Brave Ayse wins huge damages

A York girl has been awarded £620,000 in damages over a tragic error at York District Hospital which cost her the chance of sight. Scientists in cancer research breakthrough

Cancer experts in York have claimed a major breakthrough in combating a condition which affects more than half-a-million women worldwide. Group to get windfall despite protests

A group of York travellers who angrily rejected a major Lottery award and thought it had been put on ice are furious after discovering the cash is due to be paid out. Woman's fury as sacked paedophile gets job back

A convicted paedophile has been reinstated by a Government laboratory near York - to the fury of a worker who was sacked because she had health problems. Gordon Banks cash for hospice

Legendary England goalkeeper Gordon Banks MBE kicked off a fundraiser for the Evening Press Hospice 2000 Millennium Appeal in fine style at York racecourse. Museum in battle to save Phantom

A last-ditch attempt to save a historic US jet fighter is being made by the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington, near York. Squeezed by out-of-town centres

Second-hand furniture and removals man Dave Dee Hughes today warned that his York family business could now come to an end after more than 50 years. Save Our Swim: Women's group backs pools fight

The ranks of campaigners fighting to save two York swimming pools from the axe have been bolstered by a York women's group. Drugs guidelines for city teachers

York secondary school teachers have been given a set of new guidelines about how to deal with drug-related incidents. Festival will show 'softer' side of York's Viking past

The mean, moody and marauding image of the Vikings will be dispelled at the forthcoming Jorvik Festival - with some events showing their softer side.

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