A YORK tapas bar wants increase its outdoor seating and keep its roof terrace open for longer.

ASPIRING actor Michael Westlund has seen himself increasingly on the set of high profile film or television productions, working alongside a host of stars.

DO you recognise this "secret" beach in North Yorkshire?

A FESTIVAL for gin and rum lovers is coming to York with a selection of more than 60 different spirits.

YORK first-time buyers now pay a third of their salary on mortgage payments on average, a study has found.

ASYLUM seekers have left a York hotel after being accommodated there for almost a year of the pandemic.

FORMER York schoolboy Greg Wise has told how he has agreed to take part in Strictly Come Dancing in honour of his sister, who died five years ago.

FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a property in Pocklington after a slow cooker was placed on an electric hob and caught fire.

FIVE areas of York - three to the north of the city - are shaded purple on the latest Covid map after rises in the numbers of infections.

POLICE have arrested one person and seized items during a drugs raid in York.

Well done to pupils for GCSE results

A SMASH hit West End comedy - The Play That Goes Wrong - is coming to a York stage in September as part of its 2021 UK tour.

THE new design of York's Brollywalk definitely has people buzzing.

A MAN caused chaos on the York Inner Ring Road when he sat down in the middle of Foss Islands Road.

PRESS readers have voiced their frustrations and anger over long waiting times of up to TEN HOURS at York Hospital's A&E department - and say GPs need to see more patients to alleviate the problem.

A lorry driver who drove an HGV in a motorway services while nearly four times the alcohol limit has been given a suspended prison sentence.

A YOUNG man who "degraded and humiliated" a woman he walked home by sexually assaulting her in her own front garden, has been jailed.

DAD-of-two Stef Proietti left paralysed after an operation to remove a spinal tumour has vowed to scale the Three Peaks to give back to those who helped him in his darkest hours.

His channel was subscribed to gun-related accounts and another named Incel TV, which features content related to “involuntary celibacy”,

YORK Viking-themed bar Valhalla has revealed plans to double the number of customers it can cater for in its outside area.

REVIEW: York Theatre Royal in Around The World In 80 Days, Copmanthorpe Primary School Playing Fields, York

Property companies buy prominent York building on Parliament Street

The chicken connoisseurs provided an update on social media.

THE news that Anchor Hanover are demanding that pensioners at Guardian Court, Clifton pay £2,500 each to replace the old fire alarm equipment is totally unreasonable (The Press, August 5). These tenants already pay a significant annual fee for maint...

FIREFIGHTERS were called in after a fire at an industrial unit in York.

YORK has a worldwide reputation as a historic city with many magnificent buildings.

KNOWN as the ‘Jewel of York’, the rare tansy beetle is a sight to behold.

THE number of merlin chicks fledging on the North York Moors has reached 50, demonstrating a good recovery after a poor season in 2020.

HERE are the latest death notices from The Press for this week.

The deaths are currently being treated as “unexplained”.

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

A FORMER bank and travel agency in York city centre could be redeveloped into a major restaurant or bar.

A GROUP of sixth form students embarked on a sponsored walk to raise money and awareness for Yorkshire’s biggest domestic and sexual abuse charity.

THE total death toll from Covid in the City of York Council area has reached almost 400 - the vast majority of people dying in hospital and care homes.

A MAJOR department store is extending its click and collect parcel collection service partnership with a well-known local food store chain in York.

ONE more death related to Covid-19 has been recorded at a hospital in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

AFTER an unexpected year out, the team behind the York National Book Fair are "excited" to bring back the city's annual event.

STAFF and members from a gym and cafe in York has raised over £500 to support a children's charity.

The area has been cordoned off and police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

A CINEMA group with two York venues has raised the average price of tickets by more than 40 per cent since screens reopened as Covid-19 restrictions eased.

A MAN who lost his father and aunt during the pandemic has been sacked from his job and banned from the roads after being caught drug driving.

A HAIRDRESSER who repeatedly broke Covid rules by opening during lockdown told police the law didn’t apply to her - a court heard.

Researchers have called for possible reasons for variations between setting to be urgently looked at to help implement best practices.

GCSE results day coverage of the stories as they come in from the schools across York, North and East Yorkshire.

DEMAND for care in York Hospital's A&E department is now 'extremely busy'.

JOE Wicks - the fitness coach who got the nation moving during lockdown - is visiting York today as part of his P.E. With Joe Tour.

THERE are reports coming in of a crane on fire on a major road.

YORK’S mass vaccination centre is preparing to give both Covid booster jabs and flu jabs to older and vulnerable people this autumn – but not during the same visit.

"I'M just getting in touch to announce that we're doing some Shakespeare on a rugby pitch in Selby in August. Crazy? Perhaps. But it's going to be fun!", teases the email from Luke Adamson.

 MAGPIES and mermaids, Shakespeare's wife and Scarborough romances, Boy George and a Bon Jovi tribute, Aretha & Patti and singer-songwriters at the quadruple are Charles Hutchinson's tips for what to see.