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A YELLOW weather warning is in place for snow and ice in York and North Yorkshire.

PROPOSALS for a new hotel to open in the heart of York could be scuppered - because police oppose plans for NINE bars to open in the building.

COVID vaccinations due to take place at one North Yorkshire hub are having to be cancelled at short notice because of the weather.

A DISCOUNT supermarket in York is investing more than £16.5m in new and improved stores, creating around 250 jobs.

EIGHT more people have lost their lives to Covid-19 at care homes in the York area, the latest figures confirm.

FORECASTERS say it will continue snowing in York until mid or late morning, before it turns first to sleet and then rain.

DRIVERS are being warned about an on-going accident.

BOOK-LOVING York pupils got a special treat - when their school library turned up in a mobile campervan.

AWARD-winning York Hotel Grays Court has revealed expansion plans.

SMALL businesses looking to have a competitive edge are being offered support to make big cost savings while protecting the planet.

HEROES of lockdown are being celebrated in new York awards - which also ask locals to vote for their favourite pubs and restaurants.

THE motorcycle community is mourning the death of York's veteran road racer Ted Fenwick who has died aged 92.

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This country is particularly good at the blame game – we should maybe make it our national sport. But as we battle Covid-19 this is not quite the time for distracting recriminations.

York's favourite medieval monarch, King Richard III, WAS involved in the notorious murder of the 'Princes in the Tower', according to a Yorkshire history professor.

Professor Mike Holmes, who leads York’s largest Covid vaccination centre on the former Askham Bar Park & Ride site, writes his third in a series of columns in The Press today:

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THREE buildings which are part of York’s past are now set to be demolished to clear the way for the future.

TRIBUTES have been paid to the 'wit, friendship and humour' of a leading light of the York squash world, who has died at the age of 82. Edwin Johnson - known as Ed - died at York Hospital on January 19. He had coronavirus.

SAINT Catherine’s hospice has launched a campaign this February to show supporters how they can ‘Stay home, help out’ and make a real difference to patient care.

The York Quality Bus Partnership notes that the York Bus Forum is keen to see a bus/rail interchange at York Station (Letters, January 29) as part of the redevelopment.

The inquest into the death of a 15-year-old York teenager who died after taking Ecstasy has been opened.

POLICE in York are searching for a wanted man.

A MUCH-LOVED and well-respected ferryman drowned when he slipped on the muddy bank of the River Ouse close to his volunteer ferry, an inquest heard.

YORK’S answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger - former bodybuilder and York gym owner Brian House - has died from Covid.

The South African variant of coronavirus has yet to be found in York or North Yorkshire, the health secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed.

JOIN the Archbishops of Canterbury and York from 6pm today to pray for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

POLICE in York are hunting a wanted man.

A YORK-based company which is creating a rapid coronavirus antibody test has completed a major expansion of its base in the city.

AN AMBER warning has been issued for heavy snow in parts of North Yorkshire tomorrow morning, which is likely to strand some motorists and cause power cuts.

Supermarket retailers have faced increasing pressure from health campaigners to play their part in the fight against obesity in children.

On Monday night Matt Hancock addressed the nation amid news 105 cases of the new South African variant of the coronavirus had been detected in the UK.

THIEVES raided a commercial garage making off with tools, equipment and an off-road bike.

AN investigation is underway in to a vehicle fire.

DON'T become 'Covid complacent' - that's the message to people who have been vaccinated from health chiefs in York and North Yorkshire.

POLICE are trying to track down two men who stole close to £300 worth of razor blades from a supermarket.

A MALTON butcher’s insistence that he had consensual sex with a student who “vanished as if into thin air” after he picked her up in a drunken state is a “nonsense proposition”, a prosecutor has told a jury.

A FURTHER six patients with coronavirus have died at York and Scarborough hospitals.

ONE of York’s best-loved parks is celebrating it’s 100th birthday this year.

EMPLOYEES at Drax Power Station have been putting their energy into supporting each other's families during lockdown.

THE number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in the York area over a seven-day period recently compared to the previous week dropped by nearly 40 per cent.

STAFF from a museum in York have been practicing their skills to help them educate young people, as part of a project to bring history to life.

THE University of York has made considerable donations over the last few months to support the local food charity, Yourcafe.

A MOTORIST allegedly crashed into parked cars and drove off without stopping.

A BANK with a branch in York city centre has seen its income significantly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic - reporting a £204million loss.

A CAR crashed into a tree in North Yorkshire yesterday (Sunday).

TO celebrate National Storytelling Week, North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has teamed up with a number of critically-acclaimed authors for a week of readings and activities.

ONLINE fashion retailer Asos has confirmed it has sealed the takeover of Topshop and three other brands from the collapse of the Arcadia retail empire for £265 million.

AS lockdown deepens many of us are missing our local pub.