Features

York Civic Trust plaques: St Margaret Clitherow

York Press: The plaque to Margaret Clitherow on Ouse Bridge

8:00am Sunday 22nd April 2018

York Civic Trust plaques

York's first fashion week – in words and pictures

8:00am Saturday 21st April 2018

Style has been on parade this week as York's first Fashion Week hit the catwalks – and the cafes and the cobbled streets!

Have your say

EATING OUT: Red Chilli, George Hudson Street

8:30am Saturday 21st April 2018

RED Chilli on George Hudson Street has long been one of our favourite Chinese restaurants in York.

Little Apple 'Book of the Week': A Date with Death

8:00am Saturday 21st April 2018

Little Apple 'book of the week'

Have your say

Book review: The House of Beaufort by Nathen Amin

9:00am Saturday 21st April 2018

The House of Beaufort by Nathen Amin (Amberley, £9.99)

Have your say

Meet the man who founded the Castle Museum 80 years ago

7:50am Friday 20th April 2018

The Castle Museum celebrates its 80th birthday this weekend. STEPHEN LEWIS remembers the man who began it all

Spring is in the air... 7 great photos from The Press Camera Club

7:50am Thursday 19th April 2018

SPRING is definitely in the air in our selection of photographs from members of The Press Camera Club this week.

EATING OUT REVIEW: Angel on the Green, York

7:15am Saturday 14th April 2018

MAXINE GORDON heads up Bishy Road for a night out

Designer Antonia Aitken reveals new collection to launch York's first Fashion Week

7:30am Saturday 14th April 2018

Pretty macarons in Bettys tearooms are the inspiration behind a new range of clothing to be unveiled at York’s first Fashion Week. MAXINE GORDON reports

Have your say

CIVIC TRUST PLAQUES: The Dringhouses Pinfold

8:30am Saturday 14th April 2018

York Civic Trust plaques

"Lights, camera, action - pipe!" when Bollywood came to Yorkshire

8:30am Friday 13th April 2018

From selling beer to starring in a Bollywood movie, MAXINE GORDON meets the York dad of three who has ditched a career in sales for life in the limelight

Have your say

SOLVED: the mystery of the Marygate baths

8:05am Monday 9th April 2018

Last week we carried a photograph showing the 'York Swimming, Slipper and Shower Baths’ in Marygate in 1893. They were clearly right at the bottom of Marygate next to Museum Gardens, we wrote. But did anyone know what they were like inside - or when they were pulled down?

Happy Birthday Castle Museum: photos from the museum's opening day almost 80 years ago...

7:50am Monday 9th April 2018

THERE was a palpable air of excitement in York on the morning of April 23, 1938.

Concert memories: 70 years of the York Light Orchestra

8:30am Monday 9th April 2018

ANY real public performer needs a bit of chutzpah. It enables you to bluff your way through when you've forgotten your lines, or cover up if you play a false note.

Have your say

What's going on here? It's the woodworm police at work on a North Yorkshire country home...

8:00am Monday 9th April 2018

HELEN MEAD went behind the scenes at a North Yorkshire stately home as it prepared for spring

Have your say

EATING OUT REVIEW: Khao San Road, Walmgate, York

7:44am Saturday 7th April 2018

MAXINE GORDON finds the perfect dish at a Thai restaurant in York

BOOKS: Former Sheriff's Lady Brenda Tyler's children's books go big in China

8:00am Saturday 7th April 2018

Former Sheriff's Lady Brenda Tyler's children's books may be about to make it big in China. STEPHEN LEWIS reports

Have your say

CIVIC TRUST PLAQUES: Dr John Snow

9:30am Saturday 7th April 2018

York Civic Trust plaques

Have your say

"We don't own York Minster yet!"

7:50am Friday 6th April 2018

YORK Theatre Royal has reason to be grateful to Leyton Orient football club.

STREETLIFE: 7 great photos from The Press Camera Club

7:50am Thursday 5th April 2018

STREETLIFE. It sounds a straightforward-enough theme for a photography competition.

Chaos and uncertainty surround Phill Jupitus's stand-up show

12:31pm Thursday 5th April 2018

COMEDIAN Phill Jupitus has filled his diary for spring with more tour dates for his 2017 show, Juplicity, taking him to Pocklington Arts Centre tonight.

