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A planning application for a 49.9MW solar scheme and a 10MW battery energy storage system (BESS) has been filed with North Yorkshire Council for fields off Brownmoor Lane, south west of Sutton-on-the-Forest, near Easingwold.

Dan Tyssen, 34, from Dringhouses, York, has been skating since he was eight.

City of York Council received an application for listed building consent from Jamie Roche of Sora Workshop Ltd for the vacant site of the former Il Gusto in Low Petergate.

The county’s police say they were called at 3.30pm on Monday (August 18) to assist a cyclist who had been found in a serious condition in Skipton Road in Harrogate at the junction with Dragon Road.

The Bay Horse in Green Hammerton closed on July 28 “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

North Yorkshire Police said a cyclist was chased and shouted at by a group of around eight children at the Hob Moor nature reserve at 9.10pm on Friday, August 8.

The controversial sign which has appeared on the listed wall at Vita Student York in Lawrence Street

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS) say they expect to at the incident at Langdale Moor and for some time.

Jigsaw, an international women’s clothing brand, is currently closed and foreclosure notices have appeared in their Stonegate shop window.

Insurance giant Aviva PLC says it momentum continues, with Group Chief Executive Officer Amanda Blanc calling the results ‘outstanding.’

The Healthwatch network is to close after the government announced the country-wide watchdog service would be absorbed into local councils and integrated care boards.

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The company, whose boss chief executive Nicola Shaw is under fire over payments of £1.3 million she received from the firm's parent company, said that since hosepipe restrictions were implemented on July 11, domestic water usage has decreased by ten per cent.

Crossing The White Line, A Life Sentence by former City goalkeeper Andy Leaning is a memoir of a professional football dream that became reality.

Mae Café, which is set to open on Saturday (August 16) in Holgate Road, is a new café run by mother and daughter team Laura Mae, 25, and Joanne Bowes, 64, and named after Joanne’s own mother Mae.

As The Press reported yesterday, the body of a man was found in a playpark in Naburn and a woman is in hospital with head injuries.

Flick Williams, a visually impaired wheelchair user, described the case as a “David and Goliath fight” which showed “disabled people don’t have to just sit back and accept discrimination”.

The door to Shambles Kitchen was damaged as the culprit or culprits forced their way into the sandwich business in a brazen attempt to steal cash.

The development plan document (DPD) for a new settlement at Maltkiln has received approval from a planning inspector.

North Yorkshire Police say at about 5.50pm on Monday (August 11) they were called by a concerned member of the public to reports of an assault at a property in Naburn.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at 9.06pm on Sunday (August 10)

The accident is between York and Malton around Thompsons Fish and Chip Shop and new Starbucks junction.

- a senior councillor has said amid concerns about its effectiveness.

Indian restaurant Jorvik Spice, at 74 The Mount, offers a wide range of South Asian dishes and has been called ‘top notch’ and a ‘flavour sensation’ by diners.

City of York Council approved the bid to make The Fox Inn, in Stockton on the Forest, into an asset of community value (ACV) on Tuesday, August 5.

Mother-of-two Vicki Fox started a petition calling for lights and signs to be installed at Beckfield Lane’s zebra crossing where cars stop abruptly or fail to stop due to poor visibility.

Residents claim St John Street in The Groves is the last original early Victorian street in the city centre which is totally domestic.

There are reports coming in of a crash on the A64 westbound in the city.

Nottingham Rehab Limited, which trades as NRS Healthcare, is being wound up after a court appointed the official receiver, Gareth Jonathan Allen, as liquidator on Friday (August 1).

The results of refurbishments at York’s Mansion House were revealed yesterday - ahead of its reopening.

Wigginton Parish Council says work will soon begin on a major renovation project at Wigginton Pond.

Testimonies from women who felt dismissed, ignored and treated differently to men were among those in a York Healthwatch report.

At around 4.50pm yesterday (Monday), their grey Volvo XC40 was travelling along Greets House Road near Welburn, Malton, towards the A64.

Sir David Nabarro, who was the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) special envoy for Covid-19, and died aged 75 last month (July).

Planning documents from the National Trust stated additional repairs on the Grade I-listed building’s roof had been carried out while the scope of works to its lift shaft had changed.

Assistant coroner Gillian Kane said there is a “risk that future deaths could occur unless action is taken” by the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The county's police say an Alsatian-type dog had to be put down by a police firearms officer in Bedale after it bit a man and a police officer on their legs.

John Michael Duggan, 81, died in hospital after the crash near Riccall on Friday morning (August 1).

Janet Purt and husband Stan, both 83, who live in Stockton Lane, are celebrating six happy decades together after meeting for the first time at a party thrown for Stan’s scuba diving club in 1963.

The Northern Monk Refectory is set to open in the building which previously housed Forage, in Little Stonegate, following York Council’s approval of the Leeds-based craft brewery’s plans.

Kallan Melvyn Hunt, Daniel Welford and Max Oliver Jackson have been convicted for their part in the Selby burglary.

The county’s police say emergency servic e teams have been involved in the recovery of two bodies from beneath the cliff at Whitby Abbey on Wednesday evening  (July 30).