A lady filling sweet shelves in the city showed me all the lines coming from the old Craven factory at Poppleton which is moving out for more housing development. She used to work for Terrys for £100 a week more than she gets now. The Groves and Clarence
A NEW initiative to improve the look of York's streets has been hailed as a success by council chiefs. City of York Council's neighbourhood pride drive has seen a range of projects dedicated to combating problems such as litter, graffiti and dog fouling
ORGANISERS are gearing up for this weekend's Community Carol Concert at York's Barbican Centre, as the complex's owners prepare to launch a multi-million pound redevelopment. The Golden Jubilee concert, which starts at 2.30pm on Sunday afternoon, is
THERE will be an open day and memorial service at the crematorium in Bishopthorpe on Sunday, December 16. The event, from 10am to 2pm, gives members of the public and the bereaved the opportunity to have a look around the crematorium facilities and the
RESIDENTS in west York are launching a petition calling on council bosses to resurface and light an alleyway which they say is dangerous. They say the alleyway, which links Howe Hill Road and Poppleton Road, in Holgate, is being avoided by residents
A LANDLORD in York is considering his next move, after council chiefs turned down an attempt to open a betting shop in the city centre. Embassy Racing wanted to turn the Health Rack shop in St Sampson's Square into a bookmaker. But City of York Council
PIPPA Moore is not too surprised to be playing young Clara in Northern Ballet Theatre's production of The Nutcracker. "I tend to get cast as the youthful one, " she says. "I was just chosen for the role and I hope to bring exuberance to Clara, who
The Yorkshire pantomime season has arrived already. Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs opened at Harrogate Theatre last night with new faces involved. Director Phil Lowe is at the helm of his first Harrogate pantomime, while Andy Cryer is making his dame
ANGHARAD Gruffydd Jones, winner of the 2004 Handel Singing Competition, is the soprano soloist for York Musical Society's performance of Messiah on Saturday, December 8, at 7pm. After reading modern languages as a choral scholar at Clare College, Cambridge
The Dirty, the first band to be signed to Tricky and Chris Blackwell's new label Brown Punk, support Rolo Tomassi at Fibbers on Thursday. ''I am bored to tears of walking the cross walk of tilting windmills, " sings Kyrill Dirty, lead vox of these
What prompted you to form the Ian McMillan Orchestra, Ian? "The orchestra started with me and my mate, Luke Carver Goss. Not Luke Goss of Bros? though we get middle-aged women turning up with CDs for signing; they stand at the door and you should see
KAISER Chiefs are ending the year on a high, selling out their arena tour dates as their Yours Truly, Angry Mob album cements its place as one of the albums of 2007. After Manchester tomorrow, they play home-coming Yorkshire dates in Sheffield and
AFTER a busy ten months of 20 acts in a dozen shows, the first year of House Concerts York concludes with Canadian singer-songwriter Alana Levandoski tomorrow. For details of the location and places available for this intimate, low-key gig, visit www.houseconcertsyork.co.uk
YORK has secured yet another top travel accolade - the best city in the UK. Tourism chiefs are hoping that securing the crown will boost the city's reputation and encourage more people to pay it a visit. York's latest award came after 30,000 readers
NATIONAL institution John Otway is on his way to Fibbers in York on December 9, and all because the tragicomic punk veteran has decided to mount his Acrostic tour. Yes, you read that correctly: Acrostic, not acoustic.Let the ladder-leaping, microphone-butting
FOLK legend Vin Garbutt visits the National Centre for Early Music, York, on Tuesday on his 60th birthday tour. His own songs are full of passion and integrity, and he also draws on traditional song and is a champion of other modern-day songwriters
RAY Jackson, the mandolin player on Rod Stewart's Maggie May and founding member of Lindisfarne, had given playing gigs to focus on his second career as an artist. However, he could not resist the call to join The Gathering, a collection of folk rock
TICKETS have sold out for York Settlement Community Players' Celebration show on December 16, although plenty are available for December 9. Both performances start at 7.30pm at the Merchant Taylors' Hall, Aldwark, York. "Due to the ever-increasing
NORTHERN Broadsides have taken up the mantle of staging the children's theatre show this winter at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, where they are presenting a new version of Charles Kingsley's fairytale, The Water Babies. A resourceful band
