BRAVE soldier Dave Benson fought in Tony Blair's war in Iraq - and paid the price when he went on to develop post traumatic stress disorder. His mother, Sue, revealed today she has been battling in vain ever since to get him the support and help he needs
Road closure due to A66 upgrade. Diversion via Melsonby A1 & A66. Disruption expected between Monday 11 September and Thursday 14 September 2006.
HE enters to the Close Encounters theme and imagery of travelling from outer space, but nothing is alien about our Robbie. He can turn a Leeds park with 90,000 a night into a close encounter with friends in the back garden. We're all mates in this
YORK'S British Sugar site could be used to create affordable family housing as well as new jobs when the factory closes next year. Council chiefs and British Sugar bosses plan to work in partnership to decide on the best use for the future of the site
Photograph by Peter Hayes, York © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Peter Hayes, York © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Peter Hayes, York © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
Photograph by Peter Hayes, York © The copyright of this image remains with the photographer
A lot has happened since Sanjeev Patel, managing director of marketing company CNG Business Services, became a finalist in the Young Entrepreneur Of The Year category of the Press Business Awards in 2004. So much so that now Sanjeev is pitching for
Frankie Dettori celebrates his St Leger triumph. © The copyright of this image belongs to Newsquest (York) Ltd
SHE was forced to clean while naked, made to eat dog food, whipped with a belt and beaten with a rolling pin - but she endured it all for the sake of the children she cared for. The York nanny who was forced to work as a naked slave, has spoken of the
THERE is no shortage of books about York; whether tourist guides celebrating the city's beauty, crime novels with York as a backdrop, or - most commonly - histories. Leonard Markham's new book York: A City Revealed still manages to justify its place
A NEW generation of pupils at an overcrowded school near York could enjoy future lessons in modern, spacious surroundings. A proposal to expand Wheldrake Primary School looks set to win support at a meeting on Thursday, paving the way for a major fundraising
CORONATION Street's Hilda Ogden has paid an emotional tribute to a legendary York director who set her on the path to stardom, who has died aged 82. Friends and former colleagues of theatre stalwart Donald Bodley described him as an "exciting" and "inspirational
TRADERS have voted with their trolleys - giving the new Booker Wholesale, at Clifton Moor, York, a great big thumbs-up. Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been spent on the cash-and-carry in Audax Road - one of only six branches out of 173 in the
A 22-bedroom hotel on the edge of the North York Moors National Park is up for sale at a guide price of £2.8 million. John and Gill Smith, who have owned and run the Forest & Vale Hotel, in Pickering, for the past nine years, have decided to "move on
ARCHITECTS and surveyors in York have won a contract to look over 20 offices of the Co-operative Society Insurance Services, searching for signs of wear and tear. The York office of the LHL Group is studying the state of the offices across the North
The Diary never misses a chance to poke fun - even if it is at colleagues at The Press. So will the real Geoff Henman please stand up? On Thursday, The Press told you all about the forthcoming - but really late - beer festival being run by the Campaign
YOU could be putting yourself and your family at risk by reading this column. I'm not saying that you will actually end up in hospital, but it's a possibility I feel obliged to make you aware of. I'm not threatening you or anything, despite the overt
THE eyes and hearts of the world will be focused on New York today as the city remembers 9/11 - the terrorist atrocity which rocked the globe exactly five years ago. Almost 3,000 people died when hijacked aircraft were flown into the twin towers of New
THE eyes of the world were on York again at the weekend. Not because of a troubled Prime Minister this time, but because of a classic race meet. A year ago it was the Queen and Royal Ascot that brought racing's elite to this city. This weekend, it was
I WOULD like to commend your paper on its excellent Change It! campaign calling for child abductors to go on the Sex Offenders' Register. It is unbelievable that this legal loophole exists in the first place, and it is one that should be plugged as soon
