FORMER Leeds United striker Andy Gray netted twice as York City lost 2-0 to Barnsley at Bootham Crescent. The Minstermen line up included Leeds United first-year professional Liam Darville at right-back and fellow trialist David McDermott. Teenage
EXTRA police officers will be on patrol ahead of York City’s pre-season friendly with Barnsley at Bootham Crescent tonight. More officers have been drafted in as a precaution following the ugly scenes in York city centre that marred the club’s match
IT COMPANY Trustmarque is creating 23 new jobs. The business, based at Alpha Court in York, plans to increase its headcount to 140 by September. The majority of the positions are in its IT resellers sales department, including external
HAWTHORN Holiday Park in Bridlington has been sold for £2.7 million. Owners Ambrose Kingon sold the park, which is located on the outskirts of the village of Bempton, near Bridlington, to Aureus Leisure Limited. The caravan park can accommodate more
A YORK cookery student has won the York College Student Of The Year 2010 title. Antony Johnson was nominated by his tutors for being an outstanding student who has embraced all opportunities available to him while at college. Using his passion for
BUSINESSES that attended Visit York’s annual tourism awards have raised £2,350 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Chief executive of regional tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire, Gary Verity, presented the cheque to the charity at the National Railway Museum
BIG-HEARTED York racegoers have been thanked for donating more than £6,600 to the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association Forces Help. The record sum was raised by eight soldiers from 34 Field Hospital RAMC, Strensall and 2 Signal Regiment
LOCAL business people raised more than £1,000 for charity when they helped the Selby branch of NFU Mutual celebrate its 100th anniversary at a golf day. More than 50 local business people took part in the event at Scarthingwell Golf Course, Tadcaster
A YORK theatre group has collected more than £500 for charity. The Flying Ducks Youth Theatre group presented a cheque for £520.06 to SNAPPY from the proceeds of a charity collection at their production of Half A Sixpence, performed at the Joseph Rowntree
Georgina Rall and Chloe Collins, pupils at Tang Hall Primary School, and classmates who took part in a production of Hairspray! The youngsters in Year Six, assisted by their Year Five schoolmates, put on three shows to entertain family and friends, and
VOLUNTEERS from the York branch of The Samaritans took part in a tour to promote the charity’s 24:7 national awareness campaign. Local MPs, mayors, celebrities and volunteers will drive the green Smart car to over 175 Samaritans branches across England
A GOOD entrepreneur is one “who will strive to better their discipline, their community and their personal skills in an enterprising way and for the betterment of the wider world”. That definition guides Mike Leigh Cooper, of The Creative Condition,
SOMETIMES it’s worth thinking INSIDE the box. That is what happened to Kenneth Evans 30 years ago, when a cousin at a wedding reception in the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn mentioned his involvement in a company which made acid-free boxes for museums and
ALTERNATIVE medicine business Nature’s Laboratory, which uses a natural product made by bees, has entered The Press Business Awards for recognition of its true use of family in the business and its links with higher education. James Fearnley
TELE-PRODUCTS, a business venture started in managing director Seggy Segeran’s spare bedroom more than 20 years ago, is keeping up with the times, investing in iPhone apps including guides, calculators and books to help its customers and set it apart
A HOTELIER is currently braving the heat of East Africa as he attempts to run 400km to raise cash for charity. Greg Harrand, who has the Hedley House Hotel in Bootham Terrace, is one of four runners spending seven days in Uganda on the Run For Humanity
VILLAGERS in Bubwith know Louise Smith, proprietor of The Jug & Botttle, as The Oracle. That is because she enjoys a lofty status through her profound knowledge of the village and because of the quality of her specialist off-licence and delicatessen
HAVING won the New Business Of The Year title with her Jollydays Luxury Camping last year, this time around Carolyn Van Outersterp is pitching (pardon the pun) for two different categories in The Press Business Awards 2010. As co-founder with her husband
IT SEEMS the way to education is through food and beauty. Proving the point hundreds of times over is the Bellezza Academy, a social enterprise training establishment for beauty and cooking based at Quay Road, Bridlington. It is a bid to work with disadvantaged
Who better to invite to a maths inspiration event than Mr Maths himself, Johnny Ball? The broadcaster was invited to Tadcaster Grammar School recently to take part in a maths gifted and talented day. Year Nine and Ten students were entertained with
YORK City’s stalwart defender David McGurk has admitted he hit the bottle after last season’s play-off final defeat to Oxford at Wembley. The Minstermen’s longest-serving player looked disconsolate at the end of the 3-1 loss in May and drowned his
SUMMER signing Peter Till is expected to be ruled out of York City’s pre-season friendly with Barnsley tonight at Bootham Crescent. Till is suffering from a sickness bug and joins injured trio David McGurk, Greg Young and Duane Courtney on the
