The day-long festival in the ‘artists garden’ behind York Art Gallery will feature live music, food and dance from around the world that will celebrate York’s diversity, says organiser Shamim Eimaan.
Mela festivals began in South India - the word means 'gathering' in Hindi - but have become common in major cities across the UK.
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FOUR people have been seriously injured in a crash in North Yorkshire.
The county’s police say it happened at about 3.12pm on Thursday, June 19 in Ripon Road in Killinghall near Harrogate and involved a white Audi TT and a Fiat van.
Police have released footage of a husband armed with a bow and arrow stalking his wife in their York home.
Stephen Carr, 57, is now serving a 20-year extended prison sentence for the attempted murder of Lorna Carr in Southfields, Strensall.
A STRIKE planned at a York school has been suspended following 'positive talks' with its academy trust.
St George’s RC School in Fishergate say that following 'very constructive and positive discussions' with the newly appointed board of trustees at the Middlesbrough academy chain to which the school now belongs
A MAJOR road in York is set to be rerouted for good from next week.
The replacement section of Leeman Road, running from Salisbury Road to Marble Arch is set to open at 6am on Tuesday, July 8, in time for the morning rush hour.
Four new homes have been unveiled in the grounds of a former officers’ mess and lodgings in York – with a starting price of £1.5 million.
The four and five-bedroom detached properties have been built in the grounds of the Grade II-listed Ousefield House, opposite the Imphal Barracks in Fulford Road.
A York MP has urged the government to "look at those with broader shoulders" after leading a rebellion against the controversial welfare reform bill.
Yesterday, July 1, Keir Starmer's Labour Party debated and voted on the welfare reform bill - which originally looked to cut £4.8 billion by 2030.
York Hospital has improved since a damning report found patients had been “put at risk of harm” – but there is “more work to do to make sure people are safer”, a watchdog has said.
The hospital, managed by the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
EMERGENCY crews have been called in after reports of a man in a York river.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at 1.44am on Wednesday (July 2) to Ouse Bridge in the city centre.
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