WHEN a show plays to 60,000 people, as The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe did at the West Yorkshire Playhouse while breaking boxoffice records in 2004, it is always tempting to revive it. Now, with no other version of the stage play in production
IN Conor McPherson's supernatural tale St Nicholas, a jaded theatre critic steps beyond the pale and falls for a beautiful young actress he is reviewing. At Selby Town Hall tonight at 8pm, a story of seduction, entrapment and blood unfold, as he becomes
ANOTHER trumpet player, Crispian Steele-Perkins, is the soloist for Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat in the University of York Choir and University Baroque Ensemble concert on Wednesday. The 7.30pm programme in Central Hall, University of York, opens
GUY Barker's all-star line-up for The Amadeus Project performs two sets, both written by Barker to mark the 2006 anniversary of Mozart's birth, at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, tomorrow at 7.30pm. The Amadeus Suite was inspired
IN a celebration of the Virgin Mary, Advent and Christmas, Tallis's Mass for seven voices, Puer Natus est Nobis, will be interlaced with late 20th-century and early 21st-century works at tomorrow's concert by the Micklegate Singers. At 8pm, in the
IN the final solo show of 2007 at The ArtSpace, Lesley Seeger states the case for The Importance Of Beauty. "Her paintings celebrate the power and beauty of plants and place, and her exhibition is a fitting culmination to a successful series, " says
Elaine Turnbull is exhibiting at Kentmere House Gallery, Scarcroft Hill, York, for the first time from tomorrow until January 24. This north-eastern artist has settled in East Yorkshire after a spell in Dorset, and her jaunty, vibrantly coloured work
TAKE Three, an exhibition by three York artists, Mark Azopardi, Jane Duke and Linda Wormald, will be on display from 10am to 4pm tomorrow and Sunday at the Village Meeting Room, Main Street, Heslington. Tonight's private view will be opened by York
Art Circles, in Shambles, York, presents Christmas at The Gallery in open evenings on Wednesday to Friday, December 5 to 7, from 4pm to 8pm. Italian wine and canapés, provided by L. antica Locanda, will be served. For sale at the contemporary art
TIM Ball's exhibition of watercolour and oil paintings opens at Pocklington Arts Centre on Thursday. There will be a chance to meet the artist - and partake of a free glass of wine - between 6pm and 8pm on December 9. "Painting is my passion, "
THE New Generation Singing Club presents The Y Factor (Not To Be Confused With A Popular TV Show) on Friday, December 7, at the Friends Meeting House, Friargate, York. The master of ceremonies will be Graeme Robertson, Quick Eats reviewer for The Press
When Andrea and Mandy Gaias threw a party to celebrate ten years of their restaurant, Little Italy in Goodramgate, they needed to change venue. They held the bash for 400 guests at the Assembly Rooms, in Blake Street, purely because they had so many
POLICE will now not be called in by paramedics to suspected drug overdoses, under a new policy being launched in York and North Yorkshire. From tomorrow, the North Yorkshire and York Drug And Alcohol Action Teams will follow a new protocol with the
ANGRY and defiant tears have been shed at a York factory for disabled workers - who have declared "war" on the Government after being told it will definitely close. Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has sounded the death knell for the Remploy site
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have taken to the ice in York to send out a warning about the threat posed by climate change. Dressed as polar bears, Guy Wallbanks and Jenny Elster, of York and Ryedale Friends Of The Earth, skated around The Ice Factor rink
RESIDENTS have launched a petition against a proposed extension of a hotel in York, amid fears it will be a blot on the landscape. The petition against the planned expansion of Novotel Hotel, in Fishergate, was only launched on Saturday but has already
A PACKAGE of measures to make bus travel in York cheaper in the evenings and more convenient was today revealed. First is set to offer a city-wide Evening Ticket, which will give unlimited travel on all services from 6.30pm to end of service and will
CANCER patients in North Yorkshire have less funding than nearly anywhere in the country, according to shock figures released today. New research shows cancer care in Britain is subject to a postcode lottery, with patients in this region faring among
WHAT is an express lunch? The only way to find out is to go in and experience the advertised offer at £7.95. On arrival, we were warmly greeted and offered a choice of tables. The one by the window would do. Not only could we see everything that was
FIVE concerts at the York Early Music Christmas Festival have sold out already. The five-day festival begins on Thursday, and all seats have been taken for NowellWe Sing, the Minster Minstrels' celebration of Christmas music in England, at the National
