York ice cream firm wound up

Ebor Ice Cream Company - the firm which supplied generations of York residents with traditional ices - is going into liquidation. Whitty pledge on A64 gap

A Government Minister is intervening in the Close the Gaps campaign after the Evening Press presented a dossier exposing the dangers of an A64 accident blackspot. Snakes alive! Santa's in for a big shock

Santa's going to get a pretty big shock at one York house this Christmas - there's a six-foot rat-eating snake stuck up the chimney. Ex-Press writer Stacy dies, 72

Award-winning former Evening Press journalist Stacey Brewer has died at the age of 72. Motorists facing six weeks of misery on A19

Motorists using the A19 between York and Selby face six weeks of traffic misery after the Highways Agency announced major roadworks starting next month. Hospital survives first winter problems

York District Hospital has got over its first big crisis of the winter, according to health chiefs. Help is only a phone call away

Christmas and the new Millennium will mean the biggest celebrations of most people's lives - but for some it will be a time of despair. York set for extra trains to London

York-based main line train operator GNER has welcomed a decision which will allow it to run extra services between London and York in a bid to beat overcrowding. Parents fail to sway schools policy

Disappointed parents from the villages of Dunnington and Elvington have asked for a meeting with education chiefs after the final decision was made on a new system of secondary admissions for York. Knitter Natters notch up £1000

A group of York friends are doing their best to have our Hospice 2000 Appeal well and truly stitched up. The Knitter Natters - a group of women who enjoy combining knitting and chatting - have raised £1,000 for the St Leonard's Hospice Appeal by selling the dolls, teddies and special Christmas toys they make.

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