Clothing guru to host York Fashion Week event

7:30am Tuesday 3rd April 2018

Nayna McIntosh made her name at M&S and launched her own label for middle-aged women who still want to look fab. She will explain why during York Fashion Week

EATING OUT REVIEW: Partisan, Micklegate

11:03am Monday 2nd April 2018

Review by Victoria Prest

Have your say

Why we need to remember York's 100 years of carriage building

8:50am Monday 2nd April 2018

A major exhibition at the NRM is giving a glimpse of how the huge York Central site behind the railway station could be developed.

Can you help us solve the mystery of this photograph?

8:50am Monday 2nd April 2018

WE'D love to hear from any readers who can tell us more about this mysterious photograph. It coms from the collection of the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society (YAYAS), and shows the 'York Swimming, Slipper and Shower Baths' in Marygate in 1893. They were clearly right at the bottom of Marygate, next to Museum Gardens. But does anyone know what they were like inside - or when they were pulled down..?

Meet the men who built Naburn Lock

7:30am Monday 2nd April 2018

WELL, here's a group of very worthy Victorian gentlemen for you.

Have your say

TRAVEL: Dublin's a delight. Just don't confuse it with the Taj Mahal...

8:00am Saturday 31st March 2018

Dublin's a great place to visit, says PETER MARTINI. Just don't go confusing it with the Taj Mahal...

Have your say

Civic Trust Plaques: Frankie Howerd

9:30am Saturday 31st March 2018

York Civic Trust plaques

Have your say

Little Apple 'Book of the Week': Oi Dog!

9:04am Saturday 31st March 2018

Oi Dog! and Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Field (Hodder, £6.99 each)

York in 50 buildings: new book tells the city's history through its architecture

7:50am Friday 30th March 2018

A new book tells the story of York in 50 buildings. STEPHEN LEWIS reports

What's for breakfast? 7 great photos from The Press Camera Club

8:20am Thursday 29th March 2018

WE may be in for a wet and windy weekend. But there are definite signs of spring in the air - at least in the majority of our photographs from members of The Press Camera Club this week.

COLUMN: Smile, please, we're British

8:52am Thursday 29th March 2018

Women’s smiles are more friendly than men’s. Researchers at the University of Bradford who mapped and analysed video footage of more than 100 people smiling, found that the female smile - typified by film stars such as Julia Roberts - is much broader and more expressive than the male.

"I've introduced Hayley to the company and she's introduced me to a mountain!"

8:30am Tuesday 27th March 2018

STILETTOS are being swapped for hiking books as two York women prepare for a charity trek up Kilimanjaro.

Have your say

Fantastic planets and how to find them - a York scientist on the search for 'new Earths'

9:35am Monday 26th March 2018

Will we ever find life on planets around other stars? STEPHEN LEWIS spoke to a York astrophysicist who thinks we will - and quite soon

Have your say

Shouksmiths: the York family firm that's almost 200 years old

8:30am Monday 26th March 2018

TODAY, JH Shouksmith and Sons Ltd is a successful York-based building services engineering firm with a £12 million turnover and more than 70 employees. In just a couple of years from now, it will celebrate it's 200th anniversary: quite an achievement. "We believe we're one of the oldest family firms in York," says Kathleen Shouksmith, wife of Shouksmith chairman Richard and mother of the company's present managing director David.

YORK CIVIC TRUST PLAQUES: Emperor Constantine

7:31am Saturday 24th March 2018

York Civic Trust plaques

Have your say

15 hidden-gem things to do across Yorkshire's "best places"

7:30am Saturday 24th March 2018

York's got plenty to shout about ... but so has Malton and Beverley

Little Apple Book of the Week: A Walk Through The Walled City by Alfred Hickling

8:30am Saturday 24th March 2018

York Tour: A walk through the walled city by Alfred Hickling (YorkTour, £7.99, paperback)

Have your say

50 years of Look North: a cameraman remembers

7:30am Friday 23rd March 2018

The photograph is in grainy black and white. It shows a TV reporter with a neat Beatles haircut sitting in a boat in a flooded York street, apparently speaking into a microphone.

COUNTRY WALK: Beamsley Moor from Ilkley

2:56pm Friday 23rd March 2018

Jonathan Smith heads for Beamsley Moor from Ilkley

Have your say

COLUMN: Why I don't want a 'boomerang' child

8:31am Thursday 22nd March 2018

I never thought I would say this, but I don’t want my children to come home. When the first one left for university four years ago it took a bit of getting used to, but we still had her sister to keep us entertained.

