WE'VE had a fair smattering of snow recently - but it's fair to say nothing like the big freezes many of us remember from our childhoods.
Consultation over access to the huge York Central site behind York Railway Station ends today. Once a decision is made over the route of any access road, attention will turn to drawing up a masterplan for the site. But conservationists are keen that in the rush to develop York Central, the important railway heritage to be found there should not be forgotten. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
Bosses at York Castle Museum have decided that, after 80 years, it is time one of York's most popular attractions got a makeover. But first, they want to hear from the people of York about what they would like to see happen. STEPHEN LEWIS reports
WHILE having a rummage through old cupboards the other day, we stumbled across a battered white envelope shoved into the front of an old file. 'Precious pics - York wartime' said the writing scrawled on the front of the envelope.
OVER the last four years, there have been an awful lot of books and memorials dedicated to the men (and some women) who gave their lives for their country in the First World War. And quite rightly, too.
Summertime... and the livin’ is easy, growled Louis Armstrong in his unforgettable duet with Ella Fitzgerald - capturing, in the tone of his voice, all the languorous, lazy heat of a summer’s afternoon.
HERE'S a mystery for you. Following the recent restoration of the statue of William Etty in Exhibition Square by the York Civic Trust, John Shaw found himself comparing the restored statue to some old photographs.
EAGLE-eyed readers might recognise one of the photographs on these pages. It shows the part-demolished St Crux Church on Pavement in the 1880s: and we used it as a poster photograph on the centre pages of The Press ten days or so ago.
No. More. Plastic. by Martin Dorey (Ebury Press, £6.99)