NIGHTS are drawing in, Christmas tunes are already jingling irritatingly in the shops. However, The Other Side Comedy Club can perk you up on Sunday when Jon Richardson and Nick Revell are introduced by compere Markus Birdman. Richardson entered the
OPERA North visits Pocklington Arts Centre for the first time on Monday and Tuesday to present the classic Grimm Brothers' fairytale of Hansel And Gretel. This reduced version for family audiences retains the charm of Humperdinck's best-loved opera
YORK is reputedly the most haunted city in Europe. As if drawn by a supernatural magnet, three Ghost bands will be playing at Fibbers on separate nights in the week ahead. Tonight is the turn of Holy Ghost Revival, young dandies from Bainbridge Island
THE Jazz Weekends at the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM), in York, become one of the more important fixtures in the jazz year as time goes on. Melanie Paris and her team must be heartened by the heavily booked event yet last weekend -congratulations
THE Press's fight against post office closures has been officially backed by City of York Council. At a meeting last night, councillors unanimously passed a motion condemning the proposals, and declaring their support for our Cut The Closures campaign
DEVELOPERS look set to try to build thousands of new houses on York's green belt, under plans that sparked condemnation from city leaders. City of York Council has received notice of plans for 5,500 new homes on land to the north of Clifton Moor. Council
FOR a man who was supposedly one of the most distinguished of the Greek heroes, Agamemnon took a back seat to his wife, Clytemnestra, who commanded the stage in this atmospheric production at the York Theatre Royal. The production, based on Agamemnon
YORK Hospital has been criticised for allowing a gap of more than eight inches in a ward window after a war hero fell to his death. Henry Haggett, 82, plummeted 26ft from a second floor window on a ward for vulnerable, elderly people at the hospital.
WE have always suspected that healthcare is a postcode lottery. Now we have the stark proof. Some parts of the country spend three times as much on treating cancer patients as we do in York and North Yorkshire. The local primary care trust (PCT) spends
THE best little city in Britain, that's York. To add to the many travel and tourism gongs we have picked up recently, York has now been voted the UK's Best City in the Telegraph Travel Awards. We knew that all along - but now everybody else knows
ON reading The Press this week two articles caught my eye. A £5 million boost for grassroots city sports (Grassed off, The Press November 27) - great news that someone has finally realised that York is in great need of more and better sporting facilities
IN 2006, the basic pension was increased to the poverty level of £123 per week. State pensions are paid out of the National Insurance (NI) fund which, reportedly, is in surplus (in 2006 the surplus was £34.5 billion), enough to pay at the poverty
Although wind power is almost entirely carbon-free (apart from making the turbines), it is interesting to note that burning wood can also be green and, as a means of heating, save on CO2. The UK's first wood-burning power station openesd recently
I must admit, I'm a little bit worried about the judge's opinion that a father should not know about his baby (Birth can stay a secret - judges, The Press, November 24). If the lady concerned did not want this situation, then why didn't she insist
AS I have previously said, it is now established policy throughout the country to receive developer contributions for local affordable housing, play space, highways, transport and local school facilities. The costs of these contributions are set
THERE seems to be a competition going on between our privileged political powers-that-be, over who can be hardest on the poorest members of society. They clearly believe it to be a real vote-winner to threaten and terrify those who are least
I WRITE in response to a letter from your correspondent Ursula Dennis (No answer, The Press, October 25). The RSPCA is most grateful to Ms Dennis for contacting the ssociety "over the years" to report incidents of cruelty. However, she asserts
On a misty morning nearly two months ago my husband and I set out to trial the First York Aircoach. It proved to be so wonderful and stress-free that, having quizzed the driver as to why the bus was so empty, I swore that I would try to campaign for
I ATTENDED the schools dance festival on Saturday, November 24, at the University of York, which my daughter was participating in with her school, Burnholme College. Primary and secondary schools from York each did a dance. It was absolutely
