A HEAD teacher has defended her pupils after complaints about them not sticking to Covid-19 guidelines on their lunch break in a popular part of York.

On Tuesday – the anniversary of Covid-19 lockdown – we will all stop for a moment to reflect on those we have lost to this dreadful pandemic.

A FOUNDATION, based in York, has handed a cash boost to a charity which supports those living with Dementia.

FEES for taxi licences in York are to go up under council plans.

IT'S hoped easing of lockdown will mean the final houses on a 34-home development will be sold.

JAPANESE tea house Ippuku is applying for a change to its alcohol licence.

YOUR editorial on Wednesday about potholes in York (March 17), reminded me of the following ‘our cars have to be roadworthy but are roads are not car worthy’.

RARE and “historically significant” books have been uncovered as part of a major cataloguing project at York’s Bar Convent.

SOME pupils at a York primary school will have to self-isolate until the Easter holidays after someone from the school tested positive for Covid.

LIFE expectancy has fallen for women living in some of the poorest areas of the city.

THE Covid rate has fallen yet again in York - and the city's hospital trust has reported no further deaths from the coronavirus.

YORK is set to get a new chocolate shop.

OWNERS of a bridal boutique who have lost more than £70,000 of turnover are calling for more support for the wedding sector.

CITY of York Council will be urged at a meeting next week to become more 'transgender inclusive.'

HOLIDAYS to foreign destinations will be “extremely unlikely” this summer due to the risk of new Covid-19 variants being brought back into the UK, a scientist has warned.

LEEDS United legend and former Scotland international Peter Lorimer died today after a long illness, aged 74.

TWO local history groups are combining forces to better research York’s past.

POSTERS outside York's Grand Opera House are still promoting shows from LAST March - but online the theatre is also selling tickets for performances later this spring... provided the roadmap out of lockdown isn't delayed.

HALF of the UK’s adult population has now received its first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Secretary has announced.

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct an 11-year-old boy.

A MOTORIST has been caught on camera overtaking a tractor - right on the approach to a hairpin bend.

Fern is a sweet girl who was brought to the York RSPCA animal home by an inspector after her needs were not getting met.

A PARLIAMENTARY committee is to examine a York college’s controversial decision to close and sell its campus in Cumbria.

THE RSPCA has issued a warning after a York woman was conned into buying an unfit puppy.

One of the things we’ve learned over the last year is that for many people, books have been a great way to get through lockdown.

YORK BID, the organisation responsible for the city's Christmas lights, street rangers, events including the Bloom flower festival and many other projects, has won a further five year term.

I have written in this column about how we should be able to manage our own hair, make-up, and self-care routines without the need for trips to beauty salons.

BACK in the 1990s, I was covering a story on toy guns that looked like genuine firearms and was sent to various shops to buy some examples.One of them, in particular, looked very much like a real weapon, especially in the dark. A few weeks later,...

200 new Cabinet Office jobs are set to move to York in the next five years, according to the Government.

PUPILS at a York school are self-isolating after a number of cases of Covid-19.

POLICE in York are continuing their hunt for a wanted woman.

A FAULTY washing machine is thought to have caused a house fire in York.

TYRES were slashed on a car in a residential street.

KIND-HEARTED staff at a York pub have donated all their surplus snacks and soft drinks to pre-school children.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses and information about criminal damage to a historic building in Ripon city centre.

YORK'S Covid-19 weekly recorded case rate has dropped below 40 - and just five more cases have been confirmed in the area.

A NORTH Yorkshire therapist is running mental health first aid courses to help businesses.

POLICE officers waded into the sea at Scarborough to secure a vulnerable person and ensure he received the help he needs.

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

ONLY one care home in the York area now has a Covid case - and the last 'outbreak' involving two or more cases was reported as long ago as February 25.

POLICE are appealing for information about a wanted man with links to Leeds.

A CRACK cocaine and heroin dealer snared by undercover cops has been jailed for 20 months.

PROFESSIONAL chef Tom Spenceley is to appear in one of the country’s top programmes.

POLICE are appealing for information about a wanted Selby man who may be in the Hull area.

POLICE want help to identify a man who approached a teenager in a village.

CHILDREN at a York school are being asked to self-isolate after a case of Covid-19.

THIRTY Covid patients are today being treated at York and Scarborough hospitals, down by four on yesterday and by 212 on the peak of the crisis on January 26.

A YORK school nurse has spoken at this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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

A CARE assistant in York, who is also a keen artist, has been using her sketches to bond with her clients in special way.