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Travel agent with York branches closes 89 stores following third Covid lockdown A TRAVEL agency with branches in York has announced mass closures. Hays Travel has confirmed plans to shut 89 shops as part of a planned consolidation of its UK retail estate. It has not confirmed which outlets would be casualties of the move. The York shops include the former Thomas Cook branches in Low Ousegate, Monks Cross and Clifton Moor. Travel trade union TSSA said it was “a sad but inevitable mo...

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Pickerings toyshop at 28 High Ousegate. Picture: Derek Reed MOST of us are probably still wrapping up those last-minute Christmas presents or - the younger ones among us, at least - waiting with feverish impatience for December 25 to dawn so we can tear them all open and scatter the wrapping paper across the living room floor. One reader, however, has been casting his mind back to the 1940s and 1950s - the days when toys were toys, rather than digital gadgets or smartphone apps. When Dere...

Police and the fire service received reports of a man jumping in the River Ouse in York. Picture: Google Maps EMERGENCY services were called in after a man jumped in the river Ouse in York city centre today. North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue say themselves and North Yorkshire Police were called in after reports that a man had jumped in to the freezing cold river at Low Ousegate at about 4.30pm. A spokesman for the fire service said: "York crews attended reports of a man jumping into the Riv...