YORK City Knights suffered a second pre-season defeat last night but the positives gleaned will have pleased boss Mick Cook. A strong Wakefield side won 26-12 at Huntington Stadium and, while a few handling errors and a high penalty count were downsides
YORK City Knights will have to cut out the blunders that blighted their friendly against Hull yesterday if they are to avoid a hammering in their first competitive game. The Knights kick-off their Northern Rail Cup campaign at home to Hull KR next
MAYBE Ian Smith was right to send Jamie Bovill off just five minutes into his York City Knights debut against his former club. He is a Super League official after all. Either way, his performance, and that decision in particular, was unfortunately
YORK City Knights couldn't hold Ian Smith culpable this time. The referee, who sent Jamie Bovill off inside five minutes last week to herald an opening-day defeat to Hull KR, was in charge at Don Valley Stadium last night as the Knights fell to a 29
A SOLID if not overly spectacular second-half display kept alive York City Knights' hopes of progressing in the Northern Rail Cup. Mick Cook's men trailed 10-4 at half-time yesterday but had the Post Office Road slope in their favour after the interval
PHIL Hasty yesterday showed in glimpses why York City Knights brought him to Huntington Stadium. The scrum-half was not fully on fire but a trademark try, a couple of 40-20 kicks and some dangerous play behind the pack suggested he will have a lot
THE link-up with Leeds Rhinos hasn't so far brought many new faces on loan to York City Knights. But when they do come, they are usually pretty good. Calvin Watson - remember him? - didn't reach the heights during his short spell at Huntington Stadium
WHEN York City Knights played Hull KR on the opening day of the season, they conceded five tries in 80 minutes when down to 12 men for 75 of them. Yesterday, they conceded five in only ten minutes while a man down, and shipped in ten touchdowns in
IF your glass is half full, then it's a case of job done. If it's half empty, then an awful lot of improvement is needed if 2006 is to be a gainful season. York City Knights yesterday achieved their first aim of the year of qualifying for the Northern
MICK Cook promised at the end of last season that his York City Knights side would try to not put their fans through the mill any more. Well, that promise has been broken. Last year's comeback kings proved they have not lost their penchant for turning
EVEN the most optimistic York City Knights fan probably went to Halton Stadium with a little trepidation. Widnes, full-time training, Super League experience and all, provided the National League Two champions with arguably the most daunting of starts
HULL Kingston Rovers asked York City Knights a big question at Huntington Stadium last night. Can you really compete with full-time National League One clubs on a weekly basis? The answer was written on blank faces, in player-less gaps and clumsy
YORK City Knights' match at Halifax was always likely to be the biggest early indicator of their standing in National League One this season. Few would have expected the opening two games, against full-timers Widnes (an encouraging effort) and Hull
Dewsbury Rams were hardly silenced a year on from their 74-10 public slaughtering but they won't be heard on May 7 after York City Knights overcame their self-imposed hardships to book a place in the Northern Rail Cup quarter-final. Phil Hasty was
COACH Mick Cook has often warned his York City Knights side will not be able to get away with the kind of comebacks that brought them the LHF Healthplan National League Two title last season. And the proof was in the pudding at Spotland. Had the Knights
YORK City Knights really need to start playing at 3pm. Games kick off at that time but so many times the Knights' brains, if not their bodies, are still in the changing rooms. They paid the price again yesterday as they were knocked out of the Northern
THE good thing about friendlies is the fact defeats don't matter. York City Knights lost 25-18 to a predominantly young Leeds Rhinos side at Huntington Stadium yesterday but Mick Cook's men showed enough to suggest there is more to come from his new-look
WE think of them as a cheap seaside souvenir. Or a quick way to boast about our sun-kissed holiday to the folks back home. But postcards used to be so much more. They were the mobile phones of their day, says collector Mick Hird. In the golden age
THE print on sale in the York Art Gallery shop caught his eye. It showed an aerial panorama of the city as it would have looked in the 15th century. Peter Stanhope was fascinated because the viewpoint was from where Skeldergate Bridge is now. In the
