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• MORE than £3,200 has been raised by families from York, North and East Yorkshire for the city's special educational needs primary school following a major event.

  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.

• FRUSTRATION is growing over heavy traffic near a York tip as traders renew calls for action.

  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.

• A York mum who had her hands and feet amputated after developing a severe infection and being in a month-long coma has spoken about embracing her new life.

  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.

• A major York church development has been saved after a mystery donor offered to donate £1.2 million – the full shortfall the project faced after a government rule change.

  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.

• 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.