EIGHT areas around York are now shaded white on the Public Health England map due to low Covid case numbers, and the city's weekly rate has dropped again.

A 23-year-old North Yorkshire man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

EVERY state secondary school in York is set to reopen to pupils on Monday (March 8) bucking national trends.

COVID jabs are now available to people aged 56 and over in York and North Yorkshire.

THERE are set to be a number of traffic restrictions in place around York over the coming weeks.

A PROGRAMME of free online events will be hosted by an organisation based in York to help celebrate International Women's Week, which starts today.

FIRE crews were called to an incident yesterday evening after the occupant of a flat had fallen asleep while running a bath, causing flooding to the flat below.

IT’S little surprise to see patience wearing incredibly thin in the government inspectors formally examining York’s Local Plan.

A YORK charity is looking to give away books to any school that can use them.

DEMAND for empty shops and cafes for small businesses is high in York, despite the pandemic, with city bosses saying the situation is "very positive" for retail and tourism to bounce back.

HOW Boris Johnson can sleep at night after offering the NHS a contemptible one per cent pay rise is beyond me.

LARA Fawcett proved as daring as her brother TV endurance adventurer Bear Grylls when she took part in an open air ice-swimming challenge throughout February for charity.

A NORTH Yorkshire home of historic interest - set in parkland where King James I hunted - is on the market for £10 million.

THE claims by the Escrick Park Estate that the proposed Heronby village along the A19 between York and Selby would enhance biodiversity, as contained in your article "First Look at Plans for New Village", are misleading and absurd.

A MAN with a history of violence and having weapons in public has been spared a jail term after police found him with a blade in public.

YORK Minster’s Grand Organ will be played in a service on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, following the completion of a £2 million, once-in-a-century refurbishment.

A YORK health chief has warned that more Covid cases can be expected in the city’s care homes despite residents and staff being vaccinated – but the illness will be much less serious and the virus won’t spread so much.

A MAN has been jailed after spitting several times at a nurse and saying: "I hope you get Covid, I hope you die."

A YORK-based company is looking for brave volunteers to take part in a set of epic endurance challenges once lockdown is lifted.

BUSINESSES should see cash from Government lockdown grants land in their bank accounts from Monday, the council says.

DOZENS of judges past and present attended York Crown Court virtually to hear tributes to the first leader of the city’s only barrister chambers.

A COUPLE of years ago I wrote a column about how I, at the age of 58, could put myself to use as an influencer.

A PROFESSIONAL heavyweight boxer has been jailed for seriously and possibly permanently damaging a woman’s eyesight in a pub attack.

THERE are reports of a crash in a York suburb.

MORE than 30 per cent of York's population has now had a Covid jab.

AN overheating battery charger is thought to have caused a fire at a garage today.

PUPILS will go back to school in York next week with the number of Covid cases among them having dwindled to a handful.

A POPULAR venue will start the first phase of reopening later this month.

THE family of a missing man have thanked people for their “incredible support”, as the search to find him continues.

A YORK hospice is planning to light up the city's landmarks in blue and yellow on March 23 to mark the first anniversary of the first lockdown.

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

A FEMALE-RUN tattoo studio that operated in Spark:York could move into Grade II-listed city centre premises under plans before the council.

A MALTON butcher jailed for the rape and murder of university student Libby Squire could have his sentence increased after his case was referred to the Attorney General.

A NORTH Yorkshire children’s author said he was left “truly flabbergasted” after winning a Blue Peter Book Award live on the show.

POLICE have strongly reiterated their warning to dog owners after a pregnant sheep was attacked and killed in the North York Moors.

FIREFIGHTERS have rescued a pony after she became trapped with her legs across a bar in a horsebox.

NEW research by York academics has revealed how much golfers' well being would be boosted by courses being reopened at the end of the month.

A MAN from York has been recruited by a distillery in a major sales role as demand for Yorkshire's first single malt whisky soars.

A COURIER driver is back on the dole again because he went driving a day after smoking cannabis.

THE number of Covid patients being treated at York and Scarborough hospitals is continuing to fall - albeit very slowly now.

YORK Minster’s Grand Organ is to be played for the first time in three years following the completion of a £2 million refurbishment.

FIREFIGHTERS were called in after an agricultural building was deliberately set on fire by its owner to destroy it, North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service said today.

YORK Pride will not be going ahead this year, but will instead be replaced by a virtual event.

ARGUABLY they are both national treasures - and Yorkshire ones at that.

SEASIDE accommodation prices have risen by an average of 35% this summer compared with last year, according to analysis.

I CANNOT believe the appalling news that part of our A & E department may be privatised (The Press, March 3).

THE BBC has opened its video archives for readers of the Press.

THEY say history repeats itself and so it does.

TWELVE months ago the words lockdown, social distancing, and Covid-19 were as rare as a Boris Johnson hairbrush.

HAS York changed much in the past 45 years?