A CAR with no tyre on its front offside wheel has crashed into a parked vehicle in York after failing to stop for police.

SMILING Lexi Taylor, who will be eight tomorrow, realised her dream when she celebrated recovery from a brain tumour and meningitis - by ringing a bell outside her York home.

RESIDENTS have the chance to have a say on plans to improve the railway stations in their towns.

JOBS may be at risk at City of York Council - as the cash-strapped local authority looks to balance its books in tough financial circumstances.

CARE home residents look set to be allowed to hold hands with a loved one again from March 8 under the Government’s roadmap for easing coronavirus restrictions.

POLICE were called in after a car left in a layby - possibly after being involved in a crash - was destroyed by fire last night.

A BIN and its contents have been destroyed after apparently being set on fire deliberately in York city centre early today.

ANOTHER 8,692 York residents have been given a Covid jab in the past week.

A PROJECT which promotes local walks is in line for a major expansion in the months ahead with plans to extend it to assist communities worst affected by coronavirus in North Yorkshire.

PROMPTED by Cllr Crawshaw’s letter (February 16) about ‘new car parks’, including York Central, I watched the webcast of the relevant planning committee on March 25, 2019.

NOT even a global pandemic can come between the English and their love of afternoon tea.

KEEN photographer Denise Hall found a creative way to beat the boredom of being on furlough and living alone in lockdown.

IN reply to Honorary Alderman Ann Reid (Letters, February 18). Ann, Yorkshire is even bigger than you give examples of. Yes we should include Doncaster to Redcar. We should also include Hull to Halifax AND beyond. Yorkshire is huge, lets take full...

A MALTON drug trafficker will be subject to police controls for four years after he is released from a prison sentence of more than 15 years.

WORK is to start on Leeman Road Millennium Green as part of the York Central project.

THE manager of York’s Coppergate Centre says she is "cautiously optimistic" that its huge former Topshop and Topman store will not stay empty for too long.

A "BIZARRE," beast has been spotted by a walker in fields around the Selby area near to York.

TWO teenagers and three young men from Scarborough are today starting life sentences for murder.

HUNDREDS of people were asked by police to leave York city centre with their food today.

EMERGENCY services were called in after a vehicle hit a telegraph pole.

YORK'S weekly rate of recording cases of Covid-19 has now dropped back down to 80, the latest figures confirm.

HARRY Potter, comedy, panto and a whole lot more are part of the line-up at a big drive-in Easter extravaganza in York.

ONE more person has lost their life to Covid-19 at a hospital in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

A MAN is due to be sentenced at crown court after admitting two breaches of the sex offenders’ register.

FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a motorbike fire on the outskirts of York.

COACHES and players from a football team in York are covering the distance from the city to Qatar to help raise funds for a new 4G pitch.

A NEW project, set up by Citizens Advice in North Yorkshire, is giving legal help and advice to members of the public to solve problems in their everyday lives, as well as support for those representing themselves in court.

WELCOME to Yorkshire has posted losses of almost £200,000 over the past two years in its latest published accounts, which includes the departure of former chief Sir Gary Verity.

WORK has started on urgent repairs to a York church after it won a £25,000 grant from Historic England’s Cultural Recovery Fund.

THE boss of a new York bowling alley has urged the government to reopen indoor leisure as early as possible.

SUPREME Court justices have ruled against Uber and said that drivers should be classed as workers.

THE number of Covid patients at York and Scarborough hospitals has fallen by 151 since peaking last month.

ORGANISERS of a North Yorkshire beer festival say they have had to postpone this year’s event till a later date.

POLICE are investigating after a specialist piece of kit was stolen from where workmen had been working.

POLICE are hunting thieves who stole sentimental jewellery in a home raid.

A YORK primary school has laid on a two-week programme of live online art, dance, music and science workshops to help make up for what pupils have missed during lockdown.

GAY rugby team the York RI Templars will be taking over the Castle Museum's Twitter feed for the day next Thursday to celebrate gay history and sport.

HOUSEBOUND York pensioner Gill Thompson will be getting her Covid jab on Sunday.

YORK'S two new electric vehicle charging 'hyperhubs' are set to be the largest in the north of England.

A FRAUDSTER stole the identities of her new boyfriend and his estranged wife as she cheated her way to more than £21,500, York Crown Court heard.

A YORK head teacher is pleading with the Government not to ask schools to reopen on March 8 - only to tell them to close again a few days later.

THE North York Moors Railway is to receive almost £300,000 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

YORK-BASED pub quiz experts have launched a tournament to uncover the UK’s top non-professional quizzers.

SAGE advice has left us all ‘falsely imprisoned’ I read with interest Julian Sturdy’s article proposing that his government should draft a plan for releasing lockdown (Time to plan route out of lockdown, February 10). A wise MP might have in...

In these times of lockdown from Covid, we need to look at the massive task of getting the whole country back on track. The NHS is doing an unbelievable job of getting everyone vaccinated.

HEALTH bosses want to make York's playgrounds no smoking areas and are asking residents to have their say by filling out a short online survey.

OLDER residents in Church Fenton were surprised by an afternoon tea donated by a local plant hire company supporting National Random Act of Kindness Day.

AN AWARD-WINNING historian from North Yorkshire has exposed a 1,300-year-old religious conspiracy.

A CAR has crashed into a wall in York tonight, causing damage but no serious injuries.

A LARGE number of drain covers have been removed from streets in a village near York.