A QUITE extraordinary thing happened to me on Wednesday. I was out shooting with a few friends and we were walking from one field to the next down a country lane when a battered old Citroen screeched to a halt, the window was wound down and a young hippyish
STUDENTS and parents have hit out at York College, claiming their studies have been severely affected after two tutors were banned from work. Last week, The Press reported how an investigation had been launched into alleged problems on a trip to the
WE'VE all heard the tales of racehorse owners giving their four-legged friends amusing names, such as Hoof Hearted and Jamaica Smell. Football stars Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman even named one of their equine purchases Another Horse, so commentators
A HIGH-tech company whose rise in two years since setting up in York has been meteoric, has clinched a major industry award. Varlink, the mobile computing and data capture hardware distributor on the Osbaldwick Industrial Estate, has been presented with
WHAT A HARVEST! After a mere 12 months in the industry, Stephen Caines, claims handler at McClarron Insurance near Malton, has won a national award. Stephen has been chosen as the 2007 Claims Handler Of The Year by FarmWeb, the national network of agricultural
A UNION leader has called on Post Office Ltd's chief executive Adam Crozier to come to York and justify proposed cutbacks to the branch network to those it will hit hardest. Paul Clays, the regional secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU),
NEW figures released to coincide with World AIDS Day tomorrow are a stark reminder that it's not just developing countries who are facing an HIV epidemic. Shock statistics show that last year, there was a 19 per cent increase in the number of HIV cases
SCOTT Woodcock signed off his amateur career on a high note and is now looking forward to getting down to business with York City Knights. The 24-year-old prop played for Great Britain Community Lions in their midweek 30-24 victory over France A' in
YORK City caretaker boss Colin Walker has admitted he could not hope for a better right-hand man than his current assistant Eric Winstanley. Walker and Winstanley are currently carrying out all coaching duties at KitKat Crescent from junior to first-team
DRINKERS used to rest their glasses on a York restaurant table that could help fetch up to a million pounds at a Sotheby's auction next week. The Press reported yesterday how the console, which stood for decades in the city's historic Assembly Rooms,
AS the FA Cup was paraded in the town Harrogate Railway have a fully-fit squad ahead of Sunday's televised clash with Mansfield Town. All Railway's 19 senior players have declared themselves available for selection for the FA Cup second round clash to
GOAL-SHY visitors Crawley Town will be hoping to boost their forward fortunes at York City tomorrow afternoon. No Blue Square Premier side has managed fewer goals on the road this season than the Sussex side's haul of seven and the Red Devils have also
Tadcaster Albion face an important week, which, according to manager Jimmy Reid, could leave them well set, writes Peter Martini. They go to Rainworth Miners Welfare tomorrow and, following a midweek North Riding Cup tie against FA Cup heroes Harrogate
PICKERING Town chairman Tony Dunning has refused to discuss the possibilities of promotion ahead of his side's top-of-the-table duel at Glapwell. The third-placed Pikes go into tomorrow's game on the back of an 11-match unbeaten run in the Northern Counties
Skelton made it seven wins out of seven to go seven points clear at the top of the York F1 Racing Premier Karting Sunday Football League division two with a 3-0 win at York Nomads, writes Dave Bailey. A goal either side of half-time from Ben Janes and
York FA Sunday Morning Senior Cup holders Nestlé Flag crashed out after a 4-0 defeat at Hounds. Thorpe Willougby-based Hounds took the lead after ten minutes when Daniel Crowther pounced on to a poor back pass to score. After half-time, the hosts ran
Match organiser Keith Whincup was left to rue what might have been the open on the Nidd at Knaresborough when a freak capture robbed him of victory. He netted six chub on stick and caster from peg 66 on the Sawmills section. His 16lb 12oz was sitting
Steve Maza took top spot in the latest Bob-Co event at Carpvale. Despite adverse conditions, he managed a respectable 46lb 4oz from peg 58 on the dominant front pond. Offering corn under a floating pole at a huge 21 metres, he bagged 14 carp. Mick
There was little to shout about on the River Ouse when a field of 78 anglers contested the York Christmas Cheer match. The inclusion of the Bishopthorpe and Acaster water on the Bridgefield did provide some merriment as three of the first four anglers
A third of firms won't hold Christmas parties this year. CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL asks why - and gets tips to avoid party embarrassment. IT COULD be the social event of the year - or the biggest disaster of your career. Whichever way you look at it, the
