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• A TOP celebrity chef has taken on an historic coaching inn in North Yorkshire.

  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.

• A POPULAR retailer has unveiled plans for a new store in York.

  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 glazed canopy in Coppergate Shopping Centre in St Mary’s Square could be removed, plans say, under proposals to “enhance the visual quality of the public realm.”

  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.

• A SKIN cancer diagnosis led to two friends setting up a new business in York.

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

• Parking charge hikes of more than 500 per cent at York’s Bishopthorpe Road could lead to job losses, traders based there have claimed.

  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.

• POLICE and firefighters have been called to a two car crash on a major road in North Yorkshire.

  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.

• Richard Moorcroft had no idea what to expect when his then nine-year-old daughter, Sophia, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour.

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

• A new partnership between two York organisations will help provide vital mental health support to fathers of children diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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