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Bid to bring HQ of British railways to York makes shortlist - pictured Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey and Cllr Keith Aspden when the bid went in Picture: NQ staff

'Bring railways home' - Last push to vote for York as Great British Railways HQ
City of York council and MP Rachael Maskell are urging York residents to vote for York as the Great British Railways HQ.

Train strikes will hit York tomorrow LNER, CrossCountry and Hull Trains affected. York station during the previous RMT rail strikes. Picture: Mike Laycock

York to be hit by further rail strikes

Third of North Yorkshire housing development sold already

Third of North Yorkshire housing development sold already

Picture of York Minster by Keiran Delaney of the York Press Camera Club

Which? rates York best for a staycation citybreak

Gillygate in York city centre will be closed between its junctions with Bootham and Portland Street from 8am on Sunday

Major road through York to close temporarily this weekend

Tim Hortons is opening at Three Lakes Retail Park in Selby Picture: Fleet Street PR, Google Street View

Popular Canadian restaurant to bring 50 jobs to town

Shambles in York was cordoned off after roof titles rained down, narrowly missing shoppers

Cordon in place as roof tiles crash down in York's most famous street

The Rattle Owl restaurant in Micklegate, York has received 2 AA rosettes. Picture: David Harrison

Popular York restaurant awarded two AA rosettes

L-R: Jason Thompson and Adam Palmer, who are winners in the Great Taste Awards

North Yorkshire rapeseed oil producer wins two Great Taste awards

North Yorkshire Police has issued an update after Sam Diatta died following a disturbance at York jeweller's Mappin and Webb in Coney Street

Police update after man died following disturbance at a York jeweller's shop

Changes to the premises are said to have been better than what was there before. Picture, planning application.

York roast company told to 'regularise' planning matters

York bar Slug & Lettuce is bringing a free ice-cream van to Kings Staith by the River Ouse

Popular York bars bring free ice-cream van to city riverside

The Adult Shop in Gillygate has operated for 25 years

York sex shop has licence renewed

William’s Den, in North Cave, near York, in East Yorkshire is celebrating its fifth birthday

Popular children's attraction near York celebrates turning 5

Little Bird markets will be returning to Easingwold and Wetherby market places this weekend

This popular market is returning to North Yorkshire

Artemis House, York headquarters for Boxxe

York firm wins £291m contract with MOD

The interior of the hub

York Hub to help those working from home

Fedir Haidai with his wife Katya and three-year-old son, Misha, set up a vodka and sunflower oil import business after finding a sponsor family in Harrogate

Ukrainian entrepreneur sets up business in North Yorkshire after fleeing homeland

Joe Clark with a bottle of the whisky

Spirit of Yorkshire releases limited edition whisky

The site in James Street

Aparthotel plan for former town Next store

Picture by Phil Witcombe

£ 2m York holiday flats plan for Holgate

York Handmade, based at Alne, near Easingwold, in Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Stirling Prize nomination

Well-known firm on UK's most prestigious architecture award shortlist

Panto dame Berwick Kaler, pictured in last Christmas' panto at York's Grand Opera House, Dick Turpin Rides Again Picture: David Harrison

Carry on Dick! Panto dame defends Turpin's good name from 'woke folk'

Osbaldwick Primary Academy, with, right, head teacher, Matthew Brown

York school offers to help after city nursery closes suddenly

The new Amnesty charity bookshop will be situated here, in Micklegate Picture: Mike Laycock

New home for one of York's best charity bookshops revealed

York taxi firm seeks move

York taxi firm seeks move

York schoolgirl's winning lorry design will be driven all over UK by Nestlé

York schoolgirl's winning lorry design will be driven all over UK by Nestlé

Officials at the opening of the £1m centre last week. Image from Fera-Science Limited

York hub to help drive use of insects for animal feed

Dick Turpin at York Dungeon - several parents have asked for him to be renamed Richard because 'Dick' is too rude

Parents tell York Dungeon Dick Turpin is too rude - call him Richard instead

York Minister Engineering League was honoured at the 2022 England Football and McDonald’s Grassroots Football Awards

York grassroots league honoured at national awards

Petrol stations has been the most common location for fuel thefts in York Picture: PA

This is how much fuel thefts have risen in York amid cost of living crisis

The Woolpack Inn in the late 1930s. Credit: (c) City of York Council / Explore York Libraries and Archives

Recognise this part of York? Can you name the restaurant there today!

York's position in the Premier League for hen parties shows no sign of slipping. Flashback to a hen party enjoying the John Smith’s Cup Meeting at York Racecourse

York's in the ‘Premier League for hen parties’

York in the 1980s

20 things we miss about York in the 1980s - do you agree?

Lewis Taylor - mobile barber at work in his van in York. Photo by Sophie Eleanor Photography

'I'm working all over York!' Lewis launches city's first mobile barber van

Boots' Kings Square store, which shut on Monday, and (inset) Paul Brett of Monkbar Pharmacy and Tesco's Clifton Moor store, which operated with shorter openings a few times in July

Warning of growing crisis for York after pharmacy closures

A Police warning has gone out to shopkeepers and businesses in York and North Yorkshire about a new scam doing the rounds

SCAM ALERT: police warning about a new scam in York and North Yorkshire

York CBC company HempWell recently gave a presentation about CBD to the Oddfellows Society.

York Oddfellows learn about CBD treatments

The proposed site for Fat Hipp o is going through the planning process.

Fat Hippo says it will be In York this year

The Plum and Partridge, a nine bedroom hotel in Husthwaite, near Thirsk, has been bought by York Marina

This popular York riverside restaurant now has a sister business

Gillygate in York city centre will be closed between its junctions with Bootham and Portland Street. Picture shows a pipe burst on the same road last year. Picture: Haydn Lewis

Major road through York to close temporarily

Thornton-le-Dale arson attack at auctioneers Matthewsons - police investigation underway

Arson attack at North Yorkshire auctioneers

The site of the proposed commercial dog kennels at Huntington

Commercial dog kennels proposed for York village

Strensall Camp Service Station has won planning approval for a self-service launderette

Self-service launderette approved near York

A clothing and gift store has been approved at 32 Bishopthorpe Road. Picture courtesy of Google Street View

Famous York street bags a clothing store

The Lindum Group is building new premises for the Madeira Group near Ripon.

Embroidery business sews up new offices and warehouse

Oliver Stirk of Wild and Westbrooke

Family-run York store shortlisted for two awards

Joe Clark with some of the Filey Bay whisky team at the Spirit of Yorkshire distillery at Hunmanby

Yorkshire's first distillery enjoys award success

Major road through North Yorkshire reopens after sinkhole

Major road through North Yorkshire reopens after sinkhole

Artists impression of one of the houses proposed for Rufforth

Planners back homes plan for village near York

Tesco at Clifton Moor, where the pharmacy has closed for selected hours six times recently

Tesco reveals pharmacy at one York store has closed SIX times recently

BP bosses must be dancing a jig at the size of their profits, says M Horsman

Letter 'BP bosses must be dancing a jig'

Demolition work begins on the Mecca bingo site in Fishergate, York. Photos by Maxine Gordon

Man Alive - number five! Demolition work gets underway at landmark York site

Two women York police want to speak to after a purse was stolen from inside a handbag which was on a shopping trolley at Morrisons, Foss Retail Park

CCTV appeal after purse stolen at York supermarket