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• A legendary British rock band are set to take to the stage in York.

  The Darkness have announced their return, with their eighth studio album 'Dreams On Toast' being released in March 2025.

• Plans to create a ‘floating ecosystem’ in the River Ouse have been given the go-ahead with a requirement to keep it litter-free.

  The plans approved by City of York Council are set to see a 16.45m by 2.34m pontoon-like structure installed by North Street Gardens.

• The owner of a “powerful” dog has appeared in court after it bit a widow’s hand and savaged her beloved French spaniel.

  Cordelia Barton’s dog - a Staffordshire bull terrier and American bully cross called Zeus - repeatedly shook the smaller dog, called Cosmos, as it bit its head, said Kathryn Walters, prosecuting.

• TWO men have denied raping the same woman in York city centre.

  Zaid Zahir, 20, of Rosebery Street, off Leeman Road, York, and Farim Khan, 18, of no fixed address, made their first appearance before York Crown Court today (Monday, September 23).

• AN annual event dating back to the Middle Ages saw the Sheriff of York lead a pub crawl around some of York’s finest ale houses at the weekend.

  Some 50 people took part in the Assize of Ale event, most of them dressed in medieval attire.

• York Hospital has made “significant improvements” and “addressed the recommendations” of a damning report which found that patients were at risk of harm, the trust that runs it said.

  The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was providing an update on the situation at the hospital

• A year after streets in York city centre were dug up to install anti-terrorism bollards, The Press spoke to traders affected by the work to determine if the disruption was as bad as they first feared.

  Mannetti’s is a café in the centre of York. It opened in Lendal in 2019. And four years later, after navigating the pandemic and rising energy costs, it started to turn a profit.

• An “absolute pest” of a drinker carried out a catalogue of crime over several months in York and Scarborough, a court heard.

  Homeless Andrew Morris, 46, broke into a city centre bar to find a place to sleep and raided shops to get alcohol or items to sell to raise money for alcohol, his solicitor Graham Parkins said.