CONSTANTINE cut a striking figure. "In handsome physique and bodily height he so exceeded his contemporaries as even to put them in fear," says one gushing account of the Roman emperor. "He took pride in moral qualities rather than physical superiority
DR John Kirk was a magician. He took a load of old junk and turned it into a time machine. For years Dr Kirk stored the "bygones" he bought or begged from his rural patients at his Pickering home. Every item was from the pre-industrial age, an era
YORK'S futuristic new superbus the ftr was launched today. With its sleek lines and jointed middle, it looks more like a modern tram than a bus. No further excuse is needed to take a look back at the great days of the tram in York. Trams have always
"Britain's oil companies today were accused of acting like bandits over the price of petrol." It's a familiar story - but that quote from the front page of The Press is actually almost 20 years old. The furore which erupted in York this week over
YOUR favourite daily newspaper switches to a morning format today - and also adopts a new name: The Press. So what better time to look back at this newspaper's long history? The Evening Press was first published as a "Daily Newspaper For Yorkshire
She was born Princess Elizabeth of York and turns 80 on Friday. To mark this special occasion we take a tour around York in 1926, the year the Queen was born. THE Queen is marking her 80th birthday on Friday with a mixture of private celebrations and
A SECONDARY school in Selby district has been given top marks in its latest report - less than a year after winning specialist arts status. Selby High School was praised in its Ofsted report, published this week, and judged as "outstanding" in the quality
Netballers at Huntington School had plenty to smile about after winning the York and District under-13 rally. All the players, led by captain Katie Smith, were on form as they won all their group games to enter into a tough semi-final match with St Olave's
Full-time has been called on the Primary Schools Football Leagues and the winners are now getting ready to do battle in the Champions League. A goal-less draw with nearest rivals Westfield was enough to give Bishopthorpe the title in League 'A' after
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has confessed the club will not be able to compete with the likes of Oxford United and Exeter City in the Conference transfer market this summer. McEwan scoured neighbouring reserve sides, part-time football and his native
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has expressed dismay at the contract clause that will see Conference top scorer Andy Bishop leave KitKat Crescent for nothing. Under normal circumstances, City would be entitled to a transfer fee for Bishop as, at the age of
FANCY a day out at the races? If you want to park during Knavesmire's top meetings this season you will be hit with a £5 charge, York Racecourse has announced. James Brennan, the racecourse marketing manager, said the fee would be used to pay for a traffic
Vandalism by gangs of youngsters has left a popular York community centre facing closure, its leader warned today. Derrick Atlay, chairman of Orchard Park Community Centre, in Badger Paddock, Huntington, issued the warning after windows at the centre
ANY moves to end council tax capping would be warmly welcomed in York, the city's council leader said today. Coun Steve Galloway said the "lottery" which resulted from Whitehall council capping decisions were a "distraction" to authorities which "need
A MAN who drove his neighbour to the verge of suicide through racial abuse has been spared jail - but ordered to attend a special course on racism. Christopher Heppell, 60, was found guilty of using racist language against his neighbour Ahmed Karbani,
DAWN Hunter is just like other slimming instructors - she feels passionately about helping people lose weight. The 33-year-old Slimming World consultant from Strensall also has Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and conducts some of her classes from her wheelchair
Sheriff Hutton Bridge, who narrowly avoided relegation from division one last season, began the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League season with a comfortable win at home to newly promoted Stillington. The visitors batted first and reached 81-5, with Sean Speck
IT is now six months since the death of schoolboy Joe Lister in a school trip caving tragedy. Here, his parents speak exclusively to The Press about their loss. FOR Martin and Paula Lister every day brings something new to remind them of their 14-year-old
