show how commuters could travel to the city's outskirts by car or tram train before heading into
CANNABIS plants have been seized in a raid at a caravan park near Selby. The plants were found during a raid at the permanent travellers' caravan site in Lynwith Lane, at Carlton, near Selby. A total of 21 officers and two community support officers
POLICE continued to search a rubbish dump near York today, hoping to find the remains of a murdered woman. The boss of the landfill site revealed police had told him they were focusing their search there because they had information about where the body
SHE was responsible for the welfare of thousands of students and stood for the Labour Party at the last local elections - now Grace Fletcher-Hackworth has been voted out of her student union job after a drunken fracas. Ms Fletcher-Hackwood resigned from
DRUG dealers caught in a massive police sting on the streets of York are now serving more than 80 years in jail. One of them is the teenage burglar who Judge Paul Hoffman wanted to jail last June - but couldn't because it was his first house raid. The
BENEFIT cheats have fiddled taxpayers in York out of more than £400,000 in the space of just nine months. That means 69 per cent more cash has been fraudulently scooped from the public purse by con artists who make claims despite having a job or deliberately
BENEFIT cheats have fiddled taxpayers in York out of more than £400,000 in the space of just nine months. That means 69 per cent more cash has been fraudulently scooped from the public purse by con artists who make claims despite having a job or deliberately
There isn't a lot of colour in the garden just now. Everything is ready to break out and bloom, but this large pot of crocuses is right outside our door. The pot is one we got from a relative with connections in the potteries round Stole on Trent. It
A NEW edition of a popular board game has given York the chance to go for world domination. The Press is calling on our readers to help secure a place for the city on a new worldwide edition of Monopoly. The paper, along with tourist chiefs, councillors
NEARLY 300 patients have written to the city's MP to oppose plans to extend doctors' surgery opening hours. The patients at Jorvik Medical Practice, in The Stonebow, York, fear the Government's plans to open GP practices during evenings and weekends
AN online questionnaire asking residents how much cash taxpayers were prepared to pay towards the fire service garnered just 17 responses. Now cash strapped fire chiefs will decide how much council tax precepts for the service in North Yorkshire should
TRANSPORT bosses in York have hailed the latest rise in bus use in the city. A new report by City of York Council shows the number of passenger trips is expected to hit 16.7 million this year, up from 15.1 million in 2006/07 and 14.5 million the year
