TWELVE people have been taken ill with Covid-19 after attending a post-Christmas fundraising dinner at York Acorn Rugby Club in Acomb.

THREE men are due in court after police received a report that a group of people allegedly acted in an "aggressive and threatening manner" towards staff at York's Poppleton Park and Ride testing site.

MORE snow is falling across North Yorkshire this morning.

YORK and North Yorkshire are under a yellow weather warning again today with sleet, snow and ice excepted.

THE North Yorkshire teenager who plays a young Diana in the new Wonder Woman movie has said it was her history in showjumping that allowed her to do most of her own stunts in the blockbuster.

A FORMER Lord Mayor of York and his wife celebrate reaching their Diamond Wedding anniversary today.

A SUPERMARKET giant with stores in York says a surge in Christmas food shopping has driven “strong” recent sales which are expected to help offset soaring coronavirus costs.

WOMEN are being invited to join a special event next month designed to help boost wellness.

HIGH street pharmacies will be able to distribute coronavirus vaccines from Thursday, the NHS has said.

PEOPLE sometimes say the oddest things when they think there’s no-one to overhear.

To the minority that still believe that covid is a hoax, a government ploy; to the people who complain that it’s their choice if they wear a mask or not and that it’s against their human rights, I would say - well, if they do become ill becaus...

GERALD the much-missed Minster cat is coming to life again - in stone. Stonecarver Anthony Bartyla has been making a stone sculpture of Gerald which should be ready for unveiling next month.

PLANS to add two extra storeys to a block of flats have been refused by City of York Council.

YORK’S public health team - which has led the response to the pandemic in the past year - is set to have £33,000 cut from its budget as the council faces tough decisions to balance the books.

STAFF sickness levels at City of York Council FELL in the past year according to figures, despite the pandemic.

A POLICE chief has revealed that officers issued 107 fines for rule breaches during the first week of the latest lockdown - as he warned they would no longer "waste time reasoning with people".

URGENT action is being taken to tackle Covid in a York neighbourhood after the infection rate rose so fast it is now almost off the scale.

I find it very strange that, during lockdown, people have to wear masks, sanitize their hands and keep a social distance, golfers cannot play golf or bowlers play bowls indoors - and yet somehow footballers are still allowed to play the game.

I wonder what it was like living in East Germany in the 1950s and 60s?

A MURAL has been created on a bridge over the railway line in Copmanthorpe to tackle graffiti.

Whilst I have enormous sympathy with the residents of Sandringham Court (Residents slam ‘insane’ plan to build extra storeys on block of flats, January 10) I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

CONFECTIONERY giant Nestle UK Ltd has been fined £640,000 and ordered to pay £26,234 in costs after an employee was dragged into a machine on the production line at its site in Albion Mills, Halifax.

A butcher committed a series of sexually motivated crimes against young women in the months before he raped and murdered a 21-year-old university student, a court has heard.

A WOMAN allegedly decided to drive 100 miles to get a burger in North Yorkshire at the weekend, police said.

A POLICE chief has revealed that officers issued 107 fines for rule breaches during the first week of the latest lockdown - as he warned they would no longer 'waste time reasoning with people.'

A PLUMBER has delivered his wife’s baby - on the bathroom floor at their York home.

An “extremely vulnerable” university student was raped and murdered by a 26-year-old butcher “patrolling the streets” looking for an opportunity to present itself to him, a court heard.

FAILED department store Debenhams has announced it will be permanently closing six stores, including one in Yorkshire, resulting in the loss of 320 jobs.

YORK'S Covid rate has risen again - and remains higher than the national average.

ORGANISERS say thousands more people are getting the Covid jab this week on a former York Park & Ride site, as additional vaccine becomes available.

VIKINGS in York are offering help to schools during the lockdown.

PEOPLE could soon be offered an overnight coroanvirus jab.

THE NSPCC is desperately urging York residents to volunteer following a stark rise in children contacting childline.

COVID has claimed the lives of five more patients at York and Scarborough hospitals.

REGULAR supplies of Covid vaccine are now arriving in North Yorkshire - as the area is being affected particularly badly by the new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus.

Lockdown restrictions in England will remain in place for as “long as they are necessary”, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said as plans are made to administer vaccines 24-hours a day.

COVID support marshalls are adding more areas of York to their rounds, after advising more than 400 groups of people in the city centre.

AN ALCOHOL-free spirits producer has seen ten times more sales in the first week of the year than it saw in the whole of January 2020.

'2020 was the ultimate in roller coaster business journeys', says Graham Richardson, who fears the stakes have never been so high as 2021 starts.

AN alleged shoplifter was arrested after being found hiding in a loft.

A YORK-based housebuilder which kept all staff on full pay during the spring lockdown went on to have a 'robust' year in 2020.

A supermarket with two stores in York has announced a new pay deal which it says will guarantee at least £10 an hour for all staff.

A SUPERMARKET security officer hero is to get a £350 reward for intervening when two armed men had a pre-arranged fight in the store’s car park.

YORK and North Yorkshire are facing 30 hours of non-stop rain, sleet and snow today and tomorrow - and forecasters say it's possible that the 'Beast from the East' could return next week, bringing even colder and snowier weather.

A PROJECT manager who was involved in a new teaching and resource centre in York has launched his own consultancy practice.

Why have Yorkshire and Humberside been ignored over mass vaccination centres? We should have got one at the same time as the rest of the country.

VIRTUAL vegan cooking classes, two-hour breaks and budgets for plants are among the staff support measures offered at a York company.

A PRODUCT, designed and developed in North Yorkshire, is being used to secure 4.5km of power cables in a major infrastructure project in Norway.

AN innovator whose York tech business uses smart sensors to monitor hives and better understand the decline of bees has won national recognition.

PLANS are being drawn up to stage an outdoor theatrical production near York Minster this Easter - pandemic permitting.