Yorkshire have their new-ball pairing of Deon Kruis and Jason Gillespie in joint action for the first time this season in the Liverpool Victoria Championship match against Kent which began at Canterbury today. Kruis, who went down with a torn calf muscle
THE newly-appointed Transport Secretary faced a baptism of fire as he visited York today, amid uproar over the city's controversial new superbus. It will be one of Douglas Alexander's first official engagements since Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle last
IT HAS been hyped as the bus of the future. But you need only look at our letters pages today to realise it's a future the people of York don't seem to want. Since the ftr carried its first passengers on Monday morning, we have been overwhelmed by calls
COPMANTHORPE FC Under-12s are pictured above celebrating winning the York Mitchell League Plate after beating Carr Vikings 4-3 in the final at Tadcaster Albion. Copmanthorpe forced several corners in the first 15 minutes but fell behind against the run
Bank on York-based jockey Robert Winston and champion trainer Sir Michael Stoute making their mark at Ripon this evening. They will be represented by Grain of Truth in the Wharfedale Maiden Fillies' Stakes and this beautifully-bred three-year-old is fancied
EVEN the state-of-the-art satellite tracking system on the new ftr buses will not prevent these vehicles from being caught up in the gridlock on the Heslington Hall roundabout (they seem to experience some difficulty negotiating this 180-degree bend),
DESPITE all the publicity the ftr has received, I fear it will not succeed. I am sure First group could give more accurate passenger numbers, but from my viewpoint on Front Street, I can report that they were not busy during the first morning of operation
CAN we please see an end to the falsehoods and propaganda perpetrated by both First and the council's transport department? There are only two reasons for bringing this mobile carbuncle on to the streets of York. One is to needlessly increase the price
WHAT a hullabaloo! Are we talking a cure for cancer, are we talking about world peace, an end to child poverty maybe? None of these worthy causes, the hype and excitement is over a bus with its £1.3 million budget, road changes causing upset with extra
I MADE my first journey this morning on the new ftr service. It left me positively under-whelmed. As a professional transport planner, I am aware of the need to reduce modal share of single-occupancy private cars and shift it to public transport, walking
FOR the second day running, the ftr bus has not show up in time for me to take my children to school in Heslington. The bus is twice the length (but it does have one extra seat) at £400,000 worth of public money for traffic measures, and it will cost
The New Generation Singing Club was set up three years ago to encourage children to have an interest in, and experiment with, all types of music. The club is run by the children and for the children, with adults there to faciltate and comply with legal
Today they are still at school - tomorrow they could be rivals to Richard Branson. Education reporter Haydn Lewis caught up with some young entrepreneurs from Huntington School, who have given York's business leaders some real food for thought. STUDENTS
Gymnasts at Archbishop Holgate's School have put York on the map after finishing eighth at the national finals. The all-boy team travelled to the National Schools Gymnastics Competition in Stoke on Trent after becoming the first York team ever to qualify
Hat-trick hero Arthur Broadbent helped catapult the Wilmot Fisher Trophy into the arms of his Easingwold School Sixth Form team-mates. His treble set the under-19s - made up of Year 12, Year 13 and one Year 11 player - well on the way to a 4-1 defeat
THERE is life after Radio York. Ask Mike Hurley, whose popular Saturday morning show, Hurley Burley, was axed from the station last year. From tonight he will be tugging our heartstrings as the voice behind the all-time favourite Hovis advert, which is
It has been said that York is too small a city to be the home of two universities. Well, if anyone still thinks that, they had better think again, because that is going to be the situation - and soon! The deputy principal of York St John University College
FOR someone who's meant to work in the news industry, I'm sometimes woefully out of touch. Take Anna Ford, for example. I'd been blithely going about minding my own business when someone casually mentioned to me that she had packed in the newsreading
Yorkshire have their new-ball pairing of Deon Kruis and Jason Gillespie in joint action for the first time this season in the Liverpool Victoria Championship match against Kent which began at Canterbury today. Kruis, who went down with a torn calf muscle
