Category: Local News

York and Easingwold have placed in The Sunday Time Best Places to Live 2021 North and Northeast category. The overall winner of the category was Ilkley near Leeds. Stroud, Gloucestershire was named the Best Place to Live in Britain 2021.  The comprehensive guide is released online today and will be available in the paper on Sunday.  The […]

Residents at Ebor Court care home in Nether Poppleton enjoyed a virtual opening ceremony for their brand new Sky Bar with the help of a very special guest of honour, Emmerdale Actress, Katherine Dow Blyton who plays vicar, Harriet Finch. The luxury Sky Bar, as named by residents, is on the top floor of Ebor […]

Enrolment is now open for the National Citizen Service (NCS) Summer Programme 2021 for 16 and 17-year-olds based in York and Scarborough.  The programme gives young people the opportunity to get involved in a social action project within their community and make a difference. There will be team-building activities and lots of getting to know […]

International travel might not be on the cards yet, but as restrictions lift, the thought of a staycation on the Yorkshire Coast sounds better than ever.  As announced in the government’s ‘Roadmap,’ campsites and self-contained accommodation can welcome visitors from 12 April and hotels, hostels and B&Bs can open on 17 May.  According to Mintel*, […]

“Cheltenham racecourse“ (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Carine06  Just a handful of jumps racehorses trained in Yorkshire were given early closing entries for the Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 races this year.   Some of these have already been scratched from heading down from the equine hubs around the market towns of Malton and Middleham to the Cotswolds for the four-day National […]

The team at York Mediale has moved quickly and nimbly around the constraints of a pandemic to create a festival that profoundly resonates with all of us. And there’s still time to catch some of the good bits.  People We Love  2 November – 29 November  // York Minster  York citizens take centre stage in […]

York Art Gallery’s collaborative exhibition with indie rock band, Kaiser Chiefs won the Partnership of the Year Award at the Museums + Heritage Awards last night (22 September) which were broadcast to the world online. The exhibition When All is Quiet: Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation with York Art Gallery explored the boundaries between music and […]

York Theatre Royal is taking a different approach to Christmas this year with its brand new Travelling Pantomime visiting all 21 wards in York. You can see the pop-up show at a variety of locations from community halls to social clubs and sports centres throughout December and January. The performances will adhere to current government […]

This walk of six and a half miles explores the countryside between Wetherby and the Northeast suburbs of Leeds, an area sometimes dubbed the ‘Yorkshire Cotswolds’. It includes an attractive mix of fields and woodland and the odd patch of suburbia. Near the end, there’s a short stretch through Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s Hetchell Wood Nature […]

Don’t panic! Halloween is not cancelled… well at least not in York. Despite popular belief, COVID-19 will not break our spooky spirit. Grab your witches hat or clown wig, and do the monster mash into October – or maybe you’ve already done the mash in September and are well into that Halloween spirit. If that […]

Halloween at York Maze will be a bit different this year as the family-friendly Hallowtween event takes centre stage. The award-winning event, Hallowscream, has unfortunately been cancelled due to Covid-19, but its sister halloween event is going ahead with an array of terrifying twists and turns for the whole family to enjoy.  Hallowtween is an […]

A new insurance company has launched in York aiming to provide quality insurance at competitive prices. coverbaloo provides comprehensive home insurance with a variety of add-on covers, as well as standalone home emergency cover that aims to take the stress out of dealing with urgent problems in your home. With offices in Clifton Moor, coverbaloo […]

York Art Gallery and York Castle Museum will reopen on Yorkshire Day (August 1), with the added bonus of free entry into York Art Gallery.  The charity York Museums Trust, which runs the gallery, hope that removing admission charges on a trial basis will lead to higher visitor numbers and increased diversity. The gallery will […]

In York, we’re blessed to be in one of England’s most beautiful cities. No stranger to winning awards, our little part of the nation is highly rated for food, hospitality, and our general infrastructure. Never is this as obvious as when summer comes around, as flocks of people from all over the UK, and indeed […]

Rewind a month and it’s hard to imagine that today we’d be self-isolating and social distancing, with schools closed across the country and families restricted to the confinement of their homes. Events are being cancelled and so, as Spock is often misquoted as saying: ‘It’s life, Jim. But not as we know it’. However, that […]