A YORK couple are vowing to go to court rather than accept City of York Council’s assertion that legally, their 11-year-old adopted daughter is NOT their daughter.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called in after a gas leak in Kingsland Terrace in the Leeman Road area of York.

FIREFIGHTERS have been battling a fire at a house in Skipton, North Yorkshire.

I thought it was an early April fool’s joke when I read that Cllr D’Agorne is leading a ‘review of measures to improve accessibility to York city centre’ (The Press, March 21).

A SCHOOLS academies trust in York has announced the appointment of a new CEO - after a national recruitment campaign.

Rowntree Park in York reopens 4 weeks after flooding.

COUNCILLORS in York are appealing to residents, schools, businesses and community groups to get involved in the Great British Spring Clean.

While in recent weeks I have successfully focused on pushing the government to drastically step-up its provision for Ukrainian refugees to match the ambition of our wider response to Putin’s aggression, I have also continued working for our city in...

"IT’S not falling down that counts but getting back up," says Iwona Michalska two years on from the enforced closure of her brand new studio business.

CITY of York Council has pledged £25k to support anti-racism and inclusion work in the city.

THIS is the adorable moment a newly hatched rare eagle chick was fed for the first time - after wildlife specialists successfully bred the only mating pair in Britain.

YORK'S Covid vaccination centre will mark the second anniversary of lockdown today by holding a two minute silence to remember those who have lost their lives to the coronavirus.

THE Moorland Association has issued a warning for a risk of wildfires after an increase in the number of incidents recently.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for fog across York and parts of Ryedale on Wednesday.

The rise comes after price increases on food, clothing and footwear and a range of products and services.

Cutting speed limits on motorways and using trains instead of planes included in plans

YORK actress Maggie Fox - who was a co-director of award-winning comedy duo LipService Theatre and who appeared in Coronation Street - has died suddenly after an accident.

A POPULAR York shop boasting a prime location and a turnover of £600,000 is on the market.

DISABILITY rights campaigners have accused the council of using “smoke and mirrors” as the authority presses on with measures it says will improve access to the city centre.

FIREFIGHTERS battle fire at popular beauty spot Brimham Rocks, Summerbridge.

A FORMER Pickering schoolboy’s company is set to expand across the UK after a record year.

YORK'S weekly recorded Covid-19 rate has increased by 35 - and more cases continue to be recorded in the area.

WORK has started on creating a ground-breaking £1m insect laboratory near York.

Lucky Days, a cafe on Parliament Street in York city centre, received a one star rating following a City of York Council food hygiene inspection.

IT'S up up and away for pupils at one York school who have had to get to grips with operating a flying car for their latest play.

A PROPERTY lawyer who has specialist expertise in listed buildings and properties of unusual historic, or architectural, interest has joined a York law firm.

THREE more Covid deaths have been recorded at hospitals in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

New Gillygate flats to be built at former Wacker's Fish and Chip shop site have to keep windows shut due to unsafe pollution levels.

The Cottage Inn in Hunmanby is up for sale as the owners have announced their retirement after 24 years.

POLICE are appealing for witnesses and information following instances of offensive graffiti on gravestones in a town.

GRANTS totalling over £157,000 have been given to organisations in the city that help with financial inclusion.

POLICE have launched a CCTV appeal after a man was attacked during a homophobic assault in a York takeaway.

A YORK band have announced they will be supporting "one of their all time favourite groups" at a show later this year.

A NEW attraction is set to open in York's historic gatehouse, telling the story of how the city came to be walled.

NOMINATIONS have opened for candidates hoping to become one of the 90 councillors on a new unitary authority for North Yorkshire.

Liam Payne, Harry Redknapp, Mo Farah, Usain Bolt and Robbie Wililams will all feature in this year’s Soccer Aid.

The Norwegian band will be visiting Scarborough for one-night only later this year

Workers at sweet makers Valeo in Low Poppleton in York have gone on strike.

A BOY from a North Yorkshire town has just completed his third book on a detective group solving mysteries based on his school - this time in collaboration with a friend.

PLANS to demolish the former Debenhams store in Harrogate have been hit by objections from conservationists who fear their impact on one of the town’s most iconic streets.

POLICE have posted a Citroën Berlingo on the A1(M) at Wetherby video of a van which had one wheel held on by just just one nut.

THE organisers of Harrogate’s Christmas market on Montpellier Hill have announced the event will not return in the future after being refused a licence last year.

Discussion of bodily functions is not usually considered appropriate in many situations.

Mercedes driver tests positive for cocaine on A1M at Bramham.

A THEATRE in York is set to host a concert celebrating 70 years of pop music this weekend.

A POPULAR East Yorkshire venue has announced it will be opening fully for the summer this weekend.

Jonathan Bonner (Letters, March 19) can attack me as much as he likes, but it doesn’t alter the fact that Spark is fundamentally wrong and should never have been granted planning permission let alone taxpayer subsidies.

Good old Boris, ever alert for opportunities to put his foot in it - this time by comparing the vote for Brexit with the struggle for freedom in Ukraine.

Firefighters were called in to a fire at a playground in Foxwood, York.

THE future of a £14 million multi-storey car park at St George’s Field looks to be in doubt now that the council’s deputy leader Andy D’Agorne has spoken out against it.