Category: Local News

Starting on the 25th of November and running until the 7th of January next year, Lotherton Hall is set to be taken over by the Christmas spirit.  Visitors of all ages should expect to experience a truly special seasonal day. While your little ones embark on adventures with fairies, elves and Father Christmas, there’s the […]

We’ve put together a special festive gift guide to finally save the important people in your lives from the same old boring gifts, like books they’ll never read or worse yet more pairs of socks! LIITON Peaks Whiskey Set, £60 from Auteur Limited  Liiton have captured the parallel elegance and magnificence of the world’s finest mountain […]

A pioneering company have developed a new mobile app that they expect will fundamentally alter the way that Ice Cream SME’s operate. It will give customers access to previously unavailable information, allowing them to track the movements of ice cream vans so they can be alerted of their arrival in good time. It’s a development […]

Filey’s Armistice Remembrance ceremony on the 11th of November is set to face fierce competition from a rival service as part of an ongoing dispute over the Town Council’s stance on a war memorial.  At 11am on Saturday the 11th of November a separate meeting will take place at the RAF Hunmanby Moor Monument on Queen […]

2023 marks 70 years since suicide prevention-charity Samaritans began operations. In the years since, they’ve listened to 134,000,000 calls for help, 3.2 million of which were in 2022! Across seven decades of vital work, Samaritans’s commitment to offer people the opportunity to be listened to in confidence, and accepted without prejudice has remained unwaveringly in […]

To build up to the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, York Disability Week have put together a packed week of events from November 25th to December 3rd. With 30 to choose from including ice skating at the Designer Outlet, an inclusive poetry evening as well as dementia-friendly film screenings and accessible rugby taster […]

To build up to the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, York Disability Week have put together a packed week of events from November 25th to December 3rd. With 30 to choose from there’s something for everyone to get excited about— from ice skating at the Designer Outlet to an inclusive poetry evening alongside […]

A restaurant every York resident should be on first-name basis with by now An evening at Ate O’Clock is the perfect cure for any of the depressingly-dim and overcast wintery nights to come. It starts from the moment you walk through the brightly-lit outer doorway and are immediately transported away from the cold and rain […]

Huntington School in York have a sixth form open evening at 6pm on the 7th of November. It’s impossible to ever do enough preparation before you take the massive decision of choosing your sixth form even though the decision itself couldn’t be any more important — finding the right school makes a vital difference when […]

Bonfire night can be a terrifying time for pets and animals— they don’t understand that Guy Fawkes is the only one in danger— so flashing lights and deafening sounds can set off a fight or flight response so they’ll try and bolt fences or act frozen in fear. It’s our responsibility to make the night […]

Rather than relying on chemicals, scrubbing brushes and a ton of elbow grease to clean or replace dirty grout, Grout Gleam use a range of nine different coloured compounds that chemically bond to the existing grout and create a uniform grout colour. The method is scientifically proven to have your bathroom grout sparkling in no […]

November can be one of the busiest months of the year. While we’re working hard to get everything in order before Christmas, it can be hard to find the time to properly look after yourself. Having a second place to go (other than work and home) like a club, society or association can be absolutely vital […]

From her initial inspiration at the hands of Stephen Fry to diagnosis with stage four cancer, Vicki MacPhail’s “mission to educate the world as much as possible about what a fantastic friend and true soldier Guy Fawkes was” has been far from straightforward.  Her interest in the subject came about almost by chance, “It started […]

Photo credit: Sheridan Hunt/York RLFC York Valkyrie star players Sinead Peach, Tara Jane Stanley and Liv Wood have this week signed professional contracts with a guaranteed salary, in a first for both York Rugby and the Betfred Women’s Super League. As reported last month, the Valkyrie’s Grand Final victory over Leeds Rhinos was of huge […]

Heworth Tennis Club are our local sports club of the month for November. Heworth were the top performing tennis club in York for 2023  — out of their seven teams that compete in the York League, five have been promoted while two won league titles.  The women’s first team won their division at a stroll […]