THE doctor in charge of York’s national vaccination centre has reassured extremely clinically vulnerable residents that they will be called up to get their vaccines.

MORE than 6,500 symptom-free tests for Covid-19 were carried out last week in York, a year after the city had the first recorded cases in the UK.

TEN thousand York jobs and hundreds of businesses are at immediate risk of being lost unless the Government provides more support to the hospitality and retail sectors, city leaders have warned in an open letter to the Chancellor.

A RURAL area of North Yorkshire has had so few cases of coronavirus confirmed recently that it is now shaded white on an official map.

A FRESH plea has gone out to patients not to contact their GP asking when they will get their Covid-19 jab.

Keith Aspden, leader of City of York Council, looks back to the first cases of coronavirus in the UK and how he found out about the news

From restaurants to fish and chip shops, here are five businesses for sale in York.

A CHRISTMAS tree recycling scheme has managed to raise almost £3,000 to support St Leonard’s Hospice.

POLICE are investigating after a man died suddenly in a York wood.

LITTLE Hudson Johnstone was born so premature he was the same size as a bottle of Fanta.

A YELLOW warning for snow and ice has been issued for York and North Yorkshire on Tuesday.

A LEADING and often outspoken York head teacher is stepping down from his post at the end of the school year.

ONLY one area of York is still shaded purple in a Public Health England Covid map today, following a further reduction in the number of cases across the city.

THE Covid rate has fallen again in York and North Yorkshire.

A TEMPORARY Covid testing site will be set up next week in an area of York which has seen high infection rates in recent times.

AN OVEN door has been blown off by gas from a candle which was being melted down in the oven.

THREE more patients with the coronavirus have died at York and Scarborough hospitals.

NORTH Yorkshire Police are appealing for information to help them locate two wanted men.

YORK'S River Ouse is in flood again today, following recent heavy rain in the Dales catchment - but levels are not as high as last week.

THE family of a woman who died after a crash on the A19 near York have paid tribute to someone who was “kindness in its purest form."

CALVES and sheep have died in a major fire on a North Yorkshire farm.

Cookie and Ozzy, both three-year-old male Guinea pigs, were brought to The York Animal Home as their previous owner could no longer keep them.

A BUS firm's £1.4 million investment in top end coaches for its key link between York and Leeds is being hailed as “hugely significant” for the region’s recovery beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.

A YORK Hospital doctor has revealed how her hands were shaking the first time she anxiously put on high level PPE to treat a patient at the start of the pandemic.

SCIENTIFIC papers have been published documenting the first two cases of coronavirus in the UK and the treatment of the patients who had been staying at the Staycity hotel in York when they fell ill.

RACHAEL Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, remembers hearing about the first UK coronavirus cases and tells us what happened next

JULIAN Sturdy, Conservative MP for York Outer, reflects on hearing that the first UK coronavirus cases were confirmed in the city.

FLICKING through newspapers, there is one thing that lifts my spirits. Holiday adverts.

Here are some top-rated hotels across York and North Yorkshire- and what the reviewers have been saying about them.

A YORK Hospital consultant has spoken about the physical and emotional toll of working on the coronavirus frontline.

A YEAR ago today, two people fell ill at a York hotel - and Britain started its chaotic slide into lockdowns, deaths, quarantines, masks, economic crises, overwhelmed hospitals and closed schools.

A BODY found near train track has been identified.

THE military has joined the battle to get York vaccinated against Covid-19.

CORONAVIRUS testing is set to be introduced in North Yorkshire’s schools.

THE weekly rate of recording cases of Covid-19 in York has dropped again, but further cases continue to be confirmed in the city.

A BRAND new Pride event has been unveiled for the Yorkshire Wolds just as the UK gears up to mark LGBT+ History Month.

THE Covid rate has fallen significantly in nine York council wards - and risen in none.

A PRIMARY school looks set to close.

THIRTEEN care homes in the York area have at least one resident or staff member with confirmed Covid-19 infection - up from ten a week ago.

THREE more people have lost their lives to Covid-19 at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

THIRTY children at 19 different primary and secondary schools across York have tested positive for Covid-19 - even though the majority of pupils are not currently attending school.

MORE than 26,000 York residents have now had the Covid jab - with another thousand having had the second dose.

A COUPLE has told the trial of a butcher accused of raping and murdering Libby Squire how they heard "high-pitched female screams" on the night the student went missing.

A COLOURFUL inclusive road crossing has been unveiled at the University of York.

A NEW bridge was airlifted into place at York's Foss Barrier and Pumping Station today, in one of the final stages of a six-year, £38 million upgrade.

FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue when they loaned an old resuscitation dummy to beauty therapy tutors at York College - to support their students’ online learning.

UPDATED 4PM: The road is now reopened and the earlier accident has been cleared. DRIVERS are being warned about an accident just off the York ringroad.

HOSPITALS within the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have recorded over 100 deaths related to Covid-19 over the last four weeks.

A MAN suffered a broken leg when he was allegedly pushed to the ground by another man in York.

THE number of Covid patients being treated at York and Scarborough hospitals has fallen again - but the number in intensive care has risen.