POLICE issued more than 70 fixed penalty notices for breaches of the Covid regulations at the weekend.

INTENSIVE care staff at York Hospital are bracing themselves for an expected surge in seriously ill Covid patients over the next couple of weeks.

PLANNING inspectors examining City of York Council’s draft Local Plan - which sets out what houses can be built and where - suggest the draft plan is scrapped and fresh proposals submitted.

A FLOOD warning has been issued for the River Ouse in York.

EMERGENCY services have been called out to vehicles getting stranded in floodwater in the North York Moors.

SUPERMARKETS in York and North Yorkshire say they will enforce mask wearing and shopping alone in stores.

DELIVEROO has said it plans to expand into around 100 new towns and cities across the UK in 2021 including here in North Yorkshire.

AS families return to home schooling, we asked parents and pupils to share the fruits of their labour with readers - and to pass on any tips.

A RURAL business park which employs more than 2,000 people is celebrating the arrival of state-of-the-art internet connectivity.

WITH a new lockdown upon us, many small independent businesses are reverting to their home delivery services which provided such a lifeline in 2020.

Why can’t frontline medical staff be vaccinated before the over 80s?

HERE are some more of York's beautiful lockdown babies.

YORK Hospital is having to postpone more planned operations as the number of Covid patients continues to soar.

ELECTRIC bikes could soon be available for hire in York.

PLANS for a multi-storey car park at St George's Field will not necessarily go ahead, Green Party councillors say - despite choosing not to vote against the scheme.

A LEADING York head teacher has said schools should be involved in the grading process for pupils this summer.

A HUSBAND allowed to go to Thailand for his marriage while awaiting sentence for sex offences has been jailed.

In an effort to keep us all safe while walking around the city during the current crisis could we not launch a ‘Keep Left and pass in single file’ campaign? It would be easily adhered to and would make shopping and exercising safer and less st...

I would just like to thank all the staff at York A&E who treated me last week. From the paramedics to the doctors, nursing staff and support staff, everyone was attentive, friendly and - despite being under a lot of pressure at the moment - did no...

MORE than 10,000 people have now been vaccinated against the coronavirus in York - and medics are well on their way to giving the jab to all of the city's care home residents.

A RETIRED nurse and doctor have told of the ‘scandalous’ training schedule they faced in order to help out in the Covid vaccination drive - before a sudden Government U-turn finally cleared the way.

FAMOUS family baker Bettys has decided to close its shops in light of the escalating cases of Covid-19.

CITY of York Council is urging parents and carers who are critical workers not to send their children to school if they can manage to have them at home.

THE Met Office has warned there is a chance of heavy snow in York and North Yorkshire later this week.

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A TRACTOR driver had to be rescued after their vehicle crashed.

POLICE in York are looking for CCTV or dash-cam footage after a motorhome was stolen.

STAFF from a York GP surgery vaccinated almost 220 people at four care homes on Friday and over the weekend.

FIVE people were arrested in a York suburb yesterday (Sunday) - as police seized machetes and a large quantity of cash.

The government issued guidance on the third nationwide Covid-19 lockdown which came into effect last week.

THE seven-day rolling rate of new coronavirus cases in three areas of York stood at more than 1,000 per 100,000 people in the week to January 5.

Usdaw urged supermarkets and food retailers to revert to “stringent” restrictions and said that staff – who are classed as key workers – must be “valued, respected and protected”.

AN HISTORIC York pub has gone on the market.

Did you know that humble algae – aquatic plants that range from tiny, single-celled diatoms to giant kelp seaweed – could hold the secret to helping us tackle climate change?

PUBS and hospitality operators will be able to dispose of waste beer free of charge as they prepare to reopen when the third national lockdown ends.

MORE than 400 patients with coronavirus have now died at York and Scarborough hospitals.

PASSENGERS are facing delays and disruption on the East Coast Mainline after an object caught on overhead wires in York.

PARENTS and carers of children due to start primary school in September are being reminded to apply this week.

Professor Mike Holmes, who leads York’s largest Covid vaccination centre on the former Askham Bar Park & Ride site, begins a new regular column in The Press today:

POLICE are appealing for a key witness to a fight between a man and woman to come forward.

POLICE are trying to catch a man who exposed himself.

ANOTHER North Yorkshire primary school has opted out of local authority control and become an academy.

EIGHTEEN sheep have been attacked and killed in a field in North Yorkshire.

NORTH Yorkshire Police has issued more than 1,400 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws since the start of the pandemic, new figures have revealed.

ROWNTREE Park is back open today (Monday) the organisation has confirmed.

A NORTH Yorkshire food manufacturer has launched the UK’s first frozen tofu after enjoying its most successful trading year.

THE number of patients with coronavirus at York and Scaborough hospitals has shot up to 166.

THERE has been a case of Covid-19 at a York school.

A CAR ploughed in to a house last night.

A HIGH street retailer with a shop in York has said its UK stores are “likely” to be shut until at least Easter as it hailed better-than-expected trading.