A STUNNED landlord claims police refused to name the thug who smashed his pub windows because it infringed his human rights. Father-of-five Terry Daly, who runs the Old Grey Mare, in Clifton Green, said officers told him the culprit had been let off
Why are you playing a cinema in York, Robin? "That's a bit of a curious question! It's basically because I've got this piece I've been playing in cinemas for the last couple of years. I made this Lumiere film three years ago, my first animated film,
HISTORY, horrible, yucky old history, comes alive at the Grand Opera House next when York experiences Bogglevision for the first time. Birmingham Stage Company is pioneering this new form of live 3D special effects in the premiere of The Terrible Tudors
IS Pygmalion better than its musical spin-off, My Fair Lady? "They're just so different," says York Theatre Royal artistic director Damian Cruden, who has revived the play about phonetics professor Henry Higgins turning Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle
After seven years banged up on the small screen, the inmates and screws of HMP Larkhall are breaking out of G-Wing and into a new life on stage in Bad Girls The Musical at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Billed as a dangerous mix of deception, romance
NICK Lane knew he was in line to direct Two this spring at York Theatre Royal as long ago as last September. At no stage was he tempted to see Jim Cartwright's pub drama elsewhere in the intervening months. "It's a piece I've never seen and I kept
EXCITEMENT is never far away from York's Late Music Festival even in the final stages. Only weeks before this week's festival was being planned, a violinist with The Fitzwilliam String Quartet damaged his hand and caused the group to pull out. Administrator
IN 2001, there was no comedy club in York. Philosophy student Dan Atkinson set one up on a whim and no money as a direct result of boredom and personal problems. Despite his best attempts, it seemed to succeed and now five years on, The Other Side is
EGGBOROUGH Eagles successfully defended their Selby Fasprint Table Tennis division one status by beating Thorpe Mambas. The Eagles trio of Paul Dykes, Chris White and Ian McKenna proved too strong for James Atkins, Mike Jackson and Simon Belton, although
YOUNG Amy Taylor made a big impression for New Earswick Swimming Club at the Doncaster Dartes Graded Gala at Adwick Leisure Centre. She won the Top Girl trophy in the 11 years age group with gold in the 50 metres breaststroke, silver in the 50m butterfly
THE former York Albion rugby league club are having a reunion. The club started life at Lendal Bridge (now the Maltings pub) and then played out of the Little John pub in Castlegate before becoming York Albion. They played in the York Sunday League
VOLUNTEERS' pair Paul Botterill (180) and Daz Gray (19) helped their team to an 11-0 win at Dringhouses and joint top spot in division one of the John Smith's Men's Darts League. Shepherd's Owen Legg (20), Mike Percival (107 finish for 18 and 180 for
Barbican, RI Amateurs and Shipton A' have all won three games and lost one in division one of the York Veterans' Bowls League, but Barbican are on top by virtue of a better shots difference. Shipton A' scored six shots at the last end to beat Bert Keech
IT was one of York's first charity netball tournament and when it came to raising money theplayers got a great result. Organised by York's Next Generation Health Club in aid of its Wellchild Appeal, the event saw eight teams and around 70 girls compete
ANGLING match action centres on York Amalgamation venues this weekend with both the Laybourne Lakes complex and Park View receiving attention. Hopes will be high for the Amalgamation match on Marley Lake at Laybourne on Sunday where fish should be feeding
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has expressed his fears for the club, its staff and his own future should JM Packaging's proposal to become 75 per cent plus one share majority shareholders of the Minstermen be rejected. The motion will be voted on at a
SHANE Warne continued his amazing record of never having made a first class run at Headingley when he was out for a fifth consecutive duck as Yorkshire hit back hard on the second day of the Liverpool Victoria Championship match. The great Australian
A 21-YEAR-OLD man from York has been quizzed by detectives investigating the rape of a 16-year-old girl. York police have arrested a local man and released him on bail without charge pending further investigations after a vulnerable teenage girl was
HIGHWAYS bosses have come under fire after fresh roadworks started on a main road near York despite the stretch being worked on repeatedly over the past few years. The Highways Agency is currently enforcing 40mph speed restrictions between 6pm and 6am
YORK City Supporters' Trust secretary Stan Collins has explained why the proposal to be voted on at next Tuesday's special general meeting at the Barbican will be subject to a 50 per cent plus one majority. The meeting was last night switched to the
YORK City Knights' injury crisis has deepened with Jonny Liddell the latest to need treatment. The hooker, who offers great utility value to coach Mick Cook, suffered a dead leg in last week's loss at Batley, the injury worsening during the week.
