WORKERS at York's British Sugar factory could take industrial action over claims they are set to receive poor compensation for losing their jobs. That was the claim today of York MP Hugh Bayley, who has written to the company to ask for staff to get
CRICKETING legend Ian Botham took part in a clay pigeon shoot in North Yorkshire to help raise cash for teenage cancer victims.
CRICKETING legend Ian Botham took part in a clay pigeon shoot in North Yorkshire to help raise cash for teenage cancer victims. The former England captain and all-rounder was at Ravenswick Country House, near Kirkbymoorside, for the shoot and auction
A JUDGE branded Brett Vincent Lill too dangerous to be back on the streets until he is "feeble," and jailed him for life.
A JUDGE branded him too dangerous to be back on the streets until he is "feeble," and jailed him for life. But Brett Vincent Lill - who bit a doorman's ear and later went on the run for 15 months after vaulting to freedom from a courtroom dock - could
MOST mums expect having a baby to be a happy, joyful time. But some experience fear, depression and despair. Over the past few weeks, Coronation Street's Claire Peacock has been battling severe post-natal depression. Viewers have watched the usually
"YOU should shred those," a friend advised me as I disposed of a pile of receipts after checking my bank statements. It was not enough, she stressed, simply to rip them up, as I was doing, and throw them in the bin. They had to be virtually obliterated
FOUR couples will battle it out in the final of the York Ladies Over-55 tennis tournament at Fulford on Saturday (1pm). They include holders Sue Sumner and Carol Martin (Dunnington), who came through the round robin section on their home court last
Nestl Rowntree are the new leaders of the York Leeper Hare Premier Division as they extended their unbeaten run to eight matches after beating visitors Wigginton Grasshoppers 3-0. Eddie Philips scored a goal in each half and Andy Hodgson marked his Nestl
Two hat-tricks and a five-goal haul spurred York Groves on to a 50-32 victory over Clayton in division five of the Pennine League. Scott Raven ran in three tries and loose forward Rob Latham followed suit with a second-half rout on his debut. Clayton
A brave effort was not enough for Heworth A' against Sherburn in division three of the Yorkshire League as they went down 38-12. Man of the match Ben Eastwood pocketed two second-half tries and Sean Holmes touched down a first-half Gary Watkinson pass
THIS brave 14-year-old year old girl came to the aid of her friend as he lay in her drive bleeding from serious stab wounds. Kelly Harton, of Thoresby Road, Acomb, York, used first aid she had picked up at school and from watching medical shows on television
New Earswick All Blacks ARL Club signalled their arrival in the Pennine League premier division with a 20-18 win over Keighley Albion in front of 300 impressed spectators. Tom Hodgson - the player of the first half - got the show on the road when he
AS an exiled Scotsman, I was delighted with the Euro 2008 international results last week. Having lived in England for 30 years, I want to see them do well, especially with Stevie Mac now in charge, but I am still a massive Scotland fan and the 6-0 victory
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is planning to sign a new goalkeeper ahead of tonight's home match with Morecambe. Any keeper brought in on loan before 3pm this afternoon would be eligible for the game, which regular first choice Tom Evans misses because
YORK City boss Billy McEwan is looking for another lung-busting display from in-form midfielder Neal Bishop. He said: "I was especially pleased with Neal Bishop at Crawley and I felt, output wise, it was the most he had ever run in a game." Bishop
MORECAMBE could recall first-choice goalkeeper Steven Drench and club captain Jim Bentley for tonight's away match at York City. The Shrimps went down 3-0 at home to Conference leaders Oxford United on Saturday and, even though 'keeper Ryan Robinson
ROZ Kerr included 140, 100 for 17 to secure Tramways their York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one victory against Burnholme. Flag held a 4-3 advantage over visitors Wenlock whose Lynn Thompson - Amada Redhead set up the decider, which saw
TONY Raymond put up a brave battle against Heath Scaife in the Minster Law Individual Darts League. With both players averaging in the eighties it was Scaife who showed his class including 4 x 180 and legs of 12 and 14 darts plus a brilliant 140 checkout
