Gas blaze victims get back supply

Residents who struggled to keep warm in last night's freezing temperatures after a massive blast left them without gas were today demanding compensation.

We're off to see the world

A dream year travelling round the world begins today for a York couple who won the remarkable prize on national TV. Shipton Road corridor bus lane rethink urged

Controversial plans to move queuing traffic and give buses priority on a York road should be reconsidered, council officers have said. The scheme, to place extra sets of traffic lights along Shipton Road and Bootham, install bus priority lanes and ban right turns into Bootham from Gillygate, created massive public opposition. Monroe closure shows need to fight for city jobs

The sudden closure of Monroe's factory reinforces York's need to fight for inward investment, council leader Rod Hills warned today. Clubbing together to keep pools open

A swimming club for the disabled has thrown its weight behind our campaign to ensure the future of York's public pools. New window on the world

Light filters through the blue and green hues of the stunning new stained glass window at All Saints' Church, Bolton Percy. The 50-foot square Millennium window is to be dedicated by the Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, tomorrow (Sunday, January 16). Hospice appeal banks on people having fun

Come and join Old Mother Milly in the Grand Millennium Draw. The draw launched by Dame Milly Hinnyhumin - alias York's very own pantomime dame Berwick Kaler - is the latest way people can have some fun and help our Hospice 2000 Appeal at the same time. Time capsule found in hotel renovation work

Renovation work at a York hotel yielded a secret which had rested undisturbed beneath its floorboards for nearly 40 years.

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