PLANNED flood defence schemes to protect almost 400 homes in York are on hold - after the cost of the projects increased.

Niorthern Powergrid engineers will be switching off the power supply to 20 properties in the York Road area of Strensall this morning to allow repairs to be carried out.

Seventy homes in the Badger Hill area are without power this morning.

AN AREA of North Yorkshire is becoming a Covid hotspot, with its soaring rate now higher than Bolton's.

A PRIVATE child care centre has been nominated for the small business of the year title in The Press Business Awards.

TO the writer of the race-hate letter sent to York families:

PRISON sentences await those who give cannabis to their friends, a York judge has warned.

A NEW café serving up brunch and smoothies is set to open in Fossgate.

YORK-BORN producer Luke Adamson will return to the scene of his greatest triumphs to direct and appear in a lively new version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

FIREFIGHTERS rescued an elderly woman who was stuck in a lift at a property in Brayton, near Selby, last night.

ON Friday morning, April 10, 1961, a party of 20 from Skelton football club caught the train for a weekend in London to watch England play Scotland at Wembley.

AS a disabled person, York city centre has become much less accessible since the pandemic as more streets have been closed to drivers like me with blue badges.

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A teenage girl was injured in an "altercation" involving a group of young people near Millennium Bridge in York, police say.

A BMW "collided" with a member of security staff at a York pub after attempts were made to stop a suspected drink driver from leaving the scene, police say.

SOME days I felt like I was dying. These are the harrowing words of one York man who has been battling Long Covid since being struck down with Coronavirus 14 months ago.

Police are searching for a convicted killer who has been recalled to prison after being released on licence last August.

POLICE have put out an appeal for witnesses after a cyclist was found unconscious on Peasholm Road in Scarborough in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A RACIST who kicked a dog in the face on Hob Moor and punched and repeatedly spat on his owner in an unprovoked attack has been given a suspended prison sentence.

ONE of York's most prominent shops sites has been listed by estate agents after almost 30 years on the city’s highstreet.

STUDENTS across York have been dealt another blow as school leavers' proms become another casualty of the Covid restrictions.

Actor Peter Capaldi has revealed how he was once arrested in York – on suspicion of being involved with a bomb explosion.

A NORTH Yorkshire police hero and his wife have marked a very special anniversary with a party at the care home where they now live together.

TWO people were stuck on their boat after it became wedged on a sandbank.

YORK'S Covid rate has risen above the UK average and is just below the average for England, according to Public Health England's latest data.

YORK'S Disney store is among a selection of store undergoing "consultation" over its future.

A NEW public body in charge of train services should be based in York, according to council leaders.

TWO entrepreneurs who trained together in a Michelin-star restaurant are bringing an Italian pop-up kitchen to York.

THE number of coronavirus patients being treated at York and Scarborough hospitals has risen again - but none are currently needing intensive care.

PLANS for a block of 48 new flats to be built on a former NHS site in York have been approved.

SYMPTOMS of Long Covid are many - and varied - and can be hugely debilitating and distressing for patients, many of whom were fit and healthy before contracting coronavirus.

FORESTRY England is offering the chance to see a selection of images from Earth Photo shortlisted works at an exhibition in Dalby Forest from Monday, June 28, to Sunday, September 19.

SHOCKED police officers who had stopped a car that was making a 'strange noise' found there were not only eight passengers in the vehicle, but it had no rear tyre.

Firefighters rescued a swan that was trapped in netting by the feet.

POLICE searching for a missing 78-year-old York man have discovered a body in the River Ouse.

SELBY businesses have rallied round to try and get a 38-year-old father of two private health care after he has become a “prisoner in his own body.”

A VEHICLE has caught fire after being involved in a crash on a North Yorkshire road.

FAIRY houses, put together by a local woman and placed on the banks of the River Foss, have been damaged and stolen.

A POPULAR village pub near York whose landlord died from Covid earlier this year has failed - so far - to reopen from the lockdown.

A STAR of the hit TV show Gogglebox and a Hollywood actor are set to drop in at a York school next month.

A DRIVER dragged a broken lamppost along Gillygate under his car in a “very unusual” case, York Crown Court heard.

A SHIRE enthusiast has driven his horses through York while on a 600-mile trip from Gloucestershire to northeast Scotland to raise funds for a charity which helped his police officer brother after he was badly injured on duty.

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A CYCLIST was found unconscious in a North Yorkshire road early today.

THE ages of York's youngest and oldest residents to have died with Covid have been revealed by City of York Council.

FURTHER lockdowns might be needed next winter because of the emergence of new respiratory viruses, scientists have warned.

RESIDENTS in a village near York decided to honour their local shopkeeper with a surprise birthday celebration as he turns 70.

POCKLINGTON Arts Centre has announced its plans to reopen next month- with a number of film screenings.

FIREFIGHTERS performed first aid after being called out to a crash at a North Yorkshire beauty spot.

A DRIVER was trapped inside their vehicle after a crash on a North Yorkshire road.