A £10 MILLION flood defence scheme for Tadcaster will not now be completed until at least 2026 – more than a decade after the town was devastated by the Boxing Day floods of 2015.

FIREFIGHTERS had to be called in after someone jumped off the city walls in York and got stuck.

GREGGS believes it could get back to normal profits this year, as the business performed well during the first few weeks after non-essential retailers reopened.

WITH a week to go until the “green list” of countries where can people can visit on holiday goes live, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is also expected to give the go-ahead to further relaxations of the lockdown rules in England.

IT is good to see finally that work might start on the Castle Gateway scheme. I seem to remember that this was originally called Coppergate 2 back in the Nineties.

THE number of inmates at Askham Grange prison has dropped compared to levels at the start of the pandemic, figures reveal.

A SAINSBURY’S store assistant in York who was admired and respected by colleagues and customers alike has died, aged 64.

Dear Kirsten,

THE family and friends of a much-loved dad whose death ‘touched the whole of Tadcaster’ are trying to raise £10,000 to help raise awareness of men’s mental health issues.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a fatal collison on the A165 near Bridlington on Friday afternoon.

Police searching for a well-known non league footballer have sadly found a body.

Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has called on train manufacturer Hitachi to set out a safety inspection plan and long-term repair strategy for its faulty Class 800 trains, following a weekend of disruption on the railways.

York’s weekly recorded Covid-19 rate has risen slightly over the last 24 hours.

PEOPLE aged under 40 in York are being offered an alternative to the Oxford vaccine when they turn up for their Covid jabs, vaccination bosses have confirmed.

More than a third of all adults in England have now had both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the NHS has confirmed.

York Civic Trust has urged council bosses to defer a decision on reorganising a notorious city centre road junction.

A fire crew was called out to a York address yesterday evening to help a person who was 'stuck in the bath'.

TRAIN operator LNER is once again advising passengers not to travel on the East Coast Main Line today following major disruption to services yesterday.

IT was more than the end of an era when the Willow closed its doors back in 2015.

A FORMER MP has warned that Cumbria will "fight to the end" to stop York’s Askham Bryan College selling off a campus in Penrith.

Fire crews were called to Clifton Ings at just before 4pm this afternoon after reports that a calf was trapped.

There have once again been no Covid 19-related deaths recorded at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over the last 24 hours.

WHAT a difference a haircut makes.

Disruption on rail services caused by the discovery of cracks in some trains could continue for days, a rail industry group has warned.

Fire crews from York and Acomb were called out to Broad Lane in Appleton Roebuck last night after a chiller trailer caught fire.

HERE are the latest temporary traffic restrictions for York:

THIS fabulous image of deer among the bluebells was taken by our Camera Club member Brian Hughes.

Walking the River Swale

YORK has made the top five in a leaderboard of the UK’s greenest cities.

THE pandemic saw many of us look to change our lives - whether it was taking up a new hobby, getting fit and healthy or switching careers.

IF you spot a big cat in York - it may just be an exotic pet.

A 200-YEAR-OLD Quaker mental health provider based in York is expanding across the Pennines to run services in Manchester.

York Railway Station and a village near Selby were among the places where crimes were committed that led to court cases at York Magistrates Court in recent months.

High speed train services through York are beginning to resume – but operators warn services will continue to be disrupted at least for the rest of the day.

The public announcement tannoy at York Railway Station was working overtime.

TRAIN passengers are being told DO NOT TRAVEL today as problems with Hiitachi 'Class 800' trains used by York-based LNER and other train operators have meant multiple services have been cancelled or delayed.

A YORK guesthouse boss who claimed he was “utterly unable to walk” has been jailed for benefit fraud - after an undercover operation spotted him going for two-mile walks with his dogs.

Twenty homes in Clifton Moor in the George Cayley Drive/ Lysander Close area are this evening without power.

THE much-anticipated opening of the Malmaison hotel in York, complete with its roof-top sky bar with Minster views, has been pushed back for several weeks because the project is "running behind schedule".

The heavy rain in York is expected to ease off slightly later this evening, but may well return in the early hours tonight and early tomorrow morning, according to the Met Office.

POLICE are investigating a series of hoax calls in which someone claiming to be a police officer has called people to tell them a loved one has been killed in a road accident.

LNER says passengers who had tickets to travel today will be able to use them at any time up until Sunday May 16.

Av 73-year-old York man has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in jail after being found guilty of multiple historic sexual offences.

CONSTRUCTION work is set to start this month on four major flood defence schemes across York.

HERE are the latest death notices from The Press, York.

York’s weekly recorded Covid-19 rate has fallen sharply in the last 24 hours.

NO more deaths Covid 19-related deaths have been recorded at hospitals in the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust over the last 24 hours.

TWO teenagers had to be rescued by firefighters when they got stuck climbing over a high fence to get a ball.

Scarborough detectives want to speak to this man in relation to a burglary in the village of Seamer on May 4.

A CHARITY which aims to inspire social change is urging people to nominate community projects that have had an impact in their neighbourhood.