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Hob Moor Oaks Academy in Green Lane in Acomb in the west of the city provides specialist education for youngsters aged between two and 11.

Fresh calls are being made for council bosses to take steps to ease congestion near Hazel Court Household Waste Recycling Centre which local traders say is damaging business.

Mandy Neal, 61, was rushed into York Hospital, put in an induced coma and placed on a ventilator at the end of 2023. She was diagnosed with pneumonia but also an infection - Strep A. The induced coma lasted the majority of January 2024.

The unnamed donor has approached St Michael le Belfrey and offered to cover the outstanding cost, if needed, of the £8.5 million Impact project next to York Minster.

Award winning chef and TV star Tommy Banks is part of a new venture called Jeopardy Hospitality (JH), along with business partner Matthew Lockwood, brother James Banks and businessman, Neil Armstrong.

Pavers Shoes is opening a new shop within McArthurGlen York Designer Outlet later this month – just a few units down from its current location.

The structure follows a hook shape over the frontage of stores including Bonmarché, Primark, Fenwick and Flying Tiger, as well as doors to the Coppergate Centre multi-storey car park and the path to the River Foss and Piccadilly.

Emma Gascgoine and Lois Cook co-founded The York Skin Clinic in Acomb Road in Holgate after Emma herself discovered she had skin cancer.

Business owners told a City of York Council meeting on Thursday, May 13 the hikes had already driven customers away since they came into force last month.

The county’s fire and rescue service say they were called at 9.08pm on Wednesday (May 14) after reports of a crash on the A64 near Whitwell-on-the-Hill between York and Malton.

The news felt like “being punched in the stomach”, says Richard, from Strensall. Sophia, now 12,

OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity has joined forces with Menfulness to support men in the York area.

RESIDENTS of a village outside York were evacuated from their homes yesterday by police (May 13), following the discovery of a suspected Second World War bomb.

Under plans announced on Wednesday, the Government will cut the number of civil servants working in London by 12,000 and shift jobs to a series of new regional “campuses” across the country.

Jewbury in York which is the site of a medieval Jewish cemetery holding 5,000 bodies, has been granted protected status as a Scheduled Monument by the Government, following advice from Historic England.

Ed O’Brien spent six days in the coma at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) after falling in Millennium Square, Leeds, during his team’s open-top bus Premier League promotion parade on Monday, May 5.

Mayor David Skaith said he would continue to press the Government to ensure local farmers are protected following the announcement that a trade deal had been reached with the US.

David Skaith said he shut himself off after losing his father Bob in 2021 but speaking about his feelings, sports and socialising helped him come to terms with his loss.

City of York Council planners have recommended councillors approve a 44-home application from Barratt David Wilson Homes for the site in Dunnington, which is currently farmland.

Train services using York railway station are returning to normal following an earlier signalling fault between Newcastle and Darlington (May 13).

The York BID Safety Network encompasses the city-wide radio network, Sentry Secure Intelligence System, and the coordination of both Pub Watch and Shop Watch schemes.

Huge Ancient Giant puppets walked the city centre towering above shoppers before joining the entertainment in the gardens.

A line-up of award-winning companies have been announced by the scheme’s joint venture development partners, McLaren Property and Arlington Real Estate, as the scheme makes another move forward.

Ben Fletcher, who is about to start working for the York Hospital trust as a registered nurse at Nelson's Court of Tadcaster Road is still coming to terms with the death of his mum, Sue, from a rare form of cancer aged just 52 on Saturday, April 26.

Visitors will be able to ride the 33-metre (108.268ft) high wheel in St Sampson’s Square from tomorrow (Saturday, May 10) until Saturday, June 7. It will be open daily from 11am to 7pm.

YORK'S world-famous reclusive Chaplin twins are the inspiration for a new Hollywood film. Tinsel-town A-listers Rooney Mara and her sister Kate are starring in a film based on the lives on Freda and Greta Chaplin

As reported by The Press yesterday, several police vehicles and paramedics were on the scene in Albert Street, close to Walmgate, shortly before 11.30am on Thursday (May 8).

Steven Percy said he is “lucky to be alive” following the holiday which will be remembered for “all the wrong reasons”.

York Junior Proms was due to be held in Museum Gardens with a special programme for children on Monday 28th July, a day after the popular picnic concert York Proms.

More than 100 people turned up to a drop-in session held by the people behind the York Central development on Wednesday (May 7) at St Barnabas Church in Jubilee Terrace off Leeman Road from 2pm -8pm.

Aldi – the UK’s fourth largest supermarket- has made the move as part of a national campaign to ask people where new Aldi stores should be opened.

The application from the Grays Court Hotel, approved on Tuesday, May 6, will allow guests to take drinks to and from a planned coach house extension and its garden.

North Yorkshire Police said officers were called to Tadcaster Social Club on Monday, May 5 and found significant amounts of internal damage and large amounts of alcohol had been stolen.

But planners have rejected a third scheme for Thorpe Willoughby, near Selby, amid concerns about the impact on ancient woodland.

An application to change the use and refurbish the former Rainbow House Chinese takeaway at 8 Bishopthorpe Road has been submitted to City of York Council.

Three City of York Council opposition Liberal Democrat councillors - Paula Widdowson, Stephen Fenton and Ashley Mason have organised the series of sessions after recent public car park price hikes in the city.

This Autumn Castle Howard in Ryedlae is hosting Yorkshire Cancer Research's centenary gala dinner to raise vital funds for pioneering cancer research in Yorkshire.

Cheryl Alexander, a chemistry teacher at York High School has won an award at The Educators’ Trust Awards 2025, in recognition of her outstanding teaching and advocacy work for students facing any kind of adversity.

The Dunnington farm cart, which dates back to 1948, has been restored and returned to its resting place on York Street in the village.

Mark Pinder, 51, was working for East Riding Sacks Ltd, a manufacturer of paper sacks, at its site in Stamford Bridge when the incident happened on Saturday, February 11, 2023.

A CAT who went viral for mourning after the death of his previous owner has settled into life at a new home.

A SPORTS club founded in the last century in a village near York plays “a most convivial game”, according to one of its players, who issued a call out for new members.

The first York households set for new wheelie bins are due to get them delivered next month ahead of a wider roll out over the summer.

A family has had to evacuate their home and lost irreplaceable items after a burst water main flooded their house.

The Kirkham estate is on the banks of the River Derwent and in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Ken Cooke sets off on Sunday (May 4) for Normandy – where he took part in the D-Day landings more than 80 years ago.

The noise – thought to be a sonic boom – was heard at about 1pm yesterday (Thursday, May 1) when the two jets could be seen above York.

UPDATE: Burglary at business in York suburb – police cordon remains in place

It means the city will be warmer than Marbella, where temperatures are due to sit between 16C and 19C.

Kitchen fitter Martin Dunford, 33, “went to work and never came home” on Thursday, January 23, 2020, his sister said.

A CRASH has closed a main road in North Yorkshire after an oil spillage.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information after the a fatal collision on the road between Coulton and Yearsley, west of Malton.

The people behind the York Central development are inviting locals to a drop-in session on Wednesday (May 7) from 2pm -8pm at St Barnabas Church in Jubilee Terrace off Leeman Road.

People living in streets with ResPark close to city centre car parks say they have complained to City of York Council (CYC) about people flouting the law rather than pay for parking after recent price hikes.

The A1(M) is partially closed after a police incident at Dishforth from junction 49 Ripon Road for Thirsk to junction 48 for Boroughbridge.

More than 100 teachers and support staff have gone on strike today (April 30) at All Saints RC secondary school and St George's RC primary in Fishergate.