A POPULAR York primary school is set to celebrate turning 150 this year with a reunion party.

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• Updated: Political leaders in York and North Yorkshire have said the region’s first mayoral election was “too close to call” after voters went to the polls.

  Ahead of the result of the vote being declared at Harrogate Convention Centre at around lunchtime today (Friday, May 3)

• RAIL replacement buses will run during a weekend of disruption because of engineering works through York.

  The Transpennine Route Upgrade hopes to bring faster train journeys on routes passing through York. The project is being carried out with a £3.9 billion cash boost from the Government.

• A POPULAR bar is preparing to relaunch in York - with TWO locations, street food and frozen cocktails to tempt visitors.

  THOR’S bar will have two locations in York again this Summer with SOL AST in the grounds of the Principal York hotel from Wednesday, May 22 - Sunday, August 25

• ONE of the founders of a business that recently closed its York city centre shop has revealed why the company made the decision.

  Max Poynton, co-founder of the doughnut company Project D, was part of the team that closed the store in Parliament Street, just six months after it opened.

• 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.