A BUSY road in York city centre is set to close to traffic over a weekend.

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• A well-known former retailer has bounced back by opening the first store of its kind on the edge of York.

  Jessops last operated a photography store in the city until 2020 when it closed its Coney Street branch during the pandemic.

• REPAIR works to a major road in York are set to take a full month to complete.

  Following a crash on Sunday, September 1 near the B1222 at Naburn Lane the A64 between the A19 and A1 junctions has been down to one lane at Middlethorpe.

• York could get its Local Plan for development approved by Christmas but hundreds more homes than planned

  - may have to be built under proposals for mandatory targets, councillors have heard.

• A “loving” 21-year-old died following a rare brain bleed after being found unresponsive in York, her mother said as she paid tribute to her.

  Anna Graves passed away after having a spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage – a type of stroke caused by bleeding on the brain.

• City of York Council has said that its forecasted £3.4 million annual overspend is an "incredibly positive" sign.

  In a report submitted to Thursday's (September 12) Executive meeting, the director of finance - Debbie Mitchell - laid out the council's projected financial position for 2024-2025.

• THE man behind a new foundation that's been set up in York said he feels 'very lucky' to be in a position to help small local charities across Yorkshire.

  Matty Lewis is head of foundation at the York-based Fortus Foundation which helps support community groups, schools and small charities across the region with grants of between £500 and £10,000.

• A restaurant is planned in a former bar and ‘escape rooms’ in York’s city centre.

  Hull-based SASA Group Ltd seeks to change the use of the empty building at 7-9 Piccadilly.

• A knifeman who stabbed a York father trying to protect his son could kill in the future, a judge has warned.

  The incident outside a house in Clifton was the second time Jordan Dobson had knifed a man in the street, York Crown Court heard.