RESTAURANTS feel “stabbed in the back” by the Government’s decision to move York into Tier 3 with just a few hours' notice - forcing eateries to cancel hundreds of New Year’s Eve bookings.

Detectives investigating the deaths of two pensioners have said they are not believed to be suspicious.

Firefighters had to deal with fires caused by candles and a brazier in the final hours of 2020.

YOU'VE tasted KFC - but would you try VFC?

YORK’S history, culture and innovation will be hugely important heading into 2021, says a leading tourism figure.

BUSINESSES are being urged not to miss out on coronavirus support if they have not yet made a claim.

CONCERNS about child abuse have soared since national lockdown measures were first introduced - with the average monthly number of referrals to the NSPCC’s helpline increasing by almost 50 per cent across North Yorkshire.

YORK and North Yorkshire look set to remain wintry well into the New Year, with more overnight frosts and sleet or snow showers over high ground.

A YORK Optometrist has been awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours for her work in supporting visually impaired patients in Africa.

A RAPPER, singer-songwriter from York says he is challenging the "notoriously homophobic" Hip-Hop industry with a new single.

A NEW report on flooding in York has led to further measures being put in place to help households become better prepared.

A POPULAR York youth club is celebrating securing funding for a film project.

JIM CANNON looks back at a year we will never forget - but looks ahead to 2021 with hope

PUBS and restaurants and their customers in Selby have been praised for staying Covid safe.

CALLS are being made for the Government to help York businesses by creating a Covid Hospitality Recovery Fund.

HOSPITAL bosses in York have pleaded with members of the public to ‘play a part in reducing the spread of coronavirus’ by complying with lockdown restrictions and following the ‘Hands, Face, Space’ hygiene advice as the number of Covid cas...

A COUPLE who bring hope and laughter to refugee children have been honoured in the New Year’s honours.

THERE has been a steep rise in York's weekly rate of recording cases of Covid-19, the latest figures confirm.

Staff and residents at a York care home held hands yesterday as they received their Covid jabs.

THERE have been three further deaths related to Covid-19 recorded at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

THE chairman of the board of governors at York College has been awarded an MBE by the Queen.

HEALTH professionals from across the York area vaccinated a 'significant number' of care home residents against the coronavirus over the Christmas period, it has emerged.

Pubs, restaurants, hotels and guest houses closed, York Minster bells silent - 2020 is going out with a whimper rather than a bang.

A MAN from York has been awarded the MBE for his work in helping street girls forced into sex trafficking in Brazil.

As I sit here this afternoon I am aware that the second hand on the clock is ticking away to what, in my mind and that of many others, is the depressingly gloomy hour when Great Britain will leave its 47 year membership of the European Union.

Residents in part of York faced an extra hazard apart from frost today when they ventured out from their homes.

THERE was a major rise in the number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in the York area over a seven-day period recently compared to the previous week, data has revealed.

YORK Minster has closed for sightseeing until further notice, after the city moved into Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions today (Thursday).

A FILM crew has used a York railway to shoot a spectacular fantasy sequence for a forthcoming music video.

POLICE are investigating after the bodies of a man and woman were found inside a property.

POLICE are appealing for help to trace the family of a York man who has died.

TWO radiographers from York have raised hundreds of pounds to support the NSPCC and victims of domestic abuse this Christmas.

My heartfelt thanks go to the scientists who found a Coronavirus vaccine, and those who administer it in York. But to the Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), responsible for organising this admittedly huge operation, fewer thanks.

BLOOD, plasma and platelet donors in all Tiers are urged by the NHS to keep attending as normal if they are fit and healthy.

A VILLAGE school near York has been hit by a coronavirus outbreak, with some pupils told to isolate.

A HUGE Happy New Year message will be projected onto a giant cooling tower at a North Yorkshire power plant today to signal the end of 2020.

YORK'S coronavirus rate is now higher than Hull's - but the situation is even worse in neighbouring Hambleton.

How does Mick Horseman (Soaring infection rate is sadly not surprising, Letters, December 30) know that ‘idiots from other areas swarming into the city’ and drinking alcohol is why York’s number of virus cases has risen so dramatically? Is h...

YORK and North Yorkshire residents have woken up to Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions being in force across the city and county.

YORK-BASED band, Skylights, have reflected on what has been a strange year for the band, but they have continued to make progress in the industry.

YORK-based chocolate makers have launched a limited edition vegan bar to celebrate Veganuary.

STAFF at York Hospital have displayed “strength, spirit, courage and at times sheer tenacity” this year, according to their boss.

AS 2020 draws to a close, York Outer MP Julian Sturdy looks to the year ahead and highlights some of the issues that will be top his agenda, including seeing York moved to lower tier restrictions, when it is safe to do so:

OVER 50,000 meal donations have been made at Aldi stores across Yorkshire to support vulnerable people over the festive period, including a number of stores in York.

The last nine months or so of living under the pandemic have been utterly awful for so many.

No tears will be shed for 2020. As we start the new year, we all pray for better times ahead.

We invited members of the Press Camera Club to choose their favourite photographs of 2020. These are just a few of the very best.

Police are urging people in York to stay at home this New Year's Eve - or risk a £200 fine.

THE Government has announced today that there will be a delay on return to secondary school education across the UK to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, but primary schools will return as normal.

TESCO has revealed that a woman who died in its Selby Superstore on Christmas Eve was a staff member, who had worked there for more than 30 years.