MALTON and Norton RUFC came from behind to draw 18-18 at Old Brodliens in Yorkshire One. Newly promoted Brods started with a bang, pinning the visitors back in their own territory, and were rewarded with a try by Adam Standevem. Malton came back into
RAMPANT York RUFC opened their Yorkshire One campaign with an impressive 34-15 victory over highly-rated Bradford Salem at Clifton Park. The West Yorkshire side had pounded York twice last season and got off to a flying start when centre Damian Cope
POCKLINGTON RUFC had to work hard to get their Yorkshire Two campaign underway with a win, but three quality tries eventually saw them to a 28-15 home success over Knottingley. Pocklington camped in Knottingley territory throughout the first quarter
YORK RI'S Yorkshire Two season got off to a disappointing start as they went down 48-8 at home to Barnsley. Having to make six changes from the team selected did not help and losing scrum-half Gary Pidgeon with a bad leg injury just into the second
SELBY RUFC beat Goole 24-18 to take the Tommy Burton Trophy and make a great start to their Yorkshire Two campaign. Goole struck first with a penalty from Alan Neal and the put on plenty of pressure in the opening minutes but were thwarted by a strong
SIR Nod, narrowly denied at Southwell last week, can go one better at Beverley tomorrow. Trained at Norton by Julie Camacho, the four-year-old goes for the Brecks Chevrolet Handicap over five furlongs and has a plum draw in stall 16 among the 17 runners
ALL-ROUNDER Rob Flack enjoyed a perfect farewell innings by hitting the winning six as York lifted the Yorkshire League Cup on Sunday. Flack, who is expected to play for the second XI next season, signed off in style by finding the boundary to finish
SHE made her neighbours' lives a misery - now Jean McKenna has been booted out of her home in a York sheltered housing complex. McKenna, 56, was ordered to leave 5 Marjorie Waite Court, Evelyn Crescent, after a series of complaints from local residents
A YORK merry-go-round may be a magic roundabout for children but it's a noisy nuisance to the city's top judge. The Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman halted a trial to complain about the cheery musical tunes that were drifting into the courtroom at
BRETT Lill is clearly a dangerous man. He bit the ear of York doorman Alastair Farrow so viciously that the cut needed glueing back together in hospital. He then turned on two policemen who came to arrest him, and tried to bite them too. When his case
IT is not only York's criminals that Judge Hoffman is prepared to raise merry hell about. He halted a trial at York Crown Court to complain about music from the merry-go-round outside. "I have got this undercurrent of constant noise," he said. Most
THE bid by councils for funding for future waste treatment (Councils bidding for £65 million funding, The Press, September 2) demonstrates just what an expensive and wasteful system (in environmental and increasingly in money terms) we operate in this
YOUR correpondent Mr Swales (One-sided View, September 7), in criticising Joyce Pickard, ignores the real danger that threatens all of us; namely the global rejection of international law. If there is no tacit acceptance by the majority of nations that
I AM sure that Labour's petition opposing the scrapping of the Section 106 agreement to guarantee a replacement local swimming pool in the Barbican area is meant with nothing but the best intentions. However, I doubt very much that the petition will
TO claim that Saddam was the worst dictator known next to Hitler badly overstates Saddam's achievements and place in the batting order. I can bring to mind at least 20 tyrants, dictators etc from world history who have a far better claim. Hitler was
THERE is a growing groundswell of opinion that, despite man's best efforts, our world will continue to get warmer. As we know, this will lead to the ice caps melting and countless millions of square kilometres of land being flooded. In view of this
LETTERS galore have been published regarding the passenger-incompatibility of the grotesque ftr buses, but what about the danger to the drivers of these "fake trams"? Remote from human contact in the ftr cabin and lulled by the monotonous hum of the
WHAT happens to the children in all this talk of conspiracy and unhappy staff in the Oaklands School/Lowfield School merger? My son is in Year 11 at Lowfield and taking his GCSEs next year. With all this talk of unrest, by May next year is his class
AS a council tax-payer, I find the idea of the city council giving prizes to tenants who pay their rent on time frankly ridiculous, and really rather insulting to those of us who, through council tax, are funding this stupidity (Pay up and win one of
