As we all start stocking up on festive favourites, spare a thought for the head chef at one of York’s top city centre hotels and his super-sized Christmas food shopping list!

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• A MAN from York is getting ready for his biggest challenge, spurred on by his wife’s death last year.

  John Parkinson lives in Bishopthorpe and for most of his working life worked in insurance, including a stint at General Accident where he latterly worked as an operations director

• The opening date has been announced for a new branch of Hotel Chocolat at the Vangarde Centre in York.

  The retailer is to open a prominent 3,500 sq ft unit on Thursday March 27.

• A York restaurateur has opened a new café in the city centre – breathing new life into a derelict Grade II listed building.

  Oasis café in Low Ousegate is the latest venture by Wael Garas, owner of Middle Feast in Lendal and Enoteca by L'UVA in Bridge Street, and his business partner, Idriss Abbaz.

• A POLICE investigation is underway after a girl was followed home from school in York.

  North Yorkshire Police say that on Monday (March 10) they received a call reporting that a 10-year-old girl was followed home from school by a man at approximately 3.15pm that day.

• A much-loved York City Football Club fan died at the age of 23 while on holiday in Thailand, an inquest opening has heard.

  Connor Abbott was found dead at his hotel room in the Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok on Sunday, September 22, last year.

• Five digital advertising screens offering free Wi-Fi, phone charging facilities, touchscreen maps and defibrillators could be coming to York city centre under new plans.

  Plans from JCDecaux would see two Communication Hubs installed in Parliament Street along with ones in St Sampson’s Square, Davygate and in Piccadilly.

• Fires aboard a cargo ship and a tanker which collided in the North Sea off the East Yorkshire coast have continued to burn overnight.

  Coastguard aircraft were monitoring the situation with the vessels still alight this morning (Tuesday, March 11).

• THE family of a man from North Yorkshire who died after a crash at the weekend have paid tribute.

  North Yorkshire Police say James Roberts, 24, from Alne, near Easingwold died after an incident in Scarborough in the early hours of Saturday morning (March 8).