Category: Local News

(Close up of one of the two mask-like human faces decorating the shoulder of the lidded vessel or cauldron from the Melsonby hoard shown upside down as found during excavation. Credit: Department of Archaeology, Durham University) On 25 March 2025 Historic England, Durham University and the British Museum announced the discovery of the Melsonby Hoard: […]

Credit: Steve Tanner One of the gritty spy thrillers that defined Hollywood’s golden age of cinema reimagined through the power of song and dance? With bundles of physical comedy thrown into the mix too? If that doesn’t sound like the recipe for a perfect night out at the theatre, then I really don’t know what […]

Worried about what to get your mum later this month? Fear not, as always we have you covered with a few of the very best options around — and we’ve even tried out a few of the them so you don’t have to. Aren’t you lucky! Read on and find the one for your mum.  […]

Liv Quigley, a singer-songwriter from York, has released her latest single ‘A Place You Call Home’. I had the chance to sit down with Liv to discuss the inspiration and process behind writing the song, her musical influences and her future plans as a musician. Liv mentioned that her musical influences came from the music […]

Have you ever been cracking on with a bit of spring cleaning, perhaps going through the garage and looking at old boxes of clutter to chuck away, and stumbled on something you haven’t seen in ages? Well, beloved York museum The Bar Convent have quite the story for you! While searching through their archives, one […]

The crew of an oil tanker, the Stena Immaculate, have been praised for their “heroic action” after trying to put out the fires on their ship following a collision with cargo ship, the Solong. On Monday 10th of March US-flagged ship, the Stena Immaculate, was transporting 18,000 tonnes of jet fuel for the US military, […]

Eden Camp owners Howard Johnson and Paula Peace I’ve never been able to forget my first visit to the Eden Camp Modern History Museum. Like most people who grow up in and around York, I went there on a school trip with my primary school and perhaps less like all people — I found it […]

Changes to the area outside York Railway Station have progressed and will bring new road closures and relocated bus stops. The first of these will take effect on Monday, so travellers should plan ahead and allow extra time for their journeys. City of York Council released the above image which shows the current phase of […]

York Restaurant Week is set to return next month, and this time the event will last for two weeks from 10-23 March. This gives diners more opportunity to indulge in deals from over 100 participating restaurants. The event takes place in March and October and is organised by York Business Improvement District (York BID). There […]

Image credit: alh1, Flickr The Jorvik Viking festival returned to Parliament Street this year from the 17th to the 23rd of February for its 40th anniversary. The festival coincided with York’s Colour and Light festival, which also highlighted York’s Viking past by illuminating the York Minster. Jorvik is Europe’s largest Viking festival, and it created […]

FIVE STARS By Mim Holmes Having watched ‘Cruel Intentions’ (the 1999 movie) back in the 90s, I had some pretty high expectations, so believe me when I tell you that the show really captures the film very well. From the start, it’s packed full of sexual innuendos — with all raunchiness and all the cheese […]

The Fortus Foundation was set up in 2024 with the purpose of supporting small local charities and community groups across Yorkshire with small grants, and helping businesses engage in positive social impact – helping more people be able to do some good in the world! The Foundation was created by Fortus — an accountants and […]

1. The Grand Opera House was originally a corn exchange! Now known for exchanges of wit at comedy shows, musicals, and the panto, the buildings that comprise the iconic theatre were intended for the exchange of something much less entertaining — corn. But when the Corn Exchange failed in 1902, the buildings were repurposed into […]

Anyone who’s ever seen a tractor run going past their house will remember the colours, honking horns and plumes of smoke (produced by some of the more historic engines), but what they may not fully appreciate is how important these events are for our community.  A recent charity tractor run, organised by local residents Gemma […]

How does an adventure rumbling over rolling hills, past deep valleys, and across beautiful coastal stretches, all from the comfort of a vintage locomotive engine, sound to you? You’ll even get to enjoy a silver-served dining experience at the same time.  This image of past-age luxury sounds like something that belongs in the roaring 1920s, […]