Jo Hughes

A CHARITY worker in York is set to teach self-defence to young victims of abuse and trafficking in India and Nepal.

Artist Penny de Corte has found a way of really turning visitor's heads at her local art gallery.

YOUNGSTERS who have lived in care took centre stage at a gala premiere to launch their new music video How to Fly.

A group of young people who were brought up in care are set to get their voices heard in an inspirational new song which is about to be launched in York.

The family of Ruby Milnes, who was killed in a cycle accident near York Racecourse, are walking across the North York Moors in support of a charity which helped her sisters after her death.

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield is always worth a day out. A visit for the next month will offer a chance to see new prints and fabrics offered for sale by one of Britain’s best loved printmakers in the exhibition Angie Lewin, A Natural Line. JO HUGHES reports.

Meeting Vanessa Cook in the middle of her peaceful cottage gardens, it comes as a surprise to hear that for many years she worked nights in a factory just to be able to keep up her home.

Mel Watson laughs happily with her partner, Josh, as she talks about the exciting changes happening in her life. About to become a mother for the first time, she is also packing for her first ever trip abroad where she has been invited to stay for a month as a guest of a South African church.

Beautiful stained-glass windows and eye-catching sculptures are on show inside the homes of artists Ann Sotheran and Suzanne Dekker during this year’s York Open Studios. JO HUGHES went to take a look.

Young people who have been brought up in care are making plans with a York company to make a film about their lives.