Category: Local News

York’s favourite stately home, Castle Howard, returns for the festive season with Christmas decorations that are bigger, and more beautiful than ever before. Theatrical designers, Charlotte Lloyd Webber and Bretta Gereke, have designed the house with the theme of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’. Children can enjoy picking out the clues of the Twelve Days […]

It’s fair to say that in York, we’re pretty spoilt for choice when it comes to beauty salons. With plenty dotted around the city centre, there are even quite a handful in various villages. But with so many options, how do we know which one to choose? Kuki Hair and Beauty Spa in Huntington have […]

TalkTalk has announced a welcome boost for York as the internet provider’s ultra fibre optic network reaches 20,000 homes and businesses across the city. Residents in Chapelfields, Foxwood, Dringhouses and Woodthorpe can now connect to 1000 Mb/s internet speeds as it ramps up the second phase of its full fibre rollout which will reach up […]

York has been revealed to have one of the healthiest high streets in the UK, according to the Royal Society for Public Health. The City of York placed sixth in the top ten ‘healthiest’ high streets. It came in behind cities such as Edinburgh and Canterbury, but beat Exeter and Cambridge. Meanwhile York’s neighbours, Grimsby […]

Returning for its seventh year, York Business Week (YBW) has been crucial in the creation and promotion of thousands of local businesses, from fledgling start-ups to ever-growing giants of industry. But just because they’ve been around the block doesn’t mean the great minds behind YBW are ready for the quiet life, as 2018 promises to […]

The recent onset of autumn reminded me that I’ve called York my home for 18 years. Those with exceptionally high IQs might be able to work out that I therefore arrived in the year 2000, and that I was a fresh-faced 18 year old, ready to suckle on the teat that was university knowledge. What […]

Carluccio’s in York has launched its Christmas Deli, offering tasty Italian treats for under the Christmas tree. Shoppers can get their hands on the Italian sweet breads that Carluccio’s has become known for. A particularly delicious gift, Panettone al Limoncello, comes coated in white chocolate with candied lemon peel and filled with a limoncello filling. […]

Dreading half term because you’ve no idea how to entertain the kids? Don’t you worry yourselves our lovely readers. We’ve got you covered. Here are five events that’ll keep your little monsters busy: SPOOKY WOODLAND TRAIL & AUTUMN FESTIVAL – BURTON AGNES HALL – 27TH OCTOBER-4TH NOVEMBER Ordinarily, this grand building and its gardens are […]

  Some people look forward to the mince pies and the mulled wine. Some people look forward to the presents under the tree. Some people just want an excuse to play their Now That’s What I Call Christmas CD. Here at Your Local Link, we look forward to pantomime season! And this year, we’re being […]

Studio 76 in York is celebrating after one of their beauticians placed sixth in the Miss English Rose Pageant.  Joni Turner, who works part time at the salon, travelled to The Prince of Wales Hotel, Southport for the qualifier of the Miss British Isles Pageant: “It was an experience like no other! I was nervous […]

Somebody, somewhere within the walls has had a light bulb moment, or should I say light bulbs… Yes, it’s that time of the year, mid October, where we start talking Christmas, and in a secret location probably made from ginger bread, the movers and shakers have had a bright idea…MORE LIGHTS, and we aren’t talking […]

This week is Local Democracy Week, and the City of York Council are celebrating! From 15th-21st October, residents will be encouraged to get involved with local decision making in a bid to increase public participation with democracy. And it’s not without good reason. Local elections will take place on 2nd May 2019 – and your […]

Calling all parents! The time has come to ship out the sprogs to secondary school. Apologies for the crude call to arms, clearly I have no children and there is every chance I am in fact a large hairy child myself. But I did go to school, in principle, and as we all know education […]

Change is on the horizon as Kentmere House Gallery gets a new lodger. Rarely does anything create a new lease of life like a change in perspective, and there’s no better way to find a new view of the world, then well, a new view of the world, even if it’s only over yonder, just […]

77% of people in Yorkshire and Humberside if asked ‘how they are?’ by a friend, family member or colleague would respond ‘fine thanks’, positive findings right? Perhaps not, as the survey was asked under the circumstances that they weren’t, that they were struggling with mental health difficulties. Despite or possibly because of this worrying statistic […]