A new view of York Minster, and other old photos from The Groves

8:00am Wednesday 21st March 2018

IT isn't often that you get a completely new view of York Minster opening up. Usually, it is just the opposite: new developments in York block off views of the cathedral.

Walking England's bloodiest battlefield: Towton remembered

8:01am Monday 19th March 2018

Towton was the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. As the battle's anniversary approaches, HELEN MEAD walks the battlefield and remembers those who died

The changing fortunes of St Sampson's Square: 6 old views of York

8:00am Monday 19th March 2018

FOR many years, what is now St Sampson's Square was known as Thursday Market. There was a good reason for that. It served as the home of one of York's two main city centre markets, along with Pavement.

Historian Lucy Worsley goes around the houses with Jane Austen at York Literature Festival

2:55pm Monday 19th March 2018

LUCY Worsley, "the undisputed queen of TV history" swaps the screen for the stage at York Theatre Royal to present her York Literature Festival talk, Jane Austen At Home, on Wednesday night.

Have your say

SOLVED: the mystery of the bendy tramline in Gillygate...

7:50am Monday 19th March 2018

Last week in Yesterday Once More we carried a postcard showing Gillygate in 1910. Tramlines were clearly visible - and one of them seemed to curve in the middle of the street. Could anyone explain why, we asked?

Inside York's old incinerator: 9 photos of the old York power station and waste 'destructor'

7:50am Monday 19th March 2018

A giant incinerator - sorry, 'energy from waste' plant - has opened at Allerton Park, to the west of York. It is touted as the answer to York and North Yorkshire's rubbish disposal problem for the next 25 years - and is also supposed to generate enough electricity to power up to 60,000 homes.

CIVIC TRUST PLAQUES: St Stephen's Orphanage

8:30am Saturday 17th March 2018

St Stephen’s Orphanage 1870-1969

Have your say

Little Apple Book of the Week: Time’s Echo by Pamela Hartshorne

8:50am Saturday 17th March 2018

Time’s Echo by Pamela Hartshorne (Pan Macmillan 8.99)

Have your say

TRAVEL: The Laura Ashley Belsfield Hotel, Lake Windermere

7:01am Saturday 17th March 2018

I REMEMBER quite vividly the point in my childhood when it became clear my dad was beginning to make a success of his tiling business after the shock of redundancy years earlier.

Have your say

COLUMN: Papering over the potholes

York Press: Some of the many potholes in my street

12:00pm Friday 20th April 2018

Like most York residents, I searched for my own street when the council recently put out the list of roads it plans to repair in the next year.

COLUMN: Such a shame smartphone generation are missing out on books

7:30am Thursday 19th April 2018

In a restaurant recently my sister and I were shocked to see a toddler aged no more than 18 months, in a high chair, competently swiping his finger across an iPad. “We let him use it so we can have a meal in peace,” his parents unashamedly told us, “It keeps him amused for hours.”

COLUMN: There must be a better way than bombs

8:50am Wednesday 18th April 2018

‘War? What is it good for?’ asks the iconic Edwin Starr song from the Vietnam era. The answer comes back, ‘Absolutely nothing.’ If you asked most people whether they agree they would probably say yes.

Readers' letters

LETTER: An extra Park&Ride could ease hospital congestion

York Press: New Askham Bar Park & RidePhoto: City of York Council

1:42pm Friday 20th April 2018

WE have a crescent of Park&Ride sites around the outer ring road surrounding york, from Shipton Road around to Monks Cross.

LETTER: We have a duty to help our ‘neighbours’

1:47pm Friday 20th April 2018

Sylvia Dunn asks why British governments allocate money to overseas aid (Letters, April 17).

Have your say

LETTERS ROUNDUP: The cost of Guildhall...Money for pavements

1:52pm Friday 20th April 2018

AFTER the termination of the contract to overhaul the Guildhall (The Press, April 10), City of York Council should tell us how much of the original £9 million cost has been spent, and what work has actually been completed.

Have your say

LETTER: Decision to attack Syria was not for MPs to make

10:07am Thursday 19th April 2018

I wrote last week that the military action taken in Syria was a futile effort yet I can’t help noticing various MPs thinking the decision should be theirs to make and not the Prime Minister’s.

History

Historian Lucy Worsley goes around the houses with Jane Austen at York Literature Festival

2:55pm Monday 19th March 2018

LUCY Worsley, "the undisputed queen of TV history" swaps the screen for the stage at York Theatre Royal to present her York Literature Festival talk, Jane Austen At Home, on Wednesday night.