YORK’S answer to Arnold Schwarzenegger - former bodybuilder and York gym owner Brian House - has died from Covid.

A BANK with a branch in York city centre has seen its income significantly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic - reporting a £204million loss.

A CAR crashed into a tree in North Yorkshire yesterday (Sunday).

TO celebrate National Storytelling Week, North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has teamed up with a number of critically-acclaimed authors for a week of readings and activities.

THE number of new coronavirus cases confirmed in the York area over a seven-day period recently compared to the previous week has dropped by nearly 40 per cent.

ONLINE fashion retailer Asos has confirmed it has sealed the takeover of Topshop and three other brands from the collapse of the Arcadia retail empire for £265 million.

AS lockdown deepens many of us are missing our local pub.

IF a picture tells a thousand words - then this pair of images speaks volumes about the rollercoaster of emotions we are all undergoing in lockdown.

A BURST water main is still causing problems in a York village this morning.

POLICE have located and arrested one of two men wanted on suspicion of threatening to cause criminal damage.

FRIENDS, fans and former players are being urged to honk their horns on Tuesday to pay their last respects to York rugby legend and former pub landlord Don Butler.

TWO members of a gang who carried out a series of targeted raids on farms and rural properties near Helmsley have been jailed.

KIND-HEARTED staff at a Sainsbury’s store in York stepped in to help a family who had to be rescued from the first floor window of their flooded home.

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HERE are a list of the latest traffic restrictions for York:

THE York Balloon Fiesta has been postponed again because of the pandemic - and given a new name.

MR Towner missed my point about the BBC licence fee (Letters, Jan 27).

NETFLIX drama Bridgerton is proving the hit drama of the season - but its real star is North Yorkshire's Castle Howard. The grand stately home features prominently in the Regency romance, standing in for Clyvedon Castle, the family seat of lead ch...

GOOD Samaritans who stopped to help at a fatal road accident in North Yorkshire are being asked to self-isolate - as someone at the scene had the coronavirus.

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.

A JOURNEY across North Yorkshire to look at a car which was for sale has cost four people dearly.

If you have bought any of the items mentioned below, return them to the place of purchase to get a refund.

CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore has been admitted to hospital with Covid 19, his family have announced.

A DRIVER who was badly injured in a crash in East Yorkshire has now died - while the second driver remains in a critical but stable condition.

YORK'S Covid rate has now fallen to less than a third of its peak earlier this month.

POLICE have visited woodlands near York to investigate allegations that coronavirus restrictions were being breached.

RYEDALE residents are being offered free transport to Covid vaccination sites.

A FURTHER five patients with the coronavirus have died at York and Scarborough hospitals.

POLICE were called in by fire crews after a 'suspicious' fire in a utility room at a property in Foxwood early today.

TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps has pledged up to £56 million to overhaul a section of the A59 in North Yorkshire which has been hit by a series of landslips and closures over the years.

THREE Normandy veterans have donated £500 to York Army Museum after The Press revealed how it had launched a fundraising campaign.

THE Great Knaresborough Bed Race has been cancelled for the second year running because of the coronavirus.

A WOMAN has been banned from keeping all animals for two years after her cat was left with fur loss and sores caused by a flea allergy and she failed to seek veterinary treatment.

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.

Tenants with “well-behaved” pets will be able to secure leases more easily with landlords no longer able to issue a blanket ban on pet owners.

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

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

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.