A York dog owner has been hit with a £6,500 vet bill after his cocker spaniel caught potentially lethal parvovirus.

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• JUGGLERS, fire eaters and stilt-walkers will form part of a festival set to bring a historic York street to life next weekend.

  The Flowers and Flames Festival returns on Sunday June 15- Father’s Day- organised by the Goodramgate Traders Association, promises a day packed with thrilling performances, family-friendly activities, and captivating competitions.

• ONE of York’s most unique hotels and restaurants is turning 40 this year.

  The Sidings Hotel and Restaurant at Shipton-by-Beningborough was founded in 1985 by railway enthusiast Bert Gemmell.

• A POPULAR retailer has opened its doors on a new location in York today (June 5).

  Bosses at discount retailer The Works say they have had their eye on a location for ‘some time’ now. The 1,700 sq ft store is in the former EE unit at Monks Cross - in between Regatta and Pizza Hut – and will be the fourth store in the city for the retailer.

• Work to develop York’s Coney Street and open the area up to the nearby riverside is due to start in the coming months, a director of the group behind the plans has said.

  Speaking to The Press, Max Reeves, development director at the Helmsley Group, said the York-based company is aiming to start work at the site in September.

• WORK is set to restart on a new school building in York.

  Hempland Primary School and Tang Hall Primary School, both in the east of York and are part of the Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust (MAT), have seen a delay to planned projects under the School Rebuilding Scheme.

• A NORTH Yorkshire teenager has become the youngest person to run length of the UK.

  Marcus Skeet, who lives in Norton, ran 837 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats for charity Mind. The 17-year-old, who completed his challenge yesterday (Thursday) has so far raised £111,000.

• AN inspirational teenager from York is set to walk a marathon distance around the city for a cause very close to his heart.

  Nathaniel Greenhouse, 13, who won the Sibling of the Year award at the national Sense Awards back in 2019, is walking a marathon - 26.2 miles - around the Millennium Way and a circuit of the city walls on Saturday (May 31).

• A York husband accused of trying to kill his wife claimed he fired three times close to her with a bow and arrow to scare her.

  Stephen Richard Carr denied that he had aimed the arrows at her and that he had wanted to harm her.