MORE than 30 historical and cultural sites across the UK will be celebrating World Heritage Day today – places such as Stonehenge, the Tower of London, and the city of Bath.

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• Challenges remain for providing York terraced streets without off street parking with electric vehicle charging points, the council’s transport boss said.

  Cllr Pete Kilbane, who is also City of York Council’s deputy leader, said the council continues to investigate how the charging points could be installed in the streets but admitted that factors stand in the way.

• THE people of York and North Yorkshire will go to the polls today to elect the region’s first metro-style mayor.

  The winning candidate will be in office for at least the next four years, working alongside local councillors and council leaders in a bid to champion the region.

• A BOY from York diagnosed with an extremely rare form of a life-limiting illness has tried his hand at being a barista.

  Bill Gornall, who lives in Holgate, dropped in at York-based coffee business, YO1 Coffee Co

• A MAIN York shopping street which was closed for the best part of a year is set to shut again.

  As The Press reported at the time Low Petergate in York city centre close to York Minster only reopened in July last year having been closed since October 2022.

• Staff at a York primary school say they are “thrilled” with the outcome of its most recent inspection.

  Our Lady Queen of Martyrs RC primary school was rated ‘good’ overall by Ofsted after inspectors called on Tuesday, February 6, and Wednesday, February 7.

• A York police officer killed in a wartime air raid has finally had a memorial headstone placed on his grave - more than 80 years after his death.

  Robert Smith, an LNER Railway Police Constable who served at York Railway Station during the Second World War

• A SINKHOLE has opened up in the road in a North Yorkshire town.

  North Yorkshire Police say they are on the scene in Barwick Street, Scarborough which is currently closed due to a sinkhole forming in the road.

• A MAJOR auction event is set to take place in York next week.

  As previously reported by The Press, the Snook auction for St Leonard's Hospice will be held York Barbican on Thursday (May 9) and tickets are still available priced £5.