Andy Barnsdale has been appointed general manager at Principal York, the city's grande dame hotel, nestled in the shadow of York Railway Station.
He brings almost 30 years of experience of revolutionising operational structure and endorsing team development in the hospitality industry to the role.
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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.
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