FOR nearly 50 years, it has been a mystery to all except those who worked there. But now, the secret story of York's nuclear bunker is being revealed to the public. After six years of meticulous work, English Heritage has restored the Cold War bunker
Clifton Cycling Club won the team prize at the Team Swift time trial. Two-and-a-half laps of a tough 32.5-mile course based around Pocklington and Millington saw Charlie Evans take second place with a time of 1hr 25min 47sec. The event was won by Ian
PLANS for a multi-million pound office building, which could bring 150 new jobs to York, look set to get the go-ahead. The Helmsley Group has already won consent for a new headquarters for Hunters estate agents on land beside the River Foss, next to the
The 26 anglers who fished in the York match enjoyed some great sport on Marley Lake at the Laybourne complex. Ray Kaye won with an excellent 63lb 4oz from peg 28. Alternating maggot and pellet across to the island, he took around 30lb of small tench and
A TEENAGER has been banned from her school - because she refuses to remove her lip piercing. Rachel Ellis, 15, was excluded from school for three days after she had the stud put through her bottom lip. Determined Rachel is refusing to remove the piercing
YORK City boss Billy McEwan has expressed dismay at the contract clause that will see Conference top scorer Andy Bishop leave KitKat Crescent for nothing. Under normal circumstances, City would be entitled to a transfer fee for Bishop as, at the age of
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 100 years ago The average woman started to "tidy up" directly the rest of the household departed and usually became so absorbed in her occupation that being alone, she would not trouble to prepare a light lunch for herself, but
AS your local newspaper, we pride ourselves on fighting your corner. But it's not often we blow our own trumpet. Today is different. This is Local Newspaper Week - so forgive us for once for boasting. The Press, as your local paper, is at the heart of
NORTH Yorkshire Service Area representative junior rugby league teams enjoyed a clean sweep of victories over South Yorkshire on the opening weekend of competition. The Under-12s began the five-game programme with a 22-4 victory, the U13s produced a fine
News matters. Communities matter. That is why The Press is proud to join in the celebrations for Local Newspaper Week - the week when papers across the country remind readers of the important work they do. LUCY STEPHENS reports. IT is printed six days
RECORD prize money of over £5.5million will be up for grabs at York Races this year. Chief executive and clerk of the course William Derby revealed £4.3m of the total would be dispensed during York's 15-day season with the rest paid out in September's
FIRSTLY, I would like to wish First well on the launch of the new ftr bus in the city, but do so cautiously. I say this because people will need help with the new pre-pay ticketing systems and I hope First will have staff on board for a number of weeks
ACCORDING to Coun Galloway, "ftr brings the most modern public transport system that's available - certainly in this city, and possibly in the world". Well, it certainly didn't look like that as I tried crossing Heslington Road one lunchtime. The "Purple
I AM pleased to see that First has decided to take free bus travel for pensioners one step further - now it's free for everyone using ftr! I caught the bus (sorry, I mean ftr) from York station today and because the shiny new ticket machine was taking
I WAS astounded by the attack from Strensall's Liberal Democrat councillor Madeleine Kirk on correspondent M Warters (Celebrate the ftr, Readers' Letters, May 6). Remove all the marketing from First and the spin from the council, and you are left with
Details of our local bus services within York, plus information about coach services connecting York with a wider area. Local Bus Services The City of York Council Journey Planner provides timetables for public transport in the York Area. The Businfo
Sidestep parking worries if you want to spend the day in York. Buses run in and out of the city centre every 10 minutes or less. The Green Line: runs to and from Rawcliffe Bar on the A19 for those approaching York from the North. First bus from Rawcliffe
Most traffic is restricted from using certain city centre streets between the hours of 11am and 4pm from Monday to Friday, 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturdays and 12noon to 4pm on Sundays. There is a car park helpline on (01904) 632735 covering car parks
The cyclist in York is well provided for with plenty of cycle parking in the city centre and special cycle lanes to help you get around on two wheels. Download a copy of the York Cycle Route Map>>
