AN investigation into the history of the Rowntree chocolate company has produced shocking evidence that the famously philanthropic family business may have profited from slavery and forced labour.

NESTLÉ, the confectionery giant which bought out Rowntree Mackintosh in the 1980s and continues to make chocolate in York, today welcomed the research by the Rowntree Society into Rowntree’s past.

The Rowntree Society has pledged to continue its research into the Rowntree company history.

EMERGENCY services were called out to an incident on a bridge over A64 near York.

A FAILED mugger has been jailed for 15 months after he threw away his chance his keep his freedom.

FIREFIGHTERS had to be called in to help free a teenager from a baby swing.

The owner of a York attraction hopes to make a strong comeback with plans to double in size - with a mini zoo, fairground and golf.

A SUPERMARKET chain with stores in York has started consulting with more than 1,000 staff over its plans to overhaul its bakeries.

A FIRM has opened its first dedicated retail store in York, aiming to sell CBD products which "support the body and mind in many ways".

POLICE seized a car in Selby.

SCOUTS in Copmanthorpe are setting up 'hedgehog highways' to ensure the little creatures can get out and about to find food - and friendship.

Yet again more revelations of enormous salaries enjoyed by a select few on the Ferris wheel that’s City of York Council salaries (Council to recruit two new senior officers on £100k salaries as part of restructure, April 10).

SMALL businesses are being invited to tap into a £20,000 pot to help boost their post-lockdown revival.

How good to hear that safety experts are to consider life saving grab chains for the Ouse in York (The Press, April 13).

AT the heart of The Love Season when York Theatre Royal reopens from May 17 will be The Greatest Play In The History Of The World, Julie Hesmondhalgh's one-woman show.

While the name of the campaign ‘Kill the Bill’ is poorly chosen, I support the desire to prevent our nation from abandoning the norms of a democratic society.

A WOMAN has been rescued this evening from a York river.

UPDATED 6.20PM:  All lanes have been re-opened. Lanes were reopened around 18.10pm, however heavy delays remain as traffic begins to clear.

UPDATED 7.20PM: Road cleared, accident cleared on A1237 near Millfield Lane industrial estate turn off.

A DRUG dealer who brought heroin and crack cocaine into North Yorkshire has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence.

A YORK woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted in her home by a telephone engineer has received an apology from a police chief over the way her attempts to report the allegations were handled.

LOVEBIRDS Mike and Maureen believe the secret to a long and happy marriage is to find someone who is abundantly kind and never let them go.

UPDATE 4.30PM: The earlier accident has now been cleared in St Swithin's Walk near A59 Poppleton Road.

TWO main city centre car parks in York become ticketless from today (April 14).

The law change could be coming into place to maximise safety of journeys of disabled and visually impaired pedestrians.

A MOTORIST who was nearly five times the drink drive limit has appeared before York Magistrates Court.

YORK'S weekly rate of recording cases of Covid-19 has now dropped to 10, the latest figures confirm.

POLICE are appealing for information after a man was found with his hand severed by a machete.

CARE home workers may need to have a coronavirus jab if they want to carry on working.

NO more deaths related to Covid-19 have been recorded at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

THIEVES took a car from outside a house.

POLICE have issued CCTV of a man and a woman they would like to speak to following a theft of a wheelbarrow from a flatbed van in Scarborough.

TWO North Yorkshire holiday destinations have made it on to a list of the UK’s most searched for small towns and villages.

YOUNG York entrepreneur Phoebe Smith is "shocked and upset" after an honesty box from her roadside stall was stolen in broad daylight.

NO further fines for breaching Covid laws have been issued in York - but 48 have been issued across North Yorkshire.

The item has been removed from the Sainsbury’s website and point of sale notices will be displayed in all stores across the UK.

THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway says it is going full steam ahead with plans to relaunch services on Saturday May 15.

YORK Minster’s Great Peter Bell will toll for an hour on Saturday before the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh - and the cathedral will hold a service of commemoration next week.

A YORK-based veterinary group has acquired one of the UK’s biggest online suppliers of pet care products.

A NORTH Yorkshire based nursery has supplied thousands of plants to help restore the grounds of a historic site.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a tumble dryer fire.

A MAJOR supermarket with York stores has revealed that its profits tumbled by around a fifth over the past year after coronavirus costs of almost £900 million offset surging sales.

A FOUNDATION based in York has handed a £50,000 cash boost to a mental health charity, after colleagues voted it to be the charity of the year.

A NEW incubator space for start-ups and smaller businesses has been created at a business hub in York.

LUBNA Khan-Salim gave up her job as a plastic surgeon to open her own beauty clinic just a month before the pandemic took hold.

YORKSHIRE Water has denied misleading environment bosses over the dumping of untreated sewage into the River Wharfe upstream of Tadcaster.

VENDORS in the heart of York have voiced heartfelt thanks to their loyal customers as they welcomed the return of non-essential trading.

I couldn’t agree more with the churchwarden Robert Beaumont when he slated the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell’s plans to offer a £90,000 salary to a new chief of staff (Churchwarden slates plans for Archbishop’s chief of staff with £9...

AN OFF-DUTY police officer protected motorists from a drink-driver’s dangerous manoeuvres in a smoking car on Tadcaster Road and the A64, York Crown Court heard.

AN ex-boyfriend threatened to break down his former partner's door at night and "slice" the man he believed to be in her home, York Crown Court heard.