Bar and restaurant chain The Alchemist has abandoned plans to open in York after councillors said it could only open if drinks were always served with food.

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• GCSE results day has arrived for pupils across York, North and East Yorkshire.

  LIVE The GCSE results are out today (August 21), while A-level and AS results were released last Thursday (August 14

• New plans for a solar farm and battery plant in the North Yorkshire countryside have attracted criticism from residents over the use of agricultural land.

  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.

• A new shop has opened in a village near York selling skateboards and scooters, a venture that could lead to York having a new indoor skatepark.

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

• ONE of York’s busiest streets could be set for a new shop after the 15-year tenure of an alcoholic drinks, oils and vinegars stockist ended.

  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.

• A MAN has died following an incident involving police in a North Yorkshire town.

  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.

• A village pub west of York which closed ‘suddenly’ will be back open tomorrow.

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

• A York ward councillor has condemned a “deeply worrying” incident which police said left a man “shaken”.

  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.

• A ROW has blown up over an 'eyesore' sign that's appeared on a listed wall in York.

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