RESIDENTS living in sheltered accommodation in York have hit out after claiming they have been told to pay for a new £114,000 fire system by their landlord.

FIREFIGHTERS were called in to help after flooding to homes.

HUNDREDS of fans, friends and family members bade farewell to York rugby legend Allan 'Big Al' Robertshaw today, as his funeral took place on the pitch where he used to play.

THREE men from North Yorkshire, who all work for the same firm, have taken part in a cycling challenge to raise money for a brain tumour charity.

POLICE have teamed up with the fire service to release three new community safety booklets as part of Operation Cracker in North Yorkshire.

Congratulations must go to BBC Radio 5 live for its Olympic coverage.

It seems like only yesterday when The Press led a campaign calling for the removal of all obstructions - such as A-boards and other obstructions - on footpaths in central York.

On Monday, walking up St. Maurice’s Road, I noticed that there was no queue of traffic going up to the Monkgate junction.

YORK’S Grand Opera House will finally reopen its doors next month - almost 18 months after it was shut by the pandemic in March last year.

GO forth and multiply the chance to see the summer spurt of theatre, musicals and outdoor shows, urges Charles Hutchinson, who also highlights big gig news for autumn and March 2022.

YORK Theatre Royal is going global, visiting all four corners of York in 23 days with its summer family show Around The World In 80 Days.

France was added to the amber plus list last month amid concerns over the Covid Beta variant.

CASTLE Howard is set to close to the public for three months as film crews descend once again.

POLICE are on the hunt for a wanted man.

MORE than 100 children in North Yorkshire are authorised to use guns, figures show.

AS Castle Howard announces it is to close for a secret filming project, we look back at the many films and TV shows that have been shot at the country pile just outside York...

YORK'S weekly recorded Covid-19 rate has increased slightly as further cases continue to be recorded in the area.

ONE more person has sadly died as a result of catching Covid-19 at hospitals in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

INSPIRED by the Olympics to try some summer sports yourself? Then why not head along to St Sampson’s Square on Sunday.

POLICE have safely dealt with an explosive that had been kept as wartime memorabilia in a North Yorkshire town.

YORK’S McArthurGlen designer outlet will be holding a summer careers fair tomorrow evening – with stores looking to recruit retail and management staff.

A NORTH Yorkshire man has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.

POLICE have confirmed that one of their offficers was sadly involved in a fatal motorcycle collision in North Yorkshire last week.

THE number of Covid patients at hospitals across North Yorkshire has dropped over the last week, the latest figures confirm.

Under existing guidance, some children aged 12 to 17 have been eligible for the jab if they have underlying health conditions.

AN HISTORIC church in York city centre is to host a new multi-sensory art installation celebrating the female presence.

A YORK man told today how he 'freaked out' when he twice saw a rat in his room after paying £1,750 to quarantine in a hotel.

Experts have said offering a Covid-19 vaccine to 16 and 17-year-olds could reduce transmission of coronavirus.

GP PRACTICES in Selby say they have been helping to change patients' lives with a new approach to managing their health.

PLANS for the former Minster School to be turned into a York Minster Refectory have been submitted.

A YORK mum who became a dominatrix for "a confidence boost" has told how the job helped her overcome self-esteem issues.

A man has been £120 fined for hare coursing.

FIRE crews and volunteers used beaters and backpack sprayers to put out a fire on a ralway embankment near Goathland last night.

POLICE have vowed to "catch any perpetrators" targeting a North Yorkshire football ground.

YORK community arts collective Next Door But One are teaming up with Explore York for a library tour of Matt Harper-Hardcastle’s one-act play Operation Hummingbird - in which a man goes back to talk to his younger self - from Thursday.

Which? worked through policies on coronavirus-related disruption which included whether customers would be refunded in the event of lockdown.

Thank you so much to The Press for raising the issue of the crisis facing NHS dentistry in York (NO York dental practices taking on new adult NHS patients, July 30).

It is no surprise developers replacing Frederick House find they need to increase height to comply with Construction Regulations, because rules have become ridiculously complex, requiring specialist consultants equipped with sophisticated computer pr...

It’s so much easier to watch urban foxes than their country counterparts. So, when a friend told me of a thriving population living near his home in York, I decided to use the opportunity to get up close to these animals.

HARROGATE'S first dedicated gin bar has opened in Hotel St George.

Let’s turn the page.

ONE of the GPs in charge of York’s Covid vaccination centre has called for young people to be given a chance to get the jab, declaring: “We have faith in them.”

DEVELOPERS claim a former York music venue which squatters have occupied is “dangerously unsafe to be inhabited” - and have revealed that a revised vision for the site is being drawn up which includes music, cultural and work space.

A HUGE crane has been removed at the site of the historic York Guildhall - which is currently being restored and redeveloped.

HIGHLY-ORGANISED criminals continued to plague North Yorkshire's farmyards over the pandemic, a new report has found.

A NORTH Yorkshire man is among those convicted of breaking the law during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration against national newspapers last September.

A FORMER music teacher from York is facing jail after he was convicted of 32 sexual offences against young girls.

YORK welcomed almost 15,000 new residents in the latest year amid a growing demand for housing and lifestyle changes in the pandemic.

DRIVERS are being asked to avoid part of a main road after a crash.

PROSECUTORS in the UK are looking into ways a motorist in Germany can be brought to justice for causing life-threatening injuries near Tadcaster.