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A traditional St George's Day parade through York; this year's 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 the pandemic which has seen the two organizations offer flexible distance, blended and virtual meeti...

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 receive the BEM last April but then the ceremony was postponed to July because of lockdown, and he the...