I DO not know your correspondent David Quarrie personally, but after reading his views on Britain (Lack of discipline, Letters, September 6), I feel he must be from my generation, just before or after the Second World War. I agree entirely with what
AFTER reading K Jolley's letter (London-York rail fare is so unfair, August 26), I feel really cheated - robbed, if you like - because on the Friday before that my son came from London by bus. As he wasn't feeling too well, he didn't enjoy the journey
HAD to chuckle when I read the article Black And Blue (Press, September 7). It's now clear why our police have only a few specialist firearms units. Can you imagine the carnage if the carrying of sidearms was introduced in North Yorkshire? If the
IN contrast to all the letters regarding the ftr (my own included), my granddad caught the number 1 bus home from the hospital and it was the oldest double-decker he had been on. The poor bus driver had a right job driving it and the brakes were extremely
THINGS must be bad within York's bureaucracy if Gillian Cruddas feels the need to respond to Steve Galloway's proposals for the Bonding Warehouse (Press, September 1). I never though I'd find myself agreeing with her views of York, but when she described
LAST year, in the BBC drama My Dad, I played a character whose wife had Alzheimer's Disease. It gave me an insight into how devastating it can be for the person who has dementia, and for their families. Since then, I have been supporting the Alzheimer's
Regarding your article in The Press last week on caring in the community (Counting the cost of care, September 1), this has been lurking in the shadows all summer. Now it is out in the open - old people do not matter, not to City of York Council anyway
I AM writing of my disgust at City of York Council's tree butchering exploits in Campleshon Road in South Bank. They first started back in June. Wildlife Trust guidelines stated work on trees with nesting wild birds should not be done till the end
High Street banks are expected to be made to slash the charges they impose on customers who break their overdraft limits. Helen Gabriel reports on the punishing charges currently costing customers £4.6 billion a year. MANY people will have sighed
EASINGWOLD'S drive towards the Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Senior Cricket League premier division title hit the buffers at Woodhouse Grange. Their powerful batting line-up was swept away for just 100 by Brad Winger (4-38) and Steve Burdet
CRAYKE must have thought that their hopes of lifting the division three crown had perished when they were dismissed for only 101 by Sheriff Hutton. Mark Fenton was a lone ranger in making 35 as Shane Marshall (5-32) and Simon Thornton (5-59) shared
SHERIFF Hutton Bridge confirmed their status as division five champions after defeating nearest rivals Cawood by three wickets. Cawood had to win in order to keep their hopes of claiming the one solitary promotion slot alive. They made an poor start
OSBALDWICK belied their lowly position when they produced their best Hunters the Estate Agent York and District Senior League division one performance of the season to beat Whitkirk by 123 runs. A third-wicket stand of 86 between Matt Dunne (60)
THE battle for the two promotion places in division two has turned out to be a real humdinger. With just one game to play, Ripon and Folkton & Flixton, are level on points while Scarborough II are just ten points away and both Sewerby and Bolton Percy
YORK CC finished runners-up in the Oxbridge ECB Yorkshire Premier League after crushing an under-strength Scarborough at North Marine Road. They finished eight points behind champions Barnsley, who celebrated their first title in style with a thumping
CRAWLEY'S status as the constituency with the most marginal seat in the country attracted national attention last week as the political climate grew increasingly unstable. But, on Saturday, the West Sussex town hosted the kind of landslide victory unlikely
September 9/10 Premier Division Acomb (30) beat Dunnington (9) by 21 runs. Acomb 252-9 (L Sacks 41, A D Tute 70, J Burton 56; M H Khan 4-56), Dunnington 231 (S A Kellett 78, M H Khan 40, H W Williams 44; A D Tute 5-33). Heworth (6) lost to Beverley
LEEDS United's lowest crowd since their fall from the Premiership underlined the discontent among fans who are voting with their feet. Just 16,268 spectators on a gloriously sunny afternoon bothered to turn up at Elland Road where Kevin Blackwell's side
