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Masons have swooped to the rescue of a Girl Guide group whose tents were ruined due to water seeping into their storage hut.

For this months column Tricia Harris reflects on the every changing weather April brings/

SHE ran a club for elderly people in York for nearly seven decades.

BUSINESSES are being asked if they have ever thought about the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for their business.

THE Washburn Heritage Centre will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year with a month of celebrations in June. The Centre, in the stunning setting of Fewston Church and overlooking Swinsty Reservoir is a volunteer-led, high quality rural heritage centre, which continues to grow and improve. June events include talks, walks and exhibitions and a visit by the Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Mrs Jo Ropner, who will present the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (awarded in 2020) at a sp...

A traditional St Georges Day parade through York; this years event will be virtual MORE than 8,000 members of the Scout Association and Girlguiding from across York and North Yorkshire are expected to participate in a virtual St George’s Day celebration on Sunday April 25, instead of the traditional parade through York to the Minster. Organisers say this year’s theme, Journeying on Together, has been selected in tribute to the great strives made by volunteers and young members during th...

1/1 A HOLOCAUST survivor from near York who gave real life history lessons about the horrors of Nazism to thousands of young people has died, just weeks after being presented with the BEM. Marc Schatzberger, 94, of Skelton, near York, received the honour in December for services to Holocaust education and awareness, after he had made it his mission to ensure young people across Yorkshire had access to survivor testimony. His daughter Lesley said he was originally due to re...