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• A York city centre bakery is “putting plans in place” to reopen “as soon as possible” after a fire at the site, its managing director said.

  Cornish Bakery in Colliergate has been closed since firefighters were called to the premises on the evening of Wednesday, January 29.

• A butcher “with no moral compass” smothered a York woman in a psychotic episode, a court heard.

  The woman survived.

• A SECOND York school is planning changes to the day. York High School in Acomb, which has about 750 pupils

  is consulting parents over plans to change the school day to start at 8.30am with teaching ending at 2.35pm.

• A heavy metal gig at York Minster has almost sold out – despite it causing controversy among some churchgoers.

  Tickets for the Plague of Angels’ concert, Organic Metal: Two Worlds Collide, inside the ancient cathedral on April 25 were put on sale on Monday morning (February 3).

• A thug who beat up and kicked a McDonald's customer and left him unconscious on the ground has been jailed.

  Jack Adkins, now 21, punched the victim at least 17 times inside the fast food chain’s Blake Street restaurant in central York, said Brooke Morrison, prosecuting.

• Top names have been announced as the headline acts at a new comedy festival in York.

  Award-winning comedian, broadcaster and writer Dara Ó Briain and Canadian comedian, broadcaster and writer Katherine Ryan will co-headline the first York Comedy Festival at Museum Gardens on Sunday, July 6.

• PLANS have been submitted for 380 homes just outside York, in a scheme which would form part of an 845-home ‘garden village.’

  Taylor Wimpey is seeking outline approval for its development on 20.99ha of ploughed agricultural land south of Sugar Hill Farm, Stockton Lane.

• POLICE and firefighters have been called to a crash in North Yorkshire.

  The county’s fire service say they were called at 7.24pm on Thursday night (January 30) to a crash in Carlton, Selby.