GARETH ELLIS, the former York Academy starlet and Selby junior, has missed out on rugby league's World Player of the Year award - but has been named in the World Team of the Year. The Leeds and Great Britain back-rower was among six stars short-listed
IF you've ever been to a Yorkshire racecourse in the last few years, you will have heard the distinctive voice of Graham Orange. The fulcrum of the Go Racing In Yorkshire organisation is virtually an ever-present on racedays at the county's nine tracks
Blythe Knight, one of the most versatile horses in training, bids to highlight his chances as a leading Champion Hurdle contender at Newcastle tomorrow. Trained at Highfield by John Quinn, the gelding, whose wins on the Flat this year have included a
Flag B' produced the surprise result of the week in division one of the John Smith's Bulmer's Men's Darts league. Gordon Foster (180, 21) and a deciding game win by Mick Holdsworth and Graham Hudson helped them to a 5-4 win at Volunteers, despite the
A TARGET of seven wins has been set by chairman Niall Barry as York RUFC look to consolidate in North 2 East. The Clifton Park side are gradually adjusting to life in the big league after promotion from Yorkshire One, gaining their second win of the
NORTH Yorkshire MP Phil Willis has taken the fight against the closures to Parliament. The Lib-Dem politician has tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons stressing the importance of the branches in his own Harrogate and Knaresborough constituency
POLICE chiefs expect to hear next Thursday whether the Government has heeded pleas for the North Yorkshire force to receive a fair grant. The Press launched its Fund Our Force campaign after Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell warned that North Yorkshire
THE LORD Mayor of York was presented with a commemorative plate when visitors from York Pennsylvania in the USA paid the city a special visit. Gary Clineburg and his daughter, Kristen, dropped by the Guildhall yesterday to visit the Lord Mayor, Coun
THE Countryside Alliance has backed The Press' Cut The Closures Campaign. Judith Skilbeck, the group's Yorkshire spokeswoman, said: "The ones that have more chance of surviving are the ones the community really does support." Richard Dodd, Countryside
YORK'S build-up to Christmas is in full swing as the city welcomes the return of the popular St Nicholas Fayre. Thousands of shoppers will flock to the city centre market over the next few days, with coachloads of visitors expected to arrive from across
THOUSANDS of children across York are to be given special reflective tags as part of a new road safety campaign. Transport officers are issuing almost 12,000 of the tags, to ensure that every nursery and primary school pupil in the city can become more
THE Yorkshire Air Museum, near York, played host to television's premier debate programme. BBC's Question Time, which was first broadcast 28 years ago, took centre stage at the Elvington museum, chaired by David Dimbleby. The programme offers British
Updated 09:59: A MOTORIST is seriously injured after he was involved in a collision with a heavy goods vehicle on a major road near York. The man was taken to York Hospital after the smash between his silver Vauxhall Astra and the heavy goods vehicle
THE residents of a North Yorkshire town can look forward to an evening of festive fun, when its lights are switched on tonight. The centrepiece of this year's celebration in Malton will be the unveiling of a new illumination, which was designed by local
COUNCILLORS have ruled that speed humps in a Selby village will remain, despite protests from residents. Members of North Yorkshire County Council's Selby Area Committee considered a report on the traffic calming measures in South Milford. The Village
POLICE chiefs expect to hear next Thursday whether the Government has heeded pleas for the North Yorkshire force to receive a fair grant. The Press launched its Fund Our Force campaign after Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell warned that North Yorkshire
YORK'S build-up to Christmas is in full swing as the city welcomes the return of the popular St Nicholas Fayre. Thousands of shoppers will flock to the city centre market over the next few days, with coachloads of visitors expected to arrive from across
DRINKERS used to rest their glasses on a York restaurant table that could help fetch up to a million pounds at a Sotheby's auction next week. The Press reported yesterday how the console, which stood for decades in the city's historic Assembly Rooms
THOUSANDS of children across York are to be given special reflective tags as part of a new road safety campaign. Transport officers are issuing almost 12,000 of the tags, to ensure that every nursery and primary school pupil in the city can become