RAMPANT York Cricket Club piled on the runs to stretch their lead to 20 points at the top of the Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. Australian opener Dan Wilson plundered 151 off 156 balls against Cleethorpes and in-form Simon Mason smashed
THE Hunters York & District Senior League reached the final of the Leeds Area Cricket Council Knockout Cup with a win over the South Yorkshire League. The 28-run triumph at Carlton Towers on Sunday avenged last year’s defeat in the final and they
Martyn Moxon says Yorkshire must treat their remaining County Championship fixtures like they are “six cup finals”. The White Rose county go into today’s match against Essex at Chelmsford with a 21-point lead at the top of LV= division one, although
VETERAN Carl Potter was named Heworth ARLC’s Clubman of the Year at their end-of-season awards bash – but Craig Richardson was the main winner. Richardson took three first-team gongs for the National Conference League outfit – the Coaches’ Player of
SELBY Town will aim to bounce back against Askern Villa on Thursday after a 3-0 defeat by Birds Eye Athletic in a pre-season friendly at Flaxley Road. Manager Mick Gray fielded a side featuring a mix of squad players and his first-choice line-up against
MILTON Jones, “the weird bloke with the shirts” from BBC2’s Mock The Week, is to perform his latest live show, Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer, at the Grand Opera House, York, on February 2 next year. This surrealist wordsmith and king of the one-liners
Natalie Farmeary fired in a 180 in a 24-dart leg as Cueball ‘B’ beat Clifton 7-2 in division one of the York John Smith’s Ladies Darts League. Farmeary’s mother, Tracey, was a double-ton scorer for the snooker club side. Slip’s Roz Kerr gamed in 16
POPPLETON 1 extended their lead to five points at the top of division one in the Tyke Petroleum Men’s Tennis League with a 62-46 win over York. York’s Sam Kemp and Phil Langley top-scored and won all three rubbers – including a 7-5 victory against
DUNNINGTON lead the way in division one of the Fulford Ladies Invitation Tennis League after completing the double over reigning champions York 1. York’s Louise Lister and Joy Barker were the only couple with three wins, but Dunnington’s all-round
THERE are still no promotion or relegation places assured with only three weeks to go in the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League season. Division four is the closest league despite leaders Stamford Bridge gaining the biggest win of the season against Civil
DEFENDING champions Nick and Paul Turnbull, of Poppleton, retained their men’s doubles title in the Nestlé Family Tennis Tournament at Rowntree Park. They beat York duo Phil and Stuart Langley 6-3 in the final after trailing 3-0. David Lloyd’s Eleanor
AMBULANCE bosses have urged people only to phone 999 when absolutely necessary, after soaring fuel prices left them with an £850,000 budget black hole. Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) said too many people were calling for ambulances needlessly
Drop The Hammer, a seventh winner in a month for David O’Meara since he received his training licence when scoring at Redcar on Sunday, can complete a quick-fire double at Catterick tomorrow. The filly, narrowly beaten on this course prior to her latest
YOUR article “Mixed views on health service cuts” (The Press, July 17) made interesting reading. For anyone attending the meeting of full council at the Guildhall last Thursday evening will have seen for themselves that the only political party offering
RECENTLY my husband and I have been in the care of York Hospital, where we received great professional care. Also we wish to thank the Jorvik Medical Centre, Stonebow, for their care, all staff work very hard. You are all simply the best. Thank
YOUR correspondent Keith Chapman wrongly believes that tighter building control would have prevented brickwork falling from the Phoenix Restaurant (Letters, July 17). That building was erected more than 100 years ago and is not subject to modern building
A WOMAN was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving after a crash in Poppleton Road, York. Police were called to the accident shortly after 10pm on Sunday. A spokesman said officers found a Vauxhall Astra had crashed into two parked cars in Poppleton
CHILDREN could see their hopes of new play parks dashed, as part of the Government spending cuts. Nigel Ayre, City of York Council’s executive member for leisure and culture, said yesterday that the Playbuilder scheme could fall victim to the coalition
ARRIVING in York on the Park&Ride on Saturday afternoon, we realised something was afoot with large numbers of police. Alighting at the library, the plan was to walk over Lendal Bridge, but as we stepped off the bus we were met with a barrage of shouts
The Sixteen’s programme of Tudor sacred music was as close to perfection as it is possible to be. The concert of music by Sheppard, Byrd and Tallis was breathtaking in its clarity and beauty. Sheppard’s ecstatic and monumental Media vita in morte sumus
POLICE have said there will be more arrests after 50 football hooligans barricaded themselves inside a York pub and threw glasses and bottles at shoppers. As reported in The Press, the hooligans, many purportedly supporting Hull City FC, blocked
HEARING of yet another ailing York local up for sale as part of the ongoing meltdown of the licensed trade, I was suddenly struck by a major factor behind the imminent extinction of the great British pub. Forget cut-price supermarket booze, rapacious
