A HUSBAND who twice hit his wife on the head with a heavy hammer has been jailed.

PLANNING applications for the huge York Central project may need to be resubmitted and millions of pounds of funding for the scheme could be put at risk if plans to stop Leeman Road from being closed are successful.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a fire in York's most famous street.

POLICE are hunting a wanted man.

RESIDENTS and staff at a York care home were treated to an armchair work out courtesy of the Green Goddess, Diana Moran.

The start of the new parliamentary session is stripped back from its full pomp to a small selection of MPs summonsed to hear the monarch, absent her consort, read the Prime Minister’s plan for Government.

Each year on May 12 nurses all over the world celebrate International Nurses Day.

A CONSTRUCTION company has raised £500 for York hospital's charity - to help support to patient care.

FIFTEEN small businesses in York have been awarded a cash boost to support their post-Covid recovery.

A RUGBY club in York is set to launch new 'Touch Rugby' sessions tomorrow - which are free for anyone to join.

TWO pioneering businesses in North Yorkshire have scooped this year’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise

A NETWORKING group launched in York during the pandemic to support female entrepreneurs is welcoming a leading TV business woman next week.

A TEAM of upcyclers who find new uses for the weird and wonderful items dumped in our tips is creating a circular economy in York.

I was shocked to read your article about inaccuracies in the Environment Agency’s flood modelling for Tadcaster (Fury as Tadcaster flood defences delayed by two years, May 10).

PLANS for 96 apartments to be built on part of the former Heworth gas works have been submitted.

Thanks to The Press for revealing the behaviour of the council concerning who is to blame for another blatant waste of council tax payers money.

NEW analysis has revealed the most popular scams amid a huge rise in fraudsters using fake delivery texts.

A NEW generation of writing talent from York St John University have written about hopes, dreams and expectations in a new poetry anthology.

A CRASH in York city centre is causing traffic problems.

IT has been a very British triumph: a team of nurses, volunteers and medics based in a damp tent in a York car park who, through long weeks and all weathers, have helped turn the tables on coronavirus.

FIREFIGHTERS are currently tackling a house fire and have had to close the road outside.

POLICE have cordoned off an area of woodland in Selby after a suspected hand grenade was found earlier today.

AN INDEPENDENT hotel in the heart of York has appointed an experienced general manager to steer it out of lockdown.

AN accident has partially blocked the main road through a village.

A PIMP has been jailed for masquerading as police and calling another man a paedophile.

A FOOTBALL league that helped 30 York men lose 480 pounds of weight last year has restarted following changes in Covid restrictions.

SCHOOL children across York have the chance to learn from one of the top orangutan conservationists in the world.

THE FORMER trustee of a North Yorkshire charity and chairman of a privatised probation organisation has appeared in the dock at York Magistrates Court.

PLANS for eight new homes to be created at the site of a former charity headquarters have been submitted.

POLICE are asking motorists to take extra care on North Yorkshire’s roads after an increase in collisions involving wildlife.

NO more deaths related to Covid-19 have been recorded at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - and just 11 more have been recorded in England.

POCKLINGTON youth charity (YPC) has elected six new trustees as it prepares to open its first dedicated building for young people.

A NEW coffee shop is preparing to throw open its doors in York - a year after its planned launch.

A ROBBER who punched a 70-year-old man to the ground and stole his wallet so he could buy alcohol has been jailed for four years and nine months.

Professor Mike Holmes, who leads York’s vaccination centre at Askham Bar, says that the further easing of Covid restrictions will have “huge benefits” on the well-being of the country.

REPORTS are coming in of an accident on the A19 between York and Selby.

A YORK lawyer has been awarded fellowship of the Institute of Directors – one of the highest accolades granted by the organisation.

A MAIN road in to York is partially blocked after an accident.

A YOUNG surveyor has become the seventh generation of his family to join a York firm.

THE York Fun Fair Fun Park is returning to the city next week with over 20 rides and attractions.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested following the circulation of a video on social media purporting to show footballer Oli McBurnie in an altercation with a man in the street.

NO more deaths related to Covid-19 have been recorded at care homes in the York area.

A SUPERMARKET with stores in York and Malton continued to see strong sales in the past three months as the supermarket benefited from remaining open during the most recent Covid-related lockdowns.

HAVE you got an old air raid shelter hidden away somewhere in your garden? A rusty old Anderson shelter made of corrugated iron - or an overgrown brick shelter that you now use as a garden shed.

A MAN has been arrested following an attack.

HERE come the girls! Here are five gorgeous lockdown babies for you to meet!

A MAN hit his neighbour on the head with a hammer in a midnight dispute over tree branches, York Crown Court heard.

MANY pensioners enjoy working on their allotments or similar hobbies in retirement - but 73-year-old Bill Rule is an exception.

THE Secretary of State for local government will consider all relevant information before making a decision about whether to dismantle City of York Council under reorganisation proposals - but it is not clear if a recent critical public interest repo...

YORK'S transport system could be transformed by 2030, with fewer people owning cars and more space for cyclists, under the council's vision for the city.