A DRINKER who nearly blinded a young man in one eye in a late night attack has been jailed - after a friend of the victim spent months trawling Facebook to identify him.

The idea is being considered as part of a six-week consultation, launched on Tuesday, seeking the views of teachers, parents and other staff.

The restrictions come in response to concerns over the Delta variant of Covid-19 which is now prevalent in the UK.

EIGHT hotels in York have reported more than 100 vacancies between them as the staffing crisis within hospitality continues.

The protesters who occupied the empty site at the Barbican achieved two important things during their short occupation.

YORK Central MP Rachael Maskell says alternatives to e-scooters - such as rentable modern mobility scooters - should be made available for people with mobility problems who find it difficult getting into York city centre.

YORK Covid survivor Anelia Cox says she is "mortified" and "devastated" at losing clumps of her hair since becoming seriously ill with the disease.

PHOTOS show the current interior of the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library in Haxby Road.

It is not the first time Prof Whitty has been forced to endure public harassment.

THE number of Covid patients at York and Scarborough hospitals has risen slightly - and one patient has had to go into intensive care.

DO you recognise these tools, a lawnmower and an oven found in back of van in Harrogate?

A VAPING retailer says a record number of smokers have come to its York store looking to quit since it re-opened.

A NEW supermarket will open in York next month - further intensifying competition between the city's established retailers for customers' business.

CITY leaders are focusing efforts on ensuring that as many of the 209 jobs lost by the closure of John Lewis York remain in the city.

THE Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library at the former Rowntree factory site is set to be transformed into a community hub - with a glasshouse and pavilion to be constructed on land behind the building.

A LITTLE boy was heartbroken when he dropped his toy turtle into the sea and feared it would be eaten by sharks – but a community rallied round to reunite him with it.

READING in the local public notices (The Press, June 25) I noticed unbelievably the application to close the footpath between Penleys Grove Street and Lockwood Street again from July 5 to 9.

IN the latest edition of our look back through the archives, here are five sports pictures submitted by our readers.

A MAN has been arrested following a stabbing outside a takeaway.

FIREFIGHTERS are at the scene of an HGV on fire on a major road in York.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy was arrested after a suspected assault close to York Minster.

POLICE are still hunting a wanted man in York.

TALKS about the future of John Lewis York have failed to save the store as the department chain confirms today that it will remain permanently closed.

A YORK widow has visited the ‘Covid Memorial Wall’ in London to pay tribute her “truly amazing” husband - after he lost his battle with Covid earlier this year.

A HOLIDAY trip of a lifetime for a father of two from North Yorkshire turned to tragedy when a tandem parachute jump in the Grand Canyon ended in disaster an inquest has found.

EMERGENCY repairs are being carried out on a major road in York city centre tonight (June 28).

A man has appeared before magistrates accused of causing the death of a Norton man while drink driving.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid today said the Government planned to lift all Covid restrictions on July 19.

Mixing doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines generates a robust immune response against coronavirus, research suggests.

A HOUSEBUILDER is forging ahead with plans to build a £21.5m development of 80 homes in North Yorkshire.

AN MP has highlighted concerns of York parents in the House of Commons about the disruption caused to children who have to self isolate.

A dog is a man’s best friend, the old saying goes. Well, during lockdown cats ran them a close second.

POLICE have released a CCTV image of four men who were in a group they want to speak to after a burglary in York.

VANDALS struck smashing the windows of six cars.

As City of York Council continues to discuss city centre access, many disabled people find themselves unable to visit our wonderful city. Whilst the extension of the footstreets was part of the social distancing measures, there is a real risk it will...

YORK is now shaded in dark blue on an official map after its Covid rate soared to 218.4 per 100,000 people - but hospital patient numbers still aren't rising in response.

YORK Opera is planning to resume rehearsals after more than a year in lockdown.

PARENTS and carers in York are invited to enjoy a special event with their babies in Acomb this week.

JOHN and Sarah Moore are today celebrating their Blue Sapphire wedding anniversary.

THE group behind a popular hotel and restaurant in North Yorkshire has bought a county spa hotel.

A MAN who has a “flagrant disregard” for court orders has been jailed for 16 weeks for breaching an order made at York Family Court.

THE impact of the pandemic on the nation's love lives is to be investigated by York St John University.

A DRINK driver who was more than three times the legal limit was one of a number of people arrested on the roads on Saturday night.

Four people have been formally acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the alleged resale of tickets for concerts and other events.

A MAJOR road resurfacing scheme in York has been postponed until further notice - because it might interfere with too many funerals.

Professor Mike Holmes, who leads York’s mass vaccination centre, asks people to encourage loved ones to get their jab as cases of the Covid Delta variant continue to rise

Restaurants and other businesses would be forced to hand over all tips to their staff under new proposals tabled in Parliament following Government delays.

MORE than 250 students and staff at the University of York are self isolating after testing positive for the coronavirus.

I would like to thank Mr Paolo Sunda for the lovely photograph of the ‘less well-known’ Blue Bridge (The Press, June 25).

Insatiable appetites for sausage rolls and steak bakes since the easing of lockdown have been greater than first thought, according to Greggs.