“WHY don’t you go out and play?” I asked my 14-year-old daughter one night. “Where to?” she said. Exasperated, I joked that she might like to try the bus stop. She looked puzzled: “Why on earth would I want to go there?” To her, the bus stop is where
TEXTILES teacher Laura Gundich works at one of the best schools in York and is happy inspiring teenagers to follow their dreams. But when Laura clocks off from the chalk-face at Fulford School, she has some pretty big dreams of her own to chase
COULDN’T York City and York Knights follow the Holgate lead and set up a free school at Monk’s Cross, under the Government’s free schools scheme? In time it would become a centre of excellence equal to the Royal Ballet School. Using money taken from
THE new Government has been with us less than three months and the country has truly moved into the “Golden Age”. The newspapers have been full of stories about football’s Golden Generation going to South Africa in the hope of striking gold, the public
RESIDENTS across North Yorkshire are today on flood alert after weather experts predicted heavy rain for the region. The Met Office said there was a “moderate risk” of severe weather in the area, and said more than two inches of rain could fall today
A STARBUCKS kiosk at York Station must be removed after a planning inspector ruled it spoiled the character of the historic former ticket hall. Inspector Alan Novitzky upheld a listed building enforcement notice issued by City of York Council, which
Updated: THE tearful father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence said he hoped a forthcoming television documentary about her would move someone to come forward. Peter Lawrence, 64, was speaking at the Palace Cinema in Malton yesterday, for
A POLITICAL watchdog received 15 fewer complaints about City of York Council last year than in the previous 12-month period. The Local Government Ombudsman dealt with 42 cases relating to the authority during 2009/10, according to its latest rundown
A WOMAN who half-choked her former partner and earlier held a knife to her throat has been jailed for two years. York Crown Court was told Patricia Cruddas feared she was dying as Sarah Elizabeth Brough held her lower face and neck. Bashir Ahmed,
HUNDREDS of workers at Nestlé’s York factory are to take part in a national ballot for industrial action. The move is the latest twist in a wrangle over pay which has rumbled on since the start of the year. It comes after 90 per cent
POLICE have released CCTV images of a man suspected of breaking the arm of a 71-year-old woman during a mugging in York. The pensioner was walking towards Marygate, through the rear of St Peter’s School in Clifton at about 5pm on Thursday,
A ROBBER pushed a man from his motorbike before riding off on it, police have said. The robbery happened at about 11.25pm on Friday night. The 19-year-old owner of the motorbike was riding along Acomb Road close to the junction with Braeside Gardens
GIRL Guides have been burying messages for future generations at a housing development near Selby. To celebrate 100 years of Girl Guiding, members of Sherburn-in-Elmet Brownies, Rainbows and Guides aged from five to 14 hid a time capsule in an area of
THIS was an offbeat gig, aptly off the beaten track, with a girl called Alessi Laurent-Marke and alas no ark. Her friend Rachael Dadd was there, however, just as they had been in tandem at City Screen in York in February. Present too was
INNOVATIVE legislation is needed to tackle the growing number of so-called legal highs which can be ordered over the internet, said a North Yorkshire drugs officer. DC Paul Johnson said the “infinite tweak ability” of mephedrone meant there was no single
A SINGLE mum who is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumour has made a desperate plea to York residents to be on the look out for her stolen bike. Beverley Cooke, of Clifton Moor, said her driving licence had been revoked due to her ill health
A YORK man has been jailed again for breaching two restraining orders banning him from contacting his ex-wife. Stephen Paxton, of Spalding Avenue, Clifton, was jailed for four months at York Crown Court for approaching Alana Philips – formerly Paxton
THE latest recruits to the “menagerie” at the Amarna House Care Centre in York are eight former battery hens. It follows the successful adoption of two rabbits last summer and suggestions from residents that they would like some chickens at the home
ENTRIES continue to roll in for our Community Pride Awards, with nominations for an inspirational teacher, an impressive primary school project and a team of top-class museum volunteers. Amanda Lane, assistant head teacher at York High School, has been
YORK MP Hugh Bayley has given the thumbs-up to the new £1.3 million home of a ready-mix concrete plant. Cemex UK’s new site at Hazel Court, in James Street, is five times the size of its previous site in Leeman Road, giving the company room for future
AN AWARD-WINNING World Cup blog written by a self-confessed “football anorak” from York has been published as an internet book. Mike Towers, 43, began the news blog 12 months before the recent World Cup tournament started, with the intention of keeping
A VILLAGE pharmacist’s battle to stay in business continues next month when she attends another appeal panel hearing. The panel will decide whether Pamela Brompton, who runs the pharmacy at Upper Poppleton, near York, has complied with conditions imposed
Updated: PLANS to build a waste recovery plant in North Yorkshire have come under fire from a parish councillor, who has labelled them “outdated and inadequate”. City of York Council, working with North Yorkshire County Council, have chosen the Allerton