YORK City Knights' season ended very much like it began. In the first game back in February, Jamie Bovill was controversially sent off after five minutes of his debut, with full-timers Hull KR going on to win comfortably. Yesterday, Dave Buckley was
YORK City boss Billy McEwan labelled Conference football a game for "tarts" after watching his ten-man team lose their unbeaten record at Crawley Town. The Minstermen were a man light after goalkeeper Tom Evans' 16th-minute sending off and went on to
WITH Tom Evans now suspended, York City boss Billy McEwan will decide today whether to bring in a more experienced keeper in on loan or hand York-born Arran Reid his first senior start in tomorrow's home match against Morecambe (7.45pm). About Reid's
YORK City Knights boss Mick Cook refused to lay into David Buckley after the second-row was sent off less than two minutes into yesterday's defeat at Leigh Centurions. The 24-year-old Australian was given a red card by St Helens-based referee Julian
FOR many it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but for Terry Priestly the St Leger at York brought back vivid memories of another era. The 79-year-old was at Knavesmire in 1945 the last time the historic race was held there, and Saturday's spectacular
THE sun never stopped shining, the corks never stopped popping and people's champion Frankie Dettori looked like he would never stop winning. The St Leger at York was a triumph. Scooping a hat-trick of race victories, including the classic itself on
HEWORTH put in a disappointing performance in their 38-18 defeat at Brighouse Rangers in National Conference Two on Saturday. Poor tackling saw Mark Horne give Brighouse a fourth-minute lead, but the Villagers hit back with a Matt Derry try which
PICKERING Town central defender Michael McNaughton put in an heroic performance as a stand-in goalkeeper to deny Selby Town victory in Saturday. The Northern Counties East League premier division tussle at the Recreation Ground finished 1-1 - thanks
A footballer collapsed and died on the pitch during a match at a North Yorkshire ground. Former Mansfield and Walsall defender Matt Gadsby died after collapsing during Hinckley's Conference North match at Harrogate Town on Saturday. The 27-year-old
THE grieving mother of tragic York pilot Lisa Knaggs spoke of her heartache today as she still waits to discover what caused her daughter's death. Julie Ayre said she had now been waiting more than 11 months for American air investigators to tell
Frankie Dettori, who took York races by storm on Saturday by completing a treble - highlighted by his St Leger triumph on Sixties Icon - can go one better at Yarmouth tomorrow. Britain's most popular jockey kept up his superb form by riding three
SCARBOROUGH slumped to a 1-0 Nationwide North home defeat to Workington. The Seadogs created very little in the way of scoring opportunities but Jamie Vermiglio forced Adam Collin into a good save and Workington defender Alan Gray had to scramble an
A JUNIOR football ground devastated by a vandal attack has received a £1,000 boost to replace lost equipment. Managers of Carr Vikings Junior Football Club, based at the site of the former Northfield Special School, in Acomb, York, said they were
POLICE have scored another success in the battle against Merseyside drug dealers targeting York. York Crown Court heard how undercover detectives caught a Liverpudlian dealer red-handed in a flat preparing heroin for deals, after watching him for
TWO travellers have been banned from owning horses for five years after the death of two animals. The RSPCA repeatedly warned Frankie and Iris Smith over a three-year period about the way they tied their animals. On one occasion, firefighters had to
WEEKLY community skips are to be scrapped in Sherburn-in-Elmet after people abused the service by dumping everything from fridges to builders' waste. The parish council has voted unanimously to stop providing skips following continued misuse, said
ARMED police swooped on a house after two teenagers were stabbed in a knife attack in York. Eyewitnesses watched in horror as officers in body armour arrested a man at a house on the corner of Cornlands Road and St Stephen's Road, in Acomb. The double
TRIBUTES have been paid to a cyclist who died in a crash with a bus. Eddie Wharram was killed in Barlby Road, Selby, when his bike was in collision with a number 415 bus. A minute's silence was held in his memory at Selby Cricket Club's 4th XI
