YORK’S John Lewis store was "financially challenged" before the pandemic and is unlikely to see a significant improvement, said a spokesman.

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PLANS for holiday flats to be built next door to popular live music venue The Crescent have been approved - after the developers and the owner of the club reached a landmark agreement.

A NEW Covid-19 testing site is set to open.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to two separate incidents where manure spontaneously burst in to flames.

WORKSHOPS are being held to offer free advice to fledgling businesses in York.

Staff at a North Yorkshire rapeseed business have raised more than £4,000 to support children with Down syndrome.

LINZI Gatman is on a mission to supply free books to the Children’s Ward at York Hospital.

MOST parents take time and consideration to pick a name for their new baby.

Bootham Park plans a ‘wasted opportunity’ NHS Property Services has made a massive mistake and done a great dis-service to the residents of York in selling the Bootham Park Hospital site to ERL.

Keith Massey mourns the passing, after a short five-year tenure, of John Lewis’s store at Vangarde (Letters, March 26).

NORTH Yorkshire-based Make it Wild is about to plant its 50,000th tree since setting out on a 10-year mission to give space back to nature.

A SURVEY on planned changes to the junction at Bootham Bar, Gillygate and Lord Mayor's Walk closes tomorrow.

BRITISH artist, Sarah Gillespie will present ‘Moth’ at Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, an ongoing project that, for the past two years, has seen her research, draw and engrave common English moths by way of highlighting their dramatic and devasta...

A group of dance-mad York teenagers have used the city's bridges and underpasses as the backdrop for a dance video expressing their frustration at lockdown.

I take issue with the front page headline ‘Stats spark jab postcode lottery fear’ of Friday March 19. The term postcode lottery was first used when talking about the NHS, when some operations/drugs were only available in certain areas.

A YORKSHIRE company has donated 125 hi-vis vests to help in the rollout of Covid vaccinations.

A FORMER hospitality and catering student at Selby College has been announced as the joint-winner of a top culinary competition.

OWNERS of a popular independent bakery in York are opening a new shop, cafe and production site in the city.

A TEENAGER has been arrested after a man was threatened with a knife during a fight near a school.

POLICE have arrested a second man in connection with a stabbing in York.

CITY of York Council spent more than a quarter of a million pounds on “gagging orders” for departing employees last year.

A WELL-KNOWN rock band is returning to the Yorkshire coast this summer for a headline show.

A TEENAGER was attacked near a York supermarket.

A YORK gym has reopened for outdoor fitness.

ONLY 14 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the last three days across the whole City of York Council area.

Part of Brockfield Road in Huntington is closed today and tomorrow because of sewer works.

A YORK businessman is set to help tackle one of the biggest and fastest growing problems facing IT security experts around the world.

A MAN was hit in the face in a fight in a residential street.

ENVIRONMENT chiefs are to stage a major study of the River Ouse's catchment in a bid to develop new ways of tackling flooding downstream, including the York area.

A PICTURESQUE seaside town has become the staycation capital of the north, according to one estate agency.

A GARDEN centre in East Yorkshire has been sold for £1.5m to two local businessmen who plan to invest more than £1m in the site and create new jobs.

AN EAST Yorkshire woman whose husband died last year has spoken out in support of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions.

POPULAR historic sites belonging to English Heritage are now back open to the public.

The temporary rule change is to help make high streets safer as lockdown restrictions begin to ease in England.

A YOUNG girl from North Yorkshire is set to take on the tough challenge of walking all three of the Yorkshire three peaks in 12 hours to support a charity.

PUPILS at a school in York have been given a boost to help with their school work - through two generous donations from separate organisations.

SOME lockdown restrictions in England are being eased from today (March 29), giving people greater freedoms outside.

TWO-TIME cancer survivor Brad Gudger has launched a new app to combat loneliness among young people with cancer.

VOLUNTEERS, hardworking residents, inspiring young people and health service heroes will all be recognised at the 2021 York Community Pride Awards.

HERE are the latest traffic restrictions for York and the surrounding area:

WORK is under way to improve the junction at Bootham Bar, Gillygate and St Leonard's Place.

YORK'S top heritage organisation has called on city planners to reject a scheme to covert part of an empty, fire-damaged pub into flats.

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A FOOD delivery worker in York has been described as the “man who delivers happiness” as he has been making special additions to each customer’s order.

A THIEF who targeted the same discount store three times in a single morning has been jailed.

A LEARNER driver who drove the wrong way along the A64 during an 80mph police chase in the dark has been jailed.

ONE MAN is today in hospital and a second man in police custody following a stabbing near the city centre last night.

A STREET food market could be extended across the city centre this summer and people may be dining al fresco in the grounds of the former Minster School – under plans for lifting lockdown.

NO new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in York in the last 24 hours.