EACH September we remember the climax of the Battle Of Britain, when many sacrificed their lives so we could live in a free country. On September 22, the Government is planning to concede to the European Union the right to determine our legal system
DUNNINGTON residents were recently asked to comment on the proposed Dunnington/A1079 junction at York Road. I, and it would seem many others, have suggested this proposal would lead to increased traffic through the village, that a more appropriate
WE are writing to state our opposition to the recent request by City of York Council to allow for the legally binding requirement for swimming on the Barbican site to be removed from the planning documentation (Barbican bid engulfed by fresh crisis, August
SKELETONS bearing marks of horrendous sword injuries have been unearthed beneath a North Yorkshire hall. The victims of a medieval battle were discovered beneath the floor of the dining room of Towton Hall, between Tadcaster and Sherburn-in- Elmet, dating
A SMALL North Yorkshire brewery is expecting to make tens of millions of pounds after launching its new gluten-free ale in the US. Award-winning Hambleton Ales, an independent brewery based at Melmerby, near Thirsk, has shipped 20,000 bottles to 33 states
OUR Chief Reporter Mike Laycock - a father-of-two - received a disturbing email the other day. It began: "Dear Mike Laycock. SMA Nutrition is talking to Mothers like yourself who have previously registered with their Mum's Network. "To ensure that they
HOLIDAYS, pah! I'm just nicely back from a couple of weeks off. You can tell I'm back because the weather's perked up and looks set to stay fair until my next break. I spent the entire July heatwave imprisoned in the office. By the time I got home every
THE Archbishop of York has been named as the first ceremonial head of a city higher education institution before it becomes a university next month. York St John University College's principal and board of governors have announced Dr John Sentamu will
RYEDALE'S local authority will have a "charismatic" new boss in the New Year. Janet Waggott has been appointed chief executive of Ryedale District Council - after an "almost unprecedented level of interest" in the region's top job. She will start work
CHEEKY photographs of bare bottoms and saucy poses are being unveiled in York by the original Calendar Girls, who have once again posed nude for charity. The friends, who became an international sensation by dropping everything for a good cause in the
HAVING absorbed their influences whole, The Datsuns are curiously contemporary. The four-piece from Cambridge, New Zealand, are the living embodiment of the most fun parts of seriously over-rated bands like Free and Led Zeppelin. Yet it is to
HE has been waiting since January last year for surgery to his shattered ankle - now pensioner Don Wilkinson has been told the agonising wait may continue until next January. The 74-year-old retired farmer, of Everingham, near Pocklington, told today
CHURCH leaders in York have paid tribute to the former Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, after he decided to retire early from his new role as a parish priest. Lord Hope, 66, who was a popular figure during his years at Bishopthorpe Palace, announced
WHEN he visited York last week, Tony Blair made clear what he felt was the best way to tackle crime, lawlessness and antisocial behaviour caused by deprivation and social exclusion. Catch 'em young, he said, and ensure children born into disadvantage
NEARLY £500,000 of NHS cash is being spent paying accountants to tell a crisis-hit health trust how to save money. Last year, the Government sent emergency turnaround accountants from finance giants KPMG into Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) to
HOUSEHOLDERS were urged today to be on their guard against rogue companies claiming to be collecting clothes for charity. City of York Council has made a fresh appeal for residents to check the authenticity of charity bag collections before making
THEY came, they saw, they putted. Scores of golfers enjoyed sun-scorched conditions as the first Press golf day raised more than £3,000 for our Guardian Angels charity. The inaugural event, held at Sandburn Hall, at Flaxton, saw 76 participants from
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular cyclist, well known on York cricket and rugby circuits, who died in a crash with a bus. Edward James Daniel Wharram, of Doncaster Road, Selby, was killed in the accident in Barlby Road, Selby, when his bicycle was
