I’M A hopeless vegan. Encouraged by the Veganuary movement and my compassion towards animals, I was keen to try veganism for a month. But it wasn’t at all easy and my conviction to follow a vegan diet lapsed well before the middle of the month.
A POPULAR flower festival will return to York this summer. This year's Bloom event will be a week-long celebration - with a programme of pop-up gardens, installations, a sculpture trail, market, window dressing competition and workshops across
"THE lads that perform the best in the pre-season games will get the nod." So said York City Knights head coach James Ford of his team selection for next month's Betfred Championship season opener away to Toulouse and ahead of tomorrow's second
A NORTH Yorkshire village primary school has been told it 'requires improvement' by inspectors. Camblesforth Community Primary Academy has 77 pupils and joined York-based Ebor Academy Trust in 2017 and was given the requires improvement grading
FOLLOWING a successful charity dance last year, a social group have organised as similar event in March. Scarlett’s Social Group are organising the event with the help of York Vintage Dance group. Funds raised from the dance will be shared equally
FILM crews will be using a part of the York Castle Museum as their setting next week. The museum tweeted suggesting that a "major feature film," will be using Kirkgate, the Victorian street setting, for filming. This will take place on Wednesday
A RYEDALE medical practice has selected a North Yorkshire hospice as its charity of the year for 2020. Pickering Medical Practice has chosen Saint Catherine’s Hospice to receive donations from them throughout the year. Nicky Grunwell, Ryedale
EUROPEAN champion boxer Paris Smith is back in the ring in 2020 for the first time tomorrow as she represents England in the Nations Cup final. The England squad flew out to Sombor in north Serbia earlier this week and have since taken part in the
WWE is being staged at the York Barbican this weekend, with the event NXT UK coming to the city for the first time. The brand is in York for two nights, with one being staged on Friday night and the latter taking place this evening. Tag team
STRANGERS will be giving passers-by envelopes filled with cash in York next week. Staff from cashback site Quidco will be in the city centre between 12pm and 1pm on Monday, handing out the money to celebrate reaching 10 million members. They
A YORK primary school been given a £3,000 boost, and has used the funding to buy a new interactive whiteboard. Burton Green Primary School has received £3,000 from the Pavers Foundation, an employee-led charitable trust founded by shoe retailer
A FREE exhibition in York which delves into the stories of people who crafted model locomotives from scratch has won a prestigious award. The National Railway Museum received the 2020 Heritage Railway Association (HRA) Award for Interpretation for
A NORTH Yorkshire-based energy supplier has appointed a new boss. Paul Stanley, a serial entrepreneur, is the new chief executive of CNG, the largest independent shipper and supplier in the country. It is a pivotal move to secure the Harrogate
A NEW post office service and community cafe has opened in a village in the Selby district. Following the closure of the post office in South Milford, Selby District Council offered free use of its Grove House Community Centre in the village to
YORK Literature Festival has revealed the 2020 programme for its annual celebration of the written and spoken word. The festival is set to be packed with over 50 events featuring well-known personalities, authors, poetry, history, politics and a
ROUTES for the 2020 Tour de Yorkshire and Asda Tour de Yorkshire Women’s Race have been unveiled. Both routes have been described as the toughest in the history of the race, with more climbing than ever before, including the Côtes de Buttertubs
CONCERNS have been raised about the future of a former care home site in York. Holgate councillors want City of York Council to to put people’s independent living housing where the former Oakhaven care home stands, following four years of the land
A GIN that is made in York has won a top accolade at the World Gin Awards. York Gin Old Tom beat off competition from major names like 150-year-old Hayman’s of London to win the Best English Old Tom title. The gin is a collaboration with the
FORMER Heartbeat star Derek Fowlds has died at the age of 82. The actor was well known for his role as Oscar Blaketon in the long-running police drama Heartbeat, filmed at Goathland on the North York Moors. He was also known for playing Private
YORK City striker Dan Maguire will travel with the squad for today's top of the table meeting with King's Lynn. Maguire has been plagued by injuries since his summer move to York from Blyth Spartans, having been marked by manager Steve Watson as
AN AWARD winning horror thriller is set to spook Scarborough Spa audiences later this year. After a sell-out show at Whitby Pavilion last year, The Haunting of Blaine Manor will return to the Yorkshire coast on Halloween, Saturday 31 October 2020
PUB quiz trivia produced by a York company will be displayed on LED boards at three English Football League Championship matches this weekend. SpeedQuizzing, set up by Shed Seven's drummer Alan Leach and his brother John, is taking its digital
YORK has been awarded more than £1.6m in funding to help replace or refit up to 93 buses in the next 12 months. Ahead of the launch of a Clean Air Zone in York city centre on January 31, City of York Council has awarded more than £1.6 million in
HEART and circulatory disease deaths attributed to air pollution could exceed 500 over the next decade in York, the British Heart Foundation has warned. The charity says air pollution presents a ‘major public health emergency’ which must be urgently
I have to write in support of those protesting about the plans for Rougier Street. In every city, blocks are going higher, and the skyline of all our major cities has changed. It’s not a bad thing for some. Leeds and Manchester were industrial cities
At the beginning of January City of York Council announced that it planned to end all ‘non-essential’ vehicle journeys into the city centre by 2023. This was terrific news for all of us that live in the city centre. But why then does the council
NEW figures show that the number of stroke professionals across Yorkshire and Humber is at a worryingly low level. This puts thousands of lives at risk and leaves many more stroke survivors under threat of a lifetime of severe disability, according
THE Management Suite at York's Vangarde Shopping Park has become a ‘Safe Place’ to offer a safe and supportive location to people feeling scared or vulnerable. Safe Places operate across the city in buildings such as libraries, cafes and shops where
FIREFIGHTERS helped release a person who was trapped in a vehicle after it crashed in Ryedale. The crews from Pickering and Kirkbymoorside were called to the single vehicle collision in Pickering at about 5.50pm on Thursday. North Yorkshire
Where does the failure of a multi-million pound bid for heritage lottery funding leave ambitious plans to revamp the Castle Museum? STEPHEN LEWIS reports For two years now, York Museums Trust bosses have been working on a 'masterplan' to revamp
THE council missed out on more than £3 million in taxes last year due to the current business rate relief rules - amid fresh calls for an overhaul to the current system. The latest figures reveal that in 2019, tax relief for empty units in York
A PODCAST for pets has been created - thanks to research by University of York academics. The four episodes - recorded for dogs whose owners have left them at home while they run chores or go to work - aims to help lonely pups relax. Psychologist
A CRANE will float down the River Ouse on pontoons as part of work taking place to restore the Guildhall. Barges will deliver steel for the project that would be impossible to transport to the site by road. The pontoons will follow the route
PATIENTS are "fearful" of trying to book an appointment at a York GP surgery because it is so difficult to see a doctor - according to a councillor and health organisation. Residents registered at Clementhorpe Health Centre on Cherry Street are
A NEW charity shop with secondhand wedding dresses, a "man cave" and a haberdashery is set to open in York city centre. St Leonard's Hospice has taken over an empty building on Colliergate - and is transforming in into three floors selling clothes
A HIGH court judge, a senior NATO communications director and the former chairman for the Royal National Institute for the Blind are set to join hundreds of students graduating at a York university next week. Three days of ceremonies will be held
A "KIND and caring" father-of-four has died from a brain tumour, less than six years after a similar illness took the life of his nine-year-old son. Ian Hughes’ widow Marie, of Dunnington, near York, has paid tribute to a "very special man, who