A BESIEGED shop owner is calling for council chiefs to fix a CCTV camera near his store after suffering his 11th break-in this year. Barry Hanby, 75, suffered a second raid this year on his Bridge Street Newsagents, in Tadcaster, on Tuesday night when
MORE complaints are being made against the police because there are simpler ways to raise issues, according to the North Yorkshire force. People can now sit down with an officer to discuss a problem, rather than go through a complicated reporting process
CANOEISTS in York have praised a local MP who is set to take their campaign for access to rivers to the top levels of Government. Selby MP John Grogan said he plans to meet with Barry Gardiner, Junior Minister in the Department for Environment, Food
ANGER over the postal service in our region has seen complaints to the leading industry watchdog soar, The Press can reveal. Postwatch, the organisation which monitors postal services, was inundated with formal complaints from unhappy customers in York
SPEEDING drivers are causing so much concern in a York street that homeowners want the council to block off the road. But highways chiefs are unlikely to sanction the move in St Philip's Grove, Clifton, despite a petition signed by 38 people. Residents
A HORRIFIED mum described the devastation left by a house fire, and "thanked God" her little boy was not inside. Tearful Jayne Garner, 33, had to break the terrible news to five-year-old Jack that the family dog had been killed and all their belongings
HORROR struck in York city centre when an elderly woman died after a smash with a 26-tonne lorry in the middle of a busy shopping street. Appalled passersby looked on in shock after the pensioner was pulled under the wheels of a food delivery vehicle
Friday, June 2, 2006 100 years ago Inquiries showed that the Local Government Board were alive to the necessity of safeguarding the British consumers of American preserved meats from the danger of unwholesome consignments getting onto the market. The
York Cricket Club will be hoping to advance their ECB Yorkshire County Premier League position when they visit the Yorkshire Academy tomorrow without pace ace Nick Thornicroft. Colin Palmer will play instead of Thornicroft, who is away in Sussex on Yorkshire
Thirsk-based jockey Tony Culhane, who was riding in The Oaks at Epsom this afternoon, gets back to bread-and-butter fare at Bath this evening. But his stint away from Classic race standard at the Esher track promises to pay dividends in the south west
Not since Empery scored under Lester Piggott in 1976 has a French-trained horse managed to win the Derby. But the classy Visindar can end that 30-year drought by carrying off the Vodafone-sponsored showpiece at Epsom tomorrow. Trained by France's perennial
CONGRATULATIONS on your 150th birthday, Mr Bernard Shaw, and thank you for giving the Theatre Royal the perfect excuse to revive your dazzling yet damning comedy of manners. Pygmalion, the windier forerunner to the soft-centred My Fair Lady, is a meticulous
LUCY STEPHENS finds out about a new campaign to help the thousands of sufferers of Crohn's disease and colitis. WHEN you need to go, you need to go. Trying to find a public toilet while you're in town shopping can be a real hassle but for the thousands
HELEN SPATH is a partner in Tullivers Health Store, in Colliergate, York. She will regularly appear on this page to bring you advice on how to stay healthy with herbal and homeopathic remedies or food supplements. Q. We're off on holiday in a couple
AN expanding telecommunications company has bought its own business centre in Pocklington. Ryedale Communications has moved out of its small Helmsley office, which it is retaining as an outpost, and into its new 3,000 sq ft Pocklington Business Centre
THE DRAGON has roared into York. Dragon Fireplaces, the rapidly-expanding fireplace retailer with outlets in Wetherby and Askern, near Doncaster, has leased a 6,000 sq ft showroom and warehouse in Leeman Road. Four new jobs have been created. The firm's
Who said that today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers? This certainly wasn't the case in the late-1800s, as workers renovating a North Yorkshire hotel found out. While removing sash windows from the Crown Hotel, Harrogate, joiners discovered
WE all want our privacy to be protected. But sometimes, by our own actions, we forfeit that right. When police caught red-handed the yob who had smashed landlord Terry Daly's 200-year-old pub windows with a brick, the least he expected was for the youth
EY up! Yorkshire folk have never been ones to boast. For generations, we've kept the secret under our flat caps of how beautiful our bit of the world is. But now the rest of the world has cottoned on. North Yorkshire has been officially named the UK's
THE recent furore over York's Odeon cinema made me recall the plushier days of the city's cinemas, before the advent of TV and the newer cinemas. Friday evenings saw the family ritual of "going to the pictures". Then there were school trips, my school
ONCE again the alley behind my house (Field View/Ratcliffe Street) is full of rubbish put out as early as Saturday (despite our collections being on Fridays) as is the Hillsborough Terrace/Ratcliffe Street alley. I have previously sent weekly photos
In view of the scarce resources available, it does need careful consideration to reach a balance between approved medicine and alternative treatments. This particularly applies in circumstances where approved drugs are proven to extend life, but are
IT seems to be the case that regular correspondents to your letters page are guaranteed to get any old drivel published. Whether it's the "street-wise" observations of PR Willey or "left-wing whinging" of Ben Drake, the chances of appearing in print
I AM compiling a selection of amusing anecdotes from nurses, both retired and present day, with the intention of trying to publish the collection. I myself have a few amusing stories to tell (without mentioning any names) and I am sure that there are
WHY do some people find the naked human body so offensive (Naked Truth, Mrs J Raffell, Readers' Letters, May 30)? There is a world of difference between "exposing" oneself in a licentious way and the harmless eccentricity of naturists. I personally
AS a postdoctoral research assistant in a university (Manchester), whose career is approaching a rather premature full stop, I would like to say that I do not believe the AUT's industrial action for higher wages is justified. From a contract researcher's
I HAVE just had a short break in York this week. Never have I seen York so gridlocked and, adding to the chaos, more bendy buses. It is high time City of York Council did something quickly. What, I don't know. From my hotel, Holgate Hill, to York
I WAS surprised to read your prominent article and photograph accusing York council chiefs of damaging the conservation area in Heslington by removing a wide section of grass near Heslington Hall in the central reservation to facilitate the new buses
IT shows where priorities lie in this country when the people of Acomb have to employ a private security firm to get a "real security presence in the area which deters bad behaviour and helps to reassure people"(Green light for security patrol, May
AFTER passing along Malton Road recently, I just wondered which schoolchildren had done all the white drawings of cycles and people on the road and path; there really are a lot of them. They also seem to have fitted a rollercoaster disguised as a cycle
WITH free travel for over-60s and environmental issues rife, the need for accurate local travel information is more important than ever before. We were told that when the bus information office closed, local timetables would be available from libraries
This week marked John Sentamu's first six months as Archbishop of York. STEPHEN LEWIS profiles the man who has brought the fun back into the Church of England. From the moment John Sentamu beat out a rhythm